Chapter two has arrived! That actually took me a bit longer than I thought to get out since these chapters are so short, but whatever, its out, so please enjoy!
Katie watched the cars rush by her, her eyes dull. It had been ten years since she saw him. She had tried countless times to get back, but had yet to figure out how. Not even her uncle new how to help. With a sigh, she went over the words the Hokage spoke to her after he knocked out Naruto.
Flashback
After the Hokage was sure Naruto was unconscious, he took a deep breath and said, "I am going to tell you something important, but you must swear to keep quiet about it." Katie nodded in agreement and looked up at the old man with wide, expectant eyes.
"Six years ago, on the day Naruto was born, a demon attacked this village. The Nine-tailed-fox was impossible to kill, and the fourth Hokage made the decision to seal the demon in a child. That child was Naruto. The jutsu that sealed the Kyuubi in him, cost the fourth his life and his last wish was that Naruto would be treated like a hero. But the people in this village who went through the crisis will only think of Naruto as a monster, the container of the demon that killed many in this village."
Katie was quiet for a moment, stunned. It was bad enough that Naruto had been forced to be the container on a demon, but to have the whole village despise him for being a hero? It was almost too awful to believe. Then it struck her, demon? This place was just getting stranger and stranger. Demons didn't really exist did they?
With a shaky breath, Katie spoke, "Jiji, I don't think I belong here... To start out, where I am from, there is no such as demons, or shinobi villages. I....There was an accident...I got angry, so angry, and scared. Yeah, angry and scared." The girl was murmuring more to herself now than the Hokage in front of her. "There was another fight and Mari had been hurt again. I swore I wouldn't let anything happen to her, but I failed. I couldn't think straight, I couldn't even see straight. I was just so furious at those wretched men that I lost control and..." Her breath hitched and her eyes squinted closed.
"And?" The old man prompted gently.
"And I killed them. Every last one of them. After that, I don't remember what happened, I fell into darkness. Then I woke up in a forest. I came to a huge wall, guarded by many men. I was still unsure about everything so I avoided the men. I slipped past them and wandered the streets here, until I found Naruto." She finished her story without another break.
Flashback end
After that, the Hokage had spent a good part of the afternoon discussing how she might get back home. In the end, they decided Katie should stay the night and they would continue talking the next day.
But during her walk with Naruto, Katie decided that she would leave Konoha and try her best to get home.
She had wandered through the forest, running the memories of how she got there through her head, over and over, but nothing seemed to click. Nothing triggered an idea of how to get back home. Eventually, she collapsed from exhaustion and when she woke up, she was back home, in her room, making her wonder if it was all a dream.
With a shake of her head, Katie turned the corner and jogged up stone path to the large house her uncle owned. It overlooked one of the last lakes in the U.S.A that was still unpolluted, mostly thanks to the fact that he own the entire lake and surrounding land.
"Yo, uncle, I'm home!" Katie called out loudly, knowing that even after her morning run, with the sun just beginning to rise, her uncle would be wide awake.
A middle aged man slightly greying (or as he liked to put it, 'silvering') chocolate hair and gentle looking blue eyes, all very similar to Katie, poked his head out from around the open door frame that led into the kitchen. "Ah! Katie my girl, good timing, I almost have breakfast ready. Would you be so kind as to set the table?"
"Sure sure uncle." Katie agreed, kicking off her running shoes and flexing her toes before skipping into the kitchen, giving her uncle a kiss on the cheek on the way, and pulling a couple of plain white plates and two glasses out of the cupboard. She set them down on the wooden table in the dining room, large windows looking towards the sun rising over the mountains to the east, it was quite a calming and beautiful sight.
Her uncle came out of the kitchen, pushing a cart laden with food. "Uncle! There are only two of us, how do you expect us to be able to finish all that? Wasn't it you who taught me not to be wasteful?" Katie chided in exasperation.
The man's eyes twinkled, "Right you are my dear, but I have a feeling we will not be eating alone today, something tells me Anna will turn up, and you know those two boys that follow her around could eat a mountain's worth of food."
As if on cue, the doorbell rang. Katie shook her head and eyed her uncle, "That talent of yours will never cease to amaze me."
"Oi!" a feminine voice shouted from outside, "Oi Katie! You gonna let us in or what? I have two hungry boys behind me that can smell your uncle's cooking from a mile away, now let us in before they eat me!"
Katie opened the door and was nearly trampled as the young men accompanying her best friend, charged inside and ran at a dead sprint, towards the dining room.
"Those two..." a voice muttered darkly. Anna stepped through the doorway, closing it behind her and smiling at Katie. "Bit late to ask now, but mind if we snag some of old Alastor's fantastic cooking?"
Katie laughed and wrapped her arms around her friends shoulders, leading her into the dining room where her companions already had there faces buried in their plates of food. "Answer's always gonna be yes, darling. Always gonna be yes..."
Alastor watched with mild fascination as the teenaged boys quickly devoured the food on their plates and leaned back contentedly.
"Hey James, Zac, so kind of you to drop by." Katie called out to the boys, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Hehe..." the two laughed nervously together, backing up slightly, sensing the girl's irritation. In less than a split second, both boys were suspended in to air by the collars, which were clutched each of Katie's delicate looking hands. With a flick of her wrists, the young men were tossed against the wall, where they slid to the floor groaning.
"Tch. Idiots. Its rude to barge into someone's house without even saying hello."
Anna broke out laughing as James and Zac picked themselves up off the floor muttering incoherent nonsense about Katie's abnormal strength.
"You know Katie, you can be kinda scary sometimes...." the taller, black haired youth said, shooting her a half hearted glare.
"Yeah, well James, I do it for your own good." Katie shot back with a happy grin
"You do...?" Zac questioned incredulously, his shaggy brown hair falling in front his eyes, forcing him to flick it away again.
"Yes she does!" Anna slapped both boys on the back of the head with a frown, "And it would defeat the point if we told you how so don't even bother asking."
"So, what brings you three here anyway?" Alastor questioned, taking a seat at the table.
Anna straightened up, brushing her hands on her dark, stylish, skinny jeans. "We have another job."
Everyone was seating around the table now, all relaxed humor had evaporated from the air, leaving only a business like calm. Katie looked at the floor. "Ah..."
James and Zac shared a sad look, they knew Katie hated what she did, but she was damned good at it and she knew it too, so she didn't quit. She couldn't either not with...
Katie took a deep breath, "So, who do I have to kill this time?"
Looks like someone made a wrong turn during their life! I know I didn't really go into detail about her house, but I wanted the readers (even though that currently consists of like two people) to just imagine their dream home, cuz thats what it was for me. I may write more about it in future chapters. Please review! I really need to know what you think!
