"No where..." Your bed too soft?"What? "Is there such a thing," I said confused.Paul let his hold on me wane and reached over to the bed, pushing on ...tstop with two hands, then spinning to sit on it - bouncing a few timesfor good measure. "Oh God! This mattress is so much nicer than mine.I sunk into mine the first night and woke up with back problems. Beensleeping on the couch since."I hadn't thought there would be such a wild difference in mattresses inthe hotel, but I wasn't going to. We have been waiting for five minutes for you to finally arrive." Jubal, you were climbing out of the water as I swam up, so don't even start. Besides, from what I saw, Farley was here several minutes before you were."That got me a dirty look and a grin from Farley before I settled in, digging the small but powerful binoculars out of my waist pouch. I panned the glasses over the open water in front of us and realized we had inadvertently picked the perfect spot to set up our little ambush. The. Eventually they were lost from sight against that bright glow, incinerated in the conflagration at the heart of the star.“It’s finally over,” Sakura murmured as she gazed at the shining sun before them.She closed her eyes and let out a long breath, letting go of all her anger and bitterness towards Mikaboshi with it. The man had controlled her life for seventy-five years, but she wasn’t going to let him take another minute. She slowly opened her eyes, feeling the tension in her shoulders fading. The sunlight seemed to fill his body with energy. He woke slowly, smiling, ready for another day. He rolled over and took the pillow off his head."Darn, it's barely 8 o'clock," he thought.It wasn't his usual wake up time, but today on his day off, he wanted to make sure he enjoyed as much of it as he could. He'd only been back in Konoha for a short time since his two and a half years traveling and training with Jiraiya. He decided that since he had the day off he'd go around town and see how.