This is chapter 3 guys! I'm hoping all my chapters will be as long as chapter 2 or so. I really enjoyed writing chapter 3 and I hope you'll enjoy it too. There were so minor errors in the last two chapter, I apologize in advance for those in the following chapters. (Or this one) Hehe. I don't think there's anything else to say…. Oh! Right! My goal is to write as many stories as I favorite, so I'll have a few new stories this week or the following! Please make sure to check them out! And if you ever happen to find this fanfic and are reading this, could you review and tell me if you want me to write each Naruto character proposing to each other. (The pairings may be requested, although the ones I'm surely going to do are Shika/Temari, and Sasu/Saku. NO YAOI OR YURI)

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Recap:

"Hey, Amaya, I'm starting to think we should stay here forever." I whispered, leaning closer to her.

"Yeah. We might as well. But how will we get out, if we wanted to I mean." She looked a little surprised.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. But this is just a dream, so we'll wake up eventually." I forced a smile.

This dream was getting weirder and weirder.

Amaya frowned. "What if this isn't a dream. What if we don't wake up?" Her tone was serious.

I laughed. "It's a dream, baka! There's no such thing as Naruto."

I couldn't help but think at what she had just said.

What if this wasn't a dream? What if we don't wake up?

I looked up at the ceiling. White. It was all white. Blank; like my mind. I tried to think, completely failing.

I was in a dark room, on a bed. It was cold and I was tired. I'd tried to sleep already but that didn't work. I had way too much on my mind.

After Amaya had asked me all that, Naruto asked us if we wanted to sleep at his house until we found a place to sleep. We both agreed, although Amaya was very happy she was going to be in the same house as Naruto. I was just too tired to argue.

So here we are. Naruto's house was surprisingly big. Three rooms at least. Tomorrow was going to be a long day; we were going training with Sakura, Naruto and—although he didn't want to—Sasuke.

"Is this a dream?" I turned on my side; groaning when something sharp prodded me in the waist. "What the—What is that!" I frowned, sitting up and inspecting what had disturbed me. A kunai. "What the hell is a kunai knife doing here!" I mumble, swearing under my breath that I would make whoever did this pay.

"Oh my god!" I took the kunai and place it far on the side to make sure it wouldn't cut me again. "What is it gonna take for me to finally fall asleep." I suppressed a sigh. "What am I gonna do here if I never wake up." Then, an idea hit me. "Yes! If I fall asleep, then I'll wake up!" I decided.

I lied back down and plopped my head on the pillow. "Sleep. Sleep." I mumbled about a thousand times before stating to feel drowsy.

A loud bang woke me up. "Erika-chan!" Naruto, definitely Naruto. "Whaaaaaaaaaaat?" I lifted my head up slightly to see what was going on. Naruto was fully dressed, Amaya standing next to him, also dressed—surprisingly looking like a ninja.

"Wow. And what happened to you?" I raised an eyebrow. "Isn't it the middle of the night?" Stupid question, I looked at the window, the sun was shining brightly in my face. "Urgh." I paused. "Fine, fine, if you want me to wake up. I feel like I never fell asleep." Because I never did. I added to myself, not wanting them to worry.

Amaya was wearing fishnets under a loose black half-shirt with a hood. She had a matching black skort and fishnet leg-warmers from just above her knee to her tibia and arm-warmers from above her elbow to about half of her forearm. "N—nice, I guess." I mumbled.

She laughed, "We got one for you, too!" She walked up to me, "Come try it on." She took my hand and took off to the kitchen, looking savagely around to find where she'd put the clothes.

I had to admit, the clothes looked very nice on her; the half-shirt complementing her medium-sized boobs, and the short skort complementing her long legs.

"You jealous?" She said making the jealous longer and more sarcastic than it should have been.

"No." My answer was simple, and she could tell I wasn't in the mood to be laughing. "So. My clothes?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Right!" She snapped out of it. "Here." She pointed to a pile of clothes. "They should fit you. And if they don't… Then you'll have to deal with it anyway." She grinned.

"Right." I rolled my eyes, picking up the pile of clothes. "You're such a good friend." I said, amusement in my voice.

"Oh! You just noticed!" She played along, faking one of those Ho, ho, ho modest laughs. "Go try them on!" She pushed me to the bathroom.

"Fine, fine, I'm getting there. Sheesh." I closed the door behind me, putting down the pile of clothes besides the sink. "Let's see what we have here."

I looked at the clothes; fingerless glove bandages, bandage leg-warmers and arm-warmers, waist bandages, a baby-blue loose high-collar half-shirt, a baby-blue skirt that was cut in two parts with a dark gray belt, then there were leggings the same color as the belt, a baby-blue ribbon to tie wherever I wanted, bandages to cover the skin of my stomach, and finally, the ninja shoes, although mine were baby blue. Matching my whole outfit. After a few minutes of staring at the clothes, I quickly put them on, noticing I had lost enough time already. When I was ready, I saw the ribbon still beside the sink. I took it and tied it around my waist with a normal bowknot on the front. "There we go." I mumbled to myself, walking out the bathroom.

Naruto was waiting for me outside the door of his apartment. I sat down on the steps and slipped my shoes on quickly. "Where's Amaya?" I asked, walking out to sand in front on Naruto.

He jumped on the rail around the balcony and said, "She went to the academy, to see if you could train in half the time so you could be genin and join a team." He grinned. "Let's GO!" He yelled in midair, jumping off the railing.

I gasped, "NARUTO!" I ran over to the railing and bent over, checking desperately if Naruto was ok. "Naruto!" I called once more when I couldn't find him. I could hear a laugh. Naruto. "Dammit Naruto! You scared me to death!" I cried, taking the stairs.

He laughed once again, as if he thought life was just a big joke. "You've never seen a ninja before have you?
He said, "By the way, I need to ask you and Amaya some questions later!" He led me to the academy when I finally reached the bottom.

"Amaya's at the academy." I said to myself, although it almost sounded like a question in my head. What would happen if we stayed here forever? As much as I liked this place and anime, I wondered what would happen to my family and friends, as well as Amaya's.

I also wondered why Amaya had gone to the Academy; she was the one whom wanted to leave in the first place. Was she really going to sign us up to stay here and become genin?

No place to talk about it now. Without knowing, they had already arrived at the academy, and Naruto had brought them to an office where Amaya stood, talking to Iruka. "Hey." I said in a quiet voice, so I wasn't disturbing them too much.

Amaya turned to me. "Hi. I though you'd never get here." She sounded cheerful, too cheerful. He request had been accepted. "Mhm." I forced a smile to Iruka. I had to admit; it was nice to see all the Naruto characters live. Especially Iruka. He was pretty cool, besides being completely useless after Mizuki attacked him the second time.

"Nice to meet you," He walked up to me, raising his hand to shake mine. "You must be Erika." I nodded, shaking his hand, then turning to Amaya I said, "Uh… I need to talk to you for a minute." I ran to her and grabbed her arm, taking her right outside the office. "Why the hell did you sign us up?" I cried. "I thought we were going to leave!"

She glared at me. "I never said anything like that. Well, maybe I was wondering how we would get back, but… What's wrong with wanting to stay here a little longer?" She was yelling now. "Look," She paused, lowering her voice, "Until we can find a way to get back, we should at least act like we're shinobi, or something." She glanced back to the door; probably checking no one was eavesdropping. "Oh, and there was something I was meaning to ask you this morning, but I didn't want Naruto to hear. Did you… Did you fall asleep last night?" Her question took me by surprise, so I thought a little before answering.

"I don't think I did. I mean I closed my eyes and a second later; you came and woke me up." I said. "I tried to fall asleep the whole night, but couldn't seem to quite manage to. Why? What about you?" I was trying to understand what she was getting to.

She shook her head, "No. I was wondering if you had because if you think about it… If we fall asleep, then we might leave. I mean, go back to living normally. But until then…we're staying here. And we're going to become ninja!"

And again, she was way too cheerful. "No." My answer was stern. "We can't." My expression was unreadable.

"Whatever." Amaya walked back to the office.

And that's when we started not speaking to each other and being rivals.

Just like Amaya had said, we did train in the Academy, but only for few weeks. Everything had seemed to come so easily to us, although I knew Amaya wondered why too.

Three weeks; that was all it had taken us to graduate from the academy. Naruto and Sakura we very surprised, even Sasuke had to admit that we graduated faster than him. We had gotten our headbands. Mine was baby blue and replaced the ribbon on my waist and Amaya's was around her arm (Like Shikamaru's) and was black. Our ninjutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu were higher than average; Amaya was good at long-ranged combat, while I was better as close ranged.

Amaya had unbelievable aim with kunai, shuriken, and many other ninja weapons. While Amaya was slower than me and usually attacked from somewhere hidden, I had incredible speed and could slice someone with a shuriken in less than a second. We had both mastered the shadow clone jutsu, substitution justu, and the transformation justu. (Though we did have many more jutsus up our sleeves)

We were actually so incredible, that we raised suspicion in the Village. A little too much suspicion. This was bad, very bad. It took some time for me to realize that we could get kicked out of the village. And since I had stopped talking to Amaya, I hadn't told her.

And I didn't tell her for a long time, until Orochimaru came.

And when Orochimaru came…Well, it was a total disaster. Bad, bad things happened. And that's when I wished I were home. And because now I understood how Naruto had felt.

Because…

Because Orochimaru had taken Amaya.

And there was nothing I could do.

Nothing I could do.

Well, that's all for now. I have to say, I think this went pretty well and kept going smoothly. No thanks to the reviewers, since I had NONE. Wow, please, this is the worst. And I thought this fanfic was pretty good. Thanks guys, really. I will continue the next chapters, but I'll take it down if by chapter 5 I haven't had a few reviews.