Wow, this is a lot of chapters, especially for me. Well, I really don't have much to type right now, but you know DragonCCwakkoggmx.de… um ouch! I'm so sorry for being such a bad author. Neh, I guess I really don't have a plot, but you know you don't have to read it. And plus isn't just a place just to exercise our way of viewing the world?

I'll get better hopefully… I burnt myself today… I'm ignoring most of it but it hurts when it's near heat. Its just a flesh wound really so it should be gone in two days, three days tops.

Like the adage, beauty is in the eye of the beholder… now I wonder if the 'beholder' is blind…Well that's all I have to say… and sorry for the rushing and delays I wanted to use the winter break to actually rest! Did anyone notice that Sasuke was at the hospital the same time as Naruto, chapter seven; it was near the end.

CHAPTER IX

New Meaning

Naruto sighed; his aim was off, by quite a lot actually. He was missing the bull's eye by at least a good seven centimeters. He also knew he was being watched by a certain pale eyed girl. This was going on for two months, not that he minded, at least there was one person who wasn't latching on to Sasuke. Wait. Does that mean that she's "latching" on to him?

Naruto stood there and stared off. Letting out a breath he threw the rest of his kunais and went to pick them up. The last one his kunai the edge of the bull's eye, at least he was showing improvement. He began to make his way back to his "house". He didn't even consider it home. That was a toughie, hmm home; will he ever get one?

Naruto grunted when he cut his finger, it oozed a little blood. "Stupid thing." Standing straight he went to the village ramen stand.

"Yo! Three ramen, miso, pork and chicken please." Naruto sat on the high chair and nearly fell off.

"Ha ha ha, over worked your self eh? Here have some extra!" the man got another handful of noodles and placed in the miso ramen mixture.

"Hey thanks." Naruto said happily he was one of the few people who actually cared for him, and his daughter was nice too… well that's what he thought. Of course this was before she decided that he would look cute with make up and played "dress up" with him. But that was quite a while ago. But he sometimes avoided her if she got that look on her face.

He shuddered at the thought it was bad enough that he had to wear a dress, that thing was gross! Naruto paid his fill and left the chef after saying his thanks. Did he have homework tonight? Oh well.

Over the past months Naruto did what ever he basically wanted. He would sneak out occasionally with Nara, Shikamaru and his rather… "Big boned" friend Akimichi, Chouji. But he did practice; at least when no one was watching and he did poorly in front of most.

Today the upper classmen, to most known as sempai's were up going to do the exams. He was going to try for it, he didn't know what he was suppose to do yet; but knew a lot of students could pass it. So it had to be easy.

He woke up early and got dressed. By the time he was done with everything he used up half an hour of time. It was about eight in the morning now. Now that he was finished he rushed to the classroom, it was suppose to be at room 306, but there's only two floor levels. So unless that meant that it was the roof of the school is really didn't make sense.

Naruto rushed up the stairs and noticed that the door at the top was open, hmm that's strange. Naruto thought as he glanced around the door. Sure he was being paranoid but it was better safe then sorry, you know?

"HA!" a loud cry caused Naruto to freeze in place and look around him franticly. "Naruto, what are you doing here! This is off limits to you! You don't know enough to actually be here to begin with! What gave you an idea to try and take the exam if you can't even pass the practice exams?" Iruka gave him the evil eye.

"Ah, well you see I, uh you know just wanted to know hard it was going to be and yeah you know things like that!" Naruto rambled on giving him a nervous smiled and taking a step back. Then tripping on the entrance of the roof and flopping onto his back with a dull 'thunk'. The students that he didn't see or even notice on the other side were laughing at him. He smiled too, "Heh, oops."

"Naruto…" Iruka said in a warning tone.

"Uh, yeah?"

"What were you talking about."

"Can I take the test? Please? Even if I pass I'll do better!"

"What happens if you don't?" Iruka was worried more of this answer then the other, if he did better that would be great but…

"I stop coming to school."

"…"

"I really mean it."

"Then I think it's better if you didn't take the test at all." Naruto gave him a blank look, "I think it's better if you went to school, how bout if you fail you have to help me clean the classroom every week for a month?"

Naruto thought it over, on the good side he got to go to school and have a chance of being a ninja… but then again he had to clean the classroom… well that's not hard. "Fine, you've got a deal."

Naruto sat in the corner of the room watching the older students who had graduated. He failed, it was really unsuccessfully, his Bushin… was almost didn't exist and his henge looked terrible. Most laughed at it others hid their faces from embarrassment (Iruka did this). Naruto thought it over if he worked on them he could get better… but then again he was bad at bushin anyways…

"Naruto?"

"Hn?" Naruto looked up shifting his goggle to see clearly. He placed them on his forehead after they had all finished his exam.

"You want to go out for ramen?" Iruka rubbed the scar on his nose; this was a little awkward for him.

"Really?" Naruto's eyes got really big and he had a look of pure joy. He was actually bouncing in the seat he was in.

"Yeah, my treat."

"ALL RIGHT! RAMEN!" Iruka blinked well this was new.

Naruto was by his favorite ramen stand tell Iruka how good it was and better then the rest of Konoha's ramen stands.

"Oh really Naruto? Bt you know you can get to it a lot faster if we went to order it first you know that right?" Naruto laughed.

"Yeah but how could you not know this? It's even older then me!"

"Naruto, just order your ramen."

"I want two miso, two beef, one chicken and one shrimp… and also three spicy ramen!" Naruto said quickly and thought for a moment. "And I think I also want a pork ramen too, and thanks."

Iruka's jaw dropped, he was going to starve his week. "Uh, m-miso ramen please."

"That'll be 6350 yen (55.53 USD), but because you're with Naruto and your buying more then ten I'll give you a discount so now it's… 5660 yen (49.51 USD)."

"T-thanks." Iruka said but the time he was half way done so was Naruto! "Naruto if you eat any faster you'll get hiccups…"

The cook laughed, "He always eats like that, I warned him so many times too, but he never got the hiccups."

"It's too good to eat slow!" Naruto stated and drank the rest of his seventh ramen soup. Iruka blinked and let out a sigh.

"You know it's going to be a busy day tomorrow, and you better help me when it's time to clean up the class."

Naruto twitched, "Yeah I know, ugh, cleaning." Iruka eyed Naruto; you better help me, he thought as he paid for the meal.

"Well see yeah tomorrow." Naruto said with this bowls in a messy pile.

"Naruto how do you eat all this?" Iruka said sweat dropping at the pile.

"That we may never know…" The cook said taking the bowls and placing them in the sink.

"Y-yeah…"

Morning

Naruto groaned as he got out of bed. He stayed up all night so that he could practice the Bushin jutsu, he still didn't get it right. It's so hard! ARGH! Naruto kicked off his light blanket and got tangled in it so only fall.

"Ugh, I hate Mondays." Naruto mumbled as he slowly made his way to the bathroom. Brushing his teeth and taking a quick shower he made three instant ramens. He eyed the clock. It read ten fifteen… did the battery die? WAIT! What time is it now? Naruto slurped his noodles and ran back to his room he glanced at the clock and cried.

"Crap! I'm late I'm frickin late! Damn it!" he quickly ate and dressed running out of his apartment only to return to lock the door.

Class

Iruka glanced at the clock, he couldn't be sick, he was fine last night, did something happen to him on the way home? Iruka couldn't help but be worried.

"You okay?" Mizuki asked noticing Iruka acting differently.

"Just a little worried for Naruto, he's not here."

"Well may-"

"I'M HERE!" Naruto cried running into the class his jacket was thrown on his shirt backwards and inside out and his pants… it was unzipped…

"I see London!" One kid said,

"I see France!" Another joined,

"We can see your underpants!" they all chorused Naruto yelped and tried to zip his pants to only zip his finger, he cursed and sucked on his finger.

And hour later they were all working. Naruto poked the sleeper in the arm with a sharp pencil.

"Oww. That hurt." Shikamaru muttered rubbing the sore small dot.

"Wanna get out?" Naruto muttered back to him.

"Too troublesome." He replied and placed his head back on his arm.

"What if I made the trouble?" Shikamaru actually thought about, he could see clouds with no interruptions, maybe eat a few chips, and sleep. Or he could be constantly be woken up by the teacher, made to do work, get yelled at by the blond chick behind him for being lazy. Yeah, not such a difficult choice unless your some kind of a retard.

"Alright, what are you going to do?"

"Hmm, I was thinking of a new jutsu I was working on last night."

"Do I really want to know?"

"What are you guys talking about?" Chouji said skillfully joining in without anyone joining in.

"Bailing."

"Ah, I'll buy treats."

"I'll find the spot."

"I'll cause mass chaos," Naruto grinned. He jumped suddenly to his feet scaring the crap out of everyone around him.

That idiot what's he up to now. Sasuke thought as he glanced at Naruto.

"Iruka sensei I worked on my Henge!"

"Oh really Naruto?" Iruka ignored the prickly feeling on the back of his neck. It can't be too bad… can it?

"Henge!" Naruto cried just as he did it Shikamaru and Chouji made their way to the back door and Naruto showed his henge to the class.

It was a naked blonde in the middle of class… half the class was in laughter the others were either, having problem with nose bleeds, embarrassed, or in to much of a shock to do anything. Of course this was the moment when the Hokage decided to see how the class was doing.

GUSH!

"Oh! Hokage sama!"

Naruto while everyone was paying attention to the Hokage left by the back door.

"That was better then I thought."

"Did you know that the Hokage was coming Naruto?" Chouji asked eyeing Naruto.

"Hell yeah, I'm psychic!"

"Bull." Shikamaru muttered walking away.

"A total fluke, but a good one." Naruto said shrugging.

End

Well that was fun! I'm sorry it took so long, and that it's so short! As my profile said I was really busy. But at least I got this done. I'm so happy! My friend got stuck in the metro… that was funny. The chain to his wallet got stuck between the chair and wall; it took me two minutes of pulling. In the end I broke the chain, he said it was okay, it's better then being stuck in it now, or having to actually leave it there…