Eyes bleed Tears 18

Good morning, Sasuke.

I hope you are okay.
I will do operation today.
Wish me luck

Naruto

Chapter 18: Okaeri~Welcome back~

For how long I had been sitting on the cold, bare bed alone like that, all hunched up and deep in thought, I don't know, but it sure seemed like eternity.
I guess, like always, the person waiting for an operation to end is the one to be the most anxious for a long period time than the ones who are actually receiving the operation.

It's these kinds of times I hate the most.
The waiting...
And also the anxiety while waiting while the negative thoughts arise in many different scenarios that might happen. It's not like I want to predict the worst, but my mind just replays many outcomes I might have to face by itself, against my will.
It's probably trauma.
The past experiences are the reason for my brain to automatically foresee the worst outcomes as I had countless depressing moments for waiting...

The soft padding of a single pair of footsteps comes nearer and I feel the tension I had building on my shoulders relax.
After hearing the door slide, I slowly turn around to the one I've been waiting for...
And there he was, standing there solid and true to my expectations.

"...I'm back, Sasuke," he whispers when I walk up to him.
I hear the slight quiver in his voice, and my lips slightly bend upward.

"Okaeri..." I reply, and then to that, he gives me a huge beaming smile.
I see the slightly visible pair of dents where his eyes should have been, and to be honest, it is a bit disturbing, especially when I think about what they look like behind those bandages. And to know that the once beautiful set of azure blue eyes is no longer there is a downfall to my feelings. But more than anything, I feel the happiness and relief that he's back and okay.

As if the visual isn't enough, without thinking, I feel myself reach out for Naruto and embrace him feeling him in my arms and right here with me. Not a hallucination.

"...Sasuke?" Naruto asks unsurely as I fall back into another flashback of the previous day where I had been searching through the thick book of records about the Kyuubi's Curse.

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"The Uchiha were not saviours, but were known to be the cursed clan, isolating our clan far from the actual village where the normal villagers lived. The only time the Uchiha was out of their tiny town which was residential to only the Uchiha's, was only when there was school for the kids to go to. Otherwise, there were shops and stores and everything they needed all in that one town, isolated from everyone else."

Sasuke skim read through the pages of the information on his clan and the curse.

...the Uchiha's were nevertheless highly respected for their ability to control the Kyuubi, and from the fear of what they could do if in punishment if they were disrespected...

...though scientifically researched to find that Uchiha's mechanism of control was just that they did not carry two of the recessive gene of this disease...

...those with the recessive genes expressed, the symptoms arose only at the puberty stage and the disease grew along with the body...

...those who had the Kyuubi's curse could not control themselves and eventually lost their sanity attacking anything or anyone in sight...

...no such cures a found for this disease yet with our present knowledge...


"No... cure?" Sasuke moistened his dry lips as he then repeated words that he heard years ago, "...no solution... 'no solution except to kill'..."

"There is no solution for this, except to kill me, Sasuke..."
"...W-what're you saying...Nii-san..."
"When you're ready, come and find me... and kill me!"

"Nii-san... were you scared of losing yourself...?"
Lost in thought, buried in many memories, Sasuke faded away into them for along time.
When he suddenly clicked back to reality, it was too dark to read.

He stood up and searched for an emergency torch that he caught a glimpse of when he came in earlier, hanging by the wall.
Turning on the lights of this room was no option, because he didn't want to attract any attention for people to figure out that he was here in a restricted zone.

Clicking on the light, Sasuke read on.

According to the past researches, many experiments were tested upon people by transferring the Uchiha's recessive genes, but finding out that it was lethal to people other than the Uchiha's with a reason still unknown, the experiment was considered forbidden...

Sasuke flicked on to the next page, not knowing yet what the pages ahead were going to state and shock him to no ends.

But regardless of the forbidden laws, a researcher named Dr. Orochimaru apparently secretly continued on the research, using many sacrifices to obtain results for his researches.

He had found in his researches that the people who had the Uchiha blood transfused would show the regular symptoms of the disease immediately, and gradually worsen like the Uchiha's who carry double the recessive gene, except in a normal person's body, the gene known to be the Kyuubi's curse becomes a dominant gene.

Moreover, unlike the Uchiha's, the normal people do not have the capability of controlling the gene expressed in their bodies, and a major side affect of deteriorating organs occur rapidly.

While Uchiha somehow has the anti-genes to prevent them from any organ deterioration, the others will start undergoing a self-destructing procedure, slowly losing all the functions of the body and eventually leading to death.

From the years of research and finding no cure for this symptom, the Uchiha blood became a lethal weapon and was used for assassination by the ones who opposed the 4th leader Hokage of the village.

Not knowing about the affects of the lethal gene that was known to only a handful of people working for Orochimaru in the first place, the 4th Hokage, Namikaze Minato had created an F1 generation for the Kyuubi's curse for the first time in scientific history.
So presently, the very first example of an F1 generation of the curse exists. The son of Namikaze Minato and Kushina Uzumaki.

"... Uzumak!" Sasuke choked on his words at the name.


"…Uzumaki."

"What?"

"Uzumaki."

"A whirling vortex?"

"...my name"

"Your...name?"

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto."

"...Naruto"

"You don't need to remember it..."

"Naruto..." Sasuke whispered as his eyes cracked wide open while he felt all the blood in his body freeze from the most violent impact he had ever received in his life.
All air escaped his body and he forgot to how to breathe.
Once he gasped for oxygen, he then re-read the previous few passages again with a pounding heart that seemed so loud in his ears that he could hardly hear his own voice.

"...unlike the Uchiha's, the normal people are do not have the capability of controlling the gene expressed in their bodies...
...major side affect of deteriorating organs occur rapidly....
...start undergoing a self-destructing procedure, slowly losing all the functions of the body and... eventually leading... to..."

He wasn't able to finish the last sentence as he now knew who this was referring to.

Finding no cure for this symptom...

His heart thudded so violently that it felt like each heart beat gave a whole vibrating impact upon the rest of his body except his face where all blood drained, making him paler than he already was as if life had been sucked out of him ironical to the rest of the pulsating body.

Taking a huge breath in attempt to calm himself and extensively failing at that, he forced to read the rest of what the records had to say about Naruto after reminding himself of the words his mother used to give him.

Don't worry. You are strong Sasuke, dear.

Stay strong. Stay strong. Sasuke repeated in his mind.

Records:
The child born blind with a few scratches across the cheeks that are presumed to have originated from pharyngeal slits that had failed to disappear due to the mutational affects of the gene of the Kyuubi's curse.
Side affects of dark map-like rash appear on the surface of the abdomen centring from the belly button a few years after birth.
Bodily health unstable, and anything deterioration is expected to happen at any time.
No signs of losing sanity.
The brain seems to be the one place that is fully unaffected.

Future notes:
Expect any dysfunction of organs, disability of limbs, blood-filling in eyes and especially rupture of blood.
Most organ deterioration is critical.
First signs will be losing the 5 senses.
Next will be losing the function of muscles, and finally the organs will dysfunction till his death.
Expect mortality period to be less than 20 years.

Note that these symptoms may not go accordingly in order.
Probable that any sudden deaths may occur.

Sasuke totally lost the confidence of being able to act normal in front of Naruto, and support him.
Was he even able to do anything to help support Naruto?
He was faced by the biggest fear that there was death awaiting his friend, and he could do absolutely nothing about it.
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I had only wanted to prepare myself for when Naruto was going to trust me enough to tell me about himself...

But I had ended up biting off more than I could chew...
...or even fit in my mouth.