Chapter 1: Memories

"Linjuan!"

An young teenager run thought the raining forest, she heard someone calling out her name.

"Lijuan! Don't!"

A girl look around to find a young boy.

The rain was pouring down hard on them.

"Hey Ru. Guess, I can't…play another game with you…sorry, but…am know you're going to become a great ninja."

As the rain was pouring down harder while a mist was starting to come in.

"Lijuan…why are you leave? Why are you leaving!?"

"Am sorry…"

The Anbu finally arrived at the scene.

"Isn't that-"

"Yeah. Let get him out of here."

The boy was covered in blood.

"Linjuan…what she doing-oh god?!"

The boy was holding a kunai in his hands.

"Why did you…ask me to…to kill you?!"

The boy was begin crying.

"Why Did You Die Like This! I Can't Lose You Like Mom And Dad!!"

"That enough…what should we do about him?"

"We'll have to erase his memories of this event."

One of them place a hand to cover his eyes.

"Sorry kid…."

While they were erasing his memories, he was about to remember something she said to him.

"I'll come back, when you become a ninja someday."

"…don't forget…"

Genma walk pass one of classrooms to find a sleeping Iruka.

"Hey Iruka."

Genma trying to wake him but, it was a hard today for him.

Genma was about to walk out the room when heard Iruka say something.

"…don't go…Linjuan…"

Genma walk over to Iruka again.

`Is he talking in his sleep?`

"Iruka, wake up."

"Umm…oh Genma san, sorry, I didn't realize I fell asleep."

"Yeah, that unlike you."

Iruka and Genma walk out of the classroom to the mission room.

"So, who Linjuan?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You were talking in your sleep, you said don't leave Linjuan. Who is this Linjuan?"

"My older cousin. People didn't believe us that we were related."

"Oh yeah, Linjuan. I haven't seen her in long time. What happen to her?"

Iruka didn't look at him, he didn't remember anything about her.

It been so long since he last saw her.

She stayed with him when his parents died.

She acted more of a sister to him than a mom.

"I don't really know. She been, home lately."

"I see…you should visit her?"

"No way. She doesn't like when I come over."

When they arrive to the mission room, they found Team 7 already there.

"Hey Iruka sensei!"

"Hi Naruto." "Hey Kakashi san. Anything new happen?"

Genma ask "Not really, the bone head over is getting-hmm."

Iruka wasn't in the room, they just saw him came in.

"Iruka san was in the room when you came in?"

Genma look behind him, Iruka was behind him just a moment ago.

"That weird? He came in didn't he?"

Iruka was throwing up in one of the near by restrooms.

"What was that all of a sudden…?"

His body was hurting a bit. Not so bad that he was going to collapse.

It was more of regret feeling.

" *cough* *cough*….maybe I should…take the rest of the day off…"

Team 7 walk around the village for a bit.

Naruto was worry about Iruka sensei, he was worry about since the time he saved him.

"Naruo, Iruka sensei is going to fine. Maybe he just felt ill a bit." said Sakura

"I know, but, still, am just worry about him. He never acted like that."

Kakashi was worry a bit too, he knew Iruka was the a father to Naruto.

But he was feeling something that was bugging him too.

"Naruto? I can go see Iruka if you want to come along, to check on him."

Naruto sort of smile a bit.

"Sure."

Iruka layed down of his bed, He look at a photo of his cousin.

When he thought about his cousin, he suddenly felt sick.

It was like something was keeping him from thinking about his cousin.

"What did happen to you?"

He could remember her purple hair, her jade eyes.

He really missed her a lot.

Since then, they were so close.

He want to remember why she never came back since he noticed a change in her.

But her smile did made him feel happy at least.

Everything was so blank since then.

"Lin, what did happen to you all these years? You never did came to see me become an ninja."

"Ru!"

Iruka was coming out the ninja academy and saw Linjuan.

"Lin! I told you not to come get me today." He said

"Well, since I decided not to cook tonight, I thought you and I could go out for dinner tonight."

She just smiled at him.

"Well, since you didn't it like that, I guess that fine with me. Since you did mess up last night's."

"Sorry about that, and you didn't have to clean up my mess Ru."

"I want too, you're helpless sometime, Hashanah!"

He sat the picture back and fall asleep again.

Before he fall asleep, he remember what Genma said before.

He was talking in his sleep about her for some reason.

Maybe it was because he missed her a lot.

Kakashi and Naruto walk the way to Iruka's home.

They weren't too far away now.

"Hey Kakashi sensei? Before Iruka sensei came into the mission room, I heard he had a cousin?"

Kakahsi remember his cousin, she was vary beautiful and she was vary talent with Water jutsu.

"I did see his cousin once in awhile. She was the only family had since the attack of the nine tails."

Naruto went white for a few moments.

He couldn't breath a bit.

"How did he lose her?"

Kakashi took a deep breath.

"His memories of the event were erased. This is ANBU secret…don't tell anyone about this. He is your sensei too, but, if you say something about it, he won't take it easy."

Naruto was a afraid what he going to hear from Kakashi about Iruka.

If this was ANBU's information, it most be something no one could bring up around him.

"Naruto…he killed his only cousin."

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