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"Sakura, do you know where Naruto went?" Kakashi asked his pink haired student when he found her at the arena's exit. "He already left; he said that he wanted to get some rest before beginning his training." The girl responded.
"Oh" Kakashi replied. He was planning to train Sasuke, but he didn't want to make the same mistake as a month ago, only this time it seemed that the blond had already made plans about his training without his help.
Sakura stood observing her sensei, she couldn't take her mind off Naruto's sharingan eyes, she had promised him not to tell, but it was proving very hard. "Kakashi-sensei, what's happening to Sasuke-kun?" The kunoichi asked, partly of worry for her teammate and crush, but mostly for keeping herself from divulging the blonde's secret. "Don't worry Sakura." The silver haired jounin responded. "Everything will be alright." Kakashi added before starting his way back to the hospital.
-Next Day-
Naruto woke up after a long rest, "I should go see the Old Geezer to see if he has any ideas for my training." The blond thought as he opened a can of instant ramen, he might have decided to lock up most his emotions, but his love of ramen was in a whole different level. After half an hour, and at least a month's supply of instant ramen, Naruto walked out of his apartment.
It was a nice tranquil day in Konoha; the temperature was just right for spending the day outside. Naruto walked through the city, for a month now the glares from the villagers had been decreasing, most likely because of the killer intent his chakra seemed to leak out, the only ones that seemed to be a hundred percent oblivious to this where Konohamaru and his friends, who had tried countless times to convince the blond genin to skip training for one day and go play with them.
Naruto had been walking for over half an hour before abruptly stopping. "Why have you been following me for the last twenty minutes?" The blond asked, his eyes looking ahead of him. There were some movement in the bushes behind Naruto, and after a while a man with long white hair stepped out. "So you've been aware since the beginning." The man said with a tone of amusement on his voice.
"My name is Jiraiya." The man announced. Naruto finally looked back at the white haired man. "And I should care because…" The blond said with a monotonous tone. Jiraiya merely chuckled at the boy's remark. "Sarutobi-sensei told me how…detached you could be." The man said. Naruto was slightly taken back; few people called the Hokage something beside his title, but to call him sensei. "Jiraiya, where have I heard that name before" The genin thought for a second before realization hit him. "You're one of the sannin." The blond said in a low voice.
Jiraiya smiled when he saw that he had caught some of the blonde's attention. "Sarutobi-sensei asked me to help you with your training during this month; he's too busy with all the preparations for the chunin exam." The sannin said. Naruto looked at the white haired man for a couple of seconds before turning around. "I don't need your help." The blond said as he started to walk away.
The sannin merely smirked as he watched the boy walk away. "You're as disrespectful as your father during his training." Jiraiya said. The sannin's word made Naruto stop on his track. "I want to teach you one of your father's favorite technique, the Kuchiyose no Jutsu." The white haired man said, taking the opportunity of having most of the genin's attention. "I heard that sensei gave you the weapon, and from the bandages in your arms, I'll say you already have your summoning tattoo." Jiraiya said smiling when Naruto completely turned around. "Learning the Kuchiyose no Jutsu will help you deal with the weapon, because trust me, that thing is really hard to control, and even your father had trouble with it." The sannin added.
"But first, tell me about your sharingan." The man said. Naruto's eyes widened slightly. "Did the Old Geezer tell him?" The genin thought. Jiraiya figured out what was going through the blonde's mind and decided to clarify. "The Old Geezer didn't tell me about your sharingan." The sannin started. "I knew that this was going to happen, since the day you were born I've wanted to see the results of combining the Uzumaki and Uchiha bloodlines." The white haired man explained. Naruto sighed; he was slightly more relaxed now that he knew that the Hokage had not betrayed his trust.
Naruto looked at the sannin straight in the eyes. Jiraiya watched in amazement as the blonde's eyes turned a couple of shades darker, and a white dot and three comas appeared on each of his eye. "Amazing..." The white haired man said before Naruto's eyes reverted back to normal. "So, what where you saying about my training?" The genin asked. "Well," Jiraiya begun as his eyes drifted to the direction of the hot springs. "I'm a little busy today, we will start training tomorrow, meet me in this exact same spot." The sannin said as he started towards the bath house, "See you tomorrow." The man said waving back at the blond. Naruto stood watching as the white haired man disappear form his view; he didn't need to read minds to know where he was headed. "Are all the adults in charge of my training perverts?" The boy thought "Do you really want an answer to this question?" Kyuubi suddenly said. "Shut up" Naruto murmured before continuing on his way, sighing as he felt the fox smirking.
-3 Days Later-
Naruto and Jiraiya were standing in the middle of a field, for the past two days Jiraiya had been teaching the young genin the basics for the Kuchiyose no Jutsu, and now it was finally time to try it out. "So can I try the jutsu now? Or do you want me to write an essay first?" Naruto asked, clearly annoyed of the fact of only getting theory-based lessons on how to summon toads. "Show some respect brat. And yes, give the technique a try." The sannin responded.
Naruto bit his lips and started on the hand seals for the summoning. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu" The blond said slamming his palm on the floor. Jiraiya watched in pride as a cloud of smoke appeared, he was sure that the summoning had been successful. Suddenly the sannin's face changed to one of horror and fear. "No, there's no way my luck can be this bad." The white haired man thought as the cloud started to disperse revealing the strongest of all toad summons, Gamabunta. "So, I'm guessing that the jutsu went alright." Naruto said looking at the leader of the toads.
"Jiraiya, why have you summoned me?" Gamabunta asked with an angry tone as he looked at the white haired man. "I didn't summon you." Jiraiya tried to explain, "This is Naruto." The sannin said shoving the genin forward with his elbow. "He's the one you have to flatten, I mean, He's the one who summoned you." The man said before looking away whistling. Gamabunta looked at the blond standing next to the pervert. "You expect to believe that this brat was able to summon me, the toad boss." Gamabunta snorted.
Naruto looked up at the giant toad with narrowed eyes; Gamabunta caught the blonde's eyes, for some reason they seemed familiar. "Wait a minute." The toad said when he realized where he had seen those eyes before. "Arashi, you have the same eyes as him." Gamabunta said examining the boy. "Well of course, he's his and Kagome's son." Jiraiya started. "How else do you think he was able to summon you?" The sannin explain.
Gamabunta's eyes warmed up slightly at hearing Jiraiya's explanation. "Who would have thought that I was going to be your first summon? Uh kid?" The toad boss said. "If Arashi-kun were here, he'd be on the floor laughing his ass off." Jiraiya said fondly. The three of them stood silent for a couple of minute, Jiraiya wearing a smile while Naruto and Gamabunta just half of one. "It's nice to meet you Gamabunta-sama." Naruto said with a smirk. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto."
-2 Weeks Later-
The Kuchiyose no Jutsu had gone pretty well, Gamabunta had willingly agreed to grant the toad summoning to Naruto; the only problem was that Jiraiya was slightly jealous that the toad boss seemed to like the boy better than he liked him.
But for the past two weeks Naruto and Jiraiya had use all their available time to work on the weapon. Just like Jiraiya had predicted, it had taken some time for Naruto to successfully summon it, and an even harder to control. Fortunately after two whole weeks the blond was starting to get the hand of it.
Jiraiya watched in pride as the cloud of dust started to disperse, "Incredible, it took Arashi-kun two whole months to get to this level with 'it', and he already reach it in two weeks." The sannin thought. The dust cleared, Naruto stood in the middle panting, the boy's surroundings where completely destroyed. "He's the vivid image of his father" The white haired man thought as he started towards the boy. "Very good kid." Jiraiya said approaching his student.
"You're starting to master it. It took your father much more time to cause this much destruction." Jiraiya said with a smirk as he looked at the surroundings, trees where completely destroy, torn in two or burned, and the ground around the blond was leveled. Naruto's face was adorned with a smirk of his own. "Didn't I tell you that it wasn't going to take me long to control." The genin said as he tried to catch his breath. "Don't get too cocky brat, you still have a long way to go." Crossing his arms and looking at the blond. "Anyways I think that's enough for today, we will pick up training tomorrow." The sannin said and walked away after receiving a nod of agreement form the boy.
Naruto walked back to his apartment. The last few weeks had been great to him, just like his time with the Sandaime, he dedicated all the time he could to training, and it was during those times that he felt slightly happy. The blond kept on walking until his whole body shook in pain, it wasn't only his heart this time that was on pain, but also his hands felt as though they were burning. The boy brought his right hand to his chest and used the other one to support himself on a tree nearby.
"It's getting worse, and more frequent." The genin thought. Naruto waited a couple of seconds until the pain subsided, he could hear the fox laughing his head off inside of him "One of these days fox," the boy thought. "One of these days I'll figure out a way to use Tsukuyomi on you, and when that day comes it'll be my turn to laugh."
Once the pain had diminished, Naruto started on his way once again, only a couple of minutes had passed when he heard someone call out "Hey, Naruto wait up"
The blond turned around to watch a black haired boy with a picnic basket full of fruit on his hand. "I knew it was you." Shikamaru said when he got closer. "Shikamaru, what are you doing here?" The blond asked. "I'm just heading to the hospital." The black haired boy started. "I'm going there to see Chouji, he's there with a sever indigestion, want to come?" The lazy boy asked. Naruto meditated on the idea for a couple of seconds. "What's with the basket?" The blonde asked. "Oh, since Chouji is not allowed to eat because of his indigestion, I thought that I'll go down there and eat in front of him." Shikamaru responded with a smirk. "I thought that it'd be good for a few laughs." The boy added started on his way to the hospital. Naruto stood in silence for a few seconds before following Shikamaru.
Naruto and Shikamaru made it to the hospital in a couple of minutes. The blond had two different views of Konoha's hospital, one was the he didn't like it because of the whiteness in every single room, not even in his current…..emotional state was he able to stand the mundane room. On the other hand, must of the hospital personal treat him like a human being and that made him slightly content.
The boys headed towards Chouji's room, Shikamaru had already visited him before so he knew the way. Suddenly Naruto felt an evil presence nearby, the blond looked around trying to find the source, his gaze stopped at a door that was slightly open, Naruto recognize Rock Lee sleeping on the bed, he probably was still recuperating, but what really shocked the genin was the sand he could see swirling around inside.
Naruto dashed to the door and threw a kunai, the weapon cut through the sand that was about to choke the unconscious taijutsu expert on the bed. The blond looked at the other person in the room, dark blue met aquamarine. A powerful killing intent emerged from the two boys. "You were the one that defeated the dog boy." Gaara said in a monotonous tone, not unlike Naruto's. "I'm intrigued by your existence." The red haired said as the sand started to once again to swirl violently around him.
Gaara tried to bring his hand upfront, but found out he couldn't. "I think that you should reconsider attacking a defenseless shinobi, especially if he's surrounded by his comrades." Shikamaru said; the boy had caught the sand-nin's shadow, preventing Gaara from moving. The redhead returned most of the sand back to his gourd. "At the Chunin Exam" Gaara began. "I'm going to kill you both." The sand-nin said before disappearing in a swirl of sand.
As Naruto checked to see if Lee was alright, the blond could hear the fox inside him chuckle. "It's going to get really interesting in two weeks." The blond said looking at the boy behind him. Shikamaru was trying to retrieve some of the fruit that had roll away when the lazy nin let the basket fall to stop Gaara, but most of the fruits had roll away who knows where. "We should get something with meat." The blond said with as smirk. "It'll be funnier that way." Naruto finished as he walked out of the room, Shikamaru stood up and smirked before following the blond.
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