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Yes, I know I named the doctor Akatsuki, the bad group that wants to get Naruto. I'm not going to change the doctor's name because I did that for a reason.

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Chapter 3

Team Assembled

-Previously on Chapter 3-

The nurse flinched once she saw the deep gash in the boy's chest. She had to admit, it was unfair, but she hated that demon filth and wanted nothing to do with it.

"N-no." the nurse replied back shakily, "That d-demon killed my family!"

"Poor Naruto," Sakura mused, "He doesn't deserve this kind of treatment. He doesn't even remember who he is."

"I wonder what the Fourth Hokage would have done to the villagers who did this to him." Akatsuki replied.

-Beginning of Chapter 3-

Kakashi walked into the room of his student, and realized no one was there, except the young blonde. The Jonin waved to his two students behind him and motioned them to follow him to the room. Sasuke and Sakura followed their sensei inside the room of Naruto. The trio walked over to Naruto's bed and grabbed a chair.

It was dark outside, meaning that it was night time. The full moon's light shunned through the window that was a couple of feet in front of Naruto's bed. Lights of the village were shining the village, giving it a small aura of yellow light. In the room, it was dark. All the light the four had was the moon.

Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura sat in silence as they inspected Naruto. The only two signs of life was his heart pulsing meter (A/N: I don't know what that's called), and the breathing of the small Genin. The cut on Naruto's eye was covered from an eye patch, making him look like a mini Kakashi because of the missing eye and the mask.

Kakashi looked at the small boy's body and took a deep breath. His student was on the string of death and it was all thanks to him. He didn't train his students well enough to defend themselves from enemies that wanted to kill him. It wasn't entirely his fault because of Naruto's sudden memory loss yesterday. Kakashi sighed and rested his head on his hand.

Sasuke had his hands linked together and put in front of his face. His elbows rested on his knees, and he had an emotionless face. The typical Uchiha Sasuke. He had no idea how to react to this kind of situation. Well he did know, but it was the Uchiha way to express themselves publicly. The day his family got massacred, he only cried the day it happened. It was only him, and Itachi. Ever since the day after the massacre, he never cried out in public. It would have ruined his Uchiha image.

Sakura was looking intently at the eye patch over Naruto's eye. She was tempted to rip that black patch off and wonder what his eye looked like. The young Genin was worried about her teammate, and wanted to do something about it. She knew that if Naruto hadn't lost his memory, he wouldn't have been in this hospital bed. The pink haired girl thought she was the weakest among her team. Sure, if strength had grown over the past couple of months of being a Genin, but she didn't know any jutsus, like Naruto and Sasuke does. She wanted to protect her teammates, but she can't do it while she's weak.

Silence fell among the four. The only sound coming from the room was the beep of the heart machine. The soothing sound of Naruto's breathing was faintly heard from the three, but it was there. The two Genin heard their Sensei take another deep breath and glanced at him.

"So how long is Naruto going to be here?" Sakura asked with worry.

"I'm not sure," Kakashi started to say, "I forgot to ask the doctor before I came to pick up you guys. But looking at his condition, I predict about a month or two."

"Well this sucks," Sasuke said, "I won't have a training partner anymore."

"He couldn't train anyway because he can't remember anything. Remember?" Kakashi said, feeling weird because of that sentence.

"True." Sasuke replied, going back to his usual Uchiha personality.

"I don't know if I should cancel training for now. The Chunin Exams are coming up in about 3 months, and I'm planning to enter you three in it. But because of Naruto's condition of his memory, I doubt you three can enter." Kakashi stated calmly.

"But you said Naruto will recover in one or two months," Sasuke spoke, getting slightly angry. He had to compete in the Chunin Exams or else he won't get stronger to defeat his brother, "And the Chunin Exams are in 3 months. So that means we have one month for Naruto to get stronger."

"I predicted one or two months. I'm no doctor. And you forgot that we have to find some way for Naruto to regain his memory, and to get some jutsus learned all in one month." Kakashi said.

"Then when Naruto is in this state, let's go find some sort of cure to get his memory back." Sakura said, hoping to get into the Chunin Exams.

"There's only two options to get Naruto's memory back. Plus, it will take about a month to find her and a mission request from the Hokage." Kakashi said.

"Well what's the other option?" Sasuke asked, seemingly interested to get Naruto's memory back..

"The other option is extremely rare and almost impossible to find," Kakashi said, with a hint of doubt in his voice, "You have to get a drop of Blakiston's Fish Owl blood."

"Then let's go get some owl blood! It's not that hard!" Sasuke said.

"Like I said, it's extremely rare to find. The Fish Owl is one of the most rarest animal in Japan, Sasuke," Kakashi stated, "Even if you did manage to actually see it, the bird is so fast that not even ninja's can catch up with it."

"Well then that's Plan B!" Sasuke argued, "Let's go find whoever your talking about and fix Naruto!"

"The lady is named Tsunade, one of the best healers, no the best healer in the entire Fire Country," Kakashi stated, "She's a big gambler and she horribly sucks at it. Her nickname is 'The Legendary Sucker'. Because of her losing all her gambling, she's in big debt. She travels all around, trying to run away from the debts. That's why she's so complicated to find."

"Damn it..." Sasuke growled.

"I can try to request a mission to the Hokage, but I don't know how we can do it without a fourth member of the team while Naruto is injured." Kakashi said, feeling his student's anger. He glanced at Sakura and noticed that she hadn't said a word. He could feel the aura of sorrow emitting from the young pink haired Genin. Her hands were clenching her knees hard and was trying to contain her tears pouring from her eyes. Kakashi rested her hand on her shoulder, startling her.

"Don't worry," Kakashi said, "We will get Naruto back to himself."

"Let's get out of here and let Naruto rest." Kakashi said. The two nodded their heads and followed Kakashi out of the door.

A young Hyuuga Heiress was watching the whole scene from a tree she was sitting on. She heard of Naruto's condition and was instantly worried about him. She was sitting in the room, her head down on Naruto's bed. Once she heard footsteps coming to the room, she quickly jumped out through the window and landed on a tree.

After a couple of minutes waiting for the group to leave, she leapt back in the room, silently. She walked over to the chair Kakashi sat on and sat down. She gently grabbed Naruto's hand and laid her head on the soft hand. She silently cried on his hand for a couple of minutes.

Looking out through the window, she saw it was getting late. She decided to return home, so the Hyuuga Family won't worry about her disappearance. She looked at Naruto for a couple minutes, but to her, it felt like a couple of hours. She hesitated for a couple of minutes, but when the courage finally got through to her, she kissed Naruto gently on the forehead.

"Take care Naruto-kun." Hinata thought sadly. Hinata jumped out of the window and made her way home.

"H-Hinata?" Naruto quietly said to himself. He didn't know how he remembered her name, but he felt that she was important.

-Tomorrow-

Kakashi climbed up the stairs, with one hand in his pocket, and one hand holding his book. He was heading to the Hokage, hoping to get permission to find Tsunade. The cyclops knew that it's going to be hard to convince the Hokage to send Team 7 to find Tsunade, but he also knew it was going to be harder to find the legendary Sannin if the Hokage gave them permission.

Once up the stairs, he opened the door that lead him to the hallway of the mansion. His footsteps was the only sound he heard throughout the whole hallway. About two minutes walking throughout the hall, he knocked the door of the Hokage.

"Come in." the old man's voice said.

Kakashi opened the door and walked inside the shrine of the Hokage. Instantly, he saw piles of paperwork on the desk of the Third.

"H-Hokage-Sama?" Kakashi stuttered.

"Yes, I know this is a lot of paperwork." the Hokage sighed. The Hokage gently slid the paperwork that was in front of him to the side and put down his pen.

"Now what is it that you need?" the old man asked.

"I want to get straight to business," Kakashi said as he walked up to the Hokage's desk and set his hands on the table, startling the Hokage. "I would like to ask permission for my team, Team 7, to search for your student, Tsunade."

"Well that's surprising," Sarutobi said as he leaned back in his chair, "But I'm sorry, I have to decline."

"Why can't we go?" Kakashi argued.

"Because finding my student is at least a B-Rank mission considering her anger management and her frequent moving around. And, Team 7 isn't complete without Naruto." Sarutobi said.

"So what? We have to find her! We have to heal Naruto's memory!" Kakashi yelled.

"Calm down Kakashi." Sarutobi said.

"Sorry Hokage-Sama." Kakashi replied, putting his head down in shame.

"Apology accepted." Sarutobi said.

"The only other option is to find the Blakiston's Fish Owl, the most rarest animal in Japan." Kakashi said.

"You have a point," Sarutobi replied, "The other rookie teams are worried sick of Naruto's condition. And, since you want your team to enter the Chunin Exams, we will have to find Tsunade."

"So what are you saying?" Kakashi asked.

"What I'm saying is that you have my permission to go and find Tsunade." Sarutobi said with a smile.

Kakashi smiled and walked around the room. He couldn't believe he had just convinced the Hokage to give them permission to find Tsunade!

"You can take up to eight people with you to go on the mission. Two of them has to be at least Jonin rank." Sarutobi informed as he get a sheet of paper and started writing down a mission.

"Thank you Hokage-Sama." Kakashi said with a bow.

"You have one hour to get your team. Once your team is assembled, come here and I will give you guys your request."

"Again, thank you so much." Kakashi said as he walked out the door.

"That young boy sure changed Kakashi eh Minato?" Sarutobi said to himself as he looked at the sky.

-Kakashi-

Kakashi leapt from roof to roof, searching for his Team of Eight. He couldn't even believe that the Hokage gave them permission to do this mission! The Jonin knew the Sannin is going to be hard to find, but he knew it will be worth it. He had to find the perfect ninjas for his team so that the mission will be successful.

Kakashi ran up a pole and stood on it, overlooking the village of Konohagakure. Villagers passed by him, staring in awe. Every villager knew of Kakashi of the Sharingan, man known to have copied over a thousand jutsus. Kakashi shook is head and sighed.

Kakashi jumped off the pole and landed on a roof of an apartment complex. He jumped off the railing and landed in front of a door labeled 'Room 206'.

Kakashi banged his fist on the door and yelled,

"Sasuke!"

"What?" Sasuke mumbled as he opened the door.

"Mission. Hokage's Office. One Hour." Kakashi said with a smile. Sasuke knew immediately that smile meant that they got approval from the Hokage. Sasuke grinned and nodded and closed the door, leaving himself to pack up.

As Sasuke stuffed his clothes in his backpack, he was deeply thinking.

"If we're able to find this Tsunade person, we will be able to get Naruto's memory back," Sasuke thought, hopefully, "If we get Naruto's memory back, we will be able to compete in the upcoming Chunin Exams, I will achieve the rank of Chunin, and that will bring me up one more step of getting stronger in order to kill that devil of a brother."

Sasuke glanced around his apartment and looked at a family picture. It consisted of him, his father, and his mother. On the far left side was his father, Fugaku Uchiha, who had an emotionless face. He wore a blue kimono and his arms crossed together across his chest. Beside him was about an 8 year old Sasuke, who had a smile on his face and a blue high collar shirt. There were hands gently set on Sasuke's shoulders, and the hands belonged to his mother, Mikoto Uchiha. She had a pretty smile on her face, and was wearing an apron. Lastly, on the far right, use to be his brother. In the past, Sasuke got a kunai and ripped off Itachi's head from the picture, making it a family of three.

Sasuke grabbed a kunai from his desk and threw it to Itachi's use-to-be face. He growled in anger, remembering his brother.

"I'm gonna kill you one day, Itachi." Sasuke growled as he walked out the door.

-Kakashi-

The silver haired Jonin finally gathered all of his team members that he thought were necessary. It was perfect timing, as he had only about 15 minutes left for all of them to assemble in the Hokage's office. Kakashi opened the door to his apartment, and instantly knew that something was messed up.

Kakashi immediately whipped out a kunai and went on defensive. There was a slight smell that he sniffed out and knew that it wasn't friendly.

"Who's there?" Kakashi yelled out in his apartment. No answer.

"Who's there?" Kakashi shouted, this time giving an aura of killing intent.

"It's just me." a voice said, coming from the kitchen part. A person walked around the corner, and Kakashi knew he wasn't friendly. He wore a black cloak that surrounded his body, and the black hood covered his face. He had a deep voice that cracked every now and then.

"Who are you?" Kakashi said, giving off more killing intent.

"There's no point in searching for the Legendary Sannin, Tsunade." the cloaked person stated, ignoring Kakashi's question.

"How do you know of this!" Kakashi said as he threw his kunai at the person. The man merely grabbed the kunai and dropped it on the floor.

"No matter what, Naruto's memory will not come back." the cloaked man stated.

"You never know until you try!" Kakashi said as he weaved through hand seals.

"Chidori!" Kakashi cried out. Before he could impale the man with the assassination jutsu, the man suddenly disappeared, leaving Kakashi alone.

~End


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