Mystic Tokyo
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Date: September 21
Year: 2009
Place: Tokyo, Japan
Condition: Busy, but fairly quiet.
Reports: Seems like a day to be yourself, no dangers out there today.
Weather: Sunny, light winds, and a chance of rain later on.
There was a man outside of a store with a newspaper, reading the headliners. "No dangers, huh? Well that will change very soon." The man threw away the paper and started to walk off. He was wearing a black trench coat with black pants and a black hunters hat. As he walked, a young lady walked up beside him, but didn't look up at him. "So... whats the plans for today?" The lady asked. The man looked at the sky, then sighed. "Seems like such a nice day... to die." He said with a grin, then laughed. "Sorry, I just wanted to say that... I'll tell you with I find out." He said softly, and the two kept walking. The lady was also wearing all black, just like the man.
The alarm clock had been ringing for a while now. Infact, ever since 4:30 that morning. Constant buzzing and no one to stop it. Until now that is. A slim had creeped out from under the blanket and etched its way to the desk where the alarm clock was. A gentle tap. The buzzing went on still. The tapping continued, but no luck. Until finally the slim hand formed to a deadly fist and smashed the defenseless clock. A girl sat up in bed with a yawn. Long pitch black hair fell about her shoulders and her eyes opened slowly to meet with the suns rays. "Morning, already?" she mumbled, taking a look at the clock. 9:35am?! She was MAJORLY late for school. "DAMMIT!" she screamed. Getting out of bed and rushing to the closet to get dressed. Little did she know, she wasn't alone at home that morning.
There was a fox like human ontop of a building, but he hid himself from the people down below perfectly somehow. As the buzzing from the alarm clock went off at 4:30 am, this boy was awake the entire time, wanting to get back to sleep, but not having the strenght to move a muscle. When the buzzing came to a violent end, the boy smiled and layed down. "Finally... that stupid noise is gone... maybe now I can get some sleep." The boy said as he layed down ontop of the roof. Right when he closed his eyes, he heard a yell from the inside and he jumpped into the air from the suprise and almost slipped off the edge of the building. He digged his claws into the building so that he wouldn't fall off. "Well... sounds like someone's awake in there." The boy said, losening his claws and relaxing.
"Hnn, I'm going to get in so much trouble!" the girl shouted to herself, stripping off her clothes, wearing just a bra, shorts and socks. She dug in her closet to find her uniform when she suddenly heard two voices...Two voices and lights switching on and off in a different room. It could've been her parents. They worked all day and night and were rarely home...Kikuchi Hanashiro grabbed her softball bat and went down the hall.
"Quit playing with that!"
"But it is so interesting! Sugoi! Look! It turns on when I flip the switch, like this!"
"Dammit..."
The fox boy on the roof sighed when he heard more shouting coming from the same room. "God... what is going..." He slowly crawled down to the window and peeked into the room, still holding on to the roof so that he didn't slip off. He saw a girl with nothing but a bra, shorts and socks on, but she was facing away from him with a bat. "On..?" He said softly and he pulled himself back up. He was blushing, his fox tail swishing quickly side to side, his eyes widen. "I... saw... nothing..." He said in an innocent and soft voice. This boy wasn't the pervy type and seeing a girl somewhat naked, ever if she still had her bra on, almost made his noise bleed. "I should leave... but what if someone sees me?" He looked over the edge of the roof at the street below, seeing the people passing by, but not taking notice to him. He then saw two people with dark clothing on and knew that the only way to get around this place was to steal their clothing. "Now how am I going to go through that plan?" The boy asked himself, pondering.
"See! Light on, Light off!" one voice said, now getting louder as Kikuchi drew closer to the door, holding the softball bat up and ready. "I won't tell you this again! Stop. It," came the other voice. The young maiden grabbed the door knob. Counting to herself. Then in a rush, opening it, "TAKE THIS!" she shouted, swinging the bat at one of them, but had missed when they had ducked. They were fast. Almost inhumanly fast. "H-HEY! W-What did I do?" "I told you not to do anything!" Kikuchi opened her eyes to face the intruders. One with short black hair and round eyes, wearing green. The other had long silky darn brow locks and a pale lavender gaze, wearing.... "Is that a skirt?" The long haired boy's eyes narrowed to a glare, "State your name! Where have you taken us?"
"What'daya mean 'where have I taken you'? This is my parent's room, you two just magically popped in he--" just then, Kikuchi's eye twitched. The boys looked farmiliar. She noticed the short haired boy's eyes wandered up and down her own body a bit, then blushed furiously, quickly turning away. Having his hands over his nose. Was he bleeding? Kikuchi looked at herself, then screamed, covering herself. THe long haired boy winced, placing his hand over her mouth to cover her screams, "Must you be so loud??" he muttered, dangerously, "Take us back to Konoha," ...Konoha? Now she was very sure who these two were. Neji and Rock Lee?? ...With that, Kikuchi fainted. Limp in Neji's hold....THe lavender eyed boy sighed, "Clean up your nose, Lee -_-"...
The fox boy was just about to make his move, but then he heard another scream, louder than the other ones, but he dared not look again after last time. He set his gaze on the two of the dark cloths people again, but just to find out that they had disappeared. "W-what! Where did they go?" The boy asked him self, then sighed. He then went back to sitting ontop of the roof, wondering what to do now. Downstairs inside Kikuchi's house, another boy was inside the living room, just standing there. He had black hair with white bangs in the front, a mask around his mouth, wearing a light greenish shirt and a overshirt with a dragon on it. He had arm raps that went down all the way to his hands, blue jeans and black shoes. He also had his blue headband and his eyes were pitch black.
The boy looked up at the celing when he heard the screaming. By the sound of it, it was neither Neji nor Lee's voice, but a lady's voice. "What did those two do now?" The boy asked himself as he put his hands in his pockets and started to make his way up the stairs. Once up stairs, he saw Neji and Lee in a room, and he saw the sorce of the scream, a girl that looked no older than they were. He noticed how underdressed she was, and that she was in Neji's arms. "Wow Neji, didn't think you were the type to do something like that." The boy said, grinning under the mask.
The lavender eyed boy shot a glare at the one in the mask, "She fainted, thats all, Aru," he said, irratated and impatient. He had no idea where he was and the one person who seemed to know what was going on had to come in with just a bra and shorts and faint. He was reminded of his cousin, Hinata, just then. How she'd ALWAYS faint. But the thought was easily cleared from his mind, as he looked at Aru, "So, Lee and I aren't the only one's brought here?" ... Lee pulled his hand away, seeing the bandages along his arms drenched in his blood. A wince and sigh had followed after. It was unexpected to see a nearly naked young girl barge in and all. It caught him by surprise. He did not want to face Aru, whom Neji was adressing, until the blood was gone.
Aru nodded to Neji's question. "It's kinda funny how you just now know that I was here... I've known that the two of you were here this whole time... where ever here is." Aru said, then looked at Lee, seeing that he was facing away. "You ok Lee?" He asked worriedly. Then he looked at the girl, then back at Lee, figuring out what happened before anyone said anything. He could do that sometime, to just look at something and already know the story. "So... I take it that this is her house." He said, looking around. It was pretty big, to big for just one person. There had to be other, but just not here yet. On the roof, the fox boy could hear voices coming from inside and couldn't take it anymore. "That's it... I'm gone before anyone inside this house finds me." And with that, the boy vanished, traveling at high speeds so that no one saw him. As he ran, he saw the two in dark clothings and came to a complete stop right behind them. "Hey!" The boy said. Both of them stopped walking and turned around, there red eyes met with the fox's only red eye. 'Whoa, strange... are they... like me?' The fox boy thought as he looked at the dark fured fox "What do you want?" The male said, sounding dark and threatening. The fox boy winched a little, but kept his cool. "How about a fight? Winner takes whatever they want from the loser." The boy suggested, grinning. The two looked at eachother, then back at the boy. "Alright... but what do you have?" The male asked. "Some money from this world." The fox boy said softly. The male was now intreged. "Alright, your on." And with that, the male grabbed his coat and tore it off his back, revealing that he wasn't human, but a fox human himself. "Let me start by introudcing myself, I am Hrou Deloro, Demon Fox Prince of the Void." He said with a smile, happy to beable to use that title at last. The fox boy didn't look amused at first, but then smiled himself. "Nice to meet you Hrou, I'm Kunsme Kini, Demon Ice Fox... or something like that." Kunsme said with a soft chuckle. "Alright, lets get this started." Kunsme said, getting into a fighting stance. The air was still around the two of them, no one moved, or so it seemed.
"Look, rook's," an elder man said from behind his desk, "You can't be calling the shots here," . A younger man, a teen, glared at the man. 'Rooks', a nickname he grew to hate. It was short for 'rookie' . After all, thats what he was here at the police station in Tokyo, Japan. Just a rookie. "I'm capable of doing anything, cheif," .. "You're as stubborn as your father, Mabokurou," ...The teen adjusted his glasses, a glint of light reflecting off the lens to reveal light blue eyes, "Cut the chit chat and give me what I came here for," the snow haired boy said, shoving his other hand in his pockets. The police cheif grimmaced at the boy's disrespect, but shrugged it off, "This is it, Agent Janken," the man said, sliding a manila folder over to the rookie, "Your first case,"....
Neji nodded, looking down at Kikuchi, "It appears so," . The pale eyed Hyuga looked back at Aru with a frown, "I would've sensed your presense a while ago if Lee hadn't been fooling around earlier," Taken aback, the handsome devil pouted and folded his arms, "It is not my fault this place intriges me so, Neji-kun," Said Hyuga just shook his head in response. Neji looked out the window, at the new surroundings, "She stated this was her parent's dwelling...This must be some kind of advanced technological village...The buildings and housing are different than usual..." "I GOT IT!" Lee shouted with a grin, "We...Are in...THE FUTURE!" Neji closed his eyes, a pulsing vein on his head, as he smacked the back of Lee's head with his free hand, "Baka," Lee yelped, rubbing his head.
Aru shook his head. "Don't be so hastey to smack Lee, Neji. How would you explain all of this? Obouvisly, we're in some kind of... as Lee said, future style place from what I've seen. I mean sure, this place has a T.V., clocks, and other things that I can reconize, but it all looks... advance... different." Aru said, then looked at the girl again. "Maybe we should lay her down somewhere... or atleast cover her body up in something so its not so exposed" Aru said, looking away slowly.
"Tch. I suppose," Neji muttered, walking over to the girls' parent's bed and laying her down and pulling up the sheets to tuck her in. Then he folded his arms and looked back out the window, "It couldn't be the future. How is it possible for us to be taken from our time into this place? There isn't any known jutsu for it," Lee was about to open his mouth to speak before he faintly heard whimpers. His round eyes darted over to the sleeping girl in the bed. She had begun to open her eyes, but was still in a slight daze. Interested in the girl, Lee found himself sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the girl up close. She had long black hair and a slender face. "Lee, not too close," "blah blah," Lee replied, childishly, staring at the girl still. For someone in the future, she looked pretty normal to Lee.
Aru looked at Lee and the girl, wondering what her name was, maybe he would ask when she woke up if the other two didn't. He then closed his eyes and put his back up against the wall. "Well... I don't know... maybe it was a forbidden jutsu that no one else knew about... or somehing... I don't know!" Aru said, sound more and more fustrated by the second. He started to scratch the top of his head, confusion was one thing Aru hated to feel. He started to calm down, knowing how his chakra got whenever he was mad. He put his hand down to his side and started walking towards the stairs. "You two look after the girl til she wakes up, I'm going outside to see what I can learn about this place." Aru said, then started walking downstairs. The door could be heard opening, then closed softly.
Neji's pale eyes looked over at Aru before he left. Then narrowed a bit before closing. Oh please, the Hyuga thought to himself. He didn't need to be given 'orders' from him. Neji was a more capable ninja for that. Even if it wasn't much of a command, Neji didn't like being told what to do, at least not like that. After all, he was the eldest of the three ninja here. He didn't need Aru to tell him to stay. But he shrugged it off and looked back at Lee and Kikuchi. He had sensed she was already awakening, but wasn't going to bother calling Aru back. The girl opened her eyes more, a moment later, staring back up at Lee. The youth smiled and cheerfully said, "Hello, there," ..But to his surprise, he was greeted back with a scream and smack to the face. "I told you not so close, Lee,"....
Aru walked around, not really knowing where he was going, just wandering. He was then greeted to a body being thrown at him and knocking him down. Aru was a little dazed, but snapped out of it and saw the body as the fox boy, Kunsme. "W-what the... who are you, and what are you doing tackling people?" Aru asked, pushing Kunsme off him. Kunsme stood up and looked at Aru. "Sorry... I was thrown, and just by luck, you were in the way." Kunsme tryed to explain quickly, then looked over his shoulder to see Hrou behind him. "A friend of yours?" Hrou asked, but Kunsme shook his head 'no'. Aru looked at the two of them. "Who are you two... what are you two?" Aru asked, but they both started at him at first, which make Aru feel really uncomfortable. "If you must know... we're demons." Hrou said with a smirk. Aru took a step back, wincing. "D-demons?" He said, wide eyed. Hrou started to laugh at Aru's expression. "Yeah, but don't worry, we won't hurt you." He said softly, trying to make Aru clam down. It worked, but not by much, Aru was now on his toes, thinking it was a world full of demons. "I-is this your home world?" Aru asked, but all of them, even the girl still in the black cloak, shook their heads. "To tell you the truth, I don't know where we are... I was hoping to find out myself." Hrou said looking around, forgetting that he was in the fight, so did Kunsme. The girl took off her hat, revealing that she too wasn't human, but some kind of bunny-human creature. The bunny creature then reached out a hand and touched someone's soulder, but something happened when she did. "Can you please tell us were we are?" She asked, and the person nodded. "Your in Tokyo." The man said softly, looking souless, then started walking as if everything was normal. Kunsme watched as the man walked away, then looked at the girl. "H-how did you do that? He didn't even look at us weird." He said suprised and astounded. The girl smiled softly. "I made him change his mind to something else." She said softly. "Since the two of you introudced to eachother, I think its my turn. I'm Kate Morza, it's a pleasure to meet you Kunsme, and what about you sir?" She looked at Aru. Aru was a little hesident at first, but then opened up. "I am Aru Vezra." He said softly. Kate kept her smile. "Well, its nice to meet you as well." She said just as softly.
"YOU PERVERT!" Kikuchi screamed, holding up the sheet to her chest. Lee jumpped to his feet, shaking his head.
"I am not!"
"Yes you are!"
"I am not!"
Neji was become more irratated by the second. Until finally...
The pale lavender eyed teen grabbed Lee by his neck from behind and increased his grip, chocking him. He would do something to Kikuchi as well, but she was a girl, and nearly nude.
"SHUT UP, YOU IDIOT!"
"Gah! Uncle! Uncle!"
Then it finally hit her. This was NEJI and LEE!...
No, maybe she was just suffering a concussion from fainting.
The four of them stood there, trying to figure eachother out. Kate looked at Aru, seeing that he had some stuff on him with dragon symbols on it. "I see that you have a passion for dragons." Kate said with a smile. She also had a thing for dragons. Aru looked down at his zipper overshirt, seeing the split dragon design, then he looked back up at Kate. "Um... you could say that, yeah." Aru said softly, yet again. He then took a step back. "I have to see if Nej- I mean if my friends are ok." He said, then turned around. Before he started walking, Hrou grabbed his shoulder. "Wait, is there anything that you can tell us about this place, Dragon Boy?" He asked, his dark voice cutting through Aru's mind. Aru turned his head to look at the dark fured fox with a worried look in his eyes, thinking that he could kill him if he didn't give the information that the fox wanted. Aru glupped, trying to think of what to say. "I only know as much as you do." He said softly, not moving at all. Hrou looked at Aru for a moment longer, then let go of his shoulder. "Alright, may we com wtih you though, we have nowhere to go." He said, almost pleading like. Aru nodded, and wtih that, everyone followed behind him. A few minutes later, they arived at Kikuchi's house. Everyone except for Aru stood away from the front of the house. Aru slowly opened the door, looking around to see if anyone was around. "Neji? Lee?!" Aru said, a little frighten.
"No way..." Kikuchi said softly to herself, rubbing her head. She was completely oblivious of the fact that Neji was currently killing poor Lee. The irratated Hyuga released his teammate when he heard, faintly, his name from downstairs. Lee had fallen to his knees to gasp for breath. Neji's pale eyes then darted back to Lee. He would never intentionally try to hurt him, but damn was his childish attitude and "youth" was a pain in the A-
"Answer me this," The girl said, sitting up in bed. Both ninjas faced her. Neji was reluctant to tell or answer anything this girl wanted until he himself had gotten some questions cleared. "You're... Hyugu Neji, and Rock Lee?" Defensive, Neji pulled out a out a kunai and pointed it at Kikuchi, as did Lee. "You know our names?" Lee asked back. Kikuchi winced, but nodded. "How? I don't remember telling you, let alone who you are, what you are, where WE are or how we got here." Kikuchi scooted out of bed and stood before the two ninjas, hands on her hips. "My name is Hanashiro Kikuchi, I'm a normal human teen girl, what do I look like?" Lee blushed a bit, but frowned. They knew she was human, and DEFINATELY knew she was a girl. Lee dared not to spare a second glance at her chest, but they were supicious. For all Neji and Lee knew, they could have been in a genjutsu or something. She could be an illusion, a rouge ninja in disguise, anything but human. "We're in Tokyo, Japan." Kikuchi continued. "But I don't know how you got here." Neji scowled, slowly lowering his weapon.
"Satisfyed?"
"That still does not explain how you know of us." Lee said with utter confusion plastered on his face. Neji had noticed his comrade's weapon was already withdrawn. He raised an eyebrow at the youth's trust in Kikuchi. He supposed she proved to be trustworthy and of no real harm to them. After all, it actually seemed she was now going to help them. With that, the Hyuga teen had also put his kunai away. Kikuchi grabbed both Neji and Lee's hands and walked out of the room. Lee's face seemed to have reddend a bit more, while Neji's scowl just softened. The girl lead them back to her bedroom and then released their hands. Upon entering the room, both ninjas winced. Shocked, suprised... Uh, flattered? "See?" Kikuchi said shoving two dolls in their faces. Lee took one of them into his bandaged hands. "Its a doll." He said with a blank expression.
"Not just a doll..."
"Is this some kind of voodoo?" Neji said lowly, his frown returning in full throtle, poking the other doll that possessed his likeliness. "No, just plush designed tolook like you and Lee." She answered, amused with Lee's cute and curious demeanor towards the mini doll of himself. "This still doesn't explain, it just raised up a whole new level of confusion." The Hyuga said narrowing his eyes at Kikuchi. She was wasting his time, especially since Neji had wanted to investigate downstairs, where he heard his name, as well as Lee's. Kikuchi shrugged, then walked over grabbing a few books. Comic books? "Look here." She said handing them one, each. Both ninjas glanced at the cover of the books and both then exchanged glances of shock.
"NARUTO?!" Lee shouted out, Loud.
"We're apart of a book..."
"And an anime too!"
Neji dorpped the book and pinched the bridge of his nose between his eyes.
"You're not real..."
Aru heard the shout of a fimilar voice and an even more fimilar name. Without a second thought, Aru was up the stairs in a blink of an eye and looked for Neji and Lee. Once he saw them, he ran over to tome. "Hey, what was that about Naruto? Is he here as well?" Aru asked, then saw all the different plushes that looked just like them and the books. "What's... going on?" Aru asked, slowly turning his head to look at Kikuchi, fear and worriedness in his eyes, thinking of the worst.
Neji closed his eyes slowly, lowering his hand back to his side. Lee looked at Aru, but felt too shocked to say anything at the moment, looking back at the plushie of himself. Kikuchi looked at the dragon boy ninja, assuming he too was from their world. Neji grabbed the book and handed it to Aru, "Take a look," he muttered, without glancing back at it. He stared down at the manga on the floor, at the black and white pages of their past. Lee wondered how this was possible, but at the same time wasn't all to suprised anymore. He thought this as a new adventure. With that, a smile returned, faintly. After all, this kind of stuff was too complex to be explained or thought out. For he knew Kikuchi, too, had also wandered how this happened.
Aru looked at the book, sliently reading each page. Each one showed a part of not just their lives, but the lives of everyone in the leaf village. How was this possible? Was someone watching them? He hadn't seen anyone out of the ordinary while he was in the village. Every action, every word, every... thought? How was this possible? Aru looked up at Kikuchi, but he saw that she was still nearly naked and quickly turned away. He grabbed Neji and Lee's arms and dragged them to the stairs. "We'll be downstairs, in the meanwhile, please make yourself desent." Aru said as he walked down the stairs.
"Matte~! I wasn't done looking at mini me!" Lee whined, being dragged out by Aru. Neji just scowled, but followed along. Back in the room, Kikuchi gave a pout and folded her arms.
"Hey, this is my house, I can do just about anything I want!"
But then a thought had hit her.
"DAMMIT! School!" She muttered under breath, running back to the closet and getting out her outfit. Meanwhile, downstairs, Neji pulled his arm away from Aru. "Why did you drag us out here?" He growled a bit.
Aru didn't look at Neji and went over to a window that had blinds covering it. "For two reasons... one, she was nearly naked... and two..." He pulled up the blinds slowly to see if the three aninal like people were still standing outside, which they were. "We're not alone." He whispered out to Neji and Lee. He then pulled down the blinds and looked at the two of them. "It seems that we are not the only ones that were eiher pulled out of time, or out of their worlds." He said softly, looking worried. "And I don't think its just us and them... I have a stong feeling that there are more people out there that are in the same boat as us, so to speak." He then turned back around and lifted the blinds again, but this time, he saw a pair of blood red eyes looking right at him. "AHHH!" Aru yelled as he fell back, still staring at the eyes. On the other side, Hrou just kept looking at him. "Whats with him?" He said with a chuckle, then saw the other two boys. "Those must be his friends." Kate looked over, sitting on the bottom step. "Are they anything like Aru?" She asked, looking bored. Hrou shrugged his shoulders. "More or less, yeah." He said, then backed away from the window.
Startled from Aru's yell, Lee too had been shocked into the screaming frenzy as well and fell back. Neji closed his eyes, muttering "baka" under his breath, then looked out the window to meet the blood red eyes with his pale Hyuga ones. 'Not alone, eh,' he thought to himself, silently. Lee stood up hesitantly hyper ventalating and gasping for breath. Neji wasn't concerned. All he truly cared about was he, Lee and Aru getting back to Konoha. He could care less for these others, even if they were 'on the same boat' as Aru proclaimed. "Tch," Neji grabbed Aru and pulled him back up. "I'm going back to the girl, she's the one with the information to this world, these others have no clue as do we, so I won't be bothered with the likes of them," ...As Neji walked back to the stair case, Lee couldn't help but glare. Neji was being a jerk again. But at the same time, he had a point. If the others were from another world like them, they wouldn't know how to go back. Thus, they wouldn't be of much help. But at the very least, Neji could have spared at least an introduction. A hello. A handshake, some help too! ...
Aru wanted to just go over and smack Neji, but he held himself back. He sighed and put his back up against the wall. "So Lee... do you think we can trust them... or even the girl? I'm not saying that I don't trust them... it just seems a little.. odd." He said, looking at Lee.
The youth let out a soft sigh. But shortly after, he bit his tounge. It was unyouthful to sigh, and he was taught that sighing was a way to exhale all of your youth. So he held in his next sigh and replied, "I am not sure," .. Lee looked back toward the window, "But what I am sure about is if they need help going home, then I will do so,"
Aru closed his eyes. "Then its settled... they'll come along with us to try and get out of this world... weither Neji wants them to or not... and he probably doesn't want them to." He said softly. He then got his back off the wall and started walking around, thinking about what has happened and who he has met so far. He then came to a stop and looked at Lee with terrified eyes. "What if there is no way of getting home?" He said in a small, fearful voice.
Lee folded his arms and shook his head, a confident grin upon his face, "None sense. If there was a way into this world, then there is a way out, ne?"
Aru looked down, wanting to believe that, then he shook his head and looked up again, having the same confident filled look on his face as always. "Your right... what was I thinking... the only problem is finding out who or what done it... but with the three of us, we'll find it." He said with a smile under his mask.
"You mean 4," Lee said, raising up five of his fingers....But then glancing at his hand, lowering one of them, with a nervous grin, "Yeah, 4," ...He nodded and then folded his arms, "Me, you, Neji and the girl!" he said confidently. "After all, we need her here, do we not?"
Aru looked at Lee. "You really think she wants to help us? She might want to keep us, I mean you saw all that stuff, this might be a dream come true for her." He then got his back off the wall and went over to the door. "But I might be over reacting." He said softly, going to open the door.
Lee blinked his eyes, staying silent. Now that Aru mentioned it....That made ALOT of sense. What if she wanted to keep them here forever?! She had all kinda of stuff of he and Neji. She was obsessed with them, though he was flattered...He never had a girl obsess over someone like HIM before. It was werid, but enjoyable to say the least. He turned his head over to the stairs, wondering how Neji was doing up there with the girl, then looked back at Aru. Meanwhile, with the Hyuga teen, Neji had been sitting cross legged upon Kikuchi's bed, arms folded. His long dark flowing hair had been bundled up and kept under a baseball cap, except for some long strands of his bangs still in his face a little. His old ninja clothing had been changed as well. Neji was not ammused with being a dress up doll. "I understand I must be in disguise in this world, as you have explained, but I feel rediculous,"... Kikuchi adjusted her cap a bit and put her hands on her hips, "Okay, fine, you pick out your own outfit then, genius," Neji muttered incoherently under his breath and walked over to her cloest, picking out clothing. He, however, didn't hesitate to keep a kunai hidden, just in case.
Aru looked back at Lee one last time, then opened the door. He walked out of the house and over to Hrou and the others. Hrou turned around and looked at Aru. "So, whats the plan?" He said calmly. Aru tilted his head slightly to the side. "I was suppose to make a plan?" Aru said a little surprised like. Hrou couldn't help but smile. 'I like this kid!' Hrou thought as he put a hand on Aru's shoulder. "Anyways, who's your friend." Hrou said, pointing his chin towards Lee. Aru looked back at Lee and made a gesture with his head to tell Lee to come out.
Lee looked to his left, then his right, before pointing at himself. Me? he probably thought in his head, before walking out and bowing respectfully to the group infront of him. He straightened back up, rubbing the back of his head with a grin, "I go by the name Rock Lee," the youth said, flashing a thumbs up, "Konohagakure's handsome devil..!...eeexcept...we are not in konohagakure,"
Hrou watched as Lee bowed at him and gave out his name. Kate and Kunsme walked closer to Hrou. "I see, it seems that we are not the only ones that are far away from our homes." He then held out his hand. "I'm Hrou Deloro, its nice to meet you, mister Rock Lee." He said with a slight smile.
The taijutsuist chuckled out a bit, hearing the 'mister' in his name, "Please, you may call me Lee, it is nice to meet you as well Hrou," Lee said, taking his hand in a frim, but friendly grip and shaking it strongly. He had noticed they were not human, but that did not bother Lee the slightest. It made him curious, but he had not forgotten his manners. Besides, they were the same, not physically, but they were indeed on the same boat.
Hrou was shaking Lee's hand, thinking about what he thought about them. "Alright, Lee." He said softly. Kate took another step closer, taking a good look at Lee. "Your... like the rest of these people, but something's off..." She said, studing him, then shrugged her shoulders and smiled. "Different is ok with me, I'm Kate Morza." She said softly, still smiling. Kunsme, being slient at the time, decided to be nice enough and open up. "And I'm Kunsme Kini." He said, having his hands in his pockets and having an uninterested look in his eyes.
"Hrou Deloro, Kate Morza and Kunsme Kini," Lee said aloud, in order to better memorize each person by their names. THen he closed his eyes and smiled brightly, "The pleasure is mine," ..Then Lee released Hrou's hand, looking back inside, "I wonder how long Neji-kun will be taking..."
Hrou put his hand back to his side. 'Neji... must be the other guy that I saw eariler.' Hrou thought as looked in the house, then at Lee. "You wouldn't happen to remember how you two got here, would you?" Hrou asked. When Aru tryed to think about it, to him, it was all a complete blank from the time he was at Konoha to finding himself here.
Lee shook his head, then looked to the ground, "All I remember last, was having a spar with Neji-kun, and then it seemed as though everything else just blacked out. From there, we had woken up within this house...And that is all I know of our journey to this world,"
Hrou sighed, then nodded. "I see... so no one remembers how they got here." He said, looking around, then back to Aru and Lee. Kunsme took his hands out of his pockets, but kept them down by his side. "Maybe we stumbled into something, a rift hole, a spell, or maybe this is all in our minds." Kunsme said. Hrou looked back at Kunsme. "Like a dream?" He said, and Kunsme nodded. Hrou thought about it, then shrugged. "It could be possible."
Lee had opened his mouth to reply, but had turned his head to face behind him, sensing a presence behind him. "There's more?" came a girl's voice. Kikuchi! and beside her was...What in the world was Neji wearing? Lee blinked in disbelief, Neji looked almost un resembling to his ninja self. Yes, his long brown hair was there, as well as his pale eyes, but his clothes...Looked not of their world. Ah, a disguise? "Possible, but I highly doubt this is an illusion or a dream," Neji said, after over-hearing the discussion.
Hrou looked at Kikuchi and Neji. "Nice..." He said, staring at the clothing. Kunsme looked over at the two, his eyes widen slightly when he saw the girl from eariler, but this time fully dressed. He was now interested in something in this world. He couldn't speak, his lips felt paralized for some strange reason. Hrou then looked at the girl and saw that she was dressed for something important, or so he thought. "Is there something going on?" He couldn't help but ask her.
"Ehe, h-hai, I have to get to school, I'm already late as hell," she said , grinning nervously. Neji nodded a bit, then shoved his hands in his pockets. He had noticed Kunsme's expression toward Kikuchi, curious as to what he was thinking, but easily shrugged it off. His thoughts were interuppted when Lee had grabbed his jacket and felt the cool texture of the cloth between his fingers, "Neji-kun, you are not wearing your Hyuga garments," Lee blinked again in disbelief. Neji smacked his hand off and pouted a bit, "I left it back in the house, if we're going to be here for a while, especially if we're from a well known 'anime', whatever that is, then our true identities must be kept secret," Lee nodded, understanding their situation, but continued to feel the jacket, "It's sooooft,"
"Oh, I see. Do you get punished for being late?" Hrou asked, remembering his school days and what happened if you were ever late for school. He shivered at the thought. For another moment, Kunsme kept his eyes on Kikuchi, but finally and slowly looked away to the side, thinking that she would start to feel creeped out.
"Eh...I might get detention again," she shrugged, but then put her hands behind her back, "Oh! Gomen, I forgot to introduce myself," she said, giggling lightly and bowing, "My name is Hanashiro Kikuchi," She straightend up and stuck a finger out, "That means 'White Chrysanthemum flower' in english~!"
Hrou made a soft huff sound when she said that she would just get detention. 'Luck girl...' He thought, then he lost all other thoughts when Kikuchi introduced herself. "I'm Hrou Deloro," He then pointed behind himself. "This is Kate Morza and Kunsme Kini. We are all very pleased to meet you Kikuchi." He said with a smile.
"Nice to meet you all as well," then she winced, looking at her watch, "Sorry to seem rude, but I really have to jet! I hope to see you all soon again," Kikuchi then turned to Neji, "Come on, lets go, Neji,"
"Wait, you are going with her?" Lee pouted. Neji looked back at him and nodded, "Just to adjust...and to hopefully find something at the school's library that can help us out of here,"
Lee pouted more, "Then what is Aru and I to do?"
Hrou thought about what to do now, then snapped his fingers. "Well... if you two don't have anything to do right now, your more than welcome to come with us and explore this place," Hrou said, and Kate nodded in agreement, smiling. "But I'm beginning to wonder about what that other boy said, you two might want to get a change of clothing, less someone notices you and makes a big fuss about it." He said looking at the two. Aru looked down at his clothing, then at Lee's spandex. "He might have a point." He said.
"There's a department store not to far from my place!" Kikuchi said, taking lee's hand and giving him a bundle of yen, "This should be enough for a few clothes! But incase people stop and stare and ask about you guys, just say you're 'cosplayers'!!" with that, Kikuchi grabbed neji's arm and ran off down the street, "SEE YA AT 1500 hours!"
"What the heck is a cosplayer...?" Lee asked, softly, then twitched, "WHEN THE HECK IS 1500 HOURS?" T~T
"3:00pm, baka!" Neji shouted, being dragged, before they turned the corner and out of sight. Lee sighed, "I miss him already," but shook it off and looked at the others, "Alright then, I guess we shall go exploring now!" he said with a happy grin, putting the money away in his jacket pocket.
Hrou's eyes widen when he heard that they would be back in 1500 hours. "1,500 HOURS! What the he-" Then he heard Neji say three o'clock and sighed in relief. "Ok... I was going to say... being in school for a whole 1,500 hours... that's insane. Anyways, lets get going, first to that store that Kikuchi mentioned" He said, started walking, but not really knowing where he was going.
Lee nodded and followed Hrou. He looked around at the other housing and at the streets and sidewalks. Everything here was so different. But he liked it. Lee found it to be so wonderous and fantastic! It was like travelling to a country you've never been to before and looking at things in a whole new light. Flashing lights and signs and crouds of people had now slowly emerged the closer the gang had went from urban houses to the actual city of Tokyo. Lee found himself even more engrossed with this modern like world. Enough not to watch where he was going, straying a little from the others. Just then, Lee heard a blaring horn. What in the world was that sound, just then Lee turned his head and saw a large truck headed towards him. Lee's eyes widend, "WHAT IS THAT THING?!"
Lee's eye were still wide, and he had a blank expression on his face, studdering incoherently out of shock. Then he snapped out of it, "I-I am sorry, I was not paying attention!! e-ehe, I..was too busy looking around," Lee chuckled, nervously...He then looked over at Aru and nodded, "I am fine, still a bit startled, but fine, I am sorry,"
Aru kept his eyes on the truck until it disappeared around a corner, then he looked at Lee. "No need to be sorry, as long as your alright." He said with a smile. Aru always cared for all his friends, and expecially for Lee, since he was the first person he had ever met when he entered the village. Aru then looked back at were the truck disappeared at. 'They didn't seem normal at all... their faces... had crosses on them, whats with that?' Aru thought, then heard Hrou's voice, but from afar. "Hey Aru, hurry up or we'll leave you." Aru turned around and saw that everyone else was already at the end of the sidewalk. "Hey! Hold up, please! Don't leave me behind!" Aru yelled back as he ran towards them.
"Late again, are we?"
"New record," Kikuchi said, boldly, walking to her seat. Neji stood at the door, deciding weither or not if he should enter or not. Kikuchi glanced at the door and waved her hands a bit.
"What're you? A vampire? Get in here!"
"Who's this?" The teacher said, turning to look at the pale Hyuga's eyes.
"Ho! Uh! Him?"
"Yes, him."
"He's an exchange student!!! ...He's totally not a jounin level shinobi from a famous ninja clan from some anime!"
"She means to say... I'm Toshika Koichi... I'm here to observe school life in this district."
"YEAH!"
The teacher kept looking at Neji, who was now known in the school as Toshika. "So you mean to say..?"
"I'm from a different school in Japan. The exchange program is for observations of school standands and variations from different reigons of school. SENT BY THE DOE!"
The whole classroom fell slient.
In the middle of the classroom, there was a boy sitting at on of the tables, looking at Neji and Kikuchi. The boy smiled and gave a small wave at Kikuchi. He then looked at Neji for a long moment before finally breaking the slience. "So an exchange student, huh? Which school where you in before you got transferred here, Koichi?" The boy asked, looking interested, as if he was studing Neji.
Neji, under his disguise name of Koichi, turned to look at the boy. No smile of any sort was in his slender face. However, he turned to look at Kikuchi. Neji didn't exactly know any of the other schooling districts in this world. He had to relay on Kikuchi to think up the rest. With a moment of quick slience thinking, Kikuchi said, "Hanoko High."
Neji winced slightly... Hanoko? That was Ko-No-Ha spelled backwards!!
"Well then, welcome to class, Tochika Koichi of Hanoko High." The teacher said.
Meanwhile, Lee, Aru and the gang finally arrived at the department store. "Kikuchi-san was right, there IS a clothing shop here!" The excited youth said with a grin.
The boy raised his left eyebrow when he heard the name, but then had a straight face with a smile on it again. "Hanoko High, I hear its pretty nice there." He said softly, even though he's never even heard of the school, but he felt like being nice. The teacher looked at the boy, this was the most that he's ever talking in one day. "Isrou, are you feeling ok?" The teacher asked. Isrou looked over at the teacher and nodded. "Yeah, I'm just happy." Isrou said with the same tone as last time.
Hrou looked around. "Nice, a wide selection, much bigger than back home... but I not really seeing anything I like... oh well." Hrou said, still walking around. Kate was right behind him, looking as well. "I don't know Hrou, they got some nice things, like this one." She picked out a shirt that was dim red with a black dead tree on the front of it and a person sitting there with their back up against the tree. Hrou looked at it. "Eh, I guess that alright... I'll be in one of those rooms and change." Hrou said, then walked off. Aru looked at Hrou, then at Kate. "So... you two... are you two like... you know... together... in a relashionship?" Aru asked. Kate quickly looked back at Aru and took a step back out of shock, almost tripping over a rack of clothing. "W-what? No, well... not like that, we're just friends that travel around everywhere. Thats all." Kate said, kind of quickly. Aru tilted his head to the side a little at her defenseness. "Oh, I see, ok." And Aru started to look around again. Kate put a hand up to her chest, sighing. 'Me and him... thats really funny... but sometimes...' Kate thought as she looked in the direction where Hrou walked off at. Kunsme was no where to be seen in the store, as if he had disappeared all together.
Kikuchi took her seat and Neji sat down beside her. The teacher then began to spout out things from a book. Neji leaned his elbow on his desk. So, this was math class...Neji listened to the teacher lecture and write down equations on the board. He didn't have anything to write with, not that he was required to copy them down anyway. But it's not like he had to, this kind of math was fairly easy for a genius such as himself. Though he glanced his eyes over at Kikuchi, seeing she was copying them down, but with a look of fustration on her face. Maybe she couldn't get it. Maybe she was thinking of comming in for help...Maybe she wa-- No, she just hated her eraser at the moment. With a sigh, Neji shook his head.
Isrou started to copy everything down on the board in slience. He could faintly hear Kikuchi getting fustrated about something, so he stopped writting and looked over at her, seeing that her eraser was dull and useless now, so he got out one of the pink erasers and handed it to her. "Here you go, Kikuchi." He said softly, then looked back at the board so that he doesn't miss anything and his hand with the pencil still on the paper.
Kikuchi looked over at Isrou and smiled, taking the eraser, "Arigatou, Isrou," she said with a grin. Then looked back at the board after erasing her mistakes. Meanwhile, Lee was looking around the shop, unaware of the others, just browsing. He took a liking to a green silked-feeling dragon t-shirt. He loved the color green, but the decoration of the dragon is what got him the most. He assumed Aru would like this shirt too. But had continued browsing around.
Aru glanced over to see what Lee was doing and saw the green dragon t-shirt that he picked up. His eyes widen at the sight of it, wanting to run over a grab it once Lee had put it back, but he held himself back from doing that. He wanted to see whatelse there was before he would grab it. While Hrou was in the changing room, he closed his eyes and consentrated on the energy inside of him and at once, the fur, fox ears and tails went into his body, he looked like a normal human. He put on some clothings that he had picked out and looked into the mirror. "Eh... it will do for now." Hrou said, not looking like himself. Hrou then opened the door and walked out, walking up to Kate. "So what do you think?" He asked her. Kate looked at Hrou and instantly smiled with her mouth open and wide eyes. "Oh, thats so cute on you Hrou!" She said, wanting the touch the shirt. He was wearing a shirt that was a mix of black and deep blue, with a misty look at the bottom of the shirt and the tip of the sleeves were a thick cotton with gray on it. The shirt had long sleeves as well.
Lee hummed to himself, looking around. THere were alot of neat clothing. Though he truly didn't want to get out of his comfortable spandex. His ninja outfit suited him best. But in this world...demension...place, it was strange. With that, Lee grabbed a white buttoned shirt and green long sleeved turtle-neck. a pair of jeans with a belt that came with it. THe belt had a symbol on the metal part that looked oddly similar to the Leaf village. so none the less he was drawn to it. He walked over to the changing rooms. Walking past Kate and Hrou on the way, he smiled, "I think you look good too!"
Hrou looked at Lee when he commented on his clothing. "Yeah... thanks Lee." He said, putting his hands in his pants pockets and looking away a little. Kate grabbed a pair of jeans and started to follow behind Lee to the girls side of the changing rooms. Hrou looked over at Aru who was getting a little flustered at the decisions that had to be made. Hrou shook his head and grabbed that green shirt with the dragon on it and walked over to Aru. "Here, take this a be happy, you don't seem like the type to be mad." Hrou said. Aru looked at the shirt, then took it. "Um, thanks... I hope Lee won't mind that I take it." Aru said as he kept his eyes on the shirt, he then grabbed a dark gray jeans. "Trust me, if he wanted it, he would have taken it." Hrou said. Aru nodded in a agreement, then went off to change himself.
Lee undressed himself and put on his new clothes. It felt werid to him. But it was rather comfortable. He stepped out and spun around a bit, showing off all around. "What do you all think? Quite Youthful is it not?" he said with a bright grin.
Hrou looked at Lee, giving a soft smile. "It does suit you, Lee." Hrou said. Moments later, Kate came out of the room and walked up behind Lee and threw an arm around his chest, somewhat hugging him. "It does look very nice on you Lee." She said sweetly. Hrou sighed at the sight. "Ladys and gentalmen, Kate, the worlds most none modest girl ever." He said with a straight face, but only loud enough for the two of them to hear him. Kate giggled at that, but kept her arm around Lee just to see how he would react to it.
Lee blushed deeply. Girls always did make him nervous. He chuckled hesitantly, smiling sheepishly, "A-A-A-A-Arigat-t-touu, Ka-Ka-Kate-san, ahaha-haha," ..He blushed with embrassment, for he knew if Neji were here he would probably smirk and poke fun at him in his Hyuga snob way. He sighed it off, but still feeling nervous and well, plain 'Lee-ish' around Kate.
Kate smiled and let go of Lee, moving infront of him. "Why so tense Lee?" She asked, then put her hands on his soulders, but keeping her distance. She still kept her smile on. "Relax, you don't have to be so tense around me." Kate said softly to him. As her hands were on him, something unnoticable, like an aura, went inside Lee and help him lossen up, as if she was taking away the feelings Lee was having.
How strange...Lee's eyes softened. It were as though he was no longer nervous. He stared into her eyes and nodded lightly. He was unaware of the aura, or these powers, but it wasn't that bad. Though it looked as though he was relaxing by alot.
Hrou looked at the two of them, still waiting for Aru to come out of the room, and where ever Kunsme went. Kate smiled again and moved her hands off his shoulders. "There we go, you look much more relaxed." She said softly. She stood there looking at Lee from head to toe and back up, seeing everything he had on. "I wasn't lying about saying that you looked really nice in the clothing." She said nicely. A door opened and Aru stepped out with the green dragon shirt on and the dark gray jeans. Everything on him was different except for his mask, which was still on. He walked up to Lee and everyone else, but didn't say anything. Kate and Hrou looked at Aru. "Nice, but don't you think you should take off the mask?" Hrou asked. Aru shook his head. "I cannot..." He said.
