Disclaimer I wish I owned Naruto but I don't. Masashi Kisimoto does.

chapter 15

Sasuke and I were put into a separate barrels after Sakon drugged us. I prevented him from drugging me by making a shadow clone take the drug. I acted as if it worked and let myself put into a barrel. We were carried first by Jirobo and Sakon. Soon I felt like I was being thrown and I heard the Konoha nin coming. I think Jirobo was staying behind to keep Konoha away from us.

I felt something crawl up my leg when we had mowed again. I tried to catch it which Ukon noticed. "Stop moving so much in there." He said shaking the barrel. The shaking caused the bug to fall from me.

I avoided squishing it. It turned out to be a Kikaichū from Shino. "Hey there, little guy. Did your master tell you to stay with me?"
the small bug did a push up which meant yes. "Well then, as soon as you get the chance go tell him that I will be just fine and that I will come back home when I've done what I have to do." He did a push up again and hid in a pocket of my flak jacket.

Soon we stopped moving. My barrel was opened by Sasuke. "We have to leave before Naruto catches up with us. Kimimaro will hold him back."
I nodded and got out leaving the bug out too. We ran to the valley of the end. Sasuke jumped first. Then it was my turn. "SASUKE! YURI! STOP RIGHT THERE!" Naruto yelled. I jumped but I missed Madara's hair because Naruto managed to grab my jacket which caused me to jump less far away. I managed to get a grip on Madara's hair, but I slipped. Sasuke went to pull me up but I was still scared of falling so I squirmed a bit.

"Yuri stop moving. I can't help you if you keep struggling. Calm down." He gritted his teeth. Because of my struggling, Sasuke couldn't help but let go. I fell deep and fast. Too fast. I think I hit my head because I swear I saw two figures moving after me. Then I heard buzzing sounds before everything went black.

I woke up while I was being carried by someone. It was Shino, he carried me bridal style. I think he knew I was awake because I was sat down against a tree. I saw Kakashi carrying Naruto. Sasuke was gone. I had failed my mission from Itachi. I told Shadow to go tell Itachi.
"Yuri how are you feeling? are you dizzy? do you have a headache? how many fingers am I pointing up?"

"Fine, no,no, and two fingers. What happened?" I asked.

"Sasuke and Naruto fought. You were almost killed but Shino brought you to safety." Kakashi explained while tending to Naruto's wounds.

"I see, but why would you go after us?" I asked Shino with annoyance in my eyes.

"I thought you would know why. I told you when you left the village." He told me looking sad about me forgetting what he told me near the gate.

I was confused and my head hurt. I held it trying to remember what Shino had told me. "Oooowww. My head hurts." I felt something sticky in my hair and when I held my hand before my eyes there was blood on it. Shizune came with Sakura.

Sakura went to Naruto and Shizune checked me for wounds. "You have hit your head pretty hard. Do you remember what happened?"

"I left the village with Sasuke. He knocked a girl out cold when she tried to interfere and we left. We met some people who I can't remember the names of. after that everything is dark." I spoke slowly trying to remember everything.

"Do you remember what happened before you left the village? why you wanted to leave?" She asked looking me straight in the eye.

I tried to remember. "I had returned with a blonde woman and that boy over there. and you I believe." The woman looked at the boy who held me sit straight up.

"Yuri, do you remember this man's name?" She asked me with worry in her eyes, while a man with grey hair and a mask sat in front of me. I looked closely trying to remember.

"No." I said. the man looked hurt. "I'm sorry. I feel dizzy." everything went dark again.

No PoV

Shizune panicked when Yuri was knocked out again. "Shino you have to take her as fast as possible to Tsunade. Tell her what happened. She knows what to do. I promise everything will be all right." She told him when she saw how worried he was. Shino nodded sadly and picked Yuri up carefully. He went to the village careful of not bumping Yuri's head too much. He felt horrible because Yuri Once he arrived in the village he went to the hospital where he found Tsunade.

"Hokage-sama! Yuri needs your medical attention. She hit her head really bad and she is losing her memory as we speak! Please help her!" The Hokage had never seen an Aburame so emotional. She ordered a nurse to take Yuri over so she could hear the whole thing.

"Shino calm down. Then tell me everything that happened while I look at her wounds." Tsunade said. Shino took a deep breath and calmed down enough to tell her what happened

"After they left us at the gate I woke up and saw that Lee was going after them. He told me that he just couldn't stay behind because he was feeling useless if he couldn't help keep our friends and teammates with us. I felt the same way and decided to go with him also because he still recovering from the operation.

We found Naruto but we were stopped by a ninja named Kaguya Kimimaro. He challenged us to give Uchiha and Yuri a head start. Lee took the challenge and we were helped by the Sand siblings. I went on after Naruto. When I came there Yuri was falling because Naruto had tried to grab her before she could jump. I dived after her sending my bugs under her to catch her. Uchiha dived after her too, but he was caught up in a fight with Naruto. I couldn't catch her before she hit her head on a rock. After I got her I brought her to safety and was greeted by Kakashi. He treated the worst of her wound and told me to wait until she was conscious.

The fight was over before Yuri woke up. Kakashi is taking Naruto home by the way. We met with Shizune and Sakura who treated Naruto and Yuri and Yuri started to lose her memory. She forgot what happened when she left the village, who you are, who Naruto is and who Kakashi is. Then she was out cold again. Shizune panicked and told me to leave as quickly as I could and bring her to you."

"I understand. Well we have to wait until she wakes up, to see how bad the memory loss is, She has to take surgery first because there is a really small shard of stone that is stuck in her skull we have to remove it immediately or else it might puncture her brain." Tsunade ordered a few nurses to prepare the surgery room. They ran and Tsunade looked at the Aburame boy who was staring in the general direction of the Azura heir's room. She was reminded of herself when.. no she couldn't think of that now. She had a surgery to do.

"Shino I suggest that you go home or find something to do. This surgery will take a long time." Tsunade told him calmly. Then she left him while he was praying in his mind to Kami, that Yuri would survive the surgery. He went to take a walk but he ended up at the hospital no matter what route he took.
His father had tried to talk him into going home. Shino agreed but he couldn't eat or anything. Kiba and Hinata had joined him when he was back in the hospital, as did Lee, Neji and Tenten. they tried to cheer him up by saying that Yuri would be all right. After ten hours, the red light of the surgery room went out. Tsunade was the first who walked out. "Hokage-sama, how is she?" Neji asked as he saw her coming as first one. "Yuri is all right, the surgery was successful but.."

"But w-what, Tsunade-sama?" Hinata asked her following Neji's lead.

"Yuri's memory loss wasn't caused by the stone shard. She had a small tumor in her brain. I was able to remove it safely, but I don't know for sure how bad the memory-loss is. Yuri will have to stay two days after she has woken up, so we will be able to determine how much we will have to teach her. It might be that she will be like a baby needing to learn everything like walking and talking but that is the worst scenario. I think it will be that she knows the basics like eating, walking, talking and sleeping." I hope it is like that. the fifth thought.

"Is there anything we can do?" Tenten asked worried for her team-mate and best friend.

"When she wakes up, we will test what she knows. We could use some help with that. I think it will help if someone familiar could do those tests with her." was Tsunade's answer.

Shino was happy to know that Yuri would stay alive. He was sad about her memory-loss and he was determined to help her with relearning. He knew that Kakashi would be able to help too because he was almost family to her. Shino left the hospital after Tsunade said that they could see Yuri that evening. He went to Kakashi's apartment hoping that the jounin was home. He had luck. Kakashi opened the door looking as if he just came out of bed. "Kakashi-sensei, there is news about Yuri." Shino was let in.

"Tell me everything you know." Kakashi said while making some tea. Shino repeated everything Tsunade had said and drank the tea. Kakashi felt happy that Yuri would be fine but he hoped that she would be able to remember him. He saw her like family he never had. Shino left again to tell his father what happened.

That evening Kakashi, Shino and Tenten met in the hospital. They all wanted to know how things were with Yuri. Sakura just came out of her room. "You all came to see Yuri?" She asked. The three ninja nodded. "You can come in then. I have just checked her vitals and she will be fine as Tsunade-sensei said we have to wait until she wakes up. She is still asleep now we calculated that she will probably wake up tomorrow morning."

They nodded but when they walked in, they were unpleasantly surprised. Some dark figure was kidnapping Yuri! Kakashi and Shino went into action immediately. Shino made his bugs surround the enemy and slowly slide Yuri out of the enemy's hands. Unfortunately the enemy noticed and got a better grip on Yuri while doing the hand signs for transportation technique. Kakashi tried to put the enemy in a genjutsu while tenten threw a kunai but they failed to hit the figure. They did rip a piece of his clothing. The enemy was gone and the Kunai had landed deep into the wall with a piece of black clothing and a small part of a red cloud with white outlining.

Kakashi took the piece of clothing and went to the Hokage. "Tsunade-sama, Yuri was taken by Akatsuki from the hospital!" He said. "I know I just had reports of AKatsuki sightings near the gate. It was probably Itachi because his blue partner knocked the guards out. At least we don't have to worry about them killing her or taking intel from her about our village. I think she will return soon."

Kakashi understood because he knew that her father was one of the members of that criminal organization. Yuri would be safe. he hoped.

Somewhere in the forest...

"Itachi, why do we end up taking this girl every single time we are in this land?" Kisame asked his partner in crime while carrying the girl he talked about.

"Orders from Leader. He wants the girl for her power and since she might have lost her memory we will be able to teach her about our ways of living being good so she will be loyal to us." The Uchiha explained.

"I understand. It will be like all of us have a child together won't it?" Kisame asked

"Yes I suppose." Itachi answered feeling a bit tired. Kisame, who was always alert for those signs sped up to find a place to camp. Luckily they found a small cavern where they could spend the rest of the night.