I. Of sleeping and bad habits.

"Hey forehead girl! Not sleepy yet?"

Haruno Sakura ignored Yamanaka Ino, it has been a very happy day at the beach and not even the pig-girl's cheap shots can sour her good mood. It was very exhausting yet everyone had a one hell of a time! The weeklong vacation at the Shiawase Beach Resort was a bonus from the Konoha government to the young nins, as every single one of them had shown impressive abilities, so naturally, where the students go the teachers go too!

"Say, what are you doing Sakura?" Kurenai-sensei said with a puzzled tone. She saw the jutsu pocketbook before the pink-haired kunoichi and smiled. " We are on vacation Sakura, kick those books away for a moment before you hurt yourself!" the beautiful jounin said with a grin.

" Kurenai's right, even we are taking a time off from everything…" Anko added. " Oof!" she finished, as she stuffed her wet bikini inside a plastic bag.

" Eewww, Anko-sensei. Is that the way you handle your stuff?" Ino snorted.

Anko rolled her eyes. " Hey, Kurenai. Which one will you take? The shower or the tub?" the snake-lady asked as she pulled her toiletries out of her bag.

" I've had enough of dipping today, I'll take the shower."

" Well that means the tub is all mine!" Anko said, sprinting for the bathtub.

Dipping all right. Sakura thinks, Kurenai sent the whole resort to frenzy when she revealed her naughty swimwear (imagine only bandages covering her privies!) early that day, to the delight of the bunch of perverts!

"Lights off!" Tenten squealed before flipping the switch, Sakura flicked the desk lamp to life. She pored over her pocketbook while Tenten and Ino engaged in a pillow fight.

" Sleep early girls!" Kurenai called before before disappearing inside the bathroom.

" Say Tenten, why don't we put cream all over Hinata's face?" Ino said, mischief glinting in her eyes. Pointing to a dozing Hyuuga Hinata.

" I dunno, don't think it will be a good idea." Tenten replied awkwardly, pulling her pillow back.

Ino grinned. " AS I THOUGHT! YOU WON'T DO IT COS SHE'S NEJI'S COUSIN!!!"

Tenten screamed as she lunged at cackling Ino. " Don't say it so loud! They might hear us!"

"They? You mean him?"

Tenten blushed furiously then whacked Ino repeatedly with her pillow.

It took awhile before the room became quiet. Sakura felt her eyelids getting heavier; she decided to call it a day. She tucked the book in her bag before proceeding to her place beside Hinata. Sakura was about to jump into bed when she saw something that froze her.

Hinata. She was wearing nothing but panties!

" What!?!" Sakura said in disbelief

Inner Sakura sez: "Hey!!! We could use some steamy summer night girl-to-girl action!"

"This is ridiculous!" Sakura thought, panic rising in her throat, "No way will I sleep beside a girl wearing nothing but panties!"

Inner Sakura sez: " White, comfy, cotton panties with enough room to move around!"

" Damn, I'll just squeeze between Tenten and Ino." She sighed.

But it was worse; Tenten was talking in her sleep and moves about every minute! Ino on the other hand was snoring like a lawnmower and is drooling so much she has puddles on her pillow!

" Sasuke-kun, don't…don't stop!" Sakura heard Ino moaned in her sleep.

"Sakura?" Kurenai said softly. Sakura almost leapt a mile high in surprise.

" Oh, Kurenai-sensei?"

" Not going to sleep yet? We have loads of activities for tomorrow."

Sakura hung her head. " I was about to, but…" Sakura said, pointing to an almost naked Hinata.

" Oh!" Kurenai exclaimed, and then giggled. " She has that habit, even with an air-condition turned on." Kurenai went to her bed then nonchalantly whipped off her robe. She had nothing underneath.

Sakura's jaw hit the floor.

" So the smart one wanted to study all the way to morning." It was Anko, wiping her head with a towel. She noticed Sakura looking at a totally naked Kurenai lying on the bed with her mouth hanging wide open. " Can't help it kid, it was hot." Anko threw the covers off, Sakura heard her jump into her bed.

Tenten is a sleep-talker.

Ino snores like storm.

Hinata sleeps with nothing but panties on.

Kurenai sleeps with nothing on.

" Hey kid, turn-off the desk lamp would you?"

Sakura slapped her forehead then turned to face Anko but was shocked!

" Hmmm? Cat got your tongue kid?"

Anko is another naked sleeper.

Sakura squinted her eyes to see in the dark corridor.

" Darn it!" She spat in disgust. How can I get some rest if I'm surrounded with that kind of people? How very unlady-like!" She made her way to the lobby, what she just saw made her last meal seem like eons ago.

" Hey watch it!" someone said, irritably. It was Temari of the Sand.

" Oh sorry."

" Everyone's asleep?" Temari asked as she made her way towards the girl's room.

Sakura nodded. Then a thought hit her; can Temari handle such a sight?

The Konoha lass spun around, but it's too late, she heard the doorknob clicked shut.

" Oh well."

Sakura picked up the can of soda from the vending machine, popped it open then gulped the contents down.

" At least that brought the taste back in my mouth." she sighs.

She was about to eat her hamburger when she heard voices, familiar ones, talking just behind the screen before her.

" It was the sand-nins!" Sakura thinks, " They are talking about the girl with the huge fan!"

" At least I won't see it for the next seven days…the last time I saw her like that I can't eat for the whole week." Sakura heard Kankuro's voice said.

The other one didn't answer, but looking at the silhouettes behind the screen she knew instantly Kankuro was talking to Gaara.

Intrigued, Sakura inched closer to the screen, straining her ears.

" Some people are scared of Temari when she's awake, but they never got to know what kind of a monster she becomes when she falls asleep."

"Monster?" Sakura hissed under her breath.

Gaara and Kankuro blinked as Sakura burst from behind the screen. Forehead bristling she grabbed Kankuro by the collar of his Hawaiian shirt.

" What kind of monster she becomes when she's asleep!?!"

Kankuro looked at her emerald eyes then grinned savagely.

A sweat trickled down Sakura's temple. She scanned the wide expanse of the lobby, and saw that not a soul was up, perhaps exhausted from the long day of merriment. A lump formed in her throat as a realization dawned on her.

" A betrayal of the Sand again! The Fifth had been too trusting."

Her eyes looked at the grinning puppeteer and his eyebrow-less, murderous brother.

" I'm at the disadvantage here. There are two of them and if they attack me there are no witnesses…"

A horrific vision flashed before Sakura's eyes; that of a monster happily dismembering its victims; two naked jounin, a half-naked Hyuuga, a drool-covered pig-girl and a sleep-talking walking pocket.

Sakura jumped a few paces back and grabbed a fork from the nearest table.

" I may not be as strong but…" she stammered painfully, "…but I won't die easily!"

The Sand brothers blinked in disbelief.

Kankuro scratched his head.

" The hell you're talking about leaf brat?"