Hi people! So this is an old story that I had just recently found the first chapter of and so I just decided to put it up! yaaaayyyyyyy *shot*

disclaimer: though I'm not sure why there is a need for one on fanfiction... but meh, i don't own Naruto :(

Chapter One

"Misaki… Misaki… Misaki… MISAKI!"

Oh no, here she comes. Aahh, where should I hide? Umm uuhh. Ahha, YES THERE!

And that's how I ended up diving head first into a bush…

Why you say am I trying to avoid the obnoxious person calling out my name. Well it goes something like this.

Flashback

"Hey, Misaki, whatcha doing this summer holiday," Hmm what am I doing this holiday, "I've got nothing planned really, how about you Akira, have anything planned?" oh no bad question now she'll never shut up.

"Well I'm glad you asked I'm actually planning to go to…" Aaand it's about time I tune her out.

Looking to my right I find Mikan had slowed down to a complete halt. Her eyes wide and her mouth hanging open. I slowly approach her as if she were a wounded animal, I mean it's not every day you see MIKAN of all people quite let alone with an expression of gold fish.

"OH MY GOD" she screams, then launches herself onto me sending me toppling to the ground, and then she lifts me off of the ground with the scruff of my shirt still screaming in my face.

"Uuhh," I groan, feeling slightly disoriented. I knew approaching a quite Mikan was a bad idea.

"What, what happened?" asks an extremely delayed Akira; she probably just realized no one was listening to her rambling off about her holiday plans.

Mikan immediately lets go of my shirt, which was so sudden I fall onto the ground.

"Look, look, look!" she shouts pointing towards a poster that was stuck onto a nearby shop window.

I finally get off the ground and make my towards the poster making sure to steer clear of, by the looks of it, a high Mikan.

"Anime convention Monday 17th to Friday 21st July!

Come as your favourite anime character and join our best dressed competition or come just to enjoy the atmosphere, either way we eagerly await you!" I read aloud.

"Hmm pretty weird sign if you ask me, I mean don't they usually just write the date and events happening, what do you think guys? Umm guys?" I turn around only to find the two huddled together with stars in their eyes, uuh I lost them didn't I?

"Do you think they'd have Naruto posters there?" Mikan whispers to Akira as if she were talking about something sacred, "Of course they would Naruto is one of the most popular anime created," Akira whispers back in the same tone of voice.

Geez what creepoes, I think to myself staring at my two best friends in disbelief. Gosh, I can't really see what they see in that anime I mean after a lot of insisting, well more like begging from my friends I finally decided to give the anime a go, I only made it through the first episode before falling asleep, I mean sure I watched snippets here and there from different episodes, but there was nothing to brag about, in fact I thought it was rather boring.

"So I guess we can all meet at the Millard Cross Park, Tuesday and go to that convention," Akira announces.

"Oh no, no, no. I think it will just be you two going to that convention, Okays," I say, smiling pleasantly before turning around and hurriedly walking off.

"Oh no you don't, you're coming and that's final!" they both yell in unison, each grabbing a hold of my arms. Wow, that was really weird, I think. Looking at their faces it was obvious that they would force me to come.

"Fine ok I'll come just let go of my arms I'm pretty sure you guys stopped my blood circulation," they hesitantly let go of my arms, but stand close just in case I try to break for it.

Ha ha ha, I fooled them. There's no way I'm going to that dodgy sounding convention, normally I'd go with them to those kind of events, but ever since what happened last time, I refuse. Anyway all I need to do is just wait till Tuesday then call them and tell them I'm to sick to come. Works every time.

End of Flashback

Well how was I supposed to know they'd actually come to my house, I mean who comes to a sick persons house just to drag them to an anime convention.

I had to climb out of my window and jump into a bush just to avoid them. Heh, I guess it was a good thing my parents were away on that business trip. I stand up pulling leaves out of my charcoal colored hair and rubbing all the dust out of my dark blue eyes.

"There she is!" huh what, I look up only to be met with two pairs of angry looking eyes.

"Ha ha ha. Funny story really I was just…." I trailed off after noticing the look they gave me.

"Well, well, well, it looks like you made a fast recovery," Akira says, in a low voice her green eyes look threatening.

"Yeah, you look well enough to go out," Mikan says, keeping her chocolate brown eyes trained on me, an evil smirk spreads across her face.

I laugh sheepishly rubbing the back of my head. Jeez all this for a convention.

My eye twitches violently as I stare at my two best friend's outfits. Akira is sporting the same outfit some character called Sakura wears; she even went as far as to actually buying a pink wig. I think that kind of triggered my memory of the character Sakura. I remember her as being the one to always do nothing in battles except call out some other kid's name, which I can't remember.

Mikan is wearing the same outfit as a character called Tenten, which I have no recollection of at all. Her hair is in buns that were carefully placed on both sides of her head. Both girls are posing in front of me; Akira is winking and is sticking out her hand that had formed a piece sign, while Mikan is posed as if ready to fight, holding up a knife looking thingy. I think I remember Mikan calling it a kunai.

"You look like morons," I tell them bluntly. I myself am wearing a black hoodie that says 'Silence is golden but duct tape is silver' on the back, black three quarter pants and dark grey converses. I also brought a pair of sunglasses too. The only reason I was wearing all that was to hide my identity since the last time I went to an anime convention with my friends, the anime club were there and thought I was a fan of anime and had followed me around for 6 months asking me to join at school. I didn't want that to happen again.

"Your so mean Misaki, I put a lot of effort into this outfit!" both Akira and Mikan whine.

"You mean to say, the shop you bought it from put a lot of effort into your outfits," I inform them dryly.

"Whatever, let's go I don't want to be late for the best dressed competition," Mikan urges, pushing me out the door.

….Wow, that was an awkward train ride. People going to work all kept staring at us like we were some kind of zoo animals. I mean c'mon people if you're going to stare at least do it… discreetly and it's not like this has been the worst they've probably seen on a train, I mean I remember seeing someone dressed as batman come on the train, he had the tights and everything.

"Hurry Misaki or we'll leave without you," Akira shouts a fair distance away, "Fine by me," I grumble, but run to catch up anyway.

My hood up, sunglasses on and bag hugged tightly to my chest, I look very suspicious. I look around quickly, trying to see if there was anyone I knew here. See I always say 'see them before they see you, that way you have time to avoid them' and I take that to heart. We had just entered the convention and already I was on guard.

I have to admit there are a lot of people here, most of which are dressed as fictional characters. I turn to look at my friends; they both look like children in a candy store. I shake my head and turn my attention to a nearby group of teenagers who look about my age, 13. They are all dressed as Naruto characters too, that is if the headbands they were wearing were any indication. Now that I look around I realize that most of the people here were dressed as Naruto characters.

"Hellooo, anyone there," Mikan says breaking me out of my train of thought, "Huh, yeah?" I turn to face them.

"Look!" Akira cries out pointing to some sign that says HAUNTED MAZE in big bold letters. The maze was supposed to be an advertisement for a new horror anime that came out….not a good one though, I thought to myself, eyeing the apparently 'scary' monster poster.

"Oh man, c'mon guys you know I don't like mazes," but they already got three tickets for it. After fighting about why they got me a ticket and stuff, we go to join the enormous line for the maze.

Something red caches my eye and I turn to follow it only to see it was one of those people who dress up as food, drinks… etc. and hand out pamphlets. He looks like he hates his life… wow… I feel the same way. He turns in my direction and I give him 'the' nod, which he returns. See people like me and him understand each other.

"Misaki come were next," Akira calls, "Kay," I say turning back towards her.

"Next," the guy checking tickets yells out, we all gave him our tickets and tell him that were going in together, but he shakes his head and says, "It's one at a time."

Akira turns back to us and judging by the look on her face she really wants to go in, so I agree that we all enter separately and that she can be the first to go in.

"Thanks, you guys are the best," smiling ear to ear, Akira enters first, not even two minutes in we hear an earsplitting scream of fright. Me and Mikan snicker, Akira had always been scared of stuff like that but loved horror movies and rides, it was weird but definitely amusing.

Next up is Mikan who had entered half an hour after Akira went in. Akira took longer than anyone else who had been in the maze.

I wait about 5 minutes before I'm finally called to go in. Upon entering I see a narrow corridor that ended turning right. I quickly walk forward and turned right. I cringe, there on the ground is a small plastic bag filled with 'something' and its green color didn't look too appealing.

Looking around I saw that the 'scary' wall paper had been ripped in multiple places and there are stains of something (which I preferably do not want to know) littering the ground.

"Oh yeah, this looks real legit," I say aloud sarcastically. Hmm maybe I should turn back now while I still know the way, but if Akira and Mikan didn't then there's no way I'm chickening out and be forced to stand the ridicule I'd receive from them.

Whatever, I'll just leave quickly. Carefully stepping around the green liquid filled bag I continue the walk through the maze. Occasionally some mechanical thing would pop up and try to scare me, but all it really did was just make me roll my eyes. Did Akira seriously find this scary…?

Right, left, left, dead end, back, right, left, right, dead end, back. God I feel like this is never ending; I take out my phone and look at the time. My jaw drops, I've only been here for two minutes! What! It felt like an hour to me. Now determined to leave I start running around like a maniac.

. I stop running for a moment, panting. From the corner of my eye I see a bright flash of light. YES THE EXIT! FREEDOM! I run stumbling slightly to my escape. I close my eyes ready to finally breathe some fresh air; slowly I open them again and see…..

….nothing….

Nothing indeed. I sighed, I 'm never going to find the exit at this rate. I continue down the corridor, it seems to be longer than the other corridors I've been in so far. Finally the narrow corridor turns left. What's weird is that there's like a giant curtain covering the wall.

It's probably to cover up all the stains and rips in the wall paper. I walk closer to observe, slowly pulling back the curtain I stare blankly at the small door. It was painted over so that it would blend with the wall. Oh, well good job at that I think sarcastically since it was quite obviously a door.

On the door was some kind of symbol that was unclear because of the paint, I lean in slightly to get a better look. Hmm it looks familiar, "Oh that's it! That's the same symbol Mikan and Akira have on their headband thingy's," I exclaim. Proud of myself for figuring it out, I do a little happy dance while silently praying they have no cameras here. Wait isn't this maze for a horror anime… is Naruto a horror anime? Meh whatever.

I stop celebrating and I debate whether or not to open the door, I mean it didn't seem like it was anything important, probably just a janitors closet that they didn't want kids to go in and start touching things.

"Curiosity killed the cat," I think for a second, "But satisfaction brought it back."

Finally deciding to go in I push the curtain completely back and slowly open the door. It revealed a….

Soooo guys, how was the first chapter? I know that there might be a few errors in it that I missed, so feel free to point any out to me, so I can avoid them! :)

Reviews are much appreciated