"You know, you guys, this is crazy, I'm actually having fun here, why didn't we do this before?" Alexis asked, I laughed then replied.

"Sometimes it's hard to face your past, but when it comes down to it once you've faced your past you'll be able to face your future and see your past in a different light, and in our case remembering the life rather than the death."

"You know, you should put your smarts into your schoolwork instead and you'd be a straight A student gal! Why don't you?" Alexis asked me.

"Well duh! Does it look like I actually care about my future, with you peoples here with me I gots nothing to worry about! The past, present, future, as long as you and Nick are in them my life shall be PERFECT!"

Nick started laughing, "You know, you really are crazier than you look!"

He was talking about my surprisingly flaming (though it was more of a deep sorta rouge colour) long, crinkly, red hair, "Boy there ain't nothing wrong with my hair, or do you gots a problem with redheads?"

"What if I do?" I tackled him to the ground and sat on his stomach.

"Take. It. Back."

"HELL. NOOOOOOO!"

"Oh you're gonna pay for that!" I was about to tickle him when I heard a sound like a whirlwind, and I felt a strange sensation in my mind, like just my brain was being crushed but I was completely numb to any pain, it was just… It's hard to explain, but you get the picture right?

"Wha-what was that." I heard Alexis say, it was loud like she was right there, but she sounded a thousand miles away, like it was just her echo.

"I don't know, Nick are you OK?" I said, letting no fear or emotion come into my voice.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He sounded as far away as Alexis. I did not have a very good feeling about this.

"You guys, tell me what you see." I could see the clubhouse, except with no Alexis or Nick, it was scary, but I didn't think I was there either.

"I see the clubhouse, but you guys aren't there… What is this? Am I even there?" Alexis sounded unsure, but I felt her presence and quickly stretched my arms out behind me and grasped two hands with my own, then I saw them, Alexis and Nick. Oh thank god, they were fine.

I let out an audible sigh, and heard them make similar sounds of relief. Then suddenly I couldn't see the clubhouse, all that was there was nothing, whether it was white or black I honestly don't know, it just wasn't. Nothing was, just me, Alexis and Nick in nothing. And again, we weren't there, we were in the middle of a forest, in a small clearing not unlike the clubhouse. And there, in the middle, was the stump of an oak tree, the one where we had sealed our friendship. My eyes widened with surprise.

"The Stump." Alexis breathed, Nick just stood there, his breathing shallow and a look of bewilderment on his face.

Alexis ran over to it and hugged it, yeah, she hugged a tree, Ok, the stump of a tree. I ran over with her and fell to my knees with her and grabbed what I could of the foot tall stump. Nick stood behind us, if I had looked behind me I would have seen a look of amusement playing on his features.

"OK, you guys are seriously freaking me out now." Nick said, then added, "We also happen to have more important things to do than hug trees. Like maybe find out WHERE THE FUCK WE ARE!"

"Hehe, forgot about that." I said, giggling, pulling myself away from the stump.

"Yeah, maybe we should be focusing on that… Thanks for reminding us blondie (our nickname for him when he says or does something smart), oh yeah, and blondie? Cussing is vewy, vewy bad!" Alexis started giggling with me.

"You two are E.V.I.L. Did you hear that? E.V.I.L. and insane, you evil insane people!" Nick rolled his eyes at us. We giggled harder.

"Who are you, and what business do you have in Konoha?" A harsh voice came from behind us, me and Alexis still giggling.

"Who-the-what-now?" Nick said, cocking his head to the side.

I fell over laughing, grasping my stomach in pain. Alexis soon joined me and we even had Nick holding in a chuckle! The man who asked us the question quickly had two more people who were dressed sorta like him join him. They slung me and Alexis over their shoulders, and the speaker started talking to Nick while pulling him along. While we let out indignant squeaks, then started giggling again.

"Do you have passports? Or any identification on you?" Said the man slightly gruffly.

"I'm afraid not, we just sorta appeared here." Nick replied, not impolitely, but not offering any real respect or courtesy to the man.

"What is your name?"

"Nick."

"Last name?"

"I don't give out my last name to strangers, I usually don't walk with strangers either, but I'd rather not handled like a package like you're doing to my friends."

"Don't be smart with me!" He was impatient now, but Nick pulled on an innocent face and cocked his head to the side in a slightly exaggerated fashion.

"I'm not being smart with you, it's just that I'm only 13 and I'd rather not be raped or abducted or something," Nick then added in an undertone, "Like I'm not already being kidnapped."

The man slapped Nick on the side of his head, that infuriated me and my giggling stopped immediately as I fell ungracefully off the mans shoulder, kicking him where the sun don't shine in the process.

"Don't touch my friend." I said harshly, brushing off the dirt and leaves that were now on my body.

I then ran at the man, I pulled my fist back, but when I was about to release it found that it was being held back and the man wore a bored expression. I then tried to kick him, but he quickly twisted my arm and threw me into a tree, I felt a sharp pain spread throughout my body then suddenly felt like I was falling, a roller coaster in a way, and then I wasn't there. I had blacked out.