Chapter 7: Adjusting

A/N: Here's the next chapter. Thanks again to Bakuto Masaki for being the only person who reviews this story. And sorry for not responding to your PM. My computer is messed up. Without further ado, let's get on with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Final Fantasy 7. If I did, then I would be swimming in all the money they were making.

"Talking"

"Thinking"

"Usagi talking"

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She almost forgot where she was when she woke up the next morning. Last night's events played through her head over and over again. She thought it was all a dream and she would wake up back in her house. But either she was still dreaming or this was all real. Pinching herself awake, she figured it was real and that she was somehow stuck on another world.

Mikomi sat up in the bed that Tifa brought into Denzel and Marlene's room. It made the room a little cramped with three beds. Then again, it was cramped with only two beds.

Running a hand through her messy hair, she saw Denzel and Marlene wake up. Both children had the same messy bed head as she did at the moment. Marlene's usually braided hair was all over the place, and Denzel's wavy hair was sticking out in different directions.

Marlene rubbed the sleep from her eyes. She grinned when she saw that Mikomi was up.

"Good morning" she yawned. "Did you have a good night's sleep?"

The kunochi nodded with a small grin.

"Yes I did. Thank you for letting me use you room for the night"

"You're welcome"

Both children crawled out of their beds and got on hers. She had to admit, they were pretty cute. The way they looked at her in amazement was adorable. She could tell that they were just as surprised as she was with this whole situation.

"So…you're really from a different world?" Denzel asked.

Mikomi merely shrugged.

"That's what everyone is saying. So I suppose"

"And you're a ninja? Like Yuffie?" Marlene added.

"Well, I don't if I'm like her. But I am one"

She pulled off her headband that was tied around her neck. Normally, you were to take it off when it was time for bed. But for her, it acted like a security blanket. Plus, it hid the scar that ran across her neck.

She handed them her headband to look at it.

"This means that I'm a qualified ninja in my village. You're not a real ninja until you earned one of these. The symbol on it means that I'm from the Village Hidden in the Leaves. That's why it looks like a leaf"

Denzel fumbled around with it. He tried to tie it around his neck like Mikomi did.

"Are you suppose to wear it like this?"

She giggled a bit.

"Yeah, but most people like to wear it on their forehead, like this"

She tied on his forehead like Naruto would wear his. It looked good on him, until it slipped and covered his eyes. They all laughed at the silly incident that is until their stomachs grumbled in hunger. They all blushed in embarrassment.

"I guess we should go downstairs and eat"

The two children nodded as they all got off the bed. They held her hand as they went downstairs for breakfast.

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Tifa had breakfast preparing when they came down. They smell of bacon and pancakes hit them like a ton of bricks. The martial artist smiled as she saw her guest up.

"Good morning. I take it you slept well?"

Mikomi nodded

"Yes. And thank you again for letting me stay here until I get everything straighten out"

Tifa just waved her off.

"It's not a problem. It's not every day that we get a guest, especially one from another world. So I'm really looking forward to this"

Mikomi couldn't help the smile that was on her face. She had to be the first person who was actually nice to her and didn't take this whole situation to be strange.

Marlene pulled her to the dining area.

"You can sit by me" She said.

She led her into the dining room, where she found Cloud, Barret, Yuffie and Cid at the table.

They all looked at her when she entered the room. She smiled at them nervously. She didn't like the looks they were giving her, or rather, the guys were giving her. Yuffie jumped out of her seat and went up to her.

"Good morning, ninja buddy"

She gave her a big bear hug.

"So, how do you like our world so far?"

Mikomi had to let Yuffie let go. Her hugs were hard and were making her ribs sore.

"It's great so far. I haven't really seen it all, but I like what I've seen"

The Wutai liked her answer. She pulled her over to the table so that she sat by her. Marlene sat on her other side so that she sat by Barret as well.

Mikomi nervously looked at the former leader of AVALANCHE. He looked like a real tough guy that could beat anybody up. She had seen a lot of tough guys as a ninja. But not ones who had a metal arm that could turn into a giant blasting gun.

Yet, he managed to give her a small grin. She seemed like a nice girl to him, and Marlene seemed to like her. As long as she didn't do anything that would harm his daughter, he was ok with her.

Cid studied her from across the table. He didn't know what to make of her yet. She seemed to be nice, but she could be acting it for all they knew. Still, she didn't look like someone who had anything up her sleeve. He decided he would keep an eye on her for the mean time. Someone had to look out for the group and Cloud wasn't going to be doing it.

The said blonde was trying to avoid eye contact with her. He wasn't trying to be mean or anything. He just couldn't bring himself to look at her. He knew that she looked nothing like Aerith at all. But when he saw the brown hair and the green eyes, he just saw his friend being stabbed by Sephiroth. He didn't know why he brought her here, but something told him that it was the right thing. He didn't know why she came to this world. But if she did, it had to be very important. Otherwise, she wouldn't be here and Aerith wouldn't have told him to help her. He didn't know what to do about this whole situation, but he couldn't just leave his friends to take care of this. He would just have to suck in his broken pride and help the poor girl, no matter how much she reminded him of his friend.

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Tifa came into the room with a huge plate filled with pancakes and bacon. She frowned a little at the scene before her. Mikomi was nervously looking at her plate so she wouldn't avoid the stares everyone was giving her. Barret and Yuffie weren't so bad, but the two blondes were either not looking at her or giving her a quizzical look. She didn't think they were making a good first impression on their guest.

"Alright guys. Breakfast is ready"

She struggled with the plates filled with food. Mikomi got up from her seat and took one of the plates from her.

"Here Let me help"

Tifa smiled at her.

"Well, aren't you sweet?"

She rounded at the others.

"Why can't you be more helpful like our guest? You don't get seconds because of that"

"Keep your pants on" Cid barked "It's just breakfast"

"Just for that, you don't get a full serving" Tifa glared.

Cid muttered a few curses but let her give him just one pancake.

Tifa gave everybody else two pancakes and gave Mikomi a third one.

"You can have as much as you like since you're our guest" she said.

Mikomi just blushed but thanked her. She reminded her of her mom in some way.

The food turned out to be really good. The pancakes were nice and fluffy and the bacon was extra crispy. Cid's stomach still growled even after eating his one pancake. Yuffie snickered at him.

"That's what you get for back talking to Tifa"

The pilot just glared at her.

"Shut up, you little brat"

Yuffie just ignored him and went back to eating her food. She tried to make a big deal out of it just so she could annoy him. It seemed to work since he kept glaring at her.

Mikomi felt bad for him. He really didn't do anything wrong. She was just trying to be nice to Tifa since she was letting her stay here.

"I feel like this is all my fault" she thought.

"Don't be" Usagi told her. "A man should know better to talk back to a lady. Especially when she's giving him food. Now stop your worrying and feed me that bacon. The only time I ever eat is when you eat. And right now I'm starving, so hand over the bacon".

She mentally sighed but ate so her inner demon would shut-up. She could be really annoying sometimes.

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Cid's stomach still grumbled as everyone was getting seconds. Tifa could be a real bitch at times, and it was understandable. But this was uncalled for. He mentally swore at her when she went into the kitchen to get seconds. He was a grown man, who shouldn't be deprived of food. He just stared at his blank plate, wishing there was food on it. Just then, a pancake landed on his plate.

"What the?"

He looked up to see Mikomi giving him a second pancake. She pressed a finger to her lips.

"Eat them before she comes back" she whispered.

He could hear Tifa's footsteps coming closer. He quickly shoved the pancakes into his mouth and swallowed them just as she entered.

"Who's ready for seconds?"

She looked at Mikomi's plate to see it was empty.

"Wow. You must have been hungry. Well, hope you're ready for seconds"

Mikomi smiled at her before winking to Cid.

The pilot looked at her. He guessed that she wasn't so bad after all. But that didn't mean that he wasn't going to keep an eye on her still. But he would ease up on her.

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After breakfast was done. Mikomi helped Tifa with the dishes. She thought it was fair since she feed her and all. Tifa was glad for the help. She had taken a liking to her, even though she had only been here for one day. Still, it was hard find nice people like her nowadays.

Mikomi dried off the dishes and put them away.

"Thank you for the meal, Tifa-san"

Tifa smiled at her.

"You're welcome, and just call me Tifa. You don't have to be so formal"

She smiled shyly.

Denzel and Marlene came into the kitchen.

"Tifa, can we go out and play?" Marlene asked

"I don't see why not. Just be careful, ok?"

"We will"

She pulled Mikomi's hand.

"Wanna play with us?"

She looked at the girl then back at Tifa to see if it was alright. The martial artist smiled and nodded.

"Um...Ok"

The little girl pulled her out to the front of the bar. Tifa laughed at the helpless look that Mikomi had on her face as she was being dragged.

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Denzel was playing soccer with Yuffie, while Mikomi did jump rope with Marlene. Barret kept an eye on them while he sat by the front steps. This made Mikomi a little nervous. Marlene seemed to notice this.

"Don't worry. My daddy is really nice."

She went up to him and gave him a big hug.

"He's like a giant teddy bear"

Barret ruffled her hair before motioning for Mikomi to come over.

"I won't bite ya, kid"

She slowly walked up to him.

"Sorry. I just thought you didn't like me or something"

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Barret just laughed and patted her on the shoulder, to which her legs almost buckled.

"Don't be thinking like that. I just want to make sure Marlene will be safe"

"I have no intentions of hurting her" she said quickly.

"That's good to hear. I don't want anything to happen to my Marlene"

Mikomi bowed to him.

"You have my word as Konoha ninja that I won't let anything happen to her"

Barret patted her on the head.

"You better keep to it"

She smiled up at him. He didn't seem that bad after all.

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Cloud came out a few minutes late with a package in hand.

"Have another delivery to do?" Barret asked.

The blonde simply nodded as he strapped the package to his motorcycle.

"I'll be back later"

"Bye, Cloud" Marlene said.

Cloud looked at her and said good-bye to her. He looked at Mikomi for a moment. The look he had was so emotionless that it made her skin crawl. He quickly got on his bike and rode off to who knows where.

She sighed sadly when he was gone.

"I don't think Cloud likes me very much" she said sadly.

"Don't let it bother you" Cid said as he took a seat on the steps.

"He's just got a lot on his mind right now that he has to deal with. Plus, he's not use to meeting new people. Just give him a few days and he'll warm up to you"

"I hope so" she said softly.

"Aw man!"

Everyone turned around to see Denzel and Yuffie complaining about something.

"What's going on?" Cid said as he stuck a cigarette in his mouth.

"It's our soccer ball" Denzel complained.

"I accidently kick it too high" Yuffie said sheepishly. She pointed it to the building that was next to the bar. Sure enough, the ball could be seen on the roof.

"Nice going, Yuffie" Cid said as he blew smoke.

Yuffie put her hands on her hips.

"I didn't do it on purpose! It's not like I intended to kick it that high, it was an accident!"

She looked up at the ball.

"I don't know how we're going to get it down though"

Mikomi walked up to them.

"I'll get it" she said plainly.

"How? The only way to get up there is to climb up"

"I'll jump then"

"Huh?"

She sent chakra to her feet and jumped into the air. She went higher than the building, so she flipped through the air until she landed on the roof.

Picking up the ball, she flipped off and landed gracefully to the ground.

Everyone looked at her wide eyed. Cid's cigarette fell out of his mouth.

She handed Denzel back his ball. He looked at her, to his ball to back at her again.

"Cool!" he exclaimed

"How the heck did you do that?" Cid said

She just shrugged.

" I just did a little chakra jump. That's all"

"catra-wa?" Yuffie asked.

"Chakra " Mikomi repeated.

"It's a natural essence that exists within our bodies. Ninja use it to perform various techniques to complete missions"

"What exactly can you do with this so called chakra?" Cid asked as he stuck another cigarette in his mouth.

"Anything, really"

She summoned up her chakra so that it covered her body. Everyone watched as the blue essence surrounded her body completely before fading within her body.

Mikomi went up to a wall and started walking it up.

"I can walk on walls"

She walked until she reached underneath the porch.

"On ceilings"

She jumped off and went into the street. She performed some handsigns.

"I can breathe fire"

She performed the Fire Ball Jutsu and spewed fire from her mouth.

"Or make two of me"

She performed the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

"I can change my appearance"

She changed into Yuffie with the Transformation Jutsu.

"I can do just about anything as long as I have chakra"

She reverted back to herself and looked at the others. She sweatdroped when they were all giving her weird looks.

"I take it this world doesn't use chakra?"

"We've never even heard of it. And we've never seen tricks like that either" Cid said.

She laughed nervously.

"I guess I stick out then, huh?"

Denzel quickly got in her face.

"Do something else!" He bounced on his feet.

She saw Marlene was pretty much doing the same thing.

"Alright then"

She bit her thumb until blood came out. She smeared it on her hand and did some handsigns

"Summoning Jutsu!"

She slammed her hand on the ground and white smoke erupted. When it disappeared, there was a bunch of dog in its place.

The two children started playing with the dogs.

"Cloud found one strange chick" Cid said

"Yeah, but she's cool!" Yuffie fired back.

They all simply watched as Mikomi performed more jutsus for the children. It was almost like watching a magic show in a way. The way she could breathe fire and make two of herself

This was something they had never seen before. It was all new to them. But if she came from a different world then of course she would be different. They guess they would just have to adjust to all of this just like she would have to adjust to all of them. This was going to be strange for all of them.

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A/N: another chapter done. And another long one. I hope everyone is enjoying this story as much as I am. Although, Cloud could be a little more sociable to Mikomi. But then again, he has a lot on his mind, so it's going to take some time.

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Until next time,

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