Rex was walking around his apartment bored, and he couldn't believe his luck. He got a nice paid weeks vacation to spend with his family just as his wife was called down to Nevada with their son to spend time with a relative who was just getting back from deployment. Now any other time this wouldn't be that bad, but this month had been very slow in terms of game releases. He sat at his old office desk and turned to and fro in his chair. Each quarter rotation causing the chair to creak and groan, as if the chair didn't want to be here any more than he did.
Sighing he stands and walks over to his book shelf and skims through their back catalogue of manga. Surely there must be something here he had not read yet, but he knew it was a lost cause. That is when something suddenly caught his eye at the end of the row. It had an orange-colored spine that read Naruto, yet the issue number was missing. "How strange" he thought to himself "I don't recall ever reading this one, or even buying it. Was it a gift from someone?". He grabbed the book and looked it over, studying the cover and the back.
Walking over to his chair he often used for reading, and grabbing a glass of water on the way. He decided he had found an activity to pre-occupy himself at least for the hour, and turned the first page to begin his journey. Upon coming to the chapters description he found something peculiar. This book didn't seem to actually match any of the Canon so far, and it didn't seem to be a side story or filler book.
He turned to the next page and felt the paper rip his thumb, cutting into his skin and bringing blood to the surface. "Damn that hurts" he exclaimed as he watched the blood roll down his thumb and seen a single drip hit the page of the book. Under the blood splattered page was a combat scene where Kakashi was now in a heated fight against two rogue Anbu ninja, and a weird seal that was drawn on the ground. Rex gingerly rubbed the blood away with his finger trying to figure out what the seal is being used for in the fight. It was then that he felt a shock pulse through his finger and to his arm. The bolt traveled to his shoulder and up to his head causing a searing pain. He shut his eyes and felt a pulling sensation in his naval. At that moment the book hit the floor, and rex was nowhere to be seen.