Lizy here! I'm now proud to present a collaboration with a friend of mine, Imi (who is an awesome writer). Yes, you heard right, The Solaris Islands have hit Woo! And now for the disclaimer!

Disclaimer: Lizy and Imi do not own Naruto, we never have owned Naruto and we never will own Naruto….unfortunately. Because if we did, Itachi would be female, Gaara would be in love with Lizy and Naruto would have finally noticed Hinata's feelings for him. But alas, we do not, so don't sue!

STORY NO JUTSU! (I give all credit for this line to the people who made it up!)

Solaris Islands

Chapter 1

Alaida

Trudge. Trudge. Trudge.

Their slow paced and laborious walk was making her buzz with adrenaline and excitement and made her restless to get to their destination.

The Hidden Leaf Village.

Trudge. Trudge. Trudge.

It was almost unbearable to carry on at such a slow, tired walk when they were so close to the home of some of the greatest ninja's in the world!

Trudge. Trudge. Trudge.

Though she understood that it had been a long and weary journey, she couldn't understand why they weren't itching, like her, to just get in those gates, sample the food and question all the different ninjas about techniques, sample some more food, explore, eat some more and then have a rest!

Trudge. Trudge. Snap.

A twig broke beneath her foot and made her companions jump.

Why were they so on edge?

Alaida sighed and turned her back to the road to face her friends.

"Can we speed up a bit? I'm dying to get there! And you're just…slow!" Alaida whined pathetically to the two who seemed to be either contemplate various hideous ways to shut her up or how to ignore her. Alaida's startlingly green eyes brightened with glee. "Or..." Alaida thought, pausing for effect. "I could run on ahead and announce that you're coming!"

The dark haired boy with them looked as though he was about to protest, but before he could give her some useless piece of logic as to why she shouldn't, she said her thanks and sped off at a sprint down the long road to the gates of the village, her short brunet hair whipping behind her, flowing with her long tartan scarf.

The orange haired girl sighed and pulled out a piece of paper, rolling her grey-blue eyes in Alaida's general direction.

"She needs the document saying that we're invited, right?" The boy sighed shaking his head, his dark grey eyes closed, as though he was suffering a headache. The girl grinned and folded the official document back into her pocket,

"Yeh, but unfortunately we're conserving Chakra, so it might be a while until we can get her out of those ninja guard's clutches!"

"That's if they can catch her."

"Point taken." he said smiling. He suddenly turned around as he heard a disturbance in the bushes, drawing a kunai as he did. A rabbit hopped out. He stood up and sighed, "just a stupid rabbit."

"I like rabbits, thanks very much." his friend replied, sounding hurt, but grinning all the same. "Geez Takumi, you're so tense- Ohmigosh I can see it!" she squealed as they rounded the corner, turning to see the gates of the Village of the hidden leaf. She was so exited she started to rise into the air in glee, literally! Takumi hastily pulled her back down to normal level hissing at her.

"Naida, will you kindly keep your feet placed somewhere near the ground?!" he whispered cautiously to her as she struggled away from his grip, dusting herself off and grinning.

"Oh come on now! Lighten up! I know we're supposed to be ambassadors representing our country, but you've got to have a bit more fun with it! This place can't be all that different from home can it?" she said playfully as she faked walking all the way to the gates, holding up the permission scroll and explaining that the girl who ran by earlier was with them. Suddenly both travellers were alerted to trouble by what seemed like a very loud argument. Naida ran... err... glided off at incredible speed to the source of this disturbance, only to find her best friend Alaida arguing with... her scarf?

"I told you! Takumi has all our money we have to wait for them!" Alaida explained for about the fifth time, sighing as she attempted to carry on down the road. However, her scarf tugged tightly round her neck, pulling her to a stop, still outside the ramen shop.

"Can't we wait for them in here?" Pleaded the scarf, waving temptingly towards the shop. Alaida's mouth watered.

For days they'd only eaten specially made bread and other supplements that were just enough to keep their strength up – a far cry from the juicy fruits and plants that had covered her home island from tip to toe. Though she had never eaten this ramen she needed something that at least had a bit of tang to it.

Sighing, she relented to the scarf's pleas, and walked over to the ramen shop, to find that there was already someone sitting there, just ordering a dish of ramen.

The scarf, excited by the sudden powerful waft of meaty smells and unknown new vegetables pulled Alaida onto the stool, almost making her fly straight over the bar, much to her embarrassment.

So much for not drawing unnecessary attention! Alaida thought irritably.

Adjusting her position on her stool she smiled at the boy next to her, who was looking at her oddly. Alaida, horrified, pulled her scarf down by her sides, as she noticed it floating around in random directions, making sniffing noises.

"Eheheh… Hi! My names Alaida!" Alaida grinned awkwardly in her embarrassment, and then noticed this boy was a ninja. Interested, she studied him with her eyes, though she could sense a lot of Chakra, she wasn't sure this boy was a very high rank, considering the way he carried himself. Blue eyes blinked at her curiously and his blond hair stuck up in a way that reminded her of a freind of hers from home.

Alaida was tempted to use her special jutsu, but thought better of it, sensing it would either scare, or aggravate him.

"Urm, hi? I'm Naruto! Where are you from, you sure are wearing weird clothes!"

Alaida flinched at his forwardness, since all the people she'd met on this continent seemed to keep their distance and disapprove of her and her friends from afar.

"I'm from the Solaris islands… its quite far away from your Fire Country!" She added looking at his bewildered expression. "Anyway," She changed the subject, worrying that she may give too much information away. "What is… ramen?"

Naruto looked at her like she had just asked what air was. "... Th... they don't have ramen in your country?" he asked incredulously. Alaida shook her head, confused as to why this was such a big deal. Naruto looked like he had just choked on something. Then he quite suddenly shouted. "How do you live?!" Alaida was almost thrown off her stool by the sheer volume of these words. What actually knocked her off her stool was the two people who had come flying into the shop at high speed to see what the noise was about. Instantly recognising them, Alaida stood up and grinned apologetically. Takumi had his hands on his hips and an expression of pure annoyance and Naida was sniffing the air suspiciously.

"I thought I told you last night to keep a low profile?" There was a vein clearly twitching in his forehead as he slowly and carefully chose his words. There was a small whooshing sound as they flew straight over Alaida's head.

"Hi guys! This is Naruto! And I just found out that Ramen is a very important part of this country!" she said gleefully as she jumped off the floor. Naruto watched in confusion as the boy immediately took out his notebook and started furiously jotting notes down.

"Uh, don't tell me you guys have never eaten ramen before..." he said slowly. The two girls shook their heads and Naruto grinned. "Then I'll be happy to buy you your first bowl. Hey boss! 4 bowls of ramen!"

"Mou, Naruto, you've had like, 5 bowls already!" came a voice from the back of the shop.

"It's for these three! It's their first ramen ever!" And at this a surprisingly healthy looking man burst from the back of the shop grinning wildly.

"First ramen eh? Then this one's on the house!" he cried. Takumi lent over to Alaida.

"Is this ramen thing really that important?" he asked suspiciously. Naida overheard and whispered back.

"It might be like the tea ceremony back home!" she said excitedly. Alaida grinned.

"Well whatever it is it sure smells a lot better than that funky bread we've been eating! I say idatekimasu!" she declared as three bowls of steamy stuff were slid out from the kitchen. All three sat down and Takumi frowned.

"Uh... how do we eat it?" he asked confusedly. Naruto picked up two sticks that seemed lightly stuck together and gently pulled them apart in an example, then proceeded to show them how to hold them. It took a while but quite soon they were all ready. The call of "Idatekimasu!" went up as they all dug in, Takumi last off the mark, Naruto and Alaida first.

Takumi, attempting to be more civilised, drew attention away Alaida's unsocial munching and questioned Naruto about Konoha.

"So, I heard you have levels on this continent for different types of Ninja, am I correct?" Takumi sighed as he noticed Alaida's scarf hovering sadly around Alaida's near empty bowl.

That scarf… Takumi thought angrily.

"Urm, yeh! There's Genin, Chuunin and Jounin!" Naruto grinned and Takumi noted that he seemed rather pleased with himself for giving useful information to the new comers.

Not another Alaida.

Naruto, distracted briefly from his meal went on to explain that he had been training with a legendary "Sannin"by the name of Jiraiya and so was still a Genin, and although Takumi and Naida had no idea who this Jiraiya was, they listened politely. That is, until, Naida nudged Takumi hard in the ribs.

"What?" Hissed Takumi, but he didn't need an answer. Naruto's ramen, although he'd barely touched it, had vanished, and the culprit was now covered with chunks of meat and noodles which it kept picking up with small strands of its being and eating them too.

Naruto, turning to his bowl turned white, and his head slowly turned to the relaxing Alaida.

"WHERE'S MY RAMEN!?!?" Naruto yelled in Alaida's stunned face. Alaida glanced at the scarf hiding just behind her shoulder.

"I swear it wasn't me!" Defended Alaida, but to no avail and Naruto just grabbed her by the scarf and tugged her outside.

"You're going to pay for eating my RAMEN!" Takumi noticed Alaida's scarf trembling, though probably not from Naruto's outburst, but from Alaida cracking her knuckles.

"We better go and save them both…" Takumi sighed, getting up and throwing some money down on the counter.

"Who? Alaida and Scarf? Or Naruto and Scarf?" Smiled Naida, also leaving the Ramen bar to aid her friend.

Meanwhile outside, several kunai were being thrown and bouncing off each other due to the perfect aims of both users. Naruto was nearing a state of madness he was so upset, and he didn't seem to notice that Alaida's scarf was moving on it's own. Alaida seemed to be enjoying the pleasure of having what she supposed to be a spar with a real Konoha ninja. Unfortunately it wasn't all she'd expected it to be.

"You're serious? That's it? You're pathetic you know, come on! show me some jutsus or something!" she taunted, easily dodging some shuriken that came her way. Cart wheeling to the side, kunai inexplicably shot out from under her scarf, pinning Naruto's arm to a nearby wall. Tugging against it, but to no avail, Naruto seemed to get even more pissed off. Ripping his arm away from the wall, leaving several pieces of his clothes pinned there by kunai, he summoned his most well known jutsu.

"WHY YOU LITTLE - KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" he yelled at her. People seemed not to care as about 50 other Naruto's descended from nowhere.

This kind of thing must be normal in a town full of ninjas. Thought Naida with a sigh. And it can only get more frequent with these two.

Several waves of Naruto bushins were charging at Alaida, all yelling something about ramen, Takumi was tapping his foot on the floor impatiently and Naida was licking some ramen sauce off her fingertips, waiting for a possible intervention.

"Bunshins? You're kidding right?" Alaida chuckled. She took a deep breath in and closed her eyes. Chakra swelled up to her eyes and as she opened them her pupils had vanished leaving behind pure mint green. "Rokuagan!" she whispered. She could see that each of the clones had working chakra systems, which she did not expect as they were bunshin, perhaps bunshin were more advanced here, but she could also see though it and find the one that was fully human. Where was he...? Suddenly several ninjas jumped and prepared a flying punch. "LEFT!" She realised, sending kunai off in every direction, her scarf aiming seemingly deadly blows to all the kage bunshin, clearing the path for Alaida to use her ultimate defence. To knee Naruto in the part where it hurts a man most.

Takumi outwardly flinched from this manoeuvre, the memories of the experience being used on him at one point. Naida decided to stop the fight here, gliding swiftly between Alaida and a quivering Naruto. "And zee winners are; Alaida and The Scarf!" she held up Alaida's arm and the tail end of the scarf in a mock wrestling victory pose. Takumi made his way over to Naruto, trying to help him regain some of his hopelessly lost dignity.

"Ouch. You ok?" he questioned calmly, watching Alaida and the scarf take their bows.

"I swear that scarf talks." Takumi heard Naruto mutter and he paled slightly.

"Uh, what? You sound like a raving loony Naruto!" he proceeded the laugh in a rather out of character way. Then he backed his way over to Naida and Alaida, instantly grabbing them both on his way, pulling them into an ally. "Alaida-baka! He's figured out Scarf!" Alaida instantly pointed at her loosely hanging scarf.

"It was his fault!" she complained like a child. The Scarf end raised it's head up, the stitching forming almost a face.

"Well excuuuuuuuse me! I've gotta eat too you know!" it moaned right back. Alaida then proceeded to tie the place where it's face was into a knot. "HEY! Is that any way to treat the demon who has kept you safe for during your pitiful LIFE?!" came a muffled yell, which was swiftly ignored by the three.

"Anyway, will you keep that bloody thing under control?" Takumi said irritably. Alaida looked down at her symbiotic demon, who was struggling to untie himself. She sweat dropped and wondered why on earth it was her bad luck to be the first born in her family. Her bad luck to get stuck with a bloody demon scarf of all things. She sighed.

"You know I try Takumi-san." she sighed. "It's the whole symbiosis thing. He's just so... irritating!" At this the scarf scoffed, having considerably untied himself.

"I'm irritating?! I've been around longer than they probably teach you in history class! Your lack of knowledge is enough to drive me crazy! Don't they teach you anything good these days?!" he argued, rising up angrily. Alaida stared him down.

"You know what? Shut up!" she shouted back at it.

"Why don't you MAKE ME!" he retorted.

"Well BRING IT ON!"

"YOU'RE SO GOING DOWN!"

Naida and Takumi sighed in unison as the two attempted to strangle each other, neither gaining the upper hand. Eventually Naida whacked them both round the head and made them look directly at her.

"I'm going to say this once. Be quiet." she spoke quietly. There was a hint of warning in her voice. Anyone else would have shut up at that moment. But of course, then this story would not be nearly so interesting would it?

"But he-" started Alaida childish excuses forming on her lips.

"Alaida, you're my best friend, and I'm as excited about being here as you are. But if you don't close your gob, you'll reveal some valuable secrets." she said kindly to her, but still in a kind of scolding tone. The scarf looked smug, if an item of clothing can display that kind of emotion at all.

"Ha, you have been beaten by the demon again- eep!" he cowered as Naida put her face very close to his. Her expression was not a kind one at all.

"And as for you, you are a pathetic excuse for a demon. So don't you go announcing you're all high and mighty." she growled in that some voice she had used earlier, one that seemed to sound like two people speaking in unison from the same source. Suddenly there was a silent crack from above them and all for looked up. They were then landed upon by a very heavy object. Takumi pushed said object off him and the rest of the group, only to find it was Naruto. He picked him up by the collar and glared at him.

"Were you just eaves dropping on us?" he growled low. Naruto was brushing himself off as he hung there and glared straight back at Takumi in reply. Then he resumed staring at a very agitated Alaida who was on the floor and that scarf who was trying it's best to look like an innocent... well... scarf. He then noticed that Naida wasn't getting up. This was odd because he had mainly landed on Takumi, which was probably why he was the angriest. Takumi followed his gaze to his red headed friend and immediately dropped him, dashing over to her. Alaida soon noticed this too and ran over to help Takumi. The first thing they did was lift her off the floor. Naruto thought their behaviour very strange.

"Why are you picking her up so soon?" he asked. The two jumped, having almost forgotten Naruto was there. Takumi recovered himself and glared at him.

"Because she's not supposed to touch the ground." he growled angrily at him. "You wouldn't understand. You're far too stupid." At this Naruto managed to get away from Takumi's grasp. He stared angrily at him and confusedly at the young girl.

"I just wanted to know..." he said huffily, before making his way out of the ally by means of jumping. He sat on one of the roofs and thought. This was tough for him, seeing as it was not his forte. "Geez... I wonder what's up with them..." he huffed as he watched them jump out of the alleyway and head the opposite direction from him, towards the hokage tower. Naruto blinked. What did these people have to do with Granny Tsunade?

End chapter!

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