Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Naruto: Shippuden. I own the O.C's. They are based off me and my four best friends.
Arrival in KonohaKotetsu and Izumo (you know, the guys at the first stage of the Chunin exam who put a genjutsu on the rooms to trick the students?) were at the booth of the gate, just like in the anime. Their ninja hound was lounging lazily in front of the station. His head perked up to get a better look at Rinkashi as she passed by. "Hi Izumo! Hey Kotetsu!" Eri greeted them with a wave while Myu flashed them a peace sign.
"Do you know these girls?" Kotetsu questioned his partner. Both of them were blushing slightly.
"Not at all," Izumo replied, looking down at their dog. He was still looking at Rinkashi, tongue lolling out of his mouth. "He doesn't see anything wrong with them, and I'm pretty sure I just saw Kakashi with them a few seconds ago, so I guess they're good."
Kotetsu slumped back down in his chair, bored once again.
- - -
The girls had made it to the center of town, where the main road cut through the village. "Wow, Konoha is even more awesome when you're actually here!" Rumiko grinned.
"Yeah…" Eri breathed, astonished with the place.
"Well I don't know about you guys but I'm going off to find Neji!" Rae squealed and went off to into the crowd of people.
Myu sighed. "I wouldn't be too worried about her," she laughed slightly. "Rae studies this village's map more than any of us." Kitsaia's eyes wandered around until she found the place she was looking for.
"YES!" she cried, running into the shop. "Ichiraku Ramen!"
Rumiko and Myu burst out in laughter. "Wow not even a trip between universes can quell that girl's addiction to ramen! She really is a Naruto clone!"
Eri was gazing up at the Great Stone Faces. "I think I'll go up there, guys," she said, setting off in the mountain's direction. "I'll catch up with you later, okay?"
"All right, Eri," Rumiko nodded. "Hey, take a picture or two of the village from that view! It's got to look amazing from up there!"
"Yeah, probably," Eri flashed her teeth at her and hopped on Rinkashi, who bounded through town to the giant monument.
"She took easily to riding on Rin, hasn't she?" Myu noted, staring after their friend.
"Yep." Rumiko replied. "I think I'll check out that Amaguriama, the first shop. I've been craving some roasted chestnuts!"
"You do that, Rumi," Myu chuckled. "I'm going to the hot springs for sure!"
"See you soon!" with that the two girls jumped off to their chosen spots.
- - -
Rumiko walked to the desk of Amaguriama, and was instantly in love. She saw sweets of every kind and soon began dishing out her money. She walked to the clerk behind the counter before spotted her nametag.
'Hashiharu, huh? Interesting name.' She thought.
"Can I help you?" Hashiharu asked in a sweet voice.
"Yes. Five of everything please!" Rumiko said grinning.
As Hashiharu went to gather the items of her order, Rumiko noticed something. Her senses were increasing and sharpening, and irritating the hell out of her.
'God I'm hearing so many things at the same time… and the different smells! It's so annoying!'
She lightly tapped the side of her head, eyebrows scrunching in frustration.
"Thank you very much." Rumiko said as the clerk slid her order across the counter. Rumiko placed her yen on the table and left the candy shop.
- - -
Myu sunk deeper into the steamy water.
"This is the life," she murmured sleepily.
Tatakai sat just outside the water, purring deeply as Myu scratched her behind the ears.
"Myu, this has to be the best thing that's ever happened!" Tatakai mewled quietly.
- - -
Kitsaia sat at Ichiraku's. Teuchi and his daughter, Ayame, both came over.
"Hey there stranger. What can I get for you?" Teuchi asked.
"Hmm… one large miso ramen with egg please!" Kitsaia said, flashing her teeth in a friendly grin.
"Coming right up," Ayame smiled. Teuchi turned to start cooking the ramen when a blonde haired, blue eyed ninja entered the shop.
"Give me the usual, old man!!" he called happily, sitting down on a stool.
Kit knew him. It was Naruto Uzumaki. He was her favorite character! Despite the excitement beginning to grow on her, she remembered she couldn't blow her cover.
"Ah, thank you," she said to Ayame as she set her ramen down on the higher level of the counter.
"Hey! Are you new around here?" Naruto suddenly asked Kit. "Where are you from? Do you like ramen?" Then he saw her headband.
'Eh? Weird. I've never seen her here in the village before, but she's wearing a Leaf forehead protector…' Naruto thought.
"Hey!"
Kitsaia looked up from her already half-empty bowl of ramen.
"Oh, me?" she flushed slightly. "Yeah, I like ramen! Do you?"
"Of course! And Ichiraku's is the best!" Naruto smiled as Teuchi set down a huge bowl of BBQ pork ramen.
"Thanks!" Kitsaia grinned and ordered another serving of miso.
- - -
Rae wandered into the training fields. Soon, she found the person she was looking for.
"NEJI!!!" she squealed. The Hyuuga prodigy turned from training with Tenten to see the strange girl running up.
"Who's she?" Tenten questioned, mirroring Neji's confused expression.
"I-I don't know. I've never seen her in my life." Rae jumped into the air and tackled him in a hug, knocking them both to the ground.
"Oh my gosh Neji! I'm only you're biggest fan ever!!!" she rubbed her head against his arm.
"S-Sorry but, who the hell are you?" Neji asked, slightly freaked out. He stood up and tried prying the girl off his arm. Tenten couldn't help but giggle a bit.
"I'm Rae! I watch yo--"
"Rae! Don't be a freaking idiot! We're not supposed to tell them we're from another world!!!" Eri's telepathic message entered her head.
"I-I I mean…" Rae wracked her brain for a reasonable cover up. "I've watched you train sometimes since I got here with my fri-- team! Yeah! I think you're really good at fighting, and stuff!!" she laughed nervously, scratching the back of her head.
'Way to go Rae, you really made that subtle…! Neji is hardly one to be deceived most of the time… I'm screwed for sure!'
Neji raised an eyebrow at her.
"Oh, so you're from another village?" Tenten asked suddenly. "Then why do you have a Leaf headband?"
"O-Oh, it's because I'm from the Fire country, but a lesser shinobi village," Rae quickly thought of the name of their real-world's hometown name. "Tsukima."
"Tsukima? I've never heard of it." Neji stated.
"I said it was a lesser shinobi village."
"Okay! Get out of there now, Rae!" Eri's mental voice sounded annoyed.
"U-Um, I have to go now!" Rae dashed off before Neji or Tenten could say anything else.
"She's really weird," Tenten stated, still grinning from the humorous encounter. "But funny!"
- - -
"Ugh," Eri pinched the bridge of her nose, a little peeved at Rae's stupid mistake. "Rinkashi, you're so lucky you don't have to baby-sit these four," she breathed out a small laugh, patting her husky on the head.
"Yeah, Tatakai doesn't even behave as badly as her owner," Rin smirked. "If anything, she behaves better!"
"Lucky," Eri rolled her eyes as she took a Polaroid camera out of her pouch. She snapped a few pictures of the village, before noticing in one of the developed pictures a black streak running across the lens.
"Well that's weird…" she muttered, tapping the pictures together. She put them into her pouch and turned to leave the Stone Faces when a shuriken suddenly came flying at her. Quickly thinking, she dodged and pulled a kunai from her holster.
"Who's there!?" No answer came, but two more shuriken soared right to her. She deflected them and placed her free hand to her head.
"Rae, Myu, Rumiko, Kit, listen! Someone's just attacked me! Go to the Third Training Field, now! I'll try to lure whoever it is there, so get going!"
In their separate locations, the other members of the Gonin got the message. Rumiko stuffed her purchases into her side bag before running off as fast as she could go.
Kitsaia gulped down the last of her third bowl, placing her bill money on the counter.
"I gotta go! Sorry for rushing out!" she grabbed her bag and ran through the exit.
"H-Hey!" Naruto called. "Wait!"
Rae, being barely a five-minute walk from the Third Training Field, only stretched and started gliding at her own pace in the direction which she came.
Myu jumped out of the hotspring water and wrapped a towel around her body, quickly going to the locker rooms. She threw her clothes on and ran back out. She was in such a flurry that she didn't notice a black leather jacket before it was too late. "Gah!!"
She crashed right into Kiba Inuzuka, knocking them both to the ground. Tatakai came bounding up, bending down to sniff the strange boy.
"Myu, are you okay?"
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine Tatakai," Myu sat up and rubbed her temple. "What about you?' she shook her head so that her vision could clear up, and she noticed just who she'd ran into.
"K-Kiba…!?"
Kiba stood up and rubbed the back of his neck. "You should really watch where you're going, kid!" he pulled her to her feet.
"S-Sorry. I slipped on the floor," she smiled sheepishly. "It was kinda wet…" Now at this point, Myu probably considered the kunai knife hurtling at her a blessing. She dodged it and pulled one of her own kunai out of its sheath.
"I gotta go!" with that, Myu jumped onto Tatakai, and the two went bounding off into the Leaf village.
"Wait!" Kiba started to run after her, only to be blocked by Shino. "Shino, what the hell?! That girl was just attacked! We've gotta help her!"
"No, we don't," Shino replied in his usual, somber voice. "Hokage told me earlier that if we see a girl we haven't seen before, we should try our best to avoid her. Particularly if they have a cat or a wolf-dog."
"Why?"
"Something relating to a mission Kakashi-sensei got. The Hokage didn't go into details."
"Damn…"
The four girls arrived at the Third Training Field. "Where's Eri?" Rae asked.
"I don't know," Rumiko's voice tensed.
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