Reboot majikoi

What was this dream? he's been having it for weeks now. Every time it was so vivid it could be real.

He was sitting on the rail of a bridge over a river, and around him were children whose faces he couldn't recognize..yet somehow he felt like he should know them.

There was a small girl leaning against the rail next to him with short red hair tied into pigtails a wide smile gracing her face. Next to her was a taller girl with black hair that was cut just above her shoulders she had fierce red eyes but was rubbing the top of the small girls head. Sitting beside him was a scrawny kid with messy brown hair, he was joking around with another kid with a fire bandana wrapped around his forehead. Standing behind him to his left was a young girl with light blue hair and she was hesitant to join until he offered her a spot next to him. the sun setting over a familiar river in the distance a city unlike any other could be seen the setting sun's light glittering off the windows of the tall buildings. The skies were aglow with vibrant Orange and pink and somehow it felt more like home to him the Konoha. He felt content and happy when all of a sudden he felt a tug on his sleeve. He looked down at the red headed girl and she smiled up at him.

"Say Naruto. Do you like it here?" before he could reply his head began to pound and the world around him throbbed and grayed the features of the ones around him turning gray and unrecognizable. He tried to reach out to them but then his ears began to ring with a horrible white noise! It almost looked like the children in his dream where trying to talk to him but all he could her was noise!

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"You won't forget us will you?" he Froze even as his head throbbed with pain. Those words were spoken clearly. And it sent chills down his spine. The world around him dissolved and he was submerged in water. He could see the bars holding back the nine tails as she smirked down at him as he sank deeper into the water.

"Too bad the choice was taken from you!" The nine tails voice boomed through his dream as his world faded to black.

"Brat get up your going to be late for school!" naruto jumped as he was awoken from his nightmare. Falling out of his bed in the process. He groaned on the floor before he lifted his head and shouted at his bedroom door.

"No! You can't make me!"

"Naruto stops acting childish or I will summon Gamakichi and sick em on your ass!"

One annoyed blonde haired and disgruntled boy groaned before flopped onto the floor once more.

Standing over him though was the pale visage of a old man sternly looking down at him. He was tall and muscular with a thin long beard and white flowing hair. He wore a bandana on his head and carried a staff with him. Oh he forgot to mention. He was also dead.

This was Goutetsu. The ghost of a martial arts master that had been haunting him for a week now. He was cursed to never be able to move on until he found a true successor to the Ansatsuken style. He had chosen naruto for some reason.

He mostly watched naruto as he trained. He would come and go leaving whenever naruto was not doing anything important. He kept mumbling to himself about naruto needed better training then from the old fool.

It took naruto a while to get used to the dead man. He was having a panic attack the first time he met Goutetsu but once he found out the old man couldn't harm him he started to relax a bit more.

He met the ghost a week ago when he was training with jiraiya in the woods surrounding the east of the city.

*flashback.*

Naruto was panting hard against a tree. He had been training since early this morning and it was easily around evening now. He took a moment to rest against the tree taking a few sips from his canteen.

"Young man. Can you see me?"

Naruto looked up at the muscular old man and nodded.

"Hm I see your training hard. But you lack proper guidance." He said as he floated around naruto and the young boy dropped his canteen out of shock. "My Name is Goutetsu."

"AHHHHHHH!" Naruto screamed as he bolted from his resting place sprinting away from the ghost who was keeping up with his pace.

"Calm down child I won't harm you."

"AHHHHHHHH!"

Naruto kept on running until he reached the pervy sage.

"Naruto what happened?"

"Ghost!"

"...stop messing around naruto."

"Hes right there!" naruto pointed at Goutetsu.

"He can't see or hear me boy. Only you can. I am cursed to remain on this plain until I found a true successor."

This was Naruto Uzumaki age 13 a shinobi of the hidden leaf. As he finally returned to consciousness he vaguely looked back at everything that leads to this moment.

It all started when Naruto and Jiraiya set off on their adventure. Everything was going the exact opposite of how he envisioned he'd spend the trip. The Pervy sage refused to teach him anything and had him strictly practicing chakra control. Despite his angry outburst and complaining he begrudgingly did the exercises. Then the old man took it upon himself to fix the damage caused from so many years of malnutrition. Something Naruto argued with fervently because it involved cutting off his ramen supply.

The Pervy sage was able to somehow convince Naruto with a shroud method of bringing up is a failure. He couldn't bring Sasuke back because he wasn't strong enough. His body wasn't fit enough because it was running off of crap like Ramen.

So he begrudgingly took to his new diet but he still snuck in Ramen whenever he could. He started to eat healthier and worked out regularly. Almost to Bushy brow duo standards. And after the first month, he noticed of much better he looked. Before he was very malnourished and scrawny. You could almost see his he had some muscles showing and he was getting taller.

Then he was thrown onto a boat as they sailed out for dear life. Why he wasn't so sure but he did notice some girl yelling at them from the dock. His guess was that the perv got caught peeping on a kunoichi. Then during their several week-long journeys at sea, he dumps a bunch of books and scrolls in front of him. And he had to face his greatest enemy.

Studying.

The white-haired toad sage drilled as much knowledge as he could into Naruto's thick head. Driving in the fact that you can't be Hokage if your an idiot. It was painstakingly slow but it went much faster when Jiraiya let slip that his clones could retain information. He nearly murdered the sage after learning that. How he never noticed he would never know, maybe it was because he always summoned hundreds of them at a time. Or the fact he was always so focused on his opponent.

Finally after floating on that damn ship for kami knew how long they arrived at the outside world. They docked in a city called Kawakami in the nation of Japan. He was blown away by how enormous the building where and spent a good week in complete culture shock. He couldn't beloved how much more advanced Japan was compared to his home.

Jiraiya had his reasons for choosing Kawakami city as their temporary home. For one thing, it was home to some of the most skilled fighters in the world. Secondly,y it was a place that was were well known for being a gathering place of oddities and fighters. So naruto fighting and training here wouldn't draw attention.

He was also interested in expanding his network to the outside world. As it was the elemental nations would be discovered eventually so it was best to have allies and spies in place for when that time came. It totally wasn't because he wanted to sell more books here.

Naruto for his part walked through Kawakami city almost in a trance that day. It was like. He had been there before. There was a feeling of nostalgia in the air he never felt before. It was almost like coming home. Huh, maybe he was from here in a past life?

'Wait I know that store they have great danger there!...wait his do I know that again?' The blonde shinobi paused stopping in front of the dango shop and all of a sudden it was like a wave if chakra rolled over him.

*flashback*

A bruised and angry child sat in a chair in front of Hiruzen Desk. the old man sighed putting out his pipe while also taking off his hat.

"Naruto this is the fourth incident today that you've gotten into a fight. What's got into you?"

"...you know what got an into my old man." He grumbled rubbing his arm that was covered in cuts and bruises. The Hokage sighed and stood up and walked around his desk kneeling in front of the young Jinchuriki.

"You can't just pick fights to get attention naruto." the old man said sternly placing a hand on Naruto shoulders. The boy simply shrugged his hand off.

"...its the only time anyone will notice me though! If I don't no one ever sees me!"

"But people will hate you."

"I don't care!" then you feel boy yelled with so much anger in his voice it shocked the old Hokage. "it's better than not being noticed at all!"

The third only sighed reading over multiple complaints of naruto's outburst, breaking windows, tagging fences, pissing on the Yamanaka plants. The list went on.

He couldn't blame Naruto he was isolated from the rest of the village, Isolation and loneliness were capable of breaking the strongest men with enough time. But an impressionable child had no chance. If he allowed this treatment to continue Naruto may just grow up into a monster. N,o he was already growing up into one if he didn't act now than he would turn towards a darker path.

But it wasn't like he could order everyone to treat the boy nicely. They were angry, hurt and saw him as a scapegoat.

He wouldn't be safe in Konoha, but maybe he could send him somewhere. Remote enough where he should be safe yet among strong allies. It was a very short list. Most of which were far away in foreign countries.

He needed a place that spoke a similar language, where he wouldn't stick out, and where no other shinobi force could have spies.

That left one place.

"Naruto how would you like to go on a trip with me?"

"A trip?"

"Yes."

*flashback end*

Naruto blinked and noticed the pervy sage looking at him.

"You alright?" the pervy sage looked at him confused before he shook his head.

"Its nothing it's just…a weird sense of dejavu. Maybe I lived here in a past life or something." the blonde shinobi walked in front of Jiraiya and looked around.

After that day he kept getting these odd feelings around certain parts of the city. This overwhelming sense of dejavu, happiness, and grief. He didn't know why he never told Jiraiya. His gut told him not to trust him. To keep it to himself till he could figure out why was going on.

He spent a lot of time at their hotel room trying to perfect his chakra control. After sitting in the hotel room for two weeks Jiraiya was able to get his hands on some fake transcripts and identities for the both of them. The first thing the perv did was publish his icha icha series.

Naruto still couldn't believe how well those books sold. In less then a week they had enough money to purchase a house in a pretty good neighborhood. The house wasn't anything to brag about. It was about three bedrooms with a rather large basement. And had a large backyard. It was more of a western style home but he didn't mind. Although their neighbors could be pretty noisy sometimes. Honestly, who yells about the wonders of hermit crabs at six in the morning.

He caught a few glimpses of their neighbors a few times but he never really saw their faces. Then again up until this morning, he was always training with the pervy sage in their yard or in the basement. So far he was mostly learning how to make a Rasengan without the help of a clone and how to add more stopping power to it. It was tedious but he worked hard to perfect his technique.

All of this. Is what finally accumulated to now. As he laid on the floor of his bedroom. He begrudgingly got up and yawned stepping over to the closet he pulled out a uniform with a look of disdain. It was a mostly white jacket with some dark navy blue pants. There wasn't a lick of orange on this!

After putting on his uniform he reached for his head banned before he froze. He wasn't supposed to wear it while they were here. Which sucked he felt naked without his head an on. Instead, he pulled out the pair of goggles the third gave to him when he was younger. They still fit around his forehead.

He walked downstairs and glared and Jiraiya ad he took a picture of Naruto.

"Hehe, I should thank whoever made these uniforms I can't believe your not wearing orange." The pervy sanin said with a grin receiving a middle finger from his disgruntled student.

"Hehe, now Naruto it's not that bad. Anyways brat I have a few ground rules when your out. Never put on your headband, do not use any flash jutsu unless it is a life or death situation. And try and have some fun when we aren't training. Now go to school." Jiraiya said tossing naruto a wallet. "There's your allowance for the week."

"Can't believe you convinced me to do this." the blonde boy muttered as he grabbed his bad and began his walk to school.

His walk to school was uneventful for the most part though he did see some kids that looked kinda familiar. Man, he was getting tired of this feeling. He simply kept to the route his phone was giving him. Jiraiya had given him the phone shortly after telling him he had to go back to school.

He was still struggling to use it a few times but he got the general premise. Tap screen app works, and there are games he could play. Not to mention he could browse something called the internet. It was all a bit confusing for him to understand but he was able to at least fake that he knew what he was doing.

After walking for about twenty minutes(curse these people and their inability to accept rooftop transportation!) he finally arrived at his destination.

Kawakami Junior High (middle school)

"Oh boy... I can just tell I'm going to hate this already," he mumbled as he stared at the bland building. He spotted different groups around the school as he walked around the campus. He was supposed to meet up with a student that would show him around but he couldn't tell which one it was. He looked around and groaned checking his phone boredly when he felt someone petting his whiskers. He blinked and looked up at a tall girl with long snow-white hair standing next to him smiling sweetly as she gently stroked her fingers across his whiskers. She had warm pink eyes and had a well-developed body for their age. (13 you perves)

"..."

"..."

"...uh."

"Hhm?"

"Why are you petting my birthmarks?"

"They looked like a cat and I just wanted to pet them." she said with a lazy matter of fact tone. " oh is your name Naruto? I had a friend that had whiskers marks on his face a few years ago."

"Yeah, I'm Naruto Uzumaki nice to meet you... uh"

" Koyuki Sakakibara just call me Yuki. When did you get back Naruto? You've been gone for so long."

"Oh uh I had to go back to my home village is all." 'who the heck is this girl? How does she know me?' he smiled nervously and Yuki frowned tilting her head.

"What's wrong did you forget about me?"

"well...Kinda I don't remember ever coming to Kawakami yet it feels like I've been here before."

"Hmmm oh, I know during lunch I'll bring you to where the Kazama family have lunch! They'll be so happy to know your back."

"Before that could you tell me who's supposed to be my guide?"

"That's me~" she gave him a peace sign and took his hand. "Were in the same class so I'll be showing you around Naru-kun."

"Thanks, Yukie so where to first?"

"I'll show you where our homeroom is, our teacher can be a bit strict but he's nice."

Yuki leads him into the school building and showed him to his class.

"This is class B our sensei's name is Genma." he looked inside call B to see a few odd people in his class. A young girl wearing a regal kimono was sitting at her desk talking to a boy wearing a gold-colored uniform with a gaudy dragon on his back. And further back was a tall fat kid who was sharing his snacks with a skinny guy wearing a shirt with an anime character on it.

"Oh is that the new student Koyuki?" a bald boy saqid he was a head taller then naruto.

"Hai~"

"Hey, there I'm narut-"

"Uzumaki Naruto! So you've returned at last! I surely hope you've gotten stronger since the last time we met!" The boy wearing the gold uniform said as he stood in front of naruto crossing his arms. Naruto raised his eyebrow at him as he took a step walk towards the him.

"...Sorry, who are you?"

The boy tripped on his feet and stared at Naruto as if he had physically slapped him.

"Do not feign ignorance. It is I Kookie Hideo! Your eternal Rival!"

"...mmm sorry doesn't ring any bells," he said scratching the back of his head bored at the boys attempt to look cool.

"Alright everyone settle down And take your seats!" the class rep said as she walked in she had wavy brown hair and stood with confidence. "the teachers on his way. you must be the new student just stand next to me till your assigned an empty seat."

naruto stood next to their class rep and waited for their teacher to arrive.

"oh im Chika by the way."

after their teacher arrived naruto attempoted to pay attention to class but to be honest his mind was elsware. he wanted to find out how exactly he came here, why didnt he remember anything? those questions where driving him insane. he opted to stare out the window for a majority of the class occasionally dodging an eraser their teacher would throw at him to get his attention.

At lunch Yuki came over to his desk a small bag of marshmellows in her hand.

"how did you like the class Naru-kun?"

"it was alright. to be honest i wasnt paying attention to most of it. im still trying to remember when i came here."

"hmm where you in any accidents before you came back?"

"Naruto instinctively rubbed his chest the battle with Sasuke had left him with a permanent scar. it stung every once and a while.

"...ive...been in a few." he said softly and yuki nodded deciding not to prod him for specifics.

"well im sure when you meet up with the Kazuma family again everything will come back to you."

"who exactly are the kazama family?"

"you'll see~"

she walked towards the door and waved naruto over to follow her as she bit into a marshmallow. he got up from his seat and followed her through the halls and up a few stairs to the roof. as he walked onto the roof he froze. sitting around a bench were a group of kids he recognized. they where the same kids from his dreams though thewy were taller and their style had changed there was noi doubt that it was them.

"im telling you Yamato Akihabara has this amazing cafe its filled with so many cute girls in cosplay."

"Gakuto being a perv again."

"And he wonders why he's not popular with girls."

"Hey im simple complimenting them they should feel flattered that a handsome guy like me is complimenting them."

"good one" the blue-haired girl smiled and held up a small sign with a red 10 on it. " that was funny."

"i was being serious your just too obsessed with Yamato to notice."

"Hai~" Yuki waved walking past naruto who looked like he was staring at a ghost. everyone looked over at Naruto. Gakuto dropped his chopsticks and Miyako stared at him before smiling brightly. kazuto jumped up to her feet and ran at Naruto.

"Naruto! your back!" she cried out tackling him into a hug tears falling down her face. "w-we missed you so much!"

"N-naruto...is that really you?" Maru asked walking up to the blonde boy.

"y-yeah." he answered softly petting Wanko on her head. "i...i have to apologize though. i can't remember what happened when i came to Kawakami."

"wait you're saying you don't remember us?" Yamato asked standing in front of him.

"I'm sorry but i don't remember anything.I'm trying to figure out how I lost my memories though."

"Sounds like the plot of a bad drama." Capt said "still its great to have you back. with this, the Kazama family is whole again."

"yeah, so what if you forgot we just gotta jog your memory." Miyako rubbed his head. the Kazama quickly surrounded him with tear filed eyes happy to see their long lost friend. well. all except one. Momoyo was still standing at the bench her hair had gotten longer since the last time he saw her. she marched over to him and threw a badge at his chest.

"Naruto Uzumaki. i can't forgive the fact you forgot about us. after everything, we all went through. i challenge you to a Kawakami duel!" she yelled her eye glowing red with anger.

"Nee-san wait we don't know what that old man did to him."

"yeah please don't fight him at least wait to hear him out." Gakuto pitched in trying to stop the massacre before it occurred.

"Is this what its like to watch a death flag get triggered?" ,maru said meekly next to Yamato.

Naruto stared at the badge before fishing through his pockets. "Alright...I guess i owe you this much." he tossed down his badge down accepting her challenge.

news of the coming fight between Momoyo and Naruto quickly spread through their middle school. Teshin Kawakami was called to referee the match since momoyo was fighting. Kawakami middle held many of the same rules as the academy duels werent as common place here though since most students where studying hard to enter the main academy after middle school.

"Eh? Is that it? He's so tiny." Fushikawa said with a smug grin. " This will be over in a second."

"Don't be fooled by his size. Naruto was never the type to be underestimated." Hideo said sternly in a rare moment of seriousness.

"Oh, do you know him?" Aoi asked as he cleaned his glasses

" when we were younger. Yes. I considered him my rival. My older sister adored him and even taught him a few things." He said as he remembered all the times they would race and fight. "Though. He seems very different from before."

"Hmm, The duel between Momoyo Kawakami and Naruto Uzumaki is about to commence. The battle shall be decided by knock out or forfeit. Are both combatants ready!?" The old man yelled out

"Yup."

"Hai!"

"Then let the match!" Naruto got ready and moved his hand to reach for a kunai. "Begin!"

Naruto blinked once and then the image of Momos first appeared right in front of him! He jumped left to try and avoid getting destroyed in one attack.

Momoyo smirked and swung her leg kicking naruto in the stomach as he tried to dodge. The blow knocking the wind out of him.

The blow flung him across the school grounds into a tree. As his back collided with a tree he got back to his feet and pumped chakra through his body to move faster.

He and Momoyo charged towards each other and Naruto was able to duck under a wide swing from Momoyo and land a punch on her stomach only for her to bring up her knee to nail him in the face. He flipped back avoiding a roundhouse kick and as he landed he crossed his fingers. 'Sorry Pervy sage but I'm not going to hold back here.'

"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" the entire area was filled with smoke and as it cleared dozens of his clones where charging at Momoyo.

"Now things are getting interesting naruto!" She yelled and her image blinked before several of his clones exploded. Momoyo had a wide smile on her face. As she fought Naruto. He was putting up a better fight then most of the people she's been up against lately!

Naruto and his clones began to encircle her. She was definitely strong. Ridiculously strong. Hell, he dared say she was as strong as Tsunade. Still...he's fought people much deadlier than her!

He fell back into the crowd and started making a Rasengan with a clone.

29 of his clones charged Momoyo to distract her. "Whoa! Where did he learn to do that?!" Gakuto yelled in excitement.

"Wow, he's actually putting up a decent fight."

"No. It's gonna be over soon." Yamato said as he ate some popcorn. "He's fast but nee-san won't fall for the same tricks twice."

Momoyo grabbed one and slammed him into another before punching this next one that came in the face. Before she charged right through the crowd of clones like a bull.

"See," Yamato said calmly as he watched them fight.

"These trick are beginning to bore me naruto kun!" she yelled as she destroyed another clone blocking her she saw naruto running at her with a clone a glowing spinning ball of energy in his hand.

She crouched down and cocked her fist.

"Kawakami style- Fuji Smasher!" Her fist glowed brightly with K.I and Naruto thrust his Rasengan forward.

"RASENGAN!"

The area was filled with a Blinding light an ear-aching ringing stinging combatants and onlooker ears alike the sound was like someone dragging knives against a chalkboard. The two of them held their ground for a moment. Momoyo had lost her grin. And just looked disappointed.

"You really don't remember me fish cake," she said softly only loud enough for him to hear. She sounded disappointed but the look in her eyes showed she was truly hurt by this fact. She thought they had a stronger bond then this. Perhaps she was wrong.

Momoyo arms flexed and naruto was flung back as her fist collided with his chest sending him across the ground his shirt ripping on a rock. He rolled back and grimaced his arm twitched in pain. He saw momoyo jump into the air and flipped to land an ax kick. The moment before her attack landed he replaced himself with a log covered in explosive tags.

"Wha th-*BOOOM!*" The log detonated in momos face and Naruto leaned against a tree and his wounds healed slowly his arm was numb from the clash earlier doing hand seals and fighting was going to be harder till the numbness wore off.

He stood up straight and saw momoyo covered in cuts her jacket burnt and torn in some places. Other than that she looked fine.

"Kawakami style-regeneration." Her entire form glowed and her wounds healed right up.

"Not bad Naruto-Kun." she ran towards him and slammed her fist into his stomach forcing him back to the ground.

He gasped and as he hit the floor shooting his foot up and nailed her in the chin.

Through the entire fight, Naruto remained silent only talking to shout out his attacks. What was he going to say? Sorry, my memory is messed up for some reason. He was angry. He was tired. He wanted answers. He didn't really want to fight momoyo right now. But something in him wanted to, there was this feeling in his heart that wanted to fight her

Momoyo gripped his leg and pulled him up slamming him onto the ground creating a large crater.

'Ok screw that feeling.' He reached into his pouch and threw four shurikens at momoyo in an attempted to break free. Momoyo caught the shuriken and threw him through a tree. His back erupted in pain and another memory flashed through his mind. he laid on his back grimacing in pain.

'Naruto, you need to keep your eyes on me otherwise you'll never win.'

Momoyo sighed and was about to walk away when naruto body was enveloped in red chakra. The blonde boy getting back to his feet.

"I'm not don't yet." He said slowly crouching down like a defensive fox. Momoyo smirked and raised her fist.

"Alright then Naruto I won't hold back anymore," she said sternly her ki enveloping her body giving off a purple glow.

Naruto made a Rasengan in his hand but it kept on growing, bigger and bigger until it was easily the size of a small car.

"OH~ making that bigger won't help you much." he fist glowed a bright gold. " Come on then Naruto Lets end this!"

The two of them launched forward and slammed their attacks against each other. the two of them struggled against each other. the following explosion knocked some of the unprepared student clean off their feet. naruto and momoyo were both launched back several feet their bodies covered in light burn marks and cuts. naruto was breathing hard and sweating. his shirt had been ripped open revealing his chest and still healing scar to everyone.

"Not bad Naruto-kun." Momoyos body glowed purple and her injuries healed back up. she ran toward naruto as fast as bushy brows without his training weights on and landed a devastating uppercut to the blonde boys chin launching him into the air a few feet before he crashed back down to the ground landing on his chest.

"...Winner Momoyo Kawakami." tesshin said gaining cheers from the students watching the fight.

momoyo walked over and nealt down next ti naruto who was struggling to stay conscious. he looked at her and gave her a sad smile.

"im sorry."

one hour later

"I still can't believe he forgot about us," Capt said with a sigh.

"Well, it has been a couple years," Yamato said sitting on the couch.

"But still you'd think he would at least recognize us."

"..." Momoyo stared out the window silently. Before she looked over at everyone with a sad look in her eyes. "He broke his promise."

Everyone in the room sighed as they debated what they knew.

" it doesn't feel like he meant to forget us though." Kazuto said hugging a pillow cushion " there's no way he would just forget us like that. Something must have happened."

"Hmm, maybe it has something to do with the gnarly scar he's got on his chest?" Gakuto said rubbing his chin. " maybe he got into some kind of accident after he left?"

"I ran the video through my database and found that it is 2% likely that those injuries were sustained by accident. 15% by training, a 1% chance it was caused by lightning, and an 82% chance it was caused by an attempt on his life." cookie said\

"Someone trid to kill him!?" Maru shouted worried

"well he did say that the people in his village hated him." yamato said." could be why hes here now."

"..." momoyo didnt say anything. she was upset that naruto forgot about them. about her.

Naruto sat on the river bank and sighed. None of this made sense. But none of it felt wrong. As he watched the river flow he thought back to the time when he was a child. Those days weren't the best for him. There was so much anger and sadness in him back then. Back before he even found ichiraku Ramen.

He was constantly hungry, cold, alone. And that was on good days. On his worst, days, he would get hit by rocks, yelled at. And had garbage dumped on places he would sleep. If he came to Kawakami when he was younger then surely he would remember. Right? There's no way he would ever forget coming to a place as amazing as Japanapan.

He leaned his head against his knees and a vile voice filled his head.

'hehehehe you're a fool.'

'Shut up Fox.'

'Oh finally talking to me now. Progress.'

'What do you want now?'

'Hehehe right now I'm just enjoying how naive you are. You really haven't put it together yet?'

'Shut up. What do you know.'

'Come on surely you've figured it out. You just don't want to admit it. The truth is practically laid before you.'

The nine tailed mocked a grin forming on his face. He knew that if Naruto realized the truth the anger and sadness he felt would be strong enough for him to force a portion of his chakra through the seal to weaken it further.

'I don't know anything!'

'Sure you do. You know you came here when you were younger. You know that old man brought you here. And you know that you have no memory of your time here. Why do you think that is?'

Naruto froze and looked out at the sun setting.

"...Gramps sealed them away." He said softly "but I don't understand why."

'To keep you under his control. He wanted a loyal dog. When you got a taste of freedom you didn't want to go back." Kurama said confidently his grin growing larger as he slowly leaked his chakra into Naruto's seal.

"Shut up."

'You know its true.'

"Shut up."

'He only cared about my power. That's all anyone cares about. You weren't really important to him'

"Shut UP!" Naruto cried out as his body was enveloped in red bubbling chakra he took deep breaths and slowly he pulled back the chakra.

'Hehe, you can try to deny it. You know I'm right. I was there with you when it happened after all. When he ripped the only bit of happiness from you.'

'YOUR JUST A FILTHY LIAR! GRAMPS WOULD NEVER BETRAY ME LIKE THAT IN A MILLION YEARS! HE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR ME WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD LOOK MY WAY!'

'and why do you think that is?'

Naruto said nothing as another tail of chakra grew and he growled as he stared at his reflection the nine tails grinning back at him.

'He wanted your loyalty. That's all.'

Naruto wanted to say he was wrong. But he couldn' only stared down at the river as a leave washed over his reflection. His chakra cloak disappearing. He hated to admit that the nine tails just might be right.

That Night.

Naruto laid back in his bed staring up at the ceiling. The people here knew him. Were friends with him. Yet he didn't remember any of it. He sighed and sat up opening the window by his bed. The cool night air chilling his room and face. He stared up at the moon and tried to piece together the past he forgot about.

When he was younger he came to kawakami to get away from the abuse of the village. Here he met and helped form the Kazama family. He spent close to a year here before he was forced to leave.

Wait. Forced?

Now he remembered. How the third forced him to go back to the village. The lengths he went to keep him under control. "No. I don't want to go!" A young Naruto yelled he was inside Gakutos home he and his friends were pushing a couch in front of the door.

"Naruto you can't stay here we need to go back to the village," Hiruzen yelled from the other side banging on the door.

"No! I hate it there! Everyone there hates me! Why should I go back!" naruto yelled as he stacked books and other heavy objects in front of the door.

"Naruto I'm giving you to the count of three! One!"

"Go away old man I'm not leaving and you can't make me!"

"Two!"

"Naruto hide we'll take care of him!" Momoyo yelled as she clenched her fist. Miyako stood next to her holding a short bow.

"Leave Naruto-Kun alone!" Kazuko said as she got ready to fight.

"Yeah, he's one of us old man!" Capt yelled definitely as he stood on the couch barricading the door.

"We're not going to let you take our friend!" Yamato declared as he grabbed a BB gun.

"That's right this is his home!" Maru said as he and Gakuto pushed a shelf over to reveal a small panic room. Naruto quickly crawled inside tears falling down his face. He couldn't believe they would go this far for him!

The two boys pulled the cabinet back and picked up some bats.

"Three! Naruto last chance to come out peacefully."

Naruto said nothing as he sat in the little panic room. He couldn't believe everyone was fighting for him. Fighting for his sake. He heard a loud crashing sound and his friends yelling for a moment before everything went silent. then the door opened and the old man was there a grim expression on his face. he said nothing to naruto simply grabbing his arm and pulling him out of the panic room. he remembered trying to bite the Hokage when a slip of paper was placed on his forehead. and then he woke up in his apartment in Konoha. with no memory of the last year.

naruto wiped the tears from his eyes and stood up changing into some casual clothes. a pair of black pants and an orange hoodie. he put on a pair of boots and climbed out of his window jumping onto the roof of their neighbors home and running across the rooftops. he needed some time to think about everything that happened to him. he needed to look at exactly what Konoha was trying to turn him into.

who were his enemies? who was on his side? who could he even trust? Her ran for the forest surrounding Kawakami. He needed to blow off steam and a secluded place to be alone with his thoughts.

"Boy if I may. There is a dojo you can visit. There you will find Kin that can help you." Goutetsu said floating next to the boy.

"How do you know I'll find any family there?"

"Spirits can sense the connections of those living. Blood will always seek out kindred blood."

Naruto landed on the side of a tree and sighed. Standing up straight. He might as well trust Goutetsu he hasn't done anything for him not to trust him. Besides a small trip sounded like something he could use right now.

"...Tell me where to go."

And here is the first chapter of the reboot. This story is going to have characters from street fighter, kenichi, Renma, Yu yu Hakasho, Dead or Alive series and tekken. I really wish there was a cross over setting for cluster fuck.

so I hope you enjoyed the chapter in going to apologize for the delay once more. And until next time.

~Later Days~

-wiseotaku.