disclaimer: i don't own Naruto, i do however own Nekome and Kuromi and whatever other characters i make up
chapter 2 is finally up YAY, sry it took a while to update but i was updating some other ffs that I haven't updated in two months, sooo i think u can 4give me. Oh and this is another short chapter, sry.
Chapter 2 – Do I Know You?
Nekome winced as she sat up. She coughed and winced again. She felt like she was going to die. Her eyes were blurry still. She raised a hand and wiped her eyes. Dropping her hadn she looked around. She was sitting in the middle of a road. All around her were crumbling buildings. The fire was gone, most of it at least. A few little fires still burned, but other than that the fires had lost energy ages ago. Nekome thinks back to what happened.
She couldn't remember much. She could remember her dream, all too well. Had that really happened? Nekome didn't want to believe it but in her heart she knew it had actually happened. Other than the dream she remembered being forced to watch as that Itachi man murdered the entire village. Scenes of that event flashed in her mind and she gasped.
She tried to remember even farther back, to before the massacre. Had she known Itachi before he came and killed everyone? But she couldn't remember. She tried to remember anything, the simplest memory about her life. She couldn't remember. She just kept drawing up blanks. Her birthday. Her whole name. Her friends. Her family. Her favourite food. Nothing. That's when a realization hit her like a ton of bricks. She had lost her memory.
Nekome looked around again, eyes wide in shock at her realization. That's when she noticed the little girl. She was standing with facing Nekome, staring wide and teary eyed at something behind Nekome. Nekome looked over her shoulder at the house that was now nothing more than a pile of rubble that Nekome had saved her from. Nekome looked back at the girl. Her own eyes began to water and tears began to spill. She pushed herself up off the ground and stood shakily. She took an unsteady step toward the girl. The girl suddenly spun around and threw herself into Nekome's arms and hugged her. She started sobbing. Nekome didn't know what to do. This girl seemed to know her, but she had no idea who the girl was. She figured the girl needed some reassurance so she hugged her back.
After a few moments Nekome finally found her voice.
"Umm, excuse me," she said.
"Mmhmm?" acknowledged the girl, wiping her tears and looking up at Nekome.
"Do...do I know you?" asked Nekome.
The little girl gave her a puzzled look and loosened her grip on Nekome.
"What do you mean Neko?" she asked. "Of course you know me, I was raised by Hakubo, just like you. You're big brother's closest friend."
"Neko?"
The young girl gave Nekome a worried look.
"Big brother used to call you Neko, it was your nickname. Are you okay, Nekome? You're acting strange," said the girl.
Nekome could see that the young girl was becoming scared. Nekome was getting scared herself. She couldn't understand why she couldn't remember anything about her past. Nekome started to cry and she dropped to her knees and hugged the little girl close.
"I'm sorry! I'm trying to remember. I really am. But no matter how hard I try I can't remember anything," cried Nekome.
"Y-you mean to say that you've lost y-your memory? You can't remember anything? Not even Sasuke?"
Nekome shook her head, causing tears to fly.
"Sasuke?"
For some reason that name, Sasuke, ingnited a number of feelings in her. First it was familiar and comforting. She blushed. Did she have feelings for this Sasuke person? Then, finally some sort of betrayal and loneliness. She frowned. She didn't like that feeling.
"Big brother," answered the girl. "You two were closest friends. From what Hakubo has told me you used to be inseperable until he left."
Suddenly the girl smiled and wiped away her tears. She took Nekome's hand.
"Don't worry Nekome, I'll help you get your memories back. I'll tell you everything I know!" said the little girl. "Oh, I'm Kuromi."
Nekome giggled and so did Kuromi. Nekome stood up. And together they left the destroyed village behind.
A/N – wasn't the best but i sorta wrote it in a hurry. Sry. I might rewrite it later.
until next time, luvzya!
kage no megami
goddess of shadow
(disappears into shadows)
