Still smiling joyfully at her reassurance in reality, she makes her way over to a station just inside Konoha's gates. She has a plan now. Ask for directions, hop on the next bus, or train, or plane, out of this place, and head on home. Simple yet efficient-
"Excuse me ma'am, but I cannot allow you to pass." Someone is standing in front of her. She blinks, because when the heck did that guy get in front of her? She looks up, eyes stopping momentarily on the bandages wrapped around his nose, before continuing on to make eye contact.
"Huh?"
He looks thoroughly unimpressed with her response. "I need you to get back in line, ma'am."
She shifts back a step, uncomfortable with his sudden attention on her and his invasion of her personal space. "Um, line?" She… can't think properly at the moment. No really, what was she doing before this guy popped up out of nowhere? And being called ma'am is so frackin' weird. Who calls a teenager ma'am?
He sighs, appearing more than fed up with her cluelessness. He steps forward, speaking as he places a hand on her shoulder to turn her around and guide her to a line of civilian travelers she didn't bother to notice before. "Ma'am, please move back to the end of the line and wait your turn. You will be called forward to submit your-"
"Woah, woah woah, WOAH!" She jumps forward and out of reach. "NO. TOUCHING. Nuh uh mister, no touchy-feely!"
Two more people are abruptly surrounding her, all positioned to grab her at a moment's notice. She's just now realizing that they are probably ninjas, and reacting loudly will only bring consequences, and they're advancing oh crap oooh craaaap whatIdo?!
She throws her hands into the air, her eyes going wide and bag jostling from the movement. "Hold on, hold on! Hol'up a minute, guys, I just want directions!"
The ninjas pause, glancing at each other for instruction. The man with the bandage wrapped around his nose steps forward, and it clicks that he must be the authority figure right now. "Alright. Where exactly are you going?"
She lowers her hands, breathing out in relief. Yay, no kunai in her eye today. Well, yet. Also, Bandage-Man looks kind of familiar? From an episode, perhaps? She also can't help but notice that the others haven't exactly moved away from her, even though the other travelers are looking towards them in interest. "Uh…" she directs her attention back to Bandage-Man. "I'm heading to NYC. You know how to get there?"
He appears confused for a second. "I'm sorry?"
She rolls her eyes, because this always happens, especially when she talks to people out of state. "NYC. New York City. I want to know how to get back there. One minute I'm walking down Fifth, the next I'm staring at this place, wherever this is. I just need directions to the nearest train or something and I'll be out of here before you can say Mama Mia." She grins, trying her best to appear friendly. Strangers help fellow strangers all the time, right? Well, not only is she a stranger, but she's a friendly-young-girl-stranger who is lost, so maybe she could play the pity card for-
He glances to the nearest ninja on her left. "I'm sorry ma'am. You are currently in Konoha. May I ask your purpose in coming?"
For one single, irrational, insane moment in time, she almost laughs at the not-there-at-all sexual innuendo. She has a dirty, dirty mind.
Instead of laughing, and thank goodness she doesn't, she kind of just freaks out quietly.
"I didn't come here. I just want to go home. I don't know how I got here. Can you just tell me how to get to New York?" Oh shit what if she isn't even in the same state? What if she isn't even in the same country?!
The ninja to her left grasps her elbow harshly, and she squeaks. "Hey! What-?" Another ninja takes a hold of her other arm as she moves to pull the previous off. They hold her tightly, dragging her forward. "Hey! Stop!"
"Pardon, ma'am, I'm going to have to take you with me." Bandage-Man is speaking in complete detachment, as if his crew isn't dragging an entirely innocent person off to who-knows-where. "Don't worry, we just want to ask a few questions."
"Dude, what the-LET GO, MAN!" She struggles, trying to yank out of their grasp. She can already see the line of people whispering amongst themselves getting farther away, the desk shrinking in size. How the heck are they moving this fast! She grunts, kicking at the ninja. They simply shove her feet out of the way. "Let me go, the hell! I didn't do anything!"
Bandage-Man says something else, but right now all she can think about is LEAVE NOW BEFORE DEATH BY KUNAI.
"THE FUCK LEMME GO!" She wiggles and heaves, but their grip is as solid as rock. She drops her full weight, and they simply pick her up and continue moving. Bandage-Man's voice is white noise in her ears. Nothing is working, she can't kick them, she can't reach her pepper spray because it's in her bag and they have her arms trapped. They aren't even letting her feet touch the ground, since they're just carrying her now.
So she screams.
"HELP! HELP ME! THEY'RE KILLING ME AND RAPING ME AND TRAPPING ME AND HELP ME I DON'T WANNA DIE! TELL 'EM TO LEMME GO, LEMME GO YOU CREEPY, SADISTIC, KUNAI-WIELDING SONS OF B-"
She blacks out.
I rewrote this shit three times kid you not. I wanted the OMAKE to be funnier, but I literally just took one of the previous drafts and put it up as the OMAKE. There'll probably be plenty of these in chapters to come. Most of them will be drafts that I didn't believe fit the situation well enough, but probably capture the humor and ridiculous consequences of nonsensical actions that truly makes my character herself. Also no-name-stated is purposeful!
Here's a song: Goodbye To A World-Porter Robinson
No, this is not canon within the fiction. Mainly because She doesn't speak the language Kotetsu is s[eaking, which is why it ended up not in the story. But I thought it made for some accurate representation of Her character, so I decided to throw it up here. Tada, I guess.