Just thinking about her father made Hinata sick to her stomuch, she didn't known what upset her more, the fact that her own father had said such ugly things about her to Naruto, or that Naruto had risked sever punishment when he'd pulverized her father. Not that she was happy with Naruto for pounding him ether 'that was her job'.
The forest in front of Hinata swayed ominusly in the wind, drawing her attention back to the present. She had never seen a forest like this one before and it was a little nerve wracking for her.
The trees that Hinata could see were well over three hundred feet high, with wide leaves the size of small person. Each tree was well over two hundred feet wide, with branches a good three feet thick and trucks wider then the average apartment.
But what really got too Hinata was the moss.
It covered everything, and hang in sheets that filled the spaces between the branches of each tree. There were so much moss that most of these giant trees had leaves only on the last twenty or so feet of each branch bigger then a hands width in around.
Hinata was just starting to get over her nerves when she heard Neji activate his byakugan to get a closer look. She started to feel nerves aguin when she saw Neji start to squint as he vocaused harder and Hinata got down right scared when she saw Neji start to snarl with the effort he was putting into his eyes.
"I can't do it" Neji finally gasped as he released the byakugan, "I can't brake through the moss. Its like it's repelling my eyes." Neji spat into the sand of the beach as he stared at the forest with regular sight.
Scared now Hinata turned have some very strong words with Naruto about his choose of hideouts but found that he was not behind them anymore.
"Hay what ya'll waiting for, an invite from the queen of shibba?" Hinata felt her blood freeze as she spun around to see her body walking towards the forest. "lets get going already".
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Naruto was definately getting annoyed as he watched Neji try to penarate the wall of moss. He already know that the moss would hinder the byakugan so much at it would basically be rendered useless.
A soft breeze from the forest draw Naruto's attention and he quickly fromed a reply and sent it floating back. There was a pause as whatever it was that had sent the message desiphered his reply before he reseaved another message, one full to bursting with confussion and wariness to which Naruto sent a confermation signal.
All this was done with anyone but Naruto awhere that a conversation of sorts was going on.
Naruto was just about to enter the forest and meet with the greeting party when a shout rang out behind him.
"NARUTO! what do you think your doing!?" Sakura yelled from a good thirty meters down the beach.
"I'm heading for the shine, what else should we be doing?" Naruto replied as he started to turn around aguin.
"Maybe it would be better to make camp on the beach for tonight, it would give us a full day to penitrate the forest tomorrow and we'd have the protection of Neji's byakugan if we stay here." said Shino as he servayed the forest in front of him.
"No, a lot of large predators patrol the beach a night," said Naruto as he took another step towards the forests edge, "we'll be safer in the forest then out here."
Hinata looked at Naruto as if trying to deside what to do. Before she could get an answer figured out Naruto received a message from his mysterious watcher. He felt a bit of evilness that Naruto usually put with his pranking side. Naruto couldn't repress an evil smurk as he sent his reply an spun to face the rest of the group.
"Come on what with you people? its not like I don't know this place. Whats the worst that could happen?" just as Naruto said the last part of his little speech he felt a breeze flow over his body. Not a message breeze ether, no this was the pressure wake that went with the massive jaws that had just incircled Naruto.
And then they were slammed shut.