"Okaaaay…and…here we go!" Naruto looked down at the video camera in his hands. "…I think. How do you work this thing?"

"Did you turn it on?" Sakura asked him.

"Yeah, I just pressed that little button right there," Naruto said, pointing to said button.

"Okay, well…I don't know. Ask Kakashi-sensei."

Naruto sauntered over to his sensei, who had his face buried in his new volume of Icha Icha. "Hey Kaka-sensei, do you know how to work this thing?" Kakashi chuckled at something clearly amusing in his book and ignored him. Naruto scowled at him in annoyance. "Oi, don't ignore me!" he complained. Kakashi still wasn't paying attention to him, so Naruto snatched the book out of his hands and threw it into the forest. Kakashi blinked and just stared at him for a moment before sprinting off after his book.

"Tch, dobe," Sasuke muttered, coming over to him. "You don't know how to work a camera?"

"Do you?" Naruto asked him.

Sasuke scoffed. "Of course I do. I'm an Uchiha."

"Oh, so all Uchihas know how to work video cameras, huh? Well, if you're so smart, why don't you do it." Naruto thrust the camera at Sasuke, who stared at him blankly. A scowl gradually contorted Naruto's face when his team mate continued to stand there with his hands in his pockets. "Oi, teme, are you gonna turn it on or what?"

"Tch, effort," Sasuke muttered before taking the camera from him. He looked it over critically and pressed a button. Immediately the screen flickered to life. "See…nothing to it."

"Eh Sasuke, what's that blinking red light mean?" Naruto asked him.

"It means we're recording, dumb-nut," Sakura said. She shoved him out of the way and plopped herself right in front of the camera, waving and smiling flirtatiously. She winked and flipped her hair, and Sasuke almost threw up.

He handed the camera to Naruto, muttering, "Do whatever you want, dobe."

Naruto took the camera and looked through the screen. "Hey Sakura-chan, say hi to the camera." Sakura waved with another sickeningly sweet grin. "Okay, now Sasuke, say hi." Sasuke gave him what could be considered as the most menacing death glare in the history of menacing death glares. Naruto scowled at him for his lack of enthusiasm. "Seriously teme, I've seen uncooked ramen with more personality than you."

Kakashi suddenly appeared before them in a puff of smoke. "Yo," he said, his orange Icha Icha book fixed in front of his face. Sakura and Naruto noticed that it was slightly dirty, and looked as though it had fallen into a puddle. Sasuke was staring at the chipmunk that had climbed down from its tree to get an acorn. Then a hawk swooped down and carried it away. "Okay," Kakashi said, "Now that we're all ready to go and I have my book back," he scowled at Naruto, "Let's head out." He noticed Naruto and the camera. "Naruto, you can't be serious."

"Serious about what?" Naruto asked.

"Are you honestly going to bring that camera along?" Kakashi asked him. "Naruto, you can't record missions. They're top-secret."

"I doubt that a bunch of socks are that important Kakashi-sensei," Sakura said.

"The camera will distract you," Kakashi insisted.

"What on earth is there to be distracted from?! We're getting a bunch of socks!!" Naruto cried.

"It's going to slow you down, Naruto," Kakashi pointed out.

"No it won't!" Naruto said. "Here, watch." He started running, the camera in hand. Kakashi and Sakura watched him with their arms crossed over their chests. Sasuke was turned around and looking in the completely opposite direction. Sakura started scowling as Naruto slowed down, seemingly fascinated by something on the camera. "Whoa, come see this giant bug!" he called back.

"Won't slow him down, huh? Won't be a distraction, huh?" Kakashi said, looking down at Sakura expectantly.

"Aww, come on, Kakashi-sensei! We promise we'll be extra good! Pleeeasee!" Sakura batted her eyelashes at him innocently. "Besides, Tsunade-sama did it when she was on missions and she's Hokage."

"Oi, Sakura, teme! You gotta come see this bug!! Oh it's so gross and nasty!! Ugh, disgusting!" Everyone ignored him. "Okay, I'm gonna poke it with a stick. Don't worry about me. I'll be completely fine." Sakura and Kakashi continued to argue, while Sasuke was preoccupied with stepping on all the ants he could find on the ground. Naruto suddenly screamed. "Ah, it bit me!! Oh it stings! Ah, gross! It's turning yellow! Is that normal?? I'm gonna die now! Why did you guys tell me to poke it with a stick?!"

"Shut up, dobe," Sasuke dead-panned.

Kakashi sighed wearily and rolled his one visible eye. "Alright Naruto, I'm coming over. Just stay calm." Sakura followed him. Naruto was clutching his hand, turning it over to examine it. Kakashi took his hand and looked it over. "Wow, Naruto, it looks pretty bad," he said.

"Yeah, maybe they'll have to amputate it," Sakura interjected, smiling evilly.

"Well, the hospital's only like ten feet away so…" Kakashi trailed off.

"W-wait," Naruto said, looking between them fearfully. "What's amputate mean?"

"It means they'll have to cut it off, dobe," Sasuke replied.

Naruto squeaked. "No, oh please no! Not that! Anything but that!"

"Well, that's what you get for poking at strange bugs, Naruto," Sakura chided.

"Yup. You have to learn your lesson somehow. I think a missing hand is a good enough punishment."

Naruto's face drained of blood, and he looked as though he had just been told the ramen gods did not exist. Then Kakashi and Sakura started laughing and pointing at him. Sasuke just stared. "Oh man, you fell for that!" Sakura said between giggles. "That was priceless!"

"Wait, so you mean I'm not gonna die?" Naruto asked them.

"Of course not, Naruto. It's just a little sting, that's all," Kakashi said, giving that strange inverted U smile he always did.

"Yeah…I-I wasn't worried for a second!" Naruto said. "B-but you're sure nothing bad is gonna happen, right?"

"You might want to bleed it just to keep the swelling down," Kakashi suggested. Without a moment's thought, Naruto pulled out a kunai and cut across the bite.

"Hey, all you bugs out there! I'm not afraid of you! You can do whatever you want to me! You can bite me, sting me, poison me, and even give me unsightly and uncomfortable rashes, but you will never get me to back down! Do you hear me?! Nothing can stop me, because I'm going to be the next Hokage!!" he declared, determination in his eyes.

"Naruto, do you have to do this every time you get hurt?" Sakura asked him.

"It's practice. Since I'm going to be Hokage one day, I have to be able to give emotional speeches that have meaning and give people encouragement," Naruto explained. "I do it in like every episode…why stop now?"

Everyone just looked at him for a moment. "Well now that that's over with, how about we actually get on with the mission," Kakashi said before beginning to walk down the path. His students followed him through the forest, all the while Naruto was talking to the video camera about random things like his dream to become the next Hokage.

"…everybody will look up to me and love me and want to be like me! I'll have all the power and won't have to go on anymore lame missions! Nope, I'll have only super-cool missions!" he said, staring down at the camera. "And I'll have free ramen all the time! As much as I can eat! And Sakura-chan will finally love me and not that stupid teme!" Naruto paused. "Oi Sasuke, how do you make it so that you can still video tape when it's dark?" he asked, since the sky was in fact getting darker.

"Tch, idiot," Sasuke muttered before going over to the video camera and turning on the night vision.

"Thanks teme!" Naruto said before turning his attention back to the camera. "This is so cool! Everything looks weird, but you can see everything and it's like whoa."

"We'll make camp here since there's a river near by. By tomorrow night, if we travel quickly, we'll reach Mist," Kakashi declared coming to a stop by a clearing next to the trail. "Go get some wood Naruto."

"Why me Kaka-sensei? Make Sasuke do it," Naruto whined, the video camera still recording.

"Sasuke is getting water. Just go get some wood," Kakashi ordered before returning to build a ring of rocks around where the fire would be later. Sakura tried to pitch a tent, failed, and finally gave up. She just sat there, staring blankly into the bushes and making everyone wonder why she hadn't been the one to get wood. Meanwhile Naruto was trekking through the forest, looking for wood. He picked up a few puny twigs.

"These should be enough," he commented. Suddenly he heard a rustling in the bushes. "Who-who's there?" he asked. There was more rustling, and this time it sounded closer than before. "Stay back, whoever you are," Naruto warned, taking a step back. "I'm warning you! I'm a super powerful ninja! Don't come any closer!" The rustling grew louder, and Naruto lost his bravado. He crouched down on the ground, adopting the fetal position. "Please don't hurt me!" he squeaked.

"Idiot," Sasuke muttered as he stepped out from the bushes. He had four canteens in his hand, filled with water. Wordlessly he stepped over Naruto and went back to camp. Naruto stood up and dusted himself off before following after him. When they entered the campsite Naruto noticed that there was a fire blazing.

"Kakashi-sensei, why'd you make me go get wood if you were gonna do it yourself?" he complained.

Kakashi looked at the four measly little twigs in his hand and didn't say anything. Sakura was still staring into the bushes, never mind that nothing was there. They ate granola bars (and packages of instant ramen in Naruto's case) before deciding who would take watch shift first.

"But Kakashi-sensei, who's going to attack us out here?" Sakura had asked. "They're just socks." But their teacher would have none of it, and assigned Naruto to first watch duty. Naruto had groaned, but when Kakashi said it meant he could fiddle around with his camera he had consented. As Sakura and Kakashi were lying down and preparing to go to sleep, Sasuke stood up.

"I'm going to take a bath," he announced before disappearing in the forest.

"Whatever," Kakashi said absently, immersed in his porn.

Naruto looked after his moody team mate irritably. Why on earth did he need to take a bath so badly? They had only been traveling for a day, and they hadn't even fought anyone. A sudden thought occurred to Naruto, in one of those rare moments were thoughts actually did grace his vacant brain; maybe Sasuke was a germophobic neat freak. This gave Naruto many devious ideas, which was also pretty uncommon for the blonde-haired genin; ideas involving lots and lots of dirt. Sakura had fallen asleep already. Kakashi was still reading his book. Eventually even he was asleep, and still Sasuke wasn't back from his bath. Naruto played with his video camera, waving his hand in front of it to see it glow green in the night vision. He waited until he thought his shift was over before going to find Sasuke, who had the next shift. Walking through the forest silently, he slowly crept towards the river where Sasuke was bathing. And then he began to hear something. It sounded like Sasuke was…singing.

"…I'm an emo kid, non-conforming as can be. You'd be non-conforming too if you looked just like me. I have paint on my nails and makeup on my face—I'm almost emo enough to start shaving my legs…" Naruto made a face and drew nearer; the teme had horrible taste in music. He knelt behind the bushes at the edge of the river and poked his video camera out to see what was going on, since he didn't want Sasuke to see his blonde hair sticking out. Sasuke was sitting in the river, his hair all wet and one of his legs sticking straight up in the air. Naruto looked closely at the screen in disbelief; Sasuke was shaving his legs!

"…'Cause I feel real deep when I'm dressing in drag. I call it freedom of expression, most just call me a fag. 'Cause our dudes look like chicks, and our chicks look like dykes—'Cause emo is one step below transvestite!" Sasuke sang, shaving his legs. Naruto couldn't believe what he was seeing, and zoomed in to get a better look. He bit his lip to keep from bursting into laughter, and Sasuke continued to sing.

"Stop my breathing and slit my throat—I must be emo. I don't jump around when I go to shows—I must be emo." Sasuke started slurring the words together, which made Naruto think that he didn't know the words to that part of the song. Then he picked it up again, louder and more enthusiastic than before. It was amazing really; Naruto had never seen Sasuke express emotion in anything. "I look like I'm dead, and dress like a homo—I must be emo. Screw Xbox I play old-school Nintendo—I must be emo. Dye in my hair and polish on my toes—I must be emo. I play guitar and write suicide notes—I must be emo."

Sasuke stopped for a moment, and Naruto thought he had heard him shift his weight. But Sasuke was only looking at his leg, to see if he had missed a spot. Satisfied that he hadn't, he lowered that leg into the water…and out came the other one. He put shaving cream on it (which Naruto had not known he had brought), and began shaving that leg.

"My life is just a black abyss... ya know…it's so dark. And it's suffocating me, grabbing a hold of me and tightening its grip, tighter than a pair of my little sister's jeans...which look great on me by the way." Sasuke actually giggled, though it sounded more like a turkey gobble than laughter, and it severely creeped Naruto out.

"When I get depressed I cut my wrist in every direction, hearing songs about getting dumped gives me an erection. I'm just a bad, cheap imitation of Goth—you can read me "Catcher in the Rye" and watch me jack off. I wear skin tight clothes while hating my life—if I said I like girls, I'd only be half right."

Naruto had finally had enough when Sasuke broke into the chorus again, singing, "Stop my breathing and slit my throat—I must be emo." He retreated back to the campsite, and only once he was sitting back in his tree like he had been before did he finally laugh. Naruto clutched his sides, tears coming out of his eyes.

"Naruto, what are you laughing about?" Sakura asked groggily.

"Nothing Sakura-chan, just go back to sleep," Naruto answered, quieting his laughter. Sakura rolled over and started snoring again. Calming himself down, Naruto stopped recording and played back over the footage he had just gotten, having to bite his lip again to keep from giggling like a madman. After he had watched it he turned the camera off and yelled, "Oi, teme! It's time for your shift so get your butt out here!"

Sasuke walked into the campsite, emotionless as ever. Naruto found that he couldn't look him in the eyes when he was being so serious now; not after what he had just seen. "Tch, dobe, you don't have to yell," he muttered, hopping into the tree just as Naruto jumped down. Naruto didn't say anything, reasoning that he could put up with Sasuke's attitude tonight. He laid down by the fire and fell asleep.

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Second chapter and the secret is out!! Hope you all enjoyed the chapter and had some giggles!

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