"Ero-sennin hurry up, I wanna get back to the village and see everyone!" it had been 3 years since Naruto left Konoha to train with Jiraiya. During the training he had not only improved his ninjutsu but his Tai and genjutsu as well and was ready to show off his new skills to his friends. During his time away he had changed significantly and some of his sensei's pervy ways had rubbed off onto him, but he was still innocent enough.

Tsunade the fifth hokage was waiting to greet the two at the gates to Konoha, her face lit up when she saw them running towards the village.

"Naruto! You've grown, I hope you didn't waste all this time away helping Jiraiya research for his next novel." Said Tsunade when Naruto and Jiraiya finally stopped in front of her.

"No way granny! I hate those books, I would never help ero-sennin with his perving."

"I'm glad, come with me to my office and tell me about your adventures with Jiraiya"

Naruto and Jiraiya followed Tsunade back to her office, eager to tell her about what they had been doing during their three year absence from Konoha. Before they got there however Naruto saw a flash of pink hair and went running off to greet the remaining member of team 7.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled as he ran towards her. Sakura turned around just before Naruto picked her up and squeezed her tight in a hug.

"I missed you so much Sakura-chan!" said Naruto after he had let go of her

"I missed you too Naruto, this village isn't the same without your idiocy" replied Sakura

"Hey! I wasn't that much of an idiot! And besides I've changed heaps now."

"You'll have to tell me about it later, Tsunade looks like she's losing her patie-"

"NARUTO HURRY UP!"

Frightened Naruto ran back to the hokage and they resumed the walk to her office.

When they entered the room Tsunade sat behind her desk and Jiraiya and Naruto stood facing her. Tsunade was silent for a while, thinking, finally she looked at Jiraiya and said,

"Do you think you've taught Naruto enough for him to be able to protect himself from the akatsuki?"

"I've done my best Tsunade, but the akatsuki are the best of the best, it's hard to get to the point where we can stop worrying."

"I see," Tsunade then turned to Naruto, "now do you feel about your training with Jiraiya? Do you think it was worth being away from the village for three years?"

"Well I would of preferred to be trained in the village but that would have been impossible and this training is necessary so I guess it was worth it."

"Well you're back now and you're better prepared to face the akatsuki than you're ever been so that's something," replied Tsunade.

"I'm curious, could you please give me a brief run down of the training you have been doing?"

"Well the main focus of the training was…"

Two hours later.

"Alright you are both dismissed!"

"Awesome! I can't wait to get my first taste of Ichiraku ramen in three years!" shouted Naruto, running out of the room. Jiraiya stayed, he wanted to talk to Tsunade privately.

"I'm worried that I haven't taught him enough" said Jiraiya when Naruto was gone.

"I'm sure we will be able to protect him here in the village the more important thing is, how much can he control the kyuubi now?"

"He can remain relatively in control until the fourth tail appears, but when that happens he completely loses it and attacks anything and everything"

Jiraiya lifted his shirt to show Tsunade what had happened to him when Naruto had grown the fourth tail. Tsunade gasped when she saw it

"And he didn't remember doing it after losing the tails?"

"No he couldn't remember anything from the incident"

"well at least we have Yamato here in the village if it gets out of hand, alright thank you for telling me this Jiraiya you've done well training Naruto."

"bye Tsunade I'm gonna go catch up on my sleep. Haven't had enough while training Naruto"

Meanwhile Naruto had almost made it to Ichiraku 's but he suddenly stopped in his tracks. He was staring at possibly the cutest girl he had ever seen, suddenly all thoughts of Sakura disappeared from his mind. Her hair was a lot longer than he had remembered and now she had boobs to rival Tsunade.

"h-h-Hinata? Is that you?"

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata squealed as she flung her arms around Naruto "I missed you so much" she whispered in his ear.

"I missed you too Hinata"

This made Hinata blush and feel faint. Naruto had missed her! He had thought of her! This was more than she had hoped for, she had only dared to hope that Naruto would remember her when he got back but he had actually thought of her!

"I was just heading over to Ichiraku 's for some ramen, do you wanna join me? My treat!"

This was too much for Hinata; she fainted in Naruto's arms right after hearing that.