The Demon They All Fear. {NARUTO}

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Silence filled the room, tension evident between each person. Blue-violet eyes flickered from person to person in the room, wondering when they will say something to break the silence. She took a sip of the warm tea, eyebrow twitching in annoyance that people in the room weren't saying anything for a very long time.

"Are you stupid?" Mina questioned, breaking the delicate silence with a blunt comment, "It's not that hard to understand," She continued, "The three of us aren't from this world and somehow we got to this world with that puzzle box." She said with a shrug, taking another sip of the green, unsugared tea.

The blonde and red haired girl knew exactly what to say so it wouldn't take as much time as it did the last time when she was in another world. She found it slightly funny that she had been in a similar situation before, explaining the same thing, drinking tea.

"Yeah, the world with crazy ninjas who can control the four -or in this case- five elements, walk on walls and water, and do other crazy stuff, that's defiantly not hard to understand." Yoon's sarcastic voice rang in Mina's head.

"You don't have to be so sarcastic, ya know!" Mina shouted in response to him. She then took a deep breath in and let it out, "I plan going back to my world once I figure out how that thing works, but it might take a while to figure it out."

"Well, in the meantime, let's celebrate winning against Kum-Ji!" The captain declared walking out of the room and ordering someone to get all the liqueur in the town. The others followed the old woman out, apart from a few.

"Are you coming, Princess?" Hak asked once he noticed the crimson haired girl sitting still, staring at the whiskered girl in thought.

"Hmm?" She made a sound of surprise, but realised what he had asked and answered, "Y-yeah." She stuttered and got up, walking out of the room after taking another hesitant glance at Mina.

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Since the pirates and ninja won the battle just when the sun was appearing out in the sky, it was still early in the morning. But that didn't stop everyone partying and drinking. Sadly for Mina, Etsuko was able to get the drinks away from the Uzumaki before she could take a drink, and Chiyumi was being her dense self, dancing but not drinking since the guys were nice enough not to give her any alcohol. With a pout on her lips, Mina walked around the empty town. After the battle on the sea, the town had already seemed to be lifted in spirits and the depressing aura no longer lingered.

Not paying attention to where she was walking, she did the typical thing. Bumped into someone. There wasn't enough force to make her fly to the ground like it had before, but enough to make both people stumble backwards.

"Damn," Mina breathed locking eyes with bright sea green. The man had long hair, dark blonde hair tied into a side ponytail using a gold ornament. His bangs are parted in half and some strands are longer and wavier than normal. "You're hot!"

An awkward silence.

"I can't control my mouth sometimes, ya know?" She muttered quietly to herself, shaking her head in disappointment at herself. Nevertheless, the man chuckled lightly with a warming smile on his face.

"You're a beautiful young lady too." He complimented closing his eyes and smiling. Her face instantly heated up and she knew she was blushing but hid it well with her personality.

"Thanks, but I don't recall calling you a beautiful lady, ya know." She said sarcastically with a hint of rudeness. His green eyes widened in shock at the way she spoke but laughed in amusement.

"Yes, well, sorry for not being clear."

"It's fine I got what you meant," she waved him off looking in a different direction with a blush on her face. "I should be going, nice talking to you Blondie." She waved and started walking back to the boat, and she would have made it there if a hand didn't stop her from walking any further.