"Darn... I've almost got it down..." Naruto said, tired and unable to move. The rasenshuriken wasn't some move that you should smack your opponent with, it was in the name to throw it. "Even Choji thought so, back when we fought Kakuzu." Naruto remembered when he first showed off his ultimate move on the battlefield. Once it hit it was devastating, but he needed a way to use it from a safe distance. "Oh well, I'd better get some rest." I walked back to my room and got ready to lie down until I saw it. "That's..." I couldn't even finish my sentence, the memories were too painful to think about. "The Tales Of The Utterly Gutsy Ninja". "The title of the first book the pervy sage ever wrote." I never liked his books, he said that I was too young to understand them. I'd probable never read them anyway, but this book seemed different. It wasn't some book with a stupid title, and it didn't seem like he 'researched' anything for it. I picked up the book and opened it up. It was way too dark to see any of the words though. "How about I look at it outside?" I asked myself, careful not to wake up the toad geezer. Once I got outside I ran up the tallest tree I could find. Luckily for me it was a full moon, it's light was bright enough for me to see the letters."Alright," I thought to myself, "Let's get to reading!" I opened up some random page and began.

Prologue: My Name Is

Several ninja villages exist around Mount Hyakki . During the First Ninja World War, the northern village, Kotsu , tried to conquer the village of Konton. Konton sought aid from the southern village, Shuku , and together they began the Sōten Project to create a destructive kinjutsu called Gukōizan.

I jumped throughout the trees to regroup, and figure out a plan for my next attack. I stopped and thought of something on the fly. Once I had my plan all thought out I was attacked
"You fool!" My enemy shouted as he flew from behind. I turned around just in time to avoid the worst. "Why don't you just give up you fool!?" POOF! "Yes my substitution worked!"
"A substitution?!"The enemy shouted, as he was caught off guard and left an opening. I Then appeared behind him And struck him instead.

"Why don't you give up on making me give up!" I said to him as he fell onto the tree branch. He turned his head towards me, and with the last of his strength said to me,
"You think you've won? Well think again... After my comrades find out that you've killed me then they'll come looking for revenge. Once they kill you your comrades will come... It's an endless cycle of hatred, don't you see?! As long as we live in this cursed world of ninja...Then we will never know true peace!" After he was done he waited for an answer from me.

"Is that so?" I began to say, "If we are cursed to live is world as ninja, and never know true peace, then I...I'll break that curse!" Now the expression on his face finally changed, from a smug grin to a face with anger and surprise, "If there is such a thing as peace in this world, then I shall seize it!"

My enemy was too dumbfounded to speak. After a few moments he finally said something. With sweat running down his face he asked me, "Who the heck are you?!"

"I am the one who will bring peace to the ninja world... My name is Naruto Musasabi! Remember it!" I shouted to him, so loud that the birds were scared away.

"Heh heh..." He laughed, quickly losing his ability to move, "Good luck...you fool" Those were the words he uttered with his final breath.

"Wow" I said, closing the book. "That was only the prologue and it was already so friggin intense..."

"That wasn't even the half of it, kid" A voice said to me.

"What the-!?" I screamed, being cut off my falling out of the tree onto my head. "What was that?" While I was upside down I saw two feet float down from no where.

"Long time no see, Naruto" The voice said. Now that I heard it a second time I was able to recognize who exactly it was.

"PERVY SAGE?!" I shouted.

"In the flesh...well not really." He said to me,

"But how?! I thought that you were dead!" I asked him

"I am dead." He responded nonchalantly.

"Then how are you here?" I asked, turning myself right side up. "If you're dead then you can't be here...I get it, I'm hallucinating." I concluded, "Reading your book made me remember you, and now I'm conjuring up images of you. Wow I really fooled myself.

"Naruto if you think this is some sort of self placed genjutsu just release it. Oh that's right, you can't use genjutsu!" The Pervy Sage hallucination said to me.

"Then explain why you're here!" I told him...it..WHATEVER!

"Well first of all I'm not really Jiraiya, I'm-"

"I knew it!" I cut him off.

"Quiet for a second!" He shouted at me, "I'm not a figment of your imagination, or a genjutsu, either. When Jiraiya died there were many things he wanted to say to you, Naruto. He didn't want to die, he never gave up until the very end, Even when his throat was crushed, he still wanted to see you one more time." He explained.

"That still doesn't tell me what you are..." I said to him.

"I was getting to that!" He shouted, upset with my constant interruptions, "Like I said before, Jiraiya had many things he wanted to say to you. He was so determined to live that his desire took a physical form. When you began to read his book I was released." He explained.

"So you're the physical manifestation of the pervy sage's desires?" I asked him.

"Yes." He answered honestly.

"Then why aren't you asking me to pull out my super sexy jutsu or something?" I asked, starting to doubt his words.

"Because I'm the manifestation of his desire to see you in general."

"That sounds totally believable." I said sarcastically, "So then Pervy Sage, how do I make you leave?" I asked him.

"What do you mean?"

"You're here because you wanted to see me right? Well if that were it, then you would already be gone wouldn't you?"

"Heh," He chuckled, "Well to be honest... I have no idea how to get out of here!" He exclaimed sheepishly.

"WHAT?!" I yelled, "Then why are you here?!"

"Who knows? All I remember is you starting the book and then I showed up here."

"Well that's just great..."

"If I showed up because you read the book why don't you just finish it?"

"Why would I do that?"

"Maybe I showed up here because you're reading it. Perhaps there's a secret message at the end of the book?"

"That's stupid..." I was getting fed up with this ghost thing talking to me. "Listen up, how about I just skip to the end and read it?" I asked.

"Do that and I might be here forever."

"HUH?! Why would that happen?!" I was so shocked that I dropped the book.

"There are no shortcuts in the life of a ninja." He said to me. "Believe me kid, it's great to see you again but I have to get back with my other half. If you screw this up for me I'll haunt you forever."

"You've gotta be kidding me...Can other people see you?"

"No. I came to see you, not anyone else."

"I see. Well I guess I've got no choice..."

"You're going to read it?"

"Yeah, if it means you going to go be with your other self then I have to. Seeing you again brought back a lot of memories, but you aren't the same Pervy Sage I knew."

"I see. Well thanks kid, but don't think that you can just look at the words and repeat them in your head. You have to actually understand them."

"What?" I let out a yawn "Who cares I'm too tired for this... Let's talk about it tomorrow."

I headed back off to the toad geezers place. Little did I know that this would be one heck of an adventure. It really was nostalgic, being with the pervy sage again, and I didn't really want him to go...But he wouldn't be happy if he couldn't reunite with his other half, I'm sure of it. I looked up into the moonlit sky. I could almost see the Pervy sage's face in the stars. As if the stars had formed a constellation just for him. "I told him I'd finish the book and send him back. I can't go back on my word now. To never give up, that's our nindo, our ninja way."