Well First Chapter of a new fic, which I intend to finish, or get to a point where I can finish it without it having loads of loose ends. Please enjoy the first chapter of Shattered Memories.

Chapter 1, Return

On the road just outside of Konoha, Naruto was making his way back to Konoha after his five year long training trip with Jiraya. On the outside he was excited to be home; however he couldn't help but feel slightly depressed that he was entering Konoha alone. In fact that was how it had been for just over a year now, Jiraya had died in one of their many fights with the Akatsuki or Orochimaru. Tsunade had asked him to return, but Naruto had decided to finish his training, in part wanting to fulfil his master's, as well as his own, wish of him becoming the strongest ninja. Strangely he hadn't run into the Akatsuki as much since then, but shrugged it off as just being lucky.

Standing just outside the gates, Naruto took a deep breath, and made the final few steps into the Village which had once been his home for so long. It still was his home, but it looked and felt so different, such as the fifth face on Hokage Monument, and quite a few new buildings. He looked towards the Hokage tower and smiled, and followed by a gust of wind he was off to 'report in', after so many years away.

As he made his way across the rooftops of the village which had been his home all those years ago, he couldn't help but wonder how everyone else had changed. He himself had grown up a lot, standing tall at about 6ft 3. He had also let his hair grow slightly longer than it used to be, reaching the bottom of his neck at the back. Slight stubble also covered his jaw, hiding his whisker marks slightly behind the blond fuzz.

Stopping a few blocks away from the Hokage Tower, he couldn't help but notice that nobody had greeted him yet, or even acknowledged him at that. Even if he was running on top of the buildings, people would still notice him and from time to time say hello, but he shrugged it off, he had been away for five years.

Looking down at the street, he saw Sakura in the park outside the Hokage Tower, probably going to speak with the Hokage, and decided to drop down from the rooftops. "Hey Sakura-chan" He yelled, running after the pink haired Kunoichi, causing her to turn around. "Wait up!" he shouted, causing a look of confusion to come across her face.

"Excuse me, but do I know you?" She asked, now being Narutos turn to look confused, causing him to stumble slightly as he stopped in front of her.

"Of course you do, it's me Naruto" He explained as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, scratching the back of his head at the slight awkwardness of the reunion.

At this Sakura seemed to try and remember something but couldn't, "Sorry, but I don't know a Naruto. You must have the wrong person" she stated matter-of-factly before turning around and continuing in the direction she was headed before.

Naruto stood there, put down slightly that one of his best friends didn't even recognise him, and was about to give chase when 4 ANBU surrounded him, blocking him in all Directions.

"What's going on?" Naruto asked the masked shinobi directly in front of him.

"We're here to take you into custody" the shinobi wearing a tiger mask said, before speaking into his radio. "We have the unknown shinobi surrounded, about to take him in for interrogation" before turning back to Naruto and entering a Taijutsu stance. "You can go quietly or we will take you by force."

At this Naruto was at a loss for words. First Sakura didn't recognise him, and now the ANBU were her to take him in, claiming him to be an unknown Shinobi. After a few second of shock, he decided he wouldn't go without a fight, and entered a low fighting stance giving a slight smirk. He would show these ANBU that won't go down without a fight and maybe knock some sense into them for thinking he was a threat to the village.

All four ANBU rushed him at the same time, but the one in front was milliseconds ahead, unfortunately. Naruto sent chakra to his fist before running forwards and delivering a powerful blow to the oncoming shinobi's gut, propelling him several feet into the air. Keeping his momentum, he made a few hand seals, before turning and putting his hands to the floor. "Doton Earth Wall Jutsu" He shouted, causing a wall of stone to rise between him and the other three ANBU.

This gave him a couple of seconds, as one of the ANBU jumped over the Wall before a stream of fire from his mouth flew towards Naruto. "Suiton Raging Torrent Jutsu", Naruto shouted after a few quick seals, causing a torrent of water to fire from his mouth, dousing the oncoming flames. He quickly followed up with his own fire style. "Katon Demon Fire Jutsu" He shouted, causing a torrent of fire several times larger to fire towards the ANBU causing him to turn mid air to avoid being burnt but the powerful fire technique.

Taking advantage of the ninja's lack of balance after dodging the fire attack, Naruto tried to follow up with a kick to the chest, but was caught by one of the other who attempted a punch to his head. Naruto however saw it coming, and in a gust of wind appeared behind the ANBU and forced a weak Rasengan into his back, launching him in a spiral towards the ground, creating a small crater. 'Two more to go' Naruto thought to himself.

The second shinobi had managed to regain his balance, and jumped back away from Naruto, throwing ten Kunai at him, followed shortly by 8 shuriken from another direction, thrown by the last ANBU. Sliding his own Kunai out of his sleeve, he easily deflected all eighteen projectiles before throwing four of his own Kunai at each of the elite Ninja.

As expected, all of the Kunai were deflected by the two shinobi, but Naruto used the couple of seconds of distraction to follow up with another technique. After a few short hand seals, "Raiton Denko Sekka" he shouted, falling to the floor and placing his left hand on the ground, causing lightning to spread across the floor to the second ANBU who had landed next to the wall. The ninja jumped to the side to avoid the attack, but dodged too late and was electrocuted by the Lightening attack, causing him to go down onto one knee.

"Fuuton Rasengan" Naruto shouted, pushing the powerful wind technique into the floor a meter or so away from the Konoha ninja. Even thought the attack landed a few feet away from him, he was still pushed back twenty or thirty feet back, causing him to fall unconscious as his head hit the floor. When the powerful wind technique finished, Naruto was stood in a deep crater, stretching 16 feet in diameter.

Looking up, Naruto looked over to where the fourth ANBU was still stood, unsure if he should attack or not. However once the dust in the air settled, allowing him to see around thirty ninja, a dozen or so being ANBU or Jounin, he decided to jump back and join their ranks, planning on how they should take their 'enemy' down.

This made Naruto sigh, 'seems I'll have to take it up a notch' he thought to himself and his tenant whilst closing his eyes. After a couple of seconds he opened them again, revealing red fox like eyes and after a few more moments his fingernails extended into claws and the whisker marks hidden beneath his stubble became more defined and stood out from his face. What worried the Konoha shinobi was not this however; it was the red chakra coming out of his back forming into what looked like three tails. After a matter of seconds, the middle tail started to solidify, leaving a four foot long fox tail, flanked on either side by two red Chakra tails.

Naruto got into a low crouch, ready for an intense fight, but was stopped when he heard someone calling. "Naruto, stop" Shouted Kakashi, followed by Kurenai and the rest of team eight. Hearing this, his two chakra tails slowly disappeared, and his face and hands returned to normal, leaving only the solid fox tail.

"Finally, someone who recognises me" He shouted as the Kakashi, Kurenai, Hinata, Shino and Kiba land next to him, blocking his advance on the Ninja surrounding him. "What the hell is going on?" He continued, "First nobody recognises me, then I'm attacked" he yelled at nobody in particular.

"N-Naruto-kun…erm… The Akats…" Hinata started, but was unable to finish before Kiba took over in explaining.

"The Akatsuki did something, and now nobody in the village remembers you." Kiba explained, looking back at Naruto as if he thought he might be a threat.

"Then why do you remember me then?" Naruto asked, totally confused, not knowing what the Akatsuki could have done to make an entire village forget somebody.

"Why? Because we were away on a mission along with teams Gai and Asuma" Shino said, Naruto was about to question further but was stopped before he could start.

"Not now Naruto, we can explain it more later on, but first we should go see the Hokage and try to sort this mess out" Kakashi said, before turning to the rest of the ninja and telling them it was a false alarm. "You can also explain what happened here whilst we're at it."

After a few minutes the rest of the Ninja dispersed, if slowly at first, leaving Naruto and the other five Ninja. Naruto looked at the others and saw a hint of fear in their eyes, and was disheartened slightly that the ones who he spent his childhood with would look at him like that. "Why are you looking at me like that?" he asked, to which everyone pointed at the extra appendage protruding from his back.

Looking behind him, he noticed his tail was still there and quickly made it dissolve into Red Chakra, and absorbing it into his body. Turning around to face the rest of the ninja, he gave one of his trademark grins before suggesting that they should get going.

Once they made the short walk to the Hokage's office, the others entered first to explain what was going on to Tsunade. After a minute or so Naruto was called in "Hey Granny Tsunade" he shouted, like he always did before he left. It was when he was met with Tsunade's stern face that he realised she had also forgotten him as well, "I mean, Hokage-sama" he corrected in hope that he wouldn't get attacked by the short tempered Sannin.

"I am told that you are Naruto Uzumaki, one of our ninja who left on a training trip five years ago" She stated, almost as if it were a question as to whether it was true.

"erm…Yeah" Naruto answered, not wanting to anger the blond Hokage any further so decided that he would just agree and not explain any further.

"Also that you are the Kyuubi's Jinchuuriki, and that the Akatsuki are after you because of it" she continued, not really caring if he gave any input or not. Suddenly she stood, slamming her fists into the desk, cracking it. "Are you aware that by being here you are putting the entire village at risk" She shouted across the room, startling Naruto and the rest of the ninja in the room.

"I know that, but in one of my encounters with the Akatsuki, I leaned that the village is already in danger" Naruto explained, calming the angry Tsunade, if only slightly.

"Okay, explain" she demanded clenching her teeth, still putting enough pressure on the desk with her fists to make it creak every few seconds.

Naruto flinched slightly at the way she asked him to explain. "I found out that to extract the Kyuubi, something is needed before it will work. That something is apparently hidden in the Uchiha compound, meaning that they will probably attack Konoha before trying to take me again"

At this Kakashi stepped forward "How did you find this out?" He asked, not sure whether he should trust Naruto if he has been dealing with the Akatsuki, the same people who wiped every trace of Naruto from the Village.

"It turned out that Itachi is working undercover in the Akatsuki to prevent their plans, and told me to warn Konoha that they were in danger, this was just over two weeks ago" Naruto finished, finally gaining some respite from all of the interrogation on the Akatsuki.

"Anyway Naruto, it seems you've gotten a lot stronger in the past five years or so, taking out three ANBU that easily" Kakashi complimented, "But I want to know something" he started.

"Oh yeah?" Naruto asked, whilst Tsunade sat, slightly shocked that this brat could take out three of Konoha's best Ninja.

"How was it that you could use all five elements so easily? Most people can only use 1 and people with a Kekkei Genkai can usually use two or three" Kakashi asked, piquing the interest of everyone else in the room.

"What? He can use all five elements?" Tsunade asked in total disbelief at how strong this kid was. If he really was an ally of the leaf, this could be very beneficial.

"Uh-huh, I can even combine them… sometimes" he shrugged, "Something to do with Kurama's chakra mixing with my own creating a new bloodline limit" he explained as if it was simple.

"Kurama?" Tsunade asked, to which Naruto explained was the Kyuubi's real name, and that the Kyuubi no Kitsune was just a title he had as one of the Biju.

"Naruto Uzumaki, I would like to test your skills to decide what rank we should give you. I will give you until tomorrow morning at 10:00 to prepare." She decided that it would be best to test his skill to see just how strong he really was.

"Okay" Naruto said, grinning; now he could show everyone what he was really made of. "Whats the test going to be" he asked, excited at the prospect of showing off to everyone.

Tsunade thought for a couple of minutes before deciding on the best course of action for this test. "You will be tested by sparring, but considering you took out three ANBU with relative ease, I have decided that your opponents will be Kakashi, Neji Hyuuga, Shikamaru Nara, Rock Lee and…" She had to think for a while for the last opponent.

"Well, who's it gonna be" he asked, anxious to see who the next opponent was going to be considering he would already be fighting four other strong opponents.

Slightly apprehensive about this last opponent seeing how he had a sketchy background and his own skills weren't entirely tested, but decided it would be a good test of both Ninjas skills.

"…and Sasuke Uchiha"

Dun-Dun-Dunnnnn, Sasuke's back. How will Naruto react, who knows? Well….. I do. How did the Akatsuki wipe Konoha's memory? Why? Find out next chapter, or at least why they did it. Anyway I hope to write longer chapters, but this was just an intro, plus I ended it at I reasonable point. Please tell me what you think. Love it? Hate it? Thanks for reading.