Welcome friends, I spoke to my grandmother on the phone the other day and she was babysitting my younger cousin. He wanted to know whether Naruto was appropriate for him to watch. From that conversation sprung this idea. I plan to send my Grandmother into the world of Naruto!

The phone conversation is what we actually discussed and as true to memory as I can manage .To save some confusion. The story begins from my own perspective, but at the end of the call it's shifted to my grandmother, whose name is Adeline.

Naito

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Kishimoto does.


: Chapter One :

The echo of a ringing phone resounded throughout the hallways of the small apartment. A girl of nineteen hurried to wipe her hands clean and grasped for the cordless.

"Hello," she said tucking the device between her shoulder and ear as she returned to the stove.

"Hello, it's me, your Grandmother," responded the voice on the other end.

"Nan, even if your voice hadn't given it away, my caller ID would have," chuckled the brunette. She reduced the ovens heat and stirred a pot slowly.

"Don't sass me, I could still give you a trimmin'," the elder reminded her with a light tone.

"Okay, I surrender. So, this is a weird time for you to call. I'm in the middle of making dinner. Is something wrong?"

"Other then you not making dinner for a husband? When are you gonna get married?"

"Please Nan; I don't even want to get married. You're starting to sound like my friend. She's still determined I'll marry her cousin."

"She's got the right idea. You obviously can't find a husband on your own."

"Is this really why you called?" the young woman's voice sounded exasperated now. She sighed loudly to get the point across.

"No. I've got Cody here and he wants to watch this show I've never heard of. It's on that kid's channel, but they announced some advisory at the beginning."

"What's it called?"

"Nardo… or something."

In the background the voice of a young boy shouted, "It's Naruto!"

"Oh whatever," the old woman muttered, "I was close."

"Naruto? It's an anime about young ninjas. There's no way Aunt Janis lets him watch that. She'd think it was too violent."

"Turn it off Cody!"

The pot on the stove began to boil over.

"Nan, I have to go, I've just ruined my homework…"

"Alright, I love you."

"Love you too Nanny."

As Adeline hung up the phone she sighed. That granddaughter of hers was never going to find a good husband on her own. All she ever did was work, go to school and play computer games. The girl could stand to get out on the scene a little. Meet a nice man and settle down.

"Can I watch it please…," whined Cody.

"No, now pick up these toys. Your mother is going to be by in about an hour."

"Fine," grumbled the bespectacled little boy.

Later that evening, Adeline carefully made a couple of tea and sat herself in front of the television. Toying with the clicker, she turned the contraption on and found it on the last channel it had been on.

The kid's channel Cody had been watching. The opening had just ended to the very show he had been wanting to watch.

"Damn TV, nothing but reruns…" she mumbled.

Unfortunately, she only got two channels. Her options were this kid's show or Jay Leno. If there was one man Adeline hated, it was that fart Jay Leno.

Selecting the lesser of two evils, she stuck with the Naruto show.

She found the show unrealistic and generally annoying. 12 year old ninjas with TVs and cameras, but no cars?

With no interest in the show, she eventually drifted off to sleep.

It was the tickle of the rays of a bright sun that awoke her wrinkled old eyes. 'Odd,' she thought, 'It was dark when I fell asleep… And wasn't on the couch?' She sat up and rubbed her eyes. He jaw dropped, leaving her mouth to hang agape. "Okay, I know I was at least indoors!" she exclaimed as she got to her feet.

A few stumbling steps forward gave her a better idea of where she was.

"Mount Rushmore?" she asked nobody.

She was on a cliff of sorts and looking down over the edge. Faces were carved into the rock, but she didn't recognize the men. Maybe this was a bad perspective to look at them…

The town below looked strange, but a little familiar. Beautiful really. She just knew her granddaughter would love to get here and take pictures.

'How the hell did I get up here?' She looked around worriedly. 'Alzheimer's or Dementia?'

There was a path nearby that seemed to lead down to the town below. Deciding that she had no real other options, she set off in that direction.

From her new perspective, halfway down the trail, she could better see the faces of the mountain side.

"Who are these people?" she asked aloud again, not directed the question at anyone in particular, seeing as she thought she was alone.

"Those are the previous leaders of this village. The face of each Hokage is carved here," said what sounded like a man.

Adeline jumped at the voice and spun around in circles to try and find the source of information. "Who's there?" she demanded fearfully.

"You're not from here, are you?"

"No, I don't even know where here is! Why don't you answer my question?"

"I apologize, but," replied the man as he emerged from the trees. "I think you should come with me…" He stepped into her personal space and reached for her arm.

"Stay back pervert! I don't go anywhere with strangers!" She shouted and slapped him.

The strangely dressed pervert seemed taken aback by this action. He moved back swiftly and touched his face. "Please, I think it's important," he pled softly.

"Back in my day, people introduced themselves before asking that you come with them," she argued.

He smiled warmly, trying to look less frustrated than he felt. "I'm sorry, my name is Iruka and I'm a chuunin from this village."

Staying an arm's length from the man, she followed alongside the young man, attempting not to stare at the scar that distracted from most of his features, which were fairly appealing. "My name is Adeline. I'm from Northern Arm. What's a chuunin?"

"A ninja rank. I'm afraid I've never heard of Northern Arm, pleased to meet you."

He watched her suspiciously. As much as he wanted to believe that she was just an innocent old woman who had lost her way, but the things she said seemed to bizarre to be true. The name Adeline, for example. He had never heard such a name before. That town was on no map he had ever seen. He just couldn't bring himself to trust her.


Well, I know it's short, but this is just to get her there and kind of give a teeny bit of background on my Nan and the family. There will be more next chapter and I eventually plan to explain how she got here exactly.


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