Sightless: Chapter1

Sasuke P.O.V

It wasn't supposed to end like this. I wasn't supposed to fall for this boy, this kid one year my junior. I wasn't supposed to crash into the ground because of this little blond.

I never wanted to have to deal with him. I never wanted to be left with him, for he was useless to me. He was a burden to everyone at school and at his home, but I never thought that he would have become a burden that I kept willingly.

I never thought that I would be in the hospital deeply concerned about Naruto Uzumaki. But I haven't even introduced myself yet.

My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I am a second year and I am in hopeless love with someone who doesn't even know what I look like.

It all started that day. That fateful day when this little lost blond stumbled- literally- into our physics class

"Uzumaki-kun how nice of you to join us today." The teacher spoke to the blond, who was accompanied by a brunet and redhead, as they walked into class about five minutes tardy.

"Sorry, Iruka-sensei. I kind of got lost on my way to school." The blond sheepishly rubbed his arm with his hand. "Gaara and Kiba were kind enough to escort me here and end up missing their own classes. Do you mind writing them up passes to not get in trouble?" Iruka sighed warily but agreed nonetheless.

I had seen the freshman around the school. His name was Naruto Uzumaki. He was always getting lost, making jokes and smiling. He was so noisy and couldn't stop bumping into things. I thought that he was clumsy, loud and extremely obnoxious. That was before I knew that he couldn't control being that way. He was also bright. Not in the intelligence sense. No he was as dumb as a doornail. But he loved the color orange, and his eyes were the deepest blue ever, despite his condition. His hair was not any darker; it was a yellow that rivaled the sun.

His two friends were always by his side and followed him everywhere. The three were found together so often that there were even rumors of them living together. But rumors are just that, rumors.

Uzumaki took to his seat which was conveniently located three desks from mine. He sat down quickly (but not without bumping into a desk- because he insisted he walks without any assistance- and the whole class guffawing).

Iruka-sensei assigned us a project about Newton's First and Third Law of Physics. We had to do an experiment and find proofas to why it works. Ther topic was a rather narrow one and I could barely remember the laws themselves from my last year in junior high.

To top it all off our teacher apparently was too lazy to actually assign partners randomly though and just did it alphabetically instead. Which meant I was stuck with Uzumaki as a partner.

And that is where our story really begins.

"Hey Uzumaki, can you come to my house tonight to work on the project? We should get it done as fast as possible." I asked from afar after Iruka assigned us our partners.

"I'll have to ask my mom to see if she could pick me up from your house. I'll get back to you during lunch."He dismissed me quickly and I grunted in acknowledgement and turned to watch Iruka work through a difficult problem on the board.

"Meet me at the Sakura tree by the east gate for lunch. I usually eat there with Neji, his friends and Sakura and her friends; you can bring Inuzuka and Sabaku if you want. I really don't care." I didn't want to make lunch plans with this dobe, but it seemed rude not to. To get an answer for tonight and then leaving him to do whatever the hell the dobe does during lunch.

Naruto hummed his agreement and grinned cheekily before he himself turned toward the board and listened intently to the lesson.

I didn't see the blond feeling his paper as he tried to solve the problem.

"Where the hell is that dobe? I need to get an answer for that stupid project meeting." I mumbled to myself in front of the Sakura tree. I didn't have all day to spend. I chewed on my onigiri angrily while Sakura and Ino spewed nonsense from their mouths, Neji typed away on his laptop, and Tenten and Lee were occupied with a 'youthful' game of tic-tac-toe.

"Sasuke, are you even listening to us?" Sakura's shrilly voice cut through the frustrated air surrounding me.

"Hn." I couldn't care less about what she had spoken. All I wanted was for the dobe to give me an answer so we could get this fucking project over and be done with it.

I shifted over and saw exactly who I had been wasting my time over. Uzumaki was there with Sabaku by his side as always and Inuzuka lagging behind them. Sabaku had a scowl on his face, while Kiba just looked plain bored. Naruto, who was ever the optimist, had a bright smile plastered across his face.

Everyone in my group went quiet when Naruto spoke in his cheerful voice. Naruto and I are very different, as far as social statuses and personalities go. I am a dark soul; while he radiates everywhere he goes. He is in the middle of the popularity ladder, while my friends and I range from most popular to just simply popular. No one is ever supposed to venture outside of their social circle… too bad for me.

"Hey Sasuke! My mom said I could come tonight but only if Gaara comes with me. She doesn't wish for me to be a burden to you and your family." I didn't understand the 'burden' bit, I mean the dobe only stumbles and breaks things. How much damage could he actually do?

I gave him a grunt in acknowledgement and approval before I returned to my meal, mulling over his words.

"Naruto-san! What are you doing here at our lunch spot on this youthful day!? Do you wish to join us for the consumption of our scrumptious meals?" The addressed boy shook his head quickly.

"I'm sorry Lee. I would love to have lunch with you and join in with but I have to go to the teachers' lounge for lunch every day. My mother's orders." With those last words the blue eyed boy waved his goodbyes to my friends and me. He walked away but not before stumbling as he turned and proceeding to crash into Kiba. He looked at the brunet for a second before grinning sheepishly; Kiba just patted his head in response."Sasuke!" I heard my name being screamed as soon as I got out of school. I about faced and saw Naruto standing at the bottom of the stairwell facing my direction but clearly looking through me and not at me.

"Dobe, I'm over here. I'm standing right in front of you. Why are you looking that way?"

"Hey Sasuke! Do you see Gaara? He was supposed to be here after school but I don't know where he is. Usually he would just show up and surprise me by yelling, "Boo!" in my ear…" I tuned the rest of his rant out and focused on scanning the crowd for the freshman's best friend.

"Yo." Naruto jumped about two feet in the air when he heard the word spoken then clutched his heart as if he had a heart attack. I inwardly chuckled but didn't allow the emotion to show on my face. The blond was nothing but a loud, scaredy cat.

"Gaara is picking on me! He knew I couldn't see him!" Naruto exclaimed to no one in particular. I rolled my eyes and started exiting the school's gates and didn't bothering waiting for the other two lagging behind.

I walked in silence for a couple of minutes before I reached the bus stop that would take me to our destination. The turquoise and azure eyed freshman both loudly chatted without a care in the world. Well, technically Naruto did most of the talking while Gaara just said the basic necessities while sometimes asking questions about the louder boy's stories.

I had never felt so relieved to enter my house and feel at home once again.

I directed my guests to take off their shoes and to meet me in the kitchen so I could get what I needed like textbooks and such. I instructed the duo to go down the hall and then go to the right. Immediately I saw Naruto head the wrong way and Gaara grab his arm and lead him to the kitchen.

I shook my head and gathered my laptop and some loose leaf paper from a shelf in my room. I went downstairs and heard my two guests speaking in hushed voices.

"Naruto, you can't stay here all by yourself. Your parents would kill me, and how do you think you are going to-"I walked into the room with my supplies and he instantly went silent, and then said with finality, "We are not talking about this anymore."

Naruto glared at the redhead then hung his head. I ignored it all in favor of getting this project started. "So do you want to start by figuring out what the exact laws mean while I work for the proof?" Naruto nodded while smiling in a less vibrant way than usual.

So for the next hour we had found our proof and all we had left to do was the essay. We would have done it faster had Naruto not gotten hurt on his way to the bathroom, once again because he insisted he walk by himself. Also maybe if Gaara had actually made an attempt to help instead of just watching Naruto and playing Tetris on his phone we would have probably been done earlier but who cares? Certainly not me, it's not like my family could walk through the door and embarrass me.

So we started on our essays and split it up to two parts. The dobe was doing the essay on the explanantions of Newton's laws while I was doing the other on the proof of the laws. The blue eyed boy had finished before me and it wasn't until then that I noticed something different about our laptops. They were made from the same company but Naruto's seemed so much more complex than mine, which is saying something. My laptop is the best portable computer money can buy.

And was that brail on the keys?

"Hey dobe. What's up with the brail on your keyboard? Are you trying to learn the language for blind people?" It was meant as a joke. I didn't mean any harm.

Naruto glared at me and Gaara was more silent than usual. "Are you making fun of me, teme?" I didn't understand what he meant. I just continued to crack jokes and caused more harm.

"You call me the dobe, but you're the stupid one here. The answer to your question is pretty simple, teme. I'm blind. I need brail to help me type."

If Naruto hadn't been born blind I bet he would have made a dramatic exit. But being that he is blind he would have only run either into a different room of the house or he would have made contact with a wall.

Why hadn't I seen the signs? The bumping into things? The bodyguards watching his every move? Having to have a chaperone to another's house. Being labeled as a 'burden'?

I had always thought of Naruto as clueless. But really he is just sightless and I am clueless.

Nikki: Here is the full chapter of Sightless. I have been dropping hints about it in my other stories if anyone actually read those. I love this story and it makes me want to cry sometimes that I actually wrote this without getting the idea from another story like this. That does NOT mean that there are not stories like that but I just haven't seen (or read) any like that. So, yeah, review?