Angels

Someone had been treating him pretty badly. His skin was pale, the only color it had were purple-black bruises and cuts that broke the skin. Even from here I can see how the cold made his lips blue and his hands shake. I should thank whoever gave him the bruises. His facial expression infuriates me. He refuses beyond all measures to show emotion.

Still, one must admire my elder brother. He has a will of titanium, although his personality is that of a double-edged sword.

His eyes startled me a little.

They told me he was blind, they didn't tell me how blind.

When I walked in the door, his obsidian eyes darted to the sound, but they stared at a place about two feet to my left. He is truly stone blind. Such a pity. Now I can't kill him.

He's worthless to me like this. I wanted to kill him while he was at his most powerful, deadly state.

Now he's blind, unable to use any of his doujutsus, his neck chained to the wall, his wrists chained to the floor.

Now, he's utterly helpless. Horribly, beautifully, wonderfully, helpless.

I just stand there, staring at him. He was once an angel, in my eyes. A perfect person. But he fell from such a great height. That's how I see him now. A fallen angel. No one could possibly disagree. He even looks like an angel, despite his lank black hair covering half his face and a bleeding lip. But regardless of what I think, the world sees him as a demon. A plague upon humanity.

But he's blind.

The Akatsuki abandoned him. Konoha shuns him. I am the only person he has left. And even I just want to leave him someplace for dead. I love him and I hate him. But I can't just kill him. He is, in his own words 'not even worth killing' now.

Tsunade has given me my last option. If I cannot kill him, I must take care of him myself. Provide him with a home, food, and clothing. Try and make him a semi-functioning member of society, able to go out into public, if nothing else.

I have no other choice. I agreed to this idiotic idea only because I could see no other way. After all, I wouldn't kill him blind, helpless, defenseless. So I just have to learn to live with him, and take care of him. The real question is, could he learn to live with that?

To be continued...