Chapter 5
"Heal his wounds!" White Fang didn't waste any words, stepping back and gesturing with his head.
A medical-nin named Seiso flickered into place beside Haruto Saito, his hands forming a series of hand seals.
Haruto's injuries weren't severe, but he had quite a few of them. Seiso's hands glowed with a soft green light as he moved them over Haruto's body, systematically healing his wounds. Within moments, the surface cuts and bruises vanished. When he moved to heal Haruto's eye, however, Seiso paused, noticing something unusual.
"Huh... strange." Seiso withdrew his hand and turned back toward White Fang. "Was his eye always dual-colored?"
"No," came the reply from Chinmoku. "When we first caught him, both of his eyes were the same. Then, during interrogation, we hit him once—right in the eye. He faked his death, and when he woke up, he had lost his memory."
"He changed from a single blow?" Seiso examined Haruto's left eye more closely.
Haruto remained stiff, his body tense. He wasn't fond of people getting so close to his face.
"It's not bruising... His iris itself has turned red. How odd. Just one hit and..." Seiso muttered.
"What's wrong with my eye?" Haruto finally asked. Seiso was scrutinizing his left eye—the one that allowed him to see ninja data.
"It's red. Completely red." Seiso pulled a small mirror from his pouch and held it up in front of Haruto's face.
In the reflection, he saw his youthful face—around eleven or twelve years old—smudged with dirt, his lips cracked from dried blood.