Hello. Haha, this is my first Naruto fanfic, unless you count that one that somehow got erased!! ::cries:: Um, yeah, so this was my failed attempt at some kind of story, which is in dsperate need of some editing, and a total...just...it should just be chopped up. But I felt if I did not get it out SOMEWHERE, I would be abandoning it. I wouldn't be so ashamed of it, it's just that I wrote this a while ago, about 6 months to be exact...It may not seem like much, but when I read what I wrote, it's just...ugly.

Wow, you must all be leaving now, since I'm insulting it sooo much. It's ok. I'm just telling you, you know?!? I happen to think it gets better bit by bit. I haven't written the last chapter since a couple months ago. I'm updating the 8 chapters I did, which is actually not a lot because the chapters are really short. I think the last one is the longest...I'm not sure. Anyways, just read it. Haha. Don't worry, I'm not going to say anything for all the other chapters that are being updated today because I'm updating them all at the same time, and it would just be done to same something everytime, when I'm uploading them all today. Anyways, just read, if you please.

Disclaimer: If I had a million dollars for every time I had someone ask me if I owned Naruto, I would be so poor...

Chapter 1: Today's For Ramen, Not For Training!!

The sun was shining upon Konoha village that day. It was shining upon the people, the flowers, the beautiful little homes. Naruto walked out of his own home that day at approximately 9 am. Today he was free.

Ok, that might have sounded a bit dramatic and cheesy. As in free, it means Naruto has no missions lined up for today, or any training required by Kakashi. Notice the word required. Naruto wasn't up for training today, even though his goal was to become the strongest ninja and eventually become Hokage. He had been training for days on end and decided it was time to take a break.

Walking to the ramen shop, he passed by Ino's flower shop and waved hi. He always saw her on his way to the ramen shop, which he of course visited almost every single day. He also passed Sasuke's house. He also lived by himself, he assumed.

Naruto suspected that Sasuke was out training by himself. If anything, he liked that better, without having him and Sakura in the way of his progress. Even though, as mentioned before, there was no training session today, that doesn't matter to Sasuke. He trains himself to the max every single day.

And of course, Naruto suspected that he wouldn't be seeing Sakura around either, although he really, really wanted to. He naturally assumed that wherever Sasuke was, every girl in the village was there too. And he knew Sakura was definitely one of those girls. She was probably his number one fan now that they were on the same team. It was a shock to still find Ino at the flower shop. Guess she didn't get the memo about where Sasuke usually trains or something.

As Naruto was nearing the restaurant, he saw Rock Lee, and they crossed paths.

"Hey Naruto! Wanna go train with me?" Lee asked politely with absolute delight. Sure, they were on different teams and all, but he knew they were somewhat friends. It would be fun training with someone else for a change.

"Hey Fuzzy Eyebrows!! Sorry, I would but I'm just not in the mood too. I'm gonna go get ramen though. Wanna come eat with me? Naruto did not like Rock Lee at all, when he FIRST met him, but now, he has come to respect the Fuzzy Eyebrows, and even stick up for him!

"Oh. Well, I gotta train though. Maybe I'll come to the ramen place later. I know that when you're hungry, you'll eat all day! Kind of like Chouji, except you're basically just obsessed with ramen, rather than food." Lee replied.

"Yeah. Well, I guess I'll see ya then. Don't let Neji beat ya up!!" Naruto scrambled off on his way to the ramen shop, finally, and on the opposite end of the road, Lee disappeared into the horizon, waving bye.

"Ramen! Ramen! Ramen here I come!!" Naruto had finally arrived. He was about to sit upon his usual favorite stool at the counter, when he came to notice that someone else's posterior was already placed upon it. That person had bedhead blue-black hair, with long bangs. His clothes were the same ones as usual and his usual bandage wrappings wrapped around his arms and legs.

"Sasuke...? I'm surprised to see YOU here! I thought you would be training!" Naruto was totally stupified to see the aloof memeber of his Team 8 here eating ramen instead of working his ass off running laps or getting trained by Kakashi one-on-one.

"Naruto..." Sasuke turned around to hace the blonde boy. He wiped a couple of loose bangs from in front of his hair and turned his red-sharingan eyes on his teammate. "I'm taking a break from training."

"Break? BREAK?! But it's 9 AM!! You mean to tell me that you were training before 9 AM on a SUNDAY?!" Even during those days of proving everyone wrong about him being the weakest of the Chunnin exam finalists, those days where he trained all day and night with Jiraiya in order to prepare himself against Hyuuga Neji, even then, the earliest he would start training on weekdays were AT 9 AM. But Sasuke..."What time did you start?!?"

"5 AM. Oh, and could you please stop being so annoyingly loud?" Naruto was totally yelling in his ear and he was starting to get pissed off. It's not like it was anything new though, but his tolerance to Naruto's rants have not increased one bit. He annoyed him then, he annoys him now.

"5 AM?!? BUT, WHAT COULD YOU BE TRAINING SO HARD FOR AT 5...Wait a minute. I know why we didn't have a training session today! Kakashi's training you privately, isn't he?!? That bastard! Is he showing you a move EVEN STRONGER than the CHIDORI?!?"

"NARUTO!!!!! SHUT. UP." Sasuke was completely tired from his earlier training. He didn't need Naruto's damn yells on top of that. "Now...Just, sit down and eat your damn ramen!" Naruto sat down. He was completely shocked to see that Sasuke could get so emotional over something as little as Naruto being loud. He was ALWAYS loud, and it never bothered him before! ...Did it?

"By the way, Naruto, Kakashi was not training me today. So stop worrying. Why would I lie?"

"I don't know. You're so strange and mysterious, you could have your reasons!! How am I supposed to know what they are?" Naruto wanted to know badly! Why was Sasuke so...Sasuke-ish?!?

"Just eat." And with that comment from Sasuke, they both got served a bowl of ramen, and slurped their noodles in silence. Well, except for the slurping sounds...As in silence, it means, they didn't talk to each other for a while.