And, enter: Antoinette! Who's based on Akasaku123, for those of you who don't read AU's at the bottom of the page. You really should, you know. You'd be surprised at what kind of information you can gather.

Big thanks to Lavender Queen, who holds the First Reviewer Award, and Akasaku123 and EmeraldStorm7, who both helped me write this chapter! The Akamaru part was completely EmeraldStorm7's idea. :D

Also, massive thanks to the reviewers: AoiAoiSky, EmeraldStorm7, a guest called Hi, Lavender Queen, and... Is that it? I WANT MORE REVIEWS!

Back in Earth, a girl was worrying over her two friends. Antoinette missed Emiko's blunt and merciless nature, and Aiko's strange and logic-lacking antics. Whatever the police said, she didn't believe they were dead. She knew they would not be dead. She could feel it.

Actually, she couldn't feel it. She knew they were dead, but she couldn't face the truth. She saw her phone, and felt as though she had tried again. Their phones went missing with them, so it was probably near their c- cor-corp... Bodies. Maybe someone would be lead to the scene of their d- dea-disappearance.

Sighing, Antoinette picked up her phone again. "The trouble I go through for those two," she grumbled to herself, before pressing Aiko's number and holding her phone to her ear. Maybe they were lost.

To be honest, she highly doubted it herself. But maybe someone who was nearby would pick up and give her some information.

Her phone rang, and rang, and rang. Then, all of a sudden... The call got through!

"Hello!?"

"Antoinette?"

"Um, who's there?" Antoinette asked, her tone of voice suddenly polite. She wouldn't get any information if she was rude.

"It's me, Aiko. Who did you expect? You called MY number, right?"

"...What kind of sick joke is this?"

Antoinette's voice cracked at the end. She couldn't believe it. Here she was, having trouble believing that her two friends were dead, and now, some idiot was messing around with Aiko's phone, unaware she was dead, unaware that they were rising Antoinette's hopes to crush them brutally again.

"You fucked-up fucktard," she growled. "You're holding the phone of a dead girl."

"What are you talking about, Antoinette? It's me, Aiko! Have the gummy bears confuddled your mind or something? And what d'ya mean, 'dead'?"

Antoinette's shoulders shook as tears flowed down her cheeks. The impostor sounded exactly like Aiko, and she realized just how much she missed them, as the grief hit her afresh. She hung up, crying so hard she wouldn't have been able to reply even if she knew what to say.

No. It wouldn't do good to cry. How could she find Emiko and Aiko if she was crying too hard to talk?

And with that, Antoinette dried her tears, and began to look for Emiko's number on her contact list.

Aiko was dragging Emiko to the children's playground. It was one of the safest places in all of Konoha. So safe, in fact, that parents would often drop their kids off there and go wherever they need to go. That was the one reason babysitters weren't needed at Konoha - the playground itself was like a free and fun babysitter.

Emiko noted two things. One, Aiko was acting strange and two, for once, there was no one in the playground. Aiko headed straight for the swings, Emiko sat down with the book she managed to grab before she was dragged away, and soon, the sun went down and the moon peeped up. Well, it was really soon, but it certainly seemed soon.

Aiko had fallen asleep on the swing, and, in the end, fell off. Emiko was still wide awake, and still reading Artemis Fowl, a book which she had actually got from Earth. She didn't feel as though she had to pick Aiko off the ground and onto a bench. So she carried on reading.

A figure appeared. The silhouette, as that was all she could see with the limited light, looked threatening, and she was already on her feet and in a defensive stance, regardless of the fact that she had not mastered genjutsu and only knew the basics of taijutsu.

The silhouette, it turned out, was just Kiba. Emiko relaxed, and sat again. She knew him as Aiko's friend.

"Hey," he said in greeting, raising a hand. "You're Ayame Emiko, right? Aiko's friend who was interrogated?"

"Yeah," was her short reply.

"Friendly," Kiba muttered, and he sat next to her.

"Watcha reading?" he asked cheerfully, trying to make conversation.

"A book."

"What kind of book?"

"The type you read."

Akamaru grew bored and jumped off Kiba to wonder over to the swings. Kiba wished he could do the same - Emiko appeared to be glaring at him (she wasn't really - she just wanted to look closer at the triangles on his face).

"What's your book called?" Kiba bravely attempted to carry on, despite the awkwardness of the situation.

"Artem-"

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

Kiba jumped up to help Aiko, but Emiko shoved him out of the way and on to the grass in order to get to Aiko again. Kiba began to get up and follow, and saw Emiko freeze in front of Aiko's once-sleeping-now-wide-awake form. Kiba ran over.

"What happened?" he asked. Aiko was sitting up, eyes wide, unable to comprehend what had just happened.

"Akamaru... PISSED on me..."

Emiko had already sat down and got back to her book. Kiba bit back a laugh as he helped Aiko to her feet.

"...pissed on me... pissed... on me..." Aiko was still muttering. Kiba snickered, then straightened his face as Aiko glared at him. She suddenly began to start punching him. Kiba yelped as each strike struck, and whimpered as she began to kick him.

"Looks like Kiba only just found out that Aiko's even more violent than me..." Emiko said to herself, before returning to her book.

PLEASE ANSWER THE PAST QUESTIONS! Okay, so the 'fave Akatsuki member' one was just curiosity, but I really need to know if you think Aiko's annoying, or Emiko's a bitch, or both.

I AM SO SORRY, I WAS GOING TO ADD THE AKATSUKI, BUT I COULDN'T! I promise you they shall be in the next chapter. :D

TWO questions, since hardly anyone answered the Aiko and Emiko one:

Q1) Do you think Aiko is annoying or that Emiko is a bitch?

Q2) Who do you prefer, Aiko or Emiko?

Love you all, so REVIEW!

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