Naruto…wake up…
"Hmm? What…?" Naruto said in his sleep.
Wake up sleepy head…time to get up…
"Mom?" Naruto asked.
Get up…come on…time to wake up…
"PANCAKES!" Naruto shouted and fell off the bed. Naruto was sleeping the whole time.
"Um…ok…I guess there were no pancakes…but what was that?" Naruto asked himself.
It was still dark outside. Naruto looked at his clock. 5:00.
"Who would be here this time of night? Err morning" Naruto said.
Naruto…
"Whoa! What the heck was that?" Naruto said looking around the room.
Come Naruto…wake up sleepy head…
"Am I still dreaming?" Naruto said as he pinched his leg. "OW. Nope."
Naruto…come for breakfast…
"Breakfast? YE- wait. Be careful Naruto. There's something fishy here," Naruto told himself.
Naruto got dressed and waked down the hallway of his apartment for breakfast. Or so he was told.
As he got near the door he could hear someone giggling he opened the door expecting to see a girl making breakfast for him. But when he opened the door, light shone in everywhere from the windows. He didn't see anyone in the room at all. He looked at the clock again. Now it said 8:00.
"Whoa. Time sure does fly when your house is being haunted with spirits," Naruto joked to himself.
But then Naruto saw something over by the door to go outside.
"What the…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Naruto screamed.
Meanwhile…
Sakura…
"No…five more minutes…" Sakura said in her sleep.
Come on…wake up sleepy head…
"Mmpph…" Sakura mumbled.
Wake up…you have a big day…come on…
"JULY 24TH!!" Sakura said and fell off her bed and onto something. Something wet.
Sakura woke up. She looked on the floor. But there was nothing there. No water, blood, or anything. But the floor felt wet.
Sakura looked at her clock. 8:00.
"I slept in today. And what was that voice in my dream?" Sakura asked herself. "Oh well. Time for breakfast,"
Sakura walked downstairs to the kitchen expecting to see her mom making breakfast at the stove. But instead…
"Oh my god…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!" she screamed.
Meanwhile elsewhere…
Lee…wake up…
"I don't want any butter thanks…" Lee mumbled in his sleep.
Come on…I'll make you breakfast…
"He took my hockey stick Tenten…" Lee mumbled tossing and turning.
Get up…it's a new day…
"SYRUP!!!" Lee shouted and fell off the bed. "Ow…what the…"
Lee looked at his clock. 8:00.
"Time for breakfast! Boy did I sleep in today. What was that voice I heard before?" Lee asked himself.
"Oh well. Pancakes and syrup here I come!!!" Lee shouted as he rushed down the stairs.
But when he got to the bottom…
"No…it can't be!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
There… standing at the doorway… There… standing at the stove… There… standing at the bottom of the stairs…was a figure. A girl with long hair and wore a headband with a glacier shaped symbol. The girl had a blue outline but was see-through. Her eyes glowed white and had no pupils. She wore a dress of blue and white that flowed around her, and she held a long sword in her hand with a jeweled handle.
"Who…who are you???" Naruto, Sakura, and Lee asked the mysterious ghost.
"I am the maiden heir to the Metawchi family, of The Hidden Village of Ice. My name is Hanako, and I have a message for your village," Hanako said.
"What is it and why did you call us like that?" Naruto, Sakura and Lee asked.
"I needed your attention. My voice awakens those who cannot be awakened. The message is…beware of the living of my family. They believe it was Konoha that destroyed me. But no…it was…" the girl said fading out.
"Wait!" Naruto shouted.
"Who was it?" Sakura asked trying to make her stay.
"Give me back my syrup!!!" Lee said. "Nooooooooooooooooo my syrup…"
Later that day, Naruto went to the ramen shop as usual. When he got there he was surprised to find Sakura and Lee there. He came in and ordered.
Lee noticed Naruto and stopped talking to Sakura.
"Naruto did you see it too?" Lee asked him.
"What?" Naruto asked his mouth half full of ramen noodles.
"A ghost?" Lee asked shuddering remembering what happened earlier that day.
"Yeah! A girl who said someone will try to destroy Konoha…" Naruto said as he finished his ramen.
"That'd exactly what she told me," Sakura said joining the conversation.
"What is this about a ghost?" the man serving them ramen asked.
"Nothing at all," Naruto said.
The man looked at all of them with confusion, but shrugged and went to the back of the shop.
"Think anyone else saw it?" Naruto asked.
"If they did, they haven't told anyone yet," Sakura said.
"She stole my syrup!!!" Lee shouted.
Naruto and Sakura looked at him like 'WTF did you just say?'.
"Oh. Oops. That was my dream. Haha," Lee said rubbing the back of his head and laughing.
"I think we should tell Hokage-sama about this," Sakura mentioned.
"Well, she did say it was a message for Konoha…" Lee said.
"We should go now!" Naruto said getting up from his seat and bolting out of the shop, but not fast enough to get out of Sakura's grasp.
"If we bolt over to the mansion, people with think something is up you baka," Sakura said glaring at him.
"Good point," Naruto said as Sakura released him.
"Come on. Let's go now before she goes to a meeting or something," Lee said going in front of both of them.
Sakura and Naruto followed him to the mansion, lucky enough to find Tsunade at her desk filing paperwork as always. They came in without being asked and Tsunade looked up at them with tired eyes.
"What do you three want?" Tsunade asked.
"Master, we have something to tell you…" Sakura said twitching her thumbs.
Tsunade was surprised that Naruto didn't blurt the whole story out whatever it was like he usually would.
"What is it?" Tsunade asked now looking at the three surprisingly.
"We all…I mean…um…there was…uh…" Sakura stammered.
"WE SAW A GHOST LAST NIGHT!!!" Naruto shouted out.
As always he blurts things out, but a ghost? Not likely Tsunade thought.
"What ghost? What are you talking about?" Tsunade asked.
"Last night, I was having a dream about maple syrup and suddenly a ghost took my syrup from me. I woke up to find myself on the floor and hearing a voice like that of the person in my dream. I ran down the stairs and to my horror stood the girl who took away my syrup! She was see-through and held a sword, but she gave me a message. That someone was going to try to destroy Konoha thinking it was us that killed her. Then she vanished," Lee said.
"Yeah! That happened to me only with pancakes instead of syrup! And the girl was at my door," Naruto said.
"WHAT DOES THE FOOD GROUP HAVE TO DO WITH IT????" Tsunade roared at them, blowing them back.
"And that happened to me too, only she was at my kitchen counter," Sakura said.
"This is very odd. Did she give a name or something?" Tsunade asked.
"Hai. She said her name was Hanako of the Metawchi family," Sakura said.
"Hanako? Hanako…that name rings a bell…" Tsunade said rubbing her chin. "Follow me."
"Hai," Sakura said and followed Tsunade out the door.
"Wait for us!" Lee and Naruto said in usion and ran after them.
Tsunade led them to a room filled with books and scrolls, perhaps her private library. Sakura was in awe at all the books she had on medical Nin-jutsu. She read a few of the titles on the scrolls as she walked by: Diseases and their Antidotes, Poisons, Cell Reproduction. A few of the book titles were: Summonings, Water Jutsu, and Weapon Tactics. All were fascinating to her.
Naruto on the other hand, well…he didn't really care let's go with that. Lee looked but didn't say anything.
Finally Tsunade brought them to a wall at the end of the library.
"Master what is this? It's only a wall…" Sakura said.
It was only then did she notice a tiny hole in the wall. Tsunade reached for her necklace and placed into the hole, and turned. She quickly pulled it out.
The wall shone in a golden light. The light was so bright it blinded all of them. When they opened their eyes, the wall was gone, and in its place was a long, dark hallway. Tsunade shone her necklace into the cave, and suddenly several torches lit themselves, showing the way through the hallway. Tsunade walked forward, with three very nervous Chunin behind her.