Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the associated characters, locations, jutsu, etc. The only thing I own is the plot of the story. If there is any plagiarism of any form it was completely unintentional.

"Is this the place?" Kakashi looked at the sign hanging above their heads. It read Dango Delicacies. The street they were in was completely empty. Not a single person was around. Only the moon shone in the darkness of the night. They stood outside, looking everywhere for a clue as to what they were looking for, until Temari got bored.

"Well there has got to be something going on." She started to pace around until something caught her eye. She slowly approached the back alley of the restaurant. "Guys, come over here!" Everyone rushed to see what was going on, there was a large metal door in the wall. Temari got closer to it and suddenly the door's peephole slided open, two big black eyes stared back at them. Then a raspy and deep voice was heard.

"What is it yer looking for?" Kakashi stepped forward to answer.

"Hello, hum we are looking for a fugitive, young man, blond hair, and blue eyes. Have you seen him?" The peephole closed shut and the man spoke through the door.

"Not here, get lost!" Sakura scoffed.

"How rude! I should just kick the door open." Before anyone could stop her she got in front of the door, pulled her leg back, gathered as much chakra as she could, and then swiftly kicked the door with more than enough strength. But the door did not budge, instead Sakura grabbed her foot and winced in pain.

"Ahh! Shit!" She fell to the ground and was hugging her leg. "What the hell is up with that door?" Hinata walked to the door and tapped it, the echoing metallic sound made it seem as if the door was only about 20 cm thick, her kick should have demolished it, unless...

"BYAKUGAN!" She examined the door and found that her suspicions were true. There was a powerful seal on the door that reinforced its strength immensely. "This d-door seems like it w-was designed to withstand a-anything.

"I'll say." Responded Sakura. She let go of her foot to try and heal it with her medical ninjutsu. She hovered her hands over her wound, the green aura and smooth humming soon appeared.

"I wonder what place is this, to have such protections." Kakashi said. He put his hand on his chin and closed his eye.

"Only place I know of that has such security is the Sunagakure bank."

"Impossible, there is only one bank here, and it is on the other side of town." Kakashi answered. Then Hinata gasped as she realized something. She dug around her pocket and pulled out the paper she had received from the old woman.

"Look e-everyone, the third l-line." She held up the paper with one hand and pointed at two specific words.

November 31st

00:00

Golden Chest

A-31

"Do you think this is the "Golden Chest"? This dump!" Temari yelled. But then a small pebble hit a metal trashcan behind them, Temari was the only one to pay it any attention. She glanced around the rooftops, trying to catch something in the darkness.

"We have no other lead so we might as well give it a choice." By now Sakura was up and about, she was still limping a little, but she was more than capable of walking on her own. Kakashi knocked on the large door and stepped back. The peephole once again opened, and once again those dark eyes greeted them with indifference.

"Business?"

"We are looking for the Golden Chest." The peephole was closed shut, for a few seconds no sound came from the other side. Then several loud clicks were heard one after the other. A loud and metallic squeaking came from the rusty hinges opening. A large hallway could be seen, it seemed to stretch endlessly, lit dimly by a few lanterns. The door guard greeted them with a bow.

"My apologies, but you must know that the location of this place is known only to a selected few, and highly trusted, customers. I haven't seen you before, so I deduced you were thieves." Behind him stood a tall woman, she had a scar running along her cheek and an eyepatch covered her right eye. Despite her rough expression she smiled at them.

"Welcome to the Golden Chest. What is your safe number?"

"Safe number?" Hinata looked at the letter. "Hum, A-31?" The woman dug her hand in her pocket and pulled out a small velvet notebook. She flipped through the pages and then closed it.

"I assume you must be Hyuga Hinata? We have been expecting you, the contents of the safe have been locked down for over 30 years."

"30 YEARS!" Kakashi exclaimed. "Do you know who made the deposit?"

"I am sorry sir, but we keep no record of faces, only names. Besides, do I look old enough to have been there at the time?"

"Well..." Sakura was about to say something when the woman turned to look at her. She was smiling but the killing intent could be felt for miles.

"NO! No, absolutely not! You look very young indeed!" Kakashi said while pulling Sakura back.

"Can we move this along." Temari said clearly getting impatient.

"Of course, Tsuyo, please show them the way." The woman walked back to a door on the far right and disappeared through it. The man she referred to as Tsuyo started to walk in the direction of the dark hallway, he stopped and turned to them.

"Please, follow me." He turned around and once more started to walk. Everyone just followed quietly. They had passed dozens of different doors until Tsuyo stopped, he turned to face a large golden door with several engraving running through it. There was a seal in it that held the door shut in place. Tsuyo lifted his right arm and slammed it on the seal.

"KAI!" For a moment nothing happened, but then the entire door shone brightly and then, it disappeared. But inside the safe were only three more doors, this time Tsuyo made hand seals and slammed his hand on the ground. The whole room started tearing apart, a large hole appeared on the ground and from it rose a stone pedestal with a huge opening in it.

"This room seems to have a large amount of security in it." Said Kakashi.

"Our clients are often very important people, and some of the objects stored are quite valuable. We need to make sure we are doing our best to ensure that they do not get stolen." Tsuyo walked to the opening and pulled out a large chest. He opened it and handed over its contents.

"All of this for a piece of paper!" Said Temari, Hinata received the papers, when she looked over them her face suddenly went blank.

"These are not just ordinary papers." Kakashi took them and read what they said. His eyes burst open and he looked at the papers in disbelief, his hands even began to shake.

"This, this is..." Sakura grabbed the papers to read them herself. She gasped at what she saw.

"Impossible..."

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

The woman was startled at the loud knocking on the door. Very few people know of their location. She walked up to the door and opened the peephole. Outside stood two men dressed in black wearing masks.

"How may I help you?" One of them stepped forward and lifted a small paper.

"Official business, you must open this door immediately!"

"Sorry boys, I swore no loyalty to any government. Especially yours." She was about to close the peephole when a gust of wind rushed in through it, she was pushed back against the wall. She was about to get up when she felt a kunai on her neck.

"Don't move." She looked up and saw one of the shinobi that were outside.

"How... How did you get past the barrier?" He once again showed her the permit.

"Official business." He then kicked her swiftly on the head and knocked her out. He lifted her up and draped her over his shoulder. He turned around and saw his teammate.

"The area is clear of witnesses, no sign of our objective either." The other man started to walk towards the same hallway the others walked through a couple of minutes ago.

"Then we keep on looking, but this time, we better do it off the record." He pulled out the permit and wrinkled it into a ball to toss it away. When it landed a small corner was still visible, it held a small seal. The seal of Konohagakure.