VOILA! Hehe, forgive the chapter name, but PANIC! At the Disco is a sweet band and I just had to relate the chapter to them. Anways, read on!

Chapter 6:

PANIC! In the Library!

The boys once again turned on their heels.

"Great…" Sighed Kiba under his breath upon seeing the silhouette of their road blocker.

"What was that Mr.Inuzuka? Don't make me give you a demerit…because you know I will. Remember last time?" The annoying voice came. The boys rolled their eyes at this reply, as the girls looked on, amused.

"Ok," Kiba began slowly to the short person. "Konohamaru. First of all, you're like, what? Five, six years younger than me? Drop the mister. And second, you're a hall monitor. You can't give demerits. And Third, Mr. Thompson is well aware of our absence, so don't even think you can successfully bust me this time. Kid." After saying this, Kiba sniffed in defiance at his well-put-together speech that sounded as if it was well rehearsed in front of his mirror every morning. It was clear he had many less than friendly encounters with this small hall monitor in the past.

Now the boys grinned. Konohamaru, the short boy who wore his hall monitor sash with pride, turned red with fury.

"Shut up!" He sputtered. "Stupid boy with markings! And by the way, the spiky hair doesn't work on you. The one and only person it works on is the boss, Naruto! Hmph!" After saying this, Konohamaru closed his eyes and pouted to the side. "Where is he today anyway? He's always with you guys. And unlike you, he's nice!"

At this question, the boy's faces dropped as they looked at one another. How to answer this?

"Naruto's out for today, but he'll be back tomorrow." Neji said, purposely not giving a sufficient explanation. The day the boys tell Konohamaru what Naruto was really doing out that day was the day they discover they're actually hott. (AN: Ok, a tad bit of my own opinions were put into that last line.)

"Riiight." Konohamaru nodded skeptically. "I'll let it slide, because I'll always remain true to the boss. But YOU," He thrust a finger at a now VERY annoyed looking Kiba. "Are another story! Who are those girls anyway?" He looked past the boys and at the girls, who were taken off guard since they were so engaged in watching the conflict take place, they weren't expecting to take part in it.

"None of your business," said Kiba coolly, putting his hands in his pockets.

"Watch it! See this badge?" Konohamaru drew his thumb along the lining of a blatantly plastic 'badge' pinned on his shirt. "Yeah, see it? Well it says that you have no right of way to speak to me like that!"

"Oh I beg to differ," Kiba prodded the forehead of Konohamaru, only ticking him off more. "But humor me if you must." Konohamaru stood on his toes in attempt to level with Kiba.

"I know what you're gonna do!" He said to Kiba. "I'll bet you're gonna make out with them between bells!" Kiba's eyes widened in embarrassment at this. The girls laughed hysterically. This made Kiba even more embarrassed. Damn, what's with this kid? "You're always making out with someone between bells. I see it, but since I'm so nice, I-"

"That'll be enough Konohamaru. I think you'd better go check the North Hallway for litter." A voice interrupted Konohamaru's grand chance to get back at Kiba.

"Yes, Mrs. Patterson…" He grumbled as he set off to the North Hallway, muttering things that sounded like 'stupid tribal spiky headed creep-o…'

Kiba sighed in relief. That was a close one right there.

"Hey guys, I gotta jet now…unlike you lucky people, I have gym." Kiba pretended to gag. "But I'll catch ya at lunch alright? Alright." With that Kiba walked away down the hall opposite (not the same one as Konohamaru!). He left before anyone could say a proper goodbye. The girls looked at one another and simply shrugged in confusion. That is, before the jolly feminine voice came.

"Why, boys!" The kind-looking brunette woman who was Mrs. Patterson warmly greeted Shikamaru, Sasuke and Neji. "Fate has landed you at the library I see? And looks like you brought along some new lady companions. Hello dears!" She smiled at the girls in a maternal way. Mrs. Patterson, being the only teacher who truly liked the boys, had yet to be seen by any of them without a smile.

"Hello," each girl said kindly in unison.

"Very nice to meet such pretty young ladies!" Mrs. Patterson stroked each girl's hair. "You've met just the perfect group of boys! I can just tell you'll get along famously!" After saying this, she turned to the boys.

"You came just in time, boys! I believe you have a free bell at this time?" The boys nodded as Mrs. Patterson continued enthusiastically. "Yes, well I just got some new history books on the far shelves. I know you boys enjoy reading those, so I thought I'd point them out to you." The boys smiled at this.

"Ah, yes, thank you," said Shikamaru in his teacher mode. "We would in fact like to take a look at them." The boys nodded, as they did enjoy history books (AN: That makes four of us…).

"Oh good! I was hoping you would be happy!" Just when you thought it wasn't possible, Mrs. Patterson's smile widened tremendously. "Oh, go on! Feel free to look at anything!"

Mrs. Patterson then gently pushed the boys and girls through the double doors of which she had came out of before.

"Thank you," said all the boys.

"No problem boys," replied Mrs. Patterson. "Ooh, and tell me when Naruto will be returning! We're missing his spunk around here!"

The boys smirked.

"Don't worry, he'll be back tomorrow," said Sasuke.

"It was great meeting you," parted Ino.

"Yes," agreed each girl with a smile, though none of them put together was any match for Mrs. Patterson's.

"Likewise, dears!" She said back, before the boys and girls soon disappeared to the back shelves where there apparently were newly imported history books.

"Interesting…" said Neji, running his fingers along the title of one of them as he narrowed his eyes in fascination. "Very interesting."

"What?" Asked Tenten over his shoulder. He jumped slightly at the sudden voice.

"I'll explain to you soon…" He replied as he flipped through the pages.

Sasuke closed a book up.

"These new books are very…" He looked meaningfully at his friends, as if his eyes were meaning something else than what he was saying. "…Resourceful. How bout me and Sakura will look at this one," He set a book aside titled Lands of the Past to Future. "Shikamaru and Ino will look at this one," He said aside another book titled Politics and Government Through the Ages. "Neji and Tenten take a look at this one…" He put aside Freelance to Monarchy. "And Hinata…" He put in Hinata's hands a heavy, maybe ten pounder dusty book titled Artifacts of the Ancient Centuries. "Read up on this one. It's pretty important." He said the last part more quietly.

Hinata was slightly confused but lagged the thick book to a small table in the corner.

"Oh yeah," said Sasuke coming back over. "You may want to refer to this as you read…" He took out the baby trinket and tossed it to Hinata who caught it with two hands. "Kakashi said to give it back. It may be a help." After saying this, he walked back to the rest.

"Ok guys," said Shikamaru picking up a book. "Let's get cracking."

The girls had no idea what the significance was in reading up about just about the most boring subjects ever thought up, but they were about to find out.

With Sasuke and Sakura…

Sasuke and Sakura took seat at table to the side. Sasuke dropped the book on the table and blew off some of the dust, creating a puff of dust. Sakura coughed and waved her hand to cleanse out the air.

"Let's see," Sasuke opened the cover and went to the index. "You're from Konoha you say?" he asked Sakura. Sakura nodded slowly, and Sasuke flipped to the Ks. He drew his finger down the column, down the 'KA's, the 'KE's, 'KI's, 'KL's… "Got it. Konoha."

Sakura was at first confused, until Sasuke flipped to a large map. Sakura tilted her head upon seeing it.

"Look familiar?" Sasuke asked her.

"Of course," Sakura said simply. "That's the map of the world."

"Was the map of the world you mean?" Sasuke added. Sakura was about to protest when Sasuke flipped the page to a present-day map. The land she knew was broken up into seven continents, and named very foreign names she had never heard of in her life.

"What?" She stuttered, tracing her hand along the lines of the lands.

"Look," said Sasuke, picking up her hand and setting it aside so he could flip the page back. Sakura's palm turned warm and sweaty at his touch. But she couldn't help it…she had to admit, the guy was hott.

Sasuke pointed at the different elemental countries. "These are the countries in your time era…" he flipped the page over. "And these are them now. Do you see now? Konoha was in the fire country, which is now known as "Asia." England, the country we told Thompson you guys are from, is part of a country that used to be the Rain country. It's now known as Europe. Can you see now?" He handed the book over to Sakura, who gently took it from him.

She flipped from the one page to the other, shocked. She kept comparing the two masses until she figured out which elemental land had become which continent/country.

"But…" Sakura shuddered at her current thought. "How did this come to be?"

With Shikamaru and Ino…

"This book smells funny…" Ino wrinkled her nose as the smell drifted over to her when Shika flipped the pages.

"That often happens with age," Shika explained. "Aha, found it…you're wondering how Konoha became the town of Lysson, what it is today, correct?" Shikamaru questioned her.

"Of course," Ino nodded.

"Well just look at this," Shikamaru pointed at a passage in the book and recited. "In Konoha, in other words known as the Village Hidden in the Leaves, ninja art and techniques were the basics of life. The village had an ample defense line and trained aspiring ninjas at ages as young as six. You could say all was well in this small, yet self-sufficient village. However, grief struck the small civilization as Bryan Lysson barged through the gates, using weapons and defenses none had ever seen in that time. The Konoha inhabitants were stunned by the onslaught of guns, cannons and ammunition used against them, as such attacks were unheard of. Tried as they might to fight back with their famous bloodline traits and jutsus, they were no matches against such powerful weaponry. With very little effort, Lysson seized the once peaceful town of Konoha and made it his own under a very strict dictatorship still enthralling the worn down village today. To this day, Lyssons's tactics used against the Konoha citizens bewilder all."

Upon hearing this, Ino turned white as a dry erase board. She could almost feel her breath clog in her trachea.

"Shikamaru…" She grabbed his wrist, making him purse his lips. Shikamaru had many fan girls, sure, but never an…interest. He quickly shifted his attention back to Ino. "What day did this all happen…"

Shikamaru turned back to the book and read the date at the heading. "March 14th…"

He stopped when he heard Ino take in a gasp of air at hearing the year.

"What's wrong?" He asked worriedly. Ino could feel her blood turn to ice within her veins.

"Shika-Shikamaru…that's only four days after the day we bought the trinkets!"

With Neji and Tenten…

"So, what exactly are we aiming to find in this book?" Asked Tenten of Neji, swinging her feet back and forth.

"Something that will help you further understand the current state of this village." He answered. Tenten looked at him funny. He looked back at her. Agh…I really wish she didn't look at me like that. It makes me feel like I'm doing something offensive without knowing it. Must be some female thing. "In other words, the way things are now."

"Ah," Tenten said. "Like, pertaining to why in the heck we had to crawl into this place?" She asked. She didn't fail to catch him looking at her funny though. Agh, I bet it's the buns…I knew they looked weird! I don't I just change my hairstyle like Ino and Sakur have always told me?

"Well, yeah." Neji answered as he stopped fingering through the pages and doggy eared one. "This may clear things up." He pointed out a paragraph on the page. Tenten tried to read it, but the vocabulary was far too vast and the writing style in general was difficult to understand. Sensing she had difficulty, Neji paraphrased. "What it means is, ever since we fell under dictatorship of the Lysson monarchy, we have been shut out of communication with outside locations, forbidden to speak badly of our dictator, only aloud out at designated hours…just terrible things that never used to matter." Neji explained.

Tenten looked intrigued, but little had she known, Neji had not yet dropped the real bomb.

"You surely remember your Hokage monument?" He asked pointing the a picture in the book of the old monument Tenten knew back home.

"Yeah," she answered, biting her lip.

"You do realize the faces had been blow out and are under construction?" He asked. Tenten sweat slightly and nodded. "Well you have the Lysson monarchy to thank for that. Post-domination, they took out the faces of your Hokage's and the current dictator, Bryan IV, is now arranging for him along with the past Lysson dictators to be carved upon it."

"WHAT?" Tenten exclaimed, earning her resounding 'shushes' from all around her, as she was in a library.

"Astonishing, huh? How such a prospering village can turn to such a crap hole." He gestured out the window, which overlooked miles of wasteland-like city.

"That's for sure." Tenten agreed, still astounded. "But what was with those soldiers from earlier?"

"Well, the ones marching towards the village earlier were simply new recruits. Lysson can never have enough followers. They're like imports to him…he just keeps getting then and getting them. Note the ignorance of the two earlier. Had they been properly trained, we would not have gotten away so easily."

Tenten paused a bit at the information, then smiled a bit. "Got that right. Reading Playboy magazines on his shifts…" she laughed. Neji cracked a smile.

"I never understood the joy men take in those magazines." He shook his head.

"Haha, not into women eh?" Tenten joked around with him, unaware of his non-jokry persona.

"If you mean beautiful yet shamelessly exposed women, then no, I'm not into them. I'm more of a personality type of guy." After saying this, Neji turned red. What the Hell did I just say? Revealing my preferences in woman to a girl I have just met? I really need a slap right now.

"Ah," said Tenten looking away. That would be handy information for later. She immediately didn't feel as bashful about her double buns as she did before.

"But still," Neji went on, changing the subject. "You always have to keep your guard up in this village," he warned. "As long as there are rebellious citizens, the surveillance will never sleep."

With Hinata…

Hinata earnestly flipped through the pages of the huge book, looking to find anything she'd find necessary. She nervously ran her thumb around the surface of the trinket in her palm.

What am I supposed to be looking for anyways? How am I to find-

Hinata stopped flipping at once. She came across a picture. One of which had uncanny resemblance to her trinket. She looked from the picture to trinket many times, to realize that they were in fact the same. Her eyes widened, Hinata read the passage beneath the picture.

The Para-Diante Trinket: A charm, created over a thousand years ago, said to enable it's possessor to travel backward to a given time when in contact with the Eden Waters.

Hinata's face went blank. When Ino's trinket hit the water, something happened. Whatever happened definitely contributed to their coming forward in time. And Sakura had said the waters had been blessed…but what's this talk of the Eden Waters?

She flipped the page. She was even more surprised to see a picture of the old man trinket. She read the paragraph beneath.

The Para-Tras Trinket: A charm, like the Diante, created at the same time, said to enable it's user to not travel backward, but forward in time once in contact with the Eden Waters.

She gulped. They had lost track of that particular trinket. She read a paragraph, written in red.

These trinkets possess mass power, not meant to be in the hands of those who will abuse they're powers. Both must stay together, as they cannot work if separated. This magic is said to often times be used to conquer countries and nations way back when, and used for better future gain.

Now it was Hinata's blood's turn to go solid. They were in some deep trouble…they might not be aware of it yet, but they would be.

Can't write author note. Must upload chappie. It's three AM. I'm gonna die.