Remember Us, Naruto

Disclaimer: I can only wish that I own Naruto. =(

Summary: Naruto had forgotten everything about being a ninja. EVERYTHING. He thought he was just a normal teenager living in America. Then three people show up who try to convince him that he's some super-powerful ninja or something. How crazy is that? Ninja's don't even exist! K+ for now but I'm 99.8% sure that'll it go up...

Warning: There will be spoilers in later chapters if you're not caught up to chapter 505 in the Naruto manga. Also, there will be some OOC in this story but I think I have good enough reasons such as Naruto not remembering anything about his past. As for everyone else, they've just changed, I guess... Also, there is some of my own characters in here but they won't be a huge part of the story...

A/N: This is my second story... Yay! (I thought I was really slow at coming up with stories ides but I guess I was wrong because I have two other ideas floating around in my head right now. xP) And don't worry, I'll still update my other story if you just happen to be reading that one also.


Naruto had left them a year ago. No one knew why. The ANBU and the rest of Konoha had searched for weeks, trying to find a trace of the ninja, but nothing was found. They finally had to give up the main search. A growing suspicion was that Uchiha Madara was still somehow alive and had captured Naruto, but if that was so, why hadn't the ten-tailed bijuu emerged yet?

So, if he was not captured by Madara then what had happened to blond shinobi? They didn't know. Tsunade had ordered for the search to stop, but just like when Sasuke had left Konoha, a few others kept on searching for their Naruto. They couldn't just forget about him.

Now, a year later since Naruto had disappeared and a huge battle was going on. It was the Fire Country against the Earth Country. The Fire Country was losing badly and Tsunade was stressed out about it, worrying that this would be the downfall of the strong Fire Country. They had lost most of their skilled young ninja back when they had been fighting against Uchiha Madara and his army. Tsunade cursed, even with Uchiha Madara now dead he had left his mark on their village. A huge mark.

Tsunade called for Shizune and told her to go and get her the last three of the rookie nine. Shizune nodded and left. Tsunade put her hands to her temples and started rubbing, trying to get rid of her headache. She silently thought of what she was going to tell them.

When they entered her room, Tsunade didn't give them enough time to even settle before she shouted at them. "I need you three to go and find Naruto. He is our only hope of winning this war. I have some leads as to where he might be, so sit down and I'll tell you."

They silently complied with her and sat down. They were both excited and worried. They'd finally get to find Naruto but it was in the middle of war and what if Konoha was destroyed while they were gone?


Naruto laid on his bed, staring at the ceiling of his room, silently tossing a ball in the air and then catching it. The door to his messy room was closed but bits and parts of his foster parent's argument still reached the blond's ears. Naruto sighed. His foster parent's were always yelling at each other and Naruto had learned not get in the middle of it.

Once before he had tried to stop them but his foster dad had pushed him up against the wall and had threatened to break bones if he ever again interfered. After that, Naruto had always locked himself in his room whenever he felt one of their nasty arguments about to come out. Naruto was growing sick of it. If he could, he would stay out late, hanging with his girlfriend or something, to avoid their fighting but his foster parents were also very strict. They ordered him to be home no later than 6:00 P.M. on school-nights and 8:00 P.M. on every other night.

He couldn't say he hated his foster parents, but he didn't necessarily like them. He had been with a lot worse foster parents before if his memory served him right. He had come to America when he was 10 but when he had been living in Japan, the families he lived with had been a hundred times worse than this. Naruto shuddered at the memories. He had somehow found enough money to fly himself over to America, thinking he could start a new life here, and he had. The foster parents he had lived with here in America didn't even compare to the ones in Japan.(A/N: I don't know what Japan does with orphaned children...)

Naruto sighed, dropping the ball and rolling onto his side. He wish he could remember his real parents, but he had been an orphan for as long as he could remember. Naruto tried shutting these ideas out of his mind. It didn't matter, he would never know who they had been. He would never know if they still lived or if they had died. So what?

As Naruto was trying to fall asleep, his mind started wandering to to other topics. He briefly wished his life was more exciting. He was pretty much your average teenager. He had a girlfriend and had average grades at his school. He liked doing crazy things with his friends but he never did anything crazy enough to get him into trouble. There was nothing about him that said he was a unique kid. He just blended in. After that, he fell asleep thinking about how great his life would be if he was a secret spy for Russia or something and how cool he would be and how good he would be at fighting, good enough to kick everyone's butt.

The next day, Naruto got up at 6:00 AM to get ready for school. He quickly hopped in the shower, dried off, combed his mess of blond hair so it looked slightly less messy, and threw on some jeans and a plain black t-shirt. After that, he put some toast in the toaster, and got his shoes on. When the toast was ready, he grabbed it and ran out of the house, pulling his jacket on and his food hanging from his mouth.

He had to race to the bus-stop, not wanting to miss the bus. He had missed it once before and his parents had scolded him for it. He didn't want that scolding again.

There wasn't very many people on the bus when he got on because his stop was one of the first few. He knew only one person on the bus already and he quickly scanned the seats looking for him. When he saw the neatly combed brown skater-boy hair and green eyes looking at him near the back, Naruto knew he had found him. He walked down isle of the bus and sat next to his best friend.

"Jayden," he said happily, slapping a high-five to his friend. Jayden was pretty popular in their highschool and a lot of the girls had crushes on him. He was Naruto's best friend and he was a really cool and nice guy. Naruto was also sort of popular, in his own way. Everyone who knew Naruto, pretty much loved him, in a friendly way.

The bus pulled forward and a few minutes later came to another stop. This time a guy named Kevin got on the bus. He had short black hair and had an attitude that basically said, 'I'm better than everyone else.' Kevin rarely talked to anyone about anything, even when it was the teachers wanting to talk to him. Naruto hated the guy and for some reason, Kevin really reminded him of someone else, even though Naruto was sure he had meant no one else like the guy.

Jayden had a weird mocking expression on his face when Kevin walked by, making Naruto laugh. "God, I hate the guy. He thinks he's all that," Jayden said, shaking his head. "What is his problem?"

Naruto shook his head in response and shrugged his shoulders. "The world may never know."

They talked about pointless stuff as the bus slowly got fuller with people. Eventually, Naruto was standing and waving as it was his girlfriend's bus stop. Her name was Maria and in Naruto's point of view, she was really beautiful. She had long silky black hair and her eyes were a light blue. She was a little bit shorter than Naruto but she was tall for a girl her age. She smiled when she saw Naruto and came to sit by him and Jayden.

Naruto sat back down and shoved a reluctant Jayden closer against the window to make room for Maria. Maria sat down and pecked Naruto on the cheek with a small kiss. She really loved him. Naruto was beaming after the small kiss on his cheek. He also really loved Maria, and wouldn't mind if he ended up spending the rest of his life with her.

The school day passed without anything unusual happening. Afterward, Naruto spent his time hanging out with Maria and Jayden. Even though last night he had been thinking about how his life could be better, he really did his love his life the way it was right now. It was an easy and a care-free life.

Unfortunately for him, Naruto's life was about to get much, much harder.


A/N: I know... it wasn't very good. I'm not very good at writing people at school. D: This chapters purpose was really just to introduce Naruto's new life. It'll hopefully get alot more interesting in coming chapters! Please review and tell me what you thought of the plot line...^^