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-Otakucraze

Chapter One

This is the story of a girl with an amazing story, but it all started out incredibly normal…ish

Tori is an orphan.

She didn't remember much before the orphanage she was found at when she was six.

All she had was a name and the fact that she could speak fluent Japanese, and was found in the middle of the United States of America.

Tori had no choice but to ditch her native tongue in search for a new one. She was enrolled in elementary school and had to cope with the fact that she had no one.

She went through school-life with a very limited amount of friends, due to her wild temper. She was known as the volcano, and would severely hurt anyone who called her that.

Because of her temper the orphanage paid for her to do after-school activities, saying that the small fee for the girl would be better than the multiple hospital visits that would occur if they did not. They enrolled Tori in gymnastics, stating that it was a very energetic activity and had no possible way of anyone getting hurt.

They were wrong. In her first two year period with gymnastics she had broken her arm, her leg, fractured her wrist, twisted her ankle, and 'accidentally' landed on someone. Even though she would be rushed to the emergency room and the splint would be put on, usually having her stay the night, they would check the bone the next day to discover it was completely healed. To the doctors she was a medical phenomenon. Tori just thought it was normal. Breaks and fractures were not the only thing that healed miraculously fast, if she got cut or scraped it would take less than a minute to stop bleeding and scab over, and the scabs would start coming off by their own accord after an hour.

Unfortunately, for a tomboy she got hurt a lot and since she healed so fast it distanced her away from the other kids.

Tori didn't mind having a few friends and miraculous healing powers, what she minded were the dreams.

The dreams Tori had were so vivid and real looking she could swear they were real.

She had dreams of a white haired man that was as big as a grizzly bear, and wore weird clothing and wooden shoes, and a boy with bright yellow hair and dashing blue eyes. She dreamed of herself, just older, and her life as a shinobi, or a kunoichi.

The dreams reminded her that life was cruel, for she wished she could live in the dreams she had.

She enjoyed dreaming of her other self and the boy's relationship, and when he convinced her other self to get a tattoo with a special character, Tori wanted one too. Life seemed so perfect in her dreams, until the dreams began turning into nightmares for the high-schooler; she dreamt that the other her was pregnant, and was about to give birth when a huge nine tailed fox just came out of her, somehow, and she died.

Then the dreams stopped when she was seventeen and a half.

Tori still instigated many fights around the orphanage, and soon, to stop the hostility they exchanged gymnastics with kick-boxing, but this was short lived because she graduated high school, and was pleasantly, for the orphanage, not her, kicked out. Without a job or a place to live Tori joined the military.

She joined the Air Force, with a four year contract, right as the war with Iraq started, and she was instantly deployed to the desert after training.

Tori was good with a gun, and in the convoy she noticed another abnormality with herself compared to her comrades, her sight and hearing were much better than her fellow Airmen.

That was when she got the nickname, the fox.

Tori didn't mind the name, it made sense, and it definitely beat the Volcano. Tori had long red hair, pulled back into a sock bun due to military regulations. Her red hair contrasted her turquoise eyes perfectly, to the point she didn't need make-up to make them stand out. She was five foot four in height and was lean and muscular, basically without really trying.

Tori's favorite food was ramen, and she did not get it when she was deployed, but the tuna MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat) were a close second. (A/N: The tuna MRE's are good, but my favorite was the chicken, or the ravioli, and if an MRE had a strawberry milkshake powder…. OMG I was in heaven) Tori enjoyed having her M 16 with her wherever she went, and during off time would practice the moves she had learned in Basic Training (A/N: otherwise known as Boot Camp) with her M 16, such as the butt strike, where she used the butt of the gun to swing down on the victim. The Air Force did not train their Airmen any further in hand-to-hand combat other than that with the M16 unless their job depended on it, and since Tori was simply just in Armament, turned convoy, she did not know these moves.

Convoys are usually a job for the Army, but when so many soldiers die from IEDS (Improvised Explosive Devices) the Army started to recruit the other branches of service to work the convoys. Tori was usually the only female in the convoy group and was usually set up in the front to utilize her eyesight while driving. This way the convoy she was in, as well as the convoys behind her, would be safe from any of the IED's and they could all stay alive. Tori enjoyed those times, holding an M-16, with her gear on and just watching the roads for any sign of something being tampered with on the yellow landscape. She didn't enjoy the heat though. And although her teammates got a tan from the long hot days in the desert Tori's pale skin never darkened, she didn't even sunburn.

Tori had gotten deployed three times, and her last deployment had conveniently landed on the day she was supposed to leave. Once the deployment was finished Tori was annoyed that she had to finish the year. Because of the mess she refused to re-enlist. Taking the money she managed to save, which was about 2/3rds of her paychecks put in her savings account and untouched the entire time she was in the military; she left and moved to Colorado, to a medium sized town named Castle Rock. There she got an apartment, a two bedroom and got a job as a waitress at a local restaurant. Soon bored with her job she took some of her wages and paid for self-defense and kick-boxing lessons to make her life more interesting.

She was walking home from one of these lessons when she passed an electronic store. It had some cartoons on and she recognized a name it had said. She stopped and watched it, recognizing the animation as anime, not a cartoon, and stood in horror. The name she had recognized was Kakashi, in her dream it was Minato, her other self's husbands, student. The man being shown was an older version of the boy in her dreams. The scene flashed to the "Hokage's office" and Tori began to pale; she also recognized the room from her dreams, and the Hokage as the man who gave her dream-self missions. She entered the store and asked the man what was playing on the TV outside he said it was an anime called Naruto. Tori went home and did research. The anime had just begun airing in the United States about a month ago, and had aired in Japan three years back in 2002. Tori downloaded every subtitled episode she could get her hands on and purchased the manga in English where the anime had stopped. She got them in the mail two weeks later and read them, stopping at the Kakashi Gaiden in shock, there on the page she was reading was the dream-self's husband, just as she remembered him. She ran her fingers over the page as she remembered herself kissing the man, in her dreams, and hugging him, and … other things. Because of this new realization she began looking at her diary from when she was younger. She stared at the drawings of the tattoo the other girl had gotten on her lower back and remembered the attachment she had to it, she traced her hand over the drawing and took money out of savings and got the tattoo. While she got the tattoo she decided she liked the idea of a lip ring, and as an act of impulse paid for one.

Tori had made friends with some regulars, one had been an old teammate of hers in same convoy she had during her last deployment.

"Tori," Steven, her military friend, asked "You should go up and sing" He said jokingly. His friends didn't catch the fact he was though and encouraged her to go up on stage that the bar offered; it was karaoke night, and sing. Glaring at Steven she complied, mainly since the other boys were hurriedly gaining attention from the entire bar and Tori went up on stage, her friends cheering like crazy, and chose a song that she knew. Her friends were shocked that Tori could actually sing and swept them into their small band. She replaced Steven as lead singer, and when she showed interest Steven gave her lessons on how to play electric guitar. After saving her measly wages for two years Tori got her hands on one. She commissioned to have her guitar custom made. The body was a mockingbird shape with a black edge fading into a deep red in the middle. The neck was a solid black and the frets were lined with silver. It was a beautiful guitar, and it cost a hefty amount of money, mainly because she wanted the wood to be mahogany, which meant more man-hours to shape the hard wood into the shape she wanted it to be. The guitar was Tori's child, and for the first year no one was allowed to touch it, it had the most expensive case Tori could buy to keep it safe and she would glare at anyone who came to close when she had it in her hands.

Once they got gigs the band had a small following, and Tori jokingly said she should try dressing more like a slut to get more fans, the group didn't take it as a joke and once in her first miniskirt and corset with her knee-high boots she performed and the fans doubled. With the new income Tori bought more scandalous clothing and got herself a pair of Doc Martins, something she had wanted for a long time, she had just had her 26th birthday a week ago and considered it her birthday present.

It was on this day, July 17th 2010 that her life was shaken. This wasn't like earthquake shaking, this is her life is a snow-globe and it was in the hands of a small child who had just found out how to make the snow constantly fall.

Tori was calmly reading her newest installment of manga on her bed when something very heavy suddenly weighed down the back of the girl's neck, causing her to suffocate in her pillow, she moved her arms around her and the thing on her got off. She whirled around and her jaw dropped. In front of her was Jiraiya. Tori guessed it was Steven until the man somehow got behind her and a kunai was up against her neck. She froze, this was definitely not Steven, even she couldn't move that fast.

" Kushina no you ni dare naze meiru de aru ka?"

"I have no idea what you are saying" Tori sputtered out. The kunai dug into her neck

"Dare de aru ka?"

"What?"

"Anata no namae ha de aru ka?" He asked threateningly into her ear. She recognized the word namae, it was the Japanese word for name, he was asking for her name, and he was speaking Japanese… which was obvious from the fact that he was Jiraiya.

"My name is Tori" She said in a squeaky voice, she was getting to the point where she wanted to cry, she felt like she was going to die.

"Watashi ha doko ni iru ka?" He asked. Tori began to tremble, she had no idea what he was saying, and she had never felt this hopeless. The man thought she was silently laughing and pressed the kunai deeper against her throat drawing blood and said angrily "Kore o okashii kangaeru ka?" Tori began to cry, now knowing she was about to die since she couldn't figure out what he was saying and he was acting like she was the threat. The kunai slacked a bit and in a flash Tori grabbed his balls and did a quick pull and turn, causing him to yell and back off. Tori spun and did a roundhouse kick to the man's head, which landed since he was on his knees and holding his junk with both hands, eyes tight in pain as tears formed. The kick was hard enough to knock the man out and she grabbed his hair and pulled to see who had the gall to mess around with her to find that it was his actual hair. Licking her finger she tried getting the marks off of his face to see that they were permanent. Grabbing his jacket to see who made cosplay items this impressive she was shocked to feel the expensiveness of the clothing, and there was no tag. Tori backed off. She was in trouble.

Running downstairs as quickly as she could she grabbed her home phone and began to dial 911 when a kunai struck the phone with enough force it not only escaped her hand, but it was not attached to the wall, with a little spark of electricity and smoke coming from the now dead phone. Tori stared in shock at the new decoration to the kitchen, before looking in fear where the kunai came from. The man that looked like Jiraiya looked slightly pissed and Tori was in shock that a blow as hard as she gave only knocked out a man his size for less than five minutes. He pointed to her couch and said "Suwara se nasai" and Tori slowly and cautiously went to sit down at the couch, keeping an eye on the man while slightly shaking. Sitting down she felt a bump in her jeans and slowly grabbed the device. It was her cell phone. Tori mentally slapped herself and opened up her phone and began rapidly texting to Steven as the man began to look around her house.

"Help some psychopath is dressed as Jiraiya and has a wicked aim with a kunai, bring a Japanese English voice translator and Japanese English Dictionary too." Tori stopped the ringtone as quickly as she could but the short blast of sound from the object caught his attention as she read his message and sighed

"What? Do you know how much those cost?"

"I'll pay you back" Tori typed and pushed send as the man dressed as Jiraiya grabbed the cell phone from her and looked at it quizzically before her ringtone began once more scaring the man slightly as he dropped it, and threw a kunai at it before Tori could catch it. Tori glared at the man in anger as he kept the repair bills rising. He pointed to the couch and Tori reluctantly went to sit down. Tori stared at the man as he stared at her as he twirled a kunai on his finger as a threat back. Five minutes passed before the doorbell rang, expecting this Tori rushed to the door to meet her comrade but was intercepted by the man, who grabbed her and then threw he onto the couch. Tori growled as he opened the door, pulled the man in, slammed the door and threw him up against the wall with the kunai aimed at his neck.

"Anata no namae ha de aru ka?" He said, digging the kunai into his throat for emphasis.

"Holy crap! What the hell dude, seriously calm down, you shouldn't take cosplaying so seriously!" The kunai dug deeper into his throat and made Steven squeak.

"Anata no namae ha de aru ka?" He repeated, much more threateningly

"What is he saying?" He hissed towards the girl

"He wants to know your name" Tori said

"My name is Steven Vandersult." The kunai slacked a bit and his hand grasped Steven's shoulder, shoving him into the living room and pushed him onto the couch next to him "Holy crap Tori, when you said psychopath you meant it"

"I told you; please tell me you brought the dictionary"

"Yeah, here" he said handing her a plastic bag, which was instantly confiscated by the older man. Tori glared and growled. She did not like this situation. He dumped out the contents and grabbed the dictionary, recognizing the words and a pad of paper and a pen, scribbling characters and grabbed the dictionary, and going near Tori. Flipping through the pages he pointed to a character and she wrote the word down.

"is I here where" Tori mumbled writing the words down underneath the written characters. "Where is here? Oh where is he" Tori exclaimed and took the pen from the man and wrote "Colorado, America" and flipped the pages so he could write them down.

He wrote down more characters and Tori deciphered the words "Is that near Japan? No" she said, shaking her head and flipped to the back of the dictionary for a very convenient world map. She pointed to Japan "Nihon" she said, remembering the word "Colorado" she said, pointing to the middle of the United States. Steven's phone rang and answered it as Tori grabbed the box and opened it. Getting batteries from a drawer she inserted them and turned the device on. She spoke near the microphone

"My name is Tori" and the Japanese characters appeared on the screen and she showed them to the older man. "How did you get here and who are you?" She said

"Watashi ha Jiraiya de ari, jutsu o shiyou shi ta" He said and the translated version to her said "I am Jiraiya and I got here by jutsu" Tori paled and so did Steven as he whispered in her ear away from the microphone

"So the anime is real?" He said louder "We are wanted for practice in an hour." And the words translated for Jiraiya to read.

"I need to get ready" she said, and again the words were translated, and she handed the device to the man as she got up. She was glad the drama was over but this was going to be annoying. She couldn't leave him in her apartment, she had to take him with her, and added with her provocative clothing and his "research" this was not going to be a pleasant experience.

Tori grabbed her familiar deep red corset with lace overlay and a matching miniskirt that included chains and put them in her backpack to change in later. She put on an arm-warmer made of fishnet and put on her thigh-high black socks and threw the garters in her bag. She put on a second pair of thick wool socks and put on her skintight thick leather pants before putting on her new boots. Putting on a light shirt she checked to make sure she knew where her leather jacket was she put on some light make-up and put her hair in a messy half-up do. People were going to attack her hair and finish her make-up to look good on stage so doing it in a way where it looked nice was worthless. Taking her backpack and her jacket she walked downstairs.

When Tori had gotten to the living room she saw that Steven was explaining that they were going to off to a practice session for their gig, and Jiraiya insisted to come with.

"If he is coming he will have to go in your car" Tori said as she put on the heavy leather jacket and zipping it up. "He won't be able to travel with me" She said as she headed to the door

"Fine" Steven said and motioned for Jiraiya to follow. Tori put on her backpack and fastened the buckle before grabbing her helmet. She handed her case with her guitar to Steven.

Tori opened the garage to get her motorcycle. Tori spent her savings on the shiny black and silver Ducati, running her fingers along the motorcycle in joy. Tori believed in saving up for big purchases, and her Ducati and her guitar were the loves of her life, along with her Zune. Straddling the bike she put her hair up and put her helmet on before unzipping her jacket pocket to get her keys. Putting the keys in her ignition and turning the vehicle on she reviled in the joy she felt when the motorcycle came to life underneath her, once ready to depart she waved at Jiraiya and Steven before zooming past them. Tori got a motorcycle rather than a car was the fact she enjoyed the feeling of flight, the risk of not being completely incased in metal, and the feel of what felt like an animal underneath her. She loved the silent roar the bike would make when it moved, and how racing and weaving through the cars made her adrenaline pick up and feel weightless.

Needless to say Tori got to the place the gig was to be held at far before Steven and Jiraiya did, and by that time the cosmetic crew had nearly finished with Tori's hair and make-up when Steven and an in awe Jiraiya finally stepped in. Jiraiya pulled out a notebook when he looked at Tori with her outfit on in a chair with people doing her hair and make-up. Tori growled at the reaction that Jiraiya had as he drooled and took notes on Tori's body. The hairstylist finished his work and allowed Tori to stand, and with her hands on her hips and a glare caused Jiraiya to get a nosebleed. Her glare intensified. Steven traded spots with Tori after handing the girl her guitar case and sat down to allow the hairstylist to fix his hair and Tori in her anger left the old man where he was and went off to find the rest of her band; besides Steven, who was lead electric guitarist, there was Dan on the drums, James on the bass, Kevin on the third electric guitar and acoustic guitar, and Claire on the keyboard. The band was named The Achilles Heel, and they were the opening gig for another band, Mercury Riots. The Achilles Heel did not like Mercury Riots. Tori would admit that she enjoyed their music and was thrilled to hear that her band was going to be opening for them… until she met them. The insults that came out of their mouths left Tori not only horrified, bit she had to literally fight to keep her anger in check the past week when they practiced together. She gave Steven a black eye the last time he held her down when the lead singer called her a Ginger Whore. Tori was not looking forward to seeing them, but seeing as tonight was the night they were going to be performing together she knew she had no choice but to see them.

The lead singer, Alexandra, walked in, shaking her hips and flipped back her long blond hair. Tori glared as she opened the case and began to practice the chords silently with Jiraiya looking at the instrument in confusion, but he recognized it at least. Jiraiya had never seen an electric guitar in the same of Tori's, and it was interested.

"I knew you were a whore, Ginger, but who knew you preferred older men" Alexandra said as she looked from Jiraiya to her, smirking. Tori gripped the strings in one hand and the other with her pick, attempting to ignore the bratty girl by grinding her teeth. "Give up, the Achilles Heel will never be as big as we are" that statement was the last straw to Tori and she looked up into the girl's blue eyes, glaring daggers as she did so as she snapped back

"If becoming big means acting like a slutty whore like you, than I don't want to become big" She said, proud she didn't result in punching the girl in her pretty face. She looked appalled at the comment Tori made

"You already are"

"But I act like a stuck up bitch as you do, sucking up to your manager by letting him have his way with you is low, sickingly low. But tell me, do you do that in a form of payment, or so you can get what you want?" Tori grinned; she loved verbal spats, especially with people who annoyed her. Alexandra didn't say anything as her look of shock turned to a scowl and she pushed Tori, who did a back-flip and stuck her tongue out as the other girl huffed and stomped off. Tori grinned as she joined up with the rest of her band, forgetting that Jiraiya was even there as the six began rehearsing.

"Five minutes before curtain up, take your places"

Jiraiya thought that he best be going back and started the handseals necessary to do so when the rest of the band that formed Mercury Riots burst through the door where Jiraiya was standing, sending the older man towards the six that were rehearsing when Alexandra then decided to spit on Tori which sent her jumping towards the woman as Steven and the rest of the band held back. Trying to regain his balance Jiraiya did the last handseal and tripped holding out his hand he grabbed Kevin's shoulder for balance and the horror began.

The seven spun through time and space and landed in a gaggle on the grass. Tori moaned as she began kicking people off her and her precious guitar.

"Dang it Tori, stop kicking" Steven yelled

"Agh I landed on my drums" Dan moaned

"At least you don't have James's bass in your back" Kevin said

"Where the hell are we?" Claire asked before yelling as Jiraiya grabbed her boob holding her arms to protect her assets she glared and yelled "Pervert"

"I am glad I landed on your keyboard Claire" Tori said

"You better not be broken"

"It isn't I'm the lightest one here"

"Who is he?" Claire asked

"Jiraiya" Steven said

"As in Naruto Jiraiya, the anime character?" James asked incredulously

"Yep" Tori said

"How? What?" James said confused at their clam serious expression and tone
"Would like to know the same" Tori said nodding "Do you still have that translator?" Tori asked as the rest of the band began to panic, Steven and Tori stayed calm, or calmer than the rest. The two had been thrown through difficult times in the past with the military, they were taught to keep calm in stressful situations to assess what was going on and come up with a plan.

"Yeah" Steven said as he dug out the device. Tori was glad she had her backpack still on. This was a mess; an extremely bad messed up mess

"Where are we?" Tori said into the device and it translated the question to Jiraiya.

"Konoha" he said and the group didn't need it to be translated. The panic attacks they were having was worse than before "Watashi ga Hokage ni hanasu you ni koko ni I nasai" and the device translated as Steven read

"Stay here as I go talk to the Hokage?" and Tori nodded at the man as he left and she told the others, handing the device to Steven

"We should pretend like we don't know anything"

"Why?" Claire asked as she trembled in James' arms

"Because if we know what happens in this anime they will treat us like criminals, if we act like we don't know anything than we will be safer and treated like normal human beings, besides Jiraiya is on our side and will know how to get us home" Tori said and the four began to relax at her words.

"Promise?" Dan said

"Of course" Tori said with her hands on her hips "Do you think I would lie to you?"

"Why would he leave us?"
"Because we can't just go waltzing into Konoha without paperwork and the Hokage's permission" Tori said matter-of-factly. If anyone knew more about the Naruto world it would be Tori.

"Okay" Claire said as her trembling stopped and the rest began to calm down.

"What sucks is that we won't be able to perform" Kevin said

"Yeah" James said

"I would love to have Mercury Riots' fans become ours, but it is just impossible now" Steven said

"I would love to see that bitch's face when she watched us disappear though" Tori said, twisting her fist into her hand "Of course I would love to punch her face in, too" She said as Tori's ears picked up a twig breaking and some rustling of bushes, she turned towards the noise as four masked men with the hitai-ate for Kirigakure came out of the brush. Tori backed up as one said

"Jinchuuriki ha watashi tachi anata no yuujin ni sun de hoshikere ba kuru" pointing to the redhead

"What?" Tori asked, recognizing the word Jinchuuriki

'Crap, do they think I am a Jinchuuriki?' Tori thought in shock, they couldn't, could they

Tori stayed still as Steven fished out the device when one shot a kunai in his direction

'Probably thought he was pulling out a kunai' Tori thought as she took off her guitar and handed it to Steven, who took the instrument with care. Tori stepped forward, hands up to show she was not a threat.

"Now listen, we can't hurt you, we don't have chakra, and we have no idea what you are saying" Tori said as calmly as she could. One disappeared and something struck Tori against the head and her world went black as she fell to the ground her friends yelling her name and strong arms caught her and threw her over their shoulder as they dashed away.