Summary: Naruto Uzumaki, an eight year old little boy, learns along side Iruka sensei in his everyday life about things that can be fixed, and things that cannot.

Lesson 2

It was late morning, a few hours before lunch time. The sky was clear and blue. The sun bathed Konohagakure and its villagers in pleasantly warm light. The air was warm and just right; not too humid and not too dry. Perfect weather for walking and playing outside. The children were all attending class at the Ninja Academy, though. Most of them anyway.

"Nyah! You can't catch me!" a particular boy not in class declared through a mouthful of food. He was holding a can of paint and had an orange jacket tied around his waist. Behind him Iruka sensei and a couple other men gave chase.

"Naruto! Come back to class now!"

"Brat! Give me back that paint you didn't pay for!'

"Hey, you stole my fish you didn't pay for!"

"Your fish?!"

The men started to catch up to the boy not in class, but the boy didn't slow down at all. In fact, he went faster.

"You won't be able to catch me!" he shouted gleefully. "I'm running so fast, I'm just a yellow flash to you guys! Ha!"

There was much more yelling heard after that. The four males ran all through the day market, around the Hokage's office, and up the Hokage mountain, where the yellow haired not in class boy leaped up and grabbed a hold of the rope that was dangling by the side.

"Haha! Thanks for the paint, old man! Now I can finish my art!" he yelled down to them, as he climbed up the rope. He slapped some bright red paint onto the stone face of the Fourth. A small crowd had formed at the base of the monument, consisting of Iruka sensei, the two shopkeepers, random other villagers who happened to be at the market, and Iruka sensei's ninjas in training. The random villagers shouted at the little troublemaker.

"Hey, stop vandalizing the monument!"

"Pay some respect!"

"You brat, you'll pay for that!"

"Baka! What do you think you're doing?"

Naruto ignored them and continued decorating the large face. Iruka sensei started to climb up.

"Naruto if you don't get down now, I will not treat you to ramen for two weeks!"

Naruto painted a very rude word across the Fourth's forehead. The villagers below yelled in outrage.

"Naruto! What if the rope were to break?"

"Mah, Iruka sensei! Stop worrying, it won't break!" Naruto assured. Right after he said that there was a quiet snapping sound, heard only be Naruto and Iruka sensei. Naruto stopped painting and glanced upward.

"Oh crap."

Naruto was literally hanging by only a few threads; the rest of the rope was frayed around the remaining whole threads. The next event seemed to happen in slow motion. Naruto's back was to the ground, instead of Konoha. Invisible arms dramatically dragged him down. Iruka sensei's eyes went as wide as the Fourth's. The can of paint tipped upside down as invisible arms also pulled it downward, and paint sloshed onto Iruka sensei and the shopkeepers, but mostly Iruka sensei. The children gasped. Suddenly the blonde was reacquainted with the dirt ground with a loud thud and a crack.

"Itai…" he groaned in pain.

Iruka sensei wiped paint from his eyes and mouth and rushed to his troublemaker student.

"Naruto! Are you okay? Did you break anything? Speak to me!"

The blond boy clutched his right arm and mumbled weakly, "You jinxed me, Iruka sensei…"

"Oh never mind that!" the teacher snapped. "Let's get you fixed up at the hospital now!"

A cast was placed on Naruto's arm, keeping him mostly out of trouble. Surprisingly, in just a few weeks it was all fixed and completely good as new and Naruto was back to vandalizing.

This was an idea I had quite a while ago and only just decided to dig it out and rework it. Hehe.

There will be two more chapters, and they'll be longer than these first two. The third one definitely will be, anyway. I'll post them tomorrow, hopefully, but in the meantime, reviews would be nice. I'd like to know what you think of it so far!