When best friends Alison McKay and Michelle Prince found a small piece of paper bearing a promise of the greatest Naruto experience of their lives, they were unwittingly sucked into the world they had only ever watched and read about. Now, hearts will be stirred, Bonds will be formed, blood will be spilt, and worlds will collide as fantasy and reality fuse inextricably into one.
Disclaimer: Obviously, as this is a fanfic, I don't own Naruto. Anything found in this story that does not exist in the real Naruto plot line though, including the characters Alison, Michelle, Shinjako and Kai, I claim as my own.
This is a comedy/drama/romance story I've been meaning to write for a long time. Any pairings will be decided as the story progresses, though suggestions are welcome. Also, before I begin, I realize that there are some of you out there who may not like my writing style, or the angle I'm taking with this story. As much as I'd like constructive criticism, please do not simply review to say how much you hated it. It's common courtesy.
Note to Readers: I finally got around to chapter fourteen! Damn! You guys better love it because I could be playing Oblivion right now. He he, joking. It would have been up a couple days ago, except that was being dumb and not letting me sign in. Well it's up now, so let's nevermind that. On to reader comments!
To Dragon of the Water: Bunnies! Yay! I'll have to make a note to keep them faaaaaar away from Sakura so Kai isn't single forever. The only thing that could make them better is...laser beams on their heads? -insert doctor evil finger thingy- Wow...I've been watching way to much Austin Powers. Anyhow, thanks much! I shall name them Winky, Blinky and Genocide!
To Kyra Odayashi: Once again; NO! LEE IS MINE! MINE DARN IT:P :)
TO 'someone who cares': While I realize that you may take offence to my Koreans-eating-dog comment, it's true. Not in the urbanized areas of course, but in the poor sections and ghettos, it's cheap meant. I have friends in Korea, so I can assure you, I'm not intending to insult the people there. They eat dogs-nothing insulting about it. In China they eat cats. In Africa, boy scouts sell roasted grasshoppers instead of cookies. Here in Canada, we cook eggs in maple syrup... I'm not making this up I swear! I'm just trying to make a point. Namely;sorry, not gonna take it back though.
To Dragomew: Oh, I have plans for Michelle later, and they shall satisfy anyone out there eggar for a gushy love scene! Heh heh heh...
Anyway, to everyone else, thanks so very much for your reviews! It really means a lot to me! Well, here's chapter 14!
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Chapter 14- Kaikakagure?
And just when we think it's all figured out
Something else is revealed
then shattered.
A surprised shriek cut through he air as Alison suddenlyfelt herself tackled to the ground from beind.
"Gaaah! Atsuko-chan!"
She cried as she realized who it was who had hit her. Michelle's hair and clothing was in disarray, as if she'd just jumped out of bed and come charging through the forest-which wasn't far from the truth. Her azure eyes glinted with malicious intent as she yanked at her friend's hair savagely.
"What the hell Riku! You said you'd wake me up! You idiot! You were really gonna leave me behind too weren't you! Did you even notice I wasn't there!"
"No! I'm sorry!"
Alison's squeaked as she attempted to wrestle away from the deranged blonde who seemed to be planning on ripping her scalp off. Assistance came in the form of Shinja, who gabbed her student under the arms and pulled her away, holding her there kicking and screaming. By now the other shinobi had noticed what was going on and had stopped moving. Some were gathering around, hoping to either help, or get a better look. Riku sat rubbing at her aching head as her teacher sighed, keeping her from being attacked again.
"Come now Atsuko-chan. Settle down."
The woman said calmly. Michelle ignored her, continuing her rant.
"Why the hell didn't anyone see I was gone! Kai, Shinja-sensei, why didn't you notice! You're my freaking team! I'm I really that insignificant!"
"Hmm...I was wondering why it was so quiet...only one Naruto today..."
Shinja murmured to herself as if thinking out loud. This made Michelle even more berserk, and she struggled with renewed fury-resembling a cat trying to get out of a wet burlap sack, Alison noticed offhandedly.
"Lemmie go! Lemmie go I'll kill you! I'll kill alla you, just wait!"
She screamed, followed by a string of colorful words in both English, Japanese and Itallianthatcaused many of the younger kunoichi to blush.Gai covered Lee's ears to protect his student's youthful innocence. Shinja sighed and wrestled one of her already occupied hands free, snatching for the girls' shoulder. Her thumb found what it was looking for within a split secong-a pressure point. Michelle suddenly stopped struggling, made a small unintelligible sound, then went limp in the woman's arms.
"AH! Shinja-sensei you killed her!"
Alison screamed in horror. Kakashi, who had been standing off to the side now sighed, giving Shinjako a tired look.
"Umm...I think that was a bit extreme Shinjako-san."
Shinja smiled, shifting the unconscious girl's weight to one arm.
"It's Shinja, remember Kakashi-san? Sh-in-ja."
She sounded out the syllables like a kindergarten teacher would for a five year old trying to pronounce a long word. Kakashi's eye twitched slightly.
"And besides,"
She continued, ignoring his glare.
" I can't have her killing her teammate, can I?"
"Well no, but I just think there are better ways then-"
"Glad we agree!"
Shinja cut in, handing(or more tossing) Michelle to her fellow jounin, who looked surprised for a moment before catching her effortlessly.
"Carry her for me will ya? Shouldn't be more than ten minutes before she wakes up, and there's no point in stopping on account of one kid."
She then promptly turned and marched off to the head of the procession. Kakashi gave her a dark look.
"That woman...I told Tsunade-sama this was a bad idea..."
He muttered, then sighed, slinging Michelle over his shoulder and starting off again. Alison had climbed out of the dirt and brushed herself off by now. A moment or two after the shinobi startedwalking againand Kai had taken up pace behind her, the redhead's ears pricked to Naruto talking to some of the other boys a short way in front of them.
"Wow, you think she does this kind of freaky thing happensa lot aroudn Shinja-sensei?"
"Yeah."
Said Riku and Kai in unison. Naruto and a few of the others glanced back at them. Naruto looked a bit embarrassed to be caught badmouthing their teacher, and quickly started rambling out a strange sort of apology.
"Uh well, I don't really mean freaky, I mean like, freaky cool and -"
Alison smiled tiredly, cutting him off before he stuck his foot in his mouth again.
"She's a psychopath."
She said flatly. Kai nodded, and Reiki, whom he was carrying in is jacket, yipped in agreement. The pair received several looks of mixed pity and barely-contained horror, but could do nothing more than sigh and look embarrassed. They knew that with Shinja around, this was going to be one long mission.
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It was more or less ten minutes later that Michelle woke up. The temporary paralysis seemed to have calmed her down a bit, and she was willing to accept a profuse apology from Alison. After that, a re-introduction to the cannon characters was in order. Naruto and Lee helped with that, leading the semi-disoriented blonde girl from person to person with Alison close behind. The girls chatted with their fellow genin for a good portion of the day, but ended up alone at the back of the group as Michelle's stamina waned.
"Tired already?"
Alison teased, leaning in toward her friend and clasping her hands behind her back. She blinked innocently, grinning. Michelle was intently focussed on dragging her feet across the ground, and so only gave small gurgle as a response so as not to distract herself.
"Don't worry."
Alison chirped, smiling brightly.
"Shinja-sensei says we'll make it to the half-way camp by sunset, and the people there are supposed to be feeding us. We don't have to keep watch tonight either, so you can sleep."
"If we were going to end up spending a couple days away from home, why didn't they tell us so we could pack?"
Michelle mumbled, staring at a pebble that kept getting she could recall kicking for the last half hour. She huffed at it defiantly, and kicked it again. Alison shrugged.
"I dunno. Survival training I guess. Roughing it in the wild with only the bare essentials! Charging forth into the unknown, teeth and claws bared to face-"
"Can we please talk about something else Riku-chan? I'm to tired to get excited right now."
Alison sighed and drooped, upset to have her dramatic moment spoiled. Still, she nodded compliantly.
"Okay sure. Whadya wanna talk about then?"
"How about the significance this mission has to you two?"
Both girl's jumped as the unexpected third voice popped out of nowhere. They whirled around to see Shinja grinning at them as she leaned her head in between both of theirs. Reiki was perched on her shoulder, appearing quite amused in his own right. The jounin made shooing motions to tell them to keep walking. The girls obliged, puzzled and shaken.
"I need to tell you about the Hidden Village of Blossoms."
Shinja said quietly, leaning in between the two girls.
"Keep in mind this is top secret information, so no discussing it outside-Kai beat it."
Kai had been slowly creeping backward in order to eavesdrop on his teammates and sensei as usual, and seemed to have thought himself quite a good spy since he nearly jumped out of his skin when Shinja addressed him. He turned bright red and flinched.
"S-sorry! I was just curious so-"
"Take the dog and run along Kai.
She said, trying to sound annoyed but seeming more amused. Reiki leapt from her shoulder, onto Michelle's head and then into Kai's arms. He'll make a good ninja dog soon Alison mused as Kai nodded smartly and turned to walk off. It was at that moment though, that she noticed something out of the corner of her eye she'd prayed she would never need to see again. Lee was attempting to ask Sakura out again. The girl's eye twitched violently. Her fist clenched and she called;
"Yo, Kai!"
The boy looked curiously over his shoulder in mid-stride, realized how angry she looked and hesitantly moved backward to walk next to her. Alison leaned in close to him that she wouldn't be overheard by Shinja or Michelle, who were in a mainly one-sided discussion about how whimpy the blonde was being abotu having Reikijump on her head.
"While you're over there not spying on us, do me a favour; keep Sakura-chan away from Lee-san."
Kai just gave her an even more confused look.
"But...why Riku-chan?"
"Just do it, and while your at it..."
She glanced over in Sasuke's direction, remembering Michelle.
"Keep her away from Sasuke too. Okay?"
The silver-haired genin still looked confused, and a bit embarrassed, but nodded.
"W-well I'll...I'll try Riku-chan."
The redhead smiled at him, nodding.
"Awesome, thanks."
Kai smiled in return and jogged off toward Sakura, Reiki hugged to his chest. Alison watched him interrupt the kunoichi's conversation with Lee and lead her off to one side. She had just enough time to muse how cute the pair looked walking together when she felt someone tapping her shoulder. She glanced backward to see Shinja, and blushed.
"Heh. Well are we done now?"
The gold-eyed woman asked with a smile. Michelle groaned.
"Jeeze Riku-chan, this is supposed to be important. Couldn't you have gossiped with Kai after?"
"No."
She said simply, eyeing with satisfaction her teammate and Sakura walking together, then Lee, who had rejoined the small group of other boys. Shinja clapped her hands together and both girls looked to her expectantly.
"Well anyway, as I was saying, a bunch of information has been dug out of the village archives already, and they've come across some very interesting information. Now, Tsunade-sama has gone over your transfer papers and matched them to some found at the recovery site. We've figured out that you two are registered as genin from Kaikakagure! Isn't that great?"
Alison and Michelle's were in shock. Neither could say anything for a while as their minds raced to wrap aroudn the statement and make sence of it.
"Uh...y-yeah. That's awesome Shinja-sensei!"
Alison finally choked out, giving her a shaky smile. The jounin seemed too excited to realize her pupil's nervousness.
"When we dig out your files, maybe we can figure out what you can't remember about what happened before you got to Konoha. We can find out about your parents, and you cells and everything! Well, it's not like we know anything for sure about anything yet, but I figured I'd tell you guys so you have something to look forward to."
At that moment there were loud crashing noises from somewhere farther along the path. A large branch broke off of a tree and fell.
"Take that back you bastard!"
Came an angry Naruto's voice, followed by another loud crash. Shinja sighed, shaking her head, and dashed off to join the other jounin and genin in trying to drag he and Sasuke apart. The girls, Michelle especially, probably would have found this very amusing at any other time. Now though, they were far more worried about what they had just learned.
"Alison?"
Michelle whispered in English, just to be sure no one would overhear.
"What do you think...this means? Are we really...you know...real here? I mean...God I don't even know what to think about all this!"
Alison said nothing for a while, then sighed, stuffing her hands into her pockets and shaking her head.
"I don't know Michelle. I...I just don't know...we'll just have to wait and see what happens next."
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Chapter 14 end.
Cliffhanger! Oh the tension!You'll have to wait and see what happens next too! Thanks once again for all your reviews and please stick with me for chapter fifteen! A note to anyone who's been waiting for a really gushy romantic scene-fifteen is just for you, so stay with me!
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