Here & There
Summary: When two best friends are suddenly called into 'service' for a job only an Otaku can do, they find themselves faced with hardships unlike any they could have ever imagined! Taken to worlds not their own, Akuma and Yuki must find ways to help change or better the Anime or Manga worlds that they have been given instructions to work on. But how will they survive one world, much less a dozen and more?
Anime/Manga: ….
Pairing: Akuma/? – Yuki/?
Genre: Romance/Hurt/Comfort
Rated: M for Mature Content
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"Desiree', wake up!"
"Mmm~" An annoyed groan came as someone rapped hard against the bedroom door, blonde hair was messily knotted from tossing and turning into the night, and behind closed lids, hazel green eyes kept themselves safely tucked away from the bright light of the sun that shined through the window. "No!"
The door slammed open and a woman with brown hair tied back turned on the lights of the room. "I wasn't asking, you need to get the dishes done, your dad wants to make breakfast,"
Yawning, Desiree' nodded, stretching as she sat up and just stared at the wall ahead of her. Her mother left the doorway of her room as she sighed and let out one more yawn. "I hate mornings..."
"Desiree',"
Turning, the occupant of the room glanced about her room curiously, "Oh god, I'm hearing things..." She shook her head and stood up, stretching, she made her way out of her room, a light blue panted room with centerfolds posted on all four walls of anime girls and boys from years of collecting NewTypeUSA Magazines. The bed was made due to the fact that she hadn't bothered getting under the comforter or sheets the night before, too tired to deal with the covers, she had just fallen onto the bed and let sleep take her.
"Do you work today?"
Desiree looked over her shoulder; her father was pouring a cup of coffee, the strong aroma filtering the kitchen. "Today is Saturday? I'm off, today, Stacy called and told me that his sister would be staying with him for today, and she'd have the kids, but I do work Sunday."
He nodded, "Right, get the dishes done and I'll start breakfast."
She looked at the kitchen and frowned, "There are only like six dishes...why do I need to do them right now?"
"If you get them done early, you'll have more time to do what you want."
"...I fell to see the logic behind that, while getting them done early would give me the rest of the day, it wouldn't give me more time. Whether I waste ten minutes now or ten minutes before bed, it will still take ten minutes," Desiree' poured a glass of orange juice and quickly drank it before tossing it into the sink and starting on the dishes in the dishwasher. "Oi, Mom...why are you home?"
"I'm off!" She glared.
"Why? It's Saturday, isn't there mail on Saturday's?"
"Yes, but I took off, I have drill tomorrow, and I'm leaving in two hours, so I took off."
"Ah..."
Finishing off the dishes quickly, she left the kitchen, air drying her hands as she made her way back to her newly cleaned room. She had paid her mother forty dollars to help her clean it, it had been so bad. Looking around, she grabbed her Death Note, Misa Misa, body pillow and laid back, opening the lid of her laptop which lay on her bed, quite possibly overheating on the comforter, and opened up Yahoo Messenger. "...AkumaChibi...and...the password...is..." She typed in the password as her cat opened her door, meowing at her for attention before hopping onto her bed and climbing onto the middle of her back, lying down and purring at her newly acquired bed.
"That hurts, Momo,"
~Meow...mew~
"Yeah, yeah...you don't care, I get it." She turned back to her screen and opened up a word document, moving the window to the left and the window with yahoo on the right, search through her e-mails, and reading reviews as she tried to decide what to write. Deciding to start on one of the co-authored fics between her and her best friend, she opened up the file with the co-authored fics and summaries. "Death Note and InuYasha...Fruits Basket and InuYasha...Gundam, oh, Naruto...Who Are You When I'm Not Looking...?, it's Shika and Kagome...yeah, I'll let Yuki know I'm going to start that one!"
She made to pick up her phone when a shuttering image caught her eyes and she looked to see the mirror on the back of her door was reflecting someone...and it wasn't her. '...I'm going crazy...' She blindly searched for her cell phone and as she felt her fingers run over the glossy surface of her cell phone, she couldn't stop the chill running through her spine as she watched the person in her mirror turn and glance around her room. Desiree' went to her call logs and pressed on Yuki, listening as the phone rang and watching the person in the mirror carefully, long black hair, straight in style, and dark crimson red eyes, she wore a black dress, her shoulders bare and arms bare of excess cloth. Running along her arms were black and silver lines that wrapped in pretty spirals around her arms and over her shoulders like a type of tattoo.
Finally, the phone was answered, but her friends voice was just as cracked as she figured her would be if she were to speak.
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A small sigh escaped the lips of a figure laying in bed on her laptop. Red hair was un-brushed, as she just woke up and was checking emails she had gotten while asleep.
Glaring at the door as someone opened it, blue-green eyes narrowed, "Yeesss~?" The word was drawn out and the tone of the voice was clearly irritated.
"You need to clean your room...and I need you to go to the bank to get three hundred for your rent." Sighing the girl shifted to look at the figure at the door.
"Alright, alright," the girl muttered, clearly not enthused with having to do those two things.
"Jessica, I mean it. I want those things done today!" with that said the figure at the door, closed the door, leaving the girl now known as Jessica glaring at said door that was just shut.
"Annoying older sisters.." Jessica muttered as she went back to looking though her emails. Who wanted to actually clean! Really, her room was clean enough...there were only piles of books on the floor...nothing else. So Jessica thought it was plenty clean.
'Jessica'
Looking up Jessica looked around, a puzzled look on her face. She really needed to stop watching so much anime; she was starting to hear things.
Going back to her computer she sighed, though not even a couple minutes later she heard the same voice say her name.
Glancing up Jessica looked towards her door and in the mirror on the back of her door she saw something. A woman looking at her giving her a small smile, "Jessica..."
Just as she was about to say something the sound of her phone going off rang though the air.
I'm a Ravenclaw I like to read books
When I cast spells they're off the freakin' hook.
Jessica felt around on the side of her bed, which was ground level, for her phone as she kept her eyes locked on the figure in the mirror.
I'm a Gryffindor, I'll fly with my friends
We'll never back down and fight to the end.
"Where is the stupid thing," Jessica hissed under her breath as she felt around, as the song for her ring tone kept playing.
I'm a Slytherin, I am very rich
I'll go on a date with whoever gets the snitch.
Feeling the vibration under her hand, she quickly grabbed her phone and pressed answer, the voice of her friend and fellow writer on the other line, "Hello?"
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"...Yuki...Yuki, my mirror..." Desiree' stared at the mirror in front of her, still not entirely sure what to think about the figure in the reflective object before her. "...someone is in my mirror..." She listened to her friend on the other end of the cell phone, a little jittery due to the woman staring straight at her.
On the other end, Yuki, more formally known as Jessica, was trying to comprehend what exactly was going on, just as Desiree' was.
"...I see it too." Jessica said over the phone, eyes not breaking contact with the woman in the mirror.
"Jessica...Desiree'..." the woman said, a small smile on her face. She could be seen in each room by the two girls, "I have need of your services..."
"Ne, Desi, are you hearing the same thing I am?" Jessica asked as she tried to process the woman in her mirror who was talking to her and her friend.
"...I think so, that or I've lost my mind completely..."
A soft chuckle came from the mirror, and both looked up at the woman, "I can assure you, you are both completely sane."
Laughing, Desiree' smiled, "No need to lie,"
The woman smiled back, her name still unknown to the duo, "Joking aside, I am in need of help from the both of you,"
"...can you elaborate?" Desiree' asked dryly, receiving a 'shush' from her friend on the other end of the phone.
The woman gave a knowing look, "In every world there is balance, but sometimes this balance needs to be restored...I am one of those beings that are in charge of bringing the peace of the worlds..."
Jessica was the one to ask a question next, "And what does any of this have to do with us?" She really wanted to know, it wasn't like they were anything special...well...not really.
The woman smiled, "I want the two of you to help me fix things in some worlds..."she paused giving each of the humans a look, "I want you to go to these worlds and fix things which need to be fixed."
"...like...what exactly?" Desiree' asked, looking between her phone and the mirror.
"Like lives, those lost and those who are fraught with peril...there are lives which need to be saved, and lives which need to be fixed...that is why I need you two to help me. I can not interfere in these worlds, but you..."
The two girls seemed to be finally coloring in a few blanks, but the woman in the mirror still baffled them. Desiree' had only one question left to ask, "Why are you in my mirror?"
The woman laughed, "I can't appear in your world in my normal form, but in here..." She gestured to the mirror, "I can take form to an extent..."
Jessica nodded, understanding somewhat, "Where exactly are you going to send us, if we actually believe you and take your offer?" she had to know the pro's and con's of the situation.
The woman gave a secretive smile, as she looked at both girls in the eyes, "I will be sending you to multiple places...but these places you have heard of and know some outcomes of the world."
Jessica frowned as she narrowed her eyes, she really didn't know if she liked the sound of that.
"That sounds cool and all, but not realistic." Desiree' muttered, "Not that having a sentient being in my mirror is all that realistic either..." She shook her head and continued, "You are basically telling us that we will be going to different worlds to change things around, and that we know these worlds...well, I don't know about Yuki, but as for me, I'm pretty sure I've only ever been in one world, and I'm still in it!"
The woman sighed, "Not as easily charmed by words as I had hoped you might be," she said, "It is as I have told you, you know the worlds...but I don't believe I ever said that you had been within the worlds. That was all you..."
Desiree' blushed, "Still..."
"Still nothing, we are running short on time, so I would like to explain promptly what I expect and what is to be expected. You will undergo a brief change in your body, your...consciousness...of sorts, what you see yourself as, just before you enter each world, and it changes in slight for each world, to your specifications. I can only give you a clue to the worlds you will arrive in, through the mirrors that you see me in, you will catch a single glimpse of the world you are to be sent to next, and then...you will be taken home to pack, and then taken to that world. Pack light, tread carefully, and all should be fine."
"That still doesn't sound all that believable." Jessica muttered, as she pushed some of her red hair out of her face. Sighing she readjusted the phone at her ear and talked into the phone, "Ya want to play along, Desi? See what happens, or just go back to bed and pretend nothing happened?"
Desiree' sighed, "I work tomorrow, and honestly...I don't know what this lady is talking about...on the other hand," she smiled, "I really don't want to work tomorrow, so how about it Yuki, let's play hooky! Worst case scenario, we end up dead in a ditch, pushing up daisies, with some homeless guy picking our pockets!"
Jessica snorted at her friends cheery voice on such a morbid outcome, "Sure...I don't feel like working a twenty four hour shift tomorrow...why not."
The woman smiled, "Now that it is decided, I shall give you a glimpse of the world you are going to...then you have some time to pack before you decide on appearances..."
"Cool!" Desiree' watched the image of the woman in the mirror change with a ripple effect before showing a very familiar image. Four very familiar heads on a mountain gave her butterflies as she stared at the image in her mirror. "...no way." She jumped from her bed and ran around her room, finding a camo bag that she used for books when she went to the library, she put a pair of black shorts and a black tank top and white dress shirt inside, a pair of tinny shoes joined the clothes in the bag along with some socks and under garments, and a Cosplay headband from Sand. She smiled broadly as she picked up her phone, "I AM SOOOO READY YUKI! WE ARE GOING TO KONOHA!"
The woman in the mirror looked as if she had something important to say, but was interrupted by Jessica who was quick to respond with similar excitement. "REALLY!" Jessica yelled, eyes going wide in excitement. She didn't really believe her ears as she too went to her shelf that had her Naruto books and headbands.
"Do electronics work in the Naruto world?" Jessica muttered, as she looked to her laptop.
The woman sighed, "To answer your question, yes your laptops will work in any world. I have done this so you can look back for references on what will happen…I know you will need some of these references during the duration of your stay."
Desiree' grinned, 'Neji is so cute...and Shikamaru...and Sasuke...well, early Sasuke, the older one looks kind of gay...' She laughed to herself as she grabbed her laptop, her cell phones' usb charger and glasses cleaner.
"Girls, if I could intervene for a moment, there is one minor thing that I must mention."
"Hey Yuki, do you think we will get to meet Gaara too?" She asked, "What about Haku, I liked him too..."
Jessica grinned, " I call dibs on Gaara and Shikamaru..." As she was about to continue the woman started speaking again.
The woman looked at the two girls, "While there you will have papers to do what you will...you will have to pick a village you wish to be apart of..." The woman paused, "You will also have rules on things you can and can't do."
Jessica frowned, "What are the rules?"
"They are rather simple, no telling them you are from another world...ever. The second, you can't go all 'fan girl' on people randomly. That would make things suspicious."
Jessica nodded, it was understandable, "So we get to pick what village we want to be apart of? And we also get to make up our own background story?"
"Yes, but please, keep it simple; keep it believable...nothing too outrageously crazy." She eyed the two girls, "Just...act normal."
Frowning, Desiree' looked at her reflection in a glass that was sitting next to her bed. "Normal? Why would I want to do that? I will act like myself, but I won't do it excessively, and I wont go around telling people I'm from another world...although, it worked out well enough for Kagome...didn't it?"
"Well enough, yes, with demons hopping through time, and awakening spirits..."
Desiree' shrugged, "Does that mean I can't hug Neji the second I see him?"
"Basically, no hugging without permission, you will be sent back to your world,"
'Damn!' Desiree' sighed, wondering what Jessica's thoughts on the topic were, "Fine, is that it?"
"There is one more thing, I don't really have a say in where you will be sent, you may be together, you most likely wont be, but know this...when it's time to return to your world, you will be greeted with my familiars, they appear in many forms, but most often, they are twin foxes, Ying, and Yang. You will see them later, I am sure, but for now, we must hasten our leave."
"Desiree' do you want to go with us to Academy?"
Desiree' jumped, "No! No, I'm good! I'm going to be hanging out with Yuki! She'll be here in about...twenty minutes..."
"Don't be out late,"
Sighing as her mother left the other side of her door, Desiree' shouldered the camo bag, grabbing her laptop bag, she smiled, 'well, that's not completely a lie.' She laughed, "I'm ready!"
On Jessica's side of the mirror the woman smiled, "Now, you have a few more minutes to pack..."
Jessica muttered as she put her laptop in her computer bag along with her hard-drive which had all the Naruto Episodes and manga saved. She needed both because she didn't know if it would follow one or the other. After she made sure her electronics were packed she grabbed a small bag and started to put her clothing in. She had a couple cosplay outfits hidden somewhere..."Where are you...you stupid clothes." She muttered as she looked through the box which still had packed clothing from when she moved to Texas, left in the box out of laziness of not wanting to unpack.
Jessica put multiple outfits in the small pack along with a headband. She moved to the other part of her closet and grabbed a couple pairs of shoes and shoved them in the bag as well, "I'm done packing now!" She said, 'This is going to be fuuuuun' Jessica thought as a cat like grin spread across her face.
"If you are both ready, then please, move before the mirror, and I you can step through as soon as the mirror goes white."
"Why white?" Desiree' asked curiously as she stepped up with her bag clutched tightly in her hands. "Why not blue...or green?"
"White, no reason, it's just a phase screen, you'll step through and be sent through a wormhole of sorts that will take you to the world you are set to arrive in. It's painless, a little dizzying, but other than that, you should be fine."
Desiree' nodded, "Then let's get this started!" Her mirror phased white and she tested the solidness of the mirror, feeling the liquid like substance cling to her hand, she shivered before stepping through the mirror and feeling the chill of the wormhole around her. She looked around and saw Yuki and the other woman both standing near her. The woman held out two pieces of paper and two pencils.
"We will stop soon in a...stand still, of sorts. Take that time to fill out the paper."
Like she had said, they stopped on a white platform and looking down at the paper, the two read over it:
Real Name:
Anime Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Rank:
Fighting Style:
Weapon:
Optional* Friend(s):
Optional* Love Interest(s):
Background:
"Is this stuff really necessary?" Desiree' asked, looking at Yuki curiously as she twiddled her pencil between her thumb and pointer finger.
Jessica shrugged, as she looked over the paper also, "Might as well make things how we want it then? All that can happen right now is that we are dreaming..."
She grabbed her pencil and started filling out the document.
Real Name: Jessica S.
Anime Name: Yuki Iseri
Age: 14
Appearance: Long red hair down to hips, pulled back and held by chopsticks. Blue/Green eyes.
Rank: Jounin
Fighting Style: Medical
Weapon: Two Tessen fans with retractable blades, sebon needles and surgical scalpels of various shapes and sizes.
Optional* Friend(s): Akuma
Optional* Love Interest(s): None
Background:
Desiree' sighed as she looked down at the sheet in front of her, 'Had a realized I would be needing to answer questionnaires, I would have stayed at home,' She placed the pencil to the paper and started answering the given questions.
Real Name: Desiree' T.
Anime Name: Akuma Yamauchi (Devil within the Mountains)
Age: 15
Appearance: Short blonde hair in a shoulder length bob cut, with olive green eyes and a pale complexion, fit, with black nail polish.
Rank: Jounin
Fighting Style: Genjutsu
Weapon: Windmill Shuriken, Standard Kunai and Three Point Kunai
Optional* Friend(s): Yuki
Optional* Love Interest(s): None
Background:
"Hey, Yuki...about the Background...what do we put there?" Desiree' asked curiously as she glanced up at her friend.
Jessica paused as she looked down at the page she had been writing on, "...If we are picking a Village to be in...I bet that since we have to be put into a village it would be suspicious if we just showed up out of the blue...so the information is probably going to go into the village database..." Jessica looked over to the woman, "..right?"
"That would be correct, but please include a believable past, something small, nothing to extravagant; we aren't out to impress the villagers and Kage's."
Desiree' nodded, "Right,"
Background: Born and raised in the Village Hidden in the Clouds, Kumogakura, both parents deceased, unknown causes, no siblings and no loyalties towards village. Left at thirteen and has wandered since then, considered missing nin, trained by the Hokage after both parents died when she was six.
"Is that believable? I mean, I didn't massacre my family, and I didn't put that I was trained by secret black Op's. AMBU, so...it's believable, right?" Desiree' asked sarcastically.
Background: Born and raised in the Village Hidden in the Sand, Sunagakura, both parents where originally from the Village in the Leaves, Konohagakura. After their death, at age fourteen, she was taken to Konohagakura where her last living relative lived, Kurenai Yuuhi.
Jessica looked the paper over again, "That good?" She thought it could be pretty believable, then again she did write about the Naruto world, enough to come up with these kinds of situations.
"Seems fine to me, I personally just want to get to the Naruto world!" Desiree' looked at the woman and frowned, "When do we go?" She questioned, shouldering her bag again and standing up straight.
"If you both will hand me your papers, then you will be sent there now."
Desiree' gave her paper to the beautiful woman and watched Jessica do the same before a white light formed below them before engulfing them completely in its resonance. As the light shined brighter, both girls took in the sight of one another one last time before darkness took them and unconsciousness found them.
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Yuki Note: well, I've always wanted to do a self insert, but had never gotten around to it...when Akuma and I had a small road trip I mentioned it to her...and this is the outcome of it! I hope everyone enjoys it, even though it isn't what we normally do!
Read and Review! Tell us what ya think of this new fic!
Akuma: Hey everyone~! This was a flip from what I'm used to, but I should say, that these moments are very realistic, because this is our life, morning till night, and we are keeping our personality the same as in real life, so we hope you enjoy, please, tell us what you think, read, and review~!
WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED!