O-haYO! Not that it's morning. But potato potahto. Here is ze latest chaputaaa! Which I know you have all been awaiting and anticipating and marinating and whatnot.

Disclaimer: I specifically mention Masashi Kishimoto owning Naruto in this chapter, so I really don't think I need to say it again. ... Do I? Well, I refuse.

CHAPTER 25

"Hello?" Bailey asked tentatively, waving her hands out in front of her in the darkness. One of them smacked into something that felt distinctly face-ish. "Abby?" she asked, flapping her hands more in that general direction.

"Stop hitting me!" someone snapped. Bailey froze, and her eyes narrowed. "You're not my Abby," she growled.

"No duh! Sasuke-kun? Sasuke-kun, where are you?"

"Oh GROSS! I touched your face?" Bailey exclaimed, horrified. "I wonder how much it hurts to chop a hand off…." She mumbled.

While Bailey was shuddering and calling for Abby, it hit Sakura that something felt odd. There was an absence of voices. Shouldn't the entire cafe be pretty noisy and clamorous in a power outage? Yet Bailey was the only one who could be heard mumbling to herself about needing to disinfect her contaminated hands.

There was a sudden silence, as Bailey seemed to finally realize the same thing. "…Are they dead?" she asked brilliantly.

Sakura sighed. "We need light."

Bailey gasped. "Oh, wowwww! Gee! You are the bright one indeed, aren't you!" she exclaimed in a tone dripping with sarcasm. "Who woulda thunk it, maybe we need light!"

"Shut up," Sakura snarled, her cheeks colouring. Hopefully Sasuke-kun hadn't heard that.

Bailey started to stumble around, trying to find the doorway. If she could open that, light from outside would come in… wait a minute….

"Er… wasn't there a window?" she asked suddenly.

Sakura was silent for a second. "You know… yeah," she said suddenly. "It shouldn't even be this dark… and…." her voice suddenly was edged with apprehension. "Was the floor carpeted?"
Bailey's eyes widened in the dark as a possibility hit her. At the same time, she also hit something. "Owie!" she squealed. "Hey… is this the computer?"

Sakura sighed. "Well, we are in a computer café, brainiac. But it's no use trying the computer for light; the power's out…"

There was a beeeoop sound as the computer started up. Sakura's mouth snapped shut.

"Hey, looks like the power's back on," Bailey said happily. They waited in darkness as the computer booted up, and then the desktop lit up. It was the familiar desktop to Bailey of Abigail's computer. Sakura let out a yelp as Bailey groaned, "I knew it…"

"What! What? Where are we? Bailey! What have you done?" Sakura shrieked, head snapping back and forth as she took in Abigail's room. There was a thud on the ceiling and she leapt into the air with another scream. "What was that!"

Bailey grabbed the nearest object beside her on the computer desk and hurled it at Sakura. It happened to be a dictionary. Sakura ducked before it could kill her. "Pull yourself together, ninny!" Bailey grumbled, mildly disappointed that Sakura had dodged her missile. She knew the thudding upstairs was Abigail's parents kicking on the floor, their way of telling them to keep the noise down. It was, after all, 2:13 AM, according to the clock on the computer. Looking again, the computer told her it was also July 21, the day she had been sucked into the computer with Abby. So no time has passed? We're back on this night… I see…

Sakura was suddenly gaping at Bailey, and as Bailey glanced back at her, she knew why. They were no longer anime.

"What's… what…" Sakura whimpered, looking terrified and backing away. "B...Bailey? Is that you…?" Her hand drifted down to her leg, which, Bailey suddenly noted, still had the kunai strapped on. Sakura's outfit looked the same, and her features, such as pink hair and green eyes, were the same, though her hair was not quite as vivid and looked slightly more reddish, so that while it wasn't by any means a common hair colour, it didn't look too wildly unnatural. But that may have been the lighting. Bailey was pleased to note that even in the real world, her forehead was also not the most delicate of things.

"What are snickering about?" Sakura snapped. Definitely Bailey, she thought with displeasure, as Bailey stared at her and sniggered.

"Oh, nothing," Bailey said. "Look…" she sighed, glancing back at the computer. It stared impassively back, showing no signs of being an other-worldly transporter. Maybe Abby will show up, she thought, though with not much hope. She would worry about this later; at the moment, she had to explain to Sakura what had happened before other girl went crazy. Although that would be pretty funny.

"You know how Abby and I said we came from far away?" she asked.

Sakura looked back and forth incredulously. "Yeah, but… no way. What's with.. everything looks…weird!"

Bailey snorted. "Like in the movies we showed you? Ms. Know-it-all? I told you that was us."

"But…"

"Anyways," Bailey said, grinning evilly. "You should see yourself."

DEAD SILENCE

"WHAT!" Sakura shrieked again. There was another thud on the ceiling. Sakura looked down at her hand and looked close to passing out.

"No, no, no," Bailey said, "you have to see the whole thing. Come on, there's a mirror in Abby's room." She smiled cheerily and traipsed out of the room, Sakura following behind her and gibbering.

Bailey whipped open the door to Abigail's room with a flourish. "Wahla!" she said, clicking on the light and pointing across the room to a full-length mirror on the wall. Sakura stared at it.

And stared.

And stared.

Finally, she slowly brought a hand up and waved it once. Her mirror image did the same. She took one hesitant step forward, then another backwards.

"Geez, you look like my dog did when she first saw a mirror," Bailey said. "Come on, Abby and I got used to being anime pretty fast. Don't be a wimp. Although," she added nastily, "looking like that, I guess you have more to be devastated about…"

Sakura's eye twitched, one of the few motions that worked in this world as well as anime. She ignored Bailey and instead took a few steps until she was really close to the mirror, inspecting herself. She looked up and down, and appeared crest-fallen.

"Yep, flat-chested as ever," Bailey said cheerily. In the anime, this would be where Sakura's expression would have dropped someone dead. Unfortunately, in the real world, even her most fuming expression looked kind of silly. Bailey giggled. Sakura looked ready to explode.

"You're such! A! A… a…." Sakura choked through her rage.

"Right, well, when you decide, let me know," Bailey said, sitting on the floor and picking up a comic book peacefully.

Sakura gaped at it, and Bailey suddenly realized she'd picked up a Naruto.

"What… what…Oh my God…" Sakura exclaimed, staring in shock. She looked up at Bailey and looked to be on the verge of tears in panic. "Are you… Gods?" she asked.

There was a stunned silence, before Bailey burst into hysterical laughter, toppling sideways onto the floor and rocking back and forth as she howled uncontrollably. Meanwhile Sakura sat awkwardly, still too stunned at the sight of the Naruto comic to know exactly what to do. She couldn't think of Abby and Bailey as gods, really, but how else would they have so much power, and then have books on them? What if… she cast a wild glance around at the floor strewn with various anime books… all these were different worlds… were Bailey and Abigail controlling them?

Bailey, choking on her laughter, realized what Sakura was thinking. A small evil grin broke across her face. This, she could use to her advantage. But looking at Sakura's terrified face, she decided to take pity on her for once and explain everything to her truthfully. She sighed. "No, I'm no god… though I guess I live in the same world as your god," she added, thinking of Masashi Kishimoto. "But listen up," she said sternly. "Put that forehead to good use and try to understand what I'll tell you."

"Sakura-chan? Sakura-chan?" Naruto repeated like a broken record. Abigail tip-toed along behind him as he bobbed around, looking under computer desks as if he actually expected Sakura to be hiding there, and mimed his every move.

"Enkkgh, Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan!" she squawked in his ear like a parrot. Naruto jumped and toppled over. Abigail cracked up. Naruto glared at her as he got back to his feet.

"Well, where is she, then?" he demanded grouchily.

Abigail chewed on her lip, unsure of how to tell them of what she suspected. "Oh, Bailey, you had to go and leave me all alone to clarify things to all these psychos," she whined quietly to herself. "Although… you do have Sakura to deal with… poor you."

"Abby?" Kakashi asked, frowning. "What are you muttering to yourself?"

Abigail's eye twitched. "It's ABIGAIL! ABIGAIL! ABIGAIL!" she roared, grabbing Kakashi's head and bashing it against the wall. Sasuke and Naruto stared, jaw-dropped, as their sensei, taken by surprise, went swirly-eyed and had to shake Abigail off. She sat fuming at him when he finally shoved her off and staggered a safe distance away.

"Okay… erm… Abigail." Kakashi said nervously.

Abigail smiled breezily, her eyes closing cheerfully Kakashi-style. "Yes?"

Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi sweatdropped.

"Do you know what's happened to Sakura and Bailey?" Kakashi asked carefully.

Abigail gave him a shifty look. "Mebbe."

Sasuke made a small exasperated sound. Abigail turned to look at him dangerously. "What was that, Chicken-hair?"

"Screw you," Sasuke said coldly, displeased at her nickname. Abigail's eye twitched.

"What?"

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto called again, apparently bored with this conversation that appeared to be going nowhere.

"Shut up, blondie. Okay, here's the story: Bailey and I are from a completely different world where your world is a TV show, which we somehow got sucked into by watching it one night, and now from watching videos of our world Bailey and Sakura have been transported into it and I don't know how they are getting back or how I will get back either, for that matter," Abigail droned in a bored tone. "Happy?"

There was a long silence. Then…

"Don't be ridiculous," Kakashi said, sounding irritated, while Sasuke went "Pft," and Naruto rolled his eyes and continued to search for Sakura.

Abigail shrugged. "Never said you had to believe me. Well, I don't…" she stared at the computer suddenly and something hit her. "Heyyyyy," she said slowly, and slowly reached for the mouse.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke asked, as she logged onto her hotmail. "Don't you even care that your friend's gone missing?"

"You're her lova, go look for her yourself," Abigail said irritably. Sasuke ground his teeth and glared daggers at her, which she didn't pay any attention to.

"Alrighty… new email," Abigail muttered to herself, and addressed it to BAILEY!" she wrote. "You're back in our world now, aren't you? I dunno how worried our folks are, but they probably haven't even noticed our absence. Well, if my parents ask where I am, tell them I'll be staying with you. But you're smart enough to figure that out, right? Actually don't answer that. And is Sakura there? Wow, sucks to be you. Well, I doubt you'll be on the computer at a time like this, even an internet junkie like you, so email me back when ya can! And we shall figure this junk out! HUGS AND KISSES! –ABIGAIL"

"Send," she muttered, her tongue sticking out the side of her mouth as she clicked on the send button. She wasn't sure if it would work, but it appeared to. "Hmm… so computers connect anime worlds with the real ones, do they?" she mused, looking at the screen. "…Interesting…"

"You weren't even kidding?" came a voice in her ear. She jumped. Sasuke was staring over her shoulder blinking at the screen.

"You read my e-mail? You rude kid!" Abigail yelled, smacking at him, but he leapt backwards in time.

Kakashi scratched the back of his head. "Well, you all don't seem too worried, but people aren't supposed to just disappear like this—I'm off to notify the Hokage." He strolled out of the café.

"Yeah! Yeah! I'm gonna go look for Sakura-chan!" Naruto announced, eyes flaming.

"Isn't that what you were just doing, dobe?" Sasuke asked.

"Shut up! I'm gonna look… outside!"

"I'll come help!" Abigail announced helpfully, logging off the computer and grabbing her camera. "See ya, Chicken-hair! You can mourn the loss of your number one fan and your… lova," she said with a big fake swoon.

"Quit calling her that!" Sasuke's eye twitched madly. Abigail cackled as she followed Naruto outside.

"Got that registered?" Bailey asked, as Sakura stared blankly. "Yeah? No? Maybe so? Alrighty, well, I'm gonna read while it gnaws its way through your skull and enters your tiny brain—"

"Can I see that book?" Sakura reached for the Naruto comic.

"Uh, sure," Bailey said, handing it to her. It was one of the earlier episodes, which was too bad. Abigail had told her at some point that Sasuke would abandon Team 7 in a later episode, and though Bailey didn't know why or how it ended, she thought it would be amusing to show Sakura the betrayal... Kehehe.

But since Sakura was reading and not her favourite conversationalist in the first place, Bailey followed suit: she picked up a Shounen Jump and buried her nose into it.

They read far into the night, until Bailey finally passed out, drooling across a spread of One Piece.

Sakura read her way through all of Abigail's Naruto until the sun came up.

Sorry, I know it's very short... but I know you can forgive me, because the next chapter is going to awesome! I needed this as a, you know, segue thingy to get into the action once more. Next chapter... Abigail's parents: "where is our daughter? And who is this ugly redhead?" and BUBBLE CHAKRA! Yes, I know you must be madly curious already. Well, end of author's note! As promised, I now have my likkle messages to each of my wunnerful fans who reviewed last chapter.

Suko-chan: Heh, I can't believe some people weren't sure about if Sakura had been transported into the real world or not. It bamboozles me. Anywho, no problem with short reviews! It's the thought that counts. (Although watch out, I may start using that as excuse to write short chapters like this all the time. 3)

Song of a Fallen Angel: Aww, can't refuse the puppy dog eyes. But don't make it a habit. (stern voice) Because... puppy eyes get goopy. Hahahaha.

The Magical Whatever: "Yay saying yay!" Hehehe, I like that... (steals)... looks like someone had a fewww too many marshmallows... :P ... So, yes, hideous slimey monsters on alternate planets... well, I had a very difficult time deciding between that and them going to the real world... but I decided in the end. But of course, this doesn't mean they won't be battling brain-sucking aliens anyways. O.o Ya never know. Well, thanks for the entertaining review!

pyro-fire-love: I know it sucks... I want a cloak like that... (sad sigh) Anywhom. Hmm, another vote for an Abby pairing. Hmmm. Alrighty, thanks for the input and review. n.n

huffpuff: Yoshh, camera clips are soooo fun! I do that all the time 333. But... Itachi? (siigh) I never really understood Itachi fans, unfortunately. I've got a few reviews saying an Abby/Itachi pairing would be cool (including some nagging from my Abby-based friend, who loves Itachi (rolls eyes)) but I don't think I'm going to be able to make that happen. For one thing... erm... I -hate- Itachi. Hahaha. But also just because it would be too hard to pair someone like that up with a protagonist. :S That's also the reason I didn't pair her up with Gaara, which I had actually been thinking about at first. It's just too... hard. He would kill her. Hahaha.

Up4laughs: Hehe, nee us! Yey! Thanks! Sorry if this chapter wasn't quite as interesting as you were hoping for... just you wait! Next one! Next one. (nods slowly and sagely)

Crimson Dragongem: You are a smart kookie. Indeed it does. Hehe. P.S. Yay for insanity!

2the1broken6angel: No waiiii! I'm your favourite? D'AWWWW! (bursts into tears) You're so .:sob, sob:. kind! .:snuffle, choke:. Hee. Well, I shall definitely check out your story when it comes out! Hehe, and I don't exactly have a patent on cafes, so go right ahead with them in your story, hehehe. (I'm so kind.)

Duff-Duff: Thanksez. I have just realized I have reviews from someone called "huffpuff", and I have a review from someone called "duff-duff". Huffpuff... Duff-Duff. Huffpuff... Duff-Duff. It's kinda weird. And funny. :P

summer-loven-2: Yay for kitty faces! Heh. Thanks for the review.

tweetybaby2: Wahhh, don't talk about how Bailey left Sasuke and merely break my heart! ToT. Here comes the bad conscience soaring back. Ah well, have faith in me, my pets, it will all work out in the end... there's still more chapters and events to come! P.S. Yeah I know... stuck with Sakura... (shudder). I can almost not believe how cruel I am.

PurpleNek0: Kehehe. There will be more on Sakura's looks... but I won't tell you in what way and ruin it for you. (angelic look) I'll just let your brain hurt some more. :P

Scribbie: I like your justification and opinion on the Abigail pairing thing. That's actually pretty much how I felt (well, not about Itachi, as you can tell :P). But I think I'll be pairing her with someone anyways, seeing as that's what the majority of everyone wants. But yeh... just between you and me (confidential tone), I agree. Ooh! And you're a Bailey fan! Yay! You have returned the self-esteem that I lost when Bailey lost the popularity poll, haha. Anywhom, thanks for the review!

Wyrvvn: You like Sakura? Weird... I can't imagine why you're reading this, actually... hehe. Well, actually, I guess I can... I read loads of fanfictions that make fun of Sasuke, Kakashi, and Gaara, and they're my favs. Anywhom. I hold nothing against you for liking Sakura... I don't mind her in the waayyy later episodes, either. But I wouldn't go so far as to say I like her. And her old self (the self I am using for this fanfic)... well... hate her. So muahahahaha! Now. Your rant. It made my brain go -squish- and my eyes go -swirl-. I am still trying to figure it out. Hahaha. Oh yeah! I should read more of your story, shouldn't I? I thought I put it on my alerts list though? .: ponderous little frown:. Well, bye!

snuggles-n-hugs: Hokey pokey! Hee! .: dances around like you-know-who:. Wheee! Wait... you know what's going to happen next? You do? How? Oh wait... you mean what you suggested? Hehehe. Yes, that is going to happen next. But no one else knows, so shhh. And there's also the case of the bubble chakra. Which you don't know about. MUHAHAHA! P.S. .:eyetwitch:. I'm not THAT pale dammit!

Allllrighty, I'm done! Gee, that took longer than I thought it would. But it's fun. Aywhom... bye bye until later! And this later will not take very long, just so you know. Because I'm kind. Plus I really want to get around to the bubble chakra. Keheheh!