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' looked around curiously, staring up, she sighed. "In the middle of nowhere, I should find a map, ah…but I don't know where I am, so a map won't help me out too much either." Taking a few steps forward, she stopped at the sudden sound ruffling leaves. "She could have at least left me with Yuki...or a weapon..."
"Who are you?"
Turning, she looked into a pair of cold eyes of one of the many men she had only ever dreamed of meeting...not ever wanting to actually do so in real life...or as real as this was, if it was real. Hell, maybe she was still asleep!
"Your name,"
"My...Des-oh, um, Akuma...my name is Akuma Yamauchi." She looked at the skin, tinted blue, of the man in front of her. His eyes piercing, his voice strong, and hair dark blue...that wasn't saying anything about the large grin he had. "...you are...K-Kisame...and," she looked at the Samahade on his shoulder, "...and that is a really, really, big sword..."
He laughed, "Observant, aren't you..."
Akuma gave a small and nervous grin, "...not stupid, if that's what you mean."
He smiled, showing his white teeth, "What village are you from,"
'He hasn't killed me yet? LUCKY!' She smiled, "Last I checked, Kumogakure, although...I haven't seen my village for at least two years now, why so curious?" She turned and walked off, keeping her eyes peeled to the surrounding foliage as she searched for something. She wasn't all that sure what she was supposed to be changing to begin with, but guessed that she could figure it out as she went.
Coming to a stop at a river, she noticed her sharky shadow was still following her and watching her curiously. "Hmm?" She looked at her reflection, blond hair stopped in straight silky locks at her shoulders in a bob cut; her eyes were an olive green color which looked almost as if they were glowing. She was dressed in a net top with a form fitting sleeveless burgundy Gi that went past her bottom and was tied shut with a grey silk belt, black shorts were hidden beneath the Gi, and a pair of knee high tights and black sandals completed her look. She had her bag with her, and on her back was a large windmill shuriken, a belt with a couple pouches and some hoops holding near twelve kunai, half regular single blade kunai, and half tri-tip kunai. '...wow...oh Yuki, can you believe this?!'
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Jessica looked around and sighed, she was on a rooftop, great juuuust great. Looking up she sighed and sat down on the roof, and looked at the stars.
Just by the weather she could tell she was in Suna. It was hot and humid, even if it was night time. The wind that was blowing wasn't that bad.
'I wonder where Desi is!' Jessica thought closing her eyes briefly as her head was tilted back as if looking at the stars. She sat like this for a few moments until she heard movement.
Opening her eyes she was greeted with green eyes and a face close to her own, "What the hell!" With a yelp Jessica scrambled away, a hand on her heart trying to settle it down from jumping out of her chest. "You DON'T do that to people! Didn't anyon..." Her sentence was cut short by the rustling of sand making Jessica pale slightly.
Looking to where she just moved away from she was greeted with a person she wasn't really ready to meet yet, at least, not when he was in this stage.
"errrr." She blinked her eyes and looked at the emotionless face. He was looking at her as if trying to figure out something, "...hi?"
There was silence for a while before Jessica decided to speak again, "...how is…your night?" Not the best topic she could have picked, but can you really blame her. The person in front of her was someone who could kill her if she annoyed him enough, and she really didn't want to take that chance.
"..."
Jessica sighed, as she glanced at the other red head, she really didn't know what to say to him but the silence was getting to her. It was that and her being close to someone who had no quarrels on killing. "...You know you can talk, I'm not going to bite." These words slipped passed Jessica's lips before she could stop them. She really should learn to keep her mouth shut.
Jessica watched as there was a slight twitch to his lips making her eyes widen in surprise, 'I wonder if this means my little mess of not having a filter means I get to keep my life?..' The thought didn't get to go past that as someone interrupted it by talking.
"What's your name, girl?" Jessica blinked, his voice wasn't how she expected it to be. It wasn't how she heard it in the anime, it had a more quiet tone to it, but still had a hard voice, like someone who had authority.
"...Iseri..." Jessica said, blue eyes looking into green, "Yuki Iseri..." There was a pause before she continued, "...Is there something I can help you with Gaara-sama?"
She really didn't want to seem rude or anything, but she was really uncomfortable! The way he was looking at her made her want to shrink away, as if he could see right through her!
"Hmmm" Gaara glanced at her once more before he glanced to the left.
It was another Sand Ninja, and he was approaching fast, with one final look Gaara looked at the girl then disappeared in a swirl of sand.
"Iseri-san..." The ninja jumped onto the roof where she was and gave her a small smile.
"Yes..." Yuki sighed, looking at the new ninja. He seemed to be a couple years older than herself is she had to guess.
"The Kazekage would like to speak with you...it's about the mission your parents had left on a couple months ago..." the rest of the sentence trailed off as he gave her a sympathetic look.
"Okay...lead the way." Yuki went and followed the other ninja, a sigh leaving her lips again as she thought, '...Why didn't I want to stay with Desi again!...that's right...I wanted to go to the Leaf village...so why am I in Suna?!'
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Akuma looked back as she walked, Kisame was still following her, and this wouldn't confuse her nearly as much if it wasn't for the one thing that continuously bugged her. "...aren't you Itachi's partner?"
Kisame smirked, "Yeah, what about him?"
"...nothing really, just...where is he?"
"Do you want to meet him?"
Akuma shivered involuntarily at the idea, "No...not quite ready for that introduction, thank you for the offer though. I prefer you to Itachi, you are at least a conversationalist,"
"Haha, you must have met him already!"
"I wouldn't say that...more like...I've heard a lot about him, enough hopefully to keep on his good side..."
"He's not so bad,"
"You only think so because you both have the same profession," Akuma frowned, "I'm sure if I met him he'd see me as expendable,"
"Yeah, but then, you aren't planning on meeting him, are you?"
"...not yet...I guess not," She sighed, "Why are you following me? No, better question, why haven't you killed me yet?"
"Curiosity manly, you did kind of just appear in front of me."
"...vanishing jutsu...I have to reappear somewhere, don't I?"
Laughing, he nodded, "That's true...then maybe I just don't want to kill you, yet."
Akuma stopped and turned, "...and oddly, I'm okay with that!" she still wasn't sure why though. He was a murderer, and while most of the hottest men in Naruto were in fact in the Akatsuki...it didn't mean she was naive enough to believe they would welcome her with open arms. So...why was Kisame? "That still doesn't explain...why..."
He growled irritably, "Itachi is off doing something with his brother. Said something about making him stronger or whatever. Left me behind and now...I'm bored. You are clearly a talker, unlike my partner, if it makes you feel better, I will kill you once I meet back up with him."
Another involuntary shiver crawled up her spine, "No, that doesn't make me feel better..." she sighed, "So I'm just a replacement for Ita-! Wait, his brother..."
"Yeah, he's a couple years younger than you I think. How old are you?"
"Um...fifteen," Akuma mentally sighed upon a rather annoying realization, she was a twenty-two year old in a fifteen year old body!
"Ah, so he's three years younger than you are."
'Three years...he's twelve...so, does that mean he hasn't taken the Chuunin Exams? AH! Itachi's on his way to meet with Sasuke at the hotel where he goes after Naruto...but...Kisame is supposed to be with him...no, maybe it's something else...I'm pretty sure Sasuke didn't run into him until after the Chuunin Exams started...right? Augh! Why didn't I pay more attention to the series!'
"Hey, are you listening?"
"Huh?"
"I was saying that he does this often, he never does anything to his brother, just runs off to see if he's improving. I've been his partner for a long time now, and he does this once every couple of months and leaves me behind. I guess you can't take the big brother out of the monster, huh?"
"...yeah...I-I guess not..." a small frowned graced her lips as she continued walking with Kisame by her side, 'So it's not time for the Exams, but I think...they should be soon, I'm sure of it...I'll try calling Yuki later, after I ditch Kisame here...hopefully she doesn't get the same idea to call me before I do.'
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Yuki stood in front of the Kazekage, a sad look on her face. The people may not have really been her parents...but still it hurt to hear that she wouldn't have any family anymore.
"I am sorry for your loss." The Kazekage said, eyes looking sad but still had a cold far off look in them.
"Thank you..." Yuki murmured, as she gave a small bow; she didn't know how to really feel. Should she cry? "What will happen now?" she asked, not really knowing the protocol they had for situations like this.
The Kazekage sighed, "In your parents will, should anything happen to them they wanted you to go live with the last of your family, your mother's sister, in Konohamaru, the leaf village."
Yuki already knew most of what was going to happen because she did choose for this to happen but it still felt weird for this to actually be happening in real life, and not in a dream.
There was silence before the Kazekage broke it, "I shall need your headband back and you will be heading to the village in two days' time."
Yuki nodded as she gently touched her Suna headband, "...What if I don't want to be a Leaf Nin?"
The Kazekage raised an eyebrow as she looked at him, "Oh?"
Yuki nodded, "I don't have any loyalties to the Leaf village, so why should I wear there mark? I am a Suna Ninja...That is how I was raised; shouldn't I be able to stay as such?"
A small smirk crept onto the Kage's lips, "You are a loyal little thing aren't you."
Yuki tried not to twitch when being called little, she knew she was smaller than most girls but she was average high damn it! She wasn't little!
"Hmmm," The Kage leaned back in his chair and looked at her for a few minutes, "...You will be able to keep your headband...but you aren't going to be on active duty for Suna anymore." He paused looking her straight in the eyes, "Should you still want to be a Suna Ninja when you reach eighteen, your majority, you can have the choice on staying a Leaf Ninja or come back to Sand and being a Ninja here."
Yuki nodded, "I understand...Thank You."
The Kazekage gave her a nod, and stood up and grabbed something off his desk. As he stood in front of the young girl he sighed, holding out a pure white Kunai, "This is used to carve names into our memorial, I take it you know what needs to be done?"
Yuki nodded, she knew it was customary for a family member that is a Ninja or a Student, teacher or someone with a close relationship to put names on the memorial when said person was killed in action for the village, "Yes I know..." Gently she took the Kunai with a sigh.
The Kazekage nodded giving her a small smile as he patted her on the head, "All will be fine, come back later in the afternoon tomorrow and I shall give you more information on who you will be living with and other information you need before leaving to go to the Leaf Village."
Nodding again, Yuki gave a small bow and left the Kazekage's office.
'Well...that was interesting.' Yuki thought, '...he was definitely different than I thought he would be.'
Making her way out of the building Yuki knew she had to go to the memorial first and put her 'parents' names on the stone wall. Then she would go to the house she lived in here, or supposed to live in here.
'I wonder if a cell phone works here.' Yuki thought, she really wanted to get ahold of Akuma...but she had no way to really do that...she couldn't remember if the lady said if cell phones would work or not, 'Guess I'll find out later...'
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"Oi, Kisame, what village is that?" Akuma glanced from the hilltop she stood on overlooking a village in the distance.
Kisame walked forward a little, "That's Tea,"
"Ah, sounds yummy," She smiled, 'If that's Tea, we're in Fire! I finally know where I am!' She did a small little happy dance. "Can we go get something to eat or drink?"
"I don't see why not," He took the conical straw hat that had small ornamental torques and tassels dangling from it, which had been tied to his sword a while ago, and placed it on his head.
"...yeah...now you blend."
"Hush,"
Akuma laughed silently to herself, 'I guess if Tea doesn't recognize the cloak, its fine, but...I still don't see how the hat disguises them.' She shouldered her bag again and the two started towards Tea, 'This will at least give me a chance to break away from the friendly brute and try calling Yuki, please have your phone on you, Yuki!'
"So...would I be too imposing if I asked you how you became a member of the Akatsuki?"
"Would I be too imposing if I asked you why you don't seem to care if you are walking and talking with and Akatsuki member?" He threw back.
"Hm, I don't care if you are an Akatsuki member, you haven't done anything to make me personally hate you, so why should it matter?"
He shrugged, "I wasn't originally a part of the Akatsuki, I'm not sure how much I should tell you really...I guess, I was a normal nin before they found me, I was loyal to Mist, but things went downhill when I learned that my superior was leaking information, I killed him, took Samehada, replacing his as one of the Seven Swordsman. I was given the title Monster of the Hidden Mist...it stuck with me, even after I left...I think, somewhere along the line, I got lost in this illusion, and found myself unsure of why I was still there. They commended me for killing my fellow Kiri ninja, and honored me with the status of a Mist Swordsman...I saw the lie that I was living though...it was around that time that someone named Madara offered me a place as an Akatsuki member, talking about a world of truth...and while I was quite skeptical, I was enticed all the same. I was one of the first to join..."
Akuma looked at him curiously, she hadn't actually watched all of the show, or read any of the Manga, this one was more Yuki's forte...but just listening to Kisame, it made her wonder just what kind of lives the other members had lived. He didn't seem bad at all. He had killed to protect his village, he got lost on the way, he met Madara... "Madara..."
"Yeah, haven't seen him since I joined."
"But he introduced himself?"
"Oh yeah, Madara Uchiha, I asked Itachi about him once before, you should have seen Itachi's eyes, the way they narrowed..." He laughed, "I am sure, with Itachi, and especially with the Uchiha bloodline, looks can kill."
Akuma nodded to herself, 'Knew that already, definitely won't be doing any gazing upon his beautiful...beautiful eyes...' she sighed sadly.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing! Just...thirsty," she grinned, pointing ahead at a small shop, "I'm going to the washroom, I'll meet you at a table!"
He gave a nod and sat himself down at a table.
Akuma walked into the washroom in the back and she sighed, knocking on each door in the bathroom, she smiled when they all opened and no one was present. Pulling her cellphone from her bag, she immediately called Yuki, hoping her friend picked up her phone. After a couple rings, it went to voicemail. 'DAMN!' she sighed irritably. "Yuki, it's me, Desi! Call me...actually, don't call me, text me! We'll need to be careful from now until we meet up with one another, but until then, we'll keep in touch through text. I'm currently in the company of Kisame, so needless to say, if I stay on his good side, I'm well protected, if not...I want Iris's at my funeral! Talk to you soon, I hope. Bye~"
Akuma pressed the end button and placed the phone back in her bag as the door opened to reveal another woman who bowed and continued to the stall. Shaking her head, she went to a mirror and looked herself over again, it was still so weird, but what could she do?
Walking out of the bathroom, she walked to the table Kisame was at and sat down, "What do they have here?"
"Tea..."
"Funny, funny..." Akuma rolled her eyes, "Do you have herbal tea?" She asked the woman who walked up to her table.
"Yes, our special blend is in fact a herbal,"
"I'll have that."
The woman looked at Kisame, eyeing the hat curiously, "And you?"
"Anything," he grunted.
The woman jumped, bowed, and scampered away.
"You have a funny way with women,"
Kisame smirked, "You don't have a problem with it,"
Laughing, she shook her head, "So long as you don't kill me, I'll be your best friend, besides, you are good company, and not all like the rumors I've heard."
"Heh, try and remember, I wouldn't be a member of, you know what, if I wasn't as bad as those rumors."
'Yes, that's true...' She smiled, "still..." she looked out the window near them and noted the suns slow descent. 'It's pretty late; I hope Yuki is alright...'
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Yuki gently ran her name over the new carvings in the stone, the names of her parents, or the ones that were in this world. It was kind of weird to say they were her parents when they really weren't. She didn't know them at all, but she did feel like she had some kind of connection with them.
Iseri Haruka
Iseri Ketio
The names she spent carving most of the night in the stone, she hoped they were in a better place now.
Standing up she dusted her outfit off, it was still dark but there was light starting to creep up in the sky. If she had to guess a time she would say it was about six in the morning, but she wasn't really sure. She was going to head to her 'home' and get something to eat. Then she would see if she could call Akuma.
Slowly she made her way to the place that was put into her mind by the woman who sent her and Akuma to this world, the little trick she did on giving them knowledge was rather nice.
Least this way she actually knows where she is going, and not walking around stupidly looking for her own home. That would make some people wonder about her.
Finally when she arrived at her house she sighed in relief when she shut the door, and locking it out of habit.
"Home sweet home," Yuki muttered as she made her way through the house and into the kitchen. She really needed something to eat. She hadn't gotten to eat before she was sent here, and the night before she forgot to eat.
"Food, food, food, food." Yuki was humming the word in the rhythm of jingle bells as she opened the cabinets to see what she could find to eat, then quickly moved on to the fridge to see if anything struck her fancy.
A small smile came to her lips as she opened the fridge, "Raspberries! Yummm!"
Those were one of her favorite foods, that and strawberries and of course there was always the exception of chocolate. Grabbing the container of raspberries Yuki made her way to the sink and turned on the cold water.
She quickly washed the raspberries then shut the faucet off. Her hands still wet, dripping with water, she took a raspberry and put it in her mouth, the sweet but sour taste filling her mouth. She loved raspberries! She couldn't get enough of them.
Grabbing the rest of the container she gently shook it side to side to get the extra water out of the container and then made her way to her room. She wanted to see how she lived in this world. She bet it was better than her sorry excuse of a room she normally had.
Opening the door to her room she took a deep breath and stepped in and blinked. The room was interesting to say enough. She wasn't really complaining though. There were bookshelves covering all the walls but one, and on that wall were weapons instead.
'Do I have a weapon obsession I don't know about?' Yuki thought as she looked at the sharp objects mounted on the wall or leaning against it.
As she looked at the bed a small smile came to her lips, "My stuff!" There sitting on the bed was the stuff she brought to this world!
Sitting on her bed, she opened her bag and took her laptop out and sat it on the bed and quickly opened it and turned it on. She then grabbed her cellphone and was about to set in next to her computer when she noticed it was blinking at her.
Touching the screen on her cellphone it showed one missed call, and one new voicemail. Going to her voicemail app she clicked on it and held it to her ear and listened to her message.
She sighed and went to her text messages and found
'Akuma' so she could start texting her.
~I am in Suna right now, going to be heading to leaf in a couple of days. Where are you?~
Yuki pressed send and sat the phone down next to her computer and sighed.
"Today has been weird..." She typed in her password in her computer and quickly opened a word document when her normal screen popped up.
'I probably should change my background' Yuki thought as she looked at the shirtless group of boys on her computer consisting of Shikamaru, Gaara, and Kakashi. 'Yes...definitely need to change that...' She quickly opened her pictures and changed it to a Severus Snape background.
For the next ten minutes Yuki wrote on the word document putting her feelings and thoughts into typing. She started a diary...it would be good to write down daily occurrences that happened while in the different worlds for memory purposes...and to help her keep somewhat sane too.
Closing her laptop she shoved it by her pillow and grabbed her phone charger and plugged the usb connection into her computer then plugged the other end into her phone so it would charge. 'And now...I'm taking a nap' Yuki thought as she lay down and closed her eyes not noticing her phone blinking.
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Yuki: 'ello. Hope everyone liked this. It was a lot of fun to write. ^^ Though It turned out longer than we thought it would. Hope everyone likes it just the same! Read and Review! We would love your input!
Akuma: Hey and Hi everyone! Hope you all enjoyed this chapter as much as Yuki and I enjoyed writing it! We already started writing the third chapter and hopefully it will be out much, much sooner than this one was! Please leave us your thoughts~ JA!
