Another almost-filler, dear readers!
Sorry it's so short. I was lazy.
But don't worry, I've got more action-type-plot coming soon to a compy near you!
The next morning, everybody was alive and a storm was stirring. The sky was a smoggy gray, and it drizzled a little bit every few hours. The one good thing was that Gaara was in a better mood, and that made Hinata happy, rain or not.
"Oh, listen, birds!" she announced cheerfully. Indeed, birds were twittering, despite the small downpour of rain that was soaking them to the skin.
"Oh, listen, food!" Gaara announced, not unhappily, taking a small gun from his messenger bag. They had a good breakfast, although Hinata began to regret eating the bird after eating it. Poor birdy, she thought sadly. Then she remembered she was on an uninhabited island trying to survive, and she didn't feel as bad.
After breakfast, they went down to the waterfall and refilled their canteen with water. Hinata also took a short bath while Gaara went to catch lunch, and came back to their small camp feeling refreshed, if not a bit chilly.
While eating lunch, Hinata realized something. "Oh, I'm sorry, I should've been calling you Gaara-senpai," she said worriedly, "if you're a year older than me."
"No, it's fine," he said, sounding somewhat startled.
She breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, thank goodness, most of the senpais at my school would think I was being disrespectful if I didn't call them that."
"What school do you go to?"
Wow, that was unexpected. "Um, Konoha High."
"You know what, that's in the same area as my school," Gaara mused. "We must live in the same city, then."
Hinata smiled, although she didn't know why.
Ino had first watch the previous night, and was tired and irritable, lashing out at anybody who happened to be there. (Those happened to be the lobsters, which were often crushed underfoot by a wrathful Ino, or killed in some other gruesome manner.) They had a lot of lobster for meals that day.
"I'm freaking sick of lobsters!" Ino finally screamed that afternoon, gnawing on a hunk of lobster claw. "I want something else for a change!"
"We have coconuts," Naruto offered, and Ino happily grabbed one and started eating. Then, it started drizzling suddenly, soaking them all.
"Nooo," Ino yelled, shaking her fist at the sky, "please, don't start raining again..."
"Too bad. It looks like it's gonna pour tonight," Sasuke said, eating a lobster. "And then the wind will pick up. It's gonna suck for the next few days, basically."
Ino glared. "What are you, a weatherman?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever. I feel the weather in my-"
"Soul?" asked Naruto and Ino together. They looked at each other strangely.
"I was going to say bones, but soul works too."
"You're an idiot, Sasuke," muttered Naruto. Suddenly, he stopped what he was doing and stared at his hand for a little bit, disregarding everything going on around him. Finally, he looked away from his appendage and rejoined the conversation. Sasuke was sure that Ino didn't notice Naruto's strange behavior, but he noticed. Was that a sign of bad things to come, or is it just me?
Ooo, ominous, ne?
I got the staring-at-hands thing from my sister, who was commenting on how much Sora used his hands in gesticulating and stuff in KH2. Then she started miming stroking her hands, or rubbing them against her face. Then, she mouthed, "Riku, look at my hands! Aren't they awesome! Do you wanna touch 'em?"
I love my sister.