It was the end of the day, and Naruto, Chouji, and Shikamaru were waiting with Gaara and his brother and sister. "So are you actually going to go on this field trip Naruto?" Shikamaru asked.
"I don't know yet," Naruto told him.
"Oh come on, you haven't been on one filed trip since you came to this school," Chouji told him. "You're missing out on all the fun." Kankuro looked at him.
"You don't like going on field trips?" he asked. Naruto shrugged.
"I don't know, I've never been on one," he told him.
"Ah come on, field trips are fun," Temari told him. "It's practically a day off school."
"If I want a day off school I can stay home," Naruto told her.
"You should come anyways, even if this time it's only an art museum," Gaara told him looking up and down the road for his uncle's car. "He's late again," he said under his breath sitting down on the edge of the sidewalk and pulling out his note book.
"I just don't feel the need to go on field trips is all," Naruto told him putting him hands behind his head.
"You miss out on great fun though. Shikamaru and I usually leave the class and go do something else, if it gets boring," Chouji told him.
"That's no good. You should never leave the group, what if you got lost, or missed the bus back to the school?" Temari asked.
"Shikamaru is too smart to get us lost," Chouji told her with a smile. She just sighed.
"This is why I hate kids, they are such brats," Kankuro said under his breath. Temari hit him in the back of the head. "What was that for!" he yelled rubbing the spot she hit. She just crossed her arms and turned her back to him. Kankuro sighed.
Gaara's uncle finally pulled up to the school a few minutes later. Temari got into the front of the car and Gaara and Kankuro got in the back. "You better come on the field trip this time," Gaara told Naruto. Naruto opened his mouth to say something, but Gaara closed the car door on him and his uncle drove off.
"He's right, you should start coming on field trips," Chouji told him.
"But I don't want to," Naruto whined.
"I know you do Naruto, what's the real reason you never go?" Shikamaru asked. Shikamaru could always tell when people were lying or when something was wrong. He was just too smart for his own good.
"There is no reason. I just don't want to go!" Naruto yelled at him. Shikamaru raised an eyebrow. Naruto lowered his head. "You're too smart Shikamaru," he said under his breath. He shoved his hands in his pockets and started to walk towards home. Shikamaru sighed and followed him. Chouji looked at Naruto then Shikamaru. He shrugged and followed them.
Shikamaru, Naruto, and Chouji met the next day where they usually did to walk to school. "Did you get your form sighed?" Shikamaru asked Naruto.
"No, now let's go before we are late," Naruto told him starting to walk off. Shikamaru grabbed his wrist.
"You're going to get that form sighed. We want you to come for once," Shikamaru told him.
"Yeah, besides we are always really early getting to school," Chouji told him. Naruto sighed and started walking back to his house with the two boys following.
"You know, we've never actually been to your house," Chouji told him. Naruto didn't say anything. He just opened the front door of his house and looked inside.
"Are you still home? I forgot to get this field trip form sighed!" Naruto yelled into what seemed to be an empty house.
"Yeah I'm still here," a man's voice said. "You actually want to go on one?"
"Yeah, my friends are making me go," Naruto told it.
"Ok, I'll be right there," the voice said.
"No, I'll come in!" Naruto yelled in a kind of scared voice. He went into the house and slammed the door.
He came out a few minutes later. "Are you sure you don't want a ride? You're going to be late!" Shikamaru and Chouji heard a voice yell from inside the house. It was a little different from before, but it was still a man's voice.
"No, we can run!" Naruto yelled slamming the door.
"We can run?" Shikamaru and Chouji asked confused.
"It's only a few blocks away, but we better get going," Naruto said laughing and rubbing the back of his head. The other two boys sighed as Naruto ran past them. They turned and ran after him.
The three boys got into class and sat down just as the bell rang. Gaara was already sitting there waiting. "What took you so long?" he asked.
"Naruto forgot to get his form sighed, so we made him go back and do it," Chouji told him out of breath.
"And then he made us run to school instead of taking the offer for a ride," Shikamaru said with a sigh putting his head down on the desk.
"At least the teacher is always late, so he will never know," Naruto told him with a nervous laugh. Shikamaru just shook his head.
Kakashi came into the classroom a few minutes later. The class looked at him with a disappointed look. "What, I was a little earlier this time!" he told him. They shook their heads. "Anyways, I'm going to come around and take your field trip forms now," he told them. Everyone went and pulled them out of their bags. Kakashi got the Naruto's table last. Shikamaru, Chouji, and Gaara handed theirs in then looked at Naruto. "Do you have yours Naruto, or are you skipping the trip again?" he asked.
"How did you know I skipped field trips?" he asked.
"I was warned by your previous teachers," he told him with a smile.
"Oh," Naruto said.
"So are you coming on this one or not?" Kakashi asked. The whole class was looking at Naruto now to see if he was actually going this time. Naruto sighed and reached into his backpack. He pulled out the form and handed it to Kakashi. Kakashi smiled. "Glad to see you will be joining us tomorrow," he told him.
"I wouldn't be if they weren't making me go," Naruto told him under his breath looking at his friends.
"Well I'm glad they did, this will be a good educational experience for you," Kakashi told him. Naruto gave him a confused look. "It means you'll learn something," he told him with a sigh. Then he went over to his desk. He put the papers down and turned and started the class.
It was recess now and Naruto was lying on the hill ignoring his friends. "Come on Naruto, it will be fun," Chouji told him. Naruto didn't say anything.
"You're such a drag," Shikamaru told him with a sigh. Naruto still never said anything.
"You know Naruto, this is going to be my first field trip too," Gaara told him. Naruto sat up and looked at him. "I never use to go because I didn't think it would be fun without friends to be with during it. So the only reason I'm going on this one is because of you guys," he told him.
"You really never went on a field trip before either?" Naruto asked him. Gaara shook his head. Naruto smiled.
"You guys are going to love it," Chouji told them. "Shikamaru will take us to all the places the class is going and more before the field tip is even over!"
"I can only do that if you guys follow me, and don't fool around too much," Shikamaru told them. "But yeah, I can do it and get us back in time to leave."
"Alright, let's have a fun field trip!" Naruto yelled as the bell rang to go in.
They got to class and sat down. Kakashi was already there waiting for them. He started the class on another art project. Then he went over to Naruto. "Naruto, I have to talk to you about the signature on this form you gave me," he told him. Naruto sighed.
"Alright, I knew this was going to happen," he said getting up and following Kakashi out of the class. Shikamaru, Chouji and Gaara watched Naruto and Kakashi leave the room, as did the rest of the class. As soon as they left, the room burst into chatter. Mostly about Naruto and how they thought he was getting in trouble.
Naruto came back into the class with Kakashi behind him smiling. "Well that was very interesting," Kakashi said.
"Yeah, yeah," Naruto said sitting back down in his chair.
"What happened?" Chouji asked. Naruto didn't say anything he just worked on his art project that his friends were almost done.
"Naruto, what happened?" Shikamaru asked.
"Nothing, now leave me alone. I have to catch up to you guys with this thing," he told them working on the cube they had to make out of marshmallows and toothpicks.
"Ok everyone, time for gym. Finish up, put your name on it, and leave it on your desk. Then head to the gym," Kakashi told the class. Everyone did as he said and headed out the door. They got to the gym and found that they had a girl for their gym teacher.
"Hey I'm Anko, your gym teacher for today. You're regular teacher, Guy, had to take the grade sixes on a field trip to a bowling place or something. I don't know. But what I do know is that I don't want to be here, and I don't like little kids. So today I'm going to let you do whatever you want. You can play tag or something, I don't know. Just don't bug me. I'll be in the teachers' lounge," she told them walking towards the door. Then she stopped. "Oh, one more thing, don't get hurt or hurt each other. And don't do something to get in trouble, I really don't want to have to deal with anything today," Anko told them leaving the gym. Everyone stood there looking at the door blinking.
When the class finally realized that Anko wasn't coming back, and that she really didn't care, they broke off into their groups and started talking. "I can't believe they let her be a teacher," Shikamaru said.
"Who cares, it's free time!" Naruto yelled happily.
"So are we going to do what we always do on free time?" Chouji asked.
"Yep, sit here and talk," Naruto smiled, and they walked over to the benches.
After a few minutes Ino, Sakura, and Sasuke came up to them. "So, you actually got the guts to come on a field trip," Sasuke said rudely.
"Who said I never had the guts to before? I just chose not to go," Naruto told him.
"Sure you did," Sasuke said with a smirk.
"And what did you get in trouble for?" Ino asked.
"Yeah, what was wrong with your form?" Sakura asked.
"None of your business," he told them.
"He didn't even tell us, why would he tell you?" Gaara asked.
"Oh, keeping secrets are we now?" Sasuke asked.
"Go away Uchiha, and take your girlfriends with you," Shikamaru told him.
"Why should I, Nara?" Sasuke asked.
"Because Hinata is going to see you guys over here bugging us, and then she is going to get upset again," Chouji told him.
"Since when do you care about us?" Ino asked.
"We don't care about you guys. We care about Hinata," Shikamaru told them.
"Whatever," Sasuke said walking away with Ino and Sakura following.
Shikamaru, Chouji, and Naruto laughed. "I like how Sasuke just says "Whatever" and walks away if he can't think of anything to say," Naruto said.
"I bet he gets really mad when he has no come backs," Shikamaru said.
"Ino and Sakura are talking to Hinata now," Gaara told them. They stopped laughing and looked over to the girls. Hinata was blushing now and looking over at them. Ino and Sakura were pointing at the four boys and looked angry. When they stopped talking Hinata started to walk over to Shikamaru, Naruto, Gaara, and Chouji.
"Ino and Sakura w-want me t-to say s-something mean t-to you guys, but I-I can't," she told them in a nerves whisper. "B-Because I w-want to thank y-you guys for b-being nice to m-me even though I-I play w-with Kiba and Shino."
"Hey, we don't care who you play with," Naruto told her with a smile. "You're nice to us, so we are nice to you."
"Yeah, and we really don't think its fare that you get dragged into all the fights that those guys have with us," Chouji told her.
"They are just mean people," Shikamaru said.
"N-No, they a-aren't. If y-you guys h-had the chance t-to meet them r-right, you w-would see t-they are r-really nice," Hinata told him.
"Well that's a shame, I would have liked to meet them the right way," Shikamaru told her.
"W-Well I h-have to g-go back, bye," she said walking away.