"Oi!" He yelled, jumping to his feet and almost falling flat on his face as his feet caught in his sleeping bag. The fox dropped his bag and shot off into the forest. He walked over to the dropped pack and dragged it back to his sleeping bag pulling out a clean black mesh shirt from it. He heard a rustle behind him and looked up to see Genma, still half asleep, but waking up quickly, with a kunai in his hand and several senbon spread between the fingers of his other.
Genma blinked, stared down at the young man wrestling with his shirt and fought down the urge to laugh. He failed and pocketed the kunai Naruto threw at him, telling him to "Shut the fuck up!"
"You must sleep like a log if you don't notice an animal sneaking off with your bag!" He ignored Naruto's growl and slid one of the senbon he was holding into his mouth. Still grinning he set off to find breakfast.
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"You didn't mention being ambushed in the mission description!" Naruto yelled, twirling around to stab a black-clad nin in the stomach.
Genma laughed and kicked a nin across the clearing. He pretended not to hear Naruto's rather animalistic growl even though he was sure the enemy could hear it from the other side of the forest where they had fled to. A massive sparkling water dragon soared past him and imploded in a shower of deadly sharpened ice. He turned back to Naruto and raised an eyebrow.
"Nice."
Naruto's stomach growled in response.
"I quite agree with you. C'mon, let's find something other than ration bars. They make me constipated."
Had he looked back, he would have seen the disgusted expression Naruto was making at him. He did, however, hear the yell that followed.
"Too much information retard!"
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Genma rolled his eyes as he watched Naruto stare intently at the tin of boiling water on the fire. It had only been on there a minute yet the look on Naruto's face said it had been there for eternity. Eventually it boiled and he thought about stealing it for his tea just to spite the boy, but the look on Naruto's face stopped him. How was it possible, he wondered, to become so excited by ramen? He looked down at the duck he was currently heating up in a slightly cooler part of the fire and decided that Naruto just wasn't possible.
"Ne, ne, you just going to eat duck?"
Genma looked up. "No, I've got sauce for it." he held up a pot of lemon sauce and laughed when Naruto stuck out his tongue in disgust. "You don't like lemon sauce?"
"I don't like lemon sauce or duck."
"You don't like anything but ramen though." He pointed out as Naruto pulled the top completely off his cup ramen.
Naruto glared at his companion and stirred his noodles vigorously, separating them quickly and sloshing the soup around.
"You're still an gennin aren't you."
Naruto looked up suddenly, his eyes questioning and noodles hanging out of his mouth. He sucked them back in quickly and swallowed, nodding. "Why do you want to know that?"
"Just wondering. You were impressive in the chuunin exams. I'd heard stories about you from all the other jounin but that was the first time I'd ever seen you fighting." He pulled the duck strips off the fire and dropped them into the shallow pot of sauce. He reached into his bag and pulled out a pair of black chopsticks with the kanji for forgiveness etched in gold down the side of each of them. "I'd say you're above chuunin level personally seeing you fight back there. Itatakimasu."
Naruto's eyes lit up. "You think so?"