Naruto swung his feet back and forth under the dock he was sitting at the edge of. Sakura-chan had been yelling at him off and on all day about having "Respect for the dead". He didn't know why though, because he hadn't vandalized any cemeteries, and didn't plan on disrupting that swordsman guy's funeral whenever it was going to take place. The Old Man had taught him all about having respect for the dead, and there hadn't been anything about not redistributing useful supplies anywhere in that long and boring lecture on why one mustn't disrupt someone's funeral with a prank no matter how much you disliked them.

What did taking potentially useful supplies like the ones he'd found in the scroll in the Demon of the Mist guy's pocket have to do with disrespecting the dead?

The dead guy wasn't going to use them, and they'd go to waste otherwise. Since the man had been an enemy, it wasn't like he'd been stealing from a comrade, which he'd been told by just about everybody was a major no-no.

So, what was Sakura-chan's problem?

After pondering on this question for a while, he figured that it was one of those girl things he'd probably never understand, and he decided to shelve the problem for later and take further inventory of his new acquisitions. As he sorted through the correspondence that had been sealed in that Mist guy's scroll along with a spare pair of trousers that looked like they might fit Iruka-sensei, Kakashi-sensei sat down next to him.

"Naruto?" Kakashi-sensei said when he was seated in a comfortable position.

"Yes Kakashi-sensei?" he asked.

"Has anyone taught you the rules regarding er...Battlefield Acquisitions?" Kakashi-sensei asked slightly awkwardly.

"Battlefield Acquisitions?" he asked, wondering if it was yet another complicated phrase that turned out to mean something very simple the way "Carnal Relations" was a fancy way of saying "Sex". He'd learned that one from a drunk who had called him "Fucking - yet another way of saying sex - stupid" amongst other things.

"I'll tell you what my father told me before he died." Kakashi-sensei said.

"What was that?" he asked, deciding to pay attention to his teacher since he was taking the time to give him a one-on-one lesson, rather than focusing on Sasuke.

"The civilians have a funny way of doing things, and as long as it isn't hurting anyone, we should try to accommodate them. That means no looting corpses in the open." Kakashi-sensei replied.

"So, that means we should only take stuff from the dead ninja who are indoors?" he asked after a moment's thought, knowing that this was an important lesson, and he should seek clarification in case he missed something important before his teacher decided to stop teaching.

"No," Kakashi-sensei sighed. "It means that we aren't supposed to take stuff off of dead bodies while people are watching."

"So, if Sakura-chan hadn't been looking, it would have been fine?" he asked.

Kakashi-sensei gave him a blank stare for about a minute before sighing, shaking his head, muttering "He's worse than Obito.", getting up, and going back inside.

Author's Note: An account of the events that preceded this is chronicled in The Difference Between Mostly and All.