Hey guys! Thanks again for the reviews! (Those of you who are reading this fanfic and aren't reviewing, please review! It's not that difficult. Please?) Anyhoo, this chapter and the next one are going to be longer than usual. And this will probably be the last chapter for about 2 weeks, as I'm going (guess where?) camping. Who knows? Maybe I'll get some new inspiration and ideas for this story. So hang in there for 2 weeks folks, unless I can find a computer in a nearby hotel, then I'll be able to get another chapter up sooner. (It's the U.S. There's bound to be a computer nearby, right? Ok, that was a bit of a burn I suppose. Sorry America.) Hope you enjoy this chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Too bad for me, good for me.

Sasuke was speechless when Sakura explained to him what had happened to all of the food. He quickly got over it however and finally spoke.

"We can just drive to some convenience store. I saw one yesterday about an hour before we hit these campgrounds."

Sakura lit up immediately, "You're right! We better get Kakashi-sensei to go there once he gets back."

Just then, Kakashi came back into the camp with the food box and a gash on the side of his face and his hair full of twigs.

"Can you believe it? I actually managed to rescue the cheerios and half of the wasabi!" The copy-nin's grin showing in his eyes.

"You have a bleeding gash on your face, you know! Why are you smiling?" Sakura angrily shouted, upset that a cereal box and wasabi were the only things rescued.

"Yay! We're not going to starve anymore!" Naruto cheered.

"Idiot! Cereal, tacos, and wasabi aren't enough for us to survive on!" Sakura huffed.

"How did you get that gash on your face anyways, sensei? Did the bears hit you with their huge claws?" Naruto asked excited.

"Actually, no. I just cut myself on a sharp branch that was sticking out when I was running in the forest after the bears."

"Oh...well that's kind of dumb." Naruto said, looking a little crestfallen.

"Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke saw a convenience store on the way here, and we were thinking that we should go to it and get some more food." Sakura informed.

"Yes, I was thinking about that too. I'll drive Michael to go get the groceries. It might not be open today, and if that's the case, we might have to head back to Konoha."

"What?" Naruto cried.

"I said IF it was closed. Most likely it's not so we should be fine. Or if it is closed, we could live off the land instead of going back to Konoha right away." Kakashi suggested.

"Which would mean what?" Naruto questioned.

"That means eating whatever the forest around us has to offer." Kakashi replied with a smile.

Naruto frowned as he looked around, seeing no ramen cups or anything that looked remotely tasty. Just plants, trees, dirt, and rodents.

"Would it be alright if I asked you three to stay here and guard the campsite while I'm gone?" Kakashi requested.

"Sure! Leave it to us, sensei!" Naruto replied with enthusiasm.

"Alright. See you in a couple of hours. And please don't do anything stupid, like wandering off or killing each other."

Kakashi got into Michael, the friggin' big SUV, and began to pull out of the campsite.

"Alright! Now we can party and do whatever the hell we want!" Naruto cheered.

"Naruto! Didn't you hear a word Kakashi-sensei just told us?" Sakura scolded. But Inner Sakura's thoughts were alongside Naruto's, "Alright! Now's the time to go wild while there's no adults around!"

Then Michael started making odd sounds, and stopped completely. Kakashi stepped out of the vehicle. "It appears that Michael has run out of gas." Kakashi announced.

Well, of course Michael ran out of gas, 'cause Michael's a goddamn SUV, and we all know that they take up so much gas, as they're friggin' GAS GUZZLERS! And that's why you get something smaller. Less money, less gas, less pollution. Ok, getting back to the story.

"Without gas, we cannot get to the store, which means we can't even get back home. We'll have to live off the land until another camper comes in and happens to be conveniently carrying some car gas or food" Kakashi told his team.

The three genin stood there for a moment in silence, sucking this all in. Naruto was the first to react.

"You're lying!" Naruto cried.

Sakura wailed at how they would starve and die young, while Sasuke just stood there. He quickly got over the shock and took off into the woods without a word.

"Now Sasuke's left us! Can this get any worse?" Sakura wailed.

"Shh! Don't jinx it, Sakura!" Naruto scolded.

"We're just going to have to make due with what food we recovered from the bears and what food we can find in the forest. So we're going to have to carefully ration our food and eat some fish today for lunch and dinner today and some of our food tomorrow and the following days until we can get help." Kakashi told Naruto and Sakura.

Sasuke emerged from the woods with his hair full of twigs, holding two dead squirrels and a squirming rabbit in his hands.

"Ah, quick thinking, Sasuke. Good job." Kakashi smiled.

"Oh my god! You killed the squirrel I was talking to and made friends with last night before we had dinner!" Naruto exclaimed. "How could you!"

"Naruto, Sasuke had to do it so we could eat!" Sakura told the blonde who was practically in tears. "You did the right thing, Sasuke." She added.

Sasuke handed the squirming rabbit to Kakashi. "I lost my last kunai back in the woods, so you'll have to finish the rabbit off." Sasuke told his sensei.

Kakashi nodded, took out one of his kunai, and butchered the poor little bunny. Sakura looked ready to burst into tears.

"Sensei! How could you kill that poor innocent rabbit?" She cried.

"At least he killed it quickly." Naruto shrugged.

Kakashi's brow furrowed. "Wait. A moment ago, you were scolding Naruto for getting upset for Sasuke killing a squirrel that Naruto befriended and practically made a pet of last night. And now you're getting upset at me for killing a rabbit that you never knew and that we clearly need for food?"

"That's because Sakura's a pathetic suck up and a fool for Sasuke!" Naruto said out loud.

"Shut up, Naruto! It was supposed to live!" Sakura said angrily.

Kakashi sighed, "This is ridiculous. I'm going for a walk."

With that, Kakashi tossed the dead rabbit back to Sasuke, took his fishing rod and went for his "walk".

"If sensei said that he was going for a walk, why did he take his fishing rod with him? Naruto asked.

"He's going to kill more innocent animals! That sadist sensei-" Sakura began with her fists shaking.

"Get a grip, you idiot! Kakashi too lazy and laid back to be a sadist and he's just trying to get us food without you criticizing him for it." Sasuke growled. "Geez, you can be even more of a moron than Naruto sometimes!"

Sakura, looking very hurt and upset, ran off into the tent.

"Way to go, Sasuke! Now you hurt her feelings!"

"So did you, moron. Besides, she needed to shut up and cool down a bit. She can't freak out every time Kakashi-sensei tries to get her some food." Sasuke told Naruto.

"Then why don't you just feed her?" Naruto suggested. "She doesn't seem to mind when you kill animals for food!"

"No, I say that we put her in the forest on her own for a few days to show her that she must kill cute rodents in order to survive. That would teach her a lesson. It'd be amusing as well." Sasuke smirked.

"Nah. She'd probably die from refusing to kill anything for food." Naruto pointed out.

"…Yeah, you're right." Sasuke agreed, trying hard not to laugh, because we all know Sasuke doesn't laugh.

Sakura's loud crying burst out from the tent as she heard all of this.

"That's our cue to leave this camp site for awhile."

"I agree."

So Naruto and Sasuke walked off (Hand in hand if you wish to imagine that, you crazy yaoi fans.) or they just simply walked off, not hand in hand, out of the campsite.

" So...what do you want to do?" Naruto asked.

"I don't really want to do anything. I just want to walk." Sasuke replied. "In fact, I'd like it better if you went away right now."

"That's not very nice!" Naruto pouted.

Sasuke glanced at Naruto, who looked very upset at what he had just said to the blonde fox boy. Sasuke didn't want another emotionally hurt and crying team-mate, so quickly changed his mind.

"I have a better idea, Naruto. We're low on food, so we're going to need more to survive for the next few days. We better go and hunt for some more."

"Really? We'll do that? That sounds awesome!" Naruto exclaimed.

So the two shinobi headed into the woods, where many trees, bugs, creatures, twigs, sticks, and other strange things lay. They walked about in the woods for about 10 minutes before Sasuke saw a squirrel and pointed it out to Naruto.

"Ok, Naruto. You see that? Throw your kunai directly at it." Sasuke instructed.

"But that's the brother of the squirrel that I met last night!" Naruto told him.

Sasuke slapped his fore head in frustration. "Just kill it! We need it more than it needs its life!" Sasuke said, trying to reason with Naruto.

"You don't know that, Sasuke! That squirrel wants to live! TO LIVE!" Naruto cried passionately. By now, ever so passionate Naruto had tears streaming down his face.

Sasuke took Naruto's kunai from his hand and threw it at the squirrel, killing it.

"You killed it! How could you?" Naruto cried angrily.

Sasuke let out a frustrated groan. "You're just as bad as Sakura! Why don't you two go have your crying party back at the campsite already!"

"Fine! I will!" Naruto shouted angrily as he rose up, brushing the twigs and leaves from his pants and began to walk off.

"Geez. Some crummy Hokage he'll make!" Sasuke muttered to himself.

Naruto stopped dead in his tracks and went rigid.

"What...did...you...say?" Naruto said slowly, anger building up.

"I said you're going to make a crappy Hokage!" Sasuke said loudly.

"All right, that's it! You've gone too far you bastard! I'm going to kill you!" Naruto shouted out angrily. Naruto tackled Sasuke, Sasuke punched Naruto, and the both of them wrestled in the dirt.

Meanwhile, Sakura had gotten over crying and came out of the tent. She wondered where everyone one was, but simply sat down on the log near the fire pit. Just then, Kakashi came back carrying 4 fish. Sakura took a deep breath and turned to Kakashi.

"I'm sorry for being rude when you had to kill the rabbit for food." Sakura apologized.

"That's alright." Kakashi replied as he put the fish next to the rabbit and squirrels.

"And I won't get upset when you have to kill rodents for food anymore."

"That's good to know."

"But if you ever try to kill a baby deer or any other baby animal for food, I'll never forgive you!" Sakura added threateningly.

Kakashi stared at her sceptically for a moment before he replied, "...Right." He looked around the campsite. "Where are Naruto and Sasuke?"

"I dunno." Sakura shrugged.

Meanwhile, Naruto and Sasuke had exhausted themselves trying to destroy each other. They both lay on the forest floor, panting.

" We're...getting...no...where...with...this!" Naruto huffed and puffed, trying to speak.

"Na...ruto...what...do...you...say...that we...catch...some food...now?" Sasuke suggested, equally out of breath.

"Yeah...good...idea...Sa...su..ke..."

So after laying on the ground to catch their breath for 5 minutes, the two hungry shinobi worked together, throwing kunai and setting up traps for mice, rabbits, and various other rodents for their food. They only managed to catch one chipmunk in the end that fell for one of their traps. So after two frustrating hours, they went back to the campsite.

Kakashi looked up from his book he was reading as he heard Sasuke and Naruto enter the campsite. "There you two are! Sakura and I were beginning to think that you had drowned in the lake."

"Tch! As if." Sasuke grunted.

"Well it's good that you're here, because I have a little activity planned before we go hiking." Kakashi told his two students.

"And what exactly would this activity be?" Sasuke asked, fearing the answer.

"Yeah! What is it? What is it?" Naruto asked, dying for the answer.

"If you follow me into the forest, I'll explain everything there." Kakashi replied as he picked up a bucket and headed into the trees behind the tent.

"Straight into the bush? This can't be good." Sasuke muttered as he, Naruto, and Sakura followed closely behind.

They walked through the forest for five minutes and finally stopped where some of the trees had parted a bit.

"So what are we going to do?" Sakura asked, curious what their sensei had in mind.

"You guys are going to build shelters." Kakashi told her, smiling.

"What? How?" Naruto asked, confused.

"You three will work as a team to build a shelter by using what the forest provides. You can use branches, logs, duff, whatever you can find in this area of the forest. You want to build it so that it wouldn't leak if a rain storm came by and wouldn't be blown over if a hurricane passed through."

"A hurricane? As if." Sakura scoffed.

"What's duff?" Naruto asked.

"It's the stuff that covers the forest floor, like fallen leaves and twigs. It's useful for keeping the rain out." Kakashi replied, hinting at the last sentence.

"Why are we doing this?" Sasuke asked, arms folded across his chest and looking quite unpleased with the activity.

"If you guys ever get lost in the forest, you'll need to know how to build yourselves a shelter to protect yourself from bad weather like rain, wind, and snow."

"And hurricanes apparently" Sakura snorted.

"Can we start now? Can we? Can we?" Naruto asked, bouncing up in down in excitement.

"Yes, you may start. Off you go guys!"

The three genin took off, running up a nearby slope to find their shelter spot in the forest.

"Naruto, slow down before you trip on a tree root!" Sakura scolded. "It's not like we're pressed for time here, so you can at least slow down a bit."

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot." Kakashi called up to them. "You guys will have 10 minutes to build your shelter before I test it, so think of this activity as training and take it seriously. Build your shelters as quickly and efficiently as possible."

"You were saying, Sakura?" Sasuke turned to his team-mate.

"Run like the wind, guys! We've got to find a spot fast!" Sakura shouted. A few seconds later, she tripped on a tree root.

After wasting 4 minutes trying to find a spot that wasn't placed on a slope or right into the bushes, they finally found a small clear spot up the hill with a large log partially sticking up off the ground.

"We finally found a spot! Now how will we build the shelter?" Sakura pondered.

"6 minutes till inspection!" Kakashi called out from somewhere else in the forest.

"Oh shit!" Naruto cried. "We gotta build this thing fast!"

"We'll take those branches over there and prop them against the log on one side. It'll be enough for a shelter." Sasuke told Naruto and Sakura.

They ran over to where some branches lay, took them, and stacked them against the log, forming a slanting type of roof/wall. Naruto ran official as he spotted a log. He bent down and tried to lift it up off the ground.

"What are you doing?" Sakura cried exasperatedly.

"This'll make a great addition to the roof/wall we have!" Naruto replied, straining to lift the log.

"You dope, you'll need more than just yourself to lift that log." Sasuke sighed.

"You're right. And that gives me an idea!" Naruto cried. He stopped heaving the log and did a sign with his fingers.

"Kage bushin no jutsu!"(1)

Naruto waited, expecting many clones of himself to appear, but nothing happened.

"That won't work here, remember?" Sasuke told Naruto.

"Yeah, I forgot about that." Naruto sighed and slumped down on the log. "Damn it! We're never going to get this shelter built."

"4 minutes till 'Hurricane Kakashi' hits!" Kakashi called out.

"A hurricane? Holy crap, we gotta get this shelter finished!" Naruto cried, panicking and trying to lift the log again.

"...'Hurricane Kakashi'? What the hell are you talking about!" Sasuke shouted out to his sensei.

"Hurricanes are given names, remember?" Kakashi shouted back.

"Since when can you send a hurricane to get us?" Naruto shouted challengingly.

"He's just scaring us so we'll build faster, that's all." Sakura assured the blonde boy.

"Or he's just being stupid." Sasuke scoffed, helping Naruto lift the log. "Sakura, you help lift this log too."

The three carried the log to the shelter and propped it up against the primary supporting log. They gathered some more branches and propped them against the primary log, completing the roof/wall. They stood back to admire their work for a few seconds, when suddenly the primary log cracked and collapsed underneath the weight of the newly placed log and branches. Their shelter was completely ruined.

"Well, we're screwed now." Sasuke sighed.

"Oh shit!" Naruto shouted as he ran around in circles. "Shit! Shit! Shit!"

"All of our hard work...gone to waste! No!" Sakura cried.

" 'Hurricane Kakashi' will arrive and hit the forest in 3 minutes!" Kakashi called out.

"Shut up with that "hurricane" crap of yours!" Naruto shouted back angrily. "It's not making it any fun for us like you think it is!"

"Ok, stop freaking out now. Take the branches and stand them up like a triangular tent." Sasuke instructed.

They took the fallen tree branches and stood them up, forming a tent shape.

"What else can we do?" Sakura asked.

"Grab some of that duff stuff off the ground that Kakashi was talking about so we can fill up the spaces between the branches." Sasuke instructed as he picked up some dirt and leaves, stuffing them between the spaces. Naruto and Sakura did the same.

Kakashi called out again, "1 minute until 'hurricane-"

"Shut up! We get it!" Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura shouted back. "Nobody cares!"

"Well, I think it looks ok." Naruto said as he stood back to look at their shelter. "It's small, but it's not like we're going to have to go in it or anything, right?"

"It still looks like it's going to leak though." Sakura said in worry.

"Yeah. There are still some small holes that would let water leak in." Sasuke pointed out.

"Sheesh. Such perfectionists." Naruto grumbled.

" 'Hurricane Kakashi' is now coming!" Kakashi called out as he approached, carrying a bucket.

"Oh crap! I think I know what he might be planning." Sasuke muttered, eying the bucket. Looking around frantically, he quickly pulled Naruto's orange jacket off and threw it over the shelter.

"Hey! What are you doing? That's mine! " Naruto shouted angrily.

"You'll be thankful later!" Sasuke hissed back as Kakashi stopped to look at the shelter, branches crookedly set up, Naruto's orange jacket thrown on top, and the spaces poorly stuffed with leaves, dirt, twigs, and garbage from Naruto's pockets.

"Alright, now to test if this shelter actually works. All three of you will have to get in there now." Kakashi told the three genin.

"We have to WHAT?" Naruto cried, eyeing the small unstable shelter.

"But with three of us in there, we might knock it over!" Sakura pointed out.

"Then maybe you should have thought about building it bigger." Kakashi suggested.

"We would have if you didn't give us such a short time limit!" Naruto shot back angrily.

"And hurricanes don't even hit the forests like these!" Sasuke added.

"I was just trying to make it fun." Kakashi insisted.

"But it wasn't!" The three of them scowled with their arms crossed.

"Alright, I'll quit with the "hurricane" stuff then. Get in your shelter now so I can test it by dumping water on it."

"What?" Naruto and Sakura cried.

"I knew it." Sasuke groaned.

"You better not get us too wet!" Sakura threatened. "Or else!"

"Or else what?" Kakashi asked, mildly interested in what Sakura would have to say.

"Umm...I haven't thought up that part yet." The young kunoichi admitted.

The three genin reluctantly crawled into their small shelter, crammed together, trying not to knock it over.

"Naruto! Get your elbow out of my face!" Sakura hissed.

"I would if Sasuke's butt wasn't in my face!" Naruto hissed back.

"It's not like I'm pleased with the way we're arranged here." Sasuke growled.

"My foot's sticking out of the shelter! It' going to get wet!" Sakura cried.

"Suck it up!" Sasuke ordered.

"Alright, here comes the "rain storm"!" Kakashi announced as he took the bucket he was holding and dumped the water onto the shelter. Water poured through the uncovered spaces and leaked through the duff. Sakura screamed as the cold water splashed onto her.

"I'm completely wet!" Sakura screeched.

"Sasuke, you made him completely soak my jacket!" Naruto cried angrily. "And we still got soaking wet!"

"Well, it was worth a shot I suppose, even if it didn't protect us from getting wet." Sasuke replied. All of them were quite wet as the shelter was poorly built, so half of the dumped water got in the shelter.

"That was a very badly simulated rainstorm, sensei!" Sakura scolded. "Rain doesn't just dump down all at once like that!"

Then the shelter suddenly collapsed on top of them. They were sent into screams and spasms of panic. Yes, even Sasuke was quite frightened.

Kakashi quickly tossed off the fallen branches and dirt, uncovering the three wet, traumatized, and now very angry genins.

"Now wasn't that fun?" Kakashi teased his three students as he smiled. Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke looked ready to murder their sensei. "Alright. Now who can tell me what wrong with that shelter?" Kakashi asked his disciples once they had calmed down a bit.

"We didn't stand the branches up properly?" Sakura offered.

"Using garbage to fill the spaces and prevent leaking was a bad idea?" Naruto suggested.

"Naruto's jacket is a useless piece of crap and doesn't work for shelter building?" Sasuke suggested.

"Hey! Are you calling my jacket a piece of crap?" Naruto challenged.

"It leaked, Naruto. It didn't protect us from getting wet. That coat's worthless."

"You're the one who suggested throwing it on top of the shelter at the last minute!"

"Hey, hey! No fighting, guys." Kakashi intervened. "Well, your answers are all partially right. Though throwing Naruto's jacket on top of the shelter was actually a good idea. If someone ever got lost in the forest and others come searching for that person, something like Naruto's bright orange jacket will stick out and there will be a better chance of that person being found by rescue parties or anyone else wandering around the area."

"Ha!" Naruto stuck his tongue out at Sasuke, who merely grunted as he faced away from Naruto, arms crossed across his chest.

"The jacket was pretty useless as protection for the shelter though." Kakashi added as he picked the sopping jacket up off of the shelter. "It's completely soaked."

"Thanks a lot, jerk!" Naruto shot angrily at the smirking Uchiha as he rose up, brushing dirt off of himself.

"So now that this activity's done, we'll head back for some lunch now before we go on our hike." Kakashi announced, handing the dripping wet jacket back to Naruto.

"I'm going to get changed first though, and nobody's going to stop me!" Sakura said threateningly, clothes and hair dripping with water.

To be continued...

(1) For those of you who don't watch the Japanese sub version of Naruto, kage bushin no jutsu is Naruto's shadow clone technique.

Another note for the hell of it: The shelter building part of this chapter was inspired by a similar activity that some campers and I did at camp a few weeks ago. We had to get into teams and build shelters. We had a 10 minute time limit and after every couple of minutes, the instructor would shout out: " 'Hurricane Bob' is coming in 3 minutes!" (Bob wasn't his real name, but I'm not giving that out online.) as, hurricanes have names, like "Hurricane Katrina" and such. So the "Hurricane Kakashi" idea was just a stupid odd joke I had to put in this chapter. Hope it didn't weird you guys out too much.

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