Wisdom of Chance: An Evil Awakens: Preface#2
A Forgotten Life, A Miscalculation, and A Mission!
For the sake of Forgetting
~ Forenote ~
Naruto has lost all his memories and will recover them and start the actual challenge when he meets Tsunade in the next chapter.
This is a Spin off of my story Wisdom of Chance. The first three chapters are going to be the same so if you have read them skip to #4 That is when the change begins.
Today was a sad day. The entire village mourned. Their Hokage, the third Face on the mountain, had died. And today, they held a service for him alone. Tomorrow would be full of services for the other shinobi who had been lost. But today, was meant for him.
Naruto, was unlike the other shinobi who were out there mourning. He didn't feel sad, He wasn't upset. He didn't miss the man.
In fact, Naruto had no idea who the Sandaime even was.
… Actually, He only knew his own name because someone had told him. The boy was so worried about him. He had actually stayed in his room with him before he woke up.
Konohamaru, claimed to be his little brother. And when Naruto had no idea who the kid was, the poor child was heart broken. The nurse who had been there when he woke up immediately called their uncle in to take his brother somewhere else.
Naruto didn't recognize the man either. There was a faint glimmer of pity in his face, but mostly he was mourning like the rest of them.
Naruto was left there most of the day, not receiving any visitors that he could remember. The empty minded child could only lay in his bed and wonder about his arms and legs. What had happened to put them in such thick casts? In fact, he was completely strung up like a puppet. He could even feel something on his head and face.
He was sure that someone would have told him about it already. But for the life of him, he couldn't remember anyone saying anything about what happened to him.
Later that evening another person arrived. He was worried, Naruto could tell. And he was also trying to hide it.
"Dobe, I heard that you don't remember anything… I just wanted to tell you.. Who I am and that you're not alone."
The boy sat on his bed and looked out the window, deliberately facing away from him.
"My name is Sasuke and we... We are best friends. We are each other's only friends. We became friends because we both lost our parents. Yours were killed in the Kyuubi attack a few hours after you were born, and mine... were killed by… By a plague, that hit my clan."
He could tell his 'friend' was holding something back. Something to do with the plague?
Not knowing how to respond, He introduced himself, "I'm Naruto, It's nice to meet you."
They sat and Sasuke explained to him a few things about their life. He was a shinobi. Up until when he was injured, he had been a Genin. Now though, he was supposed to be a Chunin. Except that he had been hurt in his last mission.
He was on team seven which consisted of four members, Him, Sasuke, another-person, and their sensei, Hatake Kakashi.
They had been on several missions together. And their biggest one had been when they rescued an entire village from the clutches of a merciless tyrant. The evil midget had hired legendary missing-shinobi to kill off the man who was leading the village in a rebellion.
And they had been hired to protect him.
They talked for a while about the mission and about the other members of the team and soon they even began talking about what they were doing before he was hurt.
They were in an exam, meant to test Genin to see if they were ready for a promotion.
Naruto and another Genin had been the only ones promoted. The other Genin was Shikamaru. A lazy teen boy from the Nara clan.
Sasuke made a point to explain in depth how Naruto had been furious when Hinata was insulted. How he vowed to avenge her loss in the preliminaries, and how as the Uchiha was told, he had thrashed Neji when they fought because of the beating he had given the girl. It was clearly a sign that they had feelings for one another. And secretly, Sasuke hoped this would help him to move on past the pinkette who had so casually thrown his life away.
But in the middle of the final matches, one of the other villages attacked.
According to Sasuke, Naruto had managed to use a jutsu that let him be in two places at once. He had fought not only the host of the demon raccoon that had captured Sasuke, but also alongside the sandaime, Naruto had faced the kazekage, two zombie Hokage, and the rogue shinobi Sanin, Orochimaru.
And he had been the one to beat all of them! Even when the Hokage had to leave the battle to perform a sealing jutsu Naruto had been the one to fight and hold off the four kage level shinobi by himself, and single handedly beat the demon raccoon into submission.
Everyone was so excited about his battles that they had pushed his promotion through even with his injuries.
Sasuke had told them everything about his fight with the demon raccoon. About how he had been able to go toe to toe with it when it was smaller, about how he had made over a thousand shadow clones at least. How he had summoned the boss toad Gamabunta, the very same toad who fought the Kyuubi with the fourth Hokage.
How he had somehow transformed the giant toad into the demon fox so they could fight evenly with the fully released raccoon. And then, how when his arms and legs were crushed he had still moved with his chakra alone, even though it was mixed with the river of blood coming out of him. He had kept fighting, and took down the host of the demon after the demon itself had been beaten.
It had taken a horrible head trauma from the beast, his arms and legs being crushed by sand, being slammed into the ground from about six or seven stories up, his neck being broken his spine getting compacted by the impact, a second major head trauma that actually split his head open and ripped a part of his brain out, and even then he still had to be smacked by an iron club and sent through a tree crushing most of his face, breaking his rib cage and snapping his spine before he was fully beaten.
And that was only one of his fights. Sasuke hadn't been there for the other one but he had heard about it.
There had been many witnesses who had been able to hear that his chakra had been actively disrupted by a jutsu for the whole month he had been training and so he had done all that, even with his chakra control messed up.
Their sensei was shocked! He had been completely caught off guard by Naruto's battles. And when he heard the full accounting of them he had actually had to sit down to take it all in.
And another-person was so sure he wouldn't survive...
Naruto Interrupted here. "Who?" He had no idea who the person Sasuke had just mentioned was, of course that wasn't so strange anymore.
"a-name! Naruto I just told you about her a few minutes ago. She's our teammate under Kakashi-sensei, You had a huge crush on her during the academy."
"I don't remember talking about … what was her name again?"
"It's a-name! Naruto are you okay? What all do you remember us talking about?"
Naruto told him everything they talked about. All he could remember. And after several small hiccups in his memories Sasuke began to breath heavily.
"You remember everything else, Why not her? Why don't you remember a-name?"
"Why don't I remember who?"
His teammate looked at him in shock, almost terrified by what he had just said. Naruto however could only look in confusion as his teammate suddenly made an excuse and left. What had he said?
0o0o0
Naruto's condition was stable. That was what really mattered… he had even woken up yesterday. But the Genin, no… the Chunin couldn't recognize anyone.
Haruno Sakura had visited twice yesterday. And both times she had needed to be introduced. At first she was smothered in guilt at her last words about him.
The image of his broken body being dragged by demonic arms made from his own blood was a sight that left her unable to sleep since the battle. The nightmares of seeing his flesh falling off as he slowly pulled away right in front of her would probably always haunt her.
Then she felt smothered in pity for the boy, at the damage he had taken. And in confusion soon after her first visit. When she came back carrying the ramen she promised they could eat together, Naruto had no idea who she was.
He didn't even remember her explaining to him about his favorite food. He had no idea what ramen was! She quickly spoke to the nurse about it, and Naruto recognized the woman right off the bat.
She wasn't sure what to feel about that. She refused to accept the small bud of jealousy about the other woman being recognized while she was forgotten.
Even Inner-Sakura was a little irritated at it. Although Inner-Sakura also cheered that at least now the little monster kid wouldn't be pestering them anymore.
Eventually she had began to study. It was a little difficult with her arm in a sling but she had resolve. her slight limp from the fractured shin didn't bother her when she was sitting at a desk reading anyway. Trying to find out how he could remember one person and still forget all about another. She had even asked to study the memory maps the Yamanaka-clan made.
Inner-Sakura mused that having her entire clan dedicated to aspects of the mind in one form or another, made Sakura's friend a very useful resource.
They had all kinds of information she was able to study, but it didn't seem to help her find anything concrete.
There simply wasn't any explanation that didn't involve someone actively filtering his mind from within it.
On the bright side, both her and Inner-Sakura could agree, at least Naruto didn't remember her trying to leave him for dead.
She wasn't sure if Sasuke was going to share that fact with anyone, but she knew that if her sensei ever found out she'd be completely screwed. With all of his speeches about never abandoning your comrades he had given, the fact that she had been attempting to do just that would infuriate him.
0o0o0
Sasuke sat on the edge of the bridge where team seven would often meet up for missions. His legs hung over the side. He leaned his back against the rail.
The Uchiha was alone in his thoughts, as he waited for his mind to accept what had happened to his best friend. What Naruto had been willing to go through to save him and Sakura. How Far Naruto had come since their entry into the exam. And father still, since they graduated and became a team.
Naruto continued to improve, and grow. He had somehow learned an A-Rank cloning jutsu. Which Sasuke had learned required more chakra than the Uchiha could currently produce. The 'dobe' had matched him step for step when learning the tree climbing skill. The idiot had even beaten their opponent on the bridge, while Sasuke couldn't touch the kid even with his sharingan unlocked.
At each turn in their training Naruto had slowly pulled forward while he had stagnated. And then the Chunin exams came.
Sasuke had been shocked to learn how Naruto had fared, but his true enlightenment came when he learned that Naruto's chakra had been disrupted the entire time.
It was the seal that Orochimaru had placed on his teammate in the forest. Sasuke had seen him place it right on the Genin's navel. And when the village elders asked him about it, he had been able to confirm that the snake Sanin had indeed put a seal on Naruto.
And then he was asked a question that made him sick.
Why hadn't he mentioned it before?
He assumed that they would find it when they gave Naruto his medical at the end of the preliminary matches. His own seal had been identified immediately by their sensei. Not that he was the only one who had seen it happen. But Sasuke was less confident in his other teammate's concern for Naruto these days.
After he was released from the debriefing, Sasuke asked around and found out that Naruto hadn't even gone for a check up after the preliminaries were over. In fact, they had no records of him at all. It's not like he could have forgotten it could he? Who forgets having such a huge seal put on them? But Naruto was never checked out. and because he hadn't said anything, Naruto had been handicapped by the seal.
And still, he had trained with the seal disrupting his chakra for a month. Naruto had managed to beat Neji, even with his chakra the disruption. He had not just lasted against him, but had won an undisputed victory against the Hyuuga genius!
And more, Naruto had beaten the Uchiha's own opponent, Gaara. Going so far as to summon a boss level Toad to fight the Ichibi Demon inside the redhead.
In only a month, the orange clad Genin had passed Sasuke at almost every point. Earning his promotion hands down. And he had done it with his chakra disrupted.
According to the Jonin who had been stationed next to the Hokage, the only thing Naruto was taught over the month a simple chakra control exercise, Water walking. A more advanced form of the same skill that allowed him to run up the wall in the arena. It wouldn't have accounted for the sheer growth that Naruto had shown fighting against Gaara.
How had the dobe climbed so much higher on a single chakra control exercise!?
Sasuke was almost willing to flat out ask the boy… but he wouldn't be able to help. He had lost his memories. He had forgotten everyone he knew, forgotten the village, his past, the Hokage, and even his crush on her.
That was only the mental damage he had suffered.
The image of the torn and bloody Genin dragging himself by his blood soaked chakra was burned forever in the Uchiha's mind. Naruto had done that, gone through that to save Sasuke, to save her. Naruto had forced himself to fight at a level of damage that Sasuke couldn't even think of without hurting. For them! He had been willing to die to save them, to free Sasuke from the grip of the crushing sand that held him to the tree. No one had ever gone that far for him. The Genin was drowning in guilt at the damage his teammate had taken. And to the avenger's own dismay, he also felt joy. Naruto cared... Really cared! It wasn't some rivalry thing or even simply doing his duty. No, to go that far for someone meant love.
No matter how Sasuke choose to deny it or ignore it, Naruto had become his closest most precious person. Even before the exam they had gotten closer. But now... Sasuke hadn't felt like this since his brother was a good person. Naruto was almost like having a bran-new brother. A little brother of course. And he wasn't sure how to accept that.
The Uchiha was conflicted. On the one hand, Sakura had done everything she could to convince him to leave Naruto behind. She wasn't worth the training they were giving her. And Sasuke knew his sensei would want to know that she couldn't be trusted with Naruto's life.
On the other hand, Naruto didn't remember her and this could be a chance to make things work out better than before.
There was a fresh start, and she could earn their trust.
If Naruto found out now, then it could sour that fresh start, and prevent any true teamwork from being rebuilt.
Yet, Naruto wasn't able to remember anything concerning her. Even things said in the same conversation as her name was forgotten. But what if he did remember? There was still no telling if he would remember that part, and if he remembered her, and found out what she had tried to do…
His teammate would be devastated.
"Yo, I thought I'd find you here…"
It was his sensei.
The Jonin was suddenly just sitting there, on top of the railing Sasuke's back leaned against.
His legs kicking like a child's, his hands holding the rail to either side of him to keep him balanced, no perverse book in sight…
Completely nonchalant, and relaxed.
"Hn." He had nothing to say to the man. He had seen the seal on the 'Uchiha' but not the one on his other student!? Sure, Sasuke understood why he was given the extra training. His opponent was a homicidal psychopathic demon container from another village!
The worst Naruto's opponent would have done would be to lock his chakra and mocked him.
No one even thought it possible for the dobe to last against, much less match the Hyuuga genius. And it was a complete impossibility for him to have even the slightest chance at winning. So any other opponent being a threat to him was out of the question.
However, a cursed seal was another issue.
How could the man simply leave the thing on his own student? Unless he hadn't noticed it. The seal on Naruto wasn't like the one on him. And Naruto really should have gone for a check up...
"Naruto is going to be fine, Sasuke." The Jonin interrupted his brooding student's thoughts. "Even if he doesn't remember some things, eventually the rest will come back to him…"
"And if not… Well, he isn't going to let something as small as forgetting a few memories to hold him back from his ambition is he?"
The masked Jonin lowered his head down to look at the boy. Making eye contact.
"Sensei, Naruto's arms and legs were crushed! Then, in a matter of days, the bones practically grew back! Now, he has no idea who he even is, and he is still forgetting things he learns about. I know it's his business, but I have to ask what is going on."
The boy's arms still hung in their casts, but every time the medics checked on Naruto's condition the bones were just a little more knitt together. It would only be a few days before they were healed completely at the rate they were going.
"How could he have healed so quickly? Why does he keep forgetting everything about only a few select people? What is the big secret that everyone is hiding about him? And who the hell are his parents anyway!? The third's last orders were to release his heritage, so why haven't they!?"
All of his budding questions flowed out of him as if the release valve had been broken off. And the Uchiha himself didn't know why he had asked the last two.
"His heritage is going to be released to him, and him alone." Kakashi looked away from him, and cast his eye to the morning sky.
"If he wants to tell everyone, that's up to him. But Sasuke, how would you feel if no one knew who you were, or what you had been through. And then, Just when everyone is beginning to accept and respect you for who you are, someone tells everyone that you're actually only the little brother of the infamous Itachi? Everything they respected you for, would soon become a pathetic shadow of your brother's accomplishments. You already know how that feels, but for it to be pushed on you overnight is something entirely different."
Sasuke understood completely… It was part of the reason he had made up the story about the plague. But that wasn't all he got from it. His sensei's statement meant that at least one of the dobe's parents were high level.
"As for his healing…" The Jonin continued.
"It's a combination of his mother's bloodline and a few other issues he has. Not in the least of which, is his massive chakra reserves. Naruto has two or three time as much chakra as I have, and that makes it extremely hard for him to control it.
"So the best way to make him stronger, would be to teach him the control. And in doing so, give him more access to his massive reserves. The way a shinobi channels chakra to their limbs in order to increase speed and strength is only limited to how fine your control is and how much chakra you can use.
"While medically a normal shinobi can only add so much before their body starts to be damaged, Naruto's naturally large reserves gives him far more room to channel his chakra into than the rest of us, before that damage will occur. And even after that, his mother's bloodline allows him to recover from the damage which pushing too much chakra will cause anyway."
That was much more information than Sasuke had expected. So the dobe had a bloodline that allowed fast healing. And it was on his mother's side. Which meant she was probably the one he would be compared to. Or maybe it wasn't her as a person rather than the fact that he had a bloodline that they were hiding.
Sasuke accepted this new information with about as much grace as he had greeted his sensei with.
"Hn"
0o0o0
Coming from the training grounds, Hatake Kakashi silently entered the village hospital. He didn't bother to check in or anything, he didn't feel like wasting his time with some wallflower in scrubs. His talk with the Uchiha went quite well. He had explained Naruto's fast healing in a way that would make the boy drop his questions and he had given a quite plausible explanation for the Genin's rapid improvement.
Now he only had to speak with… his 'forgotten' student.
He had been informed shortly after the battle was over, of all that Naruto had accomplished. Including the fact that the Genin had the five elements seal on top of the Yondaime's eight triagrams seal.
It had already been removed of course. When the hospital staff asked Jiraiya to take a look at it when they found him in Naruto's room, he told them he had taken the seal off the moment he found out about it. They all just assumed that was why the man had been there to begin with.
It wasn't as if the Jonin hadn't checked for a seal… so much as he hadn't checked for one where he already knew he'd find one… Besides that, he was looking for something else entirely.
And yet... His sensei's son managed to overcome the issues it caused.
Kakashi had known he was being unfair to Naruto. His plan had been for both of boys to lose to Neji. Naruto winning just wasn't possible. And Sasuke would have been drained by the chidori in his match against Gaara. And without that, he would have been easily beaten by the older Genin. It would have allowed him to survive his first match without wounding his pride by making him quit like a coward. Only to have him thoroughly defeated so that he didn't argue when he wasn't promoted. Many of the higher ranks had already stacked the matches up. And not one of the matches had gone as predicted.
Naruto had won! The Puppet wielder didn't participate, and lose against the Aburame. Shikamaru forfeited his match instead of winning as Asuma had instructed him. The Sandaime had sent his Chunin to contact him an hour earlier than they had discussed. And the pre-planned encore of the Uchiha fight was interrupted.
If not for the invasion, their entire lineup of second matches would have been a disaster.
It was supposed to be Shino against Shikamaru while Sasuke rested and then Neji would out class Sasuke and earn his promotion. Ending when Shikamaru would simply forfeit his match against the Hyuuga and earned his promotion.
But if things had gone on as they were, Shino facing Temari would have been another round of mind verse wind. and Naruto would have fought Sasuke.
Kakashi could have easily deduced Sasuke's victory at the final match on the day of the tournament. His fire jutsu would have been an easy match for either Temari or Shino. However, now the Jonin knew, that had things not been interrupted, his orange and hyper student would have been the eventual victor.
The Uchiha wouldn't have been able to beat his teammate. And Naruto would have kept fighting long after the other two had been exhausted.
Arriving at Naruto's usual room, The Jonin was surprised to find his student already awake. It was early morning but the boy was happily playing a game of shogi with Nara Shikamaru. Someone that by all logic could never be awake at this hour. The lazy boy had his standard flak jacket on, and another one hung on a chair.
Instead of introducing himself to the amnesiac, the Jonin masked his presence and watched as they played. The Nara wasn't just there for a game. Naruto's onetime friend didn't even pay attention to the game. He was more focused on the blond in the casts. The Nara would move Naruto's pieces as he was told and then tell Naruto things about the village. About the clans and all the shinobi ranks. About their day's at the academy.
The strung up Chunin was frantically trying to both learn what the genius had to tell him and play the game at the same time. His focus was too split to play that well, but the Nara never capitalized on it. Instead, the mobile Chunin passed over several good positions and strikes to prolong the game in a way that the other boy wouldn't notice. And with each move he eventually made, he spoke about a new topic of the village.
Kakashi watched for almost two hours as his student was slowly re-educated. Until finally there were only three pieces on the board, and the Nara had Naruto in checkmate. Packing up the board, Shikamaru said goodbye and headed out.
Kakashi was about to enter once more, but a small squeak made him pause.
"Ano, I can wait if you have something to say to him…"
"Not at all, Hyuuga-chan, Go right in." Reaching behind him, Kakashi rubbed the back of his head as if embarrassed. "I'm just trying to think of how to convince the hospital staff to let me take him on a few D-Ranks…"
And with that, he ended up watching as the girl shyly entered the room and introduced herself. It wasn't long before Kakashi noticed he wasn't the only one watching. And slightly more concealed, was the genjutsu the the Hyuuga girl's sensei was using.
It seemed to be having the right effect. Hinata had almost passed out twice before the jutsu forced her to calm down enough that she could say what she had come to say.
And then, the jutsu failed and the girl passed out anyway. The dense as a rock Chunin listened to every word she had said and asked what the difference between love and liking was… because he thought he might feel the same way as she did.
The genjutsu mistress promptly entered, introduced herself and took the unconscious girl out of the room.
Kakashi wasn't sure why Kurenai had thought Naruto should hear about Hinata's feelings, however it was clear she had been crushed when she heard about his condition. From the look of her eyes she had been crying for days on end.
Kakashi waited for a few minutes before he entered. Allowing the boy to breath and get over his confusion.
Sitting down, the Jonin introduced himself and was met with a description of himself from the Uchiha's eyes.
Exactly what did that stuck up little prick think he was doing, telling Naruto that Kakashi spent all morning masterbateing instead of teaching them!? His love of the Icha-Icha series was not about that! It was about making other people feel awkward!
Correcting that issue and telling the hyper blond a few other things, the Jonin moved onto the blond's question about love and explained exactly what it meant and how Hinata felt.
He was careful not to mention the girl Naruto kept forgetting. He didn't want to explain this to Naruto again. And when he finished, his student was quiet. Thoughtful. It was clear he enjoyed the idea that a girl would value him so much that she thinks of him before anyone else. And it only took a little bit of smooth talking to subliminally suggest that Naruto may have felt that same way about her.
Keeping his hints as subtle as he could, the Jonin carefully avoided anything that may tip the boy off to his little manipulation. If all went well, then should Naruto ever regain his memories, then he wouldn't be able to recognize what Kakashi had done. The dim Genin would assume it was his own misunderstanding that led him to the wrong conclusion, and by that time he should already be so in love with the girl that his memories of his feelings for his teammate couldn't change anything.
The fact that Naruto already knew that Hinata was the girl he had fought the Hyuuga genius to avenge, did wonders to help him come to the desired conclusion even before Kakashi had explained love to him. Score that up to two points for the little Uchiha prick.
With his own hints added on, the Jonin doubted very much that Naruto would miss out on his only real chance to find love. It wasn't like it was hard to see which of the two girls would be better for him and the team in the long run.
His current crush wanted nothing to do with him, and it wasn't likely to work out if they didn't find a way to prevent him from forgetting anything even relating to her.
A brief smile flashed beneath his mask as the Jonin thought for an instant 'what would happen if Naruto tried running in a forest of Sakura trees?' Would he forget they were there and smack right into them?
The momentary humor passed and Kakashi returned to considering his student.
Hinata actually liked him, Sakura hit him at every chance. Hinata could see the demon's chakra and still liked him, Sakura had done something to make him forget her very existence. Hinata would help him to grow stronger and increase his chakra control, Sakura was pathetic on her own. Not that Kakashi intended to let her stay that way. He had at one point thought that she would wake up to the real world, but after he had been so wrong about Naruto... He was going to break her starving body until she either shaped up, or dropped out.
Soon, it was time for Naruto to be fed and bathed by a nurse, so Kakashi offered to eat lunch with him later and said his goodbyes.
0o0o0
The village council was at a loss as to what to do. Only the Sanin's presence kept them from ignoring the thirds final decree.
They had promoted Naruto to Chunin without hesitation or even reluctance. His jutsu was now an SSS-Rank Kinjutsu, and they simply couldn't have a Genin who knew one of those. And then he woke up, revealing that he had lost his memories and the promotion was unnecessary.
However his heritage was going to be the main problem for the foreseeable future.
For one, most of them had no idea what the late Hokage had been speaking about. For another, in order to release his heritage they had to have three major clan heads and the Anbu Commander witness, because the file was considered an SS-Rank secret. Which was the only thing the Anbu Commander could tell them about it.
There were several others who apparently knew, but they all agreed not to share until it was officially released. Even still, the Chunin was also mortally wounded and couldn't function as a shinobi. The mental damage alone would have resulted with him being pulled from the ranks. But he was paralyzed, all of his limbs ground into dust, and his body was broken in more ways than it was possible to survive.
And to top it off, while they could have the acting council process the decree and order the Anbu Commander to disclose the file so they could release it, this was the demon child they were talking about! It would take a three fourths vote to release an A-rank or higher document without the Hokage there to make it happen. And they would be lucky to even get a majority.
What they needed was a new Hokage. Not that they didn't need one anyway. But the Sanin had exerted a certain amount of pressure on them to finish up with their politics and get the job done.
When they simply couldn't, the towering shinobi declared in no uncertain terms that it would happen. And to make it easy, the Sanin issued a single order.
"Nothing is decided until I return with Tsunade, she will make a fine Hokage and she can also heal the gaki. I think though, it would be for the best to bring him along. It would probably be better to get him healed before asking her to take the job."
"but he isn't cleared for missions, he is still wounded." The whining elders would complain about being whipped with a golden lash, as far as the toad hermit was concerned.
"Yes… and that's why I'm taking him to her! She will fix him." The sage put as much sarcasm and condescension in his voice as he could. "And when she is done we will discuss her new job. That way, even if she refuses to become the Hokage, he still gets fixed!"
Their natural response was to argue some more. They argued that the Hermit wouldn't be able to care for the boy properly while he was busy looking for the medical legend. And the sage had to admit they had a point…
But who said he had to be the one doing it? "I'll just have to take that kunoichi from his team with me to take care of him."
The Sanin remembered that the boy liked the pinkette from the time he had prepared him for his life or death training method. Besides, maybe it would help his memories come back if they were of fond little fantasies.
Reluctantly they agreed, her scores did show that she would make a competent medic. After having her brushed up on his daily care and needs they would be able to set out.
~ Note ~
Naruto lost all his memories for the time being, but Tsunade will unlock them. Meanwhile, Naruto seems unable to even form any new memories of Sakura. He can remember everything else he is told, just not her… Or anything that she is involved with.
Sasuke's Visit: Sasuke had felt that everyone who cared about him was gone, Killed by Itachi, and that people who did care about him now, only cared about his name. He also thought that Naruto's actions were out of his own need for attention.
To see Naruto as damaged as he was, still trying to protect him, finally got the message through. Sasuke now knows that they are friends. And Naruto is the only person he truly thinks of as such.
Sasuke didn't want Naruto to define him by his vengeance as he once had so he told him the story about the plague.
Sasuke's Stories of Naruto: Sasuke didn't get to see any of Naruto's matches himself, so he could only go off of what he heard… At that point in time most of the rumors were inflated even when stripped down to the facts.
Hinata's Confession: The reason that I had Hinata confess to Naruto is much like how after a death, people will say the things they never got to, to the grave for closure. Yes, she knows it's not the same person, but she never got to tell him and it's damaging her mental state. This will be elaborated on when Hinata gets a P.O.V. scene.
This won't be a Naruhina, Per Challenge, I'm making it a NaruTen, however this does set up for eventual rivalry between Hinata and Tenten.
Things Naruto won't remember:
The End of the two battles he was just in.
The Uchiha Plot,
Anythingconcerning Sakura, past, present or future… at least until he meets Tsunade.
The private times between the third and his wife,
The worst and bloodiest scenes in the war,
And anything before the third made Chunin, because that was just too long ago. Naruto won't even be able to remember the actual promotion, he just knows that all his memories are from Chunin and up.
It will be a few chapters before I reach the part where "Tenten's Ulterior Motive Challenge" comes in.
Most items in all my Naruto fan-fictions will be based off of T8: Retroversion's timeline. Many of these details will be universal across them all.
Meaning any mission or OC, or other major details will be included, based on their background and trigger events.
{This will not include Kurenai's conspiracy or Hinata's abuse}
While T8: Retroversion will be my main Fic, Five others are on my list to work on at the moment: LATE Naruto: Life After the Ends; Uzumaki: A Lone Fox; The Thousand Ninja; Village Hidden in Plain Sight; and Wisdom of Chance. Descriptions on profile.
