Disclaimer: Pfft. Who owns stuff anymore. That's so mainstream.
Warning: POV changed for this chapter alone. Language.
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"Oh. My. Gosh! I'm actually here!" I squealed with excitement. It happened. It actually happened.
I was in the Naruto world!
I gleefully stood up from my spot in the forest as looked at my surroundings in wonder. The trees stood tall around me and I felt tiny in comparison. It was chilly as it felt like winter, but I am from the hot part of Australia so everywhere else just seems cold to me.
As I looked around, I kind of grew in disappointment. Everything... looked the same. I was hoping that it'd be... more animated? I guess it looks just like the old world, huh?
Oh well!
Now, I have to try and find the village so I can become a ninja and fight with Team 7! I always knew this would happen to me! Now I can become my OC Anika who is a vampire werewolf hybrid and holder of the Juubi! Sasuke will fall in love with me as Sakura gets hated by everyone as she is entirely useless! Gosh, I can be so much better than her any day.
Oh! And my appearance probably changed too! I hope I have really cool hair and I'm beautiful and-
Wait... everything's the same. I realized this as I looked down at myself to see the same clothes I was last wearing and my long blond hair.
Aww! I wanted purple hair like Anika!
I'm a little bummed about that but... it can't get any worse as I'm in the Naruto world... right? I am here, right? I mean...
I started to look around and see if I could see any landmarks, but they were all concealed by the trees. Um... okay? I guess I'll go... this way!
I stomped in a random direction and hoped I'd see the famous hokage mountain faces thing that almost everyone in fan-fictions see when they first come. But, after a few minutes I started to lose that hope. Um... am I lost?
In the distance, I could see a little town on the horizon. Oh! This can work! I can ask for directions! I practically sprinted my way to there and instantly looked around for any clue as to where Konoha would be. Ugh! All the signs are in Japanese! Not even the romaji version of it! That's the only one I know how to read!
I soon grew frustrated at how none of the signs could help me, before seeing a sign in English! Yes! As I skipped over to it, I noticed it was a pub and with me being a child, I wasn't allowed in. Aw fudge sickle! I need to ask for directions!
Wait... a thought just crossed my mind. What if the people here only spoke Japanese?
...Nah! If I'm going to be the main character, then there won't be anything like that happening!
I ended up looking around for someone in the crowd of busy people walking around and they all looked kawaii! The girls had pastel colored hair and the boys had darker, cooler colors! They looked so anime!
I skipped to a girl that was in a crowd with her friends and they all noticed me once I was close to them. "Konichiwa! Watashi wa Mary desu! Genki desu ka?"
They all just stared at me with confusion, before they all looked at each other and laughed. Oh... do they not understand me? I spent so long practicing that phrase only for me to say it wrong! Darn it me!
This teenage girl with light orange hair spoke up in the group, "Uh... hi? Can we help you...?" Her friends were still gazing at me like I was a simple joke and I felt self-conscious for a second.
"Um... yes. I need directions to Konoha, please." I spoke softly, slightly embarrassed at my previous attempt. Okay, note to self, don't do that. Ever again.
The group kindly gave me directions for where I needed to go, yet when I was far enough from them, I heard them all laugh at me. I hung my head down a little as mortification washed over me.
Normally, when I'm at school and I do that, my friends encourage it and do it themselves. The only people that look at us weirdly are the eighth-graders, but that's because we're a year younger... right? Dang, it feels different when you do it alone.
I trudged for a while down this dusty road and began to wonder in my own thoughts before I realized that I was sounding pretty melodramatic and prepped talked myself better.
What am I doing?! Am I really embarrassed to show my true self?! I AM THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THIS STORY AND IM GOING TO KICK ASS WITH TEAM 7 AND BECOME AWESOME! SOME NOBODIES HAVE NOTHING ON ME!
Proud of myself once more, I held my head up once more and trotted once more to my destination as I saw it in the horizon.
Those big red gates.
Holy guacamole.
They were gigantic!
And as I stood in front of those doors and gazed upon the village before me, I began to day dream all the adventures I'd have with the team! Yes! I'm so ready for this! Nothing can break my spirit now-!
"NOOOO!" I heard a screech as I just turned around to see a blur of black come and tackle me to the ground.
"Oomph!"
The mysterious person was on top of me and seemed to try their hardest to suffocate me with their sweat-shirt or something as they panicked.
"No no no! You can't be here! You can't can't can't! You have to leave right now! They can't see you! Go away! NOW!" A girl's voice scolded me. Wait. Who the firetruck is she?!
I kicked the strange girl off of me and faced her with anger on my face. She looked normal with just short brown hair and glasses. I then noticed that she was... missing her arm?
"Hey! What are you doing?! Leave the poor girl alone!" I heard another girl scream. I turned to look at the person and saw pink. Holy flipping soap, it's Sakura.
The pinky came running over to me and helped me up as a blonde (who was Naruto) helped the arm-less girl up. "I'm so so sorry! I don't know what came over to her-!"
That girl pushed Naruto's help away from her and grabbed her sweatshirt and threw it in my face. I stumbled backwards in surprise as the young girl hissed at me, "Put that on right this second." She seemed angry by the way she was clenching her teeth and how Naruto had to hold her back a little bit.
I knitted my eyebrows in confusion. What does she mean? Who even is she-... oh no. Don't tell me.
"YOU'RE THE MAIN CHARACTER?!" I yelled.
No! I was supposed to come here first! I was supposed to be on Team 7! I was supposed to have Sasuke to myself and end up hanging out with Akatsuki! This was supposed to be MY story! Not some wanna be!
The girl just ignores the statement as she still glared at me... or my chest? I gaze down and then realized what shirt I was wearing. Oh yeah, I'm wearing my Naruto one. Woops.
The action of both myself and the girl looking at the shirt made the others stare as well. The shirt had the Akatsuki in all their smexy glory and all 10 of them were on it. Including Itachi.
Ohhh... now I get why she tried to suffocate me. It was to hide my shirt from the others... especially Sasuke. Oops.
I quickly started to put on the black sweatshirt the girl threw to me just as Sasuke and Kakashi waltz up to us. It seemed like they didn't see the shirt which is good. Didn't want Sasuke to hate me before he even met me, then we'd never get married! After I had everything situated since I had to readjust my kitty ears, I faced Sasuke and grinned. I had prepared to glomp him but the girl pulled me back by my collar as I jumped.
I choked and glared at the girl as she glared back. "You're not supposed to be here." She growled.
"That's what I was going to say." I bit back.
The tension grew as team 7 just stared between us as they felt us get more agitated. The girl huffed and grabbed my arm and dragged me off in a random direction. "No!" I whined, "I wanna hug Sasuke! Let me go!"
Even with one arm, that girl had a grip of steel.
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"Who the fuck are you?!" She hissed after we entered her... home? I'm assuming it's her home as there is a bed, but it looks more like a garage with carpet.
"I could ask you the same thing!" I screamed back.
She huffed annoyed as she tried to cross her arms but once realizing that she didn't have the other arm, she just place it on her hip. "...I'm Charlotte and I'm from your world."
I scoffed. "Obviously. With the way you acted for seeing my shirt and how you weren't apart of Team 7 in the original show, it's plain as day." She just narrowed her eyes in annoyance.
Oh yeah, she's still waiting for my name. "Oh... My name's Mary S-."
"Hold it." Charlotte held up her hand and I halted. "Don't tell me your last name nor tell anyone else it."
"Huh?"
"Dude, you tell them peeps 'bout your last name, they be like, 'Yo guess what, you be the last survivor of this powerful clan and shit, have fun with that!' Yeah no. Just have everyone refer to you as Mary." She explained half heartily. I noticed her accent by now and could tell she was American. It was the stereotypical New York accent and she's got it bad.
"One: speak clearer. I could not understand what you mostly said. Two: No! I want to have a cool Japanese name!" I complained as I stomped my foot on the ground.
"Okay listen here, you little shit. First off, my accent ain't fucking hard to understand, if anything your Aussie one is fucking unbearable so if you knock that one off, I'll get rid of mine. Two, cut the weeb shit. I'm pissed that you're even here, being all happy go lucky. Knock it the fuck off, brat. I've been here for a year, you know it ain't all butterflies and rainbows. You see this," Charlotte gestured to her missing arm. "I got this from the fucking Zabuza shit. I LOST MY FUCKING ARM! I'm not laughing with the main crew all like, 'Yo, it's all coolio! We can all be friends and live happily ever after!' No! I'm probably going to die being a ninja and if you want to become a ninja and die too, fine by me!"
I stopped talking for a minute as I processed what was said. Holy macaroni. She went on a rant. She seemed to have realized that she shushed me because she sighed and recollected herself.
"I'm... I'm sorry. I'm losing my cool 'cause chunnin exams are comin' up and I'm not prepared. Like at all. I'm freaking the fuck out and I don't know what to do." She plopped down into a computer arm chair and held her head in her hand. "Ugh. I'm so fucked."
We just fell into an awkward silent as we both got lost into our own thoughts before after a few minutes passed and she calmed herself down, she looked at me, trying to gather her thoughts. It doesn't matter since I have no clue what the flipping flop I'm going to do?
"Uh... what do I do now?" I piped up. Charlotte lifted her head and just stared.
"I don't know... what am I supposed to do? I'm here with a kid and I don't know how to get back home so what the fuck should I do?" She threw her hands up in the air, showing her frustrations.
"Kid? You're the same age as me, if not younger!"
"Bitch please! I'm an adult! I'm almost twenty-one!"
"No you're not! You look like you haven't hit puberty!"
"I got stuck in the body of a twelve year old me! I am thriteen turning fourteen now and also I WAS A LATE BLOOMER!"
And queue the bickering.
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"I see. You're in a very tight situation." The Hokage mused.
Charlotte gave the lie that I was her younger sister that followed her for the dream of being a ninja. Meh, they bought it.
"Heh. No kidding." Charlotte agreed. "Mom seemed to have guilt tripped you as well." When I didn't seem to get it, she continued the act. "You know, since she can't really afford for all of us to be under one roof and with as many mouths to feed."
"Oh! Yeah... she kinda have me the old, 'Honey, have you thought about getting a job yet?' But really mean, 'Oi, get a job.' Yeah. She threw that on me." I went along with the story as that's the only thing I could do. Charlotte said to just let her talk and if she addressed me then I could make up some stuff too. As she said I could 'pull some bull out of the bum of mine like the trash fic writer I was.' I think she may have something against me.
The Hokage bought it with a sigh, "I see... Though, I will allow this, make sure that if any of your other siblings come, I will not allow this again."
"Hopefully no more come." Charlotte bit through her teeth.
"May I ask what kind of knowledge she has when it comes to becoming a ninja?"
I perked up as I exclaimed, "I KNOW A LOT!" Charlotte smacked the back of my head in order to shush me but I just brushed her off.
"Really? May you demonstrate your abilities?" The old man asked as he gave me a wise gaze. I grinned as I started to try to do the hand signs I had memorized from the show, but they were sloppy and I kept fumbling. I tried to do the clone justu but it wasn't working. I closed my eyes really tight and hoped I could do it but... it didn't happen.
"She likes to think she knows everything but she doesn't even know how to morph chakra." Charlotte explained to him. I yelled a 'hey!' that went ignored as they began discussing what to do with me.
"Will the year thing work for her too? Hell, I don't even care if she has to go to the beginning of the academy."
"I think that two years might be more suitable for her."
"I'm okay with that."
"I'M NOT!" I whined. Waiting two years to become a genin?! No! I have to become a genin now!
"Stop acting like a brat unless you want to more fucking time in that damn academy!" Charlotte scolded me as I met her with a glare. It was like there was lightning between us.
"I think you two should calm down." A mellow voice picked up and we both turned towards it. Kakashi (My bae) stood casually off to the side and watched us with a bored expression. I didn't even notice him come in, but then again he is him.
I squealed and went to go hug him, but Charlotte grabbed me and put me into a choke hold. "Don't touch him! Don't think you can just 'have' him!" She barked as I clawed at her arm.
"No! You can have Naruto! I want Kakashi!"
"BITCH! HE AIN'T A FUCKING OBJECT, PLUS YOU'RE YOUNGER THAN ME! YOU HAVE NO CHANCE!"
"LIKE YOU HAVE ONE EITHER!"
Then, we basically started a halfhearted sissy slap fight that had me winning as I had two hands and she had one. Kakashi walked over and pulled us apart as a way to calm the situation. It worked as we both simmered down.
"Enough! You two are siblings! Stop measly fighting each other for foolish things! You two need to be mature as being a ninja is no fun and games! Charlotte, I thought you would know that with how the last battle you nearly died!" Kakashi yelled at us. Charlotte looked down with shame as he lectured her.
The Hokage sighed at us and the ruckus we have created. "Children, listen to me. Please put aside the childish acts and become serious. Mary, was it?" I nodded my head in confirmation, "As you have noticed, your sister has had quite the amount of damage to her... do you wish to still become a ninja even though you know the risks?"
Pssh! The only reason she got hurt is because she isn't the main character of this story! It's me! Plus, she probably did it by being stupid. Everyone knows you just have to follow the exact plot of the show for everything to be alright!
"Yes! I have come all this way and I will not be discouraged by this! I wish to become a Konoha ninja!" I proudly declared. Heck yes! I'm going to become a ninja!
"Fine. You have less than one year as it is almost halfway through the year as of now. If you do not pass the genin exam, you will have to be held back a full year and learn with the others. I believe your sister will help you with being caught up as she had to do the same in such a limited time." A scoff was heard from Charlotte. "Now, is everyone satisfied?" No complaints. "Good. Now, Kakashi, are you here because of the mission report?"
"Ah, yes. The mission was a... success as we protect Tazuna. However, Charlotte did have major injuries regarding her arm." Kakashi explained.
"Nah, dude. I'm just peachy." Charlotte casually shrugged like losing an arm was like a mere paper cut.
"Charlotte, you lost your arm."
"Kakashi, you lost your dignity when Zabuza kicked your ass."
Ooooh! Dang! She hit a low blow!
Kakashi didn't react to her comeback and just sighed out, "Charlotte, you are not in the condition to continue serving your village. You will be put on leave from here on until it is suitable for you to be considered healthy enough to serve once more."
"WHAT?! NO! I did not just lose my fucking arm to be put on leave! I have a fucking house! I need to pay rent! I need to pay for bills and food! I need to work! I lost my arm, big woop! I'll still kick ass!" Charlotte complained.
"You will be paid to stay at home and rest. You are in no condition to fight, let alone even go on simple missions! You had your ribs stomped on and you broke two of them! You're back is full of bruises from when you were kicked into the tree and also the mirror! You are staying home!"
"On my dead body!"
"With an injury like yours, you normally would be out of commission for years! Possibly even retire! But, I know you wouldn't like that so the least I could get would be you taking a month or two off! This is the hospital's orders! Not mine!"
Charlotte seemed to fume for a minute or two before she slumped her shoulders in defeat. "...I understand. But! I will only rest if I can get back into action within a month!"
They ended up agreeing on that as well as Charlotte asking about a prosthetic arm that she can use at the hospital so that's where we were headed.
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"So... how'd you get here?" I piped up as we strolled through the street that was a little crowded.
"What the fuck you talkin' 'bout?" Was her only reply.
"Wait... what do you mean 'what do I mean'?" Confusion set on my face.
"... I woke up in this forest place and started walking. Found this town at night fall, stayed there then walked more. Boom! Now, I'm here. Ain't it the same for you?"
"Uhh... well, yeah, but that's not what I meant." I yanked her arm so she would slow down and pulled her to the side.
"Dude, what do you want?" She grumbled.
"Don't you remember how you...?" I trailed off. Does she not remember how she got here?
"Remember what? I'm not a mind reader. I don't know what you're talking about." She genuinely seemed confused and a bit agitated at why I was being so hushed hushed about it.
"I'm asking how you died."
"Wait what?" Panic spread on her face as she started to comprehend what I was talking about. "Wait... you're telling me I died and came here...? Is that what happened with you?"
I nodded my head, "Yeah. I was with my family in a car and we crashed. I was reading the Naruto manga when it happened and I died because I felt... cold and at peace, I guess? I don't know what happened to the rest of my family though... if they are okay or not."
Charlotte looked to be having a panic attack as she started to breathe more heavily and hyperventilate, "That makes no sense! I fell asleep at my desk soon after I started watching the show! I can't be dead! I don't remember it!"
I put my hands on her shoulders, "... Maybe you died in your sleep?" I suggested.
Nope. That didn't help, only made it worse. Charlotte's legs started to get a little wobbly and I grabbed her and pulled her to the nearest bench. "I'm fucking dead! How is Mom going to respond?! Oh god! Harper and Flynn are so going to kill me since it will be like I'm pulling a Dad on them! God! I'm so fucked! I-I-I...!"
"Um... uh... Stop. Please? I... don't know what to do. I'm bad at this." It seemed to just be me talking to myself as a girl I barley know is mourning for her own life that she didn't even know was taken. Wow, now that I think of it... Everything is catching up on me as well. I remember Mom screamed as the truck came from her side; the same side I sat. Dad tried to turn the wheel last second but the truck hit us so quickly he couldn't. Maggie was leaning on Logan's car seat, both sleeping. Dang... who knows what happened to them now.
I slumped down in the seat next to Charlotte and could feel her crying as I started to tear up a bit too. I... I want my mommy! I want daddy! I want Maggie and Logan to be alright! I don't want them to cry for me because I'm gone! I don't want Dad to blame himself for the crash when he was not to blame! I want my family!
We both were sobbing like a mess on the bench as we found some comfort with each other being there. Once Charlotte noticed that I was crying as well, she stopped and pulled me into a hug. She stroked my hair as she whispered to me that everything was going to be alright. She might have felt that she being the 'adult' between us, that she should comfort me. "I'm right here with you. We're both going through the same thing. You're not alone." were all things she whispered
I calmed down after we sat on that little bench by the crowded street as bystanders gazed with question. We didn't mind though. "Hey..." Charlotte spoke softly. "I'm sorry for being so rude earlier. You just... you reminded me of when I was young and I'm not really... fond of that phase I went through."
"...It's okay. I was kinda mean, too. I'm sorry."
She gave me a small smile as I stared at her puffy eyes and red cheeks that were hidden by her large glasses and bangs. I doubt I look any better. "So... maybe do you want to have some ice cream to cool down and then maybe..." She swallowed harshly, "M-Maybe we can make a grave... for our past lives and families that we have to leave behind?"
I stared at her and nodded my head slowly. I smiled back at her, only a small bit, before she ruffled my hair and chuckled, "Now, stop crying, you dweeb. Don't y'all Aussies got to deal with more shit than a little drama? I mean you guys got huge ass spiders and that shit is scary!" She grabbed my hand and pulled me up before both of us walked to get some sweet desserts, our original destination forgotten in this moment, sun already heading down.
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Holy shit. Didn't expect it to be this long! It's 4500 words and this is a filler chap! I didn't even know where this was going! I mostly was like I have to include this and this and write on the spot everything else... so yeah. Character development is a thing in this. Also, this chap is kinda funny then turns serious towards the end. Meh, I think I did good and I'm proud of it. But, really DAMN THESE CHAPTERS ARE GETTING LONGER AND LONGER IT SEEMS AND ITS MAKING MY HANDS BLEED!
Plus, I thought I wouldn't finish today but lookie! I did it! It's published on time! So suck it! Haha!
Anyways~! See you next chap!