Hi guys! Thank you, all of you who have read the first chapter and enjoyed it and a big extra special thanks to EmilyMichele who reviewed. It was my first one and it made me all warm and happy inside so thank you so much. This chapter is dedicated to my first reviewer.

Oh and I'm really sorry again, please don't harm me. This chapter is still kinda intro-ish cuz I didn't want to just jump in without letting you know how they got there. Things do start happening from here though so the next chapter is packed with Akatsuki goodness, we for us anyway.

I do not own Naruto, if I did, Sakura would be 120% more awesome.

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I awoke to the sound of birds chirping. I cringed as a bright light was forced into my eyes.

'Oh thank god.' Came a soft hoarse voice. 'Get up lazy, we can't stay here.'

'Huh?'

'I said that we can't stay here. We're in the middle of a forest...somewhere.'

I sat up slowly feeling an ache in every muscle in my body. My skin felt burnt like I'd lain in the sun too long.

'What happened to me? I feel like shit.'

'You don't look so hot either.' Sam said teasingly kneeling next to me. He was a mess. His clothes were torn and his face was scratched and bleeding.

'Holy hell! What happened to you?' I reached out to touch his face but he pulled back.

'I'm fine. We fell...from up there.' He turned slightly and pointed to a broken branch some twenty feet off the ground.

'We should be dead. How did we survive that?'

'Well I hit a few branches and landed in a pile of leaves and you...well you landed on me.'

I winced, I wasn't the lightest individual. 'Sorry bout that.'

'You're not that heavy you know.' He said seeming to read my mind.

'Anywho...why are we in a forest?'

'I have no idea.'

'Oh, okay.'

As soon as I was able to walk, my muscles felt like noodles, we began to look for a way out. We found a dirt road within 15 minutes but after travelling for more than three hours, we still hadn't found civilisation. Sam had been silent and thinking for most of the trip but had refused to share any of his thoughts with me. I assumed that he was trying to figure out how we had gotten here, same as I was, but he never said so much as a word. We had stopped, for the 50th time at least, so that I could rest. I decided then that I had enough.

'Sam, listen, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I didn't mean a word of it. I was having a bad day and Fr...well I shouldn't have taken it out on you. I'm sorry. Frankly you're a genius and if anyone can figure out what's happened to us, it will be you. So will you please start talking to me again!'

'Sorry, what?'

'Urgghhh! Sam! Where the hell are we?'

'I'm not ready to tell you yet.'

'Say what?'

'I'm,'

'I get that, but why? Do you even know?'

'Know? Not really. I have a couple of theories which I am sure have occurred to you as well but I don't want to jump to conclusions. They sound too outlandish to,'

'Shut up and tell me so I can agree with you.'

'Shut up or tell you? Which one?'

'I hate you Redhead!' I said smiling.

'Back at you Demiblonde.' He replied a smile tugging at his lips.

It seemed funny that after all that had happened it would take some weird shit like this to make us friends again. He sighed and sat down next to me on the grass. Looking at the road , he began to speak.

'As far as I can see there are two main possibilities. One is that I am hallucinating and none of this is happening and the other is that we really, somehow left the lab without either of us being conscious and somehow ended up here.'

I pinched myself hard on the arm, yelped and then pinched him.

'Ow! Shit! Okay! We're really here then.' He sighed then continued. 'Given that conclusion, then our being here is obviously tied to what happened in the lab,'

I cut him off, 'You never did tell me what happened!'

'Well, I didn't want you to say I told you so. When your bag burst you water bottle fell and shattered. Water went everywhere; you were standing in a pool of it. It came into contact with the repaired wire and there was a surge of some kind.' He looked up at me then, his blue, blue eyes suddenly piercing. He had never looked at me like that before. 'You...you were being electrocuted. I didn't know what to do. I tried to knock you away and we were suddenly here.'

'You tried to knock me away? Are you crazy? You could have been killed you idiot.' I replied angrily scared that we could have both died because a stupid reusable bottle and electrical tape.

He didn't reply just lay back on the grass.

'Anyway, given that we were mysteriously transported and we were...shocked by an atom compressor, I think one of three things could have occurred. One, we could have been teleported. Two, we've been sent into another dimension or three, we've been sent back in time.'

My first thought was no way! My second was; why the hell were we waiting around when we could be finding out where and when we were?

'Get up, lazybones! Rest time is over! This road has got to lead somewhere!'

I was so busy yanking him to his feet that I didn't see the satisfied smirk that crossed his face.

We had been travelling for about an hour when we came to a small village nestled in the dip between two hills. I was so excited it took all of Sam's persuasion to prevent me from rushing off. Instead we stood at the top of the hill while he squinted down at the place. I was bouncing on the balls of my feet, I was so excited. He literally had a hand circling my arm to keep me in place.

'Come on Sam! We can't stay here forever. The easiest thing to do is ask someone what year this is and where we are. Can we just go already!'

'No and be quiet. If we act like tourists someone is going to kill us, either because it's suspicious or to rob us. We need to have some idea where we are first, and then we'll go down.'

I was about to protest when he added, 'And, we don't even know if they speak English or any language either of us has ever heard of, so no, not yet.'

After that I turned and began to study the village too. Most of what I noticed I had seen before but if he was going to keep me here, I may as well take it all in. The village wasn't very large. The houses were mostly two or three stories tall and they all had chimneys though it wasn't cold. In fact it was kinda warm. I rolled up the sleeves of my shirt and began to fan myself with my hands. The streets were mainly packed dirt but electrical wires ran from poles above the houses. There were no signs of cars and the streets were too narrow to accommodate them anyway. There was writing everywhere but from the distance I couldn't see them clearly much less make out what they said.

'Come on.' He said suddenly releasing my arm. I was off like a runner before he grabbed my hand and held me back...again. I scowled at him.

'We have to go slowly. We don't want to seem to be charging the gates now do we?'

'Fine...killjoy.'

He laughed then. It was a good sound. I didn't know what he found so funny. I always seemed to be a fount of amusement for him and I rarely ever knew why. I mean, sometimes, I would say or do stupid stuff to make him laugh but...well sometimes I wasn't. I wasn't sure what to make of that but I was happy when he was happy. He had a really nice laugh, very masculine and guffaw-ish.

'One last thing Ms History major, does any of this look familiar to you? Have you read about a place like this?'

I thought for a minute, 'I get the feeling that I should know this but I can't seem to place it. It's funny that they have electricity and no cars though. I think we'll know better when we can find out what language they speak. This place has kind of a world war 2 feel to it, you know, like a rural town in a world where technology hasn't quite taken over yet...' I trailed off not quite sure where I was going with this. 'Anyway, I'll have a better idea when we find out about the language. Well, at least I hope so. For all we know this could be an entirely different world or a different timeline even. You ever saw that TV show , Sliders?'

'I don't think so.'

'Never mind then. Let's go already!' I said, suddenly impatient again.

He sighed as I all but towed him to the gates.

A week had passed in this strange place and when I say strange, I mean strange. I was beginning to have a strange and aweful idea about where we were but I simply couldn't bring it to Sam as yet. Even though Sam could fathom, time travel, multiple dimensions and teleportation, I am sure that he would laugh himself sick at what I was thinking. I sighed and put the dishes very gently into the sink. This was not how I imagined travelling to a different dimension would be. We had barely been in town five minutes when my stomach had rumbled piteously. I had been quick to hide it but Sam had heard and had insisted that food places would be a good place to gather information. The problem was, however, that our currency, paper currency at that, was not known or accepted in that village. We were lucky that one of the vendors we had questioned had needed some staff urgently or we would've probably starved to death by now. Sam disagreed. He thought we would have turned thieves by now but I couldn't believe that I would ever do that. The old man who owned the food hut, they sold fried stuff, tempura he called it, had let us have a little room at the back of the stall. It wasn't free by any means, we had to clean up before he got there in the morning but I still think he was very generous. He told us that his last set of staff quit after being threatened by some of the rougher elements in the town. I personally hadn't seen the rougher element but I had been forbidden by Sam to so much as talk to anyone when he wasn't there. It wasn't really a problem, customers wanted their food and usually nothing else and I spent a lot of time washing greasy dishes. It wasn't wasted time by any means. I used it to think and it was during this time that I realised where we were and I also realised that I needed proof because as I said, Sam was never going to believe me.

'Erica, there is a customer at the front!' The old man shouted to me from behind his station at the fryer.

'Hai, Higachi san.' The language was another thing that puzzled me. As far as I knew, they were speaking English but Japanese words would pop out every so often and all the writing was in Japanese. Weird.

'Good day, can I take your...' I froze, I simply froze. My heart beat so fast I almost passed out. No effing way!

The man sitting behind the counter looked beautiful and bored. He had a high blonde ponytail with a long silky sort of bang covering one of his blue eyes. He wasn't wearing his black cloak with the clouds but I knew who he was anyway. I stopped myself from speaking lest something stupid come out. He turned to look at me and then back out unto the street. My thought, Oh My God! He is gorgeous! This was followed by wait, shouldn't he be dead? I shook myself and approached him. I had to be sure that he was who I thought he was and if he was who I thought he was, then, I would finally have my proof.

'Oh hello there sir, what can I get for you today?'

He looked at me and then away to the street. Okay...

'Sir, would you like to order something?'

Apart from a tightening of his lips and an annoyed sort of sneer, he gave no indication that he had even heard me.

'I like your outfit but you know, it would look even nicer on my bedroom floor...' I smiled provocatively at him. He shot me a look of disbelief followed by suspicion.

I was about to say something even more irritating to him when Sam suddenly appeared carrying a large sack of...something. I turned back in time to see the blonde get up and disappear into the alley opposite the stall.

'What are you watching?' Sam asked wiping sweat from his face.

'Deidara of the Akatsuki. Sam, we need to talk.' I turned and handed him a scrap of cloth that used to be my shirt sleeve. He used it to finish wiping his face.

'What about Ric?' he sounded concerned and exhausted.

'I know where we are.'

And that's the end of chapter 2, folks. Stay tuned for more. I've written the next chapter already but I'm not sure when I'll post it. I want my updates to be regular but I have exams in a week so I want to hoard what I've written so far in case I don't get a chance to write any more for a while. I will post again by Saturday. Thanks again for reading. Byee.