Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Let Me Hear You ❯ I Don't Need Your Attitude, I Already Have My Own ( Chapter 1 )

 

Disclaimer: Naruto and the characters in it are not mine. This story does not have anything to do with any real person. Any similarities are purely coincidental. I apologize if somebody out there gets hurt from this story. I never intend to do any harm.

 

Warning: This is yaoi/shounen-ai of SasuNaru kind. This is also an alternate universe setting for the Naruto manga series. I think I have to mention here; this is a serious story/fic. This is the serious side of me. This story will touch a lot on people emotion and how people come to accept with the term of life. I don't create this story for amusement of others but to write down an almost real life story I can come out with. Anyway, enjoy.

 

 

 

Chapter 1: I Don't Need Your Attitude, I Already Have My Own

 

 

 

The front door shut with a loud bang. Jiraiya, who was in the kitchen at the moment rushed to the front door to check. There was a report of theft in the neighbourhood last week so he better take precaution. He was relief to see it was only Naruto - he must had have just came back from uni.

 

 

 

With the way Naruto violently shut the door, Jiraiya figured there was something that bothering the kid. The always smiling blond was fuming at the moment: his hands clenched and he was gritting his teeth. Not to mention, his face was bright red from anger.

 

 

 

Jiraiya parental instinct kicked in. Was the boy being bullied again? When Naruto was younger, he always came home with bruises all over his body and face. Kids in the neighbourhood `liked' him too much and couldn't leave him alone. They always teased him about his disability and his lack of parental figures. And Naruto personality didn't help much too. His hot-blooded temper and dumb decision always ended up with him fighting the kids.

 

 

 

But really, kids could be so cruel some times. That didn't stop them from harassing Naruto especially during the first few years Naruto lost his hearing. In the first year of losing his hearing, Naruto was still motivated to talk even though he couldn't hear his own words; just like before the accident. However, since he couldn't hear what he was saying, the words came out weird and the kids were being insensitive and teased him about it.

 

 

 

Even though Naruto had tried his hardest to ignore them most of the time, still, the teasing - over the years - got to him. Slowly, he began to stop talking. It was hard for Jiraiya to handle Naruto at that stage because he refused to speak and there was no other way to communicate with Naruto. Jiraiya realised at that point of time, he should send Naruto to a special school to get Naruto to learn sign language but the blond kid was being stubborn. He refused to be treated differently from others. He still couldn't fully accept that he was deaf.

 

 

 

Without a way to communicate and feeling that nobody could understand him, he became a bitter kid and always hid himself in his room. He was either sleeping or reading or sketching something in his sketch book. Because of his frequent absents he was expelled from school - this made Jiraiya so angry at Naruto. He scolded the kid and they got into a fight which in turn made Naruto ran from home.

 

 

 

It took Jiraiya a whole day to realize that Naruto had gone missing. Frantically searching him everywhere, Jiraiya realized most of Naruto's belonging also had gone. That time, he felt that half of his life was gone. His grandson ran away from him! And he was deaf and naïve and cute and—and… The nine-years-old boy could have been kidnapped by some evil guys and they could have probably sold him somewhere for money!

 

 

 

Jiraiya world was spinning madly. How should he answer to his deceased adopted-son in heaven if something happened to Naruto? After Naruto parents died - Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato - he took Naruto under his custody and promised Minato he would take a good care of Naruto. Already, since Naruto was a small child he had loved that kid dearly. Jiraya didn't have any offspring of his own, so Naruto was all that he had.

 

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Naruto had been missing for five days now. Jiraiya was considering reporting Naruto's missing to the police station after all but decided against it in the end. Truth to be told, reporting Naruto as a missing person endangered Naruto's life more than the fact that he was missing. There was a secret that his adopted son carried to his grave that made some people wanted to hurt Naruto for it. If missing Naruto was made public, those people might know their where about sooner than he wanted them to be.

 

 

 

Thank God, finally one evening, there was someone at his front door, ringing the door bell. At the moment, Jiraiya was waiting patiently near the home phone just in case someone had decided to call for a ransom. He almost decided to ignore the door because he presumed that that must be his neighbours - they came to show sympathy.

 

 

 

However, when he finally opened the door, the person standing in front of the door made him felt that the world burden on his shoulder was lifted. There, standing guiltily while clutching the hand of an equally guilty looking man was Naruto. Quickly, Jiraiya picked up Naruto and hugged him tightly.

 

 

 

Ahh… his grandson was back. That piece of information was enough to soothe his maddening world. Naruto was crying - he must had thought that Jiraiya was angry at him for leaving without telling because he kept saying `sorry, sorry' in that weird voice of his. Jiraiya patted his back soothingly and tenderly kissed the boy head as a sign he was not angry and Naruto cooled down a bit.

 

 

 

A movement.

 

 

 

Just then that Jiraiya noticed the man who was still standing at the door. He gestured for the man to come in and invited him to sit on the sofa. Naruto was hiccupping in his hold but Jiraiya ignored the kid for the moment to give his attention to the young man sitting in front of him.

 

“Ah…thank you for bringing him back. You don't know how relief I am to see him alive and breathing and healthy like this. I've been searching for him for days now. I owe you a lot for this.” Jiraiya said politely, he was still patting Naruto on his back; that kid was beginning to doze off, probably tired from the crying and the stress.

 

 

 

“Aaaa…no problem at all, sir.” The nice young man said with a blush on his scarred face.

 

 

“Don't be so polite. You deserve my gratitude. I should give you a reward. My grandson must have caused you a lot of trouble. By the way, how did you find him? I've been all over the town but couldn't find him anywhere.” Jiraiya hugged Naruto tightly and kissed his head again. Oh, how he desperately searched for Naruto all over the town: the ramen shop, the arcade, shopping complex, the school, his bullies' house and whatever place that he thought Naruto might be.

 

 

 

“I found him wandering around at the bus station. He looked lost so I approached him. Turned out that he can't communicate with other people,” the young man blushed again at this point, “and luckily I am familiar with that kind of situation.”

 

 

“Familiar? What do you mean by that?” Jiraiya sounded suspicious.

 

 

“Err… I am a teacher. I am a teacher in Special Education.”

 

At Jiraiya frown, the young man continued,

“My students use different language to communicate hmm…let see for example they use sign language. And that boy there is just like my students when they started learning the language.”

 

Ohh, that's why when he's talking he's kinda moves his hands in a weird way.

 

 

“So, you are a teacher, eh. Ohh, sorry I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Jiraiya. This kid grandfather, Uzumaki-”

 

 

“Naruto. Yes, I know. He told me.” The young man finished Jiraiya's sentence for him.

 

 

“He told you, eh? He must like you. He doesn't talk much nowadays if at all.” Jiraiya face was sad when he said that.

“So, what happened then? You saw him at the bus station and…”

 

 

“Oh….err….I asked him where he wanted to go and where his home is. He didn't want to tell me anything so I brought him to my house. It was already late at that time and it would be dangerous to leave him there. I think he must have had trust me because he agreed to come with me.”

 

 

 

The young man touched his nose for a moment out of nervousness and continued,

“I let him stayed at my house because he didn't want to go home. He refused to tell me where his house is. But you see, since I'm working during the day, I brought him to my workplace. I mean the school.”

 

 

 

“You brought him to school? Really? He didn't want to go school anymore that's why we fought at the first place.”

 

 

 

The young man blushed again and laughed awkwardly.

“You see, I kinda made a deal with him. If he didn't come with me to my workplace where I can keep an eye on him, I would bring him to the police. For some reason, he was afraid to go to police station, so he agreed.”

 

 

Jiraiya didn't give any explanation at the questioning remark, so the young man continued,

“I think he got comfortable after awhile, being with the same kids that share his disability made him opened up a bit. And few days later he told me his address and asked me to bring him home. He said he missed his `jiji'.”

 

 

Jiraiya gave him an appreciative smile. This guy was too good to be true. He needed help and there he was, the saviour.

 

 

“I can't thank you enough. If I can do anything Mr..”

 

 

“Umino. Umino Iruka.”

 

 

“Mr Umino.”

 

 

“No, no. Iruka is fine.” Iruka gave a polite smile in return.

 

 

“Err..Iruka-san. Do you think he wants to keep going to your school? I tried to enrol him once in the special school but he refused. By the way you said it, he likes to go there.”

 

 

“Let's ask him when he wakes up.”

 

 

“Then, would you like to stay for dinner?”

 

 

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From there, Naruto learned sign language and later learned to read lips. It was easier that Naruto went to school where Iruka was teaching. There was something that made him trusted Iruka and being comfortable in Iruka presence. Maybe the fact they were in some way similar to each other: both were orphans and Iruka had the ability to speak in Naruto's language. Iruka was also an expert in handling a child like Naruto. The fact that he looked at Naruto as a brother made their bond closer than a normal teacher-student relationship.

 

 

 

Since Iruka taught elementary school children, when it was time for Naruto to go to high school, Naruto stopped going to the Special School anymore. He attended a normal high school nearby his house and later graduated. For him, even though he couldn't hear like anybody else, he didn't want to be treated any different from normal people. That was why he decided to go to normal school. With his lips reading skill, he managed to get through high school though it was not as great as he hoped it would be. A short while after that, he was accepted to University of Fire.

 

 

Since Jiraiya didn't want Naruto to live in hostel or lived by himself, they moved to a new house so that Naruto could commute from the house to uni by walking. Naruto was furious at first - Jiraiya was so overprotecting - for treating him like a child but relented after sometime. The ultimatum Jiraiya gave him didn't allow him to object Jiraiya decision: either he agreed or he couldn't go at all.

 

 

 

While for Jiraiya, keeping an eye on Naruto that closely, he had his own reason.

 

 

909

 

 

“What happened, Naruto?”

 

Naruto was a bit shocked when Jiraiya touched his shoulder. He didn't notice Jiraiya was nearby because he was so occupied by his emotion at that moment.

 

 

“What happened, Naruto?” Jiraiya asked again when he realized Naruto didn't `hear' him the first time.

 

“Your cloth is wet and has stains on them. Did somebody bully you again?” Jiraiya was worried. He knew Naruto didn't like his worrying over him like this, but he couldn't help it - this kid always got himself into trouble someway or the other.

 

 

\Jiji. I'm not a kid anymore, ok? Nobody is bullying me. It's just this stupid emo guy threw his drinks at me./

 

Jiraiya made a sign for him to go on.

 

\I don't know what biting his ass for him to be so angry like that. That bastard. I was just trying to help. I swear!/ Naruto unconsciously trying to defend himself because from previous experiences, Jiji always accused him of wrong doing - usually he was the wrong doer.

 

Naruto tugged at his wet shirt, uncomfortable. He could fell the wetness on his skin. Shit, this was his favourite shirt too.

 

\Kakashi-sensei just wanted to help him stand up and he threw his drink at us saying that he didn't need anybody help./

 

Naruto gripped his hair in frustration when he finished his `speech'. He really didn't get that fella. When Kakashi arrived with his drink, he was still okay. They had a small chat - more like he and Kakashi-sensei had a chat - that guy just kept quite the whole time. Then it was time for them to go and Kakashi went to help him to stand and he became extremely mad. He threw his drink at Kakashi but got the wrong person - since he couldn't see, he threw it in Naruto's direction.

 

 

 

 

Naruto, with his hot-blooded temper, naturally became angry and retorted back with his own angry gestures.

 

 

/Hey, you ungrateful brat. That was rude! Kakashi-sensei was only trying to help./

 

 

 

“Naruto, he can't see you. And I don't think he means to be rude.” Kakashi-sensei said as a way to defend Sasuke's rude behaviour.

 

 

“F--k, Kakashi. I don't need you to cover up my acts for me.”

 

 

/See, Kakashi-sensei? He's rude./

 

 

Naruto quickly grabbed Sasuke's arm and hold his hands. He started making signs using Sasuke's hand saying that he was angry with Sasuke's rude reaction.

 

 

“He doesn't understand sign language either, Naruto.”

 

 

“Let me go, stupid! What are you trying to do?”

 

Naruto tried again. This time, he wrote something on Sasuke's arm. Getting enough touching for the day, Sasuke pushed Naruto roughly to the ground. He didn't like people touching him and this touchy-feely boy had touched him twice in a day. That was way over the quota for Sasuke's standard.

 

 

 

“Hn. It was your fault for standing so near. Since you can see, why didn't you dodge it, stupid?” Sasuke let out the word `see' with so much sarcasm. F—ck all these people! They were just annoyance to him.

 

 

Why this bastard… Naruto was fuming.

 

 

What the hell was this fella problem? He was the one who got angry for no reason, threw his drink at people and then called Naruto stupid for getting splashed? This guy had serious emotional issue. Who died and made him the king of the world? Naruto wouldn't let he got away with this.

 

 

Naruto was so mad, he kicked Sasuke's shin - hard - and ran away from the scene; he was not afraid, he just didn't want to complicate things. From the corner of his eyes, he could see that stuck-up jerk had fallen from the kick.

 

 

He hoped he would never see that stuck-up bastard again.

 

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I never thought I will enjoy writing this story immensely. But look! I finished it in less time than I thought I would. I hope to make this story an epic one. I have to make a lot of research to write this - reminded me of my final year thesis. Not really difficult but got a lot of things to read.

 

Till next time.

Chapter 2: Gone, gone and Never to Come Back Again