Flames of My Heart: Where here's chapter four. It took a little long to update because I had the flu, but I hope you like it! It may still be a little confusing but it's only the fourth chapter, so don't worry… I'm still a little confused myself.

Summary: "When I get older, I'll marry you, okay?" "Ha! Why would I marry a flat chested girl like you?" "Kakashi-baka!" "You look nothing like those girls in Icha Icha Paradise!" "I'll make you eat your words one day!" Sailor Moon/Naruto

"What's your problem?" Rei ripped the bowl from her feet, since her heel was dug into it. She stared at her foot which was covered in noodles and water. Wrinkling her nose, she glanced back at the boy and the girl with him.

The boy had sun colored hair, that reminded Rei very much of Minako and Usagi, and blue eyes that were burning with hatred towards her. He had three unusual tattoos of whiskers on each side of his cheeks, and was dressed in an orange and blue outfit. Strange kid. She thought, but then turned her attention to the girl.

"Hotaru?" her eyes widened as she swept her younger teammate into a bone crushing hug. "We were so worried about you!"

"Rei-san, I am perfectly fine. Naruto-kun was keeping me company!" Hotaru smiled, as she pulled herself out of the hug, and then gave Naruto a warm smile.

"Naru…to?" Rei followed Hotaru's eyes and looked at the blond boy. She scowled, now not liking the younger boy even more. "Oh,.. him."

Rei snapped her fingers, a rude way to call a waitress over, but none the less it worked. She whispered in the waitress' ear and when the woman left, she bowed politely to Naruto. "Thank you for looking after Hotaru. But we must be leaving now," she said, her voice heavily coated with fake admiration.

"Wha?" Naruto asked, completely confused. "NO WAY! I JUST MET HER!"

Hotaru's cheeks turned a light pink color, as she faked a cough. Rei glanced at Hotaru and Naruto and let out a small smile. She was about to voice her suspicions until something hit her. Where exactly where they? "Excuse me…Naruto-san? Where are we?"

Naruto was completely shocked by her quick change in attitude, so he grinned at her, his eyes turning into upward slits, and answered in a tone full of pride. "We're in Konohagure!" (Flames of My Heart: Not sure if I spelled that right, someone correct me if I got it wrong. Please and thank you!)

Naruto opened his eyes, to look at the two girls. Hotaru was slightly curious at the strange name of the village, but Rei's eyes practically bugged out of her head. "No FUCKING way!" she shouted, and other people turned to stare. She sent them all an icy glare, and they turned their attention away. "Are we really?"

"Yep!" Naruto shouted, as the waitress from earlier returned and placed a bowl of miso soup in front of him. "...I didn't order this?" Naruto was confused; the people at Ichiraku never gave him free food, no matter how much of a good customer he was.

"The lady ordered it," the waitress pointed to the fiery raven-haired girl, who was still in shock.

"Hey thanks old lady!" Naruto shouted as he hugged Rei.

"Huh?" Rei returned the hug still confused, as Hotaru let out a little giggle. "Oh… yeah. Sure."

Eventually Naruto let go of Rei and began digging into his scorching hot bowl of ramen, and Rei let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding. "Hotaru-chan?" the senshi of Death looked up at Rei. "Listen, I'm going to go for a walk. Tell Naruto to bring you to the Hokage Monument in 2 hours, okay?"

And with that said, Rei slammed a couple of yen on the table to pay for Naruto's food, and left the restaurant. Hotaru glanced after her confused, but then gave Naruto a small smile as he let out a loud burp.

"What's the Hokage Monument?" Hotaru asked curiously, wondering why Rei would pick that place.

"It's a giant wall on a cave, where they have statues of the faces of the four hokages. I'm going to be on that one day!" Naruto said enthusiastically, pumping his fist into the air.

"Are you a Hokage?" Hotaru asked, not really understanding the meaning of the word.

"No, obaa-chan is. But I will be soon!" Naruto sounded a little downcast, wishing he could've impressed Hotaru more.

"Then I hope to see your face on this monument soon, ne?" Hotaru gave him a wide grin, and Naruto returned it. As they ordered another bowl of ramen, Hotaru couldn't help wonder. How did Rei know about this monument?

BREAK

Rei wandered around the slightly familiar village her thoughts jumbled. How is this possible? Konoha is just a dream… just a dream… was it really real? But that would mean… my mother, my father…. It was all FAKE? My suffering… for NOTHING? Rei felt hot tears roll down her cheeks, as her pace quickened and she was now running through the streets.

Eventually she stopped her running, and she ended up at a small store, near the gates of the village. The store reminded her a lot of Ami, as most bookstores did. An image of her bookworm friend popped into her head, and Rei wondered if her friendship with the senshi of ice was even real.

My life was a sham. Everything about Tokyo was fake… it was so I could protect Usagi. Why does she get to enjoy a perfect life, while I continually live in pain? Rei thought bitterly as she entered the store, and began to browse.

She wiped the tears from her eyes, only to have them appear again, as she spotted a series of books in the 'Adult' section. 'Icha Icha Paradise' was the name of the series, and those three words alone brought up a flash of memories in front of her.

FLASHBACK

Eight year old Hanashi Rei tried to hit her sensei in the face, only to have him disappear in a puff of smoke. Her fist instead slammed into the bark of a tree, breaking the tree straight down the middle. The bark shattered, but not before leaving a few thick and painful splinters embedded in her fist. She cried out in pain, watching a few drops of blood stain the lush grass.

"Kakashi-sensei, I'm done for today!" she shouted at no one, but she knew he heard him. A few seconds pasted, and then a rustle of leaves was heard. From the rustle, Kakashi appeared his mask still on his face, and his visible eye as lazy as ever, though his favorite book was missing. This usually meant it was time for him to be serious.

He grabbed her palm, but then she snatched it back, a scared look on her face. "Don't touch it!"

Kakashi stared hard at her, trying to read her thoughts. "Don't worry, it's nothing serious. I can take the splinters out for you."

"No!" she said stubbornly. "Let's go to a medic-nin, they'll handle it better."

"Handle what? It's a waste of their time to look at splinters."

"You wouldn't understand," she looked down and hid her bleeding hand behind her back, knowing the blood would continue to drip on the grass.

"Stop acting like a child," he argued, getting sick and tired of her little game.

She looked up at him, cursing how much taller he was than her. She barely reached his waist. "Maybe it hasn't occurred to you, baka, but I am a child! And maybe, just maybe, you don't know everything!"

He continued to look at her, judging her temper and how to next act. "Care to explain?"

She knew he was trying to find the deeper meanings of her words. "You know about my mother's clan, right?" He nodded and she continued. "Hino was her maiden name. They're blood was used as a weapon. If any of their blood was spilled on an opponent, the blood would be absorbed and poison the opponent from the inside. Do you really want to die?"

"You do realize I'm wearing gloves?" he spoke smugly, enjoying the fact that he could taunt her.

"Hai. But my blood is different from my mothers. My body temperature… its 100 degrees Celsius. A little high for a normal person, right?" Rei said, as she watched his lazy eye widened slightly. She stepped away from the spot were she was standing, to show a patch of blackened and burnt grass. "My blood burns… literarily."

"Let's go to the medic-nin," Kakashi said, as he grabbed her other hand and led her away. She looked up at him and gave him a sad smile, slightly surprised at the fact that it was so simple for him to understand.

END FLASHBACK

"The first person to ever understand," she smiled sadly as she grabbed at the first volume of the book. Of course, she wouldn't read it, but it would be a nice memory for her to bring back to Juuban.

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"So, you guys are ninjas? Kawai!" Makoto squealed. She and the three ninjas she met were walking down the street, heading to the Hokage's office. She had her arms linked to the unwilling Genma, and the overly 'youthful' Gai. Kakashi was walking next to Genma, his head still buried in his book.

"Thank you?" Genma more like questioned than asked, his face slightly pink with a blush. The girl was slightly embarrassing, and shamelessly hit on him. It was a little too much that he could take for a first meeting.

"How did such a youthful girl such as yourself end up falling from the majestic sky and landing on the ever great, GAI?" Gai asked. Makoto looked at him, and then blinked trying to translate his words into modern Japanese, and then answered:

"Oh…. Dimensional travel does that sometimes… rough landings," she let out a small giggle as the two men next to her stared like she was mental.

"I think the fall did something to her head," Genma mumbled as Kakashi pushed open the front door to the Hokage's office. The four stepped inside.

Makoto let go of the ninjas, as they lead her to the Hokage. Knocking on the door, Makoto waited patiently, expecting to see a nice old man greet her and explain the standard rules of the village.

And you can imagine how surprised she was when a busty 30-something year old woman opened the door and greeted her. "Who are you?" the woman asked, her voice sounding slightly angry and impatiently, like she had better things to do. Makoto tried to look into the room, but the woman was blocking her view.

"Hokage-sama," Gai started to speak as Makoto stared, her eyes practically popping out of their socket. This was their leader? "She fell from the sky—"

"Say no more," the woman invited the four in. The room was small, and slightly bare, except for a desk, a couch and a couple of chairs. It had two other occupants in it, that were each holding a rubber-band strung wad of yen. It seemed that the three women were gambling with dice before Makoto had arrived.

"Setsuna-san, Michiru-san?" Makoto's eyes widened even more. There were the two outer senshi, who were considered calm and respectable people, gambling with these ninjas' leader. Could things be even stranger?

"You must be the third of the six girls that are here? The brunette… your name must be Kino Makoto? I'm Tsunade," the busty blond woman said, and Makoto could only manage to nod.

"So, where are Rei, Haruka and Hotaru?" Makoto asked.

"Not here," Setsuna said the most obvious thing. "It doesn't matter though. We'll be here for a long time, and will have plenty of time to look for them."

"How long will be here? Two days… three?" Makoto asked, hoping that she wouldn't have to spend all her time looking for Rei and Hotaru. She after all, did want to continue her hobby of guy hunting.

"Six months," Michiru answered for Setsuna, as she pocketed the money in her hands.

"WHAT?" Makoto shouted, slamming her fist into Tsunade's desk. "What about Juuban? AND THE PRINCESS?"

"There are demons here," the Hokage spoke, her voice completely calm. "They teamed up with a village called Sound, and are trying to kill your… princess. Setsuna said that you will be here to help aid our nins in the fight."

"Aid? Demons… you mean youma?" Makoto looked at Setsuna, her fists clenched at the thought of youmas. "I knew peace was too good to be true."

"The balance of good and evil is eternal," Michiru stated. "And you knew that Makoto."

"Doesn't mean I have to like it?" she huffed, crossing her arms over her chest. "Why are the youma here?"

"It's complicated," Michiru said.

"Did you know about this?" Makoto directed her question towards Setsuna.

"Yes, but I can do nothing to stop it. It's inevitable," Setsuna said sadly.

"Why are demons with Orochimaru?" Kakashi asked, slamming his book shut, giving Tsunade a hard look.

"They're powerful, Orochimaru loves power. It makes perfect sense," Tsunade voiced what every nin knew.

"Is he going to use a youma as a vessel?" Genma asked, biting loudly at the senbon needle in his mouth.

"Why would he when he has Sasuke?" Kakashi asked, his voice getting a little higher at the mention of the Uchiha's name.

"Well we will fight with the flames of our youth, and we shall succeed!" Gai tried to pep the other's up with a 'youthful' speech.

"HAI!" Makoto cheered pounding her fist into the air. "YOUMAS BEWARE, MAKOTO IS TO FEAR!"

"Beware and fear don't rhyme," Genma sweatdropped comically.

"Shaddup," Makoto pouted, lowering her fist.

"How will you and your other three friends fight?" Kakashi directed the question to the three newcomers. "You're obviously not nins. What skills could you possibly have?"

"We've fought youmas before, and we have won every single time," Setsuna said, proud of her fellow senshi.

"How did you win?" Kakashi asked.

"We each have special… 'gifts'. I control time, Michiru controls the ocean, Makoto controls thunder," Setsuna paused, as the Konoha residents stared at the woman. Controlling something like time, water and thunder didn't exactly seem normal for a bunch of average looking civilians.

"What about the other three?" Kakashi asked skeptically.

"Haruka controls wind, Rei controls fire, and Hotaru controls death," Michiru finished off the list of the six of them.

"Sounds like we have a good chance of winning then," Tsunade stated.

"Hai, a very good chance," Makoto agreed.

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"What are you doing?" Haruka tapped her foot impatiently, looking at the 50-year old man that was peeping through a hole into some type of house. "That's invasion of privacy, if you didn't know."

The silver haired man jumped in surprised and removed his face from the hole to stare at the woman. At first he looked angry, but then his lips curved into a perverted grin as he noticed the short skirt she was wearing. "Hello there. I am Jiraiya, and you might be?"

"I didn't ask your name, old man," Haruka answered arrogantly, as she pushed the man, and peeped into the hole, curious as to what the man was watching. Jiraiya laughed behind her, wondering if she would hit him or run away screaming in reaction.

Haruka's eye's widened, as she quickly removed her eye from the hole. "A bathhouse? A WOMEN'S bathhouse? YOU HENTAI!" she clobbered the man over the head, and then rubbed her eyes, trying to remove the images from her head. She felt as though she had somehow cheated on Michiru by just looking.

"Ow!" Jiraiya faked a tearful look on his face, as he rubbed the large and swelling bump on his head.

Haruka hit him over the head again, just for annoying her, and then walked away from the man, who was lying passed out on the floor, his eyes replaced by two swirls.

Flames of My Heart: Well, that's chapter four, sorry for taking so long to update, I hope you liked it! Please review, for the sake of my sanity!