The battle was
unexpected. What started as a routine mission to the Mist Village
ended with a deadly battle with the Akatsuki, namely Itachi and
Kisame.
"Sakura, watch out!" yelled the Copy Ninja of the
Leaf Village, watching his student narrowly dodge a blow from the
infamous shark ninja.
Sasuke was the first to sense that the
Akatsuki members were near. His senses had been trained to catch the
presence of the man who killed his clan; his brother Itachi.
But
now Sasuke lay motionless on the ground affected by the sharigan.
'This is not good' thought Kakashi as he surveyed the battle.
"Why do you hesitate Kakashi?" asked Itachi in a monotonic voice. "Is it because you know this will be your end?"
'No! Not like this! I can't let them die like this!'
Kakashi thought, his mind on the young members of Team 7. He looked
at each of the three shinobi, Naruto fighting to keep control over
the nine-tailed fox demon, Sakura trying desperately to keep
conscious, and Sasuke lying unconscious on the ground while reliving
the death of his family.
'I have to do something…but what?'
Kakashi then had an idea: he could use his sharigan to send his
opponents in to another plain of existence. 'There's only a slim
chance it will work; but just maybe….'
Kakashi's sharigan
eye widened, and space and time seem to warp.
"Are you actually
trying to use the sharigan on me?" asked Itachi and he reactivated
his sharigan.
Their eyes met, and everything froze the
surround scenery blurred. Kakashi felt as if his insides were being
pulled out. He was so focused on the pain that he did not realize the
same thing was happening to the members of his team.
"Wh-What's
happening?" Naruto gasped.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura yelled
in agony.
At that moment everything went black.
Time
seemed to stand still, and Team 7 found themselves being thrown
through the very fabric of space and time.
"Miroku, you pervert!" yelled Sango with anger fuming.
"But, Sango, my love! One feel won't hurt!" Said the monk
sheepishly.
"Miroku will never learn," said Shippo sitting in
Kagome's lap, shaking his head back and forth.
The group
stopped their travels for lunch by a nice, serene pond.
The
normal bickering went on in the group of friends while Inuyasha tried
to eat everyone's ramen and Kagome complained about Kikyo. It was
then, out of nowhere, that the middle of the pond seemed to explode,
and a dark aura surrounded the area.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome
screamed.
"Is it a demon!?" yelled Miroku, getting ready to
use the wind tunnel.
"I don't know" Inuyasha growled,
grabbing the Tetsaiga.
The group watched as what seemed to be a
man holding what looked liked 3 children, struggled to stay afloat.
"Oh no! He needs help!" cried Kagome.
"I'm on it!"
Inuyasha said, jumping on Kilala's back and flying out to where the
group of strangers were.
Kakashi had no idea what was going
on. One moment he was in pain, fighting to keep alive then the next
he was in the middle of a what looked like pond trying to keep him
and his unconscious team afloat, all of his chakra drained from his
fight with Itachi.
Then the oddest thing happened, he looked up
to see a flying, two-tailed cat and a man with doggy ears. 'I want
to pet them,' was the only thought on Kakashi's mind.
"Give
me your hand!" yelled down Inuyasha to the odd man below him.
Kakashi grabbed hold of Inuyasha's hand and was then pulled
up on Kilala's back along with the rest of Team 7. No one said
anything until they reached the shore where the rest of Inuyasha's
gang was waiting.
Kagome ran up and helped take the three young
shinobi and lay them on the ground.
Kakashi rubbed his temples
and took a look at his surroundings; it appeared that he had been
transported to some unknown location.
"Are we near the Leaf
Village?" he asked the closest person to him. When he took a closer
look he realized the person was in fact a very attractive young girl.
"Umm… The Leaf Village? I haven't heard of it-maybe Sango
will know! I'm not really from around here." She replied with a
bubbly voice.
Kakashi was taken back by her reaction he would
think someone would be more surprised after seeing people randomly
fall from the sky in to a lake. But by this girls reaction it sounded
as if a normal occurrence.
"Sango! Do you know the leaf
village?" Kagome called to the demon slayer.
"Leaf village…?
No I don't know it," Sango said walking up to the pair.
'Don't
know the Leaf Village?' thought the leaf ninja.
Sango took a
close look at the stranger. He had silver hair like Inuyasha, and a
forehead protector with a symbol on it she did not recognized. His
clothes were odd, like Kagome's. Now that she thought about it all
four of the odd strangers were dressed like someone from Kagome's
time.
"Hey Kagome.." she whispered to her friend
"Yeah?"
"Do their clothes remind you of your time?" Sango whispered
not wanting the unknown man to here, but little did she know his
acute shinobi hearing allowed him to hear every word.
'Her
time?' Kakashi thought to himself.
"A little," Kagome said
thinking about it "Why? Do you think they could have come from
there?"
"Maybe…"
Inuyasha, also hearing every
word yelled out "Why don't you just ask them?!" He turned to
the stranger and shouted, "Hey, one eye! Are you from a different
time period or not!?"
"Different time…?" Kakashi asked,
confused. "Is it common for people from different times and places
to appear?"
"What happened to the four of you?" Miroku
said, examining the children. They were young maybe twelve or
thirteen. They all had wounds from a recent battle or attack. The boy
with the black hair seemed to be in immense pain, grunting and
whimpering in his sleep. "Were you attacked by a demon?"
Kakashi
stopped for a moment. "Demon… You could say that." thinking of
Itachi and how terrifying he truly is.
"What do you mean?"
asked Sango
"We were in a battle with-" he was cut off by
Miroku walking up.
"Battle? These children were fighting?"
Kakashi, with a smug grin covered by his mask, stated, "Well,
they are trained shinobi."
"Shinobi! You're ninjas?!"
asked Sango in surprise.
'I thought ninja wore dark clothes,'
Kagome thought looking over to the orange clad boy.
"Yes, we
are ninja of the Village Hidden in the Leaf," Kakashi stated in a
prideful voice.
"The who? " Shippo asked jumping on Kakashi's
shoulder witch surprised the copy-nin so much he jumped in the air,
knocking the small fox demon on the ground.
"What are you?"
Kakashi asked in surprise staring down at the boy.
"I'm a fox
demon, you big meanie!" he said rubbing his head while tiny tears
tricked down his cheeks.
"Fox demon? Kyuubi! A relation to the
Nine-tailed Fox!?" Kakashi asked in surprise and a hint of fear.
"Kyuubi? No I'm a powerful fox demon but no nine-tailed fox!"
Shippo said taking a offensive pose .
Kakashi stared at his
little opponent. He had never seen anything like it before. He was
short….Very short with pointed ears, animal like feet, and a bushy
fox tail.
It appeared that wherever he was, he was NOT in his
world anymore.
"So you were saying…?" Miroku said
trying to get the rest of the story, trying to figure out who this
odd man was.
"My team and I are ninjas from Konoha, the Village
Hidden in the Leaf. We were on a mission to another village when we
ran into unpleasant company, who sent us here through unpleasant
means." Kakashi felt no need to lie to these strangers, something
about them seemed friendly.
"Oh! It seems I have not yet
introduced my self! I am Kakashi and you would be?" he said looking
at Kagome.
"Oh! I'm Kagome! And this is …" she said
looking over to Sango who quickly introduced her self and bowed.
"I
am Miroku" the monk said.
And when it was his turn, Inuyasha
said nothing but "feh"
"And this grumpy fellow is
Inuyasha," Kagome said glairing and the half breed
"What
about those three?" Sango said looking over to the three kids
"The
pink haired one is Sakura, the blond is Naruto, and the last is
Sasuke… They may be young but they are powerful, growing shinobi,
and I'm sure they will one day surpass even me."
