Second Chances Exist •Naruto Fanfic•

Lala Land

"So what are we supposed to do with her?" I faintly heard a voice ask. It was a male.

"We wait until she wakes up, moron. We'll figure it out after." Came a girl's voice after.

I furrowed my brows with my eyes still sewn shut. I attempted to move but my body ached everywhere, making me groan in pain.

I took in the area around me with my other senses. Taking several deep breaths, I could smell a rather earthy scent around me, almost like dirt but lighter. The air also felt very heavy and humid. I was laying on my back, on something rather comfortable and extremely soft. Even with my eyes closed, the area around me was rather bright from behind my eyelids.

Wait, didn't I die...?

I finally gained enough strength to pry my eyes open and came face-to-face with a purple face painted boy. I screamed and jumped up, instinctively shooting my hand out and hitting the boy with the palm of my hand on his forehead, making him fly back. I also pushed myself onto the floor not realizing I was on a bed.

"Ow..." I muttered on the floor, my body aching even more now.

"Is that the thanks I get for bringing you here?" I heard the boy ask from the other side of the bed.

I forced myself to sit up, looking at the boy as he rubbed the center of his forehead. He had a black hood on his head that looked like it bore cat ears, along with a fully black outfit with a red and yellow circle on his torso. His face had purple face paint in triangular designs but it also reminded me of a cat. His eyes were beady and dark brown, almost black. On his cat hood was a metal plate there with a symbol of an hourglass.

I stretched slowly, being cautious of my pain as I stood up. "And where exactly is here?"

He also got up on his feet. "Suna. My house, the guest room."

I cocked my brow in suspicion. "Wow. Do you always bring strangers home?" He was taken back by my response and opened his mouth to retort when the door opened.

"Kankuro, what did you do? I said wait until she wakes up, not force her awake." A girl walked in with sandy blonde hair in two sets of pigtails and teal eyes. She wore a purple low-shoulder dress with the sleeves reaching her elbows and a scarlet sash around her waist. There was a mesh fabric underneath that showed above her dress, making me think it was a bodysuit. She also had mesh on her right thigh and left calf. Around her neck was a blue headband with the same metal plate and hourglass symbol.

Kankuro gestured at me. "She woke up and hit me." He explained, pointing at his forehead.

I scoffed. "I woke up and you were in my personal bubble."

The girl laughed. "Yeah, he tends to do that."

Kankuro spun around to the girl. "Temari! We don't even know the chick's name and your already siding with her?!"

She shrugged with a smirk. "She isn't apart of any enemy village and she already hit you. I like her. so far"

I smirked. I just woke up and I have a new friend already. Then it hit me what Kankuro said about our location. Suna? "Where the hell is Suna?"

Both Temari and Kankuro looked at me with dead expressions. "Are you serious?" Kankuro asked in disbelief.

I raised my brow. "What? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Have you been living under a rock? In a cave?" Temari asked incredulously.

"Is it that serious?" I asked, honestly confused. "C'mon, what the hell is Suna?"

"Sunagakure? The Hidden Sand Village? In the Land of Wind?" Kankuro went on.

I slowly shook my head,not recognizing any of what he was telling me. "Nope. Doesn't ring a bell." If I even had any bells to ring.

"One of the Five Great Shinobi Nations?" Temari added.

Shinobi Nations? I eyed her. "Shinobi?" They nodded slowly in unison. "Shinobi... As in ninja?" They nodded again, looking at me like I was the idiot.

I stared into the distance blankly. That's great, I died and went to lala land with crazy people.

"So where are you from then?" Kankuro asked me, eyeing me suspiciously. I took a good look at the two teens in front of me and around the room, noticing the many differences between where I was last night and now.

"Obviously not anywhere near here..." I muttered. more to myself than answering his question.

"What does that mean?" Temari whispered to Kankuro. In response, he shrugged. "And your name?"

"Rinai."

Kankuro and Temari glanced at each other. "Rinai...?" She stretched it, waiting for a last name.

But I didn't have one, or at least I didn't know it.

"It's just Rinai."

~*~

Temari and Kankuro had spoken with someone important called the Kazekage whom I also found out was their father. They told me I could stay with them as long as I needed to- as long as I stood out of trouble.

So that day I stuck around the two, them explaining everything about this place to me while showing me around Suna.

I also noticed a huge burn mark on my left arm going from behind my forearm up to my bicep. I've been trying to figure out how I could've gotten it. Maybe when I ended up here? But it seemed fairly healed as if I've had it for awhile. Kankuro and Temari said they had found me with it too so... I'm not sure what to think of it now. They also told me they found me passed out in the desert somewhere outside of the village, they kept asking me what I was doing there and why I was alone but I had no answers to actually give them.

After about two hours later, Temari offered to get me new clothes since I was wearing a extremely dark purple kimono with dark brown flowers decorating it, to say the least it was very worn out. The right sleeve was short and torn, loosely sown together. It was thickly trimmed with pink, which I detested, and wrapped with a dark blue obi.

My eye twitched when she told me that. "Because I've always wanted complete strangers to change my clothes."

"What about this?" Temari held up a white kimono-like no sleeved shirt in one hand with a black skirt in the other. We were currently in one of the stores in the shopping district of Suna. Kankuro quickly left because he said Temari usually took forever when she shops.

So far, he's been right.

I wrinkled my nose at the shirt. "I can't wear white. I'd ruin it in a heartbeat."

Temari rolled her eyes at me and turned back to the rack of clothes. After a few more minutes, she turned to me again with a red long sleeved blouse. "You should really get this! It goes perfectly with your eyes."

I furrowed my brows at her, confused. "My eyes?"

Temari nodded. "The color. It matches your eyes." Now I was even more confused, looking between Temari and the blouse she held. The clearly red blouse.

I walked over to one of the slim mirrors in the shop and froze in shock and confusion. My eyes were ruby red. On the left side of my face I had two thick black line markings going from under my eye back near my ear. I'd thought for a moment it was sharpie-drawn so I tried to wipe it away but it wouldn't come off, I even licked my finger. My hair has been pulled back into a high ponytail this whole time, which is why I haven't seen it. But looking at myself, now I can see my hair is the color of violets.

I reached up and pulled my hair tie out, my newly purple hair falling down my back and ending just above my shoulders. I had layers cut around my shoulders and my bangs fell on my forehead in a 'V' shape. I stared at the girl in the mirror, not recognizing myself.

I blinked with my new red eyes. "What happened to me?"