October tenth was today, and Naruto hated it with every fiber of his being. He couldn't go to his apartment since people broke in every year and smashed up all his stuff, and he couldn't stay out in the village since others would come after him and smash up all his body's stuff.

So he did what he always did, he got a mission by the Hokage to go out of the village for the day. Today was a trip to a new cavern that had opened up, and help explore it. The ANBU he was working with had gray hair, and a lingering smell of dogs about him, but he didn't act like Kiba, so he couldn't have been an Inuzuka, right?

His eight year old mind agreed, emphatically.

Most of the exploration was done by the ANBU and science nins, but he'd be used for small areas, with a rope around his ankles to pull him out. Just in case.

One such area was a tiny, twisting tunnel cavern that led to a massive, opening with a single curious item inside. Pushing a button on his microphone he called back to the ANBU at the other end of his rope. "Hey Dog-sama? There's this weird pot thingie here... should I bring it out?"

"Sure kid..." Dog agreed while reading his favorite novel. They'd been hauling out tons upon tons of coins, gems, and other treasures, why get excited over a simple weird pot? "Heck, I bet if you ask nicely they'll even let you keep it."

Sure enough, the science nins took one look at the pot and told him to take it home. After all, with all the valuables they'd just gained, what was one copper teapot? He put it in his room, carefully hidden under his bed while he cleaned up his apartment from the devastation that the mob had inflicted on it this year. Somewhere along the way, he'd buried the lamp deep under his bed, next to a cup of ramen that had escaped his notice.

It wasn't until after he graduated from the ninja academy that he even thought about the strange little pot he'd gotten from the cavern exploration.

Well, when you track down blue smoke that filled your bedroom to said teapot, it tends to be a little hard to ignore. And for the first time ever, he could actually read the inscription, that wasn't there before or was it? Anyhow it seemed important.

"Rub the lamp to get everything you ever dreamed of and more," was what it read, and for some reason, it made Naruto hungry for ramen. Five minutes later he was back with a bowl of the noodles from heaven, and studying the teapot, it was an odd thing to call a lamp, but it might have been from before they learned to use chakra or electricity.

Sitting there, he slurped his ramen and reread the message engraved in the side of the 'lamp', pondering if he should do what it said. It wouldn't be the first time that he'd been tricked by someone leaving a message for him on an object. "Maybe I should get jii-san..."

When the 'lamp' began to highly the 'Rub the lamp' part of the message in neon blue letters, he really began to wonder if he hadn't hit his head a little too hard during his fight with Sasuke earlier today. Or maybe it was the love tap Sakura gave him to the top of his head, that left him impressed into the cement up to his eyes. He wasn't quite sure on the details there.

Finishing his bowl of ramen, he debated getting another as the 'lamp' sat there waiting for him to do something else. He really didn't want to fall for a trap again, but it was something he shouldn't draw others into if he could help it, so his mind went to the easiest subject for him to digest. Ramen.

Ramen was goodness brought down from the heavens above, and poured out into a bowl for the unworthy masses of humanity to sample before ascending to the endless seas of the wondrous broth, where the noodles swam free, while giant pieces of beef, pork, shrimp, miso, and egg floated lazily, giving rest to the spirits before they were consumed and the great migration to the source of all holy ramen was continued.

. . .

Oh right, maybe it was time to move on from his mind.

It would seem that the 'lamp' was sick of waiting, for while Naruto prayed to the heavens with a vacant expression, and a line of drool pouring out of his mouth, it poured out a blue arm with a golden band clasped around its wrist. The arm reached over, grabbed the boy by the collar of his kill-me-now-orange jumpsuit and yanked him over until he was inches from the 'lamp'. Very calmly it pointed to the words 'Rub' and 'lamp'.

How it managed it so precisely, he would never figure out, but he figured that if it wanted him to rub the lamp badly enough to drag him over by his collar, it was time do what it said and rub it. So he did, and out popped a cloud of blue smoke, which revealed A giant naked blue man with a red belt, two golden arm bracers, muscles to make a body builder cry, and an earring in his right ear. It seemed like only a side note that he noticed the tiny tuft of black hair on his head and chin strap beard with a curled tip or that it's legs were missing, replaced by a plume of smoke. "Ten-million years can give you such a crick in the..." whatever the hell it was started before being cut off.

"I NEED AN ADULT!" Naruto shouted, before getting a massive blue finger pressed against his mouth. The giant blue naked man smiled warmly as he leaned in to talk softly to Naruto.

"Listen kid, I'm a freelance genie here for your wish fulfillment, no limits save can't kill, bring back the dead, or make someone fall in love with you. Other than that, I've stopped your place from being burnt down about five times, destroyed about ten times, and only asked for a bit of ramen you left behind as payment..." he stated calmly while removing his finger. "Let's try this again, I'm Robin Williams, but you can call me Genie."

"Why can't I call you Robin?" Naruto asked curiously while he looked at the giant blue man. "Umm... thanks for helping me out though."

"Eh, I got the other name off this guy... umm... a loooooong time ago..." Genie answered with a shrug, "I prefer the name Genie... been mine for WAY more centuries than I care to count."

"I see... well I'm Naruto... nice to meet ya..."

"How can I help ya out?" Genie asked, seeing Naruto's eyes glaze over and drool forming a river out the side of his mouth. "Umm... the ramen I can do, but... how about we see what else you need too..."

"Huh? Oh uh... right... so... how do we keep you secret?" Naruto asked indicating the blue smoke instead of legs, and well... his BLUEness without many words used.

"Oh, I'll just ride around in your pocket or something, no big," Genie answered before shrinking to the size of a ryuu. "See?"

Naruto did the most logical thing he could think of.

He fainted.