Chapter 1: Thanks a Lot

It was a hot summer afternoon in an average American city. Normally, people were bustling from place to place but today they meandered lethargically along the sidewalks. Even the bugs weren't out. At that moment, three girls walked out from a movie theatre, chatting about the sudden heat in comparison to the cool air-conditioning of the theatre. Surprisingly, no one seemed to notice their odd appearances. They walked from point A to point B as if they weren't even there.

"You know guys, the movie had a really good start but a crappy ending." The first girl pushed her golden hair away from her hazel eyes. Adjusting a long black glove on her right arm, she muttered something about remembering not to wear leather gloves in hot weather.

"Alexandria, that is the last time you pick a movie. You know I hate horror movies!" the second girl growled. Her long black hair swung as she turned to face her companion, revealing a black wolf tail and ears. Narrowing her yellow, slitted eyes and baring her fangs, she puffed at her bangs in annoyance. "Honestly, why couldn't we see that new comedy that's out? Hey, Cassie, you don't look to good. You're all pale."

"A…A… Alex…" the last girl's voice quivered, her eyes brimming with tears. Her short brown hair and long black dress made her look even paler. She looked about ready to pass out from fright.

"What?"

"Wh-Why did w-we have t-t-t-to see that movie? I'll b-be having n-n-nightmares for weeks!"

"Oh Cassie." The blonde sighed, reaching into her pocket. "Lookit what I got. Candy!"

"Ooh! Gimme!" Cassie lunged for it, all fear forgotten in favor of the sweet concoction.

Now these girls might be having a normal conversation about a normal movie in a normal city, but in no way were these girls normal themselves. Alex, the blonde, was the one and only "Daughter of Death", the Grim Reaper's only child. The raven-haired girl, Rouyakan, is a centuries-old wolf youkai from Japan. And Cassie is a witch-in-training. And they had no idea they were in for the biggest (and craziest) adventure of their lives.

"Okay Cassie, conjour a teleporting wind to take us to my house." Said Alex. "I say it's time for an icecream party!"

"Okay!" yelled a really hyper Cassie (because of the chocolate). "Sprites of the sky, spin and twirl us to a place unknown and do it now!" chanted Cassie, the wind began to pick up, and the girls were gone in a cascade of wind.

In Konoha

"Hey you, in the black pig suit!" yelled Naruto, a boy with tussled blonde hair and wearing a bright orange and blue outfit. "Release him now and I'll go easy on you, stupid idiot!"

"You're really starting to annoy me!" said Kankuro, another boy who was clad in a black suit and pointed head cover. "First off, I'm allergic to 'shrimp'! Bad enough that you're a short little kid and you're disrespecting you elders! You really piss me off!"

"What?!" gasped Naruto and Sakura, a girl with short pink hair and a short red dress, at the same time.

"I'm not going to be held responsible for this…" said the girl that was next to Kankuro; a leggy, platinum blonde named Temari.

'Who is he? This is so not good…' thought Sakura.

"You…!" screamed Naruto, and he charged for Kankuro "You… You...!"

Just then, the conversation was interrupted by screams from overhead. Everyone had barely enough time to look up before three girls came crashing down from the sky into the small alleyway. Kankuro was unlucky; two of the girls landed full-force on him.

Alex landed on Kankuro's head with her panties pressing against his face. Cassie landed knees first on his stomach. Rouyakan did a backflip and landed expertly on her feet. And she began to yell. "Cassie you moron, you preformed the spell wrong!"

"Naruto! I can't believe this, those two girls beat that guy, and they're not even shinobi's!" said Konohamaru, a small, brown-haired boy with an obscenely large scarf, pointing out that they didn't have any forehead protectors like they did. Well, everyone but Konohamaru, that is.

"Oh come on, it's not my fault! I could have beaten him if those girls didn't intervene!" pouted Naruto.

Now since Kankuro had a girl's private with nothing but panties between him and you-know-where, he began to get a nosebleed. This did not go unnoticed by Alex, but being the decent girl she is, she thought it was something else.

"Hey Cassie, do you have a pad? I think I started my period." laughed Alex, embarrassed. And she stood up and noticed that she landed on someone. And that it was a boy and he had a bloody nose. Immediately her embarrassment turned to anger, and she grabbed Kankuro by the front of his shirt.

"Why, you little punk!" she screamed, punching him square in the face and sending him spinning.

"You little…!" Holding his (now freshly bleeding) nose, the ninja readied himself to retaliate.

"Tell me you're not actually taking this little girl seriously." said Temari. Alex muttered something and a scythe appeared in her hand, while the boy started to move. A chillingly calm voice stopped them, though.

"Kankuro, don't." said a boy with pale blue-green eyes, spiky red hair, a tattoo on his forehead that read 'LOVE', and a gourd on his back. "You're a disgrace to our entire village." Everyone turned towards the boy.

Kankuro and Temari got really nervous. "G-Gaara…" stuttered Kankuro, immediately stopping his attack.

"It annoys me that you lose control in a quarrel with children, and with this… girl, of all people." said Gaara, saying 'children' like you would say 'vomit'. "Have you forgotten why we came here?"

Alex couldn't keep her mouth shut. "Oh, getting dissed." she said from behind her hand. Gaara just directed his cold gaze at her. Alex faltered and went quiet.

"But Gaara… they started it; the little one slammed into me and the other girl punched me." explained Kankuro. Gaara's cold stare turned dangerous and he spat, "Shut up, or I'll kill you." At this a shiver went up Kankuro's spine.

"You're right. I was out of line." The boy bowed his head. Gaara's expression never changed.

Temari spoke "We're sorry… Okay, Gaara?" Gaara paused, then looked at Alex. 'So, this is the girl that landed a punch on Kankuro? I guess she must have some skill. Considering it's Kankuro though, not much.' thought Gaara. He then disappeared in a cloud of sand and landed between Kankuro and Temari.

"Let's go," said Gaara and all three of them began to walk away.

"W-wait!" yelled Sakura.

"… Hm?" said Gaara, not bothering to turn around, but giving her a half-stare over his shoulder.

"According to you forehead protectors, you three come from the Village Hidden in Sand." She said. "Your country is one of Konoha's allies but according to our treaty, your shinobi are not permitted to cross the border without authorization."

"Rouyakan, what the fuck are they talking about?" whispered Cassie. The girls had made a huddle over in one corner of the alley.

"I don't know; it has something to do with those bands with the metal plaques on them. Just listen and find out."

"As you guessed, we're Genin from Hiding-in-Sand; we're here to take the Chunin Exam." explained Temari.

"What's the… Chunin Exam?'" asked Naruto.

"It's an exam that that tests shinobi's from other countries. It determines if they can move to the next shinobi rank, Chunin."

The three outsider girls were even more confused than before.

"W.T.F.?" said Rouyakan. Then the three girls turned their attention to Naruto, who was yelling about if he should take the Chunin Exams to 'long scarf' kid.

Gaara turned his attention to Alex, who was twirling her scythe.

"You, girl. Name." said Gaara.

"Why should I tell you? And is that any way to ask a lady for her name?" said Alex with a wicked smile. She stuck her tongue out at him.

"It would be in your best interest to cooperate, girl."

"Ha! Like you could ever do anything to me." snapped Alex.

"Tell me now! Or you will die!" growled Gaara, his sand wrapping around him.

"Little boys shouldn't threaten girls!" mocked Alex.

"Jeebus Christmas, just tell him your name!" yelled Rouyakan, growing impatient. "I don't want to have to drag off another victim's body and explain to your dad why this boy came to him before he was scheduled to!"

"Not 'til he tells me his first!" snapped Alex, pouting like a young child.

"…Gaara of the Sand." Was the simple reply.

"Alexandria Sarachson." said Alex. Just then, Naruto jumped in front of Alex and yelled, "Oi! Oi! Don't you want to know my name too?"

"…No." said Gaara "Lets go." and the three of them left.

As Rouyakan saw him go, she knew something was wrong with him, but then all three of the girl's turned to face the people behind them.

"Mornin'!" yelled Cassie cheerily. They all just stared at her.

"Yo." said Rouyakan, crossing her arms.

"Hiya!" said Alex. "Uh… who are you anyway?"

The blonde boy jumped forward. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and I'm going to be the next Hokage!" He stated proudly.

"What the fuck is that?" asked Alex.

"You don't know? It's only the leader of the entire village!"

"Yeah yeah, okay."

"I'm Haruno Sakura," Said the girl with bright green eyes and long pink hair.

"…Uchiha Sasuke," said a boy after being elbowed (rather savagely) in the side by Naruto. He had semi-short black hair and onyx eyes. He didn't smile.

"Well I'm Cassandra Herosike," said Cassie "but you can call me Cassie, kay?"

"I'm Rouyakan. No need for my last name." said Rouyakan cooly.

"I'm Alexandria Sharachson, but call me Alex." said Alex. "So, can you tell us were we are?"

"You're in Konoha." said Sasuke unemotionally.

"… Aaaand I guess we'll be leaving." said Rouyakan. She pulled Cassie aside and whispered savagely, "Do the spell right this time so we can go home!"

"Okay, okay. Hold your horses." Said Cassie and she began to chant. But the winds didn't pick up.

"I can't do it!" said Cassie a bit worriedly. "Oh, what if my powers are gone?!"

"Powers?" echoed Naruto.

"Well we might as well tell you that we aren't exactly normal." sighed Rouyakan, rubbing her temple.

"Then what are you?" asked Sakura.

"I'm a witch." said Cassie.

"Oh really?" said Sasuke sarcastically.

"Yep!" And with that she summoned her broom with a velvet bag that contained her tarot cards.

"Wow, you really are a witch!" exclaimed Naruto in amazement. "What are you?"

"Me? I'm a wolf youkai," said Rouyakan as she took off her illusion spell, revealing her wolf ears and tail, claws, fangs and slitted yellow eyes. Sakura paled drastically. She asked, timidly, "You're not going to… kill us, are you?"

"Nah, if I wanted that you'd all be dead." said Rouyakan, giving a nonchalant half-smile.

"Can I touch you ears?" asked Sakura.

"No." said Rouyakan bluntly. She suddenly found her stomach getting acquainted with Alex's elbow. "Uh, I mean, no, later."

Then Naruto turned his attention to Alex.

"What are you, a fairy, an angel? What, what?" Naruto bounced up and down. The trio chuckled at his energy.

"I'm the daughter of Death." said Alex. Sasuke made a choking sound.

"Sasuke-kun, are you alright?" Asked Sakura.

"Prove it." He sputtered, clearing his throat.

"Okay…" said Alex, and she to the glove that went up her arm and began to lower it. They saw that her arm was made of bone. Sakura threw up a little, Naruto's stomach lurched, and Sasuke just stared. He now had hatred in his eyes, all directed at her. (E/N: Ooh, lucky Alex! snickers)

"You bitch, you took my parents!" Sasuke hissed through clenched teeth as he balled his fist to throw a punch at her. But Cassie stepped in front of Sasuke.

"Now, now, it was her father who took your parents, not her!" laughed Cassie. Alex whispered, "Not helping, Cassie."

"Sorry… but it's true." Cassie giggled.

"Yes, I know there are other dimensions that my father goes to do his job in, but you don't have to mention it." whispered Alex.

"Sasuke-kun, stop it. She didn't do anything and she obviously doesn't mean us any harm…" said Sakura, grabbing a hold of Sasuke's arm.

"Hmph." Muttered Sasuke as he backed away, turning his head towards her, and said bitterly. "I hate you." He walked away, passing a man with silver hair and a mask that covered most of his face. His black outfit and green vest gave him a professional look. Too bad it was ruined by a book titled "Come Come Paradise" that he carried in one hand. Everyone wondered how long he'd been there.

"Yo." he said, giving a very relaxed one-hand salute.

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There! Chapter one has been redone. Since we'd been getting a lot of reviews that asked what we were thinking with this chapter (like why there were randomly placed Japanese words in it) and because after going back and reading it myself, I was like, "I GOTTA redo it sometime.", I decided now would be the best time to do it. And because it's the first chapter that's supposed to get the reader's attention, right? I also tried to redo the wording a little so the characters sounded less OOC and more like they do in the series.

I hope you enjoy and review! -