The Return to the Unknown
He was in the hospital, he figured. The blonde boy who was sitting upright in his hospital bed looked unseeingly forward. Being is a hospital answered one question but raised so many more. "Where is the hospital? Why am I in the hospital?"
The boy turned his unseeing gaze into himself in search of answers.
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There was a raven haired boy who looked to be twelve or thirteen standing on a large statue. His back was turned, revealing a red and white fan pattern on the back of his navy blue shirt.
On a statue of a different person across from the raven haired one was another boy who looked to be about the same age. He wore an orange jumpsuit and still called himself a shinobi. His sun kissed hair and whisker-like birthmarks could be hidden from none.
All that separated the two was a waterfall.
The air was thick with the irony of repetition. One who meant to save his friend from himself even if it meant a fight to the death. The number of parallels between the two boys and the men that the statues that they stood upon depicted were numerous.
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The two boys now stood upon the surface of the water. They each began to charge up what would become their signature technique. The raven haired one's left fist began to crackle with a large amount of electricity. It sounded oddly like a thousand birds chirping. He declared that this was the Chidori- One Thousand Birds. The blonde swirled his chakra to create a sphere of energy in his right hand. It looked like it contained a tsunami. He declared it to be called the Rasengan-Spiral Sphere.
The two youths who had learned the unique techniques of two of their elders charged. In the future they would change the techniques into something truly original and truly their own, but for now; they fight.
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The blonde's gaze was now obscured by a scarlet haze. He knew only one thing. This fight is for real.
After about a minute of brutally pounding the raven haired one, he became much harder to hit. It was almost as if he could read the blonde's every move.
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The haze was even thicker now. It seemed to almost be on a corporeal level. The now animalistic looking blonde gaze set upon his rival. The black fiery marks that had spread over his opponent's body shortly after the haze thickened had consumed his raven haired enemy.
He now felt a power spike form his enemy and saw that his skin had darkened to a gray tone, and how the whites of his eyes had become black. His hair had lightened to a light violet color and there was a black cross like mark across the bridge of his nose. The blonde was really surprised however, when two hand like appendages sprouted from the now violet haired one's back.
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This was the end.
Under a silent mutual agreement that there would be one last Rasengan vs. Chidori clash they began powering up their jutsu once more. The violet haired one last Chidori, this time it was one enveloped in a cursed black lightning. The animalistic blonde swirled together one more Rasengan, this time composed of the scarlet demonic energies.
They charged again.
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The two supercharged techniques met, enclosing the boys in a black sphere of pure energy. The blonde no longer saw his friend, but an enemy, who was attempting to go in for the kill. He couldn't bring himself to kill his friend however, and instead, went to win their previously constructed bet formed out of sheer arrogance. He used the last of his energy to scratch the raven haired boy's forehead protector.
His last thoughts before unconsciousness were pity for what his rival who he had secretly looked up to had become. Then he landed on his head. Hard.
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The blonde, hospitalized, whisker faced boy summed up that those flashes of memory were all that he could remember at the moment when he heard someone open the door to his room.
A pineapple haired boy wearing a green flak jacket was standing in the doorway. "You're awake?" It was more a statement than a question.
"Who are you?"
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Author's Note
Yeah, this is my newest idea. Naruto gets amnesia after his fight with Sasuke.
In the flashback, though… Naruto doesn't remember it in such clarity. I just felt that it would be a good idea to add some dramatic wording to it. The reason I don't refer to Sasuke by name in the flashback is because Naruto doesn't remember who he is. He just remembers that he is a former friend, but he doesn't remember Sasuke's name.
Oh yeah, disclaimer. I don't own Naruto and I'm glad that I don't because I like being surprised with the twists and turns that Shippuden is taking.
Over and Out
Eye of the Blizzard.