Chapter 3

Jeriah sat on top of the 3rd hokage's head, using his peep-o-scope to watch as the beautiful Miku Hatsune walked up the steps to the viewing platform in front of the cliffs. He smiled like a devil with a chewtoy.

"Perfect! No-one can visit the Hidden Leaf Village without coming to see the Cliff Faces! This is my chance to prove that no-one can stop me from getting to a beautiful celebrity's autograph! Not even Naruto can mess up this plan!" Then Jeriah noticed something odd about the group. "Where's Neji?" Jeriah quickly put down the scope and looked around. "Curse that ocular jutsu…better change to plan L-37B…"

"Wow! It's incredible! I knew that they were cut out of the cliff, but I didn't realize what an undertaking it was till now!" Miku and Lyn ran ahead to the railing, viewing the cliffs from the front edge, while Ryn stepped back to the railing and watched the faces from the back edge. "How did you cut them out so perfectly? I would think if you cut a nostril, the nose would fall off!" Ryn wondered as she turned to Sasuke.

"The architects built structures to hold the stone in place, and the nostrils weren't actually drilled." Sasuke explained, crossing his arms and turning his back from the cliffs as if to say 'no big deal' "They just sanded an indention which from far away looks like the opening of a hole."

"Except for Old Man 3rd's!" Naruto jumped in, "His nostril's are actually tunnels that were already in the cliff, there's apparently an 'ak-oo-a-fur' in the ground a few miles back that will shoot water through the tunnels after heavy rains, making it look like the cliff has a runny nose!" Naruto beamed, standing way too close for comfort. Sasuke grabbed the back of Naruto's jumpsuit and yanked him back, throwing the the blonde paperweight across the viewing deck.

"It's called an aquifer, Loser." Sasuke growled, "And they blocked up the tunnels so that the water comes out elsewhere last week while you were busy chasing down that mailman with Jeriah!" Naruto quickly jumped back up and ran over to Sasuke.

"I don't care how you pronounce ak-oo-a-fur!" he grabbed Sasuke by the collar, "That's no reason to throw me half-way across the Village!" Kaito and Ryn just stared, dumbfounded, as Sasuke proceeded to knee Naruto in the groin so fast they almost missed it, and Naruto didn't even seem to move.

"I knew you were a wimpy Loser, but I didn't know you were a wimpy Loser girl." Sasuke looked just as surprised as the other two. Naruto didn't answer, he just stood there, giving Sasuke the 'I'm a crasy monster and I'm gonna kill you' look. Then suddenly Naruto doubled over and started bawling various versions of 'ow' and rolling back and forth, occasionally yelling 'low blow!' in between screams.

"… F'ing lag…" Ryn noted as Naruto slowly began to calm down. After some time, Naruto quit yelling altogether, and just layed there on the ground. "You gotta give him points for toughness, though…"

"How is that even possible?" Kaito asked, leaning over the crumpled orange heap. "Doesn't the human brain constantly receive signals from across the entire body? How can it choose what not to notice?" Naruto slowly got up, and leaned heavily on the railing.

"Sasuke…I'll…Kill you…for this…!" He gasped. Sasuke just turned his back on Naruto, unintentionally turning to face the cliffs.

"Uh…Naruto…" Sasuke said, taking a step closer to the cliff side railing, "What did you do this time?"

"What…do you mean?...I haven't…Done anything…" Naruto wheezed, turning around to look at Sasuke, Naruto saw what Sasuke was looking at. "That wasn't me…I haven't even been…in this direction…for a while…" In front of the six ninjas, the cliffs were rumbling, as water poured out of the third hokage's face's nose.

"They blocked it up, so why is it pouring?" Sasuke wondered, stepping up all the way to the front railing, "After all, it hasn't even rained in weeks!" Naruto and the Hidden Music ninjas stepped up behind him.

"I don't know," Naruto wheezed, "But nobody messes up Old Man Third's statue but me!" with that, the apparently completely recovered Naruto jumped over the railing and across the gap, landing on a tree half-way between the platform and the cliffs themselves. Sasuke turned to the music ninjas.

"Naruto is such an idiot. There are plenty of other ninjas to take care of it, and we're supposed to focus on taking care of you." Sasuke sighed resignedly, "If I chase after him, can you keep up with me?" Sasuke doubted anyone could keep up with an Uchiha, but then again there were freaks like Lee…

"Of course!" Miku smiled, "He isn't all that fast, anyway." The other music ninjas nodded. "It's almost as if he's wounded. Keeping up won't be a problem!" Sasuke let himself grin. I asked if they could keep up with me, not Naruto. They're in for a surprise!

"Ok, follow me. And stay close! If you can keep up, I'm not going to lollygag for you!" and with that, Sasuke turned and mid turn jumped over the railing, landing three quarters of the way to the cliffs. As he jumped off of the tree, Sasuke noticed some shadows fly over him, and when he looked up; he saw the music ninjas landing at the cliffs, obviously skipping the trees between entirely. "Crap!" and Sasuke kicked it up a notch, putting as much speed as he could into his movements, determined to catch up with Naruto before the super-jumping ninjas did.

"Perfect. They're heading straight to the cliffs, with Sasuke in last. It's just as planned…" a voice in the shadows smiled, "They think they can have a day off? Not while I'm around! Fufufu!"

For English-only readers, fufufu is Japanese for Muahaha. And you call yourself Otaku…