At the noodle shop in Naruto's world, Sakura Haruno was gawking at Sasuke. "This new blue outfit of mine, when it arrives, ought to get enough of his attention that he'll be swooned into a date" she thought. She went over to Sasuke. "Hey, Sasuke" she said, "I was wondering if you'd-." She then saw that Sasuke had fallen asleep in his ramen. "He's asleep" she thought as she rolled her eyes. Annoyed, she said "Sasuke, wake up."

A slap later and Sasuke jumped awake. "Sorry, sensei" he blearily said.

Sakura asked "when did I become a sensei?"

Sasuke looked and said "oh, it's only you, Sakura."

Sakura asked "who else did you think it could be?"

They heard a male voice say "maybe me, perhaps."

Sakura looked and said "oh, hi, Kakashi."

Sasuke turned around as Kakashi said "so, you fell asleep in your noodles again?"

Sasuke chuckled nervously and said "yeah."

Kakashi turned to Ichiraku and said "I'll have my usual to go."

Sasuke said "I don't know why I keep falling asleep in my noodles."

Sakura replied "maybe you need a little action."

Sasuke asked "what do you mean by that?"

Sakura replied "I don't know. Maybe you and me with some-." She was interrupted by Sasuke suddenly gagging on his noodles.

Sasuke looked at Kakashi and said "she's freaking nuts. Why would she think I need to get laid?"

Kakashi said "I think she likes you."

Sasuke asked "you think?"

Kakashi got his noodles, paid for them, and said "Just meet me at the training grounds in ten minutes."

Sasuke replied "yes, sensei."

As Kakashi left, a mystery woman approached Sasuke and said "ah, Mr. Uchiha."

Sasuke turned and saw her. "Who are you and how do you know who I am?" he asked.

The woman replied "I only heard that you're the one who's planning on making an honest woman out of-."

Sakura then whined "MOTHER!"

Sasuke asked "wait, Sakura, she's your mother? I thought she was a friend of the Uchiha family."

Sakura said "yeah, she's my mom."

Mrs. Haruno then said "she's got her mother's talents and her father's hair and forehead."

Sakura said "thanks, big mouth."

Sasuke replied "I feel sorry for you with Ino calling you names."

Mrs. Haruno left and said "well, I'll leave you lovebirds to get along."

Sasuke replied "uh, thank you, Ma'am."

After a while, Sasuke and Sakura had finished their noodles. Sakura said "I wonder why Kakashi-sensei wants to meet us at the training grounds."

Sasuke sarcastically replied "maybe, I don't know, for training."

Sakura said "no shit on that! I'm wondering what kind of training. Upcoming mission? Next level of ninja?"

They then heard Hinata in the distance yelling "Sakura, Sasuke!"

Sakura said "it's Hinata."

Sure enough, Hinata dashed to the two and said "guys, something happened to Naruto."

Sakura asked "for heaven's sake, what is it, Hinata?"

Hinata said "Naruto misspoke a jutsu-."

"Again?" Sasuke asked.

Hinata said "yes, again."

Sasuke said "what a loser."

Hinata socked him in the chops and asked "I'm sorry, what was that you said?"

Sasuke replied "I said that Naruto was a loser-. Don't…hit me in the face again."

Hinata said "okay" and got him in the groin instead.

Sasuke rolled off the stool and was moaning in pain. Kakashi arrived upon seeing this and said "oh, my. Called Naruto the 'l' word in front of Hinata again, didn't you?"

Sasuke, at soprano pitch, squeaked "yeah, sensei."

Sakura asked "now, was there more to this, Hinata?"

Hinata replied "yes. He misspoke another jutsu and opened a portal to another dimension. The portal instantly sucked him in."

Kakashi asked "where did this happen?"

Hinata said "the training grounds where you wanted me and Naruto to meet up with you."

Sasuke hobbled to his feet and moaned "Hinata, I'll ask you to not hit me anywhere else either."

Kakashi said "we must go and find Lady Tsunade. Sasuke, you come with me." Sasuke agreed and the sensei said "you two wait here for us."

However, after Kakashi and Sasuke left, Sakura said "We can't just sit here with Naruto in grave danger. We need to find him. Let's go." She grabbed Hinata's arm and started off with her.

Hinata said "Sakura, Sakura, wait. You don't know where it is."

Kakashi and Sasuke, meanwhile, had arrived at Tsunade's place. After knocking on the front door several times, Sasuke said "I guess she's in her garden." They went towards the backyard and looked around.

Kakashi said "we're not quite there yet. Her garden should be around this next bend. Remember what we're telling Tsunade?"

Sasuke replied "yeah: Naruto, in the training grounds, misspoke a jutsu and got sucked into the resulting void."

Kakashi said "excellent. Now, let's get to that gard-."

They then heard Tsunade yell out "Oh, Jiraiya, you naughty boy!" Kakashi and Sasuke looked and found a sight so disturbing that they immediately ducked behind some foliage. Sure enough, they heard her yelling "oh, pound me, Jiraiya. Pound me!"

Sasuke muttered "holy crap, she's getting laid!"

Kakashi muttered "and by Jiraiya! We'd better get out of here and check back later!"

Sasuke replied "right behind you, sensei" and they both dashed out of there. Fortunately, neither of them was seen by either Jiraiya or Tsunade.

Kakashi said "back to the noodle shop. We'll try again later."

Sasuke said "oh man, that was close. Not to mention downright creepy!"

At the training grounds, Hinata and Sakura arrived. They both saw the void that had pulled Naruto in. Sakura said "we'd better get in there. We've got to rescue Naruto before he's killed."

Hinata asked "killed? Sakura, come on, he's more skilled than you realize."

Sakura said "oh, right. Thanks, Hinata."

Hinata said "wait, though. Didn't Kakashi ask us to wait at the noodle shop?"

Sakura said "crap."

Hinata checked something with her byakugan. "Good, we'll at least have time to leave a note and be back here before they arrive" she said.

Sakura replied "good. I'll write the note and meet you back here." With that, Sakura made a mad dash for the noodle shop to leave a note about her and Hinata's whereabouts, and then darted back. "Note is written and waiting" she said.

Hinata replied "okay, let's go."

In InuYasha's world, Naruto heard something fizzle overhead. Sure enough, another void exit had opened up. At the void exit, Sakura and Hinata emerged from their inter-dimensional journey. They saw that it was 800 ft [244 m] in the air. They were falling towards a lake. Naruto heard their screaming and saw them tumbling through the air. "Holy crap, I'd better get to their landing point" he said.

As the two girls continued to fall, Sakura looked at where they were going to land and thought "oh man, I can't swim."

Hinata landed in the water first. Sakura landed head-first and somewhat on her back. As she began drifting down, Hinata swam after her.

Naruto heard the distant splashing and figured "well, at least they've got some chance." He arrived at the lake and found no one in sight. "Oh man, I hope they surface soon" he said. Hinata came to the surface at that point. She hauled up Sakura and started going towards the shore. Sakura was coughing a lot for obvious reasons. Naruto dashed to the lakeshore as the two girls got on sub-aquatic terra firma.

"Thanks, Hinata" Sakura said.

Hinata replied "no problem, Sakura."

"Sakura! Hinata!" Naruto yelled.

Hinata turned and said "Naruto!" As she went to Naruto, she accidentally knocked Sakura onto her butt, water coming to chest level.

"Be careful, Hinata!" Sakura shouted.

Hinata gave Naruto a massive hug and said "thank goodness you're okay. We've been worried sick over you. We thought you were in some imminent and grave peril."

Naruto said "Hinata, it's okay. I'm fine. I'm-. What the hell are you doing, Sakura?"

Sakura, noticing InuYasha's ears, was instantly sidetracked. She was feeling the dog ears all over and asking "are these real?"

Hinata looked and said "ooh, me next!"

Naruto said "guys, this isn't really the best time for this. Besides, how'd you get here?" Sakura looked up and saw the void opening diminishing into nothingness far overhead. As Naruto looked in the same direction, he said "I guess you went the same route I used."

Sakura, now with rising temper, said "now we're stranded here, AND IT'S ALL YOUR DAMN FAULT!" She socked Naruto in her usual manner.

Naruto said "OW! How was I supposed to know we'd be stranded?"

Hinata said "Sakura, could you control your temper. Besides, we ought to get to know Naruto's new friends."

Sakura said "okay."

Naruto introduced the others with "the weird-eared one is InuYasha-."

"Weird-eared" InuYasha spat.

Kagome chided "calm yourself. He's new here, remember."

Naruto said "these other guys are Kagome, Shippo, Miroku, and Sango."

Sakura said "no way. The Sango?"

Hinata asked "the legendary demon slayer?"

Sango replied "I am a demon slayer. He tells me that I'm legendary where you come from, Miss…uh."

Hinata replied "I'm Hinata Hyuga. The short-tempered one in the red is Sakura Haruno."

Sakura said "I'm not short-tempered."

Naruto mumbled "yeah, right."

Sakura spat "Naruto, I am not short-tempered!" She then turned to Sango and said "you are legendary in our world, Sango. You're in the index of most of our textbooks on demon-sealing jutsus."

Sango replied "wow. I never knew I was this famous."

Sakura asked "could I have your autograph?"

Naruto said "Sakura, not the best time." Later, he asked "Sakura, are you okay? I saw how you two came in and-."

Sakura replied "I'm fine, Naruto, but I don't blame you. I never told you that I couldn't swim."

Hinata said "that's why I had to save her. She landed in the water at an angle where the walking-on-water technique would not have helped at all."

Naruto said "Sakura, one of these days, we're going to have to give you swimming lessons."

As Sakura gave Naruto a nervous look, Hinata said "you can do it, Sakura."

Sakura said "thanks, guys."

Kakashi had instructed Sakura and Hinata to stay at the ramen shop. What'll happen when he and Sasuke discover them to be gone? Will Naruto and his friends ever make it back to their own world?

Next time- Sasuke and Kakashi to the Rescue