Chapter 7: Kiyame
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Chapter 7:
Kiyame
The two jounin on either side of Pandy-chan Kazekage-sama seem irritated at the blond's outburst (I can't hold that against them, I feel the same way). Fortunately the Kazekage himself only smiles (whether in pity or not, it works for me). Thank God this is the nice Gaara and not the crazy psycho-killer.
Maybe I can still get this to work without getting labeled as eccentric. Maybe. "As my friend so bluntly put it, we are indeed from another world and we have knowledge of this world that most don't. That's also why she is dressed like Uzumaki Naruto and my clothes are very...uh...different." Yes! Those ridiculous etiquette classes are finally paying off!
"Do you expect anyone to believe you?! Especially with having no proof!" One of the Jounin yells. Kazekage-sama motions for him to back down.
"O-Of course not!" I stutter, turning back to Jessi-chan. "Do you still have the manga?"
She blinks blankly for a moment. "Yeah, so? Oh! You want me to get them out! I knew that!" She reaches into the big plastic bags, pulling out one of the first volumes. "See? One of the most popular manga!"
"That doesn't prove anything! You two could have -"
Kokiri forest music? Oh, right. My cell has that ringer. Wait, how is it even working? "Hello? Kiyame-chan...yeah...sure...no. Actually, I'm in his office right now." I pull the phone away from my ear as the girl on the other end starts yelling loud enough to make me go deaf.
"[What?! That's such a lame excuse for ditching me after I traveled all the way to see you guys! Sunagakure and Konohagakure don't exist!]"
Slowly, I bring the phone back to my ear, hoping my friend doesn't attempt to deafen me again. "Yeah, sorry. Huh? Um...no...fine but if you get me into any more trouble..." Poor Kazekage-sama.
"It's for you," I say handing him the small black razor. He looks at me strangely while the guard from earlier waits for the signal to plant one of his shiny kunai in my heart. Ew...that wouldn't be too fun.
"Hello? Who is this?"
Commence the attack!
"[OHMYGOD! GAARA?! SHE WASN'T JOKING?!]" The moment my friend starts, Gaara throws my phone back to me. Somehow I manage to catch the phone without hanging up on Kiyame.
"Kiyame-chan, I gotta go. No, I'm not here to get you a ninja for your birthday...No, I won't. I'm already in enough trouble. Bye." I stuff the device back into my black cloth covered brownie box hanging from my leather belt. "Sorry about that. She would kill me if I didn't give her a very good reason for not showing up."
Jessi-chan nods. "Yeah, when Kiyame's mad she'll shoot someone with that bow of hers! She's really scary!"
"Anyway, if you still don't believe us then is there any way we could take a polygraph test?" I ask in hope of getting back on task. If I wasn't so scared of her, I would threaten to kill Kiyame and her bad timing about now.
"What's a pulli-grapy-thingy?" Jessi-chan attempts to pronounce.
I turn back to her. "It's a lie detector test." I say as if it's common knowledge. Though, I guess to Law & Order fans it is.
"That's not necessary."
Um...did I miss something?
"But Kazekage-sama their proof was --"
"I believe them. Now go set up a place they can stay temporarily," Kazekage-sama commands the rude jounin.
"Kazekage-sama, thank you," I bow gratefully. "I'd like to ask one more thing if it's not to much."
He nods implying for me to go on.
I'm going to sound so dumb. "How old are you? I know it's a really random but..."
"14," he answers shortly not removing his eyes from his stack of papers.
I sigh in relief. "Good. It hasn't happened yet," I mumble cringing at the thought of his fight with Deidara.
* * *
"Why'd you ask him that?" Jessi-chan asks randomly as we set our stuff in our room.
"What are you talking about?" I ask confused at her question.
"Gaara's age." Oh...that.
I don't think she ever found out Gaara dies, so I'm not going to explain that now and have her blurt it out later. "Oh, I just wanted to know if this is after the time jump or the time in between. And now I know I have about a year to become a shinobi. I really want to be able to fight and maybe even help Naruto, so I'm gonna work hard."
"I want to help too!" She chimes while waving her hand wildly.
"Are you sure? It'll be a lot of hard work and I mean it will be even worse for you then me. Hell, you can't even run a mile!" I sit down on one of the two beds as she bounces on the other.
"But it's Naruto! How hard can it be? You throw a few sharp thingies and make some hand signs." I wish things were as simple as Jessi-chan makes them out to be.
"Jessi-chan, more then likely we'll be like Rock Lee, only able to use Taijutsu."
She tilts her head, "Really? But why?"
I sigh, "No one from our world can use Chakara."
"But maybe we can now that we're in this world!" she argues slamming her hands on the plain beige bed.
Shaking my head, I expand my comment, "I highly doubt that. We only landed here because you pissed Axel off. There's no real reason we're here other then that. He just picked a random world and threw us there. We could have just as easily landed in Halloween Town or Hyrule, but we still would remain how we are, not a zombie or a demon or an elf-like-person or gain Chakara."
"But you said that since you're an aura reader you can use some chakara cuz they're the same thing!" She's starting to yell again.
I think I can understand where Lina Inverse's short temper comes from.
"I can't manipulate my chakara. Like you just said, I'm an aura reader not user." She looks confused at me for a moment but since I don't feel like spending the next two hours explaining, its time for some excuse. "Look, let's just go to sleep for now. We can worry about it later." I reach over to look at my phone wondering how it worked. It would be nice to call mom and let her know that we we're fine. "Damn, I knew I should have charged it."
"Charged what?" Jessi-chan asks turning down her bed.
"The phone. Looks like we can't call home."
