Until their leaves fall off (джен)

The first time Nawaki realizes something is wrong, he’s three years old and alone in the room in the attic of the orphanage.
That’s not my room, he thinks.
“Naruto, do you want to go to Ichiraku’s?” Hokage-jiji asks him when he visits him.
That’s not my name, he thinks.
Because he’s pretty sure his name is Senju Nawaki.
It takes him a while to understand what happened.
He died, he remembers one night, waking up screaming from a nightmare that shakes him to the bones because it’s not just a nightmare, it’s a memory, and he remembers running ahead of his team, seeing, too late, the wire as he trips it, and then fire, sound and pain, so much pain, and it hurts and it hurts so much and then…
Nothing.