Hello everyone! This is Hugs Lee 13 with yet another story! Now remember how I've told you before that I like to write my chapters before hand and then post them? Well for this one I'm not, I'm just gonna wing it. So, some chapters will be long, some will be short, and I will really need your nice reviews to help me keep writing. Any pointers you have I would love so much (notice I'm not threatening or blackmailing you into reviewing this story. I think that is definite progress.). Oh, and everyone who clicked on this because I put Kiba and Lee as the main characters, I'm sorry, they aren't. The two main characters are completely made up (as far as you know anyways) but Kiba and Lee will be very important, so keep reading! Thanks, don't forget the three R's: read, review, and recommend!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Katsucon, but I do own the idea of Paige and Tori. So don't steal them or Lee and Kiba will hunt you down.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

-Hunter S. Tompson

Chapter One

The Four in a Store

Saturday, January 27,2007

Florida, 4:46 PM

Costume Shop

Tori and Paige stood in the old costume shop leafing through the racks. The shop had been owned by the last twenty years by an old woman named June Schmidt. It had survived the last few hurricanes, and as far as June was concerned, planned to survive for the next twenty years (and whatever natural disasters they might bring) as well.

June had seen some pretty excited teenagers searching for the perfect costume in her time, but none of them at the tail end of January. But this time of year had Paige and Tori more excited than merely Halloween would have. In exactly twenty-one days time Katsucon 13 would begin, the best anime expo on the planet, and they planned to be there, one way or another. However, they had only just gotten parental permission, leaving them no time to sew their own costumes or order them on the Internet. They had spent all of Saturday racing around town looking for a costume shop that sold Naruto themed costumes. They had gotten headbands at Target, lots of bandages at Sports Authority, and ninja-ish shoes at Pay Less, but they had yet to find the costumes they needed. They planned to go as Ino and Inner Sakura. Tori had to get a wig as well as her costume because of her brown hair. Paige's blond hair was perfect for the part of Ino, though. The two girls really had no idea if they would be able to find the costumes anywhere, but June prided herself on having every costume imaginable.

"Paige! I just found a Haku costume! If they have Haku they have to have Ino and Inner Sakura!"

June looked up from her files and smiled. "Girls, I think I have just what you're looking for," she said. "Follow me." She led them to the back of the store where there were crowns, swords, wigs, racks of costumes, and various trunks. It was dark and cool and quiet back here, a place where people didn't seem to go very often. The old woman reached to the very back corner of a rack and pulled out two bagged costumes. "Here you go."

Tori pulled her costume out of its bag. "Oh my gosh, these are perfect! I can't believe you had them! How long have you had these?"

"Long enough," June replied in her quiet, enigmatic way of talking. "Go try them on, they should be just your sizes."

There was only one dressing room, so Tori stood outside while Paige tried on her costume first. "You are going to look so funny with bright pink hair, Tori."

"I happened to have always wanted pink hair. I plan to enjoy the excuse to wear a wig. There's another thing I've always wanted to do, wear a wig. Oh this is going to be so much fun!"

"Except for wearing a skirt. Stupid skirt wearing Ino."

"You know, you could have been Tsunade. Are you done yet?" Tori said in a teasing voice.

"Never mind! I'd rather wear the skirt than Tsunade's top! "

"I repeat, are you done yet?"

"Yep! And I look fabulous!"

"May I see?"

"Nope! Just kidding, here you go." Paige opened the door that Tori had been leaning against and Tori fell into the dressing room. Paige started hysterically laughing. "Great job, you baka!"

"At least I'm not blond!" Tori yelled through her own laughter.

"At least I am!" This was the same comeback lines that they always used when Tori did something klutzy. This happened pretty regularly, so they had the argument down pat. Tori finally managed to look up from her position on the ground. "Wow! You look perfect! We are so going to rock Katsucon!"

"I still don't think we should do a skit," Paige protested. Tori was the one who liked to do things on stage, singing, acting, speaking, anything but dancing. Neither one of them could dance a step. Paige was a tomboy; she loved sports and hated all things girly. She also did not want to get on stage. Tori tried to convince her to join the drama club again and again, but Paige always refused. But Tori had been longing to drag Paige on stage for Katsucon.

"There is no way I'm taking no for an answer. We are going to completely immerse ourselves in the Naruto experience! Power of youth! Now stand out here, I'm going to put on mine and see how we look next to each other."

They switched places so Tori could put on her costume while continuing their conversation through the door.

"So, let's run over this one more time," said Tori, " You, your parents, and Devan are going to leave to drive to D.C. tomorrow afternoon. It will take you three days to arrive, right?"

"Yeah,"

" So you should arrive Wednesday the thirty-first. You will then spend some time seeing the great monuments of our country. Then Thursday the fifteenth of February, my parents will drop me at the airport, and I will hop on a plane to D.C. You and your parents will be waiting there to get me. And then Friday…"

"We go…" Paige continued.

"To Katsucon 13! Chii!" they both yelled together.

"Okay, here we go." said Tori, opening the door.

"Perfect! This is going to rock!"

"Shanaro! Now let's get out of these so that we can pay for them."

A few minutes later, Paige stood at the cash register to pay for her costume. Tori had already paid for her costume and was standing near the front of the store looking at wigs. Or at least she had told Paige that she was looking at wigs; you couldn't see much of the store standing at the register because of the odd architecture of the store. There was a partial wall a few feet in front of the register with a display of masks on it that blocked the view of the register from the door. June stood by the register watching her granddaughter out of the corner of her eye while carrying on a conversation with Paige. June's two granddaughters were just starting work at the store. May was still learning how to work the ancient register and was having distinct trouble with it. Maria, though, was in front reorganizing different costumes.

Tori had put on a short purple wig and was looking at her self in a mirror. Hmm, maybe I should cut my hair like this. Although I wouldn't die it purple, Mom would freak. I wonder what would happen if I died Paige's hair purple. She took off the purple wig and put on a long black one. Ooh, or if we died her hair black. Man, I really do look like Aunt Vicky with black hair. Oma was right. She reached for a spiky white wig as the bell on the door chimed. Four very odd looking figures walked in. Maria walked over to greet them as Tori looked up. Nande kore!?! The people who had walked in were dressed exactly like the Sound Four. Okay, that's pretty darn odd. There is no expo near here that I know of and who walks into a costume shop already in costume?

"Hello there and welcome to Schmidt Costumes! May I help you find anything?" asked Maria in her special customer voice.

"Yes you can," said the fat one dressed like Jiroubou.

Pretty dang good resemblance there, thought Tori, they could have been Masashi Kishimoto's inspiration.

"We're looking for a girl, she's about 170 centimeters tall," said the Kidoumaru wannabe.

"What?" said Maria, a confused expression on her face.

"Silly head," said the girl dressed like Tayuya, "She's a stupid American, she doesn't know metric measures."

"Tayuya!" said Jiroubou again.

Nande kore times two! They even talk like the Sound Four. And they're calling each other by their character names. What's with that?

The purple haired boy who looked like a girl smiled in a rather creepy way. "The girl we are looking for is about this tall," he said, holding his hand in the air, "and very blond, almost white haired. Do you think you've seen her in here?" He turned so that Tori could see the scroll tied on his back, and a large, round object that looked suspiciously like a human head.

Holy crap! That's a real head, not a stuffed one! It's really the Sound Four! And they're looking for Paige! We've gotta get out of here!

"Yeah, there's a blond girl in here. She's back in the back. I'll get her for you."

Tori dashed to the register as Maria was still talking. "Have a nice day," said May, handing Paige her bag just as Tori ran up. "Come on! We've gotta get out of here!" Tori said, grabbing Paige's arm and dragging Paige to the back of the store.

"What are you doing, Tori? What's going on?" questioned Paige as Tori shoved her into the dressing room and locked the door behind them.

"Shush!" hissed Tori. "Keep your voice down or they'll hear us!"

"Who?" whispered Paige, getting more and more frustrated by the minute.

"The Sound Four is here and they're looking for you!"

"What? The Sound Four! You mean people in costumes?"

"No, the actual Sound Four! Sakon has a second head!"

"Are sure it wasn't plastic?"

"I'm not stupid, Paige, I can tell the difference between a real head and a fake one!"

"Alright, if it is the Sound Four and they are looking for me, how you propose we get out of here?"

They heard yelling and someone playing a flute in the hall. "I saw them go in here! Golden Web jutsu!"

"This is not good!" whispered Paige in a somewhat casual voice.

"Not good? I'd say it's bloody terrible! How do we get out?"

"Have you considered the fact that your paranoia is causing you to overreact once again?"

The ground trembled slightly and Tori bent to look under the door. "I don't think I'm overreacting, especially considering that the are three large demon-looking thingies stomping down the hall ready to knock down the door."

"Wait! Let me see!" Paige ducked down to look. "Oh crap. I think you're right."

"Don't think I'm overreacting now do you!"

The flute music got louder as did the thumping and the general sense of a very present evil.

"Um, Paige, Jiroubou just entered Level Two…"

Paige grabbed Tori's arm "Darn, I wish we were in the parking lot!"

There was a flash of light just as Jiroubou broke through the door.

"What the heck!" yelled Tayuya.

"Tayuya!"

"They're gone," whispered Sakon.

"Heh heh, The game has begun!" laughed Kidoumaru.

June stood at the storefront window and looked out at the parking lot and the two figures on bicycles riding away at top speed. "Go quickly, girls," she whispered to herself, "They're coming fast."

Yay! That was pretty long compared to my normal chapters! I'm going to try and make you all happy by making the chapters nice and long and keeping the author's notes pretty short (or I'll try anyways.) Next chapter goes up as soon as I get five reviews. Thanks for reading! Oh, and everyone who read the preview for Beautiful Sasuke vs. Me that was on my profile while I was gone, I'm sorry, that story will not be going up for quite a while because I have a major case of writer's stupid (that's like writer's block except I can think of all kinds of things to write, they just all keep coming out stupid). Don't forget the three R's (see beginning of story if you forgot what they are).