Chapter 3


Beep! Beep! Beep! The alarm rang at 8 in the morning, startling Naruto from his sleep.

CRASH! With an irritation, Naruto heavily smashed his alarm, completely shattering it. By the way, he didn't smash with his fist, but with a metal bat he got it as a birthday gift from his friend metal bat! Don't ask anymore, because metal bat disappeared one day, saying that he has to go and take care of his sister...

"MEEAATTT!" The guy living next door to Naruto suddenly yelled, it seems like Naruto's alarm woke him up as well.

Yawning, Naruto dragged himself to the bathroom, in order to get himself ready for the another day. After all, he ran out of manga to read, and his monthly allowance was not enough for him to buy an another one.

Having a short breakfast, NOT ramen, Naruto left his apartment and headed towards his favorite spot to gaze the clouds and relax.

"Heyyy, Naruto!" As he was walking, Naruto found a company who calls himself Nara Shikamaru. Naruto found this guy annoying, he was right next to him every single time he went to watch the clouds!

"Hey, Shikamaru." Naruto said with a bored tone, not even bothering to look.

"Wha-what? I'm not that lazy pineapple, don't you compare him with me!" A voice shrieked to Naruto in anger. "Hey! Are you even paying an attention!"

Sighing, Naruto turned around to see who this guy was. The guy had a rainbow colored hair that reached down to his toes like Rapunzel, the eyelashes which were even longer than his hair, and due to him wearing the tank top, the armpit hair which were even longer than his eyelashes were visible to everyone's eyes.

"Ah, sorry, Konohamaru. What do you need?" Naruto asked with an uninterested tone, as he was quite irritated from being obstructed.

"I am just here to ask you, are you going to watch the tournament? They say that the grand examination is going to be held with you as the winning prize!" Konohamaru exclaimed with an overflowing excitement, and his hairs seemed more excited than he was.

"Nope, not interested," Then Naruto paused. "Wait, what? Me as the prize? You must be joking. Whoever is doing this is clearly overlooking my human rights, and treating me as the possession! Who's the person operating the event?!" Furiously, Naruto yanked Konohamaru's hair tightly, which got ripped off due to the sudden force.

"...wha...is this a wig?" Konohamaru nodded proudly as a response to Naruto.

"Yeah, I learned a jutsu from a toad guy which strengthened my hair, so I am attaching them everywhere to grow stronger!" Konohamaru pumped his fist up before reattaching his wig under his armpit. "Anyway, you should come and watch, just saying. K, gotta go, bye!" Konohamaru clumsily ran out of Naruto's sight, without answering his question.

"Oh hey, Naruto!" A new voice came right after Konohamaru's departure.

Great, it's Shikamaru. Naruto hastily ran without looking back.


The training ground 1 was filled with countless number of people due to the announcement of the publicized tournament between the elite jonins. Konohamaru was amongst them.

"Hey, when is it going to begin! I've been waiting for 33 seconds!" A guy within the crowd shouted.

"Me too! I've been waiting for 33 seconds too! What a coincidence!"

Ignoring the blabber within the crowd, Sarutobi Hiruzen turned to look at Konohamaru. "Did the bait work?"

"I dunno, I mean why are you asking this kind of thing to an 8 year old kid like me?" Konohamaru replied with a sage pose.

"Hey! No backing off, don't forget our deal!" Upon hearing the statement, Jiraiya cried with a scissor on his hand.

"No! Anything but cutting my hair!"

"Alright, alright, calm down. Let's wait for 1 more second, and if he's not here still, let's abduct him." Hiruzen replied with a composed stance. "Oh, guess he's not coming. Jiraiya, you know what to do."

"Oh yea, I know what to do." Jiraiya destroyed all the wig on Konohamaru, who cried in anguish. "Yea, done. Now what?"

"Bring Naruto here. This is an order as the hokage!"

"Hai!" Jiraiya then left with a shunshin.

On the road nearby, Shikamaru and Naruto possessed in Shikamaru's shadow possession jutsu was seen walking to the huge crowd. Unfortunately, Jiraiya is going to miss the tournament.

"Lemme go, pineapple!" Naruto resisted the possession with no avail.

"Eh? Who's pineapple? Who are you talking to?" Shikamaru said lazily. "Just bear it, Naruto, I am doing this for my sake."

"Something is wrong with what you said...anyway, why? You know how troublesome it is for me to go there! As the fellow 'troublesome' hating person, don't you understand my contempt towards those idiots?"

"Yes, but you...you cannot steal my spot as the laziest person in Konoha! You went too far this time, Naruto! I've got no choice." Shikamaru replied with a hurt expression, clenching his fist. Of course, Naruto had to mimick this movement.

"So now you get why-" Suddenly, he smelt a fart on his face. "WHAT THE-" Losing his control, the shadow possession jutsu was released, freeing Naruto from the control.

"Shikamaru, you may be smart, but I am lucky. You forgot to put this into an account, and you failed. Just wait, I will be coming back for a revenge!" Naruto hastily retreated, but he bumped into somebody. Yes, Jiraiya.

"Finally, found you kid-"

"I WILL REVENGE MY HAIR!" Jiraiya was interrupted by a red-eyed Konohamaru with a lack of hair.

"Konohamaru, I have no time to mess with you-look what you've done, you idiot! Damn, wait Naruto!" Using momentary distraction as a decoy, Naruto quickly bolted away from the training ground. Of course, the speed was downright pathetic in comparision to Jiraiya, and eventually caught, but he tried at least.

"Hmm...such an individual, to be able to momentarily escape from Jiraiya the sannin with the skill of an academy student...truly a genius amongst geniuses." Hiruzen nodded with a satisfaction as he watched the scene. However, he failed to say that they were all based on Naruto's luck, just as always.