When Hikari finally regained the consciousness, her brain failed her to inform her current location. Her onyx eyes stared at the white ceiling and she wondered.

Why was she alive?

Her head hurt so much her eyes watered but Hikari blinked the tears back and looked around the room. It looked like a hospital room, the smell of medicines was easily recognized but it wasn't really a ward.

Where am I?

Her bed wasn't looking at the window and the curtains were drawn too so she couldn't see what was outside.

Either to stop me to see the outside world or to stop me from escaping.

She was tired and her head was bursting. Supposedly conclusion, a few broken ribs and sprained limbs, she assumed from the bandages on her body.

Why wasn't her body healing?

It seemed she suffered from chakra exhaustion.

It would take a long time to refill her chakra coils and before her Regeneration would kick in.

She was so tired. How come she was alive anyway?

The second time she woke up, she noticed that it was a daytime. Sunlight shone through the curtains, giving a warm atmosphere to the room. She was alone in the he room but her right hand was cuffed to the bed.

They definitely don't want me to escape.

Hikari examined the handcuff and was surprised to see no chakra suppressing seals. Now it was worldwide known that the red haired woman was Sealing Master so it would not be a big problem to unseal the seals but still...it was surprisingly annoying to not see any kind of restrainings. Were they underestimating her or something? Hikari never had problems with people thinking she was no danger but when you are fighting in the war and people just cuff you to the bed just like that was truly irritating.

Hikari had so many questions. Had the war ended? Who had win? Where was Obito? And where was Naruto? Was she in Konoha? She couldn't really sense any type of chakra besides hers and that was unnerving for a sensor. Hikari assumed the room was warded with seals and this was a reason why she couldn't sense the ANBU outside her room, because surely no Kage was insane enough to leave her just like that.

It took two whole hour to someone to check up on her. First she heard the footsteps, then someone pulled out the key to open the lock and the brunette woman with brown eyes and glasses walked into the room.

"Why, hello!" the woman was too energized for her Liking "wasn't expecting you to wake up till tomorrow morning"

"Is that the reason why I am handcuffed to the bed?" Hikari couldn't help but retort back, she had spent way too much time with Hidan and Kakuzu and it looked like they had rubbed on her, at least she wasn't cursing around.

"Oh, sorry about that but you know how it is when you find unknown person in the middle of nowhere, you have to be careful" the woman waved dismissively "so, what's your name?"

"Shouldn't you introduce yourself first? I heard it was kind of protocol" Hikari replied dryly.

"Oh, I like you" the woman laughed kind of insanely "my name's Hanji Zoe and you must be?"

She seriously didn't know who Hikari was, where in the world was she?

"My name's Namikaze Hikari" replied the red head.

"And which Wall are you from?"

Which...wall?

"Come again?"

"I'm asking if you are from Wall Maria, Wall Rose or Wall Sina?"

"What the hell are you talking about? What Walls?" asked confused Hikari.

"Hmm.. Could it be that you have amnesia? You clearly have a conclusion so I won't be surprised if you are confused for a few days" Hanji murmured to herself "alright then, Namik-"

"It's Hikari. Namikaze is my surname"

"Right, so Hikari, let me check your bandages then then we will see if it's alright for you to be released"

Hanji didn't even wait and unwrapped the bandage on her right bicep. The wound was almost healed, just a nasty red line was left that would disappear in few days.

While Hanji was occupied with her job, Hikari's mind was running miles a second. From the short one-sided conversation she figured out that these people, whoever they were, had no idea who she was, which itself was surprise, because Hikari was put in every Bingo Book and she was a member of the Akatsuki and the redhead was pretty sure even the minor civilian villages were informed about her. Then how come this woman didn't know who she was? There was also the fact that she could sense no chakra in Hanji's body or in general.

With a shock Hikari came to the explanation. She was in the whole different dimension.

It felt as if someone had knocked the wind out of her lungs.

Oh dear God!

She was already panicking. Her face lost color and Hanji noticed the quickened pulse too.

"Are you alright?"

Her voice seemed too distant.

"Huh..?" Hikari blinked "yeah, yeah"

"If you say so" replied the woman and continued her work. Meanwhile Hikari had fire alarms raging in her head. Her brain was cracking to find the reason why was she there and where exactly was that 'there'.

Now, don't misunderstood her, for our red haired heroine had been going from one dimension to another from time to time, since Obito's Sharingan allowed him to go to his pocket dimension, which, mind you, was truly uncolored and gloomy.

Hikari remembered discussing said topic with Obito who knew that with both of his eyes he would be able to have access to the other dimensions too, but Hikari hadn't seen him doing that, or maybe she had, her memory of the war was a little messy. What was important was that both Hikari and Obito had been sure that there were no other inhabitants in the other dimensions.

Then how come there were people?

Her train of thoughts was disturbed when Hanji stopped her fussing and smiled brightly at her.

"This is quite unusual but you have really fast healing factor. All of your wounds are closed and almost healed"

"Sounds fantastic" Hikari was still dazed

"Are you sure you are alright?"

"A glass of water will be nice"

"Alright" Hanji eyed her suspiciously. Hikari gulped down large portions of water and exhaled. She had calmed down a little.

"I'm still kind of confused" she mumbled "where are we, anyway?"

"It's not really that important" Hanji waved it off "I believe you are allowed to be released today. Wait here"

And the woman Left. Hikari glared at the cuff.

"Yeah, I'm so leaving on my own" she rolled eyes. Seriously, these people underestimated her, but she couldn't really blame them, maybe Ninjas were pretty uncommon here.

Hanji came back quickly and with a set of keys too. He grinned at the prisoner and unlocked the cuff. Hikari rubbed her wrist, although she was used to the pain.

"Where are we going now?" She asked the hipper active woman "I doubt I woke up in these clothes.." Hikari looked down at the black pants and white shirt she was wearing.

"You are right" Hanji led her though the narrow hall "you were wearing pretty strange clothes, we mendes what we could, and throw away the rest, they were pretty tore"

"Where did you find me?"

"It wasn't me who found you, mind you, but we were scouting the Wall Maria when we found you practically swimming in your own blood, your clothes tattered and you were unconscious. We had no other choice but to return to the nearest village to treat you before you bled out"

Hanji halted at the random door and walked into the room.

"Come in"

The room was simple with a wardrobe and a single bed. There were no personal items besides her clothes on the bed. Without being embarrassed Hikari stripped down and grabbed the purple sleeveless shirt with high collar and put it on. Then she pulled on the standard Akatsuki dark blue pants and black and white sandals and pulled her hair in the high ponytail.

"I have to say they do suit you" noted Hanji "there were also some scrolls in your backpack. I'll admit, we did try to open them but with no result. Do you remember why?"

Probably because there are Blood Seals protecting them?

"No, not really" Hikari shook her head "it's all very confusing and I don't even recognize this place"

"Hmm... I understand. You are confused and probably hungry too. Let's go eat something"

Hikari could see how many questions the woman had and she also doubted Hanji believed the bluff she pulled off with claiming to be amnesiac but no matter how cliche this all was, Hikari had no better idea. She knew nothing about these Walls but this Wall Maria sounded like an restricted place, which meant she wasn't supposed to even be there at all.

Fantastic.

Hanji and Hikari went downstairs and Hikari found herself looking at the numerous long tables. It looked like the dining room and it was empty. She was given food on the plate and Hanji sat before her. Hikari didn't even know what she was eating. It was kind of spicy blunt meal but she didn't care, at least it was tastier than the food pills she ate on the missions.

"Can we sightsee the place?" Hikari asked

"The house?"

"The village. Someone might recognize me"

"I dont want to burst the bubble" Hanji swallowed the food and continued "but we asked the whole village, unfortunately no one knows who you are"

"That... doesn't sound good" she said slowly. Hanji laughed

"No, it doesn't. It's kind of hard not to remember someone with bright red hair"

"I take it isn't common?"

"Not really. I do have seen people with red hair but the colour blends into brown. Yours is truly interesting" Hanji's eyes shone brightly.

Hikari cursed her fate. She had to meet a mad woman who was fascinated with her hair colour. That proved her decision to not reveal her real identity. The last thing she needed was another Orochimaru and his level of experiments.

Give me a break.

Hikari didn't replied and comfortable silence fell around them. The red head finished her meal and Hanji stopped eating too.

"Can we still go out? Maybe something can trigger the memories, I dont know"

Hanji nodded.

"Of course, let's go"

The village itself was nothing interesting, it looked like every other civilian village with no Ninja Force. Hikari noticed nothing interesting or suspicious. There were no one running on the roofs but she did see people wearing same clothes as Hanji, white shirts and white tight trousers with lots of belts or ropes or something.

A military force, thought Hikari, so I'm not under arrest but I'm at least a suspect in whatever I'm caught up in. Fantastic.

Hikari and Hanji walked down the road when someone practically fell from the sky. Her reflexes kicked in and Hikari jumped back before the said person fell on her. The poor blonde boy looked no older than 20.

The boy crashed into the road and groaned. Hikari blinked at him. She was familiar with sudden attacks and ambushes but this didn't seem to be one. Another boy came down from the roof and ran to the fallen one.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, yeah" murmured the blonde who looked like was tangled in these ropes or belts or whatever. The black haired one helped him out of them. Meanwhile Hikari looked what seemed to be a strange device. She was not familiar with equipment as she had never really visited the Land of Snow so she didn't really understand what she was looking at.

"What is that?"

The brunette looked away from the boys and replied:

"These are Three Dimensional Maneuvering Gear, in short 3DMG, the equipment grants us grants opportunity to travel through air"

"Sounds interesting and complicated" said Hikari and she saw the boy letting out the hooks from the gear and raising in the air.

"Well it's not that hard to learn" was Hanji's short reply.

Nothing interesting happened that day besides the said incident. Hikari and Hanji talks about everything the red head was interested in. Hanji gave her the short version of the story about the Walls. Namikaze found out that the people lived behind the Three Walls and the rest of the place was occupied by the man-eating creatures from 3 to 15 meters and different classes. These creatures called Titans had no particular need to eat but they still devoured people. Hikari couldn't say she was surprised. She already had spent her life fighting against ANBU or Hunter-Nins as well as rogue ninjas and even though she hadn't have gone against any of the Tailed Beasts, Titans didn't sound that hard to defeat. But these people, civilians with no chakra, no matter how well trained they were, were no match to them and every other expeditions were announced failure with a lot with great losses.

Hikari found out Hanji was a mad scientist who loved Titans to death. Needless to say the Kunoichi decided to avoid the female Orochimaru at any cost after everything was sorted out. At least Zoe was nice enough. She did wanted to tell Hikari about the experiments she had done to the Titans but Hikari changed the topic quickly, asking about the military. Hanji provided the answer easily. The military was divided in three divisions: The Garrison was responsible for patrolling and protecting the Walls; The Military Police Brigade were in change or keeping order inside the Walls and protecting the ruling monarch; And finally, The Survey Corps Hanji was a part of. They were tasked with attempting to reclaim territory that had been lost to the Titans. Looked like they weren't really loved by citizens but at least they tried to be free from the cage the people were locked in.

"I suggest you guys aren't really popular, are you?"

"No, we aren't. But you can't blame them, they all think it's a lost cause to fight against the Titans"

It wasn't ready her problem. Hikari had no intention to join any of them. She had enough problems on her own. She suspected someone would be signed to monitor her, she also knew that they would want to know what was inside her scrolls and seeing numerous weapons wouldn't be that great. Hikari also had to work on finding her way to home. The only thing she had was her father's special kunais. The formula that allowed her to travel from space to space in short time. Although the jutsu only worked in one dimension, it was still a Time-Space Ninjutsu and she hoped she could alter it to the point of returning to were she came from.

And, cut!

Hello, my sweety readers, how is your summer? Mine is pretty boring, nothing to do and no muse comes to help so I'm stuck with rewriting what I have already written. It's very dull job and I'm lazing but can you blame me? It's too hot to go outside, besides I'm still stuck in the capital, but I do hope in few days I'll go to the village.

Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter.

You will notice that I did try to explain everything in this chapter because I don't really like the part of stories that are too focused on characters finding out about the new world on their own. If you have someone to provide the necessary information, then ask. Hikari is a ninja, information gathering is her speciality.

I want to answer the review were people asked me if she was going to be a god-like ninja. Heavens no. Ninja maybe strong but even they have their own limits, as does our red haired heroine. She will have some power bursts but they will mostly be for one-time use.

Also Hikari won't open up to the characters here, that much anyway. You should have noticed that I plan to pair her up with Levi so she has to tell him someday but it won't happen that soon. She's stoic like Itachi and Sasori but a bit sarcastic too. She's a opposite to Naruto's personality, when he's brash and dashes into the battle without thinking, Hikari always has a plan, after all she does have 13 years of experience as a ninja and she was a part of Akatsuki too. Just power means nothing if you don't have a brain to match, remember the second task on Chunnin Exams about Earth and Heaven scrolls.

Bye-bye, sweethearts and don't forget to leave a review, they make my day.

P.S. Do check up my account to see how Hikari looks like. Search aliceprinces. There will be some pics of her with green eyes.