Naruto's Training Done Wright

by FallenDispair

What if Naruto learned the secret of the shadow clone jutsu during his training trip with Jiraiya, leading to him meeting his father early.

1. Chapter 1

Naruto's Training Done Wright

By FallenDispair

I do not own or profit from Naruto.

Chapter: 1

Walking down a dirt road leading out of the village hidden in the leaves, or Konohagakure, surrounded by the massive trees that help hide one of the five great hidden villages, we find our hero Naruto Uzumaki, a spiky blonde haired kid with three whisker marks on each cheek, bronze tanned skin, cerulean eyes, and is wearing an orange jumpsuit with a white collar, navy blue going along the shoulders and upperback, a red swirl circle in between his shoulder blades, a kunai holster on his right thigh, a beige weapons pouch on his right but cheek, a forehead protector with a leaf symbol, which denotes his affiliation with Konohagakure, and black shinobi sandals. He's walking slightly behind his sensei, one of the three legendary sannin Jiraiya, starting on his two and half year training trip. Jiraiya is a tall and well-built man in adulthood with fair skin. He has a wart on the left side of his nose and waist-length, spiky white hair tied back into a pony tail, with two shoulder-length bangs framing his face. There are red lines under his eyes which extends futher down his face all the way to the bottom. His attire consists of a green short shirt kimono and matching pants, under which he wears mesh armor that is visible at his wrists and ankles. He also wears hand guards, a black belt, traditional Japanese wooden sandals, and a red haori with two yellow circles on each side. He's carrying a large scroll on his back, and has a tattoo on his left palm, and wears a horned forehead protector with the kanji for "oil", which denotes his affiliation with Mount Myoboku. This normally hyperactive thirteen year old shinobi is lost in thought wondering how he'll get strong enough to bring back his friend Sasuke for the girl he loves, Sakura, all in the premise of keeping his promise of a lifetime to her. Sure he has his own reasons for wanting to save Sasuke from becoming Orochimaru's next vessal. After all he is the closest thing to a brother he's ever had and that's not a bond he wants to lose. But even after fighting him with everything he had and more, with the help of the nine tailed fox boosting his power exponentially, he still lost to Sasuke's superior powers and techniques. Not to say he wasn't as fast or strong as Sasuke, but he had more jutsu, skills with kunai and shuriken, and a stronger taijutsu then he had.

So he figured that meant he'd be working on all of those areas of a shinobi's skills and now was getting excited to get to it, so asked Jiraiya, "Hey pervy sage what awesome jutsu am I going to learn first?."

Jiraiya responds with a little irritation at being referred to as pervy sage, "You wont be learning any new jutsu yet. We need to focus on bringing up your basic skills first. Then and only then can I start on actually teaching you jutsu."

A despondent Naruto wines, "Oh come on, that's boring! I can't waste time on that weak crap. I need more jutsu and better taijutsu!"

Jiraiya snaps back, "You can't learn any of those with a better base of skills to build off of!"

Naruto says, "What do you mean by that pervy sage? Why can't you just teach me super cool badass jutsu?"

Jiraiya, with a breath of frustration at Naruto's ignorance, answers, "Because without a strong enough base your body wouldn't be able to handle it. Think of trying to build a house on two-by-fours held between two boulders. They'd snap at the weight of the building being built on top of them."

Naruto responds with face and tone of understanding, and maybe a little fear, "O-ooh, so my body might break apart trying?" Then with confidence and strength says, "I can take any pain or hardships if means I can save Sasuke!"

Jiraiya with a rare moment of seriousness says, "It takes more than a strong will and nerves of steel to master the art of the shinobi. The damage the backlash of a powerful jutsu wont just hurt, it can and will kill you. Then you wont be saving anyone from your very painful and horrid end."

Naruto with an even rarer moment of understanding shakily says, "O-ok, but how long will that take, because I can't afford to spend all of my time just building up my basic skills while Sasuke gets stronger and stronger?"

Jiraiya answers, "Hopefully within one year, but that will depend entirely on you and how hard you work."

Naruto and Jiraiya, after having stopped walking, now facing each other, are quiet for a minute before Naruto with his classic fox like grin says, "Then I'll have it down in half that time, because I'll work till drop everyday! That way we'll have more time to learn some badass jutsus. Believe it!".

In response to this, Jiraiya's face slowy turns into a grin, then into full blown laughter, "Aahhhaahhaa, I should have known I couldn't keep you down for long. Maybe with that attitude you'll get the basics down in three months."

Naruto asks hopefully, "Do you really think so?"

Jiraiya responds, "Who knows miracles do happen. Ha ha ha."

With a firm pout on his face, yet still with a hint of determination, Naruto yells back, "Just watch me pervy sage, I'll do it and wipe that stupid look off your face, believe it!"

Jiraiya's laughter lightens down to a small chuckle replies, "Well then you got three months to do it and if you do I'll teach you whatever jutsu you want, but if you can't then you'll train in whatever way I say without complaints, deal."

Naruto answers without hesitation, "Sure, it's a deal! I'll win too because I don't give up and I'll never go back on my word, believe it!"

Jiraiya offering his hand says, "It's a deal then." Naruto takes his hand shaking it responds, "Deal!" As they separate and head on their way Jiraiya believes he just pulled one over on Naruto, but fails to realize that Naruto's luck always finds away to bring him a win on any bet. Just ask his fat gamma-chan and Tsunade about it.

Two weeks later we find Naruto despondently eating a full course of the accursed green, his least favorite color, that goes by the name of vegetables. He's inside a local restaurant a few towns over from Konoha having to eat them all because of his old perv of a sensei is making him. Ever since they made their bet pervy sage has been drilling the basics into him like a demon, or a perverted demon with an agenda to peek on the nearest women's bath house, so relentlessly Jiraiya beats Naruto into the ground everyday, so he can run off for his "research" as quickly as possible. That's not to say his training is ineffective or weak on the contrary it's doing wonders to increasing Naruto's strength, from chakra control, repealing genjutsu, kunai and shuriken skills, to his taijutsu. The real problem lies in the fact that Jiraiya tricked him into agreeing to eat vegetables every time he fails to score a point on him in there spars. That old perv is as tough as they come. Not only has he failed to touch him even once, every hit Jiraiya makes tends to leave bruises down to his bones! Sure it's not as bad as getting hit by ba-chan, but still it hurts like hell. The vegies after are the worst kind of treatment after his training. He should have known that perv offering to teach him a jutsu early if can hit him in a spar was a setup, but come on how could he pass up a chance learn a jutsu, what an idoit he was now stuck eating his least favorite color food. On top of all of that his progress to finishing his basic training wasn't even close to reaching the three month mark goal. At this rate he'll finish maybe in a year or two, damn it all to hell! So in a poor attempt to spy on the pervy sage to possibly learn something really cool, he sends a shadow clone to fallow him after every training session, only to end in failure every single time. The bright side is it takes a little longer for pervy sage to lose his clone every time he goes off somewhere. How does Naruto know this? That's simple, when his clone loses the perv he comes back and reports to the original that's stuck eating vegetables. This time is different though, because mid bite of the accursed green Naruto get a flash of memories from his clone fallowing the perv and catching him neck deep in women, sake, and money! Damn it he should have known that's all he'd find when looking that old pervert! Wait a minute, how did he know all that? A look of pure confusion came across the blond's whiskered face. His face scrunched up lost in deep thought wondering how he had the memories of his clone. Steam soon came off of his head leading to him to face plant on top of his food with swirls in his eyes. It seem too much thought in one moment lead to his mind over heating, go figure.

Later that evening, with the sun just starting to pass over the horizon, Naruto finds himself being carried by a mess of white hair, stinking of sake and shame, to their hotel. Apparently, Jiraiya noticed Naruto's clone bursting as it charged the old perv trying to hit him for wasting his time fallowing him, who knew he could be so observant with a pair of breasts in his face. What Naruto didn't know was that those brothels Jiraiya visited all the time was a large source of his extensive spy network. After all who would think such a lecherous man in the middle of such debauchery would be gaining vital information. Then again, most men tend to be lose tongued around beautiful women, getting them drunk and lost in pleasure. Thus making them perfect eyes and ears for his spy network, plus the added benefit of getting to spend time with beautiful women all the time. Causing Jiraiya to leave his fun/work early to go find the little idiot, knowing he'd have questions over getting memories of his clone. He didn't expect to find a passed out Naruto at table with steam coming off his head and swirls for eyes. Sighing, the perv pays for the kids food and lifts Naruto on to his back and heads back to their hotel room.

On their way to the hotel, Naruto starts screaming at the perv for what his clone saw, "What the hell pervy sage! While I'm stuck eating crap and finishing my training, your getting your perv on with a bunch of ladies!" Interrupting himself, "Wait a minute how do I even that?"

Jiraiya responds, "What you seriously didn't know about the memory transfer ability of the shadow clone jutsu? I mean that's what it was created for, to spy or infiltrate dangerous areas without have to risk your life. How could not notice that aspect of shadow clone jutsu with how often you use it, idiot."

Naruto looking rather bashful says, "W-ell no body ever told me that and I'm a little busy trying to kickass or not die to notice my clones memories in battle!"

Jiraiya responds with a sigh, "Kami kid, how have you made it this far as a shinobi being that dense?"

With anger and a blush on his face yells, "Hey! don't call me an idiot you old pervert of a sage! How have you not been killed by some random bimbo with how perverted you are?"

Jiraiya raising his own voice and tossing Naruto off his back yells, "Because unlike you I am an experienced shinobi who can come off as an idiot lecherous fool while being aware of everything going around me! Your hundred years too young to judge me brat!"

After recovering from being drop on his butt Naruto replies, "Yeah right you perv! Your just covering your butt for being caught red-handed in your perverted ways!"

Jiraiya responds, "Whatever gaki, it still doesn't take away from your own stupidity for not knowing how your own jutsu works, and take it from me, that has been the end of many a shinobi. So from now on your not to use any jutsu in the future with knowing everything it does, is that clear!" Seeing the serious face of Jiraiya Naruto just nodes his head yes. Jiraiya continues, "Good, now that you know all about the shadow clone jutsu, lets had back to our room and some sleep, for first thing in the morning we continue your training."

As Jiraiya turns to head to the hotel Naruto asks, "Wait, can't I use clones to speed up my training?"

Jiraiya answers, "No, any physical training wont help with clones, because only mental information goes back to the creator."

Naruto replies, "Ok, but what about training that only takes getting a feel for something like breaking genjutsu and chakra control?"

Jiraiya stops and puts his hand to his chin to think for a minute, then responds, "Yeah, maybe, I never really thought about it that way before. Usually I only use a clone for training when practicing dangerous and life threating jutsus. Maybe using clones will increase your experience with certain jutsus and practices, but things like increasing your speed, power, and stamina can't be helped other than being done by you directly. Hump, it's an original idea for sure, but then again you are know for doing things outside the box. Yeah I mean think of it! With two clones working on the same jutsu it'd cut the time to learn it in half! Three clones a third as long! Four clones a fourth and so on and so forth! In theory you could gain years of experience in a week!"

At this point Jiraiya has a huge grin on his face, witch only drops when Naruto says, "Yeah with the number of clones I can make I'll win that bet for sure! Ha-ha-ha!" The horror of that truth send Jiraiya into a depression. 'Damn my load mouth! Now he's going to demand an endless number jutsus for me to teach him. I'm going to lose out on so much peeking- I -I mean research for my books!' Jiraiya thought with never ending horror written across his face, fallowed by a river of anime tears. All the while Naruto is practically skipping with joy to the hotel with a foxy grin on his face and his arms behind his head. He's daydreaming of all the jutsus he'll soon be learning from pervy sage.

A month and two weeks later, an exhausted Naruto lays spread out in open field breathing hard, trying to catch his breath. Yet he has a large smile plastered across his face because he just finished all the basic training needed for him to win his bet with pery sage, just in time to. The shadow clone method of training that he and Jiraiya came up with was lifesaver for sure. Without it he would spent most of his two and half years just working on increasing his basic abilities. Maybe with enough spar time learn one new jutsu, how lame would that be. The only down side to this training showed it's self on the first day. After making a thousand clones and dividing them up to work on everything from breaking genjutsu exercises, chakra control, kunai and shuriken practice, and going over his existing jutsu to perfect them, he focused on body conditioning and sparing with pery sage. He even got the perv to make him leg weights like Lee's, but with seals to slowly increase the weight starting at a more bearable weight, then working up to what Lee's were at during the chunin exams. After dispelling all of his clones that day he blacked out from the accumulated fatigue from the thousand clones. He woke-up midday two days later! Jiraiya tried to talk him out using the clones, saying it was too dangerous and they just barely dodged a kunai this time. Naruto refused saying he was only saying that to win the bet, plus when he showed pervy sage the results the training method produced after a single use almost convinced him. Naurto's could now break mid-level genjustu, his chakra control is twice what it was, his aim with kunai and shuriken is vastly improved, and could now perform all of his jutsus in nearly half the time from before. So the pervy sage came to a compromise by having Naruto use only five hundred shadow clones a day until he could better handle the strain. Naruto would still pass out after dispelling the clones, but would wake up in a few hours instead of a few days, eventually, he got back up to a thousand clones. Thanks to this training method he was able to win his bet with Jiraiya and now could learn any jutsu he wanted from the perv. After all his chakra control was almost perfect, he could break most genjustu with the exception of master genjutsu users of course, his use of kunai and shuriken are perfect to the point that only someone like Tenten or someone with sharingan could do better, and now he can do the rasengan one handed without the help of a shadow clone. On top of all of that his body conditioning made him twice as strong, gave him larger amounts of stamina, and his speed is at Lee's level without his weights. He has now increased his leg weights and will keep going for as long as he possibly can. Now he is able to land a few points on Jiraiya in their sparing sessions too. With all of those results Jiraiya had no other choice but to admit that Naruto won their bet.

With a little resonation and pride in his voice Jiraiya says, "Congratulations gaki you won the bet, even though it could be considered cheating using all of those clones to speed up your training, but then again so can natural talent and the sharingan, so whatever." Secretly Jiraiya knew that only Naruto with his massive amounts of chakra and stamina could use this method without killing themselves, so it was very impressive all the same.

Naruto slightly perturbed and smug replies, "Yeah I know I'm awesome and your just upset you lost our bet and now have to pay up!" Saying all of this while still unable to get up off the ground, but still with a big grin on his face.

Jiraiya responds, "Yeah while your accomplishments are impressive, your still years away from besting me. Besides we should at least wait to teach you all of those jutsu until you can stand gaki."

Naruto replies with a deadpan face, "You're just saying that so you can go peeking on naked women pervy sage. Though you still have a point in the fact that I'm still to tired to learn a jutsu right now, but I'll be ready to go in a few hours, so don't get your hopes up."

Jiraiya sags a little bit, but snaps right back up to say, "Alright, we'll start up again in four hours, so go eat something with at least one vegetable in it, then shower and change your clothes in that time."

Naruto replies, "Sure thing pervy sage!", hopping off the ground and sprinting away, the thrill of learning a new jutsu overriding his exhaustion.

Jiraiya can only sigh with a grin at Naruto rambunctious energy as he begins his thoughts, 'Maybe it's time to try an loosen the seal of the nine tailed fox. With the speed of Naruto's progress he should be ready to handle more of the fox's chakra, even though this is a little earlier than I expected. I know Naruto is going to be upset that I wont be teaching him a jutsu, but I should be able to deflect that telling him that having more access to the fox's chakra will enable him to do even more powerful jutsu and we'll work on that once he gets control of the nine tails power.' Jiraiya then begins the preparations needed to loosen the seal, so as to ensure the fox doesn't escape during the process, and wondering if he should loosen it a little bit more than planed, after all Naruto's a lot stronger than he anticipated him to be at this stage of his training, what's the worst that can, he'll be there to tighten it back up if he needs to.

Naruto is heading to the training sight they've been using this past few weeks to meet up with Jiraiya to collect on his winnings by learning a new jutsu. The training grounds are mostly an open field with a river running through it and some large rocks spread about, with the hole area being surrounded by large trees. Making it an ideal place to let loose some real badass jutsu. It's been four hours after having won the bet, now he's finally going to learn something totally awesome, like a elemental jutsu that can vaporize a field in a single shot, or that neat hair mane lion something he's seen pervy sage use. Man he can't just wait, so starts running full blast towards the training grounds. Once Naruto arrives at the training ground, with a trail of dust fallowing behind him, he notices a toad with really long scroll like body standing next to Jiraiya.

He wonders if he's going to learning some kind of summoning collaboration justu like what Jiraiya does with the chief toad, so wondering what's going on he asks, "Hey pervy sage who the scroll toad and what's he doing here?"

The toad answers before Jiraiya can, "My name is Gerotora and I expect you to show me some respect! This scroll happens to be the key to your seal given to me by the fourth Hokage himself brat!"

Somewhat bashfully Naruto responds, " Sorry I didn't mean to be rude but I didn't know that, besides how is it disrespectful to just ask someone their name!", that last part being said with anger.

Gerotora answers, "Because you were asking Jiraiya and ignoring me while also insulting my looks brat!"

Naruto fires back, "Who knew toads were so touchy and besides I wasn't insulting the way you! I was just calling it as I saw it and by the way you actually kind of look cool. I was hoping that I'd be learn some kind of cool collaboration jutsu!"

Gerotora responds with a blush, " Oh uh, thinks I guess and unfortunately you wont be learning any jutsu from me. I'm not suited for combat, like I said I hold the key to the nine tailed fox's seal."

Naruto simply replies, "Oh no biggie, but why are you here than if your not here to teach me a jutsu and what does it have to do with the fox?"

At this point Jiraiya takes charge of the conversation, "What he's here for is to loosen the nine tail's seal, so you can have access to more of the fox's chakra. Now before you get your panties in a bunch about not learning a jutsu, put in mind that with access to more of the fox's chakra not only will it increase all of your abilities from strength to speed, but it will also give you access to more chakra, which means you'll be able to learn more powerful jutsu than otherwise without. Plus weather you like it or not you're going to have to learn to control the nine tail's power sooner or later. The truth of the matter is that the seal gets weaker with every passing year, eventually it will fail entirely and if you're not ready the fox will escape, killing you in the process." At this point Naruto's sweating with fear and loudly gulps, leaving him with the only option but to nod his head in understanding. Jiraiya didn't like being so blunt about Naruto's predicament, but he knows anything less than the brutal truth would lead to huge argument with Naruto over the bet. 'Kami why did I ever agree to take any bet with Naruto of all people!' he thought. 'Damn I'm stupid.' Unknown to everyone, this event will lead to both Jiraiya's and Naruto's life, also the world of the shinobi, to change forever.

As Jiraiya uses the key on the seal on Naruto's stomach, Naruto begins to feel in sudden surge of power flooding through his body, changing his appearance. His finger and toe nails became elongated, along with his canines, his whisker marks became more prominent, his hair more wild and untamed. Naruto felt like things were going to get ruff, making him glad he left his headband given to him by Iruka-sensei and the necklace by Tsunade ba-chan back in his room. He would never be able replace such precious items, after all they were given to him by the few precious people he has in his life. At this point Jiraiya backs off having loosen the seal by nearly half, looks to see Naruto being shrouded in red bubbling chakra fill with pure hatred and malice, but Naruto still seemed to be in control of himself, taking the shape of a fox with two tails. It wasn't until the appearance of the third tail that things started to get really going. Naruto, with his eyes completely red and hunch over on all fours howling in rage, causing a shock wave that forced Jiraiya to jump back, started to talk in a deep growling voice, "Man I feel really strong, but the rage swirling inside is making it hard think."

Jiraiya responds with a little relief, "Wow now gaki, you had me worried their for a moment. Now I need you to focus on maintaining that power no more, no less, got that Naruto?"

With struggled restraint he replies, "N-n-o problem pervy sag-e I got this. Believe it!"

Jiraiya responds with a little trepidation, "Alright gaki lets see what you can do in that form." With that said Jiraiya launches at Naruto with a fully powered rasangan in his hand. His attack slams into one of Naruto's tails, pushing him back and dispelling the rasangan in a single swipe. Jiraiya lands several feet back with his leaving trench marks in his wake. Before he has time to react Naruto is in his face sending an uppercut to his chin. The sage is sent flying through the air so fast all that can be heard is the sharp whistling of wind in his ears. Before Naruto can jump into the air to finish the fight, he finds himself bound by white hair in the shape of a lion coming out of the ground. Seeing nothing but a smashed log in the air, Naruto is pulled underground by the sea of white.

Jiraiya smashes out of the ground with his hair reseeding back to it's normal length, though somewhat sizzling at the ends, and unleashes a powerful stream of fire mixed with oil into the hole he made leaving Naruto trapped underground. As the ground begins to melt and crack under the sage's onslaught, the ground underneath Jiraiya has a red chakra hand burst out and grab him, forcing him end his jutsu. With a rumble and a roar Naruto causes the ground to explode out from around him, revealing him, completely unharmed. Jiraiya would be impressed if it wasn't for the fact that the hand holding him was growing tighter by the second and the feel of his skin starting to burn from the contact of the nine tails chakra. Before he can figure out how to escape Naruto's grasp, Naruto pulls Jiraiya towards him and slugs him right in the face, sending the sage flying into nearby boulders, tossing up a cloud of dirt obscuring Jiraiya.

"Earth style: Dark Swamp!" Jiraiya yells casting a jutsu that cause a deep sticky mud swamp to trap and sink Naruto inside. While Naruto struggles as he sinks into the swamp, Jiraiya comes walking out of the dust cloud whipping the blood from his mouth saying, "Alright Naruto lets call it a day before someone gets really hurt. I'll release you from my jutsu and you can stop using the nine tails power."

Instead of a response, all Jiraiya get is an explosion of mud, chakra, and a massive roar of rage, causing him to go on guard and for good reason. At the center of the swirling black and red chakra is Naruto, screaming in hellish pain as his skin peels off mixing his blood with the fox's chakra, until it completely surrounds him in a dome of black energy shooting into the sky, blowing back the nearby trees and causing all manor of animals to feel in the opposite direction as fast as possible. This dense and foul chakra brings a shiver of fear to creep up Jiraiya's spin. It's been a very long time since Jiraiya last felt such a sensation, leaving him very worried, but not for himself, but for Naruto. He needs to reel in the nine tails power before it's too late! As the black dome reseeds, Jiraiya sees a black miniaturized nine tailed fox, just with only four tails, and pure white eyes looking at him, bringing back that sensation tenfold. Before Jiraiya can even think about what to do next the black fox just appears out of nowhere, getting completely past his guard, slashes at him with his claws, cutting open his chest, spewing blood allover both him and the fox.

The only bright side Jiraiya can take from this development is that the attack sent him flying backwards, away from Naruto, or at least what use to be Naruto. Staggering to his feet, holding the gapping wound across his chest feeling the blood practically flood through his fingers, he gasps, not out of pain, but shock as two more tails started form from the fox's rear, making a total of six! Realizing that he's got no other option Jiraiya's hands blur through a set of hand signs, slaming his blood covered hand to the ground yells out, "Summoning jutsu!". Small black symbols spread out form under his hand causing an explosion, covering the area in white smoke to reveal a massive purple toad with black markings surrounding his eyes connecting to his eye brows, and running down his chin connecting under his mouth, he's wearing a classic black shinobi top with a huge shield strapped to his back and a sasumata in his right hand.

Jiraiya commands, "Gamaken hold Naruto off long enough for me to summon them and enter sage mode! It's the only way I can think of sealing up the fox's power in my currant condition!"

Gamaken replies in a deep voice, "I shall try, for I am ungraceful."

Then Jiraiya draws blood down from his eyes and across his cheeks to his ears, slams his hands together and starts gathering chakra, while Gamaken charges the six tailed fox Naruto that has just grown a fox skeleton on top of it. Gamaken brings down his sasumata right on top of Naruto, breaking the ground around them and kicking up a small dust storm. When it clears up Gamaken is shock to see the boy sized fox simply holding the massive studded weapon with one hand and little effort on it's part. Even more shocking Naruto then lifts the weapon, along with the building sized toad, and tosses them away like they were a mere pebble. Gamaken is able correct himself by gracefully flipping in the air. Upon landing the toad uses the momentum to launch himself forward yet again, but this time channels a large amount of chakra into his weapon, thus increasing it's destructive capabilities. This forces the Naruto to jump out the way, once again breaking the ground creating a large crater and kicking up even more dirt, causing Gamaken to loose sight of his target. Naruto capitalizes on this by making bijuu bomb, small orbs of black and white chakra begin coming together in front of his snout forming a large black ball. He further condenses this ball down to about the size of an apple causing the ground around him to crater form under him from the extreme weight of it. Then opens his mouth so wide you can see his jaw separating and swallows the concentrated chakra ball whole, expanding his body to it's limit before letting it loose in a powerful shot at the landing toad. Being caught flat footed, Gamaken only has enough time to raise his shield and channel as much chakra into it as he can muster, before the bijuu bomb smashes into him.

A massive bang rings out as bomb collides with chakra enhanced shield, causing an equally massive shockwave to push out a torrent of air that slams into the nearby forest, bending, snapping, and uprooting all the trees on the perimeter of the clearing. In a split second all of this destruction is eclipsed by a blinding light and roar of a deafening explosion. The bijuu bomb ignited forward into a beam of pure chakra consuming shield, toad, and a long path of forest, leaving nearly a mile wide trench in their place. Off to the side Gamaken is plowing through acres of trees, having both the fortune and through extreme effort on his part to be pushed to the side halfway down the beams path of destruction, coming to a stop by smashing into a plateau of rock.

Laying on his back covered in burns, cuts, and blood, his shield all but disintegrated and his sasumata no where to be seen, Gamaken groans in pain as Jiraiya appears on the ground by the left side of his head asking, "Are you alright Gamaken?"

The battered toad grunts out, "I'll live, but I'm unable to hold him off any longer, for I am ungraceful."

Jiraiya responds in relief, "That's alright, you held him off long enough. I'm ready to enter sage mode now, you can head back and rest. Thanks for your help!"

Instead of replying Gamaken simply disappears in a poof of white smoke. Naruto's mouth is still steaming as he locks his empty white eyes onto Jiraiya, who's hands are glowing brightly with chakra, and lets loose an animalistic roar. The time it takes for the rage filled monster to bridge the gap between him and Jiraiya is almost instantaneous, throwing an enlarged fist into Jiraiya, caving his entire body into the rock wall behind him. Withdrawing his arm, the fox just sits there roaring in victory, only to be suddenly hit by a high pressure blast of water slamming him backwards into the ground, leaving a trench in his wake. Out of the dark hole in the rock wall, three pair's of yellow eyes with horizontal pupils can be seen moving forward into the light, revealing Jiraiya in an altered state of appearance and a small old toad on each shoulder. Jiraiya's sage mode gives him a larger more bulbous wart covered noise, toad eyes, a white beard going along his jawline to his chin, and a red hue around his eyes. The toad on his right shoulder is an old male with a green complexion, large bushy white eyebrows, a white pointy goatee, a spiky white topknot, and wearing a grey cape coming up behind him to a point, named Fukasaku. The old female toad named Shima on Jiraiya's left shoulder has a lighter pale green complexion, purple marking around her mouth, the top of her head looks as though she is wearing a purple hair net with hair-rollers underneath, and is wearing a high collar black cape.

Fukasaku with worry asks, "That there monster wouldn't happen to be the nine tails jinchuuriki, Jiraiya-boy?"

Jiraiya answers, "I'm afraid so Boss."

Shima yells out, " How in tarnation did he turn in to that?"

Jiraiya answers with shame in his voice, "I used the seal's key to loosen it, so Naruto could gain more access to the fox's chakra and hopefully learn control it, but it seems in both my haste and overestimation in Naruto's abilities lead to six of the fox's nine tails to be released. I'm left with the only option to summon the both of you and enter sage mode to try and suppress him long enough to repair the seal before its too late."

Shima responds, "That has got be the most idiotic thing you've ever done lad! Plus bringing me out here to fix your mess will cause me to gain more wrinkles!"

Fukasaku chastised, "Ma their are bigger concerns right now then you getting a few more wrinkles, like the nine tailed fox getting loose!"

Shima snaps back, "Don't belittle a house wife's battle against wrinkles! They are our mortal enemies and a bane on women's society! Besides don't think I'm not taking this seriously, if you haven't noticed I'm busy mending the lad's wound with senjutsu so he doesn't bleed to death!"

Jiraiya placates, "Alright, that's enough you two, you're both right and I'm the one to blame for both the added wrinkles and the fox's impending release, so I'm very sorry for my mistakes, but can we please stop the fox and save my pupil?", hoping the both of them will stop screaming in his ears. Both toads nod their heads and agree to stop bickering, at least for now.

Fukasaku adds, " I hope you'll remember this da next time you try to do something so foolish. We don't want to have to keep cleaning up your messes Jiraiya-boy."

Shima chimes in, "And you can expect to get an earful from me later lad."

Jiraiya responds, "Yes I understand and thank you helping." Before ether sage toad can utter a word they are hit with the sensation of the fox's increase in chakra, looking over at him they see him forming another bijuu bomb. Knowing he can't let him finish making it, Jiraiya kicks off his sandals and gets on all fours, his hands and feet becoming frog-like, the red markings on his face converging together in a solid mass, looking like upside down triangles going down both sides of his face, and sharp pointed teeth, disappears in a flash leaving just a dust cloud in his wake. He reappears above the fox with a massive rasangan in his hand, slamming it down on it's head, expanding to the point it engulfs the area in a bright blue light.

Jiraiya landing after jumping back hears Fukasaku yell out, "Boy bring the oil, Ma the fire, I'll bring the wind!" All three of them release a torrent of wind, oil , and fire, combining them into a sea of boiling oil, rushing to the crater the fox lays in. As the sage art: sea of boiling oil hits it's mark, kicking up a field of steam and filling the air with the noise of sizzling skin, Jiraiya jumps forward with the seal key appearing on his right arm to repair the seal before the fox has time to recover, is suddenly nocked back by a huge surge of power. Sage mode Jiraiya is eclipsed by a massive shadow as large skinless clawed fox hands smash into ground shaking the entire landscape, revealing a skinless eight tail fox the size of a mountain. It roars, send Jiriaya flying into the rock wall behind him, coughing up blood as he slams into it. He recovers looking up in terror and stutters out, " Oh kami it's too late. What I have done?"

Naruto finds himself in his mindscape by the nine tails cage, his jacket and shirt torn open to reveal his torso. He's on his knees holding his head while the swirl pattern of his seal on his stomach is now a solid black and pouring out into the water. The fox starts speaking in a dark deep voice, "Yes, give into the rage. Remember all the suffering your own people inflicted upon you. Let loose our power and show them your wraith!"

At these words Naruto's eyes turn entirely red and starts walking over to the cage. "Good, now remove the seal and set me free!" the fox yells with a rare moment of glee in his voice and a classic sinister grin plastered across his face.

Just as Naruto's hand is touching the slip of paper, with the kanji of "seal" on it, holding the cage shut, about to rip it off a hand reaches out and grabs his arm stopping him. "I wouldn't do that if was you." a claim and unfamiliar voice lets out. Being pushed back away from the seal, Naruto lands on his butt, the red leaving his eyes, he looks up to see a man with azure blue eyes and spiky yellow-blond hair with jaw-length bags framing either side of his face. Wearing a standard Konoha uniform with two bands on both of his sleeves, a green flak jacket, blue forehead protector, blue sandals, and a short-sleeved long white haori closed in the front by a thin orange rope, and decorated by red flame-like motifs on the edges, with the kanji for "Fourth Hokage" written vertically down the back. He knows this man, after all he's looked up at his face of the majority of his short thirteen years of life. The man he has long dreamed of surpassing in the hopes of finally being respected by his village, and the man who has caused him the most pain in his life. Minato Namikaze, the fourth Hokage, the man who saved their village by sealing the nine tailed fox inside him.

Said fox roars, "Your-" Being cut off by Naruto as he stutters out, "Your the fourth Hokage. Aren't you supposed to be dead?"

Chuckling the dead Hokage answers while helping Naruto up, "Yes Naruto I died the day I sealed the nine tails into you, but I stored some of my chakra and consciousness into the seal to appear in your psyche as an contingency for when the seal unraveled to the point you sprouted the eight tail. Truth be told, I was hoping that it would never get this far, especially this early in your life. I never wanted to see the nine tails again, but then again, I was looking forward to meeting my son as a young man."

To this the nine tails roars out, "RRAW! FOURTH HOKAGE! COME HERE! I'LL RIP YOU TO SHREDS!", he was so close to being free, yet again the fucking fourth Hokage has to show up and stop it.

The Hokage calmly responds, "Not the best invitation, so no thanks. Right, Naruto?"

Naruto simply responds, "How do you know my name?"

"How?! I'm the one who named you. You're my son after all." Minato answers incredulously.

With a look of confusion Naruto utters, "Your son?! I'm-"

The nine tails interrupts, " RAAAR!"

"You heard me, you're my son, Naruto." ignoring the fox. Naruto's face shifts from confusion to joy with a small smile and tears forming in his eyes.

Just as Naruto starts laughing the fox interrupts yet again. "RAAAR! YOU, FOURTH!"

While pointing behind himself with his left thumb at the fox says, "Man he's annoying, how about we continue this conversation somewhere quieter." He than, with a snap of his fingers, transports them away to a place surrounded by white. "Their that's much better." the fourth Hokage said. As Naruto sobs softly and tries to rub the tears out of his eyes with his left forearm, Minato continues, "Lord third didn't tell you much of anything, did he? I guess lord Hiruzen wanted to suppress as much information about the nine tails as possible. If people found out you were my son, you'd have been in danger. I'm so sorry, Naruto."

Naruto's response is a fist to his father's stomach and starts yelling with tears streaming down his face, "Why would you ever put the nine tails inside your own son?! How could you put me through all of that?! I don't know if I'm happy or if I'm mad!"

While Naruto still sobs softly his dad asks him with a fatherly face, "Naruto, how old are you now?"

Rubbing tears from his eye he answers, "UNH...UNH... Thirteen..."

"Wow, already thirteen, huh. It must have been hard for you, Naruto. Forgive me."With a sad look on his face Minato continues, "Though I suppose it's little consolation to you for me to put on a fatherly face and apologize now, after putting you through all that."

Naruto raises his head sniffing answers with a pout, "It's all right, I'm the Fourth's kid, I'll deal."

This causes his father to put on a pained smile before answering Naruto's previously asked question, "I sealed half of the nine tailed fox's chakra inside you, because I trusted that you would master this power, because you are my son. There's a reason I went to the trouble, it's based on something I learned thirteen years ago, when the nine tails attacked Konoha."

Naruto asks, "What?"

Minato answers, "There was a mastermind behind the fox, who manipulated him, made him assault the village. Quite a formidable shinobi, back then he saw right through all of my moves, he's no ordinary shinobi. Someone you need extraordinary strength to stand against and hope to have a chance of defeating. I believe he will attack our village again."

"Who is this guy?" Naruto asks.

"I don't know who he is, but I can tell that he wore a mask with a hole over his right eye, which contains a sharingan with time space jutsu better than mine. I also believe he is the one leading the Akatsuki, because he told me himself that he would one day regain control of the nine tails right before he fled, so it can't be mere coincidence that a group of S class rouge shinobi would be hunting Bijuu like he is." Minato answered.

Naruto with a look of shock and panic yells out, "Me?! How I am I suppose to stop someone who even you couldn't beat? I nearly got taken by this guy's lackeys! I'm not talented or smart like you! I couldn't even stop Sasuke from leaving the village!"

"Yeah, I saw from inside your mind." his father adds.

"You watched?!" Naruto yells out in surprise.

Minato answers, "Yes, I've seen your entire life Naruto. And that's why I know you can do anything you put your mind to. You've repeatedly overcame the odds that were against you to achieve your dream. Which if I remember right, it's to surpass all of the Hokage, including me. But more than any of that, I know you can do it because you're my son and I believe in you." he says that last part while putting his hand on Naruto's head affectionately.

Naruto asks unsure of himself, "You do...? Do you really think I can?"

Minato replies without hesitation, "Well, it is the duty of a parent to unconditionally believe in their child."

That brings a large foxy grin to his face, chuckling a bit Naruto says, "Yeah, I guess I can do it, because I'm the son of the Forth Hokage, believe it!"

This makes Minato laugh out, "Ha ha ha ha, you sound just like your mother."

That causes Naruto to realize he can find out who his mother is. "Wait, who is my mom?" he asks.

His dad answers, "Your mother's name was Kushina Uzumaki, she was a strong willed red head, who talked with the same spirit you do. I wish I had more time to tell you about her, but my chakra's fading, so it's time for me to go, if you want to know more about your mother ask Jiraiya sensei. I will rebuild the seal for the last time." At this point Minato puts his right hand on Naruto's seal and with a twist of his hand, returns the seal back to normal. Just before he fades out of existence, he tells his son, "I want you to know that no matter what anyone says or thinks, both your mother and I will always love you."

Jiraiya, along with the toad sages on his shoulders, look up in fear as the nearly freed nine tailed fox starts forming a Bijuu bomb that's blocking out the sky above them. Before they can come up with a solution to their currant problem, both the bomb and the fox disappear in a explosion of smoke, shrouding the clearing. With extreme caution, Jiraiya approaches the slowly dissolving cloud of smoke to find a passed out and skinless Naruto. Once seeing Naruto in that condition, Jiraiya rushes to check on him. Kneeling down, Jiraiya flips Naruto over on to his back and checks his pulse, breathing in relief, he finds him to have a strong pulse and somewhat labored breathing, but thankfully alive. Knowing that Naruto's life is no longer in danger, not to mention everyone else in the nearby area, Jiraiya can't help but wonder what suppressed the fox's chakra and repaired the damage to the seal.

Voicing Jiraiya's thoughts Shima says, "What in tarnation happened?! How was da nine tails sealed back up?"

Fukasaku replies, "Maybe there was some type of failsafe implanted in the sealing formula to save da boy's life."

Jiraiya adds, "Minato was know for being cautious and planning ahead to counteract any unforeseen events, plus their are still many unknown aspects of the Reaper Death Seal Minato used. Perhaps Naruto will be able to shed some light on what happened once he wakes up? Until then we can only speculate as to what happened, but for now we should focus on getting him treatment for his wounds."

Jiraiya grunts in pain as he reaches down to pick up Naruto, causing Shima to state, with worry in her voice, "It's not just the boy who needs medical attention lad, you're in worse shape than he is. If it wasn't for the fact that nature chakra enhances the bodies regenerative ability, you'd have already died of blood loss."

"Ma's right Jiraiya-boy, you need proper medical care and time ta heal and not just from the obvious injury running across your chest, but from da damage caused by your exposure to that their nine tailed chakra. It's destroying every cell it comes inter contact with, like some short of poison. We've been having to split our focus on removing it from your system and maintaining da balance of your chakra and nature chakra. I don't have to tell ya what can go wrong if that balance fails Jiraiya-boy." chimes in Fukasaku.

On that point Jiraiya can whole heartily agree, either nature energy will become too weak and he'll drop out of sage mode leaving him completely exhausted, which in his current state could prove fatal, or nature chakra could become too strong overpowering his own, turning him into a toad statue, making him a permanent part of nature.

Shima chastises, "Just be glad that da Fourth Hokage had enough foresight to plan for your stupidity lad. Otherwise da very worst could have happened here today, because in your current condition we would never have been able to suppress da nine tailed fox in time!"

With shame and plenty of blame on his part, Jiraiya responds, "Your right Ma, this was all my fault, clearly it was far too soon for Naruto to try and tap into the fox's power to such a degree. For now I'll focus on increasing his own strength, so that the day when he has to master the nine tail's power he'll be ready."

"Good ta hear Jiraiya-boy, but I recommend dat the boy learns senjutsu before having ta confront that their nine tails, and it'd be a few more years before I'd reckon his body be ready for da strain of senjutsu." replies Fukasaku.

"That would be for the best boss. I'll train him up as best I can and then when you think he's ready you can summon him to Mount Myoboku to train in senjutsu. Though he'll probably need more combat experience before he's ready and that's something he can only get in real battle. That'll only happen once he's back in Konoha and assigned to a team to go on missions, so that's still a long ways off if you ask me." answers Jiraiya, while he picked Naruto off the ground and started to head to the nearby town to get them both some much needed help.

A few days have past since the incident with Naruto's seal, finding both Jiraiya and Naruto heavily bandaged in Jiraiya's hospital room. It kind of annoys Jiraiya at how fast Naruto tends to recover, he's already been discharged and is now removing the last of his bandages, revealing perfectly healed skin. To be honest his skin came back in under a day, but his chakra exhaustion is what kept in the hospital for as long it did and he didn't want to be bothered by the doctors, so he kept the bandages on to shut them up. While Jiraiya was still looking at about a week before he'd be discharged. This meant it'd be a week before Naruto could collect on his winnings, but instead of a disgruntled kid we find a Naruto lost on thought. He was thinking about everything he learned from his dad in his mindscape. He wanted to bombard the pervy sage with questions as soon as he woke up, but Jiraiya has been unconscious for the past couple of days, only just now waking up, and Naruto was feeling responsible for his condition. If he had been stronger and not as weak willed he could of resisted all of that hate and not hurt the pervy sage.

Before Naruto can go down that rabbit hole Jiraiya calls out, "Hey gaki! What are you thinking about? It's not like you to be lost in thought. To be honest, I thought you never really used that lump you call a brain."

While he broke out laughing, Naruto starts pouting and yells back, "Hey I have a brain! It's just I prefer to use my gut, and for your information I was thinking about how it was my fault you got hurt!"

This causes Jiraiya to immediately stop laughing and his face to take on a very serious look as he lectures Naruto, "Now you listen good to me when I tell you that the only one at fault is me. I should have never tampered with your seal, especially as much as I did at your age. It's far too soon for you to handle that type of power. I let my ego get the better of me, and we both paid the price for it, so I don't want to hear anymore of this it's my fault talk, understand? If anything I should be apologizing to you."

Somberly Naruto nods his head and replies, "Ok, but your not entirely at fault, because I do need to master the fox's power, even my father said so."

With a sudden look of shock, Jiraiya quickly asks, "What do you mean your father told you? While we're at it how about you tell me everything about how you were able to suppress the nine tails?"

The next few minutes were spent with Naruto telling Jiraiya about everything that transpired in his mindscape, only stopping to clarify a few things for the pervy sage. Jiraiya was quiet, lost in contemplation over everything he was just told, before finally voicing his thoughts, "So it wasn't just an automated failsafe, but Minato himself, and on top of that he tells you that the nine tails attack on Konoha was orchestrated by a masked shinobi with sharingan and time space jutsu better than his own, and that he plans on finishing the job by retaking control of the nine tails. Not to mention he suspects that the same man is the one leading the akatsuki, who are planning to go after the Bijuu. Damn, this complicates things, I'm going to have to send a report of this to Tsunade, and I should try to send warnings to all the villages in procession of bijuu, to keep an eye out for the akatsuki, for they'll be after their jinchuuriki."

Letting out a sigh at all the extra work he's going to have to do, Jiraiya is interrupted by Naruto asking, "What's a bijuu and jinchuuriki?" a confused look plastered on his face.

Jiraiya can only face-palm and groan out, "A bijuu are tailed beasts, like the nine tailed fox, and jinchuuriki are people the bijuu are sealed inside of. It's a practice that came along as a means to weaponize the bijuu's massive power, after the First Hokage gave them to rivaling villages to maintain a power balance among the nations."

A moment of realization hits Naruto, he's a jinchuuriki and their are others like him out there. A million questions race a across his mind, from wondering how many their are and if they had the same upbringing as him, to how could people willing turn others into weapons against their will and hate them for it? Seeing the thoughts swirling around in Naruto's head, Jiraiya starts answering his unasked questions, "There are nine bijuu in total, ranging from the one tail to the nine tails, their power represented by the number of tails they have. Meaning that there's never more than nine jinchuuriki at any one time, and they tend to be treated the same in every village. After all you met and fought the one tail jinchuuriki from Suna, so you know how unstable he was, that was from his horrible childhood."

"Wait, Gaara's a jinchuuriki like me?!" Naruto yells out.

"Yes, he is, gaki, so that makes him a target of the akatsuki too, but don't worry I'm already planning on warning Suna, which should be the easiest of the villages to warn." Jiraiya answers. "Now does that answer all of your questions?"

"Yeah, about jinchuuriki and bijuu anyways." Naruto replied, "But what are we going to do about me mastering the nine tails power? My dad said I'm going to need that power to beat that masked guy!"

Jiraiya in a reassuring tone answers, "Don't worry, I only said you weren't ready yet, not that you'll never master it, but we need to get you ready before we try again. That's going to include teaching you as many jutsu as you can handle, upping all of your basics even more, and sparring without the kid gloves."

Naruto almost jumped for joy at the jutsu part, didn't like the whole basic stuff again, but couldn't help but ask a question about the sparring, "What do you mean kid gloves?"

To this Jiraiya's face breaks out into a shit-eating grin and answers, "What, you thought I was fighting you seriously? Come on gaki, at best I was fighting you at high chunin level. I'm considered to be a kage level shinobi, if I sparred with you at full power you'd be left as a pile of bruises and broken bones."

Naruto would like to argue the fact, but he remembered the battle pervy sage had with Orochimaru and that had been with both of them in weak state, and that was a battle he couldn't even keep track of, so he relented. Jiraiya continues with explaining his plans, "We'll start by finding out what your elemental affinity is, so we can focus on jutsu that'll be easier for you too learn. Normally it would take years of training to master even one affinity, but with the shadow clone method we'll be able to nock that out in a few weeks or months."

"That sounds totally awesome! It'll be like learning the fireball jutsu and the chidori right?!" Naruto yells out excitedly.

"Well, only if you have either fire or lightning affinities, but you could still learn weaker jutsus of affinities you don't have, but it will take longer and be harder to learn, so we'll only focus on the affinity you have. Actually, if you can hand me my scroll I'll be able tell you which ones you have." Once hearing this, Naruto practically ran over, grabbed the scroll and tossed it to him. After Jiraiya opens his scroll and unseals a piece of paper, he hands it to Naruto and tells him to channel his chakra into it.

"What's a stupid piece a paper have to do with figuring out what affinity I have?" Naruto impatiently asks.

A frustrated Jiraiya answers, " It's called litmus paper, and it has a unique quality that reacts to a persons chakra that tells you what your affinity is. If its fire it will burn, if its wind it will split in two, if its lightning it will crumple, if its earth it will crumble, and if its water it will get wet. Now just channel your chakra into and find out."

Doing just that, Naruto waits on baited breath as the paper splits in two. "It appears you have an affinity for wind chakra, that's a very rare one to have, and I only know a few jutsus for that one, but the bright side is that it's unrivaled in battle power, able to cut, tear, and sever anything in its path" Jiraiya explained.

"I knew it! I knew I was unstoppable!" Naruto shouts out.

"Whoa, gaki. Hold your horses, we've only just figured this out. You must first be trained, so you can properly use and control your nature. We'll first have to practice your chakra's change of nature stronger. You will be doing this with as many clones as you can, while I'm still hospitalized by holding a leaf between your palms and using just your chakra to tear it completely in two." Jiraiya informs him.

Naruto replies, "No problem! I'll have it down in no time! Believe it!" and starts to run out the door, only to stop and turn around to face pervy sage and says, "Hey, I almost forgot, but my dad said to ask you to tell me about my mom, Kushina Uzumaki."

Jiraiya freezes for a second, wondering how much of the truth he should tell him about his mother and her/his clan, but decides that he already knows about his father, so why not, and tells him, "Alright, but sit down, this going to take a while." Naruto eagerly sits down in a chair by Jiraiya's bed, waiting to hear everthing about his mother. "Ok, where to start? I guess I can start with how she was the previous jinchuuriki of the nine tails before you."

"My mom was the nine tails jinchuuriki?!" Naruto interrupts, yelling at the top of his lungs.

"Keep it down gaki, or I'll not tell you about her!" Jiraiya shouts back. Naruto quickly quiets down and nods his head. "Alright, good, and yes she was selected as the second jinchuuriki host of the nine tails. Brought to Konoha all the way from the land of Eddies."

Naruto interrupts again, but much quieter, "Why? She was a stranger from another nation? Why make her a jinchuuriki?!"

Jiraiya answers, "Yes. She was from a different hidden village, another nation, but back then, the land of Fire and the land of Eddies had a very close relationship. The shinobi of Konoha's Senju clan and Uzushio's Uzumaki clan were distant blood relatives. Full of shinobi brimming with vitality, Uzushio village was known as the village of longevity. The clan-members excelled at sealing jutsu, but they were also a bit savage. The tetragram seal on your stomach was based on a jutsu originally developed by her village. She taught it to Minato, your father along with other sealing jutsu. Naruto, that symbol on the back of your jacket is the crest of Uzushiogakure village. It symbolizes to this day the camaraderie between Konoha and Uzushio, even though Uzushio no longer exists as a nation now. During the era of war and unrest, their sealing jutsu abilities were greatly feared, so were targeted and eradicated. Survivors fled and hid themselves throughout the lands."

Yet again Naruto interrupts, "But, why her, why my mom?!"

No longer caring that he keeps interrupting, its to be expected, answers, "She was born with a particularly powerful chakra. Strong even for one from her village, strong enough to suppress the nine tails. In fact, the first nine tails jinchuuriki was also an Uzushio kunoichi, which made it tradition. Her name was Mito Uzumaki, and was the wife of the First Hokage. Do you know about the battle between the first Hokage Lord Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara?"Naruto replies yeah and Jiraiya continues, "It was during that battle that in order to lend strength to lord Hashirama, who obtained the nine tails, lady Mito sealed the nine tails inside herself using sealing jutsu and becoming the nine tails jinchuuriki. Ever since, Konoha has possessed the nine tails, and when lady Mito approached the end of her life, your mother was brought in to become the nine tails next vessel."

Not surprisingly Naruto yells out, "They weren't even treating her like a person!"

Jiraiya relpies, "I don't know all of the details because everything was top secret, I only know what I do because your mother told your father, who told me. What I do know is that even though your mother was a jinchuuriki, she appeared to be happy with friends and a growing family."

This brought a smile to Naruto's face, not just because his mother was able to find happiness as a jincjuuriki, but because it made him feel closer to her. He then asked, "If my mother was the nine tails jinchuuriki then how do I now contain him?"

"I wasn't in the village at the time, but from what I've been told and what you recently revealed to me it, I can take an educated guess. You see what most people don't know and I'm guessing the masked man somehow found out about, is that the seal on a women jinchuuriki weakens during the approximate ten months she is pregnant. This is because the chakra that normally goes to the seal is diverted to the growing fetus in her womb. We only know this because the nine tails nearly escaped when lady Mito went into labor for the first time. I figure that when your mother went into labor thirteen years ago the masked man must have used this opportunity to free the nine tails and bring him under his control, forcing your father to seal the nine tails into you. That's my best guess anyway." Jiraiya answered.

Naruto responds after thinking for a few minutes, " OK, then what can you tell me about my mother as a kunoichi? What kind of jutsus did my mom know and how did she fight?"

Pondering the question for a moment, Jiraiya answers, "Well like most Uzumaki, Kushina was a master at the sealing arts, but what made your mother stick out was her ability to create chakra chains so powerful that they could suppress even the nine tails. She was also highly skilled in kenjutsu, she was one of Konoha best to be exact. One of things she would often complain about was missing out on the chance to clash with one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of The Mist during the last war, to test her kenjutsu skills against the best shinobi swordsmen of the world."

Naruto responds to this with awe in his voice, "Wow. I can't believe my mom would have wanted too tangle with one the Seven Swordsmen if the Mist, I know I don't want to have go against one again. She must have been completely fearless."

Laughing a little bit, Jiraiya says, "I wouldn't count that time were I saved your butt from Kisame Hoshigaki, you didn't really get the chance to fight him after all."

"Huh, that fish guy with Sasuke's brother was one of the Seven Swordsmen?" a confused Naruto asked.

"Yeah, who else would I be talking about gaki?" Jiraiya, the one confused this time, asked.

"Oh I was thinking about my teams first c-rank mission to protect a bridge builder, but it turned out he lied about the kind of people that were trying to kill him, and we ended up against Zabuza, The Demon of the Mist." Naruto answered. A very shocked Jiraiya demanded that Naruto tell him the story from the very beginning to the very end, after all it wasn't everyday a team of freshly graduated genin defeat the likes of Zabuza, Jonin sensei or not.

After about a half hour of hyperactive story telling from Naruto, Jiraiya just sits there with his jaw wide open for few minutes, before practically yelling, "You seriously left the Kubikiribocho, a legendary weapon revered as a national treasure in Kirigakure and is probably worth hundreds of millions on the black market, as a grave marker for Zabuza in Nami! I mean I can expect that kind of idiocy from you, but not from Kakashi! I wouldn't be surprised if someone has already stolen it! Alright, the first thing we're doing once I get out of here, is to head to Nami and retrieve the Kubikiribocho, if its still there that is!"

Naruto quickly jumps up and yells back, "Hey! Don't yell at me! How was I suppose to know that sword was that important! And what do you mean we're going to Nami, you're suppose to train me not run off trying to strike it rich pervy sage!"

Jiraiya in the blink of an eye, grabs Naruto by scruff of his jacket and pulls him up to his face and calmly says, with a deadly serious tone, "I'm not looking to strike it rich, Naruto, that blade is a very powerful weapon that any shinobi would give their left arm to have. Plus I'm not stupid and your very predictable, you're going to want to learn as many jutsus and techniques that your parents knew, so as to be closer to them. If that's really the case then you can't do any better than one of the swords of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. As for the training you part, I can do that on the way and we can even train for bit in Nami. Remember I'm your sensei and even if you don't understand my methods, you can be damn sure that what I'm doing for you is for your own good. Got that Naruto?" All Naruto could do was nod his head, for the pervy sage was right on all accounts. He wanted to learn sealing jutsu and kenjutsu like his mom and the Hiraishin his father was famous for. Even if sounded stupid or seems impossible, he wants to use these jutsu to feel closer to the parents he never got have. Glad to see that Naruto understands, he gently puts him back down and says, "Now go get to work on the leaf exercise, I want you to have it split in two by time we head out." As Naruto runs out to meet the pervy sages challenge, Jiraiya thinks about how hard these next two years and three months are going to be for the both of them, and can only groan out at how much research he'll be missing out on. Yet that can't keep the grin off his face as he looks out his window to see about a thousand Naruto clones holding leaves in their palms.