I looked up at the gigantic waterfall. I have been here before and several times, but the impact is always the same—amazing. I remember my family vacationing here when I was young; Kiba trying to learn the language of the village as mother and father hiked the woods. I remember looking at my mother and asking her where we were, ill never forget the words she told me:
"Momma, where are we?"
"Venezuela honey," She said smiling, obviously excited, "See that waterfall? That waterfall there is the LARGEST in the world. They call it Angel Falls." I, being six, look up at her and furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.
"Do they call it Angel Falls because if you climb it to the tippity top, Angels will visit you?" My mother laughed and ruffled my hair.
"Who knows Sakura? But I bet one day you will."
I looked back up at the serene waterfall, and then resumed tightening my combat boots. The man next to me nodded and I sat up. Taking a deep breath, I followed the man up the hiking trail. A two day hike up, then a quick way down I thought to myself smiling. My dream was finally going to come true.
"What are you doing?" I asked Naruto a little more roughly than I should. "Sakura is missing and you're pulling out ten laptops?" Naruto rolled his eyes and proceeded to hook up the monitors. The usual Naruto slipped away and instead an organized Naruto sprung forward. It was as if he made millions of clones, each with a different personality.
"Remember when you asked why I ran away from home?" Naruto suddenly asked, surprising me.
"Yeah? You told me it didn't matter." Naruto nodded and put on a head- set with a microphone attached.
"Well, you see my father was a detective and a computer nerd. He taught me everything he knew. At the age of 15 I could hack into pretty much anything. At first it was fun and all, but then my dad turned bad cop, so I split." Naruto kept setting up as if none of this mattered. I guess he didn't realize my shock because he continued, "If Sakura used her phone in the past day or two then I might find out where she's at."
I watched as Naruto typed things onto a simple sprint service website. When he finished, he pushed enter, Sakura's phone records popped up. He scanned them carefully. "The airport," he said, typing it in on the other computer. In a flash he pulled up ticket dates and I had to focus hard to keep up. "She's in…"
"Venezuela?" I finished rolling my eyes. "Naruto, she's not even in the fucking country!" Naruto ignored me and smiled, leaning back in his chair. "What's so funny?" I asked appalled.
"Well Sakura's fine, she's going jumping. But you my friend, have been ripped off, she took a two thousand dollars from your bank account and used it to pay for two first class tickets, a guide, a parachute, and combat boots." Naruto looked up at me with a huge smile and I punched my fist into the dry wall, breaking it.
"That little bitch," I muttered shaking my head. I had to give it to her though; she really knew how to get payback. I mean for her to withdraw money from my account…wait.
"Did you teach Sakura how to hack into things?" I asked.
"Yeah, the basic things like Face book, Myspace, and banking acc—" Naruto made an 'o' with his mouth before he started to laugh, "hahahha- Sakura totally hacked your bank account-hahhahhah." I rolled my eyes and decided not to hit him, but instead grabbed the black hoodie and put it over my grey v-neck and examined my dark jeans. I figured I looked fine, so I walked to my room and started to pack.
"Naruto, I need you to purchase climbing equipment and the private jet." Naruto eyes me suspiciously.
"You're going to mountain climb the waterfall?" I nodded and Naruto began to get the things I needed. "You're stupid you know? Why climb?"
"It's a two day hike up, if I climb straight up it should cut some time off and ill be there before her." Naruto nodded again and within the hour I was on a plane to Venezuela.