Chapter 3: Forgetfulness.
Kiba and Shino ran through the village carrying Hinata and Naruto, blood was pouring out of both of them, leaving the ground stained a dark red.
The villagers watched as Kiba and Shino sprinted down the streets. Seeing Naruto and Hinata bleeding like that, while also being completely unconscious scared many of them. Many villagers gasped at the sight and others started murmuring things to one another.
Kiba and Shino heard the gasps and murmurings coming from the villagers but they were way too focused on getting Hinata and Naruto to the hospital to understand anything anyone was saying.
Kiba and Shino were running faster than they ever had before. Both of their hearts were beating a thousand times a second. Even though they were running you could tell they were both shaking out of fear for their friends.
But they pushed through the fear and kept running until they finally arrived at the hospital.
Both Kiba and Shino slammed through the doors of the hospital with Naruto and Hinata in their hands.
The loud noise of them crashing through the doors caused the whole hospital to stop and stare at them.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT?! HELP THEM!" Kiba screamed as he held Hinata up in his arms showing the bleeding girl to the nurses and doctors.
Once the nurses realized what was happening they all quickly scattered. Many nurses ran up to Kiba and Shino and took Naruto and Hinata out of their arms.
The nurses then quickly carried the two of them into a room and slammed the door behind them as they started performing Medical Ninjutsu on the two of them.
After the nurses disappeared in the room with both Hinata and Naruto, Kiba finally calmed down a little bit and so did Shino. They both looked at each other and released a sigh of relief.
Then the door to the room that Naruto and Hinata were in slid open super fast. Both Kiba and Shino jumped at the doors sudden opening.
In the doorway stood a nurse with a very pale white face. You could tell just from the way she looked she had just seen something that scared the hell out of her.
"BRING ME THE HOKAGE NOW!" The nurse screamed.
Kiba and Shino didn't even hesitate, they both quickly ran out of the hospital and started jumping along the rooftops of buildings towards the Hokage.
Now that they didn't have to worry about dropping Naruto or Hinata they didn't have to hold anything back. They were both blasting across the village at super fast speeds that only a Jounin could reach.
Within seconds Kiba and Shino were at the Hokage's residence. They both ran through the building and up some stairs until they finally came upon her office.
They pushed the doors open and found Lady Tsunade and Shizune doing their work as usual.
Both Shizune and Tsunade looked up at the painting boy's with worry.
Tsunade suddenly got a bad feeling in her stomach.
"D-Did you find Naruto? Where is Hinata?" Tsunade asked.
"They're in the Hospital! They both got hurt really bad, they really need your help Lady Tsunade!" Kiba said.
Tsunade's face went pale as she listened to Kiba's words. The feeling in her stomach seemed to explode all over her body like a bomb.
She quickly stood up and threw her desk to the other side of the room and ran out of her office. She then continued to run towards the hospital without even waiting for anyone to follow her.
Kiba, Shino, and Shizune all looked at each other in 'awe' at how quickly Tsunade managed to do all of that, then they also decided to try and catch up to Tsunade.
Naruto was in a dark room. His arms and legs were chained up. He couldn't move. He tried his best to break free but couldn't. His heart started beating faster and faster as time went on.
Naruto then suddenly heard an ominous laughter echo through the room. The laughter sent chills up and down Naruto's spine as it was one of the creepiest things he had ever heard.
He then noticed a dark figure standing a few feet in front of him. Naruto could only just make out the silhouette of the figure but he could still tell something was there none the less.
"W-Who are you?" Naruto asked as he stared at the silhouette in the dark room.
"You don't know who I am. You never got to see my face." The silhouette responded in a whisper.
Naruto was confused.
"What do you mean I never got to see your face? Why am I chained up? Where am I?" Naruto started shooting questions towards the silhouette in the darkness as he got increasingly worried.
The silhouette laughed again.
"Don't worry all will be answered in time, but for now it's time for you to wake up." The silhouette said.
Naruto was even more confused.
"W-What do you mean wake up?" Naruto asked.
The silhouette didn't reply. Instead it picked something up off the ground and walked towards Naruto with it.
Naruto could only just make out that it was some sort of pole the silhouette had.
Naruto started to get very scared as the silhouette got closer and closer to him.
Once the silhouette got close it stopped and proceeded to swing the pole towards Naruto's head. The pole whistled through air as it raced towards Naruto's head.
The pole smacked Naruto right in the jaw.
Naruto immediately woke up and started gasping for air and grabbing at things around the bed he was laying in. He quickly sat up and started feeling around his body for some sort of sign that he had been hit by something, but found nothing.
He then quickly grabbed his jaw to make sure it was still there. Once he found that everything was still intact he started to calm down and he started looking around.
He looked down at the bed he was lying in and immediately got very confused.
"Why am I in a hospital bed?" Naruto asked himself. He then noticed that he was also wearing some sort of gown given to him by the hospital.
"Did I get hurt or something?" Naruto asked himself as he looked around the room.
As Naruto was scanning the room he noticed that there was another bed in the room with him. He couldn't tell if anyone was in it though as there was a curtain blocking him from seeing the whole bed.
Naruto's curiosity took over and he got out of the bed and started walking over to the other bed.
Once he reached the other bed his heart skipped a beat as he was surprised to see that Hinata was lying there with the same kind of gown on and everything.
Her breathing was really shallow and her eyes were closed. She was asleep.
Seeing Hinata like this worried Naruto and only succeeded in making him even more confused.
Naruto looked to the door of the room and started walking towards it. After Naruto got a few feet away from it, it seemed to slide open by itself.
But then Tsunade walked in wearing a white coat and she was looking down at a clip board.
Tsunade didn't seem to notice Naruto at first and she kept walking into the room while looking her clip board.
Once she got really close to Naruto she stopped as she could see someones feet from the corner of her clip board.
Tsunade then looked up and was surprised to see that Naruto was standing right there in front of her.
"Naruto?" Tsunade asked loudly.
Naruto put a finger over his mouth and blew air through his teeth as he pointed at the sleeping Hinata.
"Shhhhh!"
Tsunade looked over and realized that Hinata was sleeping and that she should probably keep her voice down.
Tsunade then stepped out of the room and motioned for Naruto to do the same.
Naruto listened and walked outside the room.
Tsunade then gently closed the door behind him.
"Soooo, how do you feel Naruto?" Tsunade asked hesitantly.
"I feel fine, but why am I even in here? Did I get hurt or something? Also, why is Hinata in here too?" Naruto asked.
Tsunade's eyes widened.
"Naruto, do you not remember what happened?" Tsunade asked as she started to feel a lot better.
"No, I don't, so will you please tell me?" Naruto asked.
Tsunade suddenly felt a thousand times better after hearing this. In fact she almost smiled after Naruto told her he couldn't remember what had happened to him.
"Oh, well, ummm, you were out on a mission and you ended up hitting you head pretty hard because you weren't paying attention." Tsunade lied.
Naruto being as dense as always quickly believed every word she said.
"Really? Well what happened to Hinata? Is she going to be okay?" Naruto asked as he was suddenly filled with worry.
Tsunade mentally face palmed as she remembered about Hinata.
"Oh, well, she, you two were on the same mission together and she was carrying something heavy and she fell and hit her head on something too. I bet she won't remember anything either." Tsunade lied again.
Tsunade mentally face palmed again as lied to Naruto. She didn't really care that she had to lie to Naruto, she did that all the time. But now she was worried about Hinata slipping up and telling Naruto something that might bring his memory back.
"Oh. Well, did we at least finish the mission?" Naruto asked.
Tsunade smiled as Naruto asked her this. She was glad to see that even though he forgot what happened, he still remembered how to be himself.
"Yeah, you did a great job Naruto. You and Hinata both." Tsunade said with a strangely sincere sounding voice.
Naruto jumped up into the air and screamed with his fist pointed to the ceiling.
"YEAH!" Naruto screamed as Tsunade told him he still completed the mission.
Naruto screamed so loud that he unfortunately woke Hinata up.
Once Hinata woke she too was confused to see that she was in the hospital. Then she quickly remembered about the events that happened to Naruto and she quickly sat up and looked around the room and saw another bed on the other side of a curtain.
She calmed down a little when she saw the bed as she assumed Naruto was in it. Then her stomach started burning badly. She threw herself back down on the bed and placed her hands on the origin of the burning and pushed down hard on it.
After a few moments the burning feeling seemed to fade away and Hinata loosened the pressure she had on her injury.
She then lifted the hospital gown up to see that there was a giant band-aid looking thing placed over her abdomen. She also noticed that a part of it was stained red with her blood.
She then laid her head back down and started replaying those moments in her head over and over again.
She couldn't stop seeing that red substance flow around Naruto's body like that.
"What was that? I remember that substance wrapping around Naruto like a tornado. Then his eyes changed color. I wonder if he is okay?" Hinata asked herself as she reached out to the curtain and pulled it back to reveal the rest of the bed she saw earlier.
To her surprise there was no one in the bed. Although it was obvious that someone was in it as the cover and sheets were all wrinkled. Hinata started to worry for a moment. She tried her best to stand up even though her wound started burning again.
Once Hinata managed to stand up she started walking towards the door.
Once she reached the door she slid it to the side to reveal Tsunade and Naruto on the other side.
Hinata's worry faded as she looked at what seemed like a perfectly fine Naruto.
"Oh hey Hinata ho-" Naruto's sentence was cut off by Hinata's arms that had managed to wrap themselves around Naruto. Hinata just hugged Naruto.
Naruto was kind of confused now.
"Why is he hugging me? Why does it feel so good?" Naruto asked himself as he inadvertently started hugging her back.
Tsunade watched as the two of the stayed in each other's embrace for several moments.
"Wow, the two of them look so cute together!" Tsunade said to herself.
After a moment Hinata then realized what she was doing and her face started turning red. She felt like she was going to faint but she fought it as best she could.
"I-I'm sorry f-for w-what happened t-to you N-Naruto." Hinata said as a tear escaped her eye.
Tsunade's heart dropped as she heard what Hinata said and she started to mentally freak out. She needed to get Hinata away from Naruto quickly so she could explain to Hinata that he can't remember anything that happened.
Before Naruto could ask what she was talking about Tsunade quickly pulled Hinata off of him and drug her back into the hospital room.
Naruto stared in confusion as he watched the door to the hospital room slam shut. He stood there for several moments wondering what just happened. After a moment or two he eventually started looking around the hospital and saw his clothes nicely folded on a cart.
He walked over to the cart and grabbed his clothes but in the process he couldn't help but notice that Hinata's clothes were right beside his folded in the same way. The only difference was that Hinata's panties were clearly visible and Naruto blushed a little once he saw them.
Naruto also noticed that the design of the panties had Kamaboko with pink swirls in the middle scattered around different areas. This ended up reminding him of his favorite kind of Ramen. It also succeeded in making him hungry because of that.
After Naruto was done staring at Hinata's panties he hurried to the nearest bathroom to change back into his clothes.
"Hinata, Naruto doesn't remember what happened to him!" Tsunade said to the confused girl.
"W-What do you mean Tsunade-sama?" Hinata asked.
"I mean, Naruto doesn't remember anything that happened during his disappearance! He doesn't remember the torture, he doesn't remember you getting stabbed, OH! That reminds me I told him that you hit your head and that's why you're here so make sure you don't let him notice your wound okay?" Tsunade said excitedly.
Hinata listened to everything that Tsunade said but one thing stuck out to her that she didn't really like.
"You lied to Naruto?" Hinata said in a slightly annoyed voice.
Tsunade sighed.
"Yes, but I didn't want too. I just thought it would be better if he didn't remember what happened. If he remembers he might want to leave the village and the village needs him. I need him. You need him." Tsunade said making Hinata blush and push her finger tips together.
"W-Well I still d-don't think you should have lied to him like that. W-What if one day he just randomly remembers and then really does decide to leave the village because the people he trusts most lied to him?" Hinata said.
Tsunade rolled her eyes.
"Oh well what's done is done. Now I just need you to follow along, alright? Remember, your head hurts. Not your stomach. Okay?" Tsunade asked rhetorically.
Hinata sighed and nodded her head to Tsunade. Tsunade smiled shortly after she did this.
"Good, now you may hug on Naruto all you want." Tsunade said as she turned around and headed for the door.
Hinata blushed a very bright red and suddenly got very nervous. Tsunade chuckled a little at the sight of this. Tsunade then pulled the door open and stepped out into the main part of hospital, she was then followed by Hinata.
To their surprise Naruto was nowhere to be seen.
"Well where the heck is he?" Tsunade asked.
Hinata didn't answer as she didn't know either but she then noticed a cart that had her clothes laying on it.
"A-Are those my clothes?" Hinata asked reluctantly as she stared at her own panties.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I had them washed while you were both asleep. Naruto's clothes were here too but I guess he took them… Are you okay Hinata you look like you're about to pass out!" Tsunade said as she looked at the panting, blood red Hinata.
"S-So I-I h-hugged N-Naruto w-while I-I w-was n-naked?" Hinata asked as her face got even darker.
Tsunade chuckled and figured she could have some fun with this.
"Yep, and he was naked at the time too." Tsunade said as she witnessed the timid girl quickly grab her clothes and run straight into the girls bathroom making strange, high pitched, cute, little noises as she ran.
Just after Hinata ran into the girls bathroom Naruto walked out of the boy's bathroom fully dressed.
"Oh there you are Naruto, you just the missed the show." Tsunade said.
"The show? What show?" Naruto asked.
Tsunade rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Never mind it's not important. So how are you feeling? Does your head hurt or anything like that?" Tsunade asked.
"No, everything feels fine. I think I'm going to go to Ichiraku's and get some Ramen then, head home okay Granny Tsunade?" Naruto said.
"Okay. If you need anything feel free to ask me and I'll do what I can to help." Tsunade said as she walked really close to Naruto.
"Also, what did I tell you about calling me Granny?" Tsunade said as her eyes filled up with anger.
Naruto knew that was his cue to leave.
"Uhh, Okay time to go! Tell Hinata I said I bye!" Naruto yelled as he quickly ran out the hospital doors.
Tsunade watched with annoyance as Naruto ran out the doors. At this time Hinata walked out of the Bathroom too.
"You just missed him Hinata. He told me to tell you bye though." Tsunade said as she started walking away.
"W-Where was he going? Do you know?" Hinata asked as she pushed her finger tips together.
"He said he was going to Ichiraku's then he was going home. Why?" Tsunade asked out of curiosity.
Hinata blushed.
"N-No reason I-I just w-want to k-know." Hinata lied, she was really planning on following Naruto around like she always does.
Tsunade rolled her eyes then shrugged her shoulders and continued walking away.
Hinata then released a sigh of relief as Tsunade seemed to lose interest in the girl's reasoning.
End Chapter 3: Forgetfulness.
Special thanks to thor94, naruhinakiralacus, and Rose Tiger for leaving reviews on the last few chapters. And Rose Tiger, To be honest I don't even know who did that to Naruto, for now he is just going to stay as a random villager until I can figure out who he could be.
I hope you all enjoyed this Chapter! Also if you didn't get the reference I made with Hinata's panties, she is basically wearing 'Naruto' on her panties, but of course Naruto didn't catch on to that. If you still don't understand just type 'Kamaboko Naruto' in the search bar of google and it will pop up.
See you next all next chapter!