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Naruto - Just Another Day (Intro)

COCK-A-DOODLE DOO!

A rooster crowed to the sun, it was another beautiful day in Konoha and everything was going off to a good start. Sasuke was always on Naruto's mind but today was about Sakura the girl of his dreams. She had finally accepted to go on a little get together with him at the Ramen shop to probably lift his mood after losing Sasuke, but he wouldn't be late nonetheless! He rushed around his room searching for some clean clothes for this day, this was a chance that Naruto couldn't have even dreamed of. He could make a good impression on her that he wasn't just some over-energetic boy who would fool around way too often and maybe, just maybe this could blossom into something more. Unknown to him however, this would be the beginning of an adventure he would not soon forget.

"Good morning, Sakura-chan!"

He said with a grin, it took 5 minutes of rigorous searching to eventually find a clean suit for him to wear and was dare he say, proud of that fact until Sakura had clearly pointed out otherwise. He hit himself on the head and his eye twitched, just a few minutes before Konohamaru had been bugging him again with his fixation on become Hokage and decided it would be fun to just ambush him with a torrent of mudballs. Unable to find fault in of obviously flawless dodging and maneuvering capabilities he quickly he bowed slightly and put his hands together in apology.

"Sorry, at least I'm not late!"

Sakura just sighed in disbelief, Naruto never did understand the concept of daylight savings time. She had planned out all Naruto's moves way ahead of time so it didn't surprise her, in fact, it was more aggrivating. She was already busy with her own training to become a Medic-nin and the extra hour just gave her a little more time to study and practice. Sending a slight smile towards Naruto he jumped up in excitement and ran over to the Ramen shop, dragging her right behind him.

"Two giant bowls of Ramen old man!" Naruto yelled with a twinkle in his eye,

It was always a great day when ramen was involved, especially with Sakura. Sakura could only try to hide her laughter as Naurto started to jump up and down and side to side as the old man prepared their Ramen, and when he placed the bowls on the counter she couldn't help but join in with Naruto with a fist in the air and chopsticks ready to dig in.

"ITIDAKIMASU!"

A half an hour passed right by as they enjoyed each others company and of course, the Ramen. Naruto didn't even notice Sakura glancing over at him a few times during the course of the meal or even at the beginning of it. With a stretch of the arms and releasing of a sigh of contentment, Naruto turned to Sakura and smiled at her wondering if today was the day he would get maybe a little kiss from her and unfourtunately for him this caused him to drool and Sakura of course noticed this immediately. So with a swift punch to the face Sakura stormed off away from the Ramen store, a vein bulging from her forehead and muttering some comments about Naruto.

Rubbing his head Naruto slowly got up and sighed, he had blown it yet again and he was thinking about giving it up by now. He had been trying for such a long time now he had lost count on how many times he had been rejected and strangely enough it always ended the same way as this one did. After paying the old man for the Ramen he slowly started to make his way back to his home shielding his eyes from the sun at high noon.

He had walked quite a ways now and he noticed that he was no where near his house, in fact he was quite a ways off from Konoha and didn't know how exactly to get back. Naruto looked around with a slight panic and he started to frantically run around until he came up with an idea, not a very smart one, but it was an accomplishment. So without any further delay he gathered up some Chakra.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Instantly 30 clones appeared and all at one they began to hop upon one another. He obviously didn't think this through though and the tower of Naruto's fell down within a few seconds and he lost most of his other clones in one swift 'poof'.

Darn it! Why isn't this working?

Being the stubborn one that he is he created some more clones and this time caught on to the idea that more on the bottom would help...Success! Except something odd caught his eye, it wasn't Konoha, but a faint blue glowing. It wasn't too far off to the north and only one thing came to his mind, Sasuke.

He quickly started to rush off to the area of the faint glowing, running on the ground then jumping from tree branch to tree branch, not taking into consideration who might be there or what else it could possibly be. Even though it seemed not too far away it seemed much longer than he had hoed and passing the lush green trees in a blur he narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth to let out a call to his rival.

"Sasuke! You better not be running away from me and I don't care how many people you've brought with you, I'll even take on Orochimaru himself but I'll still beat you all to a pulp! When I get there you better hope that I'll forgive you and decide to bring you back to Konoha!"

With the bright light getting brighter as he continued on through the forest he had to shield his eyes from it and darted off behind a tree, or rather darted off into a tree...it still had the same effect though. Rubbing his head he gritted his teeth at the carelessness of Sasuke.

Darn that Sasuke! Just running around with a Chidori like that- Kakashi would be so disappointed in him and show him a thing or two!

He took a deep breath and slowly peeked out to the side to find that the source of the blue light wasn't moving at all and he started to creep closer and closer ever so slightly. When he came up he found not Sasuke and his Chidori, strangely he didn't even find a person. What he found was something that he couldn't explain nor could anyone in this world explain either. It appeared to be a large circular blue opening, and Naruto being the curious type walked over to it and looked at it for a while before he came up with another ingenious idea.

He took a quick jump backwards and began to perform his trademark technique, Rasengan. It was only obvious that one blue ball of light would only react to another...right? With his Rasengan completed he held out his hand and charged towards the blue light, only to be thwarted by a pebble, making him trip and stumble into the portal.

After regaining conciousness he quickly took a look around and found he was no longer in Konoha but he was in an arena of some sort, and he was looking an very confused Announcer with blond hair and sunglasses. Naruto was about to use Kage Bunshin when the tournament announcer held up his hand and put the mic to his mouth.

"HOLD IT, HOLD IT, HOLD IT! We have a little lad here that wandered onto the arena someone please come and claim him!"

Naruto stepped back once and reached down for a kunai ready to take on anyone until a perky voice popped up to calm him.

"Hey, hey, hey! What're you doing in the middle of the ring bub! Why don't you go sit off to the side and wait for your turn!"

The voice was accompanied by a small childlike figure- one that Naruto didn't recognize and of course being Naruto he twirled around once and pointed his finger to the childlike voice.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto! Fear it, for one day I will be the Hokage!"

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Author's Notes: Well that is my introduction to the story, most of you can probably guess who the first character in his adventure is but for all of those who don't I'm sure you'll see it obvious in the next chapter of,

Naruto – Just Another Day (Ch. 1)