What if I let you in?

What if I make it right?

What if I give it up?

What if I want to try?

"Naruto, what's up with that Sasuke guy?"

Naruto flinched, but it was luckily unnoticed by the green haired girl. "What do you mean Mari?"

"I mean," she said bending backwards into a bridge. "Why does he look so sad every time he sees me? Did we know each other back then?"

"Yeah you did. Don't worry too much about him. He always looks moody."

"I guess you're right," she said giggling. "But how did we know each other? He doesn't seem like the type to have many friends, especially me. I think I'm too bubbly for him."

Naruto wanted to tell her everything. He wanted to explain how she didn't always use to be so bubbly and perky. How she was a badass ninja who bonded with Sasuke because of their love hate relationship. How they had both fallen for each other within the year.

"Despite how it seems," Naruto started lying through his teeth. "Sasuke and I are best friends, and when we would hang out you would tag along. We actually had fun most of the time."

She smiled. "I see now! That makes a lot of sense. I can't believe you're best friends though. You're like complete opposites."

"We get along more than you know."

"If you say so. Anyway I should go now. Enjoy the rest of your day!"

Naruto wish he didn't have to lie to her, but revealing the truth wouldn't make much of a difference. Mari still hasn't recovered any of her former memories in the years he's stayed by her, so he doubted any information on Sasuke would suddenly cause her to revert back to her former self.

"I don't know what to do Sasuke," Naruto said as his best friend and rival walked up to join him in the grassy field.

"She's so different now. I don't think I've ever seen her smile so much."

Naruto shook his head. "It's like losing her memory made her lose her former self. She woke up with almost a totally different personality."

"It's not necessarily a bad thing," Sasuke replied. "But she doesn't remember any of us and all the good times we had."

"Why would you care?"

Sasuke glared at his response. "Don't act like you don't know about my feelings for her. And I'm going to make sure to be active in her life this time no matter what. She can forget everything I put her through when I was an angry avenger. I can start over with her."

"How can you start over," Naruto said staring Sasuke in the eye. "When she's not the person you even started with?"