So this is my first time uploading a story onto fanfiction. I hope it turns out alright. I didn't know when to cut off the chapter and it started to get a bit long. I already have most of the next chapter written already. Anyways, read and tell me how it was!

A small girl laid in a plain white hospital bed. She had black silk hair that was sprawled in every which direction across her pillow. A severe head injury left her clueless as she eventually began to come to.

Chapter One: Awakening

I opened my eyes. The light seemed to blind me as the whole world seemed new. The walls were a color that made them seem blank. A girl was sitting across the cold room, her eyes teary. She seemed only to be 8 or 9 years old. She had long black hair that reached down to her waist, and her eyes were swollen and red, assumingly from all the crying. She looked tired, but when my eyes met hers, they seemed to lift in spirits. She seemed overjoyed to see me. I felt overjoyed to see her. But still, I didn't know why. She was a stranger to me. She smiled and jumped up onto the bed and got close to me.

I showed no emotion through my facial expressions and felt nothing as I looked over this stranger. My arm had thick wrappings around it holding it still in place. Confusion swept past me. I couldn't move basically anything. My head was wrapped up as well. What was going on? I didn't understand. I wanted to.

"Sister! How are you feeling?" I just starred at her. "Mallow?"

"Who are you?" And as the sentence escaped my mouth a look of hurt crossed the girl's face. I didn't understand her. What had I said to make her give me that look? "Are you okay?"

"Are you joking, are you really trying to scare me? I'll hate you forever!" Tears ran down her face and she quickly ran out of the room. Again, confusion. I didn't understand why she seemed so sad. I didn't know her. Another woman walked into the room. She was much bigger than the one before her. They looked oddly similar and wore the same expressions.

"Honey? Mallow?" Mallow? Why had she and the last one repeated the same words. What did it mean? I gave the woman a confused expression. "Can you hear me? Mallow?"

"What's going on? Who are you? Where am I?" The woman bit her lip as it began to bleed. Why was she hurting herself? My confused expression is going to be plastered on my face for some time, isn't it? The lady that was now kneeling over my bed smiled at me. She grabbed a small contraption out of her purse and showed it to me. I gasped and starred at it wide eyed.

It was the girl in the small piece of glass. When I moved, the picture mimicked me. I lifted my hand testing it. Again, it was casted.

"It's the girl from before." I said astonished. She was trapped in the glass. "We have to get her out!" I grabbed the glass from the woman and began shaking it violently. I stopped and stared at it. The girl was crying. And water fell from her face and fell through the glass escaping. But she was still inside. I put a hand to my face and I felt water. I then looked around the room. There were so many people in the room crying. I saw the girl standing across the room. She must have gotten out. She was still crying, but she avoided looking at my face. What was going on? A nurse was at the door. Her eyes were teary, but not crying. She didn't seem a part of this ordeal. And there was a man in the corner of the room, sitting on a small chair. He was staring out the window. He looked as though had been crying, but he showed no sign of such actions happening anytime soon. He seemed exceptionally contained, but did seem like the type of person to avoid these situations anyways.

There was a very long, drawn out silence. No one spoke. They all starred at me. My head began to hurt as I remember the predicament I was in. I looked down at myself. My arm was completely bandaged. Both legs were still intact. I could wiggly my toes and my side hurt very badly. My head was bandaged and tied down.

"I want out." I said. Everyone stayed silent. "I want out! Why can't I move?" I screamed. The woman shushed me and laid her hand on my shoulder ceasing my actions. The man stood from his chair and grabbed the little girl's arm and left the room. The nurse soon left too. Only the woman was left, tears again streaming down her face. Too many tears. Too much crying. It was now annoying.

There was a card next to me, lying on the table. I tried to grab it with my broken left arm but failed miserably. The woman grabbed the card and placed it in my right hand. I opened it using solely my single hand. Inside was a card with a crayon colored picture on the front and symbols that were foreign to me. I looked at it quite puzzled. The woman took it from me and said out loud.

"Dear Sister, next time I will be there for you, get well soon. You're making mommy sad. Love Kyoku" The woman began to cry again, much harder this time as her grip on my shoulder became much tighter. I was afraid she would hurt me so I shook my shoulder. She suddenly stopped abruptly and let go. She stared at me, and then at my shoulder.

"What's going on?" The woman's breath became uneven as she avoided eye contact.

"Do you not remember anything?" I shook my head 'no'. "Well, everyone that was in this room earlier is your family." She wiped her eyes leaving them an irritated pink.

"My family?" I think my face scrunched up when I had said that, but I didn't understand why.

"Yes. And we're all here for you. Your family is all the people that care for you and will stay by your side through this," She looked so tired and her face was worn. Dark rings were forming around her pink tinted eyes.

"Then who are you?" The woman expelled a long breath loudly and closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them, her eyes seemed to have grown hard; as though they refused to be sad and to cry anymore.

"I am your mother," The room was dead silent, too silent.

"Mother." I said it as if recalling something someone said minutes earlier. "Or mommy." I said repeating what the little girl said in her card.

"And Kyoku is your sister," Her eyes were locked with mine. I wanted to look away. It was almost torturing, like I wanted her to just go away and leave me by myself. It was a frustrating feeling of maybe embarrassment? It was… awkward. It was very awkward.

"Your father was the one on the chair in the corner of the room." She was still staring at me.

"Oh." I said, while staring up at the woman's eyes.

There were voices outside the room and the pitter-pattering of footsteps could be heard. They sounded to be getting closer.

"Kyoku, your sister is a little sick right now. This is all like a dream for her, so if she forgets something, it's alright because it's not her fault. When you're dreaming you forget things too, right? Mallow is doing the same." I don't know who's voice it was, but I remembered too things from his speech. Mallow and Kyoku.

"Okay, can I try to help her remember daddy?"It was the little girl's voice. My sister?

"Not right now. We don't want to interrupt the course of her dream, do we?"

"No!" I saw the door begin to open, revealing the little girl and the familiar old man. They both were my family?

"Mallow!" The little girl smiled to me. I was confused by her gesture, she looked… expectant? Of what? Was I going to do a magic trick?

"Now Kyoku, Remember what we talked about."

"Am I dreaming? Because that would make a lot more sense." I said, with my voice completely drained.

The man frowned and so did the woman beside me. But the little girl just smiled and put a finger to her lip.

"Shhhhhh. It's a secret." She winked at me before running out the door screaming and laughing. The man looked surprised but quickly followed after the tiny child, gently closing the door behind him.

"Am I?" I looked up at the woman, mother.

"No."

A knock sounded at the door. Another man, one I had not seen so far walked into the room. He was wearing white clothing.

"So, Mallow Uchiha," He smiled at me, "We just got your x-rays back, It was as we originally thought," The woman's arms grasped around me softly.

"Yuiki, your daughter has a rare form of Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia. Her injuries are minor and her casts can even be removed today but the Retrograde Amnesia has faltered her memories. She will start to remember things, but nothing from her past will be clear again. It's a good thing she is still young, she still has plenty of time to catch back up." The woman besides me began to shake. I looked back up to her, she kept a straight face. I had expected her to cry again. It was surprising to see her calm, though her shaking was obvious evidence that she was not.

"I understand," Was the only words escaping her mouth, as her shaking slowly began to cease.

"You are free to bring her home as soon as you want, we will remove her casts right before you leave," The woman nodded and waited until the doctor had left the room. Why was everyone in and out so quickly? He said three things and he already is leaving. And this woman, her presence confuses me. I want to call her mother. But then, would I feel out of place?

After going through the trouble of removing the casts, we left the hospital, and my family brought me home to a small compound towards the far corner of the village. There was much to see as we passed through the village which I came to acknowledge as 'Konoha' such as food stands, to shops, to bars, and to other compounds that resembled that of our own. We were located in the Uchiha compound, and a lot of the people we passed seem to know us. They kept giving my mother a sympathetic look. All the emotions surrounding me seem to make me more and more angry. And the angrier I got, the more confused I got as well.

When we finally got home, I was shown to a large room. Kyoku ran forward and hopped onto a bed that was positioned under another. The walls were painted a light blue with brown polka dots. The majority of the furniture was a dark brown wood, including the bed. The bedding was striped with different tones of blue.

"Mallow, can you get into your bed okay? I can switch you for a while if you can't get up." I stared back at her. I shrugged. Kyoku jumped out of her bed and crawled up a latter that was located at the end of the bed. I followed her example, and went to the bottom bunk and laid down. I heard someone open the door as my mother peeked inside; she went over to the window, closing the blinds. Right before leaving, she closed the light and shut the door. I just stared up at the blank boards of wood listening to the deafening silence of the house. I sat up, and left the room. I wanted to explore this new place. The halls were dark; I could barely see a thing.

I slowly advanced until I found a door leading to the outside. When I opened it, a sliding noise was made and I paused and listened for anyone may have heard it. When nothing happened, I crawled slowly through the door and gently slide the door closed. The air was cool and crisp. I shivered. It was dark; the only light shining through was from a street light about 50 yards away. The light was behind a few buildings. It looked like fun to try to get to the light and that's what I decided I would do while I was out here. I was walking down the desolate street; to my sides were dark stands that were bustling with light and activity only 4 hours before. I had to travel through a few different alleyways while I made my way to the light. The closer I got, the more excited I was. I don't know what I thought to find, but when I got there, I saw it was a light to some sort of an academy. I walked up to the building and peered into one of the windows. There was a classroom, desks to seat two to three students and a black board at the front. I was interested in the place and turned to look at the scenery around the school. Grass covered most of the yard, and there was one tree in the center. It was still sort of dark, but I could see a figure laying against the tree. I got closer, finding a small boy sleeping under the tree. He had messy blond hair. He was curled up in a ball, holding his legs. He was a peculiar looking boy. I leaned down onto my knees and placed a hand on his forehead, moving his hair out of his face. There were three scratch-like markings on each cheek. His eyes slowly opened to reveal a beautiful cerulean blue and he stared at me tiredly. We looked at each other like that for about 10 seconds until his eyes widened.

"Ah!" He screamed and jumped up and away from me. I tilted my head to the side at his reaction. "Who are you?"

"Me?" He nodded. "I just came out here to explore," He stayed silent for a short pause before finally speaking up.

"My name is Naruto," I stared at him while he stared back expectantly.

"Okay," I said. He sweat dropped.

"This is where you tell me your name." I tilted my head back at him again.

"My what? What do you mean?" I asked.

"Uh. Your name. What people call you? Are you kidding?" He looked confused as stared back at me. "What do you mean, what do I mean?"

"Well, I don't know. Since this afternoon, people have been calling me Mallow. Is that my name?" I said to him. He raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah I guess. What happened this afternoon?"

"I woke up."

I told Naruto about me waking up without memories and the people and how their emotions were angering me. He told me I was lucky to have a family that cared about me. I didn't understand why he was saying that.

"I don't have a family. There is no one waiting for me when I get home." I stayed silent. He seemed sad. But as I thought that, he looked at me a smiled. "But it's okay, because I got to meet you, Mallow!" A small smile appeared on my face as I looked away. "Friends?" I tilted my head to the side.

"Friends?" He giggled.

"You sure lost a lot in there," He said poking me in the forehead with his index finger, I frowned. He noticed. "Friends are the people who care about you. The ones who stick together through the tough times and can depend on each other."

"So like a family?" I said remembering what my mother told me. Naruto gave me a huge smile, and nodded. "Then yeah, we can be friends."

Naruto and I sat at the tree until dawn. A lot of the time was in silence, but every once in while Naruto would spark up a conversation.

"You see this academy here? I am going to be entering it soon. You should too." Naruto told me.

"What kind of academy is it?" I asked him.

"It's a ninja academy! This is where you go to become a Leaf Village Shinobi!" He exclaimed excitedly. "I am going to be the Hokage of Konoha, so I have to start somewhere!" He gave me a toothy grin, and I couldn't help but smile back.

"How do I get in?" I asked.

"I'll talk to Old Man Hokage for you! Just you wait." He looked up to the sky as the sun began to rise. There were voices echoing from the direction of the Uchiha Compound. As I struggled to listen Naruto said something.

"They're calling for you." He was right. I could hear them more clearly now.

"Mallow!" They sounded worried. I didn't want to go to them and they were getting closer.

"I don't want to go." I told Naruto. He looked at me with a small grin.

"Just go to them and I'll meet you here later. Your family is waiting." I nodded to him and stood up.

"Okay. Good bye, Naruto."

"Bye, Mallow."

"Where have you been? I was so worried!" My mother ran to me and hugged me tightly. I made no sound, nor did I hug back. I emotionlessly looked back at her. She frowned looking to me, then looking to Naruto.

"Why are you with him?" She said the word 'him' with a sort of malice.

"His name is Naruto, mother." I didn't like the way she referred to him. I could tell Naruto was upset by the way she referred to him as well.

"Well, I want you to stay away from him."

"No." I said immediately.

"Mallow, I am your mother and you have to obey me. Stay away from that boy, he'd dangerous!" Her authoritative voice took over scaring me. I turned from her and ran. Of course, I was very small and I was easily caught.

"No!" I screamed. My mother struggled to manage me.

"Mallow, calm down!" She yelled. Slowly, I calmed and glared back at her. "Listen to me. We'll talk when we get home." I stared at her for a few seconds and then nodded. Before she pulled me away, I waved at a depressed looking Naruto. He waved back to me and leaned against the tree.

Back at the compound I was scolded for leaving and staying up all night. I guess I am not allowed to explore at night. I don't care. I don't see why I have to listen to them. Of course, I didn't tell them that. Next time, I just need to not be caught. I'll see Naruto again because he's my first friend.

I started to notice that people were giving me much less attention than they were before. Kyoku ignores me now and I've never spoken to my dad before. Mom only ever gets mad at me. I hate this family, there is no way they love me like they said they do. Naruto would have scolded me if he knew I thought that.

It was about noon and I felt like I was going to collapse. I was so tired. Maybe I shouldn't stay up all night anymore. I laid down in my bed and immediately fell asleep.

I could hear the sounds of crickets as I tiredly opened my eyes. I rubbed away the weariness in my eyes and sat up from my bed. I think I was starting to remember some things. My sister seems vaguely more important to me now as I think back to her. Kyoku. Maybe my memories will come back as I sleep. That would be nice.

It was dark again. I had no idea what time it was, I would have to find out. Time. I could vaguely remember a circular object that would flip open and give me the time; in the dining house (A.k.a kitchen). I have no idea how to get into the dining house. I left my room out into the cold hallways connecting out to other rooms and the many other complexes of our family's piece of the compound. I was guided on pure instinct to the location of the dining house, and soon I had the item I was searching for in my hand. I clicked the button on the top, the object flipped open to reveal a dial with two hands that clicked after every time they passed a mark on the perimeter. I couldn't tell what it meant. I knew it was used to tell time, but I couldn't read it. Maybe Naruto could, and I decided to go to the tree in front of the academy to ask him.

It was much easier to find the second time. I already knew which path to take to get to the light. Again, Naruto was leaning against the desolate tree in the middle of the school yard sleeping. I again, went over to him and placed my hand on his forehead, seeing as it was going to be my favorite method of waking him up. He slowly opened his eyes from his sleep and looked up at me. I could see the surprised expression on his face.

"Happy to see me?" I asked him. He smirked a bit, obviously still tired from just haven woken up.

"Why did you come back? Won't you get in trouble with your mother?" He asked me.

"I just need to get back in time. I'll go back two hours before sunrise. Say, do you know what time sunrise is and what time it is now?" I handed him the pocket watch and he looked down at it for a few moments.

"It's 2:15am. The sun rises at about 6am. You have about an hour and a half before you should head back." He said.

"Is being able to read a clock common knowledge?" I asked him, hoping he was just a genius.

"It kind of is. But I can teach you how to tell the time, it's really easy."

Naruto gave a quick explanation of the two different hands, and I learned quickly, trying to get back the information lost. He was right, it was really easy. I was able to read the time as 3:45 by the time we were done. Of course, we snuck in some other off the wall topics in there.

"My favorite thing in the whole world is Ramen. This place called Ichiraku's has this lady that gives me free Ramen every so often. She's real nice." He told me.

"What's ramen?" His face immediately faltered as his mouth dropped.

"Okay, tomorrow at 2:00pm meet me back here. I'll take you to Ichiraku's. Don't worry about money. Old Man Hokage gives me money every week." I nodded, promising Naruto to meet him back at 2:00pm. I ran home and hopped in my bed and quickly fell asleep.

I woke up around noon; my mother was suspicious on why I had slept in so long.

"It's because I was so tired from staying up two nights ago," I tried to explain to her. She just nodded, but kept her suspicions, "I think I am starting to remember some things, can I go into the village to explore to jog my memory?" I lied.

My mother stayed silent in thought for a few moments, "Only if you bring Kyoku."

"Awe, mom. Why?" I whined. I didn't want her coming with, I needed to go see Naruto.

"Then no- You can't go." She said.

"Eh?" I stopped to assess the situation. I guess I could just accidentally lose her somewhere then go see Naruto. I do have about two hours to do so. "Fine, I'll go get her."

Mother nodded and I ran upstairs to ask Kyoku if she wanted to come with me into the village. She was sitting on the top bunk reading a book.

"Hey Kyoku, do you want to come with me into the village?" I asked her. I wonder how I will lose her…

"Naw, I am going to stay here and read." I paused to think about her answer. 'Perfect' I thought. I guess I can leave her here.

"Okay. I guess I'll see you later than." I said awkwardly and left the room. I immediately ran to the academy. Naruto wasn't there yet. I had the pocket watch with me and I checked the time; 1:10pm. I sat against the tree for about 10 minutes until I saw a familiar blond walking towards me. I waved to him and he waved back excitedly.

"Ichiraku's is this way," He said, pointing in the direction he came from. I followed him through the streets of Konoha, watching as people glared at us. It took me a few moments to realize that it wasn't us they were glaring at, it was specifically Naruto. That upset me and I glared back at all the people. I couldn't tell if Naruto noticed as he just kept smiling and running through the village. He was almost difficult to keep up with.

Eventually, we arrived at some small stand. There was both a man and a women behind the counter and they served noodles.

"Hey, Ayame, Old Man, Mallow here doesn't know what Ramen is!" Naruto exclaimed. I felt myself blush with embarrassment.

"Well, then I guess we'll have to teach her," The girl said kindly to him and then looking over to me she said, "Here's a menu," She handed me a card-like paper with the foreign symbols, "You can have whatever you like since it's your first time here." She smiled again. I stared down at the 'menu' and a look of confusion crossed my face. I am pretty sure Naruto guessed what was going on.

"Did you forget how to read too?" Naruto asked me quietly. I paused for a few moments before nodding; my face completely flushed. "Well since have lacked memories, knowing what's on the menu won't help you anyways. We'll just have to come here real often so you can try everything." I had a small smile on my face when he said this. "We'll both have miso ramen please,"

"Coming right up!" The Old Man said, later I found out his name was Teuchi. I prefer to call him Teuchi.

"I am going to guess I have to teach you how to use chopsticks." He didn't even wait for my reaction, he just assumed now that I didn't know. Regardless, he pulled out two packages from a box in front of us and handed me one of them to me. "Copy me," he said. He tore off the top part of the package and slit out two sticks that were stuck together. I easily copied. Holding them from the bottom, he pulled the chop sticks apart. Now I was originally hoping that was the hard part. How are you supposed to eat with sticks? I don't feel like explaining to you how difficult it was learning to use chop sticks, just know that it was and that I don't like them. But there is one thing I did realize.

"Ramen is the greatest thing in the world." I said in between bites of my Miso Ramen. I swear there were hearts in my eyes it was so good. It was then that I realized the Naruto had already eaten three bowls when I had only taken about 10 bites. By the time I had finished all my Ramen and slurped up the access liquids, Naruto had eaten 10 bowls. He sat back against his chair, his hands on his stomach.

"Ugh…" He groaned causing me to giggle. He pulled out a frog-shaped bag and opened it, pulling out some coins and handing them to Ayame who gladly pocketed said money. I pulled out my pocket watch (hah, she claimed it already) and checked the time; 3:45pm.

"Someone has bound to have found out I left without permission by now. I should be going Naruto." I told him, still looking at the pocket watch.

"You shouldn't leave without permission," Ayame said from behind the counter.

"Naw, my mother doesn't want me seeing Naruto and her reasons are not valid so I have to sneak out to see him. Plus, he's my only friend. I have to hold onto that." I smiled at Naruto and he of course, smiled back, "See you tomorrow Naruto,"

"When?" He asked before I walked away.

"I don't know, will you be at the tree?"

"Yeah," He replied.

"See you sometime tonight then, when I can get out," We said our last good byes before I ran home.

No one had noticed I was gone. Mother assumed I didn't go at all.

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