Chapter 1.5: Memories of No One
It was dark, wet, and gloomy.
A silhoutte could be seen walking through the street all alone. They just kept wondering around seemingly lost, not knowing where to go.
They found they're way onto a crowded street. They still seemed lost and confused. We can now see it was a boy in his early teens. He had many thoughts going through his mind, for instance: Where the hell is he? Who is he? Why can't he remember any events leading to today when he woke up in that dark alleyway?
He was starting to get terrified, he was alone...he has no one...and he can't remember a single thing leading to this moment.
He tried to stop people to ask them for help but they all just completely ignored him like he wasn't even there to begin with.
He remembered one thing from his non-existent memory and that was his name, Naruto...
Kurosaki Clinic
Its been 2 weeks since the incident at the river bed.
Since then the Kurosaki family has not been the same, Yuzu was no longer her happy go lucky self, Karin is more protective and has taken charge of looking over her younger sister and trying to lift up everyones mood, Ichigo has taken to looking over his whole family and was no longer the cry baby he used to be and delved deeper into his karate training.
Isshin and Masaki took it the worst though, Isshin has been blaming himself for his sons death and is now more serious about everything that happens around his family, although for the sake of his family he remained acting like a child around his children so they don't lose hope in this world of endless sadness.
Masaki though has been bedridden since that day and has been losing strength by the day after all that stress of her child's death, she barely ate anything if any and just stared emptily at the picture of her eldest son.
Isshin replaced another one of her liquid intake that was preventing her from starving to death and sat down next to his her bed and held her hand.
"Masaki..." He began, "Naruto wouldn't want to see you like this. Hell he probably wouldv'e complained about how depressing the atmosphere has become. HaHa." He chuckled to himself remembering all the stupid things Naruto would do to lighten the mood, "He would want us all to come together as a family in this time of need and bring us closer instead of mourning his death like this, its not healthy. He would rather us remember how he lived instead of how he died, hes just like that." Isshin finished and held his wifes hand tighter, "We can't go on like this."
Masaki let out an uncontrollable tears as she held onto her husband.
Naruto
It was like no one could see him.
He tried to ask for directions and many other things like about where he was, or maybe someone knows of him but this led to no where.
"Rude." Naruto pouted, "Wouldn't help a guy out, at least just tell me where I am." He muttered to himself. "Fine then, I'll just take this onto my own hands if nobody wants to help me. Now where can I find a phone booth."
10 minutes later...
"GAHHH! HOW HARD IS IT FOR ONE GUY TO FIND A PHONE BOOTH!" He screamed out in frustration.
"Uhm...The phone booth is right next to you mister..." Naruto heard a small voice say.
A tick mark magically appeared on his forehead and yelled out aggitated "Mister?! I'm not a Mister?! I'm only 15 years old for gods sake!" Naruto screamed out comically while flailing around his arm while the little girl gave him a deadpan stare. After a minute of that Naruto looked beside him and there it was, the fucking phone booth he was looking for and blushed.
The young girl that looks like she was possibly 8 looked at him smugly and said "Oldman." making Naruto get red in the face even more. "For a 15 year old you sure do have a poor eyesight." She comments.
Naruto still flustered ignored her diss and went into the phone booth looking for a phonebook. Maybe this phonebook would lead him back to something that might juggle his memories. He looked through the book looking for his name or anything close to it.
In the end he found nothing, the only thing he found out was what town he was in, someplace called Karakura Town.
He sighed in dissapointment and looked out the booth to see the little girl was still out there. He walked to her.
Theres been a question he was wanting to ask her.
"What are you doing out here all by yourself at this hour?" He finally asked her the question that was oddly bothering him.
"My mom said she'll be right back with an umbrella," She answered.
"Thats very irresponsible of her to leave you here by yourself." He said as he took off his jacket and put it over her cold shivering body, "How about I stay here with you till your mother gets back with that umbrella." He smiled warmly.
"Creep." She said as she smiled, "Thank you." She mumbled shyly.
Naruto smiled softly and started to speak "Y'know I have 2 younger sisters around your ag..." his eyes widened and he exclaimed happily "I have 2 sisters around your age! I'm beginning to remember!"
The little girl looked at him weirdly, "You're weird."
Naruto began to explain his situation to her but she still looked at him weirdly.
"I don't know...Maybe my mom can help you when she comes back." She answered "By the way my names Azuka, whats yours?" She asked.
"My names Naruto." He smiled, "I'm just happy I am starting to remember something and if your mom could help me, that'd be great too!" he exclaimed as he sat next to her.
They waited...
And waited...
And waited...
It was now morning and Naruto looked down at her with a saddened expression. Her mom abandoned her here. Thinking of that infuriated him, how could you abandon such a harmless child!
"You should come with me." Naruto stood up, "I'll help you find your mom and you can help me find out about my past, I feel like with you around this would be much easier." He smiled at her, "So, how about it."
Azuka looked at him and smiled softly, "Mother is about to come soon." and looked toward a specific direction.
A woman was walking straight towards them and Naruto was about to give her a piece of his mind for leaving a child all by themselves out in the cold and rain but she just walked passed them and now is behind them.
He turned around and was about to curse her out when he saw her brought out a bouquet of flowers and put it on a flower vase on that part of the street and she silently began to sobb.
Naruto looked over her shoulder and saw many other things besides flowers there, what got his attention was in the center of it all, it was a picture of Azuka.
Chapter End
I know its been a while and this chapter is pretty short and it feels like a filler but I want to ease into the story and I feel this might be a good place to end the chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed it.
