Chapter 2 – Sorry, I Got Lost On The Road of Life

Naruto was having a pleasant dream about beating the crap out of Sasuke when a ticking nose woke him up. "Huh? What the hell is that?" Naruto sat up in his bed. The ticking noise continued. His hair was more messy than usual and his eyes weren't all the way opened yet. "What the hell? I don't have a clock." The noise continued. He saw sunlight coming in through the big window and decided he should get up. Naruto figured a neighbor had a really loud clock or something.

Uzumaki Naruto walked over to his sink in the bathroom and brushed his teeth. The ninja didn't even bother changing his clothes though because he started searching for the ticking noise's source. "God, what the hell is going on?"

Little did Naruto know Gaara and Jiraiya were in the apartment behind him and had drilled a hole behind his trashcan and stuck a clock there. "He's easy," Gaara said and started snickering along side Jiraiya.

"Wait until the alarm goes off. And thanks to Dosu we know how to make the surround sound. That way he'll never find the source of it. Give me five" They slapped hands.

Then the alarm went off at exactly seven thirty. "Who hell is making that noise? STOP IT!" Naruto started throwing things off of shelves kicking stuff over. He even flipped his bed upside down. He searched all of his draws, clothes, and eventually tipped over his dresser. Then he started looking at the ceiling, he looked in the air vent, and he checked the mouse hole in the bathroom. Then finally he saw the trash can, the only untouched thing here. Naruto picked it up to search inside, but he saw the clock behind it. He picked it up and noticed the hole behind it then grabbed a shuriken and threw it in the hole, and then he smashed the alarm clock.

"Ouch! Dang it! Busted! Run for it!" Jiraiya yelled. On the other side of the wall they were running out the apartment door. But Naruto had already run out his and was waiting for them. Gaara used his Sand Shuriken technique and Naruto fell backwards off of the railing.

"Man, that hurt!" Naruto ran to the steps and Jiraiya came flying over his head. Gaara was already way gone. Naruto could catch up with Jiraiya though because he was old and slow. Naruto jumped on Jiraiya's back and started punching the crap out of him.

"Okay, okay you win!" Jiraiya kicked Naruto off of him. Naruto landed. "Yeah right!" Jiraiya yelled then jumped on a pedestrian's head and leapt up to grab a ladder leading to the rooftop of Nukino's Antique Shop.

"Watch it, Jiraiya!" yelled the pedestrian. Everyone knew who the obnoxious Jiraiya was.

Naruto growled then yelled, "I'll get you for this!" He picked up a rock and threw it at Jiraiya. It nailed him right in the back and Jiraiya fell right off of the roof. There was a loud crashing sound. He had landed in some pots. Then Nukino the really old owner came out and started slapping Jiraiya for smashing his antique parts. Naruto started laughing until he realized he forgot about practice today.

"Damn! Kakashi will probably make me work with Sasuke again if I'm late." Naruto started running to the edge of the town as fast as he could. He didn't even stop or slow down until he got to the Academy. He stopped and stared at it. Back then he didn't have any friends. Everyone hated him and everyone but him knew that concealed inside him was the nine-tailed fox demon. Now though, things were different. He started running again. He finally got to the spot they meet every day. He hid behind a tree and peeked over were Sasuke and Sakura were standing. He was searching for Kakashi.

"It's all right Naruto," Sasuke yelled without even looking at him, "he hasn't showed yet, again."

Naruto walked over there and said, "Where the heck is he?" He took a seat next to Sakura, but she scooted closer to Sasuke.

"I don't know. I swear to god we have the laziest Jounin for a Cell Leader ever!" She sighed and picked up her bag then walked in the middle of the street and started looking for their leader.

"Well, I admire him," Naruto said, "Because he used to be an Anbu and only the best can be an Anbu."

"Humph." Sasuke said. "You're just sucking up incase he's spying on us, aren't you?"

"No! I don't suck up!" Naruto looked away because he really was sucking up.

There was silence and they heard someone walking on the rocky road. "Hey guys he's coming, I think," Sakura said.

They all waited and stared at the spot where the noise was coming from. They couldn't see anything because it was a steep hill. Then they saw the tip of a hat. It wasn't Kakashi it was an old man. "Kakashi, where the hell are you?"

"Shut up, Naruto," Sasuke said very casually.

"Make me you stupid Uchiha! Ha ha! What now? I made fun of your clan!"

"I'm threatened by that. At least I wasn't shunned by all because I have a stupid fox demon inside me."

"At least I have a stupid demon inside me! And heck if I can figure out how to unleash Kyubi's power I would so kick your ass! It took the great mighty Yondaime to defeat him! And I bet you couldn't kick a Kage's ass!"

"Whatever."

"Do 'whatever' me! I'm not done yelling at you!"

"You go ahead and blow your vocal chords, I don't care."

"You're gunna regret your whole life one of these days Sasucky!"

"That's one terrible name to call someone."

"Quit being sarcastic and fight me you jackass!" Naruto got into a fighting stance.

"Don't hurt yourself there."

"Shut up, Sakura!"

"That wasn't me you stupid jerk!" Sakura screamed.

"You guys sure do fight a lot." Somebody put his or her hand on Naruto's shoulder.

"What the?" Naruto jumped around and saw Kakashi. "Hey where the hell have you been?"

"Sorry, I got lost on the road of life. Now for today –"

"What the hell is the road of life?" Naruto yelled.

"It's an expression you undereducated little brat." Kakashi kicked Naruto and he fell down. "Now today we aren't having a mission. We will practice our chakra skills."

"What? We already learned Chakra Molding, tree climbing, and leaf concentration. What heck are we supposed to learn now? I've never heard of any other kind of chakra. This is insane!"

"Naruto, shut the hell up," Kakashi said as he smacked Naruto in the back of his head. "Today we're going to learn water walking. This is a more advanced training than tree walking. Like tree walking, a user must gather chakra into the feet and constantly feed the appropriate amount into the water. The release of chakra must match the weight of the body and the amount necessary to float. It is more difficult to control chakra since water is not solid and constantly moving. This training is used to teach an individual how to create a specific amount of chakra into any part of the user's body."

"Whatever, Professor Hatake. Is this really a necessity?" Naruto said sarcastically.

"It's a necessity if you don't want to have to practice shuriken throwing with Sasuke." Kakashi smiled.

Naruto noticed a face n Sasuke that made him look as though he won something. "Okay, Sasuke let's go."

"No. You guys aren't doing that; now let's go to the lake."

The group of three walked off to the lake. Naruto was in the back cursing at Kakashi and Sasuke for being assess and thinking they're better than him. He got over it when he noticed Sakura's ass. It was shaking.

The three Chuunin kept trying their hardest to stay on the water. But they kept failing and getting wet. Sakura was the first to manage it, but that's because her specialty is chakra control. Naruto started jumping up and down when he got it before Sasuke. But then Sasuke got it about two minutes after Naruto and punched him.

"Alright kiddies we've been working all day, but there is still one more thing you need to do. Have a Kunai Knife War while staying on water." Kakashi smiled at them.

Naruto yelled, "What that's impossible!"

"Hey, Naruto, watch out." Kakashi grinned.

Six kunai hit him in the back. He turned around and saw that Sasuke and Sakura had already started. Naruto grabbed a handful of Kunai from his pocket and threw them all randomly. He only managed to kill a fish.

"You're an idiot, Naruto. Try aiming," Sasuke said as he dodged one coming from Sakura and threw one at Naruto.

"Shut the hell up!" He threw some at Sasuke and Sasuke was actually startled and lost his balance of chakra.

Sakura threw some kunai at Naruto and yelled, "You jerk making Sasuke fall!" And she went over to help him, but he stood up and stabbed her with one. "Ouch! Sasuke! Don't stab someone that close!"

They continued on for about twenty minutes when Kakashi said, "Alright now it was unexpected that you guys would become Chuunin so quickly, but after The Ultimate Fight you guys will be able to be true Chuunin journeymen and journeywoman," Kakashi looked at Sakura, "Because that was the final test. No more practice until after The Ultimate Fight." Naruto jumped in the air. "Of course we might not see all of you since some little retard entered the competition," Kakashi looked at Naruto.

"Hey, Sasuke entered, too!" Naruto complained.

"Well, I have faith in him that he won't be killed." Naruto started getting mad again, but instead just went home.

After the previous night he wasn't going anywhere near the hot springs so he just took some bandages and wrapped up his arms and back where he had been stabbed.

Naruto remembered the invitation Jiraiya had given him to Kakashi's for ramen, but he didn't know where Kakashi's place was. He kicked the door open and heard, "Ouch! Naruto, don't you ever watch what you're doing." It was Kakashi. "I came over here because I knew you didn't know where I lived. And I have to blindfold you."

"Why?" Naruto asked.

"You can't know where I live."

"Whatever. Tie it around my head." Kakashi tied the blindfold around Naruto's head, and then he picked him up and put him on his shoulders.

After what seemed to be ten minutes Kakashi finally stopped running. "Are we there?" Naruto asked.

"Shhh. I have to make sure we weren't followed." Kakashi whispered. "Okay, it's clear."

"Ya know if it weren't for you caring so bad about no one knowing where your house is I was going to bring someone."

Kakashi put Naruto on the ground and took his blindfold off. "Who?"

"Dosu. Just because I know how much you hate him."

"Well, I have to tell you something Naruto, Jiraiya didn't tell you about this because the ramen. In fact there is no ramen."

"WHAT? NO RAMEN! DAMN THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I CAME AND THE ONLY REASON I WOULD EVER COME! YOU EXPECT TO PLAY WITH MY TASTE BUDS LIKE THAT AND GET AWAY WITH IT?" Naruto yelled then punched Kakashi in the gut.

"Didn't you find it weird that I would invite you to a party with a bunch of Jounins only?"

"Well, kind of," Naruto said calmly, "but when I hear ramen I don't think straight."