"Karen!!!! Hello? Are you listening to me?"

Yes of course I'm listening to you Mom! That's why I'm answering you so enthusiastically. That was what I wanted to say, but I knew if I did, then I would trigger one of her usual hissy fits. And I did not want to test her patience. So instead I replied, "Yes, I'm here. What do you want?"

"Karen, come up here now! I want to show you something."

I heaved a sigh, and allowed myself one last glance at the computer, where I was reading the latest Naruto chapter. Then I exited the room and clomped up the stairs to the kitchen, where my mom sat waiting.

"Finally…" she murmured. Then she continued in a more audible voice. "I want to show you what your lunch is."

"Yeah yeah," I interrupted. "I know that my lunch is dumplings, I know that I have to steam it by myself because you're going out with one of your friends."

Mom eyed me suspiciously and asked, "How long do you steam the dumplings?"

"Eight minutes," I answered promptly.

A huge smile of satisfaction lit up her face. "OK then. I'll be going. Always look through the peek hole before you open the door. Make sure you lock both the front door and the screen door. Oh and also…"

"Make sure that the oven is turned off." I finished. "Got it." I was desperate to get Mom out of the door so I could finally finish the Naruto chapter I've been dying to read. Then I would go on Msn and see if my favorite fellow Naruto/manga freaks were online, but unfortunately, it was obvious that Mom was not going to leave anytime soon…

"Make sure that you don't burn the house down 'kay? And you know my cell phone number right? Right. Call me if anything goes wrong, or you could call your father at work…you do know his work number right? Or maybe his car number? Or you could phone you're bro-" I hear a car turn into our driveway. Yes! That's my ticket out of here! Mom didn't even hear the sound of the car's engine.

"Mom! You do realize that Michelle (the name of my mom's friend) is waiting in the driveway? You're going to be late!!!" for whatever you're going to do' I concluded silently, because I hadn't paid enough attention to find out where she would be. Apparently, my mother has an irrational fear of being late, so I decided to use that to my advantage.

I just realized, saying that made me feel so…so…army-like. 'Kay, anyways...my mom jumped and almost got out of the door. She froze about what looked like to be half a millimeter away from door. Figures. Mom turned around with a suspicious look on her face.

"Did you clean your room?" she asked.

"Um..." I fidgeted with my olive green sweater. Oh shit-zu. I meant to, I just…never had the time with all the manga reading and stuff…

"You didn't did you????" she shouted, her face turning red as she began to flail her arms in the air. She looked so ridiculous I just had to snicker.

"LI CHUN FAN!!!!!" my mother screamed my name in mandarin. Uh oh. Now she's seriously angry. "You told me that you would!!!!"

I sighed, and rolled my eyes. God, get me out of here. I do not want to listen to another lecture from my mom. On cue, everything around me began swirling. My 1st thought was that I was dying. I began panicking (Well, what do you expect?? I thought my life was about to end dammit!!) about….different things, and that was when I started to get dizzy.

My second thought was, is Heaven really this nauseating? Or maybe I've been a bad girl and I'm going to Hell…Me going to Hell seemed like the more likely than going to Heaven, cause Heaven is suppose to be all holy, peaceful and a happy place, and I did not feel happy at that moment. But then I thought that Hell would be worse than just feeling dizzy.

A while later I began flying through endless space. (I don't know how long it might've been, it could've been hours or minutes for all I knew, but I didn't give a damn. May I remind you that I thought I was dying???) I gave up trying to figure out whether I was dead or not. Either way I was 98% sure that I was not at home anymore. The other 2% thought that I was home, and someone was just playing a prank on me, but I seriously doubted that. I don't think anyone, even those super-cool movie technician-watchamacallits, you know, the dudes who make monsters, and backgrounds, and special effects, could make flying through space feel and seem so realistic.

Finally, finally finally...I felt myself land without falling…don't ask me how that works. The shadows parted and I found myself sitting on a hard, wooden bench. Whatever happened to cushions?? And pillows??? There wasn't even a damned armrest!!! (Yes, I do act like a spoiled brat thank you very much.) My thoughts were interrupted by a loud quarrel between a dark-haired cute boy, who sort of looks like a girl, and a blond kid in orange with spiky hair and in an orange jumpsuit….and marks on his cheeks that look surprisingly like whiskers. Whiskers. Dude, how many people do you see going around with whiskers on their faces? It's like the kid was advertising that he was part cat!

Waiiitt a minute, kid with spiky yellow hair, bad fashion sense and whiskers…WTF???? Why does that dude look so much like Naruto??? Then a girly black haired good-looking guy with…girls stalking him??? It's like a landed in the middle of a Naruto fan club! They were seriously obsessed with Naruto!!! I mean, who the hell would go around dressed as Naruto and Sasuke??

My gaze wandered over to a cluster girls pushing and shoving anyone in their way to get to girly-Sasuke-dude. OMG. They were literally biting and shoving the females around them The other girls fought back, creating a really big and serious cat-fight. These people are reeeallly violent. Anyhoo, one of the girls had long, light blond hair that was tied into a high ponytail that bobbed up and down as she was thrusting her way though the crowd. The other girl had long pink hair and wore a blue and red dress that slightly covered her blue shorts underneath. They looked a lot like Ino and Sakura, so I'll call them those names for now instead of dumb-blond-ponytail-girl and pink-hair-red-dress-girl.

Then there was the Sasuke dude who apparently is an extremely good actor. There he was, staring out a nearby window with a bored expression on his face while girls were engaged in a duel to the death right beside him!!! (Okay, maybe not a duel to the death, but you know what I mean!!!) I stared at the group of Naruto Fan Freaks with my mouth hanging open. Then I realized that other people were staring at me. Me. When there's a friggin serious group of Naruto Freaks right in front of their eyes!!!! Oh well....maybe they're....use to it....I guess....

After I finished gaping at the Fan Club, I looked around me. I was in a bright open room, very spacious. Rows of long, long wooden tables surrounded me with matching benches of the same length. I would've continued my examination, if I hadn't noticed two girls, huddle together. One had shoulder length blue hair with a thick, black headband. She was wearing a baggy and slightly oversized light blue t-shirt over a tight fitting black long sleeve shirt, with khaki shorts. The other had short turquoise hair and wore a loose, white long sleeved shirt with a thick black belt. Her shirt flowed past her waist and slightly covered the leggings she wore underneath.

The blue haired girl turned nervously glanced around, and her dark brown eyes met mine. I immediately recognized the face, as she did mine.

"Joyceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!" I yelled as I hurling myself across the room. The girl who I recognized as one of my good friends, Joyce, stared wide-eyed at me just before I knocked her to the ground.

"Ow," the girl-who-I-presume-to-be-Joyce said.

"Oops, sorry," I smiled sheepishly and got up. "But, are you really Joyce?"

"Yeah....Karen?????" Joyce gasped.

"K-STER!!!!!!!" yelled a familiar voice behind me.

Before I could turn around to see who shrieked in my ear, I found myself on the ground.

"OW!!!!" I complained loudly.

I looked up to see a worried dark brown eyed girl that resembled another one of my friends.

"Cassidy...?" I asked.

The girl's smiled a bit. "I thought you were dead or something whatthehellisgoingonwhyareweinthehiddenleafvillagethatdoesn'texistandwasthatSASUKEoutthereWhatisSASUKEdoinghere?!" Cassidy babbled worriedly… hyperactively… Actually, I'm not sure.
"Okay okay!!!!! I'm here!!!!" I tried to calm Cassidy down, since everyone was staring at me again.

"Yeah, but where is here?" Joyce muttered.

"Where do you think? You're in Konoha, DUH!" someone replied.

All three of us turned around, only to see a small boy with short silvery-grey hair. He was wearing a pale red t-shirt with navy blue sleeves, and beige caprice. The kid smiled goofily and said, "Greetings Earthlings!"

"Who are you?" I asked.

"I have...a lot of different names. But call me Isamu here."

"Okay..." Joyce shrugged. "You mentioned Earthlings...? So you know about Earth?"

"No duh! I'm the one who got you here!" exclaimed Isamu.

"Then how the hell did we get here???" I exclaimed back.

"I sent you here," came the reply. Cassidy stared at him.

"Okay, first, WHY???? Then second, SEND US BACK!!!!" I said, attempting, but failing to sound threatening.

"What's Isumu mean…?" Cassidy added.

"How can you even think about that????" Joyce demanded.

"I… cuz… I… Dear LORD… WHEREAREWEIDON'TBELIEVEYOUKONOHADOESN'TEXISTWTH!"

"…Have some chocolate." Isamu answered.

"Ch… choco?" Cassidy took it out of his hand, and started huffing worriedly. "Calm down… CALM DOWN..." Wow… this was new.

"Okay, Cassidy had her food, now can you please answer our questions???" I pleaded.

"Yes, I can." he grinned.

We waited, but the kid just continued to smile innocently at us.

I sighed. "Why don't you then???"

"Because you didn't ask me that."

Being as slow as I was, I didn't know what he meant. Cassidy stared at him. "Go 'way… I wanna go home…" …Scary.

"Okay, may you answer our questions?" Joyce exaggerated the word 'may'.

"Say the magic word!" Isamu sang in a sing-song teasing voice.

"Please?" I added.

"That's more like it!" he nodded. "Okay...first question...why...well, for one thing, your ancestors are here."

"Oh reeaaaallly?" I said sarcastically. "And I suppose I happen to be a descendent of the Uchiha clan."

"Yup!" Isamu replied. "You guessed it! Did you know that you are Sasuke's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great....."

"Okay! Okay! I get it!!!" I interrupted, assuming that he would rant on for a long, long time.

"Who is my ancestor?" Joyce asked.

"You? Well, you're related to Pain."

"AWESOME!!!!!! I HAVE PAIN'S BLOOD IN ME!!!!!"

"Okay!!! Shut up!!!" the kid cut in. "And now, the… very insane seeming girl... who hardly seems to be a girl… you are a descendant of Naruto.....Oh and BTW, you are chakra-less."

"Ch… Chakra less? I don't…" Cassidy snapped. "I DON'T CARE IF I DON'T HAVE AN OUNCE OF CHAKRA! JUST GET ME BACK HOME!" she yelled, earning us a bunch of stares.

"Well… Transferring chakra from nature to your body is too tiring, so I didn't even bother."

"So, are me and Joyce chakra-less too?" I asked.

"Nope! Transferring chakra to your bodies was a piece of cake!!!"

"So what's the second reason?"

Isamu frowned. "You don't know? Well, the three of you wanted to get away. Don't you remember?"

"When I thought about getting away I meant getting away somewhere within MY OWN TIME AT LEAST YOU IDIOT!!!!!"

"Well, excuse me! You asked me to get you away, and I did!"

"I asked god to get me away!!!!"

Isamu looked at me as if I just said something reeallly stupid.

"Wait...you are god?????" I gasped.

"No, not really, but I suppose I could be considered a god....mostly I just mess with peoples lives." Isamu snickered. "It's reeally fun!"

"I didn't want to come here! I never said something like that! Go 'way! Send us back… Or I'll probably go on a killing rampage. Without killing anybody, of course, cuz' I ent violent," Cassidy said, finally recovering from the shock of waking up in, in what would probably be her words, "The awesomefickle hidden leaf placeamajiggy."

Isamu smirked. "I could...but I don't want to."

"What???" Joyce yelled. I would've too if Joyce hadn't beaten me to it. The kid was starting to really piss me off.

"You heard me! Remember I said I enjoy messing with people's lives? Well, I'm messing with yours!!!"

"WHAT???" I shrieked the same time Isamu took off running. "Get back here you little brat!!!!"

"Oh BTW!!!" Isamu yelled over his shoulder. "You may want to make up Japanese names!!!" Next thing I see is the kid fading away in front of my eyes. Okay, he may be some weird supernatural…thingamajig…but evaporating into thin air defies the laws of physics!! Or something like that…