AN: Sorry for the long wait everybody. But here's the next chapter.

So, without further ado, Let's get it started!

Disclaimer: I do not in any way, shape or form, own Star vs the Forces of Evil or Naruto

"Hmm, no, no, no," Hekapoo muttered as she quickly flipped through the profile pages. "Nope, not hi- ah-hah! Found the creep!"

As soon as these words left the dimensional enforcer's lips, Marco, Star, and Janna quickly swarmed around her as she set the book down for them all to see.

Danzo Shimura

Age: 70

Height: 170cm

Weight: 52.7 Kg

Blood Type: AB

Status: Jonin (Retired) Village Elder (Active) Leader of Root (Incognito)

Techniques: Unknown

Relatives: Unknown (Presumed All Deceased)

Danzō is a completely calm, cold and collected individual who does not allow his emotions to surface. An extremist, Danzō prefers to directly eliminate threats through assassination and execution rather than diplomacy and negotiation. Danzō possesses a fanatical and arbitrary adherence to the ideals of a shinobi, believing they must sacrifice absolutely everything for the village. However, Danzō hypocritically fears death, hiding this fear behind a belief that his survival is necessary for the sake of the shinobi world itself. More so, despite claiming he acts for the best of Konoha, most if not all of Danzo's actions have done nothing but create more enemies for the village and/or compromise its security time and time again.

"Wow… just wow," Janna deadpanned as she read the profile, which included a list of all the man's current though a lot of it was blacked out for some reason. "Talk about taking being a total jackass to the next level."

"He makes Toffee look like an angry candy stealing toddler." Marco muttered with an absolutely disgusted expression which Kelly, Hekapoo, and Star shared, the latter of which covered her mouth as her cheek marks turned into biohazard signs at the thought of this guy being interested in her in ANY capacity.

"If I ever meet that man I am going to eviscerate and incinerate him at the same time, slowly." Hekapoo muttered darkly as she looked at the extensive list of atrocities the man had committed, many of which even she hadn't thought possible for any sentient creature to willingly commit to their own kind.

"Alright, that's enough of that." Kelly said queasily, her voice a bit shaky as her face gradually started to turn the same colour as her hair, while snatching the book from. In a blink the greenette flipped the pages back to where'd they'd left off and quickly started to read.

"Thanks for this Ino." Naruto said quietly as he and Ino watched a somewhat recovered Star enjoying a bowl of rainbow sherbet as she giggled at a comedy movie he'd put on for her, Gary the Label Guy. "I'll pay you back as soon as I can, I promise."

"Ice-cream and binge watching, the best coping method." Janna said, giggling lightly as the mood in the room lightened up a bit upon the scene appearing from the projector.

"I wouldn't say best but it works," Marco muttered before glancing at the Filipino girl. "Reminds me of when we were seven, you got super upset that they cancelled the sequel to your favourite video game." You spent three days on my couch eating nothing but rocky road while watching reruns of Doctor What."

Sighing nostalgically while resting her cheek on her fist, Janna nodded as a small smile formed on her lips. "Ah yeah, I still say Rise of the Vampire 2: Blood Awakening would have been an awesome game."

As the duo chattered about old childhood memories, neither of them noticed as Star started to relax, the princess's expression becoming more positive as she giggled at their antics and her cheek marks returning to their normal heart shape.

"Don't worry about it Naruto, this is my treat." Ino said with a wave of her hand while she served herself and her fellow blonde some mint chocolate chip. 'And by me I mean my Mom, thank kami she showed me where the emergency 'Emotional Breakdown' scroll was before she left.'

Being a clan that specialized with the human mind, and more than a few being outright psychologists, almost every single Yamanaka had such a scroll somewhere in their homes or on their person. Said scrolls consisted of just about everything someone might need to give someone emotional support, from comfort foods such as ice-cream and sweets to stuffed animals and soothing incense.

"Heh, that sounds like something you'd have Marco." Star said with a giggle as she nudged her friend's side, before pausing mid-joke when said boy coughed awkwardly with a sheepish expression.

Grinning teasingly, Hekapoo gently elbowed the young man's other side. "You actually have something like that, don't you?"

"Well, you know how I like to be prepared…" Marco mumbled as he scratched the back of his head, earning a round of giggles from the girls.

"Once a safe boy, always a safe boy." Janna stated with an amused shake of her head.

"I wasn't talking about the Ice-cream," Naruto stated as he accepted the bowl Ino offered him, "Thanks for dropping whatever you were doing to help Star-chan, she really needed it."

"Again, don't mention it, I'm just glad to help out a friend," Ino said, patting the whiskered blonde's shoulder comfortingly with a smile. "Besides, you looked to be doing just fine cheering her up by yourself."

"I'll say, Whiskers is a natural." Hekapoo said in agreement with the blonde mind reader while the others in the room nodded, especially Star who's smile softened as she remembered how the boy comforted her other self.

However, instead of smiling back, Naruto sighed with a deep frown as he slowly took a bite of his minty dessert. "Yeah right, it's my fault that she got so upset in the first place."

And just like that, the smile was replaced with a small frown when the princess heard her fellow blonde say that.

"Oh please, so a bunch of idiots decided they wanted to be pricks. How could that possibly be your fault?" Ino asked.

"Because I should have known that it would happen, Kami knows I have to deal with people's Kuso enough to know how bad they can be." Naruto grumbled bitterly, earning a raised brow from his fellow blonde.

'No, don't blame yourself, it wasn't your fault.' Star thought as her frown deepened, not liking how such a nice guy was beating himself up because of something out of his control.

"Aren't you being a bit overdramatic Naruto? So people ragged on you a bit for being a baka and those stupid pranks of yours, it can't be that bad." Ino said with a frown of her own.

"If only that was the problem." Naruto muttered under his breath almost too quietly to hear… almost.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Ino demanded, her brow rising even higher at the whiskered blonde's remark.

"You don't want to know." All of the readers said at the same time, even though they knew she couldn't hear them.

"Nothing, it's nothing," Naruto said quickly while mentally swearing for thinking aloud. "Look, forget I said anything."

Before Ino could say anything in response, Naruto walked away and sat down next to Star, who immediately wrapped two of her left arms around his waist and pulled him close as they watched the show.

"That was a terrible move, all he's doing is making her want to dig even deeper." Marco said bluntly with a facepalm.

"And she is not gonna like what she unearths what-so-ever." Hekapoo said as everyone else nodded in agreement.

'That didn't sound like nothing.' The damage was already done though. The blonde had poked the sleeping beast and caused it to stir as Ino stared at him with a mixture of confusion, curiosity, and suspicion. 'What are you hiding Naruto?'

Whatever it was, the idea of her finding out scared the hell out of Naruto if the way his voice had hitched meant anything, and that in itself was surprising as she had never seen him freaked out like that.

"Yeah, from a kid who willingly sliced his own hand open without flinching just to prove a point I'd say seeing him scared of something would be pretty interesting for me too," Janna admitted, given her love of snooping and gossip… before suddenly adopting a thoughtful expression. "Wait, why is he scared? He's disliked because of a stupid stigma about when he was born right, so wouldn't it make more sense to be really pissed off or super depressed?"

"That…" Marco started to say something, only to immediately pause as an identical look appeared on his face. "…is actually a good question."

…

"Meh, he's probably just worried about being rejected or something," Hekapoo said after a moment of silence as everyone contemplated the hatted girl's inquiry. "Or maybe we don't quite know the full story yet, which we will once somebody starts reading again."

Getting the not-so-subtle hint, Kelly flipped the page and kept reading.

'Though given what I've learned since yesterday, that's not really surprising huh?' Ino thought as she took her spot in the unoccupied recliner. If someone had told her two days ago that she'd be hanging out in Naruto's apartment, eating ice-cream while helping him comfort his roommate, she would have laughed her ass off before punching them in the face.

Yet here she was, in that exact situation, while having her whole perspective of Naruto shredded to pieces like paper in a blender.

"Ah, the whole 'never thought in a million years' cliché," Janna muttered while nodding her head slowly. "It strikes when you least expect it, and almost always comes with an amusing irony."

"Especially when somebody is so adamant that they'll never ever do it." Hekapoo added with a wistful chuckle which the Filipino girl shared.

Where she had once seen nothing but an annoying loudmouthed idiot, she now found a complex puzzle of confounding enigmas that only grew more confusing the deeper she dug into it.

In fact, there were two questions in particular that have been nagging at her for a while now, even before all this craziness happened, and now was good as any time to get answers.

"Hey Naruto," Ino called out, causing her fellow blonde and Star to look towards her, the former with a look screaming 'Don't push it'. "I've been wondering, how did you become a genin? And when did you get so good with clones? You couldn't even make a single one back in the academy."

"I have been wondering that a bit." Marco said curiously since the story kept referencing that the blonde had to learn the technique but not how or when.

"Oh, that," Naruto said with a slightly relieved look on his face while Star looked towards him curiously. "Well, you remember Iruka-sensei's assistant?"

"Mizuki-sensei? Yeah. Why? What's he got to do with anything?" Ino asked, her brow rising once more.

Two pictures of Mizuki popped up on screen, the first from when he was teaching with Iruka, if the chalkboard in the background was to go by, and the second being him perched in a tri with a giant shuriken.

He was a plain-ish man, a bit on the thin side with bluish-white hair and wearing generic looking clothing. However, the most noticeable thing about both pictures was the man's expression, with him looking calm and friendly in the former his true colours are shown in the second as he snarls with an angry, slightly deranged glare.

"Uuugh, talk about a sneaky little creep." Hekapoo muttered with a distasteful hiss, Janna and Marco nodding in agreement while Star and Kelly reflexively reached for their wand and sword respectfully.

"Everything," Naruto replied with grit teeth, making the gossip queen blink in surprise. "Turns out that Teme was a traitor and tried to use me to steal from the village."

"Really? Huh, that explains why he was missing when we were assigned teams. What happened exactly?" Ino asked eagerly, her inner gossiper already hooked while Star simply listened with a curious look.

"He found me after I failed graduation… and tricked me with a fake remake test," Naruto explained, frowning as he remembered how Mizuki duped him. "Told me if I stole a certain scroll from the Hokage Vault and learned a single technique from it then I'd pass."

"I get it," Janna said while rubbing her chin. "Dupe an unknowing accomplice into doing the dirty work so that if the plan fails they take the fall, and if it works they still take the fall or at least end up stalling out the security until you can make your escape. A simple yet effective plan."

"You should know, you did the same thing with the popular kids during the Halloween party when we were in middle school." Marco stated dully, getting the Filipino girl to shrug with a smirk whilst the rest of the group looked at them curiously.

"Ah man, I remember that, it had to be the greatest Halloween ever."

"You tricked them into spiking the punch, with a cocktail of diuretics, laxatives, and ipecac that they thought was vodka, and recorded the whole thing as it went down."

"Again, best Halloween ever."

"You broke into the Hokage vault!? So that's why the village went into a huge panic that day!" Ino exclaimed with widened eyes before blinking and giving Naruto a critical look. "Wait, how the hell did you manage that? You'd have had to get passed the Hokage himself."

"Honestly, that was the easy part. I just used my Oiroke no Jutsu and Jiji was out light." Naruto said with a shrug, earning a deadpan from Ino.

"The Oiroke what now?" Star and Kelly asked in sync, the latter reading the sentence over as she tried to figure out how to pronounce the odd words.

"Oiroke no Jutsu, which roughly translates to… Sexy… Technique?" Marco finished with a raised brow, a question mark seemingly blinking over his head.

"So what, he flashes his junk at people?" Hekapoo asked bluntly before busting out in laughter at the blushes that erupted on Kelly and Star's face, barely even caring as Marco drenched her with the spray bottle.

"Nah, then it be called the Flasher Technique," Janna added, throwing more fuel to the metaphoric fire. "I bet he dresses in drag or something."

"Bwahahahaha! That would be so stumping hilarious!" The dimensional enforcer barely managed to cough out between fits of giggles.

"…Seriously? That stupid technique actually worked on him?" Ino asked dully, her deadpan expression deepening when Naruto nodded without hesitation.

"Uhhh, what exactly does this Orco juitsy thing do?" Star asked with a confused tilt of her head.

Instead of answering verbally, Naruto brought his hands up in a Ram sign before being engulfed in a plume of smoke. Once it cleared, Star's cheeks literally glowed pink from surprised embarrassment when she found herself hugging a buck-naked, pigtailed, and well-endowed female Naruto.

…

…

"I'll admit, him actually turning into a girl, did not see that one coming." Janna stated, breaking the silence that filled the area as she and everyone else stared at the projection with bugged out eyes.

"Me either," Hekapoo agreed with a slow nod, before noticing something in the corner of her eye that caused her grin to quickly return. "Though I cannot deny its results."

Following the fire woman's gaze, Janna almost immediately started cracking up upon seeing the stunned look on Marco's face, his face practically melting from how red it was, while a small dribble of blood oozed from his nose.

"That's so COOL~!" Star exclaimed, snapping Marco and Kelly from their dazed states as she clapped her hands with sparkling eyes.

"It is kinda neat," Kelly agreed with a nod, though a frown creased her lips as she spoke. "But does he really have to be naked? That's kinda over the top if you ask me."

"Well, it's his… her… their… huh, do we still call him a him or a her now?" Janna wondered while tapping her chin thoughtfully, before quickly shrugging off the thought. "Anyway, as I was saying, his body his choice. He wants to go flashing it around, then that's his decision."

"You would say that." Marco said dully while quickly wiping away the small trail of blood from his face.

"Tada~, behold my personal anti-pervert technique." The transformed blonde said in a sultry feminine voice while doing a few sexy poses before throwing Ino a dirty look. "And if it's so stupid Ino, why do people keep falling for it?"

Ino opened her mouth to retort, only to for no words to come out when she failed to think of a valid argument. As much as she hated to admit it he was right, the Oiroke no Jutsu did have a high success rate whenever she'd seen him use it in class. So she settled for sticking her nose into the air with an indignant huff.

"Can't argue with the results." Hekapoo said between giggles as a brief montage of Naruto using the sexy jutsu against various people played out, including Iruka and Hiruzen.

"Nope, no you cannot." Janna agreed somewhat breathlessly as her own laughter winded down.

Meanwhile, Star had recovered from her surprise as her cheek marks turned into sparkles. "You can turn into a girl!? That is so cool!" She exclaimed with a wide smile, unconsciously floating into the air as her wings fluttered with excitement while she let go of Naruto and looked 'her' over.

'Heh, it's like looking at a mirror.' Marco thought while glancing back at the 'real' Star, who was literally vibrating in her seat from excitement still.

"Don't get too excited Star, it's just a basic henge." Ino said with a good-natured roll of her eyes before reaching out towards her fellow blonde's 'bust' with her pointer finger. "Watch, just one little poke and-" "EEP!"

Ino stopped midsentence when instead of the transformation dispelling like she expected, her finger squished into the fleshy lobe while Naruto squeaked and instinctually covered 'her' chest.

.

…

"Okay so maybe you're better at it than I thought." Ino said with a light blush as she retracted her hand. "So… you stole something from the vault?"

"Bwahahaha! Oh man, this just keeps getting funnier and funnier every second!" Hekapoo roared out as she and Janna burst back into uncontrollable fits of laughter

Thankful for the change of subject, Naruto nodded quickly while allowing the jutsu to dispel in another puff of smoke. "Yeah, uh, a really big scroll called the Fuin no Sho, which is where I learned the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."

"That's a big scroll." Star couldn't help but say as a picture of Naruto holding said scroll popped up, showing that it was at least half as big as he is.

"No kidding, but I can see why that Mizuki guy wanted it so bad," Kelly said as she read a context box at the upper corner of the page. "Apparently that thing contains several of Naruto's homes most powerful and dangerous techniques, though most of them are practically guaranteed to kill you if you aren't careful."

"Hehehe… makes sense, people just love 'hiding' important things in weird and obviously overcompensating ways." Janna stated as she wiped a tear from her eye.

"Ah, so it was a different Bunshin then the one taught at the academy." Ino said, having not been entirely sure until now. "Any chance you'd be willing to teach me how to use it?"

"Sorry Ino, but Jiji made me promise not to, said it was too dangerous because of extreme chakra eating or some technical jargon like that, I kinda zoned out halfway through his explanation." Naruto admitted while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"I'm pretty sure you mean intense chakra consumption, and come on it can't be that bad, you've been using it pretty willy-nilly." Ino pointed out with a frown.

"She has a point, he does use it pretty much all the time," Star said with a nod, before tilting her head as she scratched her head thoughtfully. "But didn't the book say Naruto has an abnormally big chakrie puddle or something as well?"

"Chakra pool Star, and yes it did," Marco corrected and answered. "He's most likely an exception to the rule because he has all that extra energy to negate the normal consequences."

"…huh?" The princess asked with a raised brow, making the Latino boy sigh exasperatedly.

"He has a bunch of extra power which lets him use it so carelessly."

"Oh… okay, got it."

"Even so, I promised that I wouldn't, so I won't. If you really want to learn it, then take it up with Jiji." Naruto stated firmly, making Ino nod in understanding. "Anyway, I used that jutsu to kick Mizuki's ass in a thousand ways at once after Iruka found me and revealed that the whole thing was a scam."

"Afterwards, Iruka was so impressed with how well I did that he considered it good enough for me to pass for real." As he spoke, a soft smile crossed Naruto's lips while he reached up and rubbed the side of his headband. "He even gave me his own Hitai-ate as graduation gift."

"Awwwww, that's so sweet." Star gushed as she fluttered back into her seat and started eating her sherbet again.

A clip of said scene played on screen, complete with audio.

"Awww, it really is sweet, that Iruka guy is acting just like a big bro for Naruto." Star said with a soft squeal as she clapped her hands together.

"I give it a seven outa ten, it was nice but probably been better if we saw the whole thing go down." Hekapoo said while making a 'so-so' motion with her hand.

"And pretty ironic when you think about it," Ino said as she smirked. "Mizuki gives you a fake test and it ends up turning into a real one that you passed."

"I like the way she thinks." Janna said with an approving nod while everyone else chuckled and/or agreed with the mind reader.

"Huh, when you put it like that, it is actually pretty funny." Naruto said with a chuckle while Star giggled. "But that's basically how it went. I got duped, learned an awesome jutsu, kicked ass, and became a real ninja. All in a night's work you could say."

With his story finished, the trio settled down in their spots and continued to enjoy their movie and ice-cream, or at least that was how it appeared. While Star and Naruto were actually watching the video playing, Ino was merely staring at the screen without actually seeing as she tried to solve the newly discovered mystery that was her fellow blonde.

'Damnit, I got nothing still.' Ino mentally groaned as she failed to figure out what Naruto had been muttering to himself about. Nothing she knew about the whiskered boy could explain his reaction, or what could possibly have spooked him so badly. 'Looks like I'll need to dig up some more dirt if I want to figure this out.'

She'd let this matter drop for now, but rest assured, she would figure out what he was hiding one way or another, her pride as a gossiper demanded it.

"I don't think she'll like what she finds." Kelly said, the good mood in the room dying down a bit as everyone was reminded of the whiskered blonde's not to happy past.

Speaking of resting, as Ino finally snapped out of her thoughts and returned her focus to the real world, the platinum blonde blinked in surprise when she found Star and Naruto passed out on the recliner turned loveseat. The transformed princess's head sat on the whiskered blonde's shoulder, four of her arms wrapped haphazardly around his body while the remaining two clung to her wand and now empty bowl.

As soon as that scene came up on screen two things happened. One, Star's cheekmarks went supernova from how hard she was blushing and two, Janna and Hekapoo grinned mischeviously as they quickly moved to either side of the princess.

"Aww, look at the wittle lovebirds snuggle," The dimensional enforcer said teasingly, nudging the blushing girl's side as she babbled incoherently. "So how long till the first date?

"I think I can hear the wedding bells already, dibs on being one of the bridesmaids," The hatted Filipino girl added, making Star stutter even more as she waved her hands around wildly in denial. "Oh, and on being godmoth-"

"SUPER MEGA STICKY TAFFY BLAST!" Unable to take anymore, Star sprung away from the teasing duo and fired a large of gooey candy from her wand that engulfed them completely. Landing besides Marco, the princess's breathing was ragged as the blush on her cheeks slowly started to-

*Sssss-crack* *Crackle* "And they should totally have the wedding at a beach, the castle theme is so cliché and overused." Hekapoo said as the taffy around her and Janna shattered to pieces after the fire user roasted it rock solid.

"Come on you two, stop it." Marco said, before spritzing both of them in the face with the spray bottle when they kept making joking remarks about weddings and dating.

However, while Hekapoo simply grunted in annoyance from the spray Janna flinched with a yelp, a hand shooting up to cover her face as she blinked rapidly, "Gah! It burns! What the hell?! Why does it burn!?"

"What? You didn't really think I had just water in this, did you?" Marco asked with a quirked brow as his… friend quickly wiped her face with her shirt.

"Then what the hell is in that? Mace?" The Filipino girl demanded as she focused a mild glare on the red hood wearing teen, her eyes scrunched up and slightly bloodshot.

"Mouthwash actually," The Latino boy stated with a grin. "Makes you stop and washes your mouth out at the same time."

"…Dang, that's actually a good one."

'Oh kami, that is adorable!' Ino thought with a quiet squeal before pulling out a camera from… somewhere as she stood up and quickly took several pictures. 'Hello future teasing material.'

After collecting a sufficient amount of evidence to the scene and finally noticing how late it had gotten, she quickly put the camera away and shook the pair's shoulders to wake them.

Oooooh, that's not gonna end well," Marco muttered with a wince, earning confused looks from everyone else in the room aside from Star, who was nodding in agreement, until he explained further. "Star tends to react… aggressively in her sleep when anything or anyone bothers her, we learned that the hard way during her second week on earth."

"Uh-huh, when Princess Smooshy tried to switch places with me so she could avoid going back to St. Olga's," The princess said, giggling a bit as she remembered that little misadventure. "You were convinced that I had some weird mind problem or something until Smooshy revealed herself. And I still can't believe she actually thought we looked alike."

"I'm guessing she didn't?" Kelly asked curiously, to which Marco responded by pulling out his phone and after a fiddling with it a bit flipped it over to show a picture of a weird elephant looking person wearing a tiara in a classic selfie pose. "Okay, either she needs glasses or her head checked, possibly both."

However, Naruto's head just rolled to the side as drool oozed from the side of his mouth while Star simply grumbled quietly and swatted at Ino with her bowl wielding hand.

Dodging the blind swings with ease, Ino frowned slightly before nudging the purple princess once more. "Star, it's time for bed."

"Mehhhhh, go a'ay." Star mumbled while swinging her arm again, accidentally hurling the bowl across the room when it slipped from her fingers and narrowly missed Ino's head.

Eyebrow twitching now, Ino was so close to just calling it quits and leaving the duo as they were, but after taking a deep breath to calm down decided to give it one more try. Reaching down, she grabbed two of Star's arms and pried them off Naruto. "Come on Star, up and at-*Fwoosh*-Gah!"

Ino yelped in surprise as she suddenly found herself blasted up to the ceiling by blobs of purple silk that shot from Star's palms. Stunned from the unexpected flight and impact, the gossiper was unable to react as the transformed princess shot several more streams of the sticky substance at her, cocooning the blonde from top to bottom until only her eyes and nose were left visible.

"Bwahahaha! I see what you mean now! Hahahaha!" Hekapoo barely managed to giggle out as she and everyone else burst into laughter upon seeing the mind reading blonde get cocooned.

"MPH! MMMPH! MMPH! MPH!" Ino's muffled yells rang out as she struggled against her bindings. However, the silky material proved too elastic for her to break through and cutting it was not an option since she'd left her kunai pouch at home.

"That stuff is pretty tough alright," Marco agreed once he settled down, turning towards Star as he spoke. "I remember you ripping apart lockers and such with ease using that stuff."

Nodding in agreement, Star couldn't help but smile sheepishly as she remembered the aftermath of her Mewberty. "I'm just glad nobody was too mad at me for cocooning them up during all that."

After several more minutes of futile attempts to break free, the trapped blonde eventually admitted defeat, sweat pouring from her brow. Staring at Star with a deadpan expression, Ino tried to get the half-awake girl's attention, only to end up rolling her eyes when she snuggled back up with Naruto with a quiet snore.

'Kuso… looks like I'm stuck like this for a while. I should have stopped when she threw the bowl at me.' Ino thought with a muffled groan. 'Oh well, might as well catch a few Z's while I wait for those two to wake up and get me out.'

With her action, or in this case inaction, decided, Ino squirmed around in her cocoon, getting as comfortable as she could in her silken prison before closing her eyes as she allowed herself to doze off…

…just missing as Star started to shake and whimper in her sleep.

And just like that, the good mood was suddenly gone as everyone focused in on the twitching transformed princess, concern clear on their faces.

-?-

"What the… how did I get here?" Star muttered in surprise as she found herself standing in the middle of Konoha all alone. Understandably puzzled and no small bit nervous, the purple princess hugged herself as she walked down the empty street.

"Naruto? Ino? Hello?" She called out, cupping her top hands around her mouth to make herself louder. "Helloooooo? Where are you guys?"

"Look at that freak walking around here like it's one of us."

Star flinched as soon as those words were spoken, shrinking into her seat with a soft whimper.

As this happened, Kelly pulled the princess into a comforting hug, her long green locks falling over them both until only their eyes were left visible.

'Oh just fantastic, it just had to show her nightmares as well.' Marco thought sarcastically with a sigh while idly catching the book that shot out from the mass of hair next to him, having had a strong feeling something like this would happen sooner or later.

Star stopped mid-step as these words reached her ears, before jerking her head towards the direction it came from…

…Only to find no one there.

Confused, the multi-armed girl looked around for any sign of the person who'd been speaking, but not a soul was to be seen.

"It's so disgusting, we should just get rid of it already." A different voice said from behind Star, making her spin around while drawing her wand.

"Who's there!?" She demanded, pointing her now glowing wand around threateningly, yet was once again greeted with nothing but emptiness.

"Ugh, why is that monster still here? I thought someone would have killed it already."

"Stop calling me that! I'm not a monster!" Star yelled angrily as her eyes started to water.

Hearing the muffled sniffling coming from the covered duo, Marco swiftly pulled out a packet of tissue from his pocket before tossing them over, where they were promptly caught mid-air by one of Star's hands and yoinked into the bundle.

Then, a few moments later he held up a small trashcan where the now used tissues were disposed of while a soft "Thanks." emanated from the hair.

…

"…yes you are." Someone whispered right into the princess's ear, causing her to freeze in shock as their hot breath tickled her neck and their hooded face peeked over her shoulder. "You're nothing but a horrible, disgusting, worthless monster."

"GAH! GET AWAY!" Star screamed, reflexively jabbing her elbow into the mystery person in the gut, making them gasp for air while she jumped away from them and turning around with her wand raised. "Dagger Crystal Heart Attack!"

With her cry, hundreds of razor-sharp crystal hearts launched from her wand, stabbing into the cloaked several times over then webbing them just to be safe.

'Damn, Star really went for the kill with that one.' Janna thought with an approving nod, because anyone who dissed her friends like that deserved an ass whooping, imaginary or not.

Steadying herself, the multi-armed girl kept the magical tool at the ready as she glared at the unknown figure, who casually stood up and casually snapped the webs before dusting off the daggers like they were bits of dirt. "Who are you?! Why do you keep calling me a monster!?"

"Because Star…" The figure started before reaching up and undoing the clasp holding their hood on, causing Star to gasp in shock as it fell to the ground and she found herself facing… herself? Standing before the princess was another Star Butterfly, but this one had several distinct differences.

""""Wait, what?"""" All the watchers/readers chorused at the same time in surprise before the image on screen change to show this 'Other Star'.

This 'Star' had greyish velvet skin that gave it a decaying look, her hair was a bright ice blue, the fingernails on all six hands were sharpened into razor sharp claws, her wings were obsidian black with several tears and holes in them, her wand was primarily reddish coloured with ragged wings, and her cheek marks and heart shaped pupils were pitch black and inverted horizontally.

Finally, her mouth was revealed to be filled with razor sharp fangs as the doppelganger gave a toothy smirk.

Inside of Kelly's hair, Star felt a strong shiver run down her spine as her doppelganger's gaze seemed to bore straight into her soul, which only grew worse once the dark Star finally spoke.

"…We are a monster."

-Naruto's apartment-

Star's eye's snapped open as she shot up, her arms flailing around wildly shooting off multiple salvos of webbing all over.

Within seconds almost the entire apartment was covered in the silky substance, with what was left exposed soon to follow if it wasn't for the pair of arms that suddenly wrapped around her torso.

"Whoa! Easy there Star-chan! Calm down!" Naruto exclaimed while pulling the girl onto his lap and held her tightly as she continued to thrash around.

"Dang, Whiskers really is tough to be able to hold a Mewberty enhanced Mewman down by himself like that." Hekapoo stated with a low impressed whistle.

"No kidding." Marco agreed while remembering how effortlessly Star had manhandled him during her Mewberty.

Speaking of Star, said princess re-emerged, wiping her nose with one last tissue as she shuffled back to her spot, quietly muttering a thank you to Kelly which the greenette waved off.

After several moments though his words finally managed to worm themselves into Star's ears and through her brain, causing the transformed princess to snap out of her panic induced state.

"There we go, easy… easy…" Naruto said, loosening his grip when the girl stopped squirming and slowly relaxed. Once she was completely settled down, the princess turned around and hugged him tightly that he returned. "Nightmare?"

"Understatement of the year, that was freaky even by my standards," Janna muttered before raising a hand to her chin thoughtfully. "Although, I have to say that nightmare version of Star was actually pretty badass looking."

"She did look mostly cool, but I'm not a fan of the skin tone, made her look a lot like a walking corpse." Hekapoo added, getting a nod from the Filipino girl.

"Good point, the zombie look is so last season anyway."

"Uh-huh," Star mumbled with a nod, her whole body starting to tremble and her breathing grew ragged as her adrenaline rush wore off. "It was… it was…"

"Shhh, it was just a dream, whatever happened wasn't real." Naruto said reassuringly while gently rubbing Star's back. "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

"Aw, *sniff* he's so nice." Star mumbled with a small smile forming on her lips, her mood perking up as she watched Naruto comforting her other self.

Nodding, the princess remained silent as she snuggled into Naruto's side for several more minutes before finally letting the whiskered blonde go. "Thanks Naruto."

"Anytime, now come on, up and at em" Naruto said while looking around his webbed-up apartment. "We got some cleaning do to."

"Heh, yeah… sorry about that." Star said with a small sheepish smile, before blinking when she finally noticed something. "Hey, where's my wand and Ino?"

"Well your wand's over there," Naruto said while pointing to the table where said magical item was webbed down. "And Ino probably went home after we fell asleep."

"Nah, she decided to stick around for a bit." Janna punned, earning a few chuckles from Hekapoo, Star, and Kelly whilst Marco just rolled his eyes good naturedly.

"Mmmph, mph mmmm!"

"…Or she could be glued to the ceiling." Naruto said, sweat dropping as he looked upwards to see Ino staring down at him from her cocoon. "Ino, why are you glued to the ceiling?"

Giving Naruto her best 'Really?' look, Ino rolled her eyes while mumbling indistinctly through her bindings.

"How much you wanna bet she just said something like 'What's it look like I'm doing, enjoy the view?'" Kelly asked as she shook her head humouredly.

"That's a sucker's bet." Marco retorted with a chuckle.

"Right, sorry, I'll get you down in a second," Naruto said, grabbing a kunai from his pouch and forming a pair of clones, one that boosted him up while the other stood directly underneath Ino with Star. Aiming carefully, the whiskered blonde sank his dagger into the silk and sliced it off the ceiling. "Just a little bit further and… there!"

"MMPH!" Ino shrieked as her cocoon fell towards the arms of Star and the other clone, who then carefully set her down on the loveseat. Once this was done, Naruto dropped down from his clone's shoulders and dispersed his two copies as he knelt beside his fellow blonde.

"Alright, now for the tricky part." Naruto muttered while gently patting the side of the cocoon, earning an offended huff from Ino as she gave him a dirty look. "What? I'm making sure none of you is in the way before I start. Would you rather I slice off a piece of you instead?"

Grumbling quietly, the girl nodded in understanding and stopped glaring, though she still kept a firm look that screamed 'don't try anything… or else'.

"Sheesh, paranoid much?" Kelly asked rhetorically while shaking her head again, only this time in exasperation.

"Well~ she is trapped in a cocoon with a young man who can clone himself endlessly," Janna said quietly with a teasing smirk, which grew even wider as the greenette's face rapidly grew enflamed. "If that's not a recipe for a fun time, I don't know what-Gah!"

The Filipino girl cut herself off as she cried out in pain, falling back into her seat with her hands clasped over her face after Kelly suddenly blasted her right in the eyes with Marco's spray bottle.

Blinking in surprise, said safe kid reflexively glanced down at his side where the bottle should have been and then back at where it was in Kelly's grasp. Do to this though, he missed the mischievous grin on Hekapoo's lips as she twiddled a lock of her hair.

Lining his kunai up very carefully, Naruto gently stabbed it into the webbing at Ino's shoulder and slowly dragged it downwards. Once he got down to her waist, the platinum blonde's hands burst out before grabbing the newly made tear and pulling it open while the whiskered boy continued to cut.

"PAH! Freedom at last!" Ino exclaimed dramatically as her head popped free of the cocoon.

"Okay… now could you explain why you were glued to the ceiling?" Naruto asked while he and Star pulled the girl the rest of the way free.

"Uh dude, pretty sure the answer to that is obvious." Marco muttered dully.

"Star stuck me up there accidentally when I tried to get you two sleepy heads to bed." Ino said grumpily, making the transformed princess smile sheepishly.

"Sorry," Star muttered with her head bowed.

"Don't worry about it, like I said it was an accident," Ino said with a wave of her hand as she stretched her stiff muscles and joints before picking up a chunk of the silky material she'd been trapped inside. "Besides, I have to admit, other than being a bit stuffy it was surprisingly comfortable in there. In fact, I was wondering if I could keep some of this stuff."

"She wants to keep my webbing?" Star asked, her bro rising while her head tilted to the side. "Why?"

"Probably to stuff her pillow or something, she did say it was comfy." Kelly said with a shrug.

"Oh, that makes sense."

"Uh, sure, no problem, I have plenty to go around." Star said, making a ball of the webbing with her topmost hands to emphasis her point. "Well, at least until I turn back to normal."

"Speaking of which, how long do you think until that happens?" Ino asked curiously.

"I was wondering that as well," Marco said as he scratched the back of his head and glanced at the 'real' Star. "I mean, you can turn back and forth at will now so we know that Mewmans can eventually control the transformation, but in that Star's case it wasn't a natural transformation. So will she just turn back to normal automatically or will she have to will it back manually?"

"That's a good question," Hekapoo said, rubbing her chin thoughtfully before shrugging her shoulders and waving towards the Latino boy. "Why don't you keep reading already so we can find out."

"Honestly, I don't know." Star said with a shrug. "The last time I was like this was when I went through Mewberty and that only lasted a few hours."

"Well don't worry, I'm sure you'll be back to your normal self in no time." Naruto said with a smile before he made several clones that got to work peeling the webbing that covered every surface. "Now can we get cleaning already? The landlord is going to have an aneurysm if he sees this mess."

"Uuuuh, what's a land lord? Is it some kind of earth royalty or is it just one of those weird phrases you were teaching me where it's not the literal meaning?" Kelly asked Marco curiously as he read.

"Kinda both in this case," The red hood wearing teen stated. "A landlord is someone who owns a property that they allow someone else to live in, mostly apartment buildings like with Naruto. In return, you pay a renting fee and follow the rules they lay down, or they'll evict you and rent it out to someone else."

"Ah, so while they aren't actually royalty they're the lord of that land in a sense, and you have to follow their laws or leave." Kelly muttered with an understanding nod.

"Alright, alright, but only because I have a bunch of ideas of what to do with this silk afterwards." Ino said before turning back to Star with a curious look as they cleaned up the remains of her cocoon. "So what happened when you went through this Mewberty?"

"Uh, it's kinda embarrassing to talk about." Star muttered as her cheek marks glowed pink.

Star had the exact same look as her counterpart as she scratched her cheek with a finger while everyone else snickered, giggle, and chuckled at the blonde's embarrassment.

"Come on, I won't tell anyone, promise." Ino begged with a cute pout.

"Oh alright, well it all started when…"

-End Chapter-

"Huh, that's a weird place to cut off." Marco muttered with a raised brow as the words 'End of Chapter' appeared on the screen.

AN: Well, that's that. Once again, sorry for the long wait. I've probably mentioned this before but life just seems to love throwing curveballs at me.

Also, to anyone wondering about my other reaction fic, A Dark Knight to Remember. I've fleshed most of the next chapter out, but it still needs a good few more details until its finished.

Until next time, Cheerio!