Kaiyuga: VIVA VISITOR FROM REALITY!! VIVA STRANGER FROM DREAM!!!
RVFN (Random Voice from Nowhere): She's had a bad day… {Pats Kaiyuga's back}
Kaiyuga: YO! Lazy ass supporters! WHERE ARE YA?! I'm losing inspiration!
{Dramatic spotlight on Kaiyuga, resting a hand on her forehead}
Kaiyuga: Woe is thee! WOE IS THY!! Art this to be thy's ending?! THYST shall perish, so cometh, O death!
{Lights return to normal with a click}
Kaiyuga: {=.=} KakashiLvr? What. Are you doing?
KakashiLvr: {Looks frazzled, Pocky sticks all over her hair} YOU!
Kaiyuga: Me?
KakashiLvr: YOU! {Points a finger at her}
Kaiyuga: Me.
KakashiLvr: {Gonna explode any second} You-?! What are you doing?
Kaiyuga: Eh? {Hides Kohaku- san, who she was previously strangling, behind her back} Ooooooooooh, nothing!
KakashiLvr: I demand a rematch! {Pulls out a spork (spoon fork)}
Kaiyuga: Eh. Don't feel like it.
KakashiLvr: WHA-?!
Kaiyuga: {Forms a hand seal while sighing} La Mano no Jutsu.
KakashiLvr: What the-?! {Gets blown away with Kaiyuga slapping the air in front of her}
KakashiLvr: Youuuuu'lllll paaaaaaaaaayyy foooooorr thiiiiiiiiissss!!!!!
Kaiyuga: {Sigh} Whuteva. Infatuated ego. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Kohaku- san, don't ever, EVER, hit Kakashi- dono! {Summons 5 Raids of Iron Terror on Kohaku- san, and bury her in a grave of PCICIFP's}
Aki lightly shook Kage, but no response came from her. She dragged Kage's body out of the open, and Aki pulled off her vest so her head would be supported.
"This is gonna be the worst wake up call of her life."
Aki took care of the small abrasions and cuts, but left Kage to tend to the big ones when she woke up. She sat beside her, and whipping out her journal, she flipped the pen cap open, and began to scribble down stuff as though it was her final hour.
Day 36: HOLY SHIT!
It's been 36 days to the count, and things have gone as they were in the story... (Maybe) but then something that is virtually impossible to imagine just happened. Another Traveler has arrived. Better yet, I KNOW THE TRAVELER! It's the person I would least think possible to arrive HERE, of all places. It's Kage.
You remember Kage, right? The friend who I had bonded with in about five minutes, and had beliefs that she was my long lost sister or something? Well, she's here, and this is getting scarier by the minute. Also, Team 7 should have met up with Kabuto by now.........bastard...I'm just roaming on my own as a satellite to Team 7 since I think I'll attract unwanted trouble to the team. It also clears my mind...Pft, screw that now! Now it's back to DAY 1! Sheesh...pretending to sulk Why me...?
But what am I going to tell her when she-
Aki stopped writing and heard a moan come from Kage. Aki swallowed, put on the pen cap and slipped her journal back in her backpack. She watched Kage's eyes slowly open, and Aki mentally gasped.
Kage's eyes had already accustomed to the Naruto realm; they were a beautiful pair of Tiger Eye brown and orange.
"Oh, my God..." Aki whispered to herself, edging back as Kage began to take in her surroundings.
"Uhhhhhnn? Where..? Huh?" Kage tried to get up, but the prominent black and blue on her side told her different.
"AH! What the hell?" Kage looked down at her side and saw the bruise, but what was worse, she couldn't see the scar.
She had been biking on her own that day, crossing four lanes highways just to get a change of a quarter for all she cared. She had biked all over France, and now wanted to get to know her new town. She stared at the nature of the town, the beauty of the shops neatly lined up and blazing terra cotta in the afternoon sunlight.
And then it happened.
The screech of tires, the pungent smell of burning rubber and the heart- chattering crunch of metal against metal. She could remember the fear that paralyzed her nerves, the anticipation of death clinging to her mind. This was the end, she thought. She could taste blood in her mouth, and she couldn't move. Smoke billowed into her eyes, and gagged her lungs. She coughed, and cried for help, but her feeble pleas could barley be heard past the roar of gasoline fire spewing from the overturned car's engine.
The paramedics had dragged her into sunlight, and it was as though it was her time, how white the sun had shone in those very few moments. From what her blackening eyes could see was a hodgepodge of cars smashed against each other like a horrible clay figure that had melted in the sun.
She didn't suffer near- fatal wounds, and was out the next day with stitches in her side. It was when they had taken out the stitches three weeks later, did she notice the scar. It wasn't bright red; it was just barely darken than her normal beech wood complexion. The scar had fifty-two stitches, the small red dots lining the raised wound. The scar, though, was in the shape of a sickle.
Kage couldn't see it. It had just…vanished. She wildly looked around at her side, and finally noticed her hand. She twitched it, and became horrified. Her hand looked as though a drop of turpentine would wipe her out of existence.
"WHA?!" Her mind was beginning to get clogged in questions.
"Kage! KAGE! Aw crap. KAGE, snap outta it! KAGE! Ah, Jesus." Aki pulled out her water bottle, unscrewed the cap and threw a good amount on Kage's face.
She spluttered and gasped, calming down.
"Kage. Are we calm?" She looked up at who was speaking and jumped five feet off the ground.
"AK- AKI?!" She nodded once quietly.
"What?! Where?! Orrooooo...." Kage was one who was easily confused.
"Uhhhh......." How was Aki gonna explain this one?
"Oww. My side hurts." Kage lightly gripped her black and blue.
"Yeah, you did take a nasty fall back there." Aki coaxed Kage to lie back down.
"You won't be able to move for awhile. 'Bout I day, I suppose." Aki recapped her water bottle, and slid it back into her backpack.
Kage gritted her teeth as she lay back down, and Aki leaned against the tree Kage was lying under, and allowed the sounds to consume her. The nature's lullaby drifted her into sleep.
{Sooooo, she's your friend?}
(Shut it, Sikuliah.)
{OoOoOoOoOo, touched a nerve, have we?}
(I said, "Shut up". Comprendes?)
{How tragic; to have your friend involved in this mind game....She really is a simple minded person-}
(I SAID SHUT UP!)
{Myyyy, aren't we restless today?}Sikuliah spoke with a voice of poisoned honey.
(Did you get a word of what I just said?! SHUT! UP!)
{Tsk, tsk, tsk. Someone ought to teach that mouth of yours...} Aki suddenly keeled over in her mind, gasping for breath.
The red eyes flickered.
{Someone like...} Aki got another mental blow.
The red eyes flared.
{Me...}
Aki's eyes whipped opened, sweat lightly sneaking down her brow. A hand gripped her stomach, and she couldn't see straight.
Kage was quietly resting, curled up partially with her red scarf.
Aki scuttled to get up, and gripped another tree to support herself as she just managed to breathe.
(Wha- what's going on!? My chest....oh, God, my chest feels so tight...I can't breathe...) Aki coughed and heaved, trying to get a breath as though she was underwater.
The extreme pain was fleeting and Aki slumped to the ground, saliva dripping from her lip as she clutched her stomach.
(What is he trying to do..?) Aki just let the saliva drain from her mouth and the pain to vanish.
Wiping her mouth, Aki staggered as she got up, but dragged herself over to her pack, and pulled out a few items.
"This is the only way." Aki held a kunai in her hand.
With a slash and a cry, red was splattered onto the grass.
............
Kage rubbed her eyes as she woke up, listening to the sounds of birds. The image started to come into focus, and Kage was wondering what was standing in front of her.
"Morning, sport!" Aki's grinning face made Kage jump.
"Sleep well? I see you brought your scarf." Kage held the material in her hands.
"Huh? Where....where am I?" Aki sweat dropped.
"Well, have any others in your head ever told you you were dreaming?" She grinned widely.
Kage just stared, baffled by what she was told.
"I guess not..." She shrugged and got up.
"Whoa, whoa. Wait a minute!" Aki grabbed Kage and pulled her off to the side.
"What? Can't I do anything in my dreams?"
"Ummmm, not really. See, your sense of reality binds you to certain rules, like gravity. But as for me, you have not bound those rules to me. Get it?"
Kage slowly nodded, then shook her head. Aki sighed.
"Here, let me show you." Aki walked up to a nearby tree, performed a hand seal, and placed a foot on the tree.
"NO WAY!" Soon, Aki was a good twenty feet in the air, hanging upside down from the branch.
"See what I mean?" Kage ran up to the tree, "What're you doing?"
Kage paid no attention, but took a running start, and pressed a foot into the tree as she tried it out herself.
"UUWAAAAAHHH!!!!" She crashed into the ground.
Sighing, Aki nonchalantly walked down the side of the tree, her arms behind her back. She cleared her throat.
"Now, do we know WHY that happened?" Aki smiled with her eyes closed.
Kage's eyes returned to normal, and slowly shook her head.
"Rules. You don't know how to break the rules yet." Aki walked off the tree, and helped 18 year- old Kage to her feet.
"We gotta go; sun's almost out."
"Huh?" Questions marks buzzed around Kage's head.
"Just don't ask and come with me. Oh wait." Aki scanned Kage.
"Before we go anywhere, we need to get you outta those clothes." Kage looked down at herself.
What was wrong with her Levy's?
…………
Aki lay in wait for her prey to come. She gripped the branch with her hands tightly like a bird's talons.
(Come on, just a little closer…) The three Grass genin went on their lunch brake and sat down on a few sunken boulders.
(Perfect.) Aki whipped out a kunai, and rested it against the single taut rope.
Down below, Kage was waylaying one of the genin to come along. Remembering what Aki had told her, she deliberately stepped out from the bushes, a shuriken resting between two fingers. She flung it with amazing accuracy, and missed a female Grass genin by millimeters.
She dropped her bag of chips and glared at a strangely dressed teenager.
"YOU!" She pulled out a handful of kunai.
"Uh oh…." Kage started to back away.
(AKI NEVER MENTIONED THIS!!) The girl started to come forward, her two other following behind.
Kage spun around and ran for it, hysterically screaming. The three charged, shouting a battle cry.
"Three. Two. ONE!" Aki dug the blade into the rope, and the trap was set off.
The three genin were swept up into the trees by a makeshift net. The female genin tried to slash it open, but noticed white strands flowing through the rope. The rope finally stopped and they were dangling six feet above them. Aki jumped down from the trees, and admired their handiwork alongside Kage.
"Tsk tsk tsk…Can't believe they fell for that one." Aki shook her head, grinning.
Kage couldn't help but smirk, seeing the squirming nin in the net like flies in a spider web.
"YOU!"
"Can't you say anything else?" Aki and Kage snickered.
"Shall we?" Kage nodded in reply.
She started to perform some quick hand seals as the female nin in the net was about to throw a kunai through the webbing.
"Somni no Jutsu!" Instantly, the female nin went limp.
"Huh? Jutsu?"
"Skills I learned." Aki grinned as she cut the rope that was holding the genin up.
Their bodies thudded against each other, one giving a grunt of pain in reply.
"Well, this oughta work."
"What are we going to do with them?" Aki's eyes gleamed slightly.
"Take her and strip her. We're going…uh…heh "shopping". Have any second thoughts?" Kage did.
"Cause if you do, I can undo the skill and let them kick the crap outta us." Kage vigorously shook her head.
Aki grinned.
"I thought so, sensei."