Pyramids Of Egypt with some SasuSaku fluff! Enjoy XD
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The air felt so hot that it felt like there was no oxygen. The ground was unusually golden, and there wasn't a living thing in sight.
"Eh? Why is there sand? Shouldn't there be water? Did we take a wrong turning?" Naruto babbled.
"Dobe, the cave didn't have any turnings!" Sasuke shouted back.
"There might have been! We might have overlooked one!"
"We didn't the first time we-!"
"Oh my goodness, we're in the middle of a desert!" Ino shouted over them, panic written in her voice.
"WHAT!?" All six of them shouted in unison. When they looked around, they thought that they're eyes were playing tricks on them. Weren't they supposed to be back at Victoria Falls?
The sun was blazing down on the golden grains of sand, and if they didn't find shade fast, they'd roast like a chicken.
They turned on their heel to go back in the cave, only to find a long, scaly, spitting cobra blocking the entrance. It was staring at them in the eye, never taking its eyes off them for a second. Its mouth was open, its hood was outstretched. It was one angry snake, protecting the only source of shade for miles as its own.
"We're doomed!" Naruto bellowed, only to earn a smack on the head by Sakura.
"Right everyone, calm down! Who's still got their backpacks?" she asked, pulling on her thinking cap. Naruto and Sasuke lifted up their hands, indicating that they still had their rucksacks with them. Sakura also had hers on her back; however the other three had left theirs at the Falls.
"Put your rucksacks over your head to give you a little shade. They're big enough for two people to fit underneath, so Hinata can pair with Naruto, Sai can be with Sasuke, and Ino, you're with me" she arranged.
They all did as they were told and started walking foreward. North, East, South, West, who knew? Just placing one foot in front of the other.
'Are we in Africa? The Sahara Desert? Or are we somewhere completely different?' Sakura thought, racking her brains for an answer.
Around half an hour later, the heat was starting to get to them all, consequently making them mardy, thirsty and lazy.
"Can we rest now?" Naruto whined.
"If it will shut you up!" Sasuke snarled back.
"Naruto, get your water bottle!" Sakura demanded before the knucklehead could throw an insult at Sasuke.
The blonde shinobi unzipped his bag and started searching for the water. After a couple of minutes he was still rummaging near the bottom of his bag.
"Please tell me you brought it!"
"Don't start another argument Sasuke! You and Naruto are giving me a headache!" Ino yelled, rubbing her temples out of annoyance. The Uchiha just 'hmpf'ed and went to collect his water out of his own bag.
"Found it!"
"Baka, don't shout in my ear!" Sakura yelled, hitting Naruto on the head once again.
"Sakura-chan…" he groaned, sitting on the sand to drink the refreshing liquid. Although, he would have done if he didn't leap up seconds later complaining that his behind was on fire.
'Idiot' Sakura thought. She really couldn't be bothered to hit him anymore. The sun had sapped all of her energy away from her.
A couple more minutes walking brought them nowhere. There were no landmarks for them to recognize, just in case they were going in a circle. All there was were plain sand and a sand dune here and there. There mouths were starting to become dry as a result, and Hinata decided to use her Byakugan, just to see if there was any hope.
"Guys, I see a large triangle shape just behind that sand dune on the horizon! And there's loads of shade around it, we could rest there for a while!" This news brought hope and happiness to the young travellers, brightening up their mood. They could just see the sand dune Hinata was talking about ahead of them. Desperate for some shade and a rest, they darted over to the base of the sand pile. The thing was, it was the biggest sand dune around, and it would take absolutely ages to go around it. It looked like they had to climb it.
When they placed a foot down on the hot sand, they slipped back to the ground again, getting them nowhere. They were forced to use the last of their chakra, hoping that they could recover it when they got to the 'triangle shape'.
Once they were on the other side, they literally jumped for joy. The triangle shape was in fact a large pyramid! Their luck was starting to turn. They all sat down in the cool shade and relaxed.
"Sai, what are you doing?" Ino asked, bewildered.
"Climbing to the top so that I can draw."
"Draw what exactly, sand?"
"Yeah, and you lot."
'Great…' Ino thought sarcastically. She looked around, taking in the sight of the pyramid. They were obviously in Egypt. Well, at least they were in Africa! She stopped when something caught her eye. Something glittering near the edge of the pyramid. Ino stood up and walked towards it, Sakura followed her, wondering what the hell she was doing.
"Er, Ino… I don't think you should go down there…" Sakura stated. Either Ino didn't hear her, or she was ignoring her.
The blonde-haired kunoichi was crawling through a very tight hole in the base of the pyramid. She had to go flat on her stomach, and even then her back scraped along the top of the burrow. Not wanting to leave her best friend behind, Sakura crawled on her stomach after her.
When they got inside it was pitch-black. They couldn't even see each other. They seemed to be in some kind of chamber: a tomb. After their eyes had become adjusted to the darkness, a glint of gold flashed across the corner of Sakura's eye, and looked around to find Ino holding a chunk of metal.
"Ino put that down; you don't know what it is!"
"Of course I know what it is! It's gold!"
"How the-" but she was cut off by Ino grabbing another object off the dusty floor. The Yamanaka attempted to pick it up, but it was too heavy. Instead she dragged it to the middle of the tomb and blew off the dust.
'I'm glad I'm not asthmatic…' Sakura thought, watching the dust rise and then settle on the cold floor. She stumbled over to the kunoichi, wondering where the hell she was finding all these objects, and saw that it was a large container. It had words written across the lid in ancient Egyptian.
"It says that who ever opens this chest… dies."
"Since when have you been able to read Egyptian?" Sakura questioned, wondering how Ino got so smart. The blonde kunoichi shrugged her shoulders and began to prize the chest open. Realising, Sakura leapt at the box and dragged it away from Ino.
"Sakura!"
"That thing is cursed. You are not opening it!" Ino lunged foreward to try and take it back, but Sakura got in her way and pushed her aside while she was in mid flight. She consequently bashed into the brick wall, causing a brick to fall down from the ceiling. Then the whole room was collapsing. Loads of bricks landed on top of each other. Ino and Sakura ran towards the exit. They dodged the heavy bricks, only to find the tunnel blocked.
Then, it all stopped, as suddenly as it had started.
Sakura then let out the loudest scream that she could muster, hoping that the others outside would hear her. The room was twice as small as it was before, and it wasn't very big to start off with. The two were squashed up against each other, shoulder to shoulder.
"Now look what you did, Forehead!"
"What I did, if it wasn't for you and your love of gold, then we wouldn't be in this mess, Ino-pig!"
"Sakura!"
The two stopped arguing at the third voice.
'Sasuke!' the pink-haired kunoichi thought.
Outside, Sasuke and Naruto were leaning against the pyramid, arguing about god knows what, and Hinata was just sat there eating rice balls, trying her best to ignore them.
"When are you gunna tell her?!"
"Shut up, dobe!"
"Sasuke, you have to tell her-!"
He was cut off by a blood curdling scream. Sasuke widened his eyes in shock. He recognised the voice: Sakura. But why was she screaming? And more importantly, where was she? He watched her and Ino walk around to the other side of the pyramid, but she never came back. He initially thought that her and Ino went around there for a private chat, but surely girls can't talk for half an hour straight?
"Sakura!" he yelled back, hoping that she heard him.
"Sasuke, help us! We're trapped underneath the pyramid!" he heard the voice belonging to Ino shout back. That's when he began to panic. Bellowing colourful words in his head, he turned to Naruto:
"Naruto we-"
"Oh my god, we need to get them out of there!" the blonde shinobi interrupted the Uchiha. He produced a shadow clone, which made blue chakra appear in the real Naruto's hand. It started to swirl rapidly until it became a sphere.
'Rasengan.' Sasuke thought.
"Naruto, no! You'll hit them!"
"They're underneath the pyramid! I'm nowhere near them!"
"You'll make the pyramid collapse on them, you idiot!"
"That's a risk we have to take!"
"Naruto, I'll-"
"Byakugan!" Hinata shouted over the two teenagers. She looked where Ino had said they were, and found them flush up against each other with no room to move.
"We're going to have to knock it down…" Hinata mumbled, and Naruto got his Rasengan ready again.
"Wait, what about Sai?"
"What about him, teme?"
"His at the top of the pyramid!"
Naruto took a step back so that he could see Sai still drawing.
"Sai, get down!" he bellowed, but he obviously didn't hear the knucklehead.
'Oh well, I tried!' Naruto thought.
Sasuke had already started running to the other side of the triangle, performing handsigns as he went.
"Naruto, now!" he shouted loud enough for his ex-team mate to hear him. He heard a faint 'Rasengan!' being shouted and in response the Uchiha forced his arm down and focused chakra to his hand.
"Chidori!" he shouted, "Sakura, Ino, get down!" he commanded, hoping that they would obey. He punched the pyramid with his fist, the lightning chakra hitting the brick. Naruto did it too, and the pyramid started collapsing before their eyes.
Sai, not hearing Naruto's shouts, felt the pyramid shake underneath him, then fall, him going with it. However, he was ANBU. He turned in the air and landed on the hot sand, witnessing the ancient pyramid transform into rubble.
Sakura and Ino heard Sasuke's command, and didn't hesitate. They knew what they were going to do; it was the only way to get them out. They crouched down on the floor, their stomach flush up to the concrete, hands over their heads. They heard the bricks falling in on them. One hit Sakura on the ankle and she felt a searing pain shot up through her leg. She cried out in pain, but didn't move.
Once the last brick had fallen, Ino and Sakura pushed the rubble off themselves. The one on Sakura's ankle was agony to get off, but she was failing miserably. A shadow crept over her, and a pair of feet followed. The person crouched down and helped her lift the stone off her. The pair of hands chucked it away amongst the others, and Sakura looked up to find Sasuke staring at her.
He held out a hand and she gladly placed hers in his. With a sharp tug, she was lifted off the rubble and was standing. She would have been standing if her ankle hadn't given way. She let out another yelp and fell, only this time Sasuke was there to catch her, again!
She leant all of her weight against him, whilst he held her steady.
"Are you ok?" he asked. She looked up into his eyes to find, not hatred, but concern.
"I'm fine," she reassured him, "I just need to heal my ankle, that's all."
He nodded and picked her up carefully. Walking over to a bit of sand that wasn't covered in rubble, he took off his bag from his back and sat her down on it. She then got to work, focusing chakra to her hands, a green light appeared around them, Sakura them placed her hands on her broken ankle and began to heal it.
Five minutes had passed and Sakura was finished. She stood up, and Sasuke got ready to catch her if needs be.
"I'm fine, Sasuke. This is why I love being a medic-nin. You never know when you'll get injured!" she smiled up at him.
"Hey guys! What the hell happened?" Sai asked, walking calmly over to the group like there wasn't a pile of rubble behind them where the pyramid used to stand. Ino explained to the group about the piece of gold and everything.
"All that work for nothing!" she complained.
"Well, we better be getting back to the cave. The cobra would have gone by now." Sakura sighed. Hinata used her Byakugan to find the hole in the sand again and they set off, all following the Hyuuga. They were glad to get in the cold cave again, even if it did smell a little…
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