Right! Need to add the deal for copyright. I totally don't own Naruto. Some other guy owns it...Masashi or something, I forget the name. Anyway I just am providing this idea, but he owns the characters and who knows what else.

Chapter 01 - Training in ...Unpredictablility?

Stupid Ero-sennin!

These were the thoughts of a young shinobi who was currently in a hotel room waiting for his sensei. Naruto Uzumaki, genin of Konohagakure and jinchuuriki of the dreaded Kyuubi no Kitsune, was going through the process of molding his chakra with several shadow clones after being ordered to do so by Jiraiya of the Sannin. He and all of his clones wore a short orange jumpsuit (due to his height) with a spiral emblem in the back, a hitaitate with a leaf symbol to show his village affiliation, and blue ninja sandals for protection and comfort for his movements. Their facial features of untamable sunny blonde hair, deep cerulean blue eyes, and a group of three whisker marks on each side of his cheeks were set in a scowl due to his current situation.

Konoha had been recovering from an invasion that occurred during the third stage of the village's chunin exams. Otogakure and Sunagakure had teamed up to attack and were set on the destruction of the village. After various battles, Konoha was still standing and the invasion forces retreated...but not without great loss. Many ninjas had been injured, several had died fighting bravely, but most of all, the Sandaime Hokage had been murdered. Many had felt these losses greatly, but were making efforts to help the village during its time of need.

Naruto had been doing much the same, but was the called for an important mission...to assist in finding Tsunade the Slug Sannin the next Hokage (though he hadn't been tolded about the Hokage part). Jiraiya would be heading the search due to his skill and experience, but he also mentioned using the time to train Naruto as he had done so before the third stage of the chunin exams. Unfortunately, a lot of the time had been spent walking and talking. Naruto was obviously disappointed with the situation and made his discomfort known. Jiraiya scolded Naruto in obvious annoyance and continued without doing much else.

After reaching the next town that they would be "gathering information" as Jiraiya informed him, they stopped in a hotel to have lodgings for the night. Before they could even receive the key to their room, a beautiful woman walked in front of the entrance. As she was spotted by the sannin and student, she seemingly went into the process of practically flirting through body language to the two ninja who would have found this suspicious if not for being instantly entranced. Having the key to their room handed to him, Jiraiya ordered Naruto to the room and then rushed off after said woman.

Back to our current setting, Naruto molds chakra with several clones in efforts to gain additional control to his massive reserves of chakra. Annoyed with the exercise due to not being able to see results (Who isn't?), the real Naruto left his clones to continue while he worked on the only other thing he could work on. Having suggested to Jiraiya about teaching him about the snake sannin Orochimaru, the attack that had been used on him during the second stage of the exams in the Forest of Death and undone by Jiraiya during his initial training was brought up. Naruto took a delightful fascination to the techniques which were full of potential just like him. Jiraiya hadn't shown much as previously stated, but he had provided a scroll with instructions on how to begin gaining knowledge in the art of seals. So having some unwanted free time due to his perverted sensei, Naruto decided to look into it again. It kept stressing the need for precision in the brush strokes and alignments of the symbols which Naruto figured he could work on eventually so he decided to skip ahead to see if their was a training exercise for seals.

"Alright, NEXT," Naruto murmured to himself as he unraveled the scroll further, but was met with a blank scroll. The more he unraveled the more frustrated he grew until a note unsealed itself.

Hey gaki,

If you're reading this then you obviously are going into not-thinking-ahead mode and are looking for an ability that you want to train in, but will most likely mess up and I will have to fix. No! Smack. No! Bad gaki! Sit!

Naruto was obviously steaming, but was preoccupied with being seriously freaked out due to the sting he felt on his hand after reading the word 'Smack' and feeling like he was forced to sit after reading 'Sit'.

Ah! Thank you, seals. Now then, if you really want to work on something and I happen to be undertaking the noble quest to gain crucial knowledge through my research to provide countless millions with extraordinary literature, here's the seal for the exploding tag. I am putting a low level one here, but for Kami's sake, don't push chakra into it unless I am there or I am far enough away not to get blamed for your recklessness.

Signed,
The Gallant Super Pervert of Mount Myoboku, Jiraiya-sama

Finding feeling returning back to his legs, Naruto angrily took the note which had transformed into the symbol which he though was most likely the seal for an explosive tag. After taking a moment to look at it, he became fully confident in believing he could make one easily. He looked for any paper of any kind he could find since he would end up gloating about it later to the pervy sage. Not having much to work with he decided to make his first attempt on the only blank paper he had. He had been intending to use it to send a letter to Gaara to see if he was fine since the invasion. He did mess him up pretty bad after all. Taking in the image, he began making his attempt. Halfway through, one of his bored clones noticed his work and decided to comment on it.

"You're messing it up, boss."

"What? What are you talking about? It's fine!"

"Look! Practically all of it is drippy. Were you trying to use the brush as a kunai or something?"

"It's called training for a reason! Just get off my back and let me finish!"

The clone shook his head dismissively and let Naruto to it. Naruto continued with the note and finished the design to the best of his ability. Even he had to admit when placed right next to each other, his looked like a dying message.

"There's always next time, boss," called out a group of clones before they poofed from existence.

Damn clones. Well, it wasn't great but he did not need anyone reminding him. Wanting to give it another try but knowing he didn't have any other paper, a sudden surge of inspiration struck him.

"I COULD always use the back."

Unpredictable inspiration, but inspiration nonetheless. And with no one there to give him any other ideas, Naruto saw no harm in giving the seal another try on the back. It's not like he was going to send chakra into it and unleash hell right in front of him.

Regrettably, after beginning with the basic circle shape in the center, a loud knock came from the door which caused him to flinch and stray off his intended design. Despite his profession and necessary mindset, he was still childish at times. In a childish fit of anger and figuring Jiraiya was messing with him, he scribbled randomly all over the design in random directions and crumbled up his paper with the intention of tossing it in the pervy sage's face when he opened the door.

Rapidly opening the door, Naruto took in a large breath to launch into his 'stubborn rant no jutsu' (patent pending). He became surprised when he saw two other figures instead.

The shorter man, who was still much taller than him, had black hair that framed his head, onyx eyes that eclipsed all emotions on his face, and wearing light purple shinobi clothes under a dark black cloak with a few red clouds moving across it.

The taller shinobi, who decided to already have his bandaged weapon that looked like a sword at the ready, looked like a mutated half-man half-shark person, even the hair looked like it was going for shark fin or something, and he was wearing the same clothes which pretty much covered the rest of him except the strap which he mostly likely uses to hold his weapon.

There were probably others things to notice about them, but those kind of stuck out more.

"Uh yes?" Naruto questioned.

What took place afterward would lead to a great change in Naruto's life.

After a momentary discussion that involved the Akatsuki members Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki capturing Naruto for his bijuu the Kyuubi no Kitsune, Naruto made an effort to summon his chakra as a means of defense. Despite being unintentional, the surprise of the meeting with the S-rank missing-nins caused him to totally forget about the paper that consisted of an inaccurate explosive seal on one side and a horribly made splatter of childish art on the other, crumbled up in his hand as he went to make a seal. Kisame with his honed shinobi skills went for the immediate action of shaving off the chakra. The combination of an unholy seal, a rapid influx of chakra, and Kisame's sword swing led to the event of the seal attaching to Kisame's Samehada practically magnetically and emitting an ever increasing and foreboding glow.

Naruto's response pretty much covered the mental thoughts of the Akatsuki members.

"OH SHI-"

In another part of town, Sasuke Uchiha the younger brother of Itachi Uchiha and teammate/rival of Naruto Uzumaki was running through the village where he heard Naruto was and where Itachi was chasing him. He was slightly taller than Naruto with short, dark black duck-butted shape hair (even though he doesn't admit it), focused onyx eyes, a leaf hitaitate, and some weird black jumpsuit (as Naruto put it).

He was making a rapid pace but lost his momentum when the sound of a sudden explosion happened.

He started roof hopping in its direction.

In yet another part of town, Jiraiya had just released the young woman from earlier from the hypnosis she was placed under and was going to carry her back to his room to await his just reward for his selflessness.

This train of thought was crushed when he heard the sound of an explosion from the direction of his rented room.

"Damn you, Naruto!"

When both of Naruto's precious people came to the hotel, they could see a room that was blown to hell (as was expected), an angry hotel manager (Jiraiya expected that), a few pieces of cloaks with red clouds on them (neither expected that), and Naruto recovering his consciousness and heading toward them slightly injured (Who didn't expect that? He practically does it all the time!)

After Jiraiya paid for the damages when Naruto gave the explanation of the 'visit' , he was getting his butt chewed out by his technical boss. Towering over Naruto helped with that as the experienced sannin with waist length spiky white hair, a horned hitaitate that had the kanji for oil on it, green clothes under a red cloak-like vest, geta instead of shinobi sandals, and with the giant Toad summoning scroll on his back.

"What in the world were you think...never mind, I know what you weren't thinking?" Jiraiya took a moment to let out a loud sigh, but was also relieved he was okay.

"Dobe, did whatever stuff that you made that obviously backfired kill them?" Sasuke questioned.

"How should I know, teme? They're shinobi! If we don't see pieces of them here and there, then I can't tell?" Naruto angrily replied.

After an obligatory argument between the two teammates, Maito Gai of Team Gai made the scene and was informed all the same. Maito Gai was about as tall as Jiraiya with bowl cut black hair, wearing orange leg warmers with a jounin vest over his green tights. Of course, the main feature that practically characterizes him from all other humans are his large bushy black eyebrows.

"YOSHA! NARUTO-KUN TRULY YOU ARE IN THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH TO HAVE FENDED OFF SUCH UNYOUTHFUL ENEMIES!" proclaimed Gai exuberantly.

"HOWEVER, I WILL NOT KEEP YOU FROM YOUR YOUTHFUL MISSION ANY LONGER! I WILL TAKE SASUKE-KUN BACK TO KONOHA BEFORE NIGHTFALL, AND IF I CAN'T DO THAT THEN I WILL RUN 100 LAPS AROUND THE FOREST OF DEATH WHILE CARRYING NEJI-KUN (back in Konoha, Neji's spine tingled and he kept his byakugan activated for the rest of the day to calm his inexplicable fear), AND IF I CAN'T DO THAT...,"

Sasuke was dreading his trip back while Jiraiya was trying to end the conversation.

Gai also tried to reward Naruto for his 'youthful victory' and Sasuke for his 'youthful' loyalty with a set of green tights just like his and the mini-Gai clone Rock Lee.

Sasuke paled greatly and moved away as if expecting demons to burst from the tights.

Naruto accepted the tights with a nice guy smile and thumbs up.

Sasuke now believed the tights to be capable of emitting horrible genjutsu.

Jiraiya just wanted Gai to leave.

Sasuke and Gai eventually headed back to Konoha again, but did miss out on the next life-changing event.

Still standing outside the inn, Naruto was suddenly grabbed from behind and he felt teeth sink into his right shoulder and slightly through his clothes.

"GAH! What the?" he yelled confused and concerned.

When Jiraiya turned to look, an unmistakable expression appeared on his face.

"Hey gaki! Who's the girl in the bandages?" he said and followed up with some perverted giggling.

Naruto having no idea what he was talking about made a look over his shoulder and saw a strange sight indeed.

Clasped around his torso by her arms and legs was a girl who WAS only worrying bandages to cover her modesty. Her skin seemed tanned but not quite to the same level as his own. She had what was most likely hair that reached down to her hips. Its existence as hair was questioned due to the fact that the dark blue-gray material seemed to be vibrating on its own on her head. He couldn't tell much else about her figure do to their position, but one other thing was for sure she had VERY sharp teeth.

With Itachi finding the group after the explosion and determining the situation to be too dangerous, he met up with Kisame again nearby and was about mention about moving on. However, he was cut short do to Kisame's yell.

"WHERE THE #$% IS SAMEHADA!"

Author Notes

There we go first chapter and giving a setting and time frame. For those who don't know Naruto, this would be right in the beginning of the Finding Tsunade/Rasengan training arc. We are going to get to that, of course. Naruto is still Naruto. Haven't changed his past or anything. He just is dealing with seals way sooner that in the series. Who is the girl that is pulling a violent Onbu? Pretty obvious, but that where the rest of the story will come in. Quite frankly, I am in the mind that Naruto was placed with more than any other guy has had to ever face.

1. He fights a chunin before becoming genin.
2. Faces guys like Zabuza, Orochimaru, and Akatsuki.
3. Not even getting to what I heard (not read I stuck to the Anime and have only heard about future things)

My stories are intending for fighting of awesome kinds, but I don't intend for some zombie action to get into the picture...too much. I mean COME ON! That's like they made the series with the intention of making the bad guys as God-like as the make Naruto in some of the stories I read. Nope! Bad guys will be tough. Good guys will still need to train. But no super insanity like that.

Well till next chapter then.

04/07/2012