"Okay…" Sakura said as she looked around at everything. "Did I just end up in a rerun of the Twilight Zone?"

Getting up as she examined her surroundings that it was just like Konoha but with a different color scheme or something. Maybe her eyesight was finally screwed up after reading so many books.

That's when a strange girl with red hair wearing a hat walked up to Sakura as if she was examining her.

"Wow. Pink hair. Never seen that before, you must not be from around here." The girl finally stopped staring at Sakura and looked her in the eyes. "Where are you from?"

"Here. I think… I don't know. I was in Konoha and then my shadow grabs me and sucks me into the ground. And everything here seems the same except my library books are all gone, the whole village seems to have gotten a paint job, and who are you?" Sakura asked after pausing in the middle of her confused rant.

"Me? I'm Tayuya." She paused for a moment and then said. "And I don't understand your problem you're in Konoha right now and the village has always been this way, it hasn't gotten a paint job." She paused to chuckle for a moment. "You sure that you weren't just reading too much so you hallucinated, then someone knocked you out and stole the books?"

Sakura shoulders slumped. She didn't think Tayuya was any help at all, she had just met Sakura and already she thought Sakura was crazy.

"But who would want a bunch of boring medical textbooks?" Sakura asked.

Tayuya shrugged. "What's your name?"

"Sakura."

"Sakura…Somehow that name sounds familiar but I can't quite place it." She said seriously racking her brain. "Its on the tip of my tongue." She said sticking her tongue out to emphasize her comment.

"No I think that's a bug." Sakura pointed out.

Tayuya realized that there really was a bug on her tongue so she started spitting and wiping her tongue to get it off. Eventually she succeeded and the poor fly landed on the ground with a sickening thud and then a crunch when Tayuya grinded her shoe on top of it.

"Die. Die. You fucking fly." Tayuya said with a psychotic killer expression on her face.

Sakura was laughing the whole time she watched the weird scene. When she was able to catch her breath she said, "Tayuya you are crazy."

An angry anime vein appeared on Tayuya's forehead. "Hey, you're the one who thinks you got sucked into the ground by your shadow and ended up in a different version of Konoha! Konoha has always been the same!" She shouted back pointing an accusing finger at Sakura.

"Hey! If I've been here my whole life how come we've never met! Like you pretty much said I don't look like I'm from around here because of my hair!"

"Hmm. I guess you're right I would've remembered your pink hair. So why don't we go to the Hokage and ask her what she thinks. That way we can prove you are completely insane!" Tayuya said smiling. "Friends?" She asked she raised her arm to shake hands with Sakura.

"Sure." Sakura said as she shook hands with Tayuya. "I'll ignore your last comment"

"Awesome!" Tayuya said as she started marching away and motioned for Sakura to follow.

Then Sakura realized something.

Wait. Did I just shake hands with her with the hand she just wiped her tongue on to get rid of the fly?

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"Shikamaru! Shikamaru!" Naruto continued shouting at the top of his lungs as he neared the training grounds.

And much to the dismay of Konoha's resident lazy genius he was too loud to be able to ignore.

And of course Naruto eventually found Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru! I need your help! Sakura got sucked into the ground!" Naruto said continuing to shout.

"Naruto. You need to get more sleep. You were obviously hallucinating." Shikamaru said before he began to lie back down and close his eyes when Naruto began shouting again.

"No! I really saw it! Sakura was sucked into the ground!" Naruto yelled at him in frustration.

Shikamaru sighed. "Troublesome." He said "Ok. So lets say that you really did see Sakura suddenly disappear. Sakura is an excellent ninja, heck she's training under the Fifth Hokage. She was probably in a hurry to get home so she preformed a genjutsu to get home."

Naruto finally stopped yelling but he was getting really annoyed. "If that's true why did she leave all her library books behind on the ground?"

Shikamaru got a shocked look on his face.

"See! I have proof!" Naruto said.

"No it's not that." Shikamaru admitted. "It's just that you actually said something smart."

A/N: Yes. I finally updated. So you all can take me off your kill list. I know that Tayuya is sort of OOC but there is a reason for that. And I know this chapter is kind of confusing but the plot will clear up as the story goes on.

I think dinogirl694 asked me to list my other ShikaSaku stories, So here they are:

The Real Genius: a high school fic

Isolated: horror story

A Troublesome Trade: My first ShikaSaku story, Sakura gets wings.

ShikaSaku of the Next Generation: hard to explain it because I haven't really gotten to the real plot in the story yet. It's only on the first chapter.