A Curses Memory
AU
March 23
(Past)
"X? What was that light?" A voice calls out to me from the darkness. I want to open my eyes but I can't. "X-01 can you hear me?"
I still cant open my eyes. The woman's voice, nurse Judoka, I assume, was sitting by my side like she has for these many years. She seems worried.
"S…Sa…ke…U…i…ha"
"Sa-ke? U-I-Ha?"
I want to shake my head, bite my tongue, I want to lash out to Judoka but I cant.
"Nurse Judoka, is there something wrong with X-01?"
"He has overexerted himself in today's training."
Training? Is that what they call it? The fighting, the probing, the blood tests?
"I see."
It was then I realized that I had to get out. I summoned as much energy around me as I could releasing it all and then there was warmth. When I finally opened my eyes, everyone, including Judoka, was dead.
"Where am I?"
And I could remember nothing except one name.
March 23
(Present time)
"Thirty years ago I was just a normal kid. A normal kid with amnesia, if that is considered normal, a normal kid in a normal highly guarded facility with normal teenage problems. But at this moment I realize that I'm not so normal." The dark haired man looked down at his pale hands, holding onto an old medical tag, burnt and almost black. "Do I look normal to you?"
His black eyes looked up at the blue eyes of the young boy whom had been following him around. The boy was wearing an old blue and black sweater, to hide his tanned skin from the harsh wind, while a hood hid a mass of blonde almost yellow hair.
"You look normal I guess…for a girl who's over thirty years old anyway."
"Hn."
The boy plopped against the wall beside the man, sliding down to a sitting position, mimicking the older man. With one knee drawn toward his chest and the other just lying limp on the dirty street.
"So mister, what's the name you remember anyway? Is it yours?"
"I don't know."
The bow shook his head.
"What do ya mean ya don't know? Psh! How old are ya anyway?"
"I don't know. All I know is that I'm here to find someone."
"Well…what's the name?" The boy asked. "We'll use it for you."
"Sasuke Uchiha."
The boy said the name a few times, testing it.
"Sasuke? I like Teme more but Sasuke-Bastard will do."
Sasuke stared at the boy for a moment, a glimmer, a memory there for only a moment then vanished.
"You have whiskered cheeks?"
The boy nodded.
"Yup It's in the genes of an Uzumaki!"
"Uzumaki? Why does that sound familiar?"
The boy shrugged.
"Well, my ancestor was the greatest Hokage in Konoha-but that was like a bazillion years ago! When Ninja's were still around instead of the AFA!"
"AFA?"
"Armed Forces Affiliation. They've completely taken over Konoha. If only the Armada hadn't been dispatched to Suna…grrr…and my grandfather Hideo Uzumaki's mayor of the city and can't do a damn thing." The boy's face darkened. "It makes me so MAD!"
Sasuke watched the boy's frustration. So familiar with the child yet not knowing exactly why. He pushed a few blonde strands from the boys eyes and stared deeply into them.
"Tell me about AFA and the Armada…I'm curious now."
"Ok." The boy simply said. "It'd be better if we go underground. My buddy is better at explaining this then me and the Hunters will be out soon."
"Hunters?"
"Yeah. They hunt for vagabonds like you and me, looking to put them into the academy or something."
"Academy?"
"Yeah, they train soldiers. That's cool I guess but I wanna be in the Armada…as dorky as that sounds."
The boy stood, Sasuke did the same, and both wandered about the alley until they found a metal hole in the back alley way. He tapped on it three times.
"What's the password?" Someone said from underneath.
"STARS"
A moment later it opened and the boy jumped in, Sasuke following.
"Who this person?" A boy with shaggy dark hair asked. He had a scar across his nose and left cheek. His thick wool clothes looked horribly dirty. "He seems troublesome."
"He aint. His names Sasuke Uchiha, and he wants to be of use for our noble cause! That's great, right Kyo?"
The bored expression on the other boys face faltered for only a moment.
"Right. Well, Kyu-ya better watch out for him, Neji's gonna be pissed."
A throbbing pain flashed through Sasuke.
"Neji?"
Kyo lifted a brow.
"You know Neji? How? He doesn't take to adults."
"Adults?"
Kyu and Kyo nodded.
"Yeah. Oh you must've confused him with his father. THIS Neji is Neji Hyuuga the fourth you must mean the third."
"I…guess."
The three walked down the dirty sewer, and Sasuke couldn't help but think that they reminded him a snakes tunnel beneath the ground.
He shivered.
"Who the hell is this?"
Sasuke's thoughts were turned to a young man with brown hair shorn to his shoulders. His one good eyes, white as the other only lacking the filmed over quality of the left on. He was tall, almost Sasuke's height and wore a large coat and thick boots with his dark pant legs tucked in them. His shirts was a blood red.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha."
"Uchiha?"
Kyu stood beside him with a smile on his face, addressing the one eyes boy.
"He saved me from the Hunter Dog a while ago." He said, patting Sasuke's arm. "He's got amnesia from what it sounds like, is strong and quiet."
There was a collective mumbling from the rest of the children in the large dark room. Sasuke notice, eerily that it had once been an active subway about a few hundreds of years before when they had use for them.
"An Uchiha? Here of all places?" The boy said. He turned his head, staring the Kyu then to Kyo. The boy just shrugged saying the word Troublesome.
"Why is it strange?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah Neji? Why is it?" Kyu asked, curious now. He cocked his head to the side.
The boy, Neji, shrugged his wide shoulders.
"Well I don't know. Maybe because the Uchiha line was destroyed five thousand years ago."
Sasuke began to sweat, his head ached and his eyes seemed to blur.
"H-how do you know this to be true?"
Neji smirked.
"Because my ancestor, Neji Hyuuga of the once proud Hyuuga family, killed the very last one."
Sasuke saw black and fell numbly.
'Sasuke!'
"Na-ruto!"
Sera: Hehehe…oh I'm so bad.
Naruto: FINISH YOUR OTHER WORKS!
Sera: Um.
Sasuke:…I'm so not talking to you.
