Naruto struggled to get free from Orochimaru's giant snake that was charging after him, suddenly the snake bent down and swallowed him whole. Naruto kept on falling as though he was in a never ending pit. He closed his eyes and when he opened them he felt a peicing throbing pain beneath him, he was on his bedroom floor (along with several ramen boxes).

Naruto lifted himself up to his feet and pulled on a black t-shirt, while stumbling drunkenly towards the kitchen.

He started to eat some left over, cold ramen from last night.

'Man, nothin' beats a bowl of ramen in the morning!'

He slumped back to his bedroom and zipped himself up in his orange jumpsuit, and walked outside.

Naruto looked up at the town clock. '8:46'.

'Oh no! It's 8:46! I'm really late, Kakashi sensei is gonna kill me!!'

He ran full speed to the training area where Kakashi sensei said he'd meet him, Sakura and Sasuke to give us our mission

'Oh no, what if they have already left to go on the mission, what I'm left on my own like the last mission, I'd have to tell Granny Tsunade that I missed my mission again.' Naruto yelled while screeching round the corner to the entrance of the training round.

'Please be there, please be there, please be there' Naruto begged in his head.

He ran to the middle of the ground to find Sakura and Sasuke propped up helplessly against the metal bars of the gate.

'Huff, huff… Phew, you're not gone yet that's a relief…' Naruto sighed, 'hey, where's Kakashi sensei? Did he go looking for me?'

'Huh? Oh, you're here, you're really late.' Sakura said in a tired voice. It was quite clear Sakura had been wait for a long time, 'and no, he hasn't gone looking for you, he's just not here yet.'

'What were you expecting dobe, for Kakashi sensei to be on time or something?' Sasuke said in a sarcastic tone, it was also clear Sasuke had been here on time and had been waiting a long time too, 'anyway, you're like 4 hours late, Kakashi said for us to be here by 5am, and it's nearly 9am now…'

'Shut up teme, at least I was here before Kakashi sensei.' Naruto said, still slightly out of breath.

'Whatever…'

After about 20 minutes Kakashi had still not turned up and Naruto joined Sakura and Sasuke in sitting up against the gate.

3 hours later

'God damn it, Kakashi's normally late, but he's never this late.' Naruto exclaimed.

'Yer, I guess I have to agree with you there Naruto, this is getting ridicules.' Sakura agreed.

They decided to go and find their sensei, seeing as they knew they'd probably find him crouching down on a high pole somewhere in Konoha, reading the sequel of 'Icha Icha'.

'KaaaKaaaashiiiii!' Sakura yelled.

'Oi, sensei!' Naruto bellowed abruptly, getting frustrated at the tardiness of their sensei.

'Guys, lets stop this blatant and mindless screaming, and go to Lady Tsunade to see if see if she sent him off on some mission without informing us.' Sasuke calmly said. 'I mean he has done that few times before.'

'Yer, Sasuke, I totally agree with you, that was amazing how you just came up with that, you're so smart Sasuke!' Sakura said, drooling at Sasuke, 'Stupid Naruto screaming like that, so immature.'

'Whaa…!' Naruto gaped, confused. 'B-b-b-but you…!'

'Shut up, Naruto!' Sakura yelled, smashing him over the head with god-like strength.

'Whatever…' Sasuke mumbled.

TO BE CONTINUED…

A/N: Hi. I'm going to be writing some more chapters, I know this was a pretty long chapter, but then again I hope you enjoyed. Once again please point out any flaws and tell me them in reviews. I really enjoy reading the reviews and it also improves my writing so the next chapter will be much more enjoyable!

Hopefully the next chapter will be coming out reasonably soon.