Chapter 2:Party at Naruto's House!!

"Jo-Chan?"

"Huh? What is it Naruto?"

"Should those three be working? I mean, aren't there child labor laws against stuff like this?" Naruto asked uncertainly

Jo-Chan looked down the hallway at Konohamaru and his two friends hauling the ched up the stairs.(don't ask me how 3 little kids get a recliner up a flight of stairs! They're ninjas, right? So that means they're special and that they can!) She thought for a second, and then shrugged.

"Yeah, probably. But they're getting paid, and they ARE your friends, so I don't think it counts."

Naruto and Jo-Chan stood there a while, watching and waiting for Konohamaru and his friends to deliver the ched.

"N-Naruto Bro! (pant, pant) pleeeease help us!(pant, pant)"

Naruto and Jo-Chan looked down the hall and saw poor Konohamaru lying on the floor struggling to breathe.

"Awww, That's so sad! Go help them Naruto-kun!" Jo-Chan demanded

Naruto sighed and walked toward Konohamaru mumbling "I have to work even when I'm a paying customer? ... (Inaudible mumbling) Why don't you do it you... (More inaudible mumbling)"

After Naruto had dragged the chair over almost completely by himself, as Konohamaru and his friends were almost no help at all, it was about 8:30 and Konohamaru was lying in a heap on the floor again.

"Geez," Jo-Chan glared at Konohamaru and his friends."That sure took a long time! That's the last time I ever hire solely on cuteness!!"

The three little nins started to cry and Jo-Chan rushed over to console them.

"I'm sorry!! Please forgive me!! You really didn't do that badly....." Jo-chan said between sobs. She's a total sucker for cute little ninjas.

"What a weird girl..." Naruto thought.

After Jo-Chan and the three little nins had finished crying, Naruto thought it was the perfect moment to ask them all to leave seeing as they had all been standing around in his house for about 30 minutes while he waited in an awkward silence for them to stop crying, and he was positively itching to use his glorious new (broken) recliner.

"Well," Naruto said as he stretched, intentionally over exaggerating every motion required to stretch, indicating that he was really tired. "I think it's about time I got to bed, I mean, I've got an exam tomorrow, and I still haven't done my laundry..." He trailed off.

"Okay Naruto Bro! I'm well enough to walk home now!" he said as he jumped up, but then he landed on the floor face flat because his legs gave out beneath him.

"Ow...." He crumpled up into a little ball on the floor, wallowing in his own pain.

The other two little nins went over and gathered up their friend.

"We'll just carry him home! Later Boss!" they carried Konohamaru out with them.

"So, uh," Naruto started "You're leaving now, aren't you?"

Jo-Chan tackled Naruto and hugged him around the neck.

"Naruto-kun!!" she squealed and started stroking his cheek again "I guess it's time for me to go huh?"

"Umm, yeah..." he said, looking kind of weirded out, which is understandable.

Then suddenly, Jo-Chan got a serious look on her face "Don't you even think of asking me to stay longer! We simply couldn't do that! What would the neighbors think?"

"What?!" Naruto blushed a little "What are you talking about?!"

"Anyway," Jo-Chan let go of Naruto and headed for the door "Take care! Maybe we could go out for ramen sometime!" she winked at him, and then went on her way.

"Geez, what a freak!" Naruto said after Jo-Chan had left "And what in the world did she mean by THAT?!" he was thinking of her earlier comment "what would the neighbors think?"

She most certainly was a strange person, so Naruto got up and locked the door, just to be sure she wouldn't be back.

"I've got to invite everyone over to see my new recliner!" He said as he jumped up and down while clapping his hands.

Of course the idea of having a party just because you bought a new piece of furniture is rather absurd, but ever since Naruto felt like there were a few people in this world that could tolerate him, he threw parties every chance he got.

"Oh, but who should I invite?" Naruto wondered out loud as if that were a hard question to answer.

"I'll invite Sasuke, even as much as I hate him, and Kakashi sensei, and Sakura-Chan!!" He laughed to himself "This is going to be GREAT!!"