Life as a Chunin: Chapter 2

This is so much fun to write. I hope you readers will enjoy.

Naruto woke to what seemed to him the longest night he had ever had. It was in part to him continually waking from odd dreams. He tired to re-capture the dream but it just came up fuzzy. Shrugging the dream off, he got up to get ready for his day. It felt awkward that he wouldn't be going to train with his team…former team. This thought made him sad as he finished his ramen breakfast and headed out the door.

Sasuke had been up for hours. He couldn't sleep as he too was having odd dreams. 'Baka Naruto, it's his fault for getting all freaked out about drifting. It freaked me out too. Baka,' he thought as he aimed another kunai to his target which hit almost center. "Hnn…"

Sakura got up just like every other morning if not a bit slower and went through her daily routine to get ready for the day. She was a bit put off that she wouldn't see Naruto or Sasuke. She grabbed an apple from a basket on the kitchen counter and walked out of the apartment, locking the door behind her.

'Are we supposed to ask for missions or do we just get assigned them?' Naruto asked himself. 'Maybe I should ask the others…No way! They would never let me live it down! Maybe Kakashi-sensai,' he thought trying to figure out what he should do.

In the end, he decided to ask his former teacher. He ran to Kakashi's house and stopped at the door. He knocked on the door and yelled," Kakashi-sensai, I need to ask you something!" Kakashi opened the door warily. "You realize I might have been sleeping," he said a bit moodily. "Oh…I'm sorry," said Naruto. "You had a question," Kakashi said getting to the point. "Well…it's just…do I ask for missions or do I just get assigned them?" "You ask for a mission but you can get assigned them as well if you have some ability that is needed for a mission," said Kakashi bordly. "Thanks Kakashi-senai…and you won't tell the others I had to ask will you?" said Naruto whose cheeks were slightly pink with embarrassment. Kakashi nodded and closed the door as Naruto walked off smiling.

Soon enough, he ran into Sakura. "Hey Sakura-chan!" Naruto said in his usual noisy tone. "Hey Naruto," answered the konoichi," What are you doing?" "Uh…just…walking. I'm going to go for some training. I'll see you later," said Naruto smiling and walking off. "He had no idea how to get a mission," said Sakura to herself. She suppressed the urge to giggle.

She continued walking to an unknown destination until she saw her ex-sensai looking just as lazy as usual. "Yo," said Kakashi as she approached. "Hey Kakashi-sen-uh…well hey," said Sakura. "What are you up to?" he asked with mild curiosity. "I'm going to go up to the Hogake's office to apply for a mission," said Sakura. "Eager are we? I should say so by the look on your face," said Kakashi. "Bye Kakashi-senai," said Sakura as she ran past him. She hoped that the office wouldn't be too packed.

Sasuke was to meet with his training partner soon. He hated the fact that his other teammates had done better than him. 'Stupid Gaara…I can't believe I lost to him and Naruto beat him. I have to work harder to catch up,' he thought to himself. He aimed kunai at a nearby target and it hit almost dead center. "Grr…I need to improve my aim," he said to himself. "Well that's somewhat obvious," said someone from behind him.

Naruto arrived at the Hogake's building at the same time as Sakura had. This resulted because Naruto had stopped for ramen and Sakura had been behind him until then.

"Going to apply for a mission Naruto?" asked Sakura. "You know it," said the young chunin smiling slyly as usual. They entered the building and saw some of the other new chunin applying to missions. "I'll see you later Naruto," the young ninja said to her friend and then ran toward a few of her other friends. "Hey Tenten…hey Hinata," said Sakura. "Hey" and "Hello" was the answer she got back. They then started to talk girl talk which made Naruto head in a completely different direction so he could avoid hearing things that would most likely traumatize him.

'Never try to understand women,' he thought to himself as he made his way to apply for a mission. He wanted action! Ten minutes later, he came out of the building and as if on cue his stomach growled. "Mmmmmm…ramen…" he mumbled as he headed for Ichiriku's for ramen. How cliché.

Sakura and the girls walked out of the tall building still talking and swapping rumors. "Hey…how about we get together on Tuesday to just do girl things," said Ino who had walked up a few minutes earlier. "I can't…I promised my team that that day would be reserved for spending time with each other," said Sakura. "Awe…that's really sweat," said Tenten. "Yeah we completely understand," said Hinata. "Sasuke agreed to that," asked Ino wide eyed.

"Yes Ino…he did," said Sakura," Believe it or not he is not just a human popsicle. He is capable of human emotions and desires friendship just like everyone else." Ino shut her mouth as she was about to retort. Tenten held in laughter as Hinata looked down not wanting to get into a fight.

Not wanting to upset their repaired friendship over the same issue, Ino said," Well…how about Friday? 6:30 at the mall sound good?" Everyone agreed to this and they then separated to do whatever they had to do.

This little conversation occurred right next Ichiriku's and Naruto had overheard the entire thing. "Wow…never piss off Sakura. Never," he said finishing his ramen and paying," I wonder if she sticks up for me as well?" With that thought he left to do whatever it is Naruto does.

Sasuke turned to face whoever spoke. He saw a woman with very short, brown hair with hazel eyes and a bored look on her face. She must have been only a bit older than him. She wore a skirt like Sakura's only it was shorter and was green. Also she wore a black, short sleeved top.

"Who are you," asked the young Uchiha. "I'm here to train you as asked by Tusunda-sama. The jounin and her think you need more training before earning the right to call yourself a chunin and if your best aim is that-" she pointed to the target with the kunai not anywhere near the center," than we have a lot of work to do," she said with a still bored face that infuriated Sasuke to no ends.

"That still doesn't tell me who you are," said Sasuke who grew slightly red as he looked at his poor aim that had resulted because of anger. She rolled her eyes and sighed. "My name is Massimo, Mamaki. I am a chunin who passed only a year ago. I am here to help you train. I like dark colors and hate anything loud. What else do you want to know?"

"How am I supposed to pass," asked Sasuke. "Eager are we? Well, to pass you have to defeat me in a spar, but I wouldn't try sparring now because with your poor aim, I'd be more worried about you aiming to a near by tree," she said smirking. He was getting extremely mad and wanted to thrust shuriken down this girls throat but decided against it. "Well, at least you're not stupid," she said.

Some enough, they began training and she was making him do target practice to see where she should start. "Alright lets see how good your chakra control is," she said indicating that she wanted him to climb a tree without his hands. He focused the chakra at his feet trying to remember what Sakura did to control hers and climbed the tree until he got ¾ of the way up. He then lost control and fell onto a branch and climbed down.

"That was good," she said. "Really," he said staring in disbelieve. "NO!" she yelled," Your aim and your chakra control suck! How the hell did you even become a genin?" Sasuke was loosing his patience fast now.

The rest of the tests went on for hours until finally she said he was dismissed. 'She was so harsh…that was horrible…how am I going to deal with her every day,' he asked himself. She had told him to meet her tomorrow same place, same time.

He was walking toward his house when he came across Naruto. "Hey Sasuke-teme!" he said loudly with sweat dripping down his face as he too was returning home. "Hey dope," Sasuke said. He was already in a bad mood and didn't feel like having this loudmouth around at the moment. "I heard who you got to train you. I feel bad for you. That Mamaki is a tough trainer. She never compliments either," said Naruto. "I take it you've met," asked Sasuke. "Yeah…Iruka-sensai forced me to train with her as punishment. I always will fear her voice," he said shuddering.

"She's a real bitch, that's for sure," said Sasuke. He and Naruto walked the rest of the way until they had to take separate paths to get home. "Bye Sasuke! Try not to let her get you down," said Naruto walking off and waving.

Me: This is gonna get good as we progress through the story. laughs evilly
Sasuke: What are you laughing at?
Me: Nothing.
Sasuke: You're laughing at my suffering aren't you?
Me: Yeah…but it's funny.
Sasuke: Hnn…
Naruto: Damn right it's funny!
Sasuke: Shut it dope!
Naruto: What did you call me!
Sakura: Oh no. Here they go again.
Me: Maybe we should drug then with Nyquil…
Sakura: That might work… Sakura and me contemplate how to drug the boys
Me: Anyways…I will update ASAP!