The sun was just beginning to peek its head over the horizon. The birds had begun their dawn chorus. In the apartment of Uzumaki Naruto, the dawn chorus had a lead singer. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! However, Naruto did not like this particular singer. BEEP! BEEP! CRASH!
Ahh, the broken alarm clock chorus; it's not truly morning without it. Naruto rolled out of bed onto the floor with a 'thud.'
"Damn single bed..." he mumbled as he began to stretch. As he went to the bathroom the mirror caught his eye. He could see 2 red-orange fox ears poking out from the top of his blond mess of hair. There was also a long tail swaying carefree behind him.
"Genjutsu must'a gone off during the night," he said to himself as he yawned.
"Yeah, when you're sleeping you can't concentrate on it so it disappears. This could pose a problem if you want to hide the foxy accessories from your team on long missions," Kyuubi lectured. 'I'll just bring a one man tent'. "You also might want to get your pants on."
"Oh," Naruto said realizing his pajama bottoms were still down around his ankles. How he managed to walk so far without tripping he couldn't understand. Then again, he couldn't understand anything in the morning. Naruto was never a morning person; it usually took him about five to ten minutes to fully wake up.
He went to his closet and started searching through his clothing. With a loud "HA!" in triumph he held up a pair of black pants with an orange stripe down the sides of the legs. The Hokage had gotten them for him as a present. Why he hadn't worn them, he couldn't remember. He also pulled out a black t-shirt, then got dressed. He tied his signature orange jacket around his waist.
He made some toast to eat for his breakfast, replaced the genjutsu, and was out the door by seven. He quickly made his way to the academy with only one thing on his mind: Hinata. As he got to the academy he went past an arguing Ino and Sakura, who pretended to ignore him. He went straight to where Hinata was seated.
She noticed he was coming her way and her cheeks instantly turned crimson.
"H-hello n-Naruto I-I'm glad w-we both p-passed," she said so quietly Naruto could barely hear her.
"Yeah, me too!" he replied happily. Hinata realized he replied and turned a deeper shade of red.
"So Hinata, are you doing anything tonight?" She instantly froze upon the question.
"N-n-no" she said shakily.
"Well, maybe we can do something together tonight?" Naruto asked happily.
"L-like a d-d-date?" she asked, surprised. Sakura and Ino had stopped arguing and were watching the scene attentively.
"No, not like a date, a date. How about dinner? Pick you up at the academy at 8?" Naruto said. "If she gets any redder she's bound to pass out due o all the blood in her face," the resident demon commented.
"Y-yes!" Hinata screeched, then fell backwards, passing out. Naruto grabbed her and gently leaned her forward onto the desk. She was still bright red, but now it looked like she was sleeping on the desk.
"Oi, Naruto, what did you do to her?" Kiba asked as he came closer. Naruto then realized that everyone was looking at him. Even Sasuke turned to raise an eyebrow. Naruto rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"I just asked her out, and then she fainted. At least she said yes."
Kiba came over and slapped him on the back. "Good job on getting your first date!" Naruto grinned. Akamaru yipped to his master.
"Hey, you do smell different. Did you spend the night in a fox's den or something?" Kiba asked while patting the little dog on the head.
"Huh, why?" Naruto asked nervously.
