Crazy things happen when your sensei ends up in the hospital and your new guardian is also a pervert! NarutoXKakashi! yaoi!

I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!

"Nine Tails and a Scarecrow"

It had been a beautiful day when Jiraiya had taken his adopted grandson Naruto to the hot springs. Well, for the most part the older man was spying on the young women while Naruto relaxed in the sauna. The boy enjoyed their trips to the hot springs and the ramen stand, but Jiraiya always seemed to disappear afterwards which Naruto didn't want to know the reason why. It was probably to grope some women or something perverted Naruto thought.

The sky was sunny and only had a few clouds drifting lazily overhead. There were birds chirping and a calm breeze. The blonde thought it was going to be such a great day.

He planned to go visit his favorite ramen stand and maybe this time Jiraiya would pay, highly doubtful but at least Naruto could afford to take better care of his self. Ah, well Naruto was working on more missions now so he actually had some money.

Though he did wish they would give him a mission ranked higher than C. No matter what he did or said they always found an excuse to send him on the lousiest missions that no one else wanted.

He hated the ones where he had to do someone else's humiliating chores like pulling weeds from the garden or modeling Kimono's like that one time at the clothing shop. Naruto just wanted a real mission, but sadly he never received one.

He tried persuading Tsunade who was the Hokage and when she wasn't doing that she worked part time at the Konoha Hospital for a few hours. She told him that there wasn't much she could do in the matter since they thought he was still too young.

Although Naruto knew the real reason was because he had Kyuubi and they didn't want him to exert enough energy to break the already cracked seal which luckily only Naruto knew about.

The blonde boy was only sixteen years of age, but he had grown quite a bit since he had passed his exams at the Ninja Academy. Surprisingly with Jiraiya's help he achieved better grades since he had the boy training so much.

He was taller now not to mention his hair having grown longer meant that it would droop down in his face so he had usually just used a red bandanna that had the Leaf Village symbol on it to keep his hair from impairing his vision. It was about shoulder length. It fell in the back although the rest sort of spiked up at different angles as it had when he was younger.

He had excelled a lot both mentally and physically. However, even though you couldn't tell from his trademark orange jacket and pants, the youth had a lithe form and was both stronger and even more agile. He had also learned a lot from his new sensei Jiraiya.

The two of them got along rather well and although Naruto was a bit of a leacher himself, he would still get on the perverts case about spying on unsuspecting women. Jiraiya told him it was research for his novels but the boy knew better, but didn't always like to argue for it was pointless.

Jiraiya was a famous novelist, writer, and sage. He was looked up to by many and thought to be a kind, brave, and trustworthy person… At least they were right about the first two. However, they did think he was a bit insane to take in the boy who held a demon within his body.

The youth trusted the man, but he knew if an attractive woman passed by you'd probably die before the pervy sage remembered what was happening. He just had a woman problem. It wasn't that he couldn't get one it was just that he was too much of a pervy womanizer that it disgusted Naruto to a certain extent.

Naruto was glad to have someone to be his mentor and the old man was wise when it came to many things including fighting. However, he sucked at cooking in which Naruto was left with that and all the chores that Jiraiya asked him to do. That list could have spread from one end of Konoha to the other and back.

It did give him something to do and assisted in his training so he didn't mind even though he acted like it through complaining every time something new was added to the list. He worked from sun up and through the night sometimes. He wanted to be strong so that one day he wouldn't need to count on anyone else for he knew he would have no one.

Back to the current day now! All had been going great that day until one of the women spotted the pervy sage and thrown a rock at the back of his head, causing him to fall out of the tree, hitting his head at an odd angle, and being knocked unconscious!

A few girls screamed when they saw that he wasn't faking and Naruto quickly put on his pants and grabbed the little bag his other cloths were in and rushed out to see the shocking scene before him.

The boy rushed to his sensei's side and suddenly lifted the man carefully onto his shoulder as if he were a rag doll before taking off with his ninja like speed. He knew there was only one place to go if he were to help Jiraiya!

He ran as fast as he could the Konoha hospital. Upon running down various long hallways and asking some of the inhabitants, he finally found the person he was searching for. "Tsunade hurry its sensei! Something's wrong with him!" Naruto pleaded to the surprised blonde. She was a beautiful blonde woman for someone of her age and one of the best medical ninjas around.

Firstly she was surprised to see Naruto holding the old man since he was much larger than the boy and secondly that Jiraiya was injured enough to need carrying. She escorted the panicked stricken boy to one of the empty hospital beds and assisted him in placing the pervert gently down.

Tsunade quickly examined him and then looked at Naruto. She gave a small sigh. "Well, he'll be fine but I need to get an X-ray of his skull and he fractured one of his arms at the angle he hit the ground along with a sprained wrist so he'll be here for a while. Hopefully there won't be anything serious after a full examination." The blonde informed the boy whose beautiful cobalt eyes were holding back tears of worry and sadness.

He hated crying and tried his hardest to keep from ever doing so. Mainly because the man he saw as a father figure had asked him. He could still remember those words. "Please don't cry Naruto. You shine like a light of hope when you're happy." Iruka had told him with a gentle smile.

So the boy tried to put on a brave smile although the wise woman could tell how worried he was. She took him outside of the room and told him that he could come back tomorrow morning and check with her to visit Jiraiya if he wanted. "Oh and Naruto, while Jiraiya is here I'm sending someone to keep an eye on you." She added before he left.

"What?! I can take care of myself you know!" Naruto practically shouted which caused some people to stare at him oddly. "Ugh… Naruto we can not allow you to be left without a guardian. He'll arrive later this evening." Tsunade stated as if there wasn't anything left to say.

Naruto gave a sad sigh as he exited the medical building. "I can't believe this is happening! What if this guy is a jerk or even worse some old child molester!?" The frustrated blonde pondered, kicking at a small rock as he trudged along. It was some time untilhe wandered up to his favorite ramen stand and had a bowl of miso ramen. As he ate, he nonchalantly observed some of the people who passed by.

There were all types of traders, ninja, and even tourists who came through Konoha. It always surprised Naruto how a lot of them ended up living here. At first they were nice to him, but after a few days or even less they began to despise him so whenever any of them got on his nerves he would hiss at them or growl. Kyuubi found that quite funny and surprisingly so did Naruto.

After his fifth bowl the boy paid and just walked about to no place in particular. He didn't want to go home just yet. It was too nice of a day to be inside and of course he enjoyed just going everywhere.

The blonde felt like a caged animal when he was indoors for too long. That was one of the reasons Jiraiya always gave him more things to do outside. As usual however, he received many stares and glares as he walked by people. They all thought he was a nice boy but they disliked him for another reason.

"Why do they feel the need to stare when they know what I am? Do they think I'm going to just grow fangs and kill everyone or something?" The boy thought angrily.

"Still as quick as ever I see." The demon said sarcastically. That comment made the blonde frown down at his sandals, but since it was true he didn't reply.

Because he was paying little to no attention to where he was going, he bumped right into someone much taller than him. "Ugh… Hey watch where you're going!" He told the person loudly. He rubbed the back of his head and looked up to see a tall handsome young man with silver hair sticking up at an odd angle with a black cloth mask covering the lower half of his face and a leaf village bandanna over one of his eyes.

"And people think I'm strange? He looks like a scarecrow!" Naruto thought slightly irked as he stood and brushed himself off.

"Yeah, but he is kind of attractive for a scarecrow you know." Kyuubi remarked as if Naruto couldn't hear him in which case he said it mainly because he knew the boy very well could

"What are you? A gay demon!?" The blue eyed boy asked the demon in slight disgust

"Demons don't care about gender. We do what we want with who we want."

"That's a little too much information!"

"You asked… Baka."

He was snapped out of the mental conversation when he heard a deep voice. "You bumped into me." The scarecrow informed him in a calm tone that seemed as constant as the lazy look upon his face. He was holding a large basket of fruit in one hand and an adult novel (like the ones Jiraiya writes) in the other hand which he himself had apparently been reading before said encounter.

Mind you he hadn't been knocked over as he continued to tower over the blonde. The whole incident didn't really seem to faze him for he still had that laid back expression from what little of his face you could see. This seemed to get on Naruto's nerves and he wasn't sure as to why.

However, before he began yelling at the strange young man his gaze fell up on the name written on the tag of the fruit basket. "You're taking a gift to my grandfather?" Naruto questioned, not even knowing who this person was nor how he even knew Jiraiya.

The young man quirked an eyebrow as he gazed at the blonde boy. "I didn't know the old man had a grandson." He stated a bit taken aback. "Well I didn't know he knew a talking scarecrow either." Naruto smirked as the taller boy looked at him as though he hadn't heard him right.

The young mans frown was hidden by his mask. "Anyway, I should get this to him." He said with a slight mental shake of his head, wondering why he had been called a scarecrow. That was something he'd never been called.

As he began to walk away the blonde boy told him loudly. "He's in the hospital and Tsunade said no visitors until further notice! That's why I'm not there." With that said Naruto's smile fell slightly though he turned his head so the older boy wouldn't see.

Before any other words could be exchanged however, the blonde vanished with his ninja speed. The silver haired young man was left with his confusion about the blonde. He didn't know who the blonde was, having focused most of his attention on training else where and going on missions.

The silver haired adolescent didn't spend much time in the Leaf village besides he lived on the outskirts. The young man decided that he would return home, seeing as he didn't feel like carrying a fruit basket around all day.

Back at the Konoha hospital Tsunade was examining some X-rays while a few nurses were tending to Jiraiya's other injuries. It turned out that nothing was wrong with him. However, she knew since he was in here he would take advantage of whatever he could.

This wasn't the first time she had had to deal with the old sage. He had faked quite a few incidents. All of them usually caused the poor boy to worry about his sensei. She wasn't sure if he knew that or not, but either way he always came here to be waited on and flirt with the female staff.

As she entered his room she found him flirting with a giggling nurse. After shooting a quick glare at the nurse who immediately fled, her gaze turned to the old man. "Naruto was right when he called him a Pervy Sage." She thought with slight aggravation as she approached the foot of his bed.

"Okay Jiraiya, you'll probably need to stay here a few weeks to heal completely." She informed him and as she spoke the blonde caught a spark of something in his eyes. "And don't think that means I won't kick you out sooner if you get on my nerves." She added with a death glare that made even Jiraiya cringe.

Now was time for him to show off his acting skills! "Oh, Tsunade would you really harm a frail injured man like me?" The leacher queried with big anime eyes. The voluptuous blonde sighed in exasperation and left the room. When she left he hit the nurse button his new goal to try and score a sponge bath from a pretty nurse!

To Be Continued...

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This is my first Naruto fanfic! YAY!