So I have another one of these in the 'works' you can say. Well not really, it leads to the same outcome, but the chapter having a build up to what happened beforehand. Or the start of it, I was just rather bored. So I started this and decided to post this not the other If you guys want to see it just say so.
Anyway, have no clue what to pair who with. I don't want to use Hinata since well, look through the massive amount of her you'll find something like this. I want to do something more interesting than just Naruto and Hinata even though I like that better for cannon. I thought of Temari or the Sands girls. Ino or something insane I saw. A naruto x Female Konohamaru, that was strange. That or an Oc or Movie girl. Don't know.
Anyway, My Naruto is different, just some things I would change. Mainly having his personality mature through the Wave and Chunin exams while making Chunin, mean come on. Neji then a tailed beast. Come on.
Besides that, he's two years older. I don't see them threatening to kick out someone trying to graduate early that it I own nothing stroy start.
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Jiraiya is a man of many talents and regrets, yet he's strong, wise and swift. Required to live the life of a shinobi, seeing how danger beyond understandings lay behind any corners. But there are experiences he will never know. He will never know true love, not a love he gave to a woman, but a true love of an equal pair. That is something he will never know nor understand.
He will never know the love of a parent, seeing how he himself still lacks any name besides Jiraiya, the closest experience is the old man, his teacher who was killed by his best friend. He will never understand what it's like to be one ether. Seeing how he's no person to raise a child. He cannot stand still, always roaming trying to find inspiration and help those who cannot help themselves. That's no life for a child, the best he can provide is funds here and there.
So being a parent, being and sharing a love are two things he regrets he will never hope to understand. Yet, his student knows.
Uzumaki Naruto, the child of hiws first apprentance, host of the Nine-tailed demon fox, Chunin of the Hidden leaf, they boy who saves lives no matter where he goes, finally lost in a sense.
They two have been on a training trip. Three years to walk the earth and grow strong. Starting from the ground up. They ended up in the Land of Spring ones known as the Land of Snow. Now from an eternal winter to an eternal spring. Truly a stunning place, they're Princess perfect, matching the beauty of the land in herself.
And she's the very woman that stared in his Ichi Ichi Paradice movie, the male Star being the very Kage. Months went by of training when he started noticing something strange with his idiotic student.
He hurried his training, leaving an ending without complaints. Seeming to care more about his appearance and the way he talks. The red mark on his neck. The final buzzer ringing when he found the boy eating fruits and Vegetables without complaint.
Somehow that got his attention more then hickeys on his neck.
He never expected the boy having a girlfriend behind his back. A girl he met before, his last mission under Kakashi and with Sakura. The girl and her family part of a circus that is seeming to stay in the land of Spring.
He never saw such love. Not even when Minato and Kushina were alive. The two matching each other perfectly. The King and Queen of pranks on the village started to call them.
Jiraiya wanted to leave and move to different countries, but he just couldn't, he stayed laughing and crying with the girls family loving every minute. For ones, even an old pervert like him felt wanted, like being part of a family. He has never been happier, not a single moment.
"Food break." He heard, stopping along with the person beside him. The boy, well he was. Naruto after the two years is no longer that little brat he met. He's a father, a little thing just old enough to travel with. Crying her little blue and purple eyes out.
"Now that I'm stronger." He started, not speaking but singing, the child in his lap calming down. The father singing softly, never would Jiraiya imagen Naruto of all people able to sing. "I find, deep inside me, that I can be the one." He sang as she slowly stopped, even hungry the child stopped crying.
Wanting to enjoy her father singing more than demanding for food. Not surprising seeing how the mother took every chance to sing.
The boy using chakra, the little fire nature he could learn to heat up the bottle. After giving it a try he feeds the little girl, a loving look at the man cared for his child.
Jiraiya couldn't help but wonder what types of parents Minato and Kushina would have been. Minato would be doing Hokage things when everyone was looking, only to play with Naruto. Probable playing through acks of The Gutsy Ninja, Naruto being well Naruto and Minato being the evil ninja.
Kushina, she would be the overprotective mom, without a doubt in his mind. Yelling in a panic over the slightest thing. Those two would have been amazing parents.
"The wave should be up ahead." The blond said huffing, a clone just popped. Naruto making sure nothing will happen made armies of his clones to surround them. They haven't run into a fight for months but seeing the little thing in his arms. He wouldn't have it any other way.
"Good, we'll train here for six months, another six at Mount Myoboku. After that, they'll summon us into the leaf." The tall mountain of a man whit long spiking white-hair pulled into a pony-tail. Wearing a kimono open shirt, baggy pants, and strange wooden sandals. Red lines at his tear ducks reaching to his chin and a few moles thanks to someone's training.
"We're training elemental right?" Naruto spoke, the master staring at his student. Naruto has grown up, he just couldn't help but think of that every time they talk. Naruto is the hero of his book. Without a doubt in his mind now, he truly is the hero. Standing tall, for his age, wide strong matching his mentor. His jawline slime and strong, to his surprise he's older looking in a sense. Minato was a pretty boy, even as an adult he had soft features. Narutos' own being strong, more man-like. Giving him a few years more than his real age, even with those whisker marks.
His eyes a harder shade of blue, ones bright filled with energy and life, now seeming on edge and violent. His own worry that the Akatsuki will be after her. The reason they increased the training, originally smoothing out what he already had. Then working sole on his control over the demons' chakra, to working on anything that can make him strong.
He's planning on letting him take sage training. A drastic increase.
His blond hair seeming to calm down, falling, cut shorter even then falling across the headband. The blond still wearing the green Chunin vest, but having a bright red cloth tied around his right arm.
He's a man now, he needs to remember that.
The two walked in silence, Naruto singing to his child as she drank her formula in peace. The silence not awkward in the slightest, in fact, this might be a brilliant masterpiece for his collection. An Ichi Ichi title, however, taking a more adult theme. Not just cheap romances he witnessed and experience with greatly written sex. But character development through Naruto's' struggle in life. An orphan treated as a demon filled with so little pleasure, and all being slowly taken away one by one.
It will be a story of tragedy and strength. For this is their life, the life of a shinobi really.
"The Great Naruto bridge." His student mumbled, the small smile showing something that seemed foreign in the past months.
Jiraiya, of course, understands completely. He's handling death for greater than Tsunade, not drinking his mind and body numb and running from his pain. Jiraiya loves that woman more than anything, more then Minato and more than Naruto himself, but that woman would abandon the child because it was part of the person she wants to forget.
Orochimaru lost someone close as well, Jiraiya and their teacher never were sure if the man was even human. But even he lost something, his reaction was mundane at first. Then they realized the man sought to end death because death threatens to end it in return. So he sought to become immortal, the dream of mastering every jutsu is still pleasant, but the truth is he cared little for mastery and more about immortality.
After the horror of war and the discovery of Orochimaru's' betray Jiraiya left many wounds open and his heart scared. He chose to travel the world, of course unlike the other two. He, the dead last remained loyal the entire time no matter what the Leaf did.
Unlike Tsunade.
Funny how an old perv like him is the thirds last success. Seeing the relationship he has with his own children. One turned rouge and the other cutting their string to him, not the village.
The old man wasn't the greatest husband either, but they're from a different time where showing humanity was risky.
Naruto has scars as well. He, because the start of his life never understood many things. Even what people thought as commen teaching. He lacked everything besides a bleeding heart. The betray of Mizuki and risking the life of his teacher, the death of Zabuza and Haku. Even if they were enemy Shinobi they found a bond somehow. From what Kakashi said Haku has given Naruto his way of life, while Zabuza walls were shattered by his worlds.
How the brats words cut deeper than any blade. He needs to remember that line.
After that the horror of the 'Sound. Orachimarus' assault, then Gaara, Sasueks' bretayle and missions dealing with what's left of the sound, and finally he found love like nothing he experiences before. A family, a father, mother, a little brother. And a lover, someone who caught his heart, he made that stone Tsunade gave him into a wedding ring. Possible jumping the gun, but the ring now is on a black string hanging off his neck, along with a little silver card box that held two different photos.
The poor girl didn't survive childbirth, she had a heart attack. Minato was a child to him, and losing him was the hardest part of his life, both of them. Narutos' pain and scars from that must have been heart and mind breaking. The worse came with her family, they knew they are Shinobi, ninja, life takers. In greef they lashed out on them. Naruto, losing his family, again in a sense.
Shaking his head he spoke. Telling Naruto it's one more step at being Hokage. His dream, or was it now. He's been having thoughts, that the boy no longer wished to become Hokage. He already knows what he wishes or his daughter. He wants her to grow in a world where the term Shinobi is something told at campfires. Where war and violence are not the first act to solve a proablem.
Of course, he understands this. Seeing how the horror of the shinobi is. He didn't want his daughter to grow custom to suffering, and he understands that greatly. And become the Hokage, that meant she couldn't be away from that lifestyle.
But even with the man standing by his side.
This is still Uzumaki Naruto, and he is still with Jiraiya, just like Jiraiya.
"I helped." The blond mumbled stopping his song. The girl now relaxes and calm. Giggling as much as the little thing can. Seeing the happy, and upbeat nature of the new and improved village.
Jiraiya nodded, the wave, since Gato, have found more money then they knew what to deal with. Gato himself having enough to run the village wealthy for another hundred years, but now they own their trade. Making decent profit from just that. So, this place is nearly constantly in celebration. Parties happening every other weekend. Just a massive celebration of another week of freedom and another week without death, without hunger, without Gato.
The ones dying village is now a tourist attraction. The best outcome really.
"Uzumaki-san!" The all heard, an older woman, around the same age as Jiraiya stopped them both. The woman old yes, but someone her age she's still attractive. From the slight lack of wrinkles, soft brown eyes, lighter brown hair but not a lick of grey. A slim body wearing bright festive blue and green colors.
"Can I help you?" The blond asked wondering what this is about. This is the first person that stopped him.
"I just wanted to ask how Naruto-sama has been doing?" She asked so softly. She became lost as the two men tilted their head to the same way. Both seeming lost, blinking at the same time. It's a little adorable.
"Well, I'm alive. That's cool." He said not sure what is just happen. Mean it's been three years since he's been here, but do they not recognize him?
"Oh my! My apologize Uzumaki-sama. I thought you might be his older brother or cousin." She explained as the old man laughed.
"He was a short annoying look brat wasn't he?" The man said as the blond glared, of course, he wouldn't do anything with his daughter in his arms, her little hands wrapped around his fingers, giggling with delight biting down chewing on his fingers.
That and even without her, he couldn't beat him.
So him doing anything was useless.
"I can't say ninja-sama, I was never able to meet young Naruto-sama, my husband sent me away before asking for help." She said as the blond just blinked.
"Wait, your husband is the drunk old man?" He asked as she blinked at his choice of words, then laughed. "My drunk husband is Tazuna, he is the towns master bridge builder, while I am the master at making wine." She said as the two men stared.
"So he's supporting your craft by drinking?" A nod from the woman, both stared. What an odd pair, then again a ninja and a tight-rope gymnastic is a strange one too.
"Yep! Isn't he the sweetest." She said as they both turned their heads, to another direction.
"So you're no worried about his cheating?" Jiraiya asked not understanding that single part.
"Nope, if he cheats he losses all his wine." Makes sense, they guess.
"But if I may Uzumaki-sama, who is she?" She asked, never in her life has she seen someone with two different eye colors.
"My daughter, her name is Haku." He said as Jiraiya stared, he was never sure of the name. Seeing how the other name was the mother, it's for the best. Jiraiya truly thought naming the girl was the worse name he could have given her. He would see and think of the lover who died, not his daughter.
However he discovered he's awful at naming something, Haku was the only decent name he came up with. So the story of Uzumaki Haku started.
What a strange name. White Whirlpool, just strange.
"Beautiful name for a beautiful child." She smiled as he did back.
Ass kisser, the old man thought.
"My husband should be at the docks. Have a pleasant time, the both of you." She said bowing perfectly. She nearly laughed, watching to two perform the strange and pathetic bow. They never bowed before.
With the short goodbye, the two made their way. Naruto saying that the man would be willing to help. A place they can stay, and well afford. Believe it or not, but the amazing writer is rather broke. And well, Naruto lost his money because of Jiraiya, fucker stealing his wallet all the damn time.
Jiraiya watched, slowly the state stared realizing that the two walking through their home. Is one of their saviors. The master watched the man soak in the attention.
Struggle, hardship, loss. It builds who we are, our beliefs are thoughts and wants. This trip has been training along with the boy finally understanding his feelings. Naruto, since the start of his caare was never given time to stop and think. The wave, the exsams, the small battles between the leaf and sand aginst the sound, and then Sasukes' betrayle. So much has happened, and now nothing. Nothing besides training and learning to be a father.
At long lost Uzumaki Naruto has time to sit down and reflect.
