Naruto sighed as he finally reached and entered Panku's shop, the introduction to the academy had dragged on for hours with countless amount's of written test's and practical exams, until finally ending sometime around three in the afternoon.

If it hadn't been for his mp3 player Naruto probably would've gone insane with boredom.

Needless to say, his former enthusiasm, what little of it their was, had vanished.

But It wasn't all bad he supposed, he might have made a friend on his first day, he wasn't too sure if being able to tolerate each other and a sentence said to each other made them friends, but Naruto just shrugged, he'd find out soon enough.

After waking Panku from one of his music fuelled day-dreams, Panku grabbed a bottle of sake from under his desk, and while Naruto still hadn't 'acquired a taste for it', as Panku said he eventually would,he decided to have a drink anyway, purely because of the fact there was something worth celebrating.

"so how was your first day? Kick some ass? Meet some hot girls?or..boy's, whatever you're into kid.

Naruto glared at the shop owner for a moment because the gay joke, but then smirked and replied."hey, even if all I did was meet them I'd still be getting more action than you, you washed up Musician".

Panku laughed and gave the boy a friendly punch on the arm.

"ha! But seriously, anything interesting happen today?"

"well, I kicked some kid's ass in a spar."

"really?and who was it? i heard there was a lot of clan heir's attending this year, was it one of them?oh, I bet it was the Haruno girl! Was it?"

"pfft, I wish" it was true, a while back Sakura Haruno had entered the shop, and it seem as if the whole purpose of her visit was to lecture Panku on how the music he sold wasn't 'real' music, and than berated him on how dirty and disorganised his crap shack of a shop was.

Panku had intended on letting the pink-haired young girl finish her rant and politely tell her to "fuck off", but Naruto had lost it, and come barging though the back door hurling insults and yelling abuse at the annoying girl ,scaring the shit out of her and sending her running.

:Nah, it was some kid called Sasuke".

"wait. Sasuke? As in the Sasuke Uchiha?".

"Erm, maybe? I don t know, but there was only one in my class so.."

"well damn kid, word around town was that that kid was supposed to the next Itachi"

"who?'

"never mind kid, but I'd watch you're back, the Uchiha are an arrogant bunch, so I don't think he'll be too pleased about you beating him" Panku warned.

"hah! I did more than beat him, I kicked his ass without braking a sweat!" Naruto bragged.

"well then! To music! And arrogant pricks being put in their place!", Panku raised his glass to his abrupt change of mood.

"hell yeah!" Naruto agreed, and downed his cup of sake, shuddering at the burning feeling as it travelled down his throat.

Panku didn't have that issue, and was already pouring himself another cup.

Yeah, other than that we didn't do much, hell, I only paid attention to the subject listings.

They don't even teach any good Jutsu's there, just the basic substitution, henge's and bunshin.

God it's gonna be boring".

"oh, quit you're bitching, it was either the Shinobi academy or a normal school, and you have no idea how much worse a normal school is.

Besides, if you become a good enough Shinobi you can learn some pretty fucking epic music Jutsu's, I mean, imagine being able to kill people with your guitar, I mean, how is that not-awesome".

"yeah well, just cause it's the better choice doesn't mean I still cant complain about now can I?"

"i suppose, but it makes you sound like such a prick!" Panku informed him.

Naruto ignored him.

"enough of that. Anything interesting happen at the shop today?" naruto asked, trying to change the subject.

"the Haruno girl's mother came by this afternoon, kept shouting at me, hell, I didn't even know what she was saying half the time . I feel sorry for the poor bastard who actually married her"

"maybe he was deaf?"

"or he didn't have a choice, probably got her knocked up or it was an arranged marriage or something, it's gotta suck balls being married to her"

"heh, I bet he is sucking balls because he's married to her'

"hah! Hell kid, if I was married to that bitch it'd probably put me off women too!" Panku said as he and Naruto burst out into laughter.

Naruto liked hanging around with Panku in the shop, he'd finally stopped hiding somewhere whenever someone came in, because Panku said it was fun to have an excuse to literally kick people out of his store, because he knew the Hokage would always keep them off his back because he was helping Naruto, and while the Hokage no-where near actually liked Panku, he was as close to family as the boy had, like an older brother, you known the kind that you fight, and insult, and make fun of , but sit down, have a drink and laugh about it later.(something that had taken quite' some explaining as to why he was giving an eight year old alcohol).

"and after the Haruno bitch was finally done screeching, I said,"Ma'am, with all due respect..."

"Fuck off", Naruto finished Panku's sentence for him, as it was the same line Panku said to everyone, right before he threw them out the door(or through a window) if they didn't do so immediately.

"yeah, and you know what she did? She got so pissed off, I thought she was gonna fucking explode, I mean, she just started going to town on my ass! So I picked her up and through her out into the street! And that's not all, I accidentally sent her crashing through a stall vendor that was going past, when she finally got up, her fucking dress was so ripped up, that her tit's were hanging out!

She kept looking around to see what people were staring at her for before she noticed herself! then she ran off crying!"

Naruto couldn't answer through his laughter, so Panku continued.

"and after that, the old bastard showed up", Naruto laughed even harder at Panku's disrespectful nickname for the Hokage. " I was thinking 'shit, that pink haired bitch dobbed me in' and then, the old bastard just handed me this here bottle of sake" Panku pointed to bottle of sake he and Naruto had drunk from, "and walked off! I guess he didn't think too highly of her either!".

Naruto was laughing so hard he was about to cry, he could't help it, it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard.

"damn it" Naruto finally managed to say" I can't believe I wasn't hear to see that!"

"yeah well, I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of her sometime soon"

"what makes you say that?".

"she's a civilian council member kid, which means she deals with the business and trade part of the village, a.k.a, us, and I don't think she will ever forgive me for that embarrassment earlier today"

"embarrassment's a bit of an understatement"

"heh, I guess you're right kid, but seriously, time's could be getting a little tougher for the store later on"

Naruto just shrugged his shoulders,"who cares? We'll deal with it when it happens". Naruto hoped they could, he liked this store better than his own home. Although he supposed his apartment was a serious crap-shack.

"yeah, you're right kid, if it happens it happens, we'll either manage to deal with it, or not, no point in worrying over something you have no control of, ain't that right kid?"

Naruto nodded, and flashed him a reassuring smile.

"we'll, I suppose I'd better go train, c'ya later Panku".

"try not to over do it kid", Panku warned him.

"you can't tell me what to do", Naruto shot back.

Panku laughed as Naruto left the store.

Naruto was sprinting down the street, he loved to train, absolutely loved it, right now he was listening to 'Na Na Na Na Na Na ' by my chemical romance, running as fast as he could, weaving through the glaring civilians, there was nothing like a full on sprint across the village to warm your

body up for training.

'drugs, give me drugs, give me drug's,

I don't need it but I'll sell what you got

take the cash and keep it

8 leg's to the wall

hit the gas, kill em all

and we crawl, and we crawl and we crawl!

unfortunately, since he was busy singling along to the song, he didn't notice a kid step around the corner he was turning for and slammed right into him.

"oh shit, sorry man" Naruto apologised as he picked himself off the ground and extended a hand to the other kid he'd run into.

"no apology necessary" said a familiar monotone voice.

"Shino? How you doing man?" Naruto asked.

"I am doing sufficiently well, how are you Naruto?"

"I'm doing alright man"

the surprise at running into each other quickly faded into an awkward silence.

"so.." Naruto started, unsure of what to say "wanna go train or something?"

"i see no reason not to" Shino said in his uncaring voice.

" well then let's go find us a training ground" Naruto said as he started running again, leaving Shino to run after the faster blonde.

"hey what took you so long Shino?" Naruto asked as Shino finally came into view.

The slightly out of breath Aburame just stared at the push-up doing blonde for a moment, weather it was a glare or not, Naruto couldn't tell because of the dark sunglasses Shino wore.

"you're fast" Shino had noticed.

Naruto just grinned and stood up from doing push-up's.

"so, we just gonna spar for now?"

"that would be reasonable".

Shino rook up the basic academy taijustsu stance, while Naruto, put in his earphones, and switched his mp3 player on, settling on a song called 'sandstorm' by Darude, Naruto entered his fighting stance.

Naruto and Shino started circling each other, Naruto was waiting for the song to take off from the intro, in a real fight Naruto wouldn't have time for this, but it was only a spar, so what was the harm.

Then it finally took off.

Naruto charged at Shino, weaving from side to side as to avoid any long range attacks the boy might throw at him.

Shino stayed still, waiting until Naruto had closed he distance between them by about half, he knew he stood no chance fighting up close, it was Naruto's speciality, at least, it was from what he's seen him do to Sasuke.

Naruto was suspecting almost everything when Shino raised his hands towards Naruto, in those baggy sleeve's he could've held kunai, ninja wire, hell, Naruto wouldn't have been surprised if there was a battle axe up there, but the one thing Naruto did not expect, was bug's.

Thousand's of little flying beetle's poring out from Shino's sleeve, rushing straight toward Naruto.

Naruto barely managed to dodge to the side of the incoming insect's, but even through his surprise, Naruto was still headed toward Shino.

Naruto was only 5 meter's away before something slammed into his side, throwing him sideways a few meter's, Naruto stumbled, but didn't fall, he looked down to see his entire lower body covered with the little insect's, he could feel them, thousands of little pincers stabbing into his flesh.

Naruto had to end this quickly, even though the bug's significantly hindered him, he still managed to make it to Shino with above average speed.

Shino was shocked.

His bug's fed on chakra, and they had been eating away at Naruto's supply for 15 seconds now, with the amount of bug's feeding off of him, Shino estimated they had sucked enough chakra from the strangely dressed boy to put a mid-level Chuunin to shame, he was so shocked that he barely had time to register Naruto diving at the ground in front of him, Shino quickly sidestepped, the downward kick, but Naruto surprised him again when, just before Naruto's foot slammed into the ground Shino had previously been standing it, Naruto twisted his entire body, bringing his leg slamming into Shino's side, then Naruto was standing again, unleashing a barrage of fast paced punches to Shino's chest, before finally delivering a savage kick that sent Shino flying back a few meter's, landing on his side, gasping for breath.

The bug's rushed of Naruto back to their host.

Naruto jogged u to Shino and offered him a hand up, to which Shino accepted.

"that's was some weird ass jutsu you got their bro", Naruto told him.

"it's the...Aburame clan's...kekkai genkai" Shino managed in between breath's.

There's no way. thought Shino as he stared at Naruto. By the time my Kikaichu beetle's returned to me they had taken more chakra from the the boy than anyone he knew, including all the Jounin he'd ever seen.

"you alright to keep training?" Naruto asked.

And his stamina is incredible!

"n-no I think I took to much of a beating to do much more today" Shino responded, it was true, he hurt all over and he was pretty sure that last kick had bruised a rib or two.

"oh, well I guess I'll talk you tomorrow yeah?", Naruto asked.

"one would presume so", Shino responded.

"c'ya Shino, have a good night yeah?"

Shino nodded his head and started walking towards his clan compound, he had some thing's to discuss with his farther.

Naruto waved goodbye and went to the nearest tree.

Panku had told him awhile ago that Shinobi were able to climb up vertical surface's just by allocating chakra too their feet, but Naruto was having a hard time figuring out the right amount of chakra to use, too much and he was blown of the tree trunk and too little and he his feet didn't stick properly.

After finishing his training, Naruto managed to arrive at his apartment sometime around six, and seeing as he had academy classes tomorrow he's have to get decent night's sleep, so no staying up to the crack of dawn listing to music on his stereo, the one Panku had given him for his last birthday.

So he plugged his mp3 player into it's charger, cooked a bowl of instant Ramen, turned on his shit-box TV, and watched some crappy reality show for about an hour before heading to bed.

AN

hope you enjoy this chapter, took me a while to get around to doing it, but I got it done!

Anyway.

R&R