~Wow, I actually got reviews on that small intro part. Hmmmm… Guess I'll keep updating in small parts like that for now. Then, even with my slow typing I'll be able to put in something every day or two. Hope you all like it.~

A Ninja With Out Equal

"I AM, UZUMAKI NARUTO!"

Staring up at the boy atop the wall, with a mix of awe, surprise and great deal of confusion the kids sat waiting for a better explanation. One scruffy black haired kid with a puppy at his feet though decided to demand incredulously, "Who?"

With a growl the announcing blonde boy spat back through the bull horn, "NA-RU-TO!" straightening his stance once more, with one fist planted against his hip, he declared, "I AM A GREAT AND POWERFUL NINJA! AND NOW THAT I HAVE DISABLED YOUR GUARDIAN, YOU ARE ALL MY HOSTAGES! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA MWHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"Baka!" A pink haired girl yelled out as she stood from the sandbox, shouting back, "You can't be a ninja, you're just a brat!"

"URGH! I AM TO!" Naruto cried back.

"Are not!"

"AM TO!"

"Are not!"

"AM TO!"

"Are not!"

"AM TO!"

"Are not!"

"AM TO!"

"SHUT UP!" The unified cry came from several of the children, as they hoped to cease the pointless dispute.  Both the boy and girl involved quickly turned their noses away from each other taking an angered cross-armed stance.

The children gave a moment for the stupidity of the scene to pass before the blonde girl also in the sand box called out to the self-proclaimed ninja, "You better get off of the wall before Ebisu-sensei yells at you."

Suddenly smirking at the insinuation, Naruto called back through the tin horn, "SUNGLASSES MAN WON'T BE YELLING AT ANYONE! THANKS TO MY SPECIAL NINJA SLEEPING POWDER HE WILL REMAIN SUBDUED FOR SEVERAL HOURS!"

Shaking her head, Tenten argued back, "Whatever, just get down from the wall, Stupid!"

"I'M NOT STUPID!"

"Yes you are!" Tenten cried back.

"AM NOT!"

"Are to!"

"AM NOT!"

"Are t-!" Tenten's protest was cut off by Neji's hand over her mouth.

The white-eyed boy quickly explained, "Lets not start that again." The looking up toward Naruto he yelled, "Just get down!"

"I DON'T HAVE TO DO WHAT YOU SAY!"

"Yes you do!" The Pink-haired girl spoke up again. "Now get down!"

"NO!!!"

Shaking her head, she bickered, "What an annoying guy." Her blonde friend beside her raised a brow, curious of her friend's persistence.

From nearby, a timid voice reasoned, "Y-you could get hurt… up there."

"Huh?" Naruto looked down to the lone black haired girl who had spoken the words. Hinata though averted her nervous eyes toward the ground.

Sighing heavily, the boy with his dog repeated, "She said you might get hurt, Stupid. So get down!"

Shrugging, Naruto lifted the bull horn to offer, "HMPH, FINE THEN!" Tucking the handle of the horn into the waist of his pants, Naruto crouched down and grabbed onto the side of the eight foot high wall. Dropping off to hang on the side of the stone surface, Naruto tried to grip the toes of his sandles into the wall to get some leverage, however, his fingers slipped from the top sending him to fall rear end first to the ground below. "Itaii!!!"

As the blonde boy sat rubbing his wounded posterior, a thick browed boy hanging upside down in the jungle gym, pointed out, "He got hurt anyway."

A chubby redheaded boy leaning against the bars agreed, "Not very Ninja-like."

The boy with his dog shrugged, shaking his head, offering, "Some people are just helpless." Meanwhile his puppy mimicked his movements.

Quickly Naruto grabbed up his horn to yell at them, "SHUT UP!!" The children all laughed, as Naruto stood up, still rubbing his sore end, "Ow, ow, ow…"

The only one not laughing was young Hinata, who had sidled up about five feet from Naruto, a mix of shyness and concern in her innocent white eyes, as she asked, "Ar-are you okay?"

Naruto blinked back at the show of consideration, though he hastily straightened up, replying loudly, "OF COURSE I'M FINE! THAT WAS STAGED TO THROW YOU ALL OFF GUARD!"

To which, the pink-haired girl called out, "Liar!"

"SHUT UP!"

Hinata smiled nervously at the over confident display, offering meekly, "Well, it's good that you are alright." Naruto just smiled back at her warmly.

"Whadidja do to him?" A boy's voice called from near the bench, where the pony-tailed youth sat beside the unconscious Ebisu, lightly poking at him.

Lifting the horn, Naruto spoke, "I TOLD YOU ALREADY. I USED A NINJA SLEEPING POWDER TO PUT HIM TO SLEEP. HE WON'T WAKE UP FOR HOURS."

After the sentence, the Pink-haired girl spoke out again, "Do you have to use that horn every time you speak?"

"YES!"

"He's not breathing." The pony-tailed boy stated, as he poked Ebisu in the head making the lifeless body part roll back to hang over the seat back.

"EH?" Was all Naruto offered back, and he turned toward the bench.

"I think he's dead." The pony-tailed boy suggested.

"HE CAN'T BE. Un… unless…" Naruto's mind suddenly thought over grim possibilities. 'Could I have grabbed the wrong egg from the old man's stash?' Gulping down what felt like a lead ball in his throat, Naruto's face went pale, and his body began to tremble slightly. 'Oh no what if I accidentally grabbed some horrible poison that killed Glasses instantly? That means I'm a murderer. I killed him. The Old man will surely torture me for this!' A plethora of images ran through his imagination of himself being whipped, stretched on a rack, suffocated under rocks, dunked under water, and all other manner of punishment he'd heard of. Then it occurred to him, 'Or maybe even.' The image of a skull and cross bones passed through his childish mind as he didn't even want to think over possible circumstance of his own execution. Grabbing and shaking his head in an attempt to get rid of the images, he complained without reason, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no…" 'It's not my fault! I didn't know what the labels said! I can't even read yet!' "… no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, n-"

*Snnnoooorrrrre*

"Hn?" Desperately Naruto looked up toward the now snoring teacher.

Cocking his head ot one side, the pony-tailed boy conceded, "Oh, guess he's not dead."

Naruto sprang up to his defining stance once more, lifting the horn, "HAAHAHA, OF COURSE HE'S ONLY ASLEEP, JUST AS I SAID!"

To that, the boy with the puppy pointed out, "Then why were you crying."

Naruto, with fresh tear tracks down his cheeks turned to the boy to shout, "I WASN'T CRYING!!!"