Amnesia

By Flow

It was around three o'clock in the afternoon when Naruto finished touring his own house. He decided to look around the town, which he knew little of. Therefore, he took the key from a table in the middle of the living room and left his house. Naruto ventured the Hidden Village of Leaves, looking here and there, visiting stores, looking at monuments, but he stopped when he crossed Ichiraku's Ramen Shop.

"Hey! Naruto!" yelled Ichiraku. Naruto turned his head in the direction of which the voice came.

"Who are you?" Naruto inquired.

"Why, Naruto, you always come here to eat our special miso pork, surely you know who I am."

"No, I don't."

"Ayame, come here." Ichiraku called.

"Yes, pops?" Ayame said.

"Ayame…" Ichiraku whispered, "Can you knock some sense into Naruto, he doesn't seem to remember this place."

"Of course not…" Ayame whispered back, "You haven't heard have you? He got amnesia from that event."

"Oh. Well, why don't you have a seat and eat some ramen? It's free!" Ichiraku said.

"Free ramen?! This must be my lucky day." Naruto said gleefully as he ran to the ramen restaurant. While Naruto was eating ramen, Kiba and Shino passed by. Naruto paid no attention whatsoever as they entered the restaurant, since he was so focused on his food.

"Hey, Naruto." Kiba greeted. Naruto tried to answer back, "Who are you, how does everyone know my name?" but his mouth was full of noodles and instead came out in weird sounds.

"Hey Naruto you remember Shino and me, right?" Kiba said "I mean, we were on several missions together and all…" Naruto finally swallowed his food and answered, "No, and how does everyone know my name?"

"Naruto all the people in this village know your name, and by the way we're your friends. You don't forget friends now do you?"

"Hm..." Naruto thought about it for a second "I don't know." He shrugged.

"Kiba," Shino finally spoke, "he has amnesia don't try to make him remember anything, because he won't. At least, not right away."

"I have amnesia?" Naruto asked.

"Eh, yeah." Kiba said.

"So, you really don't know anything?" Shino asked.

"Of course I know something, if I didn't know anything how would I be able to speak, more or less walk?!" yelled Naruto, taking the question Shino asked as an insult.

"No, I meant do you know anything about your past… the things you forgot."

"Nope, and I don't know who you guys are." Naruto said. Kiba and Shino sighed and walked away leaving Naruto to eat his ramen. "Finally, some peace with my ramen!" Naruto said, thankful.

Once he was done, he walked out of the ramen restaurant with a smile and set out to explore more of the vast village. He walked and covered as much ground as he could. Running here and there looking at shops, poster boards, movie theatres, and had an occasional run in with a girl who flirted with him. He was quite the man now. He was wearing a black shirt that had long ago become small for him, thus revealing his muscular abs, but his pants were quite the opposite, his orange pants were baggy. Unfortunately, for him his muscular abs attracted more than a few girls. Luckily, for him, he could use the Sexy Technique, so he used it and turned himself into a woman with blond hair in pigtails. In addition, since the clothes were tight and the fact that he had transformed himself into an attractive woman, he had a few men staring at him, or her… so, he decided to transform himself into an overweight person, surely nobody would chase after an overweight man. Would they, though?

He found out, and was calmed that nobody was chasing after him. And for the first time, since he ate the ramen, he was alone, without anybody bothering him. He started walking around town, but it was hard for him though, because he transformed himself into an overweight person, the fat from all areas widened the space between the legs and arms. This forced Naruto to walk like a penguin, bobbing from side to side, with all the fat inconsistently bouncing up and down on his body.

Sakura, back in Naruto's apartment finally regained consciousness and looked around. Not remembering where she was. Then it hit her, she was in Naruto's apartment. She continued to just sit there on the floor of the kitchen, under the table, staring a hole in the kitchen counter. She suddenly remembered something else.

"Where's Naruto? He's not here." She said a bit drowsily. Her eyes grew big and she quickly got up and hit her head on the belly of the wooden table. She then tried to crawl out of the shadow of the table but ran into a chair that sent her and the chair into the middle of the living room. Her limbs were intertwined with the chair. She couldn't seem to take her limbs out of the spaces of the chair, so she pulled with all her might. First a crack appeared in the wood of the chair, that crack grew then the chair was split apart. She was finally free and could now run out of the apartment to find Naruto.

Sakura desperately searched for Naruto. Her job was to protect him, which was what Tsunade ordered Sakura to do. She didn't know it, but the only reason Tsunade assigned her to protect him was that she knew that Sakura liked Naruto, and hopefully for her Naruto still had his love for Sakura.

"It's my job to protect Naruto." Sakura whispered to herself while running through the village streets. "That was what Tsunade-sama ordered me to do, and that's what I'm going to do." This extra determination drove Sakura to run faster and faster. Her speed was amazing, she went so fast that mostly everything she passed was blown aside, giving her a clear path. Sakura was just about to turn a corner when a fat man popped right in front of her. She ran headfirst into his belly and bounced a few feet back. Sakura got up to see fat man. He had spiky blond hair, and beady eyes. His mouth was also small, and his shirt was obviously too tight for him, his pants were the same, tight.

"I'm sorry, sir." Sakura said while bowing to show her apologies.

"No need to be sorry." Naruto said in his normal, cheery voice.

"You know, you remind me of my friend." Sakura replied. Sakura suddenly remembered something; Naruto had a hobby of transforming into people and making fun of them. Since he transformed into someone into blond hair… Was he making fun of Yondaime Hokage?

"I know it's you Naruto!" Her mood had suddenly changed. She grabbed him by the collar and shook him while saying, "How dare you make fun of the Fourth? He was the best Hokage! How dare you?" Naruto canceled the jutsu and tried to say something, but to no avail. The speed of which he was being shaken was too fast.

"I w-w-wasn't making fun of him, Sakura-chan! I wasn't!"

"Then what were you doing?!" Sakura demanded. Naruto didn't get a chance to talk though. With all her pent up rage, she punched Naruto for what she supposed was making fun of a Hokage. With all the training she recieved from Tsunade she punched Naruto a few meters away. He hit a nearby wall of a restauraunt, hitting it hard enough to create a dent in the wall. The owner came out of the front entrance, went around the corners and found teenagers fighting at the back of his shop.

"Hey! You kids! What are you doing fighting behind my shop?" The owner yelled. Both teens looked at the grouchy old man in front of them. The old man then looked to the wall, and gasped. "You also destroyed my beautiful wall! You young rascals are going to have to work at my dango (Japanese food, kind of like rice cakes. It is served on a stick.) shop to pay off for the damage done!"

Inside the dango shop Naruto and Sakura were forced to wash all the eating utensils.

"Hey, hey, Sakura-chan. You know, if you didn't start that fight we wouldn't have to be washing these plates and everything else." He said.

"Shut up you moron, if you weren't making fun of the Fourth we wouldn't have been forced to be here."

"Sakura-chan, I told you already I wasn't making fun of the fourth Hokage, you heard me didn't you?"

"I did, but I don't believe you, Naruto."

"Why not? I'm trustworthy remember that time I … Um… Eh… remember that time I helped you eat your ramen while you were unconscious? That was really awesome, you'll have to admit that." Who am I kidding that was so stupid…Naruto thought.

"No, you've never helped me before" replied Sakura. Ah, who am I kidding he's saved me several times, along with Sasuke. From Gaara, from Orochimaru… and the list keeps on going on and on. Naruto then said, "Hey, Sakura-chan look this way." Sakura looked in the direction Naruto wished her to and suddenly she felt cold water on her face. Naruto laughed uncontrollably, and he had to hold his stomach.

Sakura growled. "Naruto!" She cupped both of her hands dipped them into the water and tossed it to Naruto. She soaked most of Naruto's face and clothes.

"Sakura! I didn't know you were this mean!" A water fight then ensued. They started to splash each other, whenever one had the chance they would laugh. Sakura and Naruto suddenly slipped as the water from the sink they were using to wash the utensils overflowed. The soap in the water added an extra slippery layer to the water. They both landed on the floor with a splash. Naruto sat up first and crawled over to Sakura, both of them laughing along with each other. Sakura continued to splash Naruto as he crawled over. This reminded Sakura of her baby days spent with Ino and the other girls. The water from the sink soon filled the whole kitchen and the water rose to about an inch in height. Sakura noticed Naruto was getting closer to her and she decided to crawl away. When Naruto finally caught up to her, they started to wrestle in the water.

They were both really tired as the wrestling dragged on. But they continued anyways not intent on giving the other any advantage whatsoever. That was when Naruto decided to give in a bit, Sakura was surprised and dropped a bit, they heads got a bit closer than they already were. At this stage both Naruto and Sakura ceased the wrestling and looked into each other's eyes. Naruto's shimmering blue eyes, and Sakura's emerald green eyes met, but only Sakura's eyes had a longing. That was when Naruto finally remembered some of his past.

A flash of white appeared in Naruto's mind. He saw himself and Sakura… and a boy with black hair. All three seemed to be good friends.

"Sasuke-kun… would you like to… go on a date with me?" asked Sakura hopefully

"No." answered Sasuke coldly. Sakura's eyes suddenly transformed, from happy to downcast.

"Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan! You can go out with me!" Naruto said, grabbing Sakura's hands and looked into her eyes with his cutest eyes.

"No." Sakura answered, just as coldly as Sasuke had rejected Sakura.

Another flash.

"You three will have to get these two bells from me if you want to eat lunch." Said a man with a mask and a forehead protector over his left eye. "Since there are only two bells only two of you will be able to eat lunch."

The memories of that day passed in his mind… every moment that he was with Sakura passed in his mind, but only for a brief second.

When those flashbacks ended Naruto looked up at Sakura. His eyes finally had some more understanding to them, more of Naruto's real personality. He now remembered some of his past. And his eyes finally had the love for Sakura he had back then before. Sakura saw this and was happy. She spread a smile on her face and lowered her head close enough so that lips were just a hair's width apart. The only thing one could see was the other's eyes. Now, they both had a longing. For love.

Sakura lowered her whole body and their bodies were pressed against one another. She then lowered her head, and that was when they both finally got what they wanted. Their first kiss, on the floor of a kitchen which had overflowed. It wasn't the most romantic spot but they were happy nonetheless. They didn't care that they were on the floor of a kitchen, all that mattered was that they were together and that they finally knew that they had someone who they loved. As they continued to kiss they wrapped their arms around each other pulling them into a loving embrace, pushing them closer together than they had ever been before.

They didn't want to break up their kiss; but everything must come to an end. After the kiss they opened their eyes at the same time. They both smiled at each other with a happiness they both never experienced before.

"Naruto…kun" said Sakura. Naruto… kun? She used to only call Sasuke that…Naruto thought. "I love you, Naruto-kun…"

"I love you too, Sakura-chan…" They pulled themselves into another embrace and had another kiss.

"Hey!" Said the owner of the shop, as he kicked open the door leading to the kitchen, "I have no time for you teenage lovers in here! You're supposed to be working! But since you can't do that you're useless! I don't want you to be working here anymore! Get out!" The old man then shut the door strongly behind him as he left, muttering a thing or two.

"Well Sakura-chan let's get going." Naruto said.

"Yeah." Sakura said, smiling once again. As they left the restaurant they noticed how late it was. It was already dark!

"Naruto… I'm tired. Can you… carry me back to your apartment?" Sakura asked.

"Why, sure, Sakura-chan." So with that Naruto scooped Sakura up quickly with two arms and carried her with the ease of carrying a baby. Sakura decided she wanted to make this a bit more romantic and wrapped her arms around Naruto, and rested her head on Naruto's shoulder. It was felt good to be carried by the person you loved. Especially when you know that they loved you back.

When they were in the apartment Naruto realized that Sakura had fallen asleep. He took a glance at the clock hanging over the couch that it was already eleven o'clock. He carried Sakura to his bedroom and rested her on the right side of the bed. He then pulled the sheets of the bed down on the left side of the bed and put Sakura there. He tucked her in and planted a kiss on her head once he was done. He changed into his pajamas then returned to the bed. He got himself comfortable in the bed and was ready to drift off to sleep. Then Sakura's right hand landed on his chest.

"Naruto…" Sakura said very drowsily. "Come closer."

"Uh… Sakura…"

"If you're not coming closer I will." Sakura said. So she rolled over to Naruto and nestled her head on his chest and wrapped her arms around his muscular body. "Good night Naruto." And then they finally both fell asleep.

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Hope you liked it. So far this is the longest chapter for a fanfic I have ever written in my entire life. It's not the longest for only Naruto, it's the longest for all of them! Anyways, hope you guys send me reviews, you can criticize it, compliment it and yeah… say whatever you like in your reviews.