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Chapter Title : Me again

It killed Naruto inside to see Sakura hooked up to so many machines. He sat there in the room refusing to leave. The apparent exhaustion present on his face. Kakashi and Sasuke along with Naruto had been in Sakura's hospital room over an hour.

Naruto leaned against the wall and looked out the window the clear night brought a chilly wind as the leaves danced around on the street. Tsunade had come to see Sakura, the noticeable look of sadness and joyfulness mixed across her face.

Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke stood straight up as she made her way into the room.

"You found her…", she let out a sigh of relief.

"Everything will be okay now and we can go back..", she began to speak but the concerned looks across the men's faces stopped her.

"What is it? What haven't you told me yet?" Tsunade asked a look of distress present across her face.

And so they walked out of Sakura's room into the waiting area of the hospital. Kakashi explained everything, and Tsunade took a seat as he finished.

"I presume it has something to do with the large gash on her head, it might have caused the memory lose." Kakashi answered as Tsunade stood to her feet.

"I am going to examine her, but I need all of you to stay here."

Naruto raised his head in objection from the spot on the floor he was looking at.

"Naruto, I know how you feel, but I need to get to the bottom of this, if she at least comes into conscious we don't want to scare her. Go home get some sleep, that's an order and come back in the morning, all of you."

Naruto was not one for listening to orders, but the fatigue was taking its toll. He knew in his heart he did not want to leave, but he needed to get at least a few hours of sleep to be revitalized again.

All three men nodded and split as they headed out. When Naruto reached his apartment he took a shower, and fell onto the bed. He closed his eyes and drifted into a deep sleep.

Flaskback-

"Naruto, Naruto…where is your lunch." Sakura asked opening the box of goodies she had packed for herself.

"Aw Sakura-chan I ate it for breakfast, but don't worry I'm not hungry.", Naruto protested which caused his tummy to make a funny noise

Naruto blushed a cherry red, as he reached to grab his stomach.

Sakura gave him a stern look. She knew he was hungry, but wouldn't admit it. She softened her face into a smile.

"How about I share with you, this is too much for me anyway." She said holding out the dish of lovely dumplings.

Naruto's eyes widened at all the treats. He reached over unlike himself and took one and thanked her softly.

This was also a surprise for Sakura, who would have projected him to dive in, and eat like a child. They sat there in silence as the cherry blossoms danced in the wind enjoying their dumplings.

End Flashback-

The sun beamed onto Naruto's eyes and caused him to open them in haste. He seemed blinded by the warm glow. He turned over to look at the clock which read 9:00am

He jumped up in a rush and dressed himself, he knew he was late, and Sasuke and Kakashi would already be at the hospital; he was at last going to get some answers on Sakura.

He arrived to the hospital in a few moments and rushed to Sakura's room when he arrived the room was empty, well besides for Sakura.

He looked around wondering where everyone had gone. He walked over to Sakura, her skin looked like it finally had some color, and some of the machines she was hooked to the other night were gone. Many of her bruises were healed by Tsunade. The most important thing was she was breathing on her own. Naruto reached his hand to touch her forehead.

Flashback-

"Everyone makes fun of my forehead." , Sakura told Naruto.

"I like it, you don't have a big forehead at all.", he stated

Sakura hit him hard across the back. "I never said it was BIG, Naruto", she screamed as she chased him down the street.

END flashback-

"There you are…"

Naruto turned around to find Sasuke waiting at the door, "We are in the waiting area. Tsunade-same is about to tell us about Sakura's condition."

Naruto shook his head, and followed Sasuke to where Kakashi and Tsunade were waiting.

All three men stood in front of the fifth Hokage as she began to speak.

"She is doing well, all her vital signs seem to be stable and no signs of any intern damage. She can make a full physical recovery."

Naruto let a smile slip on his face. He was feeling relived that baa-chan was able to cure Sakura.

"I knew all we had to do was get her home, and you would be able to cure her." Naruto blurted out. He smiled toward everyone in the room, when his smile was not returned he looked back at Tsunade.

"She is physically going to be alright Naruto, but her mental or more so her memory….that hasn't changed."

Naruto looked bewildered, "Well just go in there and repair it, why are you waiting around.."

"I can't…I can't just repair it Naruto. It is more complicated than just fixing it. The brain is a complex thing, any little thing can help trigger her memory or…she may never get her memory back. She may just have bits and pieces of it the rest of her life we have no way of knowing which one it is until we learn more about her condition.

"Never…get her memory back." Naruto repeated out loud over and over again until it finally sunk in.

There was a light knock on the door, a petite nurse stuck her head in and informed the small group that Sakura was coming into consciousness.

Naruto looked around the room, not knowing what to expect.

"We can see her", Tsunade stated as the group made their way into her room.

Sakura was sitting in her bed looking out the window; she couldn't remember when she had seen the sky so bright blue before. Two birds were chirping outside her window. She thought to herself, 'Could this really be home?'

She was startled when she saw strangers enter her room. She looked around and realized these were the men that had saved her from her confinement. They stood away from her as if she was some kind of explosive that would blow. Her eyes scanned over each of them. She paused and looked at Naruto with deeper curiosity.

"Wh-who am I?", she asked in a low tone. It made Naruto have chills to see her like that looking at him like a stranger.

Tsunade spoke first, "Your name is Sakura, and you live in the Hidden Village of the leaf, Konoha."



Sakura looked back out the window as the birds flew away. She sat silent for a moment, and again turned her head toward the group.

"What happened to me?"

Sasuke couldn't help but speak up, "We were on a mission, we were ambushed, and you were kidnapped, we have been looking for you for over two months", he responded.

"Why…can't I remember anything?"

You received a fatal hit to the head, due to the severe amount of blood loss and lack of care to heal it; we believe that is the main cause", Kakashi responded.

Naruto just stood quietly as Sakura asked more questions, each person took time answering but Naruto just stood, he didn't know why he couldn't say anything.

Sakura looked directly at Naruto.

"You found me, I had intended to kill you", she stated.

All three turned to look at Naruto who shook his head as he looked down at the floor.

"You looked so hurt when you saw me…are we good friends?", Sakura asked.

Naruto shook his head, in a low voice he answered, "We are best friends Sakura…best friends."

Sakura's eyes widened…she than asked a question that no one had an answer too.

"How do I get my memory back?"

The room fell silent as Tsunade made her way over to Sakura, she motioned to take a seat and Sakura nodded her head in agreement.

"Sakura…we…don't know yet how to get your memory back, we are working on finding out more knowledge on how to come about with safe cures to retrieve your memory."

Sakura responded, "So in other words I may not ever get my memory back. I may never get back to who I was, I may never remember the faces of my family again….my family. Do I have any family?"

Tsunade closed her eyes and opened them, she turned back to look at Kakashi, Sasuke and Naruto who took in her stern feature.

"Your mother and father died three years ago."

Sakura closed her eyes; she expected tears to run down her face something anything after hearing that her family had died. But nothing came out. She opened them and looked around the room.

"I can't even cry…after hearing this…because I can't put a face to my parents."

Naruto squeezed his hand in frustration. This was killing her…and it was killing him to see her this way. Naruto reached inside the bag that he had brought and pulled out a small frame. He made his way over to Sakura.

He stood behind Tsunade and handed Sakura the small frame. Sakura took the frame and intently look at it.

It was a photo of the blonde boy, the dark haired, and silver haired man. In the middle was a young girl with beautiful pink hair.

"My name is Naruto.", he said sticking out his hand.

Sakura looked at his hand and back at his face, he had this wide grin like there was on worry in the world. She looked down at the photo and back at him.

She placed her hand into his and spoke, "Nice to meet you Naruto…is this me in the photo?"

It quickly occurred to everyone that Sakura had not seen her own face, since her memory loss. Tsunade asked for a mirror and handed it over to her.

Sakura looked at herself, though her hair was shorter now, and her features in a worse state, she could immediately tell she was the girl in the photo. She looked back to the group.

Sasuke made his way over and introduced himself. It was quite strange, kind of like going back into the past. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke."

Sakura nodded, "Hello Sasuke." This kind of stunned Sasuke as he had never heard Sakura say his name with the "kun" to follow.

I am Kakashi, I was your former sensei" he said in a heartfelt smile.

Sakura nodded, "Hello Kakashi-sensei."

After the introductions, Sakura asked quite a number of questions before running out of energy, she wanted to know more, but Tsunade thought it was enough for one day. The group exited her room, and made their way to the Tsunade's office to discuss what to do about Sakura.

Naruto realized before he exited the hospital that he had left his bag in Sakura' room, and he headed back to get it. When he arrived he knocked lightly on the door, when he heard no answer he just stuck his head in to see a sleeping Sakura.

He made his way over and picked up his bag, and the picture that was laying flat on the desk. He was making his way out when Sakura's faint voice stopped him.

"Naruto?"

He at first was startled but quickly turned around to be met with her eyes.

"I will get my memory back…wont I?"

Naruto pondered on what he would say…"Yes. Sakura you will…it's a promise, and I don't go back on my promises."

He smiled at her as he turned to leave.

"Will you leave the picture here, by me Naruto?"

He turned around once again and walked over to her bed and placed the photo upright on her desk.

He said his goodbyes again and headed out of the hospital.

'This is my family.' Sakura thought as she drifted into a peacefully sleep.