Author Note: I hope you like this chapter. Naruto will not be overpowered here, not now, not yet. Maybe in the future... he will be.
Chapter Two: I Am Blind, So What?
When he saw his little sister for the first time, he was determined to protect his sister from all dangers at all costs. They said she was ordinary, too ordinary, but he didn't care. He loved playing hide and seek with her. Because he knew that he would always win because of his eyes.
She was a bundle of joy indeed.
As time passed and they grew up, they got more and more distant. Satoru was trained to learn how to fully utilise his eyes and Limitless as well as other techniques whereas his sister Hanako was being neglected more and more with each passing day. It was because her cursed technique was to force someone to see something they desire the most. She had a small cursed energy pool. The clan would give him the best food and clothes while she got average or below average facilities. They treated her like this because she was a girl. And a woman could never become a clan head.
Satoru was more and more engaged in clan affairs as well as the Jujutsu society. Soon he moved out of the clan and got admission into Jujutsu High School in Tokyo.
Years went on and on.
Soon Satoru Gojo was a name known to everyone from the Jujutsu society. He became more and more busy and the memory of his sister was nothing more than a blur to him. He later hated to admit it, but there once came a time when he didn't even recognise her.
One sunny morning, he was relaxing in the garden when a girl wearing a yellow kimono came with a bucket of water. She bowed respectfully to him before watering the plants.
She had the classic Gojo looks, so he assumed her to be some non-sorcerer as he did not recognise her.
"Oi," he said.
"Yes, Satoru," she said without turning back.
"Who are you?" He asked. "Haven't seen you before."
The young woman looked at him and suddenly laughed. He raised an eyebrow at the act.
"What's so funny?" He asked.
"You think I would seriously fall for that joke?"
"What joke?"
"Ha…" she abruptly stopped laughing when she saw his frown deepening.
"Well?" Satoru pressed.
"Nothing, Satoru-sama."
It was later that day that he recognised her. But it was too late. He was tasked to guard Riko, the Star Plasma Vessel. So when he couldn't save the girl, he was mentally broken. Suguru Geto's abandonment didn't help either.
His mother was always sick. The girl who used to look after his mother, his younger sister, ran away from the clan with a boy, her mother reduced her food intake in grief, and had to be force-fed medicine. A few days later his mother died after being ill for some time.
Satoru never forgave his sister for this.
He knew he was at fault here too. His eyes that used to capture everything could not recognize his own sister. It's a shame. But still…
A few years passed after that. He kept no contact with his sister. But Satoru knew where Hanako lived. He knew that she had a son. A 'blind' son.
When he was confronting Jogo and felt an aura very similar to his own he had no doubt that it was Hanako or her son.
He didn't know what to feel when he heard she was dead, along with Kenji, her husband. But he did feel a little bit pity for the five year old they had left behind.
He decided to meet the kid.
Everyone looked at him with pitiful eyes. Some ruffled his hair while some gave him some money. The boy was sitting still, no movement. But everyone could notice the obvious dampness of his orange blindfold. They knew that eventually everyone had to go and the boy would be left alone. He will have to live alone for some time.
About twenty people attended the ceremony. Most were co-workers of his parents as they had almost no friends. A few neighbours and some acquainted people also came.
There were also three people whom nobody recognized. Well, everyone assumed the eldest of them, a tall man with white hair and blindfold couldn't be anyone not related to the orphan boy. He must be a blood-relative. Poor family, blindness runs through their genes.
The man was with two teenagers. The female had short brown light hair with brown eyes wearing a navy blue top with a similar coloured skirt. She had a pouch attached to her waist. The boy with green was wearing a navy blue shirt and navy blue pants with a purplish tint. Both of the teenagers had a bored look on their face. The man on the other hand, had a stern look on his face. He was looking at the boy sitting in the middle of the hall with a sad face.
"Poor kid," Nobara Kugisaki said. "Losing parents at such a young age."
"Yeah." Megumi Fushigoro agreed. Then he looked at his sensei. "Why are we here again? Shouldn't we be preparing for the tournament?"
"Two days ago, Jujutsu Sorcerers felt some abnormal curse energy coming from this town." Gojo explained. "Every curse in this town was gone. They just disappeared. Some unknown, but powerful energy exorcised them. And guess what, the kid over there has cursed energy."
"That kid looks barely five!" Exclaimed Nobara.
"Gojo-sensei," Nobara said as she frowned. "Is that kid related to you?"
"Yeah," agreed Megumi. "That same hair and that blindfold is pretty hard to ignore. Look at those pictures over there— they also had the same hair and eyes."
Gojo didn't reply. He wasn't in his usual cheerful mode.
As the burial was finished, everyone began to leave one by one, except for the trio and the boy— who was sitting next to his mother and father's gravestone. As everyone left, the priest handed him some papers and left. The boy was still sitting there, no movement.
The trio slowly made their way towards the boy.
"Hey, kid," Nobara began awkwardly. "I am really sorry for your loss… I'm so sorry that I want to cry… but you see, I have some problems in my eyes like you… no offence, so no tears…"
"Kugisaki," Meguma flatly said. "Are you mocking him?"
"WHAT? Absolutely not… oh god, I am just not-so-good-at-expressing-my-feelings."
"Yeah, I know."
"Oi, Fushiguro, are you mocking me?!"
"Yeah."
"What do you want?" The boy tilted his head and the trio couldn't help but notice the dampness on his blindfold. 'The boy must be crying all this time!' —they thought.
"I'll get to the point," Gojo said, much to the shock of his students— Gojo not being nice? Especially to a newly made orphan child?! "How did you do it?"
"Do what?" The boy spoke.
"Did you exorcise all those curses?"
"What is 'curse'? And how do I exercise with them?"
Megumi facepalmed and Nobara let out an unladylike laughter. The boy frowned while Gojo tapped on his own blindfold.
"I know who you are and what you possess." Gojo said and the boy shrivered a bit before immediately calming himself down. "You can't fool me."
"I can't see," the boy said as he grabbed his cane and stood up. "Stop wasting your time, old man…"
"Huh," Gojo smirked as he rubbed his chin. "You know how I look, despite being blind. You are not very convincing." The boy sniffed. "Drop the act and talk."
"Sensei," Megumi spoke. "Aren't you being too rude?"
"I know what I am doing. You just watch. And you, take off the blindfold."
"I told you," the boy almost shouted. "I am blind, so what do you want? Just leave me al… ugh…!"
"What the…" Nobara almost shouted when she saw her sensei immobilising the boy and forcefully taking his blindfold off. "Sensei, have you… oh my god… is that… are those…"
Her face was twitching as she saw the boy's eyes. The boy had momentarily forgotten about the promise he made with his parents as he unintentionally showed his amethyst eyes to the trio.
"What did you…" he froze as he processed what had just happened. He immediately shut his eyes off but instead of drawing their attention away from his eyes, they frowned as they noticed his blood vessels and capillaries of his eyelids.
"Wow," Megumi remarked. "Gojo-sensei, you now have the second most shining eyes on the planet."
Gojo ignored him.
The boy was desperately trying to escape but Gojo's grip was way too much for the five year old.
"This child is dangerous." Gojo said without letting the boy go. "Very dangerous. If given the opportunity, he can wreak havoc on the entire jujutsu society and the entire world. He must be taken to our secret headquarters. He will be executed there."
"Sensei! Have you gone crazy?" Megumi yelled. "He is only a five-year-old child! And you gave Itadori a chance even though he ate one of Sukuna's fingers— while you want to hand over a child to them, those old men, because he has Six Eyes like you... no, better Six Eyes than you? I see you burning in the fire of jealousy."
"I… I won't let you harm the boy," Nobara said as she raised her hammer towards him. "Even if I have to fight you for it!"
Using the conversation as a distraction, Naruto bit down hard on Gojo's hand and when Gojo pulled his hand away Naruto quickly ran for the door. Gojo angrily raised a bright red round ball of cursed energy at his fingertips. When he was just about to launch the attack on the boy, two figures emerged from the boy's behind and jumped at the man. Gojo jumped and effortlessly dodged their attacks and took a defensive stance. Suddenly the creatures began to speak…
"Leave the baby, leave, leave, leave, leave him, leave him, or we will kill you all, kill you, kill you."
The creatures, who were obviously cursed spirits, had the shape of something between dragon and human. One had red skin while the other had blue skin. They had long white hair that floated in an unearthly way. They had a dim white glow with their body.
Gojo lifted the blindfold over his eyes and everyone could see his sky blue eyes. Megumi and Nobara quickly began creating their own defensive and offensive attacks. Megumi summoned his white and black dog and the girl quickly took out some nails and her hammer.
"Just as I suspected," Gojo spoke with a hint of amusement. "I knew you wouldn't leave him behind even in death. You had to become a cursed spirit to be so strong, because you could never be strong as a human. You are a disappointment. A coward as always."
"Shut it. Shut it. Shut it." The spirit, which appears to be a female, chanted, clutching its head and shaking violently.
"You were always weak and stupid, and now you are even weaker and stupider." Gojo continued.
"Shuuuut…"
"Hmm... but I have one last thing to say…" Gojo said dramatically. "Have no fear! Because it was just pure drama!"
"What?!" Nobara shouted! "You did not want to kill the boy under the pretext of danger? I was going to hammer you…"
"Whatever, my cute students! I am very proud of you. No matter how powerful the villain of injustice is, never help him, and try his best to stop him. Anyways, I was just testing one thing— if the kid was in trouble, these two would come to his aid; My guess proved true. I knew that no matter how much raw power a child can possess, he can never exorcize so many cursed spirits in such a short time. I assumed he had some help. The boy must have released a lot of cursed energy which had attracted cursed spirits and in order to protect him, these two—" he pointed towards the cursed spirits. "—finished them all."
"Woah." Nobara whistled as she exclaimed. "He must have hell of some cursed energy."
"Don't underestimate him," Satoru Gojo warned. "He has almost as equal amount of cursed energy as Yuta and has the potential to surpass Yuta and possibly even me. That's why he is dangerous."
"But sensei," Megumi said. "Did he curse his parents?"
"I don't know. But that might be the case."
"How did he bite you? Because of Infinity, any attack stops, then?"
"I was bitten because I allowed myself to be bitten. I was trying to understand at what level of danger Hanako and Kenji came to save their son. From what I understand, since they are cowards, they don't come unless there is no other way. But yes, Naruto is dangerous, both to himself and to others. I don't want anyone else to suffer the same fate as Yuta." Then, he looked at Naruto. "So, kid?"
"..."
"Oi, kid?" Gojo waved his hand at the boy who was staring at the cursed spirits.
"..."
"I think you broke him." Megumi said.
"Everyone gets traumatized when they meet sensei for the first time." Nobara added.
The boy's eyes moisturized.
"Tou-chan…" he spoke, it was barely a whisper, but everyone heard it anyway. "Oka-chan?"
"Our baby is looking at us in this form…" the red cursed spirit, the male one shouted and began to tear its white-gleaming hair off. The blue one, the female one also followed. Soon both the curses were shouting various things.
The boy suddenly burst into tears.
"You didn't leave me!" The boy came running and hugged the nearest curse, the red one. "You are back! I knew you would come back!"
A pregnant pause.
"Baby! My baby!" The curses snapped their heads towards him and began to float around him as if he was the sun and they were planets. They patted his back, ruffled his hair and so on. The boy was not afraid— two creepy looking creatures or rather, two Special Grade curses touching him and he had no fear. It was disturbing. But they were his parents and he recognised them— so it was explainable— to a certain extent. "We are sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry…"
"But how are you back? I mean… you know…"
"I'll explain, kid." Gojo said. "You come from the Gojo family, one of the three main bloodlines that possess certain abilities and techniques. So we have cursed energy running through your blood, like it or not. When we feel negative emotions, our cursed energy is released. By learning how to wield it, we can use cursed techniques. However, untamed cursed energy is dangerous and due to the shock you had when your parents died, you might have cursed them. So…" he dramatically said. "As long as the curse is not lifted, they are stuck with you! Do you get it? Or is it too hard?"
"'s 'kay." The boy hugged tighter. "I understand… enough."
"Ohhh! Our baby! Smart, cute baby!" the blue spirit shouted.
Nobara wiped a fake tear.
"You know, I would've considered clicking some photos if I had a phone or camera embodied with cursed energy." Nobara said as she sighed.
Hummed Megumi.
"We will protect you from the Jojo demon!" Suddenly the blue cursed spirit said in a joyful tune said
"Who?" the boy gave an expression by curling his eyebrow.
"That would be me!" Gojo raised his hand with a bright smile. "And it's Gojo, not 'Jojo'."
The boy looked at him and snorted. "You do look kind of suspicious and scary, old man." The boy remarked.
Gojo laughed while his students sweat dropped. 'He is hugging those curses and sensei looks weird to him?'
"So now, tell me, kid—" Gojo said as he closed in. "Are you willing to become my apprentice? I can help you to learn how to use those eyes, they are called Six Eyes by the way. I can also teach you how to use cursed energy. So, what is your answer?"
"No." Was the boy's immediate answer.
Gojo's smile faded.
"Do you hate me for that stunt I just pulled? Look, I am sorry…"
"No, I am not mad at you. I understand." The boy spoke and he raised his hands and looked at his palms. "These eyes, I can understand everything with them. But I don't want to be involved in this mess… not now. Besides, you remind me of someone I used to know. So, I don't hate you."
"Okay, your choice. But let me tell you one thing: you don't wanna get involved, huh? But soon, you will be forced to be involved." Then he looked at the cursed spirits. "And you guys, if you guys try to harm anyone, no matter whatever the reason, I will personally exorcise you without a moment's hesitation, Special Grade or not." He announced in a cold voice. But these things will come later. First, nephew, you say, where will you be now? Surely you will not be alone in that house?"
"No, I will stay there." Said Naruto. "I have them, don't I? I won't be alone. You don't have to worry about it. Now leave me alone, please"
"Okay, nephew," he turned and began to walk away. "We'll see you soon."
Megumi and Nobara followed him.
"Bye…" then he frowned. "Wait, 'nephew'?"
"Baby!" The blue curse said in a high pitched voice. "Are you hungry?"
"Yeah!" His face lit up. "Ramen time!"
Geto gave his creepy smile.
"A junior Satoru Gojo?" His smile evolved into a grin. "With cursed energy almost as much as Yuta Okkotsu and with the Six eyes? Has two Special Grade cursed apparitions? My, my, I am already starving!"
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