NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.

Teuchi nodded and pulled out a pad, "So what will you have kid?"

Naruto thought on it for a moment, "Give me three bowls of Miso back to back, four beefs, and what the hell, two vegetable ramen. Variety right?"

Teuchi laughed to himself, "Yeah, variety… right. It'll be right out Naruto."

Naruto tried to hide it, but the subtle tapping of the underside of the counter, along with the kicking motions his legs would sometimes make let it be known that he was actually anticipating his meal. Before he ended up getting his food he ended up getting a tap on the shoulder from a familiar face.

Turning to face the person who had tried getting his attention, Naruto came face to face with the eye -smile of Kakashi Hatake, "How are you doing Naruto? Long time no see."

Naruto let a ghost of a smile come onto his features as he faced his genin cell leader, "Hey Kakashi. What brings you here?"

Kakashi took a seat next to Naruto, "Well, I heard you were back in town and I thought, why not go see my old genin? So how have you been?" Naruto shrugged, "I can't complain really. I'm definitely kept busy that's for sure. I can only imagine what baa-chan has you doing 'Sharingan no Kakashi', she overloading you with A and S-ranked missions or what?"

Kakashi laughed lightly as Teuchi brought Naruto his first bowl. The boy dug in after a small utterance of 'Itadakimasu'. Kakashi ordered a small bowl of chicken ramen, "Yeah pretty much, though she has given me something else to do these days."

Naruto paused from his utter decimation of the hapless bowl of ramen to turn a curious eye to the masked jounin, "Really? What's she got you doing now? I bet it's something irksome."

Kakashi's eye-smile never faded, "You shouldn't talk about yourself like that Naruto. You may be a handful at times, but calling yourself irksome is just self-deprecating." Naruto looked up at Kakashi with the last remnants of his bowl of noodles hanging from his mouth, "Huh?" He mumbled out through the bits of food.

Kakashi pointed at the hot, fresh bowl that Teuchi had set in front of Naruto to return his attention to his food for the most part, "Tsunade-sama has informed me that in your forthcoming missions I will be your commanding jounin."

Naruto started choking on his food out of surprise. After much effort with him beating himself in the stomach and Kakashi patting his back he finally got the food down the right pipe, "You're going to be leading me and whatever team I get on my missions?"

"Yep!" Kakashi chirped happily. Standing up the man placed his money on the counter, "Well this has been nice talking to you for a bit Naruto. Hopefully we can do it more when we're working together. It'll be just like old times. Hard to believe it's only been a little over a year." Naruto snickered to himself, "Yeah just like old times, except instead of picking up dog crap we'll be babysitting merchants and wiping nobles' asses." Something came to Naruto's attention, "Hey Kakashi, aren't you going to eat?" As he turned he saw that Kakashi had left the stand. Looking at Kakashi's empty bowl a smile came to his face as he returned to his meal, "I've got to learn how he does that…"

XxX

'Go home, go to sleep, find someone to bother all day tomorrow. Yep, that's a good plan.' Naruto thought to himself as he again made his way through the streets of Konoha. As he drew closer to his apartment he began to realize how good of a view he had from his apartment. He chuckled to himself as he remembered what his goal had been when he had his seals and the task given to him by Danzo, "Ha, I never had a chance did I? Of course I was going to want to be Hokage. If four big gigantic faces were staring you in the face every morning when you left the house wouldn't you get somewhat curious about it?"

'Meh, no need to worry about that now. I've got more pressing issues to worry about these days. I'm ten years off before I need to think about Hokage.' Breaking himself from his thoughts he noticed the looks he was getting from the people around him. As usual the older people were glaring and wishing death on him with their eyes, but he didn't care. They didn't have the power or the balls to try anything against him these days.

More importantly he saw that people closer to his own age weren't malicious in their looks at all. The combined rumors of what he had done during the invasion, with the defeat of Gaara, and the routing of a few squads of Oto ninja, coupled with his feats since then had trickled down to those of his own age group, as evident by the comments he could hear from a few of them. "That's the kid that made the crater a few miles from the border."

"I'd sure hate to have to fight that guy."

"I heard he lives in the Forest of Death. No joke, he keeps the spiders that live there like his pets or something."

"Those whisker marks make him look kind of cute."

The second to last comment made him sweatdrop, 'Pets my ass... Who comes up with this crap?' The last comment made him face-fault. Picking himself up off of the ground with a sheepish smile as he heard giggles from the girls that had said it.

Walking it off, he heard a familiar yell, "Naruto-niisan!"

Naruto turned and rolled his eyes, 'What, did someone send out a press release saying that I came back today?' Despite that thought, Naruto had a smile on his face as Konohamaru, Moegi, and Udon came running over to him, "Hey guys. What's up, don't you have school today?"

Konohamaru grinned up at the scarred blonde, "Boss it's the weekend, we don't have class today!"

Naruto looked at the trio and let out a laugh, "Yeah, well I guess time flies when you don't care what day it is. Remember guys, at some point you'll stop caring what day of the week it is, and when that happens then you can say that you've reached my level of apathy toward the things around you."

The kids sweatdropped, not knowing whether or not he was serious and followed along as he turned to head home. Konohamaru ran up to his side, "So boss, where have you been? I haven't seen you in forever."

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