False World-Memory 11
We left and dived towards the spring. Naruto-kun lead the way and we eventually found the surface. It looked like a cave with blue bubbles strung along the sides, like chains of blue pearls. The cave was lit from a large hole on the ceiling, so we could see well. We stopped to see a gargantuan crab lying among shattered earth. It was red and blue with yellow accents on it, quite pretty. I was glad it was dead, though. I hated crabs, more or less eating them. We caught up with the others and Shikamaru let us in on what happened to them. He and Sai went ahead to check the cave.
"Did your punch do this, Sakura-chan?" Naruto-kun asked. "Oh yeah," Sakura-chan proudly reflected. "Naruto, if you leave Hinata behind and expose her to danger again, you'll get a taste of my fists too," she warned. "I know. Hinata, I'll never let you-" I looked up at him. His eyes and mouth were wide open, but he looked away as he quietly finished, "I'll never let you out of my sight again." "What? You're already looking away," Sakura-chan teased literally. "Huh, I'm not looking away," he denied.
We eventually got out of the cave and we stopped. "What is this place?" Shikamaru rhetorically asked, summarizing our thoughts. We stopped at a ledge with the vast ocean spread out, some mountains in the distance, and noticeable clouds above them. Even higher was a green mass within a transparent bubble. "Is that island floating?" Naruto asked. "No, the surface of the ocean is warped," Shikamaru observed. "There's also sunlight underground, too," Sakura-chan added. "Isn't that a fake?" Shikamaru noted and we looked up. "A man-made sun?" Sai pointed out. "Yeah," Shikamaru confirmed. I wonder how that happened.
Sai offered to use his jutsu to create some ink eagles to cross the ocean. We got on the eagles and I got to sit with Naruto-kun again. We flew over the ocean and I used my Byakugan to lead the way. By the time we made it over land, it was sunset. "Hinata, any sign of the enemy?" Shikamaru followed up. "No, we're good," I checked back. "The enemy is aware of us. Why aren't they attacking?" Sakura mentioned. "Yeah, that bothers me. It's too quiet," he agreed.
When the sun went down, we decided to make camp. We chose a quiet clearing among the trees and landed there.
We gathered around to eat some onigiris that we packed and I gave everyone some edible berries I found along the way. We set up a tent and assigned night guard duties. Sakura-chan suggested to everyone that they should let me sleep in the tent for the night. I was really surprised and kept insisting that someone else use it, but everyone kept encouraging me to use it. I couldn't do any more about it, so I used the tent.
Shikamaru, Sai, and Sakura-chan slept outside of the tent and Naruto-kun climbed up a tree to sleep there. After an hour, I got up from the tent and walked out towards another clearing with a log in the middle. I sat down, set my knitting equipment, and started fixing the red scarf. The sky was clear, the moonlight was bright enough for me to see what I was doing, crickets were chirping around me, and I was at peace. After I fixed some of it, I went back to the tent and to sleep.