Uzumaki

One

I wake up to a woman screaming for help. The darkness surrounding me terrifies me into action, where is she? How do I reach her? I try and move but something is pinning me down.

I break free only greet the floor face first. The pain of a bruised nose and forehead snapped me back to reality. I'm not being pinned down, nor being chased. The only thing keeping me down are my bed sheets. No that's not true, nothing mine anymore, I untangle myself as I silently weep, not even my eyes are my own.

I open the window and jump out, let's see if I can soothe my racing heart with a walk under the moon.

The Hokage clifftop caught my attention pretty quickly; it seems to be the tallest structure here.

I make it to the top and the breeze hitting my face reminds me of home, I close my eyes and think of my home. But the happy memories quickly turn horrid as the bodies of the dead begin filling the once-happy village. I never thought I'd get tired of seeing the color red. Their happy faces are replaced with the ruins that are left. I will repay what was done to me. I will remember their chakras and I hunt every single one down. I will kill them all.

Can you see it, brother? The Leaf Village is tiny compared to our home. It's full of citizens that don't train, how pathetic, it's a waste. I will not let it hold me back, I will get my revenge.

A cough behind me pulls me back to reality. I turn and see a young Uchiha standing a ways from me.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you, you seemed lost in thought. I just sensed you on the way out of the Hokages' office," the wind carries his words over. He was keeping his distance from me.

"It's alright. My thoughts are on replay and can't be disrupted so easily." I stare at the village below as he joins me at the edge of the cliff. I ignore his stare and look ahead.

"I heard your grandparents chose for you. I'm sorry you were robbed of the choice," I nod.

"No grandparent wants a blind grandchild," I respond.

"I don't believe that is why they did it. I think they couldn't bear to watch you suffer any more than you already did," he responds.

"Then they should have let me die," I respond as anger fills my chest.

"Your grandparents couldn't let you go. You were the only one we found with any signs of life," He speaks up after a while.

"Death isn't blissful for everyone." A bubble of laughter escapes me.

"Maybe not but at least it has an end," I respond.

The unfamiliar village before me was staring back as if it knew I did not belong within it. There is no place for me here.

"Yekio?" He pulls me back from thought.

"Have they decided on who I'm going to live with yet?" He sighs and I realize they haven't.

"You are a Uchiha you should be with us. But your grandparents agree that having some semblance to your home would be better for you," he responds.

"Don't I get a say? Haven't I been robbed of enough things?" I ask and he nods.

"They think you'll decide out of vengeance, not peace."

"What fools they are if they think who I live with will make me seek peace," I respond coldly.

"There's only one path for me," I resigned to my fate the day I awakened alone. I ask when I can start training again.

"As soon as you settle in your new home," I glare at him.

"You mean the same home they haven't decided on?" He smiles apologetically and nods.

I excuse myself and head to find my grandparents, I don't care that I've never lived with them or that I know so little of them. They are Uchiha and they can help me master my new eyes.

I returned to my hospital room where my grandparents were cleaning up. I've been here for three weeks but slept through most of my stay.

The first day I awakened was the hardest, I didn't know I was safe so my body responded in attack mode the moment I woke up blindfolded. They had to seal my room and let me exhaust myself before they could come back in. And when they did an Uzumaki came first and explained I wasn't in danger anymore. I was in the Leaf and my eyes had been bandaged because I needed time to heal them.

I explained you can't heal blindness caused by excessive use. That's when she told me my grandparents had agreed to take my older brother's eyes for me. I collapsed into myself that day. Not only did they spare me from death, they gave me a piece of the person I couldn't save. By the third day, nothing but anger was left. If I must suffer the death of my clan those that caused it shall to.

War is coming and I intend to be a part of it.

My grandmother hands me clothes and tells me they'll finish packing for me if I want to get cleaned up.

I ask if I get to leave means they finally found a place for me. They nod and say they'll explain everything over breakfast.

I decide to take a quick shower before slipping into the new clothes they got for me.

Overall I'm grateful to be out of the horrid hospital gowns. A black halter top jumpsuit with a red jacket that had half sleeves. A white Uzumaki logo on the back. The reflection in the mirror shows I look normal again.

Most of my hair managed to survive the destruction of my home, but it needed to be cut to get rid of all the burned parts. So now it sits at my shoulders. The mirror shows me my sister Eiko. I reach up and touch the reflection's face. I hate this mirror.