I refuse to put a disclaimer here cause everyone should be bright enough to know that I don't own Naruto. I'm pretty sure that's why this is called FANfiction.

- -Part Twenty-One- -

How could I be home? It was only a couple of seconds, or minutes, that I had been with Naruto, clinging to him and trying to cover my embarrassment.

Now my mother, of all people, was squishing myself to her. It was very strange. She pulled back from the awkward embrace with tears in her eyes, making them shine brightly.

"I've been so worried!" she exclaimed.

Ha! Yeah right. Since when had she ever worried about me?

She sniffed a bit, rubbing her eyes with her left hand while her right was placed on my shoulder.

"And what are you wearing? It looks so…weird," she noticed Naruto's bright orange jumpsuit. That's when I glared at her.

"It's not weird!" I exclaimed.

Her eyes widened at my sudden outburst. "Well then…care to explain?" she asked, her worry disappearing in the blink of an eye. Now she just seemed pissed.

I only glared at her and looked down at myself. Then something caught my eye.

Apparently she saw it too as she held them up, "I don't remember buying these…And I didn't know you were into sandals," she commented, looking at them oddly.

The ninja sandals, they had followed me too. But not Naruto. Nope. It sucked because it would have been fun to have him here. At least I wasn't crazy, believing I had somehow gotten to the Naruto world and I really hadn't.

At least I knew I had actually been there.

My mother noticed my silence and she looked back over my outfit and the sandals.

"Well I suppose you can wear them. I was about to trash them the second you were out of them," she said. How I hated her. She didn't really care for my feelings.

I gave her a small smile to show that I was listening. All was quiet for a moment before she got up. As she was walking out the door, she turned to me, "You'll explain to me eventually. Tomorrow you go to school. Right now it's eight at night. Get some sleep," my mother said.

I only gave her a blank stare and she left. Sighing, I got up and walked to my closet. I changed to some simple pajamas and, after putting Naruto's clothes somewhere safe, slipped into bed and stared at the ceiling.

It had been morning just about fifteen minutes ago so I wasn't particularly tired. Waking up in the middle of the night did make me sleepy though.

So eventually I drifted off to sleep.

I woke up to a loud blaring noise. Out of instinct I had apparently developed, I smashed my alarm clock.

Well at least the annoying sound had stopped. I got up and looked around my room, ignoring the broken pieces. Yes, my room. Sighing unhappily, I walked to my bathroom.

I looked like a mess. My orange hair was sticking out of random places and I looked as though I hadn't gotten any sleep even though I had gotten twice as much.

Yawning, I walked back into my room. I grabbed Naruto's trademark orange jumpsuit and went to take a shower. Yes I was definitely going to wear that today.

Afterwards I grabbed a bite to eat before running upstairs to get my backpack. Before I ran out the door, I slipped the blue ninja sandals on my feet.

I was at the bus stop in a few seconds flat. It wasn't actually that far from my house, I just hated walking down the street.

As people started to come, they gave me odd looks. Apparently they hadn't ever seen me in anything BUT black. It wasn't like I was gothic…right?

Well anyways, after flipping them off, the bus rolled in. It was a shame that I didn't have a Konoha forehead protector because then it would have been hilarious for people to ask me what it was for.

I got to the evilly possessed school and walked to gym class. It sucked because my last day had gym in it and so did my first day back.

"Nice of you to join…" the teacher said and looked down at my clothes. Nope, I wasn't going to change, "…Miss Rylee. Well then, we're going out to the track to do a couple of laps. Let's go."

I groaned inwardly, hating that I had to run. We walked out there, me getting odd looks from everyone again, and started running as soon as our feet touched the gravel.

Stupid evil track…So many bad memories from it…

Well I started running, not even breaking a sweat, and finished one lap. I looked behind me to see that they weren't even halfway around it!

So maybe training with Gai and paid off after all…no matter how creepy that guy is…bleh.

Well I finished my other lap and sat down waiting for everyone to finish. Finally they were done and so we had to practice throwing horseshoes on these little pegs. I don't know what that was for though…

I was able to get every single one. Then there was jump rope, which I hated to death. The class was, all in all, boring and pointless.

I suppose after all that extreme training I had to go through, this felt like nothing.

Slowly, the day dragged on…ever so slowly…

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-Jen-