Title: Puzzling
Author: Killaurey
Word Count: 465
Rating: T

Written for Day 10 of the Last Fan Standing Challenge on KakaSaku's Dreamwidth community.

Prompt: Music Box

Sakura has never played a video game in her life but she's watched Naruto play them enough to recognize a puzzle setting when she sees one.

Kakashi, she thinks, as he brushes past the black marble plinth, topped with a pillar that has writing on it and then past the boxes made of stone that stick up from the ground towards the closed door on the other end of the room, has never even seen a video game played.

She eyes his back for a moment and then shrugs. He can try to get the door open his way. She'll try it her way.

One of them has to get it open in any case.

The pillar reads:

Do – Re – Mi – Fa – Sol – La – Si

That's all.

Sakura glances at the stone boxes and counts them in a look. Yes, there's seven of them.

What would Naruto do? she thinks and ignores the part of her that says he'd be trying to pound the door open with some version of Rasengan. If this was a video game and Naruto was playing, what would he do?

That's easy enough to answer.

She steps around the plinth and towards the closest stone block. Sakura steels herself and then touches the cool stone. It lights up—bright blue—as it chimes. Do.

"Sakura?" Kakashi sounds confused.

"I'm getting us through this," she says, "stop playing with the door. If you warp it we might not be able to get out even if I do solve this."

Sakura gauges the rest of the stones and, for lack of a more obvious choice, she picks the next on the right and touches it.

The first stone goes blank and she knows she's picked the wrong second one. Rolling her eyes, she smacks the first one again—it's chime is no less bright for having to be repeated—and goes left.

She goes through this routine three more times before finding the second stone in the sequence. (Re.)

The third one, Mi, she finds by luck.

Her next touch sends all three of them blank again. Sakura grits her teeth and restarts.

It takes her another few tries to get them all lit up and when she does, it's ridiculous how accomplished she feels as the door creaks open.

Kakashi's looking at her with one eyebrow raised.

"What?" she asks.

"I didn't know you played games," he says.

"I don't," she says shortly then realizes… "Hey! If you knew what I was doing then you could've helped, you know!"

He shrugs. "You could have asked."

She aims a kick at his ankle (he dodges) and as the door falls shut behind them she can hear the music notes chiming backwards, presumably, to reset themselves.

Si – La – Sol – Fa – Mi – Re – Do

ETA: Because anon didn't bother to leave any other way for me to answer them: two seconds on wikipedia would show you that it can be either 'ti' or 'si'. I went with 'si' because that's what I'm used to, so deal with it.