Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, or any of the characters that appear in the anime/manga series. I like cake.

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What a magnificent day. Out on a glorious training session with my bowl-cut, eternally green-clothed sensei and his sidekick Fuzzy, the walking eyebrow. Add the meatball-head with a curious affinity with sharp objects and our motley crew's complete. Somebody shoot me.

I could have just stayed in bed today. Could have faked a cough and slept till dinner. Instead, I get woken up at around five in the morning by some incredibly loud jackass outside the window yelling something about youth power. It took me a moment to recognize my sensei's voice. I quickly left the Hyuuga complex so the rest of them would stop boring holes into my back with their glares. It was even worse than with normal people, because the rest of the Hyuuga clan could glare through walls.

So I stand by in disbelief as I watch my teammate headbutt a boulder. Evidently it's good training for his head, because he needs to master opening the first gate more effectively. See, now this is why the Hyuugas are just plain superior to Fuzzy's taijutsu. One guy throws his head into a rock, the other guy doesn't. I think we know who has a more impressive training program.

I sigh. I'm bored, and I want to go back and sleep. Sensei catches me slacking. So now I'm running laps while trying to dodge Meatball's throwing weapons at the same time. I really hate training. I'd gladly trade my pride to stop running laps and dodging. Well, at least something can be done about the pointy things flying at me at fairly lethal speeds.

I turn back towards Tenten and toss her my best charming smile and a wink. She turns red like a tomato and is completely flustered now. At least I can stop dodging; her throws are all a mile off. Of course, now I'll have to think up some convenient excuse for turning down her request to get together for lunch.

I kill two birds with one stone and decide to meditate through lunch. This way, Sensei can't yell at me for not working hard, and Tenten will stop trying to talk to me after she realizes I'm asleep. Of course it would stand to reason that whenever I come up with a seemingly effective plan like this, something just has to come along and ruin my day. In this case, it would be Lee.

Now see, normally, I'd take him up on any challenges to spar, simply to shut him up, because he would never stop asking otherwise. However, things are a bit different when you're asleep. So I evidently slept through about half of Lee's 'genius of hard work' rant and how he was going to defeat me one day, before I asked a brilliant question.

"….Hhn….whaaa?"

I pat myself on the back. It had come out all nicely in my head. Tell him that the Jounin exams were in a week, he should be off training, and throw in something random about youths, and he'd be on his merry way. Too bad it got all mangled in my mind-to-mouth translation.

Before I know it, I'm hauled onto my feet for a 'light' spar. I was still half-asleep at this time. Tenten has to set my arms into the Hyuuga opening stance. I could vaguely see something green charging at me. Oh, look a fist. Better dodge that.

I manage to execute a perfect sidestep to the left. Unfortunately, that also happens to be the direction from which Lee's punch was coming from. A nice, soft, tree managed to stop my flight across the clearing. Gai, Lee, and Tenten are probably all trying to mentally calculate the distance between pre-fist Negi and post-fist Negi.

I try standing up and nearly trip over my own feet. Okay, still a bit groggy from meditation, and the punching thing didn't help. I think Lee's charging me again. This time, I hop backwards and avoid deciding which way to dodge altogether. He tries attacking at all different angles. My coordination's not completely back and I don't want to risk getting hit again, so it's hard for me to work up a counterattack. I try a Kaiten, because it has a slightly longer range and would probably hit Lee regardless of which way he's coming from.

I never realized what a bad idea a half asleep Kaiten was. So it totally didn't protect me while Lee lands some kind of Rock Lee cross kick or something. Of course, it hurt him more than me, because about a second after, everything within thirty feet of myself managed to catch on fire. The Eyebrow Duo, Meatball, random trees, and even the same boulder Lee was training on. Evidently I had just expended about ten Kaitens worth of chakra on blowing apart the training area.

That's not good at all. It's probably coming out of my paycheck. Oh how I wished I had stayed in bed today.