He Sees Darkness But smiles Like The Light

By: The Un~Wanted Angel And Carrie2sky

So please enjoy the story, turn off all devices and sadly to say, we don't own Naruto.

CHAPTER 2

"Now, just relax," Minato soothed Naruto, who was currently using his coat as a tent to 'hide' from the hospital. Mintao found this a bit embarrassing but he desperately wanted to "aww" seeing how innocent and cute the sight was, he thanked whatever God there were not many people in the waiting room.

"Want me to relax? Take me to Hawaii," Naruto repliedin a snide tone.

Minato frowned. "I'm only taking you here for a check-up. Why are you even worried about this place? There's nothing to be afraid of."

"Oh no...except the burning cream they put in my eyes and the bandages I have to wear for five weeks after!" Naruto almost yelled. Minato sighed; Ever since Naruto's doctor, Tsunade prescribed Naruto with cream for his eyes, Naruto complained and cried because of the burning sensation it gave him. Minato felt a little bit of himself die every night he had to apply the cream to Naruto, as hearing his baby wail and scream in pain was something Minato always tried to avoid.

"But you said the pills aren't bad," Minato reminded him. Naruto also had pills, along with the cream; they were to help prevent any headaches that would cause any more damage to his eyes or brain. Naruto didn't swallow the pills, Minato was informed it would be safe to smash it up and put the powder in applesauce or water for Naruto to take instead of swallowing.

"No, they're not, but...they're dumb." Naruto pouted. Minato shook his head in dismay at Naruto's antics. Naruto never acted belligerent like this in public, he was usually the same sweet boy he was at home, but hospitals were something else, it was like Naruto wasn't 'Naruto'. It was like Naruto was some brat from a dark corner of a parent's worst nightmare. Minato sighed, after an attempt to have Naruto sit on the chair and be a good boy (which he failed) he figured he'd leave Naruto alone until it was time for Tsunade to see him. But for whatever reason, Naruto's doctor was taking a while, andMinato knew he and Naruto weren't her only patients, but Naruto didn't know that.

"Can we go home, now?" He whined.

Minato looked at the floor where Naruto was sitting, still using his white coat as a tent.

"No." Minato answered, going back to his magazine. "Not yet. The doctor hasn't seen you yet."

"Urgh..." Naruto whined, clearly impatient with having to wait. A little boy about Naruto's age with dark brown hair was coughing violently. Minato felt bad for the small child, but at the same time, he hoped Naruto wouldn't get sick. The boy was waiting with his mommy when he noticed someone hiding under the Hokage's coat. Naruto became hot under his father's coat and decided to sit in the chair. The boy noticed Naruto and his eyes widened.

Naruto didn't know it, but the boy was staring at him, and if he could see he would of noticed the boy's frightened face.

"Mommy...that boy's eyes are weird!" The child just had to yell out. This caught Naruto's attention, knowing that was directed to him, he felt very embarrassed and upset. He bit his lip and leaned into his father, trying to hide his face, not knowing if anyone was staring at him. No one was, just the boy and now his frightened mother.

"Ho...Hokage-Sama!" She apologized. "I'm...I'm so sorry...he-he's only four-"

"It's alright, but I think its Naruto who needs to be apologized to." Minato tried not to hiss. He knew that it was only a child, but still, kids can be really cruel. The boy, Minato noticed, didn't say a word, either he himself was ashamed or scared. What made Minato even madder was the motherdidn't do much about it. Minato sighed, as Naruto moved and sat in his lap and nuzzled into his toned chest.

"Naruto...it's okay...no one's looking," he whispered.

"Don't care," he muttered, very upset at the moment.

About ten more minutes later, a nurse opened the door. "Naruto?" She called out. Naruto turned his head around, who called his name? Minato smiled and grabbed his coat off the ground then carried Naruto to the lady. She smiled sweetly at Minato.

"Right this way," she said. Minato carried a fidgeting but quiet Naruto into Tsunade's office, the honey-blonde haired woman smiled at Minato.

"Hey, Blondie," she joked. Minato smiled back.

"Old woman," Minato teased back.*

"Well, is Naruto ready?" Tsunade asked. Minato laid Naruto on the hospital bed and sat next to him, Naruto immediatelymoved towards his father's warmth, not wanting to go near the doctor, but Minato held him down when Tsunade came closer.

"Okay...we'll apply the cream now, and then I want a few pictures," she began.

"Pictures?" Naruto asked. Tsunade nodded. "Yes, it's special camera I use to look at the inside of your eyes, to see if any nervesmight affect your brain and we don't want that." Naruto didn't understand a word she said and he gave her a confused look.

"Well, Naruto...there are special nerves in the back of your eyes that are connected to your brain in your head...We don't want anything to be wrong with these nerves because it will hurt your head. So with the pictures I take, it will help me see if anything is wrong." Tsunade tried hard to not use any medical terms in her sentence and tried to "dumb" down her speech so Naruto could understand her.

Minato looked at Tsunade and nodded, Tsunade had been Naruto's Pediatrician for six years, ever since he was a baby, so she knew how he'd act to the cream being put on his eyes. She sighed.

"Naruto, I'm going to put on the cream after I take some pictures...if you have nothing wrong there will only be a little to maybe none at all." Naruto smiled at that. "But-" Tsunade started. Naruto then frowned, knowing 'But' was never a good word and the tone she had it in didn't make it any better.

"But...if there is something serious, then I need to put in a lot of cream. I know it will burn and it's not fun at all. But you're a big boy...you can handle it, right?" She was testing him.

Minato smiled, "Come on, Naruto, Ninja's aren't afraid of any pain."

Naruto looked up. "So...if I take this cream...I'll go to the Academy?" He asked, hopeful.

Minato gulped. "No...that's not what I said. I said Ninja's aren't afraid of pain." Yet, I'm afraid of loosing you.

Naruto frowned; he had hoped his Tou-san would have said 'yes'.

Tsunade brought over what was hooked up to a portable computer. Turing it on a clicking a few times, she walked over to Naruto, and she moved over what Minato told Naruto was 'a mini telescope'. Naruto had to look into the two tubes and a little flash appearedon the computer when a picture was taken. Naruto didn't mind this at all, no pain whatsoever. After the pictures, Tsunade frowned. Minato felt uneasy then.

"Well...it looks like nothing's changed, which is good and bad. It's good because, well, its not worse, but bad in the fact that they're not better either. Naruto do you remember last time when I told you that your eyes weren't very good?" Tsunade asked. Naruto nodded. He remembered everything she said.

"So...my...tubes or...nerves...are bad?" He asked. It would have been sweet due to the fact that he had a hard time pronouncing the word, but Minato felt guilty. He felt it was his fault Naruto's eyes were screwed. Tsunade sadly smiled. "Yes, Naruto, you're right...and remember what I mentioned how if something was serious then we'd have to use more cream?"

Naruto then panicked.

"NO! NO, NO. NO!" He screamed, trying to run out of the room, Minato caught him just in time. He nodded to Tsunade, both acting like this was a regular thing. And it was.

"Sssh, baby-" Minato tried to sooth.

"No! I don't want it! I don't want it!" Naruto screamed. Naruto didn't know it, but the cream would be helping him. But Naruto never thought of that, since he was only six, all his attention focused on the burning sensation the cream brought him. Minato tightened his grip on Naruto's arms and kept a firm grip on him.

Tsunade began to take a fairly large amount of cream and spread it on a cotton ball. She looked at Minato, almost signaling that she was ready whenever he was. Minato nodded and Tsunade began rubbing the cotton ball on Naruto's eyes. Naruto felt the burning and he wiggled and screamed.

"Ice cream, Naruto, We'll get Ice cream...and ramen after that!" Minato soothingly said. "And how about a toy? Would you like a nice new toy after this?" Minato was close to tears himself; he couldn't help but feel very guilty at the moment. Naruto just continued to wail and cry, trying to kick Minato off of him, but failed. Tsunade began to put more cream on a new clean cotton ball, preparing to do the next eye. Minato tried to calm Naruto down; from telling him how brave he was (well, he wasn't really being brave, but he was acting better than last time) to promising him they'll stop at the pet store to play with the puppies.

When Tsunade placed the cotton ball on Naruto's other eye, Naruto lost it. He screamed as if someone had shot him. Minato was surprised he hadn't lost his voice. Naruto began to calm downonce he felt the bandages wrap around his head, covering his eyes and the bridge of his nose. It was tied tightly in the back of his head, but his blonde hair stillstuck out through the bandage. When Tsunade was finished, Minato slowly let go ofNaruto, and the poor child curled up in a small ball and cried softly.

"Naruto..." Minato spoke. "Come here."

Naruto sat up and Minato wrapped his arms around his trembling child.

"I know you didn't like that one bit...but don't worry, we won't have to come back for quite a while, I promise." Minato wasn't so sure that he spoke the truth, and the pictures of Naruto's inner eyes proved him wrong. But anything-anything to keep his child from crying.

After they left the hospital, Naruto was still very upset. Maybe even worse. Minato looked at Naruto while carrying himas they walked on the sidewalk.

"So...would you like some Ramen, Naruto?" He asked, hoping Naruto would say 'yes' and be happy again. Naruto shook his head. He turned down the Pet Store, Ice-cream and now Ramen. Minato sighed. "But remember, when we get home, you have to take the pills and then I want you to have a nap, okay?" Naruto nodded not really wanting to do anything but that. When they approached the gate, Minato put Naruto on the ground for a moment and quickly with his hands, performed an unsealing Justu. When the barrier was open, and the gate door opened as well, Minato picked up Naruto once more and walked up the hill to their home, allowing the barrier behind them to close on its own.

"Okay...you can listen to the TV for a while, I have to put your medication away, I'll be right back." Minato explained, placing Naruto on the couch and flipping on the TV for Naruto to listen to some cartoons. Naruto didn't pay any attention to the TV; he usuallyloved to listen to the happy voices on the TV for fun sometimes. At the moment, he just wasn't into it.

Meanwhile Minato was carefully putting away the new bottles of pills into the cabinet and putting certain amounts of pills in little boxes, which Naruto was required to take daily. Then filling up a glass with water, he began to smash some pills up and then scraped the powder substance off of the cutting boardhe used making it fall into the cup. He took the glass and small bowl of strawberries and placed them in front of Naruto.

"How aboutlater I take you to the park? Would you like that?" Minato asked Naruto.

Naruto shrugged.

"Please, talk Naruto." Minato almost begged. "I don't want to play the guessing game."

"Maybe" Naruto answered. "Not now though...I don't want to."

Maybe the hospital visit wasn't such a good idea after all. The paranoid father thought. I knew I should have waited until later to take him, now he's going to be upset all day. Minato sighed, sadly. Instead of going to his office to finish his paperwork, he decided to stay with Naruto. Both father and son sat in relative silence (the TV was still going) for a few minutes and during that silence, nothing needed to be said to explain how they felt:

Hopeless.

"Hello-o-o-o-o," A voice called. "Anyone home?"

The old pervert had seen a lot in his days, but this was quite a sight to see indeed. Ten cameras watched his every move as he walked to the house on the hill. He managed to step in the wrong spot and a rope net pulled him into the air.

"Aw, damn! MINATO...GOD-DAMNIT, IF THIS IS ONE OF YOUR PRANKS, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" The white-haired pervert screamed.

From his office, taking his eyes off the screen of the small TV on his desk, he looked outside. Seeing his old teacher hanging in his rope net. Half-smiling and half-annoyed. It had taken awhile to put Naruto to sleep for a nap and all he wanted was to get some paperwork done.

"Hmmm...I'll leave him there for a few more minutes." the yellow-flash told himself. Of course he was the one who took Jariaya down, which resulted in awkward silence while they sat at the table in the living room.

"So what's with all the high security...there were only a few cameras last I was here," the retired teacher spoke.

"Last time you were here was Christmas. Six months ago," Minato spat.

"What's your problem?"

He sighed. "I took Naruto to the doctor today, and it didn't go well. Infact, he tried to run out of the room this time." His face blushed and he felt wore than before. Jariaya looked at his ex-student.

"So, are the cream and pills even working?" He asked.

"A little, Naruto doesn't feel any pains in his head or eyes." Minato remembered the nights he'd stay up holding a screaming todler who cried in pain due to the pain of the headaches or burning Naruto would recieve. Minato remember holding Naruto, not knowing what else to do and poor Naru-chan would have to suffer until Minato found a temporary healing jutsu to calm down the infection.

"How about Chakra?" Jariaya asked.

"Hm?" Minato asked. "Oh, well, Naruto has no idea how to even control his Chakra, considering the Kyuubi sealed in him."

"That's what the Accadamy's for, dumbass" And with that the old pervert nudged him. Minato frowned. It was one big circle. He didn't want Naruto going to the accadamy...But with Naruto's blindness he would be able to control his sights (even if they were blurry and were temporarly).

"Yes...but, what if he gets picked on, or hurt!" Minato yelled. "What if teachers dislike him because of his condition?"

Jariaya sighed sadly, Minato did have a point but-

"Then..." He replied softly. "You hold him. If he's picked on, you remind him of how much you love him, and if teachers turn him down, remind him to be strong and that he IS smart. Keep on doing that. And he'll succeed" and with that he added a smile.

Minato smiled back. "You're right. Well, Naruto will be happy when he wakes up to hear the good news about him going to school. Oh, would you like to join us for dinner?"

"No, that's okay. But I would like for you to point out safe places to walk out of your property without getting tied up."

It wasn't a question. It was an insult, but Minato brushed it off.

"Naru-chan..." Minato spoke at dinner. Naruto looked up after being scoulded to leave his bandages alone he was given some exciting news.

"Darling, I have decided that you are old enough to go to the accadamy-on one condition."

Naruto was close to doing flips at the moment. He was so happy. "Yes, Tou-san? Anything!" He didn't care what he had to do as long as he went to the accadamy.

"If anyone says anything about your blindness...I want you to tell me, wether it be a teacher or a student. Understand?" Minato spoke, firmly.

"Yes, Papa." Naruto smiled.

"Oh, so I'm Papa now that I've given you somthing?" Minato teased.

"You'll always be Papa." Naruto smiled.

I sure hope so. Minato thought. Then while hearing Naruto ramble on and on of how happy he was and excited a little whisper in the back of his mind kept telling himself that this was a bad idea. Of course Minato didn't know how right that voice was until it was too late.

*(That's what Naruto called her in the anime, figured Minato would too)

Thank you to my Beta and co-writer Carrie2sky for anything that I either misspelled or goofed up on. And a big round of cookies being passed out to my reviewers, anyone who put this story on alret or added to their favorites. Thank you all so much.

Until next time this has been Angel and Carrie.