I feel my patience wear thin as I passed what looked like the same rock for the fifth time. Was it actually the same rock? I don't fucking care! I just want to get out of this strange place and back to my life, which is in the real world. I tucked my hands behind my head and thought about what happened earlier…

I remember Sasha beating the crap out of me for ripping a new book she had bought. A light then came from somewhere and glowed so bright that I had to turn my eyes away. When I opened them I was in a dark alleyway with six other guys.

"Hey, he's awake. The new guy is awake!" I heard one of them yell. I shook my head to get rid of the dizziness.

"What happened here? Where am I?"

The guy closest to me answered, "You fell from the sky, man. Must have been scared as you fell. Me and the guys caught you before you hit the ground, but you're HEAVY you know that?"

"Okay then…but where am I?"

"You are in the Hidden Leaf Village, man. The greatest village of them all." They all laughed when I asked.

I felt anger bubbling in the pit of my stomach. Did Sasha hire these guys to play a joke on me? If she did then she is so dead, and so are these guys! Their laughing was beginning to annoy me now. With speed earned from hard training, I grabbed the closest one's shirt collar and threw him roughly out of the alley. The others backed down quickly and I just let them be.

"Where am I?!" I asked the man again. He looked scared now and said the same thing he said before, that I was in the Hidden Leaf Village. Like that answered my question.

"What the hell do you mean 'Hidden Leaf Village'?! What is this place?" I screamed at him while holding my fist up towards his face. Then she came.

"Charlie, put that guy down and let him go unharmed."

I was pissed now. Out of all the people to find me, it had to be Sasha Tsumane. Why couldn't it have been Michael or Justin, even? It had to be her, with her stupid competitive attitude and her 'I-am-the-best' speeches she always had to give me when she ever managed to beat me.

I felt my anger and hate grow even more when she said the same exact thing that the other idiots had said, that we were in the Hidden Leaf Village. I argued about the geography of this world and that if we were in a stupid kid's show, then how the hell do we get OUT?! She looked really pissed and practically tackled me to the ground, where she kept bringing blows to my body and face. If it weren't for Michael, then I would have been pounded to jelly. After I got up, I returned her kind favor by giving her one of my deadly punches.

"You—stupid—bastard…" she said as Michael kept her from jumping on me. I just gave her a look that would probably make someone die of fright, but not her. She knows me too well to die by my hand. But one day she willdie by my hand, I swear it…

"Halt!" I heard a voice say behind me. Turning around, I spot some guys, maybe in their early twenties, standing just a few feet away. They are dressed in navy blue clothing and vests, along with headbands that are tied around their heads. One other person is with them with the same vest, but with a whole new outfit. He is wearing a green spandex jumpsuit with a red headband tied around his waist. His hair is in the shape of some kind of bowl…and his EYEBROWS! They are the worst; they look like extra-bushy black caterpillars!

"What is your business here in the Hidden Leaf Village?" He asks me while smiling widely, which shows very white, very even teeth. I just shrug. "Do you even live here?"

"Hey, just leave me alone already," I say as I turn away, "For your information, I don't live nor even know this place. I'm outta here."

"Then you are foreign," he continues, "That means that we must take you to the Hokage for interpretation. Please come with us."

I turn around casually. "Listen, dude, I don't go anywhere with anyone except my girlfriend or my father. What makes you think I'll go with you?" As I turn, two weapons are thrown at me from another in the group. I only just dodged them at the last minute and earned two cuts on my body.

"I insist that you come. We do not wish to use force." I hear him say from behind me. Whoa, how the hell did he get behind me so quickly?! I didn't even hear him more!

I spin around to land a backspin kick in his face and only hit air. The guy who threw the knives at me was now calmly leaning his back against mine while reading a book! From the looks of it, it was an orange book with a woman yelling at a man on the cover. As I tried to take a peek, he just slides away back to the others.

"Sorry, but you can't read this until your older," he says with a hint of glee in his voice. He was pretty tall maybe even taller than Michael and me, or maybe it was just the hair; his hair was spiked up high at an angle and was the color silver. A mask covered the lower part of his face from the nose down, while his headband was slanted just to cover his left eye. Overall, he looks pretty cool just standing there.

"Look, if you guys want to fight, then I'll be glad to take you on," I say, trying to act cool, "Your choice if you want to make it four-on-one or one-on-one. I don't really care, just as long as I win."

The guys look at each other while the green spandex man just gets into an offensive position. He has a look of seriousness on his face. I get into my sparring position as well, my hands in fists and covering my face.

"Hey, Gai," the silver-haired man says as he puts his book away, "We haven't even decided yet. You can't make decisions for everybody you know."

Bushy Brow just keeps staring at me while shouting back, "Don't worry, Kakashi. This won't take long."

As soon as he's done talking, I attack with a punch. He disappears and reappears behind me. I hear him shout "Leaf Hurricane" just as his right leg sweeps down underneath me. In all of my years of sparring with Sasha, she has always used this attack against me. I leap up and am about to come down with an axe-kick just as I feel a blow on my face. My body hits the ground hard and rolls away. Damn that guy has a powerful kick!

Just as I try to get back up, he comes flying down with his own axe-kick! I roll to the side just as his foot leaves a crater the size of my head in the ground, only ten times as large!! I stand up and wipe the blood from my mouth.

Who the hell does this guy think he is…Bruce Lee? Well, close in appearance. All that matters is that I have to beat him if I ever want to get out of here.

As I attack again, the wind is knocked out of me. I look down to find Bushy Brow elbowing me in the ribs with very little effort, the serious demeanor still on his face. Before I'm able to fall, hands wrap themselves around my arms, securing me. The guy with the orange book is now patting the green-suited one's shoulder. He says something, but I can't catch it.

The last thing I hear before passing out is Bushy Brow saying, "I couldn't risk using my full strength on a child, so I only used a tenth of my strength instead…and yet he still couldn't keep up with a Taijutsu Master who was holding back…"

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I woke up as though I was being electrocuted, and I was panting slightly. My dream felt so real, and yet it was as though I was looking at it from someone else's point of view. It had to do with four ninja attacking an unarmed civilian. By the looks of it, two of them were Jounin-level with deadly skills while the others were Chunin-level. The funny thing was, though, they were all ninja that I knew from looking them up on the Internet: Kotetsu Hagane, Izumo Kamizuki, Gai Maito, and Kakashi Hatake. What could they have been doing to the poor guy? Even the guy himself seemed so familiar, but what was it about him? It couldn't have been the hair…the fighting style was very familiar…MAYBE the clothing…wait, the clothing?

"Argh! You stupid bastard…" I whispered angrily. I squeaked in surprise at the sound of something loud, but calmed down when I realized that it was only Michael's snoring. Who knew that he could snore as loud as a Snorlax (sp?) from Pokemon?? As quietly, and softly, as I could, I carefully pushed Justin off my lap and made him lean against Michael instead. That task being done, I stretched and walked through the thriving streets of the Leaf Village.

Damn you… I thought as I passed several people, you just had to get yourself into this, player. If you can beat me in sparring, then you should have been able to take care of a few Chunin.

Charlie is one of the best fighters on the Olympic Dream Team, and he never fails to prove it whenever we spar; I'm second best, but tend to hold back for some reason. He should have been able to take care of Kotetsu and Izumo, but Kakashi and Gai would be a different story. Kakashi is a Jounin with skills that can kill you in one movement, and Charlie would never be able to keep up with Gai's speed let alone power. Compared to them, he was about as strong as Justin.

We have to do something to help him, I suddenly decided, if we don't do anything now, then he's good as dead! I can't have a dead rival!

"Hang in there, Char," I said as I watched the sun rise up over the hills. The rescue would commence tonight as soon as dark came. I stood up and flexed my muscles, ready for any training that was needed. We were going to rescue him from the Genin, Chunin, and hell, even Jounin if they got in our way!