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It was morning. The sun was shining high, the breeze blew gently by, and the sounds of splashing water and playful laughter were heard to the ears of a light pink female cat. She was lying down, face-up on a beach chair near a hotel swimming pool wearing nothing but a white cotton robe.

She groaned a little and slowly opened her jade eyes, shielding them with her hand because of the bright sunlight. As her eyes adjusted to the light, the cat began to wonder if what happened the day before was just a dream. One look at her light pink hands confirmed it.

"Oooh… It wasn't a dream. I really did turn into a cat ~nya." Her hand slapped over her mouth after hearing herself say 'nya' once again. Sakura couldn't understand it. She could remember falling… but that was just about it.

'What happened to me? Why do I look like this?' she thought. 'And… what happened to Sasuke and Naruto?'

Tears formed in her eyes at the thought that she'd never see either of them again (mostly for Sasuke). Just as she was about to face facts, her cat ears perked up. She heard something come her way.

3.599 seconds later, Sonic was right in front of her just when she was starting to sit up.

"You're awake! I was a little worried for a second. Are you okay now?" he asked with a smirk. Sakura screamed in shocked surprise and fell back down on the chair. Sonic's ears flattened against his head after the scream, but then went back up.

Sakura backed up, shaking violently but trying to keep a brave front. Since she was weaponless and couldn't use any jutsu, she had no way of defending herself. "You again!" she exclaimed. "Who or what are you???"

This took Sonic aback. "You don't know? I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, of course. You've never heard of me?" he asked, a bit dumbfounded. Sakura just shook her head hard.

The blue hedgie folded his arms across his chest, a bit confused. "Well I'll be darned." he muttered to himself.

Suddenly, a certain someone came running into the swimming pool area, out of breath and exhausted. "Damn…. you… run.. fast…" Naruto said in between breaths. Sakura looked over to where the red orange fox was, not recognizing him as Naruto at first.

Another good look at him revealed that the fox had spiky blonde hair and the Konoha leaf headband along with an orange jumpsuit. Her eyes widened. "Naruto??" she exclaimed. "Is that you??"

Once he caught his breath, Naruto noticed the light pink cat, smiled widely, and ran up to her while happily shouting, "SAKURAAAAAAAA~~!!!"

An anime style vein throb appeared on Sakura's head, then she stood up and punched him hard in the face! Naruto flew back a few feet only to land on all fours before standing up; all nine of his tails were fanned out.

"Na. Ru. To…." Sakura fumingly started. "YOU ARE SO DEAD ~NYA!!!"

The fox's eyes widened in horror as the pink cat charged straight at him. Before he could run away, Sonic zoomed up behind Sakura and grabbed hold of her arms, holding her back. "Calm down! Calm down!!" he exclaimed while restraining her.

Sakura hissed at Sonic and rapidly hit him in the noggin just to make him let go. The robe began to slip off her shoulders and she didn't even realize what she was even wearing! Sonic blushed and shut his eyes after seeing the cat girl's naked torso, whispering to her, "Y-Your… um.. bathrobe…. it's, um.."

Before he could finish, Sakura looked down, now noticing what she was wearing. Her eyes widened in pure embarrassment which then changed to a look of pure rage in an instant. "Why you…" she started, bringing her light pink hand up in the air. "PERVERT!!!"

SLAP!!!

Afterward…

"I swear that I didn't take your clothes off! You were unconscious and your clothes were soaked, so I called up room service!" Sonic exclaimed, wincing as Tails applied an ice pack on his red swollen cheek.

Sakura- now dressed in her own semi-dry clothes- just glared suspiciously at the blue hedgie. "Liar! You did take 'em off ~nya!!"

"Now hold your horses, if there's one thing I wouldn't do, its lying." said Sonic. Sakura just folded her arms across her chest, not really believing him.

Sensing the tension in the air, Naruto quickly changed the subject. "Uh, hey.. Sonic, right? I have a question…. WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?!?!" he said.

An anime sweatdrop formed on both Sonic's and Tails's heads at that. "You guys really are foreigners, huh?" said Sonic, questioningly.

Tails took over at that point by saying, "This is a hotel."

"That's not what I meant!" Naruto exclaimed angrily.

"Oh. Well this is Station Square. It's a city…. Do you two know what a city is?"

The two confused shinobi shook their heads as if to say 'no'. Both Sonic and Tails stared at one another, then back at Naruto and Sakura. It was just too weird. First there were the earthquakes, then the bright light… and now two strangers appear out of nowhere right after that! This got them thinking.

Naruto tilted his head to one side, staring at the hedgehog and fox for what seemed like hours before looking over at Sakura. "Hey Sakura-chan," He said, getting Sakura's attention. "Just curious, but…. did you-."

"See Sasuke? No I haven't." Sakura interrupted, saying it as if she had read his mind. Her expression became one of depression after mentioning Sasuke. "But… I hope he's okay."

Naruto looked away, arms crossed and pouting with a look of angry jealousy on his face. 'Honestly, what does she see in that bastard? All I see is that he's a stupid jerk who won't even think about looking at her or any other girl for that matter!' he thought. "Ah, knowing him I'll bet he'll be fine!" Naruto said. "But I wonder… what does he look like right now? If we do run into him, he'll possibly not be human anymore."

Sakura couldn't help but think about that either. 'Sasuke… where is he?' she thought.

Sonic removed the ice pack off his cheek as he stared at the two. He became curious about them at first, but then the memory of seeing Tails crash aroused in his mind. He turned to his little buddy and said, "Hey Tails. I just remembered. What made you crash like that? It's not like you to actually let that happen. And you could've used my plane the Tornado, ya know."

Tails snapped out of his train of thought, turning to Sonic, then smiled as if he was proud of himself. "Oh, that? That plane was just a prototype for a new power source I found back at the Mystic Ruins." He said. "I didn't want to test it on the Tornado for obvious reasons. One, it might suffer from an overload of power and explode. And two, it's too risky to use it without testing it first."

Sonic nodded, understanding that. "What kind of new power source were you testing out anyway?" he asked. This attracted Naruto and Sakura's attention for they were now staring at the two friends, listening to every word being said. They had a hard time finding out what a plane was, since Konoha didn't have anything like that.

Tails grinned from ear to ear as he pulled out a purple emerald. "Ta-daa! This is it!"

Sonic's eyes looked like they were about to pop right out of their sockets right now at the sight of the dimly glowing jewel. "No way! A Chaos Emerald?!" he exclaimed. Tails nodded.

"Yep! I just happened to find it while I was taking a stroll around the ruins. It has a massive amount of power, so I thought about using it as a power source for the Tornado." the young kitsune said. His eyes then shifted to Naruto and Sakura, who were now staring at the Chaos Emerald in wonder and amazement.

There was silence for a while, then…

"WOW!! That thing looks SO COOL!!!" the red-orange fox exclaimed.

"But… what is it?" This came from Sakura. Tails smiled at them.

"It's called a Chaos Emerald." he explained. The two furry shinobi 'oooh'ed at that.

"… So, what does it do?" Naruto asked.

Sonic scratched his head a bit. "Well… there's a lot of things to explain.." he started.

"Then we can discuss about it on our way to the Mystic Ruins!" Tails eagerly replied. Sonic turned to his little buddy in confusion. "Well, I'm going back to my workshop to really test out this new power source on the Tornado. I wanted to ask if you'd like to join me, but if you have other plans Sonic, I-"

The blue hedgie playfully ruffled the three strands of hair on the kitsune's head, smirking as usual. "Other plans? No way lil' buddy! I find what you did interesting! I'll come." He said.

"Oh," He turned to Naruto and Sakura. "You two can come too if you'd like!"

"Really?!" Naruto beamed. Sakura didn't look too sure about this, so before the hyper nine tailed fox could say 'thanks', she immediately covered his mouth.

"We'll think about it, first ~nya!" she said, a little nervously. Sonic looked confused, but he understood.

"Alright then. We'll wait for you by the train station, then. Meet us there when you two have made up your minds." He said before he and Tails left for the station.

Once they were alone, Sakura sighed in relief and uncovered Naruto's mouth. She then shot a cold glare at him. "Don't be an idiot Naruto! We don't know if we can actually trust them yet. Heck, we don't even know where we are ~nya!" she exclaimed. She looked down at her pink furry cat hands and took in a deep breath. "What happened to us?"

Naruto crossed his arms and was soon deep in thought. 'She has a point, I guess. But… that yellow fox saved my life when I was falling.. Hey wait a minute!' he thought. "Now I remember!" he said. The pink cat turned to Naruto, confusion written all over her face. "When we were falling, wasn't there a bright light?"

Sakura stared at the blonde fox for a long while, then it hit her as she remembered, too. "Now that you mention it, there was! I remember seeing a light and then…. and then… hmm," she pondered. "…Naruto, can you remember anything after that light?"

Naruto tilted his head to one side and folded his arms across his chest as he tried to remember, groaning as he thought harder. Sweat dripped down his forehead the more he thought. An anime style sweatdrop appeared on Sakura's head at this.

"Don't strain your brain trying to remember." She said, then sighed. "Anyway, from the look of things, we aren't in Konoha or anywhere else for that matter."

Naruto scratched his jaw for a while. "Sakura… you don't think… wait, what was I going to say?"

"I think we're in another world!" Sakura concluded, ignoring Naruto. This caught the red-orange kitsune's attention.

"No way!! For real?! Another world?!" he exclaimed excitedly. Sakura nodded.

"Haven't you noticed that there are no ninjas, shinobi, or ANBU here?" she pointed out, turning her head to a group of human women and men in bathing suits either in the pool or on the other side of it. Some were talking to each other and some were having fun. But they were humans.

Naruto's jaw dropped for a while, then he said, "Hey, how come they're humans and we're… not?"

Sakura shrugged. "Who knows? Then again, this world is unusual." She scratched her head a bit and pondered over the facts. "Hmm…."

She then snapped her fingers as she came to a conclusion. "That blue hedgehog must know some things about this place! As much as I hate to admit it, we might have to rely on him and his little friend for a while."

Now it was time for Naruto to be confused. "But you said-"

"Forget what I said, Naruto! Besides we have no weapons, no jutsu, no way of defending ourselves at the moment!"

The blonde fox raised an eyebrow. He then made the hand signs for his Shadow Clone Jutsu and called it out…. But nothing happened. He tried again. Still nothing. He then reached into his shuriken pouch only to find out that he had no shuriken!

"Crap!" he muttered, a little frustrated. He looked over at the pink cat, who was giving him a 'see what I mean?' glance.

"C'mon Naruto. Let's go meet up with those two." said Sakura as she walked towards the door leading her into the hotel. Naruto ran up to her, then said, "Um, Sakura-chan?"

"Yeah?" she questioned.

"We're supposed to meet them at a train station, right?" Sakura nodded. Naruto rubbed the back of his head and grinned nervously as he asked, "What exactly is a train?"

Things are starting to get interesting! *chuckles to self*

And for those of you who were expecting Sasuke to appear, please note that he won't appear for a while. Please try and bear with me... *runs as fast as I can while being chased by obsessive Sasuke fans*

Look forward to the next chapter... Once I finish it, that is! ^^ Until then!