Sleep in

The gentle sun lulled Naruto back to sleep as his decision was made for him. Again, he slept as soundly as a baby, comfortable and content in his own bed. His night cap fell over his eyes as he snoozed. He felt his dreams come back as if they had never left them.

He was 14 again. He was walking toward the Hokage Mountain. He felt other people following him. Sakura, as cute as ever, was next to him. "Bushy Brow" Lee walked behind her with the usual gleam in his eye. Looking quickly over his shoulder he saw Shikamaru with his lazy stare, Iruka was there smiling widely, Neji was looking in another direction, and he could only marvel at the size of Akamaru's teeth as he stood with Kiba. In the far back of the group, he could see a purple-haired girl he'd never seen before ? she seemed to notice his stare and quickly hid from him. These were his fellow villagers?these were his friends. He smiled in his sleep as he dreamed of them.

Somewhere after his dream of the people he'd missed when he was gone, Naruto woke. Something had woken him. He could have sworn he'd heard a noise by his window. He took off his cap got out of bed and looked, but no one was there. He looked over to his nightstand trying to check the time. Cursing at himself, he remembered his struggles with the alarm and how he'd broken the clock earlier.

Looking up at the sun, he could tell it was noon. "I'm late!" he yelled to himself.

He quickly grabbed his towel and ran into the bathroom, knocking over most of his stuff along the way. When he got into the bathroom he hung up his towel and quickly fussed with the knobs to turn on the water before he got in, absently knocking a bar of soap to the floor in the process. As he attempted to jump into the shower, he stepped on the soap he'd dropped and hit his head on the toilet, knocking himself ****.

Even before Naruto opened his eyes he could feel the pounding in his head, like thunder rumbling the Earth. He could vaguely make out a small, sweet voice in the distance. As he began to stir, the voice yelped and left the room.

Naruto's eyes felt heavy as he opened them. Sakura stood at the foot of his bed with an angry look on her face. "You just had to be born a moron didn't you?"

He tried to understand what he was doing in the hospital. The last thing he remembered was stomping on his alarm clock.

"You're lucky you didn't break your toilet with that thick head of yours. If she hadn't heard you Hin-," Sakura started.

"Wait, what?" Naruto asked.

"You probably don't remember," she sighed. "I'm guessing you were rushing into the shower when you slipped and hit your head on the toilet. Whatever the case may be, you're bedridden for the rest of the day."

"Well there goes my day off," was all Naruto could say.

A/N: Mission: Fail! Slipped on the bar of soap. How lame. Go back to the beginning and try making some different decisions!