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Contest still going on so far I've gotten one idea. "The Pain of Remembering" Arigato, Crimson Zephyr, for reveiwing!!

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Of Lacking Names

He looked up to see a blonde man standing at the desk...

He looked at the blonde man suspiciously, tightening his hold on Iruka. "Who are you and what do you want?" The man noticed his tightened hold and held his hands up in a 'I'm not going to hurt you' kind of gesture.

"I believe you are my son's therapist...Kakashi-san?" Kakashi continued to look at him suspiciously. Iruka, however, had already made the connection and his eyes were as wide as saucers. Kakashi's eyes widened as he realized who this blond man looked like.

"ARASHI UZUMAKI?!?!?!?! WHAT THE HELL????!!!" Arashi winced at the loudness of Kakashi's voice.

"I take that as a yes?" Kakashi's eyes narrowed again.

"What do you want with Naruto? You're the one that put him in that hell-hole of an orphanage. Do you know what they did to him there? You have NO idea how scarred that boy is. You have no right to know him or call yourself his father." Arashi hung his head, yes, he knew this.

"I know that. I realize how hard it must have been for him, living in that place, but I had no choice. There was someone after me, I couldn't risk Naruto getting hurt. I ha-" he was cut off by Kakashi, whose voice was low and dangerous.

"You had to leave him in that place? You didn't want him getting hurt? Well here's the reality of it, he got hurt even worse. The scars he has go deeper than the skin." he glared at Arashi when he tried to interrupt. "Let me guess. You're going to say 'If I hadn't left him there he would have died' right? Well guess what, what he has been through is worse than that. Having to live with it, with everything that happened, you have NO IDEA how hard it was for him. Now if you'll excuse me I would appreciate it if you would leave, I was fixing to close this place up." he ended with a glare to the blond-haired man, who hung his head and nodded. Placing his hat on his head he walked to the door and turned back to Kakashi, who had followed him to lock the door.

"Please tell Naruto I came here. Or at least tell whoever he's living with. Please. I just want to be able to see my boy again, to be able to talk to him. Please." then he turned around and walked out, leaving Kakashi and Iruka alone once again. Kakashi turned to his dolphin and sighed.

"Come on Iruka, let's go home."

Kakashi had wondered all week what to do about Arashi Uzumaki and finally decided to tell Tsunade, Naruto's Guardian, about seeing Naruto's father and she could do what she wanted from there.

So on the next Tuesday, when Naruto was dropped off at his office, he was waiting outside and stopped Tsunade from driving off.

She sighed, exasperated. "What is it Kakashi? I'm going to be late." Kakashi decided to cut right to the chase

"I saw Arashi." Tsunade looked at him, her eyes wide and unbelieving.

"WHAT? You saw WHO???"

"Arashi. He came last week, right before I closed up the place." he gestured behind himself " said that he wanted to meet his son, some cliche shit like that. He asked that I tell Naruto he came by. But I decided it would be best for you to decide whether or not you want him to know. If not, then, I won't say anything about it ever again." Tsunade nodded, turned back to the wheel, and drove off.

"HEEEEEEY guys!! What's up?" Naruto flashed them all a big smile which none of them returned. Naruto sighed. "You guys are soooooo emo! Come on! Live a little!!" He received blank stares until a hand fell on his shoulder.

"Don't worry Naruto, I think we can maybe teach them how to live a little, but not right now. I want ya'll to talk more about why you're here rather than just random stuff. Okay?"

There was a long silence before. "Cricket. Cricket." everyone turned to look at Naruto, who just shrugged.

Naruto walked down the street with his bag slung over one shoulder and a book under his arm. He was walking home from the rather unproductive session with Kakashi, who had let them go early seeing as it was so unproductive.

He was walking down the street, deciding to take the scenic route home, when he saw a man with blonde hair talking to a lady outside a restraunt.

"Who'd you say the reservations were for, sir?"

"Uzumaki. Arashi Uzumaki."

Naruto stopped dead in his tracks and let out a feral growl. "ARASHI?!?!" The blonde man turned at the animalistic growl to see his son standing before him.

"Naruto? Naruto! My son." he ran towards him but was stopped by Naruto growling again.

"You think you have the right to call me son??! After you left me there?? No. I am not your son. I HATE YOU!!" Arashi's eyes widened as Naruto's flashed red. Naruto automatically backed down, mumbling to himself with his eyes wide as he felt his control slip. Arashi took a step toward him and Naruto bolted down the street, dropping his book in the process.

He slammed through the door to his house, dropping his bag from his shoulder. "OKAA-SAN!!!"

Automatically Tsunade and Jiraya were beside him. "What? What's the matter?? Naruto?" Naruto stared blankly ahead, mumbling the same thing over and over again.

"No. He was supposed to be dead. No. I almost lost it. He almost came out. No. He's dead. No. I saw him. He's dead. No. He almost came out. No. Dead. No. No no no no no no. Almost came out. No. He's dead." Naruto continued to mumble to himself and Tsunade looked up to Jiraya, who nodded and walked into the kitchen. He returned with a syringe, which Tsunade gave to Naruto, effectively knocking him out. Jiraya carried him up the stairs and into his room while Tsunade sat down on the couch in the living room. She could only remember the blonde haired boy doing this one other time, a long time ago about a year after she adopted him.

-Commence Flashback-

Naruto slammed through the front door. "BAA-CHAN!!" Immediately Tsunade was beside him, seeing as Jiraya wasn't home.

"What? What hap-" she stopped, noticing that Naruto was drenched with blood. His hair had flecks of blood in it and his orange shirt had blood stains all over it, as did his pants.

Naruto started mumbling to himself. "What the hell? Kid are you okay? No. What happened? I don't know. I don't remember. How can you not remember? You're covered in blood! What happened? I don't know! I can't remember!! Okay okay, kid calm down. Come on, I'll take you home, you can have a nice bath and I'll get you some clean clothes. No. I can't. I have to find Tsunade. I have to. She'll know what to do. She'll know what happened. Okay, come on kid, let me take you home. I won't hurt you. No. That's what they said. That's what who said? Them!! Oh god. Blood. So much blood. Dead. They're all dead. Kid, come on. NO!! I HAVE TO FIND TSUNADE!!"

Tsunade stood up from where she had been crouching by Naruto. "Come on Naruto." she walked into the kitchen with Naruto following like an obedient puppy. She grabbed the sedative out of one of the drawers and walked into the living room, Naruto still following. She gave him the sedative and layed him down on the couch. She stood up and ran her hand through her hair, sighing when she heard the doorbell ring.

She walked into the foyer, opening the door to see a man with a mask covering the bottom of his face and a scar across his left eye with his silver hair falling into it.

Tsunade narrowed her eyes. " Who are you?" The man in front of her smiled, his eyes turning into upside down 'u's'.

"I'm Kakashi" (-lighting flash--lightning flash- -dramatic wind-(1)) "I'm a psychiatrist, I believe I ran into your son earlier? I followed him here."

-End Flashback-

That had been the first time she had met Kakashi and Naruto had been going to him for psychiatric help ever since.

(1) My sister and I were joking around with the story and she did that XP Kakashi stole Gai's Shouji Effects.

Pyro: Sai, do you think that was good?? -is hopeful-

Sai: How am I supposed to know? ...it was really short you know...

Pyro: Yeah...but I think that it had a lot of information in it?? -is hopeful again-

Sai: ...yeah...

Pyro: YAY!!!! -hugs Sai & gives his tummy a zerbert-

(Zerbert: where you put your mouth on the persons tummy or cheek or something and blow. -it tickles a whole lot-)

Sai: -chuckles- Pyro...

Pyro: -looks up- Yes Baby?

Sai:...Baby??...I think my pride just flew out of the window...

Pyro: heehee Review please!!! Srry it's so short

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