True Colours

DING DONG!

"Naruto get the door." Kakashi muttered from underneath the ice pack which Rin had placed across his nose.

"A little busy Kakashi-sensei." Naruto muttered through clenched teeth as he leaned to the right which would somehow help his car to come away from the edge of the cliff on the screen.

"Wait five seconds and Sasuke will have killed you, leaving you free to open the door." Neji said, not looking up from his book. Unfortunately this drew Naruto's attention to him.

"Hey Neji can get it, he's not doing anything important, he's just reading!" Neji looked up from his book only to glare at Naruto.

"Which helps improves your intelligence. Unlike playing video games." He retorted.

DING DONG!

"One of you better get the door otherwise I will let you lovely little fiancées in at seven tomorrow morning." Kakashi snapped. That got everyone's attention which gave Sasuke enough time to shove Naruto off the road in the video game and win the race.

"Damn it! Kakashi-sensei this is your entire fault!" Naruto muttered as he stomped out the room to get the doorbell.

"Yeah but it got you to answer the doorbell." Kakashi muttered and then groaned again at Naruto's rude response to whoever was at the door. "Sasuke go and make sure that Naruto hasn't offended anyone important." Sasuke did the same as Naruto, grumbled but went and did it anyway.

"It's nobody important." He said in an offhand voice and Kakashi heard Fugaku's angry voice. "Oh damn it." Kakashi raised himself up and went out of the door. Neji, Gaara and Shikamaru followed as Sasuke's call of "Sakura!" was heard.

"Why is everyone gathering in the hall?" Neji asked irritably standing by the sitting room door, feeling slightly out of place, considering that Naruto, Sasuke and Shikamaru had gone to stand next to their respective girls while Gaara had leaned on a wall, watching everyone closely. Neji felt comfortable around Tenten, more comfortable that he felt around anyone other than his band mates and Kakashi, but since he did not remember her, he wondered about how much she would welcome. Luckily she solved that problem by coming and standing close next to him, not touching but allowing him to touch her if he wanted. He smiled gratefully at her.

"Did you watch the tape?" Sakura asked Fugaku eagerly, who hesitated but then nodded.

"Well? What did you think?" Hana asked impatiently which Temari elbowed her for. Fugaku looked pained but continued,

"Well I still think I made the right decision in giving Sasuke and his friends those pain-killing, memory-erasing drugs at the hospital earlier," The boys all looked surprised at this, as well as angry, but stayed quiet. "Simply so they could experience another option rather than just you, but it seems even with those options open to them without guilt, they still chose you so I guess, I'm sorry." There was a stunned silence from the group until there was a large cry from the open door that everyone had forgotten about.

"NO!" A spitting mad Karin stalked forward, followed by Ami and Hazuki who looked ready to kill while Kin and Yumi followed, looking unusually happy. "YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR MIND!"

"I assure you I can." Fugaku said coolly. "And stop shouting at me."

"BUT YOU CAN'T!" Hazuki wailed and Sakura and Sasuke (the nearest people) covered their ears at the high pitched screech. "AFTER ALL THE TROUBLE WE WENT TO WITH THE PILLS AS WELL!" It seemed that time froze for a moment with Karin, Kin, Hazuki and Ami looked guilty, or at the very least caught out while the rest of them looked confused.

"What do you mean by pills?" Fugaku asked Hazuki icily. She just gaped back at him and Kin stepped forward.

"Okay confession time. We had these pills from the hospital, the same medicine that caused the memory loss. The plan was to give them to the guys and extend their period of memory loss." Anger was growing on the faces of the girls and the band as well as Fugaku. Yumi was just looked, agape at Kin. "But I didn't like that, it was just going too far, so when Hazuki, Ami and Karin weren't looking, I switched the pills for aspirin, which was still a painkiller but not the same one. That is probably why Sasuke and Naruto have regained their memories. The only thing I don't understand is why Neji and Gaara haven't regained their memories." Kin looked puzzled and once again everyone was too stunned to speak. Well except Hazuki.

"That was me and Ami. We gave Neji and Gaara some extra pills to make it even longer."

"Oh my God Hazuki shut up!" Karin squeaked, inching away from the rest of the group.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Yumi asked Kin.

"You weren't there the first time we came up with the plan and then we only got a chance to give the guys the pills once, or twice in Hazuki and Ami's cases, because after that they didn't eat the food and drink we brought them. Which was probably a good idea now in hindsight." Kin mused.

"Kin and Yumi please can you get out of the way." Sakura said sweetly, pushing up the sleeves of her long sleeved top she was wearing.

"Why? Oh." Yumi noticed how menacing the girls looked so she quickly dragged Kin out of the way of their former friends.

"How dare you drug them?" Sakura hissed as she advanced on Karin.

"I didn't drug them!" Karin cried as she backed away.

"But the intent was there." Sakura hissed back before throwing a punch at Karin's jaw that threw her back against the wall. Karin clutched her jaw looking extremely white-faced before hissing,

"You bitch." And then tackling Sakura. The rest of Sakura's friends took this as a signal and split up to take care of the other two, knowing that Sakura could take care of herself. Temari and Hana inched towards Ami while Hinata and Tenten circled Hazuki. Temari made the first move by pinning Ami to the floor and punching her in the face.

"Don't you ever try to drug my brother again." Hana, being less physical than Temari, decided to attack something else, her vanity. She quickly swiped up a pair of scissors from the hall table and cutting her hair unevenly as close to the head as possible so the only way to make it even was for her to shave her head. When Ami saw her hair on the floor she started screaming and tried to buck Temari off.

"My hair! My beautiful hair! How could you do this to me? You're so mean!" Ami started to sob and with a sigh Temari let her up and sent her out of the open front door. They turned to the others.

Hinata and Tenten had done much the same as them, after Tenten had beaten Hazuki up, Hinata had told her exactly what would happen to her if she came near anyone they were even friendly with again. Sakura had managed to get the better of Karin and had used a whole roll of duct tape she had pulled from somewhere to wrap Karin up so she know resembled a grey mummy.

"Okay Hazuki-san now I want you to take your friend and go home." Hinata told the scared girl quietly. She nodded quickly before rolling Karin out of the door.

"That was satisfying." Tenten summed up and Temari looked thoughtful.

"Now that's done, there's one last thing." She walked up to Kin who watched her warily.

SLAP! Kin helped her red cheek in shock. "That was for even considering drugging them in the first place." Then Temari leaned forward and hugged Kin tightly. "And that was for realising it was wrong and fixing it, even a little bit." Kin was speechless with surprise and made no move to struggle against Yumi dragging over to the door.

"We'll see you guys tomorrow hopefully." Yumi called before she walked out of the door, Kin in tow.

"And now that's everything back to normal, I need to go and tell Mikoto." Fugaku excused himself and followed everyone else, but shut the door behind him.

"He's right. Everything is back to normal. Well almost." Hana amended as she remembered that Neji and Gaara still didn't remember.

"What I want to know is what on earth was on that tape to make him change his mind." Sasuke finally said as everyone trooped into the sitting room.

"Do you want to watch it? Fugaku-san gave me the tape." Temari held up it up and there were nods of agreement all around.

When the video faded in, it was of Kuna's back garden, of the bit near the outdoor swimming pool where there were shouts of laughter. First it focused in on Sasuke and Naruto lying down with their knees bent and Sakura and Hinata sitting on their feet.

"So whoever catches the most grapes wins! Let's go!" And Hinata and Sakura started to throw grapes into their boyfriends' mouths with them twisting and turning without taking their elbows off the ground to catch them. After a short while there were no more grapes and Sakura and Hinata had descended into giggles.

"I caught 12!" Naruto crowed happily as he swept Hinata off her feet and started swinging her round.

"I caught 15." Sasuke said smugly looping his arms around Sakura's waist. "I win." He said lowly before kissing Sakura. Naruto pouted and put a dizzy Hinata down.

"Aw no fair!"

"Come on Naruto-kun, I want to swim in the pool." Hinata tugged gently on Naruto's hand and he followed her lead leaving Sakura and Sasuke alone. The camera panned away to the swimming pool where Temari, Ino and Hana were on lidos while Tenten and Neji were talking in the water and the rest of the guys were threatening to splash the girls or push them off the lidos.

"I swear Sai, if one drop of water so much as touches me, I'll make you cook me a gourmet meal." Ino threatened and Naruto grinned as an evil idea came to him. Letting go of Hinata he took a running jump and dive bombed into the pool, soaking everyone in the process. The people in the water did not mind so much but the people on the lidos shrieked. Shikamaru and Gaara sidled up to Hana and Temari's lidos and quickly ducked underwater and overturned them.

"SHIKAMARU!" Hana shrieked when she saw who had done it and she started to chase him around the pool while Temari dove underwater to try and catch up with her brother. When Ino got turned off by Naruto, it soon turned into a guys against the girls water fight.

"Come on Kakashi-sensei join in!" Sakura called to Kakashi, and the camera bobbed as he put it down and ran to join the two teenagers who had just jumped in.

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The next scene faded in with Gaara kneeling in front of Hana, wrapping gauze around her ankle. Kankuro and Temari came in with a tray with water and pills on it.

"Hey Hana-chan, you okay?" Kankuro ruffled Hana's head while she mock glared up at him. But before she could answer Gaara did.

"Of course she's not okay, she almost broke her ankle." He snapped as his brother while still carrying off with his careful wrapping. Hana rolled her eyes.

"Look I didn't almost broke my ankle, I twisted it when I fell on it funny and it's nothing to worry about, I'll just need to stay off my feet for the next few days. I've had worse. I'm not going to die of a broken ankle." Gaara looked at Hana's reassuring face and hugged her tightly.

"So are you going to relax now?" Kankuro asked Gaara, who shot him a glare quickly but nodded.

"Phew." Temari joked as she put the tray down. "And Hana if your ankle hurts, there is some painkillers here. Also remember to keep that ankle elevated." She reminded her and both Gaara and Kankuro set to work. Gaara lifted up her ankle onto a mound of cushions on the coffee table while Kankuro counted out the number of pills she would need. Here Temari caught sight of the camera.

"What is this doing here?" With that the scene faded out.

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Next was a scene of the patio lit up with many different tea lights in jars so they would not set the shrubbery alight. In the middle of the patio was an oddly shaped figure which turned into Neji and Tenten when the camera focussed. They seemed to be dancing to some faint music in the background.

"Hey Neji have you ever thought of taking over the Hyuuga company? I mean once Hiashi's dead and Hanabi's in charge?" Tenten asked Neji quietly not moving her head from his shoulder.

"I have been thinking about it, but I feel that Hanabi-sama will probably do a good job running it by herself and that way I am more open to other careers. What are you thinking of doing for a career?" Neji said back, his head not changing position from the side of Tenten's head either.

"I'm not quite sure yet, something to do with weapons like owning a weapons shop or something. But I want to use the weapons, I've just never been good at making them but I'm not a fan of guns. It doesn't take much skill to use them." Suddenly she giggled. "Isn't it slightly weird that we're on a romantic date, dancing, we're alone and we're talking about careers?"

"That's just us, Tenten-chan." Neji said smoothly and Tenten laughed. Their heads separated before they came together again when they kissed. It faded out again.

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The next thing it showed was Naruto and Hinata playing cards against Shikamaru and Temari.

"So we're playing against two strategists, how the hell are we going to win?" Naruto said quietly to Hinata and she smiled softly at him.

"By not having a strategy." Naruto's face split into a grin and Hinata continued. "Besides with your luck and our combined determination we'll win this." They smiled at each other, while Shikamaru and Temari looked on suspiciously. The scene blinked in and out and subtitles with, '3 hours later' came across the screen. The same scene came back in, except with many differences.

"How the hell did we lose to them?" Temari asked Shikamaru in disbelief. He rubbed his face.

"I have no idea." He said slowly. Hinata and Naruto were counting their winnings with glee. "I mean any strategy they came up with I could work out and we could defeat it."

"But we lost at everything! Poker, Hearts, Blackjack even Snap!" Shikamaru looked tired.

"It's simple. You can defeat any strategy so we just didn't have a strategy. We relied on luck." Hinata took pity on Shikamaru and Temari before she went back with Naruto, trying to decide how to spend the money and various favours they had won.

"Course. I swear those two are the luckiest people I know." Temari said to Shikamaru as she curled up beside him.

"You can't beat luck." Shikamaru said, leaning back as well.

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The next scene was a very familiar one.

"Yeah we used to do that in the garden..." Sasuke said in a dreamy voice before he fell clutching his head.

"Sasuke-kun!" Karin and Sakura both shouted in alarm but it was Karin who reached out a hand to Sasuke who grabbed it. Karin threw a triumphant look at Sakura before turning back to Sasuke.

"What's happening Sakura?" He muttered but the whole group around him heard it. He did not seem to care but glanced up at the person whose hand he held. He stared at Karin for a moment before throwing her hand away. "You're not Sakura. Where's Sakura?" Sasuke's voice had started to rise in panic at the many people clustered around him and as he cried out in pain again, he did not seem to recognise anyone, shrinking back from anyone trying to help him. Sakura knew what she had to do and knelt beside Sasuke.

"Hey Sasuke-kun, I'm here." She said soothingly to Sasuke as she rubbed his back. Sasuke managed to pull his head up to look at her.

"It's really you." He said in shock and then quick as a snake, he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close. Sakura wrapped her arms around his waist and started talking softly into his ear.

"I'm here Sasuke-kun. It's okay, it'll be okay."

"It hurts Sakura." Sasuke managed to gasp out and the guys (and some of the girls) jaws dropped in shock at hearing Sasuke admitting weakness. Sakura took this in her stride however and just continued to talk to him,

"I know it does Sasuke-kun, but it will be better I promise you." He finally relaxed and collapsed against her.

"So do you remember?" Naruto asked Sasuke, kneeling down beside him. He recognised the symptoms and was quite aware of how much it hurt for over three years' worth of memories to be remembered in an instant.

"Yeah I do." Sasuke said slowly and Sakura hugged him slightly. Karin squeaked in terror, he had remembered and seemed more attached to Sakura than ever before, the question was, why had the pills not worked? Unfortunately for her Sasuke heard and looked up at her with the coldest eyes she had ever seen.

"Get lost Karin." He said steely and she backed up a little in fear. Next Sasuke turned his eyes onto her two lackeys. "Ami and Hazuki, you too." They all made a strangled sound before scurrying off.

"So what do you think?" Hana asked everyone. "I wanted to make it more like a movie but I just needed to get the point across. That everyone was happy without Fugaku's interference and he should just leave well enough alone." She said firmly and then looked at her friends. Sakura and Hinata were crying softly, Temari was rubbing her eyes furiously while Tenten was staring rigidly at the TV, blinking rapidly. All the guys just looked thunderstruck, especially Shikamaru, Neji and Gaara. However Shikamaru's expression was for a different reason than the others, his memories had finally completely come back, even if it was slowly over the past few days. "Was it okay?" Hana asked worriedly and Gaara had the presence of mind to nod while the other girls knelt down beside Hana and caught her in a hug.

"That was so sweet Hana." Sakura sobbed into her shoulder.

"Thanks Hana." Naruto said, smiling slightly.

"Yeah thanks." Sasuke echoed and the other boys grunted in thanks and Hana beamed.

Under a month for the update, a record for me. Sort of.

I've had it pointed out that Ino was missing from last chapter and this one as well. Mostly because she didn't fit in here, but the official story is that she was sick.

Review thanks: kairigurl08, Aiko Yamarashi, Black Rose, Light of the Universe, AngelsHeart0908, bladeshifter, GaaraGrrl, naruto watching freak, totalnarutofangirl85, cherryluver19, darkdeepwater, NarutoFanner, siny, vampire16, Musik Drache, TheBloodyLoveofSakuraHaruno, stormy-g.

Thanks to all the people who looked at my AN, or at least showed they did by answering my question: Light of the Universe, bladeshifter, GaaraGrrl, darkdeepwater, NarutoFanner, vampire16, TheBloodyLoveofSakuraHaruno.

For the vote, I am going to do a mention of Kankuro and Yumi but it is not going to get in the way of the girls (hope I reassured all the people that were worried about this). If you really want a scene where Yumi and Kankuro get together, I can do a short oneshot for you. I like the sound of that.

Anyway next chapter there will be a time skip of about a month. And no, no one will remember in that time skip.

The poll on my profile will be closed when Complete Insanity is complete. As in next chapter. The two winning stories are: Torn Apart and Wrong Time, Wrong Place. And as promised, summaries:

WTWP: A different route to school took Sakura away from the crowds of people, and into a dangerous world of the secret branch of military. Sasuke Uchiha is helping to lead the Leaf into a war against Sound and the Akatsuki but every great man needs a great woman behind him. Sasuke meet Sakura. Sasusaku, NejiTen, TemaShikaIno, NaruHina.

Torn Apart: The war had torn Japan apart, the people left struggled to survive in a lawless world where only the strongest survived. Sasusaku NejiTen ShikaIno NaruHina

If there is a third place story, I'll place that summary in the next chapter or on my profile. Review please! I'm trying for 200!