Tangled Vines

Chapter 1

Naruto was an orphan, not a particularly strong orphan, but he did have some modicum of intellect. He always knew about the fox in the back of his head, they were on decent terms, he just didn't care to alert anybody about that as they seemed to hate him enough already. Nothing much happened to him, I mean sure the villagers disliked him and tried to sell him the worst foods and clothes, but he just put that down to being a the Kyuubi's jailor and an orphan. Although he was alone, he was moderately happy. He had a shelter, food, and clothes so he didn't expect anything to really change. His mask of stupidity was worn for the few that truly hated him, but of course nobody saw through it until that awful day. 

Present-Naruto:

Sakura was being a bitch, no other explanation needed, and Naruto was about to go batshit crazy. He could barely hold his shit together with the terrible night he had, and it was only the alcohol in his knapsack that was keeping him sane. So he liked to drink and occasionally smoke, sue him. He knew that with the amount of chakra he had running through him thanks to the Kyuubi he could never get sick from them. Hell, the alcohol barely gave him a nice buzz. But, back to the banshee. She was screeching and whining and kept attempting to hit him over the head. Naruto breathed in deeply; stuffed a stupid smile on his face; and grabbed one of the hidden bottles of frog sake, the good stuff, from his bag. He proceeded to take a large sip from the bottle, looking of course like he was drinking water, and was going in for a second when he heard Kakashi pop in. "Thank god," Naruto thought to himself as he rebrought the bottle to his lips. That was, until Kakashi seemed to sniff the air and look over at Naruto."Fuck!" Naruto mentally screamed, "Of course he knows what alcohol smells like dipshit! You'll be lucky f he doesn't call you out now!" However, Naruto as we soon will learn, was never lucky.

"Naruto," Kakashi began slowly, "What is that you're holding?" As he looked over at the bottle Naruto was cautiously holding. Naruto sighed, knowing that he'd have to explain now. "It is-" he started before Sakura restarted her bitching."It's just water Kakashi." she sneered at me, "God you should know that! Naruto is too stupid to want to drink anything else. Right Sasuke?" she finished looking at her fascination. Sasuke said nothing, but he too looked as me like he was wondering what Kakashi was thinking, and how superior he was to everybody here. Kakashi was not deterred. 

"Naruto," He began again, "Why does your breath and the area around you smell like alcohol?" I of course refused to give in without a fight, I had hidden my perversions for years and I wasn't going to just let them all come to light without a second thought."What do you mean Kakashi? Alcohol?!" Kakashi just narrowed his eyes and moved closer to me. In a blink he had grabbed my bottle of sake and pressed it to his lips. "This is frog sake," he murmured softly, but obviously not softly enough because Sakura once again started up with the incessant screeching. 

"Frog Sake!!" she screeched, "Why would Naruto have frog sake?! Not even my Sasuke drinks frog sake and he's so much better than Naruto!" Kakashi turned to me with a glint in his only showing eye, "That's exactly what I'd like to know. Why do you have alcohol on you Naruto?"

I sighed and started to explain about how when I finally graduated from the academy I had wanted to try everything adults could do. Alcohol, tattoos, cigarettes, porn, sex all of it. After Sakura's annoying bitching toned down once again I continued with the explanation on how at the end of my trying period, the only things I decided to do regularly were the cigarettes and the alcohol. Then I mentioned on how with my stamina, the alcohol I was drinking had to be really strong to even give me a buzz, that's why I was drinking the frog sake. 

Kakashi just looked at me for a second, as if he had never seen me before, then stated that is was time for our first c-rank mission. Having had one secret already discovered, I did not want to lose anymore so I jumped up and ran around like my ass was on fire. In all reality I was glad we were  getting a better mission, but I was so mad about my alcohol being discovered that it wasn't worth it.

Time skip:

We headed into Konoha and made our way to the missions desk where we met up with Jiji and Iruka. Jiji looked at up with barely concealed amusement in his eyes at Sakur , Sasuke, and me, then looked over to Kakashi to see what sort of mission we would have to complete today. "Hokage I think they are finally ready for their first c-rank." Kakashi said with an eye smile. After the Hokage sent Iruka into the next room to pick up the scroll for the c-rank and approach the client to tell them that their mission was to be completed. 

As this was happening Jiji looked over at Kakashi and asked why we were all late today, and instead of responding Kakashi just looked over at me and raised an eyebrow. Jiji took that as an invitation to ask me, so I replied with the plain facts. "Kakashi found out that I have a habit of drinking Frog Sake. I was then told to inform him as to why I even knew what it was, and 'cause of that we were late."

Jiji looked over at Kakashi to make sure I wasn't lying, and when Kakashi nodded back he turned his gaze to me and told me to repeat why I had done this. I repeated the story adding in that since I was a genin I technically was an adult and allowed legally to do this. At that point Iruka brought in the client, who seemed to be an old, drunken man. Jiji gazed at me as if to say that this conversation wasn't finished, then looked over to adress the client. The drunkenness oozed off the man and he was even holding a bottle of some wave country alcohol. I of course being me, and having my drinking secret known to most present decided to try the alcohol, as the only kinds I could get were Frog sake and whatever else was in Konoha so, not much. 

When I took a swig of his drink the man's eyeballs practically popped out of his head. That shit was hardcore and I was loving every minute of it. "Fuck that's some good booze." I sighed, then looked around at the people present. The old man looked at me with appreciation in his gaze while my teammates and teacher looked at me as if I'd lost my mind. Jiji just put his hand to his temples, and I had apparently shocked Iruka into silence. 

The old man looked at me for another second and then looked over at my teammates as if he expected them to start drinking too. When they didn't he did some sort of pout and turned back to the Hokage. Jiji had his Hokage face on, meaning he was not up for this crap today, and labeled out what our mission was. When he finished Kakashi just took one last look at the client, then me and declared that we would meet at the front gate in 3 hours. Plenty of time for me to stock up my alcohol and the other things I would need for the trip.