A Little Trip can do Wonders
Chapter 3: Arriving in Paradise
The Konoha 12 was getting ready to go to shore, then go seeing a famous fountain, on the way to their hotel and then check in. When they walked into the port they realized that it was going to be full-moon the day after tomorrow, and then they walked towards the fountain.
On the way to the fountain Sakura walked up to Sasuke, 'walking in the moonlight' was the thought that went through her mind. Sasuke didn't mind Sakura, but he was thinking about something else. It felt like he had been there before. At night the city was still full of life, there was still people in the streets, only a few restaurant was still open, much to Choji's joy. But everything was still going to sleep, it was getting late.
Arriving at the fountain, everyone took a moment to rest. Sasuke was starting to get pissed, looking at the fountain he was getting a deja vu, but had a lot of trouble remembering anything, he was starting to get a little headache, but he knew he had been there before, a long time ago.
Shino was looking all around the place, looking after something, he even sent some of his beetles out after it and to scout a bit. Shikamaru, being the lazy ass he is, just laid down on a bench and started looking up on the stars. When Temari saw this, she walked over to him and started yelling at him for being lazy, and when Ino noticed she went over to yell at him too.
Lee started doing pushups, much to Neji's irritation. When Lee reacted 200, Neji was pissed and was about to smack Lee, Ten-ten noticed Neji's irritation and was in the very last second able to stop Neji before he made permanent damage on Lee's chakra system.
Naruto was just looking at the fountain without any reel interest, until Hinata walked over to the fountain and then Naruto saw something, but it was in his mind. A memory from many years ago, a woman at a waterfall, Naruto started seeing something similar between past and present, and it was not the running water. Then Hinata turned around and walked over to Kiba, who was playing with Akamaru. When Hinata turned around something in Naruto's mind finally, after many years, saw who the girl at the waterfall really was. Naruto was just standing there completely paralyzed, until Sai woke him up.
"Naruto, why do I feel a little dizzy when I look at Ino?"
Naruto looked at Ino, her light-blue dress was reflecting the moonlight and her long blond hair was down. Again Naruto realized something, Sai was in love
"Sai, we are going to have a looong talk when we reach the hotel" Naruto said, not looking forward to when he was going to tell Sai about love and everything that follows
Sakura could see Sasuke was starting to be irritated, so she walked over to him. Sasuke told her he had a little headache and she tried to fix by using her healing abilities. When she started she very soon felt that there was something in Sasuke's mind that was off, she could feel some kind of strange chakra that didn't belong. The more she worked, the more she started finding out what it was, it was some kind of seal blocking something in Sasuke's mind. She knew that Sasuke got a headache because his mind was trying to gain access to whatever was sealed away but couldn't.
"Sasuke you have a seal in you mind that suppress a part of you. I can remove it at the hotel, but there is small risk of permanent damage, but it's a very small risk" Sakura said a little scared of what might happen to Sasuke if it went wrong and hoped a bit he would say no
"Remove it" Sasuke said getting angry because of the pain "Can you do something about the pain?" he then asked
"Yeah, I've got a few pills with me for the trip, in case of seasickness and other stuff" Sakura said and gave him a pill and Sasuke took it
"Can we go already, I'm getting bored" Kankuro asked and everybody agreed with him, it was getting late and they were all tried.
Arriving at the hotel some of them was surprised at how big and expensive it looked. It had many floors even some with balconies. When they entered, they were astonished by the beautiful lobby, real marble, it looked like it had just been washed, there was also six pillars, in the center there was a chandelier about a 1,5 meter across, Ino also noticed there was diamonds in between, everything was beautiful. Sakura walked over to the reception to check them in.
"How can we pay for this place, it looks like it can easy cost a few hundredthousand ryö" Choji asked Naruto looking at him
"Wrong person your looking at" Naruto said and redirected him to Shikamaru
"First of all, we got several Jönins here, and that include: Kankuro, Temari, Neji, Sasuke, Naruto and the newest myself. Sai is a high ranked ANBU. Of course we also have someone that make more money then all of us, Gaara, he is a kage. But some of us is still Chūnins and that include: Ino, Sakura, Hinata, Ten-ten, Lee, Kiba, Shino and yourself."
"Okay now I get it, but I thought Sakura, Sai and Shino already was Jönin" Choji said
"Now I will explain to you, Choji. Sai and Sakura is what you call Tokubetsu Jönins, it's a special kind of ninjas that specialize in one area, but at a Jönin-level, instead of all-around Jönin training. I have not been premotet because I still miss some higher level missions, witch I have been working on just before this vacation" Shino said
"Okay. Shikamaru I'm getting hungry" Choji said almost crying
"Can't you wait five minutes 'til we get our rooms, there will be some in the minibar, but your paying for that yourself" Shikamaru said getting angry from the long trip, 'cause he only had two naps
"Okay everyone, they are holding a congress here this week, it was unexpected so they had to move everything, but we are still going to be here. That's the good news, now the bad, we were going to be living different, but because of the congress we don't have so many rooms, so there is a little change of plans" Sakura said when she came back and everyone started to get mad, but agreed it was the best when they found out that most of them had to live with one more
"So we all agree on the rooms and the roommates?" Sakura asked
"Yes" they all said
"Good the rooms are: 809: Sasuke, Naruto and Sai. 810: Hinata and myself. 811: Neji, Shikamaru and Choji . 812: Ino, Ten-ten and Temari. 813: Kiba, Shino and Lee. 814: Gaara and Kankuro. "
They split into two elevators and went to the 8th floor, except Gaara who went outside with all the luggage and used his sand to lift himself and the luggage up and was very careful not to get any sand into the suitcases.
When they reacted the 8th floor they all went into room 809 to get their luggage through the window. There was a lot looking at the very strange thing happening from the street. As they got their luggage everyone went to there own room, got comfortable and put all their own stuff away.
After she was done unpacking Sakura remembered that Sasuke asked her to remove the seal in his mind when they got to the hotel.
"Hinata, will you do me a big favor?" Sakura asked
"Of c-course Sakura, w-what is it?" Hinata said
"Can you go down in the lobby and get some menus from the restaurant and give some to everyone?" Sakura asked
"Sure" Hinata said with a smile and went out to get the menus
When Hinata was gone Sakura walked over to the room across the hall and knocked two times, then Sai opened the door
"Hey Sai, can I talk to Sasuke for a moment?" Sakura asked
"Sure, come inside" Sai said with, as always, a fake smile
The second she stepped inside she could see were Naruto was going to sleep, he had left all his stuff on the sleeping-couch. The room was not so different from her own, except they had a sleeping-couch and they just had a normal one and their room was a bit bigger then her own.
"Sai says you want to talk to me, Sakura" Sasuke said, snapping her out of her thoughts
"Yes, can you come with me for a moment, I would like to talk private in my room" Sakura asked
"Okay" Sasuke answered and walked into her room with her
As they walked out Naruto had a single dirty thought and then remembered that there was something he had to explain to Sai.
"Sai, do you remember there was something we were going to talk about?" Naruto asked
"Yes dickhead, but on the way over here I saw a bookstore and I bought a book about love" Sai said
"Okay" Naruto said and felt relief, like an anvil was removed from his shoulders
"But it only told me what love is and not what to do about it" Sai then said and then the anvil was back on Naruto's shoulders
"Okay, but to get through this you do as I say without question, okay?" Naruto asked Sai
"Okay" Sai answered
In the meantime in Sakura and Hinata's room Sasuke asked
"What did you want to talk about?"
"You want me to remove that seal, right?" Sakura asked
"Yeah, why do ask?" Sasuke asked a bit curious
"Because there is a little risk" Sakura said
"What risk?" Sasuke asked
"If I do a little mistake, I might fry your brain" Sakura answered
After a short moment to think
"Do it anyway" Sasuke ordered
"Okay, here we go" Sakura said and bit her right index finger, using the blood to draw signs on her left forearm and on the tip of her fingers. Done with the hand signs, her left hand started gloving and she then laid it on Sasuke's head. Sasuke only felt a little pain in his head, like a small needle stuck into his brain. Sakura, working hard on breaking down the seal, was only hopping on one thing, since she could easily take care of the seal uninterrupted, that Hinata wouldn't come back right away.
Hinata had already been down in the lobby and found some menu-cards, which was laying on a table too all costumers. After giving one to almost all the rooms, she only had two left, one for room 809 and one for Sakura and herself. Giving a card to all the rooms, she got to see how everyone was living together.
Gaara and Kankuro's room was a very calm place, that is to be expected, since they are brothers. They were a bit different in Kiba, Shino and Lee's room, very noisy, Lee was doing some exercises, Kiba was trying to make Akamaru stay still or else they would be kicked out of the hotel and Shino was trying to get some sleep, so to make him relax a bit his bugs were flying around making a lot of "Bzzzz" noises
In the next room it was very different. Ino always had a talent to push peoples buttons and this time was no exemption and Hinata noticed very fast. Giving this room a menu-card as well, witch Temari took, she heard Ino and Ten-ten argue in the background , she didn't get all of it, because she talked with Temari at the same time, but she still got some of it
"...do something about it, he likes you as well..." Ino said
"...me to decide, and why don't you do something yourself, about..." Ten-ten said
Then they were interrupted by Temari yelling "Be quiet already"
Which Ino yelled back at "Your not much better yourself"
Then Temari said goodnight to Hinata and closed the door
At Neji, Shikamaru and Choji's room it was extremely calm, Shikamaru was already asleep, Choji was having a little snack from the minibar and her cousin took the menu-card and replied
"Thanks and goodnight Hinata-sama" Neji said
"Goodnight Nii-sama" Hinata replied
She skipped her own room and went to the last one and hopped that it would be Sasuke or Sai that would open the door, but it was her crush, Naruto
"Hey Hinata, sorry about only wearing a towel, just had a shower, but what is it?" Naruto said
Using all of her power to staying conscious, she only focused on Naruto's wet, steaming and muscular chest. Snapping his fingers in front of Hinata's face, Naruto got her back to our world.
"Was there anything you wanted Hinata?" Naruto asked
Quickly, Hinata realized that she had been staring and handed Naruto a menu-card
"Thanks, goodnight Hinata" Naruto said
"Y-your w-welcome N-n-Naruto-kun, goodnight" Hinata manged to say and then Naruto closed the door
Sakura was almost done with the seal, she only needed to do one more thing. She removed her hands from his head and formed a hand-seal, she then said the word "Kai" and the seal was broken. The second the seal was broken Sasuke fainted and fell back into Sakura's lap, making the girl blush. Knowing it was a natural reaction Sakura was not surprised, but she still blushed, a dream she often had when she was younger, the man she loved laying in her lap.
Hinata opening the door snapped her out of her thoughts and woke up Sasuke.
"You should be able to get access to your memories very soon" Sakura whispered
"Thanks" Sasuke said
Sasuke stood up started walking to the door
"Goodnight Sakura" Sasuke said
"Goodnight Sasuke-kun" Sakura said
Well that's that. Next chapter will be up faster then this one. Chapter 4: What Itachi left behind