Hello again. New chapter, new characters! The story is slowly getting there! Thanks for all the comments and the corrections of the ninja weapons spellings. Hope you like it! Let me know what you think!
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Chapter 5
It was before dawn. The sky was a delicate tint of grey but the mild air held a promise of a beautiful day to come.
A solitary figure stood at a memorial in the grey light.
His hands in his pockets, Kakashi stared paying his respects to the dead.
He'd arrived earlier then usual that morning as he had to meet Sasuke and Sakura.
The Hokage had agreed that it would be wise to keep his development of the Mangekyou Sharingan to themselves. The other teachers who knew from the brief the night before had been instructed like wise. There was no need to draw unwanted attention to Kakashi, you never could tell whose ears news reached. Tsunade was thinking of Itachi being the only known person to be able to use it, she didn't want him to see Kakashi as in competition or a threat to him.
Saying a final prayer Kakashi turned away from the memorial, heading to meet two of his students.
He was meeting the pair outside the academy. He didn't see any point in making them go far just to find out he wasn't training with them today. He was going to fill them in on Naruto's situation, only what they needed to know mind, before going to get the boy. He was counting on Naruto's habit of sleeping late to get to his house before he woke.
Sakura wouldn't over react to the news, he didn't think...no, if either of them were going to cause him problems it would be Sasuke. He would be the one asking awkward questions.
Grimly Kakashi walked on as the sun rose behind him, casting his lengthened shadow before him.
It was going to be a rough day.
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Shutting the door behind him Sasuke walked out into the morning sunshine. Turning, he set off towards the ninja academy to meet Kakashi with the rest of team 7.
Damn Naruto.
Kakashi had blown off all training yesterday to spend the entire day with Naruto. He'd grow stronger since he went away with Jariya. One of the senin…
Why had someone so strong taken interest in Naruto?
But he wasn't the only one.
Uchia Itachi.
His brother.
He'd come to Konoha solely for Naruto…
Something was going on and he was going to find out what.
His onyx eyes shone darkly.
"Sasuke-kun!" a voice cried distantly.
Great.
Putting his hands in his pockets he fought the urge to walk faster.
You'd have thought she'd got the hint by now.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cried as she dropped into step next to him, panting lightly.
For a moment she merely walked along side him silently as she caught her breath, then the one person convocation began…
"Isn't it a lovely day? I hope we don't have to do anything too difficult or boring" Sakura chatted happily, though to herself. She was just being cheerful but as always it was wasted on Sasuke.
Turning the corner the academy came into view. Sasuke passed a quick glance over it, not expecting to see anyone, certainly not a white haired jounin.
He did a double take.
What! Kakashi early?
Leaning against a wall in the shade was indeed Kakashi and for once without a 'come come paradise' book in his hand.
No sign of Naruto though.
Sasuke suppressed a smile.
The dobe had probably had his ass kicked yesterday; bet he's still in bed recovering.
Funny enough, Sasuke wasn't far from the truth.
Kakashi looked up as they approached. Sakura had finally fallen silent.
"Yo." Kakashi said in his usual manor.
"It's not like you Kakashi-sensei to be early." Sakura said quietly in a way that was almost a question.
"Well, I didn't want to keep you waiting for nothing." He said from where he leant against the wall. "As there's not going to be any training or missions today."
"Why not?" Sasuke asked. His face emotionless as though he'd been carved from marble.
"Well, I've got some unfortunate news to tell you about Naruto." Kakashi sighed. "Yesterday when I was sparring Naruto, he was injured-"
Hah!
"-and has a significant amount of memory loss."
Huh?
Kakashi paused to allow his words to sink in.
"The last thing he remembers properly is graduating from the academy." Kakashi said sadly as his visible eye looked between the two.
Sakura stood wide eyed with her hands over her mouth.
"Is he ok?" Sakura whispered after a pause.
Kakashi smiled sadly. "He was well enough to run around half of Konoha last night as well as attacking Ebisu and me." Looking at their stunned faces he explained a bit further. "He didn't meet me or Ebisu until he was put into team 7 and so has no memory of us. You are both welcome to visit him. He'll remember the both of you as you were in his class but I wouldn't recommend doing that today."
"How did it happen?" Sasuke asked coldly.
"The Hokage isn't sure but it seems he will just regain his memory over time."
He's hiding something again. People don't lose their memory from injuries sustained in sparring matches!
"You two are free to do as you will today. I'm sorry but I have to go." Kakashi said. From where he still stood leaning on the wall Kakashi disappeared in a white cloud.
For a while the two were silent, though for very different reasons.
"Isn't that awful Sasuke? I think I'll buy him some flowers to give him." Sakura said sadly.
"I've got to go. I'll see you." Sasuke said without looking at her.
He didn't believe a word of this. Someone was lying.
Turning away Sasuke walked back towards the main part of town. He would keep watch out for Naruto all day if he had to. There was something that had been going on around Naruto for a while, and he was going to find out what.
"BYE SASUKE-KUN!" Sakura cried from somewhere behind him.
Cringing he picked up his pace.
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Groggily Naruto sat down at his table. Picking up his chop sticks he started to eat his instant ramen.
Mmm nothing better then instant ramen for breakfast.
He had to get out of his house soon. The 'Hokage' had said someone would come for him in the morning. He wanted to be gone by then. It was still quite early. Too early. Did people really get up at such unholy hours?
Leaving his rubbish on the table Naruto got up and went for a wash.
Who would have thought Konoha would have changed so much so quickly? It was depressing.
Having finished washing Naruto went out the back door.
He wanted to get a look at the town before whoever it was who would be coming for him got there.
He wanted to see what else had changed.
With an effort he focused.
He didn't want to be recognised by anyone because the chances were he wouldn't remember them.
Pressing his hands together he cried "Henge!"
The cloud cleared to reveal his female transformation he used for Sexy no Jutsu (but wearing his clothes) except he'd made the hair brown.
That should make sure that no one recognised him.
Walking down the fire exit stairs he froze.
He'd heard knocking. Was it his front door?
Silently he broke into a run.
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Kakashi knocked again before letting himself in. He didn't fancy being attacked by a confused and angry Naruto first thing in the morning, so it was best to give him some warning.
It was empty. He didn't even have to look around to tell Naruto wasn't home. It just had that feel. He couldn't sense the boy's prescence here.
Reeling off a list of hand seals Kakashi disappeared.
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The streets were just starting to get busy as Naruto walked amongst the people, looking at the shops. Nothing seemed especially different. The colours maybe.
Mostly he was too preoccupied with his current form.
No one was looking at him, or deliberately not looking at him. No whispering. No pointing. It was wonderful just to blend in.
He saw a couple of people his own age but he didn't recognise them.
He didn't recognise anyone.
Sighing he resumed looking around. He was bored of this already.
Then his eyes landed on one of the most heavenly places! The ramen stall! It was still there!
He was about to literally run over there and pig out, he knew he had some money in his pocket, he didn't even care that he'd just had breakfast.
Then he heard someone call him.
"Yo, Naruto."
It was very close.
Panicking he didn't know what to do. Last time he'd been recognised like this it had been that weird old man. He could pretend he hadn't heard, that it wasn't him…but if they'd called out then they must know its him…
Turning slowly he looked over his shoulder.
"Yo." Kakashi said smiling where he stood right behind him over to one side.
For a second he simply stared then…
"Ahhh!" Naruto cried from shock before running straight ahead.
"No-wait! Naruto!" Kakashi said before sweat dropping.
He'd been right then, it was Naruto.
Sighing, Kakashi broke into a jog after the crazy brunette running ahead of him.
Yeah, today was defiantly going to be a bad day.
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Sasuke was walking along with his hands in his pockets, scanning the crowd for either Naruto or Kakashi's face. He wasn't far from the ramen stall, he was going to check there first, it was one of the most likely places to find Naruto if you were ever looking for him.
That's when he heard it.
"Ahhh!"
It was a girl's scream but it sounded familiar…
In the street ahead of him he saw a girl with long brown hair wearing an orange jumpsuit run past out of sight. A second later the girl's pursuer appeared. Kakashi obvious due to his brilliant white hair ran past in pursuit of the girl.
Sasuke stared for a moment before turning around.
He knew his teacher was obsessed with those perverted books but he didn't want to see him re-enacting any of them.
Sasuke walked away without looking back. He would find Naruto later. There were just something's you weren't meant to see.
Your teacher acting like a pervert was one of them.
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Naruto had finally lost him. He was sitting at the top of the cliff where he was able to look down and see the hair, foreheads and noses of the faces of the Hokages.
It had taken a couple of clones, a number of transformations and a lot of speed but he had finally got away from the white haired ninja.
He was exhausted though. At one point it felt like he'd been going to faint! He'd only got about one hours sleep; he'd been doing quite a bit of running last night too!
Leaning back he propped himself up with one arm as he wiped his brow with his free hand.
Someone was sitting next to him.
He hadn't seen them as his arm had blocked his sight from that eye.
Slowly Naruto turned to stare in a mixture of horror and disbelief at the man next to him. It was the ninja with white hair and one eye.
He hadn't even heard him!
"I'm getting worried Naruto, you take that form too often." Kakashi hinted darkly
Snapping out of it Naruto glared at the nin.
"At least I'm not stared at like this. But you wouldn't understand that." Naruto said angrily.
For a moment they were both silent, Naruto staring straight ahead angrily, still a girl, whilst Kakashi watched him.
"Ok. So who are you?" Naruto finally asked turning to his sensei.
"Your teacher."
"Pff! Like that's a lot of good! What's your name?" Naruto snapped but his heart wasn't really in it. He was tired of running, he'd much rather talk.
"Kakashi."
"And what's going on?" Naruto asked
"You heard what the Hokage said last night didn't you?" Kakashi asked uneasily. He was going to have to explain what he did to him…
"Funny enough I didn't hear what she said. I was still getting over the fact that I'm missing a huge chunk of my memory as well as having been chased around in the dark by a load of weirdo's!"
"I'll explain everything on two conditions." Kakashi said emotionlessly.
"What are they?" Naruto asked a little worried.
"First you have to listen to what I am saying all the way through without getting up, running around or getting angry." Kakashi said firmly
Was what he had to say that bad?
"Yeah, ok. What's the second?"
"Second is that I'm not going to talk to you when you're a girl. Release that jutsu." Kakashi said. He was getting worried, not just about Naruto for him continuing to turn into a girl but he was also worried about himself. Naruto was a very pretty girl.
"Fine." Naruto said rolling his eyes. A white cloud hid him, blowing away to unveil the real Naruto.
Taking a deep breath Kakashi started to explain.
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