Chapter 2!
I wrote this while listening to 'Super Shooter' by Rip Slyme. It's fun!
Anyway, I don't own Naruto.
Read, please!
"Run, run for your lives!" shrieked Ino, and they all ran around like chickens with their heads off, except for Shikamaru, Gaara, and Sasuke. Shikamaru picked up a lobster that was crawling on Sakura (who had fainted) and punted it into the distance.
"Ew, ew, ew, omygawd ew! They're just like big roaches!" yelped Neji.
Hinata plucked one off her foot and threw it, as far as she could, into the sparkling blue water. She shrieked as another started crawling into her jeans. "Oh my god, look at how huge they are!" The lobsters were about two feet long, with hard grayish shells and many squirming legs.
Gaara kicked one away from his foot and grabbed a rock. He brought it down on the lobster's body, and it immediately stopped writhing. "These gotta be good to eat," he muttered, picking it up by one of its legs.
Sasuke had started knocking the throng of crustaceans back with a stick into the water, and was quite successful. "We'd better split up now; we'll get rid of the lobsters better that way."
Sasuke was wrong! Hinata thought, stumbling through thick bushes and trees. The lobsters seemed to be everywhere, even in the trees! Hinata squeaked as she felt a hand on her hair.
"A lobster fell on your head," muttered Gaara.
"O-oh. Um, thank you!" She jumped about a foot when another enormous lobster dropped onto her shoulder. I wonder how the others are doing?
Sakura shrieked as she woke up to find a lobster staring at her. "Holy crap! Oh my god, I thought this was all a dream!"
"It's obviously not, since we're still here- there's a lobster in your hair!"
Sakura squealed, yelling curses. "Oh my god, get it out, get it out!" She tore frantically at her head.
"Ha, I got you!" Shikamaru chuckled, slapping his leg. "Damn, that was worth it just for the look on your face. Do you want any food?" He offered up a piece of lobster on a stick.
"Ick, no thanks. I never wanna see a freaking lobster again as long as I live. Do you have anything else?"
"Lobster. Nothing more of anything else on this island; lobster, lobster, lobster. It's quite good, though."
Sakura crossed her arms over her chest. "No thanks. I'd rather starve than eat those things."
"Your loss." Shikamaru slid the lobster chunk off of the stick and popped it in his mouth.
"Gaara, Gaara, look at this!" Hinata waved from near a tree. "Look, apples!" She bit into one. "Ugh, it's bitter."
Gaara grabbed a fruit. "Not all bitter. It's just the peel." He plopped down on the ground and took out a switchblade. Hinata picked at the fruit with her nails.
"Need some help?" he asked, tossing the switchblade up and catching it. His apple was already peeled.
"Um... yeah."
Gaara grabbed the apple and peeled it quickly. He then handed it back to Hinata, and bit into his own apple.
"It's good! Um... Gaara? I know I can't really ask this so early in the game, but what are you going to do with the money? If we get it, I mean."
Gaara was silent for a long time. Then, he spoke. "I... don't really know what I want." With that, he picked up a stick and lit it on fire with a lighter he fished out of his pocket. He picked up more sticks, and set those on fire, too. "It's getting dark. We need to rest, or else we won't survive long."
Hinata nodded in surprise and pulled a lobster out of her hair. She was getting used to the presence of the crustaceans, yet there was still something unsettling about them...
Ooh, building lobster suspense... I hope this doesn't have to end up like Gyo... I read the wikipedia article about it, and it was SOOO SCARY!!!
I'm going to be frightened of fish with legs for the rest of my life.
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