Beach Adventures
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Sarah: here's chapter one of "Beach Adventures". I hope you enjoy it!
REVIEW REPLIES
I wonder what Sakura will do to make sure Kakashi arrives on time. (laughs) you'll find out this chapter. It's kinda funny too, so I hope you enjoy.
NOTE
(Authors note)
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Scene change
POV change
"Singing"
Memory, reading or writing something, etc. (you'll figure it out)Scene change in memory
TRANSLATIONS
Chapter 1
Departure
Kakashi groans in his half-sleep as he hears his apartment door being unlocked. Only four people, including him, have keys to his apartment. Sasuke and Naruto almost never come in the morning, though, so that leaves the roseate minx who likes to wake him up at ungodly hours … okay, eight or nine in the morning may not exactly be ungodly for most people, but for him it is (and I totally agree with him). His barely awake mind recalls the reason she's here this morning; though she comes and wakes him up for no reason whatsoever most days. 'The vacation… how nice,' he thinks sleepily, trying to sleep for a just a bit longer. His bedroom door squeaks open, and he grumbles in his mind.
"Hatake Kakashi! Get up now! It's nine thirty!" Sakura orders, hands on her hips. She taps her foot, waiting for him to move. "Don't make me drag you out of bed again," she warns him after several minutes. He grumbles and puts his pillow over his head. He hears an agitated sigh just before the covers are jerked off his body, the pillow snatched from his grasp, and she literally pushes him out of bed onto the floor near the window, his head hitting the wall along the way.
"Alright, alright, I'm up," he mumbles, pulling himself off the ground.
"Good. Get showered and dressed, then pack up any last minute things," she orders while turning on her heel to go wait in the living room, giving him privacy to shower and change.
The sleepy Copy Nin rubs his head where he hit the wall, feeling a lump already forming. He winces as he touches the tender area. "Damned minx," he grumbles, looking at his clock to see it's fifteen minutes before ten.
Thirty minutes later
Kakashi walks into his living room to see Sakura putting a book, what looks like an old adventure book, back into his bookcase. "Sheesh, you take as long as Ino-pig to get ready," she teases. "Well, c'mon," she says. "We're going to the gate now to wait," she explains to his sleepy look. "We've only got thirty-five minutes before time to go, and we are not going to be late," she says, ending in a growl. "I am not being stuck here all summer when I could be at the beach; and I'm sure you feel the same. Let's go, and don't make me drag you there," she warns him.
Kakashi sighs as he shoulders his bags, noting Sakura has three large bags she tied together in a chakra net and is carrying the net on her back. He figures, from the bulk of the bags, that they ought to weight as much, if not more, than she does. He figures the chakra strands in the net lighten the load a lot so she can carry it all without hurting her back. He sullenly follows her out of his apartment, making sure the door is locked behind them, and then follows her to the gate. Ten minutes later, they reach the gate and are the first ones there, surprisingly.
Five minutes later
A large group of Jounin walks up to the gate only to be put in shock at seeing the infamously late Copy Nin sulking while leaning against the gate, Haruno Sakura the only other person there. "Holy shit," Naruto, among the group of Jounin, mutters. "What the hell did she do to drag him here so early?" he wonders.
"I don't even want to know," Shikamaru mutters, glaring at Temari's back in front of him. His wife had dragged him out of bed at the ungodly hour of seven in the morning.
Several of the older Jounin are in shock at seeing Kakashi so early. Genma's senbon even falls out of his mouth from gaping at the scene. "Well, damn," Raido murmurs. "Hell must've frozen over." Genma, Kurenai, Asuma, Gai, Izumo, Kotetsu, and Anko nod in stunned agreement.
"Why?" Shizune asks. She, Tsunade, and Jiraiya had just arrived with the remainder of the Jounin. Shizune had come to see everyone off before their vacation.
Everyone points towards the gate. "They were here first," Genma explains. The new arrivals look at the gate and are thrown into shock as well … with plenty of dismay in the features of Shizune, Tsunade, and Jiraiya. They have definitely lost this bet with Sakura.
"What the fuck did she do to get him here so early?" Tsunade asks.
Everyone shrugs. "Ask them," several Jounin say.
At the gate
Kakashi glances at Sakura when he hears her trying to keep herself from laughing. He follows her gaze and smirks in amusement at seeing so many stunned and shocked expressions. Even Gai looks freaked out, and that's saying something. Of course, Kakashi's eye and body show that he is still quite bored and sulking … well, he is still sulking at being dragged here so early, but decides it was worth it to see this particular scene. "Coming?" he asks the group in a bored tone.
That snaps the group out of their shock and they move forward to gather around the gate. Sakura spots Shizune, Jiraiya, and Tsunade. "Be right back," she murmurs to Kakashi. He's about to ask where she's going when she vanishes into the crowd. Sakura walks up to collect her debt. "Well, seems I won the bet," she laughs. "Cough up the money," she continues with a smirk. She receives three glares as a total of fifteen thousand yen is placed in her waiting hand. "Thank you kindly," she laughs, vanishing back into the crowd to reappear beside Kakashi.
Kakashi notices her putting a large sum of money into her purse and raises an eyebrow. "Where'd you get that money?" he asks.
Sakura grins. "My winnings from a bet," she says vaguely, turning to talk to Naruto before Kakashi can ask about the bet. Kakashi scowls; she knows he's too polite to interrupt a conversation and she's using it against him. 'Damned minx,' he thinks.
Tsunade looks around the crowd of gathered Jounin. "Well it's eleven, let's move out," she says. Then she and Jiraiya take the lead in a race to the beaches that are several hours to the south of Konoha.
Sarah: okay, so the chapter is short; but it's only about the departure and I wanted to update quickly; I also don't feel like telling about the journey to the beaches, so next chapter will be a few days into the vacation. Later! Please review!