This is the sequel to Lover's Diary.

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Disclaimer: I'm back but Naruto still does not belong to me… (sigh)

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Remember Me Chapter 1- Fate

"Is it okay if I put it here?" A blond boy asked. He wore a black tee matched with a pair of denim jean and topped it with an apron. He was smiling happily at an old lady as he held onto the vase of flower. The old lady smiled at him kindly.

"Yes… Thank you, Naruto."

He smiled back at her before continuing his work, "You are welcome!"

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Another town in the map was cancelled out. "Not here…" Sasuke threw the map down and lied on the bed.

It has been 2 years since Naruto went missing and for 2 years, he searched and searched but nothing came up. Not even a clue to where he is. He had been to so many towns until he had lost count of how many.

Sometimes he wondered, is he still alive or not? However, he shrugged that question off. It's not like he is trying to run away from it but he could not bear to give up. Not without searching thoroughly.

Sasuke was about to have his rest for the day before his cell phone rang, "Huh? Who could be calling so late…?" He glared at the phone that was vibrating for sometime as if it would get on its two leg and walk to him. Finally he gave up and quickly grabbed his phone.

"Hello?" Sasuke greeted. "Oh... It's you, brother." Suddenly his eyes widen. He did not say a word. He just nodded occasionally with a 'hn' as a response. Finally, he hung up the phone and went over to get the map the he threw aside earlier. His onyx eyes wildly scanned the map for the place he wanted.

"Down Town… Cliffer City… Konoha Town…" His eyes trailed over a town's name and stopped at it. "Found it…" He made a circle sign on the town that he was looking for. "Remia Town… I found you." Sasuke smiled as he stared at the town with a gleam of hope in his eyes.

Sasuke folded his map up and went to his bed to rest for tomorrow's journey but then he shot up right after he lied down. He had forgotten something that had become a ritual for him for the past 2 years. From his bag, he took out a small notebook and went to the small dresser table and sat down.

He gazed at brown book for a moment. Suddenly his mouth curved into small smile.

"Why am I still doing this? … But… I just can't stop… Not till I found you." Then opened the book and wrote his entry starting with, 'Dear Naruto'.

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"I'm done for the day!" Naruto exclaimed happily at the old lady.

"Thank you for your good job. Luckily you offered to stay, if not, I don't know this old lady's body could close up the shop so quickly." She thanked him politely with a bow. Then she looked outside and saw a young man with black hair. "I see that your guardian is here to pick you up too."

Naruto turned and saw Sai smiling at him. He gave the old lady a sheepish smile and waved good bye at her before leaving with Sai.

"How was your day?" Sai asked as he and Naruto walked back home.

"It was okay. Tsunade came around to help the old lady but then she had to leave early to finish up something. So I thought that I should help her to close the shop. That's why I stayed a while longer." Naruto said happily.

"You are so kind." Sai said.

Naruto blushed at that comment since he was not used to receiving praise from people, "No! I'm not. Anyone would do that!"

Sai laughed gently at Naruto's reaction.

"Oh… Stop laughing!"

Sai stopped when he saw Naruto was fuming.

"Okay okay… But really… Don't feel embarrassed over the praise. You deserve it because you are always kind…." Sai said with sadness in his tone that made Naruto looked at him with a frown.

"Seems like we reached home already." Sai said suddenly which caused Naruto to perk up his head and look around.

"Oh… Then open the door…" He said to Sai but Sai just smiled at him.

"Sorry to tell you but I left my keys…" Sai replied without loosening his smile.

"Ah! Sorry! I'll open the door." Naruto quickly searched his pockets for the keys but he could not find them.

"No... No... Where is it? Can't be I lost it… No no..."

"Let's enter."

Naruto looked up and saw the door opened with Sai in the house. He was twirling the keys with his fingers.

"SAI! Don't steal my keys and opened it when I'm still fumbling over it!"

Sai smiled at him. "Oh… My bad."

Naruto glared at Sai with a slight pout, "Don't smile and say 'oh… my bad' at the same time... It's freaky. Especially your smile."

Sai dropped his smile and put on a sad look, "My smiles... Do you hate it so much?"

Naruto's eyes widen in shock as he panicked, "NONO! I didn't mean it that way… I mean… I mean…"

Sai laughed, "Got you again!"

That made Naruto looked up at him with a frown, "Huh…?"

"Say… Why does this felt so familiar?" Finally, it dawned him. This was not the first time Sai tricked him this way.

"ARGHH! SAI! NOT AGAIN!"

Sai kept laughing as Naruto entered the house with a blush adorned on his face as he took of his shoes. He slipped on the house slippers and was about to step into the house, Sai smiled at him and said, "Welcome back."

Naruto stared at Sai dumbfounded for a moment before he returned him with a warm smile, "I'm home!"

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Sai sat on his bed in his room quietly. It was late at night that mostly everyone was asleep, including Naruto. However, Sai could not fall asleep. He was tired of falling asleep and waking up in the middle of the night with the same nightmare.

Maybe it came from his regrets. In it, he could see his father haunting after him. No matter how far he ran in his dream, it kept following him. When he thought it stopped, everything switched again to the day where his mother died. He could still hear her screamed in agony as the fire clung onto her body while his father carried him out to safety, abandoning the last person who would ever care to show him love. Everything was so clear, so real.

"You'll never live your life happily…" Those words of his father repeated itself every night.

Sai chuckled bitterly, "Never? It has been like this since the moment I was born…" Slowly he brought his hand up and gaze emptily at it for a moment before he stood up and went out from his room to Naruto's room.

The blond were sleeping quietly with his body tangled in the blanket. Sai smiled over Naruto's unguarded face as he slept. He kneeled down and ruffled his blond locks.

"I wonder… How long could we stay this way?"

Slowly his mind wandered back to 2 years ago when he snuck into the hospital to see him.

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-A Tale of the past-

The blond's eyes lid slowly fluttered open revealing his blue orbs.

"Naruto?" Sai smiled in surprise at the boy but the boy just stared at him dully. Naruto frowned at him as if there is no sign of recognition in him. Slowly the blond's hand traveled up to his oxygen mask to pull it off.

Then he swallowed his saliva back and asked him hoarsely, "Who… Who are you?"

-End-

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It dawned him that moment that the blond had amnesia. Though it was weird for Naruto to get amnesia all of a sudden but he understands it perfectly well.

Sometimes people tend to lock their memories up when everything is too unbearable for them. They hope, in this way, maybe the past could be erased.

After that, he managed to get Naruto out from the hospital without anyone noticing and brought him here to start a new life. For 2 years, he lived with the blond. Their live were ordinary but it was peaceful. Never once in the past years he ever got the chance to see such life in Naruto's eyes.

Sai's hand flinched when he heard a soft moan from the boy. The boy turned around from his past sleeping pose to a new one and snored quietly. He smiled at him and then stood up. He left the room and closed the door behind him quietly. Then he leaned against the door and gaze at both of his hands.

He wondered, "How long can these bloodied hand hold onto this paradise?"

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After checking out from the hotel that he had been living at earlier, Sasuke quickly got the earliest train ticket to Remia Town. The ride there for him was filled with worries but also anticipation. His brother called last night and said that someone saw a boy that matched Naruto's description at this flower shop called Hana Tsuna Flower Shop. Though the night was a restless one but he still felt anxious with hope that this time, he really would find him there. Maybe fate would not be so tough on him. Maybe it is him.

The ride took him about 4 hours from where he came from but that did not tire him down a bit as he quickly got off the train and headed towards the information center.

"Hello." Sasuke called out monotonously. The girl looked up and smiled at him.

"Yes… How can I help you?" She asked politely. "Oh… Hot guy…."

"Yeah… Can you tell me where is the flower shop called Hana Tsuna Flower Shop?" He asked

"Oh… Hana Tsuna? That's pretty easy. Just go out from the west entrance and go straight to the junction and turn left. The shop would be on your left side shop lots." She smiled.

Sasuke nodded, "Okay... Thanks." He thanked her coldly and turned around to walk off but the girl stopped him.

"WAIT!" She shouted at Sasuke, which caused him to turn around and look at her with a puzzled frown.

"Yeah?"

She cast her eyes down embarrassedly, "Erm… I was wondering where you are going to stay… Maybe we could go out for a lunch or dinner…" She said shyly.

Sasuke stared at her without any emotions on his face but suddenly he cracked a grin. He gestured his hand as a sign for the girl to come near and then whispered at her ear which caused the girl's face to turn into a deep shade of red and was on the verge of fainting while he walked off calmly.

Then the girl sniffled and cried, "Not another one…Why must all the good looking ones be in a forbidden relationship?"

After leaving the information counter, Sasuke went out from the west entrance and followed the girl's instruction to the shop.

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Naruto was staring at the item in front of him with a frown. Suddenly someone smacked his head.

"Ouch…." He rubbed his head and turned around and looked at the person who smacked him. "Ms. Tsunade. What did you do that for?"

"Kid, stop fooling around. Put the banner out." She pointed at the banner that Naruto was staring at earlier.

"But, don't you think this banner would look weird?" He exclaimed and pointed at the banner that has Tsunade's picture on it and states promotion. Tsunade smacked her head again.

"What do you mean by that?" She placed her hands at her hips and asked demandingly.

Naruto gulped and smiled meekly at her, "Nothing… It's just too beautiful…"

Tsunade smiled at his answer, "Now place it outside the shop will you?"

Naruto nodded vigorously and quickly ran out with the banner, "YES!"

Tsunade shook her head a little and gave out a warm smile. She really liked the boy because being with him somehow made her feel like a mother. If she could, she wanted to protect him from this tainted world just like a mother.

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He looked past all the shops for the sign of a flower shop but to his dismay, there were none.

"Could she be lying…?" Sasuke sighed. Though at first he felt as if he had a good sleep last night but now he could feel the strain of a restless night and train ride on him. Plus to top it up, he has not had anything to eat since last night. He really felt so tired. He looked around again for the shop and spotted a small shop by the end of the shop lots.

"Could that be the shop?" He went closer and saw a few vases of flowers arranged outside of the shop. On top of the shop had a small but readable sign that is written 'Hana Tsuna Flower Shop'. Sasuke stood there as if his leg was glued to the spot.

"This is the shop… Is he there?" He stared at the shop for sometime and finally took some slow step there. The door of the shop suddenly opened and a blond boy came out with a banner which he placed near the entrance

Sasuke gasped silently and whispered, "Naruto…"

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Naruto took the banner out and placed it near the entrance of the shop. He stared at it and frowned, "She's weird…. Well… Who ask that she's my boss...?" He shook his head a little.

Then when he was about to enter the shop, he heard someone whispered his name.

"Naruto…."

He turned around towards the source of the whispering voice that called him and felt his blue eyes connected to a deep onyx eyes. In just a moment, the onyx eyes disappeared and he was hugged by him.

"Wha-…" Naruto was about to push him off but he stopped when he heard the boy whispered.

"Finally… I found you…."

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Sasuke did not know how to react. He was standing just right in front of him. The person whom he searched for the past 2 years. The only thing he could that was whispering his name.

"Naruto…."

The boy turned around and looked at him with the same blue orbs, the ones that he desperately searched for, for two years. Sasuke smiled and hugged him.

"Wha-…" The boy protested but stopped when Sasuke whispered softly that was audible to both of them, "Finally… I found you…"

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Naruto was dumbfounded. He did not make any effort to push that guy away.

He wondered, "Why is this guy hugging me all of a sudden?"

However, another question came up to him.

"But why don't I feel like pushing him off…? It's as if I knew him a long time ago…"

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Sasuke pulled away from Naruto and stared into his eyes. He frowned, "Why does he look as if he does not recognize me?"

"Naruto?" Sasuke ask worriedly.

The blond boy shook his head a little as if to wake himself up.

"Wait a minute. Do I know you?"

Sasuke's eyes widen in shock. It was as if his whole world crumbled down. Have he forgotten the saying that fate is cruel?

-End of Remember Me chapter 1- Fate-

I prayed and prayed that I would not end it with a cliff hanger on the first chapter but God decided not to answer my prayers. I'm so sorry… Hehehe…

Here is the sequel of Lover's Diary. I don't think it will be as good as Lover's Diary but I hope that you all will like this. Sorry for any grammar mistakes.

Thanks to Sunako Kanzaki-san for beta-ing the fic for me.

This time, I might not update this fic as fast Lover's Diary since I need to start to concentrate on my studies.. Exam coming soon.. (sigh) But don't worry. I will not abandon it.

Note:

So can anyone guess why did the girl at the information counter said this, "Not another one…Why must all the good looking ones be in a forbidden relationship?"

I'll tell you the answer on the next chapter. Hehehe.. Till the next chapter then. Please review.