Hey everybody! Sorry about updating late! I know it's getting really annoying so to make it up to you all I decided not to wait for that seventh review and to go ahead and up load the next chapter! Also I decided to make this one nice and long just for you all! Remeber reading the story is nice but reviewing is even nicer! Hee hee! Well I say a little more at the end, as for now enjoy the next chapter! ( Sorry but no evil Atasuki in this chapter! sorry if I spelled that wrong!)

Thought

"Speech"

Sound

Sounds, Smells and and Unusual Morning

The night sky began to fade from dark indigo to a lighter lilac, but Kakashi wasn't really one to enjoy the colors of nature, no he preferred the object he intently read much more. Instead of the typical orange colored 'adult' story he usually read he sat with his back to the fire, reading from a scroll that had scribbled onto it a rough schedule of what needed to be completed that day.

"Alright, so if I wake everyone up around six and we eat, pack up and leave at seven we should be able-," the silver haired ninja quickly ceased speaking as he heard a small rustle emerge from behind him. It had become such a reflex to him that his hand flung itself to his weapons pouch without his knowing.

"Alright who are…?" Kakashi never finished his sentence since the object of all his paranoia turned out to be nothing more then a toad. I flipped over a toad? I think I'm turning into Naruto. The copy-ninja could only consider how stupid he must look and hoped that no one had seen him. Taking a quick glance around the only other living thing he could spot was Akamaru, who had been kicked out of his owner's tent. Kakashi could vividly remember the fight that had emerged earlier that consisted of Kiba and Neji fighting and having Neji win. The only other sound then the toad hoping around was the obnoxious chorus of snoring coming from the tents.

Kakashi was well immersed in his thoughts when the sound of wood snapping and objects falling caused him to once again be on edge. Do I even want to know? was the only thought Kakashi dared to think.

"AHHHHHHHHH! –Crash- "OWWW!" A shrill voice could be heard yelling in agony from the direction of the stream. A sound of more objects clattering to the ground could be heard as everyone in the campsite awoke. Quickly the boys scurried out of their tents and gathered in a group next to the fire. Gai flung himself out of his tent and landed gracefully next to Shikamaru and Chouji. Unfortunately Asuma was still partly asleep and tripped on his way out of the tent, face planting into dirt and leaves.

"What was that?" screamed Naruto, his eyes were bulging out of their sockets and his head flung around wildly as it scanned each of his friends faces hoping one of them knew the answer.

"I have no idea, is anybody hurt or missing?"

"Kakashi, the only person missing is Lee… OH MY POOR STUDENT! WHAT WILL I DO WITH OUT HIM????" –Smack-

"Breath Gai, he will be fine." Shino stated in a matter-of-fact tone, all the while he massaged his stinging hand. Gai's head is harder then I thought, Shino contemplated.

-Silence-

"Shino, just now… you with the smacking… suddenly moving… what the heck is wrong with everyone?" Kiba stuttered but then yelled, "Is this trip causing everybody to go crazy?!"

"Well somebody's going to need therapy after this." Shikamaru mumbled to Chouji who bobbled head in agreement.

"Stop wasting time! My student is out there, he could have died he could've been eaten by a bear, he- he- he could have lost his orange leg warmers!" wailed Gai.

-MOAN, Oh the anguish, Woe is me! - (A.N. Lee is screaming this XP)

Kakashi finally came to the conclusion that enough was enough and took charge of the situation. In a rather aggravated tone he pushed a few sentences through his lips. "Alright to stop Gai from having a mental break down lets separate and go find where he is. We'll do this by tent groups. Neji's tent gets Gai, Chouji's tent will have Asuma, and I'll pack everything up alright?"

"Yeah, sure that works sensei." Naruto groggily spoke while rubbing his eye. Hey, better him cleaning up then us! Naruto thought excitedly in his hyperactive mind.

The rest of the group nodded to show that they understood and then gathered in their assigned groups. "Alright my youthful assistants, we shall begin mission Find the Fire of Youth that is known as Lee! We shall complete our mission first since Neji here shall use his Byakugan to pin point Lee's location. Aright, go Neji!" And as is Gai's typical manner struck his infamous nice guy pose.

Neji activated his Byakugan and scanned the surrounding area, and then with out a word he leapt into the air. The rest of his squad quickly fell into place behind him. Neji caught sight of Lee but another image was stuck in his mind. This image was one of Gai sansei only a few moments before and it deeply disturbed him. Neji had come to this conclusion after having to see Gai strike "that" pose in his boxers. Thank god he isn't wearing Speedo tight underwear or worse, a man thong…With that his body shuddered and he made it a point no to look behind him until they all changed out of their pajama's. He still scares me, and I've known him for more then a year. Dear Lord I have to send in a transfer form and get off his team.

Mean while back at the campsite Shino's group just looked at each other. "We're just going to follow their group, aren't we." Chouji said this not as a question but as a fact. "Yep." Was Asuma's concise retort. And wordlessly the whole group stealthily followed their predecessors, although they stayed a good ways behind. After all they didn't want to seem like they weren't working.

The fire light dance around the once again silent campsite and Kakashi looked around. "Well there's no way I'm cleaning this up. Time to call in the reinforcements!" With a few quick hand seals Kakashi summoned five Nin dogs to help him clean up the campsite. When each creature had been assigned their proper task he stretched out by the dying fire and started to read from his perverted drama story. As the dogs diligently worked away a few giddy chuckles could be heard coming from Kakashi's directions.

Back to Gai's posse:

I can smell him, he must be close!" Cheered Kiba, all the while Neji just rolled is eyes and spitefully sarcastic he replied, "No, really? I couldn't see that."

"Wow, you're a crank today, did someone forget to…" Naruto was quickly cut off by a piercing glance from Neji. Yep, the Hyuga still hates me. Naruto rolled his eyes at the branch family member's attempt at making him wet his pants and quickly fell into step next to Kiba and Akamaru. The two quickly struck up a conversation and time flew by quickly. Gai leapt from the ball of one foot to the other, his hands near his face as he franticly bit at this nails.

"Could we run or something? Just walking is driving me crazy!" He wailed but to his dismay Neji didn't even blink, Kiba only looked up for a second and Naruto piped in "Well, we don't want to be back to soon, I mean Kakashi has to pack up the whole campsite." The young blonde then flashed a sly grin and was once again engrossed in his conversation with Kiba. Gai all the while froze completely and just stared dumbfounded at the younger shinobi. Do they really not care about my pupil? Neji doesn't even show compassion for his team mate, what kind of student have I raised!

Once Gai finally blinked himself back into reality the others had edged away and were trying to run away from the highly emotional taijutsu user when he noticed that they were gone.

"Oh boys," Gai spoke in a singsong tone as he quickly followed after them, "I'm glad to see that you're finally showing compassion for your team mate!" He's like the thing that just won't die!!!! Kiba whimpered in the confines of his mind.

"Shino, that won't work he'd have to wear a mini skirt and heels, then we dye the next persons hair!" Chouji stuffed a few granola bars in his mouth as he kept talking to his two friends. Shino looked a little skeptical but Shikamaru put his hands behind his head and started throwing in his own ideas. None of the boys noticed that their escort was walking with his back ridged just staring at the young ninja. Asuma just looked at the team assembled in front of him a blinked. The situation was not a terrifying one but instead it altered everything he knew to be sane. What are they talking about? Why wasn't I listening before? Dear lord I hope Ino's fashion advice hasn't actually gone into their minds! This train of thought actually scared the jonin and he quickly had to bust in on their conversation.

"Um, excuse me but WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?" The black haired man almost shouted, ripping a giant hole of silence as the three youngsters gazed at him.

Then with a smirk Shikamaru responded, "You don't want to know but tonight you'll find out any way." Then the trio waltzed away feeling that they had sufficiently traumatized an adult that morning.

From somewhere a ways off Asuma's group could clearly hear someone yell "BACK OFF!"

"How much you want to bet that that was Naruto?" Shikamaru questioned Chouji.

"I'll place my money on Neji." Was the big boned boys reply. And with that the four finally used their ninja speed and raced into the direction of the previous sound.

Back with Naruto's team

Neji was having a little trouble keeping Gai away from him as Naruto and Kiba tried to push away all the debris that had fallen off of Lee. When Gai had started to chase after the younger ninja the boy had run like an angered Sakura was after them. After only running for less then a minute Neji and Kiba came to a sudden halt which caused Naruto to crash into Kiba and sent Akamaru flying off the dog boys head. Akamaru landed gracefully enough by Naruto got a verbal beating from Kiba. When Neji broke the two up and pointed out where Lee was the two quick tempered boys go to work trying to dig him out. By this time Gai had come crashing in and found that his chakra challenged student was buried underneath four or so feet of tree braches, bark and other such things. Gai had thrown himself on the nearest person and started to hug then in a bear hug fueled with chakra. Unfortunately for Neji he was the closest person to the highly emotional maxi me of Lee and was crushed in Gai's vice grip. Neji screamed out and struggled to break free but to no prevail. By this time the other four trackers had arrived on the scene and were rather surprised to say the least.

"Neji for helping to find Lee I must buy you a green jumpsuit when we get back to Konoha! I'll even give you my lucky pair of orange leg warmers so you won't feel left out anymore!" Gai spoke in such a high piercing tone that Akamaru quickly covered his ears and started to whimper.

Only Naruto heard but Kiba harshly whispered under his breath, "I helped find this fool just a much as he did! So where's my reward?"

"Dude, believe me Kiba that one present you don't want." Naruto answered Kiba's question, stating this sentence as though it was a law. Kiba considered what Naruto said and remembered what Gai looked like when he was wearing his typical gear then thought how it might look on him. His face clouded over and he praised his mother for having had a sister that made him wearing something decent out of the house every morning.

"Well gentlemen let's go help get Lee out. I don't think we want to interrupt this little love fest or anything, now do we?" Asuma winked at the three boys he had traveled with Shino just gave a nodded as the other two broke out in an evil grin. They all walked over making sure look in Neji's direction as a silent scream escaped the Hyuga's mouth, his hand outstretched towards his "friends". Backstabbers! Save me from this maniac!

Back at camp:

"Ah! It's good to see that you're all back! Is Lee alright?" Kakashi interrogated the newly returned comrades.

"Yes! Lee is fine! He has a few mild scratches but nothing that sprinting a few miles won't fix!" Gai proudly presented his look-alike pupil to the grey haired shinobi.

"A few scratches? Is that all?" Kakashi wondered out loud. From his point of view Lee looked like a mess, pine needles stuck out of every crevice in his clothes, abrasions from his braches and tree bark had left their mark on every inch of exposed skin on the boy and he still seemed slightly dazed from the fall. At Kakashi's remark Naruto took another glance at his friend and noticed all that Kakashi and noticed and more. Hey, Bushy-brow's eyebrows seem smaller! At least that fall was good for something!

"Nonsense Kakashi! In an hour Lee will be good as new, right Lee?" Gai roared in his usual booming voice.

"Ye-yes sensei." Lee stammered a look of total shock spread across his face. It was clear that Lee was disoriented so Shino swiftly left the group towing Lee behind him and had the usually gleeful ninja sit down and rest on a log. Then the bug user rejoined the group and asked Kakashi, "So while we were gone you clearly packed up the tents and cooking supplies but I can also see that you piled all of our stuff into one giant pile and have made no attempt to prepare food for use to eat. Do you wish for us to become cannibalistic or do you just hope that we will eat Akamaru?"

At that remark Kiba protectively grabbed his pooch and held him tightly against his chest giving anyone the evil eye that happened to look his way.

"Well boy's I wasn't sure who owned what but I did as best as I could and also I couldn't decided what to bake you boys so here's some whole grain granola!" With that Kakashi chucked a Zip Lock bag stuff full of trial mix at Shikamaru, successfully shocking the exhausted ninja into waking up fully.

"Did you even try? You probably just read your smutty book you disgraceful excuse for a teacher!" Naruto yelled at his instructor.

Hey Naruto actually used all those words correctly; today's just full of surprises. Shikamaru contemplated this inside his head as he watched the teacher student duo bicker to no end, his hand aimlessly dug in the bag of food and started to feed the boy. After a few minutes Naruto was hit over the head by his all powerful teacher and all the boys dispersed to change out of their boxers and into new clothes.

Kakashi had previously changed and Asuma had accidentally fallen asleep in his clothes from the previous day and didn't want to change but Gai was a different story. The overly excited ninja was having fun running around in his superman undergarments and the other two were trying to no prevail to get him to change into other clothes.

"Dear lord, I think Gai is the missing link or something." Asuma grunted to his silver haired amigo.

"Try Tarzan." Kakashi replied, a bored expression plastered on his exposed facial features. Chouji, Lee and Naruto were still searching through the large pile of clothes, bags and other wilderness essentials as the rest of the group broke off into smaller groups to chat.

"Hey Chouji."

"Yeah Naruto?"

"You all done?"

"Gee, I'm the only one here who wears extra large anything. You think it's really that hard for me to find my clothes?"

"Err," Well actually since you're so large you might not be able to bend over and see if you missed anything. Naruto had become a little smarter after the Chuunin exams and knew that by actually saying what he thought he was signing his own death warrant. Instead he distracted Chouji by asking him, "Umm ah w-whe-wher did the trial mix go!"

Chouji looked around and when he didn't find his only source of breakfast he started to freak out.

"Ahhh! Alright who has the granola! Come on I won't kill you just give it over to me and nobody will have to go hungry!" Chouji screamed at the top of his lungs, hoping that someone would fess up and present the food quickly. But to his dismay no one even moved. After a few seconds Kiba slowly reached down and grabbed his bag. Mistaking this as a sign of guilt Chouji almost lunged himself at the young dog user praying that his meal would be in the confines of the grey blue back pack.

"Get away! It's time to go you retard! For the love of all things good will you take a breath!"

"I don't care what you say! I know you have the food give it over!"

The fight continued as the two began to try to push each other. Fellow teammates tried to break up the fight but were quickly sucked into the free for all brawl of doom. The teachers gazed onto the weird fight just sat back. Well we're late anyway, so who cares if it's a few minutes more. The fight carried on for a good twenty minutes before Shino finally got so fed up of bursting Naruto's clones, jumping away from Shikamaru's shadow possession jutsu and dodging flying shuriken that he sent his beloved "pets" after his friends and had the beetles constrain the other boys limbs.

"I believe that it is time for us to leave, I think we have wasted enough time engaging each other in battle and are wasting daylight. Naruto please take the map and lead the way. Everyone else just 'chill'." Shino's speech finally got the boys hot tempers to relax and everyone seemed to be regaining their composer until Shino spoke his last word.

"Chill?!?! Shino actually uses slang terms?! Shino I think you took a few to many blows to the head I mean BWHAHAHA!!"

"Naruto just –snicker- do as he says- bah ha ha ha!" Kiba finally broke out laughing and tears started to form in his eyes. He couldn't contain the laughter, Shino had just sounded too funny. Even though dog boy knew well enough that laughing at Shino may be the last thing he ever did nothing could stop him and soon the others joined in.

"Well boys if your ready I found the culprit who stole your breakfast." Asuma watched as the genin turned their heads in his direction and saw what dangled from his hand. A plastic bag with a few crumbs falling out of it from the bottom corner, a small rugged hole could clearly been seen letting their precious breakfast trickle away.

"I believe your little friend would be a chipmunk!"

"What where is this beast?," shouted Chouji, clearly mad about being outwitted by a small rodent.

"Um look there smart one." Naruto nudged the large boy and pointed in the direction of a cute little fuzz ball gnawing vigorously at a raisin.

Chouji quickly seized many of the fire ring stones that where nearby and began to hurl them at the fluff ball, all the while screaming "Die you disease carry monstrosity! I hope you choke on our food, I hope you're glad that we're all going to die from starvation because you ate that last raisin!"

"Chouji, deep breaths. Come on, do the meditation the therapist showed you." Shikamaru quickly tried to diffuse the other boy's anger as the rest of the group slide their backpacks on themselves and Shino went into a great bit of detail trying to explain to Naruto how to use this type of map. Finally after a tiring morning the boys started on their way to meet the sand ninjas and hopefully steal some leftover food off them.

After a little more than twenty minutes Kiba screamed out, "Where's Akamaru!"

"Sorry Kiba but I haven't seen your dog since we rescued Lee." Neji clear stated.

The other boys murmured their agreement that they too hadn't seen the white wonder since then, all the while Kiba was freaking out, just short of pulling his hair out.

"That's it," Kiba shrieked after a few moments. He then suddenly stood stalk still and seemed to become completely calm. Shocked by this sudden change in behavior Neji activated his Byakugan and looked over Kiba's chakra system. Blinking to cancel his
Byakugan Neji smirked and knew what was going to happen next.

"Everybody get ready to run."

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Gai questioned Neji.

"He just rerouted a lot of chakra to his nose, and if I know him correctly-"

Neji never got the chance to finish his sentence because at the time Kiba screamed out, "Akamaru here I come!"

Fast as lightning Kiba flung his body into the trees and sprang from branch to branch hot on the trial of the group's canine companion.

"Well, here we go!" Lee yelled; the sudden excitement seemed to shock him back into his normal self.

"Hey, if it gets me out of reading a map that's fine by me!" Naruto roared as he quickly followed Kiba into the canopy of the huge pines and oaks. With a shrug from Kakashi the rest of the males followed the two rambunctious teens into the forest, clamoring about as they went. So much for this trip helping to make them better ninjas. Silence is golden but keeping Kiba from Akamaru is deadly. At this thought Kakashi had to let out a self-satisfied chuckle. Gai flung a confused glance his way but continued to run along following the other boys.

Thirty minutes later

"Akamaru, where you?" Kiba screamed out, by now his friends were worried his blood pressure was going through the roof and that the 'canine crusader' might tip over dead at any second.

"His sent ended here so he must be close by! Come on everybody spread out!"

All ten members of the trip began to search under bushes, between trees, even in their backpacks to make sure he hadn't slipped in there. Naruto wandered a ways distance from the others and started to hear whimpering.

"Hey, Akamaru if that's you bark twice!" The hopeful blonde squealed. As Naruto tried to listen he had trouble blocking out all the others shouts and sounds of their movement. Dropping to the ground Naruto army crawled along until he could make out the sound of little paws stomping the ground. Looking around Naruto spotted a flash of white a grinned broadly.

"Hey everybody I found the mutt!" These words flew out of the number one unpredictable ninja's mouth and rang clearly throughout the surrounding area. Within mere seconds all the campers were huddled around a hole in the ground that had the white rear-end of a small dog poking out of it. The hole didn't look much bigger then four inches across and Shino wondered how Akamaru got himself stuck in there that far. Kiba on the other hand didn't really care and slapped Naruto on the back while graciously thanking him. All the while the other boy lapped up this attention and saved it in his memory to use for later black mail against Kiba.

Deciding to take charge of the situation Gai (now in normal clothes, he up and decided to change during the fight) spoke in his overly manly voice, "Alright everybody, we need to dig around Akamaru's body to get the adorable pooch out. Any male here with long nails please prepare yourself!" When nobody stepped forward to take charge Gai gave up and changed course. "Okay Kiba, Naruto and Lee get down on your knees by the hole and get ready to dig." Well at least these three won't make a fuss about having to dig.

"Alright buddies, time to get dirty!" Lee shouted happily.

The other two's eyes widened and Kiba shuddered.

"Lee that sounded so wrong coming out of your mouth." Naruto mumbled as he slowly scooted away from the overly hyped spandex wearer.

"Do everyone here a favor Lee and never say that sentence again." Kiba threw out there; after all he didn't want Naruto to have the last word.

Lee gave the other two a nod to seal the deal and then the trio began to carefully dig Akamaru out. The pup wagged his tail excitedly as he realized that his master was there to rescue him. After little more than three minutes the little white dog wriggled free of his earthly captor and wove himself around the legs of his friends. When movement could be seen coming out of the burrow a few ninja just gazed at the hole, Lee raised one of his huge eyebrows and Naruto scratched the back of his head. For some reason none of the boys took this sign of life as a threat.

A rustle could be heard behind the boys as whatever was in the fist sized pit decided to make an entry.

"Hey Gaara, Kankuro! How are you guys?" Naruto practically shrieked at the newly arrived ninja. The other nine ninja from Konoha looked up and either greeted the sand ninjas verbally or nodded their heads in welcoming.

Baki answered for the younger ninja, "We are glad to have found you all in such good time, we are doing well. We hoped to have met you all at the edge of the forest but instead we found you hear." The last sentence had a bit of edge to it and the Jonins quickly knew that he wasn't too happy about them being behind schedule.

"What are you guys doing? Did someone die or something?" Kankuro had clearly noticed that all of them were huddled around one spot and he craned his neck to see what they were hiding. Gaara did a mental head check and noticed that none of them were missing. Although all of the leaf ninja looked a little worse for wear, especially Lee.

Whoa, what kind of night did these guys have? And I thought Kankuro's snoring was enough to wake the dead but I guess someone must have snored really loud at their campsite.

"Oh well we just pulled Akamaru out of this hole!" Naruto stood up and stepped aside so that new comers could get a better view at the spot in question, then the three walked closer and took a look. When the sand ninja saw what was standing there Gaara's eyes widened slightly, Kankuro froze, and Baki's hands flew up in front of him for protection. Surprised by there strange behavior the others looked down at their feet wondering what could possibly be wrong. When they looked down their eyes met a pair of black ones. A creature no bigger then a cat stood at their feet stopping its hind legs in anger.

"Aw! Look at the black and white kitty! Those sure are some strange markings you got there! White stripes running down you back, well yep, I have to say I've never seen a cat like you before!" Naruto said and cracked a smile. He knelt down next to Kiba and Lee again and squinted at the animal. The others ether looked at the three closest boys as if they were crazy or they too looked confused. Lee started to reach his hand out to the animal when Kankuro shouted, "No don't!"

But by now the animal had aimed it's butt in the air, for all the one's who knew who the creature was it was too late and as for the ones who were not well versed in the basics of camping they would soon find out. Naruto finally made a connection in his mind, black cat + white stripes down its back SKUNK!

"Crude," was the only word Gaara let out of his mouth before all fourteen of the travelers present were engulfed in a green tinted cloud of noxious smelling gas.

Yippee! Another chapter complete! Well people if you wnat more updates on story progress just go to my profila and the daily update should be there!

Gaara: No one sprays me with a skunk! You dare-

Naruto: Whao! Slow down thier buddy! She controls the story remember? That means she just make it worse for us!

Me: Yeah! I think I'll just thinks of evil plot twists oh that would work nicely!

Shikamaru: We're in trouble now... crude.

Chouji starts to choke on potatoe chip

Me: Neji will you sign us off or something? I want to go play with Akamaru! Oh hold Annie for me!

Neji: I can see our fate and it doesn't look good... Well anyway a hamster and I are telling you all good-bye for now and the next chapter will be up soon! SAVE US!