The Blind Eye - Kakashi Hatake (Reposted)

Hitomi of the Blind Eye

I paired the blade coming toward me with my own Katana, stopping it just before it struck the civilians. I pushed the blade back and decapitated the man holding them hostage, pulling a scroll out to seal away the body to bring it to headquarters. My eyes, red with Mangekyo, darted around, searching for threats.

My ANBU mask stuck to my face using my chakra, hiding myself from view. My eyes flickered to my other comrades, Neko, Falcon, and Wolf. They had handled the situation.

I shut my eyes, not sensing a single person around us.

I deactivated my sharingan completely and opened my eyes. I felt myself open my eyes. But there was nothing. I saw nothing. It was dark.

I could only sense. I could sense my comrades and the civilians I had just saved, but I continued to panic. Sobs shaked through my body uncontrollably and my breathing was heavy. My arms were shaking and I could feel Falcon get closer to me.

He held my wrists in his hands but I ripped them away and backed away from him. His chakra was harsh and flaring, the aggressive shock hurt to be near.

"Raccoon, what's wrong?" Neko asked, her subtle warm chakra soothed me, her hands grazing my shoulders.

"I-i" I paused, swallowing thickly. "I can't see." I reached out for Neko, noticing Wolf come closer as well. Falcon had left to check on the civilians, getting them back to the police station.

"We should get you back to HQ," Wolf said, easing his hand out to grab my own. He pulled me up, wrapping his right arm around my waist to guide me back.

We split up, Neko guiding me into the girl's changing room. She helped me get back into my casual clothes and we went back to the base room.

She stayed with me until Kakashi showed up. She left when he got in.

"Falcon told me you can't see." I felt his chirping chakra come closer, but I didn't back away from him like I did with Falcon. Falcon's lighting hurt, Kakashi's didn't. Kakashi's was comforting, he's my home.

"I can't" I reached my hand out in his direction and laid my hand on his arm. "Four years early."

Kakashi wrapped his arms around me, pulling my head into his shoulder. "Let's go home,"

Kakashi carried me back to our house, not caring that I wasn't physically hurt and that I could walk. We were greeted by our dogs, as usual, but we didn't greet them back. Kakashi carried me up the stairs and set me on our bed.

He left me with our dog, Pakkun, and descended the stairs. It was strange to be able to sense where he was going at all times, but I would just have to deal with that. He was in the kitchen.

After 15 minutes of me just petting the dogs, he came back upstairs with two full plates and some chopsticks. He set the plates on our side table and turned the TV on.

He put a tape in, a tape that I could remember easily.

"What are you doing?" Past me asked Kakashi as he set up the video camera in our old kitchen. This was over a year ago: February 10th, 1975—my fifteenth birthday.

"Filming today," Kakashi simply answered. He had just gotten home from a mission, still dressed in his ANBU uniform.

"But you should rest," I stressed the syllables of the words, emphasizing my point. "You just got home."

"Rest can wait, your birthday can't." Kakashi walked away from the camera and leaned down to peck me on the cheek. "You're fifteen, it's important."

"You know I stopped celebrating my birthday after I graduated?"I questioned. Kakashi hummed in agreement, taking a bowl out of an upper cabinet.

"First birthday in nine years then," Kakashi pulled flour, sugar, and other baking ingredients out of the cabinets and fridge. Mixing them while talking and not letting me help him.

The cake was baked after a small section of the film that Kakashi skipped over because the dogs were in the room, and the last shot had Kakashi shoving a piece in my face like it was a wedding.

We had finished eating halfway through the film and ended up cuddling by wading through a sea of fur beasts. I heard a knocking sound on our bedroom window when it was finished, and also felt the slight chakra of a summoning bird from the Hokage Council.

Kakashi sighed and opened the window to collect the scroll. "It's for you. 'Hitomi Uchiha please meet with the Hokage Council in fifteen minutes. A meeting about your condition with Fugaku Uchiha and your commander.'"

"I went blind an hour ago, can't they let me get used to it?" I whined, throwing my head back onto the pillow on the right side of the bed. I stood up slowly, placing my hand on the bed to keep me in a place that I knew.

"I'll help you get ready," Kakashi said, walking away to go to our closet. I sat back down and pulled my shirt over my head, setting it next to me. "Here," Kakashi held a shirt, judging by the way his arms were up, and was waiting for me to put my arms up. I did that, letting him slip it over my head. He pulled me up by my hands and pulled my jeans down. I sat back down and let him take them off all the way. He put me in a pair of combat pants, which I could tell by the texture, and slid a belt through the loops to keep them up.

Kakashi picked me up, holding my back on one arm and the back of my knees on the other, and brought me down the stairs. He set me down on a bar stool in the kitchen and brought my sandals for me to put on. I slid them on and felt him leave to open the door to the closet. He seemed to slip something over his arms and chest and came back to help me do the same. Jackets, it was starting to get chilly at night.

Kakashi grabbed my left hand and guided me out of our house, staying by my side the whole walk to the Hokage Tower.

It was a cold November night, the wind nipped at my face but I couldn't help but think of Naruto. I focused my sensing, but couldn't find him. I could feel everything else, the trees, the people, the animals. I could find the tiniest bugs but I couldn't find my sensei's son.

The tower has too many stairs. That was all I could think. I thought it had a lot of stairs before, but now that I couldn't see when they ended it was worse. I could feel the chakra of the council, the intense inferno of Fugaku's, and the harsh lighting strikes of Falcon's, so I knew we were close.

Finally, the stairs ended and Kakashi knocked on the door for me. We heard a subtle 'come in' and Kakashi opened the door.

"Ah, Kakashi, Hitomi, right on time." Lord 4th commented. "Sit down," Kakashi led me to a chair, then sat to my right.

"How are you coping?" Koharu-sama asked, her voice soft. Her chakra had that same softness, the subtle warmth from her medical chakra was overwhelmed by the harsh heat of Lord 4th and Fugaku-sama's chakra, but it was comforting nonetheless.

"Ok, I can still sense everything, so it isn't that harsh of a change."

"You can?" Danzo-sama asked.

"Yes I can, Lord Danzo."

"Point everyone out," Lord 4th commanded.

"Left to right. Koharu-sama, Homura-sama, Danzo-sama, Lord 4th, Fugaku-sama, and Falcon."

"How can you tell?" Homura asked.

"I can see minuscule details in chakra. For example, Falcon's chakra is lightning but it's extremely harsh. Kakashi's is lightning but it feels like a small shock."

"Told you," Fugaku muttered, leaning over to Falcon for a moment. I felt Falcon's chakra flare slightly, his mood shifting.

"It seems like you could remain in the ANBU unless you wish to retire. We will support your decision either way." Lord 4th said, ignoring the conversation between the two men to his left.

"I want to continue in the ANBU. I don't see myself leaving anytime soon."