I don't own Naruto everyone! Credit of this all goes to Masashi Kishimoto!

"Troublesome."

"Shikamaru! You say that one more time and I swear!"

"Tch. Troublesome woman, troublesome genin, troublesome senseis, and troublesome activity."

He was soundly punched from behind by his blonde teammate, Ino.

"Hahaaa!" Laughed Kiba. "You totally deserved that!"

Until he too was smacked over the head, by an annoyed Naruto.

"We're almost there guys! No need to get all fussy now!"

"Hn."

"Sasuke's right. This is meant for a bonding experience, not to start a genin war!"

"We almost there yet?"

"YOUTH!"

"Shut up Lee."

"Brother? Y-y-you're h-here too?"

"I had to drag him along, we needed to have full team participation or else Guy-sensei would never let us live it down."

"Are we there yet?"

"Oh would everybody just SHUT UP!"

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"Thank you."

"Don't mention it."

"You're so bossy forehead."

"Troublesome."

"Are we there YET?"

Naruto pulled out a whistle and blew as hard as he could. "Y'all can shut up now. We're here."

"Hn."

"Gotcha. Water's by the river and lake. Tents can go up in this clearing. Start preparing the fire in that pit you see. We're gonna have a campfire tonight."

The genin all rushed off to do the appropriate tasks as it was already starting to get dark. One by one they returned, throwing sticks into the pit, and pulling out bags of marshmallows.

"You all understand the importance of this, yes?" Sakura started. "Our senseis felt that the best way to start bonding and learning to work with the other genin of our year would be to do a few night activity with each other."

"That's why we got to go camping!" Naruto grinned. "We're not too far from the village in case of emergencies. Our senseis will also be patrolling the outer areas of the village in our direction as well, but they won't interfere."

"Hn."

"Sasuke's right." Sakura nodded. Naruto on the other hand kicked him lightly. "They don't all understand grunt, gonna have to play it easy for a few days."

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Kakashi took care to remind us that we have some flares each in case of emergencies, I trust you all understand that too?"

Seeing the nods of the other teams. Sasuke laid back to how he was before.

"YOSH!" Lee called. "My youthful friends, let us partake in the making of smores on this beautiful and awe inspiring night.!"

Choji nodded. "I'm starved, let's eat!"

The genin chatted away, making plans on what they should do the next day. They agreed to go swimming in the nearby river and lake. There was enough of a beach like setting for those who simply wanted to rest by the water instead.

Content and happy, each returned to their tents and promptly fell asleep in their own sleeping bags. Three per tent.

"Time to get up ya maggots! Hup to it! March march march!"

Shikamaru rolled over in his sleeping bag. "Who in Kami's name is making that racket?"

Kiba growled. "Naruto…"

Tenten groaned, "The sun has barely even risen, it's too early."

Lee's eyes sparkled. "A youthful wakeup! YOSH!"

Shino continued to sleep peacefully.

Nobody noticing the ear plugs he wore.

"And here's to you Sasuke!"

Sasuke paled, his still waking up mind knowing it's not gonna be good.

Sakura gave him a look of 'what did you do?'

Naruto marched into their tent with his pots and pans. Ready for revenge on whatever it was Sasuke had done.

Naruto took a deep breath…

"I didn't get no sleep cause of y'all. Y'all never gonna sleep cause of me!"

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"I didn't get no sleep cause of y'all. Y'all never gonna sleep cause of me!"

Sakura lunged over and started shaking Sasuke. "What. Did. You. Do?!"

Sasuke was in shock. "I don't know! Naruto stop! I'm sorry if I did something wrong! Please just stop this racket!"

"I didn't get no sleep cause o-" Naruto stopped mid swing. "Oh? You're apologizing?"

Sasuke nodded frantically. "Yes! Yes, I am! I'm sorry if you lost sleep last night, maybe we can make up for a bit now?" Sasuke tried his most hopeful and pleading tone, even if it wasn't much.

Naruto squinted at him. Then sighed.

"Nope!"

The others continued to cover their ears as Naruto continued to smash the pots and pans around singing at the top of his lungs.

Asuma Sarutobi looked over the forest from his border patrol. 'Did he just hear Naruto? And was that someone clanging metal together? He seriously hoped that this wasn't a bad idea…

...he feared that people won't get out unscathed.'

After everyone was woken up and fed a hearty breakfast of tomato soup, they all got ready to go down to the lake area for a day of fun.

Most were all for jumping in and enjoying the cool water, while a few stayed on shore either lazing about or reading.

While Neji was off training somewhere, he disappeared quite quickly after breakfast.

Back to the lake company, Shikamaru was watching the clouds with Shino reading next to him, blanket underneath as to not get themselves pointlessly dirty.

Everyone else was in the water, trying various activities, as well as getting a bit of a rope swing going. All-in-all, it was a blast.

Ino swam closer to shore and called out to her teammate. "Hey Shikamaru! Get in here and stop watching those stupid clouds. This isn't the time to be lazy!"

Shikamaru took one look at her before returning his eyes to the sky. "No."

Ino huffed and swam away. She knew better than to waste her time trying.

Naruto though, didn't.

"Hey, Sasuke, Sakura. I got this brilliant plan, and I need your help."

The other two listened in, all ears.

"I want to get Shikamaru to come into the lake, it'll be great!"

Sakura was skeptical. "Trying to get him away from sky gazing or whatever is like trying to move a mountain."

"I know, I know. Though think about it. This may be Shikamaru, but we can get it to work. We're the dream team. Team Myth. Team Kakashi. Team Devils or Demons or 7 or whatever people call us. If anyone can do it. We can."

Sasuke hummed. "It would be interesting to try, but this will be on you Naruto. Shikamaru is extremely intelligent. He's a Nara, and his IQ is quite high. Even if you trick him, he'll get you back. He may fall for it now, but it won't be the last you hear of it."

"What does smarts have to do with anything?"

"His strategies are like no other, and nobody has ever seen Shikamaru really angry. Combining the two could be catastrophic."

Naruto rolled his eyes. "Yeah yeah, I'm not an idiot. I'd be more worried if he didn't try to get back at me."

The three soon parted after some quiet whispering. If anyone were to have listened. All they would have made out was 'Plan distract and attack.'

Sasuke stood near the lake's edge, and calmly called out to Shikamaru.

"Oi, Nara, can you hand me my shoes? There's a bunch of sharp rocks here that I don't want to pointlessly step on."

Shikamaru opened one eye to look at Sasuke. Seeing him standing awkwardly in the shallow water near the lake edge, he sighed with a small. "Fine."

"Don't throw them though, I don't want to lose them. I'm also going to put them on as I step out of the water."

Shikamaru nodded as he moved the bags around to find Sasuke's. Next to it was his shoes. Reaching down, Shikamaru pulled them up and made his way to the water's edge.

He reached the water and handed them to Sasuke, giving a simple 'No problem,' to Sasuke's 'Thanks.'

What we wasn't prepared for was the screeching of his name however.

Sakura had positioned herself where Shikamaru would have to turn the most to locate her, and promptly screamed, "Shikamaru!"

Shikamaru's surprise as well as turning around so quickly put him off balance for just a sliver of a moment, but that was all Naruto needed to give him a big push into the lake.

The young Nara yelped as he fell backwards, hitting the water and trying to right himself. Luckily though, it was still quite shallow. He didn't have to worry about drowning from his surprise.

Though that surprise turned to anger as he faced the now laughing Naruto.

Everyone noticed the change in Shikamaru's posture, and eyed the two warily.

"Naruto?"

"Yes Shika?"

"You better watch that back of yours for the rest of this trip. Don't think I'd just let something like this slide."

All eyes were on the flustered Nara as he stomped out of the lake and back to the camp to change. The moment he was gone however, brought a chorus of giggles and laughter. Naruto put the idea of Shika's threat to the back of his mind for the rest of the day.

Naruto went to bed wondering what Shika's revenge would be.

The day's activities went on as normal aside from the more tense Nara, but no retaliation yet.

Two days after the lake incident, and the Nara hadn't done anything. Naruto was beginning to grow worried. 'What is it gonna be?'

Four days after the incident, and Naruto was getting jumpy. He just knows Shikamaru is planning something even then. It made him nervous.

Ten days had passed. Naruto was ready to have a breakdown. By then, the daily activities couldn't calm him down.

Thirteen days went, their two week stay was almost up. Leaving first thing in the morning, Naruto wondered if this was Shikamaru's plan all along. His revenge was to make Naruto think he'd get revenge, so Naruto would be in pieces by the end of the two weeks.

That must be it.

Naruto was sure.

Shikamaru struck on their way back.

Naruto never stood a chance.

Nobody even realized anything had happened until it was all over.

When their senseis came to meet them, all had been curious about the state of Naruto.

He was bound and gagged, wearing clown makeup and a pink frilly tutu. He wore a wig with pigtails and ribbons, and a bright red nose.

Their questioning gazes lead all the genin to point to Shikamaru, much to the senseis' surprise.

Shikamaru grinned darkly, queuing a simultaneous shudder.

They'd get the story later.

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