Naruto noisily vaulted over the wall. The moment he landed, he spotted Uzumaki Kaori from next door airing blankets on her second-floor balcony.
"Yo, Naruto, did you oversleep again?" Kaori stood on the balcony with one hand on her hip, grinning as she teased Naruto, who was racing down the street.
"Ahhh! Kaori, don't say that! Menma will scold me!" With bread clenched between his teeth and panic written all over his face, Naruto leaped onto Kaori's roof and quickly bounded away.
Like that, Naruto rapidly leaped from rooftop to rooftop.
Watching his retreating figure hop across the roofs, Kaori smiled and shook her head.
Before long, Naruto landed in front of Sasuke's house. He swallowed the bread in his mouth in a few quick bites, nearly choking himself before hurriedly forcing it down.
Then he raised his voice and shouted, "Sasuke! Are you home—"
Bang!
Before he could finish, a black figure landed behind Naruto and punched him on the head, smashing him straight into the ground.
Naruto's face made intimate contact with the earth with a dull thud.
"Are you an idiot?" Dressed in a black, tight-fitting outfit, Sasuke crossed his arms and looked down at Naruto sprawled on the ground as though he were looking at a fool.
"You make this much noise every time you come. You really never get tired of it." With that, Sasuke turned and headed toward the training ground.
Naruto sprang up with a kip-up and, still full of energy, chased after Sasuke. "Wasn't I in a hurry? It's almost nine! We're going to be late!"
"Idiot. Nine is only the time we're meeting Senior Sazun," Sasuke said coldly as he walked.
On the second-floor balcony of Sasuke's house, Mikoto, who had been mopping the floor, heard the commotion and leaned over