Chapter 10:
Trouble
The vault door shut all the way and locked itself up. There would be no hacking this time. The red lights still flared. "Crap!" I yelled, and sat on the floor. I could just see this on the front page of the newspaper: YOUNG FUGITIVES CAUGHT IN ATTEMPT TO STEAL TRACKING DEVICE FROM FBI. I put my head between my knees. This just COULDN'T be happening…
We had been in that vault for maybe 3 hours when we heard something. There was a low groan from the vault door; then, something clicked. The door opened a crack. We still sat there though, not sure if we should go out or not.
All of us stood up when the door started to open farther. Only then did I notice that the red lights had stopped flashing. Had the FBI discovered us here and come to arrest us, or did a different guard accidentally press the wrong button? I was crossing my fingers for the second possibility.
The door opened all the way. A security guard was standing in the opening. We were now all frozen like deer in headlights. "Relax," I heard Kankuro say, "It's not a real guard."
"How do you know?" I scoffed, still looking at the guard standing in the doorway.
"Because it's the puppet we left behind. Can't you see the chakra strings?" Reiya streamed her finger along the path of the strings. It was easier to see them once they were pointed out. I took in a deep breath. We weren't in the headlines yet.
We closed the vault and started to head for the exit. Kakashi stopped us when we approached a wide-open hallway. "Reiya, do you still have that can of dusting spray?" Kakashi asked Reiya.
"Yeah, it's right here," she answered pulling it from the burlap bag and handing it to Kakashi.
I twitched at the mere thought of cleaning spray. Kakashi sprayed it through the hallway (still standing where he was). Red lines appeared from the sprays effect. "Just as I thought," Kakashi said, handing the spray back to Reiya. "Be careful as you go through," he warned us as we started to go through the maze of lasers.
Minutes that felt like hours, drowned by slowly. By the time we were half way; Lee was at the end. That wasn't so surprising. Reiya slid the bag across the floor where there weren't any lasers so it wouldn't trigger any lasers while we tried to get through. Kankuro, however, was relentless to slide the security guard puppet to Lee, but we eventually convinced him to.
Naruto was the last one to get across the lasers. We started making our way down another hallway, when Kakashi stopped us again. He looked down at the tile floor and put one of his feet on a tile. The tile sank down and holes appeared in the walls. "RUN!" he yelled, pushing us up in front of him. We had started to run already when wooden arrows started shooting out of the holes. They came out REALLY fast. And of course, Lee didn't have as much difficulty as we did getting through it. Once we got through THAT, Naruto stepped on another tile that went down, and triggered another trap. THIS time a giant boulder that filled the whole hallway and started to roll toward us. It was like Indiana Jones all over again!
I have to admit; running from a giant boulder was kind of fun…or at least compared to the other two traps. A hole as big as the boulder opened in front of us. "JUMP!" I yelled.
We all jumped and BARELY made it to the other side. I t had to be at LEAST 20 feet in diameter. The boulder fell inside and the hole closed up. I put my hands on my knees to catch my breath. "How MANY traps are there?!" I asked, mostly yelled.
"No more, how about that?" Naruto answered. I knew he was being sarcastic. "Well, what I MEANT to say was that we're at the entrance."
I stood up straight. Naruto was right! We WERE at the entrance! I started to walk toward the door when I heard someone say, "So there you guys are. I didn't expect you to get past all those traps as easily as you did!"
"Is that…?" Lee trailed off.
"So close yet so far," Reiya said.
All right, I PROMISE this will be the last cliffhanger for the tracking device scene. The next one won't be one so please don't hate me TOO bad! So is the person who caught them a guard or not???? Find out in Chapter 11!!!