Chapter 4

"Sing to me mermaid,

Sing to me ride,

Sing to the clouds,

As they roll 'cross the sky

Call to the sea,

Call to the sea,

Call to me lover,

Come all to me…"

MoE and Alexis were listening just outside the door as some mysterious person sung this beautiful song.

I like the song at any rate, what do you think?

"I wonder who could be singing that?" asked MoE.

"Kochan's mother?" suggested Alexis, she been the first up of them, with no ill effects.

"What's her name anyway?" inquired Amanda form behind them, scaring the pajeezus out of them

"Good morning MoE, how are you today?…I'm fine thank you. And you?" asked MoE saucily.

"I'm good thanks," responded Amanda with a smile.

"I smell eggs!" shouted Alexis,

Sniff sniff. Sniff sniff. "Me too!"

Grumble the girls looked at Amanda's stomach, than their own. They hadn't eaten since yesterday.

A door opened down the hall and the head of Mika poked out, "Oh good, you're up. Do you want some breakfast?"

"Yes please!" the girls chorused in unison.

Mmmm…eggs.

"You know, you have the chakura of a healer," said the shrewd woman who was Kochan's mother. Her name, she had earlier, was Dona. Mrs. Dona.

"I do?" asked Alexis in shock. "I've never been the healer type," her face wrinkled in mild annoyance.

MoE and Amanda had gone off to get MoE and Alexis new pants. Luckily no blood had gotten on Amanda's shirt, so her wardrobe was okay for now. Given the fact that he was the one who had destroyed them, Kochan had volunteered to replace them. The girl's had a suspicion that this was at his mother's prompting. Alexis, not liking shopping anyway, had stayed behind at Mrs. Dona's request.

"You said you're foreign exchange students?" questioned Mrs. Dona, "Could you transfer here? You need to be trained. We could host you. If you can't I'll need to get in touch with a healer where you're going."

"I don't think there are healers were we're going…" said Alexis weakly.

"Than you're staying here, and that's all there is to it."

"But MoE and Amanda…"

"They'll get in trouble if they show up without you? I'm sure we can find someone to host them."

"But we're not ninja," protested Alexis weakly. This actually sounded too good to be true, and she really didn't know why she was protesting.

"I've seen the way you eye Kochan's shirinkin, you've got ninja-lust already. As for your friends, would they be that adverse to learning?"

Alexis thought for a moment, "…No…"

"Good, than it's settled. Where can we find your things? I'll need your passport to start the paperwork, and you probably want to change that shirt," a polite way of staying she smelt.

Alexis froze, "Ummm…they were stolen. Our map too! That's why we got lost!"

MoE and Amanda walked through the back door that led to the patio were they were talking. "Hey Alexis! Look at these!" shouted MoE, quickly closing the distance between them. She was holding up a pair of dark brown cargo pants. "Now watch," she said as she turning them inside out, "Look! Now they're normal red pants! And you can't even see the pockets when you put them on!"

"It doesn't match your shirt…" started Amanda, "but…"

"There's sure to be something in her wardrobe that will match them," commented Kochan. He looked less than pleased with his escapade clothes shopping. It was hard to tell weather this was because he simply didn't like to shop, if he didn't like spending money, or both.

"Wardrobe?" squawked MoE. She broke into giggles, apparently she found this to be really funny, "Wardrobe? Lion, Which!" she giggled some more.

Amanda and Alexis were too busy impersonating of a dear in the headlights to notice MoE's bad joke.

I have this other friend, named Jenny, who may or may not be appearing later in this fanfiction, who, at one point, was utterly convinced that my backyard was Narnia. It was freakin' hilarious.

After eyeing MoE for a minute she said, "Tsk tsk tsk Kochan, Alexis was just telling me that all of their things were stolen."

Kochan and Mrs. Dona looked at the girls questioningly.

"Yeah…" said Amanda after a moment.

"By…" gasp giggle, "bandits," added MoE, still having trouble keeping control of herself.

"We were on a ship…" Alexis added. She wasn't the best lair.

"Bandits on a ship?" snorted Kochan.

"I meant to say pirates," said MoE, in control of herself at last. Amanda was giving Alexis the hairy-eye-ball.

"Was it the fearsome Captain Tano?" mocked Kochan.

Alexis opened her mouth to say yes, just as MoE did to say no, Amanda solved the problem by putting one hand over each of their mouths and saying "We never heard his name."

"If you ever remember, be sure to tell me."

"We will," promised Amanda, her hands still over her friends' mouths.

Amanda-dear always was the wisest of us. If left to our own devices, Alexis and I would have totally blown our story.

Amanda removed her hands, turned to MoE and Alexis and asked, "When are we leaving?"

"About that…" started Alexis.

"I was wondering if you might want to stay here for your…exchange program."

"Can we…do that? I mean, is it…legal?" asked MoE.

"They're starting an exchange program in two weeks anyway," answered Mrs. Dona, "it caused quite a stir when it was first proposed."

"Can we talk about this?" asked Amanda.

"Alone," added MoE.

"Sure," said Kochan rolling his eyes as he and his mother went back inside. As the girls turned to each other, they could hear fierce whispering on the other side of the door.

"It sounds good to me," said Alexis, "Mrs. Dona said I can heal. Apparently I need to learn," Alexis looked very enthusiastic about the prospect.

"That's all very well and good, but the Hokage knows we're not foreign exchange students," Amanda pointed out.

"Why don't we write him a letter?" asked MoE, "The worst that can happen is him writing back with a 'no'."

Alexis and Amanda looked thoughtful, "That could work…" Amanda said at last. Alexis looked hopeful; she obviously liked the idea of living in a ninja village.

"Well than let's ask Mrs. Dona for some paper," said Alexis impatiently, turning to go inside.

MoE looked thoughtful for a moment, "You know, if we're going to do this…we're going to need jobs."

"We got a letter back!" called Amanda, "It says that this seems like a good idea to him, we're going to get tutors to help us until we're caught up, and that host families won't be a problem, as Mrs. Dona has offered to host Alexis, and there were extra host families anyway. We are golden!" The girls squealed and went off to tell Mrs. Dona. They dropped the letter on the floor.

Where Kochan picked it up. What is the Hokage doing writing to them? He asked himself. He turned the letter over and began to read. His mother could think what she would; he knew that there was more to these girls than appeared.

"I get to be a ninja!!!!" shouted Alexis as she ran down the hall.

sigh I love my friends. Sometimes they're amazing. So tell me, what did you think? If one person doesn't read this I will probably scream. So if you are reading this, could you review so I know you didn't click on this by accident?