_______________________Naruto’s House. 4:30pm_______________________


    It was a peaceful day in Konoha. Naruto, Sai and Sasuke found the opportunity to just hang out for once. No annoying fan girls. No one to punch their lights out. It was a perfect day until…
Ring ring. Ring ring.
    Naruto looked at the number and cowered in fear. The line picked up and they all listened, aghast, to the goings-on at the other end of the line.
    “Pick up the phone Naruto!” A voice screeched from the other end of the phone.
    “No Naruto, No! Don’t pick up the phone,” Another voice yelled. “Chalky! Put the phone down just...argh don’t bite me!”
    “For god’s sake it won’t be so bad…”
    ‘Oh god, I’d better pick up the phone. If I don’t…well…I don’t even want to think about what Chalky would do.’ Naruto mumbled to himself. ‘Hello, Naruto Uzumaki residence, who’s speaking?’
    “Took you long enough! And you bloody well know who’s speaking! Anyways, get round my house ASAP or their will be dire consequences… and bring Sasuke and Sai! I know they’re with you as well!” There was the unmistakable noise of duct tape being ripped off the roll, and muffled screams. Then there was a click and beep as she hung up, and in the echo of the beep all three sat in abject horror.
    Naruto was the first to recover, finding his mouth dry as he spoke.
    ‘We have to go, don’t we?’ The other two responded after a few moments silence.
    ‘I’ll never avenge my family…’
    ‘I like my life!’ Sasuke turned to his replacement.
    ‘Your life is the most pointless thing in this room! And that includes that weird plant Chalky sent us last Christmas...’ Sai chose to ignore that.
‘How does she even know we’re here, Naruto?’ and then a voice came from nowhere.
    “CHALKY KNOWS ALL! MWAHAHAHA!”

    They set off with heavy hearts and a rain cloud over their heads, and a few minutes later they were standing at the door of a huge old gothic mansion. A bat flew out at them as they stood in the deep-set doorway. Sasuke screamed like a little girl, drawing stunned looks from the other two. ‘That doesn’t sound like the scream of an avenger..’ And then lightning flashed across the sky, a murder of crows took flight and the door flung open. A tall girl stood at the door, she had hair down to her waist and she had bright green eyes. Her guest and old friend, Shaman, stood a few feet behind her. He was considerably shorter than she, with spiky black hair, blue eyes and dog ears…no seriously he had ears of a dog a long with a headband proclaiming him a grass nin. He mouthed ‘sorry’ at the three, as Chalky promptly dragged the three in, slamming the door shut with her foot, and running off up the stairs with them.

    ‘That’s my hair, crazy woman!’
    ‘My headband!’
    ‘…’ Sai was too terrified to complain that Chalky had managed to lift his short shirt even higher. She’d only call him a man tart...but then she dragged him too close to a candle sconce, and he managed to elbow Naruto unconscious while putting his hair out.
    ‘What was that for, man-tart? He’s too heavy to carry…’ Chalky promptly let go of Naruto, who hit his head on the marble and fell deeper into unconsciousness, and was picked up by a very martyred looking Shaman.
    ‘She’s been at the pixi stix…’ He whispered to Naruto as he regained consciousness.
    ‘God help us all.’ Naruto groggily replied. As the group was dragged into the lounge, they noticed…it was completely jam-packed full of the Naruto cast living or dead.
    ‘Hey, aren’t they the mist nin Kakashi-sensei killed, making out in the corner?’ Sasuke asked Sakura who greeted them looking hassled. She just nodded, not bothering to explain. Chalky, after downing five more pixi stix, had dragged Sai onto her lap when Sumi, a leaf genin with long messy blonde hair and rather sparing clothing, fell onto them. Chalky’s threat to make Sai pay for his latest nickname was choked by the extra weight, which was the added to fantastically when Naruto declared a pile-on. Most of the nin in the room had the totalled weight of a five foot anorexic, but when Choji joined the pile it was the last straw; Chalky wormed her way halfway out of the pile, turned a rather fetching shade of blue, and died. Shaman seemed oddly unperturbed by this occurrence; he simply walked over to the newly dead corpse, and formed a few seals to bring her back to life with a sudden breath. At Sakura’s questioning look he replied,
    ‘She’s had so many pixi stix she’s practically able to reincarnate herself…’ Chalky then successfully got out of the pile by blasting all the people in the pile outwards hitting the walls and ceilings.
    ‘Oh great. I’m gonna have to clean all that up.’ Shaman mumbled. And then Chalky suddenly appeared on a table, only there was no puff of smoke or motion she just appeared. ‘Welcome, one and all! Now, many if not all of you are wondering why you are here.’
    ‘Because you dragged us from out homes!’
    ‘I’ve still got the oven on!’ People yelled from the audience. Then Chalky’s eyes turned blood red.
    ‘Oh crap.’
    ‘Silence! How dare you question me!?’ Chalky’s voice had an unearthly mannish quality to it. Then in a flash the two audience members found themselves on the ceiling with unimaginable amount of duct taped holding them up. ‘Now where were we? Oh yes. I have invited you all here for...’ She paused menacingly. ‘A movie party!’
    The crowd remained silent, then Shaman appeared behind Chalky holding up a large piece of card and suddenly the crowd cheered a loud as humanly possible. Shaman whispered to Chalky,
    ‘Have you even picked out the movie?’
    ‘Yes! Of course I have silly.’
    ‘And what is it?’
    ‘You’ll find out with the rest of the audience.’
    ‘Okaaaay…’
    ‘May I have your attention please?!’ But there was no reaction to her words. But then Shaman disappeared. A bang was heard. The crowd all turned to Chalky. Shaman reappeared without Chalky even noticing, or at least she noticed but didn’t care. ‘Thank you! I have decided that, that since it is nearing to Halloween…’ She took yet another menacing pause. ‘We are going to watch…Sleepy Hollow!’
    At this Shaman cried out in protest. ‘It might be nearly Halloween but that movie scares me!’
    ‘Oh shut up you wuss,’ Hinata barked, to everyone’s surprise. ‘So sue me, I like horror movies!’ Moving on…
    ‘I agree with Shaman, that movie leaves too much to the imagination with those sound effects…’ Kenta, Sumi’s blind team-mate, agreed. Sumi backed him up.
    ‘I wasn’t able to sleep for weeks first time I saw that!’
    Tadao, Sumi’s other Team-mate nodded in agreement.
    ‘Okay, okay, what else do I have…?’
    ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas!’ Shaman and Chalky yelped at once. Everyone agreed to this (Kenta mostly, he likes musicals).
    ‘Where’s the TV?’ Sasuke asked.
    ‘There,’ Chalky said, pointing to where Kiba and Naruto were seemingly having a fight over Hinata. Crash! Chalky’s face set. ‘So much for a TV…’
    ‘Ooh!’ Shaman exclaimed, then said absolutely nothing for five minutes.
    ‘He has an idea,’ Chalky explained.
    ‘Oh,’ everyone murmured (except for those too busy making out…where are Temari and Shikamaru anyway?)
    In one arm Shaman took his potted Zetsu, eating a Zetsu fruit and forming a few hand seals. ‘Mass teleportation jutsu!’ and then the room became empty with a massive puff of smoke.