First Revision. Done. :) Formerly known as 'Amnesia Sakura'.
Full Summary: In the midst of glory and fame, two idols may find that the only escape and link to reality from their everyday life could lie in a girl just months away from her own timely death. But keeping their Idols secrets become more difficult with the help of their growing popularity, fangirls and pestering paparazzi. Can Naruto and Sasuke maintain their secret? Or will it be too late to even tell...?!
Genre: Romance, Humor, Tragedy, Slice of Life, Harem
Copyright Masashi Kishimoto
Forget Me Nots
By xSushiixCooki3zx
Prologue - Fate
-The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late. - Daniel Defoe-
There were many things Sasuke hated. Certain things, little things, big things, even some stupid things that didn't make sense to other regular people but to Sasuke-it was like taboo. Like how one of the workers never seemed to properly tune the G string on his bass right. How the market down the street never sold as many tomatoes as it should. How he would sometimes wake up the next morning and realize that 5 pairs of his boxers had gone missing and only find that he had forgotten to lock his windows the previous night.
Certain, little, big and stupid things like these were only just some of the things Sasuke hated. You could say his list of hated things could go on and on. It most likely did.
He just added another one to it.
Autograph signings.
The ebony haired man let out a grumble underneath his breath as he reached out for the 100th-no maybe 200th picture of himself as he scribbled what read to be his name in the corner of the picture. By now it seemed more to be a scribble than anything else.
"Get up Sasuke-Kun and smile for the camera!"
The boy sent a chilling glare over to the suited man who was calling out to him with that annoying suffix. The dressed man flinched in return and smiled sheepishly before motioning Sasuke to stand.
Yes, of course Autograph signings was becoming a close first on his list of Hated Things. The blaring music of the stereo in his ears ringing his new single, endless lines of anxious girls making him sign paper after paper, hours in the heated sun and taking billions of pictures with those blinding flashes.
Sasuke sighed once more and twitched his lips up in what seem to be a half smile. He squinted his eyes before getting his sight back after the flash went off. His scorn adorning his face once more.
'A close first, a close first.' He repeated in his head, trying to keep his cool and resisting the temptation to just walk away and hide in the air-conditioned limo. Forever.
If Autograph signings weren't the first Hated Thing on his list, It definitely was a certain annoying blonde screaming from the top of his lungs-
"Sasuke-Teme! I'm Herrrreeee!"
Kill. Him. Now.
The crowd of waiting girls squealed in unison as a bouncing, orange cladded boy made his way to the front of the line and stopping right in front of the heavily glaring 'Sasuke-Teme'.
Could this day get any worse?
"Sasuke! I heard you were doing autograph signings in Tokyo so I came to see if it was true!" The blonde boy reached over the table to grab the scorning brunette in a tight headlock.
"Who would've thought Mr. I-hate-life-entirely-and-like-to-frown-all-day would actually be happily signing-" Sasuke threw another glare.
"Scratch that, Willingly-" Glare.
"Approvingly-" Glare.
"You came didn't you?! Anyways who would've thought you'd actually come to an event like this!" Sasuke sighed as he pulled himself out of the brute headlock.
"More like forced to, Naruto-Baka." Naruto frowned, his eye twitching with annoyance.
"I'm not stupid! you TEME."
"Then don't use that annoying nickname in public you Baka."
Before the two could continue their pointless argument the well dressed man from before stepped in, grabbing them both into another headlock.
"Boys, Boys! Settle down. Don't want to upset the ladies now do we?" With that the man shot a wink to the crowd of girls who gave their own winks and waves back.
"Jiraiya-Henta-!" The man tightened his grip on the choking loudmouth, who tried to escape but was rendered useless.
"Narutooo. If you dare use that nickname in public, I swear I will cut off all you future tours and..." Jiraiya lowered his head near the blonde boy's ear and whispered;
"I will cut all Ramen funds. All of it." Naruto buckled and lowered his head in disappointment.
"Yes sir..."
Jiraiya grinned and released the two strangling boys from his deadly grip. He patted Naruto on the back.
"Good! Now while you're here, you might as well grab a seat and start signing some aut-o-graphs for the ladiesss!" With this, the ebony haired star whipped his head at his perverted manager who was currently once again winking at the crowd of fans.
"No way."
"Yes way! Now go. The sooner you finish, the sooner you can leave!" Jiraiya pushed the two boys back in their chairs in front of the long table once more, stuffing permanent markers in their hands.
"Work hard now!" With a last wink, Jiraiya escaped before he would bear the wrath of the deadly idol.
The endless cycle began again.
Sasuke grabbed another photo, quickly signing his scribble in the corner, and then handing it back to the fan without another word. He glanced at the bubbly boy beside him, who was grinning happily while posing with two other fans for a picture. Sasuke leaned over and stuck two of his fingers behind the blonde boy's head as the camera went off with a 'click'. The two fans giggled as they had witnessed what Sasuke had done and quickly showed the clueless Naruto the evidence of their giggles. Naruto puffed his cheeks out and turned to glare at the smugly smirking boy who continued his job, pretending like nothing happened. Naruto grinned anyways.
Maybe today was bearable.
"Your back from your tour already?" Surprisingly, It was Sasuke who had started the conversation first.
"Yeah, I had a run in with Kiba and...things didn't go so well." The blonde sheepishly smiled, not making eye contact with Sasuke. He noticed it.
"Well, he isn't one of the most 'brightest' people in the world..." He commented. Making Naruto fill with energy once more as he quickly turned to Sasuke with a raised fist.
"I know! When we get back to school I swear I'm SO kicking his ass!" Determination filled his eyes as he jabbed his fist into the palm of his other hand. Sasuke smirked again.
"But if we are talking about 'bright' people, you sure are way on the top of that list." He remarked sarcastically, dodging a punch in the arm easily from Naruto. He then flicked the blonde's cheek who flinched in return.
"If you're going to let him punch you so easily, make sure Its at least not on your face, Baka." Naruto who was holding his bandaged cheek grinned and stuck his thumb up.
"No worries! I punched him straight in the nose anyways." Naruto laughed proudly. One's face was very important in show business after all, taking care of appearances is always a must.
Naruto's laugh died down into a low hum. He then frowned as he placed his head onto his supporting hand as he reached for another piece of paper.
"Ya' know. I never thought this would be so hard..." He commented as he handed his fan another autograph. Sasuke raised a surprised brow.
"The all-mighty Naruto is actually being negative? The world must be ending as we speak." Naruto stuck out his tongue at his own negative friend.
"No way! All that hard work is worth it for something like this!" To emphasize, Naruto quickly signed the next paper, and even gave one of his fans a tight hug and grin. Sasuke scoffed a little.
"But ya' know. It could just get a little hard sometimes, like with that stupid mutt Kiba..." Naruto spit to the ground and raised another fist to the sky, cursing the 'mutt'.
"But how great would it be If we could go to a regular school-with regular girls!"
"You're starting to hang around with Jiraiya too much..."
"And do regular things, without annoying paparazzi hanging around your ass like flies all the time. To be a regular person...oh whatta life!"
"Well it's way too late to be a 'regular person'. Regular people don't have to do this," He pointed to the signed papers.
"And 'regular people' especially don't have that." He pointed to the crowd of fans still waiting anxiously in line. Naruto stuck out his tongue again at Sasuke as he waved him off.
"Yeah, yeah I know. But it wasn't always like this either. Ahh just a taste of normality would just be great! Its been awhile since i've even had to pay for my own bowl of Ramen! Not that I'm complaining. But i've lost the feeling of just being with normal people." Naruto let out an exaggerated sigh as he leaned back in his folding chair. He glanced at Sasuke.
"Don't you want to go back to being a 'normal' person, Teme?" Sasuke twitched his eye at the annoying nickname. But then let out his own sigh and thought for a while before answering seriously.
"I never want to go back to being a normal person."
Venom stuck to his words. Naruto even threw a suspicious and surprised look at him. In all the years he had knew Sasuke, he had never heard him reply in such an icy tone. Even if Sasuke was one to be a rather cold person, his tone was different. Deadly even.
Naruto patted the brooding boy on the back hard, who in return glared at him in the corner of his eyes. Naruto grinned back.
"You sly dog you, you just want to keep all the girls to yourself don't cha'!?" Naruto quickly dodged a punch from the brunette. He laughed loudly as he relieved the tension that had built from the previous conversation.
"Haha! I never thought that was the real you Sasuke! A little scary if you ask me-" He dodged another fast punch, just stopping a hair away from his face. Naruto slowly pushed the angry boy's fist down, his face lighting up with an idea.
"Hey, Teme! Why don't we go visit Tsunade-Baa-Chan and Kakashi-Sensei?" Sasuke scoffed at the blonde again.
"You mean at that old hospital near Yokohama? No way." Naruto scowled at his childhood friend and how he can be so negative about everything sometimes.
"C'monnn! Its not like we're far away from it here! We can practically walk it!"
"Why would you want to visit that old run down place anyway?"
"To get a little taste of that old normality we once had! C'mon, it'll be fun!"
"Being with you anywhere, is not exactly my definition of fun."
"Maybe if you take that pole thats stuck in your ass maybe you'd be more open to having fun..."
"What was that?"
"Nothing! But anyways Sasuke we really should-"
"Hey you girls! Stop fighting and hurry up and sign my picture you chicken butt man and whiskered pansy!" The two idols turned quickly to face the insulting voice who dared to nickname them, they found a little boy-maybe around the age of ten.
He stared at them with irritated eyes and frown. Tapping his little foot impatiently waiting. He was only as tall the table itself, his hair sticking up wildly in spikes with a bandana wrapped around his forehead. His eyes were dark brown and with an annoyed spark in them, his small nose adorned a small bandage across the bridge. The most eye-catching thing wasn't the long blue scarf he wore, even if it was the middle of July, But it was the long white-blue speckled hospital gown he wore. One of the security guards came up to the little boy and grabbed him by the arm before he could hand the Idols the picture in his hand.
"Little boy, are you even supposed to be out of bed right now?" The guard questioned before yanking him away from the long table. The little boy struggled in the man's vice grip.
"Let go of me! I have to get this signed!" The boy complained. Before the guard could take the boy away, Naruto grabbed the guard's hand, motioning for him to let go.
"It's fine, he's with us." Naruto explained to the guard who then let go off the wiggling boy. The boy once released, stuck his tongue out to the guard before turning around and shaking his bottom to him.
"Yeah! you heard him, I'm with them!" Naruto laughed at the boy's antics, he ruffled the boy's hair.
"Whats your name, kid?" The boy glanced angrily as he pressed his hands against his hair, trying to tame his now even more wild hair. With a huff the boy hesitantly replied;
"Konohamaru..." Naruto shot him another smile.
"Konohamaru, huh? Well I'm Naruto and this is Sa-"
"I already know who you are! and that's why I need you two to sign this!" The boy slammed the piece of paper in his hands on the table. It was neither a picture of Sasuke, or Naruto. But staring back at them was a picture of a sea of blue. Looking closely, the sea turned into specks of small flowers roaming the green grass with specks of small yellow plotting in the middle. The picture's right edges torn and crumpled, the picture was most likely from a catalog itself. The two glanced at Konohamaru skeptically. This wasn't the average photo of themselves or even magazine page featuring an article about them. So why would he want them to sign a picture of something totally off topic?
"Why do you want us to sign this?"
"Thats not important. Just hurry up and sign this!" Konohamaru demanded immpatiently as he slammed his little hand onto the table. Sasuke gave a small glare to the small boy and grabbed the picture off the table.
"Brat." He muttered, scribbling his name messily over the blue flowers. He wanted this stupid signing session to be done and over with. Konohamaru shot him a glare of his own.
"I heard that."
Sasuke handed the picture to Naruto but before the blonde wrote down his own name, Naruto capped his marker off and crossed his arms sternly and shot the confused boy a playful grin.
"Why don't you tell me first why you want us to sign a picture of flowers? Then I'll sign." The boy opened his mouth to protest, but then shut it quickly as he glanced away from the idol. He obliged.
"Its for a girl..." The boy muttered lowly.
"Your girlfriend?"
A bright red blush crossed the young boy's face who shook his head feverishly.
"N-no! She a...a friend..." He replied sheepishly as he played with his tiny fingers. If they hadn't seen his demanding, stubborn side before, they might've actually said this kid could have actually been kind of cute. Konohamaru glanced back at the cheeky idol in front of him.
"A-Anyways. I need you to sign this because that's her favorite flower." Naruto glanced at the picture in front of him again.
"These small blue flowers?" Konohamaru shot the blonde a 'duh, are you serious?' look, all sign of his blush gone.
"Their Forget Me Nots!" Naruto shot him a confused look.
"Forge me nots?"
"Forget me nots, Baka." Sasuke corrected, in which the blonde gave him a sarcastic 'thanks' in return. Naruto then uncapped his marker and signed next to the brunettes name.
"But a picture of her favorite flower? thats cheap Ochibi, remember to pick up some real ones when you go see her." Naruto winked, acting like the 'ladies' man he was. Konohamaru huffed and puffed his cheeks out.
"Their not that easy to find in Japan you know! Plus...plus who would buy that shut-in idiot f-flowers anyways?" He huffed again, his last reason was a quick lie that rolled off the top of his head.
"Hey now, you're not being nice to your girlfriend. If your not nice I'll end up stealing her away from-" Just then a piece of white in the corner of the ripped catalog picture caught Naruto's attention. Naruto flipped over the picture, finding another one stapled on the back and crudely drawn with crayon. The picture was of a single girl, in the middle of a valley of colorful flowers, or so Naruto guessed and a giant white block behind the girl in the corner in the left. The girl in the picture wore a long white robe, similar to Konohamaru's he guess she was also a patient at the same hospital as him, maybe even the same age. But what Naruto noticed automatically was the strange color the girl's hair was drawn with.
Konohamaru snatched the pictures away from the blonde before he could look take another look at it again, making sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him.
"Thanks losers! I'll make it up to ya' someday!" With that, Konohamaru turned around to make a quick leave. The two watched dumbfounded as the little mysterious boy disappeared into the crowd.
He sure came as quick as he did leave.
Sasuke for the tenth time sighed. Falling back into the endless loop of the day as he reached for another waiting fan's picture. Naruto followed suit, chuckling at the weird but memorable experience he just had with their little boy fan.
"What was underneath that picture?" Sasuke shot the boy a weird glance, hoping it would maybe stop his endless giggles.
"It was a pretty cute picture. It was of his little girlfriend, but there was something off about that picture."
"What?" Naruto gave another cheeky grin.
"Her hair was pink."
"Okay Sakura, I need you to breath in and out for me."
The girl sitting on the ledge of her hospital bed, nodded her head as she obediently followed her doctor's instructions. The doctor held the stethoscope closely over the girl's chest, then moved it to her back. The girl shivered slightly at the smooth coolness that glided over her soft skin. No matter how many times she got her weekly checkup, she could never get used to how cold the instruments could be. Feeling the slight quaver, the doctor glanced up to the girl cautiously.
"Are you okay?" The pinkette nodded her head and gave a slight wave.
"I'm fine Tsunade-Sensei, You're overreacting." She said reassuringly. Tsunade in return shook her head as she set down the stethoscope and jotted a few notes onto the clipboard in her hand.
"A doctor can never 'overreact', especially when it comes to her patients," she glanced at the petite girl.
"Or her own favorite goddaughter." The busty woman ruffled the girl's hair lovingly. Sakura pouted, but let out a smile anyways.
"I'm fine. But I know if I ever start acting up, you'll be the first to be here by my side." Tsunade gave her another smile.
"Try not to strain yourself when going outside." Tsunade warned as she turned to make her leave. Sakura pouted at the doctors retreating back.
"Its fine. Its not like I can go anywhere anyways..." She replied quietly. The blonde glanced back at her quickly.
"What was that?" Sakura just smiled softly.
"Nothing!" She lied. Sakura sighed deeply as the woman finally left. With that the pinkette fell back into bed and landing with a soft thud. Her green eyes bore into the white ceiling before kicking her heel backward, successfully hitting the hiding patient underneath.
"Ouch!"
"Konohamaru, get out of there." Sakura sat up too look at the little brown headed boy as he emerged from his hiding spot, he rubbed his head and frowned.
"Stupid woman, didn't have to kick me." Sakura glared her eyes a little.
"Imagine what Tsunade would've done to you if she found out that you left the hospital grounds!" Konohamaru crossed arms. He stared at his muddy feet and dirty gown.
"Yeah but I did it for you though." He muttered. Sakuras small glare turned into surprise.
"What did you do for me?" The boy grinned as he reached into his gown pocket, revealing a folded piece of paper. He quickly unfolded the paper and raised it eye-level to the Sakura.
"I got you an autograph from some famous people! No need to thank me." He said smugly, rubbing his finger underneath his nose. Sakura glanced at the blue picture staring back at her, a valley of small blue flowers, and in the corner was what seemed to be the autographs of the famous people Konohamaru talked about. She squinted in an attempt to read the names but she could only make out a few of the kanjis. "Na and Sa", that didn't help her.
"What do ya' think? I travelled all the way to Tokyo to get this-" Suddenly, the boy was caught in a bear hug. He blushed, but didn't push her away. Sakura patted the little boys head. She was moved by how much he had thought about her.
"Thanks, How'd you know those are my favorite?" Letting the boy go, she took the picture and placed it next to her bedside window. Though the picture was beautiful, her eyes couldn't wander anywhere else but those scribbles in the corner. Konohamaru plopped himself onto the floor, crossing his legs so he was sitting indian style in front of Sakura.
"You're always talking about them...Sorry I couldn't get you real ones though." The boy thought about what that blonde idol had told him. Maybe it was better if he did find some Forget Me Nots. Sakura just shook her head and smiled at the worried boy.
"This is enough for me, but why did you go through all that trouble of getting autographs?" Konohamaru sat straight up and raised his head as he acted high and mighty.
"I've seen them on Tv! Their both really famous. And I heard they would be giving free autographs in Tokyo. Aren't you happy getting a famous persons autograph?" He ended with a grin. Sakura just laughed at his simpleness.
"I don't watch much Tv, so who are they?" Konohamaru's act dropped and he drooped his head down. Out of all the things, he forgot the people who had even signed the picture!
"Ahaa...about that...I don't know." He felt defeated. But the pinkette rubbed his head lovingly anyways and he looked up at her with little tears in the corner of his eyes. She looked at him with reassuring eyes.
"Its the thought that counts, thanks again." The boys face lit up with hope again as he scratched the back of his head.
"Don't worry though! I'll figure it out soon. I owe them one anyways, and when I do i'll make them come visit you for sure!" With that the boy quickly stood up and left with a cheeky grin. Down the hall Sakura could hear some of the nurses scream at the running boy, complaining about how dirty he was and how it wasn't safe to run in the halls. Sakura giggled to herself and once again turned at the crumpled picture.
"Nasa..." She would have to work with only those Kanjis until she could figure out the messy names. Sakura laid herself down onto her stiff bed and continued to stare at the picture.
"Those people must be nice." She could only imagine what those famous people must have thought when they saw a little boy in a hospital gown asking them for their signature. She smiled at the thought and closed her eyes, letting the sun from her window warm her eyelids.
"I want to meet them."
End.
End! :) I'm excited i actually got to finish revising this story! out of all my stories this one was the one that got the least amount of reviews so hopefully it might get some more. But i understand why-the last one was so badly written and rushed! so ill make sure to take my time with this one.
I know you guys are thinking "oh my goshhh Sushii this chapter it so slow!" well patience! it will actually go by faster than you think. I made this chapter specifically showing the problems Naruto and Sasuke go through when being famous, and how some normality might be a nice change from the lives. And how a twist of fate that they meet Sakuras Konohamaru. I hope all of you are excited to the next chapters!
Next Chapter of Forget Me Nots: Destiny.
Sasuke sighed as he dragged his back down the bench seat. Why couldn't girls just be more simple? He glared at the taunting bright flowers in moonlight, then at the heavy veil of rain as it dropped across the flowers petals. All he wanted to do at the moment was just hide at home and forget all contact he had at all with the other sex.
Sasuke let out another dragged sigh as he ran his fingers through his wild hair. He reached into his pockets looking for his pack of cigarettes. Though he tried to quit many times before, he figured this time was an exception as he was in dire need of one. Taking one out of its pack he placed it between his lips and continued his search in another pocket for his lighter. But before he could even feel the cool metal a sweet voice popped up behind him.
"Are you lost? I'm Sakura."