Here's the second chapter. Enjoy xD


Chapter 2. Meet the unreal

"Huh?" Yoshi sounded sweet saying that, especially as he titled his head and left his mouth open for a few seconds.

Sakura's emerald eyes were wide from shock. She thought she was dreaming.

Yoshi. Is. Standing. In front. Of. Me… He looked real, 3D, not flat and drawn, nor fake.

"Yoshi, I think you're scaring her." Sasuke told him, this time he had sarcasm in his voice.

Yoshi jolted from one leg to the other, smiling and stepping back a little.

Sakura lay unmoved on the grassy ground.

"You're…You're unreal, you're just made up! How can you exist!? Have I landed in a video game or something…?"

Sasuke sniggered, "No you idiot, he's real, I told you he exists."

"He's real…and your pet, right?"

"Correct."

"But you never appear in any games."

"That's because I'm not a game figure!"

"Yeah but he is!" She pointed at the green dinosaur, "So how come he is real, how come some people made him up when he's real?"

Sasuke shrugged, "Maybe…they landed in this world and saw it as inspiration…or." He started to smirk, "This world is cursed and all the fantasies and horrors come true here!"

Sakura shivered. Sasuke was scaring her on purpose. It may of sounded totally stupid, but after seeing a 'cartoon character', she believed anything would be real that seemed scientifically unexplainable. Especially a baby dinosaur, more of a chibi T-rex, with a red hump on his back and red shoes! Not to forget them huge, innocent eyes.

But Yoshi had no claws, instead, short hands, a huge head and round snout.

"Yoshi!" He roared happily in his chibi voice.

He waddled towards Sakura, stretching out his left hand as far as he could, tilting his head and smiling. She took it, now standing on her feet again.

The dinosaur was good two heads smaller than her, and too did he remind her of a frog, for what happened next disgusted her.

Yoshi rolled out his tongue, which seemed endless, and licked her cheek, then rolled it back and closed his mouth.

Sakura felt like gagging, but hid it by just faking a smile.

"T-Thanks…" She murmured.

She heard a chuckle behind her, abruptly spinning around and glaring at the young Forest-knight.

"So, Sakura-chan, shall I lead you around?" He bowed a little, holding out his hand towards her.

She knew he was just kidding her, so slapped his hand and walked off.

Sasuke shook his head in amusement. He followed her as she randomly wandered in a direction, not knowing where this may lead to.


After marching a few metres, a voice called out from behind them, as Sasuke halted. Yoshi banged into his legs.

"Yoshiiii…" He growled.

"SASUKEEEE!" Came the hyper and loud voice, as a blond guy approached them. His hair was spiky in all directions, he had cat like stripes marking his face and cobalt blue eyes. His clothing was exactly the same as Sasuke's.

"Man…I'm running after you the whole day now…can't you hear me anymore!?" He groaned in between pants.

"I can…but you dobe mainly waste my time with stupid stuff, and I have other problems."

"Yeah, yeah, same excuse. What problems!?"

"That one…" He mumbled, pointing unobvious-ly at Sakura.

The pink haired girl glared at the raven head, then smiled at Naruto, "Haruno Sakura, nice to meet you."

The blond boy started grinning, "Wow, nice to meet you too!" He tried to look cool, placing a hand over the sheath of his dagger and looking like an expert.

Sakura frowned, giggling, "I guess he's a Forest-knight too…"

"Good guess." The Uchiha wandered off into the direction Naruto came from.

"Sorry for Sasuke being so…cold, he's not a nice person." Naruto tried to whisper to Sakura, but earned a bash on his head instead by Sasuke.

"I can still hear you, Naruto…" His voice answered icily.

"I can tell you two are great friends!" Sakura blurted out with humour.

"Well, Sasuke is my best friend, you know."

She frowned, "Okay…"

The onyx eyed boy didn't answer, but continued walking on.


Walking a few minutes on, they soon reached the end of the forest. Sakura saw that they were standing on a plateau. Under the massive and rocky cliff she saw green fields with flower beds. A river snaked its way through the scenery. More forest was seen behind a tall building.

A palace, Sakura guessed.

From far, the palace was hardly recognisable.

"Is that where we're heading?" She gestured with her index finger towards the towering building.

Sasuke shook his head, "That's the palace of Kingdom Arukas. It has fallen five years ago, the Kingdom is practically dead. Only few live here, one of them being the rich nobles Marth-sama, Ike-sama and Roy-sama. That's where we're heading, to their house."

"Are you friends with them?" She asked, searching the environment for any other houses.

"No I-, I mean, yes, we're friends of them."

Sakura was about to say something, but suddenly something swished in the sky passed her and hovered with rapid speed.

Sakura tried to followed the 'creature' and ended up looking at…Meta-knight…

"Oh my…"

Meta-knight was very small, actually an indigo ball that wore a metal mask. The mask had a V like shape cut out in the middle, the ends very far apart. From this two bright amber pools shone at Sakura's face. The creature too had deep purple shoes, a cape of dark blue colour and bat like, lilac wings. His cape had a big collar, which was white, that came up from behind his head, looking like a…crown. Meta-knight too had a zigzagged, golden knife in his right white hand.

He glared up at her, his eyes decreasing in size.

"Who's she…?" Came his deep but rather not too unfriendly voice.

"A girl…" Sasuke answered.

"I can see that."

"Just someone who followed me."

"Followed you?" Sakura shouted.

"Yes, to convince yourself."

"Convince herself about what?" Naruto asked.

"About all people and creatures such as Mario and Yoshi existing, and aren't games." He stared at her.

Naruto began laughing, "G-Games…? Them?"

"Yup."

Naruto grasped for Sakura's arm and tore her down the stony path of the plateau.

"Are you sure she's no harm?" Meta-knight asked before Sasuke jumped down.

"Don't worry, she will defiantly be no threat."


"Hiiiiiii!" Kirby shouted in his girlish voice after lifting his tiny arms, more like blobs on his body, and waved.

"Hi……." Sakura stared unbelievingly at him.

Kirby gathered air in his stomach, his round, little arms serving as good 'wings'. The pink ball jumped down from the tree and landed next to Sakura on his red feet. His eyes were zeros coloured blue and shining, his cheeks having deeper pink shades.

Sakura started poking the pink ball.

"Oh my god…just as I always imagined. He feels like rubber."

"Of course he does!" Naruto exclaimed, "Don't forget that he can blow himself up, so his skin must be rubber like.

Kirby smiled and blushed. He then jumped as light as a feather on Sakura's shoulder.

"Yoshi, Yoshi!" The little dinosaur jumped around excitedly.

"He seems to like her, correct Yoshi?" Naruto asked the little guy.

Yoshi nodded happily. Sasuke saw them from a few metres distance. Surely did he know why Yoshi and Kirby were so jolly.

His facial expression changed. From the cold, emotionless eyes came agony. Some sort of pain, not felt but seen.

He blinked a few times, then walked towards the others.

"Kirby's a lot around the house and in the forest when he's not here. He loves playing." Sasuke said, approaching them.

Kirby flew up into the sky and dived into the clouds.

"Hihi!" He called, as his voice grew further away.

Sakura ran after Kirby, "Hey, wait!"

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled after her.

Sasuke grabbed his shoulder, "Don't worry, Kirby's flying in the same direction we need to head. If she follows him, that doesn't matter, it's the same way."

"But what if he changes direction."

"He wont, he always flies towards the Mansion."

Naruto nodded, "True."


Sakura crossed the flowery fields and now halted at the wide river. Its stream was strong and its bed deep, unseen from the top. The fish wriggled like light rays among its flow.

"Hihi!" Kirby had it easy, he just needed to fly over the bright stream and he'd be safe.

Sakura bit her lower lip. What now…? She asked herself.

Before she could think any further, something whooshed pass her face and dug deep into the flesh of a tree's branch on the other side of the river. It hit pretty high.

Her eyes widened as she stared at the claws shot.

"Can't cross the river?" Sasuke's voice came from behind.

"Sorry that I'm not a Forest-knight."

"Nothing to be sorry about, just shut up!" And Sasuke grabbed her by her waist, swinging over the river and landing on the branch.

"Tadah."

Sakura blushed, looking away. Sasuke now noticed her was holding her closely to himself. No wonder, he didn't want to let her fall in case she did.

The raven head hopped from the branch and let go, blushing himself. But he shook the blush off, pulling back the claws shot.

"Thanks."

"No need to thank. Forest-knights have to have every necessary utensil to survive in this world."

"Experts, ey?"

"Yup."

BASH!

Naruto landed right against the tree, now sliding down.

"Okay, he's an amateur, I guess…" Sasuke excused Naruto's failed try to cross the river heroically.

Sakura bit back a chuckle and followed the Uchiha deeper into the now approaching forest.


Naruto had a red mark on his face, rubbing it continuously and moaning about his attempt, excusing it by saying 'He slipped'.

Sakura knew he was very embarrassed, so just pretended to believe him.

"And, still on missions? Got to escort someone or who's she?" Came a calm voice from up a tree.

"No mission, just a girl wanting to check the area here."

"For what? Gold?" The male voice chuckled.

"No, just to convince herself."

"Hmmm, I think I don't want to know what she wants to convince herself of."

"About us all existing."

"Okay…."

Link jumped from his branch that shadowed him, now stepping into the small rays of sunshine falling through the tight leaves.

"Sasuke, she-"

"I know…"

"Nice to meet you, -"

"Haruno Sakura."

"Link." And the young warrior bowed down.

Link wasn't a Forest-knight, as Sakura discovered, but a warrior with a sword he called 'Elf sword', and the 'Hyrule bow'.

He was dressed a little…weird, but Sakura knew Link from the several 'The legend of Zelda' games.

Link wore a green attire. It was like a warrior gown or something.

Too did he have brown, fingerless gloves of leather and leather protections reaching up to his elbow; things you'd wear when wanting to hold a hawk or eagle. Link had a thin brown belt strap around his stomach, underneath following a thicker version of the belt. They seemed to hold the sheath of his sword and the bow on his back. Under his green gown he had the white clothing that led to his trousers, being connected. The white gown had a high collar. He too had brown leather boots and bags strapped onto him by the belts. His shield was on his back, it having interesting golden and silver markings of his kingdom.

Link's ears were long and pointed, like that of an elf, them wearing small blue, circular earrings. His dirty blond hair was short and cut un-neatly. The fringe was long and parted into two halves. He wore a long, green hat, looking like a sleeping hat, that reached up to the middle of his back.

Link's eyes were the same cobalt blue as Naruto's.

"But why aren't you in your kingdom?" Sakura asked confused.

"My kingdom has no problems, and Ganondorf is pretty annoying. I decided to come here, into this forest. It's peaceful here, and Sasuke is a friend of mine."

Ganondorf was an enemy of Link, whom we will come back to later.

"Oh, I understand." Sakura smiled brightly at him.

"Say, Sasuke-san, are you leading her to Family Arkus?" Link asked curiously.

Sasuke nodded.

"Thought so…but don't you think…they'll-"

"Don't know, lets wait and see, that's all we can do at the moment."

Sakura frowned, "What are you talking about?"

"Nothing." They answered as if in a choir.

Sakura shrugged, "Oh well…"

Yoshi stopped, raising his head in the air.

"Is something?" Sasuke asked his comrade.

But before Yoshi could answer, not in words but gestures, Sakura screamed.

"Sakura-san!" Link roared as she fell to the ground with something yellow on her.

"Piiii-kaaaa-CHUUUUU!" Just as the creature was about to send electric waves on the girl, Kirby grabbed the Pokemon from the sky.

"Nanana!" The pink ball scowled at him.

"Pika!" the yellow, mouse like creature protested.

Kirby let go of him, as Pikachu bashed to the ground, immediately jumping up and letting sparks fly from his red cheeks.

The 'mouse' was mainly yellow, having two brown stripes on his back, and the beginning of his lightning bolt reminding tail being brown too. He had a fine, black nose, a cat like grin and two red circles marking his cheeks. The tip of his long, pointed ears were black; the same colour as his eyes.

Sakura crawled aback from the 'monster'.

Suddenly the tension stopped and Pikachu relaxed. He started rubbing his face and crawling towards her.

"Chaaaa." It called sweetly.

It then hopped onto her lap.

Sakura slowly stretched out a hand to stroke it.

"Pikachu exists too?" She exclaimed.

"Yup, he does!" Naruto grinned.

"Any other Pokemons?"

"Only-" Naruto didn't finish, for the other three Pokemon ran out from the corner and stopped right next to Pikachu, who still lay and Sakura's lap.

"…them three are friendly…" Naruto finished half way.

In front of Sakura stood Charizard, Ivysaur and Squirtle.

Charizard was an orange dragon, the inside of its wings being greenish. Its tail was long and ended in a flame. Charizard's head was small and had two horns, its eyes were blue. From its stomach to the back of its tail was yellow.

Ivysaur was a plant like creature. A pale green dinosaur on all fours and red eyes, with four leaves on the back and a dark pink bulb in between. It also had darker green triangles covering parts of its body.

Squirtle on the other hand was like, the name tells it, a turtle. It was small, being blue with a brown shell. Squirtle could stand on its hind legs, its tail being curled at the end and its head round with brown eyes.

"There are practically all Pokemon in this world, but most of them hide in different territories here, hardly being seen. They don't like humans. These are the only ones that do." Sasuke explained, finishing off Naruto's try to explain, "For they belong to the Pokemon Trainer Yano."

"Yano?"

Sasuke nodded and pointed to the guy next to him.

It was a young boy with brown eyes, scruffy brown hair and the typical Pokemon Trainer uniform in red, white and black, and the cap.

He wore a normal T-shirt; red with two white lines leading from top to bottom. His sleeves were black and he had an amber rucksack. Yano wore normal jeans and black trainers with red markings. He had an emblem of a Pokemon Trainer on the right of his shirt. A white Pokéball decorated the middle of his cap.

Yano smiled and waved his hand.

Sakura got to her feet, "So you only have four Pokemon?"

"Yes, it began with three, but Pikachu soon wanted to join us."

All four Pokemon smiled at her happily.

Sakura shook her head, "This is just crazy…"

"What's crazy?" Sasuke frowned at her.

"All this! I mean…they come from games, and aren't real."

"Meet the unreal, girl."

"But…but… Oh god I've had enough!"

Sakura stormed off.

"Where are you going?"

"Back home!"

"You'll take ages, don't forget how long it took till we were here."

"Kirby!" She called, "Can you take me?"

Kirby came flying on a star, picking up Sakura and swishing off towards the plateau.

"Yano, can I quickly borrow your Charizard?"

"No problem, Sasuke."

The Forest-knight jumped onto Charizard's back, the dragon setting off and following the star.


Sakura reached the forest, jumping off the star, "Thanks Kirby!" She waved to him, then marched deeper into the forest.

Kirby scowled, but flew off.

Sasuke landed a few seconds after her, "Wait here please, Charizard."

The orange dragon roared quietly, as if saying 'yes' and stayed put.

Sasuke marched after Sakura, she not noticing him but he seeing her.

She stopped, looking right then left, and continued.

"You'll never find it like that." Sasuke called after her.

Surprised, she swung around, "What're you doing here?"

"Making sure you're not getting lost." He approached her, pointing right, "There, in that direction was where the portal was."

"You know the Forest perfectly."

"I grew up in here."

Sakura walked in said direction, but still didn't near the portal.

"Where is it?!"

Sasuke stopped, "It should be here…" He frowned, "But it isn't."

"Maybe it wasn't here."

"It was…I remember the trees."

"They all look the same."

"They don't." Sasuke looked around, "It's gone…"

"That can happen." Naruto said, suddenly standing next to the Uchiha.

Sasuke gazed at him, "Where do you come from?"

"Well! I'm fast, you see-"

"Shut up, Naruto!" Link roared, "We came on Epona, my horse." He added the last bit for Sakura to know. But she already knew who Epona was.

"And up the plateau?"

"By climbing. Anyway, these portals have appeared recently in the last few days. They're harmless, but if you go through one and it disappears, you're captured in the world you are."

Sakura glared at him in horror, "But…you said they appear everywhere….so we just need to find another one, right?"

"Yes, but if you go through them, you wont land where you come from. Every portal leads to another world next to ours. The portal that appeared here lead to your world, any other ones to another world."

"Not to another part of a world."

"Not if they don't lie closely together, which they never do."

"Do they reappear at times."

"The same Portal reappears every…" Sakura felt hope, maybe she was back in a few days, but that hope fled immediately as she heard Link continue: "Every 600 years."

Her jaw dropped, "600 YEARS!?"

Link nodded, "It seems you have to stay here…forever."


Second chapter: complete.

Wow, Link just gave Sakura the rest, lol! Already in this freaky world…and now captured. How will Sakura cope? And will she meet the three nobles? You'll find out in the next chapter! Please review!

Sayonara.

P.S: Can anyone guess how I made up the name 'Arukas'? Just think about it and tell me in a review