A/N: Okay, the other two characters make an appearance in this chapter... one of them is named (and was in the last chapter) and the other one just appears, enjoy!

Chapter 58: Avalanche!

Dalton was driving a sled that uncomfortably fit the 5 Straw Hats, one dog and one Princess… it was wasn't very comfortable.

"He's touching me!" said Usopp.

"You scoot over!" said Kiba.

"Akamaru looks like he's going to pee on me!" whined Usopp.

"If you continue fighting, I'm going to tell Dalton to turn this thing around." Said Ino.

This made Hinata and Sasuke sweat drop.

"I'm sorry…" said Dalton, "I heard that she came down from the mountain yesterday, she usually doesn't do that."

"It's okay it wasn't you fault." Said Hinata.

"Those 4 took off in such a hurry that it's not going to be easy to find them." Said Sasuke.

"The best thing to do is to the meet the doctor and tell her what's going on." Said Hinata.

"And maybe warn her that there's a Kage fan boy there." Said Sasuke with a smirk.

"If you hadn't noticed already, Sasuke and Naruto don't exactly get along." Said Ino to Vivi.

"I have…" said Vivi with a sweat drop.

"I'm sorry…" said Dalton, "If only we had more Doctors."

Meanwhile, back with Luffy's group they stared at the Lapahns.

"They're polar Bears!" said Luffy.

"No… they're obviously those rabbits that Dalton warned us about." Sakura said with her voice shaking.

Naruto's eye twitched, "You know how big they were… didn't you." Said Naruto aloud.

"Of course I did… this is another of my favorite hunting grounds… I mean come on! Giant Rabbits! I'm a giant fox! What more could I ask for." Said Kyubi who began to laugh.

"Let me guess, Kyubi knew?" asked Sakura.

"Of course he knew…" muttered Naruto.

"Okay! Luffy let us handle them!" said Sakura.

"What why!" yelled Luffy.

Because if you get hit, Nami is going to feel it and she will die." Said Sanji.

"Don't worry!" said Naruto, "We're not going to let you down!"

That's when one of rabbits aimed an attack for Luffy.

"What am I supposed to do then!" yelled Luffy.

"Just dodge and don't attack!" said Sanji.

Sakura managed pick up the giant rabbit and throw it towards the others, causing a domino effect, however they all managed to get back up.

"Okay that's bad." Said Naruto.

All of them jumped up high towards them.

"Okay… really bad!" said Sakura.

Naruto sent out Shadow Clones to attack them while Sanji kicked a few. it was during this when Sanji realized something even worse about the situation.

"I can't get a decent kick with all this snow around!" said Sanji.

"Okay we'll run to get rid of them while Naruto keeps producing clones." Said Sakura.

"Okay!" said Luffy.

"I'm fine with that!" said Naruto.

"Let's do it!" said Sanji.

The three ran away while Naruto kept making clones but there was a bit of a problem with the clones.

"They figured out they're not real!" yelled Naruto.

Over the course of the next few minutes they ran like hell at one point Luffy came up with the idea of using a couple of the rabbits to jump up a cliff but that didn't work very well as the rabbits just followed.

Meanwhile in the town of Cocoweed…

"What do you mean we just missed her!" yelled Ino.

"She made me better a little while ago." Said the little boy Tsunade helped.

"You're looking for the doctor Dalton?" asked one of the town's people.

"Yes, it's an emergency." Said Dalton.

"You just missed her, she headed over to Gyasta." Said another town's person.

"Where's that?" asked Usopp.

"It's a lakeside town just north of here… they like to ice skate there." Said Dalton.

"Okay… we didn't to know that last bit." Said Ino with a sweat drop.

"So looks like that's where we're headed next." Said Sasuke.

"Dalton!" yelled a man running to the shop they were in.

The man told him that something horrible has happened… that all of the guards were killed… by Wapol… Dalton, he told someone to give the Straw Hats instructions how to get to Gyasta then ran off.

Back with Luffy's group…

After running the rabbits stopped attack them… and started jumping a lot.

"Okay… what are they doing?" Sakura.

"I don't know, but I thought they gave up." Said Sanji.

That's when heard a rumbling sound.

"Oh no…" said Sanji.

Meanwhile, the other group were in the sleigh now being driven by Usopp with Vivi and Hinata up front and Kiba, Akamaru, Sasuke and a very happy Ino in the back.

"Are you sure we're going the right way?" asked Usopp.

"Not as sure as I like to be." Said Vivi.

"You know that's not very reassuring." Said Sasuke.

"Listen if Nami makes it up to the castle and there's no one there what are they going to do? Vivi you're a Princess think of something." Said Usopp.

"Princesses don't know everything." Said Vivi.

"You do realize that the doctor we're dealing with a reclusive gambler… eventually she's going to have to go back into hiding from the debt collectors." Said Sasuke, "Even if we don't catch up to her I'm sure she's be able to meet them."

"Oh Sasuke you're so cool!" said Ino.

"But the best thing to do right now is to find the doctor." Said Hinata.

"Okay… we need to look at the map." Said Vivi, "It says that there should be a sign to the village."

"Okay! Everyone keep an eye out for it!" said Usopp.

Sadly they already passed it…

Sometime later they got to a point that the snow was too thick they couldn't move any more.

"Maybe we just should retrace our steps." Said Kiba.

"Great… this is perfect…" muttered Sasuke.

That's when they heard a rumbling sound…

"What was that?" asked Ino.

"I don't know…" said Vivi.

Meanwhile with Luffy's group.

"Oh no…" said Sakura with her voice shaking.

"We have to run!" yelled Sanji.

"To where?" asked Luffy.

"Anywhere but here!" yelled Sanji.

That when they realized that an avalanche was headed their way. They began to run like crazy.

"What are we going to do!" yelled Luffy.

"Look like now Nami is our top priority! Protect her with your life Luffy!" yelled Sakura.

That's when Sanji noticed something, "There's that ledge! We can go there!" he yelled.

All 4 of them headed to the ledge however there was a problem… it wasn't high enough… all of them were swept up in some way…

Naruto was into the air and managed to go into half demon form he saw Sakura was about to fall into some tree trunks he jumped towards her and a was very close.

"Sakura! Grab onto to one of my tails!" yelled Naruto.

Sakura before she crashed into the trees managed to grab on to them, she used it to climb on to his back.

"Kit… right now the best option to go with is wait until things calm down then search for the Love Cook and the idiot… things are too chaotic." Said Kyubi.

""Okay…" said Naruto nodding.

A few minutes later they went to search… but it was hard… with all the snow they everything were buried.

"Luffy! Sanji!" yelled Naruto.

"I see something over there!" said Sakura.

They ran towards a small ledge where they found Nami, she was breathing and over her were Luffy's coat and hat.

"Luffy must be okay." Said Naruto shifting back to his human form, "We'll wait for him here."

"Okay." Said Sakura.

Fortunately less than a minute later, Luffy showed up, carrying an extremely injured Sanji.

"Naruto… Sakura you're okay!" said Luffy happily.

"Sanji!" said Sakura with concern she ran over to Luffy and looked at Sanji, "Right now we really have to go see that doctor."

"I know…" said Luffy nodding.

"I'll carry him." Said Sakura.

"Okay! Let's go!" said Naruto.

"Still the main reason why you're going is because you really want to meet Tsunade." Said Kyubi.

"Yes, yes… that's already been established." Muttered Naruto.

And so they headed to the castle… along the way they saw the Rabbit of Caerbannog… uh baby Lapahn trying to free its parent that stuck in the snow because of the avalanche. Luffy managed to get it out with a single pull, then headed towards the castle.

"There's something I was thinking about…" said Kyubi.

"What?" thought Naruto.

"There's no Monty Python fans around… there was a perfectly good joke yet no one noticed it!" said Kyubi.

"I'm just going to ignore you now." Thought Naruto.

"Hey!" yelled a voice, which was ignored.

"Why do I have the feeling that something bad is going to happen?" asked Naruto.

"Because something bad always happens." Said Kyubi.

That's when the Hungry, Hungry Hippo showed up with two of his underlings while riding a white fury hippo.

"Halt!" said Wapol.

"Move." Said Luffy.

"Why should I move?" asked Wapol.

"Let's just walk around him." Said Sakura.

"That seems like a good idea." Said Luffy.

Ignoring the man they didn't know was a former king they just walked around him… ignoring him more while they were ignoring him they didn't heard him come up with a new law saying that those that ignore the king dies.

"Start by killing the sick one and injured one… they were ignoring me the most!" ordered Wapol.

What!" yelled Luffy.

"Sakura! Luffy! Run!" yelled Naruto, "I'll handle them!"

Naruto created 10 clones, "Okay are you ready?" asked the real Naruto.

"Right!" said the clones.

"Luffy… do you think you can take Sanji?" asked Sakura, "I think I should help Naruto… he helped me earlier."

Luffy nodded and Sakura handed Sanji to him.

"Please… be careful." Said Sakura.

Luffy nodded and Luffy ran towards the mountain.

"A clone user! Find the real one!" yelled Wapol.

The one dressed up in the checkered outfit shot three arrows at one time instantly killing three of the clones and another one dressed up like a boxer with many afros was about to punch the real Naruto with spikes coming out his gloves (which appeared to be afros as well) But that's when Sakura managed to push him away about 10 feet away like it was nothing.

"Sakura!" said Naruto, "Where's Sanji."

"I gave him to Luffy, we both know we can handle both of them." Said Sakura, "You helped me earlier so I'm going to repay the favor."

"Okay!" said Naruto giving a big grin, "Let's do it!"

"So you think you're going to stop us!" said the one dressed in the checkered out outfit.

"Of course! I'm Fox. D Naruto AKA Shadow Fox, future Kage!" said Naruto.

"Do you have to tell that to people you just met!" yelled Sakura.

"What! I just met them yesterday… you didn't see them yesterday because you were so worried about Nami!" said Naruto.

Sakura sweat dropped.

"Fine…" she muttered.

"I hate it when he's right!" yelled Inner Sakura.

"Okay! Let's go!" cheered Naruto pumping his fist into the air.

That's when the one is the costume shot more arrows at them… including hitting the real Naruto in the arm.

"Naruto!" yelled Sakura that's when the afro boxer punched her in the face.

"That's for earlier!" he said.

Naruto gritted his teeth getting the arrow out of his arm and ran over to Sakura.

"Are you okay?" asked Naruto.

"I'm fine… it wasn't much…" said Sakura with a few cuts on her face.

That's when the two cronies were about to attack them when suddenly out of the blue two of the rabbits helped them by punching them in the face.

"The rabbits!" said Naruto.

"They're helping us because Luffy saved one and we're with him!" said Sakura happily.

One of them turned around and nodded, it was the one that Luffy saved.

"Don't worry… we'll tell him that you helped us." Said Naruto.

"Thank you." Said Sakura with a polite bow.

They ran towards the mountain as fat as they could in the snow.

"Look like have no choice!" said Naruto, "We have to climb."

"But what about your arm." Said Sakura.

"Don't worry about it! I'm used to injured like that…" said Naruto with a small smile, "Okay let's go!"

Both of them began to climb up the mountain it was a long way to go, to their minds off of what was going they just talked… in fact this had been going for three hours.

"What do you see in him!" said Naruto.

"He's cute… he's smart…" said Sakura.

"Yeah… but he's a huge Emo with issues, we know he's after some guy and that's it." Said Naruto.

"I still like him." Said Sakura pouting, "What about you and Hinata? Do you like her?"

Naruto began blush, "Well… um…" said Naruto, "She's' one of the few kids that would play with me growing up… and the only girl… well…"

"You do like her… don't you?" asked Sakura.

"Just don't tell…" said Naruto glaring at her.

That's when Naruto got a bad feeling…

"What is it?" asked Sakura.

"Luffy passed out." Said Naruto.

"Are you sure?" asked Sakura.

Naruto turned into his half demon form and extended his tails to her.

"Okay grabbed on quickly I won't let you fall." Said Naruto.

Sakura took a breath and grabbed on to his tail, he used his tail like an arm then put her on his back.

"Sakura with what I am about to do you must on let go… not one bit… no matter what fear you feel." Said Naruto.

"You're going to transform in your full demon from aren't you?" asked Sakura.

Naruto nodded… and then took a breath… so did Sakura. Naruto transformed into his full demon form… due to the height of the mountain no person on the island felt the presence other than Sakura… and those on to the top of the mountain Sakura hung on despite the fear going through her body, Naruto began to run up the mountain like it was nothing.

At the top, of the mountain, Tsunade had found Luffy who was barely conscious and half frozen in the snow, with him were Sanji and Nami… Luffy had just made a plea to Tsunade to help his friends before him.

"Don't worry…" said Tsunade with a smile.

She turned to two people that were with her… well one was a person… which was a young woman with short dark brown hair the other… well it was a cute mix of reindeer and what looked to be teddy bear… with them was a pig wearing a red vest and a set of pearls… that's when all of them felt a strange sensation… like fear and it was getting closer.

"Tsunade… what is that?" asked reindeer.

"It can't be…" said Tsunade, "It's a Biju!"

"That's impossible! Isn't it?" asked the woman.

"We have to be careful." Said Tsunade.

That's when they saw Naruto (still in full demon form) jump up from the cliff, the reindeer hid behind Tsunade, while Tsunade and woman looked at the demonic Naruto… they were surprised when they saw Sakura get off his back and Naruto shift back to his human form causing Tsunade and her friends to sweat drop.

"Luffy! Sanji!" said Naruto happily and he and Sakura ran words them.

"Nami!" cheered Sakura, "Thank god he made it!"

"I take it your they're friends?" asked Tsunade looking at them.

"That's right…" said Naruto, "By the way? Which one of you is Tsunade?"

"That would be me." Said Tsunade hopping he wasn't a debt collector.

Naruto took out his autograph book, "Can I have your autograph? Please?"

Tsunade's eye twitched as she punched him into the ground in the crater causing everyone else to sweat drop… she walked away and gently picked up Nami.

"Shizune! Chopper! Get the other three and bring them in." said Tsunade.

"Okay!" said the reindeer apparently named Chopper.

"Yes." Said the woman apparently named Shizune.

"I take it she doesn't like being asked for autographs." Said Sakura.

"No…" said Shizune with a sweat drop.

With that they managed to make it to the doctor… however… with both Sanji and Luffy gravely injured… hopefully they will be able to get healed.

Next Time: Thanks to Tsunade and her assistants Chopper and Shizune, Nami is all better... well minus the week long recovery time... of course crazy stuff happens as the castle: Luffy and Sanji want to eat Chopper while Sakura and Nami try to befriend him... and Naruto won't stop bothering Tsunade for an autographs. Meanwhile wit the other Straw Hats, after finding Zoro half naked in the snow, they find Wapol's men had done something to Dalton... what happened after he left? Find out next time!