Chapter 3
The six teens went off to the pond for a free tour as a reward for their help.
Soara walked towards the pond and announced, "Well, here is our most famous tourist spot, Fukai pond!"
(a/n: Fukai means deep)
Naruto rubbed his eyes as if he doesn't believe at what he is seeing, "Wow!" The pond has a very crystal clear water as if it was a mirror reflecting the sunset. It was also filled with many kinds of fishes.
Kairi looked very amused when she saw Naruto, "Speechless now, aren't you?"
Naruto nodded, never taking his eyes off the pond, until Sasuke punched him in the face.
"Ow! What did you do that for?!!" Naruto tried to maintain his balance but failed, he fell in the pond.
Sasuke offered his hand to help Naruto get out of the pond. "Because, I was trying to tell you something, I called you a hundred times already!"
"C-c-c-cold, cold!" Naruto was shivering from the coldness of the water. Since he left his bag with Kakashi and Iruka he decided to take off his jacket and tied it on his waist and added, "W-w-what is it?"
"Well, we should ask them where we can find the herbs" replied Sasuke
"Oh, right!" grinned Naruto
Sasuke and Naruto both agreed in Sasuke's idea and went towards Sora, who is begging for Kairi's forgiveness for what happened earlier, to ask him about the herbs.
Sora shook his head and looked at Kairi ,who also shook her head, "No, sorry, maybe Roxas does"
"Well, let's go!" cheered Sakura
The six of them went to the usual spot.
Meanwhile at the usual spot…
The was silence for a while in the usual spot when Roxas spoke up, 'What's taking them so long?"
"Maybe there are many people in the ice cream parlor" guessed Naminé
"All that action made me hungry!" groaned Roxas
Naminé pointed towards the gate and said 'Speaking of the devils, here they come!"
When Roxas heard it, he rushed towards Naminé and looked at the direction where Naminé was pointing, "But wait who are those four?" asked Roxas
"Hey, guys here are your sea-salt ice creams!" called out Sora, showing them the plastic bag.
Roxas ran towards Sora and got his sea-salt ice cream "Gee, thanks! I'm starving!"
Naminé walked towards Kairi and whispered "Who are those guys?"
"Oh, they're Sasuke, Sakura, Hinata and Naruto, they helped us convince the people that we didn't steal the pictures" pointed Kairi. Sora walked towards Kairi "They came with us to ask something to Roxas."
"Hey, guys! Come right in!" invited Sora
"Come on!" said Naruto
Sora signaled them to stop and said, "Wait here" Sora walked towards Roxas and tapped him on the shoulder. "Hey, Roxas those guys want to ask you something."
Roxas turned around and asked, "First, who are those guys?"
"Oh, they're Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto and Hinata." Said Sora " They helped us convince the people that we didn't steal anything."
"Oh, okay!" Roxas walked towards Sasuke and asked, "What do you want?"
"We just wanted to ask you something." Replied Sasuke
"Then, shoot!" said Roxas
Sasuke told him everything he knows about the herb
"What's it's name?" asked Roxas
"I don't know" replied Sasuke
Roxas walked away from Sasuke "I cannot know what herb it is if you don't know what is looks like if you don't know the name."
Naruto then spoke up " Then let's ask Kakashi-sensei"
"Ok, fine" Roxas turned around and walked towards the gate, Naminé accompanied him. Seeing that Naminé was with him, Roxas put his arm around her shoulder.
Sakura looked a little confused, "Wait a minute! Are those two on?"
"No, they're just friends" confirmed Kairi
Roxas shouted, looking very impatient, "Hey, aren't we going to find them?"
"Oh, sorry!" replied Hinata
The eight teenagers went off to find the two teachers.
At the restaurant…
"What's taking those four so long?" asked Iruka
"Don't worry about them, they'll come for dinner, especially Naruto" putting down his bowl of ramen
"Maybe you're right!" smiled Iruka
Kakashi pointed at the ramen and said "If you won't eat that, then I'll eat it."
Iruka chuckled, "You sound like Naruto"
"God! I don't sound like Naruto!" denied Kakashi
Suddenly they felt something dripping on their shoulder, it was Naruto drooling over ramen.
"Geez, Naruto don't drool on my shirt!" said Kakashi, dodging Naruto's saliva.
Sakura tapped Naruto on his shoulder signaling him to be back to reality, "Ahem! Did you forget something?"
"Oh, yeah right! Kakashi-sensei, what's the name of the herb? Someone wants to know." asked Naruto
"Who wants to know?" asked Kakashi
A shadow of a boy went towards him revealing Roxas who was waiting impatiently for the answer "I ,for one, wants to know!"
Kakashi had no other choice but to tell the name because even his students want to know, " It's name is Golden Mist!"
When Roxas heard this he said "It's not an herb! It's a flower, although it looks like a mist it is only powder excreted by the flower every once in a while, it's very rare in some places but it is common here, it is known for curing many sickness, depending on how it is used it can either kill you or cure you."
Kakashi was shocked when he heard it, "So you know where we can find it?"
"It can be found in Sunset Hill, you can reach it through that way, it's the fastest way to get there!" said Roxas pointing to the winding road leading to a very vast field.
Kairi walked beside Roxas and said to them "If you want to, we can help you get there, it's all we can do for the help you did to us."
Iruka tapped his foot on the floor, "Are you four keeping something from us?"
The four genins laughed nervously then Sakura came forwards and explained it all to Iruka.
"What? What do you think you're doing?" exclaimed Roxas
"I'll help!" volunteered Naminé
"Me too!" agreed Sora
Kakashi nodded, "Then it's settled, we will meet here first thing tommorow, let's say 5:30 am, even I'll be here on time."
"Well, that's new." Said Naruto
"Don't get lost in the road of life, Kakashi-sensei" said Sakura
All of them laughed at the words Sakura said.