Inspiration: People always exaggerate how late Kakashi arrives to train our Golden Trio, at a maximum of Two Hours what do the Genin do in their free time?

Disclaimer and bleh, Naruto will never be mine. Leave a suggestion on what I could try writing about next please? Writer's block is a nasty parasite.

Team 7 settled into a routine of waiting for their Sensei, one of them would bring in a game and teach the others how to play. It took Sasuke a while to accept the fact -as much as he tries to deny it- training all morning isn't all that smart. From experience, our raven haired Uchiha could say as much, even though Kakashi was a lazy butt head, he knew how to work the Genin to their bones. Sakura had no problems with this, agreeing in the end if she was allowed to nestle next to her crush. Naruto was seen to have a prankster grin plastered all over his face.

From an unanimous vote, the trio agreed to ban Naruto from bringing in any games for a month, after attempting to play spin the bottle with Sakura only (Sakura wished for eternity). Goings only got worse when Sasuke and Sakura started to play games only they themselves could understand, Naruto just stood in the sidelines silently scratching his head. When either one of the two actually brought in a game all the Genin could play, the match commonly resulted in cursing and a lot of sparks flying behalf of Naruto and Sasuke.

Their routine lead into Summer, the blistering sun offered no amount of consultation. The competitive boys were at the cockiest madness one could ever achieve.

Naruto wiped sweat off from his hairline, "Teme, got any Kings?"

Sasuke looked up smugly from his hand, the heat increased ten-fold with the amount of tension floating aimlessly through the air. "Go. Fish." Naruto grumbled, slapping his hand onto the deck in the middle of the somewhat circle the triad had made. Lifting the card up, Naruto took one peek and fell backwards, cards flying. Spitting expletives in frustration, his cards softly landed on his chest.

"Sakura-chan, your turn."

"Naruto, do you have any Kings?" Innocently batting her eyelashes, yet expecting the Uzumaki's reaction, Sakura teasingly lifted the King away from Naruto's trembling fingers.

All eyes fell on Sasuke, who fiddled with his hand, "Dobe, do you have any Sevens?" Naruto glanced down at his chest, slowly flipping each card over.

"Why thank you, Dobe, I believe I won. Three times in a row, what luck."

Naruto scream.

Naruto yell.

Naruto very angry.

"You're cheating! You're cheating!" Naruto threw his cards down, stomping aggressively over a patch of flowers. Not that he needed to, the plant life was already dying from the unexplainable heat.

Sakura grew a tick mark whilst the Uchiha's face was completely shadowed.

"Excuse me, dobe. Can you repeat what you said?" Eerie silence wafted through the ten seconds of dread hanging onto the air.

O.O.O Timeskip O.O.O

"Are you telling me-" The Third Hokage clarified, "-Our Uzumaki and the Last Uchiha have gone missing in Konoha, and you claim Kakashi - your Sensei- is at fault here for being quote unquote, 'a lazy bastard'?"

Sakura shrugged, "Never underestimate Fish."