July 14th, In Sun hotel, 11:00pm

Surrounded by luggage, a young Uzumaki was dazed and confused. "Whaddaya mean no reservation?" Naruto was sure he made reservations, even though he was sugar high from too much desert at Gaara's house. He couldn't stop his body from trembling. "How 'bout just squad seven?" He questioned. The attendant shook her head. This kid was going to take up her customer-free shift. Great. Real great. "Team seven?" Again no. "Uzumaki Naruto?" Another shake of the head. "Haruno Sakura?" The attendant stared at him with disbelief. "Uchiha Sasuke?" She looked offended after that one. "Hatake Kakashi?" The attendant slammed her head against the desk. This was hopeless. She was sure that after ten minuets of this would kill her.

Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi stood inside the glass doors of the lobby. They watched the Ninja and couldn't believe he couldn't even leave reservations correctly.

"What's taking so long?" Sasuke asked aloud. Sasuke was getting irritated. At Naruto. At Sakura. At Kakashi. Naruto was preventing him from sleep. Sakura was teaching him
manner lessons again. And Kakashi always pissed him off.

"Maybe he needs-" Sakura paused. "Help?" The team shivered at the thought. He was in his twenties, and still couldn't take care of himself? He even admitted it.

There was a rustling in the bushes outside the lobby. No one noticed it though because they were too absorbed in watching Naruto's antics.

"He'll be fine." Kakashi reassured. "I'll go in if he needs help." he sighed. So they waited. And waited. And waited. And…

CRASH! In one swift move the trio of unidentified Nins: had the entire team outside the hotel, surrounded by shards of glass, had a kunai at each Kakashi's neck, had Sakura by the waist, and had Sasuke's hands bound. Great, Inner Sakura thought, Kakashi's guard isn't what it used to be. She smiled, despite their predicament. They were back in business.

Sakura stomped her chakra absorbed foot on the ground. A massive earthquake
rumbled nearly destroyed half of Suna. Nearly. "Nice job Sakura!" Sasuke
exclaimed. He smiled devilishly. Was that flirting? Sakura was confused, but she didn't let it show.

The ninja that had held her waist was long gone. She believed he flew 500 feet, a new record. She grabbed the one that had Sasuke by the neck, socked him twice, and then punched him through the hotel wall. CHA! As the smoke cleared, she was staring down the wall, waiting for the nin to stand up or retaliate.

Naruto was almost killed. The guy that Sakura threw came flying at him at ramming speed. He was going to dodge it, but then saw a glimpse of Sakura with her fist in the air staring the ninja down. What did he do? Or was it the dude flying at him? Naruto wound up sacked by the incredible flying ninja. The poor guy had a dent in his forehead, probably from the impact through the window. He was dead.

"What do you want with us; we've already delivered the scroll." Kakashi asked the ninja that had a kunai at his neck.

"We're no here for you, but for him," the ninja said, pointing to Sasuke. "Master has big plans for you. You ran away, you naughty little boy." Sakura could have sworn there was a suggestive tone used in the last sentence, but she chose to ignore it.

"What are you saying?" Sasuke asked. "Orochimaru is long gone. And the Curse mark no longer affects me." He finished smugly.

"Oh really does it?" Orochimaru's ninja asked as he let go of Kakashi. He stood back and let a mass of chakra absorb into his hands. He put his hands on the ground. A blue-ish glow emitted from the ground and made a trail all the way to Sasuke. In a moment it had traveled all the way to his cursed seal.

White hot pain erupted from the crook of his neck and spread to his body. He hadn't felt this in ages. The mark began to glow an array of red and orange before spreading around his entire body. He couldn't stop it. It was going against his will. Soon enough, it was already stage one.

"Now stage two out!" The nameless ninja screeched. Sasuke's skin darkened. He doubled over in pain. He had forgotten what the mark actually felt like. Sasuke's wings were forming. They were just about to open, when suddenly Kakashi appeared behind the mystery ninja man.

"I hope this hurts." Kakashi said haughtily with Chidori charging. He ran up toward him, more ramming speed! He aimed it for the nin's chest while shouting, "Chidori, One-
thousand birds!" The man disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kakashi froze. The man reappeared behind him with a kunai in hand.

The man had caught him off guard…

All of a sudden a sword burst through the ninja's stomach. "Chidori," a stage-one Sasuke said indifferently. Sasuke pulled his Chidori charged sword from the man's body.

"Knew you got the plan, Sasuke!" Kakashi said happily as he pulled out his book.

Sasuke's curse-mark began receding, and went to normal. The three walked back into the hotel.

Naruto was still at it shouting off names of what he might have reserved it under. Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi sighed simultaneously. Kakashi finally stepped in, "Team seven of Konoha?" The lady stared at the book he was holding. She checked the list. It was there. Thank goodness, this man would get that freak with the yellow hair away from her.

She then went into her drawer, and pulled out what looked like, to Naruto, a credit card. "Here you go." She said. Naruto noticed her eyebrow twitched. She handed Naruto the key. He stared at the cards. Sakura sighed.

"They're the keys Naruto." She said. He took the keys and they grabbed the bags they brought and set by Naruto.


They walked up the stairs. Once they reached level three they went into the hallway. Down seventeen rooms and they were at room 317. "Kakashi's room!" Naruto exclaimed opening the door. It was a fair sized room with a closet and golden tapestries on the
blued colored wall. There was wooden flooring with blue and gold embroidered rugs on it. There was a small fountain next to his low to the ground bed and a small bamboo plant. Kakashi set his bags down and flopped on the bed, book in hand. The three younger members of team Kakashi stepped out of the room.

The trio turned to the room across from Kakashi's. "And your room Sakura-chan!" Naruto exclaimed hyper-ly. She opened the door, slowly. Oh my Gosh! She thought. CHA! Inner Sakura screamed. It was a girl's dream…and then some. A queen sized bed lay in the middle of the circular red and pink floral walls. It had pink satin comforter with white petals embroidered on it and heart shaped read and white pillows. A plasma TV hung on the wall right across from the bed. Under the TV was a DVD player along with a Wii. Three separate vanities surrounded the perimeter. There was a bathroom on the other side of the door that was a soft blue color. It had a Jacuzzi bathtub and soft looking towels and complementary bathrobe. Thousands of lip gloss and other make-up products were in small complementary baskets all around the room. Was that Cherry she smelled? Naruto defiantly outdid himself this time!

Sakura took a step in. Naruto was about to show Sasuke his room, but Sakura cried
out, "Wait!-err- Sasuke, could I examine your curse mark? That guy could control it and I-" She hesitated, "I might be able to seal it- that is- um" She gulped, "forever." Sasuke's eyes widened. That's all he wanted after that Michael Jackson of a master.

"Sure," he said coolly, "but, Naruto, show me my room first." Sasuke demanded with a scowl. Naruto's plan might fail. And if it did, two words passed through his mind. No ramen. NOOOOOOOOOO!

"Uhhh, lemme see here, Sasuke." He flipped through the keys, "This one!" He beamed brighter than the sun. Sasuke smirked.

"Well then, what's the number?" Sasuke asked. Naruto examined the key with knit brows.

"I can't make heads or tails out of this. You stay her with Sakura, and I'll ask the attendant." Naruto walked out quickly.

Before they could rebel, Naruto shut the door. Phase one, complete. Phase two: Distract Kakashi is a go. He didn't have to do much, heck, that book kept Kakashi distracted enough as it is. He had cameras ready in the room; he could listen to Kakashi's iPod that was still in his possession.

He felt sorry for Sasuke. It was going to be a long night. For, there was no key to Sasuke's room, and there was no Sasuke's room for the key. Naruto snickered. This was way too easy. He was happy that he had an iPod dock in his hotel rooms, he had two. He was gonna blast it all night. Naruto locked the door.