"Ugh..if I had known he was wanting to start at eight in the friggin morning, I wouldn't have cheated and used that 2-sided coin yesterday. Ok, refresh my memoy, gaki" Anko said, watching the blonde stuff four more handfuls (well, handfuls for him anyway) of mission scrolls into his coat pockets, still rubbing the sleep from her eyes, "Why did you grab so many? Genin teams usually do one or two a day or so. Depending on the task, they can go from an hour to the whole day. And for that matter..why so damn early!" She was promptly met by the blonde's trademark grin as they left the mission depot and the rather startled chunin running it.

"The old man said teams have to do a minimum of forty D-ranks before they're even considered for Cs, right?" Getting a quick nod he continued, "And odds are you wanna get the ok as much as I do, right?"

"You better believe it! I hated D-ranks when I was a genin, I hated them as a chunin, and I still hate those crappy things!" She replied.

"Which is why I loaded up. The more we do right off, the sooner we get to do Cs." He responded, "As for getting here early, it's like I said on the way here, I just didn't wanna arrive only to get stuck with the crappy missions the other teams didn't want."

Anko stared blankly for a second before facepalming and muttered, "Why the hell didn't I think of that when I was a gaki..? Wait, that's all well and good, but it'll take days to get them done, even if we do them in succession."

The grin returned with a vengence , "They obviously forgot to tell you about what I learned when I stole the Forbidden scroll that night."

"And what would that be?" She asked upom approaching one of the empty training areas.

As if on cue, he quickly backed up and formed a seal, saying three familar words.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

When the smoke cleared, Anko's jaw unhinged at the sight; before her now stood more than one hundred Narutos, standing shoulder to shoulder.

"Holy..! No way..these can't be..." She gave one a tenetive poke, expecting it to pass through a regular clone, only to have her finger make contact with a solid object.

It didn't help her surprise when the clone looked right at her and asked, "What?"

"Sweet Kami's rubber g-string!" She yelped, turning to the original "Their solid...! You..you learned an A-class jutsu in ONE NIGHT!"

"Wore myself out pretty good by the time I finished." He quipped before facing the clones, "All right! Let's get started, we got sixty missions here. It's gonna be two per so we get done fast, got it?"

"Right!" They shouted in unison, lining up to recive their orders.

While all this was going on, Anko promptly gave in to letting out a school girl squeal at her luck. Tough as hell, endurance that could put who knows how many of Konoha's best to shame, and she was willing to bet he'd be a monster in a fight even without a true style. Of course, she and Yuugao were going to rectify that, as well as his ninjutsu repetiore. She could help squealing again. The hell with gold, this kid was frigging PLATNIUM! If her old sensei ever showed his pasty mug around again, he was gonna be in for a nasty surprise!

"That's all of them, let's move out!" Naruto shout brought her back to reality in time to watch the clones scatter in every direction to fulfill their tasks. On his way back to her, she saw he had one remaining scroll with him.

"And one for us, I take."

"Yep, no sense having the clones do ALL of them." He handed it over to her.

Taking a look at the listed mission, she briefly chuckled, "Shikaku Nara's looking for a couple of extra hands to help him with rounding up a batch of deer for their annual physicals. Doesn't sound too bad, might actually get a work out from it. Might as well go and see if he's home."

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"He...what..?" The Hokage deadpanned. He had been wondering what all the commotion had been about outside earlier. The answer he got, however, wasn't quite what he was hoping for.

"Uzumaki sent over a hundred shadow clones around the village to do all the missions he and Anko had gotten." The jounin replied, "Most of them just ran through the streets to their destination..made a few of the local boozehounds swear off the stuff then and there when they saw it. Unfortunately...'

Sarutobi felt a paper-induced headache coming on, "Tell me they just startled some people."

"Well...a few decided the roofs would be faster...I'll say this, the kid can get some major hangtime now. One cleared over seven blocks in one jump..WITHOUT chakra..the landing, however..that's the 'unfortunately' part. Seems Konoha roofs aren't really built to handle close to a thousand pounds of genin landing on them from fifty feet in the air. So far we got about fifteen counts of the roof simply being smashed in or the clone almost going right through it, forty-two people getting the hell scared out of them when they landed in the street, along with the damage the impact did to the roads themselves..and one poor guy that had a clone land on his cart."

"That explains why that guy was crying about his cabbage."'

"Also, there were six people who had to get medical attention for ruptured eardrums due to Mesu Haruno's daughter screaming while she chased after one clone, demanding something about dropping a henge and getting a punch..or something like that."

The old man groaned, "Only you, Naruto...only you.."

It was that point in time when Murphey decided to invoke his law. The voice of his secretary crackled over the intercom, "Sir? Several council members are demanding you come to the council room.."

Of course, you can never really tell exactly WHO the law is being invoked on at times. This just happened to be one of them.

"Oh shit...oh shit..ohshitohshitohshitohshit!" The Jounin was rapidly repeating under his breath at the look the Hokage now had. The elderly man may have been a little more easygoing than your regular Kage, but the council had obviously forgotten an impotrant fact:

Hiruzen Sarutobi was the friggin' HOKAGE! That and trying to boss the Hokage is a fast ticket to getting something sharp and pointy rammed somewhere tender.

And that's a best case scenario!

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Yes, this one is filler in a way. I have plans for the next ch. (don't worry. there's gonna be more Meg and Naruto in that one)

Kinda makes sense that Naruto would go roof hopping out of habit, only to remember that physics made that sort of a 'no-no' for him.