Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Rebecca
We heard a knock on the door.
"You're finally here!" Sue exclaimed, "We were waiting for forever!"
"Time for the new Naruto Shippuuden show!" I yelled from the living room.
We were major Naruto freaks.
"Yeah!" Adliani called, "Now hurry up so we can start. The video's already loaded."
"Okay, okay," Emily replied, dropping her stuff on the floor
"Hurry up!" Laura whined.
"I'm here!"
"Can we start the show?" Adliani asked.
"Yeah!" Sue replied, "I've got the snacks!"
We all crowded around Sue's Mac, engrossed in the newest Shippuuden show.
"I hope Sasuke shows up," I absently said.
"You've got OCD with him, you know," Claudia pointed out.
"Hmph. He's my favorite character – besides Gaara, Neji, and Itachi, of course."
"Sh!" Sue said, just as the theme song ended, and out popped Naruto, the main character, saying a bunch of Japanese words, the subtitles translating them automatically.
This is our favorite past time, mostly. Naruto. We're freaks, like I said. Claudia, Laura, and I read the Fan Fiction concerning the anime – hell, we even write some. Emily, Adliani, and Sue are more…un-obsessive of them. Adliani loves to draw the characters (she gives me a bunch of Sasuke and Itachi pics), and Sue and Emily like to watch the anime and read the manga.
Every week we sleepover at somebody's house to watch the latest Naruto Shippuuden episode – this time it was Sue's. We were sleeping over the whole weekend, seeing as her parents were out of town.
"No!" I exclaimed, "Gaara can't die!"
"No!" Laura exclaimed, "I need him for my Fan Fiction, damn it!"
"Fuck!" Sue says, "Gaara was awesome."
"How sad," Claudia sighed, "He died just when he became Kazekage."
"Another reason why he should be alive!" I sighed, exasperated.
"I feel like eating waffles…" Emily trailed off, getting up and coming a few minutes later with an Eggo waffle. We settled in to watch the rest of the show.
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"I'm bored," I groaned. After watching that show we had nothing to do.
"I have an idea!" Emily jumped, "Let's be anime characters! We can dress up and everything!"
"We're sixteen," Claudia said, "Aren't we a little old for that?"
"No!" Sue laughed, "Let's do it! You guys left the clothes in my attic!"
"Alright!" I yelled, following Sue up to the attic. Why she still had our costumes, I don't really know – she was supposed to give it back to us (I planned on using that costume for Halloween).
The attic was a spacey room, hardly an attic, if you ask me. I went over to a corner and pulled out a large box.
We sifted through the box and pulled out our clothes. We met back in the attic once we were dressed.
I was in black. I had a long sleeved black shirt that revealed my belly button that had a skull in the front, I had black capris, and seeing as how we didn't like ninja sandals – hey, I might be a Naruto freak, but I don't have to like everything about the show – I had converse sneakers. A hooded black cloak with the Konoha symbol on the back shielded my eyes – and my moon and star belly button ring, sadly. I had the Konoha headband around my neck, my lip piercing glinting slightly.
Sue wore a white button up long sleeved shirt (just imagine the mens button up formal!) black tie, the biker gloves, red and black stripped stockings, black jean skirt, pyramid studded (spikes) belt and black converse.
Claudia was in loose fitting light blue long sleeved shirt, with white bandages across her arms and a large white ribbon across her stomach (no bows, that'd be stupid) and white shorts (I personally think they used to be part of my Sasuke costume – don't ask why I have one – but I don't have any proof) with a weapon pouch at her hip. She most likely put her ipod in there. Her headband was on her forehead.
Laura was similar to Claudia, only her shirt was red, and she had black capris. She tied her headband around one of her belt loops at her side.
Adliani was in Hinata's clothes (She loves her) wearing the actual ninja shoes. How she could actually wear them, I'll never know. She wore her headband on her forehead.
Emily's very short body was cloaked – all except her face. It was navy blue, with the Konoha symbol on the back, and a…very large waffle on the front. Her headband was lopsided on her forehead and there was a sticker of…you guessed it, a waffle right next to Konoha's symbol.
"Okay, I forgot our anime names," I said.
Claudia sighed. "How can you forget? We were talking about it yesterday!"
I only shrugged. "I only know my name's Akemi."
Claudia sighed. "I'm Kira, Ad's Kida, Emily's…um…Emily, what is your anime name?"
"Waffle Girl."
We laughed. "Something other than that, jeez," Sue giggled.
"I'm Curomi, then," Emily shrugged.
"I'm Aridoku!" Sue said.
"Kanna!" Laura yelled.
"So now what?" Emily asked.
"Put the box back where it goes," Sue instructed, "And…uh…"
"Hey! What's this?" Emily held up an ancient looking scroll.
"I never knew I had that here," Sue said.
"I think it's one of those scroll thingies from Naruto!" I examined it. It seriously did look like one.
"A Jutsu scroll?" Claudia asked, "Open it!"
Sue carefully opened it.
"Let's sign it," Laura said.
"No!" Claudia protested, "I'm not gonna slice myself. Even I'm not that stupid."
"Well, I am," I grinned, "Where's the knife?"
Adliani disappeared for a few minutes, reappearing with a small knife.
"Who's first?" I asked.
"Me," Sue said.
She took the knife, and slowly sliced a thin cut on her thumb. Blood steadily gushed out, and she pressed her thumb against the old paper scroll.
Sue passed the knife to me, and I quickly did the same, slightly wincing at the pain. I pressed my thumb onto scroll. It felt fragile, as if I could break it just by touching it – good thing that wasn't the case.
When it came to Laura's turn, Claudia spoke up again.
"No, Laura!" Claudia whined, "You were my only normal friend!"
"Just do it, Claudia," Laura rolled her eyes, handing the small knife to Claudia.
Claudia just sighed. "We're so Emo," She mumbled, slicing her thumb and pressing it onto the scroll.
Hey, there's nothing wrong about being Emo, jeez.
"Appreciate Emos every now and then, would you?" Sue and I narrowed our eyes.
"Now what?" Claudia asked, ignoring us. Hmph.
"Now we do the Jutsu, it even has the hand signs we're supposed to do," Adliani shrugged.
"It's called…um, it's in Japanese, I can't read it," Emily said.
"Maybe we should just yell 'Jutsu!' when we do it," Sue suggested.
"That's better than nothing," I shrugged.
We studied the scroll for ten minutes, learning the Jutsu.
"Everyone ready?" Laura asked.
"On three," I added.
"One," Sue counted.
"Two," Claudia continued,
"THREE!" We yelled.
"JUTSU!"
A sudden gust of wind appeared, whipping around us.
"What's going on?" I shouted.
"I don't know!" Sue replied, "There's not even a window in here!"
"We're going to die!" Emily yelled insanely.
"No we're not!" Claudia snapped.
A flash of white light blinded us, and we were suddenly falling through the air.
Oof! I had landed on the hard ground…only...we weren't in Sue's attic anymore.
"Nice catch, Rebecca," Emily thanked me. So she was the one who fell on me. Emily's heavier than she looks, apparently.
I hope my ipod didn't break, I hoped. Don't ask why I had it in my cloak – I have a lot of things in there.
"Get off, Emily," I groaned, "This ground's harder than it looks."
"Um, Rebecca," Adliani called for my attention.
"What?"
"You landed old guy…do you think he's dead?"
I realized I was on an old guy. He was face down, but his white hair stood out, looking like it could defy gravity if it tried.
"Oh, sorry…" I whispered, getting up.
"Where are we?" Laura asked, brushing back a few loose strands of hair.
"Definitely not in Sue's attic," Ad looked around.
"No shit," Sue said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
Claudia nudged the man on the ground with her foot. He groaned, getting up and rubbing his head, muttering something about not being to read in peace without something falling on him.
When he turned around, we froze.
Oh. My. God.
"Is that…" Laura trailed of disbelievingly.
"No fucking way," I mumbled.
"It's not polite to swear, you know," Kakashi said disinterestedly.
"Oh, my God!" We yelled, "It's Kakashi!"