Disclaimer: Again, we do not own Naruto, Slayers, Getbackers or Vampire Hunter D. If there is something I missed that is well known to everyone and I missed it, I do not own it. Actually I only own Kitty. The people who everyone else is based off of own themselves.
Ok, this is the third chapters, and to clear some things up, the group is based off of my real group of friends from college. Yes we really are that crazy when we are together.
And on with the bloody chapter already!
Chapter Three: Tribal Council
"Okay, people, listen up!" Seikai shouted, clapping her hands to emphasize. Everyone (well, almost everyone) sat down wherever there was room in the living/dining room. Kakashi slouched against the open doorway, for one. It all reminded Mandy of her first day in her junior high history class, where she had to sit on the floor because all the desks were taken. She wondered for a second if anyone else in the room had had a similar experience, but decided not to ask. After all, there was no telling how their visitors would react. "As you all know," Seikai continued, "We are going to be splitting our visitors among you for the Christmas break. This is important, as I don't have enough food or room for all of them."
"Obviously." Mandy mumbled as she reached into her purse/bookbag thing and pulled out a box of Pocky. 'We have a few characters here who eat like they're not gonna get another meal. And knowing Naruto, he'd eat all of the ramen.'
"So," Venus announced, grinning evilly, "Take your pick of who you're taking home., or we'll pick for you."
"I'll take Lina and Naga." Seikai stated.
"I'll take Naruto, Samantha, and Hinata." Mandy announced, a stick of Pocky hanging from her lips like a cigarette.
"...Are you sure that's a good idea?" Kyle asked. "You know Hinata likes-"
"Exactly!" Mandy interrupted. "It's fun to watch. Plus, Hina-chan and Naru-kun need to spend some time with a 'normal' family."
"Do you have enough room?" Seikai asked. Mandy nodded.
"We should. Just in case, though, one or two of them can stay at my Grandma's." Mandy nodded. "Yep, it'll be fine. I hope you guys like cats." she said to Naruto and Hinata.
Samantha grinned.
"I have a dead cat at home."
"GROSS!" Naruto yelled. "Why the hell would you have a dead cat?!" Samantha shrugged.
"It followed me home."
"...How did a dead cat get up and follow you home?" Ginji asked confusedly. Samantha's forehead was now twitching angrily.
"ITS GHOST FOLLOWED ME HOME! NOW ARE YOU HAPPY?" she roared. All conversation in the room ceased as everyone turned and stared at her.
"...Okaaaaaayy..." Seikai blinked, before attempting to get the topic, well, back on topic. "Kite!!" she shouted. Kite blinked awake from his seat on the couch.
"...Yes?"
"You get Shikamaru and Sasuke."
"Okay." And so it went on, while Mandy now pulled out her GBA and began playing Final Fantasy I.
"Hey!' Kitty grinned as she popped up beside her. "I got Lee and that Ban guy."
"Wow." Mandy drawled as her party began to fight Shinryu. "Isn't that nice."
"There's a forest by my house. Lee can pretty much spend the whole break training."
"Uh-huuhhhhhhh..."
"Are you even listening?"
"Multitasking." Mandy answered calmly as the deathblow was delivered. "Finally!" She exclaimed, saving her game before turning to face her friend. "Good for you."
"...You really don't care, do you?"
"Not really, no."
"Mandy, this is like one of the biggest things to ever happen to us!" Kitty protested as Mandy began munching on her pocky. "Heck, this is really important! Worlds have collided!"
"Yes, but is it a good thing?" Mandy asked as she held the pocky out to Naruto. "Does their chakra system work here?"
"Hinata used the Byakugen earlier, but it really wore her out." Naruto replied, as Pocky crumbs flew everywhere.
"Dude, say it, don't spray it!" Mandy snapped, gagging. Naruto stopped and stared. Mandy grabbed a kleenex and handed it to him. "Here, you have crumbs all over your face." She turned back to Kitty. "So, it looks like they deplete more chakra here than back in their world if they use any jutsus. That should make things simpler."
"Wait a minute, you mean I can't do any ninjutsu?" Now Naruto was panicking, and somewhere in the distance, Mandy heard Venus say that she was taking Orochimaru and Neji with her. 'Oh holy crap.' she thought, shaking her head. 'Those poor bastards have no idea what they're getting into.' Eventually, the whole "who gets who" situation was all cleared up, and Mandy, Kitty, and Kyle were discussing how they would break the news to their parents.
"Dude, you're stuck with Kakashi and Sakura for the break?" Mandy laughed as Kyle sighed dramatically, shaking his head. "Man, I feel sorry for you."
"Why?" Kitty asked, grabbing a stick of Pocky and biting it in half. Mandy held a finger up.
"One: Explaining to your parents that Kakashi isn't as old as he looks. I mean, he has gray hair, and he's only in his mid-twenties!"
"That guy from American Idol had grey hair, and he was pretty young." Kitty stated.
"Yeah, Mandy, I thought you watched American Idol."
"Just at the beginning. I like the awful singers."
"Okay…" Kyle drawled, "So what does this have to do with Kakashi?"
"He has grey hair."
"Alright… is there anything else?"
"Uh, yeah, the guy reads porn. He doesn't even try to hide it. I'm sure that'll really go over well with your family."
"That's true." Kitty remarked thoughtfully. In the background, Venus could be seen chasing Neji with a brush. "…" Kitty and her friends were temporarily speechless as Seikai joined in.
"Okaaaaaaaay…" Kyle stared as the sound of a door slamming announced the end of the chase. "Please tell me that that did not just happen." Neither Kitty or Mandy answered.
"Damn, it was real."
"Unfortunately." Mandy shuddered as Neji could be heard shouting something about hair ties before it went uncomfortably silent in the apartment. "How did I know something like this was going to happen?"
"I think we all knew something like this was going to happen." Brian sighed, head in hands. "They're probably going to dress him in drag or something."
"…Dress…in drag?" Hinata asked nervously. The rest of the Shinobi and the other characters turned pale. Hell, Orochimaru looked paler than usual, which, oddly, was pretty damn creepy.
"Yeah, they might put him in girls' clothes." Mandy explained, as Naruto looked confused, as usual. "Hell, Seikai has that Naga costume…"
"AGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!" The air was filled with a collective scream from the other members of the anime club, oddly, mostly the guys. There was the sound of a door opening, and Seikai stuck her head in the living room.
"What was that about?" she asked, noting how everybody was looking like that had just seen a ghost.
"Mandy said something about you guys, Neji, and a costume like Naga's…" Lina groaned as Naga began to say what great fashion sense they had if they admired her costume that much. Seikai grinned evilly.
"That's a great idea! Thanks, Mandy!" She withdrew from the room, and there was a muffled yell from the other room. Everyone turned as one and stared at Mandy, who had turned an interesting shade of red as she began banging her head against the wall. "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid…" she mumbled between thumps, not caring that everyone (almost everyone, anyway, as Dave was on his computer) had turned around and focused on the TV that Kite, thankfully, had turned on. And that's how they passed the next hour, watching a Saturday Night Live 'Best of Chris Farley' special.
"What the hell is that?!" Naruto screeched as the infamous 'Chippendales' sketch came on. Several of the girls turned red as they stared at the screen while Patrick Swayze was dancing. Kyle briefly explained about what was going on…then Chris Farley started dancing. Once again, there was a collective scream, and Brian, from his seat in the corner, sighed, relieved that the neighbors were gone for the day.
While this was all going on, Mandy suddenly had a rather unwelcome thought about replacing the two on screen with Shinobi, and she had a pretty good idea of who would be in Chris Farley's place. She decided to not say anything, as she had definitely caused enough problems already (There was still the occasional thud coming from the spare room; apparently Neji was still putting up a fight, or, at least he was until Venus came out and asked if she could borrow Mandy's frying pan). Then Naruto (who had apparently been thinking the same thing as Mandy) announced that he could see Chouji in Chris Farley's place, and the whole room was filled with somewhat disturbed laughter.
"That's certainly an…interesting mental image." Kitty shuddered.
"Apparently me and Naruto think alike." Mandy said calmly.
"What, you thought that too?" Sakura asked.
"Where the hell did you come from?!" Mandy asked, bewildered as to how the kunoichi had popped up out of nowhere. 'Damn ninjas, always sneaking up you!' she thought angrily.
"I was sitting in front of you." Sakura answered. "You didn't notice?"
'And beside Sasuke,' Inner Sakura added. Thankfully, no one could hear her.
"Why would I notice someone sitting in front of me?" Mandy asked incredulously.
"How could you miss someone dressed in pink, with bright pink hair?" Ginji asked. The room fell silent, except for the faint chatter of Venus and Seikai as they debated over what to put on Neji.
"Dude." Mandy held a finger up in the air. "I go to an art school. So does everybody else in here." She waved towards the other anime club members as she said that last part. "We see all sorts of weird and unusual stuff almost daily, and we're used to it. Heck, Ashley has-" she stopped for a second. "Hey, where is Ashley? Wasn't she here earlier?"
"She couldn't make it." Wolfy, the club treasurer said flatly.
"Huh? I thought I saw her in the kitchen earlier." Mandy said confusedly.
"No, that was Sakura." Naruto said through a mouthful of Pocky.
"Huh." Mandy thought out loud. "I just assumed that Ashley changed her hair from green to pink. And who said you could eat all my pocky?"
"You said I could have some!" Naruto shouted defensively. "I already ate the Christmas cookies you gave me!"
"Okay, okay, geez!" Mandy groaned, rubbing her forehead with one hand and waving at him dismissively with the other. "God, you're gonna give me a headache!"
"And you never get headaches from listening to your headphones 24/7?" Kite asked as he munched on a cookie. "You're always wearing those whenever I see you."
"Hey, I like music, okay?" Mandy snapped. "And besides, you guys get louder than the music anyway!"
"So… what are you listening to?" Kyle asked.
"The Black Mages." There was a brief pause before almost every anime character asked:
"Who are they?"
"Never mind, now it's The Clash."
"You listen to The Clash?" Kyle asked.
"Yeah, I like classic rock and rock in general. You know, Queen, Metallica, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Black Sabbath, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Green Day, Nightwish, Demons and Wizards, The Black Mages, the pillows, The Beatles and some of their spinoff bands, Eric Clapton-"
"All right, all right, we get the point." Kyle sighed, shaking his head. "Geez, that's a lot of music."
"And that's not all of it." Mandy finished, grinning.
"Wow." Naruto had now popped up beside Mandy and was staring at her MP3 player.
"All that music is in there?" Mandy smiled.
"Yep! And it's all on my laptop too. Speaking of which-" she got up and headed to the hallway where she had dumped her stuff after the whole mess with Orochimaru earlier. 'Where is it… Ah-hah!" she exclaimed as she grabbed her laptop and returned to the living room, where she plopped back into her seat. "Okay, kid, this is my computer." She said as she started it up.
"Wow, it's like those monitors they have at the chuunin exams!"
"So that's where you're at there right now." Mandy mumbled as she opened Windows Media Player, and put on her Final Fantasy playlist.
"Ooh! I remember this one!" Samantha laughed as The Black Mage's mix of 'Matoya's Cave' began.
"You play 'Final Fantasy'?" Kitty asked.
"We had the old SNES version when I was little. I used to watch my big sister play it." Samantha sighed. "Good times, good times. Mom used to get really angry at her because she'd be yelling and cursing at the screen during boss battles."
"So you've been playing it since the beginning?" Brian asked.
"Oh yes. We had almost every game console on the market, and two trunks worth of games. They were a lifesaver on those expeditions."
"…Huh?"
"Her family traveled the world when she was little because of her mom's job." Mandy explained. "Mom was an archaeologist." Samantha glared at her.
"It's a little unnerving when someone you've just met knows all about you."
"Well, I don't think I know everything about you. No, wait, do I? You're still a work in progress, so, yeah, I highly doubt I know absolutely everything about you."
"Can you please keep it down?" Brian sighed as Samantha was now looking like she wanted to kill someone, and they had just gotten the 'SNL: Best of Will Ferrell' DVD in. Mandy brightened up as soon as she looked at the TV.
"Ooh! Dude, let's watch the Kill Bill movies after this!"
"Really?" Samantha grinned. "AWESOME!"
"We may have to watch them with Japanese subtitles though."
"But we understand each other just fine." Kitty said, pretending to whine.
"Okay, we'll see if anyone has trouble understanding the movies. And if anyone does, then we use the subtitles."
"Subtitles for what?" Venus asked suddenly. Everyone looked up to see Seikai, Venus, and a very angry looking Neji in the doorway.
"Oh, we're gonna watch the Kill Bill movies." Kyle answered.
"Oh, ok." Seikai shrugged. "Okay, Neji-kun, go and play with your friends or something." She lightly pushed him into the room as she said this, before turning around and asking Venus something about 'the pictures'. Then they left again, leaving everyone silent, and staring at Neji like he had grown a third eye or something.
"WHAT?!" he snapped loudly, causing Hinata to wince, and Mandy to shudder.
"Damn, it must've been bad." She muttered. Kitty nodded.
"Knowing Seikai and Venus, it must've been torture."
"I don't wanna know." Kyle grumbled as Neji sat down by the couch and stared at the TV.
Again, we hope you enjoyed the chapter. If you have any comments or questions, please ask away. If you are here to flame, then all your flames shall be used to roast Naga and Lina's dinner.