Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Tobi, Deidara, and Sasori would still be alive! But their not, so you can conclude that I don't own Naruto. ^.^

I stared into the computer screen as it flashed with thousands of different colors. My name's Ashley and I'm 14. I live alone, but my few friends stay over often. My best friends, Jenna, Frank, and Kim were sitting on my bed, which had a Akatsuki blanket on top, all reading manga. Cullen was laying on the floor, flipping though a Naruto magazine.

"Hey you guys! Watch this!" I called my friends over, who reluctantly got up. I grinned and pointed to the computer screen. There, was a video of Sakura bitch slapping Naruto over the head. I started laughing like a crazy person. It didn't take Jenna long to start laughing, and the others started seconds after. I had put all of my favorite Naruto clips into a powerpoint for easy viewing. My favorites consisted of at least a hundred slides, mostly of Tobi, Deidara, Shikamaru, Hidan, and well, almost all the Akatsuki and the occasional kahona and hidden sand shinobi. After the video was over, the next one started of Tobi and Deidara at a dango shop.

"This series never ceases to amaze me" Cullen commented, stifling laughter.

"Yup, whadda ya expect, it is the worlds greatest manga ever!" Jenna rolled her eyes in amusement. Kim was back on the bed, reading volume 10. I had just gotten her hooked on it, but she already loved it. I was on volume 50, but I could never seem to find it anywhere. Jenna was on volume 30 something, while Cullen had finished the series. Frank had just started volume 16 and was intently reading it. Jenna sighed in content, walking back to my bed. Cullen remained by my side.

"You like Tobi?" he asked, cocking an eyebrow at me. I tore my gaze from the computer to him.

"Yeah, he's my favorite!" I replied, brushing a strand of dark brown hair out of my eyes. (acually, Deidara-kun is my new fav)

"Yeah, he turns all serious and crap later on though..."

"Greattttttt, stupid Tobi!" I growled

"Oh yeah, he does remind me of you in some ways though..."

I turned my head away and muttered a curse word under my breath. Cullen smirked a little and turned away, going back to the magazine. For once, I was glad Cullen and Frank were sleeping over with Jenna and Kim this time. Other times, it was just Cullen and Frank or Jenna and Kim. Suddenly, a pop-up, flashed on my screen. It had pictures of the hidden leaf around the edge, so I naturally read it.

Dear user,

You are the 100,000,000th person to visit this site, this confused me, considering I wasn't even on a website.

Click here to obtain 5 FREE tickets to Japan! Click in the next 20 seconds and get them within 24 hours! My 20 seconds was ticking. I clicked the button at the bottom and another pop-up came up, asking me to enter my name, address, and age. I entered; Name: Tayi, Address: 4582 N. Cameolt St. , and Age: 14. Tayi was my Japanese name, but I used it often. 'Thank you, your tickets will arrive exactly at 8:00am tomorrow' the screen read. Yeah right, I thought doubtfully. I rolled my chocolate brown eyes and I flicked my computer off.

"Hey, who wants something to eat? I'm getting Ramen" I offered the others, my hand resting against the door frame.

"Double the ramen" Kim told me, glancing up from her book.

"Dango for me" Frank waved is hand in a thankful gesture.

"Triple Ramen!" Jenna yelled, flashing a picture of the ramen from Naruto.

"I'll come" Cullen threw the magazine aside, jumping up onto his feet.

I nodded and did a swift turn out of my room. I walked down the long hallway to the kitchen, Cullen trailing a few steps behind. When we got to the kitchen, I opened my cupboard and pulled out 3 packs of beef flavored Ramen and dango. I balanced the food on my hands and had the dango in the edge of my mouth. Then, I tripped and went flying face down onto the floor. Well, that's what I expected to happen, but instead, Cullen caught me, and all the food.

"Heh, thanks, you saved my clumsy ass" I told him, laughing.

"Welcome, and how 'bout I help you with that" he raised a eyebrow.

I stood up and he snatched two packs of ramen from me.

"Mine" he joked, curling around the ramen.

I laughed and quickly got a pot out, not wanting to starve my friends. Filling it with water I sighed deeply, not bothering to look up when Cullen poked my head to make sure I was alive. I smiled and flashed him a peace sign. Turning the water off, and being careful not to fall, I turned the stove on medium and placed the water over the flame.

"Can I ask you something?" I turned to see Cullen sitting on the counter.

"Shoot"

He swallowed before answering me "Do you like being alone? I mean, not having a family, living by yourself"

Before a few years ago, this question would have sent tears to my eyes, but now it didn't even faze me. I shrugged, "Yeah, I guess so. I miss my family every once in a while, but I don't mind it anymore"

After a few seconds, I threw a towel at him to break the silence.

"Hey! Meanie!" he pouted, folding his arms in front of his chest.

I rolled my eyes and took the ramen off the stove, letting it cool before adding seasoning. If you're wondering how my parents and brothers died, well, my mom and step dad had taken my brothers to some crappy amusement park, and the whole thing blew up because somebody left the gas for a stove on. Gasoline and fire don't mix well, and boom. There goes the park, along with everyone in it. The only reason I actually heard about it was from the news.

"Kay, Ramen's done. Who wants to go get everyone else" I was hoping he'd volunteer so I could make Franks Dango.

"I guess I'll go get them…." Cullen sighed and jumped off the counter. He ran down the hallway and I heard my door open. Jenna must've been walking to the kitchen anyway, because she came out as soon as Cullen left.

"Hey, what up?" she asked me

"Nothin much, making food"

"No dip Sherlock" she retorted, rolling her eyes. I handed her a bowl of Ramen and set 2 others at the table. She sat down at one of my chairs and started eating. Soon enough, the dango was ready(A/N: sorry, don't know how to cook it, so I skipped the cooking part…)and everyone was happily eating.

~20 min later~

I curled up on the couch, Jenna in a chair, Frank and Cullen on the floor, and Kim was next to me on the couch. A wave of tired swept over me, making me yawn.

"Hey, Ashley, I'm going to sleep, 'kay" Kim told me, her voice groggy. I just nodded, too tired to reply in words. Glancing at the clock, I saw it was around 11:00pm.

"Thank god it's Saturday tomorrow" I gathered my voice together, so I could see who was awake. No answer from anyone. Frank rolled over and hit Cullen in the face on accident. I tried to hold my laughter back, but it was hard. Eventually, around 11:30, I fell asleep. God, how I loved to sleep. First, because I just liked being lazy, and two, because my dreams mostly consisted of the Naruto characters.

I awoke to my doorbell. I narrowed my eyes into slits, and got up, very pissed. I hate people, I thought to myself, I must find a way to kill them all…. Creeping over my friends, I trudged over to the door. Jenna stirred and Kim fell onto my spot on the couch. The doorbell rang again and I was tempted to scream at the teme who kept doing it. I flung open the door and narrowed my eyes even further. It was the mailman. I gritted my teeth as he handed me an envelope.

"Thanks" I grunted before closing the door, not giving him a chance to reply. I looked at the envelope. Which had Hidden Leaf symbols around the edge. This immediately caught my attention. I adjusted the black T-shirt, the shirt I had changed into previous day, that had the Akatsuki cloud on the front over my shoulder. Straitening up and realizing that I was never going to get back to sleep this morning, I went into my kitchen to get a letter opener. After digging around through my crap on the counter, I found it and was in the process of slicing the letter open, when Jenna walked into the room with me. Her eyes were groggy and she had a little anime sleep tear in her eye, which she rubbed away.

"Hey, what's that?" Jenna pointed to the envelope.

"Ah," I sighed "Who knows, just some junk mail that got me up at…." I trailed off, trying to catch a quick glimpse of the clock.

"about 8:30" she finished my sentence.

"Yeah" I rubbed the back of my neck in embarrassment. She rolled her eyes and laughed at me. In response, I naturally stuck my tongue out at her. As I was slicing through the envelope, the stupid paper cutter thing got stuck. I tried tugging it through, but when that didn't work I tried to take it out. Still, it didn't move. Minutes later, I ended up on the floor, with the envelope between my feet and the paper cutter in my hands, and to tell you the truth, it didn't feel to good against the hard floor. Jenna laughed harder, yet still managed to choke words out.

"Oh my god Ashley, Having trouble?"

I narrowed my eyes playfully "A little" then deciding to steal a Shikamaru moment, added, "and what a drag it is"

She bent over and snatched the envelope from me, the cutter still attached. She easily pulled the cutter through the rest of the letter. I flopped down on the floor, hands outstretched.

"How troublesome" she mocked me, offering her hand. I accepted and she pulled me up, handing me the letter, a smile played on her lips. I smirked and she handed me the letter. A slip of paper was stuck out the top, so with instinct (err, my short attention span), I grabbed that one first.

Dear Tayi,

We didn't lie about those tickets ^.^

As we told you, there are 5 promising tickets to Japan, a map, and well, this letter.

Thanks for entering,

~Unknown

My mouth dropped to the floor. They weren't kidding, I thought, they really did send those tickets. Jenna poked my face.

"Heyyyyyy, Tayi? You aliveeeee?" she extended the words.

I nodded weakly and handed her the letter with weak fingers. Before reading the letter, she reached over and slapped my head.

"OW! What was that for!" I cried, holding my head. Anime tears flowed down my face.

"To get you back to your normal dumb-ass self" she replied simply, her eyes flowing to the letter. Soon enough, her mouth dropped to.

"Oh my god." she started, causing me to smirk a little. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU ENTER!"

My eyes widened and I backed away from her. It was like one of those times in an anime where one person shrinks back and the other is huge, with white, mad eyes glaring at the other with flames in the background. She was this mad, and she was only on the first line! I cowered in my own little corner while she yelled at me, my hands over my head in fear. Then, her eyes lit up with excitement.

"Hey! Japan! Cool!"

I sweat dropped. She tossed the folder back at me, which I reached into. I grasped around and pulled my hand out. In my hand was now; 5 pieces of paper (which were light blue), 5 plane tickets to Japan, and 5 pens (a darker blue). Jenna snapped her head up and looked at me, a very confused look on her face. I shrugged. By luck, Jenna had decided to flip the letter over. Her eyes gave me a 'you've got to be kidding me, I cant believe you didn't do this' look. I flashed her a goofy smile and my signature peace sign. She sighed and handed me the paper.

Hopefully you flipped this; The paper and pens you will receive with this letter are for your benefit. Please number the papers 1-8 and list your 8 favorite Naruto characters, Shippuden or pre-Shippuden. Remember, this WILL benefit you greatly, and you will be expected to have the papers when you come to Japan.

Thanks! =^.^=

The flip-side confused me (no surprise there).

"Well the-" I was cut off by screaming from the living room. I grabbed the stuff into my hands and sprinted to the screaming.

"YOU SMACKED ME WHEN I WAS SLEEPING!" I recognized Cullen's voice. Frank must've slapped him earlier than when I saw.

"S-Sorry bout that, I'm not conscious when sleeping, and I AM sorta really glad I smacked you..." Frank muttered.

"No, I thought you were totally conscious when you sleep!" Cullen shot back, his voice dripping in sarcasm. Then I noticed the red handprint on his cheek. Jenna decided to stop the fight before it got even worse, and before poor Kim, who was sitting on the couch watching the fight with intensity, started in on it too.

"Hey, guys, come on" she started off gentle, not her usual way of doing things.

"Shut it Jenna!" Frank told her, glaring at Cullen. Oh, did Frank piss her off.

"SHUT UP!" She screamed at them and tackled Frank to the ground. In less than 10 seconds, Jenna had Frank pinned to the ground and Cullen doubled over in fear. Jenna had a satisfied look on her face as she got up from the floor.

"Now, Ashley has something important so I suggest you shut the hell up and let her talk" Jenna looked at me with a proud smile plastered on her face. Kim was now on the ground, listing intently. Cullen flipped over to look at me and Franks had stopped grumbling to let me talk.

"Thanks" Jenna nodded and motioned for me to talk.

"Kay then…Well, I sorta entered a online contest for tickets to Japan," everyone groaned at me "But, they actually sent the tickets! And these," I held up the paper and pens "we need to label 8 of out favorite Naruto characters and bring the papers with us"

By the time I was done talking, everyone was sweat dropping.

"Wait, you can go with me right?" I asked nervously. Jenna and Cullen nodded but Frank and Kim looked unsure. Well, I thought, that's 2/4. Kim whipped her phone out of her pocket (she accidentally slept with it) and texted her mom.

"Well, I'm asking now"

Frank just shook his head, a definite 'no'. I frowned at him.

"Sorry, I wish I could, but you know my parents"

"Yeah…I'll bring you back a souvenir!" I told him enthusiastically. He grinned at me and nodded. Kim's phone buzzed and my attention went to her. Her face faltered.

"Awww, shit!" she whined, showing us the message. I echoed her words. I couldn't be sad for very long though, because Cullen had taken the plane tickets and examined them. He prodded me in the side.

"Um, these tickets are for today, were supposed to be on the plane at 1:00."

"WHAT!" Jenna screamed, vein popping.

He nodded weakly. Kim and Frank interrupted our session of yelling, screaming, and disbelief.

"I've got to go home, see ya later Ash"

"Y-Yeah, me too!"

They quickly gathered their stuff and bolted out my front door. I sweat dropped again.

"So much for a goodbye..." I said to no-one in particular. Cullen and Jenna shook their heads to clear out what just happened.

"It's about 11 right now, so we have a few hours. I don't need to go back to my house for anything" Jenna told us. Cullen nodded. I thrust the paper and pens at them.

"Lets get started"

After handing out the equipment, we were all laying in my living room, mulling over who to write down. Then, realization hit me.

"Damnit!" I yelled, tugging on my hair in frustration.

"What'd you do now?" Jenna asked me.

"Nothing you can prove…but anyway, I can't pick between the Akatsuki members and my favorite hidden leaf ninja!"

"Oh my god Ashley, just go with the Akatsuki, after all, you love them like you love yourself"

I nodded my thanks, and my eyes sparked with intensity. After about 5 minutes I had my list. Here's what it read;

1: Tobi

2: Deidara

3: Kisame

4: Zetsu

5: Hidan

6: Kakuzu

7: Sasori

8: Itachi

Notice I didn't put Pein or Konan on the list. I hate them. Not exactly hate, I just thought they were major pricks at times. My shoulder was poked and I looked to my left. Jenna was poking me with the pen.

"Look at my list!" I screamed at her.

"Ok, ok" she took the paper from me and scanned it over.

"Oh my god"

"Yup!" I grinned, showing my sharp teeth. She handed me her paper.

1: Sasuke

2: Hinata

3: Neji

4: Kakashi

5:

6:

7:

8:

Her list was pretty good, even if it was only 4 people, I had to admit it. Next thing I knew, Cullen had a list in front of my face. I sighed and read it.

1: Shikamaru

2: Gaara

3:

4:

5:

6:

7:

8:

Again, another good list for only 2 people.

By now it was 12:00 and we were frantically trying to pack and gather our stuff. Jenna lived only with her brother, who was 17 and Cullen's parents never cared what he did.

"Come on! We gotta go!" Jenna's brother had just gotten to the house and was already yelling at us, claiming that we were wasting his time. Jenna vein popped just about the whole time. Finally, after arguments, and lots of yelling, we were all piled into his car. He grumbled something and stomped on the gas.

"Woo-hoo! Joyride!" I yelled as Ian, Jenna's brother, sped up to about 20 mph past the speed limit. Jenna smacked me in the back of my head.

"Baka"

Anime tears flowed down my face as I stuck my head out the window.

"Remind me why I put up with this" Cullen muttered to Jenna who just shrugged in response. My hair whipped against my face with the wind.

"Hey! Get your head back in here! I'm gonna get pulled over!" Ian screamed at me from the drivers seat. I reluctantly pulled my head in.

"Yeah, 'cause you're sooooo not gonna get a ticket for going 20 miles over the speed limit!" I retorted, sticking my tongue out at him(yeah, I'm crazy at this point) He growled at me and I smirked. I received a whack from Jenna and Cullen.

"Stupid, why'd you stick your head out in the first place? If your head came off we wouldn't stay behind to clean up the blood and separate head." Cullen told me, smacking me again.

I groaned and clicked the sunroof open.

"What the hell! It's like 30 degrees out! Jenna your friend is stupid or mental. One of the two" Ian commented, shoving me into the back seat again.

"Ian, right now, I'm betting on both" she said, grabbing the collar of my Akatsuki shirt to hold me back. Cullen took his bag and put it on me, along with Jenna's and mine. I felt my breath come out in a huff when the weight was put on me.

"Ashley, did you have any energy drink before we left?" Jenna questioned me.

"….maybe…"

Flashback 10 minutes earlier.

While Jenna and Cullen raced around my house to find their stuff, I snuck into my kitchen. Creeping over to my fridge, I pulled out a Naruto energy drink labeled 'Chakra Replenisher' with a picture of Naruto on the front. Normally, I didn't drink this stuff, or I was kept away from it. But this was a special time. I quickly unwrapped it and chugged about a quarter. My throat was insanely lit up and burned from the aftertaste.

"Come on! We gotta go!" I heard the yell from the living room and ran to catch up…

End Flashback

"Oh god," Jenna looked at Cullen "You wanna do the honors?"

His eyes widened in response, but he nodded. I suddenly felt dizzy and light-headed. The world fell to black and I felt myself land in someone's lap. Then, I passed out.

"Good thing I keep this huh" Jenna held up a small syringe filled with a liquid.

"Yeah, we'd all be doomed if you didn't have your trusty sleeping stuff" Cullen rolled his eyes. Jenna patted my head, which was in her lap. Ian breathed a sigh of relief now that the crazy person had been removed from his presence for now. Jenna sighed and looked at the needle.

"They're not gonna let me have this on the plane are they"

"No, probably not"

"Damn, were so screwed, especially when she wakes up"

Cullen nodded and poked my head, making sure I was out for good.

"Yeah, you have the manga right?" he asked, a worried expression on his face as he tried to change the subject.

"Yeah, how could I forget Naruto?"

Cullen made a 'I don't know' face. The sound of sirens sounded in the distance and slowly caught up to the car.

"Aw shit!"

Kay then, I hope you liked the first chapter! The Akatsuki will DEFINITLEY be coming up in the next chapter! ^^ anyway, please R&R! Constructive criticism is appreciated!