Chapter-5:

"Who names their kids scarecrow?" Naruto demands, incredulous.

Sasuke raises his eyebrows and thinks that's pretty rich coming from someone whose name literally means a fishcake.

A Fishcake!

"And did you see his hair?" Naruto continues, "And the mask? Did you see he was reading porn!" Naruto stops and turns to glare at Sasuke, "Are you even listening?"

"Yes, dobe," Sasuke responds, systematically cutting tomatoes, carrots and fresh beans, "You are whining."

"I am not!" Naruto opens and closes his mouth several times like a guppy fish, "...I'm just voicing a manly complaint."

Sasuke smirks in amusement and turns to add oil and vegetables into the pan.

"But you know," Naruto pinches his nose and grumbles, "Old-man Hokage's gone senile! Making a bastard pervert our sensei!"

Sasuke stirs the vegetables and adds rice into the pan. He nods and smirks again, "how do you know its porn he's reading and not geography?"

Naruto scowls, "Geography books don't come with a underage warning, Sasuke."

Sasuke places dinner on the table and settles down across of his friend, "I'm more worried about this survival test he mentioned."

They eye each other in trepidation.

"Probably something to do with mind-fucking," Naruto says finally, adding an alarming amount of chilli flakes into his broth, "he pretended to fall for my duster prank just to make sure we under-estimate him."

Sasuke bites his spiced tomato and murmurs, "Probably thinks we're clumsy punks. He under-estimates us already."

They both swallow and smirk at each other.

"Hatake Kakashi is in for a surprise then, eh?" Naruto says slowly and Sasuke can only agree.

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