Beautiful Insanity

Black Rose Crystal

Chapter One: Waking up Into A Nightmare

The purity of it all made her sick.

White walls, white sheets, white furniture and even white flowers in a pretty white vase which she knocked over onto the white floor. In fact she and the crazy lady half grinning half crying in the white chair next to her bed, were the only things of color in the room. It bothered her.

"You're awake." The woman said. She looked curiously a lot like Dee's mother. She had the same facial shape, the same nose, eye shape, ears and mouth and her skin was still a warm light brown. But what was different was that her hair was auburn and her eyes were amber. She also had a lot more muscle then her mother had and was wearing a red kimono and black sandals and strangely a headband with a metal plate on it was tied around her neck.

Dee knew that headband.

"Who are you?" The African-American girl choked out, noticing that it hurt to talk and that she couldn't really feel her left arm. She could move her right arm just fine but it unnerved her that she couldn't move the other one.

"I'm your mother, Emi Kitsuneka. Don't you remember? You're Thana Kitsuneka, the eldest daughter of the Kitsuneka clan." The woman says smiling nervously. She glances towards the door as if she wanted to make a run for it or at least to alert the doctors.

The copy even sounded like her mother.

"Kitsuneka clan? What? Where am I and why can't I feel my arm?" Dee says staring up at the headband with the very familiar symbol on it. It was bothering her and it didn't help that her head was starting to hurt.

"You are in the hospital of Sunagakure in the land of Wind. This is your birth town. You were a part of the ANBU team here when you were attacked three months ago by a rouge ninja while on a mission with your team. You and your partner were badly hurt and went into a coma before your teammates found you. Your arm is paralyzed because the nerves were badly damaged in the attack."

Dee looks away from her mother's doppelganger and stares at the ceiling. Memories of her normal life flashed through her mind but were mixed with memories of being what seemed to be a ninja and she realized where she had seen the symbol the headband before. It came from the anime Naruto and the village Sunagakure was one of the hidden villages in the show.

Somehow she had been taken from her world and placed in an anime. An anime filled with violence that was usually committed by children. Her heart begins to pound and she screams as the situation slowly dawns on her, the machines she was hooked up to beeping as her heart rate quickens.

Emi calls a medic-nin and the sedate the obviously disturbed girl. Dee falls backwards against her bed as the white room and the world around her goes black.

Dee knew three things. That she was going crazy, that she really didn't like physical therapy, and that the medic-nin that she had to talk to about her feelings annoyed the hell out of her.

Obviously no one believed her when she said that her life, this reality, was a lie and it had taken many sessions with the medic-nin, and not to mention many drugs, to get her to say that she thought otherwise. It was mostly thanks to the pleading of her creepy-mom person, who permanently had a smile on her face, who told her that she would not be let out of the hospital until she got rid of her delusions.

Since staying in the white room that smelled of medicine and dying flowers bothered Dee, she told her medic-nin that she must have been reacting to the strange dreams she had during her time in a coma and that she now realized that she had been mistaken. A few tests later and a promise to get plenty of bed rest she was let out of the hospital and sent "home".

Dee found that she didn't like home. While her family, complete with her three younger siblings and father, looked somewhat like her family in the "real world" the fact that her parents were now ninjas and didn't look normal bothered her. And she didn't like the fact that they enjoyed training her as her physical therapy.

Supposedly her mother Emi and her father Chioke, were Jonin of Sunagakure. Her father had been born in Kumogakure but had been on a mission when he met and fell in love with Emi. They got married and moved Chioke's business of raising nin-foxes to Sunagakure, switching from normal foxes to desert Fennec nin-foxes that would survive in the heat.

Oddly enough their business went well, since nin-dogs were hard to find in the desert and the Fennec's senses helped out during surprise sandstorms during missions. Supposedly "Thana" had had a nin-fox as her partner before the attack but it had been killed by the rouge-nin.

This is why Dee was staring at a small jet black Fennec with two tails that was seated on her bed. A red ribbon was wrapped around it's neck. Supposedly the animal was supposed to be her replacement nin-fox and her welcome home gift.

Dee just thought that if she actually remembered her nin-fox that getting another one so soon after it's death would have traumatized her or something. Luckily she didn't remember an attack, though she did remember a car crash for some strange reason…

"Well aren't you a cute little freak of nature." Dee said reaching over and scratching the fennec's ears, "What's your name freak?"

"Akiiki….and I don't appreciate you calling me a freak of nature especially since I'm here to help you bitch." The fox tilts it's head at her and almost grins when the girl backs away from it in shock.

"Did you just…?" Dee starts

"Talk? Yeah I did. I can do that though only you can understand me. I'm your guardian of sorts while you're here. Pandora didn't think that you could survive on your own without one so here I am."

"Pandora…"Dee blinks, remembering the old woman who lived across from her and had a lot of (but not too many to get into trouble) cats. Her mother made her go over and read to the woman many times, and she usually got paid for her troubles. She liked the strange woman with her tales of magic and weird antics and nasty tea spiked with rum but how could she transport her into an anime?

"Magic, my dear Dee." Akiiki said, it's voice deep and gravely. Dee decides that it is a boy as she watches him groom himself.

"Magic? Well that's silly. Magic doesn't exist."

"Then how do you explain you being here? After all the world of Naruto does not exist either my dear. You see Pandora thought it would be interesting to see how well you would survive in this dimension since you didn't seem all that happy in your own. So she caused a little accident to allow your spirit to be sent here." The fox says watching the girl cross her bedroom and sit beside him.

"The car accident…"

Akiiki nods, "Don't worry your normal body is fine and resting peacefully in reality. You just exist here now as well."

Dee touches her lame left arm and shivers remembering her car swerving and hitting a tree. She had left Pandora's house to go to a party and something ran into the road. She swerves to dodge it and bam, her mustang is rammed into a tree and she's slowly losing consciousness with glass in her face and her left arm twisted unnaturally.

"I don't think my body would be fine after that…"She mumbles softly wishing she could feel her fingertips on her skin but failing.

"Well you are alive and that is what matters. She didn't mean for you to get hurt so badly but if she hadn't of intervened you probably would have died. This way you can still live while your normal body heals." Akiiki says nuzzling her leg before hopping into her lap.

"So what do I need to know to be in this dimension? Any rules?"

"Well you've seen the show. Don't reveal anything that might not have happened yet. Pretend you don't know anything here. Basically don't be a Mary Sue. Your mind has been altered so you know how to fight here and you have memories of being here. In fact Pandora might have removed some of your memories of the anime so you don't end up breaking the dimension traveling rules and bending reality more than it needs to be bent."

Dee blinks, "I'm going to pretend like that made sense. Okay I got it don't be insanely perfect and don't fuck shit up. That sounds simple. So tell me about my life here. I've only been here for a week and I'm already confused."

"You're Thana Kitsuneka like your mother said. You are an ANBU who uses Tai-jutsu and an animal partner which combines it's chakra with yours. You were attacked by a rouge ninja a few months ago. You're teammates captured him but not before you were badly wounded while fighting him and were knocked unconscious by him. Your nin-fox Salla was killed by the ninja during the battle as well. As for before that you worked for the Kazekage and were on friendly terms with him and his siblings."

"Gaara? You mean the crazy dude with the red hair and the evil demon and the sand of doom? That Gaara? I'm friends with him?"

Akiiki nods, "You made friends with his sister Temari first as you are only a few years older than her. In fact after the attack on Konohagakure you started to talk to Gaara more and he is the one who appointed you and your to ANBU since you became closer to him."

"Did I participate in the attack on Konoha?"

"No you had already been promoted to Chunin years before and was already at the rank of Jonin and had gone on a mission with your teammates in your father's old village."

"Cool. So other than being an ANBU what do I do here? Suna seems boring…"

"Well you work with your parents training nin-foxes, go on missions, hang out with your friends and sometimes Kankuro and you work at the dance studio that your aunt owns here."

Dee blinks, "I can dance? No I can't. I'm horrible at dancing."

"Actually it's one of the things you actually do well here and you incorporate it into your Taijutsu style of fighting. In fact you work with Kankuro at the theatre a lot and you teach dancing to the kids at your aunt's studio."

"Awesome. Anything else?"

Akiiki smiles a little, "No that's all I can tell you right now. Everything else you have to find out for yourself. Though I should warn you, you will see people who look like people from your reality here…"

"Like my family?" Dee asks interrupting.

"Yes. They are shadows of your old life placed here to help you cope. It would be best if you didn't mention Naruto being a show or your old reality to them. They are going to think you are crazy. However they at least will know you here so you will have people to talk too."

"Okay. And I have you right?" Dee lays back on the bed and Akiiki jumps on to her stomach and curls up there.

"Yes you have me."