Dear Fans, I apologize for my lack of correspondence for this next chapter but… AW HELL, I was playing x-box 360 if any of you has anything to say about it you can just keep that to yourself HALO 3 FTW
Sakura had only just realized that after having missed breakfast this morning through Ino's comments keeping her from anything but a murderous rampage, she was starving now after having walked with her team for almost 3 hours.
"Phew! Can we take a break at that inn up ahead?" Sakura asked as her stomach growled causing her to blush.
"Come to think of it I'm kind of hungry to." Naruto grumbled holding his also noisy stomach.
"How can you be hungry you had 60 bowls of ramen before we left!"
Ino complained as Hinata spoke up with her cute little speech impediment.
"A-a-actual-ly Ino, I am also starting to hope we could stop for lunch." Hinata's blush after that only caused Tenten to imagine the sweet strawberry filling of a rice ball as she also was shocked by the quaking sound of her empty tummy.
"Lunch break!" Tenten proclaimed with a kitty cat like smile crawling over her features.
Ino could only sigh in frustration.
"Well I'm not even hungry!" She uttered as Sakura grinned resting a hand on her Ino's shoulders.
"You know Ino…" Her arm caught Ino's throat causing Ino to gag.
"We COULD just kill you, and use your looted cash to pay for the meal!" Sakura said it so sweetly that only Ino could tell just how dangerous she was at that moment.
"Point taken!" Ino voiced as Sakura let her go with a giggle.
"Phew!" Ino thought. "Don't ever underestimate the power of a hungry Sakura!"
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As the group finally rested at a teahouse up ahead everyone could only stare as Ino began to eat a lot more than anyone else was hungry for.
"So Ino, I thought you weren't hungry?" Tenten asked finishing her riceball.
Sakura who had ordered miso soup with wild vegetables could only smirk as her friend began to finally fall off her diet.
"Ta-take it easy Ino I don't know if I can pay for everyone after all this."
This caused everyone to stare at him for a moment ignoring their cuisines.
"Na-Naruto-kun, you're paying for all this?" Hinata asked blushing and taking a small nibble out of her foreign pot pie.
"Well sure I guess." Naruto scratched the back of his head shyly as Sakura smiled.
"Well good because I think I could go for desert!" Ino said with a catlike grin causing Naruto's wallet pocket to burn. As the group set off from the tea shop Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and Hinata were all happily moving along with full tummies while Naruto who was also full was left in the background sobbing over his poor empty froggy wallet.
"And he was so cute full!"
Naruto was moping in back as the girls all stared at him feeling slightly sorry for him.
"We have to come up with something to make it up to him…" Ino voiced as everyone nodded in agreement.
"It was nice of him to pay so let's come up with a big thank you to show him how nice it was!" Tenten whispered so he couldn't hear.
"But what?" Hinata asked.
Sakura began to think about it and suddenly realized that now she owed Naruto too things since she had beat the stuffing out of him for her mistake of him touching her bottom and then the meal.
"That and of course Sakura here still has to hop on Naruto's lap!" Ino burst out laughing but was soon silenced but a right hook to the gut as Sakura cursed her and turned frantically back to make sure Naruto hadn't heard that, luckily he was still moaning over Mr. Froggy.
The group continued their journey through the land of fire before coming super close to the land of rice. Both Sakura and Naruto seethed as they passed it but could do nothing as they were pulled along by the others.
"One of these days Sakura-chan don't you worry, we will get Sasuke back, I promise you." Naruto growled as Sakura could only nod her head in answer. Soon the group had reached the land of tea and it was at that point that Naruto finally decided to start whining.
"Guys I don't know about you but I don't think we can make it to the land of Earth in a single night!"
Both Sakura and Ino groaned at Naruto.
"Don't be such a baby Naruto we should make some good time tonight and then tomorrow I suppose… how long is this going to take anyway?" Ino wondered out loud.
"We-well…" Hinata removed a map from her satchel and everyone gathered around it curiously.
"We are about here…" She pointed to the middle of the tea country and showed how it was sandwiched between Earth and Fire.
"We have to get to about the middle of Earth country so if I calculated this correctly… we should be there by tomorrow night as long as we keep moving…very quickly.
Naruto scratched the back of his head.
"Jeeze Hinata since when are you good at geography?" Tenten asked what everyone else had been thinking.
"Well um… my byakugan allows me to see for a great distance so I could actually see for about 3000 kilometers… if I tried hard enough." Hinata blushed deeply as everyone stared jaws down.
"I-its just a gift…" She swore.
"Can Neji do it to?" Sakura asked bewildered as Tenten herself shook her head.
"Neji CANNOT not after I doused soap in his eyes for that shower incident…" She giggled evilly while everyone else stepped back in fear or stepped in way to interested.
"Sooooo…. What happened?" Naruto asked giggling like a school girl.
"Oh nothing much, Neji dared to use the only shower available on a mission before me so I pinned him to the floor and scrubbed soap in his eyes… I may have been PMSing as even Gai-sensei didn't punish me! But it might have been fear…" Tenten giggled sheepishly while now everyone WAS backing away in fear.
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That night was very comfortable for the girls who split up into two tents, Hinata and Ino in one, this was because Ino was scared of Sakura and Hinata was still rubbing her cheeks from that smack Tenten gave her, and Sakura and Tenten in another. Naruto was unfortunately void a tent and instead had to enjoy the starry skies in his sleeping bag, along with the mosquitoes.
"Ow baka not another one of you teme!" Naruto swatted in every direction before ducking under his sleeping bag in apprehension and falling asleep in an itchy rage…
I ended this chapter a little boringly I think, don't worry the next chapter will take off during this scene as well and if MY calculations are correct they should be meeting the client soon. Oh joy… you have read it now REVIEW IT!