Hey there. This is Mikazuki. (:
This is the first chapter of our fanfic, The Forgotten Flame.

Oooohh..Mysterious-y, right? Haha. Okay. To start off, I wrote this with my best friends, so it's not just me behind the scenes. I'm just putting it up and stuff. (:

Alright, pay attention. This story has a sorta slow beginning. Just hang in there. (A/N: We start off in the real world first. Sorta like that movie, umm..I forgot its name, but you know what I'm talking about, right?) There'll be plenty of retarded, funny, exciting, heart-stopping, gut-busting Naruto action later. Just chill and read, 'kay? Thanks. We hope you like it! 333

Disclaimer: I can't truthfully say Naruto or any of its characters or plot or amazing ninja-ness belong to me or any of my friends. Sorry to disappoint you. ): But on the bright side, all the OC's and my cat do, in fact, belong to me and my friends because (you guessed it) they're us!

The Forgotten Flame

Chapter 1

"So we'll meet at my house right after school, right?" the long, curly-haired brunette asked. She had deep, dark-brown eyes. "So why don't you guys just come home with me on my bus instead of tiring your parents out trying to find my house? – It's, like, in the middle of nowhere; jeez!"

"I've already asked my mom. She said it's fine, Mika," the long, straight-haired, dark-red-headed girl answered. She had gray-ish hazel eyes. "How about you guys? Haruka?"

"I'll call my mom right now," the average-length, black-haired girl replied. She had brown eyes as well, but a slightly lighter shade than her friend's. "Can I borrow one of you guys' cell phones?"

"Sure, sure, Haru," Mikazuki handed Haruka her phone.

"Uh..I could just walk to Mika's house, Rei," the shoulder-length, black-haired girl replied. She, too, had brown eyes; a shade in the middle. Lighter than Mikazuki's but darker than Haruka's. "Besides, I have to make sure my sister makes it home okay. So, I'll just walk over later, 'kay?"

"Hmm.. 'kay! We'll see you later, Suki!" Mikazuki was clearly over-excited.

Haruka handed Mikazuki her phone back, "My mom's okay with it. But I can't stay long."

"Oh poo. Don't get me down before we even get to my house. Jeez. Oh! But you guys are gonna…" and Mikazuki began rambling about some random, foreign topic that only made sense to her.

Rei sighed. "Some idiot must have given her sugar during lunch," she whispered.

Suki and Haruka giggled, and Suki ran off to find her bus, while Mikazuki led the two remaining girls to her bus.

The three girls quickly filled in a three-seater and began mindlessly talking for the majority of the bus ride until Haruka brought up Naruto.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh! I've got a new Naruto poster hanging above my bed in my room. It's sooo cool!" Mikazuki burst out.

At the word 'Naruto,' Rei's face brightened up, "Eeep! Where'd you get it from?" Rei asked, her eyes bigger than a fish's.

Mikazuki's face was full of pride, "Hehe..Suki got it for me as a souvenir from her last trip!"



"…" Rei was speechless for a second. It didn't last long, though, "Cool. Which characters are on it?"

"Hmm..You'll see when we get to my house," she clearly enjoyed teasing her friend.

"Ugh. You're so evil," Rei squeaked.

"I'd rather have it as a surprise anyway, so it's fine by me. Besides, I wanna see Sylvester again," Haruka threw in.

"Who..Oh, you mean my cat? Don't call him Sylvester. It's such a long name. Call him Festic, like I do. He's too retarded to respond to his own name, anyway," Mikazuki pouted. "Oh, and if Haru's okay with it, then you can deal, too, Rei. So, neener, neener, neener, Rei!" she stuck out her tongue.

"I. Hate. You," Rei breathed.

"Well, anyway…" and Haruka started them off on another topic.

"Ohh!" Mikazuki burst out suddenly. The two other girls stopped and looked at her. "Uhm..we just passed my stop.." she scratched the back of her head.

"Let's get off, quick!" Haruka replied.

They quickly ran off the bus, then followed Mikazuki all the way up the hill-like street, and into her development. They walked two or three houses down, and Mikazuki started up the driveway, but her friends just kept walking.

"Uhh..Where are you two going?" she looked skeptically at them.

"I dunno. All the houses in your development look the same," Rei answered. She had a confused look on her face.

"You, I can understand. You've never been over my house before; but Haru, you've been over a couple of times before. I feel just a little disappointed."

"Uhh..I can't really think of a good excuse…" Haruka answered, looking ashamed.

Mikazuki rolled her eyes, "Right. Aaanywayss, come on." She led them into her house.

"Naruto. Poster. NOW!" were Rei's only words.

"B-but..I wanna see Syl-.." she quickly caught her mistake and corrected herself, "Uhh..Festic, first." Haruka made a puppy-face.

So Mikazuki picked up her large, over-weight, black-and-white cat and stuffed it in Haruka's face, "Uh. Sure. Here, he's all yours," she muttered, distracted.

"That's not quite what I meant!" Haruka yelled through the cat's fur. By the time she was able to detach the lardy cat from her face, the two other girls had already zoomed up the stairs and into Mikazuki's room. She sighed, and, while carrying Festic, walked carefully up the stairs. Seeing the others' backpacks by the edge of the staircase, she quickly dumped off her stuff with theirs and ran into the room.

Up there, on the wall, right above her bed, was a new, shiny poster with several Naruto characters on it.

"Aw dammit. I want one.." Rei complained. "How come she didn't get m – " the doorbell cut her off.

"Suki!" Mikazuki jumped up. She raced out of the room and down the stairs to open the door.

"That was quick," Haruka commented, "I thought it would take longer for Suki to come."

"Well, remember. We did miss Mika's stop and it took a while to walk all the way up the street," Rei answered.

"Hey! Come on upstairs; everyone's waiting!" Mikazuki whined.

"Yeah..I know. Let me just put my jacket down; I don't wanna leave it on the floor."



"Hehe. Don't care, come. NOW!" she laughed and grabbed Suki's wrist, dragging her up the stairs. As they reached the top step, Suki's backpack and flew off her shoulder, landing conveniently in the pile of everyone's stuff.

Suki grumbled, "You made me stub my toe on the stairs.."

"Oh. Sorry. I just got a little over-excited, I guess.." Mikazuki apologized, not looking the least bit sorry.

"A LITTLE?!" the three other girls repeated sarcastically.

Mikazuki gave them a death glare, "…If I was a ninja, I'd sooo be hurling kunai at your faces right now."

"Oh, me too! Dammit. I wish we could really live in the shinobi world. That. Would. Be. Awesome!" Rei replied.

"Me dos. I wanna meet Naruto and all the other characters," Mikazuki sighed.

"Me three!" Haruka chirped.

"Me four.." they sat in silence for a minute, then Suki gasped, "Wait, did you all just see that?"

There, on the poster in front of them, Naruto's eyes were glowing. The whole room went dark except for his and one of the four girls' eyes.

"Kinda hard to miss, don't you think?" Mikazuki replied sarcastically.

"Uhh..Freaky, much?" Rei commented.
"Aaakwaaard.." Mikazuki threw in.

"Yeeeek!" Haruka screeched.

"I feel sleepy all of a sudd – " Suki couldn't finish because, mid-sentence, all four girls fell asleep simultaneously.

"Who are they?" a voice whispered.

"Shh! Naruto, you're gonna wake them up!" a second voice snapped.

"Both of you, shut up," a third voice growled.

"Sorry Sasuke," the second voice apologized.

"Don't apologize, Sakura!" Naruto was outraged, "It's not your fault he's got something up his – "

"Mmm..buh…hooooo..bah….laaaaaaaa!"

"Oh my god, she's alive!" Naruto jumped back.

Suki yawned and slowly got up. She couldn't believe her eyes, "Holy..!" In front of her was Squad-7 from Naruto, aka: Naruto's squad! "But.." she thought, "how?" She examined her hand, "Oh. Em. Gee. I'm animated?! But how..?"

"Hey," Naruto interrupted her thoughts, "Who are you and your friends? You're not of the Leaf Village, and it doesn't appear that you're from any other village, so we're taking you four to the Hokage to see what he makes of you," Naruto looked directly at her.

"Clearly, she's too confused to reply," Sasuke put in, "Sakura, you and Naruto see if you can wake up her friends. I'll see if I can get any information out of her."

He kneeled down and began asking her simple questions. Sakura seemed happy enough to follow his orders, but Naruto was a different story completely. He clearly didn't like taking orders from Sasuke, but, knowing that he didn't have a better plan, he turned and joined Sakura. Sasuke's comrades shook awake two of the other girls. They walked back to where Sasuke and Suki were.



"We were able to wake up these two," Sakura reported, "but the last one refuses to get up."

The three foreigners looked over to see Mikazuki out cold. Large sweat-drops appeared near their heads. "Oh man, that is sooo cool," Rei squeaked, "we can sweat-drop in the Naruto world!"

"..What?" Sakura asked. "Uhh..Never mind..So, what do we do about their last friend?"

"We should probably just leave her here," Sasuke answered.

"Maybe she's dead," Naruto remarked.

"What?!" Haruka screeched.

"Naruto!" Sakura whacked him in the head.

Suddenly, Suki's, Rei's, and Haruka's faces turned very serious. They nodded to each other, mutually agreeing on something. Squad-7 watched them curiously.

They walked over to Mikazuki's body and surrounded her on all sides. Suddenly, they all jabbed their fingers into her stomach.

Mikazuki giggled and woke up, "Hey..what's going on? How long was I asleep?..And I think one of you guys missed my stomach and accidentally punched my ribs.." she complained, rubbing her side.

"Sh-she woke up to..t-ti-tickling?!" Squad-7' mouths all dropped open and sweat-drops ran down the sides of their faces.

All of a sudden, the fact that they were animated characters in the Naruto world dawned on her. "Whooah. Hold up!" she gasped, making Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto all look down at her. "Uhh..Foreigners' meeting..NOW!" she hissed, scrambling up onto her feet. "Uhmm..not you guys, sorry.." she looked apologetically at Squad-7.

The four girls huddled up. "Okay..Explain to me..how, why, and how we're here," Mikazuki demanded.

"Mika, we don't know, either. All we know is that everyone in your room, after we made that wish, came here," Rei spoke up.

"You said 'how' twice," Haruka added quietly.

Mikazuki frowned, "So? Who cares if I said it twi – ..wait!" She gasped, "Haru, you brought my cat up to my room with you, right?"

Haruka's eyes widened, "Yeah! I did! Does that mean Festic's here, too?!"

End of Chapter 1 of The Forgotten Flame

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Uhmm..Chapter 2'll be up when we get 3-4-ish reviews or so, mm'kay?