"The Coming of the Tide"

By Quick-n-Popular

Disclaimer: "Sailor Moon" and "Naruto" are properties of their respective owners. I own only this story I've concocted.

Author's Note: Thanks to all who've favorite/alerted/and reviewed. I have no idea where this story's going to go but hopefully it will all go well in the end.

Chapter Two: Strangers in a strange land: Part Two

==Two Weeks Earlier==

"Well, what are we going to do, Shika?" Ino inquired as part of the group were situated in their campsite sitting around the make-shift fire that had been preparred moments earlier.

"I thought we went over this already." Tenten said, taking some jerky that Kiba got out of a storage scroll.

Shikamaru sighed, "Well, We're to assimilate with the enviormnent we're in. According to Genma, people our age are in schools, so some document foraging will probably be needed along with some fake identities. Besides that we need to find some place to stay and a means to live. Ergo, while others go to the schools to try and gather information about this world, some of us will get jobs and learn about the country and the city itself."

Ino nodded, it wasn't that dissimiliar to some of the espionage missions she took once she made Chuunin to Lightening Country, where there she needed to blend in to the local populace.

"Where are the others?" Shizune inquired as she noticed they were short of the former Kazekage, Naruto, and their female companions.

"Well, I think they're having a strategy meeting of their own." Genma mused as he threw some kindling into the fire pit.

Temari and Gaara were sitting on some large unearthed rocks, looking up at the night's stary sky in silence.

However, silence could only last for so long.

"Gaara...Do you think...no, do you believe that someone's giving us a chance at a better life by bringing us here?" Temari asked, her gaze still set upon the stars above.

Gaara turned to his sister with a raised eyebrow.

"Don't you mean by Naruto bringing us here?"

Temari smirked, "You know what I mean."

Gaara returned his gaze to the sky and sighed as he closed his eyes. "I don't have an answer for you."

Temari sighed, "So much has happened since Suna fell...since we lost Kankuro and Baki-sensei..."

Gaara closed his eyes, "It'd be best not to dwell on such things."

"Really?" Temari brought her knees up to her chest and slowly rocked herself to and fro, "I hope that they're doing well, wherever they are."

Gaara made no further comment and the two continued to look at the alien sky above them.

Naruto and Hinata were walking a bit farther from the campsite, the moonlight's glow giving them somewhat visiability, along with their hightened sense of seeing in the dark; aiding them as Hinata crouched down to examine a wild flowering bush.

"This place...it's so foriegn, yet it could easily be mistaken for our home." Hinata said as she then stood up and walked to Naruto, wrapping an arm around his and holding it tightly to her frame.

Naruto smiled, "This is the second time I've seen you beautiful in the moonlight, hime."

Hinata blushed, "Only for your eyes, Naruto-kun."

Naruto smiled and placed a chaste kiss on her brow and then looked off into the distance, only stopping when heard Hinata sigh.

"What is it?"

Hinata peered from her pearl-white eyes into Naruto's oceanic-blue, cupping his face while smiling sadly.

"I wish you would stop blaming yourself, Naruto-kun. You've got to stop. No one here blames you and Gaara himself has applauded the fact that you saved us. There was nothing more you could do for our village."

Naruto sighed, heavily before resting his chin on Hinata's head.

"I know but-"

Hinata shushed him, "Stop, please. Please, Naruto-kun."

Naruto sighed once more and became quiet for a few minutes before he spoke once more.

"What now, Hime? We're far from home."

Hinata removed herself from underneath Naruto and looked up at him, "We'll do the best we can. Who knows what we will happen but as long as we're all together..."

Naruto nodded and the two then made an unspoken agreement to head back to the campsite, the two of them joined by the arms with Hinata resting her head on Naruto's shoulder.

The next day, the group gathered to eat the breakfast made up of fish caught from a nearby stream while waiting for the clothes Kiba and Tenten were procurring from a nearby housing settlement.

"Hey Shika, did you guys decide on who's going to the school and who's going to be working yet?" Ino asked.

Shikamru set down his fish and nodded before replying.

"Genma, Shizune, Gaara and myself will be looking for a place for all of us to live and then we'll be looking for jobs within the vacinity. That leaves everybody else to attend school."

Everyone nodded.

By this time, Kiba and Tenten returned with storage scrolls filled with clothes, accessories, and make-up to cover up Kiba's marks and Gaara's markings around his eyes and the scarred kanji "love" that was above his eye.

With Naruto's markings, along with Gaara's eyes, they could only do so much in covering them but it seemed that the shadows and whisker marks could still be seen, barely. In light of this, Shika said that the two would best explain to others that they were just birth marks.

As for Hinata's eyes, since her eyes could easily be mistaken for someone who was blind, it was settled with them being just a genetic anomally.

"Now, we have to come up with a plausible back story for us." Shikamaru sighed, pinching the bridge of hisn nose and trying his hardest not to say "troublesome" as tempting as it was.

"Well, considering that there are three blondes in our group, we could, possibly, pass ourselves off as cousins." Ino ventured.

"Are you really sure that's going to work?" Genma asked.

Tenten, however, nodded. "There's a wide variety of hair colors here, so it shouldn't be a problem."

That settled, they went onto others.

"Gaara and myself will pass ourselves off as two who recently started college. Genma-san and Shizune-san, you can decide your own since it'd be best if you two went individually. Kiba, Hinata, and Tenten can either be transfer students or part of the foriegn exchange program; the six of you can decide your back grounds and how you enter the school, really." Shika finished as a fished out another cigarette, inciting another glare from Ino and Tenten, who also disapproved of his habit.

"Well, it's a plan, at least." Temari sighed.

Shika raised an eyebrow at her, "You got something better?"

Temari shook her head.

Kiba, Tenten, and Hinata walked off discussing their identites and a possible back story for entering the school.

Ino, Temari, and Naruto huddled together and began discussing their strategy.

"Cousins, huh?" Naruto asked, smiling ruefully.

"Can't really pass ourselves off as siblings, due to too many differences." Ino sighed.

Temari nodded, "What are we going to do about where we come from?" She smirked as she looked at Shikamaru from the corner of her eye talking to Genma and Gaara.

"The smoky pineapple didn't think that far ahead."

Naruto looked thoughtfully at the ground, his eyes narrowing before he closed them and sighed, tiredly.

"I got nothing."

Ino scowled, "I say, before we decide on the back ground information that we try and learn more about the city, country, and all."

Temari nodded and Naruto left to go talk to Shikamaru.

Rei Hino was not having a good morning. Still disturbed by her vision from yesterday, she had become a bit slugish and preoccupied by thought.

She was interrupted by her grandfather who lightly tapped her back, causing her to jump.

"J-Jii-chan!"

"Rei-chan, I need your help. We've got some lost tourists and they qaren't buying from the souvineer shop."

Rei scowled at her grandfather's schemeing.

"Jii-chan! I know we make little money but-"

"Make sure you get them to buy some of those charms, they ahven't been selling much. I'm going to make sure Yuichirou-kun isn't slacking off." He then bounced on the heels of his feet as he left, making Rei scowl after him.

Her gaurdian crows, Phobos and Deimos, cawed in sympathy toward her.

Rei sighed, sometimes she really couldn't handle her grandfather's antics.

She walked at a sedated pace as she wrestled with her thoughts on the matter of her premonition. Walking around the corner, she finally spotted the tourists her grandfather had mentioned.

A group of six, two males, the rest female.

She stopped and starred as she saw that one of the males had blonde hair...

To be continued….

A/N: Well I still no idea on where this is headed. I have many ideas but melding them together is becoming a tiring venture. I'm having computer problems so I'll hopefully be updating the next come soon.

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