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Previously:

"Sasuke what's that?" Ino yelled across the room in her usual loud tone.

"Exactly what we're looking for." He spoke in a hushed tone as he looked in awe at the object in his hands.

Her eyes widened in surprise, she dropped the pink material in her hand and quickly made her way to Sasuke to inspect it herself. "So what we need to find now…"

"Is what this opens." he finished still looking at the key.Present

Still animated, Ino looked hesitantly at the key, "It could open anything though."

"True, but that means we'll have to start looking for something that opens with a key."

"Right on it."

Much to her disdain, Ino closed all the drawers, that were stuffed to the max with Sakura's clothing. After giving the drawer one last shove she began roaming around the spacious room, her eyes caught sight of something. "OH MY GOSH! Sasuke!"

He turned instantly with eager eyes thinking she had found something. "What!?"

"Can I turn on some music?" She asked still excited.

He swore in his head then nodded, "What ever you want."

Her blonde ponytail whapped the air as she dashed over to the stereo pushing eagerly at the buttons. The speakers began to thump noisily as Ino bobbed her head to the beat, "Don't you just love this song!"

Sasuke's eyes bulged in disbelief, as he watched Ino begin singing along. Ino paid no heed and continued, "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and their like, Its betta then yours. Damn right, it's betta then yours, I can teach you, but I have to char-"

That's as far as she could go before Sasuke cut her off, "Something less explicit if you don't mind."

She smirked, "Explicit?" She saw his look, "Ha ha chill out. Its more principle Tsunade's song anyways," She could've sworn she heard him choke. Regardless she switched the song.

"This better?" The song 'When I Grow Up,' her new favorite song of the day boomed through the walls.

"Much." He said

Meanwhile:

An inpatient pink haired teen tapped her fingers relentlessly on the wood, "You now Shikamaru, you can always admit that you don't know what the instructions mean. I bet if you let me look at them, they'd make sense."

He mumbled, "Troublesome females, all the same."

"Hey! I heard that!" She rose from her seat on the counter and launched her self at him.

By catching him off guard she managed to snatch the ancient paper from his hands.

"Troublesome, Sakura! Be careful! That's the only evidence we have that your parents left that we know of!"

She glanced at the paper, then nodded. She needed to crack this code, or whatever he meant by these instructions.

Princess meets her Prince

Nothings been right ever since,

She holds the key to her future

Yet she seems so unsure.

There's only one thing that she needs to remember,

It only happened Once Upon a December.

Her face scrunched as she thought about what the poem could mean. Once Upon a December? Why did that sound so familiar.

Interrupting her thinking Shikamaru spoke, "Any ideas?"

"Well the last part sounds very familiar." She replied then began thinking out loud. "Once upon a December? Where's that from!" She slapped her hand to her forehead.

"Sakura when you moved to Suna did you take any belongings?"

"Uh, Just some clothes."

"Nothing else?"

"Nope."

"Where do you keep your Christmas decorations?"

Her vibrant eyes sparked, "In the attic!"

Before Shika M. could respond back, she began dragging him up the stairs. On her first step up, one or the floor boards cracked underneath her. She thanked God inwardly that Ino hadn't been there to witness that. She'd never hear the end of that.

He looked to her hesitantly, since they would be climbing about 3-4 flights of stairs. "Any other way?"

She snapped her fingers eagerly, "We have this dumbwaiter!"

"Alright lets go."

Sakura instantly took his hand, regaining her excitement and raced over to the dumb waiter. Once inside the small shaft, they sat for a minute.

"Soooo," She started, "How do you work this?"

He rubbed his head, "You pull the rope up or down and it moves.

"Oh…..OHHH! Shikamaru pull away!"

He sighed then began pulling the rope upwards.

With Hinata and Neji.

"Ne, Neji-niisan?" Hinata asked timidly as she looked at everything but Neji's eyes.

"Yes?" He answered clearly un amused, since he has been officially on spider killing duty.

"I…I found this.."

Before she could finish Neji rushed over to her side, "What?" he asked almost excited. Almost.

"I f-found some business papers, d-deals that Kabuto and Sakura's father signed."

"May I see them?" She handed over the papers to him, "Interesting. This means that they were originally going to combine Haruno and Sound. Sakura's father and Orochimaru used Sakura and Kabuto to ensure success. But that makes no sense, Tatsuya Haruno always said he'd never trade Sakura for anything in the world. Why would he do that now? Especially for the good of a company,"

Hinata poked her fingers together, "M-Maybe we could talk to the people who d-did the autopsy about w-what they found in the bodies?"

He let out a grin, "Hinata, You are too smart to be going out with Naruto."

She blushed and took the underhanded compliment. Typical Neji.

"So now all we have to do is ask Sakura where they went and this will be done."

With Naruto and Ten-Ten:

"Naruto..? NARUTO!" Ten-Ten screamed louder than she thought she could. Oh the horror.

He scratched the back of his head nervously, "This isn't what it looks like,"

"ITS EXACTLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!"

"Hey hey! No need to scream…..or tell the guys about this…"He mumbled the last part as a deep blush began to dust his cheeks.

"WHY ARE YOU WEARING LINGERIE?" She demanded shielding her eyes from the offensive image.

"There's a erm…very logical reason Ten-Ten, you see, I thought it might've been a clue…"

"Yeah something red and lacy always look suspicious."

"Well I didn't know!" He tried to defend himself, but failed miserably.

"GAH! I don't care! J-Just put some damn pants on!"

Meanwhile:

Sasuke felt a jolt. He froze from what he was doing. "Why do I have the sudden urge to make fun of Naruto?" He thought to himself.

"What's that Sasuke?" Ino yelled across the room.

"Nothing Ino….Get back to work!"

Back to Ten-Ten and Naruto

"TEN-TEN!" Naruto shouted claming the irate girl's attention. "What are we even looking for! I'm hungry!"

"NARUTO! If you don't shut up I'm going to stick this vase somewhere VERY uncomfortable! Do you read me?"

"Yes Ma'am!"

"Oh and were just looking for something that Kabuto might've left when he stayed in one of these rooms."

"Wait Kabuto?"

"Yes Kabuto, Naruto,"

"Ohh! Hey I found this…"

Her eyes sparked with interest, "What's that Naruto?"

"Its some diagrams on how to make the SOUND Products. It looks like a musical note?"

"Hm, it is a musical note. That's on every item they make. But why is there so many details in it? I thought it was always just a design. There's so many numbers."

"HEY! Maybe it's to get the note thing to spin!"

"Spin? I've never seen it spin?"

"No see I used to have this sound lap top and the musical note always spun around."

"Oh…we should go look at the other products then."

"So…..are we done?"

She sighed, "Yes Naruto."

"AWESOME!" he dashed out of the door she could tell he headed straight toward the kitchens.

Ten-Ten stayed behind a put the diagrams into her bag, later making her way to the kitchen

Much Later

Everyone sat around the kitchen table, deep in though. Thinking about the clues they had uncovered. Sasuke began the discussion, "Sakura and Shikamaru." The two turned to face him, Sasuke broke out in song and dance mode, "Did you find the first paw-print? Did you find the first clue? I need to put it in my notebook cuz' its who's clues? Kabuto's clues!

They stared like he'd gone insane. Then Shikamaru beat Sakura to the question earning a frown from her, "Yeah we did. First we found this paper with insturctions," He handed the paper to Sasuke, "Then we went to the attic to look through the Christmas decorations,"

Sakura finished for him, "Then I remembered this book that my parents always used to read to me, 'Once Upon a December' and opened the book. Inside was this other sheet of paper. It told us that I need to find a key, and my old diary. It said all the answers were inside that diary."

Sasuke's eyes widened a good deal, "So we found the first paw-print, we found the first clue, now i'll put it in my note book, cuz' its who's clues? Kabuto's clues?"

Neji stared at him suspiciously, "You're acting off...today...Sasuke."

Sasuke brushed the comment off then looked to Ino.

She spoke,"Well we found a key, but we didn't find anything it could've opened."

Before Naruto could cover Sasuke's mouth he sang again, " So we found the 2nd paw-print thats the 2nd clue! We'll put it in my note-book cuz' its WHO'S clues?" He asked.

"..." Nobody dared encourage him.

"KABUTO'S CLUES!"

Before he could go on, Sakura rose from her chair and gave her incredibly smexy boyfriend a good thump on his head. Which immediately snapped him out of his insanity.

"So my diary's not here…?" She asked seriously to the now stoic Sasuke.

"Yeah, it's not here."

"Someone has it then!" Sakura accused.

"Like?" He questioned.

"I don't know, I always used to leave it on top of my dresser."

He sighed, "Well half of this is closed to being solved, Neji, Hinata, what'd you two find?"

Neji spoke for both of them, "Well we found the documents that sealed the business deals. Sound and Haruno were actually going to combine he company's and they decided on using Sakura and Kabuto to ensure it would last."

Sakura couldn't help but cringe at the part, she hated feeling like a pawn for a business deal.

"The Hinata gave me an idea, Sakura, do you remember who took care of your parents' autopsies?"

She rubbed her neck, "I think that Orochimaru took care of that for me. He was one of my parent's best friends so I allowed him to be in charge of that."

Sasuke slapped his head, "there has to be a reason he'd want to take care of it! There had to be evidence that he was responsible for it in the bodies!"

Neji nodded, "That's what we figured."

"Ten-Ten, Naruto, What'd you two find?"

Since Naruto's mouth was beyond full, ten-ten decided to spare everyone and answer, "We found diagrams. They were for how to make the musical note."

Ino stopped her there, "but isn't it just a design?"

She shook her head, "That's what I thought too. But then Naruto said that the musical notes spin. So we wanna check it out."

"They do spin! I used to watch it all the time!" Sakura jumped out of her chair.

Sasuke began again, "So this mea-" He was cut off by the ring of his cell phone.

Hastily he flipped the phone open, only to see Kabuto on the other side of his video phone.

Kabuto grinned maliciously, "Sasuke-kun, what would you and you're friends be doing in a place like that?"

"How'd you get my number Kabuto!" he demanded hotly, earning gasps from his friends.

"Did your parents ever teach you manners? And did you find the third clue?" he laughed manically.

"Why are you calling?" Sasuke demanded once again, ignoring the third clue comment.

"Well I heard you were looking for something."

"Like?"

"A diary." Everyone in the room froze, how had Kabuto known what they were looking for. "it would be best if you ceased your petty search, and allow me to marry my fiancée."

Sakura shuddered at the last phrase.

"Where's the diary Kabuto!?" Sasuke yelled into the phone, impatiently.

"Oh right, here." He held up the diary to the screen. "I'll talk to you kiddies later." the line cut off, leaving Sasuke glaring at the blank phone screen.

"This isn't good." Shikamaru said.

Ino huffed, "Ya think?"

Sasuke was hit with realization, "Guys! All these clues lead to Kabuto!"

"What?" Sakura asked her too eager boyfriend.

"No see! You found instructions saying that you needed a key and a diary. I have the key, Kabuto has the diary. Ten-Ten! You found blue-prints for their products. So we need to go to Kabuto to actually see the products in the making, Neji! Sakura's parents' were autopsied by Orochimaru. He had to have evidence in there!"

Naruto tilted his head, "So what should we do."

"We have to go to America."

"WHAT!?" They all yelled.

"Cmon guys! It all leads to Kabuto! He's in America! We need to go!"

"What about school! It starts in about five days!"

"I think we'll only need four, and if we miss more, we can always take the summer make up classes."

Neji thought for a moment, "That's a good idea."

"If Neji's in I'm in!" Ten-Ten declared.

"Im in." Shikamaru decided.

"Were in!" the rest of the group added.

"So when do we leave?" Sakura asked Sasuke.

"We'll take my parents' private jet. So we need to get back to Konoha then go to America."

"There's a flight out to Konoha tonight!" Ino suggested.

"Excellent," Sasuke whipped out his cell-phone and duaed the airport.

The girls tackled each other in group hug, "AMERICA HERE WE COME!" then fell to the floor in a fit of giggles.

The guys shook their heads at their girlfriends' antics.

Meanwhile:

"Sakura-chan, How I await your arrival." A smooth voice echoed all through the empty corridor.

FLASH! A scream. Blood all over. Gasps for air. And the lights went out.

END! Hey guys thanks for R&R!