Disclaimer: OK, this gets depressing to repeat... I do not own Naruto.

2020: Goood morning world. Here is Chapter 2. It has been renamed to Chi and Hai's Wonderful World of Naruto In Our Minds

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Oni and Twentytwenty's Chi and Hai's Wonderful World of Naruto- In Our Minds!

Chapter Two: Welcome! The Strangers Meet Tsunade!

And so, they began the half-day's journey back to the Leaf. Team Gai didn't ask questions of the strange newcomers. They would let the Godaime get all the answers she needed.

Chi had just amazed herself. She had kept pace with the ninjas for the entire journey back to the Hidden Leaf Village. Hai had kept up too, and to her credit, she had not slipped into her nervous habit of babbling about random things, as was her normal. She had been abnormally quiet, though, and Chi was getting a little worried. Actually, no one had talked much the whole time. She guessed they were all still confused about their sudden appearance.

Wait a minute... sudden appearance... from where...? Where were we before, then...? Why couldn't Chi remember? Where had they been?

Their memories of before they had entered this world were slowly fading.

Hai was impressed at the large wall. The six had arrived at the Leaf, after a half day's journey. She and Chi had kept up very well. Gai lead them inside and through the village to a large tower.

"The Hokage Tower", Neji told them.

Chi and Hai were told to sit in a room resembling a waiting room as Team Gai continued down another hall.

There was silence. "So, Chi. Is it just me or is it like, are we forgetting something?" Hai shifted nervously.

"You, too? I know we suddenly woke up and we were in that field, but before that..."

"... it's just blank."

"Yeah..." Chi looked aruond. "I also feel like I should know this place, but I know I've never been here before."

"Like maybe we've not been here... but seen here?"

"Yeah!"

A woman with very short brown hair entered the room. "Lady Hokage-sama will see you now."

The two were taken to a large room, in the center of which was a large desk and large chair, and an imposing-looking blond woman in the chair. "Shizune, shut the door on your way out." The woman commanded.

"Yes, Tsunade-sama." They waited as Shizune left and shut the door.

Tsunade turned her attention to Chi and Hai. "I am the Fifth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village, Tsunade. I hear from Gai that you are not sure as to how you appeared on that field."

Chi and Hai looked at each other. "Eh. Nome'm." Hai said.

Tsunade propped her chin on her hands. "And where were you before that?"

They looked at each other again. "Oh... that's... we were..." Chi thought. "Hai, where were we?"

Hai looked at her strangely. "You don't remember?"

"NO! If you remembered, you should have said earlier! I can't remember ANYTHING from before we woke up in that field!"

There was a long silence. "Oh. You neither?"

"YOU DON'T REMEMBER EITHER?!?!"

"Of course not. You're my brain trust, remember? I have the world's worst memeory. I rely on you to remember things for me." She sighed. "You have failed me!"

Chi grabbed a random stick and began to abuse Hai with it. "Dumbass!" "EEEEK!"

Tsunade blinked. "Um... I take it neither of you remember."

"Oh." Chi turned to face her. "No, Hokage-sama. It's the most peculiar thing. My memory just seemed to fade. I'm guessing that's what happened to Hai here. Although her lost memories are natural- she has bad memory retention- my fading memories are very strange."

The Fifth Hokage thought for a minute. "So you remember nothing of before waking up?"

This time it was Hai who answered. "I don't think that's how it's working, m'lady. We can't remember where we were, or specific things that happpened before we woke up. Something tells me we were different people, maybe? Like, we've changed something about us. But we can remember things. Like how we remember that I have a bad memory? And I know Chi is and was my best friend, almost my sister. And foods I like, and things I like... candy, and animals, and reading. I can remember that I'm ultra-phobiac of bugs and needles. I can also remember that Chi is a super-geniuslike writing prodidgy, and she loves live drama, and she goes to a genius school. But who we were, where we were? That's beyond the limits of my memory." She shrugged.

Chi stared. "Hai... that was really deep. Completely out of character."

Tsunade looked to be in deep thought. Then she stood. "Please wait." She left.

Hai and Chi sat in silence for a minute. "That was really accurate, what you said earlier." Chi said.

Hai shrugged. "I kinda just went with what my instinct told me." She looked up. "My God. What am I saying? Instincts? What am I, some animal?" A nervous giggle, and a sigh.

The door opened again. Tsunade reentered, followed by a tall man with long black hair and white, pupil-less eyes. He looked like an older version of Neji.

"...you for this, Hiashi-san." She looked at the two. "Chitomo, Haipa. This is Hyuuga Hiashi, the head of the Hyuuga clan. Hiashi-san, this is Tsubasa Chitomo and Okami Haipa." Noting the confused look on the girls' faces, she explained. "There could potentially be some kind of jutsu at work on your memories. The Hyuuga's Byakugan should be able to see it, if there is."

The veins around Hiashi's eyes became very prominant. "Byakugan!" He looked the two over.

"This feels really wierd..." Chi whispered to Hai.

She nodded in agreement. "I wish at least Neji could've done it. I wouldn't mind so much if he saw more than he was supposed to! He's cute."

Chi punched her arm. "I swear, you are so pervy sometimes..."

Hiashi had finished his examination. "There is something, but... it's undistinguishable, even to my Byakugan. There is some unsteady effect of chakra working on their memories, and I can see it a little against their own chakras." He bowed to Tsunade. "I'm sorry for such little information, Hokage-sama."

Tsunade waved her hand. "Oh well. We deal with oddities like this often in the Leaf..."

There was a knock on the door. "Enter!" Tsunade called.

Shizune poked her head in. "Tsunade-sama, the Kazekage and his entourage are here."

Tsunade sighed. "Ugh, why is he always on time...? Other diplomats and nobles are always fashionably late... Shizune!"

Shizune stood to attention. "Yes Hokage-sama!"

"Get Chi and Hai somewhere where they can stay for a bit- someone's house, perhaps?"

"Hokage-sama... I believe we can help."

Standing at the door were three people- a tall man in a black bodysuit and hood, with purple paint on his face. A blond woman with her hair pulled into a four-leaved style, and wearing a purple kimono-type dress with a breastplate over it. And a red-haired man with red robes and piercing teal eyes. It was the woman that had spoken. "They can stay in the building we've rented. There's only two of them, it shouldn't be much problem."

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2020: Oh gheezy. It's way past 10 PM and I'm watching Naruto and the Stone of Gelel. Been eating Jolly Ranchers all day... sugar high kicking in, whoo hoo!

I'm getting Oni to write me a LeeTen story, even though she doesn't support the pairing! Awww! Isn't having a big sister the greatest?

NEXT TIME!

Another Arrival: A Memory Within a Memory!