AN: well this my new story that I will try to keep going with.
This was heavily inspired by insomaniac1 Returning the pain it is a collection of one shots that will tell you things to avoid and look out for on this site. I read that and decided to follow the sandaime with a little darker plot that is not as dark as his though. And his lazy Jiraiya. And a plotting for a stronger kohona Danzo. I hope you enjoy
Naruto just stood there staring at Ebisu, as the closet pervert tried to teach him water walking. Naruto was drifting in and out of the explanation of what Ebisu was trying to tell him. He was still trying to come to some type of closer that his 'sensei' was leaving him to this idiot. But hey he left him to somebody and did't just let him be left high and dry. He was able to however to grasp that all he had to do was put chakra into his feet to stand on water. So he set out to do just that. After trying and failing to do that for a awhile he saw his 'teacher' go and confront some old leacher that was peeking at the girls in the onesen.
"Sir I don't know were you are from but inside of kohona we do not peek" said Ebisu said in his better than thou voice he was so fond of.
The old man looked more surprised than anything else and he quickly but his hand over Ebisu mouth and said something out of Naruto's earshot. Ebisu got made and prepared for 'defending the fine ladies honor' as he put it. "dumb old man' said naruto thinking that Ebisu would kill the man quickly. But was utterly surprised when the ld man was the one ending the fight in hurry. He looked at his fallen teacher and thought bitterly 'I would be better by myself.' he looked up and saw that the old man was walking away.
Running after him naruto confronted him. "hey old man."
"what do you want you brat" said the old leacher. Looking through his life to see were he had saw that face before.
"I want you to train me" said naruto looking like it was the most obvious thing in the world. 'I mean who wouldn't want to train me the future hokage of kohona and all' he thought. "You did just knock out my teacher and all."
"is that the reason you want me to teach you because I knocked out your teacher." said the old man.
"well you do seem pretty strong I guess"
"pretty strong, pretty strong. I am the the man sung about across the nations. The man ladies swoon for in their dreams. The one and only toad sage in kohona. The utterly gallant Jiraiya the toad sage." He said doing an utterly stupid dance to boot, and ending on a toad that was enough to tell naruto that this is the right choice.
"Well since you did just knock out my sensei I think you owe me just a little." said the awed naruto.
Jiraiya just looked at the small kid and decided to just do what could he lose it was just for a day. " yeah sure kid, lets go and I will help you with water walking"
Naruto followed Jiraiya to the outskirts of the village into one of the less known training grounds. There Jiraiya told him to try again what Ebisu had told him. Naruto walked out on to the water and tried again what he had beed doing getting the same lackluster results. After falling in to the water again he hears Jiraiya tell him to take clothes so that he won't get wet muttering about pedophile perverts under his breath he takes of everything but his underwear, and tries again.
This time Jiraiya is able to tell who this kid is. And was also able to tell why he was having so much trouble channeling chakra. " hey kid I am going to do some thing real quick so brace yourself. It should not hurt much" he said the last part off handily.
He then started to charge up the 5 element release. He ran at naruto and drove them into his gut. Releasing the seal that was hindering his chakra control. "there, now try it again.
This time naruto was able to stand there on the water on his first try, he started to jump up and down shouting with joy. "yatta! I did it. Thanks old man." after that he fell in again.
After a while of naruto standing on the water Jiraiya decided that he should take that time to other matters. "Naruto, have you ever felt two chakras in side you." he said to naruto.
"well" he said wondering if Jiraiya had earned his trust. "I have but the other one hard to control."
"well if you could think of a way to describe the other chakra"
"it's the Kyuubi's" Naruto said bluntly. Finally deciding that he was at least worth his trust.
"Well it great to see that you know what it is. That will make it easier to draw it out." said Jiraiya.
"What! Why don't we work on something else like ninjustu or taijustu or something that will make it very easy to beat Neji. I don't want to use the foxes power." said naruto stubbornly moving his head around.
"What why not you have no idea what this power can do you will be the strongest shinobi alive. No one will beat you."
"Orochimaru beat me pretty easily with a seal I don't see who another shinobi won't be able to do it then I will be in a worse situation." said naruto using his brain for once.
Jiraiya just looked at him stupidly like that would never happen again. He decides to just let naruto to just go on by himself and try and find another tutor. "Fine kid if you find another sensei to teach you thats fine but when you don't, come back and I will give you more training." With that Jiraiya left naruto in the clearing. To talk to the third 'a Jinchuuriki that doesn't uses the tailed beasts power thats just stupid' he thought bitterly.
Naruto walked down the street thinking over what had just happened. He had a sure deal all he had to do was suck it up and use the nine-tails power, but he just couldn't do that, he couldn't just use a power that was so easily taken away and left him in such a state that he couldn't even use chakra properly. "Man this sucks" he said under his breath.
As he was walking he pumped into a man that looked like he always needed to be in medical care. The man was old, really old from the looks of it. He had bandages over one eye. He also looked like he only had one arm but by seeing the bulge in his white robes Naruto thought. He also had an air to him that made him seem strong even if he looked really old
Naruto, seeing that the man looked like he was going to explode naruto quickly tried to diffuse the situation. "I am sorry, I wasn't looking were I was going. Are you hurt?"
The man just looked at him with calculating eyes. Like naruto didn't say anything. Eventually he spoke "are you a genin." said the man looking closely at naruto.
"well yeah."
"then aren't you supposed to be training, it is midday you should be training for the better of kohona." the man said. A look in his eyes as if he was just trying to get naruto to say something.
"Well I don't have nobody to train me." that seemed to bring a smile to the persons face but naruto was to deep in his own thoughts to notice. "My own sensei is training one of my team mates. So he set me up with somebody else but the were a bust so I started training with this old pervert Jiraiya." when he said this the man had a frown on his face. "then Jiraiya wanted me to do some techniques that I didn't think was very useful at the time so I didn't train long with him. And now I am here talking to you."
The man couldn't believe his luck running into the nine-tail host while walking through the village is usually a bad experience know it is a godsend. With the third preparing for the attack that he had carefully leaked in to the village. He thought that the jinchuuriki would be under watch. But to find him here on the outskirts of the village unprotected. By the third it is the perfect opportunity to fix one of his biggest mistakes.
"I may be an old man but I think I could give you the training that you will need how about it" he said wiping out his best grandfatherly smile that he had not even needed for his own grandson.
"I don't know," said the skeptical naruto said wondering what he could milk it for. "Jiraiya said he was going to teach me how to fight with toads and I thought that it was pretty cool." Naruto said putting on his best poker face.
the old man just looked at him for a second with his smile plastered on his face. And awkwardly croaked out "I am an old ninja I might have a summoning scroll gathering dust some were if you show enough promise I will give it to you."
Naruto had a victorious smirk on his face and said "deal old man, I'm Naruto Uzumaki"
"Danzo Shimura, now fallow me Naruto your training awaits." danzo continued in the direction that he had been heading in this time with a happy naruto right behind him. Thinking 'soon he will be strong enough to usher in a new kohona"
Jiraiya had just made it to the Hokage's office and looked at his sensei buried up to his neck in paperwork. He jumped in the window and received a kunai that cut the side of his cheek, showing that the old Hokage was that wound up. "he-he lighten up sensei it is just me."
"Oh, Hello JIraiya I had heard you were in the village." Said the aged hokage.
"Well I was just going to come give my report and leave but I found someone I haven't seen in a while and I wanted to talk to you about them." said Jiraiya.
"Jiraiya, if you are here to talk about some girl you meet than I would rather read about it at a later date I am buried in work."
"No not that, I just meet naruto"
"Oh really I haven't heard that" said the Hokage thinking that he needed to change the anbu on the boy they were getting lazy.
"yeah and he doesn't want to use his bijuu, he actually had the gall to say he didn't need it and that he wanted to learn other skills, whats up with that."
"is there something wrong with that" said the hokage faking ignorance.
"Well, no but I thought that he would need it to summon that what his father wanted for him. I thought that what you wanted." said a confused Jiraiya.
"Yes I said that. I also said that he will be seen as a hero. But I was just saying things do you understand. He is nothing more than a war deterrent. What he knows is irrelevant. All that matters is what he believes in and he believes in me to find out every answer he will gladly die at my word." said the Sandaime.
"But what happens when kohona is in a time of war."
"he will be on the front lines ready and willing to take the blow in the name of Kohona. And when he dies the Kyuubi will be sent out on the opposing forces and they will be eradicated."
"But sensei is this what Minato really wanted." Said a shocked Jiraiya
"Let me fill you in on a secret Jiraiya, Minato didn't want him. He was meant to be an orphan all along." he paused for a second to let that information sink in. "Minato only got with Kushina so that he could have control of the jinchuuriki, and become hokage. If he could do that with out him then he would have married somebody else. Hell he did marry someone else."
"So I am not really his godfather." said Jiraiya. The old hokage could only nod. "and Tsunade"
"She was never to find out."
"But he looks almost exactly like Minato him what would happen when people ask question about that."
The Hokage reached into one of his drawers and took out some paper. And hands it to the shocked sennin. "that is his last will and testament. I have so far had now need to tell any body about this but if it comes to it I will."
On the paper it said:
To all those this may concern this is the main last will and testament of Minato Namikaze
In this scroll contains all of my possessions from my justu and my weapons they are to be given to the love of my wife Shiemi Namikaze. The are not to go to Kushina Uzumaki or her son Naruto Uzumaki.
I also give all of my funds including my estate to my wife. (stated above)
I hear by denounce that I have ever known kushina uzumaki and denounce that I am the father of Naruto Uzumaki.
It had more in it but Jiraiya could not read it. The man he had known all this time turned out to be a manipulative bastard. But even then he felt better. He had lived so long in guilt. In the guilt that he had left his students son to fend for himself. And to hear that naruto is not his Godson was a huge relive.
"so you see JIraiya. We can do anything. So now all we have to ensure is that when the time comes we are able to reseal the kyuubi we can and we are in the clear." Said the Sandaime.
"Right, and what happened to his wife"
"She tragically died that night so we had all of his possessions placed in side of the hokage tombs with his body." he said,
"Oh, a shame. And on to the other reason why I am here." Said JIraiya already forgotten that he had abandoned naruto again.
Naruto followed Danzo through the village earning looks of surprise from the villagers as they walked towards Danzo's training grounds. When they came to an old looking warehouse in the middle of town, "here we are." said Danzo.
"Wait I thought we were going to be training. Why are we here!" Yelled naruto.
"This is were are we going to be training for the month naruto." said the old shinobi. " but first I need to talk to you away from prying eyes" said Danzo. He lead them inside the warehouse. Inside it didn't look none to spacious there were many boxes that looked like their were prepared to ship all over the world. The only thing that looked of was the small table with. Some papers on it.
Danzo casually strolled over to the table and sat waiting for naruto. "Hey old man! Why are we here we should be training me. The chunin exams finals are in only a month."
"That is because I wanted to talk to you naruto" he said in a sure voice. "please sit"
Naruto sat in a gruff and stared at Danzo and said. "we already talked old man, are going senile"
"Yes we already talked naruto. But we need to clarify some things naruto." 'manners are something we need to go over' he thought "naruto, when I am done training you I don't doubt you will beat Neji I also don't doubt tat you will become chunin."he said. At that naruto started beaming. "But for me to train you I need you to tell me some thing."
"What is it!" said an excited naruto.
"Will you kill your heart for Kohona" Said danzo in a plain voice giving away no information.
"Wait what!"
"Will you kill your heart for Kohona." he said again, but this time he didn't wait for am awnser "give up your dream lead the countless to their death for the sake of kohona, can you do that naruto"
"I don't know, I just don't know." Stammered out naruto.
"Exactly you don't now." naruto just looked down in shame "Naruto I have actually meet you before" naruto looked up in shock. "well it was when you were a baby when you first had the Kyuubi put in you. The council had no idea what to do with you but the hokage did. And that was nothing."
Naruto look at him like he has grow another head. Even with the look he didn't stop."He decided that you will be a nameless orphan. He hid everything from you just so he could have a ace up the hole incase he ever was in a bad spot. But to do this he had to keep you weak, weak enough that when you need help you have to go to others. And in any time of need who did you go to naruto."
"the old man" a sense of realization came across his face.
"Exactly so when I asked you 'would you kill your heart for kohona?' you could not answer but if I had said 'would kill your for the third?' you would have answered in a heart beat." Said Danzo staring at Naruto searching for any reaction out of the boy.
'Yes' it was a thought that work from the very back of naruto's subconscious to naruto's conscious to his mouth "yes" then it became louder and louder till it was scream that echoed through the warehouse.
Danzo had a victorious stood up and collect the papers on the desk, and handed the papers over to Naruto. "these are all the things that the third has been keeping secret from you for a long time. You have tonight to study them if you want." and then he walked over to the wall of the warehouse and did a few hand signs. A section of the wall faded away to show a wall, and a set of stairs that went down into nothingness. He started walking down and called back to naruto. "Come naruto and we will find how far these roots go.
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