Morning seemed to come all too quickly for Naruto. The sun's rays shone through the balcony door and woke him up. Hinata's face was away from the light so she did not wake. Naruto edged out of the bed careful not to wake Hinata. He walked to the door and headed out of his room. He walked down the dimly lit hallway towards the casino room. When he got to the room he saw Setzer looming over a black jack table. Naruto heard Setzer mumbling something and he decided to talk to Setzer about Kefka. Naruto walked over to Setzer and saw that Setzer had fallen asleep in the middle of a game of solitaire. Naruto chuckled and walked to the ladder to the top of the ship. He climbed the ladder and appeared topside. He saw that the sun that had woken him was the dawning sun. The sun was a soft orange color which caused the cloud cover around the ship to be slightly orange as well.

"I guess I can train while I wait for everyone to wake up," Naruto said to himself.

"Just don't get in my way," said a voice behind Naruto.

Naruto spun around on his heel to see that Raxoll was on a raised platform steering the ship. "Don't do that," said Naruto as he tried to calm himself down.

"You're supposed to be a warrior things like that shouldn't scare you," said Raxoll.

"When I'm tensed for a battle I try to sense things but when I know I can relax so I do relax," said Naruto.

"Whatever," said Raxoll.

"You know you should relax a little too," said Naruto.

"What do you mean?" asked Raxoll.

"You look like a freaking statue, slump a little it won't kill you," said Naruto.

"Just get to your training that you were going to do," said Raxoll.

"Fine I will," said Naruto as he headed to a clear section of the ship and started to train.

Naruto put his fingers together for his signature move. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" yelled Naruto and immediately four Naruto clones appeared around the original Naruto.

"Now what?" asked one of the Naruto clones.

"You could check and see if anything lodged itself onto the airship," said Raxoll.

"Yeah, yeah we're going," said Naruto as he and his clones climbed the ropes up to the top of the balloon.

When the reached the top of the balloon the wind almost blew them off.

"You might want to be careful up there! The crosswinds can be quite fierce!" yelled Raxoll.

"Now you tell us!" yelled one of the Naruto clones.

"Hey at least we can train our tree walking skills," said Naruto.

"Hey yeah," said one of the clones.

The Naruto clones and Naruto gathered chakra into their feet and began to walk along the balloon checking for tears and other things. They found nothing wrong with the balloon so they headed back to the top of the ship. By the time they were done and back onto the ship the sun had risen above the clouds. It was probably nearing noon when Naruto dispelled his clones.

"Thanks for the help Naruto," said Raxoll, "You can get some food down in the kitchen if you're hungry.

"You read my mind," said Naruto as he rubbed his stomach and headed towards the door to the casino room.

"Actually I just heard your stomach," said Raxoll.

Naruto scratched his head and headed into the casino room. When he got to the bottom of the ladder he saw that Setzer and his solitaire game were gone. Naruto looked around the room for a sign that showed where the kitchen would be. All the hallways looked the same to him. Naruto was about to try a nearby hallway when Mog bounced into the room.

"Hey um … who are you again?" asked Naruto.

"The name's Mog kupo," said Mog.

"Why do you say kupo all the time?" asked Naruto.

"It's a habit for all moogles to say that," said Mog.

"I see … hey where is the kitchen?" asked Naruto.

"Follow me," said Mog as he bounced toward the hallway that Naruto was about to try.

A few minutes later Naruto and Mog had reached the door at the end of the hallway. Naruto and Mog went through the door to find a few people setting out pots and pans to start cooking lunch.

"What are they going to be making?" asked Naruto.

"I don't know kupo," said Mog as he left the kitchen.

Naruto sighed and walked over to the chefs. "Hey guys what are you going to be making?"

"Chicken, potatoes, and spinach," said the head chef.

"That's more of a dinner than a lunch," said Naruto.

"Did you have something better in mind?" asked the head chef with an irritated tone.

"How about ramen?" asked Naruto.

"What is this ramen?" asked one of the chefs.

Naruto looked stunned when the chef asked that question. "Step back and watch the master at work," said Naruto as he walked up to the pile of ingredients that was set aside for cooking. Naruto grabbed some celery and chopped it up into small sections. He took the chicken and put it into a pot of water and set it onto a fire. He then grabbed some basil and spread it into the pot of water. He then took a green onion and sliced it into very small pieces and added it too the pile of celery. After a little bit the chicken was ready and Naruto took it out and placed it on a sauté pan and set a low fire under it. The water that had been used to lightly cook the chicken smelled a little bit like chicken. Naruto put a few eggs into the boiling water and returned to his chopping board this time chopping up a carrot. Naruto then started looking for another ingredient.

"Hey I can't find any fish cakes," said Naruto.

"Fish cake?" asked a chef.

"Yeah they usually have a spiral on it like the back of my jacket," said Naruto as he pointed to the back of his jacket.

"We don't have that," said the head chef.

"That's okay I usually bring my own," said Naruto as he took out a scroll from his bag and put some chakra into it. A small bowl of fish cakes appeared on top of the scroll.

"They smell funny," said one of the chefs.

"It's fish," said Naruto.

"Point taken," said the chef.

Naruto then added some of the fish cakes to the growing pile of ingredients. By that time the eggs were done and Naruto took them out of the water. He peeled off the shell and sliced the eggs in half. He took out another scroll and a small bottle appeared on top of it. He poured the sauce labeled 'Maggi Sauce' into the boiling water and stirred it thoroughly. He then added all of his ingredients and began to chop up the chicken. Once that was done he added the chicken pieces to the slowly cooking broth. He then took out another scroll which had ramen noodles in them and added them to the softly boiling pot of ramen broth. A few minutes later the pot of chicken ramen was done.

"It smells good," said one of the chefs.

"It's the best I could do on short notice," said Naruto.

"This should make for a decent lunch," said the head chef.

"It will be a great lunch!" yelled Naruto.

"If it's good that is," said the head chef as he grabbed a spoon and fork.

The head chef dipped his spoon into the broth and tasted the broth. He then set down the spoon without so much of a twitch in his facial expression. He then tasted each of the ingredients that Naruto put into the soup. After which he put down the fork he had.

"So what do you think?" asked one of the chefs.

"It's probably the best soup I've ever tasted," said the head chef with a smile.

"Told ya it was good," said Naruto.

"Well you saw how to make it now let's make enough for the entire crew," ordered the head chef.

"Yes sir," said the other chefs.

A few minutes later the kitchen was a bustle with busy chefs making Naruto's chicken ramen. Naruto had left his personal ingredients out for the chefs to use. He would just have to restock once he got back to Konoha.

A while later Naruto heard the sounds of people coming to the dining room which was right next to the kitchen. He looked at the clock nearby which said one thirty. The smell of chicken ramen had wafted throughout the entire ship. Pretty soon the entire dining room was full of the crew and guests of the Falcon. There were four giant pots of chicken ramen set out on the table. Naruto saw Hinata sitting next to Sakura and he headed towards her.

"I missed you when I woke up," said Hinata as Naruto sat next to her.

"I woke up early so I decided to train," said Naruto.

"Wow this ramen looks tasty," said Sakura.

"How do they know how to make ramen they don't look Japanese?" asked Sasuke.

"I showed them how to make it," said Naruto.

When Naruto said this Sakura, Kakashi, and Sasuke froze just before taking a bit of their soup.

"It's delicious," said Hinata after she had eaten some.

"Really?" asked Sakura suspiciously.

"I'm not a bad cook," said Naruto.

After that lunch passed by rather nicely, everyone was either talking or eating. After a little bit Setzer left the table and the room.

"Why is he leaving?" asked Kakashi.

"Someone has to fly the ship while Raxoll eats," said Locke.

"Are you all trained to fly the ship?" asked Naruto.

"Most of us are," said Celes.

"I wish I could fly the ship," said Relm.

"Not yet you won't," said Strago.

"You're no fun," said Relm.

The argument between Relm and Strago continued on for a while longer when suddenly the ship lurched to one side. The food started to slide off of the table. Everyone on one side of the table had to jump out of the way. Just then Setzer burst back into the room.

"We're under attack from the Imperial Air Force!" yelled Setzer.

A/N: Sorry for the supposed "Filler Episode" I couldn't really think of a way to pass the time before an action sequence occured so I decided to have Naruto have his own cooking show. Also ... I was a tad hungry when I made this.