Naruto writes a journal, starting from when jiraiya searches for tsunade.
Naruto sat staring at the spot next to his bed roll. Rather tussled up, it was fairly obvious to anyone who might have seen him that he had just woken up. It was just past the break of dawn, and his sensei had already left the small clearing they had set camp up in for the last 2 days.
Besides the resting spot sat a small book, just the right size to fit in back pouch. It was colored a gentle rose color, with a faint orange tint to it. Sitting atop of the cover, was a small pencil. Along with these two items was a small balloon full of water. Not knowing what the heck the balloon was for, Naruto decided to at least leaf through the book. Maybe Jiraiya would have left instructions for how his day was to proceed.
Looking through the small journal, one could see it appeared brand new. So far only the opposite side of the cover had writing in it, and it lined most of the page. The handwriting was neat and crisp, as if it was actually printed with the book as much as that was unlikely.
Naruto,
As it stands, I needed to quickly go and do some… Research, so I left you two things. A journal, and the instructions to the jutsu I wished to teach you. Now, I know that you did not get the most… instructive experience in the academy, so my instructions to you are this.
One, write in this journal frequently. Whenever you have stray thoughts that are unwise to speak at that exact moment, you need to plan out a new idea, or you just wanted to describe how you day went that day. Whatever you choose to write, keep it legible, and try your best not to write about ramen. You get one Gaki, and you better date each entry per day. I'll be glancing to see you are still doing your assignment.
Furthermore, the jutsu you will start working on is the Rasengan. It is a High ranked attack without hand signs, and most often performed with one hand. As it stands, you need to take that balloon, and attempt to pop it with only chakra. Once you have completed this step we will move on.
*little doodles of how the balloon looks as it explodes and how the rasengan looks in general * along with some extra information on some obvious details.
Your sensei,
Super pervert, Hermit, Toad sage,
Jiraiya.
Well, atleast he picked a decent color for the book, thought Naruto. Picking up the book, he ventured a little away from camp to a flat boulder to learn his new jutsu. Looking at the book, Naruto could venture that he had to make the balloon pop through a method of making his chakra displace the water enough that it would destroy the balloon… How would one go about that? Merely utilizing chakra in a new way is frustrating, let alone with a monumental task like destabilizing a physical existence with it. Naruto could only sigh as he started to monkey around with the ball of water.
Jiraiya sat in a dense tree observing Naruto's process with the Water balloon. Well nothing special, the teacher wished to know how his student would attempt to split apart and solve this task. He didn't think he would solve it on his own, not for a second. However Jiraiya was a experienced Shinobi, let alone Jonin Sensei, lest it go unsaid. Knowing how one would overcome a challenge was an important part of teaching. Well not a lot could be gleaned from just observing, the journal would give him a rather large amount of information on this subject. As of now though… Naruto wasn't doing anything important from what could be seen. As time could be spent better elsewhere... the pervert decided to summon a frog to make sure Naruto stayed safe. Running off into the forest, one could hear a rather Disturbing giggle.
Diary entry 1, day 1.
Well, Since Sensei asked me to write this I should treat this seriously. So first off…
I have nothing! This is hard. All I have to go off of is that I need to blow up the balloon with my chakra. I mean, I don't know how to make a spiky ball of death, the only thing I've ever seen even remotely close to it is Kakashi's chidori. It's also held in your hand, and is a ball kinda thing. I guess it's like the Chidori than? Because the Chidori like like a unstable ball of Chakra in your hand. It seems to be everywhere at once. Sometimes up… others down and to the side. Ah whatever. I'm hungry from just pouring chakra into this thing, I've tried all the directions I could think of. Ramen here I come!
Closing the book, Naruto went off to find wood and cook himself ramen.
Authors notes- Well I was bored mowing this little thing came up in my mind. So the general principle is a test, to pretty much figure out how one would write a story not entirely through diary, yet still give a good amount of characterization to the MC and be a good excuse to try writing in first person perspective.
Apart from that this will probably be something I tinker with when i'm bored. have fun.