Memories Lost, Lingering Futures

I do not own the manga or anime Naruto. That is the property of Masashi Kishimoto. Also I do not own the quote at the beginning of the chapter. That is Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts. I also do not own the Guardian Spirits from Baten Kaitos (Not yet in story!). I do own Soren though, who won't appear until next chapter.

The story will be deemed a romance/adventure/hurt/comfrot/spiritual due to the author's thoughts and ideas instilled into the story.

Author's Rant Starts, NOW!

The pairing will be modeled after Naruto's parents. The rough and tumble (that's funny to say, rough and tumble, rough and tumble. Oops, sorry) Kushina Uzumaki and the calm and collected Minato Namikaze. Also Naruto will be somewhat like his canon form except that's not truely him. I will explain that in the next chapter people. Patience my young Padawan learner.

Also if there will be any memories (I do not call them flashbacks) about the Wave Mission, most likely Haku (Yuki, real last name by the way), Haku will be mentioned as a G-I-R-L! (*Give's the bird to Kishimoto*. That is really f*cked man. No guy looks that close to being a girl or sounding like one! Hell, not even Yumichika looks that girly! I bet if he saw Haku, he'd be trying to kill him for looking so beautiful.)

I will not use much of the Japanese short dialogue (i.e. kuso, teme, and dobe, mendukse (spelling It's supposed to be the word troublesome), sannin, the whole 'no' thing like Kyubi-no-Kitsune, I won't even make the Japanese named techniques. Heck I won't even use –sama or –san. But I will use the –chan and –kun honorific.) I will address the names, like Sannin for example, as the Legendary Three Ninja. I will also make them say "Lord Jiraiya" and "Lady Tsunade". (You know those three [Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru] come from a Japanese legend? And Jiraiya is actually called the Gallant Toad Sage Jiraiya in the legend.) I will use onee-chan, onii-chan though.

Also, please do not question the beliefs I instill in Naruto. I won't nag on you so don't say that he is too optimistic. Umm... Ignore this line for now, Naruto won't be appearing much in this chapter.

Also a minor change to one characters eye color; Tayuya will have hazel brown eyes with an emerald green in color. And don't look at the screen weird. I know a girl like that, whose eye color actually change every hour of the day. Such beautiful eyes, and such a beautiful (*cough, cough*) Moving on.

Also Tayuya is not going to be her real name. (*Gasp*) Evil Author Jutsu: Anticipated Foreshadowing!

The story will be taking place directly after Sasuke shoves his Chidori into Naurot's chest while getting a scratch on his forehead protector from Naruto's Rasengan (Sorry. That's in the nest chapter, not this one). And also Tayuya will not have died immediately from those trees when Temari used her Wind Sickle Scythe Justsu (The chapter will be focusing on Tayuya for now).

If that is not hinting enough for you about this story's main pairing, then you must be sharp as a marble.

The story will follow different viewpoints of characters, not just Naruto's. I'm doing this because it gets sort of confusing if a writer doesn't broaden his/her characters' depth. (*Cough*) Kishimoto (*Cough*) As such I will expand on characters like Tenten, Ayame, and several other female and male characters. Because I mean really, they are like glorified OC's. They have no major background development or such. (*Sigh*) But maybe Kishimoto did it like that so we upcoming writers could expand those characters. (*Shrugs*) Who knows?

Also, Zack Fair of Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core is one of the best heroes ever made by Japan. Listen to Why by Ayaka, it is so awesome. I cry whenever I listen to it and write romance. Also I do not own Why by Ayaka.

And yes I can tell my Author's Rant is all over the place! So don't judge me! Or else I will unleash Gir upon you via your computer and make him blow up in your face!

Sorry I just have Multiple Personalities due to insanity and they all wanted to say something to they're (my!) future readers.

Also if there are any artist from please could you draw some of these scenes or make a doujinshi (spelling?)? I would really appreciate it. I would draw, but ever since I began to write, all my skills diverted from drawing to writing. If you don't want to that's okay.

Ok! Enough of my ramblings like my teachers, on with the show!

Restored Memories and Lives Arc: Episode I

A time long since past, a future almost gone, still lingering in the world's path. The memories of two children shall unravel the secrets of their past and the plots surrounding them. The Child of Revolution, the Genesis Child shall reclaim his lost past to begin anew. The Child of the Springmoon shall walk beside the child of revolution acting as aid for the child. The paths they shall open and close the memories they will discover will undoubtedly unravel the very illusion of the world itself.

Because the one who should have died lived, and the one who forgot remembered, the paths to the futures are opening once more. A different fate shall await both children as the world steps forward; as men scheme, plots thicken and ambitions unfold. The Gears of Fate shall shift so dramatically that the very future that was once to be shall not, and the future once not to pass shall open up.

Follow the journey of the Child of Revolution and the Child of the Springmoon, Naruto Uzumaki and Hitomi Harusuki.

Memories Return

A far off memory that's like a scattered dream...
A scattered dream that's like a far off memory...
I want to align the pieces, you and I...

Tayuya was not having a good day. Why would one ask if she were not having a good day? Well it started nearly a week ago when her boss, Lord Orochimaru, ordered her and her 'comrades' to retrieve his next vessel, Sasuke Uchiha.

During that time she had too keep herself from breaking out into a run with that creepy smile on his face. It really unnerved her whenever the bastard would smile like that. And his face was just looked like something you wanted to punch to bits.

When did he become this monster he was now? Wasn't he changing ever since then?

Anyway, the following day she and her 'comrades' journeyed from Rice Country, through Fire Country to their destination, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, though Tayuya had to listen to all of 'comrades'' comments and complaints. When they had arrived, her 'comrades' nominated her as their spy to watch over the Uchiha and see when he was alone. As usual she cursed them to kingdom come, they ignored her, and she would grumble and do her thing. Of course though, she was the only one suited for stealth; she was a Genjutsu Mistress after all. Her 'comrades' though would be too loud, kill the people around them, or just are plain stupid to be stealthy like her.

During her surveillance of the Uchiha she caught him communing with the pinkette and blonde while he was in the hospital. She could see that they were close, but yet Sasuke would always be distant to his friends. Heck, the boy even had someone to call him a brother! How she wanted someone that considered her like that, so special to someone's heart.

But no one had, unlike the young blonde boy in her dreams.

Or were they memories?

After a day of watching the Uchiha interact with his friends, Tayuya began surveillancing the defenses of the Hidden Leaf. She did need to get her 'comrades' in to the village for the mission. On her second day, she began drifting away from paying attention to the Uchiha to the blonde, who she later found out was one Naruto Uzumaki.

Her breath had hitched in her throat when she learned his name. Was he her childhood sweetheart from her dreams? She had hoped so much that he was. But after several hours of watching him, she realized the boy in her memories and this Naruto were not the same. The blonde in her dreams was a boy who was clam and collected. On occasion though, he would act like a bumbling idiot and shout out loud that he'd be a better Hokage than his old man was and protect everyone and make her smack him over the head for being too loud.

The blonde in her memories would always tell her his dream was to be the Hokage like his father and ancestors before him. Whenever they would eat ramen at Ichiraku's Ramen stand, he would eat at a slow and sophisticated pace. He would never look at any girl but her. And when he ever did look directly at a girl, was when he was defending her from them. Whenever the aged Third Hokage would visit both him and her, he would address him as Lord Hokage and get playfully scolded for not calling him gramps and then doing so.

He was nothing like this blonde idiot though.

This Naruto would shout would shout out loud that he'd be the best Hokage in the village's history and that everyone would respect him for it. He would also ask out that pinkette, Sakura Haruno and fail stupendously. This blonde would also slurp down ramen like a pig and address the Lady Hokage, Tsunade Senju, as old hag. She would grow a tic mark on her head every time she heard the midget call Lady Tsunade that.

But they were fundamentally the same. Both Naruto and the blonde wanted to be Hokage to protect everyone. Both had an unstoppable drive to succeed. Both were fairly familiar with the Hokages. Both had the same ninja way.

But before she could even contact Naruto and see if he was her childhood sweetheart from her memories, the mission to retrieve Sasuke Uchiha was underway.

Tayuya and the rest of her squad had encountered Sasuke and told him of Lord Orochimaru's offer for power to Sasuke. She had almost made a comment on whether or not that bastard Orochimaru was a damn pedophile or something, but she kept her tongue.

Tayuya though had opted to use reverse psychology and tell him that he doesn't need his friends, teammates or village and all that jazz. Apparently he didn't get what she was hinting at.

'Bastard.' She had snarled to herself. She would have given anything to be in his position. He had fame, fortune. He was the legacy of one the most powerful families in the history of the Hidden Leaf Village. He had adoring fans; people who practically worshipped him and a sensei that watched over him like a son. But most of all, he had a brother in all but blood. But he was willing to throw it all away just to get revenge? How dumb could one get?

When the Sound Four had left knowing that Sasuke would take their offer, Tayuya had stayed behind and watched the Uchiha telling her 'comrades' some bullshit excuse. When she saw Sakura try to stop Sasuke from leaving the village, she felt pity for the younger girl. She knew she shouldn't have, but she did. Even though she, the Haruno, loved Sasuke, he still left after knocking her out with a chop to the neck. At least he said thank you to the girl and left her on a bench. He even got a blanket for Sakura. Now she didn't feel like beating the shit out of the Uchiha for his un-gentleman like behavior.

When Sasuke arrived at the clearing where the Sound Four was, Tayuya could see something underlying in his eyes. Though she was gifted at reading peoples' body language and eyes, she could not understand what it was that was in his eyes, even if she saw it briefly.

In the early hours of the fourth day the Sound Four plus one Sasuke Uchiha in a barrel had left for Rice Country. They did not take a leisurely run through fire Country because it was only a matter of time a retrieval squad was sent after Sasuke.

She just hoped that she would never had to face Naruto if he would, no, when he would go to rescue the Uchiha. She had seen the power of the Chidori and Rasengan and their devastating results. At first she thought the Fourth Hokage's signature jutsu was weak compared to the Chidori, what with the Chidori ripping a large gash in the water tank while the Rasengan only tore a fist big hole in its target. When she saw the Uchiha stare wide eyed at the two tanks from the other side, she had to see what it was. What she saw was a gigantic whole ripped into the steel. And the blast came from inside of the damn water tank! She shuddered at what that attack would have done if it had hit any unfortunate bastard.

The chunin along the way were a great way to vent though. It was a tough battle but they were able to beat them even if the surprised them. Tayuya even was able to shake off the thoughts of that blonde.

Though when she stayed behind to 'give them the finishing blow', she instead used some low level iryo jutsus to keep them alive until help came.

She could never truely kill anyone, that blonde taught her that.

'Life, though fragile, is something to cherish and protect
Even if it is your enemy's.'

It was then, nearly three hours after they had faced those chunins, that they discovered who their persuers were. It was, from her point of view, a lazy bastard with a pineapple-esc hairstyle, a Hyuga who looked constipated, a fat ass, a feral looking kid and his mutt and Naruto.

Of all of their expressions, Tayuya flinched at the unbridled look of hatred on Naruto's face. She was almost definitely sure it was the blonde from her memories. He always used to have that look on his face whenever someone had hurt her. To see it directed at her, it just made her want to break down and cry and ask for his forgiveness.

But she shook it off thinking that he wasn't that blonde and that blonde had never existed, that he was a trick of her own mind wanting something to hold onto and hope that was real. Besides, she thought, she was nothing more than one of Orochimaru's adjutants and those personal feelings had no place in her heart. She was a kunoichi of the Sound Village and nothing more.

She, the 'bonded for life' twins, and spider boy had left fat ass to deal with the Leaf chunin and genins. She had a feeling that they wouldn't have seen the last of them though.

She knew she shouldn't have said that. Not even twenty minutes later their persuers were back on their tail, though she noted that the fat ass genin wasn't with them. She chuckled at that. In her head she pictured both of them in sumo attire and wrestling each other in the sumo ring. Oh, what crude humor she had.

Anyway, she realized that spider boy was going to take care of them when he dropped back. She though that most likely the constipated Hyuga would deal with him because of his Bloodline Limit. Kidomaru always liked to hide around when he fought his opponents. He'd probably get himself killed for underestimating the genin.

Her guess was right when the only ones following her, Sakon and Ukon were the lazy bastard, the Inuzuka and Naruto. She then came up with the stupid idea that the Siamese twins would abandon her to deal with one of the genin. Tayuya guessed correctly, when she realized that the wonder twins abandoned her to deal with the Inuzuka leaving her to deal with the pineapple head and Naruto.

She mentally face-palmed and scolded herself for getting this shit right.

Nearly ten minutes of chasing later Tayuya was ready just to give the Uchiha back and escape with her life when she detected a familiar chakra source. She stopped and did her whole monologue and such for the two younger boys. Then Kimimaro arrived. They way he said that to her made her so pissed off. But she didn't want to vent on Naruto because he would most likely kill her without a second thought even if she went all out.

So when Naruto went to chase after Orochimaru's lapdog, she pretended to try and stop him just to keep up the act. When he left, she turned to her opponent and introduced herself as Tayuya, no surname, while she played a melody on her flute and by proxy a genjutsu. But when he broke the illusion and introduced himself as Shikamaru Nara, she knew she was in for a long fight. The pineapple head even had her go to Level 2 on her curse seal and summon her ogres.

When she almost had him though in her grips ready to kill him, which she wouldn't, a blonde with four pigtails and a battle fan appeared and knocked her back. She didn't even have a chance when the girl, Temari of the Desert, used her Wind Sickle Scythe Jutsu and literally brought the house down on her.

And thus we come back to said unhappy camper.

As the trees crumbled under the pressure of the wind and snapped like twigs, Tayuya's world slowed down dramatically. From her standpoint she could see the fallen trees falling down upon her. She knew this must have meant it was her end.

She began reminiscing on her life thus far and frowned. When she first met Orochimaru he promised her that he would raise her like his own daughter. But he lied about that. When she met the other boys who would grow up to become the Sound Four with her, she thought she would have friends. But they just were stone cold to her. She later had to learn to swallow her emotions and develop a mask, a mask of hatred and contempt for her fellow man.

It was all due to that smiling blonde boy in her dreams.

Or maybe it was her memories trying to resurface?

The boy always had radiant blonde hair that seemed to shine as bright as the sun. His smile was always so warm and comforting to her that she wanted to hold him in her arms and never let go. His eyes though were what held her the most. Deep ocean-blue eyes that seemed as deep as the depths of the very seas, eyes that she could drown in and be happy that she did. His was the only thing that kept her going for these last eight years of her life when she felt like all light in her life was lost.

As the fallen trees descended upon her body, Tayuya had only one regret in her life.

'I wish I would have seen you once more my beloved...'

The trees had finally fallen upon her and crushed her body; his name and a thought were the last on her mind before the embrace of death's cold arms encircled her.

'...Naruto. I'm sorry.'

But a saving grace came in the form of her burden since her age of five. The Cursed Seal of Heaven gifted to her by Lord Orochimaru had saved her from instant death. The Cursed Seal was supposed to disappear from a person's body after they were deceased.

Tayuya's though malfunctioned. A slight mistake on the sealing array in the stolen Caged Bird Seal caused the seal to release itself from the applied person directly at death. Because of this the chakra and life force being held back by the Cursed Seal flooded her body with enough power that when she would die the Cursed Seal would bring her back to life.

She had thought that she would have died then and there. But when she felt the Cursed Seal leave her and a well of power and energy course through her, she knew that she would live another day. And now that it had left her, Orochimaru would not have realized she was still alive and hunted her down to kill her for most likely coming back from the mission.

Tayuya scowled fiercely. This whole mission was a botched up piece of shit and that this was nothing more than a suicide mission. She rebuked herself for that. ALL of the missions Orochimaru had sent his Sound ninja to had been suicide missions. The bastard didn't even care if his subordinates were killed as long as the mission was accomplished and his goals were furthered.

They, the Sound Four, were sent into the middle of enemy territory directly to their main hub to capture one of their prized genin and bring him back to their country while dodging chunin and jonin patrols. Even if the Sound Four were solid chunin level ninja and jonin with their Level 2 Curse Seals activated, they should have considered themselves lucky to have beaten those other experienced chunin. It was only because they got the drop on them that they were able to get away only breathing heavily. If they had fought honorably, or as honorably as ninjas would have, they would have been trampled quite badly.

As Tayuya lay there underneath a pile of fallen timbers with her midsection numb as ice, she felt another rush of something that nearly knocked her unconscious. From how the thing hurt like a bitch and she kept seeing flashes, she could have guessed that beneath her Cursed Seal of Heaven that there was a Memory Suppression Seal some how tied to it, and a powerful one at that.

She gasped when one memory hit her like one ton of bricks, or in this case one ton of trees.

It was during twilight of July Seventh during the year 341 that we find a five-year-old Tayuya sitting on the back porch of the orphanage she was currently staying at swinging her legs back and forth. Her normally hazel brown eyes were now mainly green with a blue inner color near the iris. Her shoulder length crimson red hair was of beautiful sheen that seemed to shine whenever the sun's light reflected off of it.

As usual she had on one off her favorite sundresses. It was the one that Naruto gave her on her birthday last month. A beautiful and elegant sky blue sundress with white roses embroiled down the left side of the front, white trimming on the bottom of the dress and at the ends of the straps.

She was humming an unknown tune to many except her and Naruto because he taught it to her. It was a song called 'Why' by a lady named Ayaka. Pretty nice song if you asked her, although she wondered why Naruto would sing such a bittersweet song. Maybe because it talked about the eyes of a person in the first line or something?

A pair of hands covered her eyes and an angelic voice whispered into her ear. That voice always made Tayuya shiver each time he would whisper into her ear. She just hoped he didn't... Oh he did.

"Guess who Hitomi-chan?" Naruto's voice whispered into her ear as he nibbled on her earlobe.

"Do you always have to do, ngh, that whenever you greet me Naruto-kun?" she asked back as she struggled to understand why he would do that to her. "And can't you stop reading those adult romances?" She squeaked out loud when he removed his hands and wrapped them around her waist and pulled her onto his lap.

His voice chuckled in her ear as he rested his chin on her shoulder. "Nope." He placed a chaste kiss on her cheek and nuzzled it. "I wouldn't be me if I did now would I?"

Hitomi giggled in his arms as she leaned back into Naruto's chest. Even if she was a year older than him, by only a few months he would always remind her, he was five inches taller, making him a solid three-foot ten-inches while she was three-foot five-inches. She nudged his head off her shoulder and replaced it on top of her head. One would always find Naruto and Hitomi in this position sitting under the twilight sky with smiles on their faces.

"I guess you wouldn't be my Naruto-kun if you didn't," she laughed.

"When did I become your Naruto-kun Hitomi-chan?" He had that cheeky look on his face again with that smile. Naruto always teased her about being possessive of him and would be merciless about it. Before he would make her blush a bright red, almost the color of her hair. But after awhile, Hitomi learned how to come up with a good come back. She would always get the last word now in every argument.

"The same day I became your Hitomi-chan Naruto-kun," she retorted. Naruto just laughed out loud. Hitomi followed directly after him. His laugh was just too contagious.

After a minute of laughing out loud, Hitomi and Naruto watched as the sun fell over the horizon changing the color of the sky as it moved closer and closer away.

During that time, Hitomi contemplated about the blonde whose lap she was sitting one. She had only known him for two years, but was probably the best two years of her five year long life. Her first year with him was an awkward experience for her to say the least. Even though she had someone who was full of life like her, he would always tire her out so easily and he still could keep going. It was on the last month of the first year that it changed.

Naruto had been lost for the whole month. No one had any idea of where the child was, not that many of the people cared. Hitomi would always ask Haruka-nee-chan where Naruto had gone to and would only get a smile in response. After the third week the Third Hokage had reluctantly called off the search to find Naruto.

Hitomi refused to accept that Naruto was gone.

Though she didn't know him that well, he had grown into a person she could trust and rely upon. And she just could picture life without the blonde boy because he was always a constant in her life, what with him following her like a lost puppy sometimes. Or when he would always try to impress her by beating the other kids at 'Ninja'. She had just so gotten used to the blonde, that life felt dull for her and some of the other orphans without him around.

It was the following week later that Naruto was found walking to the gates of the Hidden Leaf. No one knew how or when he had escaped but he did. The Third had asked the young boy where he had gone, but was only told he was out for a while. Many called for his death, but when they met his eyes, it was like meeting the cold steel of the sword of your executioner.

When Hitomi met him again, the first thing she did was she slapped him across the face for being an idiot and making her worry for him.

"Didn't mean to make you worry Hitomi-chan," the four year old blonde chuckled as he hugged the older girl.

"Idiot," she mumbled into his chest.

"I promise I'll never leave you."

"Promise?"

"I swear it. I don't go back on my promises, that's my ninja way," he all but muttered the last part.

It was during the second year of being with him that she was able to see how the blonde changed. Though he was a still a yellow blob of energy, he would always keep pace with other people. Naruto was more calm and sullen whenever Hitomi would catch him alone gazing at the stars. That far-off look in his eyes always made her wonder why he would look like that. No child that young had burdens that heavy to make him sigh so deeply.

Oh if only she knew.

"Naruto-kun! Hitomi-chan! Dinner's ready!" Neither Hitomi nor Naruto had heard the call from their Haruka-nee. That is until they heard her second call.

"Mr. and Mrs. Uzumaki are you going to come in or are you going to continue playing husband and wife out here?" a tall brunette with an electronic cigarette in her mouth asked.

Hitomi flushed a bright pink at being called her Naruto-kun's wife. Naruto on the other hand had a strangely dubbed shit-eating grin on his face. "Are you sure it wouldn't be Mr. and Mrs. Harusuki Haruka-nee? I mean the last name is all up to Hitomi-chan." He looked down at the girl in his lap. "Which one has more of ring to it, Hitomi Uzumaki or Naruto Harusuki?"

Hitomi had an atomic blush because not only did Naruto and Haruka-nee consider her Naruto-kun's wife, but also the fact that Naruto was willing to give up his last name just to make her happy. It was any girl's dream to have a boy this loyal to her. But she was still young, so the only true thing that made her blush was the idea of her and Naruto being married.

"I like both names," she squeaked out.

Naruto's grin widened even further when he looked at his Haruka-nee. "I guess we're going to be the Harusuki-Uzumakis then Haruka-nee." Hitomi also smiled when she heard that he was going to combine both names when they married, though her blushed deepened, if that were possible, at the still possible prospect of marrying the Uzumaki.

Haruka Himatsura just laughed at the grinning blonde boy and smiling, albeit blushing, redhead girl sitting in his lap. "Well come on. Dinner's ready you two, the ramen is going to get cold."

In the next 3.5 seconds the blonde boy was already sprinting past her with Hitomi on her back. The loud "Ramen!" followed him, as the young yellow blob seemed to break the sound barrier. Haruka just shook her head wondering from which parent of his the lovable oaf got his love of ramen from.

'Life is fragile like glass
One spider crack in it can cause it to shatter.'

Around her, everything was a hot, fiery blaze. The fire was sweltering and consumed the very air that Hitomi was breathing. The heat so unbelievable high, that it made the very sweat dry off of her body and the saliva in her mouth go dry, giving Hitomi more trouble to breathe. Her own room was on fire, suffocating the like out of her.

She heard a crashing noise from the door of her room and saw it splinter. Another crash and a resounding 'Crack!' later, Hitomi's door was broken down. In the threshold of the doorway was Naruto holding what looked to be a coat rack. Hitomi would have asked if that were the coat rack from the main lobby and how he was able to carry it if not for the fact she went hysterical.

She jumped into Naruto's arms causing him to drop the coat rack, stumbling back into the burning hallway. Naruto's eyes softened for a moment before he pulled the tearing girl up.

"We have to find Haruka-nee, c'mon!" Hitomi didn't need to be convinced as she was already pulling the blonde after her to look for their onee-chan.

But what they found would be ingrained into their young minds forever.

Lying there, in a pool of her blood, was their onee-chan Haruka Himatsura, a large hole straight through her stomach being the cause of death. But she apparently she didn't go down without a fight.

Not but a meter from her cold body was a masked ninja with a sword stabbed straight through his chest. It also appeared that he had tried to put pressure on the wound if the hands on his chest meant anything. Not that the two children knew anything about medicine. No, their main focus was the dead body of their elder sister figure.

Hitomi let out strangled cry and buried her face into Naruto's shoulder as she cried out in loss. Naruto did nothing but hold her for that brief moment, before pushing her away and looking her in the eyes. He nodded to Hitomi; she understood the look in his eyes.

'Tears can come later. First: survive.'

Naruto turned around and leaned forward slightly. That was Hitomi's cue to hop on which she did. Naruto secured her on his back, readjusting his arms so that she was in place. He broke out into a sprint, Hitomi bouncing slightly on his back as he ran. She wrapped her arms around Naruto's neck, but not too tightly as to choke him and closed her eyes.

Naruto would have smiled at her if this were a normal time of day. It currently was not, and all thoughts of romance, happiness, and sunshine was the furthest from his mind. Right now he had only one mindset: get out of this alive with Hitomi.

With that thought he speed through to find a way to a proper exit.

Nearly fifteen minutes and four potential exits ruined, time was running out for both young children. Though Naruto was smart and knew that the Nine-Tails would save him, he knew his body wouldn't be conscious when it was saved from the fire, and he worried for Hitomi-chan. The poor girl was hacking and coughing up a storm. And from the sounds of it, she was almost close from dying from both oxygen depravation and dehydration.

Because of his idle musings, Naruto tripped on a fallen chair and fell, flinging Hitomi away from him. She landed roughly on the wooden floor and moaned out in pain. Hitomi coughed roughly as she struggled to get back up, but stop when she saw something approach Naruto from behind. If it weren't for her hoarse voice from being trapped in the fire, he would have heard her desperate cry.

"Naruto-kun, behind you!"

Too late, Hitomi watched in horror as Naruto was stabbed through the stomach with a tanto and thrown to the side. She would have screamed out in horror if not for the fact that a cloth with a weird smelling gas was placed over her mouth. Her final thoughts before she lost consciousness were of the selfless kind.

'Please, live Naruto.'

Hitomi, from there, had then proceeded to phase in and out of consciousness for the next, what felt to her, three days before she regained full consciousness. She knew she was being fed, though not tasty food to her, by the leftover taste in her mouth and the water still there on her lips. She also felt the same sundress that she wore on that fateful day still on her. Okay, so she hadn't changed in days and from the smell, she could tell that she hadn't bathed in that amount of time either.

She couldn't tell where she was because of the blindfold over her eyes, but from the cold dampness in the air and the sliminess of the wall, she knew she was in some kind of dungeon. But where she did not know. She even tried to move her hands but she found that they were bound along with her legs and that she was tied to a chair. So they most obviously fed her by spoon and had a cup held up for her to drink.

Because of her position, Hitomi learned to fall asleep while siting up in a chair. Though not comfortable as a futon, she had to get used it if she were trapped here.

Sometimes she would hear the door open and close, but that was only during the time someone came to her cell to check on her or feed her. She was able to go to the bathroom though one day when she couldn't hold it in anymore. Though it wasn't great hospitality, she didn't feel anyone watching her while she did her business; they even took off her blindfold.

It was on her seventh day in her cell that everything changed.

When Hitomi woke up from her slumber, she could feel warm air rushing past her. She would have rejoiced at being out of that dingy dungeon, but she still knew she was in dire straits. Her arms and legs were still bound and she was still blindfolded. Though this time they added in a gag to stop her from making a noise and alerting anyone around them.

Nearly a day of moving through forest (she could tell because forests just had that certain scent to them), she felt the person whose arms she was in come to a halt. She was then laid down onto a dirt patch of land and smelled what seemed to be ink all around her. She had the felt an ink brush begin working on her neck.

Hitomi screamed through her gag when the person who drew the seal activated it by shouting out its name.

"Memories of a Lost past Suppression Seal!"

Her pain was only compounded when she felt like something was being stripped from the very essence of her being and being squashed to near nonexistence. Her world became black once more as the pain took her consciousness.

'If you lose memories of who you essentially are
You might as well have not existed.'

When Hitomi woke up, she blinked slowly to clean the cobwebs out of her mind. She propped her body up with one arm and surveyed the area around her, idly noting that a blanket was wrapped around her and that a fire was roaring before her, and then herself. She pushed the blanket off of herself to see what she was wearing. She wondered when she donned this sky blue sundress and wondered what in the world she did to make it so dirty.

She tried to recall the memories, but she just couldn't seem to dredge the memories up to the surface. It was like they were in reach but every time she tried to grab them they'd slip away. It was so frustrating to her that she screamed out loud.

"What's the problem little one?" she heard a kind voice in front of her say. Hitomi's eyes shoot up to look at the stranger who was sitting across her from the fire and tensed.

Sitting across from her was a man who appeared to be in his mid-forties with an albino white skin shade. His ink black hair has straight and seemed to flow past his shoulders. His eyes though seemed like a predator's, a snake's. But it was the disarming smile of his and the warmth in his eyes that made her relax.

Hitomi continued to study the man for a little while before her stomach grumbled loudly, causing her to blush and hug her stomach. She heard an amused chuckle escape the stranger's lips.

"Would you like a fried fish before you tell me your woes?" he asked, holding another stick with a fried fish skewered on it. Hitomi nodded and greatly accepted the meal from the albino man.

After a few minutes of chewing on the meal, Hitomi tossed the skewer into the fire like the stranger did just a few minutes ago. She went from watching the flames of the fire flicker to the stars in the night sky above her. A few minutes later the stranger introduced himself.

"My name's Orochimaru. What's yours little one?"

Hitomi tried to recall her memory of her name but drew a blank again. She growled in frustration once more and let loose a loud scream. After half a minute of screaming Hitomi calmed down before she turn to the newly introduced Orochimaru with tears in her eyes. "I-I don't know who I am. I don't know where I come from or where I was born. Heck, I don't even remember how I got here!" Finally she broke down and sobbed with every fiber of her being.

Orochimaru's eyes softened before he walked over to the young girl and held her in his arms rocking back and forth, cooing to her and patting her back. After a while her sobs stopped and he held her at arms length and looked in her in the eyes, noting the puffy red eyes and flushed cheeks. He hugged her once more before her set her back down.

"Better?" he asked with a small smile.

"Uh-huh," she nodded her tiny head once.

"How about I bring you with me to my village. Would you like that?" he offered the young redhead girl.

"Are you a ninja Mr. Orochimaru?" At the nod from him she whooped out loud. "Can I be a ninja? I always wanted to be a ninja! It's my lifelong dream!" At the happy smile from Orochimaru she went over the words she said and then let out a gasp as she whooped once more at remembering something from her past life.

"See you remembered something of your past life little one. Maybe if you come with me you'll maybe regain some of your memories."

He got up and pulled the smiling girl along with him and quickly performed a weak water jutsu that dowsed the campfire, eliciting a squeal of excitement from the young redhead at seeing a jutsu up close. He then proceeded to leave the campsite when he noticed his much younger companion was still there staring off into space. He frowned slightly as he walked back to the girl and kneeled to her level.

"Is something wrong little one?"

"I don't have a name," was the mumbled reply.

Orochimaru's eyes softened as he stood up once more and then ruffled the young girl's hair. He chuckled at girls miffed expression and when she complained that he messed up her hair. "How's about I give you a name, hmm?"

Hitomi's head shot up so fast that Orochimaru worried for a second that she snapped her neck. Her eyes were and amber brown with blue flecks near the iris sparkled. "You would do that, for me?" she whispered hopefully.

The albino man chuckled once more and nodded. Hitomi whooped once more and began bouncing up and down on the balls of her heels sounding off random names. He placed both of his hands on her shoulders to calm her down. He had a look of consideration on his face before he had a 'I got it!' look flash on.

"How about, I name you Tayuya?"

Hitomi's face scrunched up weirdly and she pouted. "What kind of name is that?" she complained.

"It's my wife's last name." He laughed jovially when he saw the awed look on her face. "In fact, I see a lot of her in you."

Her face brightened once more. She then looked down and in a timid voice asked, "If you give me your wife's name, can I call you daddy?" At his questioning gaze Hitomi explained very quickly waving her arms around haphazardly, "I-I mean it's only right for the mom to name her daughter after her if she wants her husband to remember her, not that she's not dead or anything." She had an awkward look on her face while a series of nervous chuckles escaped Hitomi's lips.

"Of course you can call daddy Tayuya-chan," Orochimaru smiled.

He was caught of guard though when he had a flying tackle hit him courtesy of Tayuya. Again with the tears, this girl must have not had much. But then again the girl didn't have much to remember and by proxy who she essentially was. He smiled once more as he rocked her back and forth until he could hear snores coming from her.

Orochimaru sighed softly as he adjusted the girls in his arms so he was carrying her like how a mother carried her own baby around. He looked at the girl in his arms and made the long trek back to one of his established bases in Rice Country.

Tayuya let out a strangled gasp as she remembered the most eventful time in her life that had changed everything. Though she wondered how in the hell the Naruto from then was like the Naruto now, she considered the fact that maybe his life changed just as drastically, for better or worse for all she knew, on the same day her life changed.

She could also tell that Orochimaru wasn't the one to fault with her loss of memories due to the Memories of a Lost past Suppression Seal because of one single fact, the hand used to draw the seal. Though Orochimaru was ambidextrous, he was usually dominant with his right hand when it came to writing any seals and that he had a simple flow of the brush. The one who wrote her seal has a left handed person with a slight, unnoticeable tremble of the hand. Now that she thought harder, she realized that the voice of the seal master was an old and ancient man.

She shook her head and cleared her thoughts of that. She didn't have any clues on truely who was on what side or how Naruto-

Naruto! That idiot had just passed through here minutes ago chasing after Kimimaro-

"Fuck!" she screamed out loud drawing the attention of Temari and Shikamaru who were apparently...making out in broad daylight. Both the Leaf shadow-user and the Sand kunoichi jumped apart at being caught, even if it was by an enemy, and blushed. Temari shook it off at turned to the trapped Tayuya while Shikamaru adopted his trademark bored look.

"How are you still-" Temari started, but was then cut off by the antsy redhead.

"Get these damn trees off me would ya! We have to save Naruto! He's nowhere near Kimimaro's level even if that guy has a disease!" she shouted out loud trying to move the logs.

"How do you know-" Shikamaru asked in an interested tone. Again, he was cut off as well by the redhead.

"There's no time!" she growled angrily, baring her canines, "When need to save him!"

"Why do we-"

"JUST GET ME THE FUCK OUT FROM UNDER THIS SHIT ALREADY! I'LL EXPLAIN LATER YOU FUCKTARDS!" she roared while releasing a powerful killing intent that was easily on the level of a seasoned jonin's.

Needless to say, Temari and Shikamaru could work quite well when motivated.

Outwardly Tayuya, no, Hitomi was glaring at the two to go faster. Inwardly inside, she was worried. She was worried for her childhood companion and whether or not he was still alive.

Hitomi felt the movement of the fallen timber and rose up when the offending piece of flora wasn't on top of her. She flexed her muscles, first punching the air and then kicking away, a bit and realized that she could run a bit before she had to stop. Luckily the life energy and chakra being held back the Curse Seal of Heaven was able to heal the damage.

But Hitomi knew the healing was going to be short lived. If she didn't get medical treatment quickly, she would probably be a cripple for life. Even now she felt it getting hard to breathe in and out and that her legs felt stiffer and stiffer by the minute. Time was running short.

She turned to the kunoichi and chunin who were both giving Hitomi weird looks. She grunted and motioned with her head in a, 'Let's go' style and jumped away into the direction where Naruto and Kimimaro had headed. She hadn't even taken notice of the fact she no longer had her battle-flute.

Temari looked and Shikamaru and only received a shrug. It wasn't one of Shikamaru's usual, 'I'm bored' shrugs, it was one of his, 'I'm just as lost as you are. Let's go along with it for now' shrug.

The blonde kunoichi sighed before jumping after the redheaded girl. Shikamaru stood in the man-made clearing for a moment mulling over things. He had realized that there were too many holes in the big idea and stored it away under his 'true mysteries' file in his mind.

"What a drag." That was his variation of his clans troublesome, though his clansmen called him even more troublesome for coming up with a troublesome variation of the troublesome catchphrase troublesome. Troublesome.

He sighed to himself and leapt away after both Hitomi and Temari.

'Where do you fit in all of this stuff Naruto?'

'A women of the opposing nation
Comes to the aid of her wounded love
To see his smiling face once more
Though their lives have changed
Their hearts have not
And neither has their undying love for one another'

End of Restored Memories and Lives Arc: Episode I

Memories Return

Author's Notes or Rants:

So what'd y'all think about my first fanfiction? Read and Review please.

Anyone liked the ball out of left field with Orochimaru? If not and your complaining that he's not evil enough, tough trout!

Also notice that I don't do the line breaks.

Tayuya's (fanon) name is Hitomi. Also when I refer to Hitomi it will either be in the omnipresent point of view or in Hitomi or Naruto's point of view. Everyone else will be calling Hitomi, Tayuya.

Also, yeah Naruto knows romance, or some of the stuff. Hey I understood the basics of romance when I was five, and Naruto is more intelligent and cunning than most people give him credit for. Also Naruto's point of view will be told in chapter two, which I am working on right now.

Anyway, I'll go in further depth later. Now please read a different story until the next chapter is up.

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The Envoy of the White Moon

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