Chapter 107: CH 107
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?"