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...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....

... Finding no cure for this symptom...

...presently, the very first example of an F1 generation of the curse was born...
...The son of Namikaze Minato and Kushina Uzumaki...





"My name is Uzumaki Naruto."


Chapter 19: The blind truth

"...I'm back, Sasuke," I manage to whisper after walking up to him.
I'm really scared of how Sasuke is going to react, but I stand tall and wait for whatever is to come.

"Okaeri..."

A soft, relieved reply comes from the other and my heart lifts as if there's zero gravity acting upon it. If I didn't know what happiness felt like, I sure do now and it doesn't prevent me from my lips widening into a bright beam of smile.

I knew it! I knew Sasuke wouldn't leave me! I keep shouting inwardly, although in truth, I had been mortified until that word had come out of Sasuke's mouth.
I don't know what my appearance is like, since I can't see it for myself, but Sasuke not grossing out by my sight is something to be really relieved about. When he had heard about the operation, he had flipped and seemed horrified at that, but he seems to take it in so calmly right now.
Just as I think about how grateful I am to have such a friend, I feel warm arms wrap around me, and then I feel a body pressed against mine, feeling the body warmth of the other's seep through to mine.

Somehow it doesn't feel awkward or embarrassing. Maybe it's because of the way Sasuke is holding me. The arms lightly wrap around me but his fingertips are firm and grasping me as if he's making sure he's feeling me.... feeling that I'm right here.
The slight desperation...

"...Sasuke?" I ask in worry as he stands still without a word, just embracing me.

He's...shaking...
And somehow the warmth Sasuke is giving me confirms that it's not out of disgust towards me.

"Sasuke, you're shaking," I state quietly and reach my hands up and around his back too.
As if Sasuke snaps out of trance, he jerks, and then slightly apologises.
Before I get to ask what he's apologising for, he lets out a breathy, shaky laugh and states that I'm shaking too.

I'm shaking too...?

I didn't realise. It's probably from relief.

"And you know... you're sweating a little," Sasuke comments at my slightly dampened back, "did you run on your way here?"

"Ah, no...," I answer as I take a step back from him, facing where is face should be, with a grin, "I power-walked."

"I'm amazed," Sasuke replies in a mildly surprised tone, but not as shocked as I thought he would be, so I "stare" at him until I hear him walking away from me, towards where the window should be and I follow him too.

"But I guess it doesn't matter whether you have eyes or not, bandaged or not...right?" Sasuke continues and his voice doesn't directly amplify over towards me, knowing he isn't looking my way.

"...When did you realise?" I whisper in shock.

"That you were blind?" Sasuke asks back, this time facing directly at me while he speaks. These are the kind of features I'm more sensitive to since I lack sight.

"...probably when your eye-colour changed, I think," Sasuke vaguely replies as he directs his voice upwards in thought.

When I wait for an explanation for that, I suddenly feel hands on my shoulders that push me slowly backward to my bed.
Hinting on the gesture I take a seat, and I feel Sasuke seat himself beside me.

"It's weird to say... but somehow your red eyes looked more alive than your blue ones... and that made me realise how glassy your blue eyes looked, as if they only reflected only what it's actually seeing... no emotions... just reflection...," if you get what I mean, Sasuke adds after that and gives out a dry laugh.

I sort of get him and sort of don't, but I keep silent anyway because Sasuke is very talkative today. It's not an everyday thing to be able to listen to Sasuke's lovely voice for quite a long period.

"And then I thought back to when we first met..." he continues.

Must be about half a year ago now... I think, but I keep mute, not wanting to interrupt.

"When I first bumped into you... I offered you a helping hand, but you ignored it," Sasuke chuckles as he tells me this.

"Y-You did?" I ask in shock, not knowing that Sasuke had been different to others from the very start. Even with that attitude...

Tch! Watch where you're going, dobe!

He had been the first to actually try and help me. If it had been anyone else, they would have completely ignored my existence, and yet Sasuke is telling me now that he hadn't been that way from the very start and I feel so much gratitude building up inside me.

"Well... I thought you had ignored me...so..."

"So you clicked your tongue at me!" I point out with a chuckle and I feel Sasuke join me.

"And when I first went into your room... that one was always nagging me at the back of my head..." Sasuke mutters as if to himself, rather than to me but nevertheless, I don't recall what had happened.

"You said 'who?'."

"What...?"

"You remembered who I was since I met you at the rooftop in the morning...but when I first stepped into your room, you asked me 'who?'..." Sasuke explains which then brings loose a part of my memories from my memory storage.

"Ah..." I say, that had been the only thing I could come up with to respond.


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"Ah..." he says and tells me that he now recalls that day.
I wonder if it hadn't been a significant day for him, like how I feel? Because I won't ever forget the day I met Naruto. It had probably been one of the best and memorable days I have ever had through all these years till now.

"And a lot more things like stumbling from time to time, missing your steps, your lack of response to visuals, weak limbs..." I continue.

"Weak limbs haven't got to do anything with blindness though..." Naruto points out and my spine runs cold.

Sh-t...

I hadn't meant to say that. Yes it isn't because of blindness, but a symptom of his disease... Something I know about and shouldn't have knowledge of...

"I... guess. So you have something other than blindness that causes limbs to weaken then. That must be tough," I try to bluff and I know Naruto will fall for it because he's so dull into picking things up like this. A good thing is that he is blind because even though I bluffed, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from making a shocked face expression.

"..."
Naruto doesn't answer, and reply and it makes me nervous, until he finally opens his mouth to speak.

"Sasuke... you know what?" he asks in a bare whisper.
I see him visually trembling and I put a hand upon his shoulder, hoping It would calm his feelings a little.

"Yeah, what?" I murmur quietly.

He opens his mouth to speak, but then closes again on second thought. He repeats this a few times before finally giving me chilling words that makes my heart freeze.


"...I'm probably going to die soon."
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Title: Eyes Bleed Tears
Category: Anime/Manga » Naruto
Author: :iconnorthernryu:
Language: English
Main Characters: Naruto, Sasuke

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YaoiTotoro's avatar
The last part was so painful to read.

Is so sad...