3AM Ramblings
An ordinary day
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. It sucks that I don't. Really. It belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. He's doing an awesome job. Honest.
A/N: Welcome to Chapter 2 of 3AM Ramblings. Really, there is nothing else.
It was a normal day in Konohagakure no Sato. An unusually ordinary day. Of course, in Konoha, there was never an ordinary day. The wet season was in full force as rain fell in torrents, civilians and ninjas alike walked under brightly-colored umbrellas, safe and dry from the downpour. Business ran as usual as people were visiting the nearest stores to hide from the torrents and the occasional lightning and thunderstorm that illuminated the scenery and probably fried some cows in the outskirts of the hidden village. Hokage Mountain loomed over the city, their faces darker than normal, but they watched over the village, representing a glorious past and an even more glorious future ahead.
It wasn't surprising to find the ex-members of Team 7 in scattered places across the village, while they waited for their sensei to show up, hours later than the allocated meeting time. Naruto was downing bowl after bowl of ramen (A/N: I'm not entirely sure what his favorite ramen was. I think it was pork miso or something) in Ichiraku ramen bar, racking up a huge bill that he would, sooner or later, dump it on his former Academy sensei, Iruka. Sakura was in the Yamanaka Flower Shop, talking animatedly to Ino, occasionally giggling . Sasuke was sulking in his emo corner, plotting up ways to kill his brother Itachi, at the Uchiha mansion.
The met up much much later when the weather cleared up and the sun began to fry the hidden village below. And still Kakashi was late. Sasuke inwardly groaned, and paid no attention to Sakura who was complaining about heat and how she could be doing something more productive while Naruto whined and complained loudly how their, to quote, "stupid, perverted ex-sensei" couldn't even bother to show up on time. A hour later, the silver-haired jounin, complete with the "orange porn book by Ero-sennin" (to quote Naruto), finally opted to show up.
"YOU'RE LATE, KAKA-SENSEI" Naruto shouted. Kakashi winced at the sound, still recovering from his hangover.
"Maa, maa. Today I got lost on the road of life…" Kakashi trailed off, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. The truth was, he spent all of the night before drunkenly singing at the Konoha's finest karaoke bar with other jounin sensei, shamelessly hitting on the waitresses and starting random bar fights.
"Liar," Sakura huffed. "You said that YESTERDAY."
"I have? I must've forgot." Kakashi replied smoothly, taking out Icha Icha Paradise: Ninja edition.
Kakashi straightened, sighed and peered at the newest edition of his porn, uh, I mean, literature. "Anyways, what were we meeting here for again?"
"Missions, dattebayo!" Naruto cheered eagerly, hoping that it was higher-ranked missions rather than the lousy C-ranked ones the members of Team Seven got after the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Sasuke scoffed. "Hn, if we're not doing missions or training, I'm going home."
Kakashi snickered behind his mask. Some things never change.
"Oi, sensei!"
"Maa, what's wrong, Naruto?" was the jounin's reply.
"Why are you laughing? It's kinda creeping us out, you know…"
Kakashi glanced quickly at his former genin team. Surely enough, he saw the normally stoic Uchiha and the violent pink-haired kunoichi in a violently twitching heap on the ground. He was surprised Naruto wasn't in that state of mess. Maybe it was because the blonde was oblivious enough to not realize that a certain Hyuuga heiress' crush on him until the moment she confessed before being killed by your enemy, or that the Kyuubi jinchuuriki had been spending too much time with a certain self-proclaimed uber-perverted Frog Sage. It was probably both.
"I was thinking of the time when you were all cute genins and look at you now, already chunins!"
"Don't get sappy on us, Kaka-sensei!" was Naruto's response.
"Maa…some things never change…"
Naruto asked, "Like what?"
"Like you being dense enough to argue with a brick wall and lose, dobe." Came Sasuke's smug response, complete with an Uchiha Smirk™.
"Hey!"
Sakura and Sasuke managed to recover from their twitching fest, Kakashi eye-smiled at them before challenging them to a spar, every man (or woman, in Sakura's case) for themselves. The former members of Team 7 took this opportunity to see under the infamous mask. They plotted, with Sakura more often than not whacking Naruto's head, earning a loud yelp from the blonde. A random fistfight broke out between the two mammals known as Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto, Sakura scolding on the sidelines. Watching from his perch on a nearby while masking his chakra, Kakashi smiled to himself.
Some things never change.
A/N: Thanks for reading! I was busy during this week so couldn't update as soon as possible. But ANYWAYS, thanks again! X) Don't forget to read and review!
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