FUUSHIGI YUME (( Mysterious Dream ))
A story co-written by authors Pyrogirltohru and XxFissshbonesssxX. Both are aspiring artists and talented authors, having written the majority of this tale by hand in several notebooks filling both sides of the college-ruled paper. Editing was done by XxFissshbonesssxX; a drawn version of the story is being worked on by Pyrogirltohru. Neither of these authors claim ownership over the Naruto characters as much as they would like to, and invite you to read on and enjoy. They welcome all comments and critiques. Thank you for your interest.
Chapters 6-10
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00.06
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Back in the year 2005, Evan Berben was pacing around in his room. Once in a while, he'd stop and pick up Jaya's bracelet. It was a red glass bracelet with green blood stones fitted into various places around the brand of glass.
Suddenly, the bracelet hummed, glowing. Evan's eyes widened. He ran over to the table and picked up the bracelet. "JAYA!!! Can you hear me?" he shouted, hoping something would come of it. Nothing could be heard except for his mother, calling, "Ev? Are you okay?"
The glow flickered until it went out completely. The brand of glass sat silently, glowlessly, in his hand.
"Shit!" he cursed, bringing his fist down on the table.
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00.07
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Jaya and Monica were walking to meet their new cell and its leader. They heard a voice explode from up ahead as they neared the destination that had been given to them.
"IMPOSTER!!!!!"
Jaya jumped, Monica covering her ringing ears. "I think they're over there," she deduced as they began to head over in the direction of the yell, to which a second voice was replying.
"Relax, I'm not an imposter. I just need to make a good impression because we have two new students joining our cell."
"WHAT?!" came the first voice, one that the two girls pinned as a certain blonde's. "Why do we have to take on more students?!"
"Well, the Hokage thinks we're a strong enough team to hold onto two new arrivals. Gai's team also had a new member added, I think. So are you saying that you can't handle having two more teammates?" The first voice didn't respond; the second voice's comment seemed to have given him food for thought. At that moment, Jaya and Monica chose to make their appearance. "Ah, speaking of said teammates, here they are." The silver-haired jounin stopped and looked at them more carefully.
''Aa. You two." The pink haired girl looked back and forth between the two girls and her teacher. "Do you know them, Kakashi-sensei?"
"Yes, Sakura," he said, "In fact, I met them yesterday." He shifted on his feet and looked at them. "Well, since all I know is your names, why don't you introduce yourselves to us a little more?" Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura nodded, looking at the two girls. Jaya caught the look in Monica's eyes as she stared back at Sasuke. 'She has a plan...' she thought to herself as the normally quiet girl spoke up first.
"Our names are DJ and Tohru Uchiha," she dead-panned, Sasuke tensing at the words.
"What did you say?"
"You're kidding! MORE people like Sasuke-teme?!"
"Shut up, Naruto!!!"
Kakashi sweat dropped. 'That can't be right ...'
Sasuke was on the edge, though, one foot forward and a fist raised in defense. "And how exactly did you acquire Uchiha blood?" he hissed out, livid that people that were obviously not related to him were using his last name, "You're both girls, one of you has a dark complexion, and the Uchihas have a pure bloodline!" Naruto jumped away from Sasuke, looking comically outraged and disgusted.
"ICNEST!" he shouted, causing a blushing Sakura to smack him on the head.
"BAKA!!! That's not what he meant!!!"
"Then what did he mean?" he asked, wounded both literally and figuratively. Sakura huffed as Sasuke stared down the two new girls, "He meant that his family never married people with dark skin, no offense Tohru-kun."
"Gottcha," DJ dead-panned, her ears twitching upwards.
"Yeah," Jaya said, suddenly all grin, "Our real names are Tohru Tsuraki and DJ."
The three teens made different faces at the lack of a last name and Jaya looked innocently confused at their faces. "Eh? Nandayo?" she quipped.
"Nothing," Kakashi said quickly, closing the subject as he pulled out his little orange novel. "Since the introductions are over, we should test your abilities to see what your level of skill is compared to that of these three." He indicated his students with a nod. Sasuke, however, had a different angle and he voiced it.
"Sensei, how about you let us test them instead?" Sasuke suggested. "We'll be working together, so it would be easier for us to measure their strength ourselves."
"Yeah! Let us test them!" Sakura said out loud. Inner Sakura was fuming, 'They will PAY for using Sasuke-kun's name as a joke!!!''
Kakashi eyed the two eager gennin with only a half-lidded eye and a bored expression. "Hmm ... all right. This could be interesting." He flipped to where a corner of his book was turned down as a bookmark. "Begin!"
At his word, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke flung themselves at Tohru, figuring that she would be the weakest of the two. DJ leapt to the side to avoid being in Tohru's battle, and Tohru flinched, expecting impact, but when she didn't feel one, she peaked an eye open in confusion. To her surprise, everything was suddenly moving in slow motion. She effortlessly dodged each punch, and landed on her feet a short distance away. Somewhat astonished and then angry, the other gennin turned around to attack again.
Five minutes later, Sakura hit the ground, panting and unwilling to continue. Naruto and Sasuke joined her, stubbornly unable to collapse until they were sure that they didn't look weak in front of the other. "You're ... good," Sakura panted out, leaning forwards on her knees. 'Maybe she does possess Uchiha blood,' Sasuke thought to himself in slight disbelief. "What do you eat?" Naruto asked, incredulous.
"Looks like you went overboard," DJ called from the sidelines. Tohru wasn't listening. She fell to her knees, looking at her hands. Her best friend frowned in concern, coming to her side.
"Hey ... what's wrong?" DJ said, putting a hand on her friend's shoulder.
"Wha ... what AM I?" Tohru said, still looking at her hands in fear.
"Well, you're fast, that's for sure," DJ said, hoping to cheer her up.
"She's not just fast," Sasuke muttered darkly, "it's like she can move at ten times our speed."
Kakashi flipped a page in his novel. "Well, it's obvious that Tohru-kun is far better than you first thought, eh?" he asked mockingly, team 7 flinching at the tone. "Well ... from what I saw, I say that Tohru-kun is good enough to handle herself in a tight spot." His single visible eye lazily moved from Jaya to Monica, and he continued, "Once you're ready, you can test your other teammate next."
Without warning, Sasuke was back on his feet, lunging at a girl that he thought would be as fast as Tohru. DJ's eyes widened as a fist nearly rammed into her jaw, only missing by a second as her body moved to barely avoid the blow. Sakura's fist followed Sasuke's and DJ jumped back to get out of their grasp, but Naruto had been waiting for her to do that, and sent five shuriken at her. She barely dodged that, two of them ripping holes in her pant legs and one nicking the corner of her shirt. She struggled to keep up with their movements, which had slowed considerably from their fight with Jaya. Sasuke frowned, letting up as Naruto and Sakura easily backed her into a corner, DJ only defending their attacks, unable to counter their speed or power.
Kakashi sighed. "Well, I guess DJ isn't quite on Tohru-kun's level ... in fact she might be below Naruto or Sakura ..."
However, Tohru had noticed something about her friend.
Sasuke had stopped fighting, since DJ was having trouble fending off Sakura and Naruto. "She's a joke," he said to himself, "especially compared with her cousin. It's obvious she has no Uchiha blood ..."
Naruto pulled a punch, seeing two bruises on her arms from their fight already, and decided to let up. "Your guard is non-existent, you know?" he asked.
DJ grit her teeth, then went wide-eyed as a kunai was embedded in her forehead.
Kakashi looked up in surprise. He hadn't predicted that anything like this would happen at all. Sakura and Naruto jumped away from DJ to stare at Tohru, who'd thrown the kunai. Naruto was the first to react.
"T-TOHRU!!! Why'd you do that?!" he exclaimed in disbelief. Tohru frowned. "I thought so ..."
'DJ' exploded with a POOF!
"... it's a doppleganger."
Naruto stared dumbly at the smoke as it disappeared.
Tohru called out to the trees, "DJ! They want to test YOU, not a clone!" When this recieved no response, Tohru thought for a moment. Then she called out coyly, "Oh, for me? Thanks, Naruto, for the food."
CRASH.
Team 7 turned around to see DJ, who had fallen out of a tree behind them. The long haired girl was looking around, slightly frazzled at the fall.
"Food?" she asked curiously.
Kakashi stared, then tried to shrug it off nonchalantly. 'I didn't sense her for a second ...'
Tohru frowned. "How long were you planning on hiding up there?"
DJ shrugged. "I don't know. All I know is I really didn't want to be here, and suddenly I was in a tree and I was down there fighting, so I sat back and watched things go." Tohru and Kakashi sighed in unison. "Well, we'll still have to test you later on, but it looks like your other teammates are worn down right now ... so I'll test you."
"No!"
Kakashi turned to look at Sakura questioningly. "Hm?"
Sakura flushed a little, both from embarrassment and exhaustion. "Well, we got to test Tohru-kun ... I think it's only fair that we be the ones to test DJ, too." Kakashi kept his gaze on her for a second longer and then nodded. "Fair enough. We'll continue this tomorrow, if there are no missions to do."
"Ok. If you're done, are we free to go?" asked Tohru. Kakashi waved at them, disappearing in a whirl of leaves.
"All right! Sakura-chaaaaan, wanna go on a date with me?" Naruto asked, grinning ear to ear.
"No."
"Awww!!!" DJ looked at Naruto for a second and then called his name. "Oi, Naruto!"
The blonde turned to face her. "Eh? What's up?"
"Wanna go out for ramen? My treat!" Both Sakura and Naruto spun on the spot at her offer.
"Really?!" Naruto asked, grinning even wider. Sakura frowned, looking angry and then confused, and then turned away to follow Sasuke, who had begun to leave.
"Yeah, I'll treat everyone," DJ said, calling Sasuke's attention to her. The pale boy had stopped walking, and looked back over his shoulder.
"Everyone?" he asked, intrigued.
"Yeah," DJ affirmed, "even the weird, perverted, spikey-haired guy that's standing behind me."
Naruto and Sakura looked at each other as Kakashi's eyebrow rose. How had DJ known that Kakashi had come back?
"You're treating them?" Kakashi asked curiously. DJ nodded. "You can come too, pervert," she said as Naruto and Sakura began arguing over where they wanted to go. Kakashi nodded.
"Then it's settled--me and DJ will treat everyone. Let's go."
DJ rose an eyebrow at him. "I can pay."
"I know," Kakashi said, "but I don't mind treating my team."
"That's so nice, Kakashi-sensei," Tohru said, coming up to walk along side DJ and their new teacher, "thank you very much!" She bowed, Kakashi blinking at the formality. "Please, Tohru-kun, not so formal! Let's go get some food." The brown-skinned girl nodded, and picked up a faster pace to catch up with DJ who had gone on ahead to talk with Naruto. Kakashi watched his students, new and old, walk in front of him as they headed back towards town.
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00.08
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Kakashi was not a happy man.
Even splitting the bill with DJ, he ended up with a very empty wallet after their dinner excursion. Naruto and DJ had won against Sakura and Sasuke on the choice dining establishment, and they had all ended up at Ichiraku. The man behind the counter was delighted to have so many customers, and, seeing Naruto was there as well, didn't hesitate to tell them the meal was going to be half-off. Naruto and DJ dug in, Tohru not far behind. Sasuke and Sakura bet Kakashi on who would out-eat who first, and Kakashi and Sasuke ended up losing 1000 ¥ to Sakura when DJ and Tohru stopped eating at the same time. The group had fun all that night, ending when the man announced that he'd be closing for the day within the hour. They left, a hefty tip on the countertop, and departed.
"See you guys tomorrow," DJ called as Sasuke and Sakura and Naruto turned to go the opposite way of her, Tohru and Kakashi. "Yeah, see you tomorrow!" Tohru called after them. "Bye, Tohru-chan, DJ-chan!" Naruto yelled, earning him a bash from Sakura as the three walked down the street in the opposite direction.
"Oh? Is your house this way?" Tohru asked as she and DJ started off away from the ramen stand.
"No," Kakashi said.
"We can manage our selves," DJ said, eyeing Kakashi curiously.
"I feel like going this way," he countered, pulling out his novel. "It's not that far out of my way." The long-haired girl fell silent and they walked.
"We're here," Tohru said a few minutes later, coming to a stop in front of a door. Kakashi barely looked up from his book. "Mm... see you tomorrow." He disappeared with a swirl of leaves. DJ pulled Tohru into their apartment, shut the door, and turned on her friend.
"You idiot!!!"
Jaya jumped. "Wh-what? Did I do something?"
DJ paused. "You didn't? ..."
Jaya cocked her head to the side. "Eh?"
DJ stared at her. Then, she waved a hand in dismissal. "Oh, it's nothing. Nothing at all." Jaya blinked and narrowed her eyes. "Hey ..."
"Don't mind me," DJ called as she hopped towards the kitchen, "I was just talking to myself."
"Augh!!! You're hiding something," Jaya accused, lunging at her. DJ dodged and bounded into the kitchen.
"Am not!"
The brown-skinned girl followed DJ around the table and then over the counter, back into the den.
"Are too!"
Over the arm chair.
"Am not!"
Dodging behind the couch.
"Are too!"
Laughing and rolling to the side as another form closes in.
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Arrgh!"
Caught, DJ rolled with Jaya attached firmly to her neck in an attempt to throttle the answers out of her. They rolled into the foot of the arm chair and stopped, grinning.
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are too!"
"Shut up."
"Are--hey!"
They both laughed, and then stood up. "I'm kinda tired," DJ said to no one in particular, moving towards the room that held their beds. "You going to sleep already?" Jaya asked, "It's just after 6!"
"I know. G'night."
Jaya shook her head. "You're ... she paused, and DJ stopped halfway into the room, turning back to question Jaya's pause. "Mmm?"
"It's just... Evan ... and Rachel," Jaya said quietly, "I wonder how they're doing..."
DJ's eyes widened slightly and then her face went blank. "Aa."
"They're probably freaking out ... and we've been enjoying ourselves," Jaya said, and DJ walked over to her and promptly hit her over the head.
"Dork," she muttered affectionately, "How would they feel if they found out all you did was mope around?" Jaya blinked and then nodded slowly. "I guess you're right ..."
KNOCK KNOCK
Both girls looked at the door, surprised. "Maybe it's Kakashi," DJ suggested as she pulled out a kunai. Jaya nodded, pulling out a kunai of her own. Neither girl believed that Kakashi would come back so soon after leaving them; he had no reason. And it was never bad to be prepared ... Tohru opened the door.
Uchiha Sasuke blinked wide-eyed at the sight of the two girls armed at the door. "Ah ... hi. Bad time?"
DJ, looking almost disappointed, slid the kunai back into its holster and retreated to the bedroom, nothing else to do. Tohru stayed behind to chat with Sasuke.
"Sasuke-kun, what brings you out here?" she asked smiling. Sasuke cleared his throat. "Well, I, uh, I thought that you'd get a house--er, an apartment ... around here." Jaya beamed. "That's right! Wanna come in?" Sasuke nodded quickly, and Tohru led him inside. She showed him the living room-den, then the kitchen, and the amenities they'd been left with, plus some ones they'd purchased earlier that day. Sasuke followed with a strange silence.
"Well, that's it," Tohru said, after showing Sasuke around their new living quarters. "What about those doors?" Sasuke asked, pointing to the doors opposing the kitchen. "We didn't go in there." Tohru had excluded the doors from her tour, and at their mention, she flushed slightly. "Ah, well, that is, ano ... those doors lead to the bedroom and DJ's in there now."
Sasuke frowned. "She has a problem with us looking in the room?" he asked in confusion.
A grin spread across Tohru's face. "When DJ's alone with her friends, she doesn't wear a shirt."
Sasuke turned red faster than a stop light. "Right, I, uh, seeing as it's late and all, uh, and--bye!" he said, dashing out the door, slamming it on his way out. Tohru laughed to herself as DJ came out to investigate the noise. Sure enough, she was in a sports bra, shirtless.
"What was all that?" she asked. Tohru looked at her friend and waved at her as if to shoo her back. "DJ! You scared off our guest! Go put on a shirt!"
DJ groaned. "But it's so HOT!!!" Tohru pointed at their bedroom. "Go! Shirt," she said playfully.
DJ grinned, then frowned. Tohru looked up. "What's wrong, DJ?" DJ pointed to Tohru's wrist, and Tohru looked down. The gold bracelet around her wrist was gone. Tohru took a deep breath, and then ...
"SASUKE, YOU BASTARD, COME BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!!!!"
She tore out the door, DJ following after she'd slid a shirt on. The brown-haired girl ran right past a blue-haired boy, nearly knocking him over. DJ came up after her and nodded at him as she followed her friend, noticing the skinny gold bracelet he held in his hand.
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00.09
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KNOCK KNOCK
Tohru pounded on the door relentlessly, as if breaking the door down would get her her bracelets back sooner. DJ stepped onto the door mat next to her. "Settle down," she admonished, "it's the middle of the night. Let's not wake the entire vill--" She froze as her friend turned a half-sane grin on her.
"I DON'T CARE--I WANT MY BRACELET BACK!!!"
DJ blinked. "Ah. Ok then."
The door opened and Sasuke was slammed to the wall of his house by an enraged Tohru. "WHERE ARE MY BRACELETS YOU JERK?!" she yelled. Sasuke blinked sleepily, "Huh? What are you DOING here? It's gotta be two in the morning ..."
Tohru blinked and actually looked at the Uchiha. The poor boy had gotten straight out of bed and as a result had on only his boxers. His hair was untamed, and stuck out at angles that were odd, even for him. He couldn't keep his eyes open for half a second, and Tohru realized that there was no way he could've been alert enough to be at their house, let alone steal from them.
Next to her, DJ was giving Sasuke a glance up and down and made sure he was catching her inspection before nodding. "Nice," she said as she slipped back out the door.
Sasuke's sleepiness vanished and his eyes widened as he registered that the girl had just complemented on his body. He stared at Tohru, who poked the middle of his bare chest and muttered "sexy" before blushing and running after DJ
The two girls disappeared from the Uchiha estates into the dark Konoha night, leaving a confused Sasuke clad in his boxers standing in his door way.
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00.10
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DJ awoke to the smell of fried rice.
In the kitchen, Tohru had busied herself with making some kind of breakfast. An array of dishes were set out already in the space between two empty matching plates, including eggs, bacon, and plain white rice. There was a well-mixed fruit salad, and sugar and honey set out on the table, as well as soy sauce and other seasonings for their food. The caramel-skinned girl hummed softly to herself as she prepared the end of their meal, grabbing a pair of empty drink cups from a cupboard and setting them on the table. She turned back to the stove and jumped a foot in the air at the sight of DJ sitting on the counter.
"I smelled food," DJ murmured in explanation as she looked at the stove, Tohru gripping her chest in an attempt to slow her racing heart.
"DJ! You scared me," she said as her friend hopped down off the counter, clad in an extra-large, extra-long Tshirt with the sand logo across it. DJ bopped her head. "Cook," she ordered.
Tohru sighed. "Ok. You go sit at the table, baka."
In a few minutes, they sat down to a well-rounded meal. Both girls dug in hungrily.
"So... who was that last night?" Tohru asked after a while. DJ (with a mouthful of rice) didn't respond. "DJ! C'mon! You KNOW that couldn't've been Sasuke at our house last night. Whoever it was used Henage no Jutsu to transform to look like Sasuke," she snapped. DJ swallowed.
"We passed him on the way to Sasuke's," she informed Tohru.
The brown-skinned girl blinked, then slammed her fist on the table.
"WHAAAAAATT???? Why didn't you say anything?!" she demanded.
DJ munched happily on her food then shrugged to Tohru's outburst. "I don't think you would've listened to me last night--you were intent on seeing Sasuke shirtless."
Tohru flushed and bit her tongue. DJ grinned at her, causing the blushing girl to jump to her feet. "L-let's go! We're skipping training," she decided, grabbing DJ by the arm and shooting out the door.
"But--!!! Jaya! My foooooood..." DJ wailed helplessly as she was hauled out the door.
The lonely table sat...
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End . Chapters . 6-10
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Thanks again for your time and interest. : )