Summary: Katie and nearly all her classmates are transported to the Naruto World. Separated and not knowing if her friends are ok, Katie attempts to find a home in this new place and a purpose. Finding a new family, new friends and new abilities is only the beginning of her journey, for she will play an important role in the war against the Akatsuki and Mardara Uchila.
Setting: These OC characters are from a world where Naruto Anime/Manga doesn't exist. They are transported to Naruto at the beginning of Shippuuden and it follows Katie's experiences. It's rated M as there could be swearing and in the much later chapters some mature scenes *winkwink*. Also, I decided to make it a GaaraxOC fic but I'm still thinking of adding another one to it to make it complicated. That's always fun.
AN: I do not own Naruto (but agree with everyone else in saying that I wish I did). I do own the OC characters.
Chapter 1 (Darkness)
It was a warm summer's night when the world changed for a group of year 11 students. Everything had been normal in their lives; family, training, work, bumming time. There was no word of any changing currents in their lives, no indication that the next thing to happen to them would be a life altering experience, for all those involved.
Katie was easy to get along with, honest, friendly, good for a laugh and intelligent. She cared for all her friends and, despite herself, the people that she didn't get along with all the time. She tried her hardest to maintain her A grades and had plans to finish school and travel the world gaining cultural experiences and meeting people. Although not the skinniest person, she was curvy and well developed standing at 5"7; black-wavy-long hair, bright blue eyes and a rather bubbly smile. She was one of the kinds of people that everyone could like.
Katie sat on her bed typing random things on the internet at 3:52am. Normally, someone at High School with a full day of classes would be asleep and subconsciously worrying about all the assignments she still had to do. Katie, however, had woken from a particular nasty dream. She thought it odd that she was having nightmares….since her last one was so long ago she couldn't recall it. She shivered and looked around her room, fear still nagging at her. She took a deep breath and moved her frightened blue eyes back to the screen. She couldn't shake the fear that came along with the red eyes of the dream and they weren't proper eyes either; they seemed to have more pupils than needed, 3 all shaped like a tear drop and staring through her. She shivered again and put her night light on, believing she would not sleep again without it on.
Katie was late for school that day and had a nagging feeling following her all day. She found herself distracted from her classes, looking outside and daydreaming about the eyes. Of course she felt safe during the day but wasn't looking forward to going to sleep that night. She could feel her friend's eyes on her trying to determine if she was sick or if something else was wrong. More than twice she had to ask for people to repeat what they had said to her. It was the most distracted she had ever been, but she could not help but feel like something was going to happen…to change. It was during a lunchtime special event for year 11 students that she would begin to understand. The boys sat along the edges of the small room tossing a football to each other and chatting about the new season. The girls sat in a group, turned to each other talking about the dance the following week. Katie was speaking to Abby about some shoes when the lights in the room when out. She stopped mid conversation and looked about.
"What the hell is going on?" someone said.
"Try the lights again!" called another.
"…thats not going to help…" came a creepy whisper. Katie looked around the room for the location of who said it but couldn't see still. She gasped when she realized that there was no light at all anymore, for even the windows showed nothing but complete darkness outside.
"That's not possible…" she whispered. Her irrational fear of darkness was starting to rise in her and she fought from giving a panicked scream. Finally the other students were noticing the windows and gasps and cries of shock spread across the room.
"…you're all dressed rather interestingly…" came the whisper again. Katie looked around again and felt a foreboding, a sense that whoever was talking was not someone she could be friendly with.
"…time to leave…" came the voice again and Katie felt a small shock go through her. She jumped in shock when she heard a window smash and covered her ears from the screams of other classmates. She went to scream but nothing come from her shocked and frightened frame as she could suddenly see two red eyes only meters in front of her. Later on she would recall a face that showed mild shock but would not see again for months. It was then that Katie, along with all the classmates found their voices and screamed as they were pulled straight into the darkness, enveloping each like they were nothing but a missing part of it.
Time didn't seem to be passing. Katie had kept her eyes closed the entire time so far. She shuddered and drew her arms around herself again. Terror was still gripping her like an ice cold chain, wrapped around her soul in vengeance against her. She drew breath and felt her body tremble as the chill seeped through her body again. She knew something was out there in the darkness that continued to float around her moving her stiff body from one angel to another. She had decided not to acknowledge her end though. Her other senses felt heightened and she knew something would happen soon….very soon.
The moment her body acknowledged that fact something changed in the atmosphere. She felt herself brush up against something and she whimpered in fear.
"Ka…Katie…is that you?" came a voice. Katie opened her eyes slowly to find her classmate Jordan floating beside her.
"Jordan…are you ok? Where…where are we?" she whispered reaching out for him. Taking her hands and pulling them together, Jordan didn't answer.
"Do you see anyone else?" she whispered again. A negative shake of Jordan's head made her heart jump in terror. They floated around together not saying anything for some time. Katie could feel eyes on her and the feeling suggested that it wasn't Jordan's.
"Hey Jordan!" the voice cut across the darkness, startling both of them. Turning, they could see four shapes bobbing along towards them. Jordan turned their bodies so that Katie was a little behind him in an attempt to protect her if needed. When the blobs came closer and called out again, Katie felt Jordan stiffen and then he called out too.
"Luke! That you? How did you know it's me?"
"Just a guess, but since you said that…" Luke said, a smile in his tone. Katie felt herself relax a little and her grip lessen. It appeared that Luke, Alex, Heath and Abby had found each other and had decided to look for others.
"Who've you got there?" Alex said when they were now close enough to see properly.
"It's Katie." Katie answered herself. Now that there were more people here, not that she had really got along with a lot of them, she felt her normal behaviours starting to appear.
"Great, so that means we've got 6 out of 14." Luke replied. Now fully in view they gripped Jordan and pulled them closer.
"Any idea on where we are?" Katie asked wanting to know if they had seen anything else or anything to start giving them ideas.
"Nothing…it's just black" Alex answered. Katie sighed and began to worry. What if they were in an accident, or there had been a bomb at the school, or they had breathed in a toxic gas? Where was everyone else? Were they in the same place as them? Were they even ok?
Katie gasped when Jordan began to pull her in a new direction.
"Steady on, we're just going to look for others."
"I figured, but we need to be careful. I…I think he is still around."
"He? He who?"
"You didn't see him?"
"Who was it?"
"Well I don't know. I can't believe you didn't see him, he has red eyes."
"Red eyes? Did you hit your head?"
"No…he's dangerous."
"I'll keep that in mind, shall I?"
Katie wanted to sigh at his responses and scream in frustration at the same time. She began to question her sanity, but she knew she had seen it and felt it. She contained the terror that begun to build again, her imagination running wild with aliens and monsters. Whatever was happening to them, she knew it was only the beginning.
They had floated around for quiet sometime and Katie used that time to focus on her other senses, hearing mostly. She didn't want to admit it, but she had even closed her eyes to make sure she didn't see the eyes again.
A sudden scream rocked through them, it came from her left and was obviously female.
"Did you hear that?" she whispered.
"Hear what?" Jordan said pulling her forward.
"Wait stop! There was a scream to our left. Female. We should go that way." Katie whispered pulling Jordan to stop.
"You sure?"
"Yes. It could be one of the others." Katie said beginning to pull the lot to the left.
The scream came again, but was not so loud. She felt Jordan stiffen and then the others were pulling the way she wanted. They didn't hear anything for sometime but Katie knew she had heard it.
"…look for them." Came a voice.
"…stay put." Came another.
"…floating around." Yet another.
"HEY!" Luke yelled, "Who is over there?"
Katie wanted so bad to smack him in the face. Him giving away their location to who knows could put them in severe danger.
"It's Ash and some others! Who are you?"
"Luke and a group of others." He called again.
"Oh thank god!" came Carla's voice. Katie sighed in relief but still shot Luke an annoyed look.
"Is Katie with you?" came Monique's voice.
"Monique! Are you ok?" Katie suddenly called.
"Yes. Been with this lot for a while."
Katie and Monique had been friends since they first entered High School. Katie had been the smiling girl that had made friends quite quickly and Monique the quiet girl that had moved to go to High School. They had struck up a fast friendship and had mostly been inseparable since.
When they had all grouped together finally, they found that everyone was accounted for. People seemed to relax and then the obvious questions were asked, where? How? What? Why?
Katie was talking to Monique about it when she shivered violently. She knew then that 'He' was there. She was proved right when she heard him speak.
"..so nice to have friends.."
"What was that?" came Carla.
"..being together again.."
"Who said that?" Luke asked. Katie knew she was shaking and despite herself opened her eyes to look around.
"..your kind is interesting.."
Katie felt her blood go cold when she felt breath on her neck. No one was asking stupid questions anymore.
"..but not part of my plans..."
She turned her head and saw the eyes right in front of her. She could feel the malice.
"..at least you get to.."
Katie wanted to scream, to tell them he was right in front of them, to warn them to get the hell out of there, to protect them but she couldn't find her voice.
"..die together.."
Light then flooded around them blinding all. Katie forced herself to look and she saw flames surrounding them and a man standing in them. A cloak with red flowers on it floated around him with an orange mask sitting atop his head. It was his eyes that Katie stared at though; they were knowing, intelligent and filled with a cold malevolence.
"..Sayounara.." he said with a smirk. At once, Katie let go of Monique and pushed herself in front of them. Katie watched as the flames surrounded the man and then leapt towards them, at the same time her eyes never left the man's and she saw them swirl and form a new shape.
With that, Katie felt her mind shatter and she screamed bloody murder. This was a whole new level of malice that ripped through her body and caused visual wounds on her skin. Blood dripped feely from her body and she felt the rage of 'Him' become a visible force that battered her. She heard her friends scream but missed what happened next as she slid into unconsciousness.
'He' watched as the friends screamed and tried to rush to help her but stop when they saw what was happening to her. At first, pale light surrounded her body and strengthened. 'He' watched in shock and rage as her body was surrounded with what appeared to be a twister of some sort. It widened and changed form to a water twister and covered the whole group in sections. 'He' saw what couldn't be possible as a shimmering white hole appeared and pulled through the various sections of the group of people. An angry cry came from 'Him', before he dematerialized and the darkness hovered in nothingness again….nothing or no-one disturbing it.
Tobi stepped from the shadows and into the Akatsuki Headquarters while mulling over the events that had just transpired. He was unsure to what extent the 'new players' would interrupt his plans, nor was he sure exactly how he had come across them in the first place, but he was not going to risk it. He'd put his feelers out and track them first, and then get rid of them. Besides he had certain red head to that he needed to fully put his plans into action. Smirking behind his mask, Tobi adopted his personality and went to see how the arrangements were coming along.
AN:
Okay so that was my first chapter. Please Read and Review and give me some honest feedback, I can take it. I probably should also mention that you are unlikely to see any of the normal Naruto characters for a couple of chapters.
