I had had another horrible day at school. My day only got worse once I got home. First off, my brother was being more annoying than usual. He was only being this annoying because of the fact that the Internet was down. Neither I nor my brother could figure out what was wrong.

I refused to ask my dad about how to fix the computer because I thought that I could fix it myself. I found out that there was a storm not too far off and the lightning knocked down wires.

That evening after dinner, the terrifying storm was directly above my house. A huge flash of lightning sent shivers down my spine. The roaring thunder that followed the flash reverberated throughout my body. All of a sudden, the lights went out.

The TV turned off as well. I had been watching a new Naruto episode. I was a huge Naruto fan. You could say that I was a sort of fangirl. I screamed inside my head out of frustration. If I had screamed out loud, my mom would've gone ballistic.

"Great." I mumbled to no one in particular. "Now I have nothing to do. I don't see how this could get any worse."

I really shouldn't have said that, because just then, the window I was sitting in front of blew in, knocking me out.

The last thing I saw was my brother who was cowering in the corner before I blacked out.

When I awoke the next morning, I had a painful headache. I groaned as I sat up. I realized that I wasn't in my house anymore. In fact, I was in a forest, lying in soft grass.

I observed my surroundings, suddenly very homesick. I groaned inwardly. I didn't know where I was or how I got there. I stood up and scanned the trees. Somehow, I sort of sensed that someone was nearby.

"Hello?" I called. "Is someone there?"

I saw a sudden movement in a bush nearby. I jumped when a voice came from where I saw the movement.

"Oh, you're finally awake!" A blonde head peeked out of the brush.

I breathed in sharply as I realized who it was. "What the..?" I peered at the boy's face. "Would your name be--"

"Uzumaki Naruto!" The boy pointed to himself. "Uh, so what's your name?"

"Meggie Fry." I said. Amazingly, even though he spoke Japanese originally, I could understand everything he said to me.

"Well, Meggie, why are you here?" He walked up to me. He was a lot taller than he looked in the show and anime series. "I mean, you're obviously not from around here."

"No," I told him, "I'm not from around here. I don't know how I got here at all. One minute, I'm in my house at home, and the next, I'm unconscious in a forest."

Naruto looked at me bewildered. "What?"

"Okay, here's what happened…" I explained that I wasn't from the world we were in. I told Naruto that in my world, he was only a character in an anime series and manga. I told him all I knew about the series. This only got me more questions and more unbelieving looks from Naruto. "Hey, is, umm… Sasuke nearby? Or maybe Sakura?" I ran my hand through my hair, realizing that it was longer than it was before. And get this—my hair was dark blue.

"Oh. Yeah, they're nearby. They're on their way here right now." Naruto informed me.

"Hey," I said, turning, "what's that sound?"

"What sound?"

"That!" I heard the sound again. Someone was jumping through the treetops. "Someone's up there." I pointed to the place that the noise was coming from.

"I don't hear anything." Naruto said, confused.

"Someone's coming this way, Naruto! I can't tell who, but someone is. I think it's two people. Maybe Sasuke and Sakura?"

"I guess it could be them." Naruto peered at the treetops where I pointed. We both saw a flash of pink hair. "Yeah, that's definetely Sakura there. Which means that Sasuke's nearby too." He yelled, "Hey, Sakura! Sasuke! Over here, ou guys!"

Oh, my god! I'm gonna meet SASUKE!!!! I thought. I was probably one of the biggest Sasuke fan ever. Stay calm, Megs… Stay calm. Don't scare the guy. Be the cool. Indifferent. I breathed deeply to help keep myself calm.

"NARUTOOOO!!!!" I heard Sakura yell. "Why did you have to jump out of nowhere?!" She jumped down from the tree she was in. She was just how I figured she'd look in my world. "Uh, who's that?" Sakura pointed to me.

"This is my newest buddy." Naruto replied. I noticed that he had taken at least two large steps away from where Sakura was standing.

"I'm Meggie. Not from around here." I told her sweetly.

"Yeah, we kind of guessed that." Sasuke said quietly as he hopped down from his tree. "You know, considering the fact that we've never even seen you before." He stared at me through his empty black eyes.

I really wanted to go over to him and give him a huge hug. That would've scared the wits out of him, though. That was the very last thing I wanted.

I tried to pry my eyes away from Sasuke. Instead, I looked back at Naruto and then at Sakura.

"So then, if you're not from here, where are you from?" Sakura asked curiously.

"Umm… When I say 'I'm not from around here' I mean that I'm not from this world." Getting the same "WHAAT???" expression from both Sakura and Sasuke that I got from Naruto. I explained that I wasn't from this world and that all of them (Sakura, Lee, Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Tenten, etc.) were just characters in an anime series and a manga. "Yeah, so… That's all I know."

"So, then, you're not from this world, and you have absolutely no idea how the heck you got here." Sasuke summarized.

"Yeah, pretty much." I said. I almost drowned looking into his eyes. (Yes, corny, but oh well. Get over it!)

Sakura still didn't really get it all that much. "What? But that makes no sense!"

I shrugged. Then I got that same feeling as when Sasuke and Sakura were coming closer. "Hey, what's that?"

"What?" Naruto asked. "Do you hear something again?"

I shook my head. "No. It's more like I can sense someone coming. Like Neji's Byakkugan. Only different."

This got more confused looks from Sakura and Sasuke. Naruto had already seen that I could sense people being close without something like the Byakkugan.

"Huh? Oh, well let's go see who it is before we ask questions." Sakura said. "Come on, Naruto!"

Naruto and Sakura took a runing leap into the trees to meet whoever was coming at us.

Oh, man! Now it's just Sasuke and I here! What do I do?!?! I kept thinking. Do I say something? Or just stay quiet? GAH!!

Apparently, Sasuke was staring at me, thinking I'm nuts. The battle of 'Talk to him Vs. Be quiet' was raging in my mind and I was making faces the whole time. This was one of the many, many things about me that freaked even me out sometimes.

"Is something wrong?" He asked plainly.

"Uh… No, nothing. I'm just thinking." I told him, embarrassed.

"Care to let me into the mystery that is your mind?"

"Would that be a kind of compliment, Sasuke?" I asked. "Or are you really curious?"

He thought for a moment before telling me, "Kind of both at the same time." I blushed furiously. I saw him smirk.

"Are you laughing at me?" I said angrily.

"It depends. Would my laughing at you be a bad thing?" He seemed totally cool about saying all of this to me. Really, he was just as nervous as I was. Amazing, right? That Sasuke Uchiha was nervous about talking to a nobody like me.

"Hmm… No, I guess not." I sat back down on the soft grass. Sasuke sat down next to me. "I was just thinking about how I got here in the first place." All of a sudden, I sensed at least five shinobi coming our way. "Hey, someone's coming!"

"Is it Sakura and Naruto?" Sasuke asked.

"I think so, but they're not alone. There are about three others following them." I said. "I don't think they're very friendly, either…"

"What?" Sasuke stood up and I stood with him. "If things get out of hand here, you still stay out of it, alright?"

"Oh, so you're worried about me, huh?" I teased him. "So does that mean you actually care?"

"Maybe it does." My heart leapt as he said this. He glanced at me for a moment. "What direction are they coming from?"

I pointed. "There, I think."

"Okay." Sasuke stepped in front of me. "Stay behind me."

"HIYA!!" Someone yelled off in the distance.

"There's Naruto." Sasuke said, sounding plain once again.

"CHAAA!!" Another voice yelled.

"Well, that's Sakura." I said. "They're getting a lot closer." I sensed a massive amount of chakra coming at Sasuke. "Sasuke, DUCK!" I shouted.

"What?" He asked, turning to look at me.

"I said DUCK!!" I pulled Sasuke to the ground quickly. As the purplish chakra flew past, Sasuke stared at me. I stared back.

"Does this mean that you care for me?" He smirked at me again. "That you were worried?"
"Perhaps I do." I laughed as Sasuke turned a faint pink. Anyone else could have looked at him and not noticed the blush. I, of course, did notice. "Haha, are you blushing, Sasuke?"

"What? N-no! Of course not!" He turned his face away from me and stood up. The battle between Sakura, Naruto, and whoever was attacking was raging directly above us now.

I stood abruptly, and Sasuke lunged upward to help his friends fight. I peered up at the six ninja. I ran up a tree to get a better look. I looked down at the ground for a split second to see Naruto's figure crash to the hard dirt.

"Naruto!!" I shouted. I jumped down from the branch I was perched on to see if Naruto was okay. "Are you alright?" I asked him.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He sat up and looked me in the eye. Then he sighed and hopped to his feet and back to the battle.

"Well, well, well!" A voice hissed behind me. "Who do we have here?"

I stood and whirled around to see Itachi. Just in time, I remembered to not look him in the eye because of his Sharingan.

"Ah!" I jumped back out of surprise. Out of nowhere, I made a hand sign and wiped my fingers across the ground in front of me. Immediately, the ground shifted and turned to mud.

Itachi jumped out of the way before he got caught in the sticky mud.

"Ooh… What a powerful move for such a little girl!" Itachi said mockingly.

"Shut up, Itachi!!" I yelled at him. Making another hand sign, I put both hands in front of me, facing Itachi. A huge whirlwind came from my hands. This move caught him off guard and he was trapped in the center of the wind.

The fight in the treetops stopped. All five of the ninja above ceased their fighting to stare at me and Itachi fighting below. When he was caught in the whirlwind, Naruto cheered.

"Way to go, Megs!!" He yelled.

I grinned up at him in thanks. Sasuke, I noticed, was just staring at Itachi. He was now standing again.

Sakura shouted, "Yeah! Nice shot!"

"Yes," Itachi commented, "very nice… I could have her as an Akatsuki. With Pein-sama's consent, of course."

"What?!" Sasuke shouted. "No way!"

"Oh, does someone up there have a little crush, then? Is that right, little brother?" Itachi murmured. "Well, we should be off."

I didn't get a good look at the other two Akatsuki that were there with Itachi. They were gone in the blink of an eye.

Sasuke asked, "What was that? That earth movement. The ground just turned to mud."

"I don't really know myself. It was just instinct." I said. "Hey, he's the one who snuck up on me!"

"What about that whirlwind?" Naruto asked. "Was that just instinct too?"

I nodded, saying, "Yes. All of it was pure instinct. I had no idea what I was doing."

"Can I talk to you?" Sasuke asked me.

"Sure. I don't mind." I said. He and I walked away together, leaving Sakura and Naruto standing in the clearing. As soon as we were farther away from the Sasuke's two friends, he stopped and turned to me. "So what's up, Sasuke?" I asked.

"I was just wondering something…" Sasuke murmured.

"And that would be..?" I prompted, feeling adrenaline pour into my veins.

Sasuke cleared his throat and continued, "I was wondering if, in your other world, you umm…"

"If I… Liked anyone?" I finished. "Well, no, but I wish there was."

"Do you want to go back?"

"No, I don't really. There's nothing keeping me there." I added, "And there are just two parts of this world that I like the most."

"What are those things? Well, if you don't mind telling me, of course." Sasuke was being a lot nicer to me than he was to any of the actual characters in the show.

"The first thing is that I'm actually powerful here. The second thing is a guy." I blushed lightly as I said this.

"And what guy would that be?"

"Who do you think, Sasuke?" I asked mockingly.

"Hmm… Well, I know it's either me or Naruto so…"

"Oh, shut up. It's you, dummy!" I blushed even more furiously than before.

Sasuke was showing signs of a blush. "Well, that's good. I thought that I'd have to say that I like you first." I allowed myself to step towards him.

"Oh, really?" I stepped even closer to him. "What does that mean for us, then?"

"I don't really know." Sasuke stepped toward me. "We really don't know each other that well."

"Oh, well. We'll learn more about each other eventually." I said. "Hey, can I try something?"

"Hmm…" Sasuke thought for a moment. "Can I trust you?"

I grinned at him in response. I made a few hand signs and put two fingers together. A small ball of chakra formed on the tips of my fingernails. I put my hand about an inch away from Sasuke's forehead. My eyes closed instinctively. Immediately, I could tell exactly what Sasuke was thinking. He was thinking about asking me out.

Well, that's a nice bit of information right there. I thought. Let's see some emotions… Anger… Probably towards Itachi. Pain. Ugh, also thanks to Itachi. Love! Towards me? Hahaha, well I could've guessed that.

I opened my eyes to see Sasuke staring at me with wide eyes. He had felt me sorting through his thoughts and feelings.

"Whoa, what was that?" He asked, bewildered.

"I was reading your mind. You know, seeing your emotions." I laughed as his eyes widened even more. (If that was possible.)

"W-what? Reading my mind?" Sasuke said nervously.

"Hey, you can trust me." I told him reassuringly. I stepped close to him. "I won't tell anyone about what I saw."

"Umm, so did you want to, uhh…" His voice trailed off. I knew exactly what he was trying to say.

"Go out sometime? I'd love to." I laughed as he leaned down (he was way taller than I was) and kissed me. I returned the kiss with the same soft force he used. When we broke apart, Sasuke took my hand and led me back to where Sakura and Naruto were still standing.

"What are you so happy about, Meggie?" Sakura inquired, staring at my hand, which was still gripping Sasuke's hand. "Something happen?"

"I'll tell you later, okay, Sakura?" I told her, shutting her up.

"Alright, well we should probably start heading back to the village." Naruto told the three of us.

"Yeah, we need to tell Lady Tsunade about Meggie here." Sasuke said, looking at me.

We all went back to the village where I learned some pretty important news from Lady Tsunade. (But we'll learn more about that later… Mwahahaha!!!) Later on, we met up with my friends Becca and Josh. I was ecstatic to see them again. Apparently, they had met up with Lee, Tenten, and Neji out near the training grounds. All three of us stayed at Sakura's place for a little less than a year. Sasuke and I stayed together during this time period, and let's just say that Becca met her match: Kankuro. Everything was perfect.

Until... the mission, of course.