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I felt this nagging feeling to open my eyes, but it was just so bright, I feared I would lose my sight if I dared to open them. There was just a burning sensation all over my face, which actually felt... good? I could feel my body, I concentrated hard enough to wear I could hear my heartbeat. Thump. Thump. Thump. It was steady, and I mentally let out a sigh as I realized I hadn't died on my journey. Suddenly, I heard something crunch underneath, and through my closed lids, I saw no more brightness, I squinted my eye open, and saw a man.
"Well, um, hello? Why are you out in the forest all by yourself?"
I screamed.
I mean, I didn't mean to, but this grey haired guy scared the crap out of me.
"Who the fuck are you?!" I exclaimed, covering my mouth with my hands. My voice... It changed!
"Didn't your parents ever teach you manners young lady? How rude..." He sighed, crouching down on his haunches.
"Excuse me? I'm actually 20!" I exclaimed, he rose an eyebrow at me.
"Well, I'm only seeing with one eye, but I'm pretty sure I can see that you're twelve or something close." My eyes widened.
"Oh... Well shit." I muttered. I actually laughed at my own voice as I cursed. This guy in front of me saw that I was obviously confused and cupped his chin with his hand.
"Well... Little child... Stay right here... I'm going to get my squad, and I will be right back." He promised. I narrowed my eyes at his retreating form.
"I'm not a little child, I swear!" I exclaimed after his leaving body. Wait! I could have asked him in the direction of Kono... Um... Well crap. I completely forgot what that dang village was called. My goodness, I'm too forgetful. Ms...- Kushina would have scolded me for that.
Now, I was alone and finally noticed the nature around me lush green trees surrounded me. It almost seemed perfect to climb them since they were huge. I decided to try and do that... BUT, my legs wouldn't even cooperate.
"Well fine then legs, be like that: all BIPOLAR! " I hissed, whacking myself in the forehead then crossing my arms over my chest in annoyance. I honestly cannot believe the weirdo with some anti gravity grey hair would just leave me here! It's been like!... Oh... It's only been 4 minutes.
I just sat in silence, I wasn't really thinking about anything particular at the moment. I looked in the satchel and found a few things of my own. My phone... which was dead probably cause of weird teleportation stuff, my makeup bag, a picture of me and Kushina smiling(even though she was in her older state), and money. Woah! Instead of the usual dollar bill for the U.S., it was a cool gold coins in place of it. I found it really fascinating that money from home had transferred.
I was just starring at one of the coins in fascination until something touched my shoulder scared the breath out of me. I shrieked, jumping to me feet pulling out the knife thingy that was given to me. I clumsily held it out to all three of them, until I noticed the old man with silver before was with them.
It didn't mean I was safe, but I felt down in my soul that I could trust him. I was probably completely wrong about that and would end up dead before I could say 'help'.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you." He chuckled, crinkling his only visible eye. I sighed, pulling my kunai slowly back in the bag. The green spandex dude was just standing with his hands on his hips, looking at me with a smile brighter than the sun." My name is Might Guy! Konoha's Sublime Green Beast of Prey! You are such a beautiful lotus with tons of youth in you! What is your name?"
Wait, did he just say Konoha? He did! For some odd reason, this felt a little... sketchy that I would somehow meet someone from Konoha on the first day of being in this world.
Whatever, I guess. It's better for me anyway.
"Good job going Guy, you've freaked her out." This lady with freaky but amazing red eyes sighed.
"Um... Well nice to meet you... my name is Charlotte. Charlotte Elaine Patterson." I introduced, making Guy smile. Gosh! Why does he smile too much?
"My name is Kurenai Yuhi." Kurenai smirked, hands on her hips.
I looked at the grey haired masked man, waiting for his name. He looked at me as if I had grown two heads or something.
"Kakashi Hatake."
I laughed for a second, actually it went by as a minute as I continued to laugh, I had to hold my stomach because the four letters in his name were making me laugh so hard.
"Kaka...shi! Oh my gosh that's gold right there!" I giggled, wiping the tears out of my eyes. I finally stopped laughing, and it became an awkward silence afterwards.
"Well... Kaka means shit in Spanish so..." I mentally beat myself up. I made myself look like a complete idiot in front of the three.
"Spanish? What a youthful... language?" Guy questioned.
"Yeah...It's a language..." I mumbled.
A few moments of silence occurred afterwards. Kakashi coughed.
"Well Charlotte, why are you on the outskirts of Konoha alone?" He asked, eying me with curiosity.
Well crap. What was I going to say? 'Oh I came from a different world to discover what was on the other side.' or how about,' I just went for a stroll, and decided to camp here.'
'The scroll...use the scroll...'
Huh? Holy cheese nuggets the scroll!
"Scroll!" I blurted before I could catch myself. I coughed again."I have a scroll for the... Hotage... Holage... Ho-"
"Hokage." Kurenai corrected," Where is your... scroll at?" Kurenai asked not really asking but more like stating.
I reached in the bag, feeling the leathery casing around it. I reached out meaning to hand it to Kurenai, But Kakashi instead took it.
"Who is the from?" Kakashi question, taking the leather off, starting to unravel the scroll.
"Wait! You can't read it!" I exclaimed, reaching for it back, but to no avail.
"We'll give you back the scroll if you tell us who it's from." Guy bargained, and Kakashi glared.
I swallowed, "Fine, but you can't freak out on me or something... okay?"
Once I had made sure that they wouldn't do something reckless, I sighed,"It's from Kushina Namikaze."
Everyone gave me a crazy you're-out-of-your-mind look. Kakashi's visible eye grew distant. All of them must have known Kushina and had had a past with her, but I couldn't stand their longing stares at me. Kakashi's eye bore holes into mine, and I couldn't help but look back at him. Even with his one dark eye, they held anger, disappointment, sadness, and too many other emotions to count.
"Kushina is dead." Kakashi hissed, lifting his headband thingy to reveal another eye. Suddenly, his other eye was as red as Kurenai's with comas in his eyes swirled violently.
"Kakashi no!" Kurenai pleaded, but it was too late. I was already knocked out, silently pleading that I would never see those eyes again.
Distant talking in the background had woken me up. I felt very uncomfortable and I soon realized why. I was laying in a hospital bed. I hated the hospital. I hated the smell of anti-bacterial sprays and soaps, the terrible food that I could never eat because of how disgusting it was.
I noticed two people speaking on the other side of the curtain, very softly. But I happened to pick up on Kakashi's voice.
"Kakashi, you know more than I do that this young lady could have done nothing wrong. She was never trained properly and was defenseless. You sent her under a genjutsu for letting your emotions get to you." A wise old voice corrected.
"Yes, Lord Hokage, I may have use the sharingan on her, but she spoke blasphemy. You know more than I do that Kushina has been dead for over 13 years." Kakashi argued, more politely though.
"Kakashi..."
I took this time instead of listening to their conversation to look for my satchel, more importantly the scroll. Did Kakashi read it? I sure hope not, not even I had read it. I hoped Guy and Kurenai had actually listened to me and had forced Kakashi to not read it. I hope that that Hokage person had actually read it.
Everything was white, and pure. White bed sheets, white covers, white pillows. White walls made me feel caved in, stuck. The ceilings were white too. There were two cabinets, lucky both were a dark oak color. A t.v. was mounted on the wall in front of me, currently off. A mirror sat directly against the back of the wall. My face... Oh crap. This was my younger face! I noticed my more chubby face, that I had gown out of as I got older. My light lime green eyes, so vibrant and childish, shown in the mirror. My emerald green eyes now gone and replaced. My hair was in a messy bun, just as I had it before I entered this world. I was younger, I was back in my thirteen year old body. How I found out my age was the scar running along my thumb where I had cut it in workshop was more of a fresh wound, but when I was... 20... The scar had faded away. Following my discovery, a beeping was something than rung in my ears. I looked down at my arm, seeing the IV protruding out of it. I was highly disliking this. I looked around everywhere for my satchel, under the bed, in the spare cabinets on the bedside table, on the chair 90 degrees from the bed, it was nowhere, meaning someone must have confiscated it.
I grew a small hatred for whoever had taken it. I put in highly on Kakashi though. He didn't have to go and knock a random stranger out. Before I could get back into bed, the curtain was rung open, and there Kakashi stood, along with a goofy old looking man who must have been who I had heard earlier.
I glared and him and he just stood there making eye contact with me, standing as tall as he could.
"Kakashi, you are dismissed. I would like to speak with her myself." The old man addressed, and Kakashi looked at him with distrust.
"Yeah, I think so too." I agreed, my glaring eyes never leaving his now frozen form.
This time, it was Kakashi who had glared at me. The old man in red and white robes sighed, rubbing his temples in frustration.
"Kakashi..." He warned. Kakashi gave one more glance off towards me before disappearing into a cloud of smoke.
'Woah, that was cool!' I thought, but then remember it was Kakashi who had done it, so now in my mind it wasn't cool anymore.
"Alright, now that Kakashi is gone, I can finally introduce myself: My name is Hiruzen Sarutobi. I am the Third Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. What is your name?" He asked, decided to sit in the empty chair across from me.
"Well, my name is Charlotte Patterson. I was the first of two children, including me." I added just so it wouldn't sound like I had very little to say. Hiruzen nodded.
"Well...Charlotte. I know you are probably looking for your bag, but we had to confiscate it until I could get you to answer some more questions, can we continue?" He questioned and I shook my head agreement. He was interrogating me, which wasn't a first. Since my dad was in the government, he had always wanted me and my family to go through questions that interrogators would use to get information out of us, just as a precaution.
"Where did you come from? What is your kinship with another village?" He questioned.
I cleared my throat," That was two questions, but in all honestly, I am not from around here at all, I came from a different world. I also have no... attachment to another village because coming here this was the only village I knew of."
Hiruzen nodded once." What was used for your journey here?"
"Kushina Namikaze had built me a teleportation device here. I had been working over the past two years with her to complete it." I honestly answered. His eyes were searching for a lie in my own, but his softened.
"What was your connection to Kushina?"
"Kushina was my Tech professor at my collage. I studied under her wing to become a scientist." I bit my lip, and slowly cracked my fingers. I had done this enough not to get nervous, and I wasn't really. This man in front of me wasn't a threat. All of his answers were to find out who exactly I was. I felt comfortable speaking to him about myself and I sure hope he did the same for me.
"I see..." He sighed, rubbing his fingers along his chin,"Well, Charlotte. I think for today we are finished, but I will be back tomorrow." Hiruzen slowly got up, and made a hand sign as if it was sign language, and my bag appeared on the table next to me. I stared in astonishment, but thank him.
"Thank you for your cooperation today, Charlotte." Hiruzen smiled.
"You can call me Char, if you'd like." I answered, and he shook his head in agreement.
"Alright Char, please, go rest." He said, leaving the room closing the door softly.
...TBC...
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