Welp, here's the next chapter! I don't own Naruto!

Emily knew there was no chance of surviving. The only people that she could tell were around were a little boy and girl, and there was no way they could assist her. On the other hand, there was a good chance that the portal would close after someone went through it.

Her family would be safe.

That was all that mattered.

Jumping through the portal made Emily shiver. It was a sudden burst of cold, and the moment she felt it, she lost all confidence as the portal audibly cracked.

It's done...

There was the sensation of a vacuum sucking her back up, and then nothing.

Only the charging, rage-filled eyes of her murderer remained.

Prepared to die but at least make a stand, Emily clutched her textbook. The crazed person pulled out an oddly shaped knife; the strange-feeling teen readied her block of paper as if it were a bat.

Fire comes from nowhere. The huge ball of flame knocks the man away, but he is able to throw the blade at her.

This is it.

I'm dea-

*THUNK*

Emily slowly opens her eyes. She stares at the knife firmly stuck in her book before dropping it.

"How did I..."

She can't think. Pure instinct had guided her body to protect itself. It was unreal.

I'm...alive.

Her thoughts are interrupted by a scream and the sound of...birds?

There's quiet.

Until Emily's punched.

Now, Emily has never been punched, being a girl and all, so she is unaccustomed to the pain that came with it. It hurt worse than when her head had been fractured by her brother when he pushed her off of the bunk beds. She couldn't talk or yelp because it had surprised her. She tries to prepare for the next blow, but it turns out she doesn't need to; a man she didn't notice with white hair pulls the blonde off of her. As a raven-haired boy catches Emily, the girl she heard punches and yells at the blonde.

"What did you think you were doing?!"

The blonde holds his head as he whines, "I thought she was the guy! I couldn't see a difference with all the smoke..."

"Geez..."

Only when the raven boy speaks is when Emily realizes that she is still being held by him on the ground.

"O-Oh! I'm sorry! Ow..." Emily puts a hand to her face where the fist had made contact. It was already swollen.

The arms that were holding her before she moved away take up her leg. The sudden contact hurts, making Emily wince and try to pull away; she feels sick.

"Sensei, her leg is broken."

The white haired man looks over. "Yeah. Well, we'll need her help to decide what that was in our report; we can take her to a hospital on the way." He looks at her with an apologetic face. "It's up to her whether she wishes to share who she is."

Emily stares at the four people in disbelief. Report? HOSPITALS?! "Um, my name's Emily; I don't really need to go to a hospital, do I?" Looking down at her leg, her only hope is that she won't be too much of a burden to these people who had just saved her life.

"You really need to go. By the way, my name is Sakura," the girl says.

"You can call me Kakashi-sensei," the only adult adds.

"Sasuke," is all the raven states. Definitely a cool-type.

"My name's Naruto, ya know! And and, sorry about punching you," the last member of the party says.

"O-Oh, i-it's alright. I get hurt a lot anyway." It was true. Sort of. Emily always stubs her toe and makes her legs go to sleep, but she doesn't really hurt herself much. Everyone seemed to catch her fib except Naruto.

"Really? You must be unlucky or something."

Looking around, Emily can't help but say, "No kidding. I don't know if I'll see my family and friends again. Plus, I hate hospitals." She had tried to lighten the mood with that last statement, but it didn't work as well as she'd hoped.

She felt like crying.

Of course, crying would not do anything except burden those around her; Emily would need to let those emotions out when she was alone.

"So, where am I?" she asked in an attempt to change the topic.

The three children stare at her in disbelief. The blon- er- Naruto asks with a doubtful face, "Did I punch you too hard or something?"

Sakura comes over and touches Emily's head softly. "Can a person get amnesia with one punch?"

Saskue closes his eyes as if looking at the other two will make him stupid. "From Naruto? No."

Emily is whisked off of her, um, butt. The adult sighs at everyone as if they had missed something of extreme importance. "Did none of you see that she jumped through whatever that portal was?" Sasuke obviously facepalmed on the inside while Sakura blushed. Naruto stared blankly.

"So... What does that mean?" He gets really close to her with a judging face. "Are you... AN ALIEN?!"

Naruto gets three punches and a flick (the flick being from Kakashi-sensei). As he falls on his butt, he yells "Kidding! I was kidding, ya know!"

Kakashi-sensei starts walking in the direction opposite from where the portal had been. "Let's talk along the way. We need to report to The Third, and you need to get that leg fixed." He notices Sakura looking at something. "It's hers."

"Oh!" She doubles back and picks it up. When she catches back up, she's holding the only thing Emily has left of her world besides the clothes that were suddenly quite big on her back.

"My textbook!" Emily thanks the oddly pink-haired girl and takes back the book. Then she stares at the knife. "How did I do that?" she asks again. She's deep in thought until she notices Kakashi-sensei staring at her. "Oh! S-Sorry!"

He smiles a little as he says, "What for? It's our fault your leg is broken." He, too, stares at the knife. Then he looks into her eyes. Very intently. It makes the girl uncomfortable,and she looks away, blushing for no reason. Emily always blushes involuntarily when she feels like she's being... calculated. Somehow, she feels like she saw something in the older man's eye. Was it... recognition?

Emily feels Kakashi-sensei hold her a little tighter. He jumps. And boy, does he jump! They went from the ground to a high tree branch.

Since when have there been trees?

Emily lets it go. But this was incredible! They were almost flying!

She looks behind her to see that all of the kids can do it, too. They looked like this was nothing special and did it effortlessly.

"How are you all doing that!"

Sakura looks at her confused. "You mean jumping? With chakra." Sasuke looks at Emily with a look that said How else?.

"What do you mean? What's 'chakra'?" Naruto gave her a look like he felt for her. It seems that it took him forever to figure it out himself. Sakura was thinking as if trying to find a starting point.

"We can talk about that later."

Emily suddenly remembers that she was being carried by Kakashi-sensei. She understands what he ment. "What did you want to talk about then?"

"Well," he starts, "I just wanted to mention that if you can manage, you should get some sleep. You're not going to get many chances like this for a good rest."

Emily looks at him confused. "I know I'll have to tell you everything I can about my world before I will get all of the answers about yours, but what do you mean? Will I be busy with other things as well?"

"Yes," he simply states. "Besides, I can tell what type you are. Of person, I mean." He glances down at her with that eye again.

Do I remind him of someone?

"You don't sleep much, do you?"

As mentioned earlier, Emily will not admit that she is sleep deprived. "I get enough. I can walk and think properly, so I can't be lacking much sleep at aaa-" She's interrupted by her own yawn.

"What you say and what your body says are completely different." Kakashi smiles at her with a look of fondness. "You'll heal faster if you sleep."

Emily could feel the cunning in his voice as he added, "Then, you won't feel like such a burden to us."

The injured girl threw out apologies like a dam releasing water. Sakura and Sasuke caught what Kakashi-sensei had done; both smiled. Naruto awkwardly accepted the unnecessary apologies.

"I-It's fine, ya know... I should be saying 'Sorry' to you."

With that, the flustered girl closes her eyes and easily drifts off to sleep.

Tell me if anyone is OOC. Comments? Suggestions?