"Who are you?" Sasuke said, know he had a connection to this person. Just to look at him infuriated Sasuke but also gave somewhat a feeling of comfort.
Naruto Stared silently at this boy. His soul felt like it was being ripped apart for some reason. His chest hurt and felt so many feeling. Sadness, pain, anger, but most of all, happiness.
"I'll ask again," said Sasuke, with a look of complete darkness, "Who are you."
"Sasuke …" Naruto said with a tear drop running down his eye, "It's me Sasuke! Open your eyes, no, open your soul and think, it's me! Naruto!" Naruto knew Sasuke was his best friend, he knew how he felt Sasuke was a brother to him, but he honestly wasn't sure from where. His eyes were filled with tears as he called out to his friend. But his desperate plea wasn't reaching him.
"I don't know anyone by that name," he responded but knew that he was only lying to himself, in fact, other than how to use jutsu, the only other thing he really remembered were two names; Itachi and Naruto. "Be gone." He said with a tone of malevolence. Lighting began to form around Sasuke's hand.
"Please…" Naruto pleaded with a soft voice, but realizing there was no other choice, he summoned a shadow clone and began to form a Rasengan. The clone disappeared and the two boys, both with their jutsu ready, stared each other down. The sound of the lightning crackling in Sasuke's hand and the sound of the Rasengan spiraling in Naruto's hand filled the air. Right before they were going to lunge at each other they heard a voice.
"Stop." It demanded in a firm yet calm tone. Everyone looked at the man, he was about twenty feet away, but it wasn't a man. This thing had long black hair that ran down to his shoulders and blue jeans but no shirt. You can tell he wasn't human due to the fact that he had a pair of black wings coming out of his back. Both of the boy's jutsu disappeared from their hands.
"Who are you," Naruto demanded to know, but this thing merely smiled.
"I am the one who summoned you all here. I am the god Shi."
"Why did you bring us here," Naruto asked trying to stay as calm as possible, but he was feeling pissed.
"I brought you here for my pleasure, to watch as warriors from the same a different world's battle, for my pleasure. Nothing more. Nothing less."
"You think messing with humans is just some game!" Naruto said starting to lose his temper, "and what happened to our memories? Why can't I remember anything?"
"Well the answer is simple, I stripped your memories from you," Naruto's fist clenched, "This was necessary to make sure you would battle amongst yourselves."
Naruto was confused, "How does taking our memories ensure that were going to fight amongst us, and who exactly is us?"
He smiled, a sadistic evil smile, "Because the only way to retrieve your memories is to… kill someone else." A surprised expression ran across everyone's face but Sasuke's, "And the only way to return to your world is to retrieve all your memories. Though, I wasn't able to strip all your memories, some were to bound to the soul, like your knowledge of Sasuke's existence and your knowledge of knowing how to do the Rasengan, but not all of it was bound, like your knowledge of the Rasen Shurikan." Naruto didn't know anything about a Rasen Shurikan, but it did explain why he knew the person standing across from him. So we're from the same world, huh? Naruto thought. "And there are many more of you," he continued "So many more warriors from a different worlds."
"Where exactly are we ," Ichigo asked
With another evil smile he said "The Gensō no sekai."
"World of illusion, eh?" Natsu said.
"Yes, and you must stop with this battle. Your final showdown will be later. It's not time for either one of you to die. It is time for me to be going." And in a instant he vanished.
"Wait… oh damn," he turned to look at Sasuke to find he had also vanished. "Sasuke…" For me not able to remember much, but able to remember him, he must be important to me.
"Whew, that was a close one, I owe ya'," Ichigo said, "My name is Ichigo Kurosaki." He said already reverted back to his Shikai form.
"My name is Natsu Dragoneel, It's a pleasure. This here is Naruto Uzamaki."
"Nice to meet you, Natsu, Naruto." Naruto wasn't paying attention; he was still caught up on what that demon had said. Must kill to return to my own world. Naruto thought.
"Anyway, it's getting late. Maybe we should set up camp?" Natsu suggested.
They walked back to the forest region and set up a fire and each took a spot around it. Naruto was lying down and Ichigo and Natsu were sitting up.
"What do we do? There's no way in hell I'm going around killing random people to get my memories back. That just isn't right…"
"Agreed." Natsu said. "We'll have to find another way ."
"We'll have to defeat that man, no, that thing, to find a solution." Naruto said sitting up.
"Yeah, that's really the only lead that we have to go on right now." Ichigo said
"Right, but tonight we should get some rest. We'll set out tomorrow morning." Natsu said.
"Right." Naruto and Ichigo said in sync.
Later on that night, when Ichigo and Natsu fell asleep, Naruto went for a walk through the forest in order to clear his mind. As he walking he heard some rustling in the bushes that were next to him. He drew a kunai from his pouch and yelled, "Whos's there?" A person with a long pony-tail going down his back and the Sharingan appeared. He wore a black cloak covered in red clouds. With a straight face and without ever changing his expression he said, "Hello there, Naruto, it's been a while."
"H-h-hey, how do you know my name, and shouldn't your memories should be gone like everyone else?"
"I always had fear that my memories would be tampered with, so I cast a genjutsu on my brain that made back up memories. It seems that you have lost your memories to."
"Yeah… wait, what do you meant "to"?" Naruto questioned.
"I ran into some jonin ninja from the leaf village that attacked me. In self defense I had to kill him, but after his death, his body decomposed, in a particle like manner and all that was left was this." He dug through his pocket and pulled out a gold glowing key.
"Whoa…" Naruto exclaimed, "What is it?" The light radiated off it.
"I don't know for certain but of my hypothesis is correct…" he paused, "Take the key Naruto."
Naruto naughted and slowly reached for the key. The moment he touched it, his mind was transported to a different world. There was nothing but black in this room, then a door appeared a few feet in front of him. Realizing that he had the key in his hand, he took a few steps towards the door and put the key in the lock and twisted it the door open to reveal nothing but black, but then, in a moment a white light flooded out from the door and some memories of his past came back. He saw himself, on a swing, sad, cold, and lonely. A mob of people was standing around him making comments like freak or like he should just go die! Then in a flash he was back in reality. It had shocked him so, that he stumbled backwards a fell.
Itachi offered Naruto a hand and he took it. Itachi pulled him to his feet.
"What happened Naruto?" Itachi asked.
"I'm from… The hidden leaf Village!" Naruto said proudly, but then he stopped and felt somewhat bitter, "and they all hated me. All of them. Every single one of them… but something must be different now! I have to get back my memories."
"Careful Naruto, you can't go around killing random people." He had been so excited that he remembered that he forgot the way to retrieve memories, "For now just be patient and try not to draw to much attention to yourself."
"Wait, what are you going do?"
"I'll stay back, hidden; and wait for the enemy to make their move, then I'll decide after that. Like I said before, don't do anything to draw attention to yourself." Naruto naughted in compliance. Itachi then dispersed by splitting apart with in a mob of crows that fluttered away.
Realizing that it was almost sun-up Naruto said, "Oh no! I have to make it to the camp site before they wake up.
The three companions had begun walking out of the forest to begin their search for that man. Ichigo and Natsu had been well rested and were moving without a problem while Naruto had lagged behind still exhausted from having no sleep the night before.
Natsu turned and asked "You okay? You seem pretty tiered, what time did you get to sleep last night?"
"Sleep! Yes, I had sleep, much of it, sleep, I didn't leave the camp! Who told you that?! It was you weren't it Ichigo!" Naruto snapped from being a bit delusional.
"Uh… dude, are you okay?" Ichigo asked.
"Hahaha! What's with this guy?" Natsu said laughing hysterically.
Yes… you will be perfect for retrieving my memories. A look of surprise lit up across their faces and turned in every direction. Then, a spot in front of them began becoming distorted and warped. Then a man appeared in that space. With a mask that only showed his eyes, each a different eye one Rinnegan, and one Sharingan. They all froze in the presence of this masked menace.
"Who are you," Naruto demanded with some fear in his voice. He knew that this man was no friend, that he was for sure an enemy.
"My name is Obit… That doesn't matter. Soon you'll all be dead, and I shall have my memories back."