Once again, for the sake of repetitiveness, I DO NOT OWN NARUTO! THIS FIC IS PURELY FOR FUN!

"Remind me why I am doing this again?" The only sound in the crushing black night rang out.

Originating from a young, lean teen as he sat cross legged under a tree. No reply was given. Of course, for one to get a reply they need to be talking to someone. The trees suddenly filled the night air with the sound of their leaves trembling.

"Tch, so you can remember to be you again. Well, a good portion of you anyways." Rang out through the canopy. "You know, just because you say that over and over again doesn't make it any clearer than the first time." Retorted the sitting teen. "Well luckily for you, my time is up. Besides, you have a visitor"

"Naruto!" Shouted an old voice. "hmm, I'd say he's about fifteen meters out."

'NARUTO!" The voice rang out again. Sighing, after mentally seeing the repercussions of not answering the elder the first time, Naruto stood up slowly and began to stretch, "OY! Ol' TIMER, I'M OVER HERE!", "Maybe not the brightest way to start my morning…"

"Well, GET OVER HERE!.", "You know what will happen to you if you make me go contorting my old body any further."

"Meh, your an Hokage. Not to mention a Leaf one at that, tree's should be but a trivial matter to a man of such *high* caliber as you are."

Silence. "aaaaaanndd, I'm de…"

As the orange, dreamlike aurora of morning drew forth to slay the void pitch black of the night. A young, cherry blossom tree sapling stood erect and basking in the glory of the morning light. A small chipmunk could be seen slowly creeping its way towards the cherry blossom, and as in all of life.

There could be seen, to those with a keen enough eye, an Eagle. Perched on a low limb and hidden in the dark, it quietly leaned forward allowing the sun's rays to show the tip of its beak.

Readying itself, the eagle prepared to launch it's assault. Taking off and releasing a cry of battle, the eagle departed from its limb, freezing the chipmunk in its place out of pure terror.

Just as all seemed at a loss for the chipmunk, a shockwave burst through the area, uprooting trees and sending the eagle crashing into the forest behind.

Miraculously, the only thing left standing was the young cherry blossom. At the base of the young tree, still clinging for dear life was the chipmunk. His tiny nostrils flaring and heart nearly pounding out of his chest. Managing to calm himself down, if by even a little, he braved one eye to intake his surroundings.

Complete chaos.

Trees uprooted and flung here and there! The ground was ripped and cracking, and above the chipmunk was an object descending straight towards him.

Using what little sense the animal had, it bounded towards a felled tree. Seconds later a screaming blonde teenager came crashing down onto the cherry blossom.

"wwwhhyhyhyyyy" was heard floating up from the crater the boy had made from his impact.

"Because you made me come in after you. Now clean up this mess and lets go." "We have a long journey….and a LOT of paper work."Grumbled Sarutobi as he walked off towards their base camp.

"How..does…that..even..make…sense?" Wheezed out Naruto while using his right arm to pull himself up.

Looking around, Naruto saw the wasteland that laid before him. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw a small animal, turning his head to the right Naruto noticed a small chipmunk edging ever so closer to him.

"Well hey little fellow, did you come to help me out?" Chuckled the blonde as the chipmunk made its way towards the edge of the crater. Looking inside, the chipmunk discovered what little remains were left of the cherry blossom.

Following the chipmunks eyes, Naruto looked down to see the tree he had crushed. "Sorry?" he tried to apologize.

Looking up, with a single tear in its eye. The small chipmunk turned to the tree crusher and released a fury a scratches and bites aimed at the blondes stupid face.

"WWWWHHHHYYYYYYYYYYY!" Cried out a pained voice through what was left of the barren land scape.

All patched up and sitting cross legged whit a grumpy pout adorning his face, Naruto sat on his pillow stooping in his bad luck. A dark miasma wrapping itself around the teen like a serpent, waiting for the right person for it to unleash itself upon.

"Come now, Uzumaki-san", "don't be so quick to plot your revenge when the person you want to insult is right next to you!" Chided Sarutobi from outside the carriage. "Why don't you unlock the carriage, and then we'll see who's quick to get there revenge. *Click*

"…I'll get you later old man."

*Click*

16 bumpy, incredibly boring and uneventful Hours later.

Still stooping in his chicken soup of revenge and possible prank opportunities, Naruto looked out at the glowing orange sun setting behind a forest. "Mehh" Letting out a puff cloud and sighing in exasperation. The blonde noticed a spec moving through the trees.

A shadow gliding along the backdrop of the canopy. "Hmm, that's totally insignificant and totally not worthy of my time" he tried to convince himself.

"Too bad the old man locked the…..door." After a nice healthy dosage of face palming, The six whiskered boy stuck his head out of the window. Giving a good look towards the front, he waited for the next bump to hit.

"Not yet…""not yet…"

"not yeee-aalrighty lets go!" And with that he was off, bounding stealthily towards the tree line.

Looking forward a few yards, he noticed (what with the pink and all) a Kunoichi whose hair stuck out sorely against the fading light. Her hair shimmered through for all whom had a decent shred of skill to see.

" Dear Kami…. she's so.. so, soo about to hate me." he smirked.

Inching forward he heard her chatting with herself, "Maaan, I hate missions like this."

Her voice shredded his ear canals, being how enhanced they were with the kybui and all, but also picking up on a second staticky voice coming from her ear. "Just stick with the formation dobe, it's a simple escort mission."

"I wonder who's in there though" she questioned more to herself.

Suddenly her radio cut off, and she froze. A sick veil of malice enveloped her, "Whoever it is, he must be pretty rich.", "You wouldn't mind if I borrowed him from you, now would you?" bellowed a voice from behind.

Falling to her knees, she painfully twisted her head to the side to see the source of the evil might.

On a branch, about ten feet away from the poor girl, pushing its way through a bushel of leaves. Leaped forward a massive creature with pure, blood red eyes of malintent. Below it's fearsome gaze were jagged teeth, ready to maim any beast, or god.

As its mouth opened wide and it moved closer, it entered into what sparse sunlight was left.

A Rabbit.

With pure white fur and a fluffy tale.

It sat on the tree limb staring. Gazing into her very soul.

"Behold The BEAST!" Laughed out a blonde kid behind the rabbit. Laughing so hard that he fell off of his tree limb.

Well according to the natural laws of their universe, he should have.

Instead he seemed to rotate all the way around the limb, returning to his sitting position.

Dazed and confused, the kunoichi cast her gaze back to the rabbit. Only to see an exact copy of the blonde teenager before her, rolling around on the trunk before popping out of existence.

"Who." "The hell…are you" she said, venom leaking from her voice.

Taking a step back, he froze as he felt her killing intent rise. She staggered into a brawlers stance, then shot her head up and charged the blonde.

Frozen. Our brave young, pranking warrior. found himself in a sort of slow trance.

Everything around him shifted and time seemed to crawl to a snell's pace.

"Funny….. I don't even know what my last thoughts should be about, How sa….."

I'd say there was impact.

Instead though, her fist was all but half of an inch away from his nose. Which happened to twitch slightly at the smell of all those who had been laid to waste by said appendages.

"I wonder why she stopped…" was Naruto's thought before he took a step backwards into a firm mass.

"Oooooohhhh"

"Heh heh heheheh" he started to chuckle out nervously. "Heeyyy Ol' Man Kage" was all the he got out, before a solid whack on the head knocked him silly.

"So many stars!….ohh.. nope, here comes the darkness. good bye cruel world…..","Bleh."

Decommissioned.

"Sakura!" bursted out a teen guy with sleek black hair that had been spiked mainly in the back, while being shorter in the front. "What!…. Happened?" he started strong but faded away when he saw his Hokage.

Standing before him with a blonde teenager about his age crumpled on the giant branch. Clad in a sort of black, light armor mesh.

"Hokage-Sama!" the black haired teen bowed. "Is everything alright? Kakashi is coming from the east, and should be here in a little bit."

"However the stretch that 'bit' might be Sasuke-san." Hiruzen reminded the now named Sasuke.

"Still, everything is in order and fine," "Though I was hoping to introduce you to him when we got back to the village, it seems he got a little too…. lets say…. overwhelmed with the long trip."

"Help me get him back to the carriage, then we can get on our way." Finished their boss.

Each grabbing an arm, the two genin pulled the unconscious blondie back to the carriage. "Right," Hiruzen started. "Lets double time it so I can get at least an hours worth of sleep."

"The paperwork for this is going to destroy me" he grumped while closing the door behind him, separating the ninja.

Homages Office

Kakashi was reading his 'novel'. Sasuke deep in thoughts of revenge ironically being shared by the pink haired girl. They all stood in the office looking at their Leader.

"As of today, I am taking your squad off of suspension for the lack of your original teammate." He informed, eyeing Sakura in particularly.

"With all due respect Hokage-Sama, Komari should have kept his paws off of me." pouted Sakura.

"I agree Sakura-chan, but once again. That does not give you the right to break him to the point that you did." chided their Hokage.

"Six weeks Sakura, six weeks. I've never seen such psychological damage in a boy that age before. I won't even begin to imagine how you got the soldering iron to bend like that..." Trailed off the old man with a shudder.

"Regardless. Starting tomorrow You have a new teammate and will be given the opportunity to join a special class of select ninja, in a few months of course.", "IF, you manage to keep up with your new training." Informing this to the new found squad before him, he gauged their reactions from his news.

Kakashi was still holding his book up, but to those trained well in the arts of subtly. The would see his eyes focused and head tilted slightly towards his students.

Sasuke looked eager and excited, almost too much so.

Sakura seemed a little worried but not much past that.

"Well then, If there are no questions. Then prepare to meet your new, new, Teammate. Naruto Uzumaki!" Hiruzen finished proudly.

Just as said boy started laughing while somehow already being in between Sasuke and Sakura. Arms over both of their shoulders, and letting his weight hang on them.

Naruto kicked out and spun around to face his new team.

"Nice to meet cha! Naruto Uzumaki at your service, I am a professional prankster and all seeing!" Cheered on Naruto.

"Nothing misses these puppies!" He claimed boldly, pointing at his eyes.

"Let's be sure we put in our all!" "But first, I need food!" he cheered out louder, and proceeded towards one of the windows behind the Hokage. Positioning himself just right he leaped out of the window.

"WAIT! I FORGOT HOW to flyyyyyyy!

"He'll be fine."

A loud crash rang out from below, "Report back here by seven a.m sharp. Dismissed." With a air of authority he practically pushed them out of the door.

Spinning in his chair and looking down at the village below, also the small amount of chaos that was forming due to the random person falling from his tower.

Hiruzen pulled out his green cherrywood box and proceeded to fill his pipe.

"I seriously hope you are worth the paper work." He grumbled one last time before setting to work on his fresh bowl. The sun setting and bringing night upon the land.

He would catch up to Naruto before it got too late, and show him his home.

Until then though, he would enjoy his well earned moment of relaxation.

Yeah! Updated!