The insides of my head rattled as our old red rusted ute drove over the dirty unsealed roads of the country. As I looked through the rusted window pane you could see the thousands of acres of cleared land used for farming. There were lines of trees as well, markings off different blocks of lands. Yet as I stared, I couldn't help but feel excited.

After living in a confined and small living space for most of my life, this was like a breath of fresh air. We lived in a small city which I considered more of a town. The place was beautiful, don't get me wrong. But the people there….not so much. The surroundings were all wonderfully built, and it stayed that way. But the country was so much better.

My parents were going away overseas and so they'd gone to the liberty of letting me stay at my older brother's farm, far out in the country. He was rich, unlike us. My parents house was small, old and falling apart and it wasn't surprising to find spiders living in your clothes if you left them on the ground for too long. Scorpions lived in other nooks and crannies as well as the lovely mice which left little brown bombings all around the floor. So when my parents told me I was going to the country, I couldn't wait!

And here I was, in our red ute driving with dad on our way to Luke's. My 'luggage' was in the back tray and we sat in the front listening to music with the windows wound down. It felt amazing. Every now and then you would spot a dam filled with water and disgusting sheep baking out in the sun or under the shade of a tree.

Most of all, the fact that it was the holidays meant I could watch as much anime as I wanted. And I knew exactly what I would be watching.
NARUTO!

It was my favourite anime. I even had little figurines of some of the characters. But that was as far as it went. I tried my absolute hardest to not get into an obsession. It was so easy to just watch hours of it without any breaks. I had to pace myself and force myself to take breaks so I didn't get square eyes.
Sometimes I would listen to my iPod and play epic songs, imagining myself living in the Ninja world and the world of Naruto. I would win major battles and become a member of Konoha village!

Calm down…

Then I closed my eyes and let my mind wander, imagining all the other stuff I could do at Luke's farm.

Soon I felt dad cut the engine and I opened my eyes.

'We're here.' He said and hopped out.'

I followed suit. Grabbing my bag out of the back, I followed dad down the dirt driveway. Being a farm, the outside of the house was dusty, but that did nothing to trample how amazing it looked. It was double story with a third story used as an attic and for stargazing. I'd done that a lot as a kid.
The house was alabaster white and had great elegant windows with a great set of double doors made of oak. The outside had vibrant green grass and an amazing garden which twisted all the way around the house. There was a huge trampoline built into the ground and a massive swimming pool surrounded by white tiles. There was also an amazing patio out back with an industrial table, hammock and a chandelier hanging down from the cover.
It was amazing.

They even had dirt track motorbikes which I road all the time as a kid. I loved this place. It was like heaven. And my brother's wife was the most amazing cook in the world. Able to buy so many expensive ingredients and make amazing dishes.
Dad and I walked inside and into the great open spaces of inside. We walked along the tiles and dad called out, 'Hey, ho! Anybody home?!'
Luke hollered from around the corner, 'Over here dad!'

We walked into the pristine white kitchen. This place was so freaking amazing my jaw dropped every time.

'Hey sis.' Luke said as he shook dad's hand.

'Hey!' I said, excited.

'Lucy will show you to your room.'

Lucy (Luke's wife) had been on their computer and came out of the study. For someone so rich, you would expect them to be all rich looking, but no. Luke was covered in dust and dirt from working out on the farm and had only come in for a break. Lucy wore some sort of stylish jumper-top-dress thingy. Which looked really cool with indie patterns along it.

Lucy took me upstairs and showed me the 'guest' bedroom where I would be staying. It was a large bedroom with a computer desk, a double bed, a bean bag and two great big windows allowing light to filter in and light up the whole room.
'This is amazing!'

Lucy smiled, 'I'm glad you like it.'

I nodded excitedly, 'Yep!'

She exited, 'Well, I'll let you get comfortable.'

She exited the room and I immediately began unpacking. I placed my drawing pad on the bean bag and my laptop on the computer desk. I hung my clothes up in the closet they'd given me and then fell back on the bed. Shoving on my earphones, I clicked play on my iPod and listened to some of the latest Naruto dubstep I'd downloaded at home.

Before I knew it, dad had left and I was here. Finally! I used my time wisely, I jumped on the trampoline and road the motorbike. It was a manual, so it took some time getting used to it again. Lucy had some business out in town so she wouldn't be back till late and Luke would be working till late as usual. It was a lot of work to maintain a farm. I had the house all to myself.

The giddy feeling rose in my stomach.

Then I couldn't help myself. I filled a few bowls up with food, walking into my room, shut the door and locked it. Then walked over to my laptop, turned it on and got comfortable. Hooking up to the internet, I watched the latest episode which had been created. I had had to force myself not to watch any Naruto for weeks so I could watch it all in one hit out here on the farm. My suffering had paid off.

As the sun began to set, I watched all the episodes I could. Naruto was so awesome! It never disappointed me even if there were a lot of sad moments.
Pretty soon the sun had set and there came a knock at my door with Lucy telling me it was time to go to sleep.

Sighing, I shut my laptop with great sadness. 'Don't worry.' I whispered, 'I'll watch more of you tomorrow.'

Then I got changed and hopped under the huge covers of my double bed. I then pulled out my Naruto pillow. Ok, yes, I was a tiny little bit obsessed. But with good intention. Then I listened to different songs as I usually did while trying to imagine myself in the world of Naruto.

I was getting up to an epic battle where I saved the whole town and Naruto from the greatest source of evil and was about to be praised by everyone, when the battery died. The music cut out and I blinked my eyes open.
'Wha-?'

I swore. 'Aw man, and just at the good part!'

My mind was buzzing with activity imagining all the stuff I'd seen on Naruto when pretty soon I was feeling sick. Why couldn't our world be this epic? While in Naruto they were making life altering decisions almost every day, the greatest life or death situation I was ever in was choosing what to eat for lunch. I wished more than anything that I could leave this world, everything, and go into Naruto's world.

That was when I closed my eyes and something brightened on the backs of my eyelids. It was a light blue colour. I opened my eyes. It was coming from the window.

Hesitantly I got out of bed in my PJ's and walked over to the window, overlooking acres of farmland. It was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything.
Then a brilliant bright flash of white light made me squint and pull back

'…the hell?'

I looked out the window again and narrowed my eyes. There was another flash of bright light and I caught movement overshadowing the light. It was fast, so fast I thought I'd imagined it.

The sick feeling in my gut disappeared and a new feeling appeared. It was a strange feeling. Yet as I stared at those brief flashes of light, something was prodding me along. An urge to see what it was.

That was when I decided to sneak out.

Opening my door with careful hands, I exited my room and carefully walked downstairs. Lucy and Luke were probably well asleep. It was past midnight anyway.

I walked into the kitchen the white flashes were like lightning, lighting up the whole house with an eerie light. Making shadows elongated and images pop into my head. Shivering and before I could think twice on what I was doing, I went outside.

I crossed the grass barefoot and walked through the gate barrier. My feet were now in dry soil and as I walked, I swore. Why hadn't I put on shoes? Dried up grass things jabbed into my feet as I made my way in the direction of the light. I was otherwise blind in the pitch black night. There was no moon tonight. So only the flashes of light could guide me in the right direction.

It was some distance away because after about five minutes of walking I felt like I hadn't gotten anywhere. But when I looked back at the house, I couldn't see anything. All the lights were off inside anyway.

Continuing my trek, the nearer I got, the more a feeling of dread began to swirl within me. What was this really? Why hadn't I stopped to think about how dangerous this could be?

But my feet kept walking.

As I neared about where it had been, there were no more flashes. Frowning, I continued to walk forward. Damn it, do NOT tell me I had been imagining this whole thing.

Before I could mentally boot myself in the head, a great explosion of light pushed me off my feet and sent me rolling in the sand. With the explosion of light came a great pain. The pain radiated through my body as it felt like something was entering me.

Coughing out sand and swearing, I stumbled to my feet. Just then I caught someone walking towards me. I held up my hand to stop them, but it felt like it weighed a hundred kilos and it fell to my side. I stared in bleary eyed horror as the figure walked towards me.

Then he was only a few feet in front of me. The one thing I noticed was how bright this guy's eyes were. A bright luminescent blue. Then before I knew what he was doing, he had placed both hands over my eyes and began saying words which made no sense to me at all.

I was rooted to the spot. I couldn't say anything, I couldn't move. I couldn't scream. But it wasn't like anyone could hear me way out here.

Then he brought his hands away and as he continued to speak, the bright light left his eyes and he fell to the ground. That freaked the crap out of me, but then I almost fainted when another guy came. My legs gave out beneath me and I fell the floor. My eyes were burning. But I couldn't look away as this other guy stood over me and began chanting in the same language as the other guy. As he chanted, I would have listened, but the burning in my eyes grew so severe that I blacked out.

It was as I fell to the floor that I heard only two words which I could actually recognise as my head hit the floor. Those two words I didn't understand at all. But I heard them nonetheless.

The words echoed in my head just before I lost consciousness. 'I'm sorry.'