Kishimoto-san owns Naruto
Opening theme: Rocks(1st opening of Naruto)
Chapter 9: Octogon
In small little plain on a harmless-looking island, Kawazaki was busy fretting about.
This is bad, He thought, hopping back and forth. The other's are no real loss, but I can't face Kushina or Tsunade if something were to happen to Naruto! He stopped, and began to take deep breaths. Calm down, I all need to do is search out for their chakra with my 6th sense, there's no proof that they're dead…yet.
Kawazaki closed his eyes and began to concentrate, feeling out for Team Naruto with his mind. After a minute, he hopped up from his seat. "Good heavens! They're alive! All of them! Thank goodness!" He cried.
But they're scattered across the island, He thought. Which one do I go after? And we still need to find Kushina…
"Kushina! That's it!" Kawazaki began to do a little dance of excitement. "I'll find her, take her to Naruto, and then we'll find the rest of them and leave this awful place! I'm a genius!"
With that strategy made, Kawazaki began to hop off.
DATTEBAYO
When Sakura woke up, she found herself staring directly into Hinata's eyes.
"Hi..Hinata?" She asked, groggily. She tried to get up- and fell back down, wincing.
"Don't move," Hinata said, holding her still. She had her Byakugan active. "Your left leg is broken."
"Is…that it?" Sakura asked, weakly. Reaching for that leg, Sakura began to apply medical Ninjutsu. "Where are we?" She asked.
"I don't know," Hinata admitted. "That giant monkey knocked us here with its tail, we could be anywhere on the island. But I do know, is that we're trapped."
Sakura looked around and saw that she and Hinata were on a small island in the middle of a lake.
"That's all?" She asked, relieved. "This is nothing! All we need to do is the walking-on-water technique…" She noticed the upset look on Hinata's face. "It's worse, isn't it?"
Nodding, Hinata picked up a large rock and flung it into the lake. The second the stone hit the water's surface did some…thing with huge jaws began snapping at it, splashing water everywhere.
"Those things are everywhere," Hinata explained, "They're waiting for us to try and leave. If we go on the water or in it…" She trailed off sadly.
Sakura frowned. Things did not look good.
DATTEBAYO
Meanwhile, Lee and Shikamaru were walking down an underground cavern.
"We certainly are lucky." Lee commented.
"Tell me about it," Shikamaru replied. "If it wasn't for that hole in the ground, the ape's punch would have flattened us." He then winced, feeling a sharp pain in his body.
"Do you think we'll be able to find an exit this way?" Lee asked.
"It's either that, or go back up and fight that monkey," Shikamaru answered. He took this moment to observe the surroundings. Do to a type of luminescent moss covering the walls and ceiling of the cavern, there was plenty of light to see with.
"I just hope we can get back to the surface without running into another freak." Shikamaru said at last. He was starting to understand why Asuma smoked so much.
A little bit later they exited the tunnel into a much larger cavern. The room was so huge that it could have fit three Ozarus, with plenty of space above.
"Say, did the ground get soft all of a sudden?" Lee asked.
Suddenly, there was an ominous growling noise, and a huge tentacle, the size and length of one of Orochimaru's snakes lunged out of the darkness for them!
"Look out!" Lee cried, and the two of them dived away. However, three more tentacles sprang out! Jumping around to avoid being snared, Shikamaru fell off of the elevated area they were on. As he fell, he realized that they were standing on a giant octopus!
Super-sized Cephalopod: Octogon
Shikamaru felt a cold sweat as the monster's eyes beaded down on him. "You gotta be kidding me…" He muttered as four more tentacles came at him.
DATTEBAYO
Meanwhile, Inari continued to chase the flying monster that had Oda. Luckily the winged creature didn't seem to be in a very large hurry; otherwise he would have lost sight of the sailor by now.
"Fer cryin' out loud!" Inari muttered, "Doesn't that thing have a nest!?"
Oda, meanwhile, seemed to be quite resigned to his fate, mindless humming an old chantey as he felt the flying monster flap its wings.
"Put 'im in the longboat till he's sober…" He muttered. "Early in the mourning…"
He then felt the monster shake, and then plummet as the wings stopped flapping.
"Hey! What the-?!" Was all Oda could say before the inevitable happened.
CRASH!
"Oda! You okay!" Inari cried, rushing to him.
"…Jus' dandy." Oda muttered from under the monster. After being pulled out by Inari, Oda began to examine the creature. He discovered the sharp end of a crude spear poking out of the beast's stomach.
"Nuts on the high seas," Oda muttered. "Who coulda done this?"
There was a sound of a twig snapping, causing Inari and Oda to whirl around. Standing directly behind them, bearing another spear like the one in the monster, was a very imposing figure…
DATTEBAYO
In another forest, far away from where Ozaru had flung him, Naruto laid unmoving in the grass. In the depths of his soul, dreaming of the mother he never knew, he could barely hear the Fox's voice…
ThIs Is QuItE a PlAcE yOu'Ve BrOuGhT uS tO, iSn'T iT, NArUtO?