Sorry about the short chapter. Anyway, I don't own either Mario nor Naruto (obviously) also, I'd like at least 3 reviews, for my confidence meter, respectively.
The seven walked the brick path through Toad Town, peeking through the windows at the stores as they walked. Sakura was the most curious on the types of items they would sell. She had already seen large, hold-able red flowers with a face in the center and large red mushrooms being sold to many Toads. She wondered vaguely what their significance was.
"Um….Mario, is it?"
"Yes, that's-a my name."
"Well, Mario…..I was wondering about those red flowers and red mushrooms everyone seems to be buying. What do they do?"
The red-clad plumber began to laugh. The other members of the group looked suspiciously over at the pink-haired girl and the red clothed man.
"What's-a so funny, Mario?" asked Luigi, looking at him skeptically.
"This-a young lady was-a just asking me-a about the-a fire flowers and red-a mushrooms." He said with a smile.
"Ah….well-a…..what is-a your name-a again?" Luigi looked at Sakura with a puzzled look.
"Sakura."
"Sakura…..Isn't-a that the-a Japanese word for-a cherry blossom?"
"Um…. I guess….my mother obviously named me that for my pink hair and green eyes…..I guess I resemble a cherry blossom in a way….."
"Y-yes y-you d-do, S-Sakura-c-chan…." Hinata said shyly while playing with her fingers.
"Ah….and-a very pretty one-a, at that." Mario said while smiling. Sakura immediately began to blush a maroon color.
"Uh….thank you…."
Naruto beamed. "Yep, and she'll be my cherry blossom someday! Not Teme's!"
"Hn." Sasuke said in his typical monosyllabic way.
"N-Naruto….!" Sakura scolded, beginning to get a little angry.
"I was just kidding, jeez!"
"Well-a, anyways…." Mario interrupted, rubbing his gloved hands together, "the-a fire flower and-a the red mushroom are-a all power-ups."
"Power-ups? What the heck does that mean?"
"Naruto, be quiet!" She scolded, holding a clenched fist upwards.
"S-sorry, Sakura-chan…."
Mario cleared his throat roughly. "Well, a power-up is-a what can make us-a stronger. For instance, the mushroom can-a make someone grow-a larger, and-a the fire flower-a can grant-a someone the-a ability to shoot-a fireballs out of their-a hands."
"Cool!" Naruto shouted, grin growing larger.
"Whatever…..our jutsu are still more powerful than silly items such as those." Sasuke said, eyes averted and hands crammed in his pockets.
"Well-a, we can't-a necessarily do those-a….. 'jutsus'…."
"Yeah, Sasuke! They gotta work with what they do have!"
"Hn. Like I care, Loser."
"Gaaaah! Sasuke!" Naruto immediately tried grabbing the raven-haired boy, who avoided his grasps.
"Stop it you two! Arrrggg! If Kakashi-sensei were here, he'd beat both of you! But mostly you, Naruto!" Sakura yelled, bashing the blonde's head.
"Sakura-chan! That hurt!" he complained while rubbing the top of his head, a bruise poking out of his blonde hair.
"Both of you cut it out. Your annoying." the Uchiha said angrily while glaring at them, but mostly at Sakura. The pink-haired ninja flinched at the word 'annoying.' She opened her mouth to say something to her crush, but he walked faster before she could. She let out a huff and looked to the ground.
"Don't listen to that bastard, Sakura-chan! I don't think you're annoying!"
She glared at him, and he immediately looked forward and shut his mouth.
"S-Shino…..D-do y-you think w-we will get back?" asked the timid girl, looking to her teammate with slight worry.
"I don't know, Hinata….I don't know."
"U-um, do you t-think that K-Kiba-k-kun is alright w-without us there? And I b-bet K-Kurenai-sensei i-is worried a-about us…."
"You see, Hinata….I'm not sure if the time there is the same as it is in this world. I mean, what if when we get back it's the same time as we left?"
"M-maybe….I d-didn't think of that…."
"Even if it wasn't, I'm sure they know that we can handle most situations ourselves. Hopefully we'll get back before Lady Tsunade sends out search parties…."
"Y-yeah…..b-but don't you think that our p-parents are w-worried also?"
"They probably would be….but my father has more faith in me than that. Your father should to."
"I-I don't know….I m-mean, he's always looking at m-my sister as the p-proper heir, a-and he d-doesn't p-pay as much a-attention to me….so I d-don't know….
"He still loves you, Hinata. You're his child…..and don't worry. We'll get back somehow."
"R-right…."
The large group followed the two plumber brothers on a path until they came to a large metallic house with electricity running through wires at the top.
Cerulean eyes looked at the building in shock and amazement. "Cool! Hehehehehe! Can we go inside?"
"Well, yeah Naruto…." Sakura said, her brows furrowing in annoyance.
"Just go already! I don't have all day," Sasuke said in monotone, although irritation was present in his words.
The seven made their way to the large doors. Luigi was the one to knock.
"Uh….Professor E.-a Gadd? It's-a me, Luigi!"
The door sprang open, and once again the ninja's mouths opened in shock.
A short, obviously old man with a wisp of white hair atop his head stood in the doorway. He had strange glasses over his eyes (much stranger than Shino's) that swirled blue, giving the impression that he was a little crazy. The strange man wiped his hands over his white lab coat, and then shook his hand with Luigi's.
"Ah….Luigi, it's good to see you again. Oh, you too, Mario. Who are your friends?" he said in a soft voice that shocked the newcomers.
"Whoa! Is this guy even human!" asked a certain blonde, pointing his finger at the professor.
"Why, yes, I am." The lab-coated man then began to mumble in gibberish the others didn't understand. He turned around and walked into his lab-like abode, his hands behind his back.
"This guy is so weird," Sakura whispered to her teammates who were standing beside her. Hinata, who was behind the maroon-clad girl, was playing with her fingers and staring at the strange mechanisms that she guessed the scientist made.
"Um...N-Naruto-k-kun….l-look at all o-of these s-strange machines….." she stuttered while moving closer to her crush.
"Yeah….I wonder what they do?"
"Why don't you go find out, dobe. Maybe they'll turn you into something that has a brain."
"Shut up teme!"
"Shut up you two!"
"I'm sorry, Sakura-chan!"
"Just drop it, Naruto!"
The professor turned towards Luigi, who was walking to the left of him.
"Do they always act this way?"
"I-a guess…" he said while shrugging.
Shino, whom already had an earful of Team 7's quarrel, walked past them and towards the professor and the Mario brothers.
"We are here because we are in a little predicament. I'm Shino, by the way…..and we need your help to get back to our world."
"Hmmm….well, Shino…..I don't know if I can just do that. Here….wait until we get to the main part of my lab and we'll discuss this further.
After going through a few hallways (and hearing the bickering session between Naruto and Sakura, followed by a yell for silence by Sasuke) the eight were sitting in chairs surrounding a large, oval table. Behind them were large screens, and more mechanisms and computers.
"Whoa! This place is the coolest!" yelled the kyuubi vessel, his fists pumped into the air.
"Yeah, well I'll think its cool when it can take us back home," said the raven-haired genin, his hands shoved in his pockets.
"Y-yeah…..c-can you g-get us back h-home?"
"Well, children….I'll have to look into that. How exactly did you get here in the first place?"
"Um…this really strange creature that kinda looked like a little orange turtle and a….magician….used his wand-thing and the next thing we knew, we were here," answered the pink-haired girl.
"Hm….that sounds like a magikoopa to me."
"Oh-a no! It was-a probably Kamek!" said Mario worried, his fists clenched on the table.
"Mama-mia!" yelled Luigi.
"Oh dear…..this looks bad. I don't know if my contraptions can work against his dark magic."
"Wait….what?" yelled Sasuke angrily, his anger and frustration rising. "Does that mean we're stuck in this god-forsaken world?"
"Well, for right now, yes."
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