Alright, sorry about the spelling mistakes towards the end I'll make sure to not make the same mistake here. So anyway, on with the story, oh and I want you to all give a huge thanks to Nothing Knight, she's going to co author some of my stories.

Fade into black

Chapter 3

Face to Face

Naruto whiped sweat of his brow. 'That was one hell of a workout.' he thought looking over to Hanataro, chuckling seeing him twitching on the ground. "Oh come on, it wasn't that bad was it?"

With a visible effort Hanataro lifted his head up and glared at Naruto, which was funny, because he had the anger capabilities of a mouse.

"Not that bad?" he asked incredulously. He laid his head back on the ground with an audible 'thump'. "If that wasn't bad, I'd hate to see a challenging work out would be."

"Ah come off it, you did pretty good, I give you a week before you start catching the female populous's attention. Then we'll work on getting you plastered, then we'll see about the laid bit," he said grinning as he saw Hanataro go pale. Chuckling, he got beside him got down next to him, hands behind his head. They just laid there in silence.

"Naruto-san?" Hanataro suddenly popped his head up.

"Whadda'ya need Hanataro?"

"I was just wondering, why you helped me earlier on, I mean besides the check up," Hanataro asked nervously dancing around the question.

"To be honest, I just can't stand bullies, they just rub me the wrong way," he said boredly.

"Naruto-san?"

"Yes, Hanataro?" Naruto asked tiredly.

"Did you mean what you said," the mousey medic paused here. "About me being your friend?"

Naruto propped himself up on his elbow looking at him oddly. "Why wouldn't I be?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"It's just," he paused here, trying to find the right words, "It's just that from the things I know from how strong you are, you should be arrogant and hot tempered. A jock by all means, and me," he paused laughing weakly. "I'm the preverbal weakling, why is it your soooooo…" he trailed off.

Naruto laid back down, bringing up one hand and counting off reasons. "Cool? Charismatic? Hunky? Happy-Go-Lucky? The very Embodiment of Awesomeness?" he listed out, saying the last one in a sage like voice. "Meh, no idea," he finished childishly.

Hanataro just laughed, and turned his head to Naruto. He was just looking at the sunset, hands behind his head, a small smile adorning his whiskered face, his cerulean eyes sparkling joyfully in fading light of the sun.

"I better get you back to your barracks, Unohana-Taicho may be in the biggest breast charts, but she also has one scary temper," he said standing up, wrapping one of Hanataro's arms round his shoulder and getting up, pulling the limp wiry form of Hanataro with him before walking slowly in the direction of the squad four barracks."It seems you are returning back to normal," he heard Ellyon's voice chime in 'What are you talking about Ellyon? I AM normal.'"Come now, you think you are whole now? You are still but a shadow of your former self," he heard the sword embodied angel jab."Listen to the Crow, Boy." a deep malicious voice boomed within his head. Images of a dimly lit hall lined with water flashed into his minds eye, a gate with the kanji for seal in the centre of it two bloody red eyes staring out from its shadowed interior.

Before he could delve further into the memory his instincts came into play, something wasn't right here. Pulling Hanataro under his arm he started sprinting before down the paths of Seireitei at break neck pace, before taking to the roofs near Shunpo speed.

"N-Naruto-san, why are you running?" Hanataro screamed before squealing as Naruto crossed a particularly large drop. Turning around he dropped him unceremoniously behind him before drawing Ellyon and holding him in reverse guard, his eyes monitoring the gap and the other side."Shhh," he shushed before closing his eyes and opening his senses to the sounds of Seireitei. Hanataro was breathing irregularly, a sign that he was excessively nervous. He could hear light, almost imperceptible footfalls closing in on them, two figures appeared across from them. Both girls, one familiar, she was wearing blue calf length trousers, black heels, a grey Gi revealing a bust on equal with Rangiku-Fukutaicho, a green jacket over that. chocolate brown eyes, blond hair pulled into two pigtails and a blue jewel in the centre of her forehead. The other he knew straight away.

"I-I-its you," he said pointing a shaky finger before his eyes narrowed suspiciously. Clutching Ellyon tightly, he lunged the gap almost instantly, Ellyon's blade biting into the indigo haired girls neck, blood drawing. "Who the fuck are you," he growled, his eyes dark and metallic.

The indigo haired girls eyes widened in shock. "N-N-Naruto-kun, d-don't you remember me?" she asked in a frightened tone.

Memories bombarded everywhere in his mind, but he forced them back with a grunt. "If I knew who the hell you were, Ellyon wouldn't be getting friendly with you, would he?" he asked menacingly, Ellyon digging further into her pale neck."Naruto! Stop this madness!" the blond one said lunging with her fist raised, only to pass through him before she could hit him. Images of the woman now filled his mind, her leaning over him on a grassy field, her working in a hospital, her in an all too familiar office, them at a foot shack, her wearing the white and red robes with the conical hat."Who are you two, I won't ask again," he finished coldly.

The blond saw the glint in his eye, and brought her hands up in a placating manner. "Easy Naruto-kun, easy, I'm Tsunade Senju, the young woman you have at "Ellyon's" embrace is Hinata Hyuuga, do you remember us at all?"Naruto's eyes scrunched, before he dropped to his knees clutching his head. Tsunade was about to run to him, but Hanataro jumped in, his katana held shakily."Not another step Senju-san," he said timidly, his sword arm shaking violently. Tsunade's hands stayed held up. Sheathing his Zanpaktou, and activated a medical Kido, there was a small, part of his brain, with an abnormally large amount of electricity running through it."H-his brain is producing more electricity then it should. Why?" he muttered to himself. To his surprise, Tsunade answered him.

"It's a rare case for people suffering sever amnesia, their brain tries to force too many memories to the surface, it over compensates, causing the brains natural electric impulses to expand rapidly. The resulting increase causes extreme pain, sometimes resulting in extreme debilitation," she finished softly.

"Is there any way to relieve the charge?" Hanataro asked determinedly.

Tsunade smiled lightly despite the situation. Ah, to be a young and inexperienced medic again. Do you carry soup, needles or senbon and a headrest?" she asked. Hanataro reached into his squad four pack and pulled out the items dutifully. "Alright then, first: rub one side of the senbon on the soap, this will magnetise it," she paused, watching him rub the entire point of the senbon around the soap. He looked up at her when he was done. "Next, you place his head on the headrest." she watched in amusement as the boy tried to get a ridged Naruto onto the ground, it was quite the task. Finally he got Naruto steady. "Now, make sure his head doesn't move for this, even a twitch is dangerous. Get the senbon and slide it carefully into the brain stem, the other into the earth." she watched him do it once more seeing his fingers twitching from the electricity. "Pull out now," she intoned quietly.

Hanataro pulled the senbon out into the ground. Naruto's eyes opened tiredly before grinning weakly. "Hey Baa-chan, Hinata-chan?" he called out the golden rimmed girl.

"Y-Yes Naruto-kun?" she asked timidly, rubbing her sore neck gingerly.

"Sorry for bugging out on you. You do stupid things when you can't remember something. Urrrg, I think it's lights out time, night Baa-chan, Hinata-chan, Hanataro," and with that he was out like a light.

Hanataro looked back to the two women who were formally behind him, were not there anymore, sweat dropping, he sat by a wall resting his elbows on his knees. 'Life is certainly interesting with you, Naruto-san, I can honestly say after a day of knowing you, that this may be an interesting,' the wiry boy thought idly before, sleep took his eyes.

-Hokage's office-Tsunade shook her head to clear the dizziness she felt from Hinata's jutsu. "Whow, Hinata, that was just…whow. Where did you learn that?" Tsunade questioned, eagerly awaiting the heiresses answer. Hinata was shaking slightly from exhaustion, her eyes drooping."I-I-it was th-he level two of the Byakugan. It's condition for activating was losing a loved one…supposedly," she said softly, slightly unsure.

"Supposedly?"

"No idea," Hinata let loose a monstrous yawn. "I t-t-think I'll call it a night, Tsunade-sama," she said tiredly."Very well Hinata, dismissed," as soon as she was gone, she pulled out a bottle of sake and chugged it down in one go. One thing came to her mind. "I'm getting too old for this shit.-Mindscape-"So our host has his memories back I take it," the malicious voice chimed from the darkness."He does," Ellyon's voice sounded.

"What will he do now I wonder, it is so humours to see him back to his original self again," a set of gleaming teeth shone through the gate."He can never be his original self again. Not after what will come," Ellyon said cryptically.

"What do you mean by that, Crow?" the malicious narrowed it's red eyes at Ellyon."Wait and see Fox, wait and see…"-Done-sorry bout this being short, but until the "entry arc" it'll be like that, give me suggestions on where you want Naruto to be, a side branch of squad four, or a free lance Shinigami without a division like Ichigo, give me your opinions about the entire thing, I want to know what my readers think. And because of school, Christmas shopping homework and study, I can't get on nearly as much as I want to, anyway, Almost merry Christmas and my next story will have an omake in it, Slan!