A new home

The old man held my hand as we walked through the stormy night.

"Oh, and by the way, what's your name?"

Jiraiya asked.

"Tsuki," I replied.

"You can call me Jiraiya-sensei."

"Jiraiya-sensei, is Naruto coming with us?"

"I don't know where he is, but if we find him on the way there, I'll be glad to invite him, if that's what makes you feel better."

Tsuki smiled.

We walked over to a place called Ichiraku Ramen.

We found Naruto was eating ramen by himself.

"Naruto!" I ran to Naruto.

"Hey, who's that old man beside you?"

Jiraiya's eyes widened.

"Who do you think you're calling old?!"

After getting him so pissed we both giggled a little.

"One miso ramen please," Naruto ordered.

"And one for him too, Tsuki, you're gonna love this, it's the greatest Ramen I've ever had, it's the best food I've ever had in my life!"

I took a seat next to Naruto and waited for our food to arrive.

"Hey, what's up with your eyes? I saw them the other day and I've been meaning to ask."

I shrugged and tugged Jiraiya's sleeve.

"Huh?"

"Jiraiya-sensei, why do things look so different for me now?"

Jiraiya put his finger on his chin.

"Well, to put it simply, you have special eyes, your eyes are something most would see as a myth, the sage of six paths had those same eyes, that's why I'm here to train you, I'll help you use your eyes without hurting somebody you care about."

"Here ya go." The old man from before brought our food.

Tsuki pulled out the ramen with chopsticks, sniffed it, and looked at it in a confused manner.

He tasted it, and his eyes started glistening.

"It's so good!"

I devoured the bowl of Ramen in seconds, I never had this type of food before, and it was amazing.

Naruto and Jiraiya-sensei laughed after seeing my empty bowl.

After eating dinner at Ichiraku Ramen, we walked with Jiraiya-sensei back to the orphanage. We were so full, I had to hold my stomach up to walk.

"Naruto, come help me pack my things from the orphanage." Naruto nodded.

When we arrived, I couldn't help but notice how badly everyone was staring at us… they glared at me with cold eyes.

'Why is everyone looking at me like that? Is this how you feel Naruto?'

Tsuki put his head down in shame.

As I walked, still felt their eyes on me. Naruto put his hand over my shoulder with a smile to comfort me but still…

We entered our old room.

Most of my things were here and with Naruto's help, I packed them.

"It's not here." Naruto tilted his head in confusion.

"What's not here?"

"My blanket and glove, they aren't here!"

I looked for it everywhere, and then I started panicking, so I removed everything from my bag to see if I put them by mistake.

"Somebody took it."

I ran to Jiraiya-sensei; he was with Yuna-sama talking about something.

"Yuna-sama, have you seen my blanket?"

I tugged on her shoulder and when she turned around; her face looked terrified; I didn't care about that because I lost something important so I looked away.

"Aaah!" I was pulled and I turned around holding my eyes in pain.

Boiling water from Yuna's bucket spilled on his eye.

"Tsuki!" Naruto and Jiraiya ran toward him.

"What happened here?!" Jiraiya held Tsuki in his arms.

Tsuki's skin was peeling off, and he had tears in his eyes that mixed with blood.

I kept on scratching and holding my eyes. It was so painful.

'Why?

Why did she do that to me?'

"Naruto, hurry and get some cold water, now!" Naruto ran to get a bucket of water and a cup.

"Hey, don't touch your eyes." Jiraiya removed my hands.

"Jiraiya-sensei it hurts!"

"Here!" Jiraiya flushed his eye with cold water while Tsuki screamed in pain.

"Why did you do this?!"

"I didn't see him, he scared me, then I poured that water in his face, it all happened so fast and didn't leave me time to react."

Jiraiya frowned.

'Just as I thought, they treat him and Naruto like a curse, Sarutobi-sensei, how could you allow this to happen?'

After a few minutes of flushing my eyes with water, Jiraiya patched my eye up and covered it with an eye patch.

"What were you doing here in the first place?" Jiraiya asked.

"I wanted to ask Yuna-sama if she had seen my blanket and glove, they're the only things that my parents left for me."

"Find his blanket," Jiraiya said,

Yuna nodded.

'It appears my search for Orochimaru will have to be put on hold. At least until I'm sure these kids will be fine, whenever that'll be. But I'll make it quick.'

"I'm sorry." Yuna came back with the blanket, it was torn up and covered in mud, the glove was muddy as well, and they cut the index finger off.

"One child got their hands on it and tore it, then left it in the mud."

Yuna left it to Jiraiya.

Tsuki clenched his fist so hard his nails dug into his skin.

"Damn it!"

"Hey, we'll fix it, don't worry," Naruto said as he held my shoulder…

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

Naruto shook his head.

"You're my friend, creepy eyes or not."

"I hate it here.

I hate them." I murmured.

'When I unclenched my fist, my tears started falling automatically, I hate crying, but still…'

"Let's go." Jiraiya held both mine and Naruto's hands and we left the orphanage.

"Where are we going, Jiraiya-sensei?"

I asked.

"We're going to your new home, apparently Sarutobi-sensei already has an apartment for you, although technically it's Naruto's."

After a while, we reached our new house. A small apartment with only 1 room.

"So, this is where we live now?"

Jiraiya nodded.

"It's where you two live, luckily I'm not staying here for a long time, I have an important mission, but no need to worry, I'll stay here until I find a perfect suitor for you and I'll leave you two a check."

Tsuki and Naruto frowned.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll hurt someone?"

After what happened the other day, who wouldn't ask something like this?

Jiraiya shook his head.

"I trust you with my life, and I'll train you to control your eyes when I come back." Tsuki nodded.

"Anyway, you two have a long day tomorrow, get some sleep."

"And what about you, Jiraiya-sensei?"

I asked.

"I'm going outside to have some fun!"

Poof!

Jiraiya vanished in a cloud of smoke…

We went to bed after a while, Naruto and I had to share a bed because we didn't have money to buy another one plus Jiraiya-sensei didn't want to use his own money… so greedy…

I couldn't sleep that night, I ended up thinking about the events that took place during the day.

'Yuna-sama is afraid of me, even Hokage-sama fears me, and when we were walking around with Jiraiya-sensei I could feel all those people staring at me.

Is this how you feel, Naruto?'

I turned to see Naruto.

"You can't sleep either?" Naruto asked as he turned around.

"No, all those people, they all turned against me in an instant as soon as I got these eyes. I wish I didn't have them."

Tsuki said as he reached for his eyes.

"At least you know the reason you're hated, all I do is breathe, then everyone looks at me with those eyes…

Like they want to kill me or something."

Tsuki looked down shamefully.

"Well…

That doesn't matter to me, you're my friend. I don't care if people call you a monster or if your parents caused trouble in the village, nothing will change that you're my best friend, Naruto."

"You're so weird, you know?"

"You're weird too, Naruto."

Naruto chuckled.

Naruto had the most contagious laugh ever, I started laughing too after him.

The next morning…

"Tsuki, wake up." Naruto shook him.

I slowly got up and stretched.

"Why did you wake me up this early?"

"Jiraiya-sensei wants to meet us at the training ground."

I quickly got ready to leave.

"Let's go!" We ran to the training grounds.

"Ugh!" As we were walking, I bumped into someone.

'I'm still not used to using one eye…'

A young boy with long, dark hair and dark eyes.

The boy frowned.

"Hey watch where you're going!"

I apologised and nervously scratched my head.

"Sorry, I just have an injury in my eye."

"It's not a problem, but be careful next time." I looked up and saw a tall man with long, dark hair tied behind him in a low ponytail.

He had a deeper voice, but his voice was smooth and soothing.

"Hmm? what's wrong with your eyes?"

The young boy asked.

I covered my eyes with my hair.

"N-nothing…" Tsuki responded.

"Hey! Leave him alone!"

Naruto shouted.

"I was just asking, why did you have to get all mad? You're being such a loser."

'That child… those are the Rinnegan, how did this child possess such powerful eyes?'

The older one asked himself.

"Sasuke, let's go home." He picked him up before I could answer.

"Sasuke…"

So that's his name…

We stared at each other before he started moving away.

"Come on, we're wasting time!"

Naruto pulled my hand and ran in the other direction.

We arrived at a training ground where Jiraiya was talking with a man in some strange grey uniform and gear.

"What took you guys so long?" He asked.

"I bumped into some people on the way here, I haven't gotten used to seeing with one eye, hopefully, things will soon go back to normal."

"Jiraiya-sensei, who's that guy over there?" Naruto asked.

"He's the reason I called you two here, you see I can't be here all the time so he'll take care of you while I'm gone, don't worry I've given him a scroll with everything I know about the Rinnegan."

The strange man walked towards us and removed his mask.

He had grey spiky hair and wore a mask, and his headband covered one eye, and he had a narrow jawline.

'So that's the Rinnegan, I already have a bad feeling from this, why did I let you drag me into this, Jiraiya-sensei?' he asked himself while looking at Jiraiya.

"I'm Kakashi Hatake, nice to meet you."

He offered his hand to me and I accepted it and we shook hands.

Naruto shook his hand too.

"Well, I'd better get going now, see you next time we meet, don't disturb Kakashi, he gets moody a lot." Jiraiya made a hand seal and then disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

"Can we go for some Ramen?"

Naruto asked.

"Sigh…"

Kakashi sighed and then nodded.

"Sure."