Warning! This chapter holds characters that aren't introduced yet in the anime! If you're not familiar with the manga this chapter might become confusing! Manga spoilers! Warning!

"go to the left here." Sasuke closed his eyes as Naruto suddenly turned. "are you sure? We sure are taking a detour to the village. And the tracks disappeared a long time ago." Sakura looked around, wondering where they were.

Sasuke didn't even knew himself, all he knew was that he went this way. But Sakura was right, why did he go this way? The tracks from the carriage that had the target in it had gone into the opposite direction a hour ago.

"Sasuke?" Naruto called his name. Sasuke sighed, burying his face in Naruto's shoulder. "stop for a moment." Sasuke took a deep breath, closing his eyes. The team stopped, waiting till Sasuke would give them the next direction.

Sasuke opened his eyes again looking around. He couldn't recognize anything. Nothing seemed familiar and Sasuke wondered if they indeed went the wrong way. As he scanned the ground for tracks or for evidence that he had been there it suddenly dawned over him.

"I went to the ground."

"Sasuke, are you sure?" Sakura asked. Naruto shrugged. "Sasuke says it, so let's go down."

As soon as Naruto landed on the layers of grass, ground and leaves. Sasuke looked around. "put me down." It didn't sounds like a commando as Sasuke whispered it. Naruto hesitated, but when Sasuke started to wiggle he gently set Sasuke down on the ground.

"…Sasuke…"

Sasuke could see. There was a person calling him. A shadow of a person stood a couple of meters away from where he was standing. "I started walking here. Someone was standing there." Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura and Sai looked into the direction Sasuke was pointing, but of course, they saw nothing.

Sasuke frowned as pieces of his the scene flashed in front of him, making it seem like the person was disappearing and appearing. The raven felt himself torn between the present and the past. Shaking his head, getting rid of the blurry images.

"you okay?" Kakashi asked. Sasuke nodded. "I didn't follow the target anymore. I was following someone else. I think. I'm not sure." Sasuke rubbed his temples. "it's all kind of confusing."

Suddenly the flashes stopped and the person was gone. Sasuke looked around, but the flashes stayed gone. "I don't think I went further."

"Maybe you went back again, after that person disappeared." Sai suggested. Sasuke frowned, but nodded. "I guess…" he said hesitantly. Naruto turned his back to Sasuke, beckoning for him to get up. "well, let's not waste any time standing here. Let's go."

OO OO OO

As team Kakashi arrived at the mansion that Sasuke had been watching, the team spread out, Sai and Sakura searching for a place to stay as it was already getting late. While Kakashi went to do some shopping. Naruto and Sasuke searched around the mansion, trying to find anything that would trigger an memory or flashback by Sasuke.

Sasuke looked at the try, touching the bark, as he gazed at the branch he had been, apparently, sitting on to spy on the target. Naruto looked at the fence, being the wall separating them from the mansion. "you probably had the best vision from here."

Naruto turned around, to see Sasuke walking on the tree. The blond watched as the raven crouched down on a tick branch. "I've perfect sight over the mansion. So this must be were I had been sitting."

Sasuke looked around, noticing that bark was starting to grow back on the spot where he sat. probably due the weight the bark had died and it was now starting to grow back. "and?"

Sasuke looked at the mansion. A maid was cleaning the porch with a great pond in front of it. the door to a great room was open and Sasuke could even see the back of it.

"I remember sitting here and staring at some old guys talking, with the target among them. But nothing out of ordinary." The raven looked around, scanning the village, it seemed familiar and he recognized an few rooftops, but nothing came to mind.

"well, let's walk around town then, maybe somebody recognizes you. Or maybe your recognize someone or something." Naruto suggested as Sasuke came down. The raven nodded, following Naruto through an narrow street. It ended in the maid street. Shops and stands standing at either side of the road. It was a small town, but it was on the route of going to several cities which explained why it was so busy.

The raven could tell how it had been when he was there and he could explain everything about his target and everything he had done. But nothing came from the person he had seen in the forest, nor had he the slightest idea of it had been a enemy of ally or even if he had known the person.

Evening arrived and team Kakashi was currently eating at a small restaurant. Naruto placed a piece of meat in his mouth. "Sasuke knew that, for example, the apple stand had been standing at the very end of the street and he knew several people from where he had been staying and shopping."

"And I knew what the target had been doing and where he went. How I followed him and stuff like that is also one of the things I know." Sasuke grabbed a piece of tomato between his chopsticks. Sai gave them a look.

"you didn't have a weird feeling as you walked?"

Sasuke tilted his head at the question. "you mean that I somehow remembered the feeling of someone following me or something?"

"yeah, something like that. Maybe having the feeling that you're being watched or that someone was around you?"

Sasuke shook his head. "No, I actually felt pretty calm."

"calm? More like stoned. He walked around like a zombie… every time I asked something I needed to call his name 5 times." Naruto rolled his eyes. Kakashi's food was, as usual, untouched, for he could not eat with his mask on. The rest of the team was used to it by now, so the they knew that as soon as they would leave, Kakashi's mask would go off.

They didn't even bother to try to look at Kakashi's face. The trauma still haunted their dreams from the last time they tried to do that… "Maybe it was because his mind was processing the thought of seeing and remembering at the same time. It's hard to focus with those two at the same time."

"I felt like I was watching the present and the past at the same time, it was kind of tiring." Sasuke admitted.

"well, tomorrow, we're going to the last town you went to, we'll pass 3 places going there and in that town we'll have 2 more places to go." Kakashi explained. "Maybe you we'll come by the place where you were attacked on the way home. just relax Sasuke" the man gave Sasuke a smile as the raven's expression went down. "we'll find something. Just focus on sleeping for now. We'll see what happens tomorrow."

OO OO OO

Sasuke stared at the ceiling. Naruto lay in a bed next to him, Sai slept in the other bed as Sasuke was laying on the couch. Naruto and Sai fell asleep as soon as the light went off, but Sasuke just felt restless. His whole body was aching and no matter how he lay on the couch, the position just was uncomfortable. With a sigh he sat up, the blanket falling of his body on the ground.

His eyes darted to the other persons sleeping in the room, relieved to find that they hadn't moved. He looked at the closed curtains, seeing the light from the streets behind it. Sasuke sighed as he ran his hand through his hair. He leaned with his elbows on his knees as he placed the blanket back on the couch. After another moment of silence, Sasuke stood up. He grabbed a t-shirt and a pair of pants. Quickly he dressed himself, walking towards the door. He opened it, only to tens at the sound behind him.

The raven turned around to look at Naruto who murmured a couple of unintelligent words. The blond turned around and Sasuke relaxed. Quickly, he closed the door behind him and walk out of the hotel.

Once outside, he glanced at the bar across the street. A unknown, probably drunk, man waved at him, as his friends laughed. The raven shook his head and turned away, walking towards the park he had explored with Naruto that afternoon.

Walking through the gates, he looked around, only seeing 2 people in the small park. He frowned as he saw the two hands intertwined. Placing his hands in his pockets, Sasuke walked over to a bench near the pond. The only sound he could hear was from his own breathing and his heartbeat. Somehow the wind couldn't be heard and the animals were all fast asleep.

Sasuke sighed as he brought up his knees, hugging them with his arms. His mind relaxed a bit at the silence and his body became calm. He just couldn't relax with the others around. He knew it was his own fault for being all tensed and nervous, but who wouldn't be in his situation?

The raven knew exactly why he couldn't fall asleep. He didn't want to. Half of him, just refused to sleep. Probably because he knew that memories or flashbacks would show up. Ever since he had been in Konoha, every night he dreamt. His normal, oh so black nights, were now filled with color full memories.

Kakashi had explained to him that it was probably because his body and mind were both relaxed when he was asleep. Memories could easily enter past the barrier that had been set up. When he was awake, the seal probably was stronger and made it harder for memories to enter the mind.

Sasuke was scared, frightened. As soon as he would close his eyes, memories would appear. He would probably remember a lot, a maybe even a hint of how it happened. He would find out about that mysterious person and how his memories were sealed away. Then they would find a way to restore his mind and everything would be fine. The end. Over. Happily ever after.

The raven sighed. Would everything be over then? Would he finally find his peace? Sasuke knew that he should feel glad, relieved when hat was going to happen. Naruto wouldn't be hurt anymore and they would go home and make dinner and eat and sleep. Simple as that.

No, Sasuke wasn't scared of everything returning to the way it had been.

What the raven scared was the possibility that he was the reason that caused this all. That he had sealed his past self away. That he had wanted to forget, everything. Was there even a possibility that he had wanted to forget everything, including Naruto? What had made him so desperate that he even would as far as deleting Naruto from his mind? Naruto was suffering because, in some stupid way, he had thought that the blond wouldn't care if he was gone?

Sasuke groaned, getting a headache form his own depressing thoughts. Picking up a pebble, he threw it in the water using all of his force. The sound broke the silence in the park as the stone hit the water. Sasuke looked up as a duck suddenly quacked at him, clearly angry that his beauty sleep was disturbed. The raven rolled his eyes. A snicker soon escaped as he thought about the way the duck had looked at him. God, he must have looked stupid.

Sasuke took a deep breath, standing up. It had now point of brooding in the middle of the night of unpleasant things. He would only bring himself and the others down, and that was the last thing he wanted to do. The raven turned around as he wanted to walk back to his warm couch as he heard the duck behind him. Sasuke gave the duck a look, which the animal returned.

"what?"

The animal cocked his head and then made a sound that resembled a snort, only to turn around and disappear between the reed. The raven let out a chuckle, rolled his eyes and walked away.

OO OO OO

Naruto yawned as he opened his eyes. A quick glance on the clock told him it was in the middle of the fucking night. His head fell down on the pillow and he rubbed his temples.

"hnnn."

Naruto didn't miss the small moan he had heard and he froze. Was that Sasuke? He sat up, leaning on his elbows as he watched the couch that stood on the other side of the room. Naruto tilted his head to one side and narrowed his eyes.

The body on the couch shifted and a arm fell on the ground with a soft thud as Sasuke lay on his stomach. His head lay on his arm as the pillow also was on the ground. The blanket covered up most of his legs, but his back was naked and the raven shivered as he frowned.

Naruto crawled out of bed, walked over to Sasuke and placed the blanket over the body. The raven let out another moan and the frown disappeared. Naruto smiled and chuckled a bit as Sasuke's hand moved a bit over the ground. It almost looked like he was stroking the carpet.

Naruto climbed back to bed and closed his eyes, falling almost immediately asleep after that.

OO OO OO

Sasuke looked around as the lantern in front of him shone brightly. The raven chuckled as he walked over to the streetlight. He gently stroked the cold metal. "I don't know what happened, but glad to have you with me again. It would be pretty bothersome to walk around in the dark."

But even with the bright light, Sasuke could see nothing but darkness. "Sasuke…?"

Sasuke didn't even turn around, he merely looked in the corner of his eye. "who are you?" he asked.

"Sasuke."

"Sasuke."

"Sasuke."

Great. Now he heard three people. Sasuke's hand reached out for his weapon pouch. He could feel the three chakra's slowly filling his surroundings.

"Sasuke!"

Said raven flinched at the high tone of the voice. Sasuke let out a curse as he found out that he was only in his boxers. Yay, no weapons and being humiliated in front of hallucinations. What's the worst that could happen?

And just, as heaven would have it, the light gave a bright flash before going out. "great." Sasuke's voice dripped with sarcasm. Finally, he had found a clue, only to have that clue in a dark room. That, and he had no idea who those three were doing and what kind of meaning they had. He should've turned around when the girl called him.

The raven cursed another time, glaring at the carp that passed him. "Sasuke…" Sasuke followed the carp with his eyes as it was swimming. Suddenly two more fish joined the other as the swam into the opposite direction of the street lamp.

Sasuke had two choices. One; follow the talking carp, which probably were the three people or two; stay right where he was and wait for Naruto or Sai to wake him up.

Sasuke looked around and sighed. Yes, following the talking carp seemed the only option. He jogged a little, catching up to the carp who didn't even seemed to notice him. The raven glanced at the carp as they swum on eye height.

After what seemed ages to the raven, since the carp didn't do much but swimming and the darkness was getting a bore to keep looking at, he let out a frustrated groan. "Come on, do something! Give me a hint, a clue, anything!" he shouted to the carp. The fish just kept on swimming. "Oi, you stupid fish!" Sasuke grabbed one of the fish by the tail, only to find himself in a forest.

The raven blinked as he was suddenly standing in a tight forest. He felt the heavy wait from his equipment on him and the weapon pouch on his back as he stood there. Sasuke looked at his own hands, seeing them covered in gloves. He was wearing his anbu uniform.

He briefly checked his surroundings, but couldn't see any point that even seemed familiar. Suddenly, between the trees, he saw a gate. Sasuke frowned. That was the last village. The was the last village he had been to for his mission. He could even recognize the two guards standing in front of it.

Suddenly his body moved on its own and Sasuke knew that he couldn't do a thing. He felt like a stranger watching a movie, but apparently that had been the way he had moved. Sasuke walked forward, until he found a path. Sasuke knew it was the path to go home. He just knew as he remembered it to be the path that he had walked to go to the village.

Eventually, after a minute of walking Sasuke suddenly jumped up to a branch, starting to jump through the air. The raven swallowed as his body went faster and faster. He hated this feeling that was haunting him. It made a shiver go up his spine as his wind blew the bangs out of his face. Sasuke briefly checked the surroundings every time he landed on a branch which he used for setting off from.

He could feel them, three familiar chakra's. Sasuke didn't recognize them himself, but his past had remembered as his body tensed. Sasuke swallowed as he felt the familiar chakra's come even closer. Sasuke looked down as the three people ran underneath him. They were wearing grey cloaks and the anbu cursed. He made a turn in the air, landing on a branch and going into a different direction.

The raven smirked behind his mask as the three people stopped, looking around. His smirk faltered though, when the people came running into his direction again. "Sasuke!" the middle shouted as the three ran into a v-form.

Sasuke ignored them. He ran even faster. "Sasuke!" Said raven didn't even listen anymore as he jumped into different direction in the hope to lose them, yet somewhere, he just knew that it was impossible to lose them. He knew.

"You godamn fucking bastard, get your little princess ass down here, you fucktard!"

His eyebrow twitched at the color full language. Sasuke sighed, grabbing a kunai and landing on a branch, coming to an abrupt halt. The three also stopped, a few meters under him. "who are you? State your business with me."

It was a stupid question as the raven already knew who they were. Still, he wanted them to reveal themselves, before he did. Stupid pride.

There fell a silence as the one standing in the middle took a step forward. "come down, Sasuke." The female voice sounded friendly. But the raven's eyes narrowed, and he raised his kunai, ready to attack.

"state your business with me." He repeated.

"come down, now!" the smaller man shouted. A big sword was strapped on his back with a few leather belts. Sasuke snorted at the sight of the sword that once belonged to Kisame. The biggest guy took a step forward, he seemed nervous. "Sasuke, please come down."

"who are you?" he asked, getting tired. Couldn't they just give up?

The smaller male shook clearly of anger, but the woman moved her hand in front of him, indicating that he needed to be patient. She took of the hood of her cloak, looking Sasuke straight in the eye.

'she's the woman I saw in the forest with Naruto and the rest!' flashed through Sasuke's mind. In the forest he only had seen her shadow, nothing more but a silhouette. Yet he knew it was this woman. The same voice, the same way she was standing.

"can't you even recognize your old teammates, sweetie?" the woman smiled, but Sasuke made a disgusted face at the nickname. Luckily it was hidden by his mask. As Sasuke didn't move, the woman beckoned for the males to take of their cloaks. Sasuke sighed as he looked at his old 'friends'.

"come down, Sasuke. We need to talk." The woman stated. Her voice suddenly sounded serious and her eyes narrowed. Sasuke wasn't taken back from her glare, but jumped down anyway.

"what do you want from me, Karin, Jugo, Suigetsu?"

OO OO OO

Next update is in 2 weeks! :) So see you on the 7th of September! And thank you for the reviews!

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