A/N Hello fellow FF members and visitors alike. This is 9tailsfox2 with Chapter 4 to Memories of the Past. Italics means thoughts. Underline means label.
Warning: Feelz chapter
Naruto yawned as he got up and looked in the mirror. How the hell did my life get this shitty? The love of my life is dead and has been for seven years, that bastard is getting out, and I'm so fucking depressed, but my life always has been shitty. I've had no real friends before Hanabi all because of that fucking Kyuubi bastard. Everyone thinks I'm his son. Dammit, I need to investigate this matter before I die. "Naruto?"
Naruto turned around to notice Hinata standing there. "What is it Hinata?"
Hinata looked at Naruto as if trying to figure something out. "I'm concerned about you. You have been acting strange lately, like you've been staying in your room often, way more than you usually do. Plus you haven't put in the effort to be sociable. Your friends are concerned as well. Kiba misses you. He says and I quote, 'Hinata, f you don't get his ass out of bed, I'll kick it out of bed.' Shino even put his input saying that even his bugs could tell that you are acting irregularly."
Naruto sighed. "I bet Teme is embarrassed that one who could kick his ass can't even get out of bed."
Hinata nodded. "Strangely enough, that is what he said. Please, tell me what is on your mind."
Naruto groaned, knowing that he should d this the easy way. "I've been thinking how shitty my life is and always has been. If it weren't for that Kyuubi bastard, I would have had friends before I met Hanabi. If it wasn't for Hanabi, my life would have been miserable all this time."
Hinata took a moment to think and smiled. "Well, we could check the hospital records to see your parentage. Even if you weren't born in the hospital, you could discover something about your parents. Considering that it has been kept a secret- aw crap, I spoke too much!"
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "What do you know about my parents Hinata? I know you wok very closely with Tsunade, what do you know?"
Hinata sadly sighed. "I overheard Tsunade talking about your parents. All I heard was that they were of high status in the city and had many enemies. That's all I know I swear. Tsunade made me swear not to tell you as it was classified secret. She thought I overheard the names. I'm so sorry."
Naruto groaned. "Great, just fucking great! You had clue as to who my parents were, and you didn't even fucking tell me!"
Hinata started crying at that. "I-I'm s-sorry. I-I co-couldn't b-break my pro-promise,"
Naruto seethed. "SHUT THE FUCK UP! YOU KNEW AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME! YOU KNEW THAT THE THING I WANTED MOST BESIDE FROM HAVING HANABI AT MY SIDE AGAIN IS TO KNOW WHO MY PARENTS WERE! YOU KEPT THAT FROM ME!"
Hinata was crying really hard. "Naruto, please stop screaming. I hate it when you get like this, you know this."
Naruto didn't hear Hinata as he got up in her face. "NO, YOU DON'T DESERVE TO SPEAK GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY ROOM!"
Hinata didn't move, instead she just curled up into a ball and continued crying, and it was at this very sight that Naruto snapped out of it and all of sudden realized what he just did. "I-I-I'm s-s-so so-sorry…"
Naruto then wrapped his arms around Hinata and suddenly felt his tears fall. "No, I'm the one who should be sorry. I should never scream at you for anything. I'm nothing but an asshole." Naruto couldn't hold back anymore as he began crying.
Hinata sniffled as she shook her head. "No Naruto, I should not have held back the information regarding your parents. You have every right to be angry with me."
Naruto grit his teeth. "No, I should not have taken my anger out at you like that."
It took about an hour for them to calm down. Naruto was the first to speak after that. "Listen, Hinata, I know this may not be the best time, but you have to know. I have feelings for you, more than as a sister or a friend."
Hinata was surprised. "Y-You do?"
Naruto sighed. "Yes, but, I don't want to go into these feelings. I'm still hurt over the loss of Hanabi and I still have feelings for her. I'm depressed Hinata."
Hinata sighed. "Yeah… I've noticed."
Naruto sadly smiled. "Not much to say to that huh?"
Hinata shook her head silently.
Naruto stretched and looked at Hinata. "Listen, I'm sorry for going off like that. I just had another episode. It's really hard to control my emotions these days, which is the main reason I don't go out anymore."
Hinata nodded her head. "I understand Naruto, but you have to try."
Naruto then went into thought. "Hinata, I was wondering if we could get those documents of mine. I don't think that Tsunade would let those documents go."
Hinata nodded at that. "Well, I know where she keeps the files, I saw where she put them away… you could stand guard and keep watch and even walk her away from the door. I'll call you when I'm done so we can head out ok?"
Naruto thought it was a good idea and nodded. "Yeah, you have an awesome plan Hinata."
Naruto looked down both sides of the hallway and all of a sudden he saw Tsunade walking down the hallway. This was when Naruto took action as he pretended to be already walking and knocked three times on the door of the room Hinata was in and continuing walking.
Hinata thought it would be a simple few seconds of going in, opening the drawer she KNEW the file was in and get out, but unfortunately, the drawer was locked. Fortunately, she remembered how to lock pick. Kiba taught her how to do it. She wasn't any good at it, but she knew she could do it given enough time.
She knew she did not even have enough time from the sound of the three knocks she had just heard, she would have about five minutes, and with her skills, only five tries.
Hinata almost unlocked the damned thing four times and was on the fifth one when she felt the buzzing in her pocket, letting her know that she had only a few seconds to get the files and hide.
Oh shit! From the sounds of the approaching footsteps, I have about ten seconds. Five seconds in, she heard a satisfying click, quickly opened the drawer, sifted through the files and saw a file labeled Naruto Uzumaki. Hinata quickly took it, shoved the drawer shut and hid under the desk just in time for the door to open.
Tsunade approached her desk, while Hinata held her breath. As soon as Tsunade put down her keys, her phone went off, which she looked at and quickly rushed out of there.
Hinata released her breath as she locked the drawer, hid the file in her jacket, put the keys back the way they are and walked out the office, closing the door. Luckily she was on her lunch break; otherwise the door to her office would have been locked. Hinata quickly went to the meeting room and saw Naruto waiting for her. Naruto gave a nod as they exit the hospital.
When they got to his room, Hinata turned around and hugged Naruto. "Thank you for calling Tsunade."
Naruto looked surprised. "How did you know that was me?"
Hinata sighed. "There are no such things as coincidences."
Naruto nodded. "That is very true. Hey, can I look at that file privately?"
Hinata nodded. "Take all the time you need."
Naruto sighed. "Thank you doing this for me. It might take a while to prepare myself to look at it, if you can understand."
Hinata smiled. "Alright, I can take a hint, I'll leave you alone."
Naruto then looked up at Hinata, and almost smiled, but not quite. "Thank you Hinata."
Hinata got up, walked to his door, turned around and said, "No problem Naruto."
With that she closed the door and Naruto took a long look at the file before taking out his note and continued writing the note.
To be honest, I really don't have the will to continue writing this note, mostly because of some good news I got, which I don't wish to reveal yet. Anyways, back to the story.
Naruto woke up in his hospital bed, wondering why his life went to hell. Why did it have to be him who suffered? Naruto shook those thoughts as Tsunade walked into the room and began checking his injuries. Naruto sadly sighed. "When can I leave?"
Tsunade looked into Naruto's eyes, eyes filled with sadness, regret and guilt. "Your injuries are healing fast, but it is not your physical state I'm worried about."
Naruto glared at Tsunade. "I'm fine."
Tsunade then shook her head. "Your injuries have healed enough for me to let you go, I know you hate hospitals."
Naruto got up and nodded at Tsunade. "Thank you."
Naruto picked up his things and called in Hiashi for a ride, in which there were minimal words that were said, if any.
Over the next week, Naruto practically shut himself in and cutting everybody off from his life. Very few words were exchanged with him as he either ate slept, cried or exercising to get his mind off things.
Naruto decided to visit the park one day, thinking that it may help him by being in one of their spots. He was dead wrong.
The moment he stepped under that tree, his chest tightened up as he choked up a sob and curled up. "Hanabi…" I miss you so much. I never thought you would leave me alone. But here we are, separated by life and death. My chest hurts so much, I just want to lie down and cry until my life ends…
All of a sudden he began having a flashback, a painful reminder of happier days.
10-year-old Hanabi and 15-year-old Naruto were walking to the park when Hanabi looked and gave a smile to Naruto, who responded back with the same smile. Hanabi all of a sudden ran off without Naruto. "Catch me if you can!"
Naruto groaned as he chased Hanabi, who was fast for her age. By the time they reached the park, both were laughing as Naruto tackled Hanabi and rolled and stopped under a tree as Hanabi wounded up on top of Naruto.
The two eventually stopped laughing as Naruto got a feeling in his chest and noticed that Hanabi's face red and judging by how hot his face felt he was the same. His heart was beating faster than he could imagine. Naruto decided to let instinct take over as his face inched towards Hanabi's, and her towards his.
Naruto then felt Hanabi arms snake around his neck as they brought each other in a tight embrace and kiss. Thank Kami nobody was around at this time. They would sneak out and go to certain places where they would talk or just hold each other. This was their first time kissing though and sure did it feel… Naruto honestly could not describe how he felt as he lip locked with Hanabi, the girl he loved so much, the girl he always wanted to hold close to him.
Both slowly broke off the kiss as they stared each other. Naruto was speechless at what just happened. "I… ummm wow. Hanabi…"
Hanabi was just the same. "Naruto…"
The two held hands and looked each other in the eyes as they went to kiss again, sharing each other's deep feelings. When the kiss ended, Naruto held Hanabi as he stroked her back. "I love you so much Hanabi."
Hanabi nodded. "I love you too, Naruto."
The flashback ended there as Naruto cried even harder. Oh Kami, why… Why did… how… why was she taken away? I'm starting to forget what her eyes looked like, what holding her felt like, what her voice sounded like… I'm forgetting… Why am I forgetting?
Naruto all of a sudden felt familiar arms and warmth, at least he thought he did as he looked up and saw no one. Stupid fucking brain, playing tricks on me…
Well, sorry if this was short and fast or even poorly written. I just have a lot on my mind right now… I'll continue this later…
Naruto put away his note as he looked at the file and decided to hide that as well as he felt tired and decided to sleep.
After a flash of light Naruto knew he was in the Spiritual World, and he knew that he had to make the kiss happen, some how.
Naruto really had no idea how to make it happen and instead just built up his spiritual energy.
Naruto smiled as he… wait a second… I smiled! I actually smiled! Naruto smiled at how Naruto chased Hanabi, but it seemed that he was getting irritated rather than happy. It was then that Naruto knew what to do. "Spiritual interaction!"
Naruto was pleased with the result as the memory continued on as normal.
It was then that Naruto woke back and saw the file right next to him. It was then that Naruto decided to open the file, to find out who is parents were. Except, that is not the only thing he found out when he began reading the police report that came along with his birth certificate.
"Let's see here… Minato Namikaze, father of Naruto Uzumaki and police chief Konoha died, sacrificing himself to put an end to a man's, codenamed Kyuubi, bombing rampage. Over the weeks, multiple major bombings, targeting places of high populations density with the city. An estimated 2,456 people have died in total and even more have had injuries as a result of the mad man's destruction."
"Minato Namikaze successfully took Kyuubi down by taking one of Kyuubi's bombs and strapping it to him. Unfortunately, before Minato could even take Kyuubi out of there, the bomb prematurely went off. It is suspected that Kyuubi himself detonated to take down The Police Chief. The most notable victims of the resulting explosion were Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, mother of Naruto Uzumaki, and head of the Interrogation Unit. Kushina miraculously managed to save her own son by stretching out her arms, making sure that no rubble fell onto him. Let it be noted that Kushina and Kyuubi were in a relationship once."
"It was decided by the council to keep Naruto Uzumaki's parentage a secret as both had enemies of their own and would do anything to get revenge on them, including taking out their son."
After reading the entire report out loud, he took a long look at his parent's pictures. "Mom, dad. So you were good people. Dammit… Why couldn't they at least tell me who my parents were!? Wait a second…" Naruto's resolve hardened as he marched out the door, anger boiling away in his chest and went straight to Hiashi's room and gave a loud knock.
Hiashi opened the door and as soon as he saw Naruto he got worried. "Are you ok my son? What's wrong?"
Naruto glared at Hiashi he balled up his fists. "You were once a part of the council right?"
Hiashi was confused about that but decided to answer anyway. "Yes, why?"
"You son of a bitch. You took me in, fed me, care for me as if I was your own son! But you never told me who my parents were! YOU KNEW AND YOU DIDN"T TELL ME!"
Hiashi was surprised at that. "Who… how did you find out?"
Naruto growled as he shoved the file into Hiashi's hands. "YOU FUCKING KNEW! YET YOU KEPT THAT SECRET FROM ME FOR SO MANY YEARS! ALL THOSE FUCKING YEARS NO TOLD ME! ONE OF YOU OLD FUCKERS COULD HAVE AT LEAST TOLD ME!"
Hiashi stumbled over his words. "I'm so-sorry."
Naruto all of a sudden punched Hiashi in the face. "FUCK YOU! THE LEAST YOU COULD HAVE DONE IS TOLD ME! FUCKING ASSHOLE!"
Hiashi at this point was speechless as Naruto walked out the house.
Hinata walked in with tears on her face. "Fa-Father. A-Are you ok?"
Hiashi nodded. "I deserved that."
Hinata shook her head. "No you didn't. Listen, it's my fault he found out. We went to the hospital to get his birth record. I di-didn't know. I'm sorry."
Hiashi groaned as held his daughter. "It's ok… he would have found out eventually."
Hinata shook her head again. "Why didn't you tell him?"
Hiashi looked down sadly. "Why do you think I quit being a part of the council? I knew it was wrong and I was forced to promise to never tell anyone. Promises cannot be broken."
Hinata nodded. "I understand."
Naruto quickly ran to the park as he curled under the tree and let all his tears fall, until he heard a voice. "Mister, why are you crying?"
Naruto looked up to see a girl around the age of 12, who looked just like Hanabi. "Hanabi?"
The girl then saw how much pain the man was in when she looked into his eye. "No, silly, my name is Mitsu Yuugan."
All of a sudden she took out her phone and texted back. "I got to go, but if you need anyone to talk to, I'll be here very day around noon."
Naruto sadly smiled. "Thank you for the offer. I'll think on that… My name is Naruto Uzumaki by the way… It was nice meeting you Mitsu."
Mitsu smiled as she walked away. "You too, Naruto."
Naruto stare lingered onto Mitsu and when she disappeared around the corner, Naruto shook his head. She is not Hanabi. She is a completely different person… but she looks so much like Hanabi… Maybe we can be together? Dammit Naruto get that out of your mind right now! You love Hanabi, not some kid who looks like her… Ugh the sooner I can write my note, the better off I'll be, either that, I just hope that I get to save Hanabi…
Naruto got up and reluctantly walked back to the house, planning to continue that note. Maybe tomorrow I can see Mitsu. Maybe she would be the one to tear up the note?
A/N Well, I feel like the flashbacks were rushed, but I felt that the current time was done well... sort of. TBH I had no idea where I wanted to go with this and decided to sit down and write it out. Fortunately for me my muse acted up again towards the end. How will Naruto react with Hanabi's look alike in the picture now? That is for me to write, and you to find out. But I will say that by the ending, you all will be shocked. Like I said in my A/N of Chapter 2 to Escape, my muse is fucking evil. MUAHAHAHAHAHA! As for Naruto's emotions being unstable, I felt it was necessary to not only give the story more impact but, to be more realistic, and plus who wouldn't be pissed after learning that their parents' names were kept from them.
Anyways, as always R&R and this is 9tailsfox2 signing off!
