"Hinata! Sasuke! Where are you?" is what echoed throughout the town. Sakura and her mother, Naruto and his father, and Hinata and Sasuke's parents were out searching for the missing children.
"Sakura," her mother said worriedly. "Are you sure they're in the abandoned mansion?"
"Absotively."
"Naruto," his father said. "What possessed you to tell them to go in there?!?"
"I thought they'd chicken out in a couple minutes."
"My babies are gone!" a distraught mother of the missing two cried. "What am I gonna do without them?"
"Honey," her husband said. "It'll be okay. We'll find them."
"Okay, everyone," Sakura said. "We're at the door now, but now someone's gotta go in and get them."
"I'll go in," Naruto said. "It's my fault they're in there anyway."
"Good," his father said. "If only you were like that at home."
"He mustn't go in alone. What happens when he gets locked in?" Sakura's mother said.
"Mommy," her daughter said. "As long as someone is holding the door from the outside, it shouldn't lock. However, I'm not holding the door. I have to help Naruto search. Even though he dared them, I had every opportunity to stop them."
~*~*
The discussion continued and was heard in the house. Hinata heard her mother's cries for her and Andrew. A single tear fell from her eye. The twins knew she missed them, but they felt they should not let them go.
"Neji. Tenten. They're outside," Andrew said. "Are you gonna let us out?"
"No."
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A/N: I know this chapter is very short and pathetic, but I'm working on part 10. I'll have that posted soon enough.
