chapter 6
I cleaned up the kitchen, putting the wrappers in the trash, washing the bowls and silverware and sweeping the floor before starting to mop it.
I finished up and grabbed a nursing journal to pass the time before anyone woke up. I was partway through the Nursing Journal when I saw Naruto start to stir.
“You waking up now?” she asked aloud.
The boy stirred and mumbled to himself half asleep still, “Not yet sakura, five more minutes.”
“Not sakura, and you can have 5 minutes more, I'm just reading a magazine.” she told the sleepy boy.
“Not....Sakura.....whats a....a magazine?” he asked shakily, blinking his eyes slowly and yawning cutely.
“It's like a newspaper with pictures.” I explained to him as he rubbed the sleepiness from his eyes.
“Eehhh! Who are you?” he exclaimed when he saw me. “You aren't Sakura!”
“I'm Malie.” I told him.
“Oh yeah, you fed me ramen. Thanks for that.” and he flashed me a quick blinding smile.
“No problem, a growing boy like you needs a lot of food.”
“Boy!” he squawked, “I'm a man!”
“A man, you can't be older than 15” I giggled.
“I'm 17, dattebayo” Naruto groused.
“17, oh dear, I think I should have read the storyline more in-depth if I’ve missed that, wonder what else I’ve missed.” I mused to myself.
“Story....line....?” Naruto remarked wonderingly.
“Oh, um, ano, i'm rally not sure how to put this. Like, really.” how did you tell a person that they were in a demension where they were just simple characters in a story? How?
“Everyone always tells me to start at the beginning. So why don't you try that?” he told me.
“Oh, well then it might be better for me to ask you a few questions to make sure that I have all of my information right.“ I informed him, trying to see what he already knew, not wanting to spring the whole different dimension thing on him if it wasn't expected. It was rather outlandish and I wasn't sure he would accept it without a good and logical lead up.
“Sure, fire away!” Naruto smiled again. “Well when you woke up you talked about a crazy lady you were fighting....” I trailed off meaningfully.
“Yeah, the rabbit lady, kogome, or something like that.”
“Otsutsuki Kaguya” I said. “How did that come about?”
“Well first we were fighting Tobi, who turned out to be this guy Obito, but he was really just working for Madara, so we were fighting him, me and my friends.”
“Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, and Uchiha Sasuke” I rolled out instantly.
“Yeah....them.” he shot me a look before continuing. “So we were fighting”
“In the fourth great shinobi war” I stated plainly
“Sasuke joined us and was using his sharingan and his crazyass big purple skeleton”
“Susanoo” I interjected.
“Yeah, that, and Sakura was using her strength and was healing like crazy fast, she even had that little diamond on her forehead like baachan”
“The Yin seal”
“Then there was this weird old man who told me this story about how I was his son's reincarnation”
“Otsutsuki Asura”
“And how he was going to give me this power to stop the insane eye of moon plan”
“Infinite Tsukuyomi”
“How do you know all of this?” Naruto asked.
“I will tell you later, please continue your explanation.”
“Ooookay, so, where was I?”
“Infinite Tsukuyomi” I informed him.
“Yeah, that, and the ten tails was formed, and then Neji died, oh god, Neji.” at this point Naruto was looking so despondent that I patted him on his back and waited for him to continue. “So I started giving Kurama's chakra to all of my comrades, which was a lot, but I could do it. But I was losing to the ten tails”
“The Juubi” by this point naruto was just ignoring me, and continued on with his story.
“When my father finally showed up with reinforcements, there was the other Hokage's and Even Sasuke showed up, finally, the bastard, and so we were all united, team 7 again, but the teme just had to go and state that he would be Hokage! The bastard! And then everyone else started saying they would be Hokage, even Kiba. So team 7 was together fighting the Juubi, and we all summoned and Whoa! Had Gamakichi grown! And so we were all fighting, and me and dad joined together and bumped fists, and our Kurama's bumped fists too, and then Kurama was whole again, his Yin and Yang chakra together. But then we were still losing people and Obito was still being an idiot and he was dragging morale down, so I had Ino transmit a message to everyone and we fought more”
“Lots of fighting going on then, what happened next?” I asked, even if I already knew.
“But unfortunetly the Juubi was part of Obito, and he was a jinchuuriki, but I spoke to Obito and started talking him out of being so damn crazy stupid. And we tried to release the tailed beasts, but then Madara chained them again, and gained a rinnegan, and so me and sasuke were fighting him and I think I passed out for a little while, but then I was up, and I was talking to the old man, and he gave me this power”
“The sage of the sixth fold paths gave you the yang half of his power.”
“And then I saved bushy-brows sensei from dieing because he opened up the 8th gate, and then Sasuke had the rinnegan too, and we were fighting Madara together, cause we each had half of the power necessary to defeat him. Then Obito showed up, but he was covered in this black stuff”
“Black Zetsu was controlling him.”
“Then I had to save Sakura-chan, and after that Sasuke had to cover us, team 7, in his Susanoo to protect us from the light of the moon that put everyone in a genjutsu, but Madara was betrayed by black Zetsu, who was apparently just a part of this lady”
“Otsutsuki Kaguya”
“And then madara turned into the rabbit lady.”
“again, Otsutsuki Kaguya, not rabbit lady”
“Yeah, but then she started to tansport us places. It was weird, cause we would be fighting her and then we would be somewhere else. And I used my Sexy: reverse harem technique on the weird lady and we got a good hit in on her. Then Obito was saying that he was going to walk the right path with us but then he died saving Kakashi, and then we continued fighting and then we were someplace else, and I guess I ran out of chakra.”
“You were transported somewhere else.”
“Oh, you know then? Where we are, and what happened?”
“Well, the first thing I have to say is that when she transported you places do you know where you were going?”
“Um, the others said something about a different dimension....”
“That's right, it was a different dimension, and that last jump was to a different dimension, one you are still in.”
“What! This is a different dimension? But....how did you know all of that stuff?” Naruto questioned me suspiciously.
“Now this is the part that you are going to have to stretch you imagination to understand, but here, in this dimension you aren't real people, you are just characters in a story. An unfinished Manga......”
“.......What.......what the hell.........what the hell are you talking about, characters in a story? Who would believe that?”
“But it's true see.....” I tried to explain to him.
“No, no way that's way too outlandish!” Naruto crossed his arms in an x in front of him.
“I assume you have proof?” a voice spoke up from the doorway, causing both of us to yelp in startlement.
“Kakashi!” the blonde exclaimed, jumping up and hugging his comrade. “this lady is saying that we are only characters in a story! Like anyone would believe that.”
“I heard Naruto, and once again I ask if there is any proof” he said in a low tone.
“There is, follow me, I have the site pulled up on the computer.” I walked away from them into another room. Now I would have to deal with the two of them when confronted with the knowledge that they were only storybook characters in this dimension.