AN: The idea for this fanfiction was something I had been wanting to do for awhile now but had no motivation to do so! I got this idea while watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, there will be one or two things in this story that will come out of Avatar: The Last Airbender but you won't have to have watched the show to understand! Please review and tell me what you think! Constructive Criticism is welcome! - Shio
No Bashing, Good!Akatsuki, Akatsuki!Naruto.
Pairings are undecided but I will NOT be doing NaruSaku, NaruHina or any Yaoi. I don't really have anything against any of the three but I want to have a unique pairing, not one that's used a lot. If anyone has any suggestions for the pairing I may do a vote! Also, No Harem! Again, I'm not against it but I find harems extremely hard to write.
Warning: Will contain cussing and maybe some small spoilers for Naruto, but that is all at this time!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Avatar: The Last Airbender
To say that the blond thirteen year old was angry was the understatement of the century, the boy was -in not so polite terms- fucking pissed off and annoyed... very annoyed! Why? Why was he so 'fucking pissed off' and very annoyed, when he should have been getting training and learning some 'awesome ninja techniques' with one of the famous Sannin, the toad sage Jiraiya or as the blond may call him, Ero-Sennin? It was simple really. The damn pervert had gone and left Naruto in their hotel room while the said pervert went to the small town's hot spring to conduct some of his 'research'! This was the fourth week of their 'training' trip and Jiraiya hadn't taught the blond one single damn thing! Oh, and to make things more frustrating for the blond, whenever training was bought up in any conversations they had the toad sage would always say something along the lines of 'when I think your ready we will begin training to use and control the Kyuubi's chakra'! That had pissed the blond off even more. Most may believe that Uzumaki Naruto, Jinchuriki of the nine-tailed fox didn't like the bijuu trapped inside of him, it was quite the opposite actually. After an incident that had happened when Naruto was five the blond had met the bijuu and, while the bijuu acted like he hated the blond's guts the two formed some sort of bond that had started to form after the bijuu had helped Naruto 'see' again. Heck! The kyuubi even told Naruto his actual name- which was Kurama. The blond didn't want to use the Kyuubi's chakra because of their friendship and because of that he was almost completely fed up with Jiraiya.
Naruto let out a sigh as he got ready for the pervert to come back. Naruto knew that Jiraiya would come back soon, Ero-Sennin may not have noticed but Naruto had been 'watching' the pervert all day, almost everyday. Jiraiya's daily routine -no matter what town they went to- consisted of getting breakfast, his 'research', getting beaten up by a bunch of women that he had peeped on, getting lunch, more 'research', getting beaten up by more women, getting dinner and sake, lecture Naruto about the Kyuubi's chakra and then proceed to write some of his next book. Naruto frowned, it had been like this from the start of the trip and he had expected Jiraiya to actually teach him something. What was the point in this whole trip if Ero-Sennin didn't teach the blond anything. Although the blond really didn't think he would be able to learn something from the toad sage unless he told him the secret that only two people knew of, one being Kurama and the other being a missing nin. Maybe he should tell him, it was kind of important after all... But how would he go about it? Naruto didn't know and it wasn't something that he liked to think -or talk- about either. Oh well, the blond had to tell someone at some point in time, it's not like something like that would be kept a secret forever...
The door of the hotel room flung open and Naruto grew a little worried, although he didn't show it. With the blonds enhanced sense of smell he had a nose that could almost rival an Inuzuka's, but even without that Naruto could tell that Jiraiya had had a little to much to drink, not a lot more than usual but it seemed that the pervert wasn't in a good mood. Naruto ignored this fact and walked up to Jiraiya who had just entered the room.
"Welcome back Ero-Sennin, what have you been doing today? Did you come up with some kind of cool Jutsu that you can teach me?" The blond said happily but thought 'You were just spending the day at the hot spring again...' The reply Naruto got was not what he had expected and he felt a lot more pissed off then he had been before, even Kurama was surprised by how much anger his host was feeling -and that was saying something! Friends were precious to him, extremely precious to him and he considered the fox a friend.
"Naruto, I have decided that I will start your training in using the Kyuubi's chakra, we will begin tomorrow." Naruto allowed some of his hair to cover his eyes and said, in a quiet voice while trying to contain his anger.
"Why do I have to use the Kyuubi's chakra?"
Jiraiya just seemed to stare at the blond, he knew that Naruto didn't want to use the Kyuubi's chakra and -for the life of him- couldn't figure out why the brat was so against it, so while the self proclaimed 'Super Pervert' was out drinking he had come to the decision to talk some sense into the blond -even if he did end up having a little more to drink without realising. If only he knew that doing that would completely change the fate of the elemental nations.
"Naruto, why do you seem so opposed to using its chakra?" Naruto flinched a little at both the demanding tone in Jiraiya's voice and that the pervert called Kurama 'it' but he decided to reply to the question. Looking up to where he estimated Ero-Sennin's eyes were he said with as much enthusiasm as he could
"Because I want to get stronger without relying on Kur- the Kyuubi! I want to get stronger myself, not using something else's power! If I always rely on its power then I won't get stronger myself!" The blond didn't lie, what he had said was the truth but -not liking the way the conversation was going- he decided to leave the fact that he was friends with the fox a secret for now. Naruto couldn't see Ero-Sennin frown as if he was disagreeing with what the blond had just said, but Naruto could guess what his expression was. After about a minute of silence the toad sage spoke up in a voice of anger, disappointment and mostly worry.
"Naruto! You seem to forget that you have the a group of S-rank missing nin's after you! You don't have time to gain your own strength and plus, from what I've heard every fight you've won has been won with the power of the Kyuubi, one of the nine bijuu and supposedly the strongest! You have never won with your own power! You must be blind for not seeing the power you could use!" After Ero-Sennin had made his little -somewhat stupid- speech the toad sage stormed out of their hotel room, most likely to do some more peeping or as Ero-Sennin calls it, 'research'. Once the pervert left Naruto let out a sad sigh he didn't know he had been holding in as he thought 'I must be blind, huh? If only you knew Ero-Sennin, if only you knew. But now what should I do...? I think that it's clear that Ero-Sennin only wants to teach me to use Kurama's chakra... and he probably thinks I'm useless without it.' When Naruto started listing things he could do a strange voice in his head startled him.
'You could leave, you know. You always did want to explore all of the elemental nations...' Oh, it was just Kurama.
'But Kurama! I can't just leave Ero-Sennin...' Naruto replied in his mind.
'Gaki, the Pervert leaves you all the time and plus, it's not like you'll never see... I mean meet him again! Plus, if you leave him you might be able to find the two Uchiha brats...' The giant fox replied as if trying to convince the blond that staying would be a bad idea. Naruto blinked, looking for those two didn't sound like such a bad idea. Naruto went to were his supplies were, pulled out a pice of paper and pencil but then paused.
'Shit...' Thought the blond Jinchuriki in slight panic.
'Whats wrong gaki?' The giant fox asked in slight curiosity from inside the boy's mind.
'Kurama, I was going to write Ero-Sennin a note but... As you know I'm not the best at writing.' The boy replied in a slightly depressed tone.
'Gaki, just remember those lessons that one Uchiha taught you...' Surprisingly enough the fox managed to help the blond with just that one sentence. A smile made its way onto the blonds face as he remembered the one who went through a lot of trouble to teach him how to write and attempted to teach him how to read, as well as a lot of other things ... He had managed to write as well as someone with his disability could but reading didn't turn out well, he still couldn't read and felt somewhat disappointed in that fact. If only the incident when he was five hadn't happened... Oh well, what's done is done, there's no use dwelling on it, the past is in the past! As Naruto attempted to write down what he needed to he found that a small smile was appearing on his face.
'Thats right... The past is in the past. I decided long ago that I wouldn't hold a grudge on the villagers who attacked me that day...'
When Naruto had finished writing the note for Jiraiya he packed his things and left the hotel they were staying at, vanishing into the night.
Finished! Was it good? Was it bad? I decided to take a different approach on this story so I'm not to sure about it... Please review and tell me what you think! Constructive Criticism is welcome!