Chapter 5: Surprise Attack

It had been three days since the little drunken tirade I had, yes I remembered it, and thankfully Jiraiya had more tact than I thought possible because I didn't hear a word from him about it.

Today was the day that we left this little hobble of a village and move one step closer to Konoha, aka my future prison and torture grounds. Yes I did plan to stay true to my drunken word, I wouldn't attempt escape anymore, what I had slurred that night was true. I really did have nothing to go back to, and more importantly no foreseeable way of getting back. Thought I did truly want to know one thing before I whole heartedly accept my inevitable fate.

How in the actual hell did I end up here?

Jiraiya is always mumbling about a ball of light that I apparently came from, but why? And how?

While I was contemplating this that damn perv was busy trying to flirt the front clerk into giving him a discount since he was a 'loyal and frequent' customer, and the young twenty something was eating it right up. Apparently his status as a Sannin really did woo the ladies and inspire awe. If only these people knew what kind of man he really was.

Turning away from him I started losing myself in other thoughts again, more specifically about what I was going to do about my idiotic slip up. I didn't have chakra so those mind readers had no way of getting into my psyche, but that didn't mean ninjas were above torture. I had to either convince Jiraiya to not tell his mentor or figure out a way to become useful enough to where they would want to keep me. Preferably in one piece. I knew how to fight so that wasn't a problem, but the lack of chakra and supposed foresight couldn't be looked over, plus that whole randomly appearing from a celestial glowing ball didn't help the case either.

A sudden thump and warmth on my shoulder pulled me from my depressing thoughth, alerting me that the perv had finished his flirting/hackling.

"Come on brat, were still a ways to go to get to Konoha," he shouted enthusiastically over his shoulder as he passed me. So I guess he got the discount after all.

The first few days went off without a hitch, keeping true to my word I no longer let the pieces of my half-baked plan linger in my mind, instead I just followed the idiot in front of me with no complaint. Well, not entirely complaint free. The heat in this place felt like Satan planted his ass crack in this valley, and I let Jiraiya know every chance I got, especially since it didn't look like the heat affected him one bit.

"For the hundredth time brat, there is nothing I can do about the heat!" he barked at me from his seat to my side, we had decided to take a break in a shaded clearing, "but you know what you can do?"

His voice dropped an octave, raising my eyebrow I glanced over at him. His old bastardly face painted pink with blush.

"You could always take off some of your clothes, that would definitely help," his hooded eyes lingering at my bountiful bosom. Grinding my teeth I let a slow smile spread across my face. Might as well get some amusement out of this.

Tugging on my red tunic low enough for my cleavage to be exposed I slightly leaned closer to the old fucker. Spreading my legs so that my shorts hitched up my thick thighs. I could practically see his silver beady eyes bulge out of his skull, with his stupid nostrils flared.

Now the bastard decided to sweat.

"That's true, it would help," sweetening the usual bitter edge to my voices, the bastard was really falling for it, "maybe you could. Help. Me. Take. Them. Off?"

Those little pauses in between was enough reassurance for Jiraiya, because the next thing I know he's lunging for my clothing. With his guard completely dropped.

Throwing my weight to the side he completely missed my breast, which he was aiming for, leaving his whole abdomen open for my left under hook. Throwing m shoulder into his extended neck. The force of it sent him right on his back gasping for air.

Straightening my clothes I got to my feet and loomed over his figure. Putting my foot right on the base of his crotched he stilled as I let the next few words out of my mouth.

"You think I'm just going to sit there and let you sexually harass me you old fucker?" I leaned down keeping eye contact the entire time, "It might have been cute the first few times, but then it becomes just down right disgusting, do you respect women Jiraiya?"

I leaned my sandaled shoe deeper into his crotch, small alligator tears formed at the corners of his eyes as he gave a quick nod. I knew and he knew he could get out of this situation, but the killing intent I was leaking was enough incentive for him to just let me finish my little rant.

"Then if you respect them then this whole situation must be a misunderstanding, right?" once again I leaned more into his old ass crotch, "This won't happen again right?"

Giving me a frenzied nod, I finally gave a tired sigh and removed my foot form his ancient junk. Walking over to another tree I planted my ass there and watched as the perv righted himself and regained his breath. Giving me a cautious once over he finally spoke.

"Where did you learn to do that?"

"Learn what?"

"That move you used just now, that didn't look like any taijutsu I've ever seen"

Glancing over at him he was leaned forward, both his hands on either of his folded knees, a dead serious look on his face.

"It was just some self-defense mixed with boxing, nothing fancy like taijutsu," came my uninterested reply.

"That was more than just some measly self-defense, and what exactly is 'boxing', and where did you learn it?"

"Boxing and Kick Boxing are forms of martial arts where I'm from and so is that form of self-defense," I snapped at him, "I learned both of them from my mother."

"Your mother?" his inquisitive eyes boring into the side of my head as I tried to ignore him.

"Yeah, she was a part of the militia of my country, a branch of it called The Army, she retired from it long before she had me," I told him, closing my eyes as I leaned my head on the tree behind me, "Are you happy now, you nosy bastard?"

There was a beat of silence before he spoke again.

"If you know how to fight, then why didn't you fight me when I caught you in the forest when we first met?" his tone was beyond serious now.

Not bothering to open my eyes I responded.

"Because I was fully convinced this was some sick dream and that at any moment I would wake up in my bed, in my home!"

"Ahh a dream, yes you did mention that, and does that thought have anything to do with what you said once I place the seal on you? About fuck the main characters and Uchiha and the other things?"

I didn't say a damn thing, instead opting to get my ass up and continuing my trek in the direction we were journeying in. Hearing a sigh for behind me Jiraiya lifted himself up and easily made his way to my side.

I wasn't going to give a damn thing up without a fight

A few more days passed in silence, the only thing spoken was when Jiraiya made it known we were a day or two away from Konoha, and my inevitable imprisonment.

Night was beginning to fall when it happened. We were making camo when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. Normally I would have rather set myself on fire before I got within two feet of the perv, but now I started inching towards him.

"Old man," I called out, but he ignored me, not liking his nick name.

"Jiraiya!" the urgency, plus the presence of his actual name caused him to stiffen and give me his full attention.

"What is it?" he looked around, probably seeing if he could sense anything.

"Are the shadows around here supposed to be that dark and move?" I said as I pointed to the tree just a few feet from us.

"Not unless there's a Nara around," he said as he finally turned his body in the direction I had just gestured to. And there it was a thick block of shadow that just radiated movement and intent.

"And are there any Nara nearby?" I whispered, not taking my eye off the spot.

"Not a chance," his hand inched towards his scroll.

Then it came, three inky appendages shot out form the shadow, two towards Jiraiya, one towards myself.

"Get behind me brat!" his hands began going through hands seals, way too fast for me to make out, so I took his command and threw myself behind his hulking figure.

"Ninja Art: Lion's Mane Jutsu!" he yelled. His long white hair sharpened itself and shot out to meet the offending tentacles. His living locks slicing right through the shadows, each dissolving in a purple mist, but that wasn't the last of them, seven more came from the exact same shadow. I saw Jiraiya's are move into what I assumed to be another jutsu, but before I could witness it I felt something.

Looking down there wrapped around my ankle was another one of those inky tentacles.

"Jiraiya!" was all I was able to get out before the appendage yanked me, hard. I was sent flying though this forest. Its vice like grip kept dragging me far away from the only help I had in this dimension.

Once we got to a part of the forest it deemed suitable it flung me into the nearest tree. Once I hit the ground I quickly scrabbled to get myself into a squared off position. Bringing my fist up and out I rocked back and forth as the blob of shadows lifted itself from the ground. Its once formless shape now took on a humanoid shape. And there where its face was supposed to be was a pure white past. Two black holes for 'eyes' and a large black grinning slit for a 'mouth'.

I swear I almost died from a fucking heart attack then and there. But as scared as I was on the inside, I kept that tight pose on the outside. Half the battle is faking it, as my mother would say.

Then it spoke, but that wasn't that part that really freaked me out.

Well it did, but more importantly it spoke English!

"You know, it took me quite a bit of time to find you," its voice was ironically a pleasant male bass tone, the slit meant to illustrate a mouth not moving once, "You didn't quite end up where you were supposed to, but not everything can go according to plan, now can it?"

I was absolutely frozen, but then it clicked. This thing was what brought me here. And if it could bring me here, then it could send me back. Keeping my stance I spoke out.

"You were the one who brought me here, right?" the figure gave a single nod, "Then you can send me back!"

"No unfortunately I can't, the jutsu is a sort of one way ticket if you will," its patronizing tone irking me further, "plus I need you for my master's plan."

That caught my attention. Its master? I couldn't remember Orochimaru or the Akatsuki having any creature like this at their disposal, so who the hell was this thing serving.

"Who's your master?"

"In due time little human," taking a step towards me it hunched itself over, " for now I'm going to need you to quietly come with me."

Fat chance, but I needed answers so I discreetly slid myself back. There to the right of its figure was an opening. One more question and I would make my move.

"Why me?"

A beat of silence followed, and then laughter.

The damn thing was laughing at me!

"Did I say something funny?!"

"Most certainly!" it actually had the nerve to hold its stomach in laughter, " You humans always believe that there is some special reason why things happen to you, did you ever think that you just happened to be the only human by our portal?"

Ahhh, so the explosion wasn't caused by the furnace, it was this fucker and his master's jutsu.

"Then let me try again, why my dimension?"

That got his attention. His laughter stopped and he straightened himself up.

"I'll show you,"

He shot forward, his figure almost slithering towards me. Taking a deep breath I let the adrenaline course through my veins. Not wasting any times I threw myself at the figure. Swerving under its extended left arm, I wrapped my right arm around his neck I brought my left knee to make contact with his ribs. Or so I thought.

All I was met with was a cold slimy mass of black goo. Needing the high ground I brought my right foot behind his legs and used the momentum and the speed of his run to flip us. In seconds I had him pinned to the ground, my breath coming in and out heavily at this point. I brought my left fist up ready to make contact when a third arm came shooting from the abdomen I was pinning down.

I solid thump echoed through the small patch of forest as the closed fist caught my chin, sending me flying a few feet back. Had I opened my mouth at any point I would have definitely bitten my tongue clean off. Pulling my legs over my head I rolled myself into a crouching position.

With a sickening twitch and twist the shadow figure righted itself.

"If that's all you have showing you why you're here is going to take a while~"

Son of a bitch

Launching myself at him again I brought my fist upward, planning to crack that piece of shit mask in half. Rather than being known for my speed I was often known for being a heavy hitter, ever since I was little I was told I was heavy handed. To make up for that I used the adrenalin rush I got from fighting and steady breathing to slow down the movements of my opponents. Now it wasn't always full proof, but I had pretty much gotten it down to a T, but even with all that I couldn't connect.

My fist was like an inch from its face when he just caught it. My entire weight ( a whole 158 pounds) and gravity on my side and he just wrapped his cold inky fingers around my wrist like I was a kid playing fight club. There, face to face, I stared into those dark pits of his eye holes and saw absolutely nothing.

I was completely out classed. This thing was just toying with me.

"Come now, you can do better than that… oh I know, I'll give you a hint!" he was patronizing me now, "You must have felt a surge of energy when you came to in his world. Even now you can probably feel it pulsing just beneath your skin. Now you may also feel a similar energy flowing all around you."

He was right. Since calming down and getting my bearings I did notice a weird buzzing that seemed to be happening in my body. Like something living was punch against my skin, trying to free itself. Then there was the river of warmth that seemed to be flowing through everything in this world. My mind supplied the word. Chakra. The most important thing to the people of this world, but that chakra was different than the buzzing inside of me, less raw.

So I didn't possess chakra

The energy, was that what he wanted?

"Good girl, I can see the wheels turning," with that I was suddenly air borne. Gravity made me its bitch by sending my crashing right into an especially gravelly patch of earth. Little pebbles piercing my skin, by the end of this, if I didn't die, I was in for some real bruises.

A shadow fell over me. Looming over me was the shadow figure. Its once normal arms were now formed to spear like tips.

"Connect the dots or these connect with you," then he launched them at me.

Time seemed to slow down as I took his words t heart. Feeling the buzzing energy in me quiver even faster I grabbed a hold of it, and in turn I felt it grab something else.

The river of warmth just underneath me. Pulling my arm up to block his attack I unconsciously tugged on both energies. A crack filled my ears as the world seemed to stop.

Cracking my eye open I half expected to be faced with the same oncoming spears, but instead there was a slab of earth shielding me from its attack. Earth from the very ground beneath me. Taking a shaky breath I slowly lowered my arm, and to my astonishment the slab of earth followed the movement flawlessly until it was in its rightful place. The buzzing energy uncoiled itself from the river, setting it free to its original place.

I just moved the fucking earth

A clapping sound brought my eyes back to the offending figure.

"Yes excellent!" it called out, " Your chi seems to control natural chakra quite well! I predict the other elements won't be much harder than that."

My dazed look traveled from my hand to his masked form

"Elements?"

"Yes silly girl! The cardinal elements: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, and their respective sub elements. And you're quite the little fighter definitely a high ranked genin or low rank chunin ability set, although you are slow and a tad awkward, those things can be easily remedied. Not to mention that little hindsight you have."

My eyes widened, there's no way this thing knew that.

"Oh don't look surprised, I know you've read the little story about this world, my master has been watching from afar since you got here. We couldn't be more pleased with the jutsu's selection from your world. Though all the humans from your world possess this sort of chi, not all of them have read the little series about this world, yes, you'll become quite handy."

It was too much. Too much too fast. My breathing sped up and my sweat began pouring. I was out classed in fighting and now with strategizing. I had always been praised for being a smart and quick thinker, but this thing made me look like a child! And it was just the servant of whatever master brought me here using a jutsu that possibly no one in this world knows of.

I was fucked

Its inky appendage was reaching for me when from seemingly nowhere a stream of fire split the area between the figure and myself. Whipping my head to the source of the fire I see that Jiraiya had finally caught up. I had never been happier to see a sex offender in my entire life.

"It would seem that he's beaten my puppets, oh well, you win some and you lose some I guess," his figure began to dissolve into the purple mist from the beginning of this fight, "I will leave you for the time being, do clean up your taijutsu and master some of the elements in my absents, nothing sort of a ripe fruits for my master, but I do promise you will see me again soon enough."

Wanting to know one last thing I opened my mouth,

"What do they call you?"

The once pleasant voice now hung heavy with seriousness.

"Rom"

And with that it….no, Rom was gone. And with him went all my answers, but he would be back, if his little regimen was anything to go by. I must have zoned out for a good second, because the next thing I know callused hands clasped either side of my shoulder. As disgusted as I should have been by Jiraiya's perverted touch, the warmth they radiated was extremely welcomed.

"Brat are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" his worried voice made me look up, straight into his silvery beady eyes.

I must have looked pretty pathetic then and there. A small, overly tanned, chubby girl, covered in bruises and small cuts, bleeding and broken form. Torn clothes and disheveled hair; cooper eyes the size of saucers.

I was really weak and in way over my head

And I needed help

"I'm ready to talk old man."

His eyebrows receding behind his head band

"I'm ready to tell you everything I know."

A/N dundundun! Well there's the ominous figure, or at least one of them. Im super tired, just finished finals and my first year of college yay! Some avatar shit happening, though im going off the premise that avatar is not common knowledge of my character so don't expect any referencing. Chi and Chakra are two separate spiritual energies so im setting this premise that parallel worlds would have paralleled spiritual paths, but I feel like im not that convoluted hahahaha! Sorry if the fight scene sucks, im not too good at writing those, hopefully ill get better, and sorry if somethings aren't exactly canon, I didn't follow the whole manga faithfully, but ill try my best to make it interesting. If your confused on anything just put it in the comments and I promise to clear it up later. Hopefully! Next chapter we should arrive at Konoha, and from there things begin to become semi canon! I love all of you thank you for giving my fanfic the time of day

Reviews and critiques encouraged, please be kind.

Cya next time!