Robin: Holy fanservice, Batman, is that another chapter?
Batman: Yes, Robin. Yes it is. Now shut up and let me angst over the fact that I really need a girlfriend.
beanpaste-chan: Um... excuse me, what are you doing in my computer? I really need to write more fanfiction.
Batman: Uhh... Quickly, my young ward! To the Batmobile!!
Okay, that was weird. Sorry if I freaked you out. I'll stop being stoopid now. (sniffle sniffle) I'm just gonna go to the emo corner until you read and review...
Gaara beckoned urgently, and Hinata came. What she saw in that clearing near the end of the jungle shocked her, although she might've seen such a sight often in Tokyo.
It was a green Jeep, just sitting in the jungle, trying to look like part of the greenery but only managing to look unnatural. Which, of course, it was. Unless trees had started to give birth to cars.
"Holy... Gaara, do you know what this means? We can get out somehow, we can..."
"No gas, no key, as far as I know." He grimaced. "Just makes it more unnatural. You know, the fact that we can't use it."
Hinata smiled, rubbing her aching legs. "Maybe not." She stalked up to the car, examining it. Then, she opened the hood and fiddled around for a moment, then came out, her smiling face smudged with old oil and rust. "Still has gas in it," she said, grinning.
He walked up to the car and turned it on from the outside, and jumped back as it rattled to life. "What the crap?!" he yelled. "You little... what the... sweet mother of the Almighty Hand of Fate, how the hell did you do that?"
"I hotwired it," she smiled, shyly trying to contain her pride. "I do it all the time. It's easier than having to borrow the keys from my dad."
"Oh, god, god, god! What else do you do that wouldn't fit in your personality?"
"Um..." she muttered shyly. "I don't really do anything worse than that, dad just won't let me drive anywhere..." By the time she looked up, he was already in the car.
"Come on, we can probably get out of this godforsaken jungle if we drive!"
Hinata nodded and ran to the car. This is going to be... interesting...
Sasuke shook Naruto's shoulder gently. "Hm? What?"
"You were nodding off. Are you hungry?"
He sniffed. "Yeah."
"Could you get some food? Ino and I are kind of hungry too."
Naruto stood up. He wasn't really feeling in the mood to argue. "Sure."
"Thanks."
Ino finally looked up. She looked horrible; her eyes were puffy and her cheeks tearstained. She sniffled pitifully. "You like Naruto, don't you?"
Sasuke looked shocked. "What makes you think that?"
Ino smiled cynically. "Your happy glow is blinding when he so much as looks at you." She sniffed again.
He looked confused for a moment, then smiled secretively. "Well, he is just... very nice, and he has the most innocent smile..."
"Well, Sasuke, tough. He probably has a girlfriend by now."
He sighed miserably. "I know." He looked off into the distance and didn't say anything more for a long time.
"Hm," Gaara said, bouncing around in his seat. "Barreling through the jungle at a hundred miles-per-hour isn't as fun as I thought."
Hinata was curled up in her seat, chewing her nails and close to tears. "G-Gaara, stop before I-I'm sick all over the c-car..."
He grinned recklessly, his red hair whipping around. "No. We're going to be eaten by things if we stop, think of that." He looked down as a loud crunch was heard. "Oh, look! I think I ran over a lobster. I'm going to stop and poke it with a stick."
"P-please don't! I just want everything to stop..." she sniffled loudly.
Gaara sighed in mock annoyance. "Fine."
Hinata tried to look into her window, and then her head shot back down. She clutched her chest and curled up into a ball in her seat. "There's a light. I think we-we're getting out of the jungle." Thank god.
Finally, the landscape opened up to something neither of them expected at all, some natural environment so unexpected that they gasped at the same time.
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