
二十一/21
"Ayako, I hope you know why you have been called in."
"I do, Hokage-sama." She looked down, "But I assure you that I, in no way know about anything that is happening these days.. regarding the Future Facet."
"That is not for you to say." Fugaku said.
"Before we officially start, I would like you to know what we will be doing today." The Hokage announced."We are here today to change the course of future that we have seen before."
"I am still not completely sure that what we are watching is truly the future." Shikaku said, making sure to look them in the eye. "What if it's some sort of alternate reality or dimension.."
"I know Minato used to talk about those, although now I'm slightly regretting tuning him out." Jiraiya said.
"I don't see why there is any doubt." Ayako spoke up.
"Why do you say that Ayako?" Shisui asked.
"There is more proof that it's true then there is any proof that it's not."
"What proof are you referring to?"
"Mainly, Naruto's birth, the nine-tails and everything else." She said. "There was no information on them but now, we know about it all."
"What makes you so sure that they're true? That Obito's even alive?" Kakashi questioned.
"You might not want to believe it but he is, and everything else is also true." She sighed, "We could even give some time to see if the things showned on the screen will actually happen or not."
"That's just a waste of time." Hiashi said, "We could've prevented major disasters during the time we spent on doing nothing."
"And that is exactly why I agree that we should be changing the future rather than wasting time trying to see if the clips are true or not, Hiashi-sama." She ended.
The Hokage brought the attention of the people in the room back to himself, "Ayako, give me the notes you have written down. And Shikaku, write down a rough timeline for the events. And the others? Just think of ways to stop them without creating something even bigger."
Ayako went forward to hand the Hokage her notes while Shikaku flipped open a sort of notebook, and Yoshina handed him a pen.
"The first note is 'Ashura and Indra's story' and 'Hogoromo's first meeting with Naruto.' "
Choja spoke, "This would have to be way back in the past, Shikaku."
"I am going to draw a line in the middle to indicate the present time. The things on the right will be the future events. The ones on the left will be the past events and I think we should put this event right around the most left." Shikaku said as he drew a rough sketch of the timelines down on a page.
Chieko spoke up, "Who are Ashura and Indra?"
The room was silent. All of them trying to recall the first clip before it was broken by Ayako, "The sons of the Sage of the Six Paths. The brothers we saw in the first clip."
"I don't think it was ever mentioned..." Itachi trailed off.
"Huh? Really? I think it must have been though." Ayako replied.
"Let's leave that part for now." The Hokage ordered, "Why did you write Hogoromo's first meeting with Naruto in here? Ayako.?" He pointed out.
"Did we come across a second meeting that I wasn't aware of?"
"I think.. I don't know... must have been a mistake? Maybe." She was confused herself.
Shisui went over to Shikaku, "Shikaku-sama, I think we should put the meeting between the Sage and Naruto around the middle on the right."
Shikaku did so as recommended and said, "I think we should finish up the timeline first. Discussions for such things can come later."
The clan head of the Hyuga spoke up, "I agree."
"Alright then, the second clip's notes are 'The stone skipping scene (Hashirama and Madara) and 'Madara can't concentrate if you're behind him while he's peeing (Shisui made me write this)." The Hokage was reading the last with an amused look.
Shishi blushed beet red, "You didn't have to read that out Hokage-sama."
"This will be in the past, I will put it in around the middle." Shikaku stated.
"The next one is '596-03, name of the Delivery Ninja and Jiraiya is in one of his missions regarding the Akatsuki."
"This one doesn't seem that important."
"No, I think it is. The Akatsuki clearly grows bigger in the future."
"I will put it around the line in the middle on right." Shikaku said.
"The next one is 'Kakashi meets Sakumo. (Pain destroys Konoha)."
"Ayako, do you have some sort of super great memory?" Shisui asked her.
"No, why?"
"Nothing." He waved it off.
"I will put this around the middle on the right." Shikaku announced.
"After that is 'The scene where Naruto meets Minato".
"I will put this next to 'Kakashi meets Sakumo."
"The next one is 'Gaara's speech (Fourth Njnja war."
"Who's Gaara?" Inoichi brought up the question.
With a sigh, Choja told him, "Let's ask the questions later. There are too many to finish at once."
Shikaku nodded at Choja's words, "I will put that a few spaces on the right of 'Kakashi meets Sakumo."
"The next one is 'Hiashi's birthday and 'Naruto+Hinata = Boruto and Himawari."
"The last one can be noted down in another page." Yoshina said as she helped out.
"The next one is 'The Valley Fight (Naruto and Sasuke)."
"This one if I remember correctly can be around.. a few spaces to the right of the Delivery Ninja thing." Ayako stepped forward to stand next to Yoshino.
"The next is 'Sasuke and Sarada (Parent and Child Day' and Sasuke+Sakura = Sarada."
"After that is 'Pain and Hinata fight."
"This one should be around the Naruto meets Minato-sensei thing." Kakashi supplied.
"But after or before?" Ayako asked.
"Well that, I am not sure but I think before." He said.
"The next is 'The Final Fight between Naruto and Sasuke (after the war)."
"This one will be after the Gaara bit since the war in his mentioned the Fourth Ninja War." Misako said.
"After that is 'Naruto gaining control of the nine-tails on the Turtle Island."
"Didn't he also meet Kushina in that one?" Chieko asked.
"Yes, I think so."
"This should be around.." Shisui turned to them, "Where should this be around?"
"I think we should put that before Gaara's."
"Alright."
"The next one is 'Shisui vs. Danzo."
Shisui slightly winced at this. The sight of Danzo was sure to give him the creeps after this. Thankfully, he hadn't yet encountered the man again after watching how he led him to his demise.
"This should be in between... after or before the delivery ninja?"
The Hokage hummed, "Maybe before?"
"Before it is then."
"The next one is 'The Third Hokage's death."
"This one.." Yoshina sighed, "Should we put this before or after the Delivery Ninja?"
"I think before." Chieko said, "No wait- I think after."
"Why after?"
"Jiraiya-sama was there in the Delivery Ninja one along with Naruto. But he wasn't there in the funeral." At the questioning glances she received, she said "I assumed he would go to the Third's Funeral if he was here."
"I would." Jiraiya nodded.
"But wasn't he there though..?" Ayako thought out loud.
"Was he?"
"Just put it after.
"I will put it after.. then."
"The next one is 'Team Guy intro (kind of)."
"I don't think we need to put this one." Itachi said.
"I agree, there's no way for it to fit into a particular timeline or anything."
"If that is so, the next is 'Neji's death and Kakashi gets sucked inside kamui. "
"What's kamui?"
A series of incredulous looks were directed towards the asker before they replied at the same, "Let's keep the questions for later."
"This will be around.. I think after the Gaara bit."
"The next one is 'Minato and Kushina's death."
"This will be around.. right next to the middle of the line on the left."
"Now, the questions can come in."
"First of all, why are your notes so vague, Ayako? You should have made them more detailed." Mikoto scolded her.
"I'm sorry about that. It was definitely not the plan. I will keep that in mind."
"Who's Gaara?"
"Gaara? Who?" Ayako asked confused.
"You wrote down something like Gaara's speech before the 4th Ninja War." Shisui said, "So, who's Gaara?"
"I'm not so sure." Ayako tried to remember how she knew the man, but she came up with nothing.
Inoichi came forward, his knowledge in dealing with memory loss being an advantage, "Ayako, could you close your eyes."
Once Ayako did so, he told her to think of – what did he look like again? – oh yeah, red hair.
"I want you to think of a man with red hair." Misako sighed at her husband's poor attempt, "Try to remember it. I know red hair is pretty vague but there aren't exactly many people with red hair either."
After telling her to think of a man with red hair, he put his fingers on her forehead and he closed his eyes, concentrating before he opened them and walked a few steps back, ordering the others to do the same.
"Red hair?" Ayako repeated with a hand on her chin as she sat down on the floor, her eyes still closed.
"Red hair" She repeated a tleast ten times as her eyes knit together.
"A man with red hair" she suddenly shot up with a shout of pain, her hands on her head as she tried to rip her hair out.
Shisui and Itachi were quick to hold her down, Shisui held her back while Itachi held her hands together – away from her disheveled hair.
"What just happened?" Tsume commented on the 10 minutes that had passed – Ayako thinking while they waited – leading up to this.
"It's a common thing for memory loss patients when they start remembering something. A few times, they end up going crazy and sometimes they do stuff like this when their brain can't handle it anymore. The frustration leads up to this." Misako informed them.
Inoichi continued, "I don't usually take care of memory loss patients.. I mean, we've got the medics for that stuff. But I do know the gist of it. She will be fine." He assured.
"I highly doubt that." Shisui commented with a groan as he watched Ayako nibble on her nails as she whispered, 'red hair?'
"I agree with Shisui." Fugaku spoke up.
"But there isn't any other way to make her remember either." Inoichi added.
"We'll have to see." The Hokage turned to Inoichi, "So, after this fit.. She will know this red haired guy?"
At the Hokage's words, Inoichi turned to his wife, "I hope so, yes."
"Why do we even need her to remember who the guy is?"
"If she remembers who the guy is, then slowly she might start to remember more." The Hokage continued, "Don't forget the purpose."
"It's not even as if we don't know who Gaara is." Shikaku spoke up, trying to make the others see the point, "He's the Kazekage's kid. But the problem is that Ayako knows him without it ever being mentioned."
Itachi was not liking how they were speaking about Ayako's pain as if she was nothing. She was a friend of his and he had known her long enough to know that she didn't deserve this disrespect.
But he didn't dare say it, his words wouldn't be taken seriously. He knew they were doing this for the better.
Shisui was understanding of how the others were treating Ayako. Even though she wasn't an enemy to them, there was still a chance that she is.
If she doesn't regain her memories then they won't know what or who she really is.
And if they don't know about it, then their only chance of knowing the origin of the Future Facet would be gone as well.
If they weren't as harsh as they were on her, then they wouldn't be shinobis. He sighed, life as a shinobi is cruel.
As he looked at Ayako, he consoled himself.
'It's for the village. And it's my duty as a Ninja of the Leaf.'
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