Surival Training, Team Work Skills

Chapter One

Disclaimer: Naruto and related characters are not mine. I just enjoy using them for my own pleasures in writing.

Warning: In the following chapters you may encounter Yaoi, Lemon. I will give warning at the Chapter's start if this be the case so you might skip over it if you are under aged or you run the risk of people walking in you don't want to read it. I know how that can be so it seems sensible to give warning.

Enjoy
~White Liger
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Naruto and Sasuke had engaged in yet another starring contest, neither willing to blink or look away lest the other thinks he had won. Sakura in turn glared at Naruto for glaring at Sasuke. Kakashi was late, again. Thus the two boys had taken to arguing. The heat however had reduced them to this pitiful state as was their staring contest with each other.

"Sorry I'm late, I got attacked by renegade Jounin Hunters from an unknown village," Hatake Kakashi's voice drawled over to the trio casually. As usual, he had made up a completely outrageous excuse.

"What kind of excuse IS that?!" Sakura yelled at him angrily, her glare switching from the blonde haired Kyubi boy to the silver haired sensei. The heat had made her very irritable as well. Not to say that she was not rather snappy to begin with anyways.

"Naruto, Sasuke," he paused a moment as both boys looked over to him, "you tied your glaring contest."

"Kuso! Why did you do that!? I was going to win, Sasuke was gonna blink any second!" Naruto protested in frustration. But truth be told he was no trying not to cry because his eyes felt like they had shrivelled up to dry little raisins from leaving them open for far to long.

"Yah right dobe," Sasuke snorted; he however was entertaining similar thoughts as Naruto. Sakura scowled at them both for being idiots, though more at Naruto then Sasuke.

"What's our mission?" Sakura asked after several moments of silence. Suddenly Naruto's energy returned a thousand fold and he was clinging off Kakashi.

"Ya!Ya! What's our mission? Huh? Huh? Huhhuhhuh?" Naruto urged, bouncing around, after failing the Chuunin Exams for the second time Naruto was determined not to do it again. It was embarassing he had to pass this time. Just had to!

"To improve your team work," Kakashi replied, he changed the being serious all the sudden.

"Eh? But sense," Sakura started to argue, Kakashi rose his hand to silence her,

"Sakura, you are fine. You tolerate both Naruto and Sasuke easily, and they need to learn to get along without your help. The reason you keep failing the Chuunin Exams is because of Naruto and Sasukes
constant arguing," Kakashi explained lamely.

"Sensei?" Naruto asked, putting up his hand and giving Kakashi his best 'I-swear-I-was-listening' look.

"Eh?" Kakashi asked, looking lethargically at the blonde.

"How are we going to do that?" Naruto asked.

"I thought you'd never ask!"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow, his obsidian eyes moving back and forth between Naruto and Kakashi as they spoke. Kakashi seemed far to pleased with himself and whatever idea it was that he had come up with. It was scarey.

"Well?" Sakura prompted, she wanted to know too. Curiosity and all.

"You and Sasuke," Kakashi paused dramatically and chuckled inwardly at his imagined reactions, "must make sweet passionate love to each other!"

Sakura jaw dropped, Naruto face faulted painfully into the ground and Sasuke's eyes widened in disbelief to become the size of saucers.

"N-nani!?!" Sakura squealed when she had recovered enough of her wits and voice to actually make a coherent noise. Kakashi could hold it in no longer and he burst out laughing.

"That was NOT funny!" Sasuke and Naruto yelled simultaneously in each of Kakashi's ears.

"NO KIDDING!" Sakura shreiked, knocking the silver haired Jounin in the head.

"Yes it was," Kakashi objected, still chuckling. That had been beyond priceless.

"Seriously sensei, what do we do?" Sasuke asked when he had managed to recover and wipe the blush
from his pale face.

"I just finished telling you, didn't you hear me?" Kakashi teased. The two boys glared at him and the scarecrow shifted under their threatening eyes. "Fine okay, your REAL mission is still between Naruto and Sasuke only. And it seriously concerns your team work skills. While they are out Sakura, you will be receiving extra training in Taijutsu. For Naruto and Sasuke you are both out for survival training. Unlike the time limit on the Forest of Death this has a different sort of limit," Kakashi explained to them.

"What?" Naruto asked eagerly. It sounded like fun so far.

"You can't come back until you and Sasuke can go at the very least and hour without bickering," Kakashi replied. His eyes warning them that even an hour of good behaviour before a fight could still potentially bring down his all fiery wrath. He was dead serious. Which often unnerved his students from when Kakashi was serious you did not mess around. The two boys did indeed glance at each other nervously and gulp.

"Okay...lets go to my house and some supplies," Naruto suggested.

"No, there is something I need to grab at my own house first," Sasuke replied.

"I called it first," Naruto was naturally inclined to argue.

"My house is closer."

"Who cares?"

"It makes more sense!"

"Idiot!"

"Dobe!"

"Boys! You won't be going to ANYONES house! This survival training will set you out with ONLY what you have on you at this very moment in time," Kakashi snapped, his patience had been thinning with the two for a long time and it was finally showing now that he was so close to being rid of them for a little while at least. That was an accomplishment, it was near impossible to irritate the Jounin.

"Now look what you did," Naruto grumbled at Sasuke. As though they would have gotten to gather some supplies if only stupid Sasuke had not argued with him. He would have retorted, were it not for the look he got from Kakashi. He wisely chose silence instead.

"Are we going yet?" Naruto asked after growing sick of the silence and no longer being capable of keeping himself contained.

"Of course."

Kakashi led the two rivals into the heart of the forestry about Konoha Village. Farther in then either of them would have even dared to go before. At length, he stopped and turned to them. "You start here. You can wander as you want just don't come to the village again until you truly thing that your team work has improved," Kakashi explained to them the rules again. Which were basically, don't die and learn to work together before returning. Then he left, running off so fast that neither boy could have tracked him back to the village if they had tried.

"So...What now?" Sasuke glared at the stupid question as delivered by the idiot Naruto.

"We find drinkable water," the raven haired boy replied logically.

"But I'm hungry," Naruto whined.

"And you'll be thirsty soon too. The body lasts longer without food then it does water. So water first
then we can get your food," Sasuke replied.

"NO!"

Sasuke was of course right and Naruto was wrong because all Naruto cared about was what he wanted at that instant. Sasuke sighed, he never took the time to look ahead at things and it was the most annoying thing one could possibly do. When Sasuke did not answer instantly Naruto glared at him. That was when one very important and horrible thought hit him. "WHAT ABOUT RAMEN!?!"

Sasuke ignored him now, and proceeded to walk off in the direction opposite to which Naruto was standing, back the way they had come a little ways. Naruto followed him subconsciously so that he could yell in an over loud voice about how he would die without Ramen in Sasukes ear just so he could have the pleasure of annoying him when he was really just making life easier for the raven haired ninja.

"Naruto?"

"Yah?" Naruto snapped instantly out of his rant to look at Sasuke and blink cluelessly. God he was so stupid sometimes.

"Why don't you put those old fish grabbing skills to good use?"

"Eh?" Naruto blinked in confusion. Then realized that they were standing right near a river of running
water that was definatly safe to drink and enter by all appearances. The water was crystal clear and one could see some fair sized fish swimming around. "Why don't you do it?" Naruto protested when he realized what Sasuke wanted.

"You proved you were good at it on our first trip through the Forest of Death it makes sense that you do it while I keep a fire going," the Uchiha replied cleverly. Naruto stuck his nose in the air as if to say no. Was he really that stupid? Kakashi had sent them out to get along and all he could do was resist Sasuke. The raven haired boy sighed and instead took the easier route. He shoved Naruto into the lake.

"HEY!" Naruto yelled when he managed to stop spluttering and sinking. His hair matted to his face and he glared up at Sasuke miserably.

"You're wet now."

"Yah, and so are my only pair of clothes," Naruto hissed miserably. Sasuke shrugged. The Kyubi kid
crawled out of the water and shook off like a dog before stripping down to his orange boxers which were speckled with yellow dots. Quiet the fashion statement that was.

"Just catch some fish," Sasuke snapped. Naruto mocked him with a stupid face but dove into the water after the fish while Sasuke threw Naruto's clothing over a branch to dry and began to prepare them a fire to cook on.

"One fishy. Two fishy. Three Fishy...How many should I catch?" Naruto called over to Sasuke who was carefully keeping the tiny flame he had started alive while waiting for it to catch.

"Ten, we can smoke some and keep them for tomorrow," Sasuke replied.

"Eh?" Of course Naruto got this image in his head of him and Sasuke getting high off smoking fish. Sasuke scowled when he realized what Naruto was thinking.

"Not that kind of smoke, dobe," he snapped. Naruto threw a fish out and smacked Sasuke in the back of the head. Which in turn caused him to lurch into the small pile of wood and knocked a log over which immediately snuffed out the tiny flame he had worked at creating without the use of chakara.

"Haha! I actually hit you!" Naruto laughed. Sasuke ran after Naruto who scampered stupidly from the water to flee the angry Uchiha laughing his head off.

"BLAZE OF GLORY!" Sasuke preformed the seals in record time and successfully set Naruto's rear on fire. The blonde fox boy jumped back into the water hastily before it burned through his underclothing and blew bubbles with most of his head under the water for the moment. As though imitating the noise Sasuke might have made if he was boiling over temper wise.

"Hey, at least the fire's alive again," Naruto pointed out. He turned around to see that the entire tree was on fire never mind just the logs he had been using.

"DOBE! HELP ME!" Sasuke yelped as he started trying to splash water on the burning branches in a
futile attempt to put it out. Naruto was laughing hysterically at this point in time as he watched Sasuke trying to put out the tree. Regardless he decided to help. Between the two of them they put the fire out without causing to much more harm to the poor tree. But in the mean time Naruto has skillfully soaked Sasuke.

"I SWEAR I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Sasuke yelled. And he was back to chasing Naruto again who of course ran. Sasuke actually did catch him and started to chock him. It was extremely stress relieving for him. Though it was irritating that Naruto kept laughing. Eventually when Naruto started turning oddly blue he let him go and then stripped off his own clothing and put them up in the branch to dry with Narutos. He wore black boxers. They both sat close to the fire Sasuke glared while Naruto grinned stupidly back in return. "I hate you," Sasuke said finally.

"I love you to Sasuke kun," Naruto taunted.

"Shut up, dobe," Sasuke snapped.

The smell of cooked fish could be caught throughout a lot of the forest. It did not occur to either boy what the smell might attract until to late when a low growl came from behind Naruto. A great big brown grizzly came out of the forest behind them.

"N...Naruto?" Sasuke stuttered slightly when he saw it bare fangs on them.

"Nani?" Naruto asked.

"Behind you," Sasuke stated, having regained his dull compsure.

"Yah right like I'll seriously fall for tha - AHHHH!" Naruto had looked behind him half way through saying he would not fall for such a trick and immediately released a yell of fear. The bear roared and swatted at Naruto who was up a tree in seconds followed closely by Sasuke who did not wait for the grizzly to attack him.

"Can't get much worse then this," Sasuke muttered sarcastically.

"Don't say that!"

"Why the hell not?"

"Well because. Now it's going to rain."

"You're an idiot this is not a television sh - " Sasuke was cut off by a loud rumble of thunder. And it
began to pour on their heads.

"Told you so," Naruto stated.

"Shut up Uzamaki!" Sasuke snapped, as the two watched the bear began to devour their food. Which they had not had a chance to even taste, their clothes were soaked again and they were stuck up in a tree in the rain. Lovely.

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Authors Note: Well, let me know what you think. This is my first try at a Naruto/Sasuke pairing and here is how I have chose to begin. A little bit corny but it is meant to be a bit of a humor and at the same time a good romance between Sasuke and Naruto. Smut to come later when I feel it makes sense.