Hope your enjoying the story so far XD I wrote it ages ago for my deviantArt account (.com), but recently I've just gotten a Fanfic account XD

Disclaimer: I do not own naruto - I wish I did thought... XP

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Seconds turned into minutes, minutes turned into hours until the group's eyesight was flooded with light. A soft crunching sound could be heard underneath the ninja's shoes. Hot changed to cold, rocks merged into snow. Sakura could even see her own breath in the frosty air.

'Now where the heck are we?' Sakura thought, sighing inwardly. She looked around to find nothing but whiteness and mountains staring back at her. She adjusted her ruck-sack as it was starting to pull on her back.

'Great'

Naruto was running around in circles trying to get warm, flapping his arms in the air like a lost chicken, it was quite an amusing sight.

"Dobe, stop that, you're making me dizzy."

"Don't look at me then, teme."

"Stop calling me teme!" The Uchiha shouted, letting the anger get the better of him. Everyone else covered their ears and groaned, as they could feel another argument coming along between the two rivals.

"Don't call me dobe then!"

"You are one!" Ino punched Naruto and Sasuke on the head, causing them to stop their bickering. The two shinobi's rubbed the place where her fists hit the flesh of their head, but stopped anyway. Sakura rolled her eyes.

"Honestly, how childish can you get?" she said, directing at Naruto and Sasuke.

They all decided to climb to the peak of the steep mountain in front of them to see if they could get a better view of their surroundings. The terrain was rocky and slippery, so it was quite difficult to walk on. Sakura tripped over a couple of times, cursing both times.

The pink-haired kunoichi realised that her teeth were chattering and goose bumps had appeared all over her arms. She started rubbing her hands together, but got so occupied with trying to get warm that she didn't realise the small amount of slippery ice on a boulder right in front of her.

Sakura stepped on the big boulder and felt her foot slip off the rock and into the air, her body following. She let out a blood-curdling scream as she descended down the mountain, trying her best to stop herself crashing against any rocks that could knock her unconscious.

Closing her eyes so that she wouldn't see when the impact was coming, she covered her head in her arms and braced the fall. If it wasn't for a pair of arms wrapping around her, she would certainly have fallen to her death…

She realised that she wasn't falling when she opened her eyes to see Naruto looking back at her with his bright blue eyes, smiling up at her. She quickly got out of his grasp and with her quick temper, started yelling:

"What the hell are you smiling at? I could have died you baka!" and she punched him on the head and his smile faded.

"Sakura calm down, he just saved your life!" Ino shouted back.

"Oh, thanks Naruto…" Sakura mumbled. Why did Naruto have to save her? Why not Sasuke? He had saved her… two times in one day! Why couldn't he have saved her another time? Especially when her life was on the line! When she looked back at him, he was where they were before she fell! He didn't even attempt to save her!

Storming off ahead of Sasuke, she reached the peak before everyone else. Glancing across the horizon, all she saw was snow, rocks, ice, snow, rocks and more snow. She groaned so loud that the other behind her could hear her. When they caught up to her a quiet voice asked:

"What's wrong, Sakura-chan?"

"Nothing Hinata… ARRRR! I can't take this any more! First we were in Africa, then Croatia, then Africa again, and for all we know, we could be on an isolated island! I'm freezing my head off because I've just gone and forgotten to pack my jacket, I've grazed my elbow from that fall, and I just want to go home!" She screamed in the Hyuuga's face, but Hinata understood.

"Look, it's getting late; the sun will almost be down. Why don't we go back to the cave and sent up camp, ok?" Ino asked (they were planning on camping at Victoria Falls).

Sakura sighed in agreement and started to walk down the steep slope. She walked slower than the rest of them, as she really wasn't in the mood to chat, and she certainly wasn't in the mood to tolerate Naruto's eccentric behaviour.

She saw Sasuke walk a little slower than the rest too, but then he stopped completely, waiting for Sakura to catch up. She just ignored him, but let him walk beside her.

"What have I done?" the Uchiha prodigy questioned. Sakura just ignored him.

"Sakura-?"

"What have you done? Hmmm, let me think… you didn't bleedin' save me from that fall, that's what's wrong!" Sasuke just gave her a confused look and Sakura just realised what she said. She tried to look at it from his point of view, and thought that she sounded like he was her boyfriend. But before anyone could answer, Ino called Sakura to help set up the tent. Sakura hadn't noticed that they had reached the cave already.

Half an hour later, Naruto had unpacked his camp fire and was pouring out some soup into six bowls, Sakura, Hinata and Ino had finished putting up the tent (luckily Naruto was carrying the tent), and Sasuke and Sai had finished setting up the sleeping bags.

After dinner, Ino started to make the seating arrangements. The tent had three compartments, so two ninja's in each. Naruto insisted on going with Hinata, and because they were going together, Ino wanted to spend the night with her boyfriend, so that left a still fuming Sakura and a confused Sasuke.

Sakura was not happy that she had to sleep in the same compartment as the Uchiha. She cursed Ino for making the arrangements (and for winking at her when she went into her part of the tent), cursed herself that she didn't protest (to be honest, she was too exhausted) and cursed Sasuke for starting it all (even if he didn't know that he did).

She chucked the cover off the sleeping bag so that she could get in, eager to get warm and have a reason to ignore Sasuke.

Sakura would normally have kept quiet about the fact that she had forgotten her jacket, but she had let it slip in her rant. But when she looked back at it, she would have thought that the least Sasuke could do was offer her his jacket, but no. He has to much pride for that sort of thing.

Sasuke didn't even speak to Sakura that night, he didn't even say sorry, which in Sakura's books is down right ignorant. He was a good for nothing Uchiha who thought he was above everyone else, and it would take a lot from him to make her forgive him…

The next morning, they all helped to pack up the tent, stuffing it back into Naruto's already over packed bag. They had something to eat and drink before they were off into the cave again, hoping that it would at least bring them back to Africa, or even back to where they lived…

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