Through My Lying Eyes

38 - Sincerity

Sorry about the wait for this, been dealing with some heavy personal shit at home and it ruined my confidence in my writing. Don't worry though, I'm better now and chapters will keep on coming.

"Hmm, alright, I'll play your little game."

With that, Sasuke lifted his hand in the air, and brought it down to point to Madara, and the entire alliance ran forward in unison to fight the reanimated Uchiha. However, the rest of the Konoha 11 stopped when they saw Kakashi and Gai were sitting behind a wall with a blonde-haired man that seemed to be passed out.

"Kakashi-sensei! What happened? Who is-" Sakura stopped herself mid sentence when she saw that the blonde man had whisker marks on his face. "Wait, is that...is that Naruto?" Lee asked. "Holy shit! Holy shit its actually Naruto! But...what happened to him." Kiba asked.

Sasuke made his way back right as Kiba asked this. "We don't fully know yet, but he might be out for a while." Sasuke said, he looked around for something for a bit until he found him. "I'll be back." He ran of in a direction and came back with a man that everyone there recognized. "Jiraiya-sama?" Kakashi said.

"I need you to do me a favor." Sasuke said. He pointed to Naruto. "This is Naruto." Jiraya looked at the white eyes of the blonde. "So this is the guy you've been searching for? You said I would know who he is once I saw him but I'm sorry, I don't. Though he does have a stricking resemblance to the yondaime, but I don't remember him having a son."

Sasuke shared a look with Kakashi and Sakura. "Look, it doesn't matter, I just need you to take him back to konoha."

"Wait wait, what? No, I need to be here to fight." Jiraiya said. Sasuke walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "I am asking you to do this, because you are the only one I can trust with this. And even if you don't know him, he will know you. Please, we need him to be safe."

"...*sigh* Fine." Jiraiya said as he picked Naruto up and put him on his shoulder, and ran off in the direction of Konoha. "Thank you." Sasuke turned to where Madara was fighting the army, although it didn't look like he was having much trouble.

"Alright, let's do this." Sasuke said, hyping everyone up.

-with Jiraiya-

Jiraiya was running through the woods with Naruto on his shoulder, already having several miles in between him and the war. Since he had some time, he tried to remember this kid, since apparently everyone says that he trained him. But he's never met this kid before, so what gives.

That was when his mind went to a student he could remember: Minato, he and this kid had an almost uncanny resemblance after all. He tried to remember if he had said anything about having a kid, and that was when he finally noticed something about his memories he never noticed before: after a certain point, his memories with Minato just stopped soon after he became hokage.

This was when he finally realized that something was up, he wouldn't forget things like that. "Then it's definitely possible that I trained him, someone must have messed with my memories if that's the case." He said to him self. He looked at the face of Naruto and continued to run to the village.

As Jiraiya looked away, Naruto started to stir. Jiraiya noticed this, stopped, and leaned Naruto against a tree. Naruto's eyes fully opened up, and he saw Jiraiya looking at him with concern. 'Tch, of course it's you.'

"Kid, you alright?" Jiraiya asked, kneeling down in front of him. Naruto didn't answer. "You were out for a while, you know. But you don't have any damage on ya, so I'm wondering, why were you acting like that?"

"Why would I tell you that?" Naruto coldly said. "Come on, kid, throw me a bone here, I think my memories about you have been tampered with, since I'm apparently supposed to remember you. I was told you might know me so I'll use that to help find who corrupted my memories."