Gone and Forgotten

Summary: Orochimaru has launched a full out war on Konoha once again demanding for the last Uchiha, Uchiha Sasuke. With the newly appointed Rokudaime, Uzumaki Naruto, Konoha strikes back. A message written in an ancient code that was passed down from Tsunade is to be sent to a strange man. All of Konoha is troubled: Who in the world is this Uchiha Sasuke?

Author's Note

Well there's nothing really to say before the chapter only that 'Disclaimer: I do not, I repeat, I do not own Naruto in anyway' There will be previous chapter summaries if I even can get the first chapter written before I leave.

Prologue

"Orochimaru again, what is his problem?" the current Hokage seethed gripping the sides of his head, clawing his blond locks of hair.

Uzumaki Naruto glared with fiery blue eyes at the current proposal made by Orochimaru, sent in by a Sound ninja who exploded the moment he gave the scroll to the Hokage. Naruto's blue eyes stood out in the blond hair and tan skin the surround it, his scratch marks on his cheeks were slightly darker than normal. The white Hokage cloak billowed behind him as Naruto paced around the large office. He walked to the large window wall the separated him from outside and peered out.

Konoha was at it's height of peace; merchants roamed the streets checked by ANBU regularly. The Academy now run by Umino Iruka, was now in the clearing in the center of the forest, from an incident Naruto failed to remember. Mission incomes were at it's highest as well, all from difficult A ranks or the simpler D ranks. The farmers were over producing with this year's crop, so much that 1/3 of their produce went to Sabaku, much to Gaara's relief.

Naruto watched as some of his friends in the ANBU waved from their hidden posts, not giving away their positions the blonde smiled back at them. Some Genin teams were staring up at him with wonder, no doubt that one of them was aiming to sit in Naruto's seat in the future. His former teammate, Haruno Sakura was probably running around the hospital with the retired Hokage, Tsunade. Even though old, Tsunade refused to just sit around doing nothing after her time in office.

Sai, one of Naruto's other former teammates, was on an A rank mission with his ANBU team. Naruto smiled at the dark haired man's 'nice' goodbye to him. Kakashi, who was the instructor for Team Seven, didn't take on a new team for some reason and returned to the ANBU. No matter how dense the blond was, Naruto knew that his sensei was defiantly hiding something from them. Knowing that wouldn't help him to get Kakashi to slip though, even if Naruto was ten thousand times stronger than Kakashi in the end Kakashi's slyness would cause him to mess up.

The temporary instructor for Team Seven when Kakashi was hurt, Yamato, took on a Genin team for himself. Team Ten was on a C rank mission to escort a landlord across the boarder into Sand. It was a regular thing for Naruto to get complaints that a white haired old man would peek into the woman's bathes and Jiraya's "Icha Icha Paradise" was selling better than ever especially after the old pervert made a sequel.

Glancing at his desk brought Naruto back to his current problem, the scroll. The newly appointed Hokage already read it more than enough times for it to be engraved in his memory already:

To Uzumaki Naruto, the Rokudaime

Orochimaru-sama is persistent to take back the last heir of the Uchihas

Especially since on Sound's land did you take him away

If this request is not answered after the week this message is delivered

We, the ninjas of Hidden Sound, will proclaim war

Under the nicely written script was a small passage:

Naruto-kun, you and I have lots of unsettled business I expect Sasuke-kun by the end of this week

But if you must be resistant we will proclaim war as said above

I am trying to negotiate and avoid war

In the end Uchiha Sasuke is mine

-Orochimaru

Naruto scowled deeply, this was not a good thing. No, let him rephrase that, this was a terrible situation. His eyes were bordering red, the canines were slightly enlarged. Truly with all the peaceful time they had, this sudden change was going to be hard. By the end of this week, Naruto groaned at the thought. How was he going to talk to the snake man or send a message? This message was delivered six days before, but because of other work to do the little scroll was lost in the corner of the pig sty called his desk. The incident of the Sound ninja exploding was wiped out of his mind when an old mansion that "belonged to an ancient clan" as Kakashi said, caught fire.

The day was today. He needed to confront Orochimaru today, sighing he got to work.

"Hinata-chan, please assemble all the people at the center square. Urgent announcement," Naruto said in a dead serious tone to alert his sectary that this was no joke. "We're proclaiming war against Sound."

"Hokage-sama, we just got out of war five years ago and now were going back?" Hinata uttered every single word without stuttering as loudly as Naruto ever heard the Hyuuga girl speak.

"We have no choice. Unless you want Konoha to be under Sound's control until the old snake man dies, which would be forever," Naruto said with resentment.

"But…I mean…how…unless, they are proclaiming war on us!" Hinata gasped taking longer strides to meet those the Hokage.

"We can't give him what he wants," Naruto heaved a long sighed before continuing; "This is our only option."

"Yes, Hoka-…no, Naruto-kun," Hinata proclaimed softly as Naruto kept running. With a few signs, she disappeared in thin air probably to inform the rest of the building of the plan.

It's been a while since I've done something this nerve racking, Naruto thought idly to himself as he leapt from building to building. After becoming the Hokage, everything seemed so mellow compared to my Genin days.

On top of the stage in middle of the town square, Naruto skidded to a stop letting his large white cloak fly behind him. One ANBU with a dog mask greeted him with a wave and a soft, "Yoh."

"Kakashi-sensei, so you've already heard," Naruto glanced at his former teacher, who he's not seen for weeks. Kakashi took off his mask slowly, light bags under his eyes was all it took for Naruto to know that the silver haired ANBU was taking on too many missions than necessary. "You look, well, you look as if you could just roll on your bed and not wake up for days."

"Ah, I just have something I don't really want to think about," Kakashi shrugged it off, soon his look became serious. Naruto was privileged with those looks of seriousness beneath all the laziness once or twice here and there. "So, are you really going to proclaim war? That's a pretty bold move there."

"We don't really have a choice," Naruto said grimly, no humor in his crystal blue eyes. "Unless we want to give up Uchiha Sasuke, otherwise we go to war."

"…" Kakashi didn't answer for a while as the crowd on the bottom of the building collected he covered his face once more and faded into the crowd.

"People of Konoha, we are amidst a crisis," Naruto said as loudly and as urgently he could possibly do when he thought the majority to the village was here. "Sound has given us an impossible request, to give up Uchiha Sasuke or go to war."

Naruto paused, a wave of whispers emerged from the crowd. He caught bits and pieces of small conversations, soon the majority was whispering, "Who's Uchiha Sasuke?"

Soon, Naruto had to stop and ask himself as well.

Who is Uchiha Sasuke?

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A/N: And I'll stop there. Probably I'll revise it a few times, but otherwise I'll try to post at least two chapters more. For the summer, I will be going to Asia until September 1st. Don't expect me to post anything after June 25. If I do, it's a miracle.

I personally like this story, it took me forever to think of something that wasn't totally OOC or romance. I was inspired after some thinking and trying to piece everything together. Why doesn't anyone know who Sasuke is, it's because…woops, can't tell.

O.o It's been a while since I updated anything…well, I'm not dead…yet.