Chapter Fourteen: The Confession
In the middle of the night Lucky woke up and instantly lifted his head off of his paws before he got to his feet and walked closer over to Sachi. Then he bent down and started licking her face while wagging his tail. A few moments later he leapt off of the bed and trotted over towards the door. He started to pant while he glanced up at it and leapt up onto his hind paws. A few moments afterwards he grabbed the doorknob with his teeth and turned it.
The lock popped open as well as the door and then he leapt back down on all four paws and sprinted out of the bedroom and into the hallway. He trotted into the kitchen and stopped for a quick bite to eat and lapped up some water with his tongue before he turned back around and headed towards the front door. He hopped back up onto his hind legs and this time pushed the latch open with his paws before racing out the door and into the apartment hallway until he got to the elevators and stopped in front of them.
He pushed the bottom button with his nose and then stopped and sat down to pant some more while he waited for one of them to open up and as soon as it did he hurried inside and sat down next to another woman. He continued panting while he slowly glanced up at her and she looked down at him curiously.
As soon as they had reached the bottom floor and the doors opened Lucky dashed out of the elevator and through the lobby and out the front door. He ran down the sidewalk before coming a crossed a telephone pole. He lifted one of his legs up in the air and urinated on it and then he stopped to sniff the air a few moments afterwards before he continued running down the sidewalk.
Meanwhile Sasuke and Sakura had found a nearby hotel to stay for the night. After they had called Sasame to say goodnight to her, Sasuke had decided to call Keiko since she had texted him and told him that she had some very exciting news for him.
"Hello?" she questioned after she had picked up the phone while Sasuke tried to force a smile.
"Hey, it's me." he told her.
"Oh, hello big brother." She began sleepily with a yawn.
"Well, as much as I really think that you should be in bed by now, I was really curious to hear your wonderful news. So what's up?" he wondered.
"Oh, Saki and I just graduated the academy." She told him.
"Really? That's wonderful sweetie." He began with a grin. "But the school year has barely begun."
"I know that but Saki and I graduated early along with Hiro and unfortunately that means that he's going to be on the team with us." She told him. For she and Hiro hadn't spoken to each other since he had ruined her eleventh birthday party.
"Oh come on Keiko, you aren't still upset about what happened a couple of years ago are you?" he questioned her.
"Well, why should I have forgiven him? He hasn't given me any reason to." She told him.
"My brother never gave me any reason to forgive him either but I still did anyway." He pointed out as he tried extremely hard not to think about that the last part of Itachi he had he now had lost as well and sighed heavily and that's when suddenly Keiko seemed to be reading his mind to know that he was thinking about his niece.
"So have you found Sachi yet?" she asked him.
"No not yet and I'm really starting to get worried about her too. After all, this is Gaara's village and the last time we were here he wasn't acting very trustworthy." He told her.
"Yeah and neither was his sister." She said.
"What do you mean his sister?" Sasuke inquired before Keiko started explaining to him about Kuroe and how she had been talking to Konohamaru without her knowledge and that's when suddenly Sasuke grinned. "Oh I get it, you like him don't you?" he questioned her.
"No I don't! Why does everybody keep asking me that!?" she hollered.
"Then why do you care so much that he talks to Kuroe?" Sasuke wondered.
"Umm,.." Keiko began. "Well because I_ I_" she continued. "Alright fine! Maybe I sort of like him,,." She began. "a little bit." She finished while mumbling it underneath her breath. "But don't you dare tell him or anybody else you got that!?" she hollered as Sasuke chuckled and traced an X a crossed his chest with his finger.
"Oh I promise, cross my heart. Your secret's safe with me." he assured her with a grin when all of a sudden he heard something that sounded like a dog barking coming from outside. "Hey honey, I have to get going." He told her.
"Alright, do you think that you and Sakura and Sachi will be back in time for my graduation tomorrow?" she questioned him.
"I don't know but we'll sure try." He assured her. "Love you and have a goodnight sleep." He told her.
"Alright, I love you too big brother." She told him before they finished saying goodbye to each other and then hung up the phone.
"What was that all about?" Sakura wondered.
"I'll tell you later, but right now I think there's a dog roaming around outside our hotel. I can hear him barking. I'm thinking that maybe it's the dog that Keiko saw Sachi with and if that's really the case then he can lead us to her." He told her before he quickly pecked her on the lips and then turned around to go outside.
Meanwhile Lucky continued barking as he sat in front of the hotel and glanced up at it. A few minutes later Sasuke came out rushing a crossed the street and Lucky perked up his ears as soon as he saw him.
"Where did you come from? Are you lost boy?" he questioned him but the dog just simply shook his head and started to whine as Sasuke suddenly came to a stop in front of him. "In that case do you know where my niece is?" he asked him and to his complete and utter shock and bewilderment the dog slowly nodded his head up and down while continuing to pant and then suddenly stood up. "Take me to her." Sasuke told him. "Find Sachi." He instructed before the dog let out an enormous bark and then turned around and ran away and Sasuke followed closely along behind him.