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The next morning, Naruto eagerly woke up, choked down 3 instant ramen cups, and was ready to go.
"It's camping time! I'm going to prove that I'm the best camper there ever was in all of Konoha!"
Naruto put on backpack and tried to move, but alas,the backpack was too heavy, as it took up as much room as his bed did
"oh-no...c'mon!" Naruto groaned as he pulled his backpack with all his might. "Must...get...backpack...to...village gates!"
Naruto was panting heavily from all the pulling
"No! I can't give up! I can do this on my own! I have to prove that I'm the ultimate camper! Believe it!"
5 minutes later, Naruto was using the phone.
"Hey, Sasuke? Can you help me bring my stuff down to the car?"
20 minutes later, Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto were standing by the front gates of Konoha (with Naruto's backpack considerably lighter than before) waiting once again for...
"Kakashi-sensei is late again!" Naruto shouted, clearly in fury.
"You just figured?" Sasuke yawned.
"Shhh! Naruto! You'll wake up the remaining half of the village that's still asleep!" Sakura scolded.
Naruto crossed his arms. "Sheesh! Since when does anyone around here sleep past 8:00?"
"Duh! You do, except for today!" Sakura replied.
Then, Kakashi pulled up by the gates with "George" (remember? George the smart car? ) all filled up with equipment and groceries, and now equipped with a canoe tied on the roof that threatened to flatten the poor little car.
Kakashi came out of the car and waved. "Morning, guys! My car ran out of gas, so I had to-"
"Stop lying!" Naruto scolded.
"Kakashi-sensei, where did the canoe come from?" Sakura asked.
"Oh, this? Can you believe it? I bought it off ebay for only $50!" Kakashi exclaimed.
Yes, ebay. Don't ask how or why.
"Oh my god..." was the only way Sakura could reply.
Sasuke stared for the first time at Kakashi's car. "We're going for a three hour drive...in THAT?"
Sasuke gaped in horror, pointing at "George", as Naruto and Sakura had taken care not to mention the small object of transportation they would be riding in, incase this swerved Sasuke's mind into deciding to skip the trip.
Kakashi was shoving Sakura's, Naruto's and Sasuke's bags into the small and already half full car.
"Yes...we do seem to be a little short on space, don't we? But I can fix that!" Kakashi said reassuringly. "Sasuke, you get in the front since you're the largest of the three. And Sakura, see if you can squeeze into the back."
Sakura looked like she was in denial. "You've got to be kidding me! How am I going to fit in there with all the luggage practically taking up my seat? And how will Naruto fit in there with me?"
"Naruto won't be sitting with you. He'll be sitting up on the roof." Kakashi replied, as though it was no big deal.
"What?" Sakura shouted.
"What the f-" Sasuke started, but was luckily cut off before anything naughty could be emitted from the Uchiha's mouth.
"I get to ride on the roof? Awesome!" Naruto shouted with gleeas he jumped up in down in anticipation.
"Um, sensei? Isn't that illegal?" Sakura asked,
"It doesn't matter. There's not many people out there who'll try to stop us, since not many people use these things in the direction we're headed Come to think of it, there's not many people where we're headed."
"What? No people?" Sakura cried in horror.
"This is going to be my first and best car ride ever!" Naruto shouted in glee as he hopped onto the roof of the car "Let's go!"
Sakura squeezed into "George" and tried to seat herself onto one of the seats.
"I can't fit in here! I need a seatbelt to be safe!" Sakura said.
"No worries, Sakura! There's so much stuff in there that if we do crash, all of the luggage and equipment stop you from flying through the windshield anyways!" Naruto told her.
"Naruto, that's not helping! And you're not safe up there either! You don't have a seatbelt, so if we crash, you're the one that's going to go flying! Then you'll it a tree and die!"
Sasuke spoke up "Kakashi-sensei, this isn't going to work. We really need a bigger car."
Kakashi sighed
"I suppose you're right. Ok, I'm going to take George back, and see if I can get something a bit bigger." Kakashi finally agreed.
"Can I still ride on the roof?" Naruto asked.
"No."
"Can I come with you to the car shop and ride on the roof on this car on the way there?"
"Naruto, get down from there, and just wait here" Kakashi ordered. "I won't be more than an hour."
"Yeah right..." muttered Sasuke.
An hour later and a half later, surely enough, Kakashi wasn't there.
"I knew it. Late again." Sasuke sighed in annoyance.
Sakura and Naruto by this time had fallen asleep on the ground. Sasuke had half the mind to ditch Sakura and Naruto then and there and hide so that he wouldn't have to go on the trip.
However, the two of them woke up to the sound of a car approaching, but it wasn't really a car...not a car at all...it was one of those friggin' huge goddamn SUV's thatso many peoplehave these days.
Kakashi stepped out of the car, no…that's really not the right word to call it.
"You're late! Again!" Naruto pointed at Kakashi.
"I had to-" Kakashi started.
"Don't even try to make up an excuse!" Sakura interrupted. She looked up at the SUV, her mouth hanging open for a moment before she spoke again.
"Ok, I knew we needed a bigger car, but not that big!"
"Actually, it works very well. It's perfect" Sasuke said on the contrary to Sakura.
"Yes, I think I like this car better." Kakashi agreed, smiling.
"Can I ride on the roof?" Naruto asked.
"Naruto, I already told you, no." Kakashi replied.
"I have a question. How the hell did you get a canoe for only $50?" Sakura asked.
"Never question the wonders of ebay, Sakura." Kakashi smiled.
"Can we just go now?" Sasuke spoke up, reminding them of what they were supposed to be doing.
"Yes. Everyone climb in. It's time to hit the road!" Kakashi announced.
Naruto cheered as those words hit his ears. "I call shotgun!"
"Hey! Wait a second-" Sasuke cut in.
"But I wanted it first!" Sakura intervened.
"Ok, well not Naruto, since you're too short. The airbag will kill you if it bursts open in a car accident." Kakashi said.
Naruto puffed his chest out. "I'm not going to let a stupid airbag scare me! I'm going to be the next Hokage, so-" Naruto was cut off by Kakashi.
"Naruto, the answer is no. You can't become Hokage if the airbag kills you. So you're sitting in the back for safety. Sakura can go up front on the way there, and Sasuke can go on the way back. Okay?"
"Whatever." Sasuke replied.
Naruto and Sasuke grouchily climbed into the back seat, while Sakura happily hopped into the front seat happily, only to realize that she had just been separated from her beloved Sasuke, (The horror!) and would remain that way for 3 dreadful hours.
"4 hours." Kakashi told his team.
"WHAT?" the three genins shouted.
"But you told us it would only take 3 hours!" Sakura protested.
"Well, I had to lie, in case the 4 hour drive would put you off the camping trip." Kakashi told them as he started up the car.
Sasuke undid his seat belt. "That's it! I want out! I'm not going to be stuck in the same seat as Naruto or any of you freaks for 4 straight hours!"
Sakura sniffled and began to tear up. "I'm a...freak?"
"We'll make a few rest stops and thing like that. And besides, it's too late to hop out now." Kakashi told Sasuke.
Sasuke stared back out the window as the car was now speeding away from Konoha.
Sasuke groaned as he dropped his head on the side of the car window. "Agreeing to go on this stupid trip could be the most horrible mistake I've ever made."
"At least we didn't have to go in the other car. Otherwise you two would probably be absolutely squished together!" Sakura told Sasuke, trying to cheerhim up.
"And I'm not going to let that stinking dirty Naruto soil my dear lovely Sasuke's skin and clothes!" Inner Sakura added.
"Well actually, if we still had "George" with us, I'd be riding on the roof!" Naruto added.
"Can you drop that already?" Sasuke growled.
"Ah, I almost forgot. We need to think of a new name for this car." Kakashi said.
"If the word, car, is even the right thing to describe this monster." Sakura added.
"If you want monster, he should've gotten a bus!" Naruto grinned, laughing.
"Naruto, be quiet!" Sakura snapped. "Anyways, sorry sensei, but I won't be participating in this activity."
"Alright then, suit yourself." Kakashi replied.
"Ooh! We should name it...the Naruto car!" Naruto suggested.
"Oh god, no..." Sasuke groaned. "It's not even a car!"
"Oh yeah? Then what suggestion do you have, Mr. smarty-pants?" Naruto spat.
"Actually, I was thinking of Michael." Kakashi cut in.
"Michael?" Naruto repeated.
"I don't really like it though." Sakura said.
"Didn't you say you weren't going to be involved in this?" Sasuke questioned.
"Oh, yeah. I did." Sakura remembered.
"Ok, then. Michael it is!" Kakashi declared, smiling.
And so they drove on in "Michael" for a few silent moments.
"Hey! Let's sing a car song!" Naruto randomly suggested.
"No!" Was Sasuke's immediate response.
"No one ever said you had to join in!" Naruto retorted.
Naruto cleared his throat and began to sing.
"Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall! Ninety-nine bottles of beer!"
Then to Sasuke's surprise, Kakashi joined in.
"You take one down, and...drink it?"
"What? No! You got it all wrong!" Naruto cried.
"Well, that's what I'd do." Kakashi stated.
Sakura gave Kakashi a disapproving look. "Kakashi-sensei! Are you an alcoholic?"
"Actually, no. I rarely drink. Just one in awhile for a treat, you know, like how Naruto gets his ramen as a treat." Kakashi replied.
"Umm, sensei? That's almost every day. 2-3 times a day!" Naruto told Kakashi.
Kakashi thought for a moment and then spoke. "Oh...never mind then. I can't sing the song properly."
"Ok then, I'll just sing it myself then until I get down to 1 bottle of beer. And I won't stop till I get there! Believe it!" Naruto picked up the tune once more. "Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall! Ninety-nine bottles of beer!"
"Can't you think of a better song?" Asked Sasuke, testily.
"You take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall!"
Eventually, Sakura joined in enjoying herself, while Kakashi listened on, smiling, and Sasuke, sitting there grouchily with his arms folded. This went on for about 20 or 30 minutes, finallyleaving Naruto as the only one singing.
"27 bottles of beer on the wall! 27 bottles of beer!"
Sakura groaned, "Oh man! He wasn't kidding when he said that he was going to sing the whole song!"
Sasuke was covering his ears by now with a look of utter revulsion upon his face
Kakashi sighed, a little tired of the song himself
Naruto continued to sing up to 5 minutes later.
"One bottle of beer on the wall! One bottle of beer!"
Sakura sighed with relief. "Thank god. I don't think I can take another bottle of beer."
"If Naruto had drunk as many bottles as he was singing, he'd be totally plastered by now." Kakashi chuckled at his crude statement.
"Sensei, sometimes your sense of humor is just a little too twisted." Sakura sighed.
"Ah, you're right." Kakashi replied. "He would have passed out after drinking only 10 bottles."
Sakura just shook her head, knowing she just couldn't win.
"Take it down, pass it around, now there's no bottles of beer on the wall!" Naruto completed his song. "I did it! Told you guys I could!"
"Finally...it's over!" Sasuke sighed with relief.
"Yeah, too bad, huh? Let's start over again! Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the-"
Sasuke violently twitched.
"Shut up!" Sakura loudly shouted.
"Naruto, I think that's enough of that song." Kakashicut in, stopping Naruto's repeat of the song.
"Ok then! Time for a new one!" Naruto grinned, solving the problem.
Naruto began to sing a new song. " This is the song that never ends! Yes it goes on and on my friends!"
A very vexed Sasuke plugged his earphones in and turned up his mp3 player full blast. Sakura sat there, looking ready to strangle Naruto as Kakashi drove on, smiling and chuckling...though he sure wouldn't be chuckling 1 hour later...
When one hour had passed, Naruto was still singing. It was a wonder that his voice was still working.
"And they'll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song that never ends"
"Shut up already!" Sakura shouted at the top of her lungs so that Naruto would hear her.
But he wasn't paying any attention, or he couldn't actually hear her over his own voice. She couldn't hit him either, because he was sitting too far back for her to reach.
Sasuke had his earphones plugged in, so he couldn't seem to hear Naruto's horrid tone-deaf singing. "Wise of Sasuke to bring that music if his" thought Sakura.
Sakura wondered how Kakashi-sensei could be taking all of this. "He must have a lot of patience and a high 'annoying tolerance level' to just smile and nod to all this" she thought. But as she looked closer at him, Kakashi seemed to be continuously twitching and looked ready to smash his head on the steering wheel from frustration. Luckily, Kakashi had more control than that. Sakura however, began to fear for her own sanity at that moment.
Kakashi took a deep breath and spoke out to Naruto.
"Naruto, time to stop!"
But Naruto couldn't hear him.
Sakura yelled back to Sasuke. "Sasuke! Tell Naruto to stop singing!"
But Sasuke had his music full blast, and if he could not hear Naruto, he would definitely not hear Sakura.
Kakashi then violently steered the car left and right, as though he was trying to avoid some panic-stricken animal on the road.
"This is the song-Woah! Oh mygod, we're gonna die!"
The swerving car sent Naruto and Sakura screaming.
"What's happening?" Sasuke asked, partially panic-struck.
Kakashi stopped the car-no, I mean, the goddamn SUV-I mean, Michael, abruptly.
"Well that got your attention." Kakashi said.
"What happened?" Sakura asked in a shaky voice.
"Nothing." Kakashi replied. "I just did that to get Naruto's attention, and to rid myself of frustration. You know, calm myself."
Sasuke was trembling, deeply fearing that his life had almost been snatched away from him because of a silly car crash. He couldn't die in something as stupid as a car crash, especially since he had not killed Itachi yet.
"Ever heard of yoga? Or meditation!" Sasuke half shouted at Kakashi.
"Anyways, back to the point. Naruto, stop singing please. Save it for thecampfire." Kakashi told Naruto.
"Alright if you say so." Naruto obeyed. "Oh boy! I can't wait for campfire!"
"Oh-no..." Sakura groaned.
To be continued...
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