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Chapter 2

Watch Your Words

A pink haired girl could be seen scurrying away from the scene of the crime leaving a bruised blonde teen wondering what the hell just happened. The people surrounding the crime site began to evacuate. Naruto swiped dust off his casual orange t-shirt with black cargo pants and used his hands and pushed him self upright on his double strapped black sandals and trudged back toward his empty seat and steaming noodles. The old chef shook his head slowly and started to put more ramen in Lee's bowl.

Lee looked at Naruto curiously before coming up with a brilliant plan to cheer Naruto up. He pushed his bowl towards Naruto and the blonde's mood considerately brightened. As Naruto began to inhale two ramen bowls simultaneously using both hands that had chopsticks in it, Lee's curiosity got the better of him as he blurted out his statement.

"Sakura-chan really shouldn't have done that!" asked Lee.

Naruto managed to stop slurping his ramen and looked at Lee with dimmed cerulean eyes. "Well, it was sort of my fault anyways Lee. She keeps telling me that she's always busy and whatnot. I really shouldn't be annoying her in the first place."

"But to punch you instead of saying no? That is not very youthful conduct Naruto-kun" said Lee shaking his head.

"Well, I know that. It's just that she's having a hard time being trained as the next Rokudaime" quietly said. He was still adjusting to having his dreams ripped away from him by his close teammate. Traveling with Jiraiya didn't help his reputation go past from being a demon in Konoha.

'I should of stayed here and gotten to know more friends' thought Naruto. 'But I wouldn't of met so many cool people.'

This brought a smile to his face as he thought of his travels. 'I wonder if I'm ever going to see any of those guys again.' He wondered when Jiraiya was going to come back and whisk him away. Being in Konoha again for Naruto was fun and all, but he felt cramped and restraint in the bustling village.

"C'mon Lee. Your fan girls are gonna find out where we are sooner or later and I really wanna kick your ass before it gets mobbed by rabid fan groupies" said Naruto grinning his famous foxy grin.

"HA! Let me remind you that I am winning 59 to 57 Naruto-kun. Let us go and settle this my eternal rival! If you kick my butt, than I lose and buy you more ramen. But if I manage to defeat you, than you shall buy me more weights" yelled Lee pumping his closed fist into the air.

'I better not lose than. Buying Lee weights is like buying Kaka-sensei sets of 1st edition limited hentai books" thought Naruto as he raced Lee to the training grounds.

As the two teenagers started their sparring, Sakura was having a battle herself. 'So much paper work' she thought dismally.

Tsunade being her devious self again dumped her paper work on Sakura and went out to a local bar to get wasted. Before she left, she told Sakura to brighten up and said "You were a bookworm when you were in the academy right? Well, this should be a piece a cake for you."

So when Sakura skimmed the paper's and signed signatures, her mind began to wander towards what happened earlier that day.

"Sakura-channnn! C'mon. You known you want to get some ramen with me and Lee" whined Naruto.

"No Naruto. I can't. Tsunade-sama has been swamping me with work recently" replied an irritated Sakura tapping her left foot impatiently.

"What! The old hag is overworking you!?!" yelled Naruto with a look of sympathy for her that turned mischievous.

"NARUTO! Stop your scheming. The last thing I need right now is another prank war between you and Tsunade-sama" warned Sakura cracking her knuckles.

"Alright alright, I won't do anything bad. But at least have one bowl of ramen with me."

"No Naruto. I'm already late as it is now" responded Sakura looking at her watch. Her left foot was beginning to make little craters in the ground.

"But one ramen won't hurt you Sakura. You need a little fat anyw-"

!CRUNCH!

Not a shove. Nor a slap. Or a punch. No, it was a crunch. Something breaking under extreme pressure. Imagine Naruto's head and than know that there is thin air behind his head. In order to pull off a crunch, there must be some object sandwiched between two solid objects and than be squeezed out of its living day lights. Sakura managed to pull a crunch off with Naruto's head and her fist that only went one way and nothing to interfere Naruto's head flying the other way. She did the impossible. That was how strong she grew over the years.

She stopped shuffling threw the important documents and stared out the windows thinking 'Maybe I should make it up to Naruto later.'

In a secluded training ground, two fierce combatants fought for prizes they held very dearly.

Lee swung his left foot up in an arc motion that had a destination with Naruto's head. Naruto managed to duck in time only to have an appointment with Lee's right arm uppercut. Naruto, knowing he couldn't get out of the way managed to interconnect both his hands and put both palms facing downwards on his chin and absorb the impact of Lee's vicious uppercut. He flew backwards and flipped in the air landing on his two feet.

Naruto cracked his neck as Lee got into his stance again. Lee had his left leg extended diagonally while his right leg was crouched. His right hand cocked back in a fist while his left hand was extended forward with his palm opened and his fingers making the motion for Naruto to come.

Naruto, being dense but still loved a good challenge brought his right foot up to the tree behind him and launched towards Lee like a blinding shuriken. Lee cocked his right fist farther and released it as Naruto met him. Naruto brought his left elbow up and deflected Lee's blow and than swung his body landing not exactly behind Lee but close enough. He didn't even straighten out of his crouch as he swung his left leg trying to sweep kick Lee off his feet. Lee being the Tai-jutsu master that he is launched his right foot up spinning his once extended left foot in the air connecting with Naruto's head once again.

Naruto was blown back by the force and hit the ground rolling before wearily getting back on his feet. 'He almost took off my head with that one' thought Naruto.

He wiped the blood off his chin and shook the pain out of his head only to leave a dull headache and gave Lee a glare that included squinty eyes and gritted teeth.

"I'm really gonna kick your ass now" declared Naruto.

"So I see the spirit burns brightly in you today Naruto-kun!"

As a smiling Lee began to praise Naruto, Naruto sprinted towards him again throwing a right jab towards Lee's face. Lee tipped his head to the side and let Naruto's clenched right fist past him. As Naruto's fist passed him, Lee ducked and grabbed both of Naruto's leg and lifted him up flipping Naruto above and beyond him.

As Naruto was in the air doing a flip thanks to Lee, he landed behind Lee and closed the distance as he darted toward Lee's unprotected back. Lee did a round house kick with his left foot at the very instant Naruto threw his powered up punch. Naruto hit thin air while Lee found his mark was again. Naruto's head went off course with the impact of Lee's foot but he still held his place.

Lee, being as strong as a Tai-jutsu master is suppose to be and farther didn't let the impact of Naruto's head with his feet go off course. He started off with a round house kick and meant to finish it. This proved his undoing. Although Naruto's head was full of ring bells, one thought fought through the noise screaming 'NOW!' So when Lee was about to put his foot back down with his back still turned, Naruto brought his right hand on the ground and grabbed at the tuff of grass. He than swung his left foot and till his whole entire body was horizontally in the air except for his right hand that was balancing him and smashed his left foot into Lee's butt making Lee fly frontward landing on his face.

(So in other words for the simple minded people who couldn't understand the fight scene, Naruto threw a punch and Lee flipped him and did a kick that went like a circle. Naruto got hit but managed to still kick Lee's ass with him unaware.)

Before Lee could even get back on his feet, Naruto hollered "I WON!!!" and started prancing around.

Lee, confused by this got up and turned around to face Naruto. "What do you mean you won? I can still fight." Cracking his knuckles, he formed his stance again.

Naruto gave him a look that he would always give someone when he managed to pull off a nasty trick. The foxy grin. "I kicked your ass. So that means you owe me some ramen. And I'm starving." On queue, his stomach grumbled and Naruto let off a sheepish grin.

"I don't understand" said a helpless Lee. His eyes full of questioning and suspicion.

Naruto gave an evil chuckle and stated "I said that I was gonna kick your ass and you said if I did, I would get my precious ramen!" replied Naruto with another chorus of the evil chuckles.

Lee stared at Naruto for a moment before comprehension dawned on him. His body relaxed out of the stance. "OooOOo. Now I remember. You are a most devious person Naruto-kun! That makes it 59 to 58. I shall have to watch my words next time I talk to you!" exclaimed Lee.

"Yea yea yea… lets just get some ramen in my tummy that's paid by your money" trying to rhyme as he skipped towards Ichiraku with a enthusiastic Lee in tow declaring he will beat his worthy rival next time.

As the day got the boot from the night, Naruto fell asleep with aching muscles and bones.

Sakura fell asleep with an aching headache and guilty conscience.

And Lee fell asleep happily thinking about training.

While unconsciously rubbing his sore ass.

Author Notes: You'll get to see more Characters in next chapter.

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