Chapter 1

"Please, no! I didn't do anything wrong." Naruto shouted desperately.

A girl slapped him across the face, before grabbing his wrist roughly, pulling him to a dark alley. "Yeah right, demon." She muttered.

The villagers beat on him for a while, nothing out of the ordinary. Once he wasn't able to get up, the Villagers left, though a shinobi stayed behind. "You took away my family. Too bad your parents are already dead, otherwise I would've killed them myself. " he scoffed, not knowing who Naruto's parents truly were. He took out a kunai, spinning it in his hand. He used his foot to pin the almost unconscious Naruto down before squatting down. He looked at the four-year-old boy with bright blonde hair and electric blue eyes. He smirked as he spotted the already noticeable whisker-like markings on Naruto's cheeks. He slowly brought the kunai over the whisker marks, cutting into Naruto's skin to make the whiskers deeper. After he was finished, he felt unsatisfied, even after Naruto whimpered in pain. He then had an idea, and ran his kunai across the boys' eyes, making Naruto scream from pain

Kakashi had just arrived, and he felt his heart stop at the sight. He had failed to protect his sensei's son. His legacy. Without so much as a warning he was behind the drunken shinobi and pressed a kunai against is throat. Blood splattered the concrete beneath them. Leaving the corpse behind, he scooped the unconscious boy into his arms and raced across the rooftops to the leaf hospital. 

After Naruto was treated, Kakashi received the grave news that Naruto was blind.

The 3rd Hokage walked in, looking grim. "I am sorry, Kakashi.... You are not to blame. Although I do no agree with the way that you handled things... I understand your anger. Minato was my student... and yet we have treated his son so poorly."

Kakashi looked at the Hokage, deep regret and even darkness behind his eyes. "I'm sorry for not fulfilling my duty, but considering my father's past, things would not go well for Naruto if he were to be seen around me. "

Shirzuen nodded deeply. "I understand... I suppose I can accommodate him with an apartment. I don't think Naruto being out in the first place was a coincidence. I'll have to speak with the orphanage. " he said, looking over at the white shirt, blue ninja pants, green jacket and goggles, and red scarf that Naruto had previously worn. "And maybe get him some new clothes." He muttered. Shiruzen turned to leave but paused at the door. He looked back at the pair in the room behind him. Kakashi who had suffered so much at the hands of society, and Naturo who suffered at the hands of the village AND society. "For Naruto's sake.... please do not inform anyone that he is blind. If his teachers ask, inform them that he has impaired vision but nothing more. I am afraid that letting people know he is blind would only put an even larger target on his back. But we will not fail him again... That I promise."