The orange and black cub was nose to the ground, as usual. Well, as usual unless it was up. Naruto did as much sniffing around as he did looking around, because, well, there were so many darn interesting things to check out! Today he was hot on the trail of a lizard he'd spotted about an hour ago. His mom and dad were somewhere back behind him... by about an hour. He wasn't worried about them worrying, because they worried too much!
I mean, he was fully capable of handling himself, no problem! Anything that came along, he'd take on the challenge. That was the way he thought. It might get him into trouble one day, and likely would, but the little cub had no concept of that sort of possibility at his age. All he knew was that he felt like he could take on the world, so he explored it fearlessly.
Now... if only he could find that lizard! It had been all blue and yellow and looked super cool... Nose to the ground, he missed the possibility of scenting the air for other cats, and would have easily missed if anything was near him, or even if anything might have been stalking him, but the little cub didn't even think of such worries. All that was in his mind was tracking down that interesting lizard. He hadn't even really planned what he wanted to do with it yet, but it just seemed like fun to find it.
