Chapter 1

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Meruno Tsubaki. My new name was Meruno Tsubaki. That was something I had to remind myself everyday since what i'd call The Day Everything Changed. Quite dramatic, I know, but it's not everyday that you -and it's still cringy just thinking about it- go into an anime. Ugh, way too cringy. I mean, dimension travelling and going into an anime? It's a concept so non-creative and cringy that something like this happening to me of all people was unthinkable.

It's funny, you know, one moment I was in an exam with an immense heartache thinking that it was the stress' doing so i said nothing and then, bam, I find myself in a 4 years old girl's body, on her (my??) way to school.

Realizing that I wasn't suffering of a heartache and that I was outside, the ground a lot closer that it used to be instead of sat in front of a blank copy, I started panicking. What the fuck? I looked around me and saw cute little houses. But that wasn't the point. Why was there cute little houses? I was supposed to be in my exam of history and geography! Some people needed to graduate, you know? And why was the ground a lot closer to my face than it was comfortable?

I blankly stared at my body. I had plain generic children clothes. Unremarkable but, why was I a child? I must have fell asleep. Ha. No way it was what I thought. Absolutely no way. It was just a dream. A very lucid one. Even if I never did lucid dream in 18 years of experience with, you know, dreams.

Deciding to not let anxiety cripple me even during a dream (a very lucid one where I was actually a child surrounded by very cute little houses!) I continued to walk in the mighty direction of school. As if it wasn't enough that I was supposed to pass an exam but meh. I didn't even know that I was supposed to go to school but it was like one of those ingrained feelings or something weird like this.

My mind kinda went blank during my walk, I just noticed that I was in a village supposedly not blessed (or cursed?) with the Holy Technology and Cars. Or even an actual traffic. At all. Like, everyone was just walking. And that there was a lot of shady people but it didn't seem out of place? Anyway, that's where I went wrong.

Because, in all the fanfictions that I read instead of Studying (who does that, anyway?) that's the moment when the Original Character notice that there's something wrong and that they travelled into another dimension and that they are now in the Naruto Universe, in Konohagakure No Sato. But not me! Nah, noticing that you travelled into an anime/manga right away is way too mainstream! (I was still sour about it, could have avoided the embarrassment.)

If I had to explain what happened, my dumb ass was so eager to be finished with this dream that I didn't take notice of details during my walk such as the shinobi in the street, the kanji in front of the shops or even something not noticeable at all like the Hokage Mountain. Guess I was kinda still bitter but I could have swear on my cat that it was a normal mountain! I had a poor eyesight so the three carved heads were blurry and still are now but hopefully I didn't swear on my cat's head. Poor cat. My baby, I missed him so much. I adored cats but here they seemed to come from the deepest depths of hell and don't get me started on Tora. Must be the chakra.

As I was saying! I arrived at school and saw the kanji (how could I read it is still a fucking mystery! Because! Kanji!!!) for shinobi. A few alarms rang in my head but, it was still dream, at least that's what I was still naively thinking at the time. How tragic.

All of a sudden, A Crowd™️ appeared behind me and walked by my side toward the school. It was so sudden and dramatic, anxiety overcame my little body and mature mind. I was too busy staring at the ground and trying to not fall because of the stares at my back all the while wondering about why was anxiety following me even in my dreams (what a curse) to notice who was in The Crowd™️. If I wasn't a truly anxious person I would have seen certain Non Important At All Characters such as -sigh- Hatake Kakashi (a character in the humble position of first one in my list of favorite characters of Naruto and even of all the tv shows and animes I've ever watched) and Nohara Rin (can't help but be indifferent to her, don't know why) accompanied with almost all of the Jonin Generation (hi Genma, Anko, Ibiki, Hayate, Raido, Ebisu, Kurenai, Asuma and Aoba. and Guy! How could I forget about Konoha's Sublime Green Beast of Prey!) but I didn't notice because. Anxiety. It could've so easily avoided the incoming embarrassment but then, it wouldn't be as funny. For everyone anyway.

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