Naruto: Alone

Hey there people, its me Arganaut (I know, you're probably surprised to see me so soon), and I'm here with the next chapter of Naruto: Alone. Well... technically its not the next chapter, but its a kind of special bonus chapter. Now, as you all probably know, many days ago was April Fools Day, a holiday in which everyone I know has played embarrassing or painful pranks on me all day. However, in order to get my mind off of the mindless fun that today often represents (even for me), I've decided to write a April Fools Day themed chapter of Naruto Alone. It might be VERY late, but hey, better late than never.

BIG NOTE: THIS CHAPTER WILL HAVE NO IMPACT UPON FUTURE PLOT! THINK OF THIS CHAPTER AS FILLER, OR IF YOU PREFER, ONE BIG OMAKE THAT WAS TOO BIG TO BE A SUBSECTION!

SO PLEASE, JUST ENJOY THE CHAPTER, DON'T TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY!

Anyway, since I do not wish to waste time, I won't be responding to reviews from the previous chapter (don't worry, you'll get your responses next chapter). So, let's get on our way with the April Fools Themed Chapter of Naruto: Alone!!!!!!:

Also, HAPPY EASTER!

Chapter 17: Konoha Fool's Day!

---------- Two Weeks Later ----------

It was early in the morning in Konoha, far too early for sensible people to have been waking up, as a slow, yet purposeful, movement began throughout the village. They moved at varying speeds, some moved as quick as the wind, others trudged at a pace that snails would be easily able to lap. These people, or, more fittingly, young persons, were Genin of Konoha, and they were off to meet their Jounin-sensei. It was still a relatively new experience for these young ninja, after all, the Academy they had gone to little more than two weeks ago wouldn't be starting for hours from then, so it was such a sudden shift in sleeping schedule for them, firstly. Second of all, these Genin were also forced to deal with some rather harsh, and in some cases, creative training exercises from their respective sensei, exercises that would often leave them low and dry by evening, and sore and in pain by the time they woke up.

Three of these particular Genin would be the focus of our story as it currently was: Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Naruto Uzumaki, all members of Kakashi Hatake's Team 7. Quite honestly, they were surprised by paces their teacher had been placing them through. Kakashi had been quite serious when he said he saw potential in these three, and had been putting them through serious amounts of training. They hadn't gone on any missions yet, as Kakashi merely stated that 'We need to get you into a proper shape before get you on missions'. This statement, however, only furthered to excite the Genin on the future prospects of their missions. However, until their first mission, the three went about the grueling training process. Of course, other things went on in the team. Sakura had come back, somewhat, from her power trip towards the end of the bell test, calming considerably the first day of training. However, as both Naruto and Sasuke would quickly figure out, that didn't mean they were out of the woods. There would be times, especially when Sasuke and Naruto would get into heated arguments over nothing, that the two would feel that chill run down their spine again, and immediately cool their jets.

It was an interesting occurrence, one that helped to keep the two boys in line.

Despite this, there was very little change in the dynamic of the team relationships, as Sasuke was still annoyed with Sakura and Naruto, Naruto was annoyed with Sasuke and Sakura, and Sakura liked Sasuke and was annoyed with Naruto. Kakashi, while unsatisfied with how the current relationship kept the team from working together to its fullest potential, found that he could do little to nothing to stop this. After all, Sasuke was an emotionally wrecked kid who's attention centered around killing his brother and training, Naruto was a socially inept ex-thief, who had two settings when it came to relationships: either people hated him, or worshiped him in a fan club. Sakura... well, she was odd because she was the only normal kid in the group. Kakashi, the emotionally and socially unskilled man that he was, had few ideas on how to even begin fixing this tangled web.

At any rate, said Genin were now walking towards their normal meeting place, a small bridge towards the edge of town. Since the beginning of their training, the three would gather here early in the morning, every morning, while they waited for Kakashi to show up. They waited for him, because he always somehow managed to show up several hours late. Though it annoyed them, they really couldn't get much of an answer out of Kakashi as to why he could be late and they couldn't, as he'd just make up excuses as to why he was late... bad excuses.

Sakura would arrive first, a half-hour earlier, as always, and leaned against the railing of the bridge. This was mostly because she didn't train so early in the morning, and because of its location near her family's house. She'd be stuck waiting there alone for a few minutes, until Sasuke arrived. The Uchiha's daily training began even before Kakashi had them start later in the day, as Sasuke would practice with his family arts for an hour before coming. You'd never know this, however, as the boy hardly looked worse for the experience. Sasuke would usually be able to enjoy silence on the bridge for a while, actually, as Sakura would be too tired so early in the morning to talk too much. Still, she was slowly getting used to waking up so early in the morning, and was starting to talk to him earlier and earlier in the morning.

Then Naruto would arrive last, about one minute before they would be considered late, as per usual. Now, Naruto the reason why Naruto took so long to get to the bridge, well, longer than his other two teammates, was the simple matter of breakfast. Since the team hadn't gone onto any missions, they hadn't been able to be paid, so Naruto was still unable to pay for food. He couldn't steal food, since it was so early in the morning and all the shops were closed, so he hunted small animals for his breakfast. He never brought the food to the bridge, however, as the first, and last, time he did it earned him a smack down from Sakura... maybe telling her it was a rabbit wasn't the most helpful thing in the world.

When all three arrived, it would generally be silent for the first hour, with only glances being exchanged between the three. However, it would soon enough get to the normal routine: Sakura tries talking to Sasuke, Sasuke would make derisive comments on Naruto's performance during training yesterday, Naruto would shout back insults towards the Uchiha, and the pink-haired kunoichi would then try to stop them by either asking Sasuke to calm down, or by nagging at Naruto. Still, even if things weren't entirely different, there was a lightness about the group that didn't exist in the Academy days, likely the goodwill that had been built up by the Bell Test still felt by the three of them. They may have argued, but it wasn't as heated as the old days.

This would go on for a while, and then Kakashi would arrive and they'd begin training. At any rate, it was now the meeting time at the bridge, and the three Genin had shown up, ready to wait for what would likely be the three or four hours it would take Kakashi to show up. It was very silent at first, though today the silence would not last. They heard someone walking across the bridge, all three students looking over to see the source of the noise, knowing it was unusual for someone to be coming this way so early. Imagine their surprise when they saw Kakashi standing there, his eye curved at his students.

All three stared blankly at Kakashi, before Sakura began walking over to her sensei. "K-Kakashi-sensei, that you?" She stammered, still unable to believe that he was here. "Are you actually going to start coming on ti-" The pink-haired ninja began, before suddenly Kakashi blew up in a plume of smoke. All three Genin coughed as the smoke left their lungs, looking over to the spot their sensei had stood to see what had happened... before Sakura and Sasuke slapped themselves on the forehead, Naruto settling for a very annoyed expression.

What remained in the plume of smoke was a small sign, stuck right in the middle of the bridge, with a small chibi-fied portrait of Kakashi giving the Genin a thumbs up, the words 'Konoha Fools' written in bright colors above the picture.

Konoha Fools Day had come again, the three had just been too tired to remember. All the ninja in Konoha on this day were usually given the day off from missions and training, for good reason.

You see, around the time Konoha was first founded by the First and Second Hokage, they instituted a day of peaked stealth training. The objective of the day would be to sneak into as many homes they could, and lay complex traps, before leaving. The person who could do this the most successfully, without being caught, would become 'King of Stealth'. The two Hokage thought that the art of stealth was very much needed in the old days, as many of the powerful ninja techniques that modern ninja take for granted were not developed then.

However, as time wore on the need for the training day began to wane, as hand-to-hand combat with complex jutsu became more desired. Eventually, the day of training ceased to exist, as the Third Hokage decided that the day could be used to train other skills. However, under the Fourth Hokage, the day was re-instituted. The Fourth Hokage, very much skilled with the day's events, was disappointed in its removal, as he had used the day more for fun and messing with people than he had actual training. So, under his leadership, he recreated the day, though he placed it under a name more fitting for the modern day, Konoha Fools Day. Instead of dangerous traps, funny pranks would be played upon the various citizen and ninja populace, and instead of 'King of Stealth' the person who played the most pranks would be titled 'King Fool'. The Fourth also decided that the holiday would still allow ninja to take the day off from normal training and work in order to participate.

When the Fourth died, and Sarutobi took over as the Hokage once more, he decided to keep the holiday in place. Peace had taken over the ninja world after the Kyuubi's sealing, and like many other holidays that had been kept or implemented by the Third and Fourth, Sarutobi thought it would be a good way to keep his ninja populace happy.

Sasuke and Sakura quickly left the bridge, ready to head home. Sakura wanted some more sleep before starting the day, and Sasuke wanted to get more training done if Kakashi wouldn't train them today. Naruto... Naruto was just going to head back to his place and ride out the rest of the day. The blond ninja disliked this holiday for two reasons: one, people always took this day and pranked him from dawn until dusk. The pranks weren't cruel, but they were highly annoying. Secondly, whenever he would try to prank someone, he'd end up getting hit or berated for it. So, for a couple years now, he just went to his sanctuary to ride out the rest of the day.

However, fate would have it that Naruto would participate fully in this holiday today. Naruto continued to walk back towards his hide out, yawning as his mind slowly started getting him ready for a some more sleep before lunch. However, before he could even get off the main roads, he ran into someone he hadn't been expecting to see for the rest of the day. He bumped into Kakashi, who himself seemed very distracted in thought. "Eh, Kakashi-sensei?!" Naruto shouted in surprise, Kakashi's eye smiling as he waved at Naruto.

"Hello Naruto." He said, the blond blinking as he pointed at his teacher.

"What're you doing here?" Naruto asked, amazed at seeing the scarecrow up this early in the morning.

"Oh, I'm on my way to prank Maito Gai." Kakashi chuckled out, before noticing his student's confused look. "Riiiight, you don't him... never mind." He quickly coughed out before changing the subject. "So, who're you going out to prank today?" Kakashi quickly asked, Naruto scoffing as he turned his head.

"I'm not going through with this stupid day, I'm just going to my hideout and sleep..." The Genin said as he began walking away, Kakashi grabbing Naruto's shoulder as he looked curiously at him.

"Woah, woah, woah. Out of all the people I know, I'd think you with all your stealth would love today." The silver-haired Jounin commented, the blond snorting in derision.

"What's there to like? People prank the hell out of you, you get embarrassed for the entire day, and you can't prank back or else people will beat the shit out of you!" Naruto ranted as he swung his arms to the side. Kakashi tapped his masked chin as he watched, before smiling underneath his mask.

"Well, then consider this a training exercise for today." Kakashi began, immediately catching Naruto's attention. "I want you to prank as many people as possible, without being seen, and without being caught." The Jounin continued, before a small glint came to his eyes. "If you can do this... I'll pay for as much barbecue as you want later... we got a deal?" Kakashi asked as he looked down at the blond... before noticing he had suddenly disappeared. "... Naruto?" Kakashi suddenly blurted out as he looked around, before shrugging. "Well, at least he's a bit spirited now..." He said before chuckling evilly, pulling out a razor blade. "Time to do some trimming...."

Meanwhile, Naruto was jumping from rooftop to rooftop a few blocks away, smiling wildly as he began planning out a couple pranks... now... he'd need some dye, some rope, a shovel...

Time to 'visit' the marketplace...

---------- Sakura's House ----------

Sakura had laid back down when she got home, falling into a deep sleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. She could hardly believe it herself that she had forgotten that today was Konoha Fool's Day. Well, even if she forgot, she was extremely grateful for the extra sleep this would bring: the training was difficult, and very strenuous, and any amount of extra rest she could get was good enough for her. In her sleep she rolled over onto her side, yawning as her eyes began darting side to side, signifying she had entered a dream... and, to her, it was a good one.

It was a dream she had often now a days: she was in the middle of a fight with Ino in an arena in the shape of a heart, and the two were evenly tied. Sakura, however, would pull something sneaky, and knock Ino out cold. Sasuke would then jump into the arena, and move to hug her. It was one of her favorite dreams, but it always ended just before he hugged her... but this time he was getting closer, and closer. Just as Sakura was about to embrace her dream, Sasuke suddenly moved behind her... and began rubbing her scalp.

'Okay.... this has never happened before...' Sakura thought to herself as she felt her crush massaging her scalp.

"Ummm... Sasuke-kun... what are you doing?" The pink haired kunoichi asked curiously, as the dream Uchiha merely continued rubbing into her scalp, before bringing all of her hair up to the top of her head and rubbing it down onto her scalp. Needless to say, Sakura was confused: her dreams could be weird, but this never happened before. "Seriously Sasuke-kun, this is nice but..." She began, before noticing a burning feeling on the top of her head. "Sa-Sasuke-kun, that's starting to hurt..." She said as the burning sensation got worse. She turned to get Sasuke away from her, but saw that he was suddenly gone.

Before she could even try to analyze the dream's logic... her hair burst into flames as the burning intensified. "AAAAAH!!!" She screamed out as she rain around the dream-verse, trying to find some source of water.

Fortunately for her, she didn't have to. Sakura woke up a few seconds after her dream self's hair spontaneously combusted, sweating slightly as she sighed. For some reason, her scalp actually felt like it was burning a bit. Shrugging her shoulders, Sakura went into her bathroom and got into the shower, hoping that a cool rinse could get rid of the burning feeling. When she got out, she noticed that, while it wasn't entirely gone, the uncomfortable pain in her scalp had died down considerably. The kunoichi yawned once again as she walked over to her mirror, wandering if she could see what had caused the pain in the first place.

She slowly opened her eyes all the way to look at the mirror... and stared blankly at the reflective surface when she saw what was there..........

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs, in a pitch that could be heard all across Konoha, and perhaps even a few miles outside of its walls.

As the sun broke through the horizon and began to shine directly upon the ninja village, a certain blond Genin was laughing out loud as he made his get away from the scene of the crime. That... was.... AMAZING! The adrenaline, the trickery... the the shear hilarity of the moment! Now not only was he looking forward to the dinner later, he was looking forward to the next prank! Naruto snickered to himself as he began heading towards the Uchiha compound.

---------- Uchiha Compound ----------

Loud smacking noises could be hear coming from the central garden of the Uchiha clan compound, as Sasuke went about training himself to make up for the day off, slapping around a wooden training dummy to practice his Taijutsu. This is how Sasuke spent his mornings before going to meet his team, and his afternoons after training with his team: practicing by himself. Sasuke wasn't kidding when he said his life goal was to kill a certain someone: and he was very much dedicated to becoming strong enough to accomplish this goal.

He continued to beat around the training doll before he suddenly heard the gate at the front of the compound open and close, Sasuke's eyes immediately darting in that direction. He sighed as he began walking towards the front of the house, wondering who in the world would try and bother him so early in the morning, even if it was Konoha Fool's Day. He opened the front door, and looked around the front yard, trying to see if there was any damage done. There was no obvious sign of a prank... no obvious sign o- was that a tomato?

Sasuke blinked in surprise as he saw a tomato laying conspicuously a few feet away from the main gate. He got out from the doorway of his house and began walking over to it... did he drop it when he went shopping for supplies last night? It looked really fresh so likely not. As Sasuke got closer and closer to the tomato, it suddenly moved away from him. The Uchiha's eyes drooped as he raised his right eyebrow in derision, now seeing the ninja wire that was placed around the top of the tomato.

"Yeah right, like I'm about to fall for that..." Sasuke said as he walked away from the tomato, looking around for whoever was pulling the string. As he walked around, he suddenly felt the ground give way underneath him. "Oh shi-" He started to shout before he fell into a pit in the ground. There was a loud 'squish' when Sasuke hit the bottom of the hole, the onyx-eyed boy fearing he had really damaged something.

He opened his eyes... and sweat dropped when he saw that he had landed in a pool of tomatoes and tomato paste, slowly standing up as he looked around... and noticed the walls of the pit was covered in tomato paste. Sasuke tried to jump up out of the pit, but the paste stopped him from properly building up enough strength to jump out. Climbing was out of the question: the walls were perfectly straight up and flat, plus the paste would've caused him to slip anyway.

"Well... looks like I'm going to be stuck here for a little while..." Sasuke said with a loud sigh... before looking down at the tomatoes underneath him. He picked one up, rubbed off the small amounts of dirt on it, and then took a bite out of it. He tasted the bite for a few seconds before shrugging. "Could use a little salt..."

Naruto, meanwhile, was on a rooftop about 50 yards away, laughing his ass off as he pulled the tomato completely in. The blond shook his head as he threw the tomato away, standing up as he did. "Man, that was too easy... so easy.... now... I want to do more pranks!" Naruto shouted as he jumped away, beginning what would be The Street Fox's Reign of Terror!

The blond's pranks spread as quickly as the plague, as dozens of villagers soon felt the stinging annoyance of Naruto's fun. Kiba wound up being chased around town by his family's dogs, and several horny male cats, when he was covered in female cat-in-heat urine. It might've been a pain in the ass to follow around a cat all day, but hey, this made it worth it.

Shino's house ended up surrounded by frogs from the forest, to the great ire of the entire Aburame clan. As a natural hunter, Naruto find it more than easy to send out a ton of clones and just capture all the frogs needed to surround the place.

While Shikamaru's mom was cooking breakfast for the family, Naruto silently made his way into the house and dumped a few dozen small bags of sugar into the recipe, resulting in the normally bored and stoic Shikamaru being effected by the world's biggest sugar rush. Hell, he was practically vibrating all the way down the street. The marketplace was full of food and random items good for his pranks...

Speaking of food and pranks, Naruto ended up sneaking around the Akimichi household, waiting for them to prepare for a particularly large meal, and leave it unattended. When they left food alone, Naruto slithered into the kitchen, and pulled from his pockets several of the hottest peppers, and the spiciest spices he could find in the market, and dumped them down into the food. The blond ninja would later laugh as he could swear he saw the Akimichi's kitchen catch on fire after the meal.

The next stop for Naruto was the Hyuga's household, where he had a pretty simple prank set up in his idea. He didn't want to do anything too out of order to Hinata, as a former Street Fox Fan Club member, and friend, but still he needed to prank everyone of his former classmates... So, he ran up to the door, set something down on the front deck, knocked a few times on the door, and then jumped off. Naruto's luck came through when, from the door, Hinata emerged, looking for whomever knocked.

The shy girl was certainly very confused, and on her toes. She knew that today was Konoha Fool's Day, and knew that her clan compound was a very popular target for pranks. She almost considered activating her Byakugan in order to see if the person who knocked was nearby, before she noticed a delightful smell. She looked around again, before looking down, and saw a small bouquet of flowers. She blushed lightly as she knelt down and picked them up, smelling them again before checking a small card that was connected to the bouquet. The heiress' blush increased greatly when she read that it was from a 'secret admirer'.

Suddenly, Hinata's mind began reeling as it tried to figure out who this admirer may be. Soon, however, fantasies about it being Naruto reached her mind... and that sent the poor girl over the edge. With a blush that could only be described as 'Sharingan Red', she feinted right on the spot, dropping the flowers to the side.

Moments later, Naruto arrived at her side, his face showing emotions of confusion, worry and, admittedly, a bit of disappointment. "She feinted before the prank could even work." He said, before immediately kneeling over to place his hand on her forehead. "Oh well, I guess this counts... a little more than what I wanted." He said, looking around quickly, to make sure the coast was clear, before he picked Hinata up and carried into her house, placing her on the couch. With another quick check to make sure that no one had spotted him, he ran for the door, and quickly picked the flowers back up before dashing down the street. With a quick breath he looked at the bouquet and sighed. "It was a dumb idea anyway..." He said, tossing the flowers on the ground before walking away.

A few moments later, Ino suddenly emerged from behind a street corner, smiling to herself as she walked. Since it was a holiday today, she didn't have to either work in the flower shop, or do any training as a ninja, which left her free for the day. As she walked, however, the blond kunoichi soon came upon the flowers Naruto had tossed, not realizing he had tossed them. Picking them up and looking at the card, she squealed with joy as she very suddenly jumped in the air.

"A secret admirer, me?!" She shouted to herself, then garnering a bit of Naruto's attention from down the street. "Oh wow, it must be from Sasuke-kun!" She shouted again, as Naruto then turned his head to see the action clearly, his lips twitching a bit as a small smirk appearing on his face. The flower girl sighed dreamily as she brought the flowers to her face to smell them... only to be suddenly squirted in the face by a gush of water. Ino, enraged by this rather sudden prank, dropped the flowers on the ground, shaking her head side to side to get some of the water off.

Her eyes glared down at the plants with a fiery rage as she looked around for a possible culprit, Naruto having ran off after the water sprayed her. "DAMN IT THIS ISN'T FUNNY! THIS IS THE FIFTH KONOHA FOOL'S DAY THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME!" She shouted, before suddenly getting an idea. "IT MUST'VE BEEN SAKURA THIS TIME! I'M GOING TO DESTROY HER!" The enraged girl shouted as she ran off towards the Haruno residence, Naruto meanwhile laughing his ass off on a rooftop five blocks away.

"Oh man, that was great!" The prankster laughed out as he slapped his knee, desperately trying to gain some breath as he began to run out of air. That was the last of his classmates that had managed to become Genin, and he had to say, except Hinata, it had been a blast! As he laughed however, he was caught with an idea... why did this have to be the end? With his stealth skills, he could prank anyone in Konoha... and that's just what he was going to do!

---------- A Few Hours Later ----------

Kakashi was sitting alone on a park bench later that afternoon, smiling to himself as he read his favorite book; Icha-Icha Paradise. After having pulled what he deemed to be the best prank he had ever pulled on Maito Gai, he decided to settle in for the rest of the day with his book. His thoughts often made their way back to how Naruto was doing with his pranking... but, he paid little mind to them. After all, if he had to pay for barbecue for the boy, he would, if he didn't, then he wouldn't. However, it turns out Kakashi should've cared more about how Naruto was doing as, from behind his book, Kakashi could hear the feet of dozens of people approaching him.

He placed his book on his lap, and laughed openly as he saw what was right in front of him. He saw in front of him people who had an angry look on their face and... something very wrong with them, each 'wrong' individual to the person. The most important out of each of these people, to Kakashi, were Naruto's former classmates from the Academy, well, seven of them. Sasuke was covered in old and very smelly tomato remains, while Sakura's hair... well, it was polka-dotted, with dots of several different colors.

'I'm going to have to ask Naruto how he managed that.' The scarecrow said, immediately pinpointing Naruto as the only one who could've managed all of this, before looking over at Kiba who was covered in scratches, bites, and cat hair. Shino looked no better, as there were frogs not only around him, but also on him, waiting for his insects to come out. Then there was Shikamaru, who was vibrating so quickly he threatened to cause a great earthquake if he didn't stop. Choji's eyes were bloodshot, and his face and hair were covered in sweat, as Kakashi could feel the heat coming off of his breath. Ino was still soaked and wet, a pretty black-eye sported on her right eye... which occurred during a rather violent confrontation earlier with Sakura who, while not angry at Ino at the time, was mad as hell, and willing to take it out on anyone at the time.

"I'm just going to take a shot in the dirt and say that none of you are enjoying your Konoha Fool's Day all that much...." Kakashi said with another small chuckle, everyone in the herd glaring at him as the Genin stepped forward.

"This isn't funny Kakashi-sensei.... not in the least...." Sasuke said behind clamped teeth as he pointed at himself. "In case you haven't noticed... I'M COVERED IN CRUSHED TOMATO!" The normally cool and calm Genin shouted at his own sensei.

"My... hair... is... POLKA-DOTTED!" Sakura shouted, channeling Inner-Sakura towards the end of her exclamation.

"I've just spent the entire day being chased by cats and dogs!" Kiba shouted, before wincing as the cuts stung him for a moment.

"My family has been thoroughly embarrassed by the incident, and I'm the only one who dared leave the house, the other were too afraid of toads attacking." Shino said in his normal tone, though the way he said the sentence would leave any other Aburame stunned at such a show of anger.

"I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I've be-be-been th-the mo-mo-most ac-ac-act-act-iv-iv-ive I-I-I-I-I-I've be-be-be-been in my en-en-en-en-en-en-entire li-li-li-li-li-f-f-f-f-f-f-e!" Shikamaru stuttered out as he continued shaking on the ground.

"HE EARE URNT I IPS AUFF!" Choji tried to shout through a mouth that felt like it was on fire.

"He made me think I had a secret admirer!" Ino shouted, before suddenly a grown man with a bowl-haircut and the most ugly looking green tights ever, jumped to the front of the crowd.

"I suspect he shaved my eyebrows off!" Maito Gai shouted at Kakashi... who merely stared at his 'rival'... before covering his face with his book. Snorts of derision and laughter could be heard from behind the book, and after several minutes, he lowered the book, the noises of giddiness subsiding as he set the book to the side.

"Come come everyone, how do you know it was Naruto?" The scarecrow ninja asked, before they all pointed to someone behind them.

"WE HAVE A WITNESS!" They all shouted at the same time, as an old man covered in cabbage bits made his way to the front.

"I was just... selling my cabbage... my precious, precious cabbage..." He said slowly in a stunned tone, before his face became angry. "Then that little blond brat told the Chunin nearby that I was selling cabbage full of insects, and showed a cabbage HE STOLE that was filled with bugs..." He said, almost crying now. "They came over... and engulfed by cabbages in flames... my... my...... my...." He stuttered, as suddenly he cried up to the sky. "MY CABBAGES!"

Everyone sweat dropped at the merchant's display, but merely ignored it as they all turned back to Kakashi. "See, he knows Naruto did it!" Kiba suddenly barked as Kakashi chuckled.

"Come on, you all are being ridiculous..." He said as he began picking up his book. "Even if it was Naruto who did all of this they're just pranks, and you all need to get into the spirit of the holiday..." He sputtered off towards the end... as he noticed his book... his book... his book had scribbles on all of the pages. The shocked Jounin dropped the book on the ground, realizing it must've been done while he left the book at his side, while he was listening to the rants of the others. The other prank victims noticed this turn of events and smirked, before Kakashi shook his head. "No matter, there are other books in the book store-"

---------- A Few Minutes Later ----------

"-THAT ARE COVERED IN SCRIBBLES TOO?!" Kakashi cried out as he threw books over his shoulder, trying to find one that wasn't covered in scribbles. By now Kakashi was hyperventilating, as panic quickly overwrote any logic. While this temporarily entertained the other victims, they were still waiting to see what he'd do. As the last book left the shelf, also covered in scribbles, Kakashi slowly stood up and faced his fellow victims, a greatly angered look on his face. "All of you are right... Naruto has gone too far!" Kakashi said in a low tone as he clenched his fists. "And I know just how to get back at him..."

---------- One Half Hour Later ---------

Naruto laughed loudly as he walked down the street, his mirth literally pouring out of him as his hands held onto his burning sides. Today had been one of the best days in his life, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Now he was looking forward to celebrate Konoha Fool's Day every single year for the rest of life! However, little did he know that he'd have some company waiting for him around the corner. When he got onto the main street, he heard someone cough loudly, causing him to turn and look. He smiled widely as he waved at the mob of people he had pranked. "Hey there everyone, happy Konoha Fool's Day!" The blond shouted with a large smile, as suddenly half of the group brought up pitchforks.

"... Guys... what's with the pointy stuff?" Naruto asked with a bit of a nervous tone, as the other half of the mob brought up lit torches. "... Is it going to be dark soon?" He asked meekly, as suddenly the mob began screaming and shouting, Naruto suddenly darting down the street as the angry mob followed him. Naruto screamed as the mob continued following him, Sakura looking up at her sensei in the crowd as they ran.

"This was a great idea Kakashi-sensei!" She shouted, though she seemed to just pass over a large rock in the road without being phased by it. A few rooftops away, Kakashi and the rest of the Genin stood, minus Hinata, the Jounin smirking under his mask as he held the ram seal.

"Yes... it'll take Naruto hours before he realizes that its just a Genjutsu chasing after him." He said, releasing the seal while the illusionary mob continued to run. "By the time the jutsu loses all of the chakra I poured into it, Naruto will be too tired to do anything." The scarecrow said as they all jumped off, relenting to just allow Naruto to run around screaming his head off.

"I HATE KONOHA FOOL'S DAY!" Naruto shouted as he continued to run from the illusion, which was managing to keep on his tail.

Omake (An omake within a filler chapter, funny)

It was morning in Kono- "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Woah, that was quick. As morning broke, everyone in Konoha suddenly ran out of their homes, their hands covering their head as they couldn't believe what had happened to them. They all removed their hands from their heads... to reveal completely blond hair. They all looked up at their hair in both confusion and anger, as they looked around for the culprit.

"It must've been Naruto getting us back!" Sakura shouted, her previously polka-dot colored hair now colored blond. Most of the crowd agreed, but before they could march around the city for Naruto Hinata, who's hair was also blond, suddenly went to the front.

"Wa-wait! I saw wh-who did it last night, while they thought I-I was asleep..." Hinata stuttered in a nervous tone, as the entire crowd stopped and looked at her expectingly. The shy girl fiddled her fingers together, even more nerved now that all of Konoha's eyes were on her. "It was..." She began, before pointing out towards a certain person just walking down the street. "INO-SAN!" Hinata shouted, as said blond suddenly stopped in her tracks, and turned her head towards Hinata and the crowd.

"Wha-what?" She asked in a stunned tone as the crowd suddenly faced her. The crowd, without warning, suddenly ran for the flower girl, Ino screaming in a high-pitched tone as she began running as fast as possible, Hinata remaining behind, waiting for the crowd to disappear from sight.

The Hyuga Heiress looked down the street nervously, before smiling lightly. The blond Hyuga reached up to her hair... and pulled it off, revealing it to be merely a wig to cover her normal colored hair. Hinata had heard about what they had done to Naruto and she didn't much appreciate it. What Naruto had done was a little mean, but it didn't deserve being chased around by a illusionary mob to scare him out of his wits. Plus... he didn't prank her. With that, she placed her wig back on and walked down the opposite path of the crowd and Ino, smiling lightly as she realized that, in a way, she had just beaten the entire town with a prank, and avenged her Naruto in one swoop.