Team 8/Funny

"Kurenai: Can you track down Sarutobi Konohamaru and Hyuuga Hanabi?
 * Naruto trying to compliment Hinata on the work she's doing in Chapter 3. The key word being "try".
 * Chapter 4. Naruto pranks Kurenai so hard she temporarily flips out..
 * From Chapter 7 after the battle where Kurenai told Konohamaru and Hanabi to flee while Team 8 fought the enemy:

Naruto:  KONOHAMARU!

Konohamaru:  Yeah?

Naruto: He never does what he's told to do."

"Lee: Oh, Naruto, you sound so bitter. Surely the Power of Youth has not left you forlorn?
 * Gai and Lee are just as amusing as they are in the series, but special mention goes to the celebratory dinner where Lee drinks some of Gai's sake and drunkenly attacks Neji - successfully, which is something he's been unable to do until that point. Gai did warn him to not underestimate his opponents...
 * Later, Naruto decides that if he'd known how getting Lee drunk would turn out, he'd have made sure it happened. Frequently.
 * This:

Naruto: One of these days that stuff's going to make sense to me, and then I'll know I'm in trouble."

"Naruto: (thinking) Oh Crap, it's even worse! They want me to !"
 * The next chapter after that, Naruto panics right out of the gate on the Chuunin Exam:

""Well, thab's juds ab well. All I'b done id tick a fuz in their petty liddle bomb. Led the olb man deal wid it if he can.""
 * During the Chuunin Exams, Naruto breaks 's nose. We're treated to the next few lines of trying to speak through it.

"Shino: I am not stupid, Naruto. (counting off his points on his fingers) You have a chakra capacity exceeding that of most jonin, even thought you have just become a genin. You can master highly chakra-intensive techniques with far more ease than you can master less demanding ones, suggesting that your chakra capacity is literally filled to overflowing most of the time. Even the most forthcoming adults of Konoha are strangely unwilling to discuss the reasons why you are shunned by most. There are no physical relics from the nine-tailed fox, even though our history texts state that it was slain by the Fourth Hokage. Your physical stamina is superhuman and you recover from minor injuries at a rate unprecedented for someone not under a physician's care. Your birth date is a matter of public record, as are the unusual birthmarks on your face. And finally, when we spar, I can have half my colony feed off of your chakra until they are replete and you do not even notice. (to Naruto) I am neither stupid nor unobservant.
 * Kurenai threatening to hire her team to He's so worried he is cradling one protectively afterwards.
 * This exchange between Shino and Naruto, when Shino finally connects the proverbial dots:

(Beat)

Naruto: ...you stuck your bugs on me when we sparred? That's cheating!"

"Tsunade: (thinking) Oh, hell..."
 * Your Mileage May Vary, but Shino and then Kurenai waiting for the mission to begin and the realization that Shino is probably laughing about it. Also a Crowning Moment Of Cute.
 * Even if Naruto's not laughing about it, the mental image of one of his Kage Bunshins stumbling across the Sand Siblings in the Forest of Death and choosing to go out by.
 * Another one of them before expiring.
 * Tsunade attempts to drive off Jiraya and Hinata by making a counter-offer for her to return to the village and become Hokage: . She thinks no one will go for it..

"Hinata: At the academy, the doctor who came in…he told me that the first time is usually the hardest.
 * Naruto and Hinata's moment during the border patrol mission. That moment...

Naruto: (pissed off) Really. Well, he told me he didn't think I'd have any problems at all…like I'm some monster that would probably enjoy killing.

Hinata: (appalled, hands shaking) Did he really say that?

(Naruto nods. Awkward silence, until...)

Hinata: THAT'S BULLSHIT!

Naruto: (FaceFaults into the river)

Hinata: (slaps hands over mouth in abject shock)"