A/n: I've been sooo buisy trying to get everything done and get ready for my trips. It's insane how much is going on! -_-' I've only had one class session for my two courses (which won't meet again until late June but still) and I already have to read two long plays, 7chapters of my text book. And don't get me started on cosplays.

Anyway, this chapter is only "eh" as are most of them until starting 18 or so (yes, I'm that far. I'm almost done with chapter 22. I just haven't posted them yet). I just don't want to do yet another rewrite. I'm too lazy. But I hope you enjoy it anyway.

Chapter 10: First Day

Beep! Beep! Beep!

I open my eyes slightly knowing I only have an hour and a half before needing to be at the restaurant for our first day. Today should be real fun. Haha! Not.

After dragging myself reluctantly out of bed I change into the uniform the restaurant gave each of us, a simple dark red kimono with a brown apron and a little extra string to tie back the sleeves.

It doesn't take long to get my crimson uniform on since back home I would wear a kimono every once. Now that only leaves waking Jenna and fixing something to eat.

"Jenna, time to get up," I say as a warning shaking her body back and forth. She grunts and rolls over, making her back facing me.

"Fine, don't say I didn't warn you..."


BAM!

"Ow! Elli! Why'd you push me off the bed?"

I continue towards the door telling her she needs to change for work, also noting the large bump on the back of her head will need an ice pack. The nightstand must be pretty hard.

* * *

Jenna sighs contently as we go on our break after an excruciating few hours of waitressing. "This is hard! Are you sure we need to do this?"

Annoyed with her complaints, I try to keep my temper under control. "For the hundredth time: yes I'm sure. When we get off we're going to go see Kazekage-sama and hopefully, he'll approve of us becoming shinobi. Even then we'll need to keep the jobs for a while to earn money until we are full ninja and get paid for going on missions."

"Yay!" She celebrates, completely not comprehending that we will probably end up keeping the jobs for quite some time. "Wait, huh? I thought he was going to send someone for us."

Oops, I knew I had forgotten to tell her something! "Uh... actually, a Jounin came this morning while you were changing." I smile innocently. "Come on, we need to get back to work."

"B-but I don't wanna go back to work yet! This isn't fair..."

* * *

When we enter the Kazekage's office the Jounin that usually surround him are missing, leaving only Jenna, Kazekage-sama and myself.

"What is it that you two wanted?" Kazekage-sama asks softly.

Before Jenna can blurt it out without thinking, I clap my hand over her mouth. "We were hoping to be trained as shinobi, if at all possible, so we can earn our keep and pay back Suna for all you've done for us even if it costs us our lives. If it's not possible then we have prepared for that out come as well by getting jobs to pay for our expenses."

He smiles warmly and I can sense the blond next to me tense up as much as I do from the nervousness; the next words that leave his mouth will decide our whole future. "With the enthusiasm you had before, I expected as much. But before I make a decision I need to know if you're qualified."

I nod. "Yes, sir!"

* * *

It's been an hour! Come on! How can an interview take this long!?

"Lastly, what is your favorite color?" Kazekage-sama asks acting like this is a completely normal question essential for a psychological compatibility test.

"Orange!!!" Jenna yells, somehow managing to stay hyper the whole time.

"Dark purple." I sigh. "Kazekage-sama, no offence but what does our favorite color have to do with becoming a shinobi?"

"It doesn't," he says looking up from his papers into a single stack and clipping them together. "There's one more thing."

I look up at the seriousness of his tone while the blond beside me finally stops bouncing.

"What is your world like? From the video it looks quite different."

"It's stupid and boring!" Jenna practically yells throwing her hands into the air and pouts.

All I do is sigh...again. I seem to be doing that a lot lately. "Just ignore her. Anyway, yes, it is very different. We don't have shinobi; we have soldiers with guns and pilots flying aircrafts that drop bombs during war. Our technology is a lot more advanced computers and machines for daily use. Hmmm...What else...? Oh, yeah, our school focuses more on math, science, history and literature then physical training. I know that what I'm explaining is really vague but it's hard to explain. Sorry."

"Like I said: It's boring!" Jenna continues to pout.

Kazekage-sama laughs slightly at how much like she is like Naruto. Well, that's my guess. For all I know it could be some hippo dancing behind her.

"Back on subject, it might take more than just your request to become shinobi. We can't just allow anyone to come to our village without passports or paperwork and let them become ninja. So when I go to meet with the elders it might be easier to convince them if you agree to undergo a few chakara enhancement experiments the village has been working on," the red haired boy states.

"So we might be able to use chakara? Sounds good to me." I try pathetically to not let my hopes too high. His nod sends Jenna bouncing around the room once again.

Kazekage-sama continues with a warning probably to stop my friend from being so damn hyper. "It's not a sure thing. If no one from your world can us chakara then more than the chances of you gaining the use of it is basically nonexistent," he explains.

"Wha...? That's not fair!" the female Naruto cries, despite the fact I had already told her the same thing.

I smile and for once try to make her feel better rather than crushing her dreams. "Jenna if that happens then we're no worse off than we are now and we'll just have to work on more Taijutsu."

"Tomorrow, when you have a chance to go to the Laboratory of Shinobi Enhancement and Technology. They will run some tests on your chakara. Good luck," he says as a Jounin enters the room to escort us out and give us directions on how to get to the laboratory.

* * *

"Elli, can I speak with you for a moment?" our boss, Akina-san, calls from the kitchen. Since Jenna is taking care of the one group of customers, I head over without having to worry.

"Yes, ma'am?"

"I heard the two of you went to speak to the Kazekage about becoming shinobi. It's quite rare for them to start training some you're age. If you end up having to quit, I hope you'll come back to visit!" the middle aged woman smiles obviously very excited for the two of us.

"I doubt you have to worry about us quitting any time soon. Even if we start training, it'll be a while before we can earn money from it," I state.

Akina-san nods. "That's good to hear. I don't want to have to go back to looking for new employees again. Well, it's about time the two of you got off so I'll let you go ahead and leave."

"But we shouldn't be getting off for another two hours," I say in confusion.

"I overheard you and Jenna this morning saying you needed to go to the laboratory for studying shinobi sometime today. If you don't leave early it will close and your opportunity will as well. Now go," she makes a shooing motion wither her hands and I thank her, running over to my friend who just finished serving the last of the customers.

Grabbing her by her sleeve I drag her out of the restaurant explaining what Akina-san told me as we walked. Even with the directions we still have a hard time figuring out where to go because the Jounin wrote the directions in the Japanese. Which raises another of question to go on the list of things we don't understand, this world obviously speaks Japanese, the proof is in the writing, but Jenna and I can only speak a few broken sentences yet somehow we can communicate with the people perfectly normal.

"I think this is it," I say unsure.

"You think?" Jenna asks worried that we're lost.

"Let's just ask the people inside if we're in the right place." We walk inside the building and find a woman sitting behind a sandy colored desk. "Excuse me. Is this the Laboratory of Shinobi Enhancement and Technology?"

"Oh, are you Elli and Jenna?" We nod. "Excellent. We were getting worried you had changed your minds."

Jenna and I laugh slightly. "About being ninja? Yeah, right!" my blond friend shouts.

"That's good to hear. Please come this way." Coming around the desk she shows us to separate testing rooms were we spend the next two and a half hours before leaving the place very sore from various tests.

* * *

The next day one of the scientists' assistant comes to the house and explains that they had been ordered to give the tests results to us this morning as well as explain what the results mean so I invite him in, apologizing for the mess. I guess they worked all night.

"Should we wait for your sister to get up?" the assistant asks.

I shake my head. "Only if you want to stay here for another two or three hours."

"Alright then, I'll trust you to relay the message," he says taking out some type of chart I'm not familiar with consisting of four rows the first was a solid pattern of blue squares, the next green squares, third is red triangles and the last has purple octagons. He points the first row of blue squares. "This is an extremely simplified pattern of a normal shinobi's chakara the color tends to be blue or white and transfers into the machine in square-like patterns." His fingers move down to the green squares. "A normal non-shinobi's chakara tends to be green and nearly impossible to see and once again, the machine reads them as squares. This is when it starts getting strange. The third row is your results and the fourth is Jenna's."

"Our results look nothing like the first two," I state.

The assistant nods. "It's like nothing we've come across before. We don't know if you'll be able to use chakara though it would be interesting to study this. I heard the two of you are from quite a distance. Where exactly are you from? It would be great to organize a group to research your people's chakara."

"Uh...I'm afraid I can't go into that. Kazekage-sama ruled it as classified. Sorry," I shrug apologetically. "So, before Jenna and I came along, it was thought that everyone in the world had that square pattern?"

"Yes, why?"

"It's nothing! I-I was just wondering. Anyway, I'll tell Jenna. Thank you for coming by."

Once he leaves, I lock the door behind him and I try to sort out what exactly I'm feeling. I've told myself numerous times I shouldn't worry about my dreams because Kairi isn't real and even after finding out that she more than likely she is out there somewhere I've convinced myself that I could still just happen to look a bit like her and I'm still just an American girl like Jenna, Yuki, and my other friends. But if worlds have uniformed chakara signals, I can't deny mine is different from Jenna's.

"Breath...breath...no big deal. No biggy, it's not like there wasn't any suspicion of it before and even now I can't prove it." I decide that I need to relax for a little while and I crawl back into bed. I'm sure all I need to do is keep composed; if I freak out, Jenna will too.

* * *

We wait impatiently for the few days only going to work or to go to work until we receive a notice one morning. When we ask Akina-san to read it to us she tells us we are to report to the Sunagakure Laboratory of Shinobi Enhancement and Technology at 18.00 tomorrow. We get to become shinobi.

A/n: Review please~!