Chapter three :D

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Naruto screamed for joy and ran ahead, through the light and into fresh, clean air. The others followed. They seemed to be running through more water, but the force wasn't as strong as Victoria Falls. The liquid seemed to get up Sakura' nose, waking her up. Sasuke placed her on the rocky ground carefully. He then looked around to find that they were standing right next to a small lake. There was steam rising off it, so it was either really hot, or really cold. He turned around to find that they had just walked through another waterfall, but it was a lot smaller than the Falls.

"Where are we?"

Everyone turned their heads to face Sakura. When nobody answered, she carried on:

"I just had the scariest nightmare. I was in a dark cave with you lot and then I saw this massive spider. I clung on to something but then it all went black."

"Well your awake now. C'mon, I fancy a dip!" Ino said. She didn't want to remind her best friend of the events that went on earlier.

They all followed the blonde kunoichi, not bothering to take their clothes off.

Naruto and Ino belly flopped in at the exact same time, splashing Sai in the process. Hinata jumped in, with Naruto catching her, whereas Sai stepped in the shallow end.

Sakura laughed at her friends, they looked like drowned rats. As she was about to join them, she felt a strong hand grip her wrist. The pink-haired girl swiveled around to find Sasuke holding her back. She gave him a questioning look while trying to hide the redness crawling across her face.

"Follow me." he stated. Obeying, she followed him to the base of a rock wall. Her mind was so focused on not tripping up over the rocky ground that she nearly bashed into the rock. The funny thing was, the Uchiha didn't release his grasp until they had stopped.

When he did finally let go, Sasuke walked up the wall a little. However, when he didn't hear a second pair of footsteps following him, he stopped and peered over his shoulder.

"Are you coming?"

"Er, yeah… I'm coming!" Sakura swore that she could hear voices coming from the top of the rock, but decided to let it go.

Forcing her chakra towards the soles of her feet, she climbed the wall of rock along side Sasuke. A silence fell over them until they reached the top. They poked their heads over the edge to have a look, only to find loads of tourists surrounding them. Sasuke pushed Sakura's head down so that nobody could see them.

"Go around there." he whispered, pointing over to where there were no people.

Sakura wasn't stupid. If the tourist, who clearly weren't ninja, saw two people walking up a rock face without using any hands, who knew what they'd do?

The kunoichi followed the Uchiha around the rock to where he had pointed. The thing was, it was an over hang, which made it a little difficult. Sasuke reached the top first. Sakura's chakra was running on low. When they ran at top speed to Victoria Falls she wasted most of her chakra. Now she was using more of it and she felt like fainting. She felt dizzy and her legs were going to give way at any minute. However, before they did, an outstretched hand was offering some help, and she gladly took it. Letting out a sigh of relieve, she climbed over the top.

When her gaze followed the arm, she found out that it belonged to Sasuke. She quickly let go of it as the palm of her hand started to get a little sweaty. She looked over to see a group of around twenty people, all of which were gaping wide eyed at the amazing scenery. Beneath them were separate waterfalls everywhere. If she stared hard enough, she could make out the figures of Naruto and the gang messing around. However, she focused on Sasuke once more as he walked towards a group of three young girls, around the same age as her. She followed curiously. What was he planning on doing?

"Do you know where we are?" Sasuke asked. The girls stared at him, mouths literally on the floor. Sakura imagined that their pupils were little hearts.

'Three more fangirls for him to worry about' the thought made Sakura giggle.

"Er, never mind" Sasuke muttered. Sakura walked over to a couple of middle-aged men and decided to do the talking. She saw Sasuke follow her.

"Excuse me, but could you happen to know where we are? You see, I've kind of forgotten the name of the place and…"

"Why, you're at Plitvice Lakes!" answered the shorter of the two.

"Um…?" Sakura hesitated.

"Croatia!" the second man answered her puzzled look.

"CROATIA? But we were in Afr-" but Sasuke cut her off by putting his hand over her mouth.

"Thank you" he said, and dragged Sakura back down the rock face. He eventually released her mouth when they got half way down.

"What the hell is going on? We're in Africa one minute and Croatia the next! How could we walk that far just by a-" she stopped mid-sentence, realizing what had happened. "The cave."

Sasuke looked at her, bemused.

"We were at the Falls, then we went through the cave. Now it only took us about half an hour to walk-"

"Two hours. You were knocked out for most of it."

"I was? Oh, ok then. Two hours to get to the other side of the cave, and we ended up in Croatia. Don't you think it would take longer than two hours to get to Croatia by foot? So that means if we just go through the cave again, then we'd be right back in Africa!"

Sasuke considered this for a moment.

"Maybe…"

"Hey guys! Where the heck have you been?" Naruto shouted over to the two ninjas.

"There were some tourists up ahead. Guess where we are!" The pink-haired teenager answered.

"Um, Africa?" Ino asked.

"Nope."

"Eh?!" Naruto practically yelled in Hinata's ear.

"We've ended up in Plitvice Lakes." Sakura said.

"Croatia, dobe." Sasuke finished off for her, as the rest of them were giving them a confused look. He was mostly talking to Naruto, who had the most shocked face of them all. Sakura explained the cave situation that she had just told the raven-haired teenager. They all looked at her, bemused and shocked written all over their foreheads.

"So, we can either go back through the cave, or stay here for a bit and go through later. What are we gunna do?"

"Stay!" the blonde shinobi yelled, diving into the steaming lake.

'That settles it then…' Sakura thought. Her feet carried her to the edge, her legs bent and straightened sharply, consequently making her dive. The hot water engulfed her body, swallowing her whole. That was until she resurfaced again to take a breath of air. Her ears filled with the sound of Naruto's overly-loud voice:

"Hey, Sasuke-teme! I dare you to dive of that rock!"

"Fine, dobe!"

Sakura glanced up to see Sasuke standing on top of a huge rock, about ten feet high. He got into a diving position and gracefully and smoothly dived off it, landing into the deep part of the lake. Sakura felt a little jealousy at his skill, but he was he genius after all.

"Show off…" Naruto mumbled, causing him to get splashed by Sakura. He splashed her back to get his own back, only the pink-haired kunoichi dodged it, so he ended up splashing Sasuke instead. The Uchiha gave him a murderous look, but then ignored it. This time Sakura splashed Sasuke, and he splashed her and Naruto back. Ino decided to join in, and soon everyone was taking part. A massive water fight!

After a bit, the sun started to sink in the sky, causing darkness to overcome them. They packed up their bags and the rubbish (Sakura had some sandwiches in her bag and shared them out), and walked through the waterfall that they arrived through. It should bring them back to Victoria Falls. Sakura had to bury herself in Ino so that she felt safe.

However, instead of walking through even more water, they were engulfed by boiling hot air, like they were in an oven…

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