A/N: Since everyone's been asking how the characters seem to be in the future... Read on and you might find out in this chapter... And you might not learn anything until the next one! evil laughter It actually all depends on if it fits in this chapter/flows with this chapter, so have fun waiting!
I do not own Naruto, but this story is my original
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Naruto jolted awake, breathing hard. The hints of a dream stirred at the edges of his memory, but no matter how hard he tried to remember, it just slipped further and further away.
"Are you all right? I didn't mean to scare you." Tsunade smiled gently at him, her hand on his shoulder, obviously the one that woke him up. She was sitting in her chair again, a clipboard on her lap and a pen in her other hand.
"It's all right, I just wasn't expecting it." He sat up slowly, allowing the soreness in his body to adjust to his movements. "I take it you're here to ask me questions."
"Of course," She smiled and crossed her legs, adjusting the clipboard on her knees. "Name?"
"Naruto Uzumaki,"
"Age?"
"Sixteen,"
"Birth date,"
"October tenth,"
Address,"
"Uh..." Naruto was caught here. What would he say? Obviously his apartment was gone, how could it have stood for a thousand years?
"Naruto," Tsunade leaned forward, searching his face intently. "Do you have a home?"
He opened his mouth to say something when there was a shout that came from outside the room. Naruto almost sighed in relief from the distraction as Tsunade looked up.
"You can't go in! The doctor's with a patient right now, you'll just have to wait!"
"No, no, it's all right, she won't care if I go in."
Naruto perked up at the second voice. It couldn't be... Could it?
"I'm sure the patient will!"
"And I'm sure they'll forgive me."
Tsunade rolled her eyes. "I knew he'd appear sometime this morning." What first caught Naruto's attention was the puff of silver hair, side-swept slightly; the easy-going stance and he even recognized the cover of a familiar book in his pocket. They were still in circulation?
"Kakashi!" Naruto shouted and his old teacher turned to look at the one that called his name. When he saw Naruto, something seemed to click and his usually bored-looking eye widened. That's when Naruto noticed that his face mask and head band were replaced by bandages and a gauze eye patch.
"Naruto?"
Now it was Naruto's turn for his eyes to widen. No one else recognized him, but Kakashi did! But what did this mean? Something just wasn't adding up in this equation.
"You know him?" Tsunade stepped forward. "Wait, before you answer that, aren't you supposed to be teaching?"
"That's why I'm here. A lady was getting attacked by a group of feral cats and of course, me being me, I had to..." A glare from Tsunade stopped his lie in its tracks and he trailed off. "Okay, okay," He held up his hands, which were also slightly bandaged. "I was on my way to school when I saw a cat that I thought was hurt, on the side of the road and when I went to help it, it attacked me."
"Actually," She rubbed the bridge of her nose, closing her eyes. "I don't care why you aren't at school, but I do want to know how you know him. He was found coming out of that cave in the hot springs all beat and bloody."
"Well," Kakashi paused. "He's my cousin's kid and he's been staying with me. Financial problems. And the first night he was here, we started arguing and he ran out." He shot Naruto a look to say 'go with the story if you want to live'.
"Y-yeah," Naruto stumbled slightly, still not completely following what was happening. "I was mad that I had to stay with him, so I ran out, then I met up with a girl that said I could stay with her until things cooled down and while we were walking, we got jumped, she got hurt, and the next thing I knew, I was in that cave."
Tsunade didn't seem entirely convinced, but handed Kakashi the clipboard. "Then finish filling this out and you can take Naruto home, but make sure he stays relaxed and doesn't run away again!" And then strode out, slightly slamming the door.
Kakashi quickly finished filling the forms out and laid it on the bed. "Where are your clothes?" He asked, removing Naruto's neck brace.
"In a sack in one of those cabinets," Naruto pointed, slightly behind on what was going on.
Kakashi found it and searched through it. His shirt was beyond trash, but his black tank top and pants weren't too damaged. He tossed them to Naruto along with his sandals. He continued to look through the sack and pulled out Naruto's headband. Kakashi held it for a few moments, and then thrust it into his pocket. He glanced at Naruto, who was still attempting to get dressed and finally noticed the tape on his leg and arm. "I'm going to get you a set of crutches so we can get out of here."
"But Kakashi-" Naruto didn't get to finish as his former teacher, half out the door, cut in.
"I'll tell you on the way back to my apartment." And disappeared.
Naruto finished getting dressed and sat on the edge of the bed, slipping his sandal onto his good foot. "What is going on here?" He spoke to himself. "Izumo, Kotetsu, Tsunade, and Kakashi are all here and practically the same as they were a thousand years ago, but none of them recognized me except Kakashi. Who else is there?"