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My spell check program is broken on my computer, so there might be a couple spelling, spacing, or grammatical errors in this chapter. I did my best to read over this chapter carefully many times though, so it should be hopefully be free of errors.
Disclaimer: I don't own Barney the Dinosaur.
Wait...that's not right. What I meant to say is that I don't own Naruto.
A few moments later, Lee and Naruto stepped into the tent holding large spoons, pots, and pans. Sakura and Sasuke were still sleeping soundly.
"Oh Sakura...my sweet cherry blossom! How beautiful and peaceful you look when you sleep!" Lee sighed dramatically.
"Lee! Don't forget our real mission!" Naruto reminded him. "It's noon and they can't sleep in any later!"
"Right!" Lee nodded, saluting.
"Alright, let's do this." Naruto said, nodding to Lee. They both started banging the pots and pans and shouted out.
"Good morning Sakura-chan and Sasuke"
"Rise and shine, my sweet cherry blossom!"
"Wakey Wakey, sleepyheads!"
"The early bird catches the worm!"
"But it's not even early anymore, Lee! It's practically the afternoon, so they can't be early birds!"
"Oh yeah, you're right! Well, all the better for us to be waking them up then!"
The banging, clanging, and shouting obviously woke up Sasuke and Sakura, immediately putting them in a foul mood.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sakura screamed as she threw a punch at Naruto.
Sasuke rose from his sleeping bag as well, taking one of Lee's frying pans and smacking him across the head with it.
Naruto and Lee lay on the floor of the tent for a moment, rubbing their throbbing heads.
"Lee? What the hell are you doing here?" Sasuke asked in mild surprise and annoyance.
"I'm camping here with my team too! Isn't it going to be great? Our two teams can bond and face the threats and challenges of the wilderness together!" Lee cried passionately.
"Whoopee." Sasuke sarcastically cheered.
"Why did you have to wake us up like that?" Sakura cried angrily.
"Because you guys were sleeping in way too late!" Naruto replied.
"Well you didn't have to wake us up with all that pot banging and shouting!"
"But Sakura-chan, I'm so hungry! Can you make some breakfast now?" Naruto whined, stomach growling very loudly.
Sakura sighed, rubbing her sleepy eyes. "Well, now that I'm awake, I suppose I better make breakfast."
"Hurry it up!" Naruto added.
"I'm on it, don't push me! I haven't eaten for a while either." Sakura said as she left the tent, Naruto following at her heels. Sakura looked in the food box and tossed Naruto some berries. He caught them with a disappointed look on his face.
"What kind of breakfast is this?" Naruto cried in disappointment.
"If you don't like it, then make your own breakfast you lazy idiot!" Sakura shouted angrily at Naruto. Grouchy by now, Sakura threw a dead fish at Naruto's face. Naruto stood there in part shock, part confusion, and part disappointment as the fish slid down his face and dropped onto the ground.
"But I'm sick of eating just fish!" Naruto whined.
"Well too bad!" Sakura replied in a raised tone of voice.
Naruto's stomach growled loudly, demanding to be fed.
"...How do I cook it?"
"Use the gas stove, duh!" Sakura replied as though answering an obvious question. With her patience lost, Sakura stormed off into the tent as Lee came out.
"Oh Sakura! How beautiful you look in the morning, like a blossming-"
"Cram it, Lee! Get out of my sight!" Sakura snapped.
"Ok...I can do this! Believe it!" Naruto said to himself as he rummaged through the equipment box, getting the matches first this time before turning on the stove, remembering what happened last time.
"Hey Naruto, what are you doing?" Lee asked.
"I'm trying to make breakfast. Want to help?"
"You bet I do!" Lee replied with enthusiasm.
Naruto found the matches and gave out a triumphant cheer. "Alright! Now to set up the stove!"
Naruto and Lee got the stove out, and after a 10 frustrating minutes, set the stove up properly. Naruto turned the gas on and struck his match. The match remained unlit. He struck it against the box again, yet still no flame appeared.
"What the hell is with this? C'mon you stupid match! Light up!" Naruto growled, furiously striking the match again and again as the gas kept running.
"Can I try?" Lee asked.
"In a moment. I gotta light this thing myself. It's been pissing me off!" Naruto replied, furiously striking the match, only to break it.
Sasuke emerged from the tent, hobbling on his good foot.
"You better have breakfast ready soon. We haven't eaten properly for 2 days and I'm starving!" Sasuke told Naruto.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm working on it, okay? You're not the only one dying of hunger!" Naruto replied, taking the words from Sakura's mouth earlier.
Naruto took another match and struck it against the box again and again, until it suddenly lit up.
"Alright! I did it-"
Now as the gas had been running all this time, the match therefore blew up in a huge flame once again, into Naruto's face as it finally ignited.
"You idiot!" Sasuke groaned, hands covering his face.
"Woooow! That was cool, Naruto! Nice work!" Lee cheered.
Naruto stood there for a moment, face completely blackened before he fell to the ground, rolling around and screaming ridiculously, "It burns! It buuuuurns!"
"Never fear, Naruto! It's the passion of youth that burns you, and it's a wonderful thing!" Lee cried.
"No it's not! This really hurts!" Naruto shouted.
"I leave you three on your own for a couple of days, and here I find Naruto's face burned off, Sasuke's foot caught in a trap, Sakura missing and replaced by a green-clad boy? Boy, you kids can be quite troublesome."
Naruto and Sasuke looked up to see their sensei, Kakashi, standing with bags of food in his hands, clothes dirty, his hair full of twigs, leaves, and what Naruto thought was a squirrel moving about in there.
Sasuke and Naruto stared at Kakashi in a hungry sort of way for a full moment before anything else was said.
"...Why are you guys looking at me like that?" Kakashi asked, puzzled by the looks on their faces. "It's rather disturbing really."
"FOOD!" Naruto and Sasuke cried.
Starving Naruto and Sasuke tackled Kakashi, taking the bags of food to the picnic table and searching through on what would be best to eat. Lee stared at them, a little frightened by Sasuke and Naruto's rabid hunger.
"Now don't you all go thanking me at once." Kakashi said sarcastically as he stood up and dusted himself off. "And don't eat everything now either!" He added with a more serious tone in his voice.
Sakura stepped out of the tent to see what the commotion was all about.
"Kakashi-sensei, you're back! We were so worried!"
"Well, it's nice to know that somebody here appreciates my return." Kakashi smiled.
"Oh! Is that food you have with you?" Sakura took the last bag in Kakashi's hand and sat down at the picnic table with Naruto and Sasuke to feed herself.
"Why do I bother?" Kakashi sighed. He turned to Lee who was gaping at the eating speed Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. "Nice to see you Lee. Is the rest of your team here as well?"
"You bet they are! You and your team should come by later and we should all do something cool together!" Lee grinned, striking his nice-guy pose.
"Yeah. That would be a good idea I suppose." Kakashi nodded thoughtfully.
"I better get back to my team now. See you later, guys!" Lee cried as he ran back to the campsite. Kakashi was the only one who waved back, as the three genin were too busy stuffing their faces with food to notice or care that Lee had left.
Kakashi sat himself down to have some food. "Didn't you guys feed yourselves while I was gone?" Kakashi asked his hungry students.
"Mno, we bifn't heed moufelfs mush!" Naruto replied with his mouth full, bits of food flying out of his mouth into Kakashi's face. Mild disgust appeared on Kakashi's face as he wiped the bits of food off with a napkin from the equipment box.
"Come again? I didn't quite catch what you said there."
Naruto chewed and swallowed before replying again. "I said that we didn't feed ourselves much."
"Kakashi-sensei, can you get the trap off of Sasuke's foot?" Sakura asked, pointing to the trap on Sasuke's foot.
"Sure I can. How did you get that caught on your foot anyways, Sasuke?" Kakashi asked, mild interest appearing on his face.
"...I don't want to talk about it." Sasuke replied sulkily.
"He was walking through the woods, when the trap jumped up from the leaves and dirt and snapped onto his foot! He never saw it coming! And he shouted out a lot of naughty words too!" Naruto told Kakashi. Again, bits of food flew out of Naruto's mouth and onto Kakashi's face. Kakashi wiped the food off his face again, shifting backwards away from Naruto.
"You dumb ass! You're not supposed to tell him how it happened! He doesn't need to know!" Sasuke said angrily, fists balled up.
"It's alright to be embarrassed, Sasuke. In fact, I fell for that very same simple trap when I was about your age while camping in the woods here. And I wasn't too happy about it myself either." Kakashi assured his angered Uchiha student.
"Really?" Sasuke said in mild surprise.
"You got your foot caught in a trap too?" Sakura asked, surprised.
"You mean you were once stupid too?" Naruto added, also surprised.
Kakashi glared at Naruto for a moment before returning his gaze to Sasuke, who was also glaring at Naruto.
"So I'm taking it that you know how to get this thing off then?" Sasuke asked, eager to get the painful metal trap off his foot as soon as possible.
"Of course I do." Kakashi replied as he reached for the weapon holster on his leg, pulling out a kunai and smiling cheerfully. "We're going to have to amputate your foot off."
Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke stared at their sensei for a moment in complete utter shock. Kakashi laughed, "No, I was just kidding. We don't really have to do that."
"Sensei, Sasuke's not responding!" Sakura told Kakashi as she pointed at Sasuke, who was sitting there, rigid, with a wide-eyed stare.
"Hellooooo? Earth to Sasuke!" Naruto called out to his team-mate as he waved his hand in front of the un responding Uchiha. "Can I smack him back to his senses, Kakashi-sensei?"
"No, Naruto." Kakashi sternly replied.
"But why not?" Naruto whined in disappointment.
Kakashi raised his hand and slapped Sasuke across the face, bringing the shocked boy back to his senses. "Because it's my job to do that."
"Don't do that to me!" Sasuke growled as he rubbed his sore cheek.
"Ok, I'm going to take this off- don't give me that look, Sasuke. I'm not going to amputate your foot. Anyways, this might be painful, so bear with me." Kakashi told the still frightened Sasuke.
Kakashi took his kunai and stuck the tip of it between the metal teeth, prying the trap open bit by bit until the kunai was stuck well between the metal teeth. He then used his hands to pry apart the trap, releasing it from Sasuke's foot.
"Now why didn't I think off that?" Sasuke muttered to himself.
"Because you're stupid?" Naruto suggested.
Sasuke picked up a small stone and chucked it at Naruto's head. "I was out of kunai as well, you know!" Sasuke told Naruto, peeved.
"Your foot's free, Sasuke!" Sakura exclaimed, smiling as she jumped about in joy while Kakashi wrapped Sasuke's foot in bandages.
"Be careful that you don't get an infection now." Kakashi warned Sasuke. "Because if you do, you could get sick and possibly die, and we don't want that."
"Really? I wouldn't mind!" Naruto said.
Sakura proceeded to knock Naruto on the head, but Kakashi beat her to it.
"Alright, that's enough of your snide comments Naruto, unless you don't want to come canoeing with us."
"Of course I wanna go!" Naruto cried, rubbing his throbbing head.
"Good. I thought so." Kakashi smiled. "I just have to go talk with Gai first. I'll be back in about ten minutes, so wait here please." Kakashi instructed as he left the campsite to find Gai.
"I hope he makes it quick." Naruto said. "I've been dying to go out canoeing across lake!"
"With Kakashi-sensei, things are never quick." Sasuke sighed, making himself comfortable in one of the fold-up chairs by the campfire pit.
And Sasuke was right, as the ten-minute wait turned into a two-hour wait.
"This is soooo boring." Naruto groaned as he munched on a chocolate bar. By this point after two hours of nothing to do, Naruto had already devoured half of the chocolate bars that Kakashi had bought, Sakura was deep in the process of detangling and styling her hair with a brush, and Sasuke had fallen asleep.
"There's nothing to do…I know! I should draw on Sasuke's face again!" Naruto grinned.
"No, you won't be doing that." Came Kakashi's voice from behind Naruto.
"When did you get here?" The startled Naruto cried, jumping back a few feet.
"Sorry about the long wait guys. It's time for us to finally go canoeing."
"Really?" Sakura said, looking up from brushing her hair and putting down her hand mirror.
"Great!" Naruto cheered. "I call not carrying the canoe!"
"Yes you are! Sasuke's foot is injured, Kakashi's exhausted, and I'm a lady, so you should be doing the physical labour of carrying!" Sakura scolded her hyperactive team-mate.
"Relax guys, I'll carry it. I'm fine." Kakashi said as he broke the argument between the two. "Sasuke, wake up! We're going canoeing now."
"I'm not awake." Sasuke mumbled.
Naruto hopped over to Sasuke and vigorously shook him by the shoulders. "We're finally going canoeing, Sasuke! Isn't that exciting? Now wakey wakey, you sleepy head!"
Sasuke smacked Naruto on the side of the face. "The way you and Lee woke me up earlier today was more than enough. You don't need to use any more annoying methods to rudely wake me up you loser!"
"Do I really want to know what Naruto did this morning?" Kakashi asked Sakura.
"He and Lee supposedly met up this morning and they both had the bright idea of waking Sasuke and I up by storming into the tent while banging pots and pans together." Sakura explained.
Kakashi shook his head. "I really need to give a talk to that kid."
"Hey Kakashi-sensei! If I'm not allowed to smack Sasuke, can you? He's fallen asleep in the chair again!"
To be continued...
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