Set pre-chūnin exam. Kind of Alternate Universe. ItachiXMale OC, SasukeXMale OC, NejiXFem OC, GaaraXMale OC, NarutoX Fem OC, LeeXFem OC. Cowritten with Nerd4ever243.
Chapter one: The Unfortunate Travelers
Speaking Japanese
'Really? One is not enough anymore fratello?' A young boy with a pretty face and long black hair in a messy bun thought as he leaned against the open doorway to his older brother's room.
Said older brother was currently nestled between two men who looked too old to be in such a position with a 17 year old. The effeminate looking boy watched for a few more minutes with a perfectly groomed eyebrow arched over a dark ink blue eye before heading back to his room to retrieve his blow-horn. Walking back into the hallway he turned the siren on, and then turned the speaker on. "You are surrounded. Please come out quietly, and no one will have to get hurt."
The sounds of blaring sirens woke Agni up; the voice from the speaker had him scrambling out of bed looking for his clothes. The two men that had been in his bed were yelling and it was way too early for this, what was- oh. In the hall he could see Cori with a smug grin on his face as he cranked up the volume.
"This is your last warning! Exit the house now or we will be forced to remove you!" He watched his kid brother say into the loudspeaker.
Agni sighed and just sat down as the two men in his bed finally got up, got dressed, and ran like the hounds of hell were after them. 'Yeah, way to play it cools guys. Nothing like looking guilty to get yourselves caught. Next time you go to pick up younger guys you might want to work on your stealth.' At least this made the morning after less awkward, and as he heard a car tear out of the driveway, he sighed and made himself comfortable on all the pillows he had thrown around in his room.
Cori, still sporting a very innocent smile, came in, avoiding contact with anything that could have … questionable bodily fluids on it, and stood over his brother with his hands behind his back. "Buongiorno fratello."
"Did you really have to do that? I was comfortable," Agni whined, tossing his head back to get the crick out of his neck, his back is sore too but the good kind of sore. He catches a glimpse out the window and isn't sure if the fact that the sky is grey is a good or bad thing, then thunder cracks overhead. "Ugh, I hate the rain."
"Well you are the one who wanted to come here to, and I quote, 'Bring a little Indian to the boring isles and pick up all the loose men,' end quote," Cori frowned just the slightest bit as he looked down at his nodding off brother. "So it's your entire fault."
"Worth it," Agni yawned before stretching. "What's for breakfast?"
"If you think I'm going to deliver it you have another thing coming," Cori stated as he rocked back and forth on his heels.
"Aw, but I'm hungry," Agni whined and Cori's one visible eye blinked innocently at the fiery red head before he tilted his head to the right, causing his fringe to fall to the side showing off his unnatural looking electric blue eye a darker reflection of his own brother's lightning eyes. A small smirk slid across his lips as his eyes squeezed shut so he resembled an adorable child of ten not twelve.
"Get it yourself then," he said sweetly before turning around and looking behind his back. "Please hurry and get up, we have something important to discuss."
Agni pouted up at his little brother in a bid to stay resting a bit longer. Seeing that it was having no effect on the little imp he sighed again. "Śubha prabhāta, bhā'ī. You can stop with the innocent act now; you're not fooling anyone, especially not me."
Cori's small smile drops and he frowns at his brother. "If you don't get up, who knows what can end up in your meal caro fratello."
Agni stays still as he tries to process his brother's words through the fog of sleep still clouding his mind. When the words finally kick in his brother is already gone from his room. "Merda! He wouldn't!"
Agni curses as he shoots up and desperately grabs the designer jeans he wore last night, half running half stumbling as he rushes to go after his brother. A flashback to finding a small toad in his food when he was eleven; his six-year-old kid brother had served him a delicious looking gulab jaamun, however, he had played a particularly mean prank on Cori that day and- Agni shudders, refusing to think on it anymore. He finally slides into the kitchen just as Cori finishes putting plates on the table. "Bel fratellino! I'm sorry, please, please don't poison my food!"
"Oh look who remembered they are half-italiano," Cori takes his seat, tucking his legs underneath the chair with his hands on his lap and staring expectantly at his brother.
Agni gulps and slowly lowers himself to the table and onto the chair. He stares at the delicious looking food in front of him as if it will jump up and rip his face off at any moment.
Cori sighs and pointedly takes a big bite of his breakfast. "Stop being a baby fratello. I didn't put anything dangerous in your food."
A watchful eye is still kept on the food as Agni makes himself comfortable before reaching for his fork. He never looks away from his food, but really he should have kept more of an eye on his brother's facial features as a small tinge of eagerness appears on Cori's face. As soon as Agni chews on the food he goes to take another bite, deeming the first bite safe so the rest had to be so.
As he begins to eat with more enthusiasm he finally looks up to his little brother and says, "It's pretty good chōṭē bhā'ī, what is it?"
"Oh just some poached eggs, toast," Cori reaches over to the counter and brings out some coffee to pour it for Agni, "coffee, chocolate chip pancakes for me-" Agni freezes, "and laxative pancakes for you."
Agni's tanned face quickly lost its color as he looked down at the large bite of pancake he foolishly took. It wasn't long before his stomach began to groan painfully. He jumped to his feet, knocking his chair over in the process, and made a mad dash for the bathroom as an unpleasant movement started in his bowels.
Cori took a sip of his own creamy sugared coffee; too much caffeine does yellow teeth after all, and sporting a very self-satisfied smirk firmly on his lips. "Oh fratello, when are you going to learn; ignoring me is never a good idea."
He gave a dainty, if not sinister, giggle before returning to his laxative free breakfast. By the time Agni had finished in the bathroom Cori was finished with breakfast and was already clearing the plates.
"You rotten little brat! I thought you said you didn't put anything in the food!" Agni growled as he held his abdomen and grimaced in pain.
"I said I didn't put anything dangerous in your food fratello and laxatives, while uncomfortable, are not dangerous," Cori replied smoothly.
"I hate you," Agni groaned as he collapsed into the chair, his back seeming like water as he slumped on it and threw his arm over his eyes. It was quiet for a moment before one dancing electric eye finally appeared beneath his arm. "So what did you want to tell me chōṭē bhā'ī?"
"Humph, so you do pay attention," Cori muttered while he placed the dishes in the washer and turned to his brother, arms crossed as he regarded him with one eye. "If you hate me so much why should I even bother telling you?"
"But Cori," Agni whined once more, extending the ending of his brother's name so he could really annoy him. "I want to know, I really do!"
"Man-child," Cori spat but a small smile barely played on his lips, "No wonder everyone thinks I'm the older one instead of you, and I am considerably smaller than you. Your curiosity will be the end of you."
"Yeah but it also gets me laid and makes me hella more interesting," Agni shot back as he finally got the weird feeling out of his gut. "Now spill."
"Fine," Cori sighs as he sits back down, hands folded neatly on the table, "if I really must." Agni covered a smile with a yawn, his brother may act uninterested but he loved to talk about his findings on anything. Really it was a good thing, how else would Agni have known about all these interesting shows that actually helped them keep up with all their languages.
Cori stares at his brother for a while with a slight glare in his visible eye, "We are going to Japan."
Agni coughs in surprise and exclaims, "Excuse me? When did we agree on this?"
"Hmmm sometime between you ruining my beauty sleep and then unwillingly emptying your bowels," Cori smirked.
Agni glared, "Bitch, and when did I ruin your beauty sleep? You woke me up with your blow horn!"
"Queen bitch fratello, and damn proud of it," was Cori's retort, he took immense satisfaction in the noise his brother's head made when it hit the table, "as for ruining my beauty sleep; I find it rather hard to sleep peacefully when I can hear my brother getting pounded into every surface in his room."
Agni raised an eyebrow and stared at Cori with utter boredom, "If you don't want to hear it Cordeilla I suggest you invest in some ear plugs."
Cori's face remained impassive as he stood up and went into the pantry and came out with a blueberry lollipop. "As much as I love talking circles around you we really should get back to the matter at hand," the sugary treat slid between full lips as Cori sat in front of his brother again.
"Why are we going to Japan?" Agni pouted. He reached out a hand for the lollipop only to have Cori lean back slightly so his hand missed.
"Zara has a family reunion thing in Kyoto and the poor dear does not want to be alone with her father," Cori leans forward and looked up into his brother eyes. He wasn't wearing his heels and his brother was taller than him even with the same chairs. "So I figured we could all go, keep Zara sane-ish, see the twin's family, do some sightseeing, and watch the premier of the new episode to that show Yami got us all hooked on."
Agni tilted his head and considered this before he nodded begrudgingly. "Alright, I'll give up my hot London Englishmen for hot Japanese men; do you think they have gay bars in Japan?"
"You are such an ignorant slut fratello," Cori huffed before he stood in all his four-foot seven glory, he was already packed but his brother wasn't.
"Thank you!" Agni stood up to follow; this meant he had to pack, dammit and he'd just bought a bunch of stuff too. "Fratellino-"
"No." Cori didn't even look back as he walked back to his brother's room.
"You didn't even know what I was going to say!" Agni protested as he caught up and used Cori's head as a walking elbow rest. Cori kicked him in return.
"I saw you shopping yesterday, no." They reached Agni's room and he dug a suitcase out of the cluttered closet. "Now I'm going to get dressed and you better be packed before I get back," and with that Cori went to his own room leaving Agni to suffer through sorting his stuff.
An hour later found Cori impatiently tapping a stiletto foot in the entryway with his luggage. He sighed and went to drag his brother down stairs ready or not.
Two hours after leaving their home and they are in a cab outside of Cori's best friend's flat. Aqua was already waiting patiently for them outside; she was dressed in purple jeans and a soft pink shirt Cori had given her months ago with a small backpack on. She quickly spotted them and rushed to the car to get out of the rain and join her brothers in everything but blood.
"Ciao Bella," Cori greeted Aqua with a kiss on the cheek.
"Bonjour Cori, Agni. Who are we picking up next, the twins or Zara?" She asked as she buckled herself in.
"Neither, we are meeting them at the airport I don't feel like dying just yet," Agni informed her as he messed up her neon purple hair. Aqua pouted at him but she smiled at the familiar action, proud that she no longer flinched from the kind touch. "Though it won't make much difference since having Cori, Hikari, and Zara in an enclosed space for such a long amount of time pretty much guarantees someone is going to die."
"With how you go around town I'm surprised no one has killed you yet," Cori shot at him from across Aqua, who blushed furiously at the mention of Agni's past time.
"That's because even the lovers of my lovers want to toss in the sheets with me," Agni winked at Aqua whose face was doing its best to implode.
The rest of the car ride was spent with Agni feeling like he was being killed slowly by his brother's glare, which was weird as his brother wasn't even looking at him, Aqua cracked open a manga and began to read. Despite Agni almost dying by a questionable death stare they all made it to the airport safely and on time of the two hours recommended before flight departure. They barely got two steps into the airport before they were ambushed by a squealing blur of black and red. "Cori-chan, Aqua-chan, Agni-chama!"
"Otouto!" A rough female voice said. As he turned to the owner of the voice, Agni noted the appearance of the mean looking blonde haired blue eyed female version of Yami. The blonde devil was wearing a nice pale blue dress, so he'll refrain from commentating about her face. "What have I told you about touching that STD ridden street prowler!"
"Hey!" Agni snapped as he hugged the hyperactive Yami and glared at the wavy haired medusa. "Don't talk about my bother like that. I know he has the looks but really, he's classier than that."
"But Nee-chama I'm so excited!" Yami talked over them, though the looks sent to Agni by Cori and little miss psycho over there where not lost to Agni. He was going to be murdered via fratricide one of these days. "We gonna have lots an lots a super fun-ness together!" Yami said his big ruby eyes shining.
"I don't-" Hikari's retort was cut off by a gust of cold wind coming from the entrance to the airport.
Entering was a very pissed off Zara and her exasperated father behind her. Zara's head immediately went towards their direction and she quickly went to the sound of the group's voice. Her ashy white bangs covered her bandaged eyes while the rest of her long straight hair was pulled into a high pony tail held by a ruby red ribbon, she was blind yes but she was still proud and graceful. As she made her way to the group people stopped to stare at her commanding presence, the way her solid grey wrap dress hugged her developing curves helped as well, they could also hear her father.
"Zara, you really should not be moving around so quickly! You could get hurt," Zara's father scolded.
"Darcianna will not be joining us so if everyone is ready we can go now." Zara ignored her sire as she addressed the rest of the group.
"Hai~, Nee-chama and my parents are already waiting at the bag loading place thing!" Yami exclaimed as he skipped away from the others, the many chains hanging from his black clothes jingly a cheery tune.
"You know I'm right here, right?" Hikari sighed while she pressed a hand to her forehead, her other hand was immediately seized by her brother.
"I knows that, we're holding handsies!" He giggled as he held up his sister's right hand. Her white and blue painted nails made a stark contrast to his red and black painted ones. "Why do you said something super silly?"
He tilted his head cutely to the side, which made his straight black hair swish across his forehead.
"Okay, let's go before I witness twin murder. I'm too fabulous to talk with detectives," Agni pushed them along.
"The only one in danger of dying here is you jackass," Hikari snarled at Agni as she hugged her brother tightly to her. "Don't listen to that dumbass Otouto, he's an asshole."
"Nee-chama doesn't say meanie words about our friends!" Yami snuggled into her as they walked. "Just 'cause he was meanie first you shouldn't make things worser."
"Please children, don't joke about such things," Zara's father stressed as they met up with the twins' parents and they gave their tickets to one of the hostesses.
"Killjoy," Cori pouted as they all begin moving. His stilettos were making resonating echoes on the high-polished tile floors, which caused even more attention to be laid on them. "It was just getting good."
"Monsieur, I don't think Hikari would have killed Cori's frère," Aqua voiced as she tucked her book away. Zara's father turned to her. "She does like him."
"Yeah, as much as I like rainbows and sunshine," Hikari growled underneath her breathe but still audible.
"Plus, there's too many witnesses," Zara added with a wry grin. "Either way I wouldn't have seen it."
Agni snorted in amusement but was cut off by an indignant shout from Zara's father, "Zara! Don't make fun off your condition like that!"
"I can do whatever I please father," she bit out as she moved closer to Cori. Her father backed away and slightly shook his head as he shared a look with the twin's parents.
They all sat relatively close to each other on the plane, their parents had been given first class while they opted to go for the seats farther back. About an hour into the flight though, things started getting bad.
"Cori I'm bored," Agni complained as he fidgeted in his seat.
"Don't care," Cori replied as he flipped through an outdated magazine. "I'm not your babysitter."
"You're so mean to me, your loving brother," Agni sighed before he unbuckled himself.
Cori didn't stop him and only moved so his brother could pass. He didn't even look up when his brother went into the bathroom and shortly after another person, around Agni's age, also went into the same bathroom.
"Is he …" Aqua's small voice trailed off as she blushed hard and buried her face in her book.
"Yup," Cori popped the "p" and turned another page. A shadow fell over him and still he did not look up, he was not in the mood. When the shadow didn't move and Aqua shifted uncomfortably in her seat he sighed but refused to look up.
After a while though a cough followed by a cracking voice made him look up, "Uh, hi. My name's Edward, but you can call me Ed, beautiful."
In the seats across from him he heard Hikari choke and Zara cough to cover her laughter. Aqua flinched in her seat. Cori blinked slowly before smiling sweetly at the young boy around his own age. He knew wearing a skirt would bring this kind of attention. At least it wasn't a creepy old man like last time, unless that man had money of course. Money is power, and power makes the world go round and round after all.
"Hello Ed, you can call me whatever you want," he closed his magazine and reached into Aqua's bag to pull out a small deck, "If you think you are good enough to beat me at a game of cards that is."
"Cori," Aqua began but a look from him made her go back to her book.
The flight was almost thirteen hours long, which was thirteen hours too long for all of them. The majority of it was spent not being thrown off the plane by other passengers, at least the brave ones. Needless to say Yami annoyed quite a few of the passengers singing loudly, Hikari had to stop a few people from trying to shut her brother up, Zara had to hold back Hikari from committing murder on the plane, Agni spent most of his time in the back with a few other passengers doing gods' knew what, Cori cleaned out about six other passengers of all their money and personal information that could be quite useful to him later on, and Aqua just watched it all happen. She did have to stop a few jealous girls from jumping Cori on his way to the bathroom though.
"How were things on your side on the flight," Zara's father asked them as they all stepped out of customs into Osaka International Airport's baggage claim area. "No one picked on you did they Zara?"
Zara merely lifted her head and tossed her silver bangs to the side so that for a moment her bandages were visible. Her father flinched and she grinned the slightest bit.
"Even if they had dared try to get past Hikari-san," she sneered, "I am capable of defending myself."
"It was ok," Agni stretched, a bit of his shirt riding up as he ruffled his long red and gold curls to loosen them from the knots they had gotten into. He wore a self-satisfied smirk as he winked at a passing 'stranger' who blushed hard before hurrying away. "Very, very, okay."
"'Mm," Yami gave a large yawn, "Sleepy," Yami mumbled tiredly, it was late afternoon now, but because it had been after 5 in the evening when they left London they all felt fatigued.
"Where are we staying Mom," Hikari turned to her mother who took out a pamphlet.
"We're staying at Hotel New Hankyu in Osaka, I don't know about Zara and her father though," she looked to said individuals then to Cori and Agni, "or you two boys and Aqua-chan."
"Excuse moi Madame, but I cannot understand much Japanese," Aqua murmured as she clutched her bag to her. She didn't like strange places and when she felt nervous her accent got thicker and she reverted to French more often than not.
"We'll be staying in the same place," Cori informed the twins' parents who nodded in acceptance. "Aqua will be with us but, Zara?"
Agni translated for Aqua as they kept speaking, Aqua nodding along as she took note of how they spoke.
"We were not expecting it to take so long, we had been planning on staying at a relative's place but they are already at the reunion, we are the last ones that need to arrive." Zara explained.
"I suppose I can go by myself to the reunion to tell them we're here while you stay with your friends until you can arrive tomorrow," Zara's father offer wasn't even finished before she was already by Cori's side.
"Excellent, I will see you tomorrow then Father, give Grandmother my greetings," she turned from him and marched forward to the luggage retrieval. They had to wait forever for Cori's fifty bags of luggage to finally make it off the plane because for all his complaints about Agni, Cori did have more accessories than his brother. Zara's father had to leave first, but after finally getting everyone's bags the rest of the group decided to go out for dinner before retiring to the Hotel for the night.
It was the sound of a ringing phone that woke Agni up. "Hmm, hello?"
"Good morning sir, we're calling to inform you that breakfast is ready if you wish to get it," a lilting woman's voice informed him.
"Ah, thank you for the call, we will head there shortly," Agni told her and hung up. "Ugh it's too early."
"It's actually around 8 in the morning," Cori's voice broke through the fog of sleep.
Agni cracked an eye open to regard his brother, who was wrapped in a towel looking through his many bags of luggage. "Need help finding something Chōṭē bhā'ī?"
"Yes actually," Cori looked up, "Your intelligence, I seem to have misplaced it, oh dear me."
Agni rolled his eyes before pointing at Cori's blue luggage. "You forgot your straightener in my bathroom so I packed it for you in that one."
"Thank you," Cori whispered softly before lifting the luggage up and onto his bed.
When he opened it he found his straightener underneath a pair of platform shoes. As the shower turned on once more he was about to close it but his hand brushed against something hard and square shaped. He dug it out and found that it was a book, not surprising seeing as he had a whole bag filled with books for the trip. However this one was not his, he knew it; he knew he had not seen it before.
'How did you get in here,' he thought upon examining the strange book. It was fairly big and extravagantly decorated, more so than his regular ones. The book itself was bound in black leather, covered with inlaid gold and precious gems, and the title was written in shimmering red Latin letters: 'Incantationem Vota.'
'The Enchantment of the Heart? I don't remember getting this,' Cori spent a few more minutes looking at the strange book before slipping it into his violin case to ask the others about later. Putting the issue to the back of his mind Cori continued to get ready. An hour later and the group went down for breakfast. After breakfast the kids decided to explore the park nearby before Zara's dad came to pick her up. After quickly going up stairs to grab their bags, or in Cori's case a violin, they were off. After walking around for a while they found a secluded spot surrounded by Sakura Trees.
"Ah the weather here is so much better than in London." Agni said as he basked in the midmorning sun. The other's agreed with him, except Hikari who was in the shade and hissing at any sunlight that came near her, and they all settled down in a circle together. They sat in a comfortable silence for a while until Cori remembered the book. He pulled himself from his comfortable position and reached into his case.
"Hey, does anyone recognize this book? I found it in one of my bags but it's not mine." Agni snatched the book from his brother's hand before Cori had even finished speaking. Cori glared at his brother as Agni scrutinized the book carefully.
"Well it's not mine, and I doubt it's Yami's since he can't read Latin and it's not in braille so that takes Zara out too." He said after thoroughly molesting the book.
"It's definitely not mine, it looks way too expensive." Aqua mumbled.
"Not to mention it looks far too occultist to be yours." Agni supplied.
"So that leaves you Hikari." Zara said.
"I've never seen that before in my life batgirl." Hikari snapped, "Anyway occult stuff is more Cori's territory."
"Well I already said it isn't mine." Cori huffed.
"What it 'bout? Maybe that will help?" Yami said.
"Its got a lot of spells that are supposed to fill the caster's heart's desire." Agni said as he flipped through the book.
Cori took the book back and looked through it slowly, "Everything is hand written, whoever made this book put a lot of care into it." He murmured.
"Is there a spell in there that will make me not have to go to that reunion?" Zara asked somewhat seriously.
Cori flipped through a few pages, "Not for that specifically- oh! There is one that looks like it transports people through time and space."
"Ha, so like we could go back in time or something" Hikari snorted.
"Looks like we could go back in time, forward in time, possibly another world," Cori replied not taking his eyes off the book.
"Another world! So can us go to Naruto life? Then don't have to wait for new shows we'll live it!" Yami exclaimed.
"Yami sweetie, Naruto is just a TV show it's-" Agni's speech was cut off by a punch to his gut from Hikari.
"Don't listen to him Otouto of course we could do that, but we can't because we don't know the name of Naruto's world," Hikari explained. "Do you understand?"
Yami nodded sadly and looked down.
"Can't we just say Konohagakure no sato?" Zara asked. Yami's head snapped up excitedly.
Hikari glared death at her, "Shu-"
"Why don't we try it? Please, please, please Nee-chama!" He cried.
"I- uh Cori?" Hikari turned to the boy pouring over the spell.
"There's no harm in trying. If it doesn't work it doesn't work. Also it doesn't look like not knowing the name even matters, if you desire to go there you will." Cori said, finally looking up from the book.
"Yay! Let do it! Come on, come on, come on!" Yami chanted bouncing in his seat.
They all sighed not being able to say no to him, it's not like it would actually work right? They would just do it to say they tried and be done with it.
"So what do we do princess?" Hikari asked.
"Let's see," Cori put the book down in front of him, "We should all hold hands so no one gets lost." They all held each other's hands tightly as Cori looked the spell over one last time. "Now everyone close your eyes and listen to my words, let the magic wash over you." They all closed their eyes as Cori began to chant.
"Mihi cordis.
Fiat ducitur, terras longe recessit.
Igitur in hoc mundo, non veniemus ultra ad usque meum.
Liber esto huius, sed ad illud desiderium terra.
Ubi dictum est ad hoc sit via.
Tolle quod quicumque vult ad cor."
As soon as the last word left Cori's lips the wind started to pick up, it swirled around the group violently, stealing the air from their lungs, and leaving them speechless. It was like hands were grabbing at them, trying to rip them off the ground. Soon they were in the air being jerked around by the force of this living wind. They held on to each other for dear life, but it was no use the spell was too powerful and it tore them apart.
First Agni was ripped away. He tired and tried to keep hold on his brother's hand but it was no use. He was sent spiraling away from the group until finally he landed with a harsh thud on a grassy plain.
"... Ā'uca kē pyāra kē li'ē!" He groaned and curled up into a ball to relieve the pain he was feeling. It was working, until he was forced onto his back and held down by something huge and rough feeling.
"Who are you and where did you come from?" A rough voice asked.
Slowly Agni opened his eyes and looked at his assaulter. When he got a good look at the situation his eyes widened, "Kī pavitra mām̐ … Cordeilla you are so dead!"
Back at the tornado the twins were the next to be torn away. Hikari quickly wrapped herself around her brother trying to shield him with her body as they hit ground and rolled onto burning hot sand. They were laying there for all of two seconds before they were thrown apart by the course substance.
"Oi what the hell is going on here?" Hikari exclaimed. The sand started to wrap around her body slowly despite her struggling.
Yami got to his hands and knees coughing up sand, he looked at his sister, who was now neck deep in sand distressed he started to cry. Someone came up behind him and put a hand on his shoulder. Yami turned around and he gasped, "Wh-who are you?"
Zara was next to be taken. Her body soon meeting roughly with leaf covered ground. She lay on the ground panting and trying to get her bearings, she had determined that she was deep in some type of thick forest when she heard people approaching her. She slowly got to her feet, "I know you are there, please stop trying to be discreet."
"What did she say? Is that some kind of code?" a female voice whispered.
"Perhaps she hit her head harder than we thought and can no longer speak properly!" An excited sounding male 'whispered'.
"Whatever the reason for her strange speech, it is our duty to bring her in for questioning," a calm male voice declared in a hushed tone that held command.
"You do realize I can hear you right?" Zara said as calmly as she could in this situation. She heard footsteps and leaves rustling before she felt three bodies surrounding her.
"Well, miss you will have to come with us for questioning," the calm voice said.
This left only Cori and Aqua last to clutch to each other desperately. After what seemed like an eternity they hit the ground, hard. Cori had managed to move them so that Aqua landed on top of him and he took the brunt of the pain. They didn't even have time to fully catch their breath before they were interrupted.
"Oi are you two okay?" A short blond boy asked loudly.
Cori and Aqua looked over to the voice and saw a group of four people. Four people they knew very well, from the strange hair to the strange clothes they knew these people very, very, well. Focusing on the concerned blond Cori nodded, "Uh, yes we're fine. If I may ask what is your name?"
"THE NAMES UZUMAKI NARUTO AND I'M KONOHA'S NEXT HOKAGE DATTEBAYO!" The blond replied, sticking a pose with a clenched fist raised up as a large smile dominated his face.
"Yeah that's what I was afraid of," Cori mumbled.