A/N: hey, I know I haven't updated this fic much, but that's cos I have like 5 fics going on at once, I know I shouldn't do this, but I always cum up with new ideas all the time so u can't really blame me. DD
Everybody gasped. It was amazing! They had entered a room that looked like it was under the sea! There were different kinds of sea creatures swimming around. Then reality hit them. YOU CAN'T BREATHE UNDERWATER.
Naruto held his breathe and so did the others. Not including Sakura, Tenten, and Ino that is.
Hinata laughed. But the startling thing was that she sounded like she was on land, the water didn't affect her, neither did the fact that they were underwater and they needed air to survive.
" it's ok you guys" she said "you can breathe"
Neji looked uncertain and looked at Tenten, when she nodded, he slowly released his breathe and inhaled.
Surprisingly, his nostrils did not fill with water, but air. Almost as clean as the air in a hospital.
He turned to his comrades and nodded in approval. Soon, all of them had learned to trust him and started to release the air left in their lungs slowly.
"good! Now that we've cleared up the breathing issue" Hinata smiled "we can get on with the task!"
she jumped up and swam to a nearby cliff that had a jagged end by the top, she sat down.
"Naruto, go get the water crystal" she commanded in a light voice.
"huh?" the blonde was startled to hear his name.
"I said: go get the water crystal'
"but where?" the Kyuubi vessel looked around confusedly.
"that's the test. You have to FIND it, then give it to ME" Hinata beamed down happily from where she was sitting. Tenten had joined her up on the ledge while Sakura and Ino started swimming freely in a nearby clearing.
"the test starts…" the blue-ish haired girl looked at a small pocket watch that was hanging directly in front of her only kami knows how "…NOW. Oh just to tell you, the others can help you, I would suggest getting Neji-niisan (hope I got that right!) to help you"
it was then that all of hell broke loose. Of course, the girls just sat or swam around.
The search went on for quite a long time, 2 hours to be exact. The girls were now playing a game of cards-how they got the cards I do not know-whilst the boys were STILL looking. Naruto sighed. This had been going on FOR HOURS! He was gonna have to find it soon or he would fall asleep on the job! Suddenly a bring ping! Caught his eye. Probably just Lee's teeth he shook his head and continued searching. Wait. Lee's teeth? Lee wasn't even here. Naruto whipped his head around and there, sitting in the shell of an oyster, was a shiny, blue pearl. Probably the size of his fist. Ok, maybe it wasn't that tiny, but it was still a pearl right?
He reached out and grabbed it, or at least attempted to. For the oyster clamped his shell shut…right on Naruto's fingers.
"OW!" the usually happy blonde retracted his hand in pain.
"OI! NARUTO!" Shikamaru called "you find anything?"
"YEA! Come here for a sec. And get the 2 other guys too!"
soon, Neji, Sasuke and Shikamaru trotted or swam up to Naruto.
"Check it out" he pointed to the pearl.
"whoa…" Sasuke reached out to grab it but Naruto stopped him.
"Don't. even though I would LOVE to see you get hurt. It's not worth it. Look what it did to MY hand" he held up the throbbing hand that was previously clamped down upon.
Ouch Neji thought, but he portrayed no emotion. Besides, he had a reputation to hold up.
"ok, now how do we get it?" Neji asked.
"…" Sasuke didn't have much to say.
"…" of course Naruto didn't have anything to say.
"…use something to block it" Shikamaru said lazily.
"?" reaction from the other three guys.
The pineapple head sighed "I mean we put something like a big rock in between the gap so when it tries to close the shell, the rock will keep it open, as long as it is strong enough that is…"
"oooohhhh…" Naruto nodded his head in understanding.
"ok, here's the problem. Where are we going to get a rock big enough?" Neji asked.
"…"
"why don't you ask Hinata?" Sasuke suggested to Naruto.
"LIKE SHE'S GONNA TELL US, THIS IS A TEST FOR CRYING OUT LOUD" Naruto yelled.
"Well, it couldn't hurt to try ya know" Shikamaru clamped his hands over his ears "you guys can go do that while I go join in on the card game ok? Bye"
"WHAT! SHIKAMARUUUUU!" Naruto screamed.
Too late. The genius had already swam off.
"Ok, you guys won't ditch me will you?" Naruto looked at Sasuke and Neji.
"uhh…"
"umm…"
Sasuke looked at Neji. Neji looked at Sasuke. They both nodded.
"RUUUUNNNN!" they both swam off.
Naruto sweatdropped. For some reason they weren't acting like normal today… hmm.. probably because of the environment, I wonder if Hinata put any drugs in the water..? never mind. Back to the story.
The exasperated blonde looked around for a big enough rock. There weren't any nearby… maybe you didn't have to use a rock? Maybe using bunshin to hold it would suffice. Well, it's worth a try right?
Naruto made the hand seals "kage bunshin no jutsu!" about 5 or 6 Naruto's appeared. They all took hold of the shell and made sure it didn't close. This was harder than it looked actually because he didn't succeed until the 7th try.
picture of Naruto holding pearl up triumphantly on an imaginary mountain
"YAY! HINATA-CHAN! I GOT IT! I GOT IT!" he bounded happily up to the clearly bored out of her mind Hyuuga.
"Say wha..?" Hinata rubbed the sleepiness out of her eyes.
"I GOT IT HINATA-CHAN! I GOT IT!"
"Oh! You did? Let me see" Naruto held the shining pearl towards the water guardian.
"Good! Very good Naruto!" Hinata smiled "now we can move on!"
"at long last…" Ino muttered.
"oh crap…" Tenten mumbled "my test is next…"
"yup, so lead the way Tenten my buddy old pal" Sakura pushed Tenten through the door.
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A/N: sorry this is short, u see, I had to go to my great aunt's funeral so I'm not feeling that happy right now… hopefully I'll make the next chapter longer.