Walking from the training grounds to the Hokage tower for a mission always took a while thought genin Uzumaki Naruto.

As a new genin he was a assigned to a team, in his case Team Seven. On the team were the really annoying/kind of pretty kunoichi Sakura, the always bastard Sasuke, and the ever late jonin Kakashi who constantly gave excuses for his tardiness.

On his walk to the tower, Naruto turned a corner onto a road that pointed directly to the tower. Naruto, never having been on the road in his memory looked at the street sign, could only to gasp at what he saw.

'The Road of Life'

"Holy shit it's real!"

Have a happy New Years and I hope the road of life is treating you all well.