The sun rose early that morning. It's warmth giving rays covered Konoha like a blanket sturring the village awake. One particular resident however refused to be disturbed. Rolling over in bed he sheilded his eye's from the rays that threatened his slumber. Uzumaki Naruto usually was a morning person, but today he felt he had no reason to rise so early. "Two and a half years... all for naught." Rolling over again he faced the warm rays "Maybe putting my bed next to the window was a bad idea" Finally mustering the strength he rolled out of bed, onto the floor. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Go away..." Naruto got up and dragged his tired body to the door.

"Hey Naruto! I know your awake in there!" Sakura pounded the door even harder, threatening to tear it off it's hinges. "NARUTOOO!" Winding up Sakura threw a two megaton punch at the door. Just his luck, aruto had just opened it only to be on the recieving end of her fist. The impact could be heard throughout Konoha, as Naruto was propelled through his house, out his window, and several feet into the air. "Wow, her slice is horrible." Thought Naruto as he careened sky ward. "One of these days,she'll kill me..." Naruto pondered the thought, thinking it might not be a bad way to go. Naruto cought his composure as gravity finally began to take hold. So did the pain, as he felt his jaw. "Yup, definetly broken..." Naruto rubbed the lump that was forming on his face, not realizing that the ground was approaching very quickly.

Sakura had prepared her punch for knocking the door off it's hinges, instead however she had knocked Naruto off of his. She realized her mistake when she heard the shattering glass. Quickly running to the window, she sheilded her eyes from the sun, scanning the area for signs of his location. Instead she found him flying skyward, several hundred feet away. "Theres no way I can reach him in time." When he started to fall back to the ground she panicked. Flying head-long out the window, she nimbly jumped from rooftop to rooftop, running through all the maps of Konoha she had memorized, trying to guess where he would land.

Kakashi had been having a nice sleep. That is until a large object came crashing through his ceiling continuing into the next floor, and the next, and the next, and so on. But something about the holes caught his eye. As he rose from his bed he confirmed what he thought he saw. The hole that had just been made in his ceiling, along with all the others were clean circles. "Only one thing could have done this at such a speed." Kakashi quickly got dressed and hopped down the hole in the floor, hoping to catch the thing he thought was doing this.

Naruto stood up, panting heavily and looked at his surroundings. There wasn't much to see, as he had dug him self a nice deep hole. Looking up he saw light through all the holes in the ceiling. Well at least part of his training wasn't useless. If he hadn't used Ransengan, his landing could have been quite painful. Crawling out of his hole he saw he was in a large basement, of what appeared to be a very tall apartment building. How many floors had he counted? He recalled losing count after twenty, choosing to focus more on what he would do if Rasengan faded out. He glanced up looking at the holes he had just made, all of then perfect circles, straight down. Something cought his eye as he moved closer to his hole, to get a better look.

Sakura stood perched on a telephone pole, scanning the area around her. "According to my calculations, he should have landed somewhere around here." Sakura turned and looked back, she could no longer see Naruto's house, "How far did I hit him? She pondered this thought, looking back towards the sun. She had lost sight of him in the morning sun, so she had to guess on the distance. "Guess I'll just keep going until I see some damage."

Kakashi fell for what seemed forever, using his sharigan to count the floors so as to know when he was close to the ground floor. After another twenty story's he thought he saw the bottom floor, so naturally he braced for impact. A quick look down revealed to him that there was yet another hole on the ground floor, so he readjusted for basement impact. What he hod was another twenty feet of falling, followed by a defeneing thun into a very cramped hole. Looking around him, the marks were very defined, the telltale spiral that only Rasengan could dig into the ground. Looking up he saw the distinct blond hair and goofy smile of Naruto. "How nice of you to drop in Kakashi-sensei"

Well it was damage all right. Sakura stared down into a looong series of holes, that seemed to go on forever. The holes were clean, perfect circles. "Rasengan, he must have used that technique, to keep from hitting too hard." She thought about jumping in and falling down to the bottom, but that seemed like something only a rookie would do. Instead she droppend a blunt kunai with a string attached, uisng the string to judge the distance. If the kunai hadn't stopped she would jump down to the level the kunai hung at and continue the proscess. After about 10 drops she was ready to give up."How tall is this building?"

Naruto and Kakashi were on their way up the vertical cooridor as Naruto called it. Naruto had already explained everything to Kakashi. "Sakura will be looking for you, after flying that far." Naruto looked down at Kakashi he smiled and chuckeld "Yea, but with the gaping hole in the ceiling, it probably won't take her long." Naruto looked back up just in time to recieve blunt kunai to the forehead."Why me...why today..." The force of the impact threw Naruto at Kakashi who barely caught him, without skipping a beat Kakashi jumped away from the hole. Putting a now unconsious Naruto down he looked toward the hole, hoping to see what had concussed him.

"Huh, it stopped." Sakura looked down the hole, three floors down she saw where the kunai had gotten off course. Jumping down the three floors she saw plenty more holes below her. What had thrown the kunai off course. "Ahem" Sakura turned around to see Kakashi holding the kunai in his hand. Behind him lay Naruto apparently unconcious, his face battered and bruised. "Oh my god, did I do that?" Sakura ran to Naruto kneeling down beside him. Kakashi approached from behind. "Between the broken jaw you gave him, and the blunt force trauma from the kunai, I think he'll be out for a while." Kakashi just scratched his head.

Sakura had insisted on taking Naruto to the hospital, but Kakashi assured her that Naruto would be alright. After all she had used nearly all her chakra trying to revive him. Tsunade had been informed of the poceedings, and measures were already under way to repair the damage to the building. Sakura was givin the rest of the day off, as long as she visited naruto later on in the day. "Just don't deck him again!" Tsunade had reminded her. So Sakura had decided to go and find Sasuke. Usually Sasuke could be found training with Lee and Neji Just outside Lee's Dojo. Sakura was as surprised as everyone the day Sasuke returned, covered in blood, carrying both orichimaru and itachi's heads in a duffel bag. She shuddered as she remebered the day of his return.