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The team climbed down the mountain without much trouble and reached the campsite just before the sun set. As the squad arrived at their campsite however, they found some unwanted visitors awaiting them.

"What are those?" Obito cried, pointing at one of the visitors nosing at the open cereal box.

"They're trouble, that's what!" Yondaime growled.

"Uh…what?" Obito said, still not understanding.

"They're bears." Yondaime explained as he quickly pulled out a kunai and threw it at one of the bear's nose. It roared and turned its head at the attacker. Yondaime approached the bear, waving his arms at it, shouting.

"Go on, shoo! Get out of here! Scram, you oversized fur ball!"

With all his angry shouting, Yondaime managed to scare off the other bear that was nosing the tent, but the bear he attacked swung a paw at Yondaime.

"Okay, won't try that again." Yondaime breathed, barely missing the bear's paw swat.

Rin and Kakashi quietly tried to shuffle away from the campsite, but the bear spotted their movement and made its way towards the two.

"Oh-no! It's coming towards us!" Rin screamed. "What do we do?"

"Relax, I'll kick its ass." Kakashi replied calmly, flexing his fingers.

"Kakashi and Rin, just stay where you are! If you run, you'll only provoke it." Yondaime ordered.

The bear continued to make its way over to the two shinobi.

"We're going to die, we're going to die!" Rin cried, losing control.

"Stop freaking out already, we aren't going to die!" Kakashi snapped.

"Rin, try to stay calm! You're only provoking the bear!" Yondaime loudly warned.

"Hey sensei, you better do something or Kakashi and Rin are gonna get eaten!" Obito cried.

"That was my last kunai," Yondaime groaned. "I need some other weapon that can knock that bear out quickly. But what?"

He looked about frantically before Obito tapped his arm. Yondaime looked at his young disciple who was holding a frying pan out towards his sensei.

"Good enough!" Yondaime said as he quickly took the frying pan from Obito. He charged at the bear, his mighty weapon in hand.

The bear was only a few feet from where Kakashi and Rin were standing. Rin whimpered, clutching Kakashi's arm tightly as he got into fighting stance.

"Rin, please let go of me. You're hurting my arm." Kakashi requested calmly despite the dangerous situation.

"I can't help it, I'm so scared! We don't have our ninjutsu or genjutsu to protect ourselves with if things get ugly!"

"...I forgot about that." Kakashi said with his stance faltering, suddenly looking a little frightened himself.

The bear roared, lunging at the two shinobi, but before it could reach them, it fell over face first into the dirt. And there stood Yondaime, holding his frying pan and grinning in victory.

"You saved us!" Rin cried in relief.

"We could have beaten the bear with a few punches and kicks if needed." Kakashi shrugged, trying to quickly cover up any fear that showed upon his face or in his posture.

"I'm sure you could have Kakashi, but we wouldn't want to take any chances, now would we?" Yondaime chuckled.

"Why did the bears come to our campsite?" Obito asked loudly.

"Because despite how many times I've told you guys not to leave food out in our campsite, somebody left their partially eaten chocolate bar and trail mix on the picnic table, that's why!" Yondaime replied angrily, pointing to the empty chocolate bar wrapper and scattered nuts on the ground

"Whoops, my bad." Obito said. He gasped and clasped both of his hands over his mouth, immediately regretting what he just blurted out. The rest of his team swung their glaring eyes in his direction.

"Um, I don't know about you guys but I'm sure hungry after that long, hard hike!" Obito stated loudly, trying to switch the topic.

"Obito…" Yondaime growled dangerously. "Go make the fire. Now."

Obito chuckled sheepishly and quickly piled wood and paper into the fire pit.

"Don't leave your food out again, any of you." Yondaime told his students in a dead serious tone of voice, but immediately brightened up again as he added, "We don't want to get mauled to bits now do we?"

"Hey Sensei, all the matches are gone!" Obito cried as he finished searching through the equipment box.

"How can that be?" Yondaime said as he made he way to the equipment box. He found an empty box of matches. "How could've we run out already?"

He thought about the matches used for lunch and remembered that it was Kakashi who had started the fire while they were at the lake. He also remembered Kakashi striking matches as well. He slowly turned his head towards where Kakashi was standing only to find him gone.

"Kakashi…" Yondaime growled under his breath, looking in Kakashi's direction, only to find that the boy had already taken off down the lane towards the lake. Yondaime followed and quickly found Kakashi further down the lane.

"And where do you think you're going?" Yondaime huffed as he grabbed Kakashi by the arm.

"To the lake of course, where I will sit down and contemplate the meaning of life." His student innocently replied.

"Ha ha, very funny," Yondaime sarcastically replied as he dragged his student back to the campsite by the ear. "Now why don't you come back to the campsite where you can contemplate on where the matches have gone instead."

Once back at the campsite, Yondaime gave Kakashi a short lecture on not using up so many matches, luckily away from Obito and Rin's view and hearing.

"If that's understood, I'd like you to prepare dinner now." Yondaime ordered. "We're having tacos tonight which are located in the cooler and food box. Just set up the ingredients for now. I'll get some matches for the stove from the ranger or another camper."

Yondaime then approached the rest of his team.

"Now I'm going to get the park ranger over here so he can hopefully pick up and relocate that bear. I'll only be gone for five minutes so the bear shouldn't regain consciousness, but if it does, remember that the frying pan is your best friend."

Obito chuckled at the last statement.

"I'm serious." Yondaime said sternly before he walked off.

"Well, sorry!" Obito huffed under his breath as he put some firewood in the fire pit.

"Why do we have to still have that bear lying in our campsite when sensei's out?" Rin shuddered. "What if it does wake up again?"

"I know," Obito groaned. "Why couldn't sensei just move it himself?"

Yondaime arrived back five minutes later with the ranger following slowly behind in a pickup truck.

"Now that's the kind of car we should've got for this trip instead of that crappy old yellow one!' Obito piped.

"Hush, Obito. Ricky's a good car." Yondaime cut in.

"Hoo! That's a big one you got there!" The burly Park Ranger said as he climbed out of the pickup. "Any particular reason he came around here? Some left over food perhaps?"

"Right on the button, sir. One of my students left out some food by mistake." Yondaime replied, chuckling sheepishly. "We're terribly sorry about the bear incident. I'll make sure we won't leave food out again."

"I sure hope not, otherwise this place will be swarming with these guys looking for some goods to munch on." The park ranger noddeed.

With Yondaime's help, the ranger restrained the unconscious bear with some rope and hoisted the bear into the back of the pick-up truck. With that complete, the ranger climbed back in the truck, gave a wave to the squad, and drove off.

"Alright, did everyone get that message clear? No more food left out here, okay?"

"Yes, sensei." All three students replied.

"Now," Yondaime grinned as he clapped his hands together. "Kakashi, you got the food out for the tacos laid out?"

"Yes, sensei."

"Great! Now I'll show you how to start up a camping stove."

"Hey sensei, did you get the matches?" Obito asked from the fire pit.

"Oh yeah, here you go! Don't you go using them all up too." Yondaime said as he tossed a box of half-used matches to Obito who caught them with his hands.

"I still can't believe we can't use our jutsu here." Obito grumbled as he struck a match on the matchbox, only to have it snap in half.

"Well, it's the small price to pay to come to a beautiful place like this to have a good time." Yondaime reasoned. "Don't worry about it though. You'll get your jutsu back after the trip is done."

"Sensei, why can't we use our jutsu here?" Kakashi asked as he dropped beef into the frying pan over the cooking stove.

"That's a good question." Yondaime mused and looked thoughtfully into the distance.

The three students looked at their sensei, who seemed to be in deep thought.

"Well, why can't we use our jutsu here?" Kakashi pressed on, getting a little impatient on waiting for Yondaime's intelligent answer.

"I dunno." Yondaime merely shrugged, immediately dropping his intelligently thoughtful look from a few seconds before.

"Kakashi, I think you should check the beef on the stove." Rin advised, pointing to the smoking pan.

Kakashi looked over towards the cooking stove and cursed as he ran over and took the smoking beef off the stove.

"Kakashi, you were supposed to be watching that!" Yondaime groaned.

"Way to go, Kakashi! Now dinner's ruined!" Obito shouted.

"Well you should've known better than to appoint me as the cook." Kakashi sighed. "Whatever I cook is cursed to have food poisoning, but if you don't mind that, you can help yourself to dinner now since it's ready."

Everybody sat down at the picnic table where the tacos where. The tomatoes were chopped and minced beyond the point where they didn't even look like tomatoes anymore, the cheese was in bits and mushed up, the onions looked among the same lines as the tomatoes, and of course there was the burnt beef to add. The lettuce and salsa were the only things that looked okay.

"Kakashi, you totally massacred dinner." Yondaime finally sighed after the long moment of silence between the team as they stared at their dinner.

"At least I tried." Kakashi reasoned. Obito and Yondaime still glared angrily at Kakashi though, their stomachs grumbling.

"Kakashi, it's tacos! How can you mess up making something as simple as tacos?" Yondaime groaned.

"I've been hiking up a mountain all day, come back starving, and you screw dinner up!" Obito whined.

"Hey guys, calm down!" Rin intervened. "Kakashi tried his best, but maybe cooking just isn't his strong point."

"But Rin, we're so hungry!" Obito whined as his stomach growled loudly.

"But just because the beef is burnt a little, doesn't mean that it'll taste bad." Rin pressed on.

"I guess the tacos are still edible," Yondaime sighed. "Rin's right. I'm sorry Kakashi, I didn't mean to get mad at you. You did a fine job with making dinner and we really appreciate it. I'm sure it'll taste great."

"Well, let's dig in!" Rin announced.

Obito, Rin, and Yondaime each dressed their taco with beef and the other ingredients. As they took a bite, they cringed at the horrible taste of the burnt beef and the unpleasing texture of the cheese.

"You know, you don't have to pretend to like it." Kakashi said amidst the strong silence between his teammates who were trying to chew and swallow their food. "Just let it out and say it tastes bad. It'll make you feel a whole lot better."

"No no, don't be silly Kakashi, it tastes great!" Yondaime contradicted, though his face told another story.

"Yes, it tastes wonderful!" Rin agreed, her face also telling another story.

"This stuff tastes…superb…" Obito tried to lie through his teeth, but suddenly dropped his taco onto the plate. "Aw, forget it. Kakashi, your cooking's horrible!"

"Now tell me something I don't know."

"I think I'm going to have to agree with Obito. Sorry Kakashi, but it does taste pretty bad."

"It's okay sensei. I know it does so that's why I didn't eat any."

"You what?!" Obito cried. "Kakashi, you sneak!"

"Alright, now let's get those journal entries in for today." Yondaime cut in. "Everybody go get their journals."

Obito, Kakashi, and Rin went into the tent momentarily and came back out with their journals.

"Okay, you guys can start writing now."

Obito snickered as he wrote his entry down about Kakashi losing his swim trunks and how bad his cooking tasted. The writing continued for fifteen minutes until the daylight was completely gone. Yondaime had them stop writing and read over their journals.

"Good job everyone! You've all written very good responses today. Now it's time for campfire. We can feast on marshmallows and smores for our meal."

"Good plan!" Obito nodded as he sat down on the campfire log.

Team Yondaime commenced their campfire and it eventually ended up turning into another game of Chubby Bunny, minus Kakashi who sat out of the game.

"Ham u pah uh arfallow?" Obito asked Kakashi.

"What?"

"I haid, ham u pah uh arphallow?"

"I can't understand a word you're saying."

"He haid, an u paff uh garfallowf." Rin translated.

"I can't understand a word you're saying either." Kakashi flatly replied.

"Ey oth aid, paff ah arfallows" Yondaime said and started to laugh, Obito and Rin joining in the laughter as well.

"It'll take me weeks to decipher what these morons are trying to say." Kakashi sighed.

The crazy campfire finally ended and the shinobi all headed off to bed, Obito, Rin, and Yondaime's stomachs moaning and complaining about the contents of Kakashi's dinner and the ridiculous amount of marshmallows.

To be continued…

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