"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" Kakashi has to admit, he loves seeing the enemies face when they are suddenly surrounded by solid Naruto clones. One is definitely enough, but one hundred?

"You'll pay for that!" various clones yell, all rushing forwards at once. Several are destroyed just by the stampede. Kakashi sighs a little. He'll have to talk to Naruto about that after the battle. He does has a lot of chakra, but there's no point in wasting it. Meanwhile, the clones are pounding the bandit down into the ground.

"Na-ru-to! Uzumaki barrage!" In the fray, the real Naruto is pushed into the river. He quickly surfaces, spurting out water like a fish. He's drenched, and his hair falls flat upon his head instead of spiking up like it normally does.

"Hey!" he yells. "Watch it, will ya?" The shadow clones, after some mass high-fiving, poof out of existence. Naruto drags himself onto the bank and shakes his head, water flying out of his hair. "Stupid clones..." he grumbles.

"Good job, Naruto," Kakashi praises, walking forwards to look at the battered bandit. The man is completely still, but not dead. He's going to be sore for a while, though. Kakashi hoists the man up none too gently and slings him over his back. "Let's get him back to his village, and then it's mission complete."

"Well done, dobe," Sasuke smirks as Naruto walks past him, dripping. "Only an idiot like you could get knocked into the water by his own shadow clones."

"Shut up!" Naruto yells. "At least I didn't get knocked unconscious by a bandit! He didn't even have ninja training, Sasuke-teme!" Sasuke clenches his fist and practically growls at Naruto.

"Who says we get some ramen when we get back to Konoha, hey, Naruto?" Kakashi intervenes, eager to stop the squabble before they end up bashing each other.

"Alright!" Naruto yells. "You're treating us, right, sensei?"

"What?! No, I-"

"Thanks, sensei," Sakura says. "We really feel like a team when you treat us to lunch."

Sasuke watches coldly as Kakashi sighs in exasperation. 'I will surpass you, Naruto. There's no way I'm going to be beaten by a dead last.'

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"Ah - Ahchoo!"

The next day, Team 7 are on a D-rank mission. An unsurprisingly mind-numbingly dull one. They're picking weeds - picking weeds! - for some farmer. "Why can't he farm his only stupid fields?" Naruto complains between sneezes. "It's his job! A great ninja like me shouldn't have to be doing stupid chores like this!"

"Just think of it as training," Kakashi says from where he's perched on the fence, his copy of Icha Icha Paradise open in his hand. "A ninja is one who endures."

"Easy for you to say," Sakura shoots back. "You're not doing anything!" Behind her, Naruto sniffs loudly. She turns around and whacks him on the head. "Don't be so disgusting!" He falls to the floor, clutching his head dramatically. "I wish there was some way to speed this up, though. Naruto's actually right for once."

"I know! Shadow clones will get this done twice as fast!" Naruto says from where he's sitting on the floor, his hand already forming the clone hand seal. "Ka-HACHOO! bunshin no jutsu!" There's a huge cloud of smoke, and Sakura waves her hand in front of her face frantically, coughing.

"Watch it, you idiot!" She's met with silence. "Naruto?" Once the smoke clears, she sees his body lying on the floor."Naruto? Are you okay?"

By this point, Kakashi has gotten up from the fence post and is crouched by Naruto's side. He checks his vitals, and is relieved to see that they're fine. "His sneeze must have interfered with the jutsu somehow. He's knocked himself unconscious." 'Only you could do this, Naruto,' he thinks, exasperated.

"Like you really care," says a voice. It's coming from behind them, but they were sure that they were the only ones around. They're on guard instantly, hands poised to grab their kunai. But once they see the person talking, they freeze. He looks just like their blonde comrade, but slightly older and with bright red hair. Standing next to him are five other Naruto's, descending in age, each with different coloured hair. Red, orange, green, blue, purple, pink. The one who spoke, the red-haired one, has his fists clenched in anger. "You've never given a damn about him really, have you?" He takes a kunai from his pouch, ready to attack them. The other Naruto's just look on in varying stages of exasperation. "Well, this is where it ends! I defeat you all, and show you that I'm a better ninja than any of you will ever be!"

A/N - This idea has been rolling around in my head for a while now so I figured I'd try to get it down into words. But I'm not the best writer, as you can see XD

This'll probably have quite a few more chapters. I want to explore the other sides of Naruto.

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