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So, Team 7 skipped lunch, and went straight to pitching up the tents. Sasuke and Naruto were sent to set up one tent, while Kakashi and Sakura set up another, which Sakura didn't complain about out loud, as she knew it would be too good to be true to ever sleep in the same tent as Sasuke.
Naruto was having a bit of trouble comprehending on how a tent was set up as he fiddled around with the poles, trying to stick them through the tent cloth. "Ok, now how does this work again? Oh yeah! We put the pole here..."
"Naruto, you're doing it all wrong! You're supposed to put the pole through the loop." Sasuke scolded.
Naruto grumbled as did as he was told, sticking the pole through the loop as Sasuke put another pole through a loop.
"Now we'll stand the tent up." Sasuke instructed.
Naruto and Sasuke pulled the tent up, but Naruto's pole came snapping out, sending the tent flopping back down on the ground again.
"Naruto, you idiot! You didn't put that in properly! That could've snapped back at me and taken my eye out!" Sasuke shouted angrily.
"Oh yeah? Then why don't you do it then, if you're so smart!" Naruto suggested angrily as he took the tent cloth and threw it over Sasuke.
"What the hell? Naruto!" Sasuke angrily shouted as he thrashed around under the tent cloth. "Get this thing out of me, dammit! I can't see!"
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cried. "Naruto, get him out of there!"
"Leave them be, Sakura. They really need to work it out themselves." Kakashi cut in.
"But-" Sakura objected before giving in. "Oh, alright."
"Nya nya! Stupid Sasuke! You got tangled in the tent!" Naruto teased and laughed loudly, sticking his tongue out.
Sasuke tripped and fell down from thrashing around and trying to get out of the tent cloth.
"Oooh, did Sasuke fall down? Poor baby!" Naruto gushed as he laughed.
"I'm going to kill you when I get myself out of this, Naruto!" Sasuke shouted, practically in rage now.
"Yeah, good luck with that…Sasuke-CHAN!" Naruto gleefully teased, placing much emphasis on the last word.
Unfortunately for Naruto, completely pissed-off Sasuke managed to blindly grab hold of Naruto's leg, making Naruto fall over and getting himself tangled in the tent cloth as well.
"Sasuke! Why you-"
But Naruto's thrashing around only made things worse, causing him and Sasuke to get even more tangled up.
5 minutes later, Kakashi and Sakura's tent was up and ready, while Sasuke and Naruto's tent resembled what looked like a rolled up malformed ball of cloth with poles sticking out of it in odd directions.
"Well, I think our tent's good." Kakashi said as he stood back, observing his and Sakura's work.
"Definitely, but what about Sasuke-kun and Naruto?" Sakura reminded her sensei, pointing to her two team-mates trapped within the tangled up tent.
"Yeah, about them…we probably better go help them now." Kakashi replied.
So Kakashi and Sakura untangled the tangled mass of tent and poles, and quickly separated Naruto and Sasuke from killing each other.
Kakashi crossed his arms and glared at Sasuke and Naruto. "That is, without doubt, the worst teamwork I've seen yet! I'm very disappointed in you two."
"Well, he started it!" Naruto objected, pointing at Sasuke.
"What? You were the one who threw the tent on top of me, you bastard!" Sasuke growled, dying to strangle Naruto with his hands on the spot.
"Who are you calling a bastard, you bastard!" Naruto shot back angrily.
"Guys, that's enough!" Kakashi cut in loudly. " I'm going to be sure that you two work on your team work skills together as much as possible while we're here."
"So much for a vacation." Sasuke grumbled.
"Sakura, would you mind showing these two fools how do pitch up their tent?" Kakashi requested, turning to the kunoichi.
"Alright, leave it to me!" Sakura replied and turned to Sasuke and Naruto. "Now boys, we first have to put the pole through this loop. So Naruto, you go over there, and Sasuke-kun, if you could take that side over there, that would be great."
Naruto obeyed, while Sasuke, grumbling things about Naruto's stupidity and being ordered around by a girl, grudgingly took a side of the tent, while Kakashi sat down on a fold-up chair, reading "Icha Icha Paradise" or "Icha Icha Violence". You decide.
10 minutes later, with much of Sakura's contradicting remarks to Naruto, and her crooning and cheering for Sasuke, the tent was set up.
"Now that that's done, we're going to need to get your stuff in now." Sakura told the boys.
So Naruto and Sasuke went to "Michael", the car, remember? (Or really, the SUV, or giant van) to go fetch their stuff, and returned to their tents to set up.
Sakura turned to Kakashi. "Kakashi-sensei, those peg lines on our tent are sticking out a lot. They're easy to trip on! It's an accident just screaming to happen, especially in the dark!"
Sakura pointed to where the tent pegs were lodged into the ground and the strings attaching them to the tent, indeed proving as a tripping hazard.
Tripping over tent peg-lines. It happens all the time on camping trips.
Kakashi glanced at his tent, then at Sakura. "Oh yes. Thanks for helping with my tent Sakura, but you'll be sleeping with the boys. The tent we set up will be mine only."
"Huh? But I worked hard to set up that-oh wait! That means I'll be with Sasuke? I never thought this could ever happen!" Sakura blushed immensely. "Ok, no problem, sensei!"
"All right! I get to sleep with Sakura-chan!" Naruto cheered as he heard their conversation.
"What? Oh crap!" Sakura cursed.
"Alright, Sakura-chan! Now we can swap stories, talk all night, eat snacks, tell each other ghost stories, and freak each other out, and-" Naruto babbled on and on excitedly, while Sakura's enthusiasm about sharing a tent with her team-mates was diminishing with every word that came out of Naruto's mouth.
"Oh-no. There goes my beauty sleep..." Sakura groaned, thinking that being stuck in the same tent with Naruto was the absolute worst thing that could possibly happen. "Kakashi-sensei, are you sure we can't share that tent? Or could you at least take Naruto in your tent? Yes, take Naruto! Please take him! Please?"
"No, I need my own tent separate from you guys. I'm sure you three will cope well on your own. You three need to be around each other more anyways to help build familiarity and good relations with each other for teamwork." Kakashi replied.
Knowing that she couldn't argue with the Copy Ninja, Sakura slowly walked to "Michael" to get her stuff.
Sakura murmured to herself. "At least I'll have Sasuke with me. That will make this trip fun!" Sakura smiled. "I call sleeping by Sasuke!" she cried out as she grabbed her things and ran to the tent.
Sakura reached the tent, ready to lay her things out, but alas, Sasuke had claimed the right side of the tent and was laying his sleeping bag out, and Naruto, sitting merrily on his sleeping bag, had the middle.
"I'm not going to be sleeping squished between you two in the middle, Naruto. So I'm staying on the right side." Sasuke told his grinning teammate.
"Alright, fine by me! I've already got dibs on the middle!" Naruto replied.
"Naruto, move your ass!" Sakura demanded angrily. "I'm sleeping beside Sasuke!"
Naruto shook his head. "No way! I need the middle to keep you from getting too romantic all over Sasuke! And I want the middle so I can stay warm too!"
"Thanks for caring." Sasuke muttered.
"But I want the middle!" Sakura whined.
"Sakura, it doesn't matter. It's stupid to argue over something like this. Just set up your things and be quiet." Sasuke ordered.
Sakura meekly replied, "Ok." and gloomily set up her things on the left side of the tent while Sasuke sat on his sleeping bag, brooding on how he couldn't get more batteries for his musical device, and Naruto sat on his sleeping bag, grinning and giggling.(Don't ask why he was randomly grinning and giggling. He's Naruto after all, right?)
Later on, when everything was set up, and the sun was setting...already?
"We better cook dinner, guys." Kakashi announced.
"Alright! I'm getting hungry!" Naruto grinned as he burst out of the tent, stomach growling.
"What's on the menu for tonight then?" Sakura asked, also emerging from the tent.
"Oh Sakura-chan, how could you forget? Ramen!" Naruto answered with glee, grinning ear to ear.
"Oh right, that stuff. You guys have fun making dinner." Sakura replied, unenthused.
"Don't count on me to help either." Sasuke added as he stepped out of the tent.
"That's fine. It's easy for just Naruto and I to make ramen." Kakashi replied.
"Yeah! We don't need stupid Sasuke to help us!" Naruto added, making a face at Sasuke, sticking his tongue out.
Kakashi took out a pot and small camping stove. "Okay, we just need to boil some water. So Naruto, get some water."
"Yes, sir!" Naruto saluted. He stood there for a moment before he spoke again. "Where exactly do I get water from?"
"There's a path just down the lane. Follow it, and it should take you to the lake. Take a bucket with you so we can have some more water for later." Kakashi instructed.
"Ok!" Naruto replied enthusiastically as he took a bucket and bounded down the lane, but not before crashing into a tree and narrowly avoiding the camp ranger's truck from running him over.
"Oh boy. Don't die on us, Naruto." Kakashi sighed.
To be continued...
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