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----- Chapter 7 -----
Shikamaru sat up, his eyes wide at his new discovery. He reread the poem again and again till he was sure that it made sense. Shino noticed Shikamaru's sudden movements and turned to see him looking up. Shino sat up. Not wanting to wake Naruto and Hinata up, he said in a soft voice-
"What is it, Shikamaru?" Shikamaru turned his head towards Shino, eyes bright.
"Wake Naruto and Hinata up. I worked out the clue!"
Shinogave Shikamaru a look then turned to shakeNaruto awake. Naruto just groaned and turned over. Shino sighed. Bending down to Naruto's ear he whispered menacingly "Don't make me release a bug again..." Naruto jumped up, fully awake and alert. Shikamaru decide to wake Hinata up and walked towards her.
Much to his suprise, her eyes were opened and frightened. Hinata's Byakugan was activated and she was looking at something in the distance.
"Hinata-chan?" Shikamaru asked warily, not sure what had gotten Hinata so frightened. He helped her up, but her eyes did not wander from the invisible menace.
Naruto ran to Hinata's side. "Hinata! What is it? What do you see?" he whispered, anxiety in his voice.
Hinata did not speak, but slowly she raised her hand. Shakily she pointed her finger, towards the way they had come from. All three boys turned to look. They saw nothing but darkness yet Hinata continued to shiver.
"What is it Hinata-chan?"asked Shino.
Hinata took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, "There is a huge boulder- rolling towards us- around 2km away- coming very fast- it'll reach us in 2 minutes at the most."
"What?!?!" yelped Naruto, "You've got to be kidding Hinata-chan!" Naruto was desparate to get out of the cage. He ran at the bars again and again until Shino pulled him away.
"Shikamaru knows how to get us out." he said, then he looked at Shikamaru questioning, "Don't you?"
Shikamaru nodded. He pointed to the poem above their heads and explained, "See how the poem doesn't rhyme? Well it's not suppose to."
Everyone looked at him in shock. "What do you mean?"asked Hinata, confused.
"If you put the first and the last words of each line together they joined to make a sentence." Shikamaru continued. Shino gazed up at the poem and as he finished reading his mouth opened in suprise. Naruto read it out.
"The. Cage. Can. Only. Be. Broken." he drew a breath in suprise and licked his dry lips and went on. "By. Power. Of. All."
Naruto and Hinata gasped. "So- so what do we have to do, Shikamaru-kun?"asked Hinata softly.
"I- I dunno."muttered Shikamaru, frowning, "I'm still thinking."
"Well the rock is going to crush us all if we don't hurry."
"Power...we need Chakra." Shikamaru was still murmuring to herself. "That's IT!"he annouced suddenly, punching one of his fist into his other palm.
"Well whats your good idea?" asked Naruto desparately. "Hurry and tell us SHikamaru, I don't want to die!!!!!" Now they could hear the rumbling noise of the approaching danger.
"Quick!" he ordered, shouting over the din. "Shino grab the bar at the front of the cage. Hinata, Naruto, do the same on the left and the right." He himself stood on his toes and touched the roof of the cage with his fingers.
"What are you doing?"asked Shino, watching as Shikamaru reached up. "Why don't you take the other side?"
"Because thats the side the stone the coming. If I accidently break that then the rock will continue chasing us!" he explained
Hinata was already in place but Naruto was frozen with fear.
"What if it doesn't work?" he yelled, fear in his voice heard by all.
"There's NO TIME FOR WHAT IF's!" Shikamaru shouted impatiently. "Hurry up and do as I say!" Naruto glanced at Shikamaru then ran to the bars. With one clammy hand he held on to it. He gripped it until his knuckles turned white. "Now what?" he yelled.
"Send all your Chakra through those bars!" instructed Shikamaru. There was a edge of panic in his voice now. All four team mates closed their eyes and concentrated. Eventhough their eyes were closed they could all hear the advancing boulder. As it was getting closer the sound was gradually getting louder.
Hinata clamped her eyes shut, to block out the sound. Concentrate, she thought,while gritting her teeth,concentrate, concentrate, concentrate! She imaged her flow of chakra and directed it to her palms. Burning hot chakra streamed out and surrounded her side of the cage. It was happening to the others too.
When Hinata thought she could not hold on any longer, there was a loud bang and four bars on Shino's side fell out. Without needing any instructions from Shikamaru they all scrambled out.
"Run! The cage might not hold the boulder!" shouted Shikamaru, when he saw the others just standing there, obviously relieved that they had gotten out. Without looking back even once they ran for their lives. They were nearly out the tunnel when the boulder and the cage collided, and the crash echoed through the caves. With a resounding crack, the huge rock split and splintered into many pieces.
They were out of the cave and the early sunlight blinded their eyes. We survived! thought Naruto to himself, atonished at his luck. We survived! He turned to Shikamaru who was bent over, trying tocatch his breath. That guy, Naruto thought, that guy just saved our lives. Without thinking he jumped on Shikamaru.
"Shikamaru! Thank you, you're so smart." he exclaimed happily, he hugged. "My hero!!!!" Shikamaru who was not expecting any more attacks, fell on the dirt face-first.
"Arghhh, Naruto," he said through a moth full of dirt and dead leaves, "are you trying to kill me?" Naruto was embarrassed about what he had just done. "Heh. Sorry."
"Well get off me then!"
"Ohh...sorry..."he appologized once again.
Shino was inspected their surroundings. They were on top of a cliff around 400metres high, overlooking the village of Konoha. There were sparse trees, and the ground was covered by dirt and rock. Shino suddenly heard movement behind the trees.
As quick as a flash Shino had a kunai in his hand.
"Who's there?" he asked.
- well what do you think about that? hmmmm next chapter i'm not sure whether to put HinaShika scenes or HinaNaru scenes...there definitely will be SakuItachi scenes and to those people who read my fanfic, it wouldn't hurt just to write one lil' review ...will it????? -