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Team 7 painfully limped down the mountain, well minus Kakashi, as he didn't have a large rock to carry and drop on his foot like the other three did when they climbed up the mountain. By the time they were half way down, Naruto's foot had pretty much healed because of his special Kyuubi healing powers. Sasuke looked enviously at Naruto (Yes, enviously. Can you believe it?) as the young hyperactive blonde skipped down the last half of the mountain, singing campfire songs merrily at the top of his lungs.
By this point, limping Sakura collapsed and refused to move any further. So Kakashi had to give her a piggyback ride down the mountain.
"Oh well. It'll be good training for me." Kakashi mused.
"Is training all you can ever think about?" Sakura asked, annoyed. "Why can't I get a piggyback with Sasuke? Dammit!" Inner Sakura shouted.
They finally reached the foot of the mountain and arrived back at the campsite just before darkness fell.
"So what about my prize for winning the training competition?" Sasuke asked, trying not to look too smug. But he couldn't help smiling a bit triumphantly as Naruto was reminded of his own disqualification, putting Naruto back in a grumpy mood.
"Ah, yes. That...I'll go get it." Kakashi said, dropping Sakura as he proceeded to get the prize from his tent.
"Kakashi-sensei! You're not supposed to drop a lady on the ground like that!" Sakura shouted angrily.
"Oh! Sorry about that. I forgot that you were even on my back. Silly me!" Kakashi smiled sheepishly as he chuckled.
"Forgot that I was there?" Sakura balled her fists up looking ready to scream, but she instead took a large leaf from a nearby bush and tore it apart with her teeth.
"Sasuke, look! Sakura-chan's lost it! I think all of the fish and mouse meat must be getting to her head!" Naruto cried as he pointed at Sakura.
"Well, it's better than her screaming her frustration out." Sasuke replied.
"Well somebody's hungry." Kakashi chuckled as he emerged from the tent, glancing at Sakura with the leaf.
"Here you go, Sasuke. Good job." Kakashi tossed the last cup of instant ramen to Sasuke with a hint of reluctance on his face. Sasuke caught it, opened it, and lit the stove to heat water for it.
"What? No way! Where did you get that from?" Naruto asked, jealousy clearly showing on his face.
"It was the one ramen cup I managed to save from the bears. The rest of us will be having fish tonight." Kakashi replied.
"B-but that was supposed to me my ramen! I'm the one who likes ramen the most!" Naruto whined.
Sakura looked at the instant ramen enviously as Sasuke poured the pot of hot water into the ramen cup. Though she wasn't crazy as Naruto about ramen, it would sure beat having fish again for another meal.
"Oh no..." Kakashi groaned.
"What? What? What?" Naruto asked, fearing the worst.
"Looks like a bear or raccoon came in and ate all the fish I caught today." Kakashi sighed. "I should really think about getting a bear bag(1) so they don't keep crashing our camp and raiding all of our food."
"No way!" Naruto cried.
"Does that mean we'll have to eat squirrels and mice again?" Sakura asked, looking rather sick.
"We already ate those, and it's too dark to go out hunting now. We'll just have to go without dinner tonight." Kakashi replied.
"But I'm so hungry after hiking and not eating since lunch! So how come Sasuke gets dinner?" Naruto whined.
"Don't you listen? Sasuke won the training exercise, so he won the dinner! You're so stupid sometimes." Sakura huffed. "You're complaining? I didn't even eat any lunch today, dammit!" Inner Sakura screamed.
"Damn it...well, I'm tough! I can make it with out dinner. Believe it!" Naruto said confidently
Naruto's stomach gave a loud rumble as Sasuke smirked. Naruto looked pathetically over at Sasuke for a moment, and then slowly shuffled towards him, his stomach taking control over his head and his pride.
Sakura and Kakashi stood there for a moment, trying to ignore their own growling stomachs, but the smell of Sasuke's ramen was extremely tempting and just made them that much hungrier.
Sasuke sat down at the camp picnic table, ready to eat his ramen, when Naruto, dropping all dignity, crouched down made a puppy face, whimpering.
Sasuke tried to ignore him as he took a bite of his ramen, but Naruto's teary-eyed face was rather distracting.
Sasuke looked down again and saw that Sakura was knelt down, looking up at him, blushing with pleading eyes, making Sasuke have half the mind to punch her and Naruto away from his sight. But he just couldn't do that. So he tried to go back to eating.
He was just about to take a bite of ramen, when he looked back down again. Now Kakashi, his teacher, was crouching down on the ground on all fours with Naruto and Sakura, staring up at him with puppy eyes.
Sasuke just stared at them in disgust for a moment, and placed his ramen cup back down on the table. "Alright, alright. You don't all have to look so disgustingly pathetic about it. I've lost my appetite now anyways." Sasuke grumbled.
"Wow! Yon really mean it, Sasuke? Thanks a lot!" Naruto grinned.
The three starved ninjas cheered as Sasuke went to start the campfire.
"I call first dibs!" Naruto shouted.
"You better not eat it all if you ever want to live to eat another cup of ramen ever again!" Sakura warned.
"You guys better leave me some!" Kakashi added.
So the three ninjas somehow managed to split up the ramen equally among them selves without killing each other and devoured their shares in an amazing amount of speed, which perhaps even Akimichi Chouji could not compete with.
"Man, that was good!" Naruto grinned, patting his belly. "But I'm still hungry!"
"Those things really aren't meant to be shared among three people after all. But it sure beats eating a squirrel!" Sakura smiled.
"And it beats eating nothing!" Naruto grinned.
"I do feel a bit bad for us eating Sasuke's earned prize and dinner though." Kakashi said.
The three of them were silent for a moment, sitting there and feeling quite guilty indeed.
"Oh wait. Guilty feeling's gone!" Kakashi smiled. "That ramen tasted great."
"You better be thankful!" Sasuke shouted angrily from the fire pit.
"We are! Thanks, Sasuke!" Naruto grinned, replying back. "Best meal I've had today!"
"Naruto, don't rub it in for him." Sakura scolded.
"Hey, can we have campfire now?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, I'll go grab the marshmallows." Kakashi replied.
"But you said that all the food was stolen by the bears." Sakura reminded her sensei.
"Yes, true. But the marshmallows have been kept in the vehicle." Kakashi grinned as he got up and got the marshmallows from 'Michael'.
"Kakashi-sensei, you officially rock!" Naruto cheered as he sat himself down in one of the fold-up chairs at the fire pit beside Sasuke, who had got the fire burning and sat down in the other fold-up chair. Sakura and Kakashi sat themselves down on the log.
"Pass the marshmallows over here!" Naruto, waving his hand in the air as Kakashi tossed the marshmallows over the fire to Naruto.
"You shouldn't throw those over the campfire!" Sakura scolded. "What if you didn't throw far enough and they fell into the fire?"
"Sakura, I always throw far enough." Kakashi assured Sakura in a mock-serious tone of voice.
Naruto popped a marshmallow in his mouth, chewing in delight. His eyes suddenly widened as he got an idea.
"Hey! We should play 'Chubby Bunny'!" Naruto exclaimed.
"What's that?" Sakura asked.
"Oh-no..." Kakashi groaned, shaking his head.
"What? What's wrong?" Sakura asked, turning to Kakashi.
"It's a game where you see how many marshmallows you can stuff in your mouth." Kakashi explained. "After every marshmallow you stuff in your mouth, you have to try to say "Chubby Bunny" with your mouth full. It's a rather simple, yet stupid game."
"I'll say. That does sound stupid!" Sakura agreed, nodding her head.
"Hey! I was going to tell them how the game worked! And it's not a stupid game either!" Naruto said angrily." So who wants to play?"
The rest of team 7 sat there quietly, none of them volunteering.
"Alright, I'll play by myself then if you guys are such pansies!" Naruto huffed.
"Pansy, you said?" Sasuke challenged. "I bet I could stuff more marshmallows in my mouth than you could, you loser." The confident Uchiha smirked.
"Alright then! Let the Chubby Bunny competition begin!" Naruto cheered, throwing his fist into the air.
"Alright, do what you want. But don't come crying to me in the middle of the night, complaining how sick you are." Kakashi warned.
"Yeah, whatever. We'll be fine!" Naruto grinned as he popped one marshmallow into his mouth and said "Chubby Bunny!"
Sasuke took a marshmallow and popped one into his mouth and said "Chubby Bunny."
"And so the insanity begins." Sakura sighed as she and Kakashi watched the two boys begin their ridiculous rivalry contest.
Naruto took another marshmallow, stuffing it into his mouth and saying. "Chubby Bunny!" Sasuke took another marshmallow and stuffed it into his mouth. "Chubby Bunny." Naruto took another. "Chubby Bunny!" Sasuke took another. "Chubby Bunny!" At this point, their speech was sounding very muffled and Sakura couldn't help but laugh as they tried to pronounce the word 'Chubby Bunny'.
"You know, that does look like fun!" Sakura laughed. "And I'm still hungry too."
"I wouldn't if I were you, Sakura." Kakashi warned. "Those two boys are going to be throwing up all night, and I don't want you up-chucking those marshmallows the whole night either."
"Oh, don't worry. I'll just have a few. I'll be fine." Sakura assured as she rose up from the log. "Hand me those marshmallows, boys! I'm playing too!"
Kakashi sighed as he lay his chin on his hand. "Great, just what I've always wanted. A team of competitive, hot-headed, sick to their stomach genins throwing up all night. Oh well, it's their loss."
Sakura took her first marshmallow, popping it in her mouth. "Chubby Bunny!" She took a second, a third, and a fourth, popping them into her mouth, saying "Chubby Bunny" two times in order to catch up to and surpass the boys.
"Man! She's going straight for the kill!" Naruto exclaimed, speech muffled with the three marshmallows in his mouth.
"She won't beat me." Sasuke muttered as he stuffed a fourth marshmallow in his mouth. "Chubby Bunny!"
"Oh yeah? Well take this, guys!" Naruto challenged, stuffing two marshmallows in his mouth. "Chubby Bunny!" He said in a very muffled voice. Sakura stuffed another. Sasuke stuffed in two more. At this point, their cheeks were puffed out like chipmunks and Kakashi couldn't help but laugh as they tried to say 'Chubby Bunny.'
"Are you sure you don't wanna play, sensei?" Naruto asked in a very muffled voice.
"Yes, I'm very sure I don't want to play. And I'm sure you'll find out why in a moment." Kakashi replied, eyeing Sakura who was looking queasy. A moment later, she ran to the bushes.
"Well, that's one down." Kakashi said to himself. Sasuke and Naruto were still trying to out-do each other. Sasuke had 8 in his mouth, and was looking very sick now. Naruto stuffed 9 in his mouth and he was looking a little queasy himself. Sasuke took another, but dropped it and joined Sakura at the bushes.
Naruto stuffed 2 more in, making 11. Naruto let out a very muffled "uhhy unny" and triumphantly raised his fists into the air.
Kakashi shook his head. "That's quite sick, really." But he chuckled anyways. "And you do look like a chubby bunny."
Sakura returned and sat back down on the log. She gaped at Naruto.
"How many of those are in your mouth?" She cried.
"I ha eyeruh arherrows ih ai ouh" Naruto replied, voice completely muffled.
"What did you just say? I can't understand a thing you're saying!"
"He said he has eleven marshmallows in his mouth." Kakashi replied.
"How did you understand that?" Sakura asked in disbelief.
"My team-mates and sensei played this game every night when we went camping. I pretty much had to learn how understand my team with them stuffing their faces with marshmallows every campfire." Kakashi replied.
Sasuke stumbled from the bushes and sat down in his chair, clutching his stomach and groaning.
"Regretting that you ever challenged Naruto now?" Kakashi asked as he smiled teasingly.
"I only had to spit my marshmallows out, but I think that Sasuke actually got really sick!" Sakura said in worry. "Are you alright, Sasuke-kun?"
Naruto said more things, voice extremely muffled with all of the marshmallows in his mouth.
"Naruto, get those things out of your mouth!" Kakashi ordered.
Naruto spat them out into the fire, grinning. "I'm the Chubby Bunny!" He cheered, raising his fists into the air in victory.
"I'll tell you what you are; you're sick!" Sakura shouted.
"Yeah, but you don't have to shout it out for the whole world to hear." Sasuke growled.
"So how about that, Sasuke? You may have won the prize for the hike, but I won the Chubby Bunny competition!" Naruto declared, pointing his finger at Sasuke triumphantly.
"Stuffing 11 marshmallows in your mouth…is that really something to be proud of?" Sasuke asked sceptically.
"You're just jealous that I can stuff more marshmallows in my mouth than you can!" Naruto grinned with a superior look on his face.
"Oh yes. I'm definitely jealous that I can't be more of a pig than you." Sasuke replied sarcastically.
"What's that you said? I'm gonna destroy you!"
Before Naruto could do anything though, Kakashi spoke up, "Alright, we better head off to bed now."
"Good idea. I'm absolutely tired. I need to grab some beauty sleep." Sakura agreed, yawning.
"Awww, ok. So what are we going to do tomorrow?" Naruto asked.
"Tomorrow, I'm going try to convince the camp ranger to get me to the nearest store to get some gas for 'Michael' and some more food so we can stay here a bit longer. If I can't convince him, I'll just walk there." Kakashi replied.
"But that will take hours! Possibly even days!" Sakura cried.
"Face it. We really need the food and the car gas. It'll be fine." Kakashi assured the pink-haired kunoichi. "Besides, I never said that you guys had to come with me."
Naruto let out a cheer, "Sweet! We'll get to party and do whatever we want!"
"No, Naruto!" Sakura said sternly.
"Why not?" Naruto whined.
"You know it's wrong to do things like party when sensei's gone!" Sakura lectured. On the contrary though, Inner Sakura cheered, "Hell yeah! The three of us alone! Now we can do whatever the hell we want! "
"But I think it's a great idea!" Naruto persisted.
"Oh, I'm too tired to argue with you anymore tonight. Let's just get to bed." Sakura groaned.
So Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura went off to their tent to grab some shut-eye, though that wasn't in Naruto's mind.
"Hey guys! Wanna tell ghost stories?" Naruto asked, grinning.
"Shut up, Naruto. I'm trying to sleep." Sasuke growled.
"Fine! Be that way, Mr. big-shot champ!" Naruto teased.
"Remember, this big-shot champ here gave you his meal that he won. So you better watch what you say, you big-time loser." Sasuke shot back.
Naruto stuck his tongue out at Sasuke, who just ignored him and lay down to fall asleep, as it was too dark for him to see Naruto anyways.
"How about you, Sakura? Wanna do something?" Naruto asked.
"I'm really worn out, Naruto. I just want some sleep." Sakura wearily replied.
"This isn't fun! I mean we're camping! We should do something!" Naruto pointed out.
There was a loud 'whump' outside of the tent as Kakashi had tripped once again on the tent peg line, grumbling as he stumbled off into his tent.
"Are you sure you don't want to do anything, Sakura-chan?" Naruto tried again.
"Yes Naruto, now go to sleep before I pound your face in!" She replied, anger lacing her tired voice.
Naruto couldn't fall asleep, despite the long and tiring hike they had that day. The effects of stuffing 11 marshmallows in his mouth, plus eating half of them, were starting to have an effect on his stomach.
"Ooooh, I feel so sick." Naruto groaned as he clutched his stomach. "I'm not gonna be able to sleep at all tonight!" He moaned.
"I warned you." Kakashi called out from his tent in a teasing tone of voice.
"Shut up!" Naruto shouted back. He folded his arms across his chest angrily. His stomach gave another sickening lurch, anger turning into regret and discomfort. He took out his flashlight to read his comic books, or 'manga' as he called it, to forget about his upset stomach. He did this contently for about half an hour, until he got bored and started making shadows with his fingers on the tent wall.
Naruto had his hands in the shape of a dog and was making barking sounds. Then he shaped his fingers on his hand into the form of a rabbit and made his other hand into the shape of a snakehead, eating the rabbit and making weird sounds.
"Naruto, What the hell are you doing?" Sasuke grumbled.
"I'm making shadow puppets of course! What does it look like?" Naruto replied.
"Can't we get any sleep with you?" Sasuke sighed.
"Let me see...well, no I guess. Not really." Naruto replied, smiling goofily.
Sakura rose out of her sleeping bag and grabbed Naruto by the collar of his pyjamas. "Naruto, you jerk! I-"
Sakura was cut off as loud snapping and grunting sounds was heard in the bushes.
"What was that?" Naruto cried in fear.
Sakura brought her fist down on Naruto's head. "Trying to pull that same old stupid joke as well? You really are an impossible jerk!" Sakura shouted.
"That sound definitely came from outside. It wasn't Naruto. Kakashi-sensei's already in his tent, so it wasn't him either." Sasuke corrected Sakura, bringing fear to the kunoichi's face.
Sakura let out a short but loud screech as she heard the sounds again. Naruto let out a yelp as well.
"It's another bear!" Sakura squeaked in fear.
"Who cares?" Sasuke scowled, rolling over in his sleeping bag to attempt to fall asleep.
"What do you mean by "Who cares?"! It's a bear, Sasuke!" Naruto cried. "I don't think you know what those things can actually do to us, especially if we just lie here!"
More snapping, scratching, and grunting sounds were heard.
"What if it tries to hurt us?" Sakura whimpered.
"Then let's go get it before it gets us!" Naruto declared, raising his fist up into the air.
Naruto rose to get up, but Sakura hit him on the head with her fist.
"You idiot! Don't tell me that you forgot that we can't use jutsu here!"
"Oh, right..." Naruto mumbled as he remembered, sinking back down onto his sleeping bag.
Heavy footsteps, loud growling, and rustling were heard from the bushes.
"Maybe it's not even a bear! It could be worse! Something bigger, scarier and meaner!" Sakura squeaked in fear.
Naruto let out a yelp at the possibility. "I bet it is! If it really does try to hurt us, what'll we do?" Naruto asked, very frightened as well.
"Let's get Kakashi-sensei. Maybe he can help!" Sakura suggested.
"Yeah! But that means...going out there...where that thing is!" Naruto shivered.
"It'll be ok if we run fast and if Sasuke comes with us." Sakura told Naruto, seemingly assured.
"Aww, do we have to bring Sasuke along?" Naruto whined.
"Of course!"
"Ok, fine."
"I'm going to have no part in this. I'm going back to sleep, so leave me alone." Sasuke spoke.
"Sasuke, please come with us to get Kakashi-sensei! Please? We're scared!" Sakura pleaded.
"Why the hell would I-" Sasuke began, but was cut off by more loud growling and scratching from the bushes next to their tent.
"I think it's actually...coming to get us." Sasuke said, looking slightly frightened.
"Run!" Naruto screamed. So they all burst out of the tent (Yes, even Sasuke), in fear of whatever it was outside in the bushes and ran into Kakashi's tent, screaming.
"What the hell are you-" Kakashi started, but was cut off by the terrified and wailing voices of his students.
"There's something scary outside!" Naruto cried.
"I'm scared!" Sakura wailed.
Sakura and Naruto began to burst out crying and childishly clung to Kakashi. Sasuke almost found himself doing the same, but valuing his pride over his comfort or safety, he refrained himself from doing that.
"Hey guys...can you let go of me now?" Kakashi asked.
Sakura and Naruto both quickly let go, embarrassed, and began to both tell Kakashi what they heard in the bushes in scared, blubbery, choked-up voices.
"I can't understand a word of what you two are saying, but I'm sure whatever it was that was out there, you scared it off with your screaming." Kakashi assured his frightened students.
"Why the hell did I come here anyways?" Sasuke asked out loud.
"Because you were scared." Naruto answered.
"...No I wasn't." Sasuke replied, his body still shaking slightly in fear.
"Well, it's time for all of you to go back to your tent now." Kakashi said. "Goodnight."
Sasuke left the tent and went back to his own, but Sakura and Naruto remained where they were.
"Aren't you two going off to your tent now?" Kakashi asked, hoping they would leave very soon so he could get back to sleep.
Sakura burst out crying, "Can you come to our tent? I'm so scared!"
"If you don't come, the thing's going to eat us when we get back to our tent!" Naruto cried, eyes watering at this point. "I don't wanna die!"
"You are shinobi now. You have to learn to cope with the wilderness. You will be dealing with this sort of thing every night on future missions you take when your rank rises." Kakashi lectured his students.
"But we don't have our shinobi jutsu to defend ourselves here! At least on regular missions, we can defend ourselves better!" Sakura protested.
Sakura had a good point, and the two genin looked so scared and upset that Kakashi couldn't just say "Go away. I don't care, so just let me get some sleep". The camping trip was his idea after all, the copy-nin reminded himself.
Kakashi sighed in defeat, "Alright, I'll come over. But we're going to sleep right away."
Naruto and Sakura cheered in delight as they left the tent, a disgruntled Kakashi following after them.
"What? Why's he sleeping here?" Sasuke asked.
"We're scared to sleep alone." Sakura replied, smiling sheepishly. "If something attacks us, he'll save us!" She added.
"Yeah! Unlike you, Sasuke!" Naruto added.
"Alright, that's enough." Kakashi cut in. "Time to sleep now. Goodnight."
Kakashi set his sleeping bag down beside Sasuke and seemed to fall asleep on the spot as soon as he lay down.
"Let's just hope he doesn't snore." Sasuke groaned.
"Yeah. Unlike somebody else here!" Naruto added, staring hard at Sasuke.
"I don't snore." Sasuke frowned.
"You do too! I heard you last night!" Naruto protested
"Oh. That would've been Sakura."
"What? No way! Sakura-chan, you snore?" Naruto asked in disbelief.
"...Of course I don't!" Sakura cried angrily. "Sasuke-kun! Why the hell did you tell him? Dammit!" Inner Sakura screamed.
"Alright. Well I'm getting sleepy, so…goodnight!" Naruto lay down in his sleeping bag and fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, Sakura also fell asleep.
Sasuke wondered to himself if he, himself, actually did snore, and if he had really just imagined Sakura snoring the night before.
But his question was answered shortly as Sakura began to snore quite loudly.
Naruto began to mumble and mutter things in his sleep. Then he half shouted something out as Sasuke was about to doze off.
"Great. I'm never going to get any sleep with Naruto and Sakura's mumbling shouts and snoring." The Uchiha groaned, rolling away from Naruto. "Well, at least Kakashi-sensei's a quiet sleeper."
At that moment, Kakashi sharply kicked Sasuke in the shin. Not intentionally, though, as Sasuke discovered a moment later.
"Great! I'm stuck sleeping with a snoring girl, a sleep-talking idiot, and a man who kicks and moves around in his sleep!"
At that moment, Kakashi rolled over, practically crushing Sasuke between Kakashi and Naruto. Sasuke tried hitting Kakashi on the arm with his fist, but the copy ninja slumbered on. Naruto kept talking and shouting things out in his sleep. "The monkey's got my ramen!"
After 15 minutes, Sasuke got fed up and finally managed to push Kakashi, sending him rolling over back to his own side.
"Finally!" Sasuke breathed, glad to have some room. Sasuke shut his eyes and was just about to finally doze off, when someone shook him on the shoulder.
Sasuke groaned and rolled over to look up into the face of Naruto.
"...What do you want?"
"I need to go to the bathroom!" Naruto whispered.
"...And you woke me up to tell me this because...?" Sasuke asked in severe annoyance.
"Don't you know? When one of us goes to the bathroom, we have to bring a buddy along! "Bathroom Buddies", you know?" Naruto reminded Sasuke.
Sasuke rolled over, obscuring Naruto from his sight. "I'm not your "Bathroom Buddy". Go ask someone else, you loser."
"Aw, c'mon! Please? I really need to go!" Naruto whined.
"Naruto, leave me alone, or else there will be blood..." Sasuke warned.
"Fine! You heartless bastard!" Naruto spat as he made a pouty face and turned to Sakura who had her face buried into her pillow.
"Hey Sakura! I need to go to the bathroom! Can you come with me?"
"Naruto, let me get my beauty sleep..." Sakura mumbled, trying to ignore the desperate Naruto. Naruto shook Sakura's arm.
"C'mon Sakura. Please? I really need to go! I'm not joking! I really need to-"
Sakura blindly swung her fist hitting its mark by nailing Naruto's face. "Go ask someone else, you moron!"
Sakura began to snore, marking that she had somehow fallen asleep within a span of 5 seconds after hitting Naruto.
Almost in tears, Naruto sat there for a moment, recovering from Sakura's blow before crawling over to where Kakashi was sleeping. Naruto shook his shoulder.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto whispered.
Kakashi didn't reply.
"Kakashi-sensei, wake up!"
Kakashi mumbled something incoherently before turning over in his sleeping bag.
Frustrated, Naruto hit him on the arm with his fist hard. Suspecting he was under attack, Kakashi sat up and swung his arm around, smacking Naruto in the face, once again sending Naruto's face in denial.
"Oh. It's just you...what do you want, Naruto?" Kakashi sighed, rubbing his eyes sleepily.
Naruto rubbed his throbbing face before replying, "I need to go to the bathroom!"
Kakashi groaned and lay back down in his sleeping bag. "It's some ungodly hour in the morning, Naruto. I really need to get some sleep so I can make that trip to the store tomorrow. Can't you take one of the others with you?"
"I already asked them to come with me, but Sasuke threatened to hurt me, and Sakura actually hurt me!" Naruto whined, sounding as though he were ready to burst into tears.
Kakashi sighed as he got out of his sleeping bag. "Alright. I suppose I'll have to take you myself then."
"Phew! That's good! I thought that I'd have to stay inside the tent instead and go p-"
"Please, Naruto. I don't want to hear it."
Kakashi grabbed a flashlight as Naruto got his on sandals on and both stepped out of the tent into the darkness.
To be continued...
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