Sorry for the lack of updates for the past three weeks. I was away in Europe and I had little computer access while I was there. But where are all the reviews? Awww, for shame on you guys!

Disclaimer: …nope, still don't' own Naruto.

By the time Kakashi and Obito arrived back at the campsite to get the axe, the tent had been completely set up.

"Nice going, guys!" Obito grinned, seeing some of the gear also set up in the tent as well.

"Where's the firewood?" Yondaime asked.

"There wasn't any left." Kakashi replied, handing Yondaime's money back.

"Can we borrow your axe?" Obito asked.

"...Why?" Yondaime asked, suspicion lacing his voice.

"We need it so we can chop up any logs we find in the woods for firewood."

"Oh!" Yondaime exclaimed, sounding a little relieved. "Sure, I'll fetch it for you guys right now."

Yondaime went over where the rest of the gear lay by and on the picnic table, picking up a medium-sized axe, which he then handed over to Kakashi. "Use it well boys, and no killing each other."

"How come he gets the axe?" Obito whined.

"Don't fret, you'll both get a turn. Now go get chopping! Rin, go with them to make sure they don't do anything too stupid while I set dinner up."

Obito, Rin, and Kakashi headed off into the forest behind the campsite, only to stop about ten metres in.

"Hey! I've found a fallen log already!" Obito exclaimed as he pointed to a large fallen-over tree. Kakashi took the axe and began to chop at it as though it was nothing.

Rin leaned against a tree momentarily before she suddenly withdrew her hand from the bark and cringed. "Yuck! My hand's covered in sap!"

"Sap? What's that?" Obito asked as he approached Rin and observed her hand. "Is it sticky?"

"Yes, really sticky, and it's gross too!" Rin moaned. "It'll take forever to wash this stuff off my hand!"

Obito suddenly grinned mischievously. Taking a piece of tree bark and a stick, he gathered as much dripping sap from the trees as possible.

"What are you doing?" Rin asked. "Nothing bad, I hope?"

"You'll see." Obito snickered. He motioned Rin to be quiet as he snuck up behind Kakashi who was still persistently chopping wood.

"Obito, don't!" Rin cried.

But it was too late. Once Obito was a few feet away from Kakashi's turned back, he threw the mass of sap at Kakashi's head. Kakashi turned around, glaring at Obito.

"Ha ha! You're all sticky and covered in goo now!" Obito laughed. "It'll take forever to get that stuff out of your hair!"

He barely dodged the axe that Kakashi threw in his direction. It flew past Obito's head and hit the tree behind him. "Woah! Watch where you throw that thing!" Obito cried as he stumbled back a few feet. "Hey sensei! Can I help you make dinner instead of chopping the firewood? Somebody here's being a little disagreeable!"

"Alright, I'm sure you guys have chopped enough firewood for now." Yondaime called out. "Bring what you've chopped so far so we can have dinner."

"Alright, I'm starving!" Obito cheered as he sped back into the campsite.

Rin and Kakashi calmly walked into the campsite and sat down at the picnic able. Yondaime poured some instant ramen into each of their bowls for dinner and put out a bowl of potato chips.

"Dig in, guys!" Yondaime grinned "And Obito, try to chew with your mouth closed, okay?"

"Sorry." Obito muffled in reply.

"You should get your elbows off the table as well." Kakashi scolded, abiding to rules as always.

"Now we don't need to go that far here, Kakashi." Yondaime grinned. "True, I don't wish to see the contents of one's mouth while they're chewing their food, but as far as posture and sitting at the table goes, I'm going to be lenient. Sit however the hell you like, guys!"

Kakashi stared at his sensei, trying to grasp the foreign concept Yondaime was explaining.

Yondaime chuckled at the look on his pupil's face. "It's camping, Kakashi. You don't have to stick with the table manners so much out here. Just relax and live as you please for the next few days. Well, within some certain limitations of course."

"You mean…we can sit eating our meal however we want?" Rin asked.

"Sure!" Yondaime smiled as he leaned one of his elbows on the table, resting his chin against his hand as he slurped some ramen.

Rin slowly rested her elbows on the table and slouched a little.

Obito climbed up on the picnic table and sat himself down.

Yondaime laughed, "Nice one, Obito."

Kakashi muttered "Insane…" under his breath, trying to keep his table manners and ignore the ridiculous sitting arrangements around him.

Yondaime, Rin, and Obito laughed and talked for a while before the sun began to set.

"Looks like we're losing the daylight fast." Yondaime said, peering up at the sky. "Leave your dishes for now, guys. I have something you all need to do before it gets too dark to see well."

Yondaime disappeared into the tent momentarily before he returned back, holding three small books in his hands.

"These…" the jounin lay the three small books down in front of the three young shinobi "are your logs that you will keep and record in for the next few days."

"Logs? I thought that logs were dead trees, like the one that we were chopping at today, not books!" Obito frowned, clearly confused.

Yondaime laughed, "No, no that kind of log. This log here is like…well, I suppose a journal or a diary is the right word to use."

"Oooohhh, I get it!" Obito's face lit up, clearly understanding.

"Diaries…" Kakashi muttered under his breath, looking the other way.

"So if you guys could each take one and then I'll explain what you're going to do with them."

Obito and Rin quickly grabbed the two plainest looking journal books that were not decorated with hearts, flowers, and frolicking kittens.

"Hey, earth to Kakashi! Stop daydreaming and look this way!" Yondaime waved the remaining diary in front of Kakashi's face. "Here, take this and I'll explain what you're going to do with it."

Kakashi slowly took the book, looking at the cover that was decorated with colourful hearts, bright flowers, and precious little kittens chasing butterflies. He gave his sensei a "Why the hell did I end up with THIS diary?" look.

"Sorry, Kakashi. They ran out of the plain black-covered journal books at the store so I had to get that one." Yondaime shrugged.

"Awww, how does Kakashi like his new precious pretty diary?" Obito teased and burst into fits of laughter.

"Shut up." Kakashi growled. "It's not as though I chose this particular book, since you and Rin took the normal looking ones."

"Well, first come, first serve." Obito pointed out. Kakashi knew he couldn't argue with that. The defeated chuunin sighed inwardly and turned his attention to his sensei, waiting for instructions.

"You're going to write about your everyday camping experiences at the end of each day. I want you to write about things you've seen and done and any thoughts you have." Yondaime explained. "Write in your journal as though it's alive. Express your feelings to your journal in the form of writing. You know, as if you were talking to it."

"What?" Kakashi said, raising a quizzical eyebrow.

"The diary is your friend, Kakashi. Treat this activity as though it were a conversation with your diary, not a mission report. No listing the things you've seen and done in point-form. Talk to your diary in the form of writing instead."

"Talking to a diary…you've got to be kidding me."

"No Kakashi, I'm not kidding you."

"How do we start?" Obito asked.

"Using 'Dear diary' always works. Or you can even use something like "Hi" or "Hello", whatever floats your boat."

Oh, okay! I get it now!" Obito nodded.

"Alright, so once you get your pens, you can start writing about today." Yondaime handed each of them a pen, both Rin and Obito black pens and Kakashi a bright purple pen that had a large puff of pink feathers sprouting at the top of it.

"…You did that on purpose." Kakashi growled.

"But it suits your diary so well!" Yondaime laughed.

Kakashi gave his sensei his best death glare before he took the pen and turned to his journal to think of what to write. All three pupils got busy with their writing about the day.

"Hello diary…" Obito scribbled with his pen. "Wow! I'm actually talking to a diary! This is so weird and cool at the same time! Well, I hope you're listening diary, 'cause I'm going to have a lot of neat stuff to tell you for the next few days. Do you think using the word 'diary' sounds too girly? I think it might, so I'm going to call you 'Journal' from now on until I can think of a cooler name for you. Anyways, today was a great day! I got assigned to you, journal, to write about my camping experiences. Kakashi got the journal that's covered in hearts and fuzzy kittens. HA! He seems pretty mad about it, but I bet he's secretly really happy that he got it. He probably calls it a diary...that's so girly! Anyways, I love it here so far! The forest is really cool and I bet there's a whole lot more cool stuff here waiting to be discovered. I can't wait to go swimming in the lake tomorrow! Bye for now!
Obito "

"Dear Diary…" Rin began. "Hi there! My sensei has assigned Obito, Kakashi, and I to write everyday about our camping experiences. I think it's a great idea since it's fun to write about my day like I'm telling it to someone. Today we just got at the campsite so not a whole lot has happened yet, which is why I'm not writing a lot in here right now. Dinner was lots of fun though. We got to sit however we wanted! I really like how relaxed it is here. It's quite nice. I definitely look forward to what tomorrow brings!

Rin"

"Dear diary…" Kakashi started, grimacing at the bright purple inked writing that the pen left on the paper. "I can't believe I have to write something like that," the boy growled in the back of his head before he finished writing his daily entry. He quickly looked over what he wrote.

"Dear diary…I hate you.
Kakashi "

5 minutes later, Yondaime collected their journals to look them over. As he looked over Obito's, he chuckled at the crazy way Obito talked to his book. He looked at Rin's and nodded, "Good, good. Nicely done you two." Yondaime opened Kakashi's journal, smiling as he expected something written in detail. A frown replaced his smile as he saw what Kakashi had written.

"Kakashi…" Yondaime began. "This is-"

"You said to express our feelings in the form of conversational writing to the diary, right?" Kakashi pointed out. "I wrote down how I felt and wrote as though I were talking to the diary."

"I was right," Obito said under his breath. "He does call it a diary!"

Yondaime sighed, "Okay, first of all, this is way too short for an entry. No one-liners allowed. And secondly, there has to be more things to write about other than negative feelings. Think of all the stuff we did today, like going out for lunch and setting up the tent. Wasn't any of it fun?"

Kakashi said nothing as he stared blankly at his sensei.

"Kakashi, you're going to redo this assignment now." Yondaime ordered firmly, handing Kakashi's journal back.

Wordlessly, Kakashi took the journal back and began to rewrite his entry.

"Obito, you shouldn't be using that!" Rin cried as she saw Obito lift Yondaime's axe up and strike a piece of firewood into two pieces.

"Hey! I'm pretty good at this firewood splitting, aren't I?" Obito grinned as he picked up another piece of wood to split.

"Obito, stop!" Yondaime cried.

"Thank goodness!" Rin sighed as Yondaime quickly ran over to Obito and restrained his arms. "Who knows what kind of accident he could get into."

"Obito, you have to chop while standing with your legs apart so if you miss the wood, the axe doesn't swing into your leg, okay?"

"Okay, got it." Obito replied, nodding.

"Alright then. Get back to it!' Yondaime smiled.

"You're letting him chop?" Rin cried.

"He'll be fine as long as he keeps his legs apart from each other."

"But he could still hurt himself if he's not careful! He's never done this sort of thing before you know."

"Five dollars saying that he won't hurt himself." Yondaime grinned, placing his bet.

"Hey everybody, look at me go!" Obito cheered as he swung the axe down, splitting more wood. As he struck the wood at an angle, the axe blade came flying off the wooden handle, hitting Obito in the head. The boy gave a yelp of pain before he fell over unconscious.

"So…you got that five dollars for Rin there, sensei?" Kakashi joked, still looking down his diary.

"I told you he'd get hurt!" Rin cried as she rushed over to Obito lying on the ground.

"Aw crap! I forgot axe blades could fly off like that!" Yondaime cried as he rushed to the unconscious boy's side. He looked at Obito's head where a bruise was forming. Yondaime sighed in relief, "The dull end hit his head, not the actual blade. He's got a hard head, so he'll be just fine. He'll probably regain consciousness again in a short while."

Rin released the breath she was holding. "Thank goodness! From now on sensei, I think you should do all the chopping."

"Yeah, I think so too." Yondaime nodded as he grabbed an ice pack from the cooler laying by the picnic table and applied it to Obito's head.

A few minutes later, Yondaime had the fire started and the marshmallows ready to be eaten. Obito groaned as he regained consciousness, sitting up.

"Ow, my head…"

"Obito, you're conscious!" Rin cried in relief. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, but my head hurts for some funny reason."

"You mean you don't remember what happened?"

"I was chopping wood and then everything went black from there."

"Oh, I see...well, you're fine now I guess" Rin smiled, deciding the incident wasn't worth fussing over anymore. "We're going to have campfire now. Are you joining in?"

"Of course I am!" Obito grinned as he stole one of Yondaime's fold-up chairs from the trunk of "Ricky" the car and set it by the fire.

"I'm done my journal entry, sensei." Kakashi said as he walked over to where Yondaime was sitting on a log by the campfire. Yondaime took the journal and looked the entry over.

"Dear diary…Sensei told me that my first entry sucked, so I had redo it. Today, my insane team kicked my door in and dragged me out of my house against my will to go on a stupid 5-day camping trip. We drove for a long time in the car. It sucked. We went out for lunch. It sucked. We set up a tent. It sucked. I chopped firewood. That was okay until Obito threw sap in my hair; that sucked. This diary activity sucks. And yes, I still hate you diary.

Kakashi "

"At least it's longer." Yondaime thought. He sighed in mild disappointment as he finished reading. "Try using a wider range of vocabulary next time Kakashi, Okay?"

Knowing that he couldn't get the chuunin to do any better that night, he motioned Kakashi to come sit on the log next to him for campfire.

Rin sat down in a fold up chair and opened up a bag of marshmallows. She was about to take one before a look of realization struck her face. "We don't have any roasting sticks for the marshmallows!"

"Aw, you're right." Yondaime groaned. "Looks like we can't roast them now."

"Yes we can!" Obito cried defiantly, grabbing a fork from the camping box by the picnic table. He stuck his fork into the marshmallow bag and withdrew a marshmallow. He crouched by the campfire and stuck the end of the fork with the marshmallow near the flames.

"Obito, I wouldn't try that for too long if I were you." Yondaime warned.

"Why not?" Obito asked. A few seconds later, Obito yelped and pulled his hand back, dropping the fork and marshmallow onto the ground.

"That's why." Yondaime sighed.

"You idiot." Kakashi scolded. "You're not supposed to stick metal into the fire like that. Metal heats up too fast to hold it for long."

"Then I'll go find something else!" Obito cried enthusiastically and dashed off into the forest.

"Obito, come back! It's too dark out!" Rin cried.

"Obito, get back here before a bear gets you!" Yondaime shouted.

No reply was heard for three minutes until Obito come stumbling back into the campsite, holding three long sticks. "I told you that I'd find something!"

"Nice going, Obito!" Yondaime grinned. "But that was quite dangerous. Don't go running off into the forest like that in the dark again, okay?"

"Okay, gotcha!" Obito replied as he gave his sensei and Rin the remaining two sticks. He then took a marshmallow and stuck it on the end of his stick.

"Kakashi doesn't have a marshmallow stick." Rin stated.

"Kakashi doesn't get one because he's an asshole." Obito replied, scowling at Kakashi.

"Nice to know I'm appreciated around here." Kakashi said sarcastically.

"Obito!" Yondaime said in a warning tone of voice. "No name-calling and discriminating against your team members. You're going to be sharing your marshmallow stick with Kakashi."

"It's fine, sensei." Kakashi cut in. "I don't want any marshmallows anyways."

With that issue solved, the shinobi sat roasting their marshmallows and sang songs. (Minus Kakashi because he's such a stick in the mud.) until an idea suddenly popped into Yondaime's head.

"Hey guys! I have a great game we could all play with the marshmallows!"

"Really? What is it?" Obito piped, clearly exited.

Yondaime grinned and chuckled, picking up a marshmallow.

To be continued...

For those of you who've read Konoha Campers, you probably know what's coming. (;

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