Chapter 073

Of course it could have been because Sasuke had been far too tired to actually get angry, not that it mattered to Naruto.

Haku giggled a bit before getting curious, "So…why would you beat the crap out of your own teammate?"

"Training," Naruto chuckled a bit, "I was helping him with his tree climbing."

"Tree climbing?" the raven-haired girl asked in a voice that was a mixture of idle curiosity and awe. She knew what tree climbing was of course, she could do it too, but appearances had to be kept in order to stave off any suspicion that Naruto might gain.

"Yeah, it's an exercise us ninja do," Naruto thought about the best way to explain it. "Basically we ninja use an energy called chakra for all of our cool jutsu, by channeling chakra to the bottom of our feet and this allows us to climb up a vertical surface."

"That's sounds pretty amazing," Haku commented.

"I suppose it is," Naruto said before grinning. "I remember after I had helped him get all the way to the top. Hehe, he looked so smug, thinking he was all badass. I had to burst his bubble by telling he hadn't mastered the technique until he could fight on a vertical surface for one hour as if he was standing on a horizontal one."

Naruto smiled as he looked up at the sky and remembered the beat down he had given Sasuke, "I remember after that Sasuke was pretty pissed for a while. That look on his face was priceless, he looked so…"

"Disgruntled?" Haku suggested when she noticed Naruto having some trouble finding the right word.

"Nah, I'm sure he was disgruntled. But he really just looked constipated," Naruto said as he reached into his kunai pouch.

Haku tensed when she saw his action but covered it with a giggle, "Well that type of training does sound pretty hard."

Naruto nodded as he pulled out a scroll, "Yeah it can be. I remember when my friend Anko was teaching it to me." Naruto shuddered as he laid the scroll on the floor and unrolled it, "She had me run across a single tree while she threw kunai, shuriken and snakes at me…while laughing!"

"She sounds kind of crazy," Haku commented as she watched him channel some chakra into what she recognized as a containment scroll. There was a small puff of smoke as the contents were unsealed, and Haku saw a container of steaming breakfast, pan cakes, bacon and a pitcher of orange juice, all of it laid out over a blanket.

"Breakfast?" Haku asked in surprise, she had not expected him to do something like this. It was oddly heartwarming.

Naruto looked up and gave her a sheepish grin as a small blush spread across his face, "Well, I thought…since I asked you to meet me here and all, it would only be proper that I make you some breakfast…" He looked away as he finished, a small blush spread across his face.

Haku also found herself feeling a little flustered as a tint of pink reached her cheeks,

"Thank you." She said, smiling as she sat down.

"No problem," Naruto grinned at her, handing her a plate as he put some food on it.

Haku accepted the plate and watched as Naruto dished himself some food as well. She looked at the food for a few moments, not ruling out the possibly of the food being poisoned. Such a tactic was often used among ninja when doing assassinations. Usually ninja would do this when their mission was to assassinate a small time thugs or merchants since they would not have enough money to afford someone to check for poisons. This meant that there was a good chance that hers was.