Dear readers, I'm going to do as many memories as I can in this one chapter. It's 7:20 now and I'm stopping at 9:45. Enjoy.
"KIBA!" A voice shouted as Ino walked into the new memory.
"Naruto, calm down!"
"NO! That dog peed all over my clothes."
"Well, it's not Akamaru's fault. He needed to pee, you left them on the ground, and he's color blind."
"But it's my favorite outfit!"
"It's an ugly one, too!"
Ino watched as the two boys argued. She could see Naruto's white shirt and blue shorts balled up on the ground near the lake.
"I decide to go swimming for ten minutes and I come back to find my one and only—" Naruto cut himself off. When he did, Kiba's face went from angry to confused.
"Your one…and only?"
"Just forget about it." Naruto picked up his foul-smelling clothes and stomped towards his home in nothing but a pair of wet boxers.
The memory began to fade. Ino looked around. There was no new door.
"Where—"
"Kiba?" A voice cut Ino off when a new memory showed up.
"Hey, Naruto."
The memory was of Naruto opening the door of his apartment. Judging by the towel wrapped around his waist, the wet boxers hanging off of his chair, and the trail of water leading to the bathroom, this memory took place shortly after the lake memory and Naruto must have taken a bath.
"What do you want?" Naruto leaned against the doorframe. When he did, he noticed that Kiba was holding something behind his back.
"Look, I'm sorry about what Akamaru did earlier and I'm sure that he is too." Kiba pulled his arm out from behind his back and held a box out for Naruto. "It's not really all that nice looking, but I hope you like it." Naruto took the box and opened it to reveal a brand new—new to him—outfit.
"It's not much. My mom wouldn't let me buy anything," (A/N: he told her who he was buying it for) "so I picked this out of my closet." Kiba rubbed the back of his head. "I thought you might like it. The colors kind of reminded me of you in darker shades. Orange for yellow. Navy for sky blue."
Naruto didn't say anything; he just reached forward and gave Kiba a hug. Kiba hugged him back for a while but his eyes widened when he remembered something.
"Put some clothes on!"
This time the memory faded with the coming of a new door.
Chouji's door.
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"Itadakimasu."
The memory appeared in Ichiraku's where a young Chouji was eating a bowl of beef ramen. Ino was a bit surprised when she saw that Naruto wasn't there.
"How do you like it?" The man behind the counter asked. "This is our first day open and you're our first customer." Ino saw a pair of feet stop behind the curtain door. The feet stood there for a minute and then Naruto walked in.
"Did you say that this was your…first day?" The blonde asked.
"Yeah. Me and my daughter, Ayame, just moved to this village about a month ago. The Hokage said that the previous owner—Momitchi, I think—went out of business or something like that." Naruto's eyes widened a little when he said that. "Well, anyways, would you like to buy something?"
"I-I don't have any money. A-and I've never had ramen before." When Naruto said that, Chouji swallowed hard.
"You've never had ramen before! That's terrible! I'll buy him some chicken ramen." Chouji finished as he turned to the old man.
The memory faded there.
Hinata's door appeared.
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"N-Naruto-kun?"
"Yeah, Hinata?"
plop
"Hinata? Hinata! Are you okay?" Naruto shook the poor girl as she lay on the ground.
The memory was practically fully faded when Ino came through the door. But as it faded, a new one showed up.
"N-Naruto-kun, you're hurt." Hinata reached into her pocket.
"It's alright, that crazy woman just scratched me."
The memory faded out.
"N-Naruto-kun. C-congratulations on b-beating Kiba. It looked l-like pretty tough b-battle."
"Hey, thanks!"
"H-here." Hinata held out a small jar.
"What is it?"
"It's medicine." Hinata's teacher, Kurenai.
"Oh. Thanks." Naruto takes the medicine and uses it.
"Wow. Naruto is dense." Ino shook her head as the memory faded. "I'm sure he's never figured out that Hinata likes him."
"N-Naruto-kun."
"Hinata, how can you keep stuttering even with that jacket on? It's not even that cold."
Plop
"…Hinata? Not again!"
"Hinata fainted." Ino sweat-dropped. "Again."
Memory change.
"Naruto-kun, Sasuke fell off a cliff and needs your help! I tried to help him myself, but he told me to come and get you!"
"What is it Naruto-kun?"
"You didn't stutter, Hinata! That's great!"
plop
"DAMMIT!"
Finally the memories of Hinata stopped. The next door came.
Iruka-sensei.
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"It's so dark." Ino whispered to herself as she walked into a forest memory. "What could Naruto and sensei have possibly done in the woods this late at night?"
"You think he actually cares about you?" A completely hysterical voice shouted in the distance. Ino walked through the trees and towards the sound.
"Mizuki, stop it" Iruka shouted up at said man from the ground.
"He hates you!" Mizuki continued from a branch high up in the tree. "It's your fault. Everything is your fault!"
"Don't listen to him, Naruto!" Iruka begged. "It's not true. I don't blame you. No one does!"
"Don't be a fool, Iruka. Of course they blame him. Why else would they treat him like…" Mizuki smiled as he jumped from the tree. "A demon." Iruka's eyes widened as Mizuki continued. "It's all because he's that damned nine-tailed—!"
"NO!" Iruka cut him off, but it was too late. Naruto picked up the stolen scroll and ran. "No! You-you're not supposed to tell him! It-it's forbidden!"
"He deserved to know." Mizuki said as he turned to chase after Naruto. Iruka followed.
It was a good thing that the memory shifted itself, because Ino had stopped moving. With her mouth open in surprise, she had almost stopped breathing. When the colors faded back in, she collapsed to her knees.
"N-Naruto..." was all she could get out before the shouting started up again.
"I'll put you out of your misery, demon!" Mizuki shouted as he held up a giant shuriken. In one swift movement, so fast that even Ino couldn't catch, the weapon was hurled at Naruto. But it missed its mark.
To be continued….
