I don't own naruto. I just thought this was a weird idea that made no sense for a story. I also don't own neopets.

It had been a very boring day. Choji, Shikameru and Ino had spent their day training with Jounin master Asuma, but they'd gotten nowhere. Choji was fed up. "I'm hungry. I'm tired, and I can't take it anymore."

"This is troublesome." Shikameru said. "We really can't do this exercise without you, Choji. It's designed to build our teamwork skills."

"We don't need to work as a team, anyway." Ino shot back. "I'm the leader here, and I call the shots. You just do what I say. That's as much teamwork as we need."

Asuma just sat there smoking. He shook his head. He had a long road ahead of him trying to train these rookies into real ninja warriors.

"Guys, it's getting late anyway." He said. Why don't we just adjourn till tomorrow? Go home, eat some dinner, and get some rest. We'll come back tomorrow and be refreshed."

"Great!" They exclaimed.

Choji went home. He was excited. His mother had made his favorite dinner, shrimp fried rice and egg rolls. He ate four helpings of that, and then went into his room.

He logged onto the Internet, and began playing his favorite game on Neopets, Ice Cream Machine. He identified with the little Chia character whose goal was to dodge as much ice cream as she could without getting hit. He too had eaten ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner many a day. Ice Cream was one of his favorite things.

"Mint Level, the screen read, 100 scoops."

"Yeah," Choji said. "Rock on! Maybe tonight I'll make it past the peach level without even losing a life." The Eighth level of the game, peach flavored ice cream was as far as Choji could ever get on the game. He played until late at night most nights until he could barely keep his eyes open. Tonight was one of those nights.

He fell asleep at the computer screen, the game's slightly annoying but catchy theme music playing in the background. You could sing so many fun phrases to that song to pump yourself up as you played. "I love ice cream, I love ice cream. I love ice cream, I could eat it all day long, all day long. I love chocolate, strawberry too, I love vanilla and berry of blue. I love ice cream I love ice cream" he sang as he played the game.

Instead of the fat little Chia, that resembled him with its little cap and hair that sticks out on the sides, it was Choji dodging the scoops.

"Sweet!" he said, "This is awesome." He tucked his head, arms, and legs in, and began his signature move, Meat Tank. He rolled around flawlessly, dodging the scoops of ice cream. "This isn't really any fun," he sighed after a little while. It was fun dodging the scoops when playing the game on the computer, but what Choji really wanted to do was eat the ice cream. How many levels could he eat his way through? His mind had been wondering about that since he'd begun playing the game obsessively six months ago.

"Restart." He thought, and instantly the board cleared. "Level One Strawberry." He smiled. This was going to be a piece of cake. Cake goes great with ice cream, he thought. But alas, there was no cake. So he had to go on.

"Only 25 scoops of strawberry. Oh well, next is vanilla. Bring it on!"

He ate his way through all the levels until he got to peach.
Peach ice cream flew at him. He ate 150, 175 and 199, 200, 225, wait, wasn't it supposed to stop at 225? Peach ice cream scoops continued to barrage him, and he tried to eat them. They flew faster, and faster, and faster and then just as one threatened to hit him right between the eyes…. Boom!

The alarm clock went off. His eyes shot open. He'd been sleeping by his computer all night, a small puddle of drool was on his mouse pad. His delicious fantasy had been but a dream. Now he had to go back to the reality of working with his ninja team. Maybe he could convince Asuma-sensei to take them out for ice cream after they finished today.