Disclaimer: I obviously do not own Naruto. Mr. Kishimoto does. I just own the plot... and ten of the characters... which you're about to meet.
Part One: Wrong Turn
Chapter One: "I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore"
"WOOOH!!" Cordelia squealed at the top of her lungs. "Yeah! Road trip!"
Her four friends riding with her nodded their agreements to her statement. Roxanne rode shotgun, Winnifred sat in back along with Ronni and Lynne was driving. Cordelia sat in between Ronni and Fred in the small middle seat. Their black suburban was packed. They were staying at Lynne's vacation house for a month, no parents or grandparents. Just a month of hanging out with friends. They packed clothes, movies, video games, books, computers (laptops), iPods with headphones and iHomes, notebooks, food, hygienic supplies, and their cellphones. They had the annoying GPS plugged in, but couldn't really hear it over their booming stereo system blaring their iTunes.
They had been planning this for months, and now it was time and they couldn't be more excited. They had left after lunch, which was mid-afternoon. And now it was nearing time for dinner. They stopped quickly, wanting to get back on the road as soon as possible. Then they continued their journey. Their music was still blaring over the commands of the GPS.
When it started nearing two in the morning, they were obviously getting tired so they took a turn of the road they were on to find a place to stay the night. They couldn't possibly be too far from a town, right?
"Recalculating," the GPS said. They didn't hear it say anything else, so they figured that there was another way to get to the vacation house from this road. So they continued on the road for at least another hour, not hearing the GPS say anything the entire time. Then they grew worried. But they pushed that aside, pulled the car over, and slept in the car.
The next morning when they woke, they looked at their surroundings. They even stepped outside to check it out. They had no idea where they were. All they saw were fields, mountains, and a forest not far off. The road they were on was a gravel road, even though it felt like a paved road the night before. And last night, weren't they driving with fields on one side and a forest on the other? Where was that forest?
They checked behind the car, and it wasn't the landscape they remembered. It looked like off in the distance was mountains and rice fields. They were seriously confused as hell.
"Where are we?" Roxanne asked.
"Lost," Cordi replied sarcastically.
"Thanks for the input," Fred snarked, rolling her eyes at her younger friend.
"Weren't we on a paved road last night?" Lynne asked.
"Was that a rhetorical question?"Cordi asked.
"No, I was serious," Lynne replied in an angered tone.
"Well, I thought we were, but apparently not," Ronni answered.
Suddenly they spotted a man with a bag on his shoulders walking along the road. They quickly rushed over to him. He was old, about in his sixties.
"Excuse me, sir" Ronni piped, "We're kind of lost. Would you mind pointing us in the direction of a local town, or at least how to get back to the highway?"
The man looked slightly confused, but he replied. "Follow this road, and it will lead you to the closest village, which is just in those trees. But I have no idea what a highway is, I'm sorry."
The five girls' eyes widened at this. Who didn't know what a highway was? The man continued on his way, and the girls thanked him. They quickly jumped in their car, earning a weird look from the old man, and drove off. It took them five minutes to reach the village, but it wasn't really a village. It was a rather large town, almost city. And the road led them through big huge doors right to an opening of a ton of different little streets where people would be walking if they weren't busy staring at their car.
Lynne suddenly turned off her car and got out, her eyes huge as if she had seen this place before, but couldn't believe it. The other four quickly got out and started their normal pestering for information.
"Lynne, what is going on?" Cordi asked.
"Yeah, what's with all the people looking at us like we're some kind of alien race?" Fred asked.
"You guys don't recognize it?" Lynne asked incredulously.
Everyone looked around and Ronni shook her head. Then Roxanne gasped when she realized where they were.
"But this is impossible," Rox whispered to herself.
"What's impossible?" Ronni asked.
"We're in Konoha," Lynne and Rox explained.
"Holy shiznit!" Cordi exclaimed to herself seeing the resemblance in the setting of the cartoon and where they were currently.
"I agree," Fred added.
"I don't believe it," Ronni replied skeptically.
"Believe it," a man walking closer to the group said. He had spiky blond hair held in a black headband tied around his forehead with an iron plate and a swirly leaf engraved on it. His cerulean blue eyes were full of curiosity and a bit of arrogance. He wore an orange outfit that covered his muscular body.
The man looked at each girl, fully taking in their features. Cordi had stick straight long dirty blond hair with brown, almost black eyes. She wore a fitted forest green tank-top – accentuating her hourglass figure – flared blue jeans, and black flip-flops. Fred had chin length brown hair and sparkling green eyes. She wore a lime green t-shirt with a turtle print on it, a short blue jean skirt – showing off her skinny figure – and green flip-flops. Lynne, who also had a thin figure, wore a patterned thinly-fabricated tank, with shorts, and white flip-flops. She had flaming red hair down to her jaw that held the beach sort of wave and bright blue eyes, with small tinges of a golden brown ringing the pupils. Ronni was similar to Cordi, except her hair was a little bit darker and had the natural beach wave, and her eyes a little bit lighter. She also had an hour-glass figure, but she was thinner than Cordi. She wore a hot pink t-shirt, light, flared blue jeans, and black laced flats. Rox was similar to Fred in figure, but a little less thin and shorter. She had brown eyes with a slight tinge of red in them, and wavy brown, almost black, hair. She wore a purple fitted tank, ripped flared jeans, and black flip-flops. "Who the hell are you?"
"Is that really Naruto?" Lynne asked, eyes big and full of hope.
"How do you know my name?!" Naruto asked, obviously freaked.
"Oh, ha ha, it's long story," Fred laughed, covering for Lynne.
"Yeah, you probably wouldn't believe us if we told you," Cordi laughed nervously. Naruto looked like he wasn't buying it. "Anyway, I'm Cordelia, but please, call me Cordi. This is Winnifred, Fred for short. And this is my older sister, Roxanne, we sometimes call her Rox. And there's Lynne and that's Ronni, Fred's younger sister," Cordi quickly added, pointing everyone out. Each of them gave Naruto a winning smile, who only returned it with a quizzical look.
"You have such strange names, and weird machines," he stated, gesturing towards the car. He thought for a little bit and then said, "Please, come with me." And he led them towards the Hokage's house.
"I was wondering," Cordi started, "Is Lady Tsunade still in office?"
Naruto gave her a short glance, then turned and looked ahead. "Yes, she is."
"Awesome," Cordi smiled.
They had finally reached the Hokage's office after a trek that seemed to last forever. Naruto knocked on the door and they heard a female voice bark, "I thought I told everyone that I have a meeting today!"
"I know, Grandma Tsunade, but this is kinda urgent," Naruto explained.
There was silence for a little while and then they heard grumbling coming from beyond the door. "I swear, to Naruto, everything is a crisis!" the woman said. There was stifled laughter heard following, and it was deep and throaty.
Lady Tsunade wrenched open the door to find Naruto and a group of five girls standing behind him beaming at her. She furrowed her eyebrows and asked, "What's so important? You're interrupting my lunch meeting."
"May we come in?" Naruto asked, giving her a small charming smile.
Her eyes narrowed, but she let him in. She walked back to her desk and sat down, eyes closed as she turned to face them. Naruto and the girls quickly walked in so as not to waste anymore of her time. "This had better be VERY important," Tsunade warned.
"I believe it is. See these girls arrived here in a strange contraption. It's a box with wheels and …" Naruto started.
"That's called a carriage, Naruto. A lot of people have them," a deep, raspy male voice interrupted. The group of girls looked over and Cordi squealed after seeing a flash of red hair and light blue eyes surrounded by ebony lines.
"Oh my God! It's Gaara!" she squealed. She suddenly shoved her arm out to the other girls and ordered, "Someone, pinch me!" Everyone looked at her like she was crazy, except Ronni, who proceeded to pinch her – with her nails. "OW!!" she squealed. "What was that for?!" she asked wheeling on Ronni.
"Well, you said to pinch you," Ronni said shrugging.
"Yeah, but not that hard! Jeez! Now I'm gonna have a mark there for a week! You know how sensitive my skin is, damn it!" Cordi scolded. Everyone was still looking at her like she was crazy. "Oh, sorry. Please, continue." She said sweetly.
"Ok," Naruto said slowly. "But anyway! Their carriage wasn't pulled by anything. It was like, magic or something,"
Suddenly the girls were busting a gut laughing and everyone turned to them confused. "It's just a car, people," Lynne wheezed through her giggles. "It doesn't run on magic. It runs on gasoline."
The three ninjas quirked their eyebrows at the guffawing girls. "Yeah, carriages are so archaic," Fred supplied. "They haven't been used in how many years?"
"At least a hundred, I think," Ronni answered, serious as a train wreck. They finally calmed down and they each apologized for their interruption and let Naruto continue.
"Well, they also obviously know who we are, though I have never seen them before, have you?" Naruto asked. The other ninjas shook their heads.
Gaara took a menacing step forward, his blue robes rustling a little. "Well then, I guess you girls have some explaining to do," he stated, arms crossed making him adopt an intimidating demeanor. His stoic mask barely hid the emotion showing in his eyes, skepticism.
"Well, we told you that you wouldn't believe us," Fred reminded.
"Try me," he growled back. The other two looked at the group of girls, arms crossed and expectant.
"Ok, this is going to sound crazy, but where we are from, all of this is a TV show and a series of comics," Cordi explained quickly. The three ninjas looked confused. "Ha ha, told you," Cordi laughed.
"You're serious?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah," the girls said simultaneously.
"I have some of the episodes downloaded on my computer, but that's in my car," Lynne muttered.
"Well, I have a comic. I had it in my purse if I ever got bored during the trip," Rox supplied, pulling out a comic. "Here it is," she said handing Gaara the small book. Gaara started flipping through it quickly to make sure as she added, "I believe it should be the end of the chunnin exams."
Gaara nodded and asked, "But how is this possible?" They looked at the group of girls who just shrugged.
"We just took a wrong turn," Lynne replied. "That's all we can explain."
Naruto and Tsunade looked at Gaara disbelievingly. Gaara shrugged and stated, "It has Temari's and Shikamaru's fight down to the slightest detail." He handed the comic to Naruto who checked it out and nodded in agreement.
Naruto then proceeded to flip to the cover and laughed at the title. "It's named after me?" he wheezed.
"Well, yeah," Lynne replied. "You are the main character."
"So how much do you know about me?" Naruto asked, suddenly worried.
"Well, we know that you are a Jinchurriki, hosting the Nine-tailed Fox, who always seems to be annoyed with you. And when you ask him for chakra, he's like in a jail cell in a sewer or something like that with a seal on the door. You love ramen, especially Ichiraku's Ramen. You had the biggest crush on Sakura for the longest time, but that wasn't really much of a secret," Cordi listed. "What else? You were pretty big on pranks when you were younger and you invented sexy no jutsu." Gaara and Tsunade gave Naruto curious smirks and smiles. "Oh, and harem jutsu. Is that good enough?"
Naruto was blushing a little and muttered a "yeah". He looked at Cordi with a mischievous smirk and asked, "I'm your favorite character, aren't I?"
"No," Cordi replied. Then he looked crestfallen as she went on to say, "Actually Gaara's my fave." This made Gaara blush incredibly. "Sorry," she apologized. "But you're not my least favorite!" she smiled hopefully.
"What's this sexy no jutsu they were talking about?" Tsunade growled.
Naruto gave a nervous laugh as Ronni proceeded to say, "Oh, it's just a move that turns him into a girl. Why else do you think Jeraiyah took him under his wing?" Tsunade gave an astonished look to Naruto, who was blushing like crazy. Gaara snickered in the corner while the four other girls stared at Ronni.
"Ronni, do you know how wrong that sounded?" Fred asked.
Ronni thought for a second then blushed and said, "Sorry Naruto. That came out way more wrong than when I thought it."
"Ha ha, ri-ight," he laughed, shrugging it off to avoid the awkward glares coming from Tsunade.
She turned to the group of teenage girls and asked, "Do you know how to get back home?"
"Uhm," Fred started looking at the other girls, who were all shaking their heads. "No, I don't think we have the faintest idea how to get back. See our GPS stopped working once we reached this realm, so without it, especially here, we're kinda lost."
The ninjas looked confused. "What's a GPS?" Naruto asked.
"Global Positioning Satellite. You put in a destination and it tells you how to get there the fastest way possible and gives you directions and all that," Cordi explained. Gaara looked intrigued, Tsunade curious, and Naruto completely confused.
"Why don't you just use a map?" Naruto asked.
"Because using a GPS is easier. It's got a voice, so when I say it tells you the fastest way possible, it will actually tell you when to turn, when to turn around – which is sometimes annoying, -- and when you reached it if you've never been there before," Cordi explained. "And then there is always a possibility of having the map held the wrong way or something. And compasses can be confusing for some people. I've never used one, because I've always been able to tell which way was which without a little doodad telling me."
Then they noticed Lynne pull something out of her purse and hold it up victoriously. "This is a GPS. I put it in my purse after we found out it wasn't working here. Lemme see," she said as she tried to turn it on. A victorious grin spread on her face as the screen came on.
"Calculating," a robotic British woman said. It took Naruto a little time to realize it was coming from the small box Lynne held in her hand. "Calculating," it repeated. Lynne turned it off and finished with, "Since you don't have the satellite orbiting here, it won't work like it should. It won't be able to position us in order for it to tell us where to go."
"Here is the information that's bothering me," Gaara offered, stepping forward, "If you had this device, how did you get lost?"
"Well," Fred started, "When we got lost, it was around 2 to 3 o'clock in the morning. So we were obviously tired and took an exit off the highway to find a motel or something. That was when the GPS apparently went caput and we found ourselves here. But we didn't notice it for about another hour to an hour and a half. So we slept in the car and woke up in a land that was not familiar to us at all. So we asked a man for directions to the closest town and a way back to the highway. He told us he had no idea what a highway was and Konoha just happened to be the closest town."
"So yeah, we're very much lost," Roxanne stated to Tsunade, who was obviously debating something mentally.
"What are we going to do with them?" Naruto asked.
Tsunade frowned and stated, "Well, here's the issue with housing. Currently we only have enough room in our apartment district for four, considering that none of you have money in our currency. Am I correct?" The girls gave a solemn nod. "But the fifth girl, I have no idea what to do with."
It was really silent for a little while, the kind that was really awkward, shifting and all. Cordi then set a stubborn glare and turned to Gaara. "I don't mean to impose, but there might be something you could do, Gaara. What, being Kazekage and all," she stated.
Gaara pursed his lips at the indignant girl. Naruto was about to say something when Gaara suddenly said, "Actually, my siblings and I have been looking for a new person to help around the house. We'd provide free room and board." He smiled, thinking none of them would go for something like that.
Roxanne looked to her best friends and said, "Huddle." And they got together quickly and discussed their options.
After about five minutes, Cordi stepped forward and said, "Fine." Everyone was flabbergasted.
"Cordi, that wasn't what we agreed on!" Fred shrieked.
"Desperate times call for desperate measures," Cordi replied.
"So you're going to break up the group when we had a plan?" Roxanne asked.
"The plans were not going to work and deep down you all knew it," Cordi explained.
They were silent for a little while until Ronni asked, "So you're just going to leave us?"
"Everyone has to make some sort of sacrifice sometime," Cordi said solemnly.
"But you've already made them," Ronni said quietly.
Cordi frowned and said, "I've made up my mind. I'll send letters and come by to visit. It's not the end of the world." Ronni walked up and gave her a teary hug.
"We'll miss you, a lot!" Ronni said, the others sniffling in agreement.
"I'll miss you too." Cordi said. She then walked up to Gaara and asked, "So when do we leave?"
Gaara had the most confused face that he was obviously trying to hide. "We have a month. The finals of the Chuunin exams begin the fifth of July," Gaara said steadily.
Then all the girls straightened. "So, we have time?" Lynne asked hopefully. Gaara gave them a nod with a look that was kinda surprised they didn't see the obvious.
"But, she'll be staying with my brother, sister, and I in our hotel. Is that all right?" Gaara asked.
"Yeah!" the girls said simultaneously.
"Good," Tsunade said, smiling. "Now that that's settled, why don't you join us for lunch?"
"Sure," the girls cheered simultaneously again.
"Come with me," Tsunade directed the group, walking out of her office and down towards the dining hall. Everyone sat down, Tsunade at the head, Gaara to her right, and Naruto next to him. On her left sat Cordi, then Ronni, then Lynne. Then at the other head was Rox, and in between her and Naruto was Fred. The group was served plates of Lo Mein, Fried Rice, White Rice, Spring Rolls, General Tso's Chicken, and Sweet and Sour Pork. Everyone was given chopsticks, which everyone except Ronni and Fred happily split.
Ronni and her sister Fred stared dumbly at the weird pieces of wood next to their plates. "Is there something wrong?" Tsunade asked, while dishing herself a spring roll and some chicken.
"No, everything looks great, it's just," Fred started. "Uh, how do I put it?"
"We don't know how to use chopsticks," Ronni stated. Tsunade raised an eyebrow at the comment. Gaara looked perplexed at simply the idea of what she said.
"That's a joke right?" Naruto laughed. Ronni and Fred shook their heads.
"You guys never practiced at Chinese restaurants?" Rox asked, quirking an eyebrow at her friends.
They shook their heads. "We liked using our forks and knives, so we wouldn't make a mess trying to learn how," Fred answered.
"Well, you might as well learn now!" Lynne smiled. "I mean, that's basically all your going to be eating with from now on. So, Bon Appétit!" Lynne, still smiling, lifted her chopsticks, which skillfully held a huge clump of fried rice, to her mouth, while Ronni and Fred glared with envy at the talent Lynne had been blessed with.
Ronni and Fred grimaced as they picked up the little sticks and split them. "So, how old are all of you?" Tsunade asked, changing the subject as Ronni and Fred tried to pick up food, but failed miserably.
"Well, I'm seventeen, but I'll turn eighteen in October," Cordi started, picking up some lo mein.
"I'm eighteen, soon to be nineteen in September," Rox smiled, holding her cup.
"And I just turned eighteen," Ronni stated, trying again for a bite, but again failing.
"I just turned nineteen," Lynne laughed.
"As did I, but that was several months ago," Fred smiled, until her rice fell through the sticks again. Naruto snickered, which received a swift glare from Fred.
The rest of the lunch's entertainment was provided by the chopstick-challenged sisters. Ronni tried as hard as she could to hold the sticks in her hands, but every time they twisted and fell onto her plate of Lo Mein. Fred was similar. She would manage to get one grain of white rice in between her two sticks, but then they would twist so the grain would fall. Or if it was chicken, it tended to fall, but causing a big splash from the sauce that covered it. Needless to say, they didn't eat much that meal.
AN: Well, there is chapter one! I hope you liked it! Please review! I love feedback! But don't flame me. I don't take too kindly to flames.