Naruto

By: Biancajewel

Author's note: I'd like to shout a big THANK YOU! To all my reviewers, again, thank you very much. Okay. Kurenai. Thanks for telling me, NarutoKyubi! Anbu. Alright. I got it now. Thanks, HikaruOfArrow! On with the story!

Chapter 3

"KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" (Don't know if it's spelled right, I'm too lazy to check.) Naruto sat down and sighed. He was utterly miserable.

First off, he'd eaten all his food he brought with him, because, he realized that he didn't eat breakfast or dinner when he went off the back night. His stomach growled as he tried not to think of ramen.

Well, he'd kill a wild pig, but he soon discovered, as he put it in his mouth, the meat was inedible. He spent the whole morning roaming around with a painful stomachache.

Once his stomachache was over, he accidentally fell in a small pond with a tadpole and a frog inside. He got soaking wet, so he had to wait for them to dry. The whole afternoon was practically gone. He couldn't loiter.

Naruto stared at his six clones and shook his head furiously as he thought of a smirking Sasuke.

"You have to be stronger than me." "Are you alright, scaredy-cat?"

"ALRIGHT!" he yelled. "I want each of you to go and explore and tell me the surroundings. If there's any bad dudes, well…" he paused and scratched his head. "Well, then hide and tell me what they look like. Do not be seen. Come back before night falls. Off you go!" With a gesture of his hands, his clones obediently nodded and disappeared.

Naruto stared at the sky. "I wonder what the others may be now…and…I wonder where Kakashi-sensei is…"

Meanwhile…

Ino and Sakura are off, again, arguing.

"I'm stronger than you, Ino pig!" Sakura yelled.

"No, I'm stronger than YOU, so shut up!" Ino hissed.

"I'm a chuunin already, and I can…"

"Yeah right, cry-baby!" (It is true, in fact, all of them are chuunins. Well, Neji's a jounin. Naruto is still a genin, because he went off training with whats-his-name. I forgot.)

"So, you're not a chuunin…"

"Shut up! I AM a chuunin, like you!"

"Will both of you shut up," Sasuke muttered.

Chouji's still eating, as usual.

"Damn, I can't stand women. They're worse than Temari and my mother," Shikamaru thought. "Truly."

Meanwhile…

The clones came back from their scouting and told Naruto all they'd seen.

"There was a group of people walking, two of them arguing," Naruto Clone said.

"Well, I saw another group of people, wearing tall dark cloaks," another Clone announced.

"I saw two speeds of blur. They were running, I suspect. You said to hide, Naruto, so I didn't chase them on to see whom they were."

"Me too," the other clone agreed.

"Yeah, but I was hiding in a tree so there were too many leaves in the way so I didn't get a good look of the group and the two people arguing."

"Okay, thanks," Naruto said tiredly, and they disappeared in a loud POUF!

At night…

Naruto stirred, and heard someone. He quickly sat up, holding his breath, listening hard. Someone was near him, underneath the tree. The person was walking, pacing. Naruto leaned as far as he dared and looked.

The figure seemed vaguely familiar but Naruto was too anxious to find out who it was. Sweat ran down his face, and he was getting excited. Should he kill the person? Or should he flee? A image of Sasuke smirking and holding up the golden trophy popped into his mind, and he saw himself holding a small, sad-looking brown medal. His breath quickened and he started to slowly get angry.

"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" he said silently. Four clones appeared. He instructed to them what to do. They nodded.

"I can do it," he thought. "I can kill him!"

He took out a kunai(I think) and looked at the person.

"Ready, Steady, go!" he motioned to his clones. They jumped forward, and pinned the person, arms and legs, on the ground.

Naruto took the kunai and plunged it into, what he suspected, because it was too dark, the victim's chest. The person opened and shut his mouth in an inaudible scream.

"Did I kill him?" he thought excitedly.

Then, suddenly, to his horror and delight, the person he attacked was…

Wait till the next chapter! Oh, I know this is full of suspense, but, remember to REVIEW!