Amnesia

By Flow

Launching themselves from tree to tree Naruto and his group made a lot of progress as they headed for the border of the Fire Country. Finally, Ino thought I can finally claim Naruto… A similar thought came from Sakura

The whole group stopped in a bright clearing when Naruto raised his hand to signal them to stop. Naruto walked to the front of the group and took something out of his bag. He held it in his hand for some time then squatted. He placed the small metallic object on the ground. A metal wedge protruded from the cylinder base. It had different numbers marked around the outer rim of it. It was a sundial. Naruto took a while shifting the sundial this way and that and he finally stopped doing so. He stood up stepped back and said "Lunch time, everyone!" Naruto licked his lips and plopped down on the ground. Indeed, it was noon; the shadow was cast over the twelve. Everyone else sighed and did the same.

"Hey, Naruto? Why didn't you just look at your watch?" Ino asked, pointing to the watch on his left wrist.

"Oh… oh… eh… I have a watch?" Naruto smiled nervously and scratched the back of his head. He pretended to not notice his watch and looked left and right then looked to his wrist. He then exclaimed, "Oh! Who put that there? I do have a watch!"

"Naruto… you idiot…" Ino said, resting her head in the palm of her hand, shaking her head side to side. The group sat in silence for a while.

"Obviously, if we're going to have lunch we're going to have to gather food. I don't think any of you have brought any food." Shikamaru said as he stood up. The others looked at one another, hoping that the other had food so they wouldn't have to go and search for it.

After lunch the whole group set out to the border once again. It remained the same from then on… just jumping through the trees for about half a day. Naruto tried to make it fun by suggesting they had a race but nobody answered back. "This sure is a dull group." Naruto said. The others stopped then proceeded to pummel Naruto. They continued after that, and because of the beating Naruto stayed a little behind and yelped out of pain every few trees they passed.

The time when the sun falls down out of the sky and when the moon takes its place finally came. Simply put, night came. Naruto, Shikamaru, Konohamaru, Neji, Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and Rock Lee found a cave of which they could sleep and eat in. A distant strike of thunder could be heard by the group.

"Hey guys," Konohamaru said, "It's going to rain let's run to the cave." All the others did was nod and they ran to it. The cave was nestled in the side of a mountain. Unfortunately for them though, the rain had already started and made the path to the cave slightly muddy and slowed everyone down. Suddenly, Ino tripped and began to slip down the mountain. Naruto quickly lashed out his hand and caught her by wrist. He had used his chakra to keep himself glued to the muddy surface. He, with all his strength, threw Ino to the entrance of the cave and soon followed with a showoff-y somersault.

"Thank you, Naruto." Ino said, inching closer to him.

"No problem."

"Here's something for helping me." Ino moved even closer then planted a kiss on his lips. She did it right in front of the group, and more importantly, right in front of Sakura. Ino's lips parted from his slowly. Naruto just stood there in shock, then started to blush. Sakura just looked on with anger at Ino, and some for Naruto for letting her kiss him. Her anger rose to the bubbling point, then… she exploded. She went ballistic. She charged at Ino with her right arm pulled back; ready to deliver her monstrous strength.

"Ino, you pig!" Sakura yelled with all her pent up rage. She delivered the punch to her stomach and, as expected from Sakura's punch, it caused a lot of damage to her internal organs. She slammed Ino to the wall, holding her by the neck, and then yelled at her about how Naruto was hers. Naruto was so confused at why Ino kissed him that he didn't notice the fight that ensued after the kiss. He had closed his eyes and sat down on the cave floor pondering about why.

"Ino! Never, I mean, never touch Naruto!" Sakura spat out.

"Y-you…" Sakura tightened her grip on Ino's neck. "You kissed Naruto…" She snarled. Since Sakura was so focused on the fact that Ino kissed Naruto she didn't noticed the hand seal Ino just formed.

"Shintenshin no Jutsu… (Art of the Valentine)" Ino barely managed to say it, but suddenly Sakura's grip loosened on her neck, and she soon dropped Ino to the ground. As Ino fell Shikamaru quickly rushed to grab her. Now, Sakura, or Ino, performed some hand seals. And Ino's spirit traveled back to her body. Sakura mind suddenly cleared out. She held out her hands with her fingers spread out and looked at them frantically. She knew she did something bad but she didn't remember what. Then she looked down on her left and saw Ino sprawled over Shikamaru's hands.

"Oh my god." Sakura cupped her hands over her mouth. She knelt down and shook Ino slightly, trying to wake her up. "Ino, wake up." She said. Sakura shook Ino a bit more vigorously now. Ino eyes slowly fluttered open.

"Sakura? Why did you go berserk back there?" Ino said feebly.

"Oh, that… oh…" Sakura chuckled nervously, "let's just keep this a secret, no? Nobody will know about this except us, Ino.'

"One problem, Sakura." Ino responded. "Our whole team except Naruto saw what just happened."

"Then I guess it's something we'll all keep as a secret." Sakura said.

"Yeah, I guess so."

"I don't think we should be talking about this now. It's time to be eating right now." Naruto suddenly exclaimed. Everyone was surprised and jumped up a little.

"Nii-chan! (Older brother.)You scared me!" Konohamaru whined.

"We don't need to worry about gathering food because…" Naruto took his bag off his back and held it in his hand. He then waited for a "few" seconds… "I have cup ramen!" Naruto dug his hand into his bag and pulled out several cups of instant ramen.

"We can use rain water to make the soup… and we can use a fire to heat it up."

"Good idea, Naruto-kun!" Rock Lee said, extending his arm and giving the thumbs-up sign.

"So… does anybody know how to light a fire…?" Konohamaru asked.

"I could," Shikamaru said, "but it's too troublesome."

"Is Shikamaru the only one who knows how to?" Konohamaru asked once again. Everyone remained silent.

"Does anybody know any fire jutsu?" Konohamaru asked. Everyone was silent again.

"I guess we're hopeless then." He said… he sat down and leaned against the cave's walls and crossed his arms in disappointment.

"Ah, I know what to do." Said Tenten, she grabbed two kunai from her back pocket and started gathering anything from her bag that could be burned. She had some paper, some pencils, and some of her extra clothes. "This should be enough to start a fire" Tenten said. She then proceeded to scraping her two blades together, she pushed harder and a spark soon jumped from the blades. She worked faster now, faster and faster, she went until sparks danced around the blades. Some sparks flew in the wrong direction but some few managed to land on her excess things and it soon gave birth to a fire. "There we go." Tenten said triumphantly. "I've made a fire."

Naruto got the message and now he had created seven other clones, each holding one cup of ramen in the rain. Once each cup was filled enough the clones made their way to the fire where everybody was seated and who were quietly conversed amongst each other. The moment which everyone was waiting for had arrived, the time when the ramen finally was ready. Naruto, since he was so skilled in the area of "ramen skills" could sense when the ramen was ready. He waited patiently, he could feel the time getting shorter, and his ramen would come to him. The smell rose from the half-opened cups of ramen and its enchanting aroma reached the noses of the eight team members, each one sniffed in deeply, inhaling the wondrous smell. Oh, how they loved it. Then… "It's ready!" Naruto screamed. Everybody had to cover their ears, but since that wasn't enough, they opened their bags and stuck their heads in it.

Crunch… crunch… crunch… "Mmmmm!" was what came out of Chouji's mouth while he ate his limited edition ramen pork flavored chips. "These chips have to be the best flavor…" crunch... crunch… crunch…. crunch… The crumbs that fell out of Chouji's mouth, bounced off the Akimichi clan armor he was wearing, and all the crumbs made an anthill of chips. Kiba looked down at Chouji's pile and sighed.

"Chouji, don't you ever stop eating?" Kiba asked. Akamaru, who was noticeably bigger than Kiba now let out a "roof" in agreement. Kiba switched in his hooded jacket for a simple black vest and black pants. Shino seemed to have switched styles with Kiba because now he wore a hooded jacket. A black section ran down his jacket. Hinata wore a baggy jacket and (not surprisingly) also had a black line running down the middle of her outfit.

"A growing…" Chouji stuffed his face with chips again, and then continued speaking "shinobi must eat to become strong. If I eat I won't have to use my jutsus to become big."

"I guess that's true…" Kiba said, "but Chouji, I don't think it's healthy to be munching on chips all day."

"You don't think so. I know that it is healthy to be eating this. Plus, my jutsus require a bunch of chakra. If I wasn't eating whenever I could I would be skinnier than a stick." Chouji popped the last chip into his mouth. He dug his hand in his bag once again and pulled out another bag of chips and began eating.

Hinata and Shino were standing in the background watching Kiba and Chouji argue about the chips' healthiness. That was when two mysterious figures walked up to the Konoha's gates. Shino was the first to notice.

"Everybody… be quiet, we have visitors." Shino said. Kiba and Chouji broke up their argument, looked to Shino then to the gates. "Hinata use your Byakugan." Hinata just nodded in response.

"Byakugan!" Hinata's veins suddenly showed up, pushing against the skin creating bumps, it was on both of her eyes and the surrounding area. She know could see everybody's chakra flow. She glanced in the direction of the two strangers and they appeared to have an amazing amount of chakra. "These people have an enormous amount of chakra." Hinata said in amazement.

"We better check them, Akamaru." Kiba said. Kiba walked up to the two and held up his hand to signal them to stop. "We have orders from Godaime Hokage to search everyone who enters Konoha."

The two people wore reed hats and a black coat with a red cloud in the middle, a red line ran through the middle too. There was also one red cloud on each of the sides of the fabric on both of the people. "Wait a minute…" Kiba said, "You guys are… no way… Akatsuki…"

One of the members chuckled slightly, in amusement. "It seems that Konoha shinobi aren't as stupid as I had predicted. But you're still all kids." The one who spoke had a blue face with noticeable gills on the side of his neck.

"Be quite Kisame." Spoke a person with the Sharingan.

"You're Uchiha Itachi!" Kiba exclaimed. He only had one second before Itachi quickly knocked out Kiba. Kisame didn't need any water to perform his water jutsu. Instead, he extracted water from the air to use his jutsu. But he didn't need to use it; he just kicked Akamaru in the stomach with extreme speed and force. That was enough to knock out Akamaru for a while.

"These guys, are strong and fast." Shino said, and he was right because at that exact moment they both sped their way to Hinata and Shino and knocked them out. Now, all that was left was Chouji.

"I don't know what you're up to but I'll try my best to stop you!" Chouji yelled, pointing a finger at them.

"Tch… you think you can defeat us, let alone even hurt us?" Kisame retorted.

"Kisame," Itachi used his arm to stop Kisame from immediately killing Chouji. "I think you kill just as much as Hidan. We just came here for one thing, remember?"

"I don't care, this fat guy is in our way and I intend to wipe him out." Kisame said as he stared down Chouji. Chouji bent his knees slightly and got ready to perform a hand seal, but he ended up like the rest of his teammates. On the ground knocked out by Uchiha Itachi. "I think knocking him out is better than killing." Itachi said. He didn't even need to use his Sharingan, which was surprising. The two Akatsuki members then walked away from the battle scene, walking into Konoha to get something so that they could weaken Konoha…

If this wasn't that good of a chapter don't be surprised I just wrote this in one morning. J