Faded From Memory

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Chapter 1: Meeting the Beast

Now twelve years since the event as Naruto was fading away from his family and the entire village he met someone who he befriended a few years ago before he was fully forgotten.

Flashback

Naruto was walking down a forest path however the forest had a deep fog surrounded the forest and it was quite thick and hard to see through but still easily visible for him. Naruto would have wondered how he got here from sleeping in his room. The Mindscape, it was a reasonable explanation unless he sleepwalked into a forest early in the morning he was hoping it was the mindscape.

Naruto kept walking down the cold forest path until he stopped at the seeming end of the current path. He could go off the path he looked ahead when he saw two large red slitted eyes looking at him before slightly narrowing.

"So my container visits me… I have to admit I was expecting you to appear later" The owner of the two large eyes said.

"H-hello Kyuubi" Naruto said shyly as he was unsure if the Kyuubi would lash out and attack him.

"Relax brat" The Kyuubi said as it looked at its container. "I have to say at least it isn't a sewer, because that would be horrible. A bit gloomy though"

"S-so you're not going to attack?"

"No, if you die I die due to the seal the Shinigami placed on you and your twin. I rather not go through a useless death"

"To be honest I thought you would be like 'Free me' and 'I will tear your soul apart'" Naruto said the large fox in front of him.

"Maybe the other me, we are split in half making our ideology, thoughts, feelings on the matter all that stuff" The nine tailed fox said as the fog around his head disappeared showing the fox's face. The Kyuubi looked like everyone knew but instead of having red-orange fur this Kyuubi had dark brown fur.

"Which half are you?"

"I am the Yin half of my former self, but now have you noticed the strange feeling in the air?" Yin Kyuubi said as he looked at his container.

"I never really noticed until recently, it's hard to describe what it is like" Naruto told the Bijuu for some reason he felt comfortable with the beast.

"Well it seems the whole village, is in a genjutsu"

"A genjutsu? But wouldn't others notice?"

"Usually yes but it seems to be a slow acting genjutsu, meaning that whoever did it had a plan to get you for some reason and before you ask if someone can dispel it… it seems to be linked to whomever casted the genjutsu"

"But why target me?"

"It was probably a random chance, either way it seems the genjutsu seems to be reaching a point where people would notice you again but not as who you were" Kyuubi said as Naruto took in the information. Naruto and the Kyuubi talked to each for a while and Naruto gave said Bijuu freedom in the cold fog filled forest before he left.

Flashback End

After Naruto and the Kyuubi became friends in a sense Naruto learnt that the Kyuubi's name is Kurama. Naruto learnt that he was left out of his own house and he had to sneak into his own house to retrieve his own stuff luckily his blood was accepted into the compound.

After he cleaned out his own room he was glad that he was living with a friend after telling her his story. His cover story until the genjutsu was lifted of course. Naruto took his scroll to the Uchiha compound where he walked into freely and passed Sayuri Uchiha as she smiled at him and vice versa.

During the academy years Naruto had to go by his mother's last name Uzumaki. He befriended Sayuri Uchiha during this time, they spared together and since the massacre he was the only one she would interact with she even gave him a room to stay in the compound.

Another thing when he put down his last name as Uzumaki was his parents luckily for him Kurama already created some fake documents, well create as in letting Naruto make them with Kurama's words and using a henged shadow clone to pose as a family luckily enough the male Kurama used was someone Kushina met years ago but in reality was dead years ago.

When his mother and father asked him his origins he replied that his parents where moving to the village after hearing another Uzumaki and he showed a picture with a long haired blond woman but surprisingly had three whisker marks on each cheek with blue eyes and a red haired male that would be a Uzumaki as he had red hair and also blue eyes with a Uzushio headband around his neck. The woman was sitting down holding a small baby and the man was behind her, bending down slightly.

Kushina surprised to see another Uzumaki even though it was her own son offered him to live with them but he turned them down as his friend needed him more in her current state. When asked about clan jutsu and others Naruto replied with his father had a scroll that Naruto had inherited.

Naruto continued to train until in his clan techniques he founded interesting along with his notes, he started to work on improving one of the Uzumaki clan's best known jutsu the Kongo Fusa (Adamantine Sealing Chains).

At a much later time Naruto unpacked his things and surprisingly he put the fake family photo on the desk, even though it was fake it brought a sense of family to the whiskered blond. Lying on the soft warm bed moving over closer to the wall knowing it was going to be another one of those nights as he heard footsteps coming from Sayuri's room towards his and entering his room making her way to the bed.

Her long black hair that looked like her mother's and with red teary onyx eyes with tears rolling down her face. Sayuri said nothing as Naruto looked at her.

"…Come here… lay down…" he said softly to the last female Uchiha as she got into the same bed and immediately cuddled with him. This happened often the trauma still fresh but died down a lot, when she cried at the funeral Naruto hugged her and she wouldn't admit it but it was a warm embrace like her mother and gave of this calming aura, but she swore to get revenge as a avenger.

Sayuri cried a little longer then fell asleep with Naruto holding onto her. His first real friend, he would help her no matter what, those were his words and she accepted them wholeheartedly.