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"Obito, please stop doing that already." Yondaime groaned as he told Obito for the fifth time to stop pressing the button in the back that unlocked and locked the car doors, making a loud clicking sound.
"But it's the only thing amusing me here. I'm so bored!" Obito whined. "How much longer do we have to drive around for?"
"Just 10 more minutes." Yondaime replied.
"But that's what you said half an hour ago!"
"Face it Obito, we're lost" Kakashi sighed as he stared at the now gravely road ahead of them that didn't seem to be heading anywhere.
"Relax guys," Yondaime smiled. "Whenever driving on a gravelled road though a densely forested area, it's always a sign that there's something at the end of the road, like a campground."
"We can only hope it's a camp ground and not something else." Rin shuddered.
Only moments later, a large sign stood ahead along with a small tollbooth.
"We're here!" Obito cried happily. "We're here, we're here, we're here! We're finally here!"
"…'Camp Death'?" Kakashi read the sign out loud with scepticism traced in his voice. "Are you sure we should be camping at a place named Camp Death, sensei?"
"It'll be fine. They probably just couldn't think of a better name for this place, that's all," Yondaime assured. "Or some teenagers just did a practical joke with the sign. Yeah, that seems more likely."
As they approached the tollbooth, a large van filled with screaming people sped out of the campgrounds and past the tollbooth.
"Practical joke, huh?" Kakashi said sceptically. "I think it's actually called Camp Death for a good reason."
"Oh lighten up, would you?" Obito lightly jabbed his elbow into Kakashi's side. "You're such a pessimist sometimes!"
"I am not being a pessimist. I am merely stating the facts. A vehicle full of screaming people just came speeding out of the campsite as though there was something possibly life-threatening within the campsite."
"Don't worry about it Kakashi, I'm sure it wasn't anything that bad. They were probably just screaming like people do when they're having a good time." Rin smiled.
"There was blood splattered on the side of that vehicle."
"Bullshit! Just shut up already, Kakashi!" Obito shouted.
"Hi there," Yondaime greeted the ranger at the tollbooth. "Three children and one adult staying for five days."
"Five days?" Kakashi cried, his voice practically rising to a shrill squeak. Shocked by his sudden pitch of voice, everyone stared at him for a moment.
"…I'm going through puberty, okay?" Kakashi shot defensively, breaking the silence.
"That'll be $50 please." The ranger said to Yondaime. Yondaime handed over the money and the ranger handed Yondaime a piece of paper. "This is your campsite number here, and please don't take any other of the reserved campsites." The ranger instructed as he handed Yondaime a card with the number fifty-three printed on it. "Have a nice stay guys."
Yondaime nodded in reply, giving the ranger a wave as he drove off. They drove down a gravely path where they passed by some campsites, a few of them occupied with people.
"This campground is quite new, so it should be quite the comfortable and clean stay here." Yondaime told his students. They then drove past one campsite where a grubby looking old man sat with a grubby looking dog.
"A clean stay here, huh?" Kakashi mused as he looked apprehensively at the old man and his tick and flea-infested dog.
"I sure wouldn't want to run into him down a dark alley!" Obito shuddered as the old man glared at them when they drove by.
"Then we probably shouldn't leave our campsite at night then." Rin sighed.
A few moments later, Yondaime spotted their site and announced, "Here's our campsite, guys!"
They pulled into the campsite where a small fire pit and a fairly new wooden picnic table with benches sat.
"So this is a campsite…" Rin murmured as she looked out the window.
"Yup! Welcome to camping, Rin!" Yondaime grinned, bringing Ricky the car to a stop.
Obito immediately jumped out of the car and scanned the whole area. Kakashi and Rin stepped out of the car and headed to the trunk of the car to grab the gear, but Yondaime stopped them.
"Everybody, before you do anything else, I want you to stop for a moment," The blonde haired sensei instructed. "Just stand right where you are and take a deep breath."
The three students stared at him, confused.
"Don't tell me you guys don't know how to breathe!" Yondaime cried half jokingly.
"Of course we do," Kakashi scoffed. "But why do you want us to take a deep breath?"
"Yeah! What's the point?" Obito asked.
"Just do as I say and inhale now!" Yondaime ordered.
The three young shinobi obeyed and inhaled deeply, then exhaled. There was a moment of silence.
"Well…any thoughts?" Yondaime asked.
"Why do you want us to breath so deeply? Are we trying to get high off this air or something?" Obito asked.
Yondaime wanted to smack his student for that thought, but he held back his frustration and tried again, "Any other intelligent thoughts?"
"Oxygen is good for the body and helps our bodies function properly?" Rin offered.
Yondaime smacked is forehead in frustration. "I don't believe it you guys can't notice it..."
"The air is rather fresh and clean here, isn't it." Kakashi stated.
"Thank you, Kakashi!" Yondaime cried, arms spread out as though a heavy stone had been lifted off the jounin's shoulders. "Can you guys notice the freshness of the air here? Always take time to breath in the pure air here. While you're here, always breath like there's no tomorrow!"
"Yes sir!" Obito saluted and then began to breath in and out deeply and rapidly as though he were having an asthma attack. "Okay, that was cool. Now let's go do something that's actually fun! Do they have a lake here or something we could go swimming in?"
"Woah, woah, woah! Hold your horses there, Obito. We've got to unpack and set up the tent first. Let's start unloading the luggage from Ricky."
Team Yondaime proceeded with unloading all the gear from Ricky the car, laying it all on the ground.
"I found the tent, sensei!" Rin announced as they emptied the last of the gear from the car.
"Good job, Rin. Now you, Obito, and Kakashi go lay the tent out on the ground and then proceed with setting it up." Yondaime instructed. "I'm going to go talk with the park ranger, so don't leave the campsite until I get back, okay?"
"Wait! How do we set up the tent, sensei?" Rin asked.
"Use your teamwork! Together you three will get it set up in no time." Yondaime replied back, grinning. "Best of luck, guys!"
"Wait! You can't do this to us!" Obito cried. But Yondaime had already disappeared out of the campsite and down the path. Obito groaned, turning back to his team mates.
"So…anyone know how to set up a tent?"
"I do…sort of." Kakashi replied.
"Kakashi, it's like you know how to do everything! It's wonderful!" Rin gushed.
"…Yeah, sure. Now let's get this stupid thing set up. Rin, you take the corner to my right, take that pole on the ground there and shove it through that loop over there. Obito you do the same thing with that tent corner over there across from me."
The setting up of the tent went well at first until Obito took one of the tent poles and swung it dangerously, accidentally poking Kakashi in the eye with it.
"Watch where you swing that thing!" Kakashi snapped as he covered his hand over his eye that had gotten poked. "You could've taken my eye out with that."
"It was an accident!" Obito defended. "And I didn't actually take your eye out, so it's fine."
"No it's not. If you keep doing that, you could seriously hurt someone."
"Stop acting like you're the boss!" Obito shouted angrily.
"I may as well be the boss since you're so hopeless."
"What did you just call me?"
"I said you're hopeless."
"That's it! I'm so gonna pound your sorry face in!"
"I'd like to see you try, you idiot!" Kakashi mocked as he, got in his fighting stance.
Come on, stop fighting you two!" Rin cried. "We need to set up the tent, remember?"
But Obito swung the tent pole he was holding at Kakashi, hitting his other eye. Kakashi covered both his now-hurting eyes and emitted a very naughty word from his masked lips.
"You're dead, Obito!" Kakashi snarled and blindly slammed his body full force into Obito, forcing him on the ground. The two began to wrestle on the ground, shooting insults and throwing punches at each other.
"Guys, stop it!" Rin cried.
"I leave you guys alone for 5 minutes and all hell breaks lose!" Yondaime groaned as he walked back into the campsite.
"I'm sorry, sensei! I tried to stop them." Rin apologized
Yondaime stepped towards the boys and pried them apart. "Now, what happened?"
"Obito accidentally jabbed me in the eye with a tent pole. When I told him that handling the tent pole like he did was dangerous, he got angry and purposely jabbed my other eye with the tent pole."
"Then Kakashi tackled me to the ground and tried to punch me!" Obito cut in.
"That's because you blinded me, you idiot!"
"Hold on!" Yondaime cut in. "Obito, you tried blinding Kakashi when he was trying to give you a safety tip?"
"No! He called me hopeless afterwards!"
"Doesn't mean you can go trying to blind me!"
"I didn't poke your eyes that hard! You tried to punch and bite me, you bastard!"
"I did not try to bite you!"
"Obito, don't exaggerate the truth like that. You know Kakashi couldn't do such a thing with his mask on." Yondaime scolded. "It seems like you both caused this problem. In punishment, you two have to go collect firewood while Rin and I finish setting up the tent."
"What? With him?!" Obito cried, pointing at Kakashi.
"Yes, with him. Go to the tollbooth and the ranger there might sell you some firewood. If not, he'll tell you where you can get some." Yondaime handed some money to Kakashi. "Now get to it you two!"
The two boys obediently left the campsite, walking in silence towards the tollbooth where the ranger was.
"Hey! Mr. Ranger person!" Obito said loudly as he approached the tollbooth. The ranger had to look down from the booth to make eye contact with the boys. "Do you know where we can get some firewood?"
"Generally a truck comes by with the firewood, but all the firewood's been sold to the other campers here. If you want any burning material, you'll have to go look around in the forest for some. You might even have to take an axe with you and chop part of a fallen tree or a log into firewood pieces"
"We have to what!?" Obito shouted.
"Come on, you dolt. Let's just get this stupid task over with and find some firewood." Kakashi grumbled, grabbing Obito by the sleeve of his jacket and dragging him away.
To be continued…
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