This is my first chapter and pairing story that I have ever written. The camp that is in the story is based off of a camp that I have gone to every year for the past 7 years (Camp Fitch); it is an odd camp so some of the things in the story may seem odd to you. But I do try to explain them to the best of my ability. Reviews and any kind of help or constructive criticism are welcome and if you have any ideas for the story that you think might help, I'm all ears. Thanks for proof readin' my story EB-chan! I don't own Naruto or Camp Fitch.
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He sighed as he looked out the window of the car. The world flew by faster than it was registering. He didn't want to go on vacation with his family. He would have preferred to stay at home. Then the car stopped and he looked for any indication of where they had stopped. He was utterly horrified to find the "Welcome to Camp Konoha" sign.
He sat still and stared at the sign out the window in disbelief, while his father and brother got out of the car. They went to the trunk and proceeded to take his one suit case and sleeping bag out. His sister turned around in her seat in the front, and told him he had to get out.
He now stood in front of the sign with his suit case, and watched as his family drove away, without any explanation as to why he was here, and a bewildered look on his face. He then grimaced when he heard laughter from behind him. He grabbed his suit case and turned to glare at the two people laughing at him, and asked where he was to go.
The people had been of no help. All they did was giggle, making their answer incoherent, which made him mad. He gave up and wondered in the direction of a large building, hoping to find someone able to form a coherent sentence.
He found such a person in the building, but soon regretted it. The man he found clearly had too much coffee in his system, or something along those lines. Also, who wears a green jump suit anyway, but he had to settle for what he found, and asked the hyper green man where he was.
"Well, my young friend, you are at the wonderful and youthful Camp Konoha. Full of energetic and youthful children." He almost yelled as he gave him a thumbs up, and an almost impossible grin. "And, I am the very youthful Might Gai, boys' camp counselor, and you are." The man now known as Gai said.
"I am Sabaku no Gaara, very bored and suppose to be on vacation or at home" Gaara said.
"Hey, you're in my cabin, cabin #56, also known as raccoon cabin." said Gai, nearly exploding. "You are the last one so now I can sign off that all my campers are here!"
Now Gaara was annoyed. When did his family find time to sign him up for camp umongst all their vacation planning.
"Follow me" yelled the loud voice of Gai.
Gaara followed, unwillingly. But he followed. They walked passed a lot of cabins, and buildings. They finally stopped in front of one cabin that had a commotion that sounded somewhat like really bad singing. Gai opened the door and stepped into the loud cabin, Gaara followed. Almost instantly the singing stopped, and Gaara was bombarded with declarations that he was to be the cabin's mascot. Gaara dropped his stuff on the ground, and turned to stalk out of the cabin, only to have a large hand grab him by his shoulder, and turn him around.
"Now boys tell him you are sorry" said Gai to two very familiar looking people.
"We're sorry" they said in unison. Then the one with brown hair added "that you look like a freaking raccoon." Gaara glared at him. Then it all clicked when they started laughing again, these two were who he had seen earlier, the ones that laughed at him.
"Why were you laughing at me earlier?" Gaara asked.
"That's because your family seemed real keen on getting rid of you". They practically threw you out of the car and drove away." Said the blond, while trying to hold in his laughter, and failing. Gaara tried to leave again, but to no avail.
"They're idiots. You'll soon figure out that they don't think before they say or do anything" said a cheery voice from behind Gaara. He turned around to find a smiling chubby boy behind him, eating a bag of chips.
"This is Gaara!" said Gai in a way to loud voice.
"Hi, I'm Choji" said the chubby boy.
"I'm Rock Lee!!" said sounded twice as loud as Gai's, if that was possible. Gaara turned to find a mini-Gai, with his thumb up. Gaara looked from Gai to Lee and back to Gai. They were like clones.
"Nice to meet ya, I'm Naruto" said the blond from earlier.
"Kiba" said the boy that had called him a raccoon from his top bunk.
"Your bunk is the one under Naruto's" said Gai.
Gaara picked up his suit case and sleeping and wandered over to said bunk and droped his stuff along with his backpack on the mattress. He sat down on the bed and stared at the others. Gai was on the bottom bunk closest to the door, and Lee was in the bunk above him. Kiba was in the top bunk by the wall, also close to the door and Choji was in the bunk below him. Gaara noticed that his bunk was in the back corner, farthest from the door.
"You need to go to the pool and take the swimming test" said Gai
"Why?" asked Gaara.
"So we know how well you swim, it also determines what activities you can do at the lake, pool, and pond" was Gai's answer.
Gaara rummaged through his suit case, and then pulled out a pair of black swim trunks. Gaara was a master at changing his clothes without anyone seeing anything. This is because he had to share a bed room with his perverted older brother for about ten years. He was changed and ready to go before anyone had registered that he was changing his clothing.
"Naruto, why don't you show Gaara to the pool" said Gai.
"OK!" said Naruto. He jumped down from his bunk and led Gaara out of the cabin, though the camp to the pool.
Gaara went to the edge of the pool as he was told to, and waited. Then the life guard told him and the other campers that were waiting to jump into the pool. The life guard told them to swim free style to the other end of the pool. Then he said go. All the campers and Gaara started to swim. Some of the younger campers were straggling and one seemed to be having issues swimming.
'Hey, I thought Gaara didn't look like the swimming type, but he is really good' thought Naruto. 'I'll have to ask him about that later.'
Gaara got to the other end of the pool first and was told he got blue. He got out of the pool and walked over to the other life guard who was putting wristbands on people.
"What color did you get and what is your name?" she asked him.
"Blue, Sabaku Gaara" said Gaara in a gruff voice. She wrote his name on a blue wristband and tied it to his wrist. He stared at it for a moment then he walked back to where Nartuo was standing. He shook his head to get the water out of his hair, and for a second he thought he saw Naruto blush. He dismissed it as a trick of his eye, because he did have his hair in his face, which was red. Gaara threw his towel over his shoulder and started to follow Naruto back to the cabin.
"What does this mean?" asked Gaara, pointing to his wristband.
"It means you are a very good swimmer, and that also means you can go off the rope swing at the pond. You can also do pretty much what you want to do at the lake" answered Naruto.
"So, pretty much there are no restrictions as to what I can and can't do at the pond, lake, or pool" said Gaara.
"Yup" said Naruto with a large grin. "Most of us in raccoon cabin are blue as well; except for Choji he is green. That means he can't go off the rope swing."
They got back to the cabin, and Naruto took it upon himself to announce that Gaara had gotten blue. Gaara was not thrilled with this, because Lee and Gai then started preaching about how youthful and energetic Gaara was for getting blue. But Gaara did use the fact that everyone was paying attention to the two green clones preaching about youth to change his clothing.
When Gaara finished getting dressed he found Lee and Gai embracing each other while crying (and still preaching youth) for reasons unknown to him. Kiba and Naruto were laughing loudly and Choji was eating another bag of chips.
'Where does he get all of that food?' thought Gaara
Just as he thought this a voice came over the loud speaker telling boys camp to go to the pool and wait for the tour around the camp.
'Oh joy' thought Gaara 'More people'
"Shoot me now" said Gaara as he followed Naruto and the rest of his cabin back to the pool.
Thanks for takin' the time to read my story. =) If you have any questions about the camp I am happy to answer them. Again this is my first chapter story that I have written and I will try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible. Please tell me what you think, I would really appreciate it.
