"Hello everyone! Guess what time it is?" yelled the counselor from directly behind them. Everyone jumped a foot in the air.

"Dammit, I'm a genius number one rookie ninja, how is it that an untrained counselor person can sneak up on me?" snapped Neji annoyedly, mostly because the counselor had interrupted his makeout session with Tenten.

"It's time for an extra special happy fun activity!" said the counselor happily jumping up and down and ignoring Neji's remarks. "It's one of my favorites! We're doing arts and crafts! Yay!"

"What?" asked Sasuke. "I am a sexy angsty ninja. I do not participate in these silly little arts and crafts of yours."

"Oh yes you will!" snarled the counselor, with fire in her eyes. Sasuke hid behind Sakura.

"Someday I will figure out how she does that." muttered Sakura.

"Now, who's ready for craft fun?" asked the counselor sweetly. Everyone nodded in terror, and followed her to yet another cabin, filled with tables and craft supplies. "Okay! Have fun!" she said, heading out the door. Neji immediately tried to sneak out, but found the door locked.

"No! My superior ninja skills are nothing in the face of this clever prison!" he wailed, falling to his knees.

"Dude, it's just a door." said Naruto.

"You don't get to come out until you've had craft fun!" singsonged the counselor from the other side of the door. Everyone sighed and sat down.

"What are you making Naruto?" asked Hinata looking up from what she was making. It was a small blob shaped plushie with Naruto's signature hairstyle and grin, and the little whisker markings down it's face.

"I'm sculpting a bowl of ramen out of clay!" he said looking up, his face covered with clay. "Oh, ramen, I love it so much!Just thinking about it is making me hungry!"

Neji sat tied up in a tangled mess of pipe cleaners and glitter.

"No! Why can my number one rookie skill not overcome this evil twisty thing!Truly the enemy has made a clever trap this time! Tenten! Teamate! Girlfriend! Save me from this fiendish device!"

"Oh give it a rest Neji." said Tenten, not looking up from her block of wood, which she was carving into the shape of panda with a kunai. "Aww, pandas! Pandas are so cute!"

"You know Tenten, with those buns of yours you," began Neji

"Yes, I know." she sighed.

"Sort of look,"

"Yes, I know." she said slightly more forcefully.

"Like you have,"

"YES! I KNOW! PANDA EARS! I GOT THEM WHEN I WAS SEVEN AND WANTED TO LOOK LIKE MY FAVORITE ANIMAL AND I KEPT THEM FOR SO LONG THAT IT'S EASIEST JUST TO LEAVE THEM LIKE THAT ALLRIGHT! NOW SHUT UP ABOUT IT!" she yelled. Everyone stared at her. "Umm, sorry about that everyone, just get back to whatever you were doing!" she said waving. Everyone immediately bent over their work as if they couldn't see her.

"Sasuke, what are you doing?" asked Sakura. She was twisting delicate cherry blossoms out of pink tissue paper and weaving them into her hair. Sasuke was bent over a piece of paper with some crayons.

"Umm, nothing." he said, covering his paper with an arm.

"Aww come one Sasuke, let me see!" said Sakura trying to peer around it. He held the paper away from her with one arm, whereupon Ino immediately grabbed it.

"Here you go Sakura!" she said handing it to her.

"Thanks Ino! Now, let's see what it is!" she said looking at it. It was a crayon scrawled stick figure of Sasuke, holding a blood covered knife, with a bubble coming from his mouth saying "Die die die!" Lying next to him was an Itachi stick figure also covered in blood, saying "Oh no! You are so much stronger and smarter and sexier and cooler and you have more fangirls than me! I die now!" She sated at it for a moment.

"Uhh, Sakura? You might want to turn it over." said Ino. Sakura did. On the other side she found a very detailed picture of her. However, Sasuke had left out one little detail. Her clothes. She turned to Sasuke with fire in her eyes.

"Gah! No!" screamed Sasuke, running in a circle around the table, Sakura hot on his heels. Lee swiftly snatched the abandoned picture of Sakura.

"At last! Another thing for my Sakura shrine!" he said.

Meanwhile, Mika put down what she had been working on. She'd found a piece of red glass siting in a cabinet, and had been molding it with her bare hands, as though it was as malleable as soft clay. Only the shimmer of heat around her hands gave any evidence of her jitsu. She snuck around to the side of the table where Kabuto was sitting.

"Whatcha doing?" she asked giving his ponytail a tug and jumping up to peer over his shoulder. He leapt a foot in the air, turning around to face her.

"Don't do that!" he snapped. "It's bad enough with the counselor sneaking up on people, now you?" She shrugged.

"Well, a sound ninja should have been able to hear me better. What are you making? Can I see?" she asked.

"No. It's evil. Go away."

"You know, I bet I know why you always have to say you're evil all the time."

"Because I am?"

"No, don't be silly. It's because of the ponytail!"

What? That makes no sense!"

"Sure it does. Lots of evil people have ponytails. You do, therefore you're trying to be evil. See?"

"Look, I'm not evil because of my hair." he said.

"Oh yeah? Prove it." she said holding up a pair of scissors.

"No! No one touches the hair." he snapped.

"Ah ha!"

"Look. I'm not evil because of my hair, I'm evil because I have a tragic past and work for Orochimaru!"

"Awww, but tragic pasts are all tragic and unhappy!" she said hugging him.

"Hey! No! Don't hug the evil!"

"You're not evil, just misguided by your tragic past." she said reasonably.

"Hmph." he grumbled.

"Now will you let me see what you were doing?"

"Oh fine, if it will make you stop bugging me." he said. "It's just an experiment on infusing paper with my chakra." He held out the paper. It was a drawing of a snake, coiled up. As she picked up the paper, the snake drew itself up into striking position, the tongue flickering in and out, silently hissing.

"Oooh, cool!" said Mika, clearly delighted.

"You can have it if you want." he offered off hand.

"Eeeh!" she squealed delightedly, and hugged him tightly around the waist. This time he grumbled, but didn't try to push her off.

Ino was trying to convince Shikamaru to at least do something.

"Come on, if you don't at least try to make something she'll never let us out! We'll starve and be forced to eat each other! Well, I suppose Sakura's big forehead will finally be good for something..."

"But art is so troublesome." protested Shikamaru. He picked up a crayon and drew a smiley face on a piece of paper. "There. Can I go back to sleep now?" Ino sighed.

"Fine, but when Choji eats us all you'll be sorry."

Lee and Shino were bent over something that looked like a cross between a bug and Gai sensei. Everyone had left a wide circle around them.

Choji was just eating paste.

Suddenly the counselor burst in.

"Okay! Art time is over! Now, let's see what you did!" she looked over everything, then grabbed up Shikamaru's smiley face like it was the best thing ever. "This is the greatest art I've ever seen!" she squealed. "You get an extra special prize!" She slapped a giant yellow smiley sticker on his forehead.

"Ahhh! The pain! It burns! So troublesome!" yelled Shikamaru running around in circles before slamming into a wall. The others, seeing that the door was open took the opportunity to run out before it got locked again. And since it was night they all went to sleep and dreamed of being chased by horrible smiling monsters.

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