I have so many unfinished Naruto story... yet here I am, making another one. I know, I know...

Sigh... Blame the plot bunnies!

DISCLAIMER: don't own Naruto.

A/n: Voidy neesan, saya harp nee-san berkenan untuk membaca cerita dari saya untuk nee-san ini... maaf klo mngkin nee-san nggak begitu suka Naruto, tpi hanya ini yang dapat saya buat... Hiks...

A pair of bright blue eyes slowly opened. Those eyes blinked for a while, adjusting to the bright light. The owner of those eyes suddenly found himself staring at the blueness of the sky and the yellow-colored sun.

Groaning, he noticed the light began to hurt his eyes, so he closed them up again and raised his arm to shield himself from the bright, blinding light. He felt his whole body ache, for reason he himself couldn't remember. His brain seemed to be in the middle of adjusting itself, since he can't even remember how he ended up unconscious. He can't even bring himself to worry whether he's in Konoha or not.

"Oi, you alright?" he heard a familiar voice spoke up in concern. It felt familiar in his ears, but he himself can't bring himself to know who exactly owned such voice. But, it did sound very familiar.

"Seriously, answer me if you can hear me," that voice said again. He then answered the voice with a groan as he slowly forced himself to look for the speaker.

He forced himself to open his heavy-lidded eyes and get his eyes adjusted with the bright light again. After a while, he found himself staring at the same blue and yellow again.

"Where… am I?" he tried to ask, but he heard a different sound came out from his throat instead. His voice sounded so hoarse to himself, like he never spoke, or drink, for days.

"You've woken up! That's a good thing to know," he heard that voice said again before he heart rustling sound beside him. He wondered if someone had found him unconscious and waited until he woke up. He then tried to move his spine to a sitting position. He then felt a hand helped him to sit.

He then noticed how soft the ground where he laid on. It was bouncy and comfortable, almost like a bed. When a hand offered him a glass of water, he took it gratefully before he gulped them all in one gulp.

"Thank you," he said as he turned to his side to see his savior as his savior gave him another glass of water.

He saw a guy, around his age, with spiky yellow hair and sky-blue eyes. His face looked so much like himself, like a mirror reflection.

'Wow, this guy looked just like me,' he thought absently as he gulped down the water he had in his palms.

It was after he let out a sigh of content when he finished the drink that he really noticed it. Quicker than anything, his neck turned towards his look-alike and he stared at his carbon copy, taking everything in, before he jumped back.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!"

雨の音楽
(Music of the Rain
by Sapphire09

"Call it curiosity, if you like."

STAGE I
A New World

Namikaze Naruto was a normal high school student with average grades and few problems of his own. Like all student in his age, he only wished to graduate, get into decent college, have a decent job, and grow old peacefully.

Never once he ever thought of seeing a guy, whose look is so similar with his own, falling from the sky and landed right in front of him in his way towards home.

Out of curiosity and pity, he took the guy to his house and treated the guy's wounds, which he noticed was healing at admirable rate. He didn't call out an ambulance, or even the police out of instinct, and also because he knew that unless he made up a story, no one could actually believe that he found a guy who fell from the sky, and still alive.

His extremely unusual healing rate also forbade him to take him to hospital, as they will probably see nothing at all, not even scars.

It took the guy four hours to finally wake up. He was thankful for the fact that it was a Saturday night, and he had no cram school at the moment, so he wouldn't need to worry about staying late. Who knew what the guy will do if he found himself in a stranger's room alone?

When the guy woke up, he never would've thought that a guy who has been unconscious for four hours, perhaps even longer, could scream as loud as he did.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!"

Maybe seeing a guy with the same face as yourself as soon as you woke up wasn't a much better idea either.

"Isn't that supposed to be my line?" Naruto retorted in a much lesser volume than his 'guest'.

The guy who fallen out from the sky turned his head left and right, taking the new sight of into his brain.

"I… where… what…," the guy trailed off in confusion. Naruto was about to explain, but then the guy suddenly punched him in the face.

"OW! What was that for!" he said angrily as he rubbed his nose in pain. 'Damn… I think he broke my nose… Ouch….'

"You're… not my Kagebunshin (Shadow Clone)?" his guest muttered, more with confusion rather than disbelief.

What the hell is a Kagebunshin anyway?

"I don't know what a Kagebunshin is, but I don't think so," Naruto answered rather calmly, even though he was annoyed. But then, the guy suddenly formed something with his hand, concentrated, and yelled out "Kai (Release)!"

Nothing happens. Figures. What did he expect?

"What are you doing?" Naruto asked as the guy he found didn't move his hands and stayed in that position. He then yelled "Kai!" again and again, with much more concentration, if the wrinkles by his forehead were any indication.

Naruto decided that this guy may have his look, but he's totally a lunatic.

"…Done?" Naruto asked when he noticed the guy stopped his 'Kai' yelling and deformed the—whatever he called that finger-forming thing—and flexed his fingers.

"…nothing happened….?" Naruto heard the guy muttered, with disbelief and confusion.

'What did you expect, fool? For the scenery suddenly melted in front of you?' was what Naruto wanted to say, especially after what he did to his nose, but decided to let it slide, especially when he noticed the pure confusion and disbelief on his look-alike's face. He felt some kind of pity…

Naruto let out a loud sigh and stood up from his position, taking the look-alike's attention to him.

"Find me after you're done doing…whatever you wanted to do. I'll be making dinner downstairs," he said before he turned away and leave the room, leaving his look-alike alone at his bed.

After he went down the stairs, he went to his first-aid kit box in the drawer next to his stairs and took a band-aid from the box. His throbbing nose really needs it. After that, he moved to the kitchen.

When he arrived at the kitchen, he looked at what he has inside his fridge and cupboards. He noticed that he was out of everything but a few cup of instant ramen.

'…I guess I'll have to go shopping tomorrow then. I hope he doesn't mind cup noodles,' he thought as he took two cups of instant noodles from his cupboard and fill his kettle with water. As he waited for the water to boil, he decided to prepare the cup noodles, which were standing on top of his counter.

Footsteps could be heard not long after Naruto finished making dinner before his look-alike appeared from the doorway of his kitchen. His look-alike still looked confused, but he also seemed ready to listen whatever explanation Naruto has, if his eyes were any indication.

Naruto glanced to him for a minute, acknowledging his presence, before he glanced away to his front and took the cups in front of him before bringing them to the table. He motioned his look-alike to take a seat on one of the available seat as he took his own. He grabbed one of the cup noodles and pulled it near him, before he opened the lid to see that his share was cooked and ready to eat.

Naruto's look-alike glared at him before he took a seat right in front of him and grabbed the other cup. He looked at it a bit warily before he, too, opened the lid.

"I hope you don't mind cup noodles," Naruto said between slurps. His look-alike glanced at him before he took the chopsticks and took the first bite hesitantly. After the first bite, Naruto's look-alike gradually ate in a normal speed. Both of them ate in silence and only their slurps could be heard, echoing inside the silent house.

When Naruto finished, he noticed that his look-alike also finished eating, as the cup in front of him was bare. It seemed that his guest finished his dinner quite faster than Naruto. So, without further question, he took both cups and threw them out in the trash bin inside his kitchen.

"Are you still hungry?" Naruto asked his guest, who stood up from his seat. His eyes, Naruto noticed, still confused and wary, yet determined. Naruto saw his lips parted and spoke with voice that he knew so well. It seemed that they're not only physically similar, but their voices are also alike.

"Who are you?"

Uzumaki Naruto decided that things hadn't been going well for him, especially when he found himself in a stranger's room and noticed that this stranger also physically similar to himself. That stranger wasn't a Kagebunshin, or a Genkaku (Illusion), he confirmed it himself. Added to that, he can't bring himself to remember what happened before he blacked out. He was confused, frustrated, and really lost.

He was taken out of his musings when he heard a loud sigh. He then glanced towards the… stranger, who seemed to be the one who let out that loud sigh.

"Find me after you're done doing…whatever you wanted to do. I'll be making dinner downstairs," the stranger said before he turned away and leave the room, leaving Naruto to stare at his retreating back in surprise. After the stranger left from his eyesight, Naruto noticed how silent the surrounding was. Added to that, he noticed how… alien the room was for him. Sure, the furniture weren't generally different, but he couldn't help but to feel how the room wasn't like anything he had ever seen before. Everything seemed too… foreign. It made him feel frightened and insecure.

He knew he wasn't in Konoha, the thought had crossed his mind when had seen the stranger. However, if he wasn't in Konoha, he could still search his way back home.

What he was afraid of that if he wasn't even in the Elemental Country anymore. From what he noticed from the stranger, the outfit that he wore was one he never seen before. Ninja or civilian, he knew he had never seen the kind of clothing the stranger wore in any country at all, no matter how bad his memory is.

He had never been more frightened.

He couldn't even remember what had happened. Everything was blanked. All he could remember that he was supposed to return to Konoha since he finished a mission. His last memory was when he camped for the night with his team.

'But… My teammates… Who were they? What mission did I have?'

Everything was a white sheet in his head. He tried his hardest to remember, but still to no avail. All he got was an extreme headache.

'Kuso…,' he cursed in his head. "What the hell happened to me?" he muttered silently.

Realizing that he would get nowhere at all, he decided to follow the stranger out. Maybe after filling his demanding stomach, he would remember something, he thought. So, he stepped outside and carefully descends the stairs warily. Slowly, he went to find the stranger, looking from one room to the other. He passed a room which seemed to be the family room, and then a small room which he guessed as a toilet, before he finally found the stranger in—he guessed—the kitchen. He saw him to be boiling something—water, maybe—and he noticed a couple of cup noodles nearby. The stranger then poured the boiled water into the cups.

After he was done, the stranger glanced to where Naruto was standing with skeptical eyes. They had a staring contest for a few seconds before the stranger broke their eye contact in favor of taking the cup noodles in his hands. The stranger then motioned him to the dining table, but he didn't move until the stranger himself sat down.

Naruto took the seat right across the stranger before he took the offered cup. He studied the cup warily, trying to find some kind of a trap, yet found none. He slowly opened the lid, as if he expected the cup to explode in any second.

"I hope you don't mind cup noodles," the stranger said between slurps. Naruto glanced up from his cup before he took the chopsticks and took the first bite hesitantly, expecting the food to be poisoned. After the first bite, the first thing Naruto realized was the fact that the noodles are poison-free, before he noticed how the noodles tasted a bit like ramen he loved so much, so he gradually ate faster. Before he knew it, he ate everything in the cup.

'It's not bad, I guess,' Naruto thought to himself. After a few seconds of silence, he then noticed that the house is so silent, too silent in fact. The only sound he could hear was the slurping sound that came from the stranger.

As he pretended to continue eating, Naruto silently observed the stranger in front of him. Physically, they could pass as twins. The difference between them is only the marks on their cheeks. Naruto's marks looked more defined and black in color, but the marks on the stranger's cheeks looked more like scars than birthmarks, especially since the marks looked pinkish in color, almost blended with his skin. Their hairstyles were also different. If Naruto's hair was wild and spiked in every direction, the stranger's hair looked longer and more tamed, also neater, even if spiky. He even had his bangs parted from the left side and his bangs almost covered his right eye. The tip almost reached his lower eyelid.

Other than hairstyles and the marks, everything looked just the same.

Naruto noticed that the stranger will be done eating soon, so he twiddled his chopsticks around and observed the kitchen he's in. The kitchen is generally spacious, enough for a stove, a fridge, cabinets, cupboards, counters with a dishwasher and sink. Not to forget a square dining table 1.8m in width and four chairs around the table. The kitchen itself was painted in pastel and cream color, with white ceramic flooring. The room, in Naruto's mind, had a soft and warm atmosphere, yet weird and felt as if something was out of place. He can't find out why.

Naruto stopped his observation when he found a hand reached for his empty cup, only to notice that it's the stranger's hand. He watched the stranger turned and throw both of his and his own cups to the trash bin just right on the left side of the fridge. At the same time, Naruto stood up.

"Are you still hungry?" the stranger asked innocently. Naruto glared at the stranger, more in annoyance than fury. He needed some answers and he needed it soon! This stranger, he thought, might be the key for him to have his memories back. He needed to know what happened before he blacked out, where he was, how he got here, when did the stranger found him, and more importantly…

"Who are you?"

The question was filled with demand rather than curiosity. He needed to know who this stranger is and how can he had the same face as him. He wasn't a bunshin (clone), or a Genkaku, so he just has to know, who is he?

The stranger stared at him with a bit of surprise, he saw. But then, his sharpened ears caught the stranger sigh and muttered out in a very low voice.

"Mendokusai (Troublesome)…."

Naruto frowned, but kept his mouth shut and waited for the stranger to answer his question. His patience wasn't wasted since the stranger finally answered in a lazy tone.

"Do you know that it is common courtesy to give your name first before asking for another's?"

That riled him up. However, he then tried to control his anger and introduced himself, although grudgingly.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto," he answered not too nicely. He noticed the stranger raised his eyebrows then, but he didn't question him. He just stared the stranger, expecting him to answer him, soon. It wasn't after the stranger sighed again that he finally introduced himself.

"Ore wa Namikaze Naruto, ichi juu nana sai desu. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu (I'm Namikaze Naruto, seventeen years old. Nice to meet you)," he said flatly—bordering on lazily, but still politely.

Naruto noticed the same name and the familiar surname, so he responded by scrunching his eyebrows together and letting his lips formed a frown. The stranger seemed to notice it, if his slight fidget means anything.

"You know…," the stranger started as he took a seat at his previous spot across him and folded both of his arms on the table in between them, before lifting one arm and use it to support his chin as he tilted his head to one side, "…This is weird for me as it is weird for you. To see someone with your appearance isn't something that happens every day, no? Added to that, it seems even our names are similar, if not same."

Naruto hesitated to say anything, so he kept his mouth shut. After a few moments of silence, the stranger sighed again before he scratched his head—in frustration, it seemed—and leaned forward.

"If you don't mind me asking, what happened before you blacked out? I could tell that you—"

"The last thing I remembered was a forest," Naruto said in the end, cutting the previous' words. The other 'Naruto' looked surprised before he leaned backward, to the back of his chair.

"We were on our way to our home. It was already night time, so I and my teammates decided to stop for the night. That was all that I remembered," Naruto said again, his eyes trained on the table. His tone was trained to be firm.

Never let your guard down, never let your voice falter in any situation, never show your discomfort, never beg, never let anyone see your suffering, and never give up, were his motto he held throughout his difficult years.

Ever since long ago, he learned that showing his weakness won't do him any good.

"Hmm?" the other hummed, seemingly interested. Naruto then glanced to his look-alike upon hearing him humming. He found him scrunching his eyebrows together. He seemed to be in deep thought.

"What's wrong?" Naruto asked. The other then glanced up to him, uncertainty etched on the look of his face.

"You said you were in a forest, right?" he asked, that uncertain look still plastered on his face.

"Yeah, that's right."

The other frowned then before he glanced down again and his fingers traced his jaw line absently, looking as if he tried to figure out something difficult.

"That's weird… Had you said bridge or even airplane, I wouldn't be too surprised. But… forest?" he muttered under his breath. "It's not like I hadn't anticipated it, but still…"

Naruto, who heard him muttering, asked in curiosity, "What is it?"

The other shook his head, as if clearing his thoughts, before he finally looked at Naruto again.

"It's impossible for you to end up where you end up unless someone did something to you, do you know what I mean?"

Naruto was confused, before the meaning of that sentence sank in.

"Why? Where did I end up, anyway?" Naruto asked impatiently. Had someone tried to harm him? Why? How? What happened to his teammates then? Is he really that far from home?

The other 'Naruto' sighed again then, exasperated.

"That I don't know. But, if the last memory you had was in the forest, then it is impossible for you to end up there without anyone's help, unless you had some temporary memory loss. I can take you to where I found you so you'll understand if you want. Just tell me when," he offered. Without hesitation, Naruto asked him to bring him now.

"You sure? It's already night time now. You won't be able to see clearly," the other 'Naruto' warned. However, Naruto refused to back down. He needed to know where the hell he is now. The sooner he got clues, the better.

He missed Konoha already.

In the end, the other Naruto gave in and brought Naruto to where he found him. They went to a bridge that was located on a big river, around 15 kilometers from the other Naruto's house. It was dark, so they can't see the river clearly, but the street lamp and the moon gave them enough light to see the bridge.

There was no forest nearby. Only rows of street lamps, roads, and houses. Not even a trace of what he could call 'home'. There was nothing he saw so far seemed familiar. Even in the distance, all he could see were buildings with height almost reached the sky.

"I found you when I got back from school this afternoon," he explained, "I was walking along that bridge before I saw something fell into the water from the corner of my eyes. When I checked it out, turned out it was a human. There wasn't anyone but me then, so I panicked and, before I knew it, dragged you out of the water. When I came to my senses, I noticed how your look was so similar to mine. To say I was surprised would be an understatement. The thought of calling an ambulance and, importantly, the police crossed my mind."

"Why didn't you then?" Naruto asked out of curiosity. Perhaps, from his story, he could figure something out about this guy.

The other shrugged, lifting both of his shoulders.

"Call it curiosity, if you like. I figured that our look just too much alike, it'll be very troublesome if they ask anything, especially if they thought we were related. So, I decided to bring you to my house instead. Besides, like I said, it's not every day you can see someone with the same look, especially a stranger," he answered.

Naruto then nodded in acknowledgement before he studied the bridge again. With open air and river beneath, it did seem impossible that he was in a forest before. Added to that, falling? From where did he fell? The sky? That sounded even more impossible.

But then… how did he end up in here?

Seeing the scenery, the people, and the things around him, from lamp-post to the style of the houses, he realized he may be too far from home. He doubted he was in any of the Elemental Nations anymore.

He wasn't even sure that this was his world.

~|TO BE CONTINUED|~

I don't know if this kind of story had been made before, but I honestly don't care much... Never read any like this before, so yeah... I'll just assume...

Anyways, tell me if I should continue... I already finished the next chapter, but I kinda wanted to finish up until chapter 4 first if this story is well in demand...

Well... Reviews is really appreciated.