Chapter Nine; A Familiar Face

Just a quick note; Starting tomorrow there probably will be no updates until the 21st. However, it's possible there will be some on the twentieth since that's the day I'm coming home from visiting my relatives and doing a lot of other fun things. That just depends on what time exactly I get home and if I'm in the mood.

After they ate (although Naruto reluctantly ate his sandwich since he would have rather preferred his bowl of ramen) Naruto and Sasuke played a game of chess together. Even though Naruto wound up giving Sasuke a run for his money he did end up winning in the end. Afterwards they each watched a couple of their favorite movies and played a game of cards. Sakura ended up falling asleep to Titanic and only woke up once it started getting towards the end. By that time the airplane the flight attendant had announced that they were about to land.

"It looks like I got back from the bathroom just in time." Naruto said as he started walking down the aisle. Sasuke and Sakura took off their seatbelts and stood up so that he could get through before they sat down and buckled themselves up again. In about ten minutes they had touched ground in Honolulu. "Wow! I can't believe it! We're actually here!" he exclaimed excitedly as Sasuke grinned.

"Yep, now we can collect our luggage and rent our cars." He said as Sakura widened her eyes at him.

"Really? I thought that we were going to take the bus." She said.

"Sometimes we will, but we can't take the bus for everything. Like if we want to go out to eat or something." Sasuke told her before they unbuckled themselves and stood up again collecting their carryon bags from above their heads and started walking off the plane. Just as they had started their way down to collect the rest of their luggage Sasame stopped and gave a rather loud and astonished gasp while her eyes turned purple.

"Are you alright Sasame?" Naruto inquired while glancing over at her. A few moments later her eyes turned back to green.

"No." she began worriedly.

"Really? What did you see?" he wondered.

"Doragon." She replied as Naruto gasped loudly and his face suddenly became horror stricken.

"Who's Doragon?" Hiro asked her.

"A very bad and dangerous man." She replied.

"Do you think that we should tell your parents about this?" Naruto asked her but she simply just shook her head.

"No. The whole entire reason that we went on this vacation in the first place is to have fun. I don't want to worry them or upset them when I'm not even sure that my vision's going to come true." She told him. Although Naruto wanted to disagree with her being the responsible hokage that he was, a part of him actually did agree with her.

"Alright." He responded with a nod before they started collecting their bags.

About an hour or so on the road, Naruto and Sasuke finally pulled their cars into the parking lot of the hotel. The two boys checked themselves and the rest of their families in before they rode the elevator up to their rooms. Sasuke dug his room key out of his pocket and unlocked the door. Then everyone found their beds and tossed their suitcases on top of them. Sasuke and Sakura chose the bed next to the window.

"Wow, I can't believe how high up we are." Sakura said while placing her hands upon the glass and looking out the window.

"Yeah. Excellent." Sasame said breathing a deep and heavy sad sigh while hanging her head.

"What's the matter with you? You're on vacation. I would like to think that you would be happy about it." Sasuke told her.

"I'm okay. I think that I just could use a bit of fresh air." She said.

"Well, you're in luck because I figured that we would go check out the pool first." Sakura told her as an excited grin stretched across her face.

"I'm sorry I can't." she began. "It's the wrong time of the month for me." She said.

"So? You can still go swimming if you have the right kind of equipment you know." Sasuke pointed out.

"That's just it, I didn't bring them. I forgot. I think that I'll just stay up here and watch some television and I can speak English so I'll be able to understand it." She said.

"Well alright, if you say so." Sakura began. "I never thought that you would turn down the opportunity to go swimming though." She finished before she unzipped her suitcase and took out her bathing suit. Sasuke grinned slyly at her.

"I see that you brought your pink two-piece bathing suit." He said.

"Yeah, but you better watch what you say Sasuke. There is a little one present." Sakura reminded him. "I'll put everything else away later." She said before she carried her suit into the bathroom and closed the door so that she could change.

Once Sakura had changed into her bathing suit and Sasuke had changed into a pair of black swim trunks (with the Uchiha fan on it) and Hiro had changed into a blue pair, they all said goodbye to Sasame and left the room together before heading towards the elevator.

"I sure hope that Sasame will be alright here all by herself." Sakura said.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that she will be. After all, she's sixteen years old and I believe that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself. Besides, she knows our number if she needs anything." Sasuke told her while they stopped and waited for the elevator to open its doors.

"Yeah, I know." Sakura began. "But I still can't help thinking that there's something bothering her that she's not telling us." She said.

"Our daughter is growing up, she's not going to come to us with every little problem." Sasuke told her.

"I know." Sakura began heaving a sad little sigh. "It's just that I still wish that she would tell us what it was." She told him before the elevator dinged and she carried Hiro inside.