Sorry about the late update. On a good note male mix unarmed platoon made it to State! Yea...thats a good thing 4 me lol. This one's mostly filler. But enjoy n e way lol.
Shall We?
Living in the Shadows
(Paranoid Part Two)
Ino coughed and sent a cloud of dust rising into the air. Hinata coughed inhaling the dust now swirling around her head.
"Hey, could you not spread your germs everywhere?" Naruto said patting Hinata on the back. She shuddered and blushed.
"Th…thank you Naruto." She said quickly.
"Ah, I just coughed. You're just mad." Ino retorted.
"Mad!" Naruto scoffed. "Maybe you're right. This damn tunnel you picked is leading us no where. We've been crawling forever and there's nothing. I say we turn around and pick another one. Preferably one we can walk through."
"Calm down you guys. We'll turn around if we don't get some where in the next-" Shikamaru cut his sentence short.
"Hey, is it just me or is the ground moving?" Lee asked looking down at the trembling floor.
"Damn…"Shikamaru muttered looking down at the ground himself.
"Damn what?" Naruto asked watching his hand tremble on the ground.
"I think we just fell into a trap." He replied nonchalantly.
Lee who had been leading began crawling quickly and the team followed. The more they crawled the more the ground shook.
"Oh my freaking G---!" Ino shouted as the ground cracked under her.
Hinata screamed and the floor gave way beneath her and she fell through. "Hinata!" Naruto shouted moving forward. The ground caved under him and he fell.
"Move!" Shikamaru shouted and the ground started cracking under him and Ino. With surprising speed Lee began crawling with Shikamaru and Ino following. With each move forward the ground beneath them became more unstable.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! We're dead, we're so dead!" Ino whined working to keep up as the ground behind her caved.
"Crawl faster Ino!" Shikamaru ordered.
The ground cracked under her knees and she felt herself falling. "AH!"
Shikamaru grabbed her hand before she fell through and yanked her up. "Hurry up!" he said placing her back on her hands and knees. Wasting no time they kept crawling.
"There's something ahead!" Lee shouted.
"What is it?" Shikamaru asked watching as the falling ground sped up. He cursed mentally. There was no way they would last any more than a few more seconds trying to out run the cave in.
"I don't know…it looks like a fall!" Lee shouted nearing the drop.
"Keep going!"
"What!"
"Jump!"
Lee suddenly disappeared.
"Ready Ino?"
"Hell no!"
"Too bad!" Shikamaru grabbed her wrist and they suddenly went falling off the edge just as the floor beneath them caved.
"Where are we?" Naruto asked turning on the flashlight Hinata had in her bag.
"I don't know." Hinata asked looking around.
Naruto turned to her. "Are you ok?" he asked dusting her off.
She nodded. "Just a little sore."
He nodded. He had just managed to summon some clones for them to safely land on but landing on a whole bunch of clones that poofed away on impact didn't help too much. Though it was better than landing on straight hard packed dirt.
He covered his nose as a stale smell drifted towards him. Flashing the light upward he saw the hole they had fallen through. "Whew…what a drop." He said whistling. He flashed the light to the right and saw a metal door a few feet away. "Stay here." He said.
She nodded and waited as he ran to the door and pushed on it. "Damn it's locked." He said walking back towards Hinata
"I guess we walk the other way…." Hinata said staring down the long dark hall.
Naruto shrugged. "Stay close. I don't want to fall into anymore traps…like literally."
Hinata fell into step behind him. They walked in silence for a while before Naruto groaned. "Oh my goodness! How long is this? What is up with us and tunnels?"
Hinata shrugged. She had heard of Team Kakashi's last adventure when Sakura had been threatened and Sasuke kidnapped. She was relieved that Sasuke was ok but she was even more relieved that it hadn't been Naruto himself who was kidnapped.
"So, what's been up with you?" Naruto asked putting his hands casually behind his head and slowing down his steps to walk next to Hinata. She looked down and played with her fingers nervously.
"Nothing much…."she whispered.
"Eh? What was that?"
"N…Nothing." She repeated a little louder.
He nodded. "You should really speak up Hinata. You're so quiet. You don't have to be so darn shy around me. I'm sure if you spoke up everyone would know what a great ninja you are."
She looked at him shocked. "You think I'm a great ninja?" she asked.
He nodded. "Of course. I mean I was probably screaming my head off when we fell. You're really brave when you want to be."
She blushed and smiled. If only you knew where I get my inspiration.
They walked another twenty minutes in silence before it was interrupted with a loud growl.
"Wh…what was that?" Hinata asked instantly on guard.
Naruto braced himself and shrugged. "I don't know."
Hinata looked forward and concentrated. "Byakugun." The veins around her pale eyes became visible as her bloodline trait was activated.
The growl came again. "Uh…oh, oops." Naruto said grinning and scratching the back of his head. "Sorry, sorry. That's me. I didn't realize how hungry I was." He said.
Hinata sighed but kept staring ahead.
"Hinata? Hey, it was just my stomach." He said grabbing his abdomen.
"There's something ahead though. A light and I can't see past it for some reason." She said quietly. "It's only a few more meters away."
Naruto nodded. "Finally!"
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Lee, Shikamaru, and Ino landed in water making a large splash on their way in. Shikamaru kicked his legs pulling himself and Ino above water. "Lee? Lee?" Shikamaru asked letting go of Ino.
"Over here! I'm ok." Lee shouted back. He swam over towards them and they treaded the water in silence looking around.
"I guess we got lucky." Lee said finally. "We could have landed on a floor instead of thick putrid smelling water."
It was only until Lee mentioned the foul sent and the sickening texture that the other two noticed. Ino gagged and Shikamaru had to suppress the urge to gag himself. "A wild guess would tell me we're in a sewer." He said flatly.
Ino looked up and frowned. "What have I ever done to deserve this?"
"Well…there was this one time you---"Lee shut up as he saw Ino's blue eyes send a threatening glare in his direction. "I have no clue."
"We need to find some land or something to float on. Something..." Shikamaru said. "Jeez, this mission has become more troublesome than I thought."
They looked around again. "I can't see anything too much."
"Well…" Shikamaru lifted a finger. "No wind…" he looked down at the water. "The ripples are going forward. We can either go towards the source of the water or see if there's an end. Either way we're relying on luck."
"You know we seem to be doing that a lot." Ino pointed out.
"There's not too much you can do but react when you're thrown into a labyrinth building." He said nonchalantly. He suddenly drew in a deep breath and plunged underneath the water. Three minutes later he resurfaced sputtering and flinging dirty water off his hair and everywhere else.
"Hey, enough with the hair flipping. "Ino said shielding her eyes.
"Yes, please." Lee said backing up.
"Sorry. The water's not too deep, at the most its eight feet. I say we follow the ripples and see if there's an end."
Lee nodded. "Our youth shall provide all the luck we need! The green beast of Konoha is always blessed with luck!"
"Well the green beast can start swimming now." Ino muttered.
"I say we swim under water and hold out breaths for five whole minutes while doing a hundred kicks every ten! Who agrees!" Lee said enthusiastically.
"How about we conserve our energy just in case?" Shikamaru suggested. "Long strokes, slow kicks. Conserving energy is more important than speed. "
"Yea, well let's get going." Ino said kicking her legs.
Shikamaru followed as did Lee with a cloud of disappointment over him.
Where am I? Why is it so dark? What happened? Where---no….no…STOP IT! STOP IT!
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