Hello everyone! Allorahfox asked me a good question. I do not have a set schedule for this story. I post as I go. I don't want to promise you guys a certain date and have it not happen. For instance, I volunteered at a Cub Scout camp with my boyfriend last week so I didn't have any time to type. If I had promised to update once a week I would have failed. But I promise that updates will be somewhat often and if for any reason I won't be able to for a while, I will warn you guys. Anyways, enjoy the chapter! I tried to make it longer.

Chapter 8: Yin and Yang

The next morning I was eating breakfast, which included a nutritional bowl of ramen and a glass of milk, both of which I had bought the night before with my small amount of money, when I was interrupted by a loud knock at the front door. I got up and went to open it. As soon as I did Ino burst through with a few bags in her hands.

"Hey Tibi! I brought some stuff for you!"

"Um…thanks. Why are you here at 8 in the morning and, more importantly, how do you know where I live?" I asked her.

"I asked Tsunade for your address last night and I'm here to give you your new wardrobe." Ino took her shoes off and hopped over to the living room, putting the bags she was holding on the coffee table. I walked over to her.

In the first bag, Ino took out a purple dress, short black tights, and a black sports bra. "Here, go try this on." She threw them at me. I caught them easily, sighed a bit, and went upstairs to the bathroom. I was quite surprised when I had changed.

The dress was form-fitting, purple (a shade lighter than Ino's clothing), sleeveless, and went down to my mid-thigh. It also flared out a bit at the bottom. The dress had a small black belt that I tied into a bow in the back. It had a small collar and the v-neck design showed off a small amount of cleavage. I had the sports bra and short black tights (it was hidden underneath the dress) on underneath. I strapped on my shuriken holster to my right thigh and put the pouch on my back waist, right on the belt. The outfit looked really good on me, I had admit. Ino knows her stuff.

I went back downstairs. As soon as Ino saw me she shrieked and glomped me. "You look so cute Tibi-chan! I knew that outfit would complement you perfectly."

I smiled, "Thank you for giving it to me."

"Of course. I also brought some night clothes, extra under clothes, some casual wear, and a few other things." She motioned to the other three bags.

"I-Ino! You didn't have to give me so much stuff!" I stammered.

"Psshh, it's fine. I wanted to do this."

At that moment we heard another, more gentle, knock. I opened the door again to see Hinata, Sakura, and Tenten. "Let me guess, Tsunade told you my address." They all nodded.

'For someone who doesn't fully trust me yet, she likes to give out my address like its candy.' I thought.

I let them inside. Ino squealed when she saw them, "Hey you guys! Do you like the outfit I chose for her?"

"It looks very nice on you." Hinata said.

"Yeah. The color suits you." Tenten added. Sakura nodded.

"Thank you." I noticed that Hinata was holding two bags. "What's in those, Hinata?"

"Oh, um, I brought you some hygienic things like a hairbrush, shampoo, deodorant, and others. To help you start out with. If that's alright?" Hinata lifted up the bags.

I took them from her. "Yes. Of course it's alright. Thank you."

"I brought you some weapons." Tenten held out a few scrolls. "To help you start out."

I took them and laid everything down on the coffee table. "Thanks so much you guys."

Everyone smiled. "Hey, wanna head outside to start training?" Tenten asked.

"Sure." I nodded. I went into the kitchen to throw away my ramen and drink the rest of my milk before putting the glass in the sink. I put on my black ninja sandals, grabbed Tenten's scrolls, and headed out. We were heading across the clearing when I heard some voices. I looked down the path to see Neji, Lee, Kiba and Akamaru, Shino, Shikamaru, Choji, and even Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari coming this way.

My mouth dropped. "May I ask why everyone is here?"

Lee ran up to me, "We are all here to see what you can do, young blossom. We are here to train you!"

"I'm just here to watch actually." Shikamaru said.

"Same with me." Shino added. Choji, Neji, Kiba, Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari nodded their heads in agreement.

"I feel hurt you guys." I faked sadness.

"Yeah whatever, let's go over by the stream over there." Tenten lead me to the other side of the clearing where a moderate sized stream was.

"First of all, do you have any taijutsu experience?" Lee asked me.

I nodded, "Yeah. Back home I took karate, jujitsu, and gymnastics." This may or may not have stemmed from me wanting to be more ninja like.

"Good! Let us see how good you are at it." Lee came after me. This surprised me so I jumped out of the way. Lee jumped sideways and went to kick me. My instincts kicked in. I blocked his kick and jumped around. I got behind him and went to punch his spine but of course he, being a taijutsu expert, easily deflected it. This went on for a while, us blocking, kicking, and punching. I knew he wasn't trying as hard he could but I didn't care. This was kinda fun. Lee was in front of me, running to kick me. At the last second I dropped down and did the splits, causing him to go over my head. I jumped up and went to punch him. He was able to get his balance before I could land. He grabbed my fist, stopping me. I was panting a bit while he was perfectly okay.

Damn he's good.

"I think that's enough for now, Lee." Neji voiced.

Lee let go of my fist and nodded. "Yeah. You are really good Tibi."

I slightly blushed, "Thanks."

"We should see what she has chakra-wise." Sakura chimed in.

"Alright. Do you know what chakra is?" Ino asked me.

"Yeah. Chakra is essential in using even the most basic techniques. It's the manifestation of your physical and spiritual energy. The chakra runs through the body through the chakra pathway system that is similar to the cardiovascular system. I could go on but…"

"Yeah I think you understand it pretty well. The question is, do you have it and can you wield it." Sakura said.

She walked up to me and gave a small square of paper. "This is special chakra paper which is used to find out what ones nature affinity is. All you have to do is pour a small amount of chakra into it and it will either ignite, split in two, wrinkle, crumble away, or become wet."

I took the paper from her, "How do I pour chakra into it?"

"You just kinda…do. It's hard to explain." She told me.

"Focus your mind and latch on to your chakra. Feel yourself pull the chakra out of your hand and onto the paper. Eventually it will become second nature." Hinata helped.

I nodded," Okay. I'm gonna try." I closed my eyes and focused. I felt my heartbeat and focused on that. I tried to feel my blood going through my veins from my heart and tried to feel my chakra that way since the two systems are so similar. I focused on that down my right shoulder, into my arm, and into my hand. After some time I felt a small flicker. I jolted a bit and opened my eyes.

"I-I felt something."

"Good. Try again." Sakura said.

I closed my eyes and did it again. I felt the flicker faster this time and held onto it. I forced it to stay in my hand and travel onto the chakra paper. I waited for the paper to react.

But it didn't.

I looked at the paper in my hands, "Why isn't the chakra paper doing anything?"

"Did you put chakra on it?" Tenten asked.

"Yeah I felt it. I know I did."

'What's going on?' I thought worriedly.

Neji activated his byakugan. "She has chakra but it's….different. It looks and acts like chakra but I don't know. It's just different."

Hinata activated hers as well. "Yeah. I see it too."

"Could it be because she's from a different world?" Ino asked.

"Probably." Sakura agreed." Try it again Tibi just a bit harder."

"Alright." I focused even harder. All I saw was the paper and my hand. I pulled more of my chakra into the paper and waited.

Suddenly, it burst into red and blue almost flame like wisps. I shrieked and jumped back. The blue flame went to my right hand while the red flame went into my left hand.

"What's happening!? I don't remember you saying anything about this, Sakura!" I freaked out.

"I didn't know that could happen!" Sakura defended.

"Your chakra seems to be reacting differently than normal." Neji, who still had his byakugan activated, voiced," It seems like your affinity is both yin and yang release. Which is quite rare."

The flames went away, "Yin-yang release? What exactly is that?" I asked.

"Well, Yin is the spiritual energy. That's where genjutsu and stuff like that comes from. Yang is the physical energy where medical ninjutsu is thought to come from. If joined together it creates yin-yang release which is supposed to be powerful if fully utilized." Shikamaru explained.

"I see." I breathed. "Why me then? Why is it my affinity?"

"Who knows." Tenten said. Everyone kind of just stood around for a while, not knowing what to say or do.

Lee spoke first, "Want to continue training? We could start teaching you how to walk up trees, walk on water, and such."

I nodded, "Yeah. Sure."

For the rest of the morning I trained. I was able to go almost halfway up one the trees by lunch time. Walking on water, however, was a different story. I failed epically.

Oh well.

Throughout the morning people left or stayed. Gaara and his siblings left for another meeting with Tsunade. By lunch everyone had left except Ino, Sakura, Hinata, and Tenten. They decided to treat me to lunch which I tried to decline but they wouldn't let me. We went to Ichiraku Ramen which was absolutely amazing.

No wonder Naruto loved that place so much.

We talked about my world and how it was different yet similar to this one. I also told them about how I had died. I had to explain what a gun was of course.

After lunch they decided to show me around the village which I was very grateful for. By the end of the afternoon I felt as if I could be great friends with them.

I was happy.

At dusk we said our goodbyes and went our separate ways. I decided to go up to the top of the Hokage monument for a while before going home. I sat at the edge and looked out at the view.

"Konoha really is a beautiful place." I said to myself.

"It is." I heard a voice say from behind me.

I turned around to see Gaara.

"Oh hello. You slightly scared me." I said.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."

"No it's fine."

Gaara walked up and sat beside me on my right. We sat in comfortable silence for a few minutes.

"How did the rest of your training go?" Gaara spoke.

"It went alright. I can kinda walk up trees and I fail at water. I'm still confused about my affinity though."

Gaara nodded. "Understandable. I told Tsunade about that. I hope it is alright."

I nodded. "Yeah its fine. She deserves to know anyways."

More silence.

"I remember back in my world how I always wished Naruto was real and that I could visit. My mom and older sister always thought I was a weird child. Dad would just chuckle and go on with his life. But now my wish has come true. I just had to die…." I stopped when I came to a realization.

Gaara noticed, "What's wrong?"

"I-I never got to say goodbye to them…." I explained to him how I had died. I started tearing up.

"I will never finish high school or go to college. I will never hang out with my friends anymore or get my drivers license. I had just gotten my permit gosh darn it. I will never do anything there anymore…."

Gaara listened to me even though he probably didn't understand half the things I said. "I am sorry Tibi."

Even though it was a simple sentence I could feel the sincerity in his voice. I wiped my eyes and sniffled. "It's okay. Thank you Gaara."

"You are welcome. I leave to go back to Suna tomorrow morning." He said changing the subject."

"I see. Good luck traveling back." I smiled.

"Thank you."

We sat and talked for another hour until the sun went down. I would laugh every now and then and he would smile. He told me about how he had just became the Kazekage a few months ago and how it's been both happy yet hard at the same time. I said that I was happy for him and has his back.

Eventually he stood up and motioned for me to do so as well. I did and looked at him.

"I will take you back to your house." He said.

"N-no. You don't have to."

"I want to." He held out his hand and I took it. Sand started to envelope us. I closed my eyes and felt as if I was being lifted off the ground. Finally, I felt my feet touch the ground again. I opened my eyes to find that I was on my front porch.

"Woah. That was so cool!"

"Thank you. Good luck with everything Tibi."

"You too. And thanks for saving me. Sakura told me about the meadow thing."

Gaara tilted his head. "Of course. See you later."

"Bye bye." And with a wirl of sand, he was gone.

I smiled and went inside my home.

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