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Chapter 2

This was not the forest they had found the 'mythical' (good for nothing) cave within. Hell, this wasn't even the Land of Fire. They were nowhere near Konoha.

He was supposed to be seeing endless trees and nothing but the bright light of the moon and the stars. Instead, he was seeing a roaring metropolis with so much light pollution that he could barely find any darkness- even though he knew it was night because of the crescent moon up above. Which, now that he thought about it, seemed almost brown... And distinguishably lacking its usual brightness.

This place... it was like nothing he had ever seen before in his life.

The layout of the place made sense. The buildings were larger than the ones in Konoha and a bit less spaced out than he would have liked. But that made sense because people needed to live inside of them. This wasn't odd. No, what was odd was the metallic monsters he was seeing zooming down dark streets. Aside from that, there were some large billboards with moving pictures on them...

He wasn't anywhere near Konoha and Kiba was overwhelmed.

The smell of this place was putrid.

Not even Kiri had been this bad when he had gone- and that place had one of the worst reputations in the whole world!

The smells in this place were suffocating him. There was smog and grime and horrible, disgusting smells coming from every direction. No matter where he turned, Kiba was bombarded by foul stench. There was no fresh air in this place.

Kiba needed to find something, anything fresh. If only to cleanse his poor, burning nose.

His nose was so overwhelmed by all the smells that he couldn't even begin to think of trying to track his teammates' down. Not even Akamaru's well known scent would be able to break through all of this stench...

The sirens were blaring below and Kiba was very sure that he would get into further trouble if he didn't make a quick getaway. So he pushed through the smell that caused tears to well up in his eyes and forced himself to make his way towards the edge of the building he had climbed. Once he was by the edge of the rooftop, he flexed his fingers and prepared himself, then propelled himself past the edge and towards the roof of the closest building.

From building to building, the Inuzuka jumped with enough strength and chakra to clear sizeable gaps but without putting himself in danger of tiring himself too quickly. He did his best to not think about the possibility of dying because of one mistimed jump. He merely allowed himself to try and calculate the probable height between the roofs and the ground- noticed that it was an incredibly long drop- and continued on his way.

He needed to find some clarity.

Once his nose was clear, he would be able to find his friends.

But first, he'd need to break free of this horrible stench.

When she woke up, it was to find the kind, smiling face of an elderly woman looking down at her.

"Ah, you're awake. Gave us quite the scare with that nasty hit to the head, you know."

Hinata felt dumb as she stared at the woman. She didn't say anything- her mind was still swimming so much that she couldn't find any words to even begin to formulate.

A light shined in her eyes without a single warning, immediately making the teenager wince and squint her eyes as she turned away from the light and closed her eyes. She heard a pleased hum from her right side, then the scratching of a pencil.

"Reaction time is pretty good for a concussion. Must be recovering much faster than expected- possibly because of a quick-healing quirk. Needs further tests." The elderly woman seemed to mumble to herself as she disappeared from Hinata's view, leaving the young girl rather confused over what had been said.

It was when she was about to ask the person she assumed to be a nurse or doctor what she had meant when someone else spoke up.

"So she's not in any danger?"

This voice... Hinata had heard it before. But where?

"It seems she's making a speedy recovery." The older woman answered with what sounded like surprise dusting her tone. "You say that she appeared in your room from the ceiling? And she hit her head against your bedframe?"

"Mm-hmm." Was the female's soft hum, "But I dunno if she was injured from before. I just saw her fall from the ceiling."

There came a melodic hum from the elderly woman's direction, then a the scratching of two objects running against each other.

"You two can go back to your dorm now. This young lady is healing up quite nicely- maybe she'll be ready to answer some of your questions tomorrow morning."

"Thank you very much, Recovery Girl."

There was the shuffling of feet, the squeaking of a door's hinges, then there was silence once again. After a couple of seconds, Hinata was able to hear the dull thud of a door softly closing after being opened. And, finally, she heard a heavy sigh from the direction of the elderly woman's voice.

She sounded... worried? No, that didn't sound right. Not worried- maybe disappointed? Tired? But... Why would she sound like this?

"Have a nice nap, child."

The pull of darkness was too strong for Hinata to try and fight it off.

On the day before Todoroki had met Nara, he had heard Midoriya, Uraraka, and Iida discussing odd events that had occurred to them all within the span of only two days.

Midoriya had explained to his friends how the police were worried about his mother's residence being safe enough for her to inhabit in the next few days because of a mysterious break-in. The person that had invaded his mother's apartment hadn't taken anything and his mother had not been hurt in any way, but she was terrified of being alone; but she refused to have her son come back to stay with her.

Uraraka had then explained how a girl, probably a year older than them, had popped into her room in the middle of the night and hurt herself during the fall. She and Iida had then taken her to Recovery Girl, who had begun to treat her. When they had returned the next morning, they had been told that the girl wasn't available to visitors just yet: and that had been very weird.

Todoroki had listened in on all of this without commenting a single thing, merely attributing all of the weird occurrences to the fact that this was a trio best known for their innate ability pull in chaos without even lifting a finger.

Now that he was faced with Nara, though, a boy that could beat him at shogi without even seeming to contemplate his moves, Todoroki believed he was witness to an unexpected pattern.

A senseless break-in at Midoriya Inko's home where the invader had appeared out of nowhere and left without taking a single thing.

An unexplained intrusion to Uraraka's dorm room from a girl they had not been able to see when they had tried to visit her on the next day.

And, now, a stranger who's appearance Todoroki had not managed to witness was playing shogi with him.

This could have been a simple series of unconnected events that just happened to coincide... Or this could have been a series of events that were completely connected.

Knowing their luck, this was all connected and it was only the beginning of something much bigger than themselves.

Now, after he had lost five different games to Nara and midnight was nearing, Todoroki knew that he needed to make a decision.

"Where are you from?" He asked as they prepared the board for one final game.

When he looked at his newest shogi partner, it was to find that he had a small frown weighing at the corners of his lips. His eyes were closed, but Todoroki was extremely sure that this was because he was thinking hard on his answer.

Why would he have to think so much for such a simple question?

"I am going to be honest- I'm not from around here. I'm not even from your... well... world."

Todoroki blinked.

Nara opened his eyes and he could find no trace of any kind of dishonesty within.

"I come from a village called Konohagakure and I'm a ninja. Along with four other teammates, I was investigating an artefact that was rumored to have magical properties, but we didn't know the full extent of its power. Because of some very bad decision making, the artefact came to life- and now I'm here and I need to find the rest of my team."

There was no doubt about it: this was the beginning of something big.

Todoroki sighed softly.

Of course it was the beginning of something big.

Seeing how it was the middle of the night, the pink haired girl decided that it would be a good idea for them to return to her workshop to continue speaking. Apparently, even though she technically was allowed to use these specific grounds for trying out experiments, she apparently had a curfew that she constantly ignored.

As they walked, the girl rattled off a whole bunch of information about the school and grounds, apparently excited over meeting someone that knew absolutely about one topic she was so passionate about. While she spoke, Tenten took stock of all of her surroundings and began to memorize possible escape routes in case she needed to leave quickly.

"Okay, now you need to be very quiet. There're janitor-bots and they're the kind that can immediately tell Night-Life that there are students out curing curfew time."

"Night-Life?" Tenten couldn't help but question, and then backtracked, "Wait, Janitor-bots?"

What in the world was any of that?

The girl smiled broadly and began a rather long-winded explanation about one of the oddest yet most effective support class graduates- which left Tenten even more confused than before because... What in the world was any of this?

She was going to get some pretty bloody and painful revenge against Naruto when she saw him again. Most probably with the use of a rusty kunai too.

"Anyway, these robots are outfitted with some pretty high-end tech that allows almost instantaneous communication between their sensors and Night-Life's own homing-device. This means that the second any of those bots sees a student out in the halls is the second that Night-Life descends on the poor student with demerits. So, if we don't want to get caught, we need to be really careful." The girl finished with her index finger raised and her eyes closed, as if offering great wisdom.

Kind of reminded Tenten of Naruto whenever he tried (and failed) to seem smart.

"I can be careful, trust me."

With a nod, the girl then began to lead the way and Tenten made sure to make no sound as they walked.

Quite frankly, most of the way was rather uneventful. Even though the girl was breaking out in what seemed to be a cold-sweat from all of the worry of getting caught, Tenten couldn't help but feel completely at ease. There were no insane chakra signatures that could worry her. There were rattling chains or clanging weapons. And, best of all, there was no eerie silence that foreshadowed an intense fight.

It was just a normal night and she was living for it.

The only true snag they hit was when they were just a couple of feet away from a metallic door that had a sign to its right that said Development Studio. Tenten was able to hear some beeping, then the girl hissed out in fear, and it was really more of an instinct than a choice when she threw the kunai in the direction of the thing that rounded the corner.

All of the projectiles hit their targets- and would have killed a human being. Head, jugular, heart, and stomach were all her targets. And they all hit where they were supposed to have hit.

But no one died.

Well... No person.

The girl let out a squeal, which was a mix of surprise and fear, and soon ran in the direction of Tenten's downed target. Tenten only stared at her and then got a good look at her target, only to find a green humanoid made out of metal. It had a circular head with a large red circle in the very center of it- and it now had a kunai deeply embedded within.

"That... That... That..."

Tenten racked her brain for a possible explanation as to what she was seeing, then remembered what the girl had been going on about before. "Is that the janitor-bot you were talking about?"

"That was amazing!"

In the blink of an eye, the girl had gone from kneeling on the floor to standing right in front of Tenten with her eyes widened with nothing short of pure excitement.

"I've got to run some tests on you- those were the best reflexes I've ever seen in my life! Come on, help me drag this in and then we can get to work!"

She returned to the janitor-bot and picked up what Tenten assumed could be called an arm, then looked back at her expectantly.

Her team was still very much missing and she still very much needed to find them...

"Eh, what could it hurt?" the weapon mistress shrugged to herself with a small smile as she made her way to the janitor-bot's other side and picked up the other arm.

Naruto was sitting in a nurse's office with a lollipop in his mouth.

It was a good lollipop, he allowed himself to think as he looked on at both adults arguing with each other over what should happen next.

To his right, laying on a cot, was Hinata. She had a healing, green-and-ugly bruise on the upper right side of her forehead. And she looked extremely peaceful in her slumber.

"The proper authorities have to be notified."

"I agree. But Principal Nezu is the first that needs to be warned of the fact that two people have appeared without a single explanation- this could be an issue that endangers the rest of our students, Yagi. Two teenagers pop up in the span of two nights, effectively getting past all of our security and alarms- this is not something to take lightly."

The skeleton guy breathed out, sounding even more tired than last night, and then relented with a nod.

"Alright. We'll tell him." After he said this, the skeleton man turned to look back at him and Naruto waved back with a small smile.

Yagi Tosinori was his name. He was a nice enough guy- he'd even given Naruto food and a place to sleep until morning came. Then he'd given him breakfast before he asked Naruto to follow him into the infirmary with him.

Because this guy had been nothing but nice to him this whole time- even though he looked like he was a one wrong decision away from kicking the bucket- Naruto had decided that following him wouldn't be a bad idea. And he had been right to decide this: He was now with Hinata! … Even though she was very much unconscious at the moment.

"Could it have been a teleportation quirk?" Yagi asked, and the little old lady that had given him the red lollipop sighed heavily.

"Possibly. But it did not belong to Hyuuga. I believe she has a healing related quirk from how quickly she has managed to recover from a rather serious concussion."

"Oh, Hinata." Naruto sighed as he looked down at the slumbering Hyuuga.

He felt kind of guilty- only a little bit- over the fact that she had gotten hurt. It had kind of been his fault that the artefact had suddenly lit up, he thought. So maybe it wasn't a stretch to say that Hinata had gotten a concussion because of him... Damn.

"Uzumaki?"

"Yeah?" He pulled out the lollipop from his mouth to look back at Yagi, only to find that he was frowning heavily yet again. "Would you mind telling us what your quirk is?"

"My... quirk?" His eyebrows scrunched up at the new word, then cocked his head to the side- all the while Yagi stared at him with nothing short of surprise. "What's that?"

There was a tense moment of silence between them as Yagi seemed to try and get past his surprise. Then he gasped out, "Well... It's a power you have."

"Power?" Immediately, Naruto felt like he could show off and be amazing. "Oh! I get it! Look at this!"

He jumped off of the cot he had been seated on and pressed his fingers together, gathered some chakra, and summoned forth a shadow clone to aid him in creating a rasengan.

As soon as his clone was created, Naruto heard a groan of pain from him.

"Boss, I don't feel so good."

Naruto turned to him and found that he looked okay, even though he was holding onto his stomach.

"Think we can pull off a-" before he had even finished speaking, the clone's stomach distended outwards as if an explosion had gone off within.

"Boss, I-" His stomach popped.

A puff of smoke was the only evidence of there once having been a clone there.

Naruto's eyes widened as the severity of the situation came crashing down on him- he had felt fine and his chakra had been completely in control when he had summoned this clone.

If everything had been correct... Then why had the clone not lasted even ten seconds?

The dog was pretty nice company after he had calmed down, Shouji thought as he bandaged the hand that had gotten bitten by said animal. As he thought this, his lower right hand pet the dog's head.

When he had woken up, the dog had been violent and managed to bite Shouji's left middle hand. But the teenager had managed to convince him that he was safe and Shouji wasn't about to harm him in any way. It was odd that it seemed the animal was able to understand him completely by him just speaking, but he had seen even weirder things before- a dog understanding a human wasn't really all that farfetched in life.

Once he was finished bandaging his hand, the six-armed teen grabbed his phone and sent Kouda a text message asking him to come into his room as quickly as possible.

They only had one hour to get prepared to go to school and Shouji didn't think it would be a smart idea to leave this dog alone in his room during the whole school day. So if Shouji didn't want to get in trouble for something he honestly couldn't even begin to explain to himself, then he was going to need help from the only person he knew that was great with all animals.

Within ten minutes, Kouda was knocking on his door.

Luckily enough for him, his friend's dorm was on the same floor as him.

"Come in." He called out, "But hurry, please."

The door opened, Kouda peeked his head inside, and his eyes immediately widened when they fell on the large white animal that was blanketed over Shouji's lap.

If Kouda had been any of the girls, Shouji was sure he would have squealed audibly.

The door quickly shut behind his friend and then Kouda scurried so he could kneel beside the dog and begin to pet him.

The animal lifted his head with his eyebrows narrowed, lifting his lips in the beginnings of a snarl. Kouda offered his hand and murmured out that he wasn't an enemy. The dog sniffed Kouda's hands, then looked back at Shouji.

The six-armed teen wasn't sure why... But it almost looked as if the animal was asking for his own input.

"Kouda's my friend. He's nice." He found himself answering, then the dog huffed and laid his head back down on the floor.

Kouda began to run his hands over the soft white fur, then asked Shouji how he had snuck such a large dog into his dorm without waking anyone up.

Shouji sighed, leaned back on his lower hands, and scratched at the back of his neck with his upper right hand. He then explained the odd occurrence that had brought this large white dog into his room, leaving Kouda absolutely stunned.

After a couple seconds of silence, Kouda asked, "Are you going to keep him?"

Shouji frowned... But didn't know how to answer.

He had always liked animals. And this dog had literally dropped into his life.

"How am I even going to take care of him? What if I get caught?"

Kouda pointed out he had a rabbit.

Shouji didn't bother to respond.

Then his friend pulled out his phone from his pocket and offered, "If you really want to keep him, we can ask Tokoyami for his advice."

Shouji looked down at the dog that was so large he fully encompassed his lap and spilled out of it. The dog looked back at him with wide eyes- was this dog using the puppy-dog eyes? No way.

"Well... I guess that if we really need the help... The rest of 1-A will help hide him from Aizawa-sensei."

As long as it was something they weren't supposed to be doing, 1-A worked effectively and strategically to get away with it. Besides, he had helped on other various ventures that he shouldn't have just to help his classmates out. Maybe... Just maybe, they would help him out in this one small endeavor.

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He had both teenagers completely manipulated. Playing the cute card was the best bet to getting on someone's good side, after all.

Akamaru was very much aware of the fact that his human was nowhere near him. Just like neither of their teammates. He could smell the faintest traces of what he thought was Hinata lingering in the air, but this scent was stale and old. It could have been important, or it could have just been his nose playing tricks on him.

He needed answers and he needed them now.

While Six Arms and Rock Face- just why did these humans look so weird?- spoke to one another about keeping him hidden from their teachers, Akamaru began to formulate a plan to be able to reach Hinata's scent and see if he could begin to follow it.

Stale and old as it may have been, it was the only familiar scent he had around him.

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