It's been forever! But I will update this story now after for so long. I'm sorry if this chapter will be crappy since I don't have any good ideas and I will just let my hands do the work for me.

Disclaimer: the plot is not mine but my friend, aoi's, she just allowed me to use because she can't write it herself. And obviously Naruto and all of its characters don't belong to me. They belong to its creator…


Insanity

Chapter 7

"Sasuke… why'd you… kiss me…?"

Startled, Naruto didn't know what to do but just stare at the figure in front of him. Sasuke on the other hand just remained at his position, silent. All they did was look at each other, both bothered of what had just happened. Naruto didn't know why Sasuke had kissed him and Sasuke doesn't know what had overcome him to do such a thing.

"Naruto…I…"

Sasuke couldn't answer the boy's question. He didn't even know the answer himself, so how could he answer him. He then just hugged the blonde before him, holding him tightly in his arms. His tears started to drop slowly on his lover's shoulder.

"Sasuke…"
"I… I'm glad… that… you woke up… I thought that you… you…. never… I…"

His words were stuttered due to the overflowing emotions in him. He couldn't speak properly and kept pausing every now and then. He just couldn't help it. He had to let everything out. He never thought that this day would come, the day when he can hold Naruto in his arms once more, the day he would feel his warmth again.

"Sasuke…stop it… don't cry…"
"Hehe… you dobe… don't mind me…"
"Sasuke… don't call me a dobe… you idiot…"
"Hehe… he…"

Just then, Naruto hugged Sasuke back. He held him close, as the other was crying in his arms. Tears from his beloved fell onto his clothing. His tears would not stop. I guess you could say that it was too much happiness that he could handle.

……

A month has gone by ever since that time. Naruto was released from the hospital the previous week and is now back home. Even when his memories were all lost, he still continues to live a normal life. Well sort of… It's actually hard on him. People kept calling his name but he didn't know who they were. It was strange, everybody knows you but you don't know any of them.

He usually confined himself to his home, like right now. No one really visits him, so it's peaceful. Sasuke drops by every now and then, but missions keep him busy so he's not around much.

Naruto just lay on the floor, looking up to the ceiling. "I wish they'd give me a mission…"

Due to Naruto's condition, he wasn't given any difficult missions. They sometimes gave him D or C ranked missions but those were usually handled by Genins and Chuunins. Since he was a Jounin ranked ninja, normally he was to take on higher ranked missions… but his condition just wouldn't allow that.

He remembers absolutely nothing about his past. He doesn't even know how to control his charka anymore! He doesn't remember that his favorite food was ramen or that he had a nine-tailed demon inside of him. Nothing is in his mind now… only the new memories he started having ever since he woke up. He barely remembers Sasuke… he only knows that Sasuke was an important person to him before.

And now… Sasuke was his only hope… His only anchor in this treacherous storm…

……

It was dark all around. There was no light. It was like a seemingly endless void. There was nothing… no sound… no light… no hope… a darkness that represents the sadness in one's heart. A lost and wandering soul, uncertain of where to go, or who to go to, or why he even exists.

This dark void represents all of that. The emotions of a lost and wandering soul…

"Where am I…?"

In the darkness, there was one standing there, looking around. A small and youthful soul. A blonde by the name of Naruto. His mind was in confusion, he was lost… Drifting and wandering aimlessly in the darkness that is his heart and mind.

Walking to what seems to be nowhere; a figure appears from the shadows. A familiar body… The blonde started walking toward the familiar being. Slowly walking… the figure, slowly drifting farther away with each step that he took.

He stopped…

The figure turned around, his face couldn't be seen. It was covered in the shadows. Even so, the blonde had recognized this person. The person standing far away from him…

"Sasuke!"

The figure turned back… and started walking away… slowly disappearing into the shadows once more. Naruto started to run, trying to catch this mysterious figure… but to no avail…

"SASUKE!"

……

"SASUKE!"

Naruto quickly sat up. He put his hand on his face, realizing that it was all just a dream.

"I-It… it was… j-just… a d-dream…. ah… a dream…"

He was shaking in his place. Shivering uncontrollably and involuntarily. What he had wasn't a dream… it was a nightmare. The thought of Sasuke… his only hope of ever getting his memories back… disappearing and leaving him behind. It scared him. He just wouldn't know what to do if that would happen!

"Ha…ha… ha… it was… a dream…"

Laughing slowly… It was all a dream and yet it seemed all so real. He doesn't want to believe that Sasuke would ever leave him.

"He… he won't leave me… he… he…. I… I'm sure of it… he wouldn't… abandon me… there's no way… that… that he would…"

He sat there. Repeatedly muttering to himself the same words… "Sasuke… won't… leave me…" Still shivering, the thought of this comforted him a bit… but that little feeling of comfort hadn't helped him at all. Fear had still overwhelmed ability to think straight. The fear had him in its grasp… and it was slowly… piece by piece… devouring his soul… trapping it in a void of darkness… just like in his dream…

……

All gathered in a circle… Men in black cloaks stood there. Black cloaks decorated by red clouds. And all of them were wearing rings on different fingers. 9 of them stood there. Faces covered by the darkness.

"It's time… We should get the Kyuubi now while Naruto is weak."
"I heard that he had lost his memory, does he remember about the demon fox?"
"It seems not… "
"We have to strike now, there might not be another chance like this."

A finger had pointed to two of the figures who were standing next to each other. His fingernail's were colored in a light shade of purple and a ring on his finger slightly glimmered in the little amount of light in the room.

"The two of you go and capture Kyuubi."
"Understood."

Then they all withdrew into the shadows. Leaving no trace of their prescence…


A/N: That is all for now! Why? because… one, I'm lazy. two, I have no idea how to write what's next! But you can guess what's going to happen can't you? I'll try to update soon. but I'm not making any promises... 'kay?

now... review! for it makes my world go round. flames are happily accepted as well!