I've managed to continue my story! Yayz! I actually like the idea I've gotten from a review so I'll be adding a twist to the story! Also, quintupledots915, thank you for your review! It means a lot, considering that you were the first to review me!
Yours In Wonderland,
mu149
All thoughts are within single quotation marks ''
Naruto 1 (you'll understand as you read the chapter) is in italics
"All right, Naruto. This is the last one."
I flinched visibly as the needle inserted a clear liquid within my arm. "These things hurt."
The elderly blond woman smiled softly at me, "I know, but it'll help you. I promise."
I frowned as she picked up the syringe and handed to a nurse behind her. "Is he ready Hokage-sama?"
I glanced to the door to see a brunette man standing hesitantly with a silver-headed man behind me, patting his shoulder reassuringly. "Oh, Iruka. Yes, you can let them in now. He's able to see guests."
"Guests?"
The lady turned to me again, smiling, "Yes. Some friends of yours. They will be helping you along your recovery."
"But you said that this medicine would make me better," I point out, again glancing out of the window.
"I said it would help."
"Will it?"
She glanced away before walking towards me, kissing me softly on the forehead, "I hope so."
A group of people push in the room then and she easily escaped as I was mobbed by dozens of unfamiliar faces. "Naruto are you okay?"
"What did they do to you?"
"Have you been behaving?"
"Naruto!"
"Naruto."
"Naruto!"
My head swarmed as I crawled back in my bed, scared of the faces that swarmed closer to me. A boy with goggles on his forehead instead of the usual headbands and a long green scarf glanced at the man with silver hair. "What's wrong with him?"
"You guys are overwhelming him. You see, Naruto has lost all of his memories. He can't remember any of you right now."
They quickly calmed down as a thick cloud of despair settled upon the room. I hated that worse than the swarming around me. "I-its okay," I stuttered, managing to push myself forward, "I would like to meet all of you again!"
They stared at me sadly as I held out my hand, "Hi! I'm Naruto Uzumaki!"
A few of them cracked smiles while others tried to ignore the sad news. "I'm Konohamaru! I'm your rival and when I grow up, I'll be the seventh Hokage!"
I frowned, "What's wrong with the sixth? Lady Godaime is the fifth."
He grinned wider, "That's already taken by you!"
"Yeah, Naruto! You've been saying you were going to be the next Hokage since you were little."
I glanced at the blond that talked next, "My name is Ino. We're not really friends, but allies."
"I'm Choji."
"I'm Kiba!"
"Neji Hyuga."
"I'm Temari."
"I'm Sakura."
"Sai."
"Kakashi."
"I-I'm Hinata…"
I grinned wider as everyone recited their names for me before I caught sight of the raven-haired man that had been here when I had first woken up. I pushed myself out of the bed before hurrying over to him. He stared at me surprised before I almost slipped. He grabbed me, tightening his arms slightly. I grinned up at him, "I'm Naruto. What's your name?"
His eyes seemed to darken as he let me go, walking out the door. I stared after him, confused. "Don't mind him."
I turned to see the pinkette smiling softly, "This kinda affected him harder than most. He blames himself."
"You're Sakura."
She smiled wider, "Yep. And don't you forget it!"
"Hey, don't forget me!"
I grinned as the boy hugged me tightly, his scarf dragging on the floor. We talked for hours. They told me memories that they had of me and I told them about the things that I did manage to remember. Whenever I managed to remember something, they would always start cheering and for a while, I was happy. One boy seemed to be named similar to the village; something that started with a 'k', I think. He idolized my past self, and kept speaking highly of my achievements and how he would be just as good as me. I kept smiling at him, although I quickly forgot their names, and before I knew it, he had to leave, being taken by a shady man that always wore his glasses pushed up and a scarf around his head. I didn't remember his name either. After they left, a few adults came in to replace them and I was again overwhelmed by the new faces, although I remembered a few of their names: Kashi (Kakashi), Guy (Gai), and some guy named Assume or something like that (Asuma). The raven came in after them, but still kept to himself. He kept smoking in the hospital and Lady Hokage eventually kicked him out when it started to make me cough. After they finally left, more kids my age filled the room. There was a tension in the room almost as thick as the despair that originally clouded the room, but it absorbed as I started to remember their names. Hinata Hyuga, Temari, Sakura, Kiba Inuzuka, Choji, Sai, and Ino were the ones that had been there since earlier in the morning. Rock Lee ( who looked exactly like Guy), Neji, Shino something-or-other, Ten Ten, and Shikamaru came that afternoon. By then, though, I couldn't tell the difference between them all. There was a red-head boy that always stayed close to me, but never talked. Beside him was a guy who wore some weird hood and paint on his face and some girl with a giant fan on her back. (Now that I think of it, all three had something large on their back, though the red-head boy had a gourde on his back.) And there was always that raven from when I woke up. I liked to describe him as a raven. He seemed proud and strong like a raven, but also deadly beautiful. I still didn't know his name and he hadn't offered to tell me either. He just stood in the back, giving off a very bad vibe. I didn't know the exact words to express it, but I could almost see the depression seep from him and swarm around him like a solid object that expressed him. Every now and then, I would find myself staring at him and would remind myself of the many people that crowded around me. By this time, though, I couldn't remember what name fit with which face, so I tried to avoid having to say their names. When everyone had left, he stayed, staring into space. When I called out to him, he flinched and I never did it again. He just stood there, looking at nothing at all, but seeming to know everything that was going on in that small room. After about a hour, I looked up to see him staring at me. Neither one of us would break the contact and I felt heat run into my cheeks as I held his gaze. The machine that was hooked up to me began to beep faster as my heart rate increased. I glanced at the thing, wondering what it was doing. When I turned back, he was right next to my bed. The beeping increased and I again turned to see what was wrong with it, heat rushing to my face and knowing that I would be red. He reached out and touched my cheek softly. When I looked into his deep obsidian eyes, I lost myself and I swore I was drowning in those perfect, beautiful eyes. Under his breath, I heard him mumble two words, "Remember me."
I was smoldering under his dark eyes and he pulled away, heading to the door just as a nurse walked in. He came back and I fell asleep, staring at his dark silhouette. I woke up to find him asleep in one of the chairs next to my bed. Quietly, I get out of the bed to stand in front of him. Reaching out slowly, I move his bangs slightly and smell a sweet vanilla scent. Suddenly, an intense heat clutches at my lower abdomen and I double over, trying not to disturb him. That was the last time I touched him. Every time I tried to know him, the pain would return, as if warning me that I should forget him. That's how it ended when I was finally released from the hospital.
Now, I was made to take tri-weekly lessons about the village so as to make sure I knew everything required before the Hokage sent me out on missions again. "Now, kage is given to the highest ranking shinobi of each region. For example, our Hokage is Lady Tsunade Senju. The few ninja that have achieved this title…"
I began to zone out of the brunette's speech as I so often did naturally. It was eerie, but it seemed that I was used to ignoring lessons. I tried to focus my gaze on him as my thoughts once again drifted to the past week's occurrences. I had been mauled by dozens, if not hundreds of people who had seemed to know me, but all their faces seemed to mix together because I automatically forgot their names and only nodded when they addressed me.
I shook my head, trying to focus again on the speech the brunette man was giving; he hadn't missed a beat, "…though this, has long since, been of no bother to us."
He looked at me expectantly and I nodded, "That was a well-versed speech. I have a question that has been pressing my mind recently."
He smiled, pleased before nodding back at me, "Well done, Naruto. What is it? The creation of the village perhaps? Or the history of the Hokage's?"
I shook my head, "Actually, I was wondering was my last name Kyuubi."
The man visibly tensed, so I continued cautiously, "Sometimes the villagers call me by such when addressing me."
The man looks away, his eyes burning with a suddenly heated emotion. I couldn't put a name to it, like many things. When he turned back to me, his eyes were sad, "No, Naruto. It refers to the nine-tailed demon fox that attacked the village many years ago."
"A nine-tailed demon fox?"
He practically pounced on the topic change, "Yes! Considered the strongest out of the tailed demons! These demons were created…"
Again, I zoned out as the man droned on about the creation of the tailed demons. I just wanted to know what it was the villagers called me with a scary look in their eyes. Hatred.
I nodded to myself. 'Yes, that would be the world to describe it.'
I looked out of the clear material that was titled glass. It was one of the first words I had learned as I so often ran into them when trying to run away from the hospital. This always ended in failure and another scolding from the woman titled Hokage. I wonder why every time I woke up, my body tried to run away. What was I looking for?
Sasuke.
I jumped for a moment, looking around, trying to see who had said that. I looked at the brunette who was writing an outline on the board with some rock. I think it was called a pencil. He was still talking along the lines of the demons. I looked around and still couldn't see anyone. I relaxed and turned back to the window returning to my thoughts. "That was rather strange."
To hell with strange!
I jumped up and the man turned to me, "Is there something wrong, Naruto?"
"Uh.. N-no. Gomenasai."
Yeah, something's wrong!
I turned around to find the source of the voice, but found once again that the room was empty. "D-do you hear that?"
He cocked his head to the side, "Hear what?"
Hear me! Hear me, Iruka! Iruka-sensei!
I stood transfixed, before I thought, 'Hello?'
Who the hell are you!
I sat down, shaking my head, "I'm sorry, professor. Please continue."
He turned around and continued with the rubric as I started my fight with myself. 'Are you still there?'
Who the hell are you!
'…I'm Naruto.'
Wrong answer, asshole! I'm Naruto!
'But…'
Don't you even think about stealing Sasuke from me! You hear me? Whoever you are, I'm going to kick your ass!
'Who is Sasuke?'
See! You're not me! No way in hell I would forget Sasuke, moron!
'But who's Sasuke! And how dare you call me such a name!'
The other me was silent. I looked out of the window, breathing a sigh of relief. Smiling to myself for stopping the eerie hallucination, I glance out the window to study the trees moving as the wind pressed against them. Just then, I saw the raven who had been at the hospital; the one who wanted me to remember him. "Sasuke…?" I whispered the name.
My body is absorbed by a sharp, burning pain in my stomach and I double over, choking for air that had suddenly rushed from my lungs. See! There's something wrong! Sasuke will know what to do.
"Sasuke?"
A deep and intense pain again shoots from my stomach and to my back. I call out, and see the world slipping away as my eyes are clouded with stars.
It was dark, and yet, it wasn't. I was outside, watching as a man clouded in an entirely black outfit came up behind the man I was looking at. A deep, rusty red color flashed before my sight as he fell, his obsidian eyes closing. "Sasuke…"
Whatever I was seeing skipped around. The next thing I knew, I was charging at the man, a kunai ready in my hand and a deep, scarring emotion driving me on.
Hatred.
My body attacked the man and as he fell to the ground, his hand flew into my stomach and a surging heat went through me. I ignored it, still attacking him.
That's it!
It skipped again and I saw the silver-haired man from the hospital.
Kakashi-sensei.
The other voice was explaining things to me. Kakashi lifted up his head band and I saw the red eye that seemed to stop my body, leaving something else. I was paralyzed as a choking pain swept through my abdomen.
He's using sharingan to paralyze you. I mean me.
The pain spreads through my body and the pain continues to increase until I was mentally screaming for help. My mouth opened, but the scream that wanted to come out was choked out by a gurgling noise.
I couldn't breath.
There was something blocking me.
I couldn't move.
I was slipping.
I was losing myself.
"SASUKE!"
That's it for now! If you still want more to read, try checking our Falling for the Kitsune: Edited Original by Alrye or Dentes by kodak-85. Both of them are really good reads if you're tired of me.
Yours In Wonderland,
mu149
