Disclaimer: I Do OWn NArutO...

You: No ya don't.

Me: Aww dang it, my hypnotism ain't working. :(

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, Orochimaru would have been crushed by a stegosauras by now. Cause those things are friggin awesome. Not Orochimaru, Stegosauras'. Pi? One and a half... To get to the other side... yellow, green, white, purple... King Henry the eighth... the apple never falls far from the tree... and so on.

PS. This chappie is dedicated to XxMeWxX4444 because her comments make me smile :) and also because she has given me a lot of support. So thank you Mew-chan!! You cheered me up today when I was feeling down :D

And you got quite a good chappie, if you ask me. If you like the fluff, that is.

Anyway, on with the show- er, I mean story!!

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"Ugh..." I wandered me and Zoey's flat, rubbing my head. I had such a bad headache...

I bit my lip as it brought back memories of the last headache I had. It had developed into a full-blown migraine, so I'd had to stay in bed for two days.

My mom had cared for me, bringing me food, and hot chocolate, anything she thought would help.

I went to the kitchen and took a headache pill, shivering in disgust. At least it would get rid of it.

I wonder how they're doing? Mom, Dad, Sam... I hope they're okay without me. I wonder if they miss me? I laughed humorlessly as I imagined my Mom and Dad talking and laughing with Sam, but it died as I thought of how worried they'd be.

What kind of daughter was I? To be here, having fun, when they're back home probably worried sick! I should go back, tell them I'm okay... I want to go back. I'm not cut out for this life.

~Naruto POV~

I knocked hard on the door of the building that Zoey said was her and Charlie's home, and some weird, sour-faced guy opened it. I flinched as he glared up at me. "Whatta ya want?"

I swallowed, then elbowed the teme standing behind me. He glared at me, then said in his most polite voice, "We're looking for Charlie? She lives in the top flat."

The man frowned, but let us through. We could still hear him grumbling about kids and parties as we made our way up the many, many stairs.

We came to a door which had Charlie and Zoey's names written on, and Sasuke knocked hard. There was a slight shuffling and commotion, and a clack as the chain was put in. The door opened, constricted by the chain across it. All I could see was Charlie's yellow eyes; she didn't have any lights on inside.

It was kind of creepy, her eyes seemed to glow, but held a kind of lost look. She was hurting still.

"Charlie." I murmured, "It's us. Can we come in?"

She frowned at us a second, then shut the door. A second later it swung open, and we went in. I bit my lip, and went to snap the lights on, but a cold hand caught my wrist.

"Don't." she croaked, and my eyes widened; she sounded terrible. "I have a migraine."

She went to her kitchen sink and pickud up a glass of water that had been beside it. Her hands were shaking, I could see that now thatmy eyes had adjusted, and she looked extremely malnourished.

"Well? What do you want?" she asked tiredly, and Sasuke frowned.

"We want you to come back to Team Seven." as usual, teme was straight to the point.

Charlie just shook her head. "No. If being in the Land of Waves taught me anything, it's that I'm not cut out for being a ninja. Hell, I don't think I'm even meant to be here."

She seemed a little more like herself, at least. I was confused, though. "What do you mean?" I asked.

She closed her eyes, and sat down on her bed. "I... I don't know that it's safe to tell you..."

"Why? Tell us what's going on, Charlie." Sasuke demanded, and Charlie's eyes narrowed, filling with pain and unhappiness.

"I can't bear for people I care about to get hurt anymore! I want to go home, this isn't my life! It's all just like some cruel joke!" I was shocked at her words, "Why did this happen?! What did he do to deserve death?! I knew it was coming... I just didn't try hard enough to stop it! I deserve the pain!"

With every word, Charlie's eyes glowed brighter, and I stepped back a little. What was happening..?!

"Why did he have to die?!" a blinding light enveloped us, hiding Charlie and Teme from my sight. A pulling sensation twisted my insides, and then it felt like I was falling... but I couldn't tell because I couldn't see anything. I hit into something with a hard thwack, and then blacked out.

~Charlie's POV~

"Unh... itai... my head..." I sat up gingerly, rubbing my head. I blinked lazily, then my eyes snapped open, seeing red curtains, four poster bed, tv stuck on Naruto.... HOLY SHIZ I'M BACK!!

Why am I on the floor?

Wait, that means it was just a dream... I felt slight disappointment at that; it had all felt so real! I stood up, then heard a groan. A male groan.

I turned my head, then jumped out of my skin, seeing orange jumpsuit and black, duckbutt hair... and I'm pretty sure that it wasn't Zoey and Tommy cosplaying again.

"Holy crap.. Sasuke, Naruto?!" they slowly sat up, in a similar way to how I did. Then their eyes widened.

"Where are we?!" Naruto yelled, shooting to his feet. Sasuke was a bit more collected, but still seemed panicked.

They saw me, and Naruto quickly grabbed me and pushed me behind them, in a protective barrier. I pushed through them in annoyance. I guess, as this really was happening, I'd have to explain to them and take responsibility.

"Relax, guys, we're in no danger." I said, then smiled. "We're just back in my dimension."

"Ehh?!!" they both said, and I spent the next hour explaining things to them. Then Sasuke's eyes fell on the screen of my TV, and his eyes widened. It was paused, weirdly, on a shot of him being bitten by Orochi-pedo. His hand went to his neck, and he looked nervous. He looked to me, his eyes just demanding answers. I chuckled nervously and switched the TV off.

"You see... here, you two are characters from a popular Manga and TV series... called Naruto-" Naruto grinned and did a peace sign at Sasuke, who scowled and looked away. "-which is why I know most of what's going to happen in the future. Well, it may have changed now, since I'm involved, but.."

I trailed off, picking up the manga book for the land of waves arc, and tracing Haku's picture. I then gasped, and dropped the book.

"Charlie?! Charlie, what is it?!" I just stared at the page, while Naruto shook me.

"I... I'm in the book too..." I quickly rushed to the correct box set, putting the disc in and skipping to the right episode. Then I went to the scene, and, sure enough, I was there. I facepalmed from embarassment. All those people... were going to see me being a total Sakura.

I stared as I watched the blood covering my skin on the TV, thinking how horrific a sight that was. It looked as if my skin was being cut away... I wriggled. I was still sore because of that.

Naruto and Sasuke looked gobsmacked. "What... what is this..?!" I grinned, grabbing another DVD and switching it up.

"Yup... everything since the day Naruto was caught graffitying the Hokage monument... is all on tape. Everything." I don't thing they caught on to what I meant. I snickered, and played the episode, fast-forwarding it and then pausing. The two flushed red, then Naruto hid his face under my pillow, making like he was going to throw up and yelling "The shame, the shame!! How do you have that, 'ttebayo?!!" and Sasuke was frozen, looking horrified.

I had paused it on the scene of their kiss... the kiss that still made me crack up laughing everytime I saw it. Which I was doing at that moment.

I made an 'oof' noise as I was tackled, but kept laughing.

"It's not funny!" they both yelled, but that just made me laugh harder. They kept grabbing for the remote, and I squealed.

"Ah!! Rape, rape!!" Eventually, they gave up and just sat on my bed, glaring at me. After a while, I sat up and wiped away my tears, though still grinning. I hadn't laughed like that in ages.

Their glares had turned into smiles, and I blinked. "What?"

"You seem happier." Sasuke said, and I shrugged.

"This is what I wanted... to be back home. Plus, I get you two to annoy, which is a bonus. Why wouldn't I be happy?" I gave a closed-eye smile, and then suddenly I was being glomped. I opened my eyes, seeing Naruto's grinning face. I hugged him back, then pulled Uchiha into it too, satisfied when a blush appeared on his face.

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"Huh. We're in luck. My parents are away on business, and my brother's staying at my nan's, so we have the house to ourselves till Wednesday." I traced the letters on the note they'd left absently, slightly hurt that they'd gone. Hey, I know it's selfish, but come on! They didn't know where I was, if I was safe, or what! And they just left, like they weren't even worried!

Oh well. Who gives a damn? Not me. Nope.

"Well, you guys ever had pizza before?" they looked puzzled, and I sighed. "Obviously not."

I grabbed the landline phone, and dialled my favourite takeout, La Mama's. They do some gooooood pizza.

About half an hour later, I sat the pizza box down on the living room table, and opened it.

"This," I said to Naruto and Sasuke, gesturing to the steaming food with a flourish, "Is pizza!"

"Man, that looks good, 'ttebayo!!" you can guess who said that. Said blonde dug in, while I grabbed a slice and bit into it, then grinned. Ramen's good... but you can't beat La Mama's pizza.

Sasuke was just staring at it, looking faintly disgusted. I sighed. "Sasuke, you better get some, before Naruto eats it all."

"I'm supposed... to use my hands?" he asked incredulously. I rolled my eyes.

"Ooh, sorry Miss Priss, I'll get you some chopsticks shall I?" I spoke in a fake posh voice, and Sasuke scowled at me while Naruto snickered. "Course you use your hands! Be a man, Sasuke!"

He warily picked a piece up and bit it carefully, and I snorted. "Dude, you seriously fail. At LIFE."

After a while, we finished our meal, and now we were sat on the couch just flicking through TV channels. The couch was a two-seat recliner, so we had both foot-rests up, and sat with me squodged (once more, I don't think that is a real word but meh.) in between the two, since I am the smallest. Also, they both refused to sit next to each other.

I didn't really mind though. They were both really warm, which was good as I didn't know how to work the central heating, so it was cold in the house. But the heat was making me drowsy.

I finally stopped on Simpsons, deciding to watch as Bart skated down this mountain type thing to impress some random chick. I switched off after a while, resting my head on Naruto's shoulder (since Naruto always seemed the most cuddly) and letting my thoughts drift. I barely even noticed Naruto's arm move around me.

It was weird, only a few months ago, I would have been freaking out over this, since cuddling with Naruto Uzumaki, one of my all-time favourite anime characters, was like a huuuuuge dream of mine, but now, it seemed like nothing. Natural, ordinary, y'know?

My mind drifted again. These two were going to need new clothes. Luckily it was Sunday tomorrow. We could go shopping.

I'd put them in some old clothes of my brother's (he was 21 and overseas working in the navy) so that they'd blend in better. They'd protested at first, but when I'd threatened to shave their heads in their sleep, they had stopped. They knew I was good with stealth.

Good thing I had a lot of money...

I snuggled more into Naruto's side, and, my eyes closing, fell into a deep, peaceful sleep.

Chap eight done!! You guys should totally love me!! The last three days have been daily updates!! Yeah!!

It's cuz I actually know where I'm going with this at the moment. Although I still need ideas for Charlie, Zoey, and poss Tommy's love interests!! It can be any character from either Shippuden or Naruto!! Any!! It doesn't even matter if Charlie and them haven't met them yet! Please leave a comment on your opinion! Come onnnn, it's not that difficult!

Speaking of Tommy and Zoey, we haven't heard much from them yet, have we? I might put in a chapter or two on what they're up to, whatta you guys think? Let me know! :D

And what you lot think of the twist? Who guessed? Be honest, now!

Also, just to clear up any confusion.. (I was rereading and realised it wasn't very clear) Charlie was in love with Haku. She just didn't realise. B'awww, I'm so evil. And I'm not finished with the heartbreak and angst yet. Muhahaha!! Being evil is fuuuun!!! >:3

Anything else I need to say..? Nope, I think that's it... ok!!

Well, anyway, Fan, vote, comment! Please!! Feedback is much much much much loved! Tell me whachu think!!

Sayonara mina-san!! :D