I don't have long until midnight, so I'll hurry.
I do not own- Oh sorry! I've got to go! (Just kidding! Just kidding!) I do not own Naruto. There.
Our talk with the Hokage was very quick.
He'd found a place where we could stay "until we returned to our village".
That place so happened to be One-eye's house, where there were only two empty rooms.
The first room he showed us, was little, had no window and in the place of a bed, there was a mattress laying on the floor. There was only one candle to provide light.
The second room had two windows, a king-sized bed, two closets and a little table with cushions around it.
Maybe One-eye saw it coming, because he proposed carefully that we could maybe share the second room.
Me…share a room with…her? Do you want your house distroyed that badly?
It was clear by the expression of complete shock on her face that Kriss was thinking exactly the same thing as I was.
Our eyes met, and the next second we were both running as quickly as we could towards the door of the second room.
"Well, I have to go," One-eye said. "Don't destroy my house."
So he did have some brains, after all.
"Aye kaptain!" I replied while grabbing the back of Kriss' shirt, as she'd almost reached the door.
"My room!"
"No, my room! Let go of me!"
She blindly kicked behind her and touched my nose. I managed to grab some of her hair and pulled.
She stumbled backwards and I ran forward. At the moment I reached the doorknob, she pulled me back.
This continued for a few minutes, until I noticed something interesting.
There was a window in the hallway where we were fighting, and behind that window, I saw a head with spiky white hair.
I suddenly let go of Kriss, who was at that moment almost at the door, as a result of which she hit her head against the door.
"You can have the room." I said.
Okay, this wasn't normal and looking at Kriss' face, I understood I better had a good explanation for why I let her win.
"I doubt the small room is big enough for your ego, anyway." I continued while shrugging.
I managed to enter the small room and closing the door behind me before Kriss found something to throw at me.
Okay… Fact 1: The Hokage told us we could stay with One-eye.
What were his exact words again? "You can stay with Kakashi, who will be able to supervise you until you can return home. You mustn't leave Konoha before I'll have gathered enough shinobi without missions to escort you home. For your own sake, of course."
Of course…
Translation: You'll stay with Kakashi, who'll keep an eye on you until I verified if your story is correct. You can't escape Konoha, for I'll have enough shinobi watching you until then.
So clear. The message is so clear…
At least in this room there's no window…
But that isn't the biggest problem. Did someone heard me asking Kriss for information about this world?
No… That's not possible. If that was the case, we'd be in prison right now.
But it means the Hokage still doesn't completely trust us.
I can't blame him. It was one of the worst stories I ever invented in my life.
But it didn't matter which story I told…they were bound to find out one day…
This lie won't last forever. We'll have to leave as soon as possible.
Now…should I warn Kriss or not?
If I did warn her, I would let them know I know they're spying on us.
If I don't I break my promise.
It only took me two seconds to decide.
And not warning her it is!
Wait… But he already knows I know! He saw me looking at him, then suddenly stop fighting.
I leapt to the door.
How dare they even spy on us!
"KRISS! I NEED TO TALK TO YOU!"
"JUST COME OVER HERE!"
"TOO LAZY TO COME TO MY ROOM?"
"I CAN ASK YOU THE SAME THING!"
I sighed.
Well…They already know anyway, so I suppose it doesn't really matter there are windows.
Entering Kriss' room, I felt a hint of remorse for giving up on the fight when I saw her lying on the king-sized bed with a smug smile on her face.
"Well? Coming complaining already?" she asked.
"No, just keeping my part of the deal."
Ignoring her complete confusion, I walked to the window with mad paces and opened it.
"NOW YOU BETTER SHOW YOURSELF ONE-EYE! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE!"
Some people in the street stopped, atonished by my behaviour.
"Kate! What the hell are you doing!"
Kriss tried to pull me away from the window. "You're making a fool of yourself!"
"LIKE HELL I AM! AND NOW COME, YOU BIG, ONE-EYED PERVERTED SCARECROW, OR I'LL COME AND GET YOU!"
Finally, One-eye's slightly embarrassed face appeared behind the window.
I silently stepped aside to let him enter the room and closed the window to prevent anymore screaming to reach the ears of the passengers.
"Now, why are you spying on us, pervert?"
He actually became quite red.
"I'm not a pervert. It's the Hokage's orders."
"Unless you want me to call the Hokage a pervert, you better explain why very quickly. My patience has limits."
As he understood I'd already figured out why, anyway, he decided to tell the truth.
"The Hokage isn't sure if your story is true. You could be spies that pretend to be civilians, so I have been ordered to keep an eye on you in case I notice some strange behaviour."
"Like screaming out of the window?" Kriss mumbled.
I shot her an angry look before turning my attention back to One-eye.
"If we were spies, we'd be really bad ones, as we did practically everything to attract attention on ourselves. Of course, we could have done that on purpose, too. But anyway, we don't have chakra, so we can't be ninja."
"That's exactly the reason why we suspect you, apart from the fact you appeared out of nowhere, wearing strange clothes and having a strange behaviour. Everyone, even civilians, have chakra. So it can't be you don't have any. So you must be concealing your chakra. And if you are concealing your chakra, that means you have a good reason to hide it, otherwise you'd just have hidden part of your chakra to appear weaker."
I shook my head and gritted my teeth. This was becoming really annoying.
Calm down, Kate, calm down. And if you can't, just act calm.
"I see," I said with a smile, "but you're wrong. We were both just born without chakra. A strange fault of mother nature."
One-eye looked startled about the change of my expression, but didn't say a word.
Kriss decided it was her turn to talk.
"Anyway, you better stop with the spying part, or I'll just place the closets before the windows," she said.
One-eye nodded and headed to the door. "I'll speak to the Hokage."
The following days passed without incidents and Kriss told me practically everything about Deidara, Itachi, Sasori and the most important things about the other Akatsuki members.
I quickly decided that I didn't want to meet any of those freaks, so I spent the most of my days in my room, inventing different theories about how to return home, and the most of my nights outside, wandering through the sleeping village.
I ended up being exhausted all the time.
Kriss, on the contrary, was apparently having a good time.
She'd made a to-do list and was now busy doing the first thing on her list, which was: "Meet Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Rock Lee, Tenten, Neji, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Gaara, Kankuro and Temari".
And I think I even forgot some names.
The worst part was that she thought that only meeting them wasn't enough.
She wanted to go on a walk with Akamaru and Kiba.
She was doing many attempts to couple Hinata and Naruto.
She once even tried to persuade me to come with her to eat ramen with Naruto, Chouji and Rock Lee.
I took the regrettable decision to come and had to see her eating ramen bowl after ramen bowl, as fast as she could, as if it was a competition.
Which maybe, it was, as Naruto was doing exactly the same.
Kriss also seemed to have a new habit: glomp everyone she meets.
It was fortunate, though, that she had made an exception for me.
It probably had to do with my incredibly bad mood and the fact that I'd had Tenten teach me how to throw knives.
I wasn't very good at it, and mostly ended up injuring myself, or other innocent people, but missing a target that tackled you on the ground was difficult.
But the most important thing though, was that Kriss had decided to become a ninja.
Yep, you heard it right.
Without any chakra or incredible physical abilities, she still was determined to become a ninja.
She often asked Lee to spar with her, as he was a taijutsu-user, and, if I correctly understood Kriss, that meant he did use chakra, but that it wasn't indispensable for the easiest techniques.
She'd, just like me, asked Tenten to train her, but not only with knives.
She had, and the thought alone already terrifies me, decided that explosives were her favourite weapon.
Useless to say that her first attempts were monumental failures.
Nevertheless, she was improving, which motivated me to practice more often with knives.
It was pretty clear though, that we'd never be able to become as strong as a ninja, even if, if she continued training, Kriss was going to come close.
But for me, impossible.
Not that I wanted to, of course, but the thought that a ninja could just kill me with one blow while I was unable to do anything, irritated me.
I'd seen ninja running so fast they were a blur, and I'd seen them fighting.
I didn't understand why Kriss was so determined to become one of them when it was so clear it was impossible.
But enough about that.
I should probably get ready. The third exam is about to start.
I stood up from the mattress I was sitting on and went searching for Kriss, as I had absolutely no idea where to go.
"Kriss! Kriss! Where are you?"
"Shut up! Be quiet for a moment, will you?"
Her voice came from her room, a place I hadn't checked yet as she always was outside with her friends.
Wondering what she could be doing at day, in her room, for which I had to be silent, I entered her room.
She was standing by the window, holding…
"YOU BROUGHT YOUR CELL PHONE AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME?"
"Shut up! I'm calling someone!"
"Who?"
She gave me a 'who-do-you-think?' look and pressed a finger against her lips.
After a moment of silence, she placed the cell phone back in her pocket with a sigh.
"I was calling our parents to tell them we're all right, but, as to be expected, I can't reach them."
"Do you have anything else in your pocket? Like- I don't know… a good little fairy that will grant you a wish?"
She rolled with her eyes.
"No, but even if I had, I'd not let you do the wish, or I'll be stuck back home. Though I do have…"
She searched something in her pocket.
"Tadaaa!" she said, holding the object in the air.
I sighed.
"An I-pod? Really?"
Offended, Kriss held her I-pod with both hands as far away from me as possible.
"Hey! I-pod's are an important part of life, you know! Ignore her, Miko, just ignore her!"
"Miko?" I asked, mocking. "Really?"
"SHUT UP! And we need to go."
"Right. Don't forget Miko and- Does your cell phone have a name?"
I hurried outside the room, not wishing to test her new fighting skills.
Jane's POV
Ah! Finally! The holidays! What will I do?
I sat down on my bed and my eye fell on the dvd of Naruto that was lying on my desk.
Why not?
I took the dvd and went downstairs, where the new television stood. I was alone at home, so I supposed I could watch a dvd.
I chose the episode when Naruto fights Neji in the Chuunin exams.
Kate's POV
Kriss led me to the arena and while we were searching a place to sit, I suddenly remembered something.
"Hey, didn't you say that Suna and Orochimaru were going to attack? And that I'd better not be on the platforms?"
"Well, yeah…but…I don't wanna miss this!"
I gritted my teeth and sat down.
"If I get killed, I swear my ghost will haunt you until your death."
"Yeah…sure…" Kriss said in a sceptical tone. "Just stay positive Kate. And form this seal with your hands when you see people falling asleep."
"You know, that wasn't very reassuring."
"Come on, you've got some knives, haven't you?"
I had a few knives with me. It reassured me to have weapons with me. And it was sort of…cool.
"Kriss, I'm not strong enough to fight off a ninja. Have I already said you're reckless, once?"
"You've certainly said that more then once. Now, sit down and enjoy the match."
"Good. If I may listen to you I-pod."
She glanced at me, distrusting, clearly finding my behaviour very suspicious.
"Why would you want to listen to Miko? You don't even like the music I listen too."
"I surely enjoy your music more then the encouraging screams of a big amount of people and cries of pain coming from the arena."
"Bah… It's just a match you know… Nobody's going to die."
But she gave me her I-pod.
Soon, the platforms were filled with people and the first two candidates, Naruto and Neji were standing in the arena.
Kiba and Hinata came sitting next to us, which I didn't mind as I thought both were OK.
As OK as a Naruto character can be, of course.
"This will be good," Kiba said, while Hinata only looked, her eyes fixed on Naruto.
It's so clear she likes him. Why doesn't he see it?
Damn. I'm actually caring about something that has to do with Naruto…
"But for that kid to get this far…" I heard the man bedside Hinata saying.
Why do they have to talk that loudly?
I set Kriss' I-pod louder.
"Yeah, for guys that got this far on luck," I heard his neighbour replying. "This is the end of the line. That Naruto's opponent is just too tough. He can't beat the Hyuga clan."
Hinata actually glared at them. It was clear she wanted Naruto to win.
By simple curiosity, I asked Kriss: "Who's gonna win? Naruto, I suppose, as he's the main character?"
I spoke very softly, so it was impossible to be heard in the middle of a loud crowd.
"Naruto," Kriss hissed back.
I smiled while giving a sideways look at Hinata.
She'll be happy that Naruto wins.
No! I'm caring about Naruto characters again!
I shook my head to chase the pro-Naruto thoughts and tried to concentrate on the music again.
That attempt failed when Akamaru attracted my attention by whining.
Kiba immediately looked at his dog, as if Akamaru just told him something important.
"What?" He asked.
Akamaru whined again.
"What is it Akamaru?" Kiba asked again, alarmed.
Weird to think that everything he does now is actually written and drawed in a manga.
Which means that it's important.
"Where?" Kiba asked his dog.
I followed his eyes and saw and anbu with a cat mask sitting a few places behind us.
Jane's POV
I was just watching the part where Kiba turns and sees Kabuto disguised as an anbu, when the television went black and the lights fell out.
Kate's POV
Suddenly, everything became black, and it reminded me of the moment the lights went out just before we arrived into the Naruto-world.
I looked around me and saw Kriss with an expression of pure horror on her face, but she was the only thing I saw except darkness.
I couldn't feel a seat beneath me anymore, so I fell backwards.
On the ground of a living room, on top of my sister.
Jane's POV
I suddenly heard two voices in the dark.
"Ouch!" one of them said.
"Where are you? Is it you hair I'm holding?"
"AARGH! YES IT'S MY HAIR! AND YOU JUST PUNCHED MY NOSE!"
"Sorry."
Then the lights went back on, to reveal two girls sitting on the floor before my television, both wearing Japanese clothes.
I sat, petrified while they noticed my presence.
"Who the hell are you?" I asked when I could speak again.
And this will be my last update for this year.
I actually managed to update tree chapters in one week!
Now, I'm off celebrating! Happy New Year!