Disclaimer: Since I'm pretty sure I'm not Masashi Kishimoto I think you all know I don't own Naruto. Sadly. This is the only time I'll do this so don't get used to me talking up here. Read on!


Changing What Was

Chapter One: The Accident

Music blared from the radio as we drove along the curvy dirt road. I'd been looking forward to this weekend for a month now and it was finally here after much stress and sleepless nights. And so were my two best friends: Yuuki Rose and Kana Lasket. (I'd finally found a weekend where we could all get away from civilization.)

"God, I just love this fresh mountain air." Kana said, sticking her head out the window.

"If you fall out I'm leaving you behind." I said.

"You wouldn't do that. You're too nice Shina." Yuuki giggled, ruining my fun. I stuck my tongue out at her in the back seat.

"Shut up." I responded automatically.

"How far was the campsite?" Kana interrupted.

"Uh." Yuuki checked the map. I shared a nervous glance with Kana. Why the hell had we allowed her to navigate again? I thought back to the lost Scorpion games. Oh yeah. "It says... Two more miles."

"Yuuki?"

"What?"

"The maps up side down." I said. Yuuki looked at the map in disbelief before her face turned red in embarrassment.

"I knew that!"

"Uh-huh, sure you did." Kana teased. I laughed as Yuuki defended herself.

"I did! I was just testing you two." Between all of us, Yuuki was the youngest but also the tallest, leaving Kana as the eldest and shortest. She was also the most naive. I sighed.

"Give me the map. If you continue to direct us then we'll be out here forever."

"Shut up Shina, I know where we're going." But she handed over the map regardless.

"That's it, come to mama." I grinned opening the map. Kana slowed the truck to a stop while I tried to find out where we were. "I think we're... Lost."

"I could've told you that." Kana said sarcastically.

"Shut up. Did anyone see any signs we may have passed?"

"Yeah, there was a green sign thing with a number on it back that way." Yuuki said helpfully, pointing back up the road.

"Great." Kana said looking around.

"Can you turn us around?" I asked looking at the narrow mountain road.

"I can try." Kana said putting the truck in reverse.

"I'm sorry guys." Yuuki said as we backed up. "I'm horrible with directions."

"It's okay, that's why you're a pediatrician, not a navigator."

"Yuuki, if you make me miss s'mores time I'll drag you into the lake while you sleep." Kana promised getting the truck into position.

"We'll make it on time." I said looking at the clock and automatically calculating the time and distance.

"Says you." Kana muttered. I raised an eyebrow.

"When have I ever been wrong about calculations?" I asked. Kana thankfully stayed quiet. "I thought so."

"Let me just concentrate on driving." Kana grumbled.

"You don't need to concentrate." Yuuki said innocently. "You're the best driver out of the three of us."

"Don't stroke her ego." I cried as Kana grinned. "We'll never hear the end of it."

"Well she is! Look! We're almost there!" Yuuki said.

"What would you two do without me?" Kana asked getting us dangerously close to the edge of the road.

"Go all the way to the bottom then come back up like reasonable people." I said.

"This was your idea, you're not reasonable." Kana muttered.

"Like Yuuki said, only you could do something like this without us going all the way to the bottom to just turn around and come right back-"

I'd been so distracted by this that I hadn't seen the huge Ford truck come around the sharp bend. The sound of a truck slamming its brakes had me looking in the rearview mirror too late to warn Kana.

A huge jolt sent us down the steep mountain. Glass shattered and cut into my skin. Trees and branches ended up inside the truck as screams and loud cracks sounded. I could only watch in fear as we went head over heels down the mountain in what seemed like forever. Until with a loud thud we were suddenly airborne.

That only lasted a few seconds before we hit what felt like concrete, and upside down to. I could barely move my neck to the side to see Kana, with a tree branch through her chest.

"Ka… na!" I coughed something wet before twisting painfully to see Yuuki. She was impaled with a long jagged piece of glass staring sightlessly ahead.

"Yuu-ki..." I breathed before everything went black.


When I woke up I was staring at a beautiful ivory ceiling with very expensive filigree detail. I frowned. Hospitals usually focused on clinical efficiency and boring horrible white. Plus that didn't make sense since I didn't feel hurt.

So what was I doing here? Wasn't I somewhere else? Yuuki and Kana... I gasped sitting bolt upright. Yuuki. Kana. I looked around at the beautiful decor, not really taking anything in. My best friends had been with me when we... When we...

"Oh, you're awake." My head snapped to the door, white French doors, to see a beautiful woman with long black hair, black eyes, and the most beautiful dress I'd ever seen.

"Where am I? Who are you? Where are my friends?" I asked moving to get up. I'm not sure how she did it but the woman was beside me in an instant.

"It's alright Shina. You're safe here. My name is Izayoi, I'm the one who saved you."

"But Yuuki... Kana..." I protested shoving the woman slightly.

"Yuuki and Kana are both okay. They're eating breakfast right now. We waited for you to wake up." The woman explained patiently.

"They're alive?" I asked in disbelief. The woman pulled back.

"Yes. They're waiting for you. Get dressed and come join us in the dining room." I nodded not really caring how I looked. My friends were alive! Who the hell cared about what they looked like then their two best friends weren't impaled?


A/N: Yeah I had another idea for a story. I know I'm writing NPOAU but I figured why not multi-task? So read and review. Flames will gladly keep my toes from freezing this winter.