Disclaimer: Naruto Universe belongs to Kishimoto Masahi.

A/N: Okay, it's been a while for this update to come (apologizes!) so, let's have a refresher on the rules for Kakashi's game, shall we?

The Three Genin has been given special neckpieces to wear. This allows Kakashi to monitor their actions and health via a radio transmitter on his laptop.

The Game: Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke must live together, in the same apartment for one (1) month! If they succeed, they receive recommendations for Chuunin promotion!

The Rules: There are FIVE R's! So listen up!

REMAIN together in the household for one month! Meetings every Monday!
REST and sleep only at the apartment! Wake up at seven, sleep at eleven!
RESTRAIN physical violence! No physical fighting of any kind!
REGROUP if you become separated! Try to separate and you get shocked!
REMOVAL of the neckpiece is not allowed before one month is up! Keep them on!

Good Luck!

Chapter Two – Sleeping Arrangements?

It was their first day living in the apartment together.

Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke felt a chill of anxiety wash over them, realizing that they were going to have to be living together, in this very place, for an entire month.

Worse still, the night was approaching, as it had taken some time for Kakashi to relax after delivering the rules to them. He seemed way too excited that day…

Kakashi had already briefed them on the rules and showed them around the apartment. Now they all stood together in the lounge room, their huge luggage bags dropped at their feet. It seemed as ordinary as apartments went: a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom…

"ONE bathroom and ONE bedroom? HOW THE HELL am I supposed to exist here?"

Sakura obviously wasn't enjoying the 'settling in a new home' experience.

"She's right," Sasuke agreed. "We have to work out some sort of sleeping roster for our first night in our new apartment."

"That's easy, moron, we'll sleep on the dumb bed in the living room. Isn't it obvious?"

"Blockhead! There's only one bed!" Sasuke replied angrily.

"Idiot!" Sakura cried, bonking Naruto on the head with her travel handbag.

"Ow!" Naruto cried.

"Okay," Sasuke went on, "This is what we do. There are only two places we can sleep on in this apartment. There's the large bed in the bedroom and the couch in living room..."

"We can fit two people in the bedroom and one person in the living room," Naruto mused, reading his mind.

"I see…" Sakura pondered on it.

Naruto saw Sakura and himself sharing the bed, all smug and happy.

Sakura looked up and saw her hugging onto Sasuke in the bed at night.

Sasuke smiled when he saw himself enjoying the whole bed to himself.

Then all three looked at each other and realized what each had been thinking.

"This isn't going to work…" The three said at the same time.

Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura plunked themselves on to the couch at the same time. Deep in thought and wrestling with their new dilemma.

"Well, you know, I guess there is one thing we can do…" Naruto trailed off.

"What?" The other two asked.

"Well, there are extra sheets, so one of us can sleep on the floor in the bedroom. That way, everyone stays separated at night. Of course, we'll rotate though, so everyone gets a chance on the bed…" Naruto offered.

"Hmm… that actually sounds good coming out of a blockhead idiot like yourself." Sasuke responded.

"Then I guess it's settled!" Sakura sighed in relief.

"The problem is… how will we decide who sleeps on the bed first?" Sasuke muttered.

"I got it! There's only one way to settle this!" Naruto cried out positively.

The other two stared at Naruto with curious eyes.

"Okay, last one standing wins!" Naruto finished explaining the rules to his competition.

All three of the Genin were standing on top of the bed they were ready to fight for. Each had a pillow in his or her hand, ready to thwomp the head of the person next to them for the undisputed glory of resting on the bed on the first night.

"Kakashi said nothing physical right…?"

"Yeah, there's nothing wrong with this, Sakura, just relax!" Naruto replied.

"Humph, I'll definitely win this. This is so sad," Sasuke sniggered.

"That's right, you're playing on home ground, moron!" Naruto teased.

"Screw you, ass! I'ma stuff your mouth full of pillow in one second!" Sasuke returned.

"Okay, when I say go, start trying to knock your two opponents off the bed! Anyone that touches the carpet first loses! Last one standing!" Naruto cried out.

Sasuke and Sakura tensed.

"Ready… set… go!" Naruto cried out.

The three of the ninja kids began whacking each other in earnest. Feathers flew through the air and fluff sprang forth from only god knows where. The bed had become the place of a great battle where only the champion would taste the sweet, fluffy goodness of soft, warm, delicate slumber- like a fine wine that relaxed the nerves at such a time—

"Eat some of this, dumbass!" Sasuke yelled, swinging his pillow at the blonde head.

Sakura stood up and took the blow in her jaw, crying out in pain. She turned around.

"I'll get you, Naruto!" Sakura threatened, raising her pillow above her head.

"What? Sakura, what the heck's your problem?"

"It's your fault Sasuke-kun hit me! I'll get you for this, you little brat!"

"Crazy-ass bee--" Naruto cried as he ducked just underneath Sakura's fearsome axe swing.

Sakura immediately dived out of the way of Naruto's fearsome counterattack, knowing full well it would have knocked her clean off into a new level of oblivion.

Then, Sasuke sprung back into the heated battle with a fearsome, two-sided attack!

"Pillow no Jutsu: Double-sided Clap Attack!" Sasuke cried, holding a pillow in each hand and driving them together like crab claws of feathery death.

Naruto leapt up towards the ceiling using the awesome trampoline power of the mattress to propel him to the sky, dodging the lethal attack by mere inches.

"Take this, Sasuke!" As he aimed himself downwards, pillow first.

Sakura scampered to the further corner of the bed to avoid the splash damage from Naruto's incoming wooly onslaught.

"Pillow no Jutsu: Pillow Death Drop!" Naruto thundered, charging at this adversary from the heavens above.

FLUFF! The bed whined immensely!

The ripples sounded through mattress, sending miniature shockwaves to Sasuke, who fought to keep his footing, and Sakura, who nearly toppled clean off the side.

"Pillow no Jutsu: Pillow Chuck!" The young girl's voice cried.

"Pillow? Oh shit!" Naruto ducked immediately.

"Pillow chuck? What the hell does…?" Sasuke asked as a pillow flew into his nose, sending him reeling backwards on the edges of consciousness and hope.

"Sasuke! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean too!" Sakura cried out.

"Oh yeah?" Sasuke cried out in rage, "Forbidden Pillow no Jutsu: Super Deadly Rain of The Sheep of Vengeance!"

"Dude, what the f--" Naruto tried to say, as Sasuke suddenly leapt up towards the ceiling himself, and proceeded to rain down pillow after pillow and anything still alive on the bed. Naruto and Sakura barely survived Sasuke's vengeance.

"I can do cool too, damn it! Forbidden Pillow no Jutsu: Red Fluffy!"

Naruto turned around and farted. He immediately then used the pillows to fan the corrupted air towards the air of his enemies.

Sakura immediately brought her pillow to her nose to block the smell.

"Aww…" Sasuke whined, as the full strength of Naruto's power struck him.

'What an awesome technique!' He thought to himself.

'Now I'll get you!' Naruto cried within himself, summoning the resolve.

And he charged forward down the entire length of the bed, meeting Sasuke on the other end and picking him up at the midsection, as he stood dazed and shaken. He picked him up off his feet, using his full momentum, and leapt up with him.

Sakura saw the entire thing in slow motion.

"Neeeyyyoooo!" Sasuke screamed in terror.

"Hawww….hawww….hawww…." Naruto laughed triumphantly.

And the two boys fell to the floor in one crispy, flying motion, feeling the carpet hit them with a heart-sinking feeling of loss and shame.

They stood up and dropped their pillows.

"Tha- that was a fearsome move, Naruto…" Sasuke panted.

Naruto got up and rubbed his head. "I had to sacrifice myself to beat you… you're not too shabby at all, Sasuke…"

Both stared each other down with an intense gaze.

Sakura scratched her head and thought, 'another battle where all I did was stood back and watched while the boys did all the fighting. Why does this happen every episode?'

"So, I guess Sakura takes the bed," Sasuke conceded.

"Yeah- now there's only a bed and a…" Naruto never finished.

"I bags the couch, Moron!" Sasuke cried out abruptly.

"You WHAT? You CAN'T DO THAT!"

"On the flo' 'coz you too slo', brother," Sasuke taunted him.

"You asshole! The couch was mine!"

"Too late, I bags it!"

"Why I ought to bags YOU!" Naruto cried, 'bagging' Sasuke with his pillow.

"What the? It's OVER, NARUTO, STOP IT!" Sasuke cried out in pain.

"Why don't you sleep with your girlfriend in this room on the floor, damn it! Give me the couch!" Naruto demanded of him.

"No way! I deserve the couch because I called first!" Sasuke remained firm.

Suddenly Sakura stepped in with one of those footrest pillows some beds have. You know, they're like longer and harder than ordinary pillows. They're real bitches to get hit by 'cause they hurt. Hard.

Anyway, that's what she hit Naruto on the head with as she stepped off the mattress.

"Idiot, Naruto. Just give, Sasuke what he wants. We're all going to swap next night anyway, so just endure the floor for one night!" Sakura scolded.

"Aww…" Naruto moaned.

"Humph, so it's settled," Sasuke declared. "Then I'm going to get something out of the refrigerator… before I go to sleep my couch tonight…"

"Only for tonight…" Naruto muttered bitterly.

"Good idea, let's have a midnight snack and a drink to calm down," Sakura agreed.

So the three stepped out of the bedroom, beaten and exhausted from their awesome battle, and stepped into the kitchen, only to swing the freezer doors open to reveal…

"NOTHING? THERE'S NOTHING HERE?" Naruto cried out in a panic.

"Damn it, Kakashi didn't say he'd leave anything," Sakura added worriedly.

"Well, I guess it can't be helped. We'll all just have glasses of water then. But tomorrow morning, the most important thing we have to do is organize a food supply. Kakashi gave us some money so I suggest the next thing we have to do is go to the supermarket tomorrow. We'll need the essentials: milk, juice, breakfast cereal, some rice for the rice cooker…"

"Instant ramen packets!" Naruto cried.

"No! Idiot! We have a limited amount of money every week! We gotta be smart!" Sakura chided him.

"Good point," Sasuke admitted.

"Well then, I guess we'll all have to try and agree on a list before we leave tomorrow," Sakura pointed out.

Naruto remained silent, adopting his silent, listening gaze that made him look like some sort of cat or something.

"By the way," Sakura went on, "Does anyone here know how to cook?"

The two boys remained quiet.

"Okay then…" Sakura replied droopily.

"They're going to have to see our crap cooking skills…" Inner Sakura muttered sadly.

'But I am the girl… they're going to expect me too… and Sasuke would expect me too…'

"Okay! Let's get ready fo--"

When Sakura turned away from the empty refrigerator shelves to face the boys, they had already disappeared. Suddenly, she heard Sasuke's voice coming from the lounge.

"Sakura! Get to bed already! Naruto and I got too tired of listening to you! You're on the bed tonight and Naruto should already be asleep on the floor!" Sasuke yelled out.

'How do those idiot boys fall asleep so fast?' Sakura asked herself angrily.

But soon she would realize she'd need all the rest she could get for tomorrow's new round of stress. And it had only been their first day together in the apartment…