Hi Guys!! Just a warning...next chapter may be a little late....cause I'm being dragged to Michigan for Thanksgiving (So if anyone has any entertainment ideas for near Webberville....I'd love you forever...)....and I have a drill competition week after....so....I'm not sure how much writing time I'm going to have...

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'silent communication'

"Naruto?" Sasuke repeated again, pushing himself up slightly, "What's....going on...?"

The blond boy blinked once, then again, shocked, "That....was all...it took?"

Sasuke pursed his lips, looking mildly annoyed with the lack of answers, "All what took, Dobe?"

That was all it took, the repetition of the familiar nickname, to have Naruto hurling himself at Sasuke. The force of his impact caused the bed to slide across the floor as he hit the Uchiha roughly across the back of the head, and grabbed his shoulders, "If you ever do that to me again, I swear you will regret it, Sasuke!'' For a moment his eyes flashed pure crimson, and Sasuke's own gaze instinctively hardened, and for the first time in years, the Sharingan revealed itself.

"Unhand my patient." A new voice revealed itself, as the two boys' eyes faded rapidly back to normal. Naruto frowned, clutching briefly at the sheets, as a spell lifted him into the air, dropping him on the floor several feet from Sasuke's bed. The medic walked over to Sasuke, and began talking to him, asking questions about how he felt, as Naruto glared at her back.

Shino sighed, offering the other a hand up, "Was that really smart?"

"Yes...." Shino raised an eyebrow, "He called me 'Dobe' and gave me evil look of doom." Naruto muttered, sparing a glance towards the medic who was waving her wand around Sasuke, apparently casting another spell. "He's back."

"How does this warrant you tackling him?"

"It's Sasuke..."

"...I see..."

It took half an hour, the presecences of Head Mistress McGonagall, Professor Lupin and Professor Slughorn, for the results to finally be deemed believable. Somehow, someway, Sasuke Uchiha, despite his horrendously long unconciousness, was one hundred percent fine. There were no lingering affects, no memory loss, no dehydration or starvation, just the same-old Sasuke as before.

Or so the wizards thought. Only Shino and Naruto, who stayed quiet in the background of the examinations, were able to notice the miniscule changes; the Uchiha's eyes darted occasionally to the door and the window, whenever one of the adults moved to go near him, he'd tense almost inperceptibly, fingers brushing against his outer thigh, the same place many shinobi kept their weaponry.

If the paranoia most shinobi exhibited was anything to go by, Sasuke most definately had his memories back. And now that the Uchiha was finally cleared, Naruto was obviously resisting the urge to grab the Uchiha and drag him away.

Thankfully though, the adults seemed to realize this, and sent the Uchiha on his way, with the mere warning to come back if anything felt wrong.

The moment they were in the hallway, Naruto looked between his two friends, "We...are going to find an empty room somewhere....and have a talk." He informed them.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "And what makes you think I'm going to be agreeing with that?"

"Because if you don't, we'll drain you of your chakra, beat you to a pulp and drag you off."

"And somehow that makes me want to go with you even less..." Sasuke replied evenly.

Naruto growled quietly, the one thing he obviously hadn't expected, was Sasuke acting as conceited as he'd been upon leaving Konoha, he clenched his fist, seeming to debate on punching him. Shino sighed slightly, stepping between them.

"You have information we want. However, in turn, we have information I can only assume you want as well. About your brother, perhaps?" He pointed out calmly, noting the other's eyes flash with the sharingan at the mention, "Memories aren't skills, as I'd hope you realize, if you were to try anything you could once do, I'm sure you'd regret it. Naruto and I, have practice with blending in here. I'm sure, after all, that even you never noticed what we do in the background. Act without us, and you could easily expose yourself." He stepped away, completely unphased by the other's flaring chakra, "Your act won't work well either, Uchiha. You may have once seemed like this, but the one who existed a week ago didn't. And seeing as you still obviously had enough knowledge of the school to remember to act like a wizard in the hospital wing, I'm sure you can remember that." He paused for a moment, "Or maybe...you are a monster after all."

The other flinched slightly, it was obvious Shino's words had hit home. Naruto smirked, "Now then, shall we?"

The room was a little gloomy, but Sasuke had created several balls of light to help illuminate the room. "Well, what do you want to talk about?" Sasuke asked.

"What do you think, Teme. You've got all your memories back, right?"

"Yes."

"All of them, everything from Konoha, Sound, everything leading up to here."

"Yes."

"Then how the hell did you get here?"

That question caused hesitation, "I...don't know."

Naruto growled quietly, "What do you mean you don't know? You had to get here somehow!'"

"Just that...I got here three years ago...but I didn't do anything to do it!"

The two boys glared at each other, turning away after a moment.

"How could you not do anything and get here?" Naruto responded.

"What about you? How the fuck did you get here?"

"We were under attack. We got away. We passed out. We got here."

"You passed out and woke up here?" Sasuke clarified, "So you have no way to get back then."

"If we could, don't you think we'd be there?"

They glared at each other once more.

"What happened before you arrived here, Sasuke?" Shino interrupted, in a slight attempt to break the tension.

"I was training some brats, once I got sick of them I sent them off. I was going to go train on my own, it was stormy weather, so I knew I'd be alone. I thought someone was following me though, so I tried to go after them. That's when I must've passed out, and woke up here."

"But you passed out." He pointed out. "In Sound."

"Yes..."

"The same country we did..." Shino pointed out, "Though for admittedly different reasons."

"You were in Sound?"

"Trying to leave there, but we were still inside the borders."

"Why?"

"Mission" The short answer made it clear, Sasuke wouldn't get answers until he proved he could be trusted.

Naruto sighed, "So here's what we know. Three years ago, Sasuke vanishes from Sound. Apparently, he came here. But no one knows just how the hell he managed to get here. Something must've happened then to cause it. Then during our mission...something similar must've happened. Right?" Two nods greeted him, "But I'm guessing you weren't bleeding to death when you got here, Sasuke?"

"Right. And I doubt it was the rain's fault either...But that still leaves us answerless."

"But still....at least we have more information..."

"It isn't doing us any good though."

"Shut up, Teme."

Shino sighed. It was going to be a long night.

Several hours later, the boys had split up for fear of getting caught past curfew, though they still had no answers. Admittedly, the fear was only for Sasuke, who would need practice when it came to using chakra, but the other's had their reasons as well. Naruto however, had another reason: He wanted to talk to Sasuke, to get clarification on everything that had truly changed in their relationship, and things that could hopefully remain the same.

The journey to the Gryffindor tower had been almost completely silent. Even their footsteps had been eerily quiet, and neither boy was willing to break the silence. Finally, Naruto stopped, in an area that was blissfully free of portraits. "Sasuke...you know we need to talk. Don't you?"

"We've been talking for hours."

"But not about what we need to Sasuke. You and I...we have issues. And you know that you can't avoid that."

"It's in the past, Naruto. What can you do about it?"

"Stop it from happening again." Came the steady reply. "I don't know who you are, right now! Are you the person who left me, left all of us? Are you the one who thought that one person could give you more strength than a village? The one who thought hatred was stronger for love, even when you did things because you loved your family? Or are you the person who I've been around recently? The one who hated himself for what he did? The one who thinks he's the monster?"

Sasuke turned to him quickly, "What makes you think you can ask those questions?"

"What makes you think you can avoid them?" Naruto replied, furious, "Who are you Sasuke, my comrade or my enemy? Are you going to protect me? Or are you going to kill me?"

"What makes you think I'm either of those? What if I'm different than either of your options, Naruto? What will you do then?"

"That depends, Uchiha. What will you do first?"

(meanwhile)

Leaving the other two shinobi alone had been a bit of an effort for Shino, but he'd managed to convince himself they wouldn't kill each other, because there'd be to many witnesses. He was hopeful they could refrain from discussing anything major until they met up the next day, and that they would have more answers as well. He'd spent quite a while worrying about his descsion, after all, there was only so much pressure someone could take before they cracked, but eventually, he'd managed to distract himself with something different.

The library.

It had become painfully obvious that Sasuke had no answers for them, leaving them no way to get home. It was just as obvious that they should not be able to do spells naturally, because the magic Sasuke possessed had NOT been there three years ago. Meaning he'd developed it somehow. Only everything they'd been told involved that being impossible. Combine that with the presence of chakra in a supposedly normal witch, and Shino had problems.

So he'd begun his all-nighter by breaking out the special book, the one that let him communicate with someone. Someone who seemed to have more answers than anyone else. The first question was simple. 'What is magic?'. He hoped he could get an answer, one textbooks wouldn't have. Because truthfully, he was begining to find textbooks to be useless. According to the textbooks he'd found magic was quite simply energy. Energy that seemed to pick random people to manifest itself it. But that was it, just the random formation of energy. But it existed at birth. Sasuke shouldn't have been able to develop it. Shino and Naruto shouldn't be able to preform the most basic of spells by merely trying. The wands should be dead in their hands.

He was a shinobi. Bugs lived inside of him. His team mate could have conversations with dogs. The other could see through walls. People could breathe fire. They could walk on water. Very little made sense in his occupation.

But this, took the cake.

Putting aside his questions on exactly what magic was, Shino let his mind focus on the next question. How exactly the damn stuff worked. Because that still made no sense. Focus energy through wand. Wand makes stuff happen. But if that was the case, why couldn't anyone use magic? Shouldn't the use of magic wind up draining the witch or wizard that used it?

Shino sighed again, opening a new book, and looking momentarily at the communication book. Something new had been written in the now familiar penmenship.

Magic...is magic. Specify.

Well...that's that. I actually don't like this chapter...it completely refused to be written. But...seeing as I knew what needed to happen, and I just didn't know how to phrase it...I shall carry on. And if I need to edit it...well...that's always an option too. Right?

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