"You say you're from where?" Tsunade asked once again. She tapped her fingers rhythmically against her desk, using what was left of patience to keep from punching holes through the surface. In spite of that, there were already several small indentations that were steadily growing deeper.
The rather timid looking girl flinched at the annoyance in Tsunade's voice. "The…Village Hidden in the…Sand?" Tsunade looked skeptical. "I mean the Village Hidden in the Water, um I mean the Mist!" The girl's quiet voice became slightly louder, and much higher pitched with each attempt at naming a village.
Tsunade exchanged a glance with Kakashi and Shizune. The girl seemed like a very poorly trained spy, if that was what she was. It was possible that she was only maintaining the appearance of someone who was that incompetent, so it was best to keep their guard up.
It was doubtful that the girl was actually a ninja. Her brown and gold shirt seemed sensible enough, but she wore dark blue pants made out of a highly movement restrictive material. Although no one dressed in fighting attire all the time, most ninjas stayed away from clothing that would drastically hinder their fighting abilities. Even in the village attacks could come at anytime.
In addition to that she had been incredibly easy to capture. Kakashi had noticed her unusual behavior and promptly brought her in without any trouble. The most troubling aspect was how she managed to sneak into the village without anyone noticing…
Tsunade raised a single finger, which was more than enough to silence the girl. "What's your name?"
The girl looked back with large gray eyes before replying, "Charlie, I mean it's really Charlotte, but everyone calls me Charlie." She brushed a long copper curl away from her face.
Raising a hand to once again stop the girl's-Charlotte's- babbling, Tsunade tried for another question. "And Charlotte, why are you here?"
"I want to join the village?" The redhead tried, sounding quite miserable about the whole idea. She squirmed in her chair, attempting to find a more comfortable position. Unfortunately for her, these chairs were specifically designed to not be overly comfortable.
"What skills would you have to offer?" Charlotte looked completely surprised by this question. "And why would I let an unknown girl join my village? You could just be waiting for the right time to attempt an assassination." Tsunade continued, ignoring Charlotte's indignant squeak. "You don't really sound like you want to join the village," The Hokage finished wearily, the familiar pains of a headache growing steadily stronger.
Charlotte looked back with wide eyes. She glanced around the room frantically, and shrunk back even more as she glanced the stoic faces of Kakashi and Shizune. She took a deep breath. "Well…you see," There was a sort of strangled hiccupping sound right before she burst into tears. "I'm from another world," she said, words muffled due to the fact that her face was buried in her arms. "I don't know why I'm here, I was just watching an episode with my friend, she's the one who own all the DVDs and manga, and I just tried to do what I've seen in all the stories, but I don't think I'll fit in here, and nothing is going the way it's supposed to!"
Shizune caught Tsunade's eye, giving her a resigned but familiar look that. Mental ward? She mouthed, jerking her head at the girl. Tsunade started to nod, when she remembered something. A sickening feeling crept through her. It couldn't be. She shook her head at Shizune, who looked mildly surprised.
"Kakashi," Tsunade said wearily, "I want you to stay with her for the moment." She turned to Shizune to start dictating orders. "We need to contact a team to stay with Charlotte for a few days while I check over some things. Kurenai's team should be free." Shizune nodded, scribbling out a note and popping outside to hand it to a messenger. Tsunade walked over to a cabinet at the back of the room and opened one of the doors. She pulled out several keys, she handed them to Kakashi. "Our meeting is over, but I need you to escort her and wait until Kurenai or one of her team gets there."
It was always hard to tell at first glance with Kakashi, puts he seemed pretty resigned to the situation. "Let's go," he said, sparing only the briefest of glances at Charlotte.
The girl's sobs had stopped completely and she scrubbed at her eyes in an attempt to look at least somewhat presentable. Still, she seemed a bit terrified of Kakashi. She looked at him with wide eyes, nodding, and standing up so quickly she almost knocked the chair over.
Tsunade directed her next words back to Shizune. "Have Charlotte's bags brought to me." As her assistant went to complete that task, Tsunade leaned back in her chair and rubbed her temples. It this was what she thought it was it could be the start of an epidemic. It was something that had occurred before, but every time it happened it got worse. She only hoped she could do as well a job of weathering this as her predecessors had.
She was going to need to buy some more sake. A lot more sake.
And behind the now closed cabinet doors hundreds of golden keys shimmered.
Inspired by all the self insets you find here. Don't get me wrong, I love reading all of those stories, but one day I thought, "There's a lot of people getting sucked into the Naruto world. Where do they all stay? There has to be some kind of plan for this."
I have one actual scenario for this story and several more ideas. (This is something I came up with a looong time ago, but only recently rediscovered on a previously lost flash drive. So it might be a little dated. Forgive me)