This story is basically a few of my friends and I in the Narutoverse. I've read a lot of stories with the same theme, and some of them aren't rather appealing so I hope mine is. And since my friends are in this, I think its necessary to give THEM a little recognition. I didn't think up everything here on my own, my friends helped me out. Not only that, but one of them will be writing parts of the chapters to come, so heads up!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Poke. Poke. Poke.
"Stop it…" A girl with short black hair tied in a small ponytail swatted away the stick that was poking her shoulder. She tiredly sat up and rubbed her greenish gray eyes. Blinking sleepily, her vision was met by a curious-looking blond boy with goggles and whiskers.
"Hi. What were you doing asleep here?" the boy asked.
The girl stared at him and blinked. Then rubbed her eyes again.
"Can you talk?" the boy asked.
Blink.
"Hello?"
Blink.
"You can't talk, can you?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The girl jumped up and looked around, waving her hands in the air crazily. "Where am I? Where am I? Why are you here? What happened? AAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
"So you can talk…" the boy said, rubbing his ear. "What's your name?"
"My…name…" the girl said slowly, looking herself over and trying to remember how she got here. She was wearing a dark grayish, sleeveless jacket with drawstrings and a hood. Her exposed stomach was covered by a net shirt. The net shirt was long-sleeved and reached to about an inch below her elbows. Her pants were a faded red color and were stitched up at the sides; each stitch was crossing over another. Underneath her pants she wore black shorts.
"Is…" the girl's horrified frown slowly twisted into a satisfactory grin. "Shimizu Kyoko."
"Okay…" the blond boy said, scratching his head. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto."
"There you are!"
"Huh?" Kyoko turned around to see a girl with black hair and brown eyes. She looked sort of familiar…
"I can't believe this," the girl said speedily. "I mean, one minute we were in your house and the next we were out here it's so weird and I have no idea what happened and—" She suddenly stopped, noticing Naruto standing next to her friend. Her mouth dropped open slightly, but she closed it with a snap. "…Hello."
"Hi…"
"Hey, Midori," Kyoko said, patting her friend on the back. "Meet Naruto!"
Midori stared at Kyoko strangely for a second and then looked at Naruto, waving timidly.
"Naruto, this is Hikari Midori!" Kyoko continued. "Hey, have you seen Nami anywhere?"
Midori shook her head.
"Huh…" Kyoko said thoughtfully.
"Come on, we have to go," Midori said, taking Kyoko's arm and pulling her along. Waving behind her, she said, "Nice meeting you Naruto. See you around!"
"Yeah…sure…" Naruto said, still a bit bewildered. He sighed. It was nice to talk to someone who didn't discriminate him for any reason for a while…
"Hey, I was talking to Naruto! I thought you would be excited!" Kyoko exclaimed.
"Sorry, I guess my excitement was overcome by my terror of being here!" Midori said, annoyed. "Do you have any idea how we got here at all or how to get back to our world?"
"No…but I don't really want to go back," Kyoko admitted.
"What?" Midori said in disbelief. "Why?"
"Well…back in our world, you have a nice life, but mine's too complicated!" Kyoko explained. "And I'm so unlucky! At least here I'll be able to start a new life! And who knows, it might be great…"
"Well, we can't just stay here!"
"Why not?"
"This is delicious!"
The two heard a familiar voice. After a quick exchange of glances, they realized that they had wandered subconsciously in front of the Ichiraku Ramen Shop. There, they saw the back of their missing friend.
"Nami!" the two exclaimed, dashing into the ramen shop.
"Hey, guys!" Nami said, wiping her mouth. "Isn't this cool? One minute we were at Kyoko's house and the next minute we're here!" She slurped down the rest of her soup.
"That's right…we were at Kyoko's house…but what were we doing?" Midori said thoughtfully. Then she stopped. "HEY! What do you think you're doing, Nami?!"
"Eatin' ramen…" Nami said. "I was hungry…" she rubbed her stomach.
"And how are you expecting to pay for this?" Midori said. "I thought that you would be able to think these things through before actually doing something!"
"Psh, yeah right," Kyoko said.
"Hey! When you're hungry, all you can think about is what you're gonna eat, okay?" Nami said angrily. "And besides, Ichiraku Ramen doesn't cost all that much!"
"Geez…" Midori groaned. "I remember putting some money in my pocket because we were going to the mall at Kyoko's house…but I doubt that it would do any good here…" She reached into her pocket and pulled out…
"What kind of money is that?" Kyoko said, confused.
The money that Midori was holding didn't look like any US money they've ever seen.
"Looks like you have just enough to pay for your friend's meal!" Old Man Teuchi remarked.
Midori handed him the right amount and stuck the rest of the money in her pocket. "Hey…what's this?" She held what looked like a card. It wasn't just any old card though…it looked like one of Kabuto's ninja info cards.
"Let me see!" Kyoko said, taking the card and examining it. "Hey…now I remember! We were making ninja info cards for ourselves! This ones all about Midori like her abilities and history and stuff!"
"Hm…" Midori said, putting her hand to her chin in a thinking position. "Yeah…and then…we made up a jutsu, didn't we?"
Nami nodded. "Yeah…and it was called the 'Narutoverse no Jutsu'. We made some hand signs and then we touched our cards and…"
"Ended up here!" Kyoko finished, digging into her pockets.
"And it looks like we've changed a lot…" Midori said, looking at the countless signs in the Konoha market. "Because we can read Japanese and speak it now."
"Huh…I didn't notice…" Nami said. "It all seemed so natural."
"But we need a way to get back…" Midori said.
"NO WAY!" Nami and Kyoko shouted.
"Don't be a kill joy, Midori!" Kyoko exclaimed. "At least let us stay for a LITTLE while!"
"Yeah, live a little!" Nami said, crossing her arms. "Don't tell me you don't want to see Neji!"
Midori turned red. "He has nothing to do with anything! What about our parents? They're seriously going to call the cops if we don't show up soon!"
"Come on, we'll worry about that later," Nami said.
"But—"
"Nope! Majority rules, Midori!" Kyoko said. "You can try to go home if you want, but Nami and I are staying!"
Midori scowled. "Fine. I'll stay." As long as these two were staying, she couldn't let them mess around with anything.
"YES!" Kyoko and Nami high-fived.
"BUT we need to find some place to live first. We're not going to live on the streets and we definitely don't have enough money for a hotel," Midori said.
"Yeah…" Kyoko said seriously. "Oh hey! I know the perfect man to talk about a place to live in! I bet we can trust him too!"
"That's a first," Nami said doubtfully. "He won't get us into trouble or turn us in, will he?"
"I don't think so!"
"Fine," Midori said. "Lead the way, Kyoko."
A few minutes later, the girls found themselves standing in front of the academy.
"Don't tell me…Iruka?" Nami guessed.
"That's Iruka-sensei," Kyoko corrected.
Nami rolled her eyes.
"You know…you may be right," Midori said to Kyoko. "Iruka-sensei's a pretty understanding guy. He'll see our situation and help us out for sure."
"But won't he tell the Hokage?" Nami asked.
"Nah. If we tell him exactly what happened to us in the past," Midori said, smiling slyly and flipping her info card in her hand. "We'll be just fine."
"I see where you're going," Nami grinned.
The girls found the right classroom after several random guessing.
Midori knocked on the door. "Remember, don't say more than you have to."
The girls nodded.
"Come in!"
"Iruka-sensei?" Midori said timidly as she and the others walked into the room.
"Yes? What is it?" Iruka seemed to be grading papers at the moment. He looked up and looked at them with a questioningly glance. "I'm sorry, but I don't recall seeing your faces here before…"
"We've traveled from different places to get here," Midori explained. "Our pasts have been rough, but we came to Konoha to start anew, starting with the graduation exams for the academy."
"Whoa, whoa," Iruka said quickly. "First you have to go through the academy!"
"No we don't," Nami said. "We have skills beyond that level already!"
"Please let us take the exam early, Iruka-sensei!" Kyoko pleaded.
"Well…I suppose," Iruka said. "I won't ask anything of your pasts, but I'd like to know your names."
"Hikari Midori."
"Shimizu Kyoko."
"Kawa Nami."
"Nice to meet you girls," Iruka smiled. "So you just came here?"
"You could say that," Nami said.
"Well, I suppose I'll have to let you take the exams then."
The first few tests consisted of a short written test for basic knowledge, the substitution jutsu, stealth skills then finally, the bunshin. The girls were surprised to find that these skills were pretty easy to pass and they obtained their hitai-ates in a matter of hours.
"You girls are pretty good, obviously fit enough to be genin," Iruka said. "Would you mind coming here the day after tomorrow around eleven for the orientation? The other genin will be there too."
"Sure," Midori said. "Thanks."
"You'll all be put into different teams," Iruka said. "With the other students."
The girls froze. They had forgotten about that.
"Um…Iruka-sensei," Midori said carefully. "Do you think…we could be on the same team?"
"Huh?"
"We need to be on the same team!" Kyoko said urgently.
"Why is that?"
"If we tell you, do you promise not to tell a soul?" Nami demanded.
"All right…" Iruka said, wondering why the girls would be so serious all of a sudden. This is strange…
The girls related their story with Iruka about how they got here and where they came from. Iruka asked a lot of questions, but even though they got through it, he was still a bit baffled.
"Wait…so you're telling me…that you're not from this 'universe'?" Iruka said.
"That's basically it," Kyoko said.
"And you expect me, a chuunin, to believe that?" Iruka said a bit amused.
"You don't believe us?" Midori said, crestfallen.
"It's a pretty unbelievable story," Iruka admitted.
"Well then, look at this," Nami said, taking out her ninja info card and sticking it in Iruka's face.
Iruka took the card. "This…looks like it was hand-drawn and hand written…" Iruka remarked. "Where did you get this?"
"We made it," Nami said. "Along with the cards that go with Kyoko and Midori. That's our whole history and it seems that it's come true. Don't you believe us now?"
"It still doesn't prove anything," Iruka said stubbornly.
"Iruka-sensei, did the students take their academy tests this morning?" Midori asked.
"Yes…"
"If we, three girls from different countries who have just come to Konoha tell you who got the best and worst scores, will you believe us?" Midori asked.
"That would make sense."
"Uchiha Sasuke got the highest scores in the class," Midori recited. "He's the top male in the class. Yamanaka Ino was the top female."
"Aburame Shino got the second highest scores," Kyoko added.
"And Uzumaki Naruto got the worst," Nami said. "With Nara Shikamaru following closely behind."
Iruka was mystified. His eyes widened. "You…you are from a different universe…that or you're all psychics."
The girls exchanged odd glances.
"It's…the universe thing," Nami said.
"All right, I'll believe you," Iruka said.
"And you won't tell anyone. Not even the Hokage, right?" Nami said.
"I never lie," Iruka said. "I won't tell anyone unless it's completely necessary."
"And define 'completely necessary' for us, will you?" Midori said.
"Unless you girls are in danger," Iruka said. "And we need to find a way to get you home."
"We'll do that LATER," Kyoko said exasperatedly. "Right now we don't have any leads, but if we learn some jutsus or something we'll probably get an idea!"
"I'll trust you girls to do that," Iruka said. "So now I think you should be getting home to sleep. It's getting dark outside."
"Um…Iruka-sensei…there's one other tiny detail…" Midori said nervously. "We uh…don't really have a place to stay…"
Iruka slapped his forehead. "You girls…have everything planned, don't you?"
The girls smiled sweetly.
How'd I do? Please tell me in your review! More info on the character next time! I think... R&R please!
-HM
-6/1/07 I got a review from a person who knew that my calculations on the money after paying for ramen was different, so I changed it a little bit. Heh...I'm only human. Thank you for the heads up!