Yeah I know I got a lot of unfinished stories going, but this just wouldn't get out of my head. It's going to be a little side project of mine. Just for fun.
WARNING PLEASE READ!
There is some spoilers in this chapter about some events that happen in Naruto Shippuden after the war is over and other things. If you don't know how Naruto ends then please read with caution.
Disclaimer: I own Nothing
Have you ever had that sudden falling motion while asleep? It's to where your asleep and your not really dreaming, yet you are. Then it feels like you suddenly fall off something and when your body makes impact you jolt awake. I've been told that when that happens, your having an out of the body experience, and when you fall its your soul going back to your body.
I had one of those, only it comes with a slight twist.
My name is Anna Rogers, I'm 21 year olds and I live in Dallas, TX. I'm your average everyday run of the mill woman. I live in a one bedroom apartment, no boyfriend, I have a steady job and doing online courses.
Now none of this is relevant, but I wanted to give you a little background on me. Okay. I'm also a huge fan of anime, most of the walls in my house are bookshelf covered with nothing but anime. My favorite is Naruto.
Now let's get back to that outer body experience shall we?
It was Friday night and I let my friends talk me into going out with them. The club was to loud for me and I was slightly drunk and wanted to sleep, so I left around 1:00 in the morning. It was dark as I walked home, I wasn't scared of any muggers I could easily defend myself. I stepped out into the street, not checking if any cars were coming. Since my head was fuzzy, my judgment was greatly impaired.
I heard a horn honk and saw a flash of lights before something slammed into me on my right side. Whatever hit me, hit me with enough force to send me flying into the air and I crashed rather painfully back to the ground, my head hitting the pavement with a sickening crack.
As I laid there, blood pouring out of my head and other body parts, I felt myself began to float, like I was weightless and suspended in mid air. As my eyes closed my last thought was of how I never got to finish my last chapter of my story about Gaara.
Then the falling sensation happened, and as my 'soul' slammed back into my body I jolted awake like any other poor sap would do.
I rested my hand against my racing heart and closed my eyes to calm my breathing. That was freaking freaky.
"She's awake."
Yeah I'm awake now...wait? Did someone just talk?
I opened my eyes and noticed 2 things at once. 1) I was not laying in the middle of the street dying and. 2) Gaara was staring at me from behind his desk.
I think my brain shut down for a minute, I'm pretty sure I looked ridiculous too. Eye wide like saucers, mouth hanging open. Then my brain started working again and I...screamed.
I didn't know what else to do. So I screamed and started doing the backwards crab away from all the eyes on me. My back hit something solid and brought my legs up so my arms could wrap around them, and started rocking back and forth.
"Omg, omg, omg ,omg, omg." I repeated over and over as I rocked back and forth like a crazy person. "I need to wake up, oh I need to wake up."
As foot steps approached me I looked up at Kankuro's painted face. He was looking at me strangely, which I didn't blame him for either. My eyes left his and looked at the other three parties around the room. Temari, Gaara and oh god, Baki.
"I'm going to die. I'm going to die." I said hoarsely as my rocking intensified
"Yeah your probably right about that." Kankuro said as he kneeled down in front of me. "If you can't answer our questions." His smile was evil.
"Your scarier in person you know that." I whispered as i tried in vain to shrink away.
"So you know who I am?" It was more of a statement than a question, but I nodded anyways. "Good."
Kankuro stood up and took a few steps back. I felt something crawling on me and looked down to see sand curling around my legs and mid-section. I had another freak out, but this one was internal. As my mind and body went into over drive, Gaara's sand easily picked me up and brought me to the middle of the room.
I was hyper ventilating as it wrapped all the way up my chest and stopped at my breasts. My arms were pinned down at my sides, so only my head could move.
"I take it back, I don't want to know what it would be like to meet Gaara, to know he's real. I promise to never write another Fanfiction about him again, or anybody else from the Naruto Universe. Just let me wake up. I need to wake up." I said as my head bowed and clenched my eyes shut.
I bit my tongue hard and was shocked when the nerve receptors for pain started firing off in my mind. Opening my mouth I stuck my tongue out and watched as blood rolled down and fell on the carpet bellow.
1...2...3...
"Oh shit."
A throat was cleared and I looked up through watery eyes at Gaara. His face was a mask of completely calmness and void of emotion. Temari and Kankuro was on either side of him, behind his chair. Baki was just a few steps to my left.
"Since you know who Lord Kazekage is, I'm going to skip right to the point." Baki said as he came closer to me. "Who sent you to this village?"
I was silent for a moment as I stared back at Baki in complete and utter fear.
"I...I don't know."
"How did you get passed the guards?"
"I...I don't know."
Baki gave me a look of annoyance. "How the hell do you not know?"
"The last thing I remember is getting hit by a car and dying." I whispered. "This is just one of those traumatic death experiences and I just need to wake up."
"This isn't real, none of you are real. Your just a bunch of fictional characters and I'm having one hell of nightmare. Yeah, that's what this is, none of this is real." I told myself as I did my best to rock myself back and forth. "None of you are real."
"Girl, I can assure you that we are very much real and if you don't start making sense. We will kill you." Baki said dangerously.
And I don't know if Gaara was just emphasizing the point or not but the sand started to tighten around me. "Okay, okay, there is no need to bury me in a Sand Coffin." I screamed as the sand tightened more.
"How do you know that?" Temari asked.
"I know everything about you guys!" I wailed helplessly.
They all looked at each other and from their expressions I needed to start talking and fast.
"Your all going to think I'm crazy." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before straightening up and looking Gaara dead in the eye.
"My name is Anna, I'm from a big ass city called Dallas in the state of Texas in the continental United States. I'm 21 years old and have no life. My life consist of work, school, and then sitting on my computer writing stories about made up fictional characters of anime. One Anime I am fond of is called Naruto. It's about a blond, knuckled headed, boy who dreams of being the Hokage one day. Naruto is main Protagonist of the Anime, it revolves around his devotion to bring Sasuke Uchiha back to leaf village."
I paused and took another deep breath. "Naruto is the main character throughout the entire damn series, there is two parts though. Naruto and Naruto Shippuden."
"Naruto revolves around when everyone is younger, it starts out before Naruto became a ninja. Then after he becomes one with Sakura and Sasuke as his teammates, his first real mission to land of waves, the chunin exams which is where you three make an appearance. The attack on the leaf village, then when everyone chased after Sasuke when he deflected the village and went chasing after Orochimaru. Again you three make an appearance, Temari saved Shikamaru, Kankuro saved Kiba and Gaara saved Rock Lee."
I paused again. My eyes still haven't left Gaara's.
"After that its a bunch of bullshit stupid fillers of the Konoha 11 going on mission after mission. None of you enter again until Matsuri is kidnapped by that weird ass dude after Gaara. The shows end with Naruto leaving with Jiraiya on his 2 and half long year training." Another breath. "Shippuden starts with Naruto coming home and the Akatsuki attacking the Sand Village and kidnapping Gaara, Kankuro gets poisoned by Sasori and Sakura saves him. Then Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi and Lady Chiyo go after the Akatsuki save Gaara, only to be to late and you have Shukaku sucked out of you and die."
A small sad smile came to my face at that one. "I swear I cried on that episode, I even thought about sending a bunch of hate mail to Misashi Kishimoto saying that he couldn't kill you off like that. Then Lady Chiyo brought you back, much to mine and others fans happiness. After that Naruto and Sakura met Sai and went on the mission to meet Sasori's informant, which turned out to be that slimy, snake Kabuto. Naruto went all foxy on Orochimaru's ass and then they finally meet Sasuke again after three years. He tries to kill Naruto, and yada yada...let's see what was next? Oh yeah, More Akatsuki bullshit and more death. Then the Kage summit, where Obito, posed as Madara declares war and all that crap. Then starts the freaking war."
My eyes closed and I took in a deep, calming breath. "Over 200 episodes of that damn thing. From the start with all white Zetsu's to when Kaguya came to be. Naruto and Sasuke had their final battle together and made peace with each other, and they released everyone from the Infinite Tsukuyomi saving the damn world. Then their is a blank period with everyone parting ways on good terms and then the end...until The Last: Naruto the Movie came out, then a sneak peak of an epilogue many many years later.."
I sighed as I finished.
"Of course that is just a small summary rundown of how things go, a lot of crap happened in Shippuden that would take hours upon hours to explain. To top it all off, let me repeat. I am from a world to where none of you exist except as fictional characters."
"Do you really expect us to believe that shit?" Kankuro asked glaring at me.
"No, but I'm telling the truth. Gaara while you was caught up in the Infinite Tsukuyomi you dreamt of a happy childhood with your family. Now how would I know?" I asked looking between the four.
"Don't you people have one those ninja that can go into your mind and see if your speaking the truth or not?" I asked desperately.
"Baki, have someone summon Reji here immediately." Gaara said his eyes not leaving my face.
"Yes Lord Kazekage."
"How many years has it been since the war anyways? I'm asking because I need know what time frame I'm in so I don't say something stupid and ruin the future."
"Three years." Gaara answered.
I blinked. Three years?
"Oh shit...then it's been a year since the events of the The Last, so Naruto and Hinata should be a couple and Kakashi the Hokage and...and...omg that means certain things haven't happened yet!" I was frantically wiggling around in my sand cocoon.
"What is your problem?"
I looked over at Kankuro in despair. "The epilogue of Naruto shows a lot of things it shows the ending of how yalls lives turned out. Which couples get together and have babies and other things." I said my eyes wide. "And I don't know what has come to pass and what hasn't, I could say something and the entire future could be disrupted!"
There was a poof of smoke and Baki was back with some other ninja dude. This one was someone never seen before, he had the same attire as Baki on, except he didn't have that weird hat thing on. His sharp black eyes landed on me and I froze.
Without having to be told what to do he walked up to me and placed his hand on my head. "Don't move."
There was a tingling sensation in the back of my skull and it was like my entire life was flashing in front of like a motion picture. As he came to certain memories of me and an ex I jerked back.
"Uh those are kind of private." I said sheepishly.
"Nothing is private to me."
"Alright fine, if you want to watch me and my ex have sex have fun." I said shrugging.
The guy blinked at me before diving back into my head. He skipped over any intimate scene in my head and continued on. I watched myself get hit by that car and fly through the air and then die in my world and then I was hovering in darkness and then I was falling and waking up here. He went through my memories of how I knew of Naruto and other things. After a while he dropped his hand and stepped back.
"She speaks the truth, to her we are just fictional characters. She also has no idea how she came here, all she knows is that she really did die in her world before waking up in your office." Reji said turning to address Gaara.
"Are you sure the memories weren't implanted there somehow?" Baki asked eyeing me with suspicion.
"Lord Kazekage would you mind lowering your sand so I can show you something?" Reji asked, at Gaara's look he went on to explain. "In her world she got a tattoo when she hit the age of 18, I saw it in her memories."
The sand fell away but still loosely circled my legs. Reji came towards me and I tried to back up, only for the sand to constrict my movements and cause my fall on my ass. Reji easily picked me up, turned me around and pulled my dress down to reveal my left shoulder.
"Dude I'm not wearing a bra here!" I said as I stopped my dress from falling down and flashing everyone.
On my top left shoulder was three Kanji symbols. Love, Life and Faith.
"That isn't my only tattoo but I am not pulling my dress up so yall can see the other one." I said as the guy let go of my dress and I quickly fixed it to cover myself up.
"She could have gotten that anywhere." Baki said unbelieving.
"Yes, but her memories of it are truth. From the time she was born till she died, its all the truth." Reji said bowing.
"Um Reji right?" I asked looking at him
He turned his head and raised an eyebrow. "You seen certain things in my mind about events that Happen in Naruto...er this world that hasn't came to pass yet. It's best for everyone that that knowledge stay...unknown."
Reji eyed me like I was in no position to tell him anything, which of course is true.
"Everyone in this room will not speak of this discovery. It is of high security, if anyone breaks it they will tried as a traitor to this village." Gaara spoke in his authority voice.
Reji and Baki bowed before leaving. All eyes turned to me now.
"So, seeing as how I don't know how I got here, nor an idea of how to get back to my own world. What are you going to do to me?" I asked fearing for my life.
"You have knowledge that no one else in this world has knowledge of, probably secrets about each village including Suna. Therefore, you will restricted to stay in Suna, if you try to leave or even speak a word of who you really are, we will have no choice but to kill you." Gaara said his eyes boring into me.
I gulped. "You know, your far more terrifying than the Anime gives you credit for."
Something flashed in Gaara's eyes and for a fleeting moment I thought I saw a certain emotion in his eyes before it vanished.
"Um that I'm scared of you Gaara, uh Kazekage-sama...it's just that...out of all the Naruto characters, your my favorite. " I said looking up at the ceiling. " A side from Naruto of course."
"You sound like a stalker." Kankuro remarked smirking at me.
"Well, I know everything about characters that I deem my favorite, I have to so I can get their personalities down for when I write my stories and everything?"
The sand siblings looked at each other and while they had some silent meeting I spaced out and went into my own little world.
This was really happening. I was really stuck in the universe of Naruto. Every fan girls dream come true, only it was completely terrifying and not what one thought it would be.
My fingers absentmindedly trailed over the sand that was wrapped around me like a snake still. It felt like every day sand, only it was harder and had more density to it. I laid my palm flat on the sand and tried to feel for the chakra Gaara had infused with it.
I mean I was in the world of Ninja's and chakra and make believe, so maybe I got zapped by special genie on my trip here and was blessed with magic powers.
I didn't notice that sand siblings had finished their conversation and was watching me intently. I followed the path of sand from my shoulder to my hip, a small smile forming.
"I always did love the fact that Kishimoto made it to where it was Karura's spirit that was in the sand to protect you." I mumbled to myself my eyes downcast.
I missed the wide-eyed looks sent my way.
"Nothing compares to a mothers love."
The sand fell away from my body and I looked up and smiled. "I have no place to talk though, my mother died giving birth to me as well. I grew up without feeling the undying love of a mother so, I have no idea what it feel like."
Temari's eyes softened for a moment and she leaned against Gaara's desk. "Your name is Anna right?"
I nodded.
"Until we can decided if we trust you or not, your going to be confined to a room until further notice, it's that or a prison cell." Temari stood up and looked at her finger nails in mild interest.
"Of course."
"Follow me."
I followed Temari out of the office without a moments hesitation, she led me through a series of hallways and down a couple flight of stairs. We stopped in front of a plain door and she pushed it open for me to enter. It was plain with the bare necessities, but it had a bed so that's all I cared about.
"Thank you." I said as Temari shut the door.
I heard the lock click into place and sighed. There was a desk, a side table, and a dresser for clothes. I walked towards the door to the right and opened it to find a bathroom that just had a sink and toilet. Shutting the door I sat down on the bed and laid back, closing my eyes I willed myself to fall asleep. Hopefully to wake up in my own bed in my lonely apartment.
When my eyes opened I was disappointed to find that I was still stuck. Since there wasn't a window in this room I had no idea if it was day time or night time outside, looking around the room I seen nothing for me to entertain myself with.
This was going to be fun.
Hours upon hours upon hours I paced around my new prison. I needed a bath and a new change of clothes seeing as how I only had the dress that I wore out clubbing to wear.
I was sitting on the floor staring at the wall in front of me when I heard the lock on my door turn and the door opened a second later. Temari's eyes scanned the room until they landed on me.
"I was told to come get you and take you to the baths."
I was up off that floor faster than anything. She gave me an odd look before leading me through the building again. I'd so get lost in this place. Temari opened a door and I followed her into the changing station.
She handed me a towel and I quickly discarded my clothes to wrap the towel around me. Sliding the door open to reveal the bathing area she motioned for me to go in. I looked around at the set up.
There was the washing stations on one side of the room, a intricate tub sat in the middle of the room. Temari pushed me towards one of the washing station's and had me sit down on a stool.
"I can wash myself Temari." I said looking up at her.
Relief passed over her face and she quickly retreated to the other side of the room. Ignoring her, I took my towel off and filled the bucket in front of me with water. I slowly washed myself, enjoying the feeling of finally getting clean.
I ran my hands through my short, chin length brown hair, my hazel colored eyes watched as the bucket filled slowly with water. Rinsing all the suds out of my hair and off my body I stood up and slowly went to tub to soak.
Pulling my knees to my chest, I wrapped my arms around my them and laid my chin down on my arms. I was really here, in this world. I'd probably never see my father again, or my friends, I'd never go back to my old life.
I was dead there and now I was trapped in this world, being treated like I was some spy or criminal and would probably remain in my solitude of a room until I died.
As the emotions hit me I felt tears gather in my eyes before cascading down my cheeks. I let out a sob and the dam broke. Temari stayed in her corner while I cried like a baby, she never said anything to me.
Once I got me crying under control I stood up and grabbed my towel again, silently wrapping it around my body. Temari stood up and I followed her back to the changing room.
I was surprised when Temari handed me a different change of clothes and thank goodness some fresh undergarments. I pulled the black shirt over my head and slipped my legs into plain black Capri pants. She handed some sandals that I slipped on with out question.
"Thank you Temari."
Temari nodded her head before leading me back through the maze that was this building. She stopped in front of the door and paused with her hand on the handle.
"Someone will be here later to bring you food." She said opening the door and allowing me to enter.
I nodded my thanks and sighed. I was stuck back in this damn room again.
Over the course of the next I don't know how many days, weeks or months I was settled into a routine. Every few days Temari or some other woman would take to the baths, someone would bring me food twice a day. I would sleep as much as I could, when I was awake I'd play little games with the walls and furniture. Though now I had some paper to write on, courtesy of Temari, but it was already full and I was out of stuff to write on.
Then I got the bright idea to touch the room up some. So I asked Temari to bring me a bunch of paint and stuff, so I begun to paint designs all over the room. I was currently putting the finishing touches on a picture of the Sand Siblings when low and behold the door to my prison opened and Kankuro walked in.
This was the first time that I have seen him since I woke up here. His scanned the room. I had painted all the Naruto characters on the walls, well the Konoha 11 plus Sasuke, The Sand Siblings, Kakashi, Guy, Sai, Itachi, even Minato and Kushina(I loved these two.)
I was trying to paint Gaara's eye color when he came in.
"Yo." I greeted setting my paint brush down and wiping my hands on the cloth I had thrown over my shoulder.
"I see you made this room...lively."
I just shrugged as I looked around at my decorative walls. "Well since I'm pretty sure I'm going to be stuck in this room for a long time, I might as well make it more comfortable."
Kankuro regarded me closely before motioning me to follow him. I took my apron off and hurried out the door. Un like when Temari led me around, Kankuro went in a different direction.
He stopped in front of Gaara's office. So the Kazekage finally wanted to see me again. He knocked on the door and waited for Gaara to tell him to enter before holding the door open for me.
Just like that first time, his office was still the same. Though now there was more paperwork on his desk. Gaara looked up as we entered and closed whatever scroll he was reading.
Kankuro sat down on the couch that sat on the far side of the room, leaving me to stand in the center of the room awkwardly.
"Anna." Gaara said my name getting my attention.
He was holding a manila file in his hands.
"In this envelope, is your possible future. If you do not agree to the terms than, you will be killed. For the safely of this village and the world. "
This is going to be so much fun!
