Island Paradise

By: Bloodropiris

Chapter Three: The Search Continues

Temari sighed at the man with the weird face painting.

"You didn't have to scare her Kankuro." Temari bent down and picked up Sakura and headed over to her tent and placed Sakura down to sleep.

Gaara, Temari and Kankuro sat around the fire. It was quiet until Temari asked, "Are there more?"

Gaara just stared at the burning wood and said, "Yes. Seven more." Everyone again became quiet until Kankuro spoke this time, "They need to get out before he wakes up. We've been able to avoid him all these year, but if he wakes up something bad might happen."

-x-

" Oi, Sakura! Sakura where are you! Sakura!" Shikamaru shouted as he held Ino's hand walking through the jungle. The reason why Shikamaru was holding on to Ino's hand because she was close of going missing as well.

"Sakura! Where are you! Answer us if you can hear us! Sakura-kya!" Ino called out, but tripped over a logged.

Shikamaru quickly turned around and came to Ino's aid.

"Ino, are you alright?" Shikamaru's voice was filled with worry. Ino winced at the pain, but tried to be strong.

"Yeah, I think I'm-" She tried getting up, but fell back down. Shikamaru shone his flashlight at Ino's foot and mutter out, "How troublesome." Ino glared at him for saying that.

For a moment Ino actually thought Shikamaru was going to leave her because he turned his back to her, but it was to offer her a piggyback ride.

"Get on, we'll head back to camp and see if that kit has any bandages for your foot." Ino's cheeks turned to a shade of pink before getting on his back. To her surprise, Shikamaru was quite strong.

-x-

Neji was leading the way, after Tenten told him where she last saw Sakura. Following behind him she was quietly cursing Naruto for ruining the dance for her.

Unlike Ino, Tenten never really went to dances and the Winter Snow Dance was the first she gone in a while. Finally she thought her dreams were coming true when Neji asked her to dance.

For once Tenten saw the good side of being a girl. She was about to grab his hand when Naruto had to ruin it all!

Just think about that she slammed her fist to a tree, which startled Neji.

"Something wrong, Tenten?" Neji stopped and looked at her. Tenten quickly moved her hand away from the tree and shook her head, "Nope! I'm fine! Come on, we need to fine Sakura still."

Tenten cut in front of him and started walking ahead. Neji gave a confusing look and continued on as well.

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Sasuke was traveling by himself looking for Sakura. As he stepped over twigs and other objects he cussed under his breath. He was annoyed that Sakura had to go missing. Yet, felt like he had find her no matter what.

Sasuke didn't know why he had this feeling he just did.

-x-

Naruto and Hinata were sitting quietly in the dark with two flashlights. They weren't able to make a fire after many attempts so they were just sitting in darkness.

Hinata glanced a few times over to Naruto and saw that he was fine. Even though he throat was in pain he could still hum.

Every time she looked at him she was blush madly and told herself to stop but she couldn't. Then as she tried her best to not look, she did anyways and saw Naruto looking back at her.

More blood rush to her cheeks, because this time Naruto was coming closer to her. She didn't know why though.

"N-Naruto-kun." She started to stutter.

"Hinata-chan…" Hinata wasn't sure if it was her that made it sound like Naruto spoke in a soft voice coming closer than ever to her.

Is he going to kiss me? She thought. Not knowing, she shut her eyes close and waited. She was able to feel his breath on her neck.

A deep shiver went through her body and blood rushed to her head, making her dizzy. She was still planning to keep her eyes shut when she heard him spoke, "You have a-" Have what? She thought again, "L-" Before he could finish Hinata ended up fainting because of the blood rush.

She fell over making Naruto panic, "Oh my GOD! HINATA-CHAN!" Naruto help picked her up and try to get her to wake up, but what made her wake up was when she heard a scream.

At once everyone, where every they were shouted out, "Sakura!"