Rachel put her hand over one of her ears due to the loud noise, and said angrily, "Yes, basic training." Uncovering her ear again, she added sarcastically, "Could you try not to pop my other eardrum? I'd rather not be deaf the rest of my life."

"Can you really clone yourself here?" Mitchell asked, giving her a confused look.

She sighed again, "Yes, but for now, let's concentrate on more important matters."

"Like…?" Nicoe asked quietly.

"Like getting some sleep." Rachel said sternly, then adding with a short yawn, "It's a good thing I don't have to go to the academy tomorrow, or you'd have to stay here alone the whole day."

"So what's so special about tomorrow?" Brian asked.

She sighed again, "I'm going to teach you the basics of what I know from being a Naruto nerd."

Mitchell looked at her confusingly, "Which would be..?"

"The basics!" Rachel yelled in frustration, "Jeez, you guys like to ask questions, don't you?"

"We're stuck in a world we know nothing about, sorry we can't be so all-knowing about it like you are!" Nicoe said angrily.

"I'm not all-knowing." Rachel said calmly and thought sarcastically, I'm most-knowing. "This is confusing for me, too. It would just help if you could be a bit more calm, and save your questions for when it isn't so late."

She pointed outside the window, showing a dark blue sky with stars shining in the darkness.

Brian stood up and grabbed one of the fuutons from over by the closet, making Rachel fall off the pile.

He set it up on the ground, at the right of the bed on the floor. Finally noticing something, Brian looked at Devon and said half-sarcastically, "You're quiet. Are you alive still?"

Devon looked at him with an annoyed glare and said just as sarcastically, "Yes. All this talk bore me to death."

Rachel giggled and helped the others set up their fuutons and blankets. She threw one at Brian and hit him square in the head, and giggled again.

Then, she quoted what he'd always said when something happened, "Owned." Simple, but effective.

He grabbed a pillow and knocked her off balance, making her fall on Mitchell, who was setting up his area.

"O-W-N-E-D." he said mockingly.

Both Mitchell and Rachel blushed as she scrambled to her feet. She got up and finally noticed the person who was sitting on her bed.

"Dev," which, apparently was what she was going to call him, "get off my bed."

He laid on the bed and said somewhat childishly, "Make me."

Rachel gave him a stare and started making hand signs, "Clone no jutsu!"

Two clones appeared, and all on one side of the bed. The three of them pushed on Devon's side and he fell off the bed with a loud 'THUMP' noise.

"Ow…" he said, sitting up and rubbing the new addition to his head.

Two smoke clouds appeared as Rachel sat on the bed triumphantly, with a sly grin to match.

"You asked for it, Dev." she said, still grinning.

He was still rubbing his head as he said quietly, "didn't have to do it so roughly, though…"

"Meh." She got up and helped them all with the fuutons, as well as with the blankets again.

Devon was the first to fall asleep, then Mitchell, and it went on from there. Rachel took somewhat longer to fall asleep. Sure, she was tired, but she also was thinking of a way to help them all with chakra control. Since Rachel was a major Naruto fan, she already had a general idea of how to do everything even before the incident.

She had even tried to form chakra in the real world, and if performing jutsu were possible, it might've worked.

After some time of thinking, Rachel finally fell asleep, and dreamt of the possibilities.

- - - -

"Rachel, it is time to get up," Itachi said, knocking on the door.

"Five more minutes, mom!" Rachel yelled out of habit.

After a week or so of being called 'mom', he just didn't care anymore. Not that he cared before, but he didn't question it now.

Apparently, the knock woke Brian up and he stood to shake Rachel a bit, as well as the others.

When Brian heard footsteps going downstairs, he started yelling for them to get up.

Rachel covered her head with the pillow and said somewhat loudly, "Go away! Let me sleep!!"

"No." was all he said, and he pushed her off like she did the night before.

THUMP

"What was that for?!?!" she yelled, obviously annoyed by being woken up so suddenly.

"You didn't get up." he said in a stern voice, "now help me wake these guys up."

They got everyone up after a while, and Rachel took them out, trying to sneak past Itachi and Fugaku and whoever else was in the house at the time.

Unfortunately for them, she forgot this was the Uchiha household.

"Where are you going, Akane-san?" Fugaku asked dryly.

"Uh…out?" she said, trying-- but failing-- not to sound nervous.

"Who are your friends?" he asked again, this time standing up.

"They came by yesterday…" she said lamely, "the Hokage said--"

He interrupted her and said as he walked towards them, "Yes, he told me about the situation. Why are you acting so sneaky about it?" He raised an eyebrow at them.

Rachel gulped, "I wasn't um… sure if you knew quite yet."

"Hn." And with that, he passed them and went into the kitchen for breakfast.

Whew! That was a close one. She thought nervously, he's almost too scary to be human…

"Uh… let's go." she said, still somewhat nervous.

- - - -

They arrived at the training grounds as Rachel made them form a short line, then faced them as a teacher might in front of her students.

"Now.. I'm going to have to teach you how to form chakra," she started, almost mimicking a teacher, "some of you may not have very good control, some of you may have excellent control. We'll figure that out today."

She stood up straight and moved her hands forward and said, "Do what I do and try to concentrate."

Rachel formed the first seal, Tiger, placing her index and middle fingers together, and the other fingers became entwined with each other.

The others followed, and began the exercise.

Around Brian, there was a blue aura forming.

Around Devon, a less bright aura, but an aura nonetheless.

Around Nicoe, a light blue aura, slightly below Devon's.

And lastly, around Mitchell was an aura much similar to Brian's.

"Very good. It seems Mitchell and Brian are above what I expected, very well done, guys." she said, clapping a bit.

She continued, not as optimistic, "Dev, Nicoe, you guys did well, too. Try to concentrate a bit more, though. You all did very well for your first training session."

"Now what?" Devon said excitedly.

"Now, you guys keep doing that until you have control over your chakra." she said, trying to sound encouraging, "When you are all good at controlling chakra, I'll teach you some things I've learned so far in the academy. From there, it's just practicing for perfection."

"Boring!" Devon shouted, "When can we learn the awesome stuff?!"

"You, nor me, are not completely ready for that level of skill yet. You gotta have patience, or you'll fall flat."

He pouted, and the rest of them sighed. After a few minutes of silence, they all got started on the exercises again.

Rachel stood up (she sat down after a certain point) and stretched a little.

"I'm going to get some lunch for you guys. The Hokage gave me some money before we left the other day," she said, still kind of stretching.

They nodded and she walked towards the village, hoping they wouldn't do anything to get into trouble.

- - - -

"Rachel-chan!" a loud voice called from behind her. She turned to see a blonde running towards her.

"Hello, Naruto-kun." she said politely.

He scratched the back of his head and said, almost as loudly as before, "Hey! You wanna get some ramen with me?!"

Rachel shook her head, "I have to get some food and go back to training. Maybe next time."

She started walking away and he followed her, then said, "Training? How boring! You almost sound like Sasuke-teme."

Rachel twitched. "Some friends showed up unexpectedly and I have to help them practice before they go to the academy," she said calmly, trying to ignore the Sasuke comment.

I am not like Sasuke. she thought angrily.

"Friends?!?!" he yelled, "Cool! Where are they?!" He looked left and right.

I thought he wouldn't be as annoying as he was in the show.. Oh well, I guess.

She sighed and smiled at him, "Yea. They're in the forest practicing chakra control, or they were when I left them. I have to hurry and get back, they're probably pretty hungry by now."

He whined, "Aw, alright. I'll see you later, then!"

Rachel waved and walked off, and so did Naruto. He, went to find Sasuke; and she went to find food.

Preferably something from Ichiraku ramen.

She dropped by Ichiraku and got some ramen- to- go. Which was just ramen in a box, along with some chop sticks to eat with.

I hope they know how to use chop sticks. she thought with a grin.

- - - -

Arriving at the forest again, she put the ramen on a stump and watched the progress. Brian and Mitchell looked like they had already mastered chakra control, and the other two were almost there.

Rachel picked up the food and walked towards them, then found another stump to put the food on.

"You can stop now," she said happily. "Great job, guys! Here are your rewards." Rachel pointed to the ramen, and they all walked over to the containers, each grabbing one.

They stared at the now open boxes confusedly.

Mitchell looked up and asked, "How are we supposed to eat these?"

Rachel put on another grin, picked up her box of ramen and a pair of chopsticks. She started eating it and said simply, "Any other questions?"

She passed out the four pairs of chop sticks that were left and they all tried to eat. Three out of four got used to it, and as for the fourth…

The fourth was Devon, and he was just slurping down the noodles.

Rachel got done quickly and kept laughing at their attempts to eat with the tools given them. Especially Devon.

Clumsy weirdo, she thought jokingly.

After they finished, Rachel decided to take them back to the Uchiha manor to talk about things.

- - - -

They got to the Uchiha manor and went up to the room Rachel stayed in. It was silent for a few minutes, then Rachel broke the silence.

"Now…we have to come up with some last names." she said seriously, "You can't use your real names here, it's going to be a safety precaution."

They nodded, and started to think.

After ten to fifteen minutes of silence, they all shrugged.

Rachel sighed, "Maybe we'll have something later. Or we could say you don't have last names…"

"That might be best." Nicoe said slowly.

They all nodded in agreement.

"We will have to come up with something eventually, so keep that in the back of your minds," she said thoughtfully and continued the same, "It's been a long day, let's get some dinner and we'll discuss a few more things."

A few stomachs growled and they nodded eagerly.

"Can we have some more ramen? That stuff was good!" Devon said in excitement.

She laughed and nodded and they all headed off to Ichiraku.

- - - -

They arrived at the ramen stand and saw a certain blonde haired ninja sitting there, eating ramen excitedly.

Naruto was sitting at the third chair to the left, and there were six chairs- barely enough to fit everyone. Rachel sat to the left of him, with Brian sitting to her left. On his right were, in the following order: Devon, Nicoe, and Mitchell.

"Hello, Naruto-kun," Rachel said with a smile.

"Hey, Rachel-chan!" he said excitedly, "Ne, ne, these must be your friends, huh?!"

She laughed and nodded, "This is Brian," she pointed to her left where he sat. Brian nodded a hello, and she continued while pointing to Naruto's right side, "The other three are Devon, Nicoe-senpai, and Mitchell."

"Nice to meet you," Nicoe said sweetly. The other two nodded.

She turned to face the owner of the shop and said kindly, "Five ramen, please." He nodded and began fixing her order.

Naruto took a slurp of his ramen, swallowed it, and said in the usual hyper tone, "Ne, you guys are going to the academy, right?"

They all nodded and Rachel said happily, "They'll be joining our class tomorrow."

"Can't wait!!" Naruto said, finishing his ramen. He wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said, "I'll see you guys tomorrow then. See ya!"

They waved and Naruto ran off to his apartment.

- - - -

Author's Note :

Ehehehe, how was that? Almost a full 11 pages this time. Woo? Still kinda short, had to cut it off. But I couldn't think of anything and I'm gonna be gone for a few days. Wanted to finish at least one thing. Lol

I'll try to work on the next chapter soon. However, I do have other stories that need my attention for the moment. It may take a month-- heck, it could take a week or something, but I feel like I needed to tell you it may take a while.

It wouldn't been up sooner, but I got lazy and wanted to add more. Added a few sentences and proclaimed it finished! XD I'm so lazy…

Please read, review, and have a nice day. Ja ne!