Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Split personality, Samaia of the other world ❯ 4. To the other side ( Chapter 4 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]



“A forest? Samaia, you're joking, right?” Samaia just keeps on dragging me on and on. Ignoring me completely, like she has done for the pas 20 minutes now.
“Come on, Samaia. School has started, we should really head back now.” No response to that plea either. Geez, why aren't I fighting her? I can take her on, or am I that eager to know the truth? No! I'm not that pathetic, right?
I can see a strange wooden gate coming closer. Samaia told me about that kind of gates. They're called, Shinto gates, a Japanese entrance bow, which commonly stands in front of every shrine in Japan. Samaia once showed me pictures of her home village and this type of gate was in a lot of those pictures, `cause Samaia used to live near the local shrine of the village. Samaia walks straight towards it. “Time to enter,” she says and walks through the gate, still dragging me along. “Don't let go of my hand.”
“What?”
Samaia's warning turns out to be not a worthless one, `cause as soon as we walked under the gate, the world around us starts to change. I find myself floating in some kind of cosmos place. “What THE!!! WHERE THE HELL ARE WE!??!”
“Relax, Ralf. We're almost there. Just keep your hold of me,” Samaia says calm. She is rubbing her thumb back and forth over the back of my hand. Is she trying to calm me?
She suddenly pulse herself closer to me, laying her free arm on my back and burring her face in my chest.
“I've missed you, Ralf.”
What is this warmth I can feel in my chest? Why is my heart pounding like hell? Then, I suddenly realize it. I still love her! I've always done so! I put my free arm around her, holding my hand on the spot were her hair start in her neck and pushing her head softly closer to me. I sniff her smell and kiss the top of her head.
“I've missed you too, Samaia. I'm sorry for what I did, but… I still love you.” She looks surprised up to me, her eyes filled with tears of joy. “I love you too.” I hold her a bit tighter to me. We stay like this until we reach the bright white light in the distance.
Ouch!” Branch. “Autsj” Another branch. “AAAhh! Ouch!” Ground. “Ooh, that hurts,” I say, lying on my belly on the cold forest ground.
“HIAAA-A!” Samaia screams while she lands besides me, like a true ninja. “You always were kind of a cry-baby, Ralf,” she says with a grin. Let me explain this situation for a second. When we exited the strange cosmetic world, I lost Samaia and I found myself falling from the sky. I would have died if that tree hadn't been there to break my fall for a bit. So I fell on some branches, switching from falling on my back to falling on my belly until I finally fell on the ground. Painful? Yeah, well trust me. Even hell can't be worse than this. I know I'm over exaggerating, but still, it hurt.
“I'm sorry for the rough landing. We still need to work on the arrival through the gateway,” says Samaia apologetically. “Neh, it's alright,” I say while I crawl up, “so… … where are we? This isn't the forest near the school, is it?”
*Sigh* “You're right. This isn't the forest near the school. I don't know exactly where we are, but I do know we're not in the States any more, we're not even on the earth you know.”
“What's that supposed to mean?”
“We stepped through a portal of time and space. It's a little too complicated to explain now, but the bottom line is that we're not on earth any more.”
“What, we're on Venus then?” I ask, trying to get the mood a little less tense.
“No… we're still on earth, but not on one like you know.”
“aha. Well whatever. So where ARE we then?”
“Let's say, in a parallel world which I never gave a name.”
“And now?”
“Well, we're in the forest near the hidden leaf village, so let's go there.”
“The hidden leaf what?”
“The hidden leaf village. It's official name is Konohagakure, or Konoha for short. The village is hidden in a forest in the Land of Fire, and is one of the 5 great ninja villages. You could say that it's my second home. Do I still make any sense?” Samaia explains.
“I can feel a headache coming up. Wait… Second home?” I ask confused.
“Yes, Ralf… this…, this is my secret. I'm as healthy as can be, always have been. When you think that I'm sick at home, I'm actually on missions here. The two persons you met at my house were Sakura and Naruto. My teammates and friends,” says Samaia, while we start walking through the forest.
“I see…” I say, keeping my head down. What am I supposed to do? “Samaia?”
“Yes?”
“What…” I've made up my mind, it's now or never. “What do I need to do to become a ninja here and to come along on you missions with you?”
“Why would you want that?” she asks confused and smiling.
“Rememberr that time you were attacked on the street?”
“Yes, it was soon after we started dating.”
“Yes. I saved you from those jealous thugs, but what's more, I promised you something that day. You remember? I promised that I would protect you, no matter what it took. I still want to live up to that promisse.”
“I know that, Ralf. Just be patience, okay? I never forgot about the promise you made me back then.”
“What do you mean?” I ask. This time, it's me who is confused.
“Well, we're here. Over there is Konoha and we're right in time for the festival,” Samaia says smiling. She grabs my hand and runs to the village entrance. “Festival?”