A/N: Sorry i haven't been posting etc, I've been dealing with studies and family issues; even though i have more exams coming up i have got more free time lately so i shall continue this story. Please R&R. (PS. Thank you for the past reviews)

Chapter 3 – Kiba's nightmare! Memory loss.

After the brunet left the blond had a million questions flowing though his head, 'Where am i? Who is Naruto? What happened? Why can't I remember anything?' the questions ran like a broken record in his head, he looked around to see that the room was white and smelt sterile, so he figured he is in a hospital or medical centre, 'How did I get here?' he thought only to be taken out of his thoughts when he heard the door open and a large breasted woman entered with a sad look on her face only to be followed by the brunet that left earlier,

"where am i?" the blond asked, really hitting home that he couldn't remember anything,
"you are safe, you are in the Leaf Village hospital" Tsunade said sadly her voice sounded crushed like her hope was lost,
"why am I here? What happened? Who am i?" the blond asked but before he got an answer he saw the brunet silently crying behind the blond woman,
"im sooo sorry Naruto…. I cant forgive myself for causing you this injury" Kiba croaked between sobs,
"I think its best you wait outside Kiba, let me speak with Naruto and see if we can jog any of his memories" Tsunade said and Kiba nodded and left the room, 'his name is Kiba? he called me Naruto, as did the lady, I must be Naruto then….' Naruto thought to himself, seeing that Naruto was just processing the new information Tsunade walked over to the blond and sat down beside him.

"Your name is Naruto Uzumaki, you are from this village, you are a powerful shinobi who saved this village" Tsunade said waiting for the young nin to process the information, seeing that he understood she continued,

"you were sent on a mission to stop rebels who were building a resistance to try to take out this village, and you saved Kiba, the guy who was just in here, you jumped in the way to protect him from a suicide bomber" she waited for the blond to understand,
"I was protecting him? And I got blown up?" the blond asked hesitantly, seeing that the blond was starting to understand Tsunade smiled a little and nodded,

"you took some life-threatening wounds but you have lost your memory," Tsunade added making the blond understand why he can't remember anything,
"umm? If you say I have lost my memory how can I know your telling me the truth? I don't even know who you are, you could be tricking me right now!" the blond said uptight, feeling the pressure of all this new information, what he was meant to be, who he was, seeing the blond was starting to panic Tsunade stood up,

"im Tsunade, im also known as the Hokage, I know this is a lot of information to take in but please believe me when I say this is your home and you truly are safe here, im going to check you over and ill return later to see how you are doing, if you wouldn't mind I would bring someone with me who can search through your mind to try and find some hidden memories to help for the time being" Tsunade said in a calm manor that seemed to calm the blond,

"o-okay" the blond stuttered, after checking up on him Tsunade left allowing the blond to rest a little, when she stepped outside a tear fell from her cheek,
"I think you should let him rest Kiba," Tsunade said to the brunet who was heartbroken, agreeing he headed home as he didn't want to be outside today.

'This is my home? I'm Naruto Uzumaki? Im a shinobi?' the blond thought as he rested in his bed, 'well I physically seem fine but I have lost my memory?' the blond pondered wondering how much of this was true, he laid on his bed looking out the window watching the blue birds fly around, 'I need to remember!' the blond stated to himself, giving him his own mission.

Kiba got home to see Hana and his mother in the kitchen talking about Naruto unaware he has arrived,

"what if he has lost his memory and never gets it back? What will happen to Kiba? He is truly in love with him" Hana said concerned
"then he will have to understand that the blond he fell in love with is no longer there and has to move on" Tsume said upset with the idea, she knew Naruto made Kiba very happy and she wanted them to marry and start their own family in the future,

"I won't leave him, I promised I would never leave him" Kiba said breaking down,
"pup, I didn't mean it like that, but you have to remember you can't force things" Tsume said as she cuddled her son,
"he doesn't remember me, or anything, he didn't know who he was!" Kiba sobbed into his mother's chest,
"Kiba…." Hana reached her hand out patting her brothers back,
"these things will take time, but im sure he will remember you" Hana said trying to comfort him, but she knew it will take a lot of time if he can remember anything.

It has been a couple of hours since Kiba returned home, he finally stopped crying but that was due to his body running out of fluid to cry, he sat in his room looking through the photo album he has of him and Naruto, as he looked through he hoped that things will go back to what they once were, he didn't know what he would do without his blond boyfriend, 'to me he is my boyfriend but does it even count as he can't remember?' Kiba wondered, deciding that he wants to see the blond and try to help with his memory loss, Kiba got up went to the bathroom to clean himself up and headed out with the photo album in hand.

As he rushed to the hospital he ran into Sakura who was also heading to the hospital, seeing Kiba in a hurry she knew something has happened,
"Kiba what happened?" she asked stopping Kiba, but hearing this question he froze not wanting to break down in tears again he calmed himself,
"he has lost his memory, he didn't know who he was, where he is, or me….." Kiba said fighting back his tears, seeing how distort the brunet was Sakura pulled him into a hug,
"its okay Kiba, he will remember eventually, im sure Lady Tsunade will have Inoichi come to help him remember somethings" she said holding back her emotions as she knew she had to be strong for them both,
"Im going to visit him, and to show him our photo album, to hopefully make him remember some bits" Kiba said between snivels,
"that's nice, come on ill come with you" Sakura said, they turned into the direction of the hospital and walked in silence to see Naruto.

When they got there the blond was asleep so Sakura and Kiba walked into his room and sat beside his bed looking at how peaceful the blond looked,
"he looks perfect like this" Kiba said quietly and tears fell from his face, seeing how upset Kiba was Sakura put an arm around him to try to comfort the brunet, "let it out, let it out" she said fighting her tears in her eyes.

After a short period of time the blond started to wake,
"are you both okay?" the blond asked not knowing why they was here or why they was crying,
"we-a-re ok-ay, b-but I th-oug-ght I-I los-t yo-u, a-nd i-it s-se-em-s I hav-e" Kiba said between sobs,
"Kiba…" Sakura said she felt sorry for the brunet, it must be hard to see his boyfriend like this,
"he brought you a photo album to try to help you remember things" Sakura said handing the blond the album, "please try to remember" she said wishing that this would work to bring back some memories, the blond looked at the pair and then at the album he opened the album and saw the brunet, but he was standing next to a blond guy,

"is this us?" he asked the brunet who was also looking at the album from the side of the bed,
"yeah, this is when you got back to the village after your training away" Kiba said softly as he was trying to control himself, 'we look happy' Naruto thought to himself,
"and this one?" the blond asked,
"me and you went camping, and you got lost in the woods and I had to come and find you," Kiba said with a smile of his face remembering what happened after, Naruto turned the page then a shocked look across his face, Kiba saw the picture and then panicked, it was a picture of him and Naruto kissing in the fields outside the village,
"ummm, let me explain!" Kiba said quickly but Naruto was freaking out, he has no memory and is now being shown a picture of him and the brunet kissing, seeing that the blond was panicking Sakura pulled the album away to see what he was freaking about, then she saw the picture, 'crap this is bad, this could go horribly wrong' she though as she heard Naruto's monitors beep into new life as he was panicking, she knew that if they didn't calm the blond down he could pass out or worse, run off,

"Naruto!" Sakura shouted trying to gain the attention of the blond but suddenly a burst of powerful chakra radiated from the blond, and they knew Naruto has found some of his power,
"Crap we need to calm him down before he escapes or unleashes the kyuubi", Sakura shouted towards Kiba as they tried to distract Naruto.

Elsewhere in the village other shinobi could feel the power surging from the hospital and knew that something bad was happening, feeling this Tsunade rushed over to the hospital with a full squad of Anbu, she knew that if Naruto found the kyuubi inside of him he could ultimately destroy the village, as she arrived she found Kiba and Sakura in Naruto's room trying to calm the panicking blond, wondering what has happened she demanded Sakura to tell her, as Sakura explained Tsunade looked pissed as she wanted to wait for Inoichi as it would have been safer, 'damn it, if we don't control this he will find more power and he might lose control and let the kyuubi free' Tsunade thought as she on looked, she gave the order for the Anbu to control and restrain the blond but it was no hope Naruto blew them all back with another wave of chakra then jumped out of the window, the Anbu gave chase leaving Tsunade Sakura and Kiba behind, she yelled at how stupid they both were and how they have made things more complicated; but ultimately ordering them to follow Naruto and make sure he was safe.

In the middle of the village the blond ran from his pursuers, as he ran more and more through the village some memories was flooding back, the pain he felt as a child so lonely and unwanted, a raven haired boy, a white haired man who wrote books, a frog village, a sand wielding male, and a fight that destroyed the village, Naruto stopped running as he grabbed his head, it hurt he felt his stomach burning and a voice bellow from within.
He found himself walking down a dark hallway towards the sound, when he finally reached where the sound was coming from it was completely dark,

"hehehe, that silly mut, pushing you too far….." the deep raspy voice bellowed from the darkness, Naruto was now scared,
"who's there?" the blond asked timidly, after he asked the demon showed himself, "Kyuubi" was all Naruto could say as that was the first thing that came to his mind,
"you do remember me then?" the demon said rather disappointedly as he was hoping the blond had no clue and would release him,
"not really, but you're the reason people hated me" the blond said trying to remember more, after hearing this the demon growled scaring the blond even more,
"get out!" the demon shouted throwing Naruto out of that space back into the reality,
"Naruto please stop!" the blond heard turning to see Kiba and some others,

"you all hated me! Left me alone to be so lonely, STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!" the blond shouted as he ran with no direction, hearing this made Kiba feel guilty, Naruto is remembering things but it's all negative, but not wanting to leave the blond on his own he gave chase hoping he could just talk to the blond, and the others followed Kiba.

After arriving at the training field Naruto stopped to catch his breath, he didn't know why but he felt drawn to this place, he walked to the three large stumps of wood sitting in the middle of the field, remembering a little more,

"Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi" Naruto said quietly as he remembered the pink haired girl and the raven-haired boy and his sensei, he was trying to remember more about the team when Kiba appeared behind him,

"Naru! Please listen to me" the brunet pleaded.
"what do you want?" the blond asked sharply,
"please forgive me, I didn't mean for you to get upset, I want you to be safe Naru, please come back to me," Kiba begged making the blond wonder what he meant 'come back to me',
"what am I to you?" the blond asked calmly,
"im your best friend, but also your boyfriend" Kiba said breaking down into tears, "im sorry about everything, I didn't mean to cause you to get hurt, I was silly to chase that guy alone, and you got hurt because of it" Kiba continued sobbing, Naruto stood their frozen, the only thing he could remember when he woke up was an explosion, but seeing how upset the brunet was and how everyone seemed to tell him he saved this brunet from an explosion he figured it must be true,

"please just come back to the hospital, Tsunade will get Inoichi to help you remember your past and your friends!" Kiba said desperately, seeing the brunet truly meant no harm, something inside the blond made him get closer to the crying teen, and what surprised them both was that Naruto hugged Kiba, it felt right like they have been doing it for months,

"Naru, I love you, please forgive me" Kiba sobbed into the blond's neck,

"Kiba, I don't know why but I cant stand to see you cry, plus you look ugly when you cry" Naruto said causing the brunet to chuckle at his last comment, Naruto then continued,
"I cant remember what happened between us and im not sure if we can go back to whatever we had, but you are going to have to give me time and maybe if I can remember we can give it a try, so I'll come back to the hospital with you but no more surprises" Naruto said as he hugged the burnet who was now hugging him back harder, "thank you Naru" he mumbled into the blond's chest.

The others watch the events unfold from the treeline ready to help Kiba if he needed help in stopping Naruto. "Well that went well" Kakashi said behind the group of shinobi who followed the pair to help restrain the blond, turning away to return to the Hokage mansion as he needed to report back from his mission, Kakashi thought to himself 'this is going to be harder than the brunet thinks'.

As Naruto and Kiba walked back through the village they had some small talk about some of the blonds likes, dislikes and some other facts Kiba thought would be useful for the blond,
"I have a great idea!" Kiba shouted making the blond wonder what he was planning – "I will take you to your favourite place in the entire world! Ichiraku's!" after that he grabbed Naruto's hand making them both blush and dragged him to Ichiraku's.

"Ahhh Naruto its nice to see you out of the hospital!" Teuchi said with a large smile, "what would you want? Its on the house!" he finished.

But then looked concerned as Naruto looked rather puzzled and didn't scream his favourite order, so he looked at Kiba who was looking depressed as he thought ramen would have made him remember something, "he has lost his memory from our last mission because he saved me" Kiba said heartbroken he truly believed ramen would cure this problem too,
"ohh Naruto im so sorry" Teuchi said distantly, "take a seat and I will make your favourite dish and lets hope it still is your favourite afterwards" he continued as he turned away to create the ramen.

A couple of minutes' past and the food was prepared, "two orders of Miso ramen with extra pork!" Teuchi shouted as he set the food in front of the young pair,
"thanks for the food they both said in unison" both blushing as they touched hands trying to get a pair of chopsticks.

After finishing their food Naruto agreed the food was amazing and he can safely say it's his favourite but it didn't help with his memories so after saying goodbye they headed towards the hospital where Tsunade waited outside for them both.

As the got to Naruto's room she hugged the blond and told him that tomorrow Inoichi will try to help with his memory, Kiba and Tsunade said their good-nights and left Naruto in his room to rest and think about things.