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 4

"Candy..." Naruto softly smiled. Though he couldn't see anything he sure could smell the wonderful shop. He smelled the fresh cocoa powder and cinnamon. Then a strong scent of glazed sweet bread and doughnuts came his way. Sasuke, and the rest of the children almost had to cover their mouths from drooling. Shikamaru and Lee took a liking to the pumpkin bread that was freshly being put on the shelves, while Neji, Kiba, Sasuke and Naruto all went and focused on the peppermints. There were all sorts of colors. A few were different flavors even.

"Man. I want them aaaaaaall," Kiba panted, much like a puppy.

"Sasuke, we should hurry and have Shikamaru buy something so we can share, I have a bad feeling," Neji commented, feeling very uneasy about all of this.

Sasuke nodded, agreeing. "Can you keep an eye on Naruto, while I get the lazy bum?"

"Sure," Neji answered. Neji turned his attention to the small blonde boy with bandages. His hands were pressed against the glass and he took a big inhale.

"Um...Strawberry! I'm either by the pink or red ones," he guessed.

Neji was astonished. "How did you know?" He asked.

"Oh...my Tou-san used fruit to teach me colors. Like blue for Blueberries, or Red for strawberries-though sometimes he used Cherries. The only problem with it was after our lesson I usually got a tummy ache," Naruto laughed, remembering how much his Papa panicked when he heard Naruto moan in discomfort over astomach ache. Neji smiled.

"Also my sense in smell is powerful, Ka'shi was surprised by how I could smell Ramen a mile away!" Naruto said that sentence with such pride and contentment. Sasuke hurried his pace over to Shikamaru; he was holding ten sweet-rice balls while Lee kept picking them out of the shelf.

"Hurry! We have to go back!" Sasuke insisted. He knew they didn't have much time before someone would notice they had left the Academy.

"In a minute!" Shikamaru yelled back.

Meanwhile, Kiba started darting for some fresh peanut butter cookies that Neji had to run after him to stop him for possibly stealing. But Naruto didn't notice, he was too busy smelling the sweet stuff. He kept on smelling until he walked right out the door someone held open for him thinking he wanted to leave. He kept on smelling something sweet, as heeding up walking down the sidewalk.

Sasuke felt uneasy being in the store. Surely the adults would wonder why all these kids were here. They were drawing too much attention to themselves. Speaking of adults, the worker at the store, a rather tall blonde haired blue-eyed girl had watched the boys rather closely.

When Shikamaru went to the counter with a handful of sweet rice balls, she questioned them.

"Where are your parents?" She asked him.

"I dunno, probably work," he replied in a smart-alack tone.

"Hmmm." She crossed her arms. "And where are you five supposed to be? Don't you have school or something you should be at?" she continued to question.

Kiba, Shikamaru, Neji, Sasuke and Lee looked at each other in question.

"Five?" Lee asked. "Where is Naruto?"

The boys all looked at each other in horror, then Sasuke darted out the door.

Minato was NOT happy. He was furious, upset, and worried. Very, very worried. His Naruto, his baby, ditched school with his friends to go to a candy store?! Minato grit his teeth together while tree hopping to the part of the village where it was more crowded. Iruka was not far behind, along with some ANBU officers (just in case) following Minato. Iruka in his years of either volunteering at the Academy had never heard or experienced something like this: Six six-year-olds leaving school!

He usually had to deal with the nine year olds doing this, but the six year olds? That was something new.

"Naruto!" Minato called out. Then closing his eyes to concentrate he tried to pick up on any Chakra senses. He found them, not far away, but they were scattering. Why? He wondered. Then he figured it out. He figured they must have gotten split up somehow. He couldn't have been more right; Sasuke was with Shikamaru while Lee and Neji with Kiba; all looking for the small blonde boy.

"Naru-kun!" Sasuke called out. How could they find Naruto with all these people? He wondered. He started to worry. He just lost his best friend! Now he knew he wasn't a good friend anymore if he lost him! Sasuke started running down the sidewalk, thinking that might help him find Naruto faster. Ten minutes went by and still no Naruto.

"Sasuke...maybe we should go back to school...maybe he went there," Shikamaru suggested.

"Just a little longer, please," Sasuke practically begged. "I have to find him!"

Minato told Iruka to search for Shikamaru, Neji, Lee, Sasuke and Kiba while he searched for his son. Jumping down from the tree without waiting for an answer, he started running down a street, rounding a corner, when he bashed into someone, making him fall to his butt on the concrete.

"Hokage-sama?!" Sasuke shrieked.

"Who are you?...Sasuke? Is that you?" Minato asked in a panicky voice. "Where's Naruto?!"

"Uh..." Sasuke hesitated. "I dunno." He added that last part quickly then very fast he jumped over Minato and started running, Shikamaru following close behind him.

"HEY! COME BACK HERE!" Minato screamed.

Naruto didn't smell the sweet smell anymore, which made him upset and a tad bit scared. Where were his friends? Where was he? He began to tremble, but he didn't notice was starting to get dark and little cold, since summer was long over by now. Since they had recess later in the day and school was almost over, Naruto found himself in quite the predicament.

"Uh-oh. I'm lost," he nearly cried. "Tou...san...He'll be so mad!"

Naruto began to cry and figured that if he walked back where he came, then he'd find his friends again. But what he didn't notice was he was about to walk right into the street. Of course the street was empty accept a few people crossing it or children running and playing. As Naruto stepped off the curb, he tripped and fell on his face, scraping himself badly in the process, which really set the little boy crying.

"NARUTO!" someone screamed. The next thing the boy knew, he was being picked up and held closely by a warm body.

"T-tou-san? Is that you?" Naruto asked, feeling both relieved that his father found but also scared at the same time.

Minato held Naruto closer to his body, squeezing the daylights out of him.

"Oh Naruto...My baby...are you all right?" Minato asked with concern, checking the injury. It was bleeding, but it didn't look too bad. Kyuubi would no doubt heal it soon. But still… "Why-WHY DID YOU LEAVE SCHOOL?!" Minato demanded, putting Naruto on the ground.

Naruto was speechless. He had no idea what to tell his Tou-san. A lie, that's what he needed.

"I...I was taken, Tou-san. Off the school grounds," Naruto lied. "The man who took me said he wanted to give me and my friends some candy. And I followed him."

"Followed him? You said you were taken," Minato questioned,knowing Naruto was lying. He was especially angry at the fact he was lying because he told Naruto to never lie.

"Naruto. Remember what I said about lying?" Minato asked. Naruto swallowed hard and slowly nodded. "I don't want to hear a word out of you, Naruto. We're going home." Minato continued, roughly grabbing Naruto's hand to take him home.

"But-" Naruto tried to speak.

"NOT A WORD, NARUTO!" Minato yelled. He didn't mean to yell, he just felt so scared about Naruto being lost and angry that Naruto would have the nerve to lie to him about it.

Naruto felt his bottom lip quiver and he bit it, as to not blurt out crying. But that didn't stop the tears from soaking his bandages. Naruto silently sobbed the whole way back, while Minato's anger and frustration rose. Minato tried to decide whether Naruto should really be punished. But then again, he lied, and ran off school property. But Minato hated to lay a hand on his baby. It made him feel like such a horrible parent. But Naruto needed to be punished. There was no exception.

When the two arrived home, Naruto's bandages had to be taken off because of their soaking wet condition. When Minato did remove them, he noticed Naruto's eyes were both a mix of pale blue and a red-irritation around his eyes had formeddue to his crying.

"Naruto...stay here and wait for me," Minato spoke. There was no happiness in his voice. Instead, it was that tone that Naruto knew well. It was the tone of voice his papa used just before he was going to be punished. Naruto started to shake in his spot on the floor. In only just a matter of seconds, his Papa was going to come in here and give him his medicine. Then after that he'll get-Naruto gulped.

"I don't wanna' get smacked," he said to himself. Naruto had only been smacked twice in his life. One was when he was four and he purposely knocked over his cup of water that held his medicine. The other time was when he called Tsunade a bad word at the doctor's office and Minato really gave it to him that time.

Now he was going to get smacked again! Naruto started to cry once more. He really, really didn't want to get smacked!

Minato came back with medicine and fresh bandages when he noticed his son crying again. Minato hadn't expected Naruto not to cry, but you'd think he'd run out of tears by now.

"Naruto..." Minato softly spoke, feeling much calmer than before, and sat next to Naruto.

But Naruto thought he was going to get spanked and he immediately ran away from Minato to the opposite side of the room. Minato felt his heart crush. Why did Naruto run away from him? Minato was close to tears himself.

"Naruto...please don't run away," Minato slowly talked to him.

Naruto shook his head and ran anyway. Minato had no choice but to run after him. Naruto was fast, but being blind does have its disadvantages. Naruto ran into one of the sliding doors and broke it. The crash was a slight impact; it caused small scratches and a big bruise. Naruto sat on the ground, covering his now bloody forehead crying.

"Naruto! What's happened?" Minato asked, voice of concern. "Oh, damn." He picked up the crying six year old and taking him to the bathroom, sat him down on the counter to apply some ointment and band-aid. His other cut had already healed by now, thanks for Kyuubi and this would too, but Minato always played things on the safe side.

"Naruto...now will you listen to me when I say not to run away?" Minato scolded. "You could get hurt."

Naruto wiped a tear away from his eyes. Trust now sinking in back to his Papa.

Minato sighed. "Naruto...I'm not going to spank you. I just want to talk."

"Talk?" Naruto asked. He couldn't understand how "talking" was a punishment. Naruto listened closeley, this would be interesting.

"Natuto...I make rules to keep you safe. Not to take away your fun or make you miserable. I make rules to insure you and myself that you will be fine. And when you break them, not only will you get hurt but punished as well." Minato explained. "Do you understand?" Naruto shook his head, understanding more than enough. Minato sighed. But somthing was bugging him, what happened to his friends?

"Papa?" Naruto began. "What will happen to my friends?" Minato had to smile on that, Naruto seemed to be very worried about them. Minato loved how Naruto cared so much about his friends and it seemed to him that his friends were very worried about him.

"Naruto, I don't know what will happen to them. I'm sure they are in trouble, just like you young man." Minato spoke, he helped Naruto off the counter and brought him to the dinner table where they ate silently. After dinner, Naruto took his pills and new bandages were freshley wrapped tightly around his little head. Minato 'shooed' him off to bed early, trying himself to let this all sink in. (Of course Naruto complained to having to be put to bed so early.) Minato himself was curious as to what was happening to Naruto's friends, especially Sasuke.

Meanwhile...Uchiha residance.

"What was going threw your head when you did that stunt?!" Fugaku screamed, his face turning a light pink as he continued to yell at his youngest son.

"AMBU officers were to help find you and your friends, after they heard that the Hokage's son was involved with the group of kids. Everyone was looking for the Hokage's only son!" He continued. Sasuke just sat there, taking it all in, trying his best not to cry. "I can't show my face at work, knowing I'm the father of the son who pulled somthing like that! You won't be strong if you skip classes at this age! I mean it Sasuke, if you do somthing like this ever again I WON'T HESITATE TO PUNISH YOU DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

Sasuke nodded. "Yes father."

"Now go to bed." Fugaku hissed, Sasuke took that chance and ran out of his father's office. He felt horrible as to what he did. He knew he should have never gone (or took Naruto with) him. It wouldn't have been that bad if he left Naruto, at least he wouldn't be in danger, but he was! After he ran into the Hokage, the Hokage started chaseing him and Shikamaru. But they managed to ditch him, only to run into Iruka, who brought them back to the Accadamy where along with Neji, Lee and Kiba waited for their parents to be called. Sasuke thought his father looked scary when he yelled at Itachi when Itachi skipped out on practice to play with him, this was nothing compared to what just happened.

Sasuke ran all the way to his room, slammed the door and jumped on his bed, burrying his head into his pillow and cried.

"Now he hates me even more!" Sasuke cried. Then a horrible thought when threw his head: What if Naruto hated him? And the poor child cried himself to sleep that night.

Sasuke pulled out his work book from his table and started to get ready to write in them when he heard a loud bump and a loud: "Watch where you're going!" followed by a timid: "I'm so sorry!" Sasuke looked up to see Naruto trying to find his desk, he sighed and walked over to Naruto.

"Naru-kun...It's me." Sasuke spoke. Naruto looked up.

"Sasu-Kun? Is that you?" He asked. sasuke smiled, he held out his hands, which Naruto took a hold of and he helped him to his desk. He watched Naruto pull out his work book and text book then his pencils. Naruto tried to figure out what he was supposed to do when Sasuke offered somthing.

"Would you like me to read to you, again?" Sasuke asked.

"Oh...yes please." Naruto smiled.

"Okay...One ninja worked for eight hours, trained for three and wokred again for ten, how many hours did he work?" Sasuke read the question out loud. Naruto thought for a moment then he started counting on his fingers.

"He worked eighteen hours...because the practice hours are optional and not actually working" Naruto smiled.

Sasukle nodded and smiled. "That's right." That's how their morning went, as Sasuke helped his friend the question: "Does he hate me?" Was completely forgotten, of course Naruto didn't hate him. It was blantley obvious that Naruto did not hate him. Sasuke smiled, just thanking God that Naruto and himself were still friends. Iruka was cleaning off the chalk board when he looked at the clock, it was five minutes before the children would leave for the day that gave him plenty of time to disscuss his plans.

"Alright class, as you all know that at the end of this month summer will end, but at the end of each summer there is a summer festival to celebrate and remember honerable ninjas." Iruka smiled. "And as a class project, I've assigned a project each of you will do." He started to pass out papers when he came to Naruto, Sasuke started silently reading the paper to Naruto. Iruka smiled, making note to give Sasuke a good grade today for going out of his way to help his friend.

"So...we're supposed to make masks?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke nodded. "Yup! The masks symbolize what characteristics best describe yourself." Naruto wondered to himself while waiting for his Papa to pick him up from school. What mask should he make? But then again...would he be able to wear it because of his bandages? He sighed and sat silently wile waiting for Minato to pick him up.

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 alert or added to their favorites. Thank you all so much.

Until next time this has been Angel and Carrie.