The sun was rising on a beautiful morning in the Hidden Leaf Village. Sasuke Uchiha arrived at the ramen shop and ordered his usual.

Some distance away, Kakashi was heading for the same ramen shop when he passed Hinata Hyuga. "Good morning, sensei" she said.

Kakashi said "good morning. Can you give a message to Naruto? I need you and him to meet me at the training grounds in an hour."

Hinata said "how convenient; I was actually heading his way, myself. I'll give him the message."

Kakashi said "thank you, Hinata" and continued on his way.

Hinata made her way to Naruto's house and knocked a few times. When no one answered, she thought "what could he be doing?" She glanced inside with her byakugan and saw him asleep. "Go figure" she thought. After some doing, she managed to gain entry. She went to Naruto's bed and said "Naruto. Naruto, wake up."

Naruto stirred a little and muttered "would you get off the ladies, pervy-sage?"

Hinata said "this isn't Jiraiya."

Naruto stirred more and opened his eyes. "Oh, hi, Hinata" he said.

"Hi, Naruto" she replied.

Naruto asked "isn't it a little early?"

As he rolled back over, Hinata, looking at Naruto's alarm hourglass, asked "what are you talking about, it's 8:30."

Naruto said "it's still early."

Hinata said "no it isn't. Get up, Naruto." She yanked off the bed quilt only to see him butt naked. She winced a little and whined "you never told me you slept naked."

Naruto crossed his legs and positioned his hands over his waist. "I only do that once in a while."

Hinata, blushing heavily, muttered "sorry, Naruto."

Naruto asked "could I have the quilt back, please?"

Hinata tossed him the quilt and said "I'll…be in the…other room."

Later, Naruto finally emerged fully dressed. "Okay, Hinata, what is it?" he blearily asked.

Hinata replied "Kakashi sensei asked me to deliver a message to you."

Naruto asked "okay, what's the message?"

Hinata, as Naruto was drinking his morning tea, replied "Kakashi wants us to meet him at the training grounds in an hour." She was instantly sprayed with tea as Naruto started gagging suddenly. She said "I know it's on a little short notice, but that's what he told me to tell you. I still don't understand why he wants both of us there."

Naruto replied "I'll be ready in a moment" and poured himself some more tea.

Hinata licked her lips and said "hey, it's strawberry."

At the training grounds, Naruto and Hinata arrived early. "I guess we can practice while we wait" she said.

Naruto replied "sounds like a good idea." With that, they began performing their techniques. On one move, Naruto accidentally misspoke a jutsu. Suddenly, a black void opened up in front of him and pulled him in.

"NARUTO" Hinata yelled. She knew well that this void was a portal to another dimension. "What to do" she thought, "what to do." She then got an idea. "I'd better tell Sakura and Sasuke" she thought. She made a mad dash for the ramen shop as the opening lingered.

Naruto, meanwhile, emerged from the portal in a field somewhere. "Okay, that was stupid" he said. He looked back and saw the portal's aperture dissipating behind him. "Oh, crap" he said, "how am I going to get back?"

He then heard a voice below him say "you want to get off of me now?"

Naruto looked down and saw a strange looking figure in a red kimono. Jumping off, he said "I'm so sorry, sir. I didn't mean to."

The figure got up and turned to Naruto. He appeared to have what looked like long white hair and dog ears. "What are you doing here?" he barked.

Then, a female voice chimed in with "InuYasha, sit boy."

InuYasha was suddenly flung down to the ground. "What was that for, Kagome?" he asked.

Naruto then saw a monk and another woman with a large boomerang approach. "You lecherous womanizing monk!" she barked.

After a slug from her, the monk replied "my apologies."

Then, a little child came up to Naruto and said "hey, you look a little lost."

Naruto replied "kind of, but who are you?"

The child replied "I'm Shippo, a fox demon."

Naruto said "wow, nice to meet you."

Shippo then turned and blasted a small air horn, having the others' arguing suddenly curtail. Naruto asked "where'd you get that from?"

Shippo replied "Kagome gave it to me."

Kagome said "that would be me."

"Hi, Kagome" Naruto said.

Kagome replied "it's good to meet you. This is InuYasha, Miroku, and Sango."

Each of them nodded in turn. Naruto said "wait, you're the Sango, the demon slayer of legend?"

Sango replied "yeah, that's me. I never knew I was in any legends, however."

Naruto said "where I'm from, you are."

Sango replied "wow, it's good to hear."

Miroku asked "who might you be?"

Naruto replied "I'm Naruto Uzumaki…AND ONE DAY, I'M GOING TO BECOME HOKAGE!"

Everyone else simultaneously asked "Hoka-what?"

Naruto, with a bit of diminished pride, replied "I guess you have no idea what that is."

InuYasha replied "you think?"

Naruto said "I'll tell you then. Any of you heard of ninjas?"

Kagome replied "I have."

Naruto said "okay, Hokage is the highest-ranking ninja. Where I'm from, everyone is a ninja. Your ranking is the where the differences lie."

Shippo asked "so how many ranks are there for ninjas?"

Naruto replied "countless."

Naruto is in InuYasha's world and Hinata is the only other person who knows he's gone. Now, she needs to tell them. Yet Sasuke meets a mystery woman at the ramen shop that winds up embarrassing Sakura in front of him. How will squad 7 take this mystery chick and Hinata's news?

Next time- Sakura's Mom and Hinata's Fists

About time someone gave Sasuke a slug in the chops.