Note: Do not own, if I did own Naruto would have actually had a noticeable power jump over the time skip.
Premise: Jiraiya takes Naruto's training extremely seriously during the three-year time skip of the show, and he works to make him live up to his full potential. (Basically time-skip training is as efficient as on screen training in the show)
"So gaki, now that your mine for the next three years I'm going to push you well beyond your limits by using your unique talents to their best advantage. First channel some chakra into this paper and put on these weights." Said Jiraiya handing Naruto some chakra paper and some weights that had seals put on them allowing their weight to changed on demand by Jiraiya.
"Why should I do that? How about you just teach me more jutsu?" Asked Naruto, although he took the items anyway.
"Because I told you to gaki, and that paper will tell me what chakra nature you are after you channel chakra through it. That's what will tell you what jutsu I will be able to train you in efficiently, and the weights will allow you to train physically harder. Don't you want to be fast like Lee?"
"Cool!" Naruto put on the weights on his ankles, wrists and waist then channelled chakra into the paper causing it to split down the middle. "It got cut in half what does that mean? Do I get to learn really cool jutsu now? Why do I have so many weights on? Lee only puts them on his ankles. Why are the weights so light?"
"Slow down gaki. That means that you have naturally wind natured chakra. That's a rare nature in Konohagakure and extremely powerful. You will be able to control the battlefield by pushing people around with strong winds, create wind blades that can cut through almost anything and be able to channel those blades on you kunai increasing their reach and cutting power. It is one of the most offensive chakra natures but can still be used to protect yourself. You will have to be carful around fire natured opponents because wind fans the fire and makes it stronger."K
"Aww man, I'll never be able to defeat Sasuke, his fire beats my wind."
"Shut up gaki! I wasn't done yet. What I hadn't said about wind is that it naturally dissipates and defeats lightning nature chakra, and besides chakra nature isn't everything you can easily make up for it with other skills. Also with enough work you can use chakra of any nature its just much more difficult and less efficient."
"So I can use wind to beat Sasuke's lightning jutsu and beat everything else by being better than him."
"Yeah that's right gaki. But before you're going to learn any wind jutsu you have to learn to control your chakra nature, just like you needed to learn how to control your chakra before learning non-elemental jutsu."
"Come on! More pointless training before I get to learn jutsu! How do I do it this time, learn to control the wind?"
"Hahaha! Only you would think of something impossible as the beginning of your training. And this isn't pointless, the control exercise that we use to learn to control your wind natured chakra leads directly into how to channel it on you kunai. I'll tell you what you have to do to learn the control after I explain your training plan. Besides I'm planning on teaching you some non-elemental jutsu until you finish your control training."
"How can I learn to control my chakra nature at the same time as some new jutsu?"
"Later gaki. I'm not done with your first set of questions, and the more questions you ask the more you will be delaying that explanation and with it your training."
"Fine, get on with the stupid explanations."
"They're not stupid gaki, they're brilliant and essential. Anyway, the reason why you have more weights than Lee is that when they are applied like they are on you it approximates your entire body being heavier, while if they were only on your ankles it would be like only your legs are heavier. That's fine when you use a fighting style like Lee's that relies heavily on kicks, and besides I'm pretty sure that he uses full sets of weights like yours when training and only keeps the leg weights on near permanently. We are going to have you wear your weights for six of the seven days of the week, and use the seventh day to keep you used your increasing speed and maintain your balance when you aren't wearing them. We are going to be training you physically way harder than I would dare with most people, but because the Kyuubi gives you enhanced stamina and regeneration your body won't be destroyed by the increased strain. Instead you will gain strength and speed at a rate not possible for normal people, and because your weights are chakra seal weights we can increase them near infinitely so you will never run into the wall of not being able to train enough for it to be useful. That is also why your weights are so light at the moment. We haven't charged them with chakra yet. Let me do that so you don't accidentally make them to heavy. I'll up their weight until it just starts to be difficult to run or move your hands quickly, then up them till that happens again after you get used to them at that weight. That way your body will be under constant strain increasing your physical abilities even more quickly" explained Jiraiya gaining a maniacal grin and a glint in his eyes.
"Ero-sennin your starting to scare me."
"But we haven't even gotten to the best part yet. Your going to be doing physical activity almost non-stop every day for the entire training trip. From running laps to push ups, sit ups, chin ups, squats, multiple types of kicks on logs or in the air, an equal assortment of punches, eventually running through full katas and then finally some sparring with yours truly. You will only get to stop to eat, drink, go to the bathroom or sleep." Exclaimed Jiraiya smugly.
"But I can't do that, I'll die from exhaustion, and besides even if I do survive if I spend every waking moment physically exhausting myself I'll never learn any of the other stuff you explained." Complained Naruto.
"But you won't die because the Kyuubi will heal all the injuries and fatigue that this training will cause your body allowing you to push beyond the limits of a normal human." Exclaimed Jiraiya triumphantly, "and as for all your other training, that will be taken care of through shadow clones."
"So your going to torture me with physical exhaustion the whole trip, and how the hell am I supposed to learn anything through shadow clones!?"
"Hahahaha, that's a good one gaki. Your entire fighting style is based off of the use of that jutsu and you don't even know how to use it properly. Hahahahaha, that's such a great joke!"
"Don't laugh at me you old pervert, how can I learn things through shadow clones?"
"Wow, you weren't joking. Well the things that make shadow clones so useful is that they are solid, and that you remember everything that the shadow clone does, sees, feels and hears after it dispels. They were originally developed for reconnaissance where dispelling after one hit was an advantage because once they disappeared there was no evidence of them ever being there to begin with and it allowed a shinobi to do his scouting from safety. No point risking anyone's life when you can send in a disposable shadow clone that also leaves less evidence if they are discovered. Anyway since the clones can manipulate chakra and listen to my explanations everything chakra and mentally controlled will be taught to you through them. This will leave you with more time to physically train and in total allow you to train more things at one and effectively get more training than is possible for a normal person. That's because you can make enough shadow clones to train effectively without going into chakra exhaustion." Seeing Naruto's puzzled expression Jiraiya continued "I'll show you, make a shadow clone and then turn around, I'll play rock, paper scissors with it, dispel it and then you will tell me who won. The main additional responsibility you will have when doing your physical training is to create a new shadow clone to replace whichever ones get dispelled throughout their training."
Naruto did as Jiraiya asked, and to his surprise he got the memory of Jiraiya beating his rock with paper and exclaimed, "Aww, man you won. Holy crap I remembered it. Wow this really is going to speed up my training to an insane degree!"
"That's right gaki. Now make ten groups of ten shadow clones. I'll send one clone with each of your groups to train in each of the subjects I've got planned while I'll stay here and help with your physical training. I'll dispel them every once in a while, especially when one of them has a breakthrough in what I'm teaching them. Then I'll dispel the whole group for you to replace so that they all remember the breakthrough, and I won't leave a group dispelled for over an hour or dispel multiple groups at once to protect you from psychic backlash."
"What's phycho backleash?"
"Psychic backlash is what happens when you receive to many shadow clone memories at the same time. It basically causes you a headache, but it could get to be such a bad headache your brain turns to mush and you forget to breath and die. Or it could cause memory loss. That's why we are limiting the amount of memories you will be getting at one time. At most will be ten hours' worth at any one time. The shadow clone jutsu has been proven safe for normal people up to a full day at once without any risk of bad side effects, and you could probably take more than that. But better safe than sorry in cases like this."
"Yeah, don't want my brain to turn to mush."
"Also in the future I may allocate more groups to a single topic to look at it from different frames of mind if it is taking to long to learn for me, but that will only happen if the topic has been worked on for a month without any notable progress."
"A month, how long do some of the things you plan on teaching me take?"
"Well controlling your chakra nature can take up to a year, and controlling a different chakra nature typically takes twice as long, and if its diametrically opposed to your nature it could take four times as long. However, with our method it should take about a tenth as long for anything because there will be ten of you working on it at any one time. Also some of the things I'm planning on teaching you, you will not complete in the length of the entire training trip. For example, I'm planning on teaching you the art of sealing. To get to my level would probably take longer than we have, but you will get to be proficient at it before the end of the trip."
"Holy crap! What else are you going to teach me?"
"Just make the groups of shadow clones gaki. I'll explain to each group what exactly I'm teaching them, and the other stuff I plan to teach you will change depending on what is easier and what is harder for you to learn. Now ten groups of ten gaki. Actually, let's live on the edge make ten groups of twenty." With that Jiraiya made ten shadow clones, Naruto made two hundred and all the groups split off to begin training.
Note:This is my first attempt at a fanfiction so I'm sorry if the writing is a bit off. I don't have a beta so I don't even know if all of the story will make sense to people who aren't me. Reviews are appreciated even if they are just criticism to help me make the story better. Also I'm not planning on continuing the story past the time-skip although I do think that it would lead to a more believable super Naruto story than is usual.
