Chapter Two

When Temari awoke she realised there was a lot of splashing noises around her. The loss of weight on her chest made her sit up and look around for Namakemono. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him sleeping soundly in Hinata's arms as she slept against Naruto, who had his head on Gaara's shoulder asleep. She let out a laugh as she realized her brother had yet to throw his best friends head from his shoulder. Gaara was looking the other way deep in thought, pretending not to notice the weight on his shoulder. He was only putting up with it for two reasons; Naruto was his best friend, and he must have been exhausted from swimming so much and losing so much blood. If he wasn't worried about Naruto's health he would have shoved him overboard already.

Looking around, she noticed all of them were safe and they were all sitting in a big orange inflatable life raft, wet mind you, but alive all the same.

Ino was still unconscious in Tenten's lap as she slept in Neji's arms, lying across Lee and Kankuro. They didn't mind because they had been friends for a long time, and because they were seeking warmth from the cold wind and the shivers they got from the water drenched clothing they still wore.

Besides herself now; Sasuke, Sai, Lee and Kankuro were the only ones awake watching the ocean for any kind of trouble.

"Hey sis, are you 'kay?" Temari heard Kankuro whisper quietly to her as he tried not to wake the rest of them up.

"Yeah… I've been better," she laughed quietly at the irony of her words. Here she was, in the middle of no where and as far as anybody knew she was vacationing in Tahiti with the rest of them.

"Heh, I think we all have. You've been out for about 5 hours." Kankuro looked at his watch, thanking the lords that it was waterproof, to double check his thought.

"5 hours? But, Namakemono, is he ok?" Temari's eyes immediately drifted over to her one year old son.

"Yeah, we managed to grab his diaper bag and there was some milk in there so Hinata fed him, burped him and now he is sleeping. He has been for about as long as you have." Kankuro looked fondly at his nephew before trailing his eyes back to his sisters' pain filled eyes as she grabbed her shoulder and gasped.

"Temari! What's wrong?" He shouted as he awoke the girl sleeping on him as well as Naruto with his worried shout.

"Gah! It's nothing… Argh, I think I broke my shoulder when I hit the railing, and god it hurts!" She cried as the pain intensified as she jolted it when the waves started to get nasty again. Gaara pulled her to him as wave after wave crashed against the little raft. The sea was turning nasty yet again. Naruto woke Hinata and pulled her to him as the raft tipped dangerously side to side. Little Namakemono slept on clueless in her arms as she held him tightly against her chest.

While the boat rocked dangerously, Neji had been looking out to sea and gave an un-Neji-like shout as he saw land coming into view. It seemed the water current had been pushing them in that direction and now that they were so close it was getting impatient at the long wait.

As the raft got closer and closer to the island, the water calmed and all of those on the raft held their breath at the thought of land. All of them were thinking it was some sort of mirage and the thought of an island being in the Bermuda Triangle seemed to be too good to be true.

But as soon as they hit the sand bank they knew it was no mirage and they all jumped out of the raft despite their injuries and some even kissed the sand in joy. Naruto carried Ino while Hinata still carried Temari's baby because Temari was too busy trying to keep her shoulder from being jolted as they walked up from the beach and into the trees for shelter from the hot suns' rays.

As Tenten looked around she knew they were no longer Tokyo; the forests green canopy was so bright with wildlife it nearly brought tears to her eyes. She saw deer's galloping around free, she saw tropical birds fly about around her head and she saw beautifully coloured snakes and lizards soak up the heat from the big boulder-like rocks around her. She looked to Neji in awe and saw a similar expression of wonder on his face that she imagined was on her own. While she followed Sasuke, he looked around with a curious, but not in a good way, expression on his face as he took in his surrounding, trying to memorize everything so he could make his way back to the beach. He wasn't called a Hunter for nothing.

At Naruto's shout they all froze and quickly looked around for him. They found him crouched on the ground staring intensely at something in front of him. When everyone had gathered around him he finally spoke,

"These are human footprints…" and that's when all hell broke loose.

Sorry for the shortness guys, but I needed the cliffhanger for the next chapter. I will try to keep going on this story, but I need you guys to tell me if it's good or not, if its rushed or not, and any criticism u want to share with me. Just don't make it sound like a flame and we will all be fine. XD