It had been a month since the end of the fourth Great Ninja War across the five great Shinobi nations, and the first action almost immediately after the dust settled was the appointing of new leaders, called Kages, for their villages. Change after War was inevitable, but there were exceptions, and some things remained: the role of Kazekage (for the town Sunagakure) was left to the wise existing leader and protector who was known as Gaara; the people of the land still held ceremonies of homage to the inevitable losses of war; and there was the tentative pardoning and acceptance of Sasuke- someone that, despite saving the world, had previously only been known as a criminal and rogue ninja. For this reason, he was watched vigilantly, to ensure there would be no slip back to the former life of corruption.
Naruto, the other well known (and truly beloved) war hero, had suffered greatly through the battles alongside Sasuke. They had each lost an arm- ironically, while fighting one another- and so Kakashi, the new Hokage of Konoha, was with the previous leader of Konoha, overseeing the creation of two replacement prosthetic arms. The ninjas were quite fortunate that Tsunade, a woman truly skilled with medical ninjutsu and medical knowledge, was the one commissioned to create the new arms.
As peace and stability settled throughout the nations, the war heroes had returned to Konoha to hone their combat skills in a newly created training zone. Though they were heroes, they were still closely monitored by a group of ANBU- specially trained tactical ninjas. Their friend Sai, also a member of ANBU, was keeping an especially close eye on Sasuke and Naruto as they sparred with various bodily techniques known as Taijutsu.
"Is that all that you can do-ttebayo?" smirked Naruto while easily avoiding all of Sasuke's attacks.
"Heh…" was the only response, as Sasuke launched into progressively faster movement.
"... How long have they been doing this?" A girl with light pink hair and green eyes stepped out from behind a tree, directing her question to Sai.
"Hmmm.. seems to be the typical amount of time for these guys." replied Sai, who seemed to land next to her from out of nowhere. He held the faint ghost of a smile on his lips.
"Hi Sakura-chan!" Naruto had spotted the girl when she came out from behind the tree, and the training came to a halt.
"Hi Naruto, Sasuke-kun." she replied with a smile. "I brought you some snacks. I noticed it's getting late, and I thought that…"
"Oh yeah! Thanks Sakura-chan dattebayo!" Naruto interrupted her excitedly, and with inhuman agility, jumped down from where he was standing in a tree, to beside Sai and Sakura.
"Hn." said Sasuke, who followed right behind with a jump of his own.
"I hope that you two didn't spend all morning…" Sakura started to say and noticed that Sai still held his typical, scant smile. "Again, really?" Sai nodded. "Why doesn't that surprise me," she sighed.
"Hey…" Naruto swallowed what he had in his mouth. "This is delicious! Where did you buy it?" he asked.
"Naruto… leave some for everyone else!" Sakura said with irritation.
They were happily enjoying their snacks together, when all of a sudden, intense light from the sky blinded everyone temporarily.
"What was that?" asked Naruto, disconcerted.
"No idea," replied Sasuke, but he was off in an instant, headed towards where the light seemed to originate.
"Wait dattebayo!" he called out, and went after Sasuke.
"Arg… these two… always the same! Sai, go and report what had happened to Kakashi-sama." Sakura said quickly before she went after the other two.
"Already on it," Sai replied, sending an ink bird off in the direction of the Hokage tower, before making a superhuman leap to try and catch up with them.
"What… is that…?" Naruto stopped and asked in confusion as he eyed the large, bird-like object glistening in the sun overhead.
"No idea… no idea, dobe," said Sasuke who had stopped beside him. He activated his sharingan, a power that enhanced his vision and allowed him to check for life force energy. "I don't detect any signs of chakra, but…"
"Ahh… I know…" Naruto activated his Sennin mode to try and gain more understanding about the object. "There are people... inside… whatever that is."
"You said there are people inside, but there's not any signs of chakra? How's that possible? Sasuke-kun…" said Sakura.
"And Sasuke-kun… what about that strange form?" asked Sai while pointing to the portal which was the reason for the extra light.
"I have no idea… I can't even see any sign of jutsu whatsoever."
"But, is that even possible?!" Sakura looked almost panicked when she asked.
"Look- There is someone on the top of it- there!" Naruto pointed to the akuma victim standing on the outside of the airplane.
"I know, dobe." Sasuke replied with annoyance.
"Hey, teme… if you knew… why didn't you say anything… huh?"
"Would you two shut up for once-sha!" said Sakura.
"I suggest that before jumping to attack as a group, we should analyse the situation more…" Sai told them.
"MUHAHAHAHA I DID IT… WELCOME TO YOUR NEW REALITY… A BRAND NEW DIMENSION- A GIFT FROM ME TO YOU!" cried the akuma triumphantly.
"Oh no, no, no… No you don't!" said Naruto, and he jumped straight up to attack the akuma and send her back from where she came. "I won't let someone else that controls dimensions attack us again!"
"Usuratonkachi…" said Sasuke before he also jumped to attack.
"Ah? And who are you?" asked the akuma, unsettled.
"I could ask the same-ttebayo," Naruto countered, and threw his fist at her in attack.
"Hn!" grunted Sasuke who threw a kick at the akuma, in sync with Naruto.
"NOOOOOOOO…" screamed the akuma, as the force of their attack threw her back through the portal she had arrived from with the plane. They leapt down, and quickly landed back on the ground beside Sakura and Sai.
"That was easy!" commented Naruto.
"Too easy, if you ask me…" said Sakura.
"Hn…" said Sasuke.
"Guys... that thing is still moving forward…" commented Sai.
"Hey, that's no fair… go back from where you came!" shouted Naruto.
"Dobe… first we should stop it…" said Sasuke. He was trying to formulate a plan from his position on the ground, when he noticed a hole in the side of the flying object- the open door that the akuma left.
"Hey, don't call me dobe… what are you looking at?"
"That..." he pointed to the opening.
"Ohh…" with a calculated effort, Naruto leapt from the ground and easily landed inside the aircraft..
"Dobe…" Sasuke jumped in from behind him.
The two ninjas found themselves inside the flying object, in the midst of what looked to be a large gathering of people. However, none of the faces aboard seemed too pleased with their situation- they looked absolutely terrified. And with good reason- the captain of the aircraft had given some non-convincing directive about putting on oxygen masks and half-baked assurances that they would be doing everything within their power to turn the plane around and return through the portal, but it had only been mere moments after the akuma had declared victory. Everything was happening so fast!
"And who are those two supposed to be?" thought Marinette from her seat, when she witnessed the ninjas boarding the plane. "What should I do?"
"This is weird-ttebayo, there are so many people," said Naruto.
"Hn…" said Sasuke.
"Hey, teme, how do we stop this thing?"
"Hey, Mari," whispered Alya "They aren't Ladybug or Chat Noir… but they ARE heroes, right?" she finally remembered her phone, and picked it up from where it had fallen between her outer thigh and the seat.
"I don't know, Alya," Marinette replied in a panicked whisper.
"Hey, dudes… I don't think recording them is a good idea..." Nino whispered over when he saw what Alya was doing.
"You know, I don't want to get in another plane for the rest of my life!" Adrien groaned. "Me and my bad luck. It's not enough that I'm somehow going to have to stop that akuma, but… if I didn't know better, I would say that these two are Naruto and Sasuke from the manga 'Naruto'" he thought to himself.
There was a moment of silence while Naruto and Sasuke were scanning over the faces on the plane, and noticed all were obviously terrified. They went to the cockpit, where the person in charge of controlling the unknown device was as terrified, or more, than the rest of the people. While there, they noticed that the light coming from the portal had disappeared and that the flying object seemed to be getting closer to the ground.
"Dobe, I think that maybe we should get away from here…" said Sasuke.
"Teme… I agree… I don't like this at all. From the looks of things, they're somehow victims and in trouble?"
"T-this is a c-commercial, t-tourist plane…" said the pilot nervously, "and we noticed that the portal c-closed when the akuma went through it… This plane is going down- we need to land immediately!"
"Understood." said Sasuke "What do you need to happen?"
"Well… we are going to crash there unless there's a miracle first..." the pilot pointed to the trees below on the ground.
"Let's go, dobe, we have to clear a path for them!" After saying that, Sasuke left the interior of the plane, using his chakra power to run along the outside of it.
"Teme..." Naruto muttered, and exited the aircraft after Sasuke.
"So... curious characters," commented Alya once she had ended her recording, and put her mobile phone securely in her pocket.
"Yeah..." her three friends said in unison.
"I don't believe it… yes, they really are Naruto and Sasuke… but none of this happened in the manga... based on their clothing, and missing arms… I would say that is just after the war…? Aahhhh! What's happening?" thought Adrien.
Meanwhile, outside of the plane, Sakura and Sai were following the path of the aircraft, hastily jumping from treetop to treetop. They watched as Naruto and Sasuke vaulted out of the open hole in the side of the plane.
"Naruto, Sasuke-kun, what's happening?" asked Sakura when Naruto and Sasuke joined them in the branches.
"There is no time… we have to clean this area-ttebayo!" Naruto said urgently, and using his chakra, he activated his Kurama mode for a boost of strength and energy, and began clearing a landing pathway.
"Hn…" Sasuke replied and activated his super power called Susanoo.
Sakura watched for half a moment, before she cried out, "Understood- Shannaro!" She launched herself at a nearby tree and destroyed it with a single hit.
"When they're like this, It's easy to recognise they're the same Team Seven they've always been… Kakashi-sama was right… they are incredible." thought Sai. He created one of his ink birds and hopped on top of it to head after them, and he watched as the three ninjas completely cleared the area. He saw a couple of ANBU's partially concealed in the treetops- they were in charge of watching over Sasuke, and had been monitoring him in the village for a little while. "I know that their mission is stop him if he tries anything, but… this IS Sasuke-kun, and he IS helping after all…" He thought about the ANBU's constant presence for another moment, before looking back up to the foreign flying object. He was just in time to see the plane begin to touch down on the ground. The landing gear and wheels of the plane almost dug into the terrain, but surprisingly didn't break off with the rough landing. The air flowing past the wing flaps and air brakes of the plane whistled frighteningly as the plane jostled along the hastily built path, and it quickly slowed to a halt. "Wow, that thing is already on the ground…" he said under his breath.
"We should check if everyone is alright!" said Naruto.
"What do you mean everyone, Naruto? Explain yourself… " said Sakura.
"The people…"
"There are actually people inside?" asked Sakura pointing to the plane. "So, what exactly is all this about… what IS that?"
"Ah…mmm…hey Sasuke, what did that weird old man call it?"
"He called it plane… tourist…?"
"Never heard of that… not even while I was in Root…" commented Sai.
"This is definitely strange… there are no chakras in their bodies and there is no doubt that they came from a portal to another dimension. What really doesn't make any sense is that the portal doesn't look be part of a jutsu… because there is no chakra…" said Sasuke.
"I still don't understand, Sasuke-kun… how that even possible?" asked Sakura.
"I was only able to notice the amount of people because I went into Sennin mode… this is very weird." added Naruto.
"Then that light from before… it was a portal that closed? If that wasn't a jutsu…" Sakura began to say, but was interrupted.
"Alright. Now I have seen everything." said a voice that made all four of them turn around.
"Hey… Kakashi-sensei… what are you doing here?" said Naruto.
"…" Kakashi sighed. "Naruto… as Hokage, it is my duty to protect Konoha and its people, right? Also, I had to see this with my own eyes… not just the ink drawing from Sai."
"Hn…" said Sasuke.
Just then, there was commotion and raised voices heard from the direction of the plane. More openings had appeared on the 'people container'. Something long and yellow was rolled out from these doorways, and started expanding. Eventually, the yellow object began to look like a plank, and people started hastily sliding down from the doorways so they could reach the ground. Some of the people who exited the plane were crying, some looked confused, and one had knelt down and started kissing the dirt and rocks. Most people loitered at the bottom of the aircraft, looking a bit lost, while others began to collect themselves into little groups.
On the ground in this new land, the staff and students of Collège Françoise Dupont were huddled closely together, and Principal Damocles spoke up loudly. "Alright, it looks as though we are all here..." he said as he observed his students.
"Yes, that's right sir," replied Miss Bustier who had the students gather in their seating arrangements just to verify that they were indeed all accounted for.
"I want to take a closer look," said Kakashi, who then turned to face Team Seven. "Don't move- I'm serious." With that, he took a huge leap towards the group gathered near the plane.
"Alright, listen well students…" the principal was saying, when behind him, he heard that someone was cleaning his throat.
"Afternoon… I'm Kakashi Hatake, the sixth Hokage of Konoha and leader of this village. From observing this situation, it seems that none of you know where you are, or how you came to be here- or, do you…?" He looked from face to face, realizing that despite the large number of people, there wasn't any presence of chakra.
"That's… basically it. I mean, most of what you mentioned is true, although…" The principal was answering, so Kakashi turned to face him again. "It's almost indisputable that this was caused by the akuma…"
"Akuma?" asked Kakashi.
"Oh, yes well… an akuma is, well…" the principal spun in place, looking purposefully for the one that had created their current situation. He turned around a few more times, before saying, "She isn't here…"
"Who isn't here?"
"The akuma… that doesn't make sense- if Ladybug and Chat Noir had stopped her… everything should be back to normal…"
"Ok… I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but I AM sure that we should go to my office to talk…"
"Of course… but what about my students and all these people…" He gestured to the wary crowd.
"How many of you are there?"
"Oh, well you see… I…" He looked to the three teachers, worry clear on their faces. "I mean, the teachers and I are in charge of our students."
"I see… then, who is charge of everyone?"
"Well that would be the pilot and the crew- they are over there trying to offer reassurances, and settle everyone from this ordeal."
"Understood." With that, Kakashi walked over to where the captain stood.
"Wow this is a really huge group- don't you think, Sakura-chan, Sasuke… Sai?" asked Naruto after venturing a bit closer to where the students were.
"Didn't Kakashi-sama tell us that we shouldn't move…" said Sai.
"Forget it Sai, Naruto will always do what's contrary…" said Sakura who had started to also meander closer to the group.
"Contrary is typical for Naruto," Sai grinned, "but that usually doesn't apply to you."
"Sai…" She balled up her fist. "I am a doctor, and I don't have to explain myself to you anyways!" Sai stopped her by pointing at Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun?"
"Hn… someone has to stop the dobe if you two won't do it."
"Huh?" said Sakura, as she and Sai turned to look in the direction Naruto had gone. "Naruto…!" She clenched her fist even tighter.
Naruto was already in the middle of the students, chatting to them animatedly when Sasuke and Sakura suddenly showed up behind him.
"Usuratonkachi…" Sasuke muttered right before he smacked Naruto in the back of the head. Before he could react, Sakura knocked Naruto several meters away with a single punch. There were startled gasps from the students, and all of them murmured in agreement that they would never piss off the girl with the pink hair.
"Wow- that girl is almost as strong as Ladybug!" Alya exclaimed after witnessing the scene caused by the group of newcomers. "Who do you think would win, Mari?"
"Ah? Between her and Ladybug?..." Marinette saw how far the girl had sent Naruto with just one hit.
"I don't know Alya… but maybe her?" was the worried reply Marinette gave. "I seriously hope I never have to fight her." she thought.
"Okay students," said the principal "Let's figure out what to do while this unforeseen circumstance is solved."
"Alright, now you-" said Kakashi who was returning to where the group was. "...you sir-" Everyone looked between the principal and Kakashi. "...said that you are the person in charge of this small group- with those three- right?"
"Yes, that's right, is something wrong?"
"Well honestly, after talking to that person you sent me over to…" he trailed off when he noticed the chaos created by his ex-team. "Hey there you three- and Sai- I thought I made it very clear not to come over!" Kakashi turned his direction back to the principal. "I apologise for any inconveniences they may have caused…"
"Oh no, no, no, no, they didn't cause any… well, you were saying…?"
"Right, as I was saying... in speaking with that person, I was informed that there are around 200 people from this.. air.. craft …? And that there seems to be three groups of students among the crowd. You mentioned that you are the principal of these students, right?"
"Yes, that's right."
"Well, it seems the best course of action in this situation is to temporarily relocate everyone, and keep them in small groups to keep track of where everyone is much easier. It almost seems like your students have already done that- can you make sure they stay this way, in small groups, while we head back to the village from here? We should be able to leave shortly. At first glance, nobody appears to be injured seriously enough that we can't leave. We can take care of full examinations once we arrive in town. Thank you for your assistance," he finished, and walked off to the next largest group.
"Listen up students! It's been suggested that we stay in the village of… Konoha…" he said, "wherever that is" he thought quickly, "and we are going to be traveling in the same small groups we have been using to this point. "
"WHAT? Again? I'm STILL not allowed to be near my dear Adrikins?" cried Chloe.
"Please Miss Bourgeois, behave as you should! This is an emergency situation! We aren't even in Japan- from what I can tell- so don't cause more trouble. The same goes for the rest of you, make sure that you have all of your belongings. The village leader explained that we will be leaving shortly."
Hearing that, all the students were sure to claim their suitcases from the flight crew and got together again with the teachers to start their journey to the village. After a short time, Kakashi gave the order to follow him and the ANBUs which had shown up at his request. They escorted the entire group of stranded people to the top of the Hokage tower; its sheer size convinced Kakashi that it would be a good place to contain everyone without necessarily enclosing them.
Once there, Kakashi began to rehash and explain the situation as he understood it from the many discussions he'd had since the crash landing. He now knew that Naruto and Sasuke had taken charge to confront what was obviously an enemy, and that the most rational way for everyone to return to the reality they came from was to find that enemy, and defeat it. Kakashi then took the time to interview each group that was traveling together in his office, so he could hear their perspective about what happened. Eventually, the time came to speak with Principal Damocles about their school group.
"Ok, you are the last group. I'm sorry for making you want so long." Kakashi said, once the group had been ushered over to him. "Tell me about your group- you're in charge of all these students, correct?"
"Yes, that's correct, although my staff," principal Damocles gestured over his shoulder to the teachers standing near him "...are also guardians for this trip."
"Mmmm. Understood." replied Kakashi who was listening to him while simultaneously analyzing the number of people in their school group. His brain started calculating..."...14 students and four people in charge. I suppose we could divide the students into two groups of four and two of three, and leave one guardian for each group; that way there would be smaller groups for them to oversee. But, what if we leave the principal in charge of the teachers, and the teachers in charge of students…? That would means that two teachers would be in charge of five students, and one teacher would be in charge of four students…" Kakashi thought about this as he analysed their situation. "Alright, let's see." His gaze went to some documents that were on his desk. "The only location we really have is the one with simple accommodations… not to mention, Naruto and Sasuke are over there…" He sighed after that thought.
"Is everything alright, sir?"
"Oh? Yeah, yeah… everything's alright... just thinking that maybe you should decide where to locate each of your students… please take a look at this." Kakashi pointed to the floorplan of a building with a tall, yet narrow, footprint. There were 22 rooms in a four story building; the ground floor had only four rooms, but the other three floors contained six rooms each; a staircase zigzagged up the side of the building's interior; and all the rooms were connected by a long hallway that ran in front of each room entrance.
"As you can see in the top two levels, the two rooms on the east are occupied. Please rest assured- the occupants in the top floor are my former students, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. The floor below houses two of our ANBUs- our highly trained combat professionals. Please think of them as the chaperones for the teens on the top floor."
"Ok, in that case..." the principal began, then pulled the papers over to closely look at them. "I think that first floor should house us four guardians. It would be better for security and keeping the children in line. "The second floor… let's house some of our female students." He ran his finger from west to east while naming his students. "First will be Miss Bourgeois, then would be Sabrina, Mylène, Alix, Rose and Juleka." he said. Then he pointed to the next floor which had four available rooms. Using the same seat order as the airplane, he began listing more names. "Here, I think we should have Nathaniel, Iván, Max and Kim. And here," he pointed to the final floor, which showed the names Naruto and Sasuke at the far end of the hallway. "Mmm… well the rest will just have to go here. Marinette, Alya, Nino and Adrien…" he trailed off. "I just hope I didn't make a mistake." he thought.
"Understood. If you don't mind, can I borrow that paper with your full names, so I can enter them on the document…?"
"Oh! Yes, of course there's no problem." He handed Kakashi his list of names. "Is there anything else that you need from us?"
"Nothing for the moment, thank you. I'll allow Sai here," he pointed to Sai who had been standing nearby the entire time, "as WELL as Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura who believed I couldn't sense their presence..." he said quite firmly "to guide you to that temporal place…"
"Understood. We thank you very much…"
After that, Team Seven shuffled inside. Sakura and Sasuke had the sense to look embarrassed and the shame was clear on their faces, but Naruto was nothing short of enthusiastic- especially because he had heard that these new strangers would be living next to him. They introduced themselves to the Parisian group, and headed off to the living quarters Kakashi had arranged for them. While the majority of stranded students were just happy to know they would have a place to sleep, Chloe was, yet again, in disagreement with the situation. Unlike before though, she didn't say anything; she wasn't about to argue with people she'd witnessed knock each other a quarter block away with a single hit, or jump from the ground to onboard a speeding aircraft.
Once there, the principal reminded the students of their sleeping arrangements with Kakashi, and sent them off to their assigned rooms to get situated. He asked them to be quick about it, so that they could meet at the entrance afterwards to discuss what would be happening in the near future… even though he wasn't entirely sure what would be waiting for them in it.
To be continued… :D :D
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