Chapter 7 Coming Back and Losing Yourself
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"Naruto!"
Time had just stopped for everyone standing there and Sasuke slumped to the ground in utter silence. The heart monitor had no heart beats and minutes passed with no one not even saying a word when Sakura sobbed loudly.
"No Naruto! Why!? Please Naruto this is a dream! Come back!" She wailed as everyone started to cry.
Itachi had his one eye blind and he held it crying and Kyuubi stood there whispering.
"It's not over yet." He said touching his body. "If he dies I die." He puts his hand back on Naruto's body and used chakara to make an electric shock.
Beep!
"A heart beat!" Tsunade shouted making Naruto stable.
Naruto began to breathe through his mask and slowly his body regenerated as Kyuubi felt weak from the chakara. Itachi caught Kyuubi and set him down a chair. Kyuubi thanked him and faced Tsunade who looked at him with a smile asking.
"How did you save him? I mean… Wait what you mean by if he dies you-…. OMG! Kyuubi is that you!" He gave a weary smile and people stood shocked.
"B-but Kyuubi should be inside N-Naruto." Sasuke muttered.
"I and he merged around during the entire the 6 months we didn't meet." Naruto coughed.
"Naruto you are alright!" Sakura and Tsunade hugged Naruto leaving the blonde to be frozen up.
Naruto pushed them away slowly and Tsunade just sadly smiled at Naruto. Naruto did nothing and he pulled off the sheets seeing blood cover his body and his arms are now newly healed from the medics that was in the group.
"Wait so you two merged around the time…." Sasuke pointed at Naruto and Kyuubi. "Around the time I became Hokage." Naruto sat up only to be pushed back down by Itachi.
"You need your rest." He mentioned.
"I'm fine."
"Again that you are fine you just died for like 3 minutes." Sakura huffed as Naruto glared at her.
"Haruno I am perfectly capable to keep myself healthy." Naruto sat up and pushed Itachi away.
"Nar-"
Naruto puts his hands together to make a sign and faded away from their sight along with Kyuubi. Itachi and Sasuke faced each other turning their heads away.
"Why did Naruto protect you?" He growled.
"Ask him not me… You were once his teammate's right? You should have known him more than I did." Itachi faced Tsunade. "What do you think the council will deem me too?" Tsunade sighed.
"I'm, only a former Hokage and I have no place within the council as they took that away from me." Itachi became confused asking.
"Why did they do that to you?"
"It's because I cared for the demon, not the infamous Uchiha clan." With that she left the room bumping her shoulder onto Sasuke's.
Sasuke gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. Itachi looked over and silently chuckled with a smirk written all over his face. Sakura looked up at Itachi and pointed at him growling.
"What's funny!?" She asked as Itachi finally laughed out loud.
"It was true." He laughed some more.
"What was true?" Kakashi asked.
"I guess all your friends hate you more than you know." He left jumping out the window.
"Get back here Itachi!" Sasuke yelled.
Itachi was long gone and the rest of the group sighed with Jiriya long gone. Kakashi walked away and the other two just stood there lost in there own thoughts. Sakura suddenly sobbed and Sasuke had his mind left in other world. Sakura had her dress dirtied with dirt and blood from Naruto's injuries. Her guilt on how she treated Naruto was soon to be remembered as well as Sasuke and her being cheery that the rare clan member was to be the next Hokage. The one and only dream that Naruto puts his sweat and tears on but never came to get.
"Sakura let's go home." Sasuke told and Sakura nodded leaving with Sasuke.
They stood side by side never even spoken a word to each other until Sasuke murmured.
"Good night Sakura…" He turned to leave towards the Uchiha compound.
"Good night Sasuke." She too left to her own flat.
-Naruto-
He sat in his couch with new fresh clothes and he felt weary from all that had just happened. Kyuubi was long gone asleep with the overuse of chakara and Naruto's eyes blurred to a large extent making him no longer able to see. He remembered Kyuubi's last words before he went to bed for the night.
-Before-
Both men entered the house with Kyuubi exhausted and Naruto being silent. They changed their clothes into fresh ones and they settled on the couch. Naruto touched his left eye unable to see nothing and his eyes originated to the Uchiha clan's eye color.
"Naruto…" Kyuubi called as Naruto looked up.
Kyuubi saw the difference in eye color and sighed.
"The jutsu is going to disappear quicker than before…. Look Itachi needs his eye back and you should get a glass eye quickly unless you'll both die." Kyuubi went upstairs as Naruto closed his eyes and sighed.
"How much longer till it ends?" He asked to himself.
-Present-
Still sitting in the same position he saw Itachi swoop into the area facing Naruto seeing the glazed eyes and the separate colors in the iris. He winced and Naruto sensed the change of presence turning his head to face Itachi. Itachi sat in front of Naruto and caressed the cheek kissing the lips.
"Itachi..." Naruto voiced out looking down at his hands.
"Naruto can you see me?" He asked when Naruto nodded no.
"Damn…!" He cursed letting go.
"How long did Kyuubi say till we both are gone?" Itachi remembered when they switched eyeballs and that was over 8 years ago also how he and Naruto first met.
-8 Years Ago-
A young boy perched on the roof tops wearing a standard ANBU suit and hawk mask with his arms plated with silver and a kunai resting upon his back. He was on duty to watch a small young lad who apparently just recently got beaten down by villagers. Going to find the boy before more injury was to be done he hears a pained scream roaming the entire village. Recognizing the voice he ran to it seeing a whole mob of villagers hooting or praising for what they had done. A man holding two light blue eyes in his finger tips and pressed them back in with the blood dripping down his fingertips and people smiled in satisfaction. A young boy around only 5 years of age held his face that dripped of blood from his eye sockets crying out in agonizing pain.
"That should hold the demon." One of the men snapped laughed walking away with a few of his colleagues.
"Why?" The lad cried as his eye sight was gone.
The older men kicked him down and the young boy standing in the roof tops stopped him holding up a kunai in protection. The elders gasped glaring at the small thread of long black hair and the paled skin with red eyes glaring at him with swirling commas.
"How dare you do this to a young innocent child?!" He hollered as the leader chuckled.
"Innocent? Mind if I correct you? He's a demon!" He spat walking off.
The older male looked at the boy seeing a river of crimson flow down like tears. The blonde was unaware of a new presence as he was not taught of it yet. He tried to stand up and walk only to be bumped in with a pole sending shock through his system and the other person caught the abused child bringing him to the hospital. The child was put in a sterile room and people even some doctors despised treating them only to face the wrath of the Hokage himself who watched them. Heart monitors beeped steadily and a white sheet covered up the body as his arms and legs along with his body was bandaged. His eyes were in wraps and oxygen was placed over his mouth to help him breathe. An IV dripped ever so slowly as the ANBU soldier watched him with ever so much care in his face. His face no longer covered by the mask shown a small innocent 11 year old with obsidian eyes and more paled face. Is clothes smeared with blood and dirt from carrying the small 5 year old. His blonde hair cleaned during the operation lay gently on the bed and his frame looked so weak showing he wasn't fed all too well. You could see the bones out on the skin and the older child touched the boy's arms gently when the younger gave a small groan of pain.
"Why is it so dark?" He asked bringing up his small fragile fingers over his eyes feeling the cloth wrapped around them.
The older male did not know of what to say and was not told of any specific information of the boy he was to prevent injury to be cause of death. All he was told was that the small lad was the carrier of the Kyuubi the former nine tailed fox who terrorized Konoha and was sealed by the Yondaime into an infant child. He was told of the features of blonde hair and tanned skin with light blue eyes. Three whiskers marred his cheek from the Kyuubi to show whose boss. The blond child sat up looking around and sniffed the stale air around him giving away a small frown.
"The hospital again." He whispered still unaware of the other person in the room.
Moving his hands to discover where he actually was he felt another person's warmth pulling his hands back. He held onto his hand with the other calling out softly.
"Whose there?" Itachi flared up his chakra making Naruto turn his head towards his right side.
"Are you going to hurt me?" He whimpered backing off slowly.
"I'll be a good boy." He puts his hands over his head in protection.
"I won't hurt you." Voiced the 11 year old. "I'm here to protect you."
"P-protect me? Did Hokage jii-chan tell you to do this?" His voice frail from the strained injuries.
"Hokage-sama told me to protect you from further death… Also they shouldn't hurt you like this even though a monster like Kyuubi was sealed inside of you."
"You know of the incident?" The small child asked as he had known of the monster residing within him since an incident before and Sarutobi told him.
"Yes and you are not to blame…" He brought up his hands gently on the injured boy's hand like he did with his younger brother named Sasuke.
"Are you alright?" He asked as the small boy gave a small smile nodding.
"I'm fine and all these injuries will heal in a day…. You sound a lot younger though not like a grown up."
"I'm only 11 years of age."
"You're here to protect me at such a young age?"
"Yes and I accepted it but are you sure you are fine?"
"No really I'm okay…. The baka fox will help me right back up by tomorrow but I'm wondering why is there bandages on my eyes?" He no longer remembered the agonizing pain before.
"You're… You have become blind by the villagers." The younger boy had a shock reaction.
"W-what?" He couldn't believe what he had just heard.
"The… The villagers gouged out your eyes and pushed them back in making you lose your sight permanently…" He clenched his fists on his lap.
"Oh then I can't become ninja then." His head turned to his left that faced the door. "Some shinobi's can't really trust on a weakling and a handicapped person at all and then that person will live like a regular villager…. I guess my dream of being Hokage is now o-"
"It's never over! I'll help you get use to your handicap and you'll become a ninja!" He shook the kitsune shoulder.
"Th-thank you…" His smile was soft and innocent making the older blush.
"Y-you're welcome…" He smiled back even knowing the boy is unable to see any longer.
"B-but you can't really train me… I mean I'm always alone and you don't want to hang out with a loner like m-"He was immediately hugged.
"You are never alone!" He yelled brushing off the limp hair with small strokes.
The small boy never felt this attention hesitantly hugged back when small tears fell through the bandages. Feeling something wet on his shoulder he looked over to see the blonde crying and hiccupping holding him gently.
"Th-thank you for being so n-nice to m-me… N-no was e-ever t-this nice to me." He cried as he held the boy tighter.
After a few minutes of silent crying both sat in content as the elder let's go of the younger.
"Ne, I never knew your name."
"My name is Itachi… Itachi Uchiha." Itachi gave a smile ruffling the boy's hair.
"N-Naruto Uzumaki." He blushed by the small affection.
"C-can I call you Itachi Nii?" He asked.
"Sure and tomorrow I'll help you check out by now you should rest." Naruto gave a small nod and Itachi brushed the hands.
"I'll be back in the morning." Itachi swiftly left the hospital after putting Naruto to bed like he did to his younger brother Sasuke.
-Months later-
Naruto ran around the training field dodging an older male's moves with grace. He felt the movement and grabbed the foot throwing him over. His eyes showed a large glaze of white and it had shown he was unable to see for a year already. His hair and body was lean and he had some meat shown on him as Itachi fed him whenever they go out. His body went back into tiger stance with beads of sweat fall over his face and he huffed wiping them away.
"Naruto time for a break!" Itachi called out picking up himself from the ground.
Naruto turned his head to hear the voice trying to locate Itachi. His chakara and stamina lessen from the hard work and he collapsed on the floor exhausted.
"Tired already? Come on." Itachi picked him up and placed him under a tree wiping his sweat.
"Itachi Nii? Is that you?" He asked as his chakara was depleted.
"Yup and you hungry?" Itachi held two onigiri in his hand and Naruto smelled it giving a nod.
"Here." He nudged them near Naruto's hand and the boy ate them gladly.
Itachi gave a small smile and ruffled Naruto's hair in a brotherly manner. Naruto licked his lips with his tongue. Trying to wipe his mouth with his hands when Itachi stopped him. Before Naruto tried that and scratched his forehead making a cut and it bled as fast as you can call the word hot dog.
"Ne, Itachi Nii can I ever be able to see someday?" Naruto asked looking up.
"I miss seeing the blue sky and I want to see what you look like." He smiled.
Itachi bit his lips and remembered a forbidden jutsu that required a lot of sacrifice. He asked the Hokage earlier if he was able to do the jutsu and he said yes as long as they know what they are doing. Touching Naruto's face he asked.
"How much do you want to see Naruto?" He asked.
"If it's just a day that's how much I want to see." He scratched the back of his forehead giving a chuckle.
"I can bring back your eyesight but it requires sacrifice."
"What kind?"
"A person's eye and their life."
"So it's a two people jutsu?"
"Yes it is…. Anyways how much do you want to see?" Itachi asked.
"As long you can make the jutsu last." Naruto told brushing his hair to the back of his head.
"Yeah it will last long." Itachi smiled even though Naruto couldn't see it.
-Naruto's Home-
Naruto and Itachi stood at Naruto's living room inside a seal. Itachi sighed seeing Naruto and his weak like state.
"You sure you want to do this?" He asked.
"Yes." Naruto gave a large smile.
"Okay let's start." Both stood silent at the middle of the room.
"Tiger… Dog... Monkey… Tiger… Seal...!" Itachi gave Naruto his left eye and they exchanged.
Naruto collapsed and Itachi caught him and sadly smiled. 'Good thing you got your eyesight back.' He brought him to the bed and watched over Naruto for the whole night pulling over a small blanket over the small body.
"Night Naruto and it's almost our good bye." A tear fell down his eye.
-Present-
Naruto sat up from the couch crashing his feet on the table making him fall over. Itachi caught him and placed him on the comforter.
"Soon…." He sighed. "Itachi Nii how are we doing this?"
"The same as last time and are you ready?"
"What? Right now but I'll become blind." He told.
"It's either living or dieing Naruto… Choose now and don't wait."
"I'll live…" He muttered.
"Good let's start."
-End of Chapter 7-
Hmmm how it is people and tells me what's wrong no matter what the reason. I will not bawl over and cry over it. I just need to know if you like the story and if more than 4 people say they don't like it I'll revise it. If more than 15 people say they don't like I'll delete it. So please tell me what's up or I will no longer upload the story and only move on to Tsuki Kitsune and my other stories.