Prologue: Behind The Glass Door

"What do you mean by 'they have vanished'? That's impossible." She raised her voice.

"I know it's hard to believe, but that's what happened, Tsunade-sama." he said while he hands out his report.

"Yamato, hire some experts with some of the ANBU specialists." Tsunade turns over the pages of his report.

Yamato grabs it and turns around, "I will."

"HIKARI!!!" an old man's voice was heard, shouting!

She is lying on the bed. She looked on the clock and saw it was 8:45 am. She stood up from her bed and stretched her arms wide.

"Grandpa is so weird. Waking me up so early at Saturday is not cool." she said to herself while she opened her door. She walks down the stairs, "I'm already awake, Grandpa. See?"

"That's not the point, Hikari." her grandpa, sitting on the couch, said while he turns off the TV. From the gesture her grandpa is showing, she already knows that there's something wrong that she had just done.

"What did I do now?" she clumsily sat on the couch and held a pillow.

"The High School Department of your school called. Would you like to hear the bad or the good news, dear?"

She grumbled, "The bad."

"They informed me that you wrote 'Q is a SLUT' on the hallway early morning last week."

"Hmpft!" she puts her feet on the couch.

"And... The good news is..."

"Oh, I wonder..." she said while she puts her chin on her hand.

"You'll have no classes for two weeks!"her grandpa said and Hikari's jaw dropped (anime style),"You're suspended."

"..." Hikari is left speechless.

"Anything you want to say, dear?" her grandpa stood up.

"They can't do that! I... I... I'll miss the whole Festival. We also have a show at the Gym." she protested

"When?"

"This Monday!" she stood up

"Then, in Monday it is. I'll go to your school."

"To protest for me?" she smiled.

"No. To watch the cheerdance and eat those free food." her grandpa said as she lamely sat down again.

"Great! My own grandfather is abandoning me."

"You silly! Pack your things. I'll send you somewhere where the day is shorter."

"The day is shorter?"

"Yeah... twenty hours is equal to one day in there."

"Are you kidding me?"

"C'mon... You'll leave at exactly one o'clock."

"Will Kyou join me?"

"Hey... He isn't suspended for two weeks like you, you know."

"Err... Fine! Just let me have my breakfast."

"Okay."

"-...-"

Hikari Hamasaki. The long black-haired and purple eyed fifteen-year-old troublemaker. She is a great modern dancer and an athletic swimmer. She has a short-tempered mind and an outgoing personality. Her only family members are her grandfather and her 13-yr-old cousin, Kyou. Her grandpa was lost for 11 years and then, he showed up again. After two years, Kyou and Hikari's parents died on a car accident. From that moment, Hikari started to do more troubles than usual ones. It's no longer a surprise for her grandpa that she's suspend. She's in her second school. She had been kicked out in school for the last 6 months.

"-...-"

Time passed. It's already 12:40 pm. Silence fills the whole house. Hikari carries her baggage. She's wearing a fashionable unzipped jacket, a tank top and jeans.

"Grandpa..." Hikari called while she puts her baggage on the floor of their living room, "I'm ready to go now. What station should I take?"

"Station?" her grandpa said while he walked out of the kitchen ang looked at her from top to bottom ridiculously, "Go upstairs on my room. There's a dress there and I want you to wear it."

"What? The one that I'm wearing right now is cooler than the dress you want me to wear just now." Hikari crossed her arms.

"Well, let's put it this way. If you'll go swim training with that attire. They'll make fun of you. Since, the place you're going in is exotic. They would likely to make fun of your clothes."

"I suppose they're not from Earth." she said, "And... Why should I?"

"C'mon... You wouldn't really be doing this if you weren't suspended. Maybe you'll like it."

"Err... But you said it yourself. It's exotic."

"Go ahead and try it."

Hikari went up stairs to her grandfather's room and saw a (modern) stylish, ninja outfit (with lots of net-- in her whole arms and legs) on her grandfather's bed. She was stunned and excitedly tried it on. "Wow! It fits exactly on me!" She exclaimed and picked her clothes up and wore her rubber shoes.

"Hmm... Too bad there's no shoe to fit this." she said to herself while she looked at the long mirror in front of her grandpa's bed. Then, she noticed a glass, sliding door. Through the glass door, she saw rows of shelves with nothing placed on it. Her curiosity strikes and open the sliding door while holding her clothes on her arms and saw numerous weapons.

"Shurikens and Kunais? Grandpa is now really freaking me out." she said while she nervously get a pouch of kunais and wraps it on her thigh. She also wore a belt of medicine test tube-like.

"Wow... It's fashionably loose... Cool...!" she said while she noticed a pack of shurikens and most of all, three big shurikens displayed on the wall. Her eyes sparkles at every Shuriken she sees. "Okay, I'll get maybe five of it... no... i'll make it... hmm... ALL!" she giggled, "And just one big of it." she assumed while she tries and holds the big Shuriken with two hands on the ring of it. "It's really heavy. How can this big thing handle only by a nail on a wooden wall? Wait, when I was looking at the glass mirror it had nothing inside of this room. To think of it, I never really knew there's a room like this in here." she said to herself and accidentally fell the big shuriken on the floor.

"Uh-oh!" she sweated and tries to pull it back. Meanwhile, her grandpa notice the ashes from the ceiling.

"HIKARI!" her grandpa shouted while he quickly rush to the room (ninja style), "Don't...!"

Suddenly, Hikari got the shuriken off the floor but bumps on the glass door that warps her and her things... somewhere... where you know.

"Err..." her grandpa said after he opens the glass door, "...You forgot your baggage and lunchbox, Hikari."

"I'm home!" Kyou said downstairs, arriving home from school. "Why is there a baggage here? Did someone just arrive?"

"Welcome home, Kyou! You're home early. I thought practice was until 3?" his grandpa said while he walks down the stairs.

"Well, My sensei told me to have a rest because of my fractured ankle last month."

"Oh, food is there on the table. I'll just carry this baggage upstairs."

"Whose baggage is that?"

"Your cousin's."

"Why? Where will she go?"

"She's already gone. She quite frogot it."

"She forgot her baggage...? Man! She's totally creeping me out."

"Me either." her grandpa said while he picks her baggage and carries it onto the glass door.