In This Together
Chapter 1- To Begin With...
Emily
I trudged to school, the water of the soaked paths splashing over my black leather boots. I hummed, as the solid beat of "Rolling Star" by Yui pounded on my ears, blocking out the constant sound of the pouring rain. The grey sky had not ceased the endless bucketing of rain since I got up, which happened to be, well, half an hour ago.
I slid down the mud slide of the slope that, on a dry day provided a gentle incline to the footpath. Shaking my boots, I flicked bits of excess mud in all directions, as I made the trek to the library.
As I approached the library the bell rang, signaling the green doors to give way to the hoards of students that hide behind them. I sighed, slowing my pace waiting for the students to dissipate. When they didn't leave I frowned, wondering what the heck was going on.
I increased my pace, knowing that my friends would be in the library, Kadrienne dragging them in due to the absolute manga addiction that she has. I wonder what the flavour of the week is?
Upon entering the library I spotted the group, surprisingly not on the computers. I glanced to the row of them, realizing that she wasn't on them only because they were all taken.
I had walked up behind Antonia, not escaping one of the token crazy people in our group.
"Eemmiillllyy!" I heard, not even trying to evade the crazy person as I was almost immediately glomped. Seriously, the whole anime run-at-and-hug-to-death thing. I hate Mondays, my mornings and anything I generally have to get up for... This reminds me...
"You would think that you hadn't seen me yesterday, for the ENTIRE day." I replied, still a little miffed that she arrived at EIGHT in the MORNING, wanting to spend the WHOLE DAY at my house AFTER I told her that I got to bed at FIVE IN THE FREAKIN' MORNING!
She may of promised to never do it again, but I swear that she should NEVER drink another energy drink, and definitely not six of them all after ten at night. I watched as she noticed my eyes narrow into a glare aimed up at her, pulling down her woolen cap to hide her face.
"Rachel, she's glaring at me again! Make her stop, it's the evil glare!"
"No way, she'll just turn it on me." She replied, obviously not paying attention to the fact that I HAD turned the glare on her.
"EEP!" She emitted, loudly, hiding behind Antonia, who was even taller. Seriously, taller. Sigh. Rachel stepped back out after a second and gave me the secret handshake. I would detail it, but then it wouldn't be secret then would it? Antonia just turned her head away, looking at us out of the corner of her eye.
"Geeze, you people act just like my [crazy] friends."
To this we, as in Kadrienne, Rachel and me, replied at the same time.
"Really?" We asked, all turning our heads to the side, our eyes all widening into a crazy look.
"Eemmiillllyy!" I sighed turning to face the two crazy people.
"Yes?" Which one was it that spoke? Geeze, the could be twins, if Rachel wasn't a pure blonde.
Kadrienne looked amazed. "Rachel. Does. Not. Know. What. Naruto. Is."
Oh, that's the flavour of the week.
Okay, I am not so much into manga, but anime, well, let's just say try to mention one that I haven't heard of, if not seen.
"Are you freakin' kidding me?"
"Yeah, I know!" Kadrienne replied, throwing her hands in the air. "How can she NOT know what Naruto is?"
Possibly a slight over exaggeration, but true none the less. Antonia, Kadrienne and I tried to explain, but she wandered off, Kadrienne linked by her arm.
Traitor.
I sighed, following them to the Canteen. As I approached I heard a "What? No hot food left?"
A good moment for a face palm. It was the end of lunch, what did they expect?
"Not all the food. There are the new Latrop Croissants. We only have five though."
Rachel, always the reckless one, brought one, and encouraged us to do the same. They were nothing special, soon forgotten.
The bell rang. Time for class...
I sloshed my way home, shedding my boots just inside the door, I wandered down the familiar hall, aiming for the room that was mine. I dumped my bag, which was probably half soaked by now. Great.
By the time my mother got home I had already started cooking dinner, chicken teriyaki stir-fry.
Hours later, I curled up in bed, no thanks to the addictiveness of Fallout 3 and the awesomeness of the fanfiction "Fangrlz II: Legends". As I started to fall asleep, my mind turned over the events of the day, from the overly familiar, to the new topics.
'I wonder', I thought to myself as the "Flavour of the Week" presented itself. 'Would our group, survive in the Naruto World? Would we go in the Chuunin Exams?'
~Dream~
I dreamt of the unchanging Earth, although I was INSIDE the Earth. Usually I would be worried about the possibility of asphyxiation, but I was unusual unconcerned.
~End Dream~
I woke. Now that is usually nothing too interesting or exciting about that, but this time I woke in the middle of a street.
'You. Are. Freaking. Kidding me? Sleep-walking? Wait, where the hell am I?'
Well at least the place was slightly familiar and my sleep-walking self changed out of pajamas... that would be sooo embarrassing. An almost too convenient ladder was on the wall just inside the alleyway to my left, which of course, I climbed. This was slightly difficult, due to the wetness of the steel bars - my freaking hands kept slipping.
I got to the rooftop, gazing around to gain my bearings when I sighted the tower.
Oh no. Please tell me that isn't what I think it is.
But it was.
Pein's Tower.
Sh*t.
I have to get out of here, NOW!
Alternateapocalypse: As the author I wish to denote that this was inspired by Destiny's Hand's fanfiction, "Fangrlz".
BTW, if you replace my asterisks with vowels you might guess why it is rated T. Due to Emily's foul mouth the rating may increase. Considerably.
As was brought to my attention in a recent review, my grammar and punctuation was wonky. Some of it was me and some was the format I was using to post it. I hope that it is fixed now.
Additional Clause: If you, my readers, recognize the obscure references to our world, I will offer a one-shot of your choice in any of the following:
-Bleach
-Fullmetal Alchemist
-Naruto
-Deathnote
-Ouran High School Host Club and
-M.A.R.
-Shugo Chara
(possibly others if I recognize them)