Chapter: Horror in a Tiger Pen
Sakura nearly died as Naruto flung himself into the pit.
"Ahh! Sensei!" She glanced at Kakashi, hoping he would do something.
Instead, he was glancing at a Jungle World Pamphlet. Sakura groaned, then, jumped in as well. Naruto screamed when he saw her.
"Sakura," he cried, "what are you doing in here?!"
She rolled her eyes.
"I'm not a lamp post, Naruto, so I'm going to help."
Sasuke was currently running from a whole herd of tigers as Naruto and Sakura argued.
"I know you're not a lamp post," Naruto stated defensively, "but it's dangerous down here."
Sakura frowned.
"Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I don't know how to do things!"
Naruto sighed.
"I know girls can do things but-"
Suddenly, Sasuke practically flew over the two them. So did a tiger.
"Help!" He cried.
Naruto, glad for the excuse to stop handling Sakura, tore after the beast (the tiger, not Sasuke).
"Good lord, Sasuke, just use your chakara!" He called.
Sasuke managed to snarl even as he panted.
"Yes, Naruto, I would have never thought of that," he spat sarcastically, "after all, I'm only being chased by tigers!!!!"
Kakashi laughed at a picture of a monkey on the pamphlet, then glanced into the pit.
"Okay, Sasuke, you got that picture?"
Sasuke screamed and flailed his arms wildely.
"I'll take that as a yes, ally-oop!"
Kakashi flung himself into the pit, his loin cloth fluttering as gravity carried him down.
When he landed, he casually approached Naruto and Sakura, took them under each arm, and hoisted them up , then threw them back over the edge. Next, he approached poor Sasuke who's tongue was hanging out of his mouth as he continued to run.
He grabbed the young boy and hurled him back over as well, then , using his chakara, he walked up the wall and back over.
Sakura glared at him.
"How could you throw him in like that, Sensei?!" She demanded.
Kakashi shrugged.
"How could I not? Look at that adventurous face."
Sakura looked at Sasuke. He was pale and lying on his back, gasping for air.
"See," Kakashi said," he was thrilled to jump in and play with those friendly felines."
Sakura simply rolled her eyes.
Later, as the group traveled around the park, eyeing animals dreaming of their natural homes, Kakashi stopped at a monkey pit.
"Look, children," he pointed, "a monkey."
He was eating a banana (Kakashi, not the monkey) and chewed it slowly, savering every bite.
The monkey remembered when he was able to eat bananas…back home….and began to drool, then froth. Sakura grew uncertain. She pulled at Kakashi's sleeve.
"Well, let's get going!"
Kakashi laughed and began taunting the creature with his delicious, yellow fruit.
"Want it? Too bad? Want it, too bad, but so close, yet so far! Eh he he he…this is fun."
The monkey howled, then retreated into it's man-made cave. It returned a second later with an apple wedge. With amazing force, it hurled the browning wedge right between Kakashi's eyes. The sensei fell backwards, unconscious .
Then, watching in complete horror, the students witnessed the monkey scream as it pried the bars apart and leapt out, hissing and frothing.
They screamed and began to run like Hell.
The monkey began beating on its chest, howling with rage. Soon, many monkeys were prying their way out of their hideous prisons.
Meanwhile, Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke had managed to make it to the pond and fountain.
"Boy," Sakura panted, "that was scary."
Naruto nodded. Sasuke grunted.
As if things couldn't get any worse, another student attending the field trip flew by. A monkey had its claws dug into his hair, hanging on as it pounded him with its other hand. Seconds later, a girl student ran by, frightened out of her mind as a monkey leapt from a nearby tree onto her face. The girl frantically tried to pry it off.
"Uh-oh," Naruto said quietly as he turned to look upwards at the fountain.
Monkeys slid down the small waterfall on gigantic leaves, howling out their rage.
One landed on Sakura's back and she began to scream as if it were driving a knife into her skin. Sasuke raced for her, but a monkey bit his ankle, then it began to gnaw.
As two monkeys flew at Naruto (one from either side of him) He kicked them both in mid air, then grabbed the one harassing Sakura and flung it into the pond.
monkeys contain very little body fat, so they have no buoyancy- this means that monkeys cannot swim
The monkey began howling and pounding the water with its hands.
Naruto then raced for the girl rolling around the ground trying to claw the monkey off her face. He grabbed the nasty creature by its tail and hurled it into the pond as well. Sasuke was currently trying to pull several off of himself.
"I hate apes!" He growled hurling another one into the water.
After some of the monkeys had pulled their friends out of the water "monkey in a barrel" style, they retreated, leaving the humans alone for the time being.
"Oh man, oh boy," Sakura gasped as she shakily sat down, "not good, this is defiantly not good."
Naruto nodded, "we're being attacked by monkeys."
"No," the girl whom Naruto had helped approached them, "Jungle world's being attacked by monkeys. All of them have escaped."
Sakura's eyes grew the size of saucers.
"All of them?! Every monkey here?!"
The girl nodded.
"We have to evacuate or we're all gonners."
Naruto nodded as well.
"Good idea, let's get going!"
Sakura glared at him.
"Are you kidding? Naruto, we have to help! There could be innocent people in danger," she glanced at the other female shinobi.
"You take the injured and get them out of the park, my team and I will try to round up the monkeys."
The girl nodded.
"Okay, I'll tell the able shinobis to stay here and help, and I'll get the authorities on this too."
Sakura nodded.
"Okay, Naruto, Sasuke, you guys ready to kick some monkey arse?"
Naruto clapped.
"All right! Let's do this!"
Sasuke looked away, shaking his head.
"I hate field trips."
To be continued….
Author's note: Okay, guys! I'm back in business! Just keep me going with your reviews, demands, threats and so on, and I won't stay on the sofa eating bon-bons….I'll be at the computer eating bon-bons!