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.
Some readers have been complaining that Naruto is too young to participate in any of the future events.
Just because Naruto is young doesn't mean he can't participate in the events of the canon.
It's alreday been more than 20 chapters— (June, 2024), so you can guess how much he has influenced the story.
So don't complain about him not being able to participate in any events.
That's all.
Chapter Two: I Am Blind, So What?
When he first laid eyes on his little sister, a fierce determination ignited within him. He vowed to shield her from every peril, at any cost. They whispered that she was ordinary, too plain to matter, but he paid no heed. Their bond blossomed through games of hide and seek, where he'd always triumph with his keen eyes.
She was his bundle of joy, a sunbeam in his life.
As the years flowed by, their closeness waned. Satoru honed his abilities, mastering his eyes and the Limitless technique. Meanwhile, Hanako, his sister, faced neglect. Her cursed technique compelled others to witness their deepest desires, yet her cursed energy pool remained small. The clan favored him, showering him with fine food and attire, while she received the mundane. Tradition dictated that women could never lead the clan.
Satoru immersed himself in clan affairs and the Jujutsu society. Eventually, he left the clan, securing admission to Jujutsu High School in Tokyo.
Time blurred memories. Satoru Gojo's name echoed across the Jujutsu world. His sister became a distant whisper. There came a day when he no longer recognized her.
One sunny morning, a girl in a yellow kimono tended the garden. Respectfully, she watered the plants. Her features bore the classic Gojo resemblance, yet he assumed she was a non-sorcerer.
"Oi," he called.
"Yes, Satoru," she replied without turning.
"Who are you?" he asked. "I've not seen you."
She laughed, catching him off guard.
"What's amusing?" he inquired.
"You think I'd fall for that joke?"
"What joke?"
Her laughter ceased, replaced by a solemn expression.
"Nothing, Satoru-sama."
Later, he recognized her—the sister he'd overlooked. But it was too late. Tasked with guarding Riko, the Star Plasma Vessel, he failed to save her. Suguru Geto's betrayal weighed heavily.
Their mother, perpetually ill, relied on Hanako. Yet she fled the clan with a boy, leaving her mother to suffer. Days later, their mother succumbed to illness.
Satoru harbored resentment toward his sister. His eyes, once all-seeing, failed to recognize her. Shame gnawed at him.
Years passed. He lost touch with Hanako. But he knew where she lived, knew she had a son—a 'blind' child.
Confronting Jogo, he sensed an aura akin to his own. Hanako or her son, he wondered.
News of her death, alongside her husband Kenji, stirred mixed emotions. Pity for the five-year-old they left behind tugged at his heart.
He resolved to meet the child, his nephew.
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's grin stretched across his face, revealing yellowed teeth. His eyes, shadowed by dark circles, bore into the young sorcerer before him.
"A junior Satoru Gojo?" he mused, voice dripping with malice. "Cursed energy swirling, a tempest akin to Yuta Okkotsu's. And those Six Eyes—a forbidden inheritance, a curse veiled in power." His fingers twitched, eager for a feast. "Not one, but two Special Grade apparitions at your beck and call? My, my, I am already starving."
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