Chapter 265

It was early in the morning and Naruto was grinning to himself as he threw aside the curtain to his favorite ramen stand. Taking a seat at his stool his grin widened as the heavenly aroma of ramen hit his nose. "Oi! Teuchi-ojisan! I'm ready to get my fill and make up for lost time!"

Both Teuchi and Ayame came out from the back and one grinned while the other smiled, "Well look who came back from the dead. You know we haven't seen you for a while. We were wondering where our favorite customer went."

"Yeah, Ero-sennin had me tag along while he went to go bring back Tsunade-baa-chan, remember?" The blond clapped his hands together, "Now I believe I'll start off with four bowls of Miso, two bowls of beef, one bowl of shrimp and…oh what the hell, two bowls of vegetable!"

"Comin' right up!" Teuchi grinned as he went to make the ramen. Meanwhile Ayame leaned over the counter and propped her face on the butt of her hands, giving the boy who she had known since he was six a grin.

"So anything new happening Naruto-kun?"

Naruto clicked his tongue for a moment in thought, "Not too much…oh! I did get promoted to Chunin yesterday!"

"Chunin huh?" Ayame turned her head to look at her dad, "You hear that tou-san! Looks like our little Naruto just got promoted to Chunin!"

"I guess that means the first one will be on the house then!" Teuchi shouted back as he came in with a bowl of steaming ramen, "Here ya go kid!"

"Oh hell yeah!" Naruto grabbed onto a pair of chopsticks and with a shout of 'Itadakimasu' dug in.

"So what do you think you're going to be doing now that you're a Chunin?"

Naruto looked up at Ayame as he finished devouring his first bowl of noodles, causing the ramen waitress to giggle as she saw a few noodles hanging out of his mouth. He slurped them up before giving her a grin, "Well I won't really be a part of Team Seven anymore. Tsunade-baa-chan told me that she's going to have me gain more experience by moving around teams, sometimes I'll be with Jonin and other Chunin and other times she's going to have me leading squads of Genin."

"Does it bother you that you won't be with that Sakura girl anymore," Truth be told, Ayame never liked Sakura because of the way she treated Naruto.

"Not really." Naruto shrugged, "I got over her a long time ago, well, a few months ago. In any case there are girls a lot better than Sakura out there."

"You mean like that blond Kumo kunoichi who came here a few times," Ayame grinned a bit, amused to see Naruto blush. "She came here quite often you know, asking questions about what kind of person you were and what kinds of ramen you liked."

"Yeah I kinda figured you two were the ones who gave her that information," They were really the only ones who knew anything solid about him besides Sarutobi, who was dead, and maybe Anko and Tenten.

"Then there's also that girl with the buns, Tenten I think her name was right? You hang out around here with her quite a bit."

"That's true. But I don't think I'm in a relationship with either of them," Naruto got his blush under control quicker than normal. "Though I won't deny both of them are really cool to hang with."

Not to mention both are hot, He thought to himself, not sure whether saying that out loud in front of a girl was a good idea, after all so far most of the females he knew exploded over the simplest things.

'You just don't know when to keep your mouth shut is all,' Kyuubi's voice came up after hearing his thoughts.

'Hey! I'll have you know I've gotten a lot better at that!'

'Oh really?' Kyuubi grinned as she combed her tails.

'Of course! I haven't said anything to upset anyone in the past week!'

'What about Anko?'

Naruto shivered as he remembered how angry she was with his prank, 'That was different, she deserved it. And I knew what I was doing.'

'Yeah until her snakes tried to turn your balls blue.'

Naruto couldn't keep the scowl off his face, he could feel Kyuubi's smug grin as he cut the connection.

"Are you okay Naruto-kun?"

Naruto looked up to see Ayame looking at him with some concern. He gave her a reassuring grin, "Of course I am Ayame-nee-chan! Now time to tackle that ramen!"

Ayame giggled a bit as Naruto began destroying the next poor bowl of ramen that was set in front of him.

"Good morning Baa-chan!" Naruto ducked under the customary paperweight that was thrown at his head as he hopped off the window sill.

"Disrespectful gaki…" Tsunade muttered with narrowed eyes, "What do you want, can't you see I'm busy?"

Naruto grinned, "Yeah, because sitting here drinking sake is really hard work right?"

Tsunade gawked at him, "How did you…" She flushed as she saw him tap his nose and remembered he could likely smell the sake on her from a mile away. "Right well, what are you here for?"

Naruto opened his mouth to speak before he saw something that made him frown, "Baa-chan, did you know all the piles of your paperwork are in the wrong stacks."

"Huh?" Tsunade stared at him blankly, "What the hell are you talking about brat?"

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