A/N: I know I said I had the next chapter all typed up and everything but I really wasn't expecting a mini-harem. I just threw in that option at a whim.

Anyways, I looked over a few things in recent chapters and noticed something…I forgot to bold Kyuubi's speech. (Stupid right?) Oh well, I'll just start now.

I learned how to make page dividers! Yayz! Now for my next task, how to divide a strand of the universe to create an unlimited supply of pizza...(slober) To ambitious maybe?

Chapter 7

Semi-Filler

"Naruto…" sighed the great demon from his cage.

'Yes?' asked the ever-so-oblivious blonde as he continued on with his work. The kitsune had a twitch that was slowly growing in intensity on his left eye and it didn't seem to be getting close to stopping any time soon.

The fox was about to say something before a screeching voice yelled," Naruto! You're not supposed to cut the herbs!" The boy in question blinked and looked around himself.

"But Sakura no Bansh- err…I mean Sakura, what's the difference between grass and herbs? They both grow from the ground and they're green!" exclaimed the jinchuriki. On the other side of the field sat Sasuke as he pushed the lawn mower across the field. He pointedly ignored the sounds of a Naruto-massacre coming from the other side as Sakura had managed to get her hands on the boy.

The scare-crow…I mean Kakashi sat in a tree reading his book while giggling every so often. Strangely, Sasuke had the feeling that the jounin actually didn't hear the noises of," Ow, goddammit woman, what the hell do your parents feed you! You hit like a- OW! Quit it!"

Sasuke turned o the scene and glared at Sakura while thinking,' Yeah Sakura, get off of Naruto-kun! Only I'm allowed t- What the hell? What was I thinking, I'm nor gay!'

…The author doesn't believe so.

After several minutes, Sakura walked away from the pile of flesh previously known as Uzumaki Naruto. Even as the air-head was walking away from the unfortunate container, Naruto's body was busy healing itself while Kyuubi said," I tried to tell you kit."

The 'pile of flesh' twitched as it snorted, accidentally causing blood to fly up his nostrils. 'And a fat load of help that did Kyu.' Complained the blonde.

ooOoo

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"…Naruto?"

"Shut up."

"…For the last time, it was an accident!"

"Accident, my ass! You fucking lit me on fire, during a spar! A fricken spar!"

Sasuke scratched the back of his head sheepishly at the bandaged blonde in front of him as Kakashi snapped at the mummy wanna-be…err…I mean Naruto."Naruto, watch your language!"

Naruto raised his hand in protest but winced in pain as his burnt arm sent a shock through his nerves. The young wind bender (lolz) settled for yelling and said," Make me!"

An evil gleam appeared in Kakashi's eye as he said," Weeellll, I just happened to be thinking about giving our team a C-rank mission but since you're being so bad…"

Sasuke promptly reached over and slammed his hand on the blonde's back bringing a cry of pain from the burn victim making the jinchuriki crumble onto the bed. "He'll be good" said the Uchiha, letting the 'or else…' hang in the air. At this motion, Sakura grew hearts in her eyes and stared at Sasuke thinking,' So cool!'

Kakashi eye-smiled though he internally winced. That had to hurt.

Meanwhile, the pain-delirious blonde lay on the bed. "Oooohh, so that's the secret to grandma's cookies!"

The two genin and jounin stared at their teammate and sweat dropped.

'I think we broke him…' was thought by all of them…except for Kakashi who then added,' I guess it's too late for a refund?'

ooOoo

Naruto laid on the hospital bed pouting. Why you ask? Well, let's take a look at his thoughts shall we?...What's that? You're scared for your sanity? Oh please, who cares about a few hundred thousand brain cells which are essential for life and keep your heart beating…never mind, just forget that.

'I don't care if he promised us a C-rank mission. All the other teams already got one. For Kami's sake, who the hell makes people do 137 D-rank missions before deciding that they're team might be adequate enough for them to consider giving them a harder mission? No one, that's who!'

The kitsune sighed as he was forced to endure the endless rant. "You do realize a part of the reason is because you keep messing up during the missions right?"

The jinchuriki scowled and said,' So, what if I accidentally set a house on fire, I didn't know the house was covered in flammable material.'

"What about when-"

'And so what if I neutered the wrong dog, they all look the same to me!'

"Ok…now how about that time when you-"

'I don't regret turning that fish into sushi. It had it coming.'

"…"

'Hmm…Huh, so that's why we haven't done any C-rank missions.'

"Glad you understand kit."

The blonde's scowl deepened as he said,' I hate it when you make me see the fairness in everything.' He could feel the fox inside of the seal give the equivalent of a smug smirk.

Naruto flopped down on his bed and stared at the ceiling trying to make time go faster so he could be released from the hospital.

Unknown to most, if not all, people there was a reason why Naruto had so much energy. The seal containing the Kyuubi was designed to let a minute amount of its chakra to flow into Naruto after purifying it. Problem is, the seal was created with adults, or at the very least of a 16 year-old in mind.

Because of this, Naruto's coils were being overloaded with chakra and A.) were forced to expand B.) Naruto was super-charged with energy at all time and C.) perhaps the most important part, made it so that Naruto had so much energy that he couldn't sleep. This was the reason why Naruto was always found training or doing some other obscene activity; he enjoyed the feeling of rest it gave him. (This particular bit was borrowed from a story called 'Uprooted')

Add all these facts together and it shouldn't be too much of a surprise when Naruto suddenly got out of bed and glanced at the window and the door. Putting an ear to the door, he listened for any evidence of footsteps for several minutes. Satisfied, he gave his arm a shake to make sure there was no more damage before walking over to the window and pulling it open.

As the cool night air hit Naruto's face, he took in a deep breath and felt invigorated. 'Hey Kyu, do you think we can go practice that new jutsu?'

"I'm bored, you're bored, so why the hell not?"

A grin graced his faced as he stepped onto the window sill and prepared to leap out into the evening air.

ooOoo

Knock knock knock.

"Hello? Naruto, are you in there?" asked a feminine voice.

After several seconds, the door opened revealing a red-headed girl with pink eyes. Said eyes scanned the room and found the bed to be empty. She walked into the room and glanced around. "Huh, I guess I got the wrong room."

Miku turned around and exited the door…and almost walked into a blue-haired girl. Both of the girls stumbled back a little before regaining their balance. The red-head scratched the back of her head sheepishly saying," Sorry about that, I probably should be paying more attention next time. Anyways, my name's Miku, nice to meet you."

The dark-blue haired girl blushed a little in embarrassment and stuttered," I-It's okay. My name is H-Hinata."

Miku adopted a thoughtful expression on her face and put her hand on her chin."Hinata…Hinata…Hmm, sounds familiar." Hinata stood in front of Miku awkwardly waiting for the pink-eyed girl to remember whatever it was.

Miku suddenly snapped her fingers as a happy expression crossed her face." I remember now, you're one of the girls from Naruto's class!" Hinata's eyes widened in surprise as she said," W-What?"

Before anything else could be done, Miku continued asking," Were you about to visit Naruto too? Well, you're here so of course you came to visit him. Anyways, I was just in their but he wasn't there. Do you know where he is?"

Slightly taken aback at the sudden question, Hinata shook her head no and watched Miku's head droop a little before it brightened back up." Oh well, I guess I can talk to you. If you're really as nice as Naruto says then we'll be friends real quick" said Miku with a large smile on her face.

Hinata's eye's managed to widen even more as a dangerous blush formed on her face."N-Naruto-kun s-s-said I was n-nice?"

Miku smiled happily with her eyes closed and exclaimed," Yup!"…and then she was forced to catch the unconscious form of the Hyuuga heiress as it fell on her.

"Eh? What did I do?" (aww how adorable...think I exaggerated that too much?)

ooOoo

Early the next day, Kakashi went to training ground 7 (Making up a number) to talk a bit with his fallen friend at the Memorial Stone. It was about an hour before when he told his team to wait for him at the bridge making it 6:00.

As Kakashi walked down the street reading his novel (cough*porn*cough) several villagers were walking about setting up stands or doing some other type of business while shinobi were travelling across the roofs leaving the village for whatever mission they had happened to pick up for that day. Thankfully, or not as the jounin didn't particularly car, nobody paid him any attention and thus, no woman were glaring at him for his reading choice in public.

As he giggled once more, he glanced up to find himself already at his destination and tucked away his book into his kunai pouch (which also contains several special editions of Icha-Icha Paradise along with his kunai and exploding tags…hmm, I'm going to have to exploit that later on in the story…)

He walked in silence towards the blue green monument that was on the side of the field when he heard a snap. Starting to pay attention, he looked around himself and the ground to find one of the most peculiar things.

Littering the training ground was an assortment of wooden chips. All the sizes were varying; from small chips that looked similar to ones found in the playground all the way up to chunks the size of his arm. Honestly, how he had missed this as he walked through the training ground was beyond him, he was supposed to be a jounin goddammit.

As Kakashi let his natural senses stretch out he turned his head to a particular spot several yards away that had a lot of residual chakra hanging around. Pulling a kunai out from his pouch, he carefully approached the area.

Now, Kakashi could claim to have seen a lot of strange things in his life but this one came pretty close to the top.

Lying on the ground was a familiar blonde and white figure. That wasn't the strange part. The strange part was that where Naruto was lying, there were several tree stumps in the ground a bits of tree everywhere. It looked as if something had blown the tree up at several points.

Kakashi glanced at Naruto sleeping on the ground and thought,' What was he working on that he could destroy several trees like that?'

The silver-haired jounin slipped the kunai back into its holster and picked the blonde off of the ground while wiping mulch off of his student. He glanced back towards the monument and whispered," Sorry Obito, I have business to attend to. I'll talk to you later."

With this last comment, he turned around and headed off to Naruto's apartment to drop him off in a bed. After all, he had just got lit on fire by Sasuke the day before and no matter how fast he healed, there was no way he was completely recovered, with or without the Kyuubi.

As Kakashi walked off, an ANBU observed the entire scene and continued her report of Uzumaki Naruto for the Hokage.

A/N:

Also, I'm using word and for some reason, every line after the first one in every paragraph is indented. Does anyone know how to fix this?