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A/N I realized that since I am making the house chapters shorter that I can write them quickly if I put my mind to it. So here's the next chapter, with Ino, Lee, Gaara and Kankuro as promised.
Ino's POV
Just before jumping out the window Lee turned back towards us, giving a smile and a thumbs up, "Do not worry about anything. I promise that we will solve this case in no time, and I always work to keep my promises. Let our youthfulness bring us to answers we may have never discovered if it wasn't for the fire of youth burning in our hearts."
Gaara looked slightly annoyed, "Too bad he isn't jumping out a higher window, one with a small chance of surviving without injury at least."
I held back my laugh as Lee jumped through the window. Kankuro didn't even try, he burst out laughing, I couldn't tell you which person set off his laughter or if it was a combination of both. Kankuro jumped out the window after Lee. Gaara gestured for me to go first. I jumped out the window moving out of the way for Gaara. As soon as his feet touched the ground we were off and running. My house was in the same direction as Sakura's but closer, which would be good for us since we would have more trouble searching through everything.
Once we reached the house I led them around to the back. We had delivery doors on the side of the house. This is where the flowers were placed when they were growing. The house had been a different store before my mom bought it and turned it into a flower shop so we had no use for the delivery doors. My mom removed the original doors and replaced them with sliding doors made of the same material used in green houses. Like all sliding doors, these popped of their tracks easily.
I leaned one door against a wall inside the room while everyone else came in. The water system for the flowers had yet to be turned off. I realized this only when Lee had looked at one of the flowers, muttering something about its flower youthfulness that let it bloom so well. The flowers would have been dead if the hadn't been watered since my mom had passed on, therefore the water system had yet to be turned off. I glanced at the clock on the wall, "Lee, you might want to move unless you like being soaked. Although it won't help us if you are standing outside because you managed to get wet."
Lee backed away from the flowers, I led them into the flower shop just as the water turned on. The flowers in the shop had a poorer fate than those in the back room. These flowers had begun to wilt, some were already dead with their petals on the floor. It was strange to see the shop in this condition. My mom would never let flowers that looked off on her shelf. Some would end up for friends, or in vases around the apartment, others had a worse fate.
Gaara and Kankuro decided that they could look through the shop while Lee and I checked the house. I pointed out where my moms office was, as well as where the extra cash would be kept. I made sure that Gaara would grab the extra cash for me.
I led Lee around the desk and through a door. The stairs up to the apartment made no sound as we climbed up them. At the top of the stairs I walked through the living space into my mom's room. Lee had stayed back poking his head in through the things in the other room. I quickly went through my mom's dresser and closet finding nothing. I walked over to the desk in my mom's room. I opened the second drawer and pulled up the false bottom, expecting only a little cash to be there. What I found instead was a folder and an envelope. I checked the envelope to make sure the money was in it. A quick glance at the folder told me that there was information in there about stuff I never knew about.
I walked out of my mom's room to see Lee going through the cupboard's. He was taking this through inspection a little to far. I left him there and walked over to my old room. Inside the room was the same as the last time I saw it. Everything was in place, expect for the stuff sent to me. I walked over to my desk and opened the bottom drawer. In there was a box, Tenten and Sakura had one similar to it. Maybe even Hinata and Temari had boxes like this. Either way it wasn't something I wanted to leave here. From next to my desk and grabbed my backpack and stuffed what I had found in it.
Walking back into the main room I saw Lee with his head under the couch. "Lee, I think we can stop searching now."
"I have yet to search this entire place. The fire of youth in our hearts will burn out if we do not do everything in our power to solve this case."
"Well, your search is over, no matter what other youth crap you have running through you head says. We cannot stay here long or someone may notice. Anyways, I have found some stuff that may be important and I want to see if Gaara or Kankuro found anything."
I grabbed Lee by the arm dragging him back downstairs. His youthful shit was starting to annoy me to a point where I may soon snap. No one was in the flower shop when I closed the door behind me. I continued to drag Lee behind me as I headed for the office. Gaara and Kankuro were both in their searching through the filing cabinet as well as desk. On top of the desk was a large envelope and a folder similar to the one I found. "Have you guys found anything?" I asked covering Lee's mouth as he started to ramble something.
"These folders, and here the extra thing you asked for." said Gaara. I stuck the papers from the desk and the extra money in my bag as Kankuro finished searching the filing cabinet. "It looks like there is nothing else here. Might as well head back, see if the others found anything."
We went back out through the flower storage room. I replaced the door on its track before we began running back to the Orphanage to see of anyone else found anything.
A/N Another update. I orignally never planned on updating again tonight, but hey, if I can update it again that's good. Please review, I need to know how I did trying to write Lee saying stuff similar to what he usually says. Up next Shikamaru and Temari. Any ideas what they are going out for, seeing as all the houses have already been searched??
