Chapter Eleven: Back In Time
"Sixteen,.. seventeen,.. eighteen,.. nineteen,.. twenty!" Kizashi exclaimed before quickly uncovering his hands from his eyes and then opening them. "Ready or not here I come!" he cried before he turned around and started walking through the woods. "Konohamaru,.. Keiko,.. Sachi,.. where are you?" he questioned before he began looking around for them.
All of a sudden he pulled back the leaves in one of the bushes and found Konohamaru. "Damn it Kizashi! How did you find me so fast!?" he cried as Kizashi laughed.
"Because we've known each other since we were still in diapers and I know where your favorite hiding places are." He told him.
"That's not fair!" he snapped while folding his arms with a scowl. "That means unless you find both of them, one way or another I'm going to be beaten by a girl!" he cried.
"Yeah, well, you'll get over it." Kizashi began with a grin. "Especially if you're beaten by Keiko." He pointed out as Konohamaru blushed.
"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about." He lied.
"You're such a terrible liar you know that? Tell you what? I'll go look for Sachi and you go look for Keiko." Kizashi told him.
"Well,.. alright." Konohamaru began. "But only because you suggested it first, not because I have a crush on her or anything." He lied while his cheeks started growing even redder and Kizashi laughed.
"Whatever you say boss." He said while saluting him and laughing again.
"Hey! You're just mocking me because that's what I used to call Naruto when I was a little kid!" Konohamaru snapped while pointing an angry finger at him.
"Exactly, now come on. Let's go find the girls otherwise their parents are going to be very upset with us." Kizashi said as Konohamaru nodded both boys being totally unaware that Sachi didn't have any.
Meanwhile Keiko had found a very good hiding place. She had been sitting up on top of an old Japanese oak tree branch and Sachi had been squatting down behind the trunk. "Hey Keiko, have you spotted the boys yet by any chance?" she whispered to her but Keiko just simply shook her head.
"No, not yet." She replied when all of a sudden she heard a crack and before she realized that the branch from underneath her was breaking, it was already too late. The branch snapped in half and Keiko fell out of the tree and landed down on top of her bottom hard.
"Keiko!" Sachi cried while she quickly stood up and sped towards her friend. "Are you alright, do you need me to call somebody like your mother, or Uncle Sasuke or Aunt Sakura?" she questioned her but Keiko didn't respond since she had fallen unconscious.
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As Keiko slowly began to wake up, she felt a presence standing over her. "Hey,.. hey are you alright sis?" a familiar voice asked her. As she opened her eyes she saw Naruto but he looked much younger than he usually was. In fact, he looked like hers and Sachi's age. Before she knew it Naruto was slowly helping her back up onto her feet.
"Ouch!" she cried while placing a hand to her forehead. "Where am I?" she wondered.
"Don't worry sis, you're safe in the hidden leaf village." He told her and before she could ask him who he was he opened his mouth again and waved his hand over to two of his friends. One was a boy with long dark hair and the other one had long pink hair like Keiko's.
"I have a funny feeling about this." She began and sure enough her suspicions had been correct.
"Hey Sasuke! Sakura! Come over here!" he cried before both of them turned around and started walking over to them.
"Umm,.. excuse me,. what did you say that your name was again?" Keiko questioned Naruto even though she was already pretty sure that she knew the answer.
Naruto grinned proudly and giggled mischievously before he extended his fist in the air towards her. "Naruto Uzumaki,.. the next hokage,.. believe it!" he exclaimed excitedly while Sakura just simply rolled her eyes at him.
"Oh brother, here we go again." She said.
"I see,.. and what year is this?" Keiko inquired.
"Umm,.. 2002." Sakura replied questioningly wondering why she even had to ask her that.
"I knew it!" Keiko exclaimed! "If it's 2002 I haven't even been born yet!" she cried while placing her hands to her cheeks. "I went back in time!" she hollered with a gasp of astonishment and pure and utter disbelief and bewilderment.
I realize that this chapter is pretty short (shorter than I thought) but I thought that this would be a perfect place to end it.