Aki: Hi there! This is a nice little chapter by chapter of a week out in training with Jiraiya! I hope you all enjoy it!
"Hey, you pervert! Teach me something new!" Naruto yelled, pointing his finger in the Sanin's face. Jiraiya just smiled. "It's been three weeks since I did actual training because I had to break my back working to get you money so you can go off and…"
"Naruto! If you going to complain the whole trip I minds well send you straight to the Akatsuki!" Jiraiya turned and kept walking. 'It's only been three weeks…'
"You're so lazy!"
'Training day after day, it get's exhausting…'
"It's always 'Hey Naruto, got any money?'"
'I wonder if Tsunade would be mad if I sealed his mouth shut?'
"Come on, just one… Hey Jiraiya! The bridge is right here!" Naruto yelled, angered by the Sanin.
Jiraiya looked behind him and noticed. "See, silly me! Now, let's go and see if we can't find a hotel."
"Why, so you can spend all your time at a who…" Naruto grasped his stomach in pain. Over the past three months, Naruto had learned that at some point, he could make Jiraiya snap, but Naruto never knew where this point was.
"Naruto, do me a favor and not talk all the way into town, huh? It will prepare you for the new Jutsus I'm going to teach you at the hotel, okay?"
"Yeah!" Naruto screamed getting over being punched in the stomach. He quickly put his hands over his mouth. 'Oh, I can't wait…. It's going to be so awesome!'
'That shut him up.' Jiraiya thought as they slowly made their way into town. AS they approached the town, Naruto realized that Jiraiya would have nowhere to go. There were barely any business. Behind the business there were houses surrounded by crops.
"Here we are Naruto!" Jiraiya said happily. He opened a big red door to an inn and found himself face to face with a smiling old woman. "Mrs. Hiyate! You're still alive!" Jiraiya said nervously remember past beatings from the crazed old woman.
She hit him with her cane and walked over to a small table inside by the front counter. "Hoping a woman is dead, is not a nice thing, Jiraiya." She said in a deep threatening voice. "Who's this?" She said kindly at Naruto. "He reminds me of that other boy you brought with you many years ago."
"Naruto, meet Mrs. Hiyate." Naruto nodded and scurried across the floor.
He bowed quickly, "my name is Naruto Uzumaki, it's very nice to me a friend of Jiraiya's, Mrs. Hiyate!" She grabbed Naruto's eyes and got a good look at him.
"Same eyes, same determination. If I didn't know any better I'd say you were his…"
"MRS. HIYATE WE NEED A ROOM!" Jiraiya interrupted. She reached for her cane, Naruto notice and stepped out of the way. The cane swung hard and hit him across the face.
"Tsk, tsk, Jiraiya, you shouldn't interrupt people. Now I lost my train of thought. Nershii! We have customers!" She shrieked. Mrs. Hiyate turned her attention back to Naruto. "Naruto," she said cheerfully, "here, have a candy." She pulled out a brown little piece of candy from her pocket wrapped in see through plastic.
"Thank you." Naruto said taking it from her. He unwrapped the piece and put it in his mouth tasting how sour it was instantly. The old lady just looked on kindly at him. He managed a smile and swallowed it as quietly as possible.
A young woman in a pink cleaning outfit and stained white apron walked out. "Grandma. There's no need to yell. Ah, huh?" She said looking up at Jiraiya. "Uncle Jiraiya! I haven't seen you in years!" She said running over to hug him.
"Ah, you remember me Nershii! Naruto, this is Nershii, she's a good friend of mine's daughter." Jiraiya said and pulled out a comb with a silver flower on it. "I stopped at a carnival and won this for you the other day, Nershii. Do you like it."
"It's beautiful, Uncle Jiraiya! Thank you!"She quickly put it in her hair and smiled up at him. "So, you two are staying with us?"
"So it seems, you're still the only inn in sixteen hours of here." He said and then Mrs. Hiyate butted in.
"Jiraiya, I'll put you in a room, for half the price a night. The boy stays free!" She said smiling up a Naruto. "You can pay Jiraiya, right?"
"Of course I can pay!" Jiraiya said. "I don't have anything else to spend my money on, there aren't any brothels around here."
"Uncle Jiraiya, I'd wish you'd stop going to those. It's bad for a man's reputation." Nershii said putting her hands on her hips. "Anyway, follow me, I'll put you two into rooms. So, are you his new star pupil?"
Naruto looked up at her, "um… I guess. Am I?"
"You are if you can behave." Jiraiya grunted. "Anyway, Nershii, when is the Ash and Stream festival?"
"Next week, were you planning on staying through it?" She said ending at the T section of the hallway. "Here's for you, Uncle Jiraiya. And across the hall is for you, Naruto." She opened his door."You don't get much of a view, but it's better than waking up to the smell of manure." She giggled.
"So, Uncle Jiraiya, when will Mrs. Matsubi and Mrs. Arambeu be arriving with their students?"
"Tonight sometime. But, Mrs. Arambeu won't be attending, instead her former pupil, you remember Gaito, he'll be taking her place." Nershii nodded.
"Well, I'll make up their rooms. I'll see you later Uncle Jiraiya, Naruto." Nershii smiled at each of them and walked away.
Naruto poked his head back into the hall, "Hey, Jiraiya, ARE YOU READY TO TEACH ME SOMETHING NEW?" Naruto screamed throwing his hands in the air.
"Actually, I was just going to take a nap and call it the sleeping jutsus." Naruto lost his excitement. "Anyway, soon, you'll be going up against the best of the Rock and the Water, and possible the a few others."
"What?"
"Every ten years, a few other shinobi get together and have their pupils' battle to learn how to deal with other nations. It's kind of like peace though major battles." Jiraiya said. He opened the door to his room and walked in closing it behind him.
Nershii came running down the hall and Knocked on Jiraiya's door. "Uncle Jiraiya, there's a woman here to see you, she said it's urgent."
Jiraiya came back out. "Thanks, Naruto, why don't you go for a walk, alright?"
"Whatever." Naruto said and simply walked out his room's window into the nearly empty street.
As he began to walk, he couldn't help but feel helplessly alone. When the end of the city was right before him, he looked back and didn't find anything interesting. Making his way into the fields he saw a forest just a short ways away.
He began to run, it felt good to finally use his legs to their full potential again. Entering the bounds of the forest he jumped up on the first limp and kept going bouncing from tree to tree. After a few minutes in he found a river and sat down on the thick limb. He shut his eyes for a few minute then there was a high pitched scream behind him.
"Huh, what's that?" Naruto said sitting foreword. He saw a young girl running from three men chasing after her. She had been injured badly from the weapons and the back of her clothes were stained red.