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Chapter 2 Where…
Akiya opened her eyes gingerly, testing the lightness and dark, she realized she landed in a forest; the sun shone through the thick foliages, and the light was hurting her eyes. The air was hot and dry. Akiya figured this was currently summer in the unknown place she landed on.
Looking around, her bike was a few feet away from her, lying on the soil, looking dead. Her bag was still on her back except the left strap was torn. Her white blouse was dirty with brown earth and dust, she also had many scratches on her limps and a rip on the side of her skirt.
'…I must have fallen through from the sky, and something caught the skirt…' she narrowed her eyes, "WAH!!! It costed me 7000 yen!" she wailed. "But…where am I?' She stood up slowly, "Sniff…Oh well, at least I'm not dead." and picked up her bike, it still worked.
"…But, if I don't hurry up and find some water, in this heat, I will be dead."
After what seemed like hours and hours of arduous walking while pushing the heavy bike at the same time, Akiya was completely drained, however, lucky for her, she was out of the forest. She was tired, thirsty, hungry and most of all, unhuman looking. Her hair was a mess because twigs kept on getting caught in the loose plaits. And also, she managed to activate many explosives. Yes, EXPLOSIVES, she stepped on this small piece of innocent-looking paper with foreign runes on it and guess what, it exploded.
Fortunately, she didn't get bombed but her bag did; now there was a big hole under her bag. 'This bag cost me some big bucks too…' She sulked.
"Oh…my…god…" Akiya nearly squealed at the sight. "IT"S AVILLAGE!!!"
A village meant for her, rest, food, water and also, HUMAN! 'Erh…hopefully they are.' finding out what the hell just happened to her. Without hesitation, she jumped onto her bike and raced into the town's huge gates at top speed.
'I need food…' her head looked around like radar.
"Wohoo! There's a ramen stand!"
"Good morning!" Akiya parked her bike outside and raised the stand's drapes.
"Welcome!" a middle aged, jolly-looking man greeted her with a kind smile. "Is it my memory or have I not seen you before?"
"I wouldn't doubt your memory, ossan." Akiya grinned. 'Yosh! Human it is!'
"So you must be new to Konoha then."
Konoha…
"That's right, I'm new here. Is this village called Konoha? Ah…I haven't ever heard of here, where is it in Japan?" Akiya asked, surprised that the ossan had the same expression on his face.
"Japan?" he was puzzled. "I haven't heard of Japan… This village is the Hidden Village of the Leaf, a ninja village in the Fire country."
Wow…like…ninjas…
"Oh… Fire Country…" she smiled politely.
How stupid can this dream get…?
"I think you better report to the Hokage, he is the leader of the country." The ossan suggested kindly.
Just in time, Akiya's stomach grumbled loud enough for the whole Konoha stand to hear. "Sure. But first…I would like some ramen." Akiya smiled with a small blush, "I'm going to die if I don't eat."
After gulping down a whole hot bowl of miso ramen, she felt satisfied, since she didn't have money, Akiya insisted on helping the ossan with the stand for a bit.
"OJISAN!!! I'm BACK!!!" a young boy with blonde hair and bright blue eyes charged into the shop. "Ramen ramen, I love ramen dattebayo! Hey. Who are you?" he asked as he saw Akiya working in the stand.
"Welcome." She noticed the whisker-like marks on his face.
"Yo, where's the ramen ossan?" he looked around with eyes closed into a line. "I haven't seen you before! You're so pretty, are you his daughter?" Akiya smiled, such cheerfulness and energy.
The ossan came out from the storeroom at the back. "Oh, Naruto, I thought you came for breakfast today? Is it lunchtime already?"
"Yeah, and miso ramen please! I can't get enough of your ramen." Naruto grinned which reminded Akiya of a fox. "Ossan, who's this nee-san?"
After explaining to Naruto about her predicament of not knowing what happened and how she landed here. Naruto decided he would take her back to the Ninja Academy so his teacher can lead her to the Hokage. On the way there, Naruto explained his great dream to Akiya.
"So… you want to become the leader of this country? Wow…I wish your dream come true." Akiya said, impressed.
They stopped in front of a round building with the word 'Shinobi' written on the roof. Akiya could do nothing but stare… and more staring…
"Akiya-chan, what's wrong?"
"Eh…Nothing." The building reminded Akiya of those small playhouses in the children's playground near her apartment. So…unschool-like.
They walked up the stairs, passing some kids which were either her age or younger. One more thing, she just discovered that Naruto was the same age as her… twelve… short was the only thing she thought of.
One…two…three…four… Akiya counted the classrooms she passed, unexpectedly, they looked like the classrooms in Japan except the desks rises in order like those university lecture rooms. Some kids were looking and murmuring to each other about her, probably because of her 'weird' clothing and how she was new…and her bike. But to her, they were the ones dressing weird. All of them wore bandages on them, even Naruto has some on his legs, and holsters, and they all had weapons…
But one thing was, those ninja trainees were nothing like what Akiya thought ninjas would dress. Back in Japan, ninja gave you the impression they all dressed in black, tall, ruthless, cold, mysterious and… dark…. Then, look at Naruto, he is so… bright and…so…ORANGY!
'I feel so misplaced…' she tried not to concentrate too much on people's stares. 'Ah! Don't they know it's rude to stare?'
"Ack! Class already started, c'mon Akiya-chan, let's go in." Naruto said. Before Akiya had the chance to tell him that interrupting the class isn't a good idea, Naruto slammed the door open. "I'M BACK!!!"
"NARUTO! THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IN THIS WEEK YOU ARE LATE AFTER LUNCH BREAK!!! WHERE WERE YOU!?" a young male with scar across his face shouted hysterically at the poor blonde.
"Iruka-sensei, it wasn't my fault. You see, this girl landed here in Konoha and I needed to…"
"Shut it with your stupid story. Do you think I'm dumb enough to believe you? Your only problem is that you eat too much ramen!!!" The class snickered.
"But…"
"Go stand at the back of the room!"
"But..!"
Glare.
"He didn't lie this time. Sensei…" Akiya's voice chimed in. Everybody's attention switched to her, like camera lenses. She smiled politely, "I know it's not everyday for this to happen but I landed at Konoha, can I report to the Hokage please?"
And everybody was like…HOLY NARUTO DIDN'T LIE FOR ONCE!
Then Naruto told the story eagerly to everybody, like he was the host of a show or whatever. "So, Iruka-sensei, may I take Akiya-chan to the Hokage-"
"No." came a flat refusal.
"…WHY!!!!????" Naruto jumped around angrily.
"You already missed class, now go and sit down!" Iruka commanded the blonde, annoyed.
"Fine then. Oiroke-no-jutsu!" Poof. A naked blonde woman appeared…
Akiya was stunned.
A whole stream of blood squirted out from Iruka's nose. "Naruto…you little…"
Poof, Naruto was back into his old self with a smug smile on his face. "THAT'S IT NARUTO! Go and write me a one thousand word essay on why you shouldn't eat ramen for life! Go and stand at the back!" Iruka shouted. Regaining his cool, collected, calm posture, "Well, Akiya-san, I am sorry for that entire riot. Hm…Sasuke, take her to Hokage-sama please."
"Hey, why that bastard!?" Naruto whined, earning another glare from both Iruka and the boy with jet black hair. Akiya looked at the boy with the emotionless face who just stood up from his seat; he was quite handsome, with pale skin, and…a pair of contrasting midnight dark eyes that matched his spiky hair.
While she was still studying him, the Sasuke boy walked out of the classroom in silence.
Akiya had just been walking with the quietest person she had ever met on earth. They have been walking for ten minutes and the boy was just trudging in front of her without making a single sound. To lighten the atmosphere, Akiya decided to start a conversation.
Bad idea.
"Well…heheha-, 'Wait, that sounds retarded.' cough Hi, nice to meet you. My name is Akiya Kaede,." She slurred the sentence out. "What's your name?" Though she already knew, it was a polite thing to do anyway. And damn right it came out like one of those pre-school kids.
No reply.
'Feu! He probably didn't hear my lame introduction.' She sighed.
Second try!
"My name is Akiya Kaede. What's your name?" Akiya asked again, 'NO!!! IT CAME OUT SOUNDING WRONG AGAIN!!!!' mentally bashing herself up.
No reply again.
He must've heard it. How rude, just because I sound like a three year old. That damn little…
"Well… HELLO-?" she lost her patience.
He squinted his eyes and frowned at her. "I was only requested to take you to the Hokage. Besides…" in a flash he was behind to her, pointing a sharp black weapon at her neck. "How can I be sure you are not a spy from another country, woman?"
Now, Akiya lost her cool, her head was lowered as her eyes were in shadow by her fringe. Veins twitched at her temples. It was like a brooding storm, before she lifted her head up and shouted at him at the top of her lungs.
"WHAT? I FREAKING LANDED HERE WHICH IS WHO KNOWS WHERE, ALL TIRED AND ALONE AND NOW," she pointed a shaking finger at him, "YOU CALL ME A FREAKING SPY?!"
Sasuke was shocked at her for a nano-second, he wasn't used to people, especially girls shouting at him, since all of them just swoon when he walks past.
Some jounins walked past them and looked at them interestingly. Comment on a thing and two…
"…" Sasuke paused, no, he wasn't going to apologize. "Uchiha Sasuke."
"Ha?" Akiya gaped in surprise.
"My name." he muttered impatiently before walking on.
"…Oh!" Akiya realized, maybe she was slow at this type of thing, but… She pushed the bike faster to catch up to him, her earlier anger already left forgotten, "So, how old are you…? Are you twelve as well? Naruto is twelve so I guess you must be twelve too, how's the ninja academy…." And she rambled on…
Sasuke inwardly sighed, 'Why did I bother telling her my name anyway…"
After having a bit of a one-sided conversation with a few 'hn's and 'ah's, the two arrived at the Hokage's office.
"Come in, I have been waiting for you." A deep, old voice came from inside the office. Sasuke turned the brass doorknob.
There, Akiya's ninja days were about to begin.
TBC…
A/N
Few, I've rewrote another chapter. So you like? I like. Hehe. Well, for those you've read this story, you know about Sasuke and what happens later on…
Well, also remember this, I told you people to vote for who AK should be paired up with, you can still vote.
To people who haven't read this before: Are you interested in the story so far? Should I continue…?
So pplz, is my writing improving? I wish it is. I am determined to keep all my characters not OOC this time. YEAH!
Well, see you next time. Wonder who Ak will be living with. Lol.
Ps
Ossan- middle-aged man
Nee-san- Big sister
Dattebayo- the famous thing Naruto says often at the end of his sentences
You know that Naruto is only 147cm at the beginning, and Sasuke is only 150cm? Well, they officially started at this height. I set Akiya as 160cm tall. Ok? So she's like 10cm taller than Sasuke. She think he's just a little boy… Well, for now.
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