Yes, hello once again! Before you read this I would like to point out an error of mine where I said at the top of the first chapter: "its set somewhere after Tsnade becoming Hokage and Saske leaving to go to Orochimaru." What I meant to say was after Tsunade was hokage but BEFORE Sasuke left to go to Orochimaru. I'm saying this now coz it's important as the next chapter will include all of team 7 so Sasuke will be there. I realised this mistake a while ago but I'm too lazy to take down that chapter to change one word. That's the kinda person I am.
Sorry for such a long rant straight away! Thank you again for all the comments. I've made this chapter longer on request (it's prob not much longer but I tried --")and yes, Sasuke, Sakura as well as the other characters will be introduced into the story soon!
Thanx again! Enjoy!
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Chapter 4
"Naruto-Kun! You must remember me, your elite teacher Ebisu!" the man wearing the sunglasses said as he smiled in possibly the most annoyingly smug way ever.
"I don't know this guy but I don't like him!" Naruto thought as his eye twitched again. "How many teachers have I had!"
They seemed to be waiting for a reply but when they didn't get one Kakashi tried instead to talk to Naruto:
"Naruto." He said softly when the boy suddenly cut across him, breaking his silence, only to completely ignore Kakashi.
"Ebisu? Hm. Ebisu. Ebisu." Naruto muttered over and over to himself whilst watching them through narrowed eyes.
The two teachers shared a quick glance at this strange chant Naruto was reciting to himself.
Naruto felt like the name was a feather tickling his brain. He almost had it, he could…almost…remember…
Naruto fell silent as his chanting gave way to a strained expression. As though hypnotised by his strange behaviour they continued to watch.
"I know I know you, and I don't think I like you…" Naruto said shrewdly as he pointed at Ebisu as he watched him through narrowed eyes.
He couldn't be sure but Naruto thought he saw the man twitch out of anger at this comment.
"Impertinence! I'll teach you to respect your superiors!" Ebisu said angrily but Naruto was staring at him with open mouth, his eyes the size of dinner plates.
"I remember you!" he said before his face twisted into a smile of pure evil. "You're the closet pervert!"
Pressing his hands together Naruto crossed his fingers in the hand seal for Kage Bunshin no jitsu.
Crying out the name of the move four clones appeared, two on each side of Naruto. Still smiling the real Naruto remained motionless as the four clones pressed their hands together as though molding charkra.
"Henge!" the clones cried in unison and suddenly Naruto was flanked by four beautiful naked blond girls!
Together the giggling clones dived forward, two latching onto Ebisu and two onto Kakashi.
"Sayonara baka!" Naruto laughed as he pulled out a smoke bomb. Throwing it on the ground he disappeared into the cloud of white, leaving Ebisu and Kakashi to deal with the clones.
Leaping into the darkness, his humour didn't last long. He remembered the guy with the sunglasses, Ebisu, so did that mean he knew the other people who had approached him?
From the moment he had woken up he had not thought, he'd acted only on impulse.
As though the dawning memory of Ebisu had been a trigger Naruto felt himself drawn into his memory…
The last thing he remembered solidly was graduating the academy but he knew he was older then that, he felt older then that. He didn't know what but he felt as though something was missing between then…and now.
Jumping from the roof of a building Naruto landed in the darkened street below. Turning to his left Naruto was about to run when a kuni struck the wall behind him as it flew past, inches from his face.
Looking up he saw no one. The rooftops were empty, the streets still, but there was the kuni as solid as ever sticking out of the brick wall.
His eyes wide, Naruto scanned the darkness before running the in the opposite direction.
He didn't know why he was running; he wasn't going to leave the village. He didn't know where he was going.
"What's going on!" he mentally screamed.
What he really wanted right now was a friendly face but he hadn't had many of those when he had graduated…
He could go home but if they knew who he was then they'd defiantly know where he lived, if he still lived in the same place since he'd graduated.
There was no point, he couldn't get away. He was being followed.
The ally forked in front of him.
Without warning numerous shrunken flew out of the darkness, this time directly at him. Naruto was forced to leap back into the mouth of the right fork to avoid being hit. Without stopping Naruto sprinted onwards down the new street. This continued, each time there was a new turn off he was herded by dodging the shrunken and kuni as they flew at him, each time only offering one path of escape.
In his confusion, as he ran from this unseen foe, Naruto didn't realise he was being forced down a pre-decided path.
He was being led round in a circle through the back ally's away from the main streets.
Eventually out of breath Naruto stood resting at the base of the cliff where the Hokages faces were carved.
"Even they've changed." He thought sadly as he looked up.
There was a crack across the 3rd Hokage's face. How long had it been there? How had it happened?
Slowly Naruto looked over his shoulder, turning to face away from the stern stone faces.
He didn't know how long they had been there but there were more of them then before.
Behind him stood the ninja with one eye from before as well as the one who was stupidly wearing sunglasses in the dark. Ebisu, that perverted moron. He had been the whole reason Naruto had used his 'Sexy no jitsu' as he remembered using it on him before.
But there was more then just the two this time. There was some weirdo wearing green spandex with them. With an effort Naruto pulled away his gaze. That spandex was way too revealing, it was like witnessing some horrible accident, no matter how much you tried to look away your eyes were always drawn back.
He felt confused angry and tired, not to mention hungry. He didn't know who these people were or what was going on. He'd been chased all the way around the village by having knives and things thrown at him from every angle, and now he was trapped, his back was literally up against the wall.
Through his anger and confusion Naruto felt something hot rising up through him.
"What do you want?" Naruto growled, his voice harsher then usual.
"You've got to come with us, the Hokage wants to speak to you." The white haired one said.
"That foolish woman's not the Hokage." He snarled.
"You will be respectful to the great Tsunade!" The spandex clad ninja declared.
Stepping forward Naruto felt the heat spread all the way through him.
As he stepped forward his eyes turned scarlet, his pupils were vertical slits.
A shape shot through the darkness, leaping from a rooftop to land next to Kakashi.
"Naruto stop!" cried a familiar voice.
Squinting he took a step towards this new person. That voice, could it be…
"Master Iruka?" Naruto questioned.
"It's me Naruto; please calm down, no one intends to harm you." Iruka said stepping forward so Naruto could see him more clearly.
For the first time since waking Naruto felt calm and strangely relieved.
They could all see Naruto clearly as the light behind them shone on him.
His eyes faded from red back to blue as he felt his energy fading.
One moment there had been a bristling Naruto before them with the Kyuubi's scarlet eyes…now there stood the boy they all knew.
Wide eyed and innocent he shook his head.
"What the hell is going on!" he cried
Naruto passively allowed himself to be taken to the Hokage's office without speaking.
"Wow. Tsunade was right." Kakashi thought. If Iruka hadn't caught up to them Naruto would certainly have fought. The mere appearance of his old sensei had stopped the Kyuubi's charkra.
The boy now sat in the chair in front of the Hokages desk facing Tsunade on the other side. The other jounin stood around the edges of the room whilst Iruka fidgeted over to one side as he watched the blond teen.
"Where's old man Hokage?" Naruto asked stubbornly.
"I am the current Hokage. Sadimane is dead." Tsunade said as she rested her hands in front of her on the desk.
Naruto simply stared, his large cerulean eyes expressing unspoken sadness.
"The old man…dead?"
"Look, Naruto. I know you're confused and that this is all a shock to you but deep down you already know all of this." The Hokage paused as she studied the boy's face. "What is the last thing you remember?
This caused Naruto's head to snap up sharply as his eyes narrowed with anger.
"The last thing I remember is waking up in hospital with this weirdo (jabs thumb over his shoulder at Kakashi) sitting there watching me. Next thing I know some old pervert is coming onto me then I'm getting shrunken thrown at me from every angle!" he snarled before folding his arms and turning his face away.
Seeing Tsunade twitch with anger Iruka moved forward quickly before either of them could erupt.
Placing a hand on Naruto's shoulder Iruka said: "What's the last thing you remember before today Naruto."
The boy's face softened but he did not move.
"Graduating the academy." He said quietly.
"I remember him a bit too" Naruto said as he pointed at Ebisu.
Tsunade flicked through the pages of a file in front of her on the desk.
"Do you remember how you graduated?" Tsunade asked looking up from the pages.
"Yes." He said sulkily.
He could feel their eyes upon him. He had never spoken about his graduation with anyone. Was this woman, the 'Hokage' about to share it with everyone in the room? He sincerely hoped not.
"Then…you remember what's inside you?" she said seriously, her eyes pinning him down.
Immediately he dropped his gaze from Tsunades unable to bear looking at her. She knew what he was, they all did. He could feel their eyes on him.
"…'s" Naruto muttered in confirmation, barely audible.
"Ok. This is the situation. During a sparring match Kakashi's Sharingan advanced to become the Mangekyou Sharingan. Naruto suffered a server psychological attack. It seems that even though he has been healed Naruto's mind has repressed the majority of his memories to protect him. This is because what Kakashi unknowingly forced Naruto to witness was the sealing of the Kyuubi. I don't know why he's lost such a large section of his memory but I'm confident that he will regain it over time. It was upon seeing Ebisu-san that he remembered their first meeting. Hopefully such prompts will trigger his memories." Tsunade paused as she watched over her steepled fingers.
"Iruka could you please escort Naruto home. I'll brief you later." Tsunade said to Iruka. Turning to Naruto she continued: "Naruto, you must be accompanied by someone at all times. Due to your memory loss you don't know what danger you're in. Go home and someone will come for you in the morning."
Without looking once at the Hokage Naruto got up, emphasizing his disrespect as he sharply turned his back on Tsunade he walked to the door. Iruka bowed slightly to the Hokage before following Naruto out of the office.
"Naruto must always be accompanied even if it's not any of you or the other teachers then a chuunin or his team mates. Atsuki are still after him and with him not remembering half of his ninja career he will be ignorant of many things. He also may not remember the jitsu's he has learnt since then so he will be more vulnerable then ever." Tsunade said seriously into their silence.
With a grim expression on her face the Hokage closed Naruto's folder.
"This will prove to be more troublesome then first expected." Tsunade sighed. "Kakashi, as his teacher I want you to keep an eye on him. I'll let you deal with explaining the situation to his team mates Sasuke and Sakura. That is all."
And with that the group of jounin's took their leave.
Lying in his darkened room Naruto did not sleep. Staring at the star spangled night sky through his window he suffered the misery of exhaustion without the relief of sleep. It was with the rising of the sun that sleep finally came for him.
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(Another) Author Rant
I'm sorry if that chapter seemed slow, it was slow to write. I'm making up for the lack of action in the next chapter! Once again, let me know what you think ;)