The Temple of Forgiveness.
Chapter 1, New Years Eve:
It was New Years Eve and my friend Shiori Ito was going to be here any minute. We had planned to stay up all New Years Eve and watch the Naruto Shippuden marathon on TV. This is something we had done religiously since Naruto came out. It also helped that my parents would always go out for the night and not return until the next day, so we didn't have to worry about disturbing them with our fangirling. We would sit in front of the TV and gorge ourselves on pizza and popcorn, and thanks to our high metabolisms we would live to tell the tale.
I had just finished popping the popcorn and pouring it into the bowl when the doorbell rang. I darted into the hallway to answer the door. Upon opening it I was immediately glomped by one Shiori Ito.
"Kaiya! I made it! It's almost time!" she screamed happily before her nose started doing that weird sniffing thing like a dog would. "FOOD!" She screeched before disappearing completely. I blinked a few times trying to figure out what just happened. I got up and walked in the kitchen only to find that Shiori was sitting on the counter with an over half empty bowl of popcorn.
"Great… Now I have to make more…" I said while sweat dropping. I had a feeling that if Shiori ever decided to become a ninja or assassin she would be unstoppable with her speed. I popped another bag into the microwave and took the bowl from her. She whined about how I was a big mean-y for a few minutes then hopped off the counter and grabbed two cans of pop out of the fridge. Once the microwave dinged I took out the popcorn and poured it into the bowl. Shiori quickly grabbed the bowl and took off running to the living room where the TV was on and the opening credits for Naruto had started. I quickly ran after her afraid she was going to break something or possibly kill herself. Right as I finally get close enough to catch her she trip flying forward towards the TV. I try to grab her, but only succeed in falling with her. We both scream and close our eyes expecting to hit our faces on the TV. Somehow we end up on our backs, and feel no pain.
"Kaiya your carpet is really wet and icy feeling!" Shiori states while we both lie there with our eyes closed.
"Wait...my carpet doesn't feel like this!" We both open our eyes and sit up quickly to find ourselves in the middle of a very wet forest. Shiori screams when she sees a spider on the tree right next to her causing all the birds around us to take flight. That's not the only thing that happens though. No of course not. Her scream also caused three guys with animal masks to jump out and grab us. We both tried to scream but before we could make a noise they knocked us out.