Chapter 11: Long, long punishment pt

Chapter 11: Long, long punishment pt. 2

AN: I don't own Naruto. I really wish I did though.


"One month gone!" Naruto yelled, before falling into his bed. "Two more to go." He sighed. Looking over, he saw his progress for the past month. Now that he had extra time, he, as mentioned before, renewed his wardrobe. Also, he carved a lot of things. He even carved an image of himself in the Hokage's robes thrice. He gave one to Iruka, one to Sarutobi, and kept one for himself.

His dresser and shelves were littered with sculptures, of birds, animals, shinobi in action, such and so. They were either in stone or wood. A few sculptures were in marble. He now has five new sets of eloquently carved chopsticks, new dishes, and even a new table-actually it was his old table but renovated.

He also took time to refurnish the furniture and repaint the walls, which were damaged in past break-ins. He looked around, the apartment looked nice and clean. Like it was owned by someone else.

He slapped his head down on the pillow, and looked at the ceiling. The only problem with doing a lot; was not having anything left to do. After a couple of minutes contemplating what's left to do; his stomach growled.

"That's it! Thanks stomach!" He popped up, put on his shoes, and ran out the door.


Now let's go see what Naruto did by the suggestion of his stomach. As we stroll through Konoha, we cross the "Beginner's Culinary School." Coming inside, we see a group of mid to late teens sitting at a large table in a large kitchen. Cutting boards, knives, bowls, measuring cups and spoons, cooking utensils, and a pile of food in the middle.

One teen had long, black hair, which was in a tight low pony tail. He had on mid-night blue short-sleeve shirt and matching cargo pants; these matched his eyes. Along the sides of the out-fit were whips of reddish orange. He wore a reddish-orange vest, which was long like a trench-coat; but had no sleeves. He wore black boots and to top it all off, there was an orange and blue bandanna wrapped around his forehead.

The most peculiar thing was the Tiger on the back of his outfit, which had its jaws around a red, spiral symbol. Looks familiarly like…can you guess? That's right, our Naruto.

"Alright class, I am Tanaka, and this is my wonderful assistant Dawn-san. We will start our cooking lesion with the appetizer; three been soup!" A tall, skinny man in a white chef's outfit said as he walked into the room. His assistant, was a stout woman, well developed and looked to be in the mid-twenties.

"First, and foremost, we will wash our hands, so please come up and do so." Dawn said, gesturing the class to the seven sinks that bordered the wall.


Hands washed and formalities done, the class was well underway. Naruto decided that this was something to keep coming to. Especially since he couldn't eat ramen like he used to. The three bean soup was good, and so was the Greek-style lamb roast with chick-pea salad and corn-bread-cakes. These were cornbread with whole, juicy, sweet corn kernels baked into it. Desert consisted of a strawberry flan, with roasted ice-cream.

That was an interesting dessert.

After that meal they made a pizza, with garlic-bread crust and herb-seasoned tomato sauce. Mozzarella cheese and many toppings were put on there. As a desert they made cup-cakes, simple, yet sweet.

Then they moved on to making triple-berry pancakes, poached eggs, and an impossibly sweat turkey patty. Also, they made fruit smoothies.

Then there was this marble graduation cake, with lots and lots of layers. Lots and lots of frosting, and lots and lots and lots of chocolate. That took up the whole rest of the day. In the end, the students all left with a large amount of food.

After two weeks of this cooking class, and other cooking classes around Konoha he took advantage of, Naruto was a mad-cooking machine. One time he brought some to the academy for lunch, and shared with his friends. They loved it; and said that the chef who made the food –because he didn't tell them he made it- should be rich. Naruto thought about it, and decided to sell his foods.

So he disguises as a 25 year-old chef, and gets a part-time job at a fancy restaurant. Which, by the way, is where he is now.

"Mieru-san we have five orders of Seafood Delight, one with no shrimp, one with no clams, two with extra salmon and one dry-style!" A waitress shouted to a green-haired, green-eyed tall chef. We all know who this person is.

"Hai! It'll be done in 30, I have that vegetarian pot roast done now!" He called back, sending the food down by one of the assistant chefs.

"Mieru-san! We need seventeen house specials!" Another waitress called.

"All right, be done in 45."

"Mieru-san! Is the Stuffed Italian Turkey done!" A waiter called.

"Yeah, sending it down now." He called back.

"I have that jumbo trombolini finished!" He called, in response a waiter came an took it

"Need creams a la mode now…"

Naruto was scrambling across the kitchen, baking, stirring, roasting, frying all at once. He was one of ten other chefs cooking, all in a mad frenzy like him. Despite the complicated work setting, Naruto rather liked the job. It was challenging, complicated, and always kept him on his feet. No sooner than when he was hired was he put in this strenuous work setting. No problem for Naruto, he's always bounding with energy.

'This is perfect training for the shinobi life, being able to stay sharp-minded and calm in complicated and confusing situations.' He thought over the sizzling of the stir-fry below him. 'And it's fun!' He added. Plopping a heap of steaming rice down on three plates as his assistant spooned in the red-sauce.

"Get that roast out of the oven!" He told his assistant as he ran over and seasoned a pot of spaghetti.

"Hai!" He called back, complying with the command. In an instant they were switching spots, running all around there area of the kitchen.

"Roast for two is done!" He called, as his assistant carried it to the waiter.

'It's also allows me to meet many new people, and learn a lot of personalities to use when I'm in cognito; like now.' He concluded.

"MIERU!"…


"All through-out my punishment, I have been good, constructive, and staying out of trouble. So why did the Hokage send a trio of ANBU to get me?" Naruto thought, walking in the center of the ANBU.

"I haven't a clue. Maybe he thought you might pull a prank and cause trouble like you normally do." One of them said with malice, not liking there charge.

"Hey, I haven't pulled prank in ages." He defended, ignoring the hate-filled voice. 'Not counting the one that got me on this punishment.'

"Whose to say you wont start all of a sudden. We cant trust you demon." Another stated. Naruto flinched at the demon comment, feeling rage build up.

'stay calm, stay calm, stay calm' He repeated in his head.

"Why do you call me a demon anyways?" He asked after he put his anger in check.

"Like you wouldn't know." The third one said.

"I don't" Naruto frowned.

"Pst, just like you. You deceitful, evil, beast." The first muttered. Naruto was getting very angry.

"Well no need to be all bitchy." Naruto said calmly, despite his inner turmoil.

"Shut it demon!"

That was it. Naruto busted out running, catching the ANBU off guard. He turned down the ally, they followed, yet when they got there, there was no signs of him. Just a few garbage bins and flies.

"Damn it! He got away!" One said, they instantly dispersed to find the boy. No one noticed the single fly buzzing away from the rest.


"Hokage-Sama! Naruto ran o-" The ANBU member stopped in his tracks as they saw the blond-haired child in a seat on the side of the Hokage's desk, reading a book.

"Calm down. Next time you shouldn't be so negative to your ward and maybe they'll be more cooperative." Sarutobi said coolly, a hint of annoyance in his voice.

"Hai Hokage-Sama." The ANBU bowed.

"Dismissed." He nodded, the ANBU left.

"As I was saying," Naruto started, annoyed that he was interrupted. "Why do I have to read all these books?" He said, gesturing to the large pile of books in the corner. "I haven't done anything bad since my punishment!"

"According to your grades, your still failing your classes, even with the extra time you should have taken advantage of. Plus you have been skipping way to often." Sarutobi said, puffing his pipe. "Now here are your choices: 1) You are sent back to a lower-level class." Naruto looked appalled. "Or 2) you read each of those books and pass the tests I give you on them with a 90 or higher." He hid a smirk at the boys expression.

"B-b-but…"

"No buts, Choose now." He said with finality.

"Huh? But, oh alright! I choose choice 2." He deflated, pouting now.

"Good, get started on that book." He said, continuing his work. Naruto looked at the book titled 'Philosophy of the Sociology between mammals.' He cringed. "Also, you will remain here doing this if your grades don't improve." He added.

'O-kay, maybe I should have got higher grades.' He thought, cracking open the cover of the uninteresting book.

The hokage smiled as Naruto started reading, a look of dismay plastered on his face. This was actually punishment from him and Iruka. They both know Naruto was smarter than his grades say-the pranks were enough proof of that. They also knew that Naruto really doesn't try in the academy. He was so wrapped up in other things, training, cooking, and training, that he named the boring stuff unimportant. Thus, he doesn't even put any real effort into school; unless their teaching with weapons or jutsu.

So this was to get him to put more effort in the Academy. What better to do that than piles of books on sociology, philosophy, history, geography, mathematics and science? All which were college level material, poor lad; he has no chance of understanding that context. The hokage really wasn't going to grade his papers; he just needed to give the boy incentive to put more effort in school. But Naruto didn't need to know that part of the plan.

Naruto turned the page, still looking quite unhappy. That got Sarutobi to smile. He turned to his stack of growing paper-work. Now he was the one looking unhappy. 'Hate…these…reports." He thought, twitching at how the majority of them were D-rank mission reports, and financial reports.

(AN: That's why you don't mess with the authoress main character!!)


"Alright, who are you and what have you done with Naruto!" Choji accused, pointed at the blond.

"Seriously, I am Naruto." Naruto held up his hands in defense.

"Oh yeah, then explain this!" Kiba said, holding up Naruto's test paper, on it was an A-.

"Hey, I only studied" That got a lot of disbelieving faces from the group.

"What's your favorite food?" Choji asked suspiciously.

"Ramen!!" Naruto shouted.

"Huh, well he past my test." Choji shrugged.

"I still don't believe it, as long as we known him; Naruto has never studied for a test." Kiba said.

"Well, about that." Naruto looked sheepishly. "The old man is punishing me for a prank, and said if I don't get my grades up he'll ban be from ever being a ninja." He shrugged.

"Yep, that's Naruto, always getting in trouble." Shikamaru yawned.

"And the only one who can get away with calling the hokage "old man"" Shino added.

"Maybe you shouldn't do any more pranks." Kiba twitched. As long as he's known him, Naruto was always getting in trouble because of one prank or other.

"It was only a little one!" He complained.

"What did you do?" Choji asked curiously.

"Uh, the hokage classified it as an S-rank secret, so…"

"It was that bad!" Kiba yelled. Naruto just looked sheepish.

"Maybe, maybe not." Naruto said. In response half the group smacked there foreheads.

"Well, what have you been doing during your punishment?" Shikamaru asked, with a hint of interest.

"Nothing much." He replied, twitching as the thought of them books popped up in his head.

"Your hiding something." Kiba said.

"N-n-nothing! I'm hiding nothing!" He backed up, anther thought of disguising as a girl popped in his mind.

"SPILL IT!" Choji demanded.

"Literally, I have nothing to hide." He said, thinking of him in a sewing class.

"Naruto; we don't like being lied to." Shino threatened.

"If you don't tell us, we'll say that you insulted a certain person…" Shikamaru said evilly

"So tell us." Choji threatened

"Or die!" Kiba finished. Naruto looked around at all of his 'friends' whom glared at him menacingly. Knowing there was no way out of it, he decided to tell some of the truth.

"I learned how to carve wood sculptures." He said in defeat, not eager to add anything else.

"Arf, arf."

"Akamaru said your still hiding something…embarrassing." Kiba said relentlessly. Naruto panicked.

"Urm, not all that important, really." Naruto tried to convince them. They weren't falling for it.

BRIIIING! The bell was enough to distract all the students for Naruto to dash away.

"He's getting away!" Kiba yelled, starting to chase him

"How can he stay up there so long?" Choji asked, looking up into the sky. There on a long pole was Naruto, clinging to the top.

"I don't know; but he can't stay up there for ever." Shikamaru said

"I wonder what could be as bad as for him to hide it like this." Shino thought.

"He's been up there for an hour, there aren't nothing to hold on to, and the pole is slippery as hell." Kiba observed. "I am really starting to hate flagless flag poles." He muttered.

"Join the club." They all chorused.

"Hey, where'd he go?" Choji asked, looking up the now empty flag pole…


"Okay, maybe I made way too many of these." Naruto observed looking around his room, all around were wood and stone sculptures of anything imaginable. They overran the bed, tables, cabinets, chairs, shelves, furniture, and the floor. "Maybe I should sell them or something." He thought, remembering a little shop on the other side of the village that sold sculptures like this. "But how can I do that?" He thought. He looked at the clock, seeing what time it was; he sighed.

"Back to my torture." He muttered, leaving out to the Hokage's office.

Thirty minutes later…

'oh, this is interesting.' Naruto thought, turning the page of the large green book titled "Becoming an Entrepreneur, and managing your business." 'It's like Ojiisan knew what I was planning.' He gave a quick glance to the working hokage. 'that is suspicious now that I think about it, how does he always knows what I'm planning, besides those pranks anyway.' He thought.

'what ever it is, I'll have to find out later, I'm almost done.'


"Wooo hoo! I passed!" Naruto bounced up and down around the room. "And I finished four of those thick text books!" He cheered. "That means I can go now; right?" He asked eagerly.

"Yes, your done for today." Sarutobi smiled at him.

"Yes! Bye ojiisan!" he yelled, before disappearing out the window. As soon as he left the Hokage's face grew serious. He looked at the four thick text books that Naruto finished.

'There's no way Naruto could have finished all those, there about a thousand pages each with small, small font.' He thought, looking at the boy's test papers. 'Yet he answered all of the questions right for all of the tests. Its only been two hours, half and hour per book. Even though the tests really weren't relevant, it is surprising he got all of this right; I mean, this is college stuff! Plus he read all those books in record speed.' Sarutobi sighed, 'Well, it looks like that boy will never cease to amaze me.' He shook his head

"Naruto, you really would make one hell of a Hokage, if none else, you would be the first to finish all this paperwork in record time." He said to himself, looking at the magically growing pile of paper-work. "Plus he is one mean cook." He added, pulling out one of Naruto's meals from the restaurant he worked under disguise for. "Him and his S-rank foods." He chuckled to himself, taking a bite of the Bombay Salmon.


MEANWHILE:

"I want the bird!" A lady yelled at a Black haired, blue eyed, merchant in his mid-twenties. He wore a jean vest with a red t-shirt, and jean shorts. Tied in with black tennis shoes. "I'll give you 2000 yen for it."

"I raise it to 4000, that's the last one left!" Another young lady screamed.

"Make it 5000 yen!" A man yelled. "I need one for my wife!"

Naruto stood there and smiled coolly, sort of like Sasuke. As he learned, copying Sasuke's aloofness attracted girls from miles round, which quickly caused him to sell out, right now, he was down to the last sculpture, it was a bird flying under a rainbow with a water fall in the back ground. So what started as charging 1000 yen per sculpture (10.00) ended in each one selling to the highest bidder. So far, he made about 67800000 yen. (678,000)

AN: I not certain but I believe this is how the Japanese currency system goes. Correct me if I'm wrong.

"100000 yen!" A lady challenge a good portion of the crowd backed off.

"200000 yen!" A wealthy looking lady challenged. More of the crowed backed away.

"600000 yen!!" The first lady challenged once more.

"1200000 yen!" The second called. By this time, it was only these two left fighting for the stone sculpture. This is how most of the bidding went, although it never reached this high before. Naruto just stood there with a Sasuke-like smirk, seemingly unaware of the wave of girls that stood there with hearts in there eyes beyond the bidders.

"57000000 yen!" The lady called out, smiling at the defeated look on the other.

"57000001 yen!" She shot, looking venomously. At this, the first backed off. After a moment of no challenge, Naruto took the sculpture from the shelf.

"Here you go." He said coolly, the lady sighed and almost fainted as she handed him the money. She held the sculpture close to here heart. "I'll cherish it forever!" She said before skipping off. Other girls followed reluctantly; leaving Naruto alone. In about five minutes he had the rental booth down and returned, and was heading to the bank with pockets full of cash.

"Hello Gozena-San; I see you kept your promise." A kind teller greeted.

"Yep, I told you those sculptures would make me a fortune." He smiled. Earlier he made a bank account under his disguised name; because one, banks wouldn't give loans to 8 year olds, and two, they always kicked him out.

"1240000001 yen! I'm impressed. You are rich for a while." She said in shock. "Maybe I can get you to hook me up with your sculptures." She chuckled.

"I'll see what I can do, besides, currently I am sold out." He shrugged.

"Well you better make some more soon!" She joked. The screen beeped. "well, all done, you are all set."

"Thanks, I better go now, I have a lot more to do today." He smiled.

"Come again soon!" She called winking. Naruto, being only eight, didn't understand what that was about.

"Sure will." He waved, leaving the bank.


"He just made more money in two hours than I make in two months." The hokage said to himself, finishing his checkup on the blonde. "No wonder he finished those books so quickly." He looked over at the books he read. "Maybe I should read them…" He thought.


Naruto walked into a grocery store, looking to buy some dinner, which to his ire didn't include ramen. He went down the isles and grabbed ingredients to make a beef pastolli pasta, which reminded him slightly of ramen.

He walked up to the register, already expecting to spend a good amount of is newfound fortune.

"That will be 4500 yen." He the cashier said. Naruto couldn't hide the look of surprise. He paid the money, and left, looking at the receipt.

"Milk, 250 yen!" He called off the first ingredient. "But I usually pay twice that…" His eyes widened as he scrolled farther down the list. Everything was half the price of what he usually paid.

A grim look fell upon his features, as he headed to his apartment. 'That store over priced me! All the time! What other stores have been over charging me? No wonder I can only really afford ramen! It's not that the hokage did give me enough allowance, its that the stores over charge me so damn much!' He was soon in his apartment, anger clear on his face.

"Why is it always me!" He yelled throwing down the groceries. "They hate me, over charge me, try and kill me, what else is next!" he yelled into thin air, releasing his henge, He looked into the mirror. "Why do they call me evil? Why do they hate me?" He asked his reflection, sadness over taking him. "Why." His shoulders quivered, as angry tears began to fall. "WHY!!" He yelled, smashing the mirror with his fist, it shattered. "WHAT DID I DO!" He yelled. After an hour or so, he decided to take a nap and clear his head.

Five hours later…

"Ha-ha! I finally finished by master piece!" Naruto exclaimed, proudly holding up his beef pastolli pasta. "Although I did make too much for one person." He said, looking at the incredibly large plate of food.

"Well now you wouldn't mind sharing with your ojiisan then." Sarutobi said, startling the blond.

"Where did you come from!" He said in surprise.

"Oh, just in the neighborhood, when I herd one of the famous chefs Mieru exclaiming his meal to be done." He said coolly.

"Really" Naruto said twitching.

"Yep. You have become quite the cooking prodigy rather quickly around here." He said. "I personally agree that you do blow away the competition." He eyed the dinner.

"How do you know all this stuff." Naruto sweat-dropped.

"I'm the hokage, I have to monitor you."

"It seems that you take extra effort to watch over me." He shot the hokage a suspicious glance.

"Well, you are the ultimate troublemaker in Konoha, gained titles such as the master prankster, bouncing orange horror, yellow-headed bomb…"

"Alright, alright, I get the point. Gees. I wasn't that bad." He rolled his eyes.

"Sure you weren't 'ghost of Konoha'" He eyed him.

"Hey, you brought that on your self."

"What about the "Spider attack day?"" He said

"It's not my fault they decided to rob my apartment." He defended.

"And the 'Kyuubi pups flood.'" The hokage raised his eye-brow.

"Hey, they kept calling me the evil fox." He defended.

"'Gender change day.'" He dead-panned.

"They kept calling me a sissy." Naruto shrugged.

"You just have an excuse for everything don't you." He sighed.

"Hey, it's not like I attacked the innocent." He defended

"Every time you prank you have tourists leaving thinking this place has crazy people." Sarutobi edged.

"Really?" He put on a thoughtful face. "Have to think of something to get around that." He said thoughtfully. The hokage sighed exasperatedly.

"You're thinking of more ways to prank!" He exclaimed.

"Uh….ow! My stomach hurts I should get some food." He said quickly. Sarutobi raised an eyebrow.

"You are going to be an interesting ninja." He said.

"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" Naruto asked.

"Or should I say, Kunoichi." He smirked.

"Hey! I only did that because there was nothing else to do." Naruto yelled.

"Hey no offense, I am a little hungry too you know. "

"Well since you're here…" Naruto instantly had a plate of food in front of the hokage while watching him critically. "I made this recipe up myself, tell me what you think!" He said excitingly.

Sarutobi took a small bite making sure that the boy didn't try to get some sort of revenge on him through food.

"It's pretty good." He said. "But sadly, I have to get back, have a long council meeting to attend.

"Alright, see ya." Naruto said. As soon as the hokage left, Naruto noticed a good half his food gone missing.

"HEY!!"


Meanwhile:

"Mmmm, delicious." Sarutobi said, from the top of the hokage monument, henged into Hayai, enjoying his free meal.


"So…hot…today…" Naruto panted, trudging to the shade.

"Well you should have never ran out the building." Shikamaru said irritably, wiping the sweat off him. It was true, As soon as he could Naruto sprinted out the building, only to be beaten down by the sun's angry rays moments later.

"How was I supposed to know Mr. Sun was against us today?" He wined, falling face first onto the cool ground under the shade of the tree.

"Sadly, on hot days like this we have to stay out 15 minutes longer than usual." Shino said, looking surprisingly cool under that thick jacket.

"What did Iruka say we had to do in class again?" Kiba asked, willing the conversation about heat to end.

"How cool summer breezes should live up to there reputations." Naruto mumbled, his head turned to the side while he still lay in the same spot on the grass.

"No it was about how ice should grow from trees instead of leaves." Choji huffed, leaning his back against the tree, wiping sweat off of his face.

"Maybe how air-conditioners should work outside." Shikamaru said wistfully, staring at the leaves that overhang the group, wishing that there was a way to watch clouds with out being scorched in the sun's inferno.

"Man, it feels like the sun is right next to us!" Kiba exclaimed.

"Konoha should move to Antarctica." Naruto sighed.

"That's what I'm saying." Kiba laughed a little.

"Hey! I know, we should all try and get Iruka to through an ice-cream party!" Choji suggested, imagining all the delicious flavors of ice-cream. That got everyone's mouth watering.

"Quickly, where is the nearest ice-cream shop!" Kiba almost shot up, not willing to make any drastic movements.

"I don't know" Choji said. Every one sighed.

Just from there looks it was obvious that there were no 'nearest' ice-cream shops.

"I know there's one near the Gilford restaurant." Naruto moaned, thinking why ice-cream has to be so far away.

"THAT'S SO DAMNED FAR!" Kiba Yelled at the sky.

"Maybe an ice-cream cart will stroll through." Choji suggested.

"They don't come out until later today, its still early." Shikamaru sighed.

"Those things should run on the weather, not time." Kiba and Naruto grumbled in unison.

"Well there's nothing we can really do at this point." Shino sighed.

"But suffer in the sun…" Choji whined.


"Reading about brains in melting mine!" Naruto grumbled, rubbing his temples with his fingers as he tried to understand what he just read. The title was simple enough; being called 'The Brain' in all. It was also one of the smaller books, black with blue webs running through it, suspending in the webs were three shining reddish gold globes. It's design attracted the blonde's attention to the book.

Yet when he tried to read it, he realized that it had really, really, small text. To add salt to the wound, he understood none of the words besides the 'the' at the beginning of the book.

'Inauspicious? Neurophysiologist? Neurons? Electrical and chemical messages? Paradox? Subatomic? Prodigious? Exquisite? Pirouette? Repertoire? Philosophical? Electrodes? Neurotransmitter? Endorphins? HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW ALL OF THIS!!' Naruto shouted in his mind, 'I AM AN EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY FOR GOODNESS SAKE!' He glanced over to hokage, who was taking full advantage of the lull in the day's paperwork by painting. 'This is all his fault.' Naruto thought irately.

"Talking about me isn't going to get that work done." Sarutobi interjected. Naruto was caught off guard by that, and fell out of his chair.

"I don't even understand a word in here!" Naruto yelled once he recovered.

"Well there is a dictionary in the top drawer of my desk." The hokage hinted, not taking his attention off his painting.

"But it would take me forever to look all this up! Every other word is something I never herd of!" Naruto complained.

"Well you better get started then, maybe you could even put context clues to work." He shrugged.

"Oh, your cruel ojiisan; so, so cruel." Naruto protested. He could sense the old man's smirk even though his head was turned.

'Ah, this is what it's all about! Torturing the young!" Sarutobi thought satisfactorily.

'He gets a lot of satisfaction in my dismay' Naruto groused.

"This is one fibrous portion of broccoli." Naruto said, chewing on the tough vegetable from his take-out try. "And the meat has much to much cholesterol and pheliter-wait… OH NO I CANT GET THOSE WORDS OUT MY HEAD!!" Naruto screamed, sitting up from his couch. His shouts received yells of 'shut up down/up there I'm trying to sleep!' from all around.

True, it was late, about 12:00 p.m. Naruto just finished with his days 'activities,' sneaking into family, public, and school libraries , and grabbed some take-out from an 24 hour restaurant. After spending the whole day looking up thousands of words, complements of the Hokage's book assignments, he couldn't stop using the complex words.

"This all falls under the responsibility of the master fiend of the village." He said irately, smacking himself a moment later for using such a superfluous explanation. "Oh how I abhor…here I go again!" Naruto through his hands up in the air, not happy at all with his changed behavior.

He took another bite of his food, thinking of some ways to make the hokage pay for his torture. He smiled evilly after a few moments. "Oh Naruto you are too good."


"Hokage-Sama! This simpleton assaulted my daughter!" An elderly lady yelled at the said person.

" I did no such thing! Your daughter doesn't listen to common sense!" Another lady yelled.

"Hokage-sama! He wont let me build my garage, the thief keeps steeling my supplies." A builder yelled.

" Not!" another yelled.

"That chef ruined my wedding!"

"That person ripped us off!"

"Hokage-sama, here are more reports." A chuunin assistant bowed, placing another boatload of papers on his desk.

Sarutobi sighed at the day this was turning out to be. His desk was piled high in mini sky-scrapers of paperwork, his office filled with bickering people, trying to get him to resolve there issues. He had two meetings with the council scheduled today, both promising to be long and boring. He had a surplus in missions to hand out, most D-rank; which only lead to one thing, tons of boring reports.

'I have a feeling that Naruto had something to do with this.' He thought. So many people in his office with tons of headache-giving problems, shinobi of all rank were having problems maintaining piece and tranquility. Out of all the calamity, Naruto sat in the corner of the room, peacefully reading one of the many books given to him, seemingly unaware of the goings on. Some villagers even started complaining about his presence in the room. Naruto still seemed unfazed.

'I take that back, I know Naruto had something to do with this.' He confirmed, dreading the rest of the day, or, from the looks of the mess, weeks.

Day two of the Hokage's torture.

"I am too old for this." He sighed, after handling a full day of peoples quarrels.

"You know, it could all magically stop of the price is right." Naruto hinted deviously.

"You are cunning." He glared at him. Naruto looked unfazed. He contemplated the highs and lows of the child's offer. Knowing that Naruto could keep this up till the last three months of his punishment is up, he came across a decision to make a deal with him.

"If you manage to get these people and paper work to give me some rest I swear to take two weeks off your punishment!" The hokage exclaimed. Naruto sat there contemplating it.

"It does sound tempting…"

"I will also let you through out two books of your choosing." He said persuasively.

"And you have to treat me to ramen every week." Naruto added.

"What." He twitched, he would be so poor if he agreed to that.

"Its either that or no deal." Naruto said cunningly.

The hokage glared at the book titled 'Sociology: The Secrets of Bargaining.'

'I brought this on myself.' He frowned.

"Alright I agree." He sighed in defeat, ignoring his wallet troubles for now, besides, anything was better than handling a hundred feuding villagers a day.

"Alright, I better get to work then!" He said, disappearing out the window.


'How in the world did he do this?" The hokage thought, staring at the boy in question. The very next day after their agreement, no more villagers came in to complain about stuff. His monstrous pile of paper work wasn't increasing in the least. The mission reports were all succinct and legible-for once. The ANBU took it upon themselves to fill out there own weapon replacement forms, which were very long, so that the hokage only had to put his signature. Order forms were the same as the ANBU forms. Council meetings were canceled as they went off the scene. The financial reports went by surprisingly easy, even the economy increased in wealth.

The only question: How could one eight and a half year-old do all this?

That's Naruto's little secret.

Naruto was also finishing with working on those books at an alarming pace. His grades at the academy only averaged out to a C, although, the hokage had a suspicion it had something to do with Naruto trying to hide his true talents. He wondered if the stupid and dense acts of the boy were really all fake. He decided to end his bookwork early. He was getting way too cunning with the help of those books. He shuddered at what prank the child would be able to pull off after he read them all.


One week later.

"I finish with this book!" Naruto held up the thick book, titled the secrets of the past great empires. "Ready for that test now."

The hokage looked at the blond critically.

"How about I trade in this book work assignment for something else." He said carefully.

"Really! Cool!!" Naruto said. "Anything's better than this!" He said.

"Well, you just have to become one of my aids." He shrugged, getting files here, organizing things there, going on certain 'secret missions' here, testing the shinobi of the village there." He said. Naruto smiled at the last two parts.

"Agreed!" He said, carelessly tossing the book. "Cant wait to get started!"


"This is Sneaky Fox to Hawk-Eye, come in Hawk-eye." Naruto spoke into a black walkie-talkie.

"This is Hawk-eye, is the target in sight?" Sarutobi's voice came in on the other side. Naruto peered through the leaves of the tree he was residing in. From there he got a clear view of an open window.

"Target not in sight, I spot an opening, requesting permission to retrieve." He spoke through the radio.

"Permission granted, family is in the home at dinner, make no unnecessary noise." His voice came through.

"Roger, this is Sneaky Fox sighing out!" Naruto said. He then jumped off the branch and was soon through the window. After searching around, he found what he was looking for.

"Heh, piece of cake." Naruto said, nabbing the object.

"Hawk-eye to Sneaky Fox, enemy coming your way, get out of there!" Sarutobi's voice sounded.

"Roger that, using diversionary tactic delta!" Naruto said, rolling under a table, jumped on top of a book-case, and dived out the window. No sooner did he leave did a boy walk in.

"Was it a success?" Hayai asked Naruto. He smiled.

"Operation; recover borrowed book a success" Naruto said happily, holding out the said book.

"Mission a success! Lets go get some ramen!" He said happily.

"Alright! Lets go!" Naruto all but pushed the hokage to the ramen stand.


"Hot." Naruto said the one word that could escape his lips. All the students of the school that were out this recess were taking refuge under the shade of trees, bushes, and from the shadow of the school. It was so quite out that you could here the bugs buzzing around.

"Those teachers must love to torture us in this heat." Choji said, his companions smiled gravely in agreement, non speaking more than was needed.

"You know how rich a person would be if they strolled down an ice-cream cart at this time." Kiba said, looking desperately out into the dry hot road, hoping an ice-cream cart would do just that.

"Maybe we can get the teachers to teach us an ice jutsu." Naruto said thoughtfully.

"Or an ice-cream jutsu." Choji added.

"I got it!" Naruto popped up from his place laying on the grass. "I'll just have to bring the ice-cream here myself!" He said.

"How do you plan on doing that?" Kiba voiced everyone's question.

"I just have to get Ojiisan to do a few things here and there." He said cunningly.

"Naruto, if you manage to bring ice-cream here I swear I will treat you to ramen myself." Kiba vowed.

"Really now." Naruto said, getting a devious smiled that only made Kiba fear for his allowance. Choji patted Kiba on his back.

"Prepare to be broke." He said.


"How in the hell did you get all this ice-cream in here?" A random boy asked Naruto, staring at the many, many ice-cream boats that appeared out of no where.

"My ojiisan helped me out." He said, watching as the ice-cream was quickly picked up by the many, many sweating kids. It wasn't really a lie when he said it. The hokage did teach him how to seal things up in scrolls. Naruto simply used his 'secret funds' to buy tons of ice-cream, then he sealed it up, and waited until the teacher let out the students in the hot, hot sun for recess. His classmates were only too happy to help dispose of the ice-cream.

"I don't care how you did it, but we all owe you one!" Choji said, happily eating his rocky-road.

"I guess that means I have to treat you out to ramen then." Kiba said, not knowing how much ramen the child could eat.

"I feel all too sorry for you Kiba." Iruka sighed.

"Huh?" Kiba said confused, "He can't eat that much ramen at one time can he?"

"That's right, keep thinking that." Naruto said evilly, looking up from his orange-flavored ice-cream

"Naruto to ramen is like me to barbeque." Choji laughed as Kiba's face flushed.

"What have I done? All for the sake of this chocolate ice-cream!" He moaned.


"Hey Kiba! You know that set of kunai you've been wanting is on sale, you better get it now." His elder sister Hana said to the depressed looking boy.

"I can't I am totally broke." He huffed.

"What! You've been saving for months, what have you possibly spent your money on?" She said.

"I made a promise to a boy named Naruto that if he brought some ice-cream to the school I would treat him to ramen." He told her. She winced in response.

"You said that to NARUTO! I heard that the hokage took him out to eat once and he sent the guy into debt." She said in shock.

"Now you tell me..." He grumbled, storming off to brood in his room.


Naruto's fingers were gripped tightly on a newspaper in the middle of a stack of newspapers.

"Concentrate, concentrate…" He said, "Now!" With that, he pulled out the news paper from the stack, as a result, the stack toppled on top of him, his hand twitched out the center of it. Soon enough, he crawled out the stack and began to restack the papers. He was trying to master what he's seen the hokage do so many times. He was trying to gain the skill to pull out folders from the middle of the stack with out causing the stack to fall.

The reason for this was because as the Hokage's assistant, he was assigned to get the many papers, books, and files the hokage needed from the libraries and shelves around the office, yet Naruto was never allowed to get files from the many stacks of papers that constantly surrounded the desk. The reason was made all to clear today…

FLASHBACK NO JUSTU

Naruto today was henged into a chuunin with navy blue shorts and a matching t-shirt. Hair was long and black and covered half his face, leaving one blue eye exposed and watching everything around him. On his vest was a gold and red ribbon, on it held the certification of the hokage. He went by the name of Kimasu. This was Naruto's disguise for working around the office. As the many people came in, either for missions, giving reports, getting checks, and so on, Naruto would be sent around the many shelves in the office to pull off the files needed, or he would be sent around the building to pull something from the archives.

Today, a female jonin came forward.

"Hokage-sama, I am ready for my next mission." She bowed respectfully.

"Very well, let me see what I have." He said reaching for the appropriate folders in the stack. Naruto noted how smoothly he pulled out the files time and time again. This time was no different. He pulled out a red, tabbed folder.

After the jonin was given her mission and was on out the door, Naruto decided to try and pull out a folder.

"Now where did I put those mission repots." The hokage said.

"I'll get them!" Kimasu replied. Sarutobi's eyes widened as Naruto grabbed the said folder and tried to pull it out the stack.

"Wait NO!" He tried to warn

CRASH!

"Oh, that didn't turn out as expected." Kimasu said, laying in the middle of the paper mess, papers flying all around the office.

"NARUTO!" Said in a chillingly calm voice Naruto looked to the said person who had fire emanating from his eyes.

"Oh, he-he, look at the time, I should go pick us up some lunch." Naruto said, as he got up and darted out the office.

"GET BACK HERE!" The hokage called after, chasing the disguised blond.

END FLASHBACK NO JUTSU

After cleaning up one big paper mess; Naruto was relieved of his duties early. He decided to spend that time in trying to master the folder-pulling skill.

"Okay, let me try this again." Naruto said, trying once more to pull out the newspaper. This time, the papers slid dangerously to the left as he pulled it out. He smiled "I almost got it!" He said. As soon as those words left his lips did the stack of papers pile on top of him. "Still need more practice…" His muffled voice said from somewhere deep within the pile.


Three days later…

"Now where did I put those mission reports." The hokage pondered aloud.

"I got 'em!" Naruto said excitingly, the hokage paled.

"Not that again!" He tried to stop the child, but stopped when Naruto successfully pulled out the said folder, leaving the stack undisturbed.

"Surprise!" He smiled.

"How did you learn that so fast." He asked, after he over came his surprise and relief.

"I practiced at home." He shrugged.

"Well now that you can do that…" The hokage got an evil smile.

"What's with that smile…" Naruto said feeling a sense of dread come over him.

The next day…


"It's Over!" Naruto yelled falling into his bed. Ever since Naruto showed his new skill, the hokage has been running him around like his actual assistant as soon as he's shown his new skill. Have to file a folder in the library; Naruto is given the job. Need to get the mission files from downstairs; Naruto is sent on that mission. The office needs more organizing, well what do you know, Naruto is doing that too. The plus side was that they went on 'Secret Missions' more often, because more work was done in less time.

"I will never pull such a major prank again." He said, snuggling up in his bed. So happy to be done with paperwork. "I'm coming Mr. Ramen Bunny." He said sleepily, as he slipped of to ramen world.


AN: Yes I am done! This was one long chapter, my longest one yet. Thus I divided it into two chapters. Yes I am done, done, done, done, done! I kind of rushed the ending but I have gotten sick and tired of this chapter by now. Now I shall move on to the next Chappie. I have outlined the next 8 chapters, yet now I am not so sure I should use the outline…just kidding.

The next chappie has more action in it than my previous ones, but it's also kind of sad. Hope you enjoy it.