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Flash.
"OH HELL."
"… Mego?"
"No, no! This is NOT MEGO. I'm a man eating bunny. RAWR."
"Mego. I can't SEE YOU."
"No one can see anything, man eating bunny. We've all been blinded by a light from beyond all beyondness."
"OH FUCK. FUCK-IED FUCK FUCK."
"Taaaaaaij!"
"I stubbed my fucking toe! … Not that it can do that, or anything."
"On what? Is there anything to stub a toe on?"
"Apparently!"
"WELL."
"… What?"
"… I don't know. It just sounded like the right thing to say."
A brief silence fell. The blinding white light remained, blinding the three girls.
"So. Anyone know what's going on?"
Another silence fell.
"We died?"
"OH. OH. That's sounds so pleasant, Mea."
"You can't see it, but I'm shrugging in indifference. It's the best I can come up with at the moment. Really, what else could it be?"
"And we all three died at once?"
A third silence fell.
"Anyone else feel that?"
"Huh?" two of them said in unison.
"A tugging on your foot. Anyone else feel that?"
"Nope."
"Not me."
"Ohsnap."
A scream quickly followed, then darkness.
---- Mea's POV ----
Golden brown specks of sand settled in near jet black hair, causing it to look like small specks of gold had settled in it. The glare of the sun beat down in intense rays on the girls' fair skin, pale enough that it seemed to reflect it like snow. The wind picked up more sand and swirled it around the unconscious girl in lazy cyclones; but it quickly settled, rather on the girl or disappearing into the endless sea of sand.
Soft, rapid footsteps sounded in the distance, kicking up sand as they approached the girl. The sand didn't buffet their face like it would a normal person –used to it as they were. Plus, the wind was slack and calm, it wouldn't bother them. Sometimes, nature knew things and knew that it needed to not interfere.
The small traveling body – three people – stopped when they came upon the girl. Her clothes were strange, her skin too pale, and her health to perfect. There was no way for her to be this far out in the desert without any water or food, and look the way she did. She suffered from no dehydration, and looked as if she had merely fainted.
"What should we do?" one of the men asked, his face hidden behind a mere tan cloth mask. He was a head taller than all the others, but wasn't in charge. He wore the same attire as the man to his left: a tan jumpsuit underneath a jacket that had many pockets, with a katana strapped on his back.
"We can't leave her," the second said quickly, turning towards the redheaded man that they had been following.
"If we bring her along, then one of us will have to carry her the rest of the way back to Suna," the taller of the two snapped quickly. "I don't know about you, but I'm not willing to do that."
"It's not that far away. And you'd be willing to leave an innocent girl to die out here, just because you wouldn't want to carry her a few miles?"
He paused a second before answering, "We don't know who she is. We have to consider–"
"Silence, both of you." They both clamped their mouths shut, even if they couldn't be seen. He leaned down next to the girl and picked up her hand, examining her palm and fingers. "She hasn't done any hard work her whole life. No calluses or scars. They're soft from an easy life of leisure." He dropped the hand and stood back up, eyes narrowed in annoyance. "Now one of you will carry her the rest of the way."
"But I don't like lasagna…!" All three men turned a curious look toward the girl, who had moved slightly. Slowly, she sat up from the bed of sand, running her fingers through her hair and yawning hugely. They each waited for her to notice them, or if she ever would, given how long it was taking for her to stretch and wake up.
When she finally opened her eyes and turned to look out at the sand to her left (the men being to her right), she fell utterly still. For a few seconds, she didn't do anything. Then an explosive sigh suddenly left her, and her shoulders fell and she stood suddenly, her back, shoulders, and neck oddly stiff. She spun around and aqua met brown and gold speckled eyes. A smile wound its way onto the girls' lips, rather than surprise into her expression. Neither of the men could tell if it was a mischievous smile, or an innocent one.
"My day just became a whole lot better."
---- Taij and Mego's POV. ----
"Have you ever seen such clothes in your life?" a woman whispered to another, her voice full of disapprovement as the woman she was speaking to shook her head, clicking her tongue. "And such like teenagers – just lying in the middle of the street, sleeping! Do they want to get kidnapped or run over? Honestly."
The two women were suddenly shoved aside by a gloved hand. The tall man kneeled down beside the two girls, his one visible eye portraying laziness and boredom. His silver hair fell in a messy, but neat fashion as he tilted his head to the side slightly, humming to himself softly.
The two women behind him glanced at him in silent anger – but they were never show it to the mans face. He was a Jounin! And an infamous one at that. "Do you know who these girls are, Kakashi-san?" one asked politely, sure to put a smile on her face in case he turned around.
The man merely shrugged, before a blur appeared by his side, a raven haired youth by his side now. The two women silently gasped and glanced at each other, before hurriedly moving away. The appearance of him was enough to show that this was an important matter. The raven haired youth's eyes narrowed into suspension as he stared down at the two sleeping forms. "I've never seen anything like this, Kakashi-sensie. But we'd best hurry and get them to Tsunadi." A second blur appeared, only it disappeared quickly and revealed a blond, already crotched by the two girls.
"The hell? Even I wouldn't sleep in the streets!" was the first thing he said, nudging one of them on the shoulder.
"Holy goat crackers!" the brunette shouted, jolting awake at the touch from the blond. Naruto jumped back away, surprised at the sudden outburst. The brunette, however, just stared at him with wide eyes. A strange test of patience followed as they both stared straight at each other. One confused, the other scared and excited at the same time.
"Megooooo," she said, shaking the still sleeping blonds shoulder enough to rouse her from her sleep. "Something weird is going on!"
Mego slowly rose from her spot, yawning as her stomach grumbled loudly. "What is it?" she asked, rubbing her tired eyes before fixing them on Taij, not quite getting why she looked overly excited.
"We're not in Kansas anymore!" Taij said in a sing-song tone, gesturing all around her.
The blond narrowed her eyes, before the information finally clicked in her head and she glanced around her, nearly giving herself whiplash as her head turned this way and that quickly. The three males were just staring at them both with baffled looks, "Kansas?" the Joinin asked lazily.
"Youwouldn'tunderstand," Mego sputtered out, slowly standing from her position on the ground. "It's about rainbows, yellow brick roads, and munchkins." She waved her hand dismissively, still looking at all that was around her.
By this point, Taij had stood up too, Naruto straightening up with a confused expression still on his tanned face. "What's a munchkin?"