Hi all this is a new fic. The first one I tried to write I realized I wasn't quite ready to be an author. So, enjoy review and tell me how I'm doing with my second attempt.

Disclaimer: I do not nor will I ever own any rights to the Naruto series. Such a shame.


Anything But Normal

By: Shigeko

Chapter 1: That Morning


It started just like any other day, I woke from beautiful dreams of what I'd never become to resume the boring reality of my life. It wasn't that hard to feel bitter every day considering the events in my past; at least that's what I thought. In reality my life really wasn't that bad. I got almost everything I wanted and I had great friends, and in reality I was comfortable where I was, nothing really tragic occurred in my life.


So, on that morning I rose from my bed, thoroughly rested (yeah right, I mean seriously 6:00 a.m.) ready to tread into the temple and drink from the chalice of mediocrity. Yep, that's me, the sorry looking, sorta smart, teenager in high school. Lovely right, anyway before I go into the school day let me inform you of that lovely morning. First thing I hear is my mother screaming for me to get up, and then I get the wonderful experience of hearing her bitch because I won't use the numerous products she buys to get rid of my scars. Those scars covered the majority of my body, of course it was my fault (don't know why I picked those scabs anymore, probably stress). Of course my lazy, do nothing (and of course he would think I'm the lazy one), little brother, he just wouldn't leave me alone. The long walk up the road in the freezing cold, just to catch the bus, fun.


Well I think that catches us up a little bit, anyway I was standing by the table where my friends and I would hang out in the mornings, just chatting happily, watching funny videos, and of course we compared drawings we made of our favorite anime characters in Naruto. I don't know why I looked up, the atmosphere just changed, my friend Sam sensed it to. What we saw was beyond any thing we could have imagined, Akatsuki members just walked into our school like it was nothing, I swear our eyes bugged out. Whats worse we were the only ones who saw them, our at least their true forms. Sam and I looked at each other simultaneously spouting that same clichéd phrase,

"Do you see what I see?"

"Yeah, I see them."

That was it, most of them gathered in a corner but Itachi, Kisame, Sasori, and Diedara all walked in our direction. We were freaking out by then but it seemed like they didn't notice us watching them. We knew they knew they we were watching them but they just walked past us. And in my infinite stupidity I reached out and grabbed Itachi by the wrist, man what was I thinking. He just looked at me, not a word passed his lips, and then it happened. Numerous flashes, events, actions, things I'd done but hadn't done, just an overload of memories. I passed out.