A/N: Hello fellow fan fiction readers, good morrow and salutations. Welcome to the 17th installment of The Doom of Konohagakure. Yes, I can tell you are pleased. Do you know what makes us happy? REVIEWS! Come on people review and Zorro and I won't wither away and die from sadness. So give a hoot and review.

RAFT tip of the day: Don't trust Nazis. When in Egypt, Frenchmen might save you. Do not look directly at the Ark.

Sand Snares

"Troublesome girl. Get back here and give me back my vest!" Charlie was still running away from Shikamaru, trying to get away with his vest.

"No!" An hour ago Shikamaru had run out of chakra after attempting to capture Charlie, now he was just trying to stop her from running around in circles.

"If you don't come back you will fail the exams. I thought you wanted to be a chuunin." Charlie stopped at looked at him.

"No I just wanted the vest." Charlie took off running again, but Shikamaru threw a stick in her path, tripping her. "Ow."

"Come on." Shikamaru grabbed Charlie by the scruff of her neck and started dragging her back.

Meanwhile…….

"This is the original dining room built in the time of the first Kazekage for hosting foreign diplomats. Please, sit." Lee and Alex sat down at the long table, filled with other important Suna diplomats, most of them staring shamelessly at Alex, who stared shamelessly back.

"Lee, what----"

"So Miss Alex, I've heard a lot about you and your friend. Where exactly are you from?"

"A galaxy far, far away." They stared at her. Lee cleared his throat.

"What Lady Alex means is that she is a majestic princess from a kingdom far off on the moon. Her Royal Highness Alejandra de la Vega." Lee bowed to her and kissed her hand. The men from Suna stared at the half naked Leaf nin and the bikini clad foreign girl and wondered if they had been in the sun too long. Yes, that must be it.

"Dinner is served." Alex and Lee blinked as two servers placed platters in front of them. They blinked curiously and lifted the lids.

"Lee what is this?" Alex whispered.

"I don't know, it looks like fried brains."

"It is gizzard." They blanched.

"That's not much better." Lee tentatively began eating his, while Alex looked around the room, catching Gaara's eye at the head of the table. She stared at him dreamily for a minute before her stomach growled. She observed the dining room, looking for anything else to eat. She leaned her chair back to glimpse into the kitchen, when suddenly her elbow hit something. The wall opened up and Alex and her chair tumbled backward through it, before it closed behind her, just as they were serving dessert. Lee blinked.

"Lady Alex? Oh she must have went to the washroom."

Meanwhile with Charlie…

"Stay here I have to take care of some business before I can escort you back. Do not move!"

"Fine, fine geez. What it's not like I'm just gonna take off running." Shikamaru glowered at Charlie for a second before going into a back room of a building they were in. Charlie sighed and leaned back against the wall. At least Shikamaru let her keep the vest. Charlie leaned further back against the wall, before she noticed a ledge sticking out for her arm. She leaned her arm against it, and it started to move. What the? Charlie turned around and examined it. She pushed the ledge and the wall she was leaning on began to move in a circle. She was spun around and ended up in a creepy tunnel with lots of cobwebs.

"Ok let's go." Shikamaru walked back to find Charlie missing. Stupid girl took off again.

"Holy Shit!" Alex tumbled down a set of stone stairs into a torch-lit corridor, lying in a heap at the bottom. "Ow….what the hell?" She blinked and looked around, the walls were full of strange markings, and the corridor led off to the right. She blinked and shrugged. Oh well, it's not like she was eating or anything, maybe she'd find something cool!

"Hello! Anybody here!" Charlie was currently exploring the tunnel she stumbled upon. She walked into a pool of light and suddenly spears shot out from the wall. She screamed and jumped aside just in time. She rose and suddenly knew where she was. This must be where the mummy lives. Yes, it is booby-trapped, and well hidden. It must be where he lives. He was probably hiding out in the desert thinking no one would find him. But she would, and she was going to take him down. Charlie started walking again, this time carefully avoiding any booby-traps the mummy might have laid.

"You shall not escape me you dastardly fiend."

Meanwhile, Alex was walking down a similar dark corridor after having jumped over a deep pit.

"This is still better than salted gizzard. Oops." She had just put her foot down when the rock she had stepped on sank into the ground. Darts started shooting from the walls as Alex hit the deck and began carefully army crawling away from the shooting darts. "Dammit! Who fricking makes walls with shooting darts anyway? Stupid architects. Oo." She walked into a room with what appeared to be a large golden sandcastle in the center. She put her hand on it and was about to grab it when…

"Charlie?"

"Alex what are you doing here? You're not the mummy?"

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here?"

"Defeating the mummy and stealing his treasure." Both girls looked down at the golden sand castle they were holding onto. "Alex it's very nice of you to help me defeat the mummy, but you can let go of the sandcastle now."

"Like hell! I found it first!" Alex tried yanking the castle from Charlie, only to have her yank it back.

"No you didn't I did!"

"Let go!"

"You let go!" While they fought over the sandcastle, they pulled it off the podium, which sank into the ground. As they fought the walls began to cave in on them. They both looked up, then at each other. It was at that moment a large boulder burst from the wall behind them.

"SHIT!! RUN!!" The girls started running away from the giant boulder that was rolling after them, both of them still holding the golden sandcastle.

"THIS WAY!!!!!!!!!!!" They ran down the corridors, then burst through the entrance, temporarily blinded by the sun. The girls regained their sight and stared at the people in front of them, which happened to be Lee and Gaara. Just then the giant boulder burst through the wall above them. Lee sprang into action and punched the boulder in two. Alex and Charlie merely panted, staring at the crowd of diplomats and Gaara, who looked completely nonplussed. Alex suddenly yanked the sandcastle out of Charlie's hands and presented it to Gaara. One of the diplomats came up to Gaara and examined the sandcastle, stating that it was an ancient artifact that belonged in a museum. Gaara left with the diplomats leaving Alex staring at his retreating form. It was then that Charlie realized what happened.

"What the hell Alex! That was gold! Solid gold! That was our ticket to not living with Sai anymore! And you give it away to the first pretty redhead that catches your eye! Do you know what I could have bought with that?" Alex snapped out of her daze and turned to Charlie, glaring.

"What was that? Pretty redhead? PRETTY REDHEAD? He's not just some pretty redhead like Billy! He is beautiful and amazing and cool and beautiful and he is NOT JUST SOME PRETTY REDHEAD!!!" She began throwing kunai at Charlie, aiming for her head.

"SHIT! SHIKAMARU, START THE DUNE BUGGY!!!!!" Shikamaru turned.

"Ehhh?" Suddenly, Charlie ran by and grabbed him, running for Ted, Alex right on her tail. She threw Shikamaru in Ted and revved the engine, shooting off into the sunset. Alex shook her fist angrily.

"YOU'LL NEVER ESCAPE!!!!!"

"I JUST HAVE!!!!!" Shikamaru gaped at Ted.

"What the heck is this thing? Stupid troublesome FOREIGNERS!!!!!" Charlie swerved dangerously around a sand dune, almost throwing Shikamaru out. Alex stood shaking her fist at Charlie. Lee came up and stood next to her.

"Ya did good kid."

"What?"

"Lady Alex, now that you are safe we must go run off into the sunset!"

"But didn't you just say……"

"No."

"Okay." They stared off into the dust trail fading into the sunset before turning around and heading down the street.