Tenten had about ten scrolls worth of supplies on her at any given time. This was useful for battles when she wanted to rain knives and swords on her enemies. It was a bit less useful on rainy days when Team Gai was just trying to find a board game and crackers.

The board game was because Neji and Tenten didn't want to run laps in the rain and had somehow convinced Gai that playing chess or shougi would also be training, just training the mind and strategy instead of the body. The crackers were because Lee was hungry.

Lee was actually hungry a lot. It came with spending the majority of his time running laps, kicking boards or doing pushups. He needed a lot of fuel.

In any case, it all ended with Lee, Neji and Tenten digging through Tenten's piles of sealed supplies while Gai went to drag Kakashi over to play chess with them.

"Tenten! This looks promising!" Lee said cheerfully. He handed her a scroll carefully marked, "Crackers."

"Nope. Wouldn't want to eat those," Tenten muttered as she dug through her own bag of scrolls.

"Why?" Lee asked. "Are they stale?"

"No, Lee, they're actually fireworks and firecrackers. Crackers for short. I don't have a whole seal's worth of crackers, just a few seals' worth of food."

"I've found something," Neji called over. He had already unsealed a box of crackers from a scroll, and was looking very smug. He ripped the box open.

"No Neji! Don't eat those! They're poisoned!"

Neji froze as he reached into the box and growled, "And you couldn't have put that on the label, Tenten?"

"Well, if I'm giving them to an enemy, it's going to look rather suspicious if I unseal a box of crackers from a seal marked, 'poisoned food'. And I trust you guys not to take food from my scrolls, so don't even talk about me poisoning one of you by accident."

Neji quietly made a mental note never to unseal anything from any of Tenten's scrolls without her around again.

Tenten sighed. "Ah, and here are the crackers."

"That scroll is labeled exploding scythes."

"Well, it's a bluff. If the enemy thinks I have exploding scythes, they'll be less likely to attack."

"But why will the enemy be reading the labels on your scrolls in the first place?" Neji yelled in frustration.

"I found the chess!" Lee called out.

"Oh, good, Lee," Tenten said, and she unsealed the game from the scroll he gave her. Luckily it wasn't the set that exploded twenty seconds after being unsealed in case she ever needed to cause an explosion without suspicion. That would have made Neji think she was paranoid, and she couldn't have that.


AN: And finally, a short story/drabble that is purely friendship. And a little bit of paranoia.