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?

Previous Chapter: Orochimaru has given an impossible decision for the Rokudaime, Uzumaki Naruto, either give up Uchiha Sasuke or start another war. After proclaiming to the village that war will begin once again between Sound and Leaf, people are forced to question. Who is Uchiha Sasuke?

Authors Note

Well, that went well. I did say that I would post two more chapters after the prologue. Here's the first.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto in anyway

Chapter One: Who is Uchiha Sasuke?

"Who is Uchiha Sasuke?" an ANBU with a hawk mask asked the Hokage pointedly. The gathering was ended with a few words that the peace would be disturbed, but after a majority vote. It was off to war. The peace of this village has to perish for now, Naruto thought in slight disappointment before noticing he was getting side track from the other ninja's question.

"I…I don't know everyone in this village much less this Uchiha Sasuke," Naruto thought hard on the name, he repeated 'Uchiha Sasuke' over and over again trying to get some remembrance if such a person even existed. A flash of red eyes spun across his line of sight, but it was wiped out as quickly as it came.

"He was your teammate," the ANBU with the dog mask, Kakashi, said in a monotone.

Naruto fingered the cool metal of his headband and frowned, "How come I don't remember him then?"

"I wouldn't expect you to," Kakashi said the same emotionless voice. "I wouldn't expect you to remember him…"

Leaving his sentence hanging, Kakashi performed some seals and disappeared from the railing that he was leaning against. Naruto frown even more, how could he forget someone as important as a teammate? That just didn't make sense. A slight rippling from Kyuubi's seal told him that the fox knew and wasn't telling even if he could. The past five years went flying by as if only five minutes, he was only 16 when Orochimaru came with his second war. They fought for a long four years, the longest four years in his life.

He was only 19 when the Akatsuki launched a full out attack on Konoha for Kyuubi while they were still fighting against Orochimaru. That wouldn't even be called a war, since it ended to suddenly when their so called Leader just died. Naruto wasn't that dense by then not to know that someone killed the Leader of the Akatsuki, the question was who? All the Akatsuki members retreated by the end of the second month. Everyone called it the Five Years of War even though it was only four years only counting the second war launched by Orochimaru and the two month within the fourth year.

Now his twentieth birthday just passed and he was the Hokage, Orochimaru decides to launch a third war. Over this Uchiha Sasuke person, who was a teammate of his that Naruto didn't even remember.

"Perfect, just damn perfect," Naruto hissed at no one in particular. Now he was forced to go seek him out. Life wasn't fair at the moment.

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Shikamaru was lying lazily on the hill gazing at the wispy, white clouds that hung like ornaments in the afternoon sky. He even took the effort to get himself out here instead of just seating himself on the roof which would have been much closer. The clouds were much more visible out here in the open though. As they say, 'No pain, no gain.'

"Lazy bum, get up," a grouchy voice which Shikamaru recognized as the person who lost their bet said. A smile danced across the jounin's face, Uzumaki Naruto had his pride when placing a bet. So what was so urgent that made him lose within a week?

"Someone owns me money," Shikamaru said lazily acknowledging the presence of the Sixth Hokage.

"I know I do," Naruto scowled. And if it weren't for Orochimaru I'd still have my pocket change, Naruto thought in resentment. If I don't come to Shikamaru for help for a month I would have gotten a month of free ramen.

"You know our bet and that you lost," Shikamaru clarified. "So what's the problem now?"

"Actually…" Naruto started to say, but he was immediately cut off by the dark haired man,

"Can't think of a way to get into a mansion and decided to go in through the sewer system?" Shikamaru snickered, not rudely.

"Hey, it would have worked just as find as the air vents!" the Rokudaime protested in a playful air before remembering what he was here to ask. "Have you heard of the third war that Orochimaru is launching?"

"Sadly, yes," the cloud watcher said in disdain. "Ino ran all the way up here to tell me as well as yell at me for a good ten minutes, she just left."

"Shikamaru, do you know anyone called Uchiha Sasuke?" Naruto asked with an air of seriousness that Shikamaru had yet to see more of.

"I don't know any Uchiha Sasuke, but I do know about the Uchiha clan," Shikamaru said aloofly.

"What about the Uchiha clan?" Naruto asked, this could just be the thing to help him find his forgotten teammate.

"The Uchiha clan was wiped out in a mass plague a hundred years ago…"

Those thirteen words pierced any hope that he harbored before.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked trying hard not to show his disappointment.

"…didn't happen as documentaries stated," Shikamaru ended his sentence not even bothering to look at the Rokudaime. "In many history books, almost all of them, states that the Uchiha clan died to a plague. If they truly did, the Uchiha District wouldn't look as broken down as it does now. It wouldn't exist."

"I thought that…" once again, much to Naruto's displeasure, Shikamaru interrupted.

"That the Uchiha District was a place that Konoha preserved right? If they were to preserve the place, why is it so broken down though?"

"So what you are saying is that…" Naruto started, his blue eyes lighting up considerable.

"The Uchiha clan probably is still out there somewhere, if not right under our noses. This Uchiha Sasuke person is in hiding for whatever personal reasons."

"So I guess it's our job to find him, ne?" Naruto's smile was blinding.

"Our job? Oh crap."

A/N: Yeah, well, I tried. Thanks for all the reviews, I appreciated the encouragement.

Preview

Shikamaru decided all the documentaries that the Uchiha clan has died out were all lies. Now Naruto and Shikamaru are going to find Uchiha Sasuke!Naruto sends the Secret Scroll given to him by Tsunade, who it goes to? Naruto doesn't have time to ponder that.War is coming, but another Akatsuki attack is also! Will Konoha be able to survive this war? Or will it finally fall?

Wait for the next chapter: Secret Message