Ethan Rayne, worshipper of chaos, chuckled to himself as he opened a box in the back of his Halloween shop, these costumes were the true symbol of his skill as a manipulator, for he really should not have been able to get these. They came from Japan, prototypes for costumes from a comic due out next year, it was some sort of super powered ninja or something; this power was shore to add to the chaos, he had to get this one out even if he had to sell it at a loss, the chaos was just too good to pass up.

Xander Harris bit back a set rather nasty swear as the last gun was taken from the sale bin, his plan of being a GI had just gone up in smoke, shoulders slumping in defeat he spun around to look for Buffy and Willow when he saw it hanging on a manikin, the costume had a Tactical Vest over a dark blue uniform with a mask covering the face up to the nose a head band with the symbol of what look like a leaf was slung over the eye like an eye patch, figuring he might as well see what this costume was all about he grabbed the tag, it was in Japanese but someone had written the translation next to it, Kakashi Hatake, ninja rank: Jonin, price 10 dollars! This was great, a full costume for a great price, oh yes this was so going to be his.

Cordelia Chase walk in to the Ethan's in a foul mood, how could Party-town have given her rental to someone else, well she would not be shopping there anytime soon. As her keen buyers mind looked over the costumes until she saw one on a manikin with the big word "sale" on it, she went closer it was a mesh shirt and shorts with an orange mini-skirt, leg pads, a long tan trench coat, a purple wig with a head band around it, and a simple rope necklace. She had no idea why she liked this costume but she did, she looked at the tag: Name: Anko Mitarashi Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin, cool.

Hatake Kakashi's one visible eye took in the situation as he stood apparently at complete ease his hands his hands in his pockets and his shoulders slumped but in reality he was completely alert and scanning the area trying to evaluate the situation. Kakashi's last memory was of watching his former student Uzumaki Naruto leave with the Sannin Jiraiya on a two and a half year training trip. Now he was in the middle of some sort of town with mini-monsters attacking anything that moved.

Suddenly there was a shout in a language he could not understand and a girl came running up to him making him do a double take, her clothes were strait out of his beloved Icha Icha goodness maybe…. he shook the thought off this was not the time nor the place for those things, now has the time for finding out where he was and how he had gotten there and how to get back to Kohana. This girl would be the first step, if he could talk to her that was, to others this would have been a problem, but Kakashi put a hand up to his forehead protector and lifted to reveal his Sharingan. The sight of the red and black eye only drove her into more of a babble frenzy but with the speed of the Sharingan Kakashi was able to keep up as he coped and analyzed what she said and finally caught what she was saying as she started to run out of steam. "And you're not Xander, are you?"

"No my name is Kakashi I am no one of importance." Kakashi said using the age-old lie that helped his enemies underestimate him.

"Okay, Kakashi look something really weird and magic-y is going on here and you are not you, so we need to get out of here and find Buffy, Oh my god Buffy, where is she?" Kakashi realized that this girl was panicking and a little lost at what to do, but she had more of idea of what was going than he did and if the was going to get home then he was going to have to follow her and try to get her to calm down and tell him what was going on.

10 minutes later Kakashi was still in the dark about this but he had some idea what was going on here, some kind Genjutsu with a mind control jutsu to make the victims think they were the monsters they were turned into was the best guess. Which would explain why Willow didn't want him to kill the monsters, but some Narakumi no Jutsu (Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique) and some Taijutsu put them down for the count. Now though he was in a house with Willow and some rich airhead named Lady Summerland. As he stood guard at the front door, reading Icha Icha Paradises at the same time of course, Lady Summerland found a picture and stared at it for a long time, "This could be me," she said to Willow.

"It is you Buffy, can't you remember at all." Kakashi knew this would not end well, and he was right. "No I don't understand any of this. This is some other girl! I would never where this…this low apparel, and I don't like this place, and I don't like you, and I just what to go home!" said the airhead with a pout.

"You Are Home!" Kakashi rolled his eye as he turned the page, just as the glass broke apart as a monster's hand came through, Kakashi's moved swiftly, his hand went into his pouch pouting the book away and taking out a flash grenade which he tossed out the window and predictably the monster was scared off by the bang and the flash. Two minutes later he heard it, the sound of heavy combat coming from outside the house, without a second thought he bolted out the door

Mitarashi Anko smiled as she worked her way through the monsters around her, her first idea was that these were some of her old Sensei Orochimaru's experiments, the psycho did seem to make a lot of them, but right now stopping them and finding a way home was more important than what they were. Luckily they were all pretty weak and dumb but what they lacked in strength they made up for in numbers, she had already fought of about 20 there were hundreds more, right now she was fighting off 10 really ugly ones at the same time, suddenly a foot slammed into the one on her left as looking that way she saw Kakashi, she smiled, "Nice of you to join the party Kakashi, any idea where we are?"

"No Anko but I might have fond a girl who seems to have some idea of what's going on Follow me." With that Kakashi went into a fast set of hand signs "Kirigakure no Jutsu" (Art of Hiding in the Mist) with that a dense fog covered the area hiding the monsters from view and with a pout on her face Anko sprinted after Kakashi, just when it was getting fun too.

Willow was not having a good night, first there was Buffy, she was right now cursing the fact that she had ever encouraged her to ware that costume, anything would be better than this, then there was Xander and Cordelia or Kakashi and Anko as they were calling themselves right now, they were so frustrating, Anko couldn't speak English for one and for another they had flatly refused to stay in the house where it was safe, the fact that they were safer on the move and that Kakashi and Anko could look after themselves did not cross her mind, so now they were following her from the ruff tops as she made her way to the school with Cordy caring Buffy.

Giles was taking the down time to reorganizes the library but the sounds of shouts and sirens was starting to make him nerves, something was wrong and in this town that would mean demon or magic but it was Halloween noting happened tonight, ever, suddenly Willow came through the wall like some kind of bloody ghost, scaring him half to death with her customary "Hi!" Before he could get over his shock the double doors flow open and Xander, Buffy, and Cordelia came in, there could not have been more of a difference in the three teens, for one all three's hair was different colors Xander's was grey, Buffy was now a brunet, and Cordelia now had purple hair. More than that their very stances were off, both Xander and Cordelia had adopted a stances reminiscent of hardened special ops members that he had met in Console HQ while his strong and confident slayer on the other hand was hiding like a scared child behind Cordelia, there was only one thing Giles could think of to sum up all these surprises, "B-bloody Hell!"

30 minutes later Giles was coming out of the book cage with some of his more ancient texts nursing a migraine, after working out that everyone had become there costume he had spent the next 15 minutes explaining in his broken and poor Japanese what magic was and how it was used to the two ninja, after which they had started to talk amongst themselves in a corner in rapped whispers that Giles could not have followed even if he had tried, while Lady Summerland as Buffy was calling herself now was off in her own little world looking in wonder at the, "Candles and Lamps that never burned out," as she called the lights. "Okay let's review," he said to Willow, "this problem is more wide spread than the four of you,"

Willow took this as an opportunity to start babbling, "Yes, it's horrible Giles and."

Thankfully she was cut off at that moment buy a loud cough from the corner. "Yo, we have a question;" Xander said, "over such a long distance wouldn't you need a conduit for the power, something to tie the power to the victim." In his younger years Giles would have hit himself for missing the obvious.

"Willow, where did you get your costumes?"

"Some new place…. Ethan's." Ones again Giles had to resist hitting himself this whole thing stunk of Ethan Rayne.

'If it is him I am going make him suffer for this.' Giles promised himself

Whatever Giles had been planning didn't happen however, for when they got to the costume shop Kakashi and Anko had taken the lead and had "interrogated" Ethan, a process that included some hallucinogenic technique, snakes, and pain, Giles was sure he could not have done it better.

The Next day dawned on the Harris and Chase homes to find Cordy and Xander in front of their respective mirrors, Cordy looking at her neck were an all to familiar mark was visible on her skin and Xander at his left eye, which was bright red, both could only think of one thing to say to this, "Oh crap!"