Hello I know this is really late and all but I have my reasons, I sure you were all entertained by some other story while I was away I got a plush cow from omegaguardian THANK YOU! (Cackles) I mean… what? Lately I've been well… working, cleaning, caring for garden (my mom's I can't have one they would die BEFORE their even seedlings) and caring for other things like dog and meself (that's not a word). Some times for my boyfriend cuz he acts like a baby sometimes… he's so cute… that idiot. Well it's been a long while indeed. Well because of that I'm going to post as much as I can

Well on with the fic!

Chapter XIV

Play Day

Naruto hummed a random tune he'd heard somewhere once before. Today they didn't have a mission. So he had to come up with something to do. He could try the tree-climbing thing again, that would help with his poor chakra control. And he could also play with the Konohamaru corps. He hasn't seen them for over two weeks a new record.

Naruto vaguely wondered what they could be up to as he heard a scraping noise behind him. He turned quickly and quickly noticed a rectangular shaped 'rock'. It even had eyeholes. It was a rather poor attempt to hide. He took a step to the right and heard them scuffle to follow him. He took another step to the left and heard them do the same. He sighed. He ran through an ally and turned to see it follow him. He then turned to jab his finger at it.

"Konohamaru, I know your there. A rock would never have eyeholes. A rock would never chase a person around and lastly a rock would never be so rectangular unless carved." Naruto stated staring at them with an annoyed look. In the inside he was delighted to have so much fun.

There was a loud bang and as the cardboard box blew off large amount of smoke filled the air. He stared at them with a stupefied look. Are they retarded? He watched them argue amongst themselves for a while before turning to him.

"I think we used too much!" Moegi coughed as she fruitlessly fanned the smoke away. Udon seemed to have breathing troubles. Konohamaru was trying to look cool as he coughed.

"Ha! Just as I expected from my rival! " Konohamaru claimed pointing to Naruto in a dramatic way. Moegi clapped in the background as he puffed out his chest. Naruto sighed, well, if you think about it, it could be good training. He could make it into a: stamina, patience, and planning type of course… ah that game… that game would do perfectly.

Naruto grinned at them widely. "Do you guys know the game 'Capture the flag'?"

"Huh? I thought that we were going to play ninja?" Konohamaru stated rather in an accusing way.

"Konohamaru, Naruto ne-chan is already a ninja." Moegi stated her brows furrowed. He blushed.

"B-but we're not so that's way we're going to play ninja!" Konohamaru declared his fist in the air as he took a step forward tripping on his own scarf and let out a surprised yelp. "Naruto! I declare war!"

Naruto sat on the branch waiting for an idea to hit him… not literally of course. Naruto stared at the clouds for a little while; maybe the time spent with Shikamaru was affecting him?

"Naruto?" A voice inquired. Naruto jumped and let out a small cry.

"Gah! Don't scare me like that!" Naruto whispered somewhat harshly. He looked behind him to see Haku and Zabuza right behind him. Zabuza was giving him 'are you an idiot' look at him.

"What are you doing?" Zabuza asked, Naruto explained the situation, Zabuza grinned widely. "Mind if we join?"

"Nope, cuz then it'll be three on three game." Naruto explained the rules to the two. It was similar to the capture the flag game with differences. They are supposed to capture an item. Which only one of the other teammates has and take it to their home base.

For Naruto's team it was atop the Hokage monument and the Konohamaru corps was at the swings of the academy. That's how it was, and they were allowed to set traps and throw kunai and shuriken at each other as long as it didn't mortally injure or kill the other team. The blunt kunai and shuriken were usually used but if they ran out of them they were allowed to use the sharps as long as they had all the confidence that it won't mortally injure or kill anyone.

Naruto already knew how to handle them, and knew what course of action to take, this was their third game today and it was getting a little dark. Both Haku and Zabuza weren't surprised to hear that he used to be a prankster.

"There's a chance they might use my jutsu's against you two. The Sexy no jutsu so be on guard for that." Naruto told them in a fake serious way. Zabuza froze for a moment.

"You mean that jutsu that you used on me the first time I saw your team?" Naruto grinned and nodded ferociously his forehead protector threatening to fly off. "What the hell made you make that?" Haku wondered as well, it was something you definitely didn't expect.

"Neh, I used it during class to skip out with some classmate," And this point they noticed he didn't say friends. "One time the Hokage came in at the right time, man that was a whole frickin lot of blood." They grinned at Naruto, a question resurfaced to their mind.

"Naruto how did you learn Kage bushin no jutsu?" Haku asked, it was a difficult jutsu to master, it took a lot of chakra, a chuunin would have trouble with even making ten even if they were elite. So how could a rookie genin be able to pull it off? And plus he make it in dozens! Repeatedly!

"Eh? Are we playing 20 questions?" Naruto asked with his eyes squinting and his arms crossed, his head tilted to the side as he sat cross-legged. "Hmm, I stole something and learned off that."

"Why do you only use that?"

"Neh, I can't do a regular bushin." Both Zabuza and Haku's face faulted.

"Please tell me you're joking." Naruto laughed sheepishly and shook his head. Haku sighed as they all felt the kids coming. They all turned to them.

"Oi-yo!" Naruto greeted them, rather louder then needed. Haku eyed Naruto and turned back to the kids. Because they were so young and inexperienced they had to go easy on them. Udon tossed a smoke bomb at them, not that it really helped them. Haku who was taught under Zabuza knew how to kill by sound alone.

Naruto took a step back from the battle. His forehead protector was the 'flag' so he couldn't fight unless confronted first. It was either Moegi or Konohamaru who had the flag. And lord and behold, Konohamaru appeared meaning that Moegi had it, what ever it was. Now… what was the flag?

They watched Konohamaru lurch for Naruto's left shoe, the other two sweat dropped. Haku picked him up by his scarf.

"Ah! Leggo! Girly! Pansy! Homo!" Haku pinned him to a nearby tree with his senbons.

"That ought teach you about name calling." Haku said with a façade smile, which seemed to make the area a little colder then it was a minute ago. Everyone around them promptly took a step back.

"Let me down!" He strained as he began to swing his legs to and fro, Udon tried to help as well almost being kicked away by his legs.

They grinned at the two. It was amusing. They left to find Moegi who was somewhere. "Naruto, who came up with this game?" Haku asked, the game was… educational; it had stealth, capturing, and retrieving mission all in one.

"I did, I wanted it to be like this so that they could learn and have fun at the same time instead of being so bored. So we made it a game and we argued for like an hour about the rules and how they would be." They looked at him with a bit more respect then they ever thought possible… and watched him explode.

"Naruto!" Haku gasped as he was engulfed by bright pink paint. They laughed as Naruto began to throw what was like a hissy fit. They watched him profusely throw out profanity and try to vainly wipe the paint on nearby objects. Than he from then on: kept setting off traps and causing a quite bit of damage to trees.

"Naruto what ever did they do to you?"

"Shut up!" Naruto hissed at Zabuza who was having the time of his life. Is Naruto the best ninja or the worst?

They stopped when they spotted a nervous Moegi fifteen meters away from them. Haku threw senbons and they watched her dodge most of them and get scratched by some. And them she turned into a he, he being Konohamaru.

"Hmm, not bad, not good, you're getting better." Naruto grinned. "Never knew you were a cross dresser." Naruto shot forth for Konohamaru's goggle. Konohamaru let out a small 'che' and tried to dodge Naruto's hand. Haku and Zabuza watched the last round and it seemed that Udon and Moegi were just in time to watch it as well.

"Kono chan!" She cried she knew that they were no help; they were too exhausted from their sprint here to do anything but watch. Konohamaru aimed a kick to Naruto's abdomen as Naruto made a grab towards the goggle. Just as Naruto grabbed and pulled the goggle off Konohamaru had enough reach to hit him.

Poof.

Naruto was gone. Konohamaru's bewilder face was mirrored by not just Moegi and Udon, but by Zabuza and Haku as well.

"Eh?" Konohamaru uttered, "Meh? Wha?" They all stared dumbly at the spot Naruto was supposed to be. Suddenly an orange blob dropped to the ground and picked up the goggle.

"I win." Naruto claimed as eh dashed wildly towards the monument. Konohamaru swore and dashed after him, his team trailing after him.

"You know, he was a Kage Bushin from the beginning?"

"No idea." They glanced at each other and quickly went after them.

It only takes the fastest shinobi five minutes to get to the monument if you were at the swings. An average shinobi about fifteen, anyone who wasn't use it maybe half an hour. But with all the traps Naruto placed it really did take half an hour, it was even a little too much for Haku and Zabuza.

"You guys owe me a ramen each!" Naruto chirped at the Konohamaru corps they in turn groaned. They were all winded at this point and TIRED.

"What's with all the banana peels?" Moegi asked confused for the point of those things.

"To make you slip."

"What about the mushrooms?" Konohamaru asked kicking one to Naruto who quickly dodged it, they watched the spores fly around.

"To annoy your senses."

"What about the dogs?" Udon asked sneezing a gross amount of snot.

"What dogs?"

"Those over there."

They all turned to see a group of growling wolves.

"Those aren't dogs Udon, their wolves!" They all ran back down the monument and heard some of the wolves being caught in some of the untouched traps.

"Whoo! Ramen for me!" Naruto cheered as they ran down, they all sweat dropped. As the chase ended they all headed to the nearest ramen shop. Except Naruto who was headed to the one he liked best. They all shook their heads at his antics. "The best ramen is this way!" He was even running around!

"I'll treat you guys." Zabuza said and watched the Konohamaru corps give him a sympathetic look. He looked at them and turned to Naruto who gave him a look he'd never seen before and didn't see ever again.

"Good luck." Konohamaru said shaking his head, but grinning widely. Moegi and Udon also gave him secretive smiles as well.

What did he get himself into?

Haku eyed the bowls, which was piled hazardously high, they seemed to tip towards him, and he edged away. Fifteen bowls straight up and there were only two other stacks, one of them was fifteen and the other three, Naruto finishing off the last bowl. Zabuza stared at the bowls in shock, who knew that that this one kid could eat so much? He himself only ate two bowls. The rest only had one bowl as well. So, all together was… 15 + 15 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 40. Forty bowls… so all together it was about $220 and with tax and tip… it was roughly around $260. Damn it.

"Naruto kun do you normally eat this much?" Haku spoke up for the first time since the ramen fest.

"Well, no, I usually eat less than that but it's free and I haven't eaten sense yesterday. That was great!" Naruto said grinning widely at the cook, he laughed.

"Well, Naruto incase you don't know, you've exhausted all the supplies again!" The owner said laughing. He didn't mind he was getting a profit from this. He smiled at Zabuza who was counting out money and looking a bit depressed. "I'll give you a discount of 25 if you fetch my ingredients." Zabuza quickly agree and was given money to buy the ingredients.

Erm sorry this is soo short I'll try to make the next chap out as soon as possible or make a longer one