Chapter 8:

Seating Arrangements

Since it has been a few days (stupid car trip), I will refresh the ending of Chapter 7. Reiya and Naruto had gone on a cleaning rampage, cleaning EVERYTHING they saw. Later on, we started to drive to get the tracking device (read chapter 2 for further info. about it) when Kakashi "accidentally" ran over Rock Lee.

We all stared shocked as Rock Lee drooled all over the front window of the truck. I wouldn't be surprised if he was unconscious from the hit. This wasn't the only shocking surprise, Oh No! The event was enough to stop Reiya and Naruto from their cleaning rampage!

"Shouldn't we try to get him off the car?" I asked, not moving my eyes from the probably unconscious Rock Lee that was drooling all over the car window. " I mean, that drool can seriously be hard to wash off."

Kakashi made the truck jolt forward, backward, left to right, he even spun it around in circles (really fast circles that make you puke if you ate recently), but Rock Lee didn't move an inch. "Either that drool has turned into glue and has stuck Lee to the truck, or he is conscious and is just holding on to the hood of the truck for dear life," Naruto commented.

I went outside the truck and walked to where Lee was lying on the truck. I poked him in the head with my finger. "Lee?" I said while doing so. "Lee if your conscious, I'll let you sit right beside Sakura during the car ride," I went to poke him again, but he got into the truck so fast, I didn't have time to think! When I looked inside, sure enough, there he was, sitting next to Sakura. I think he wiped the drool off the truck too, because there wasn't any there when I got back into the truck. We put Reiya and Naruto in the back for more room, and because we feared their cleaning rampage would start again.

We had started driving again when I asked, " Don't we need to get the fake tracking device to switch out with the real one?"

"Already got it," Kakashi replied, pointing to a small cup holder where it sat. "We need it to be out of the package so we can switch it out faster," he explained.

I nodded in agreement and switched my attention to Lee. He was hugging Sakura's so tight, it looked it would fall off any minute! "Lee, can I ask you something?"

He let go of Sakura's arm. Sakura rubbed it and mouthed, "Thank you," to me. And, no, I didn't get Lee's attention so Sakura could keep her stupid arm, I really did have a question for him. "What kind of question?"

"Did you come alone? I mean, was there anyone with you before you came here?"

He shook his head.

I sighed in some relief. We couldn't have too many ninjas wondering around you know. Originally, I had only one question for Rock Lee, but after the first one, a real BIG one popped into my head. "Why do you like Sakura so much?"

There was an awkward silence. Me and my big mouth. I should've known the answer to that one.

"Because," he answered, breaking the silence, "She's different."

"Different?" I repeated, his answer had caught me off guard.

"Yes. Sakura is not only beautiful," Sakura faintly blushed when he said this, "but she is also very smart, caring, and she has a unique hair color!"

Sakura's blushes disappeared. "MY HAIR COLOR?!"

"I'm gonna go to the back," I quickly said, this was NOT going to be pretty.

When I was in the back of the truck, I was surprised to see that Reiya and Naruto weren't cleaning. Reiya had her arms crossed. "It's not fair," she said, staring at Sakura verbally abuse the heck out of Rock Lee.

"That Sakura gets to beat up Bushy Brows and you don't?" I guessed.

She shook her head. "That he gets to sit by whom he loves and I don't get to sit next to Kankuro!" she corrected me.

"Then let's fix that shall we!" I said, heading for the slide window.

"Wait! Before you go, I just wanted to ask if I…could possibly…sit with Sakura as well," Naruto asked me.

I got Kankuro in the back (he didn't realize why I wanted him back here until he saw Reiya) and Naruto sat on the other side of Sakura. For me, well, I sat in the front seat next to Kakashi.

The truck was much quieter now…or at least on the inside. In the back, Kankuro was banging on the glass and screaming for us to let him in. Every time he went to the window, Reiya would drag him back to where she was sitting, so the glass would squeak like nails to chalkboards!

After 5 long hours of Kankuro's pleading for mercy, Kakashi stopped the truck in front of a very large building. "Well, we're here," he said, getting out of the truck. From this point on, our goal was to steal a tracking device from the FBI.

Well, I finally got Chapter 8 up for you guys! Sorry it took soooo long, but like it says at the top…stupid car trip. I know it may seem a bit too short, but I promise that Chapter 9 will make up for it!