xWell bitches, I'm back! Yeah, life and her cruel intentions can't hold all this sexy down forever! I'm fucking awesome, why you ask? It's because of this story that's why! This story just blew up, in the good way! Not even a week in and it has 12 reviews and over 1000 visits! While that may not seem like much to you guys, but it is to me. I'm really glad this story is being so well received, and thanks for all the helpful advice you guys are giving me.

*DISCLAMIER* I do not own Naruto. If I did, many bad things would happen and the world would never know the awesomeness that is Naruto.

ON WITH THE SHOW!

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(Amegakure, Pain's Tower)

Pain sat on the ledge of his trade mark tower, overlooking HIS village. He had finally wrestle full control form Hanzo's old regimen. Even in death, the man was very powerful, leaving behind agents that sabotaged his ascent to power. But it was all for not as he was finally the sole ruler, along with his "Angel".

'If only Yahiko was here to see how far we have come….' The man known as Pain thought. He truly did miss his old friend, but in the end he was fulfilling his dream though his body.

His old time friend Konan watched him from behind, sadness marring her angel like face. Her friend Nagato had changed so much from when they were children, becoming more cold and dark. How she wished things could be like they use to be when they were children. How good those days were….

A man wearing the stranded Akatsuki cloak with an orange swirling mask covering everything but one eye walked forward from the shadows. To most of the Akatsuki members he was a complete fool, but in reality he was much more serious to the others that knew to look beyond his false mask.

"The Kyuubi jinchuuriki is dead…the demon itself will soon ran rampant on this earth. We must capture it before another country tries to grab it for themselves. We must act quickly once it re-forms….I think sending Itachi and Kisame with Konan and yourself should do well enough Pain. Do you not agree?"

As he said this, the man's right eye glowed a deep red, revealing a single fully matured Sharingan.

Pain did not resist the idea as the strange man's influence grew over him. A seed had been planted….and it would soon blossom into a deep rooted tree that could withstand the test of time.

"That is a very good idea Tobi…thank you for the suggestion. You may leave now…"

The now revealed Tobi smirked under his mask before turning around and leaving the tall tower. The self proclaimed god thought he was in control of the situation, but how he was so wrong…he was merely a pawn in his game,a strong pawn that could threaten him, but a pawn none the less.

Konan frowned as she saw what had happened. Nagato was being controlled by that man…no wonder he was acting so different. But how could she stop it was the question in her mind.

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(Konoha, Inside the Hokage Mountain)

Jiraiya glared at the heavily sophisticated seal array in front of him. It had taken him a good two hours to get this deep within the Hokage Mountain as it was heavily guarded by, surprisingly he might add, by ROOT ninja. After he easily snuck by and knocked each and every one out inside the mountain, he was able to obtain information as to why Danzo's little pets/robot's where snooping around the place. They were apparently trying to break into each former Hokage's head/vault and steal anything worthwhile. Sadly for them however, the forever handsome and manly Jiraiya was there to stop their act of evil!

Anyways, back to business. Of course, his highly talented student Minato had to create a superbly hard to break seal for basically any and all people. Hell, after seeing its design he was afraid to touch the damn thing!

But, since he was his sensei, he had taught Minato everything he knew, which included fuinjutsu. His style of sealing had passed down to Minato, so he had a more than basic understanding of this seal. He saw that it was a blood seal, a seal that the creator made that was only a few people of close relations could open via blood. And Minato had only really cared about him, Kushina, and Naruto. And since this seal was created before Naruto was born, and Minato and Kushina were now dead, he was the one and only person that could open it.

He bit down on his left thumb as he walked up to the large wall guarding the vault. Pressing the bleeding digit into his right hand palm, he left a single bloody dot. Stepping forward, he charged his charka in his right hand and slammed it against the seal array. The seal array glowed a light red before slowly shifting around as the kanji merged together, making a solid black line. This line then formed to make a rectangle missing one side, making an outline of a door way. With the sound of a mighty crack, the "line" cut deep into the rock, now making a door for Jiraiya.

Said ninja grins as he steps deep into the dark vault, the shadows covering his body. After walking a good 5 minutes he came across a door in the dark cavern. He stared at the dust covered door knob in front of him. No one had been in this room for over 13 years…and none but himself and a few select others knew of Naruto's heritance. He did not know how Naruto had suffered at the hands of the villagers, but he knew of the hard lives jinchuuriki lived, and that life style was anything but easy. He grinned as he thought to himself.

'It's time Naruto knew of his inheritance…and all the benefits that comes with it...'

His large hand gripped the door knob and twisted it open, revealing the dimly lit room beyond the doorway. Jiraiya slowly walked in and looked around.

While fairly small, the room was jam packed with things ranging from scrolls, books, and weapons. Jiraiya slide his back pack off his large shoulders and un zipped it as his eyes looked around the room, already thinking of what he could take with him and give to Naruto. He reached in and pulled a sealing scroll out. He unrolled it and set it down on the floor then slowly stood up and walked around the room, looking at everything. The four walls that dominated the room were covered in book selves, completely packed to the brim.

He walked closer to the selves to read the titles of said books and scrolls. He slowly started to grin as he saw that they were training regimens, beginners guide to fuinjutsu, charka manipulation, scrolls for each of the ninjutsu elements, fighting styles, books on smithing, the human anatomy, poison charts, advanced mathematics, finances, and loads of money. But he saw two things that shocked him.

On a little stand in a corner of the room were two scrolls and a single black ninjato with strange dark blue seals covering said blade. It was an oddity in the room, resting in between the two scrolls. One marked as Minato and the other labeled as Kushina. Both written by different people, but both saying

To Naruto, my son.

Jiraiya slowly walked up to each of the letters and slowly pulled them off of the stand. These he would take for sure, and he would not look at them. They were for Naruto and Naruto alone. As he explored around the room, the amount of scrolls he was going to take was going to many more than he thought. But that did not matter as this did not belong to any one that was "alive" any more. Plus no one would ever know if it was missing, unless someone managed to break in and see him doing this. But that was a farfetched idea right?

Now there were two things left for him to take. After a good 30 minutes of searching, he found what he was looking for.

Two scrolls.

One labeled as Uzumaki Clan Techniques

The other as the Flying Thunder God Technique

Jiraiya grinned and thought.

'These two techniques alone are powerful. But coupled together with what I plan on teaching Naruto….this will make him a monster on the battlefield. The Akatsuki will defiantly be unprepared for that….'

He smirked as he sealed all of the collected items into his storage scroll before leaving the Hokage Mountain.

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(Iwagakure Mountain Range, same day)

"97…98…99…100!"

With a grunt of effort Naruto pushed himself up for the hundredth push up that he had just finished. Not stopping in the slightest Naruto lay on his back and started to do crunches.

What he was doing was called interval training. This was a high intensity type of exercises were one was only allowed short periods of rest at a time. While he had an amazing cardiovascular system already, with his stamina being freakishly high, it was still not enough for the types of battles he would be fighting later on. He was soon going to be fighting A and S rank ninja that would stop at nothing to capture him.

Over this time of training Naruto had slightly bonded with the Kyuubi, whose real name was actually Kurama! The main reason Kurama wanted Naruto to be training so hard was so he could slowly slip some of his demon charka into his sore and healing bones. This would reinforce said bones and muscles, making them stronger than before. It was working quite well as Naruto could already feel his body becoming sturdier and more streamlined.

He had been training nonstop for the past two weeks, only stopping to eat, sleep and go to the restroom. This provided much free time to think and talk with Kurama. He was shocked to find out that the large fox craved conversation. They discussed many things from tactics to ninjutsu, which elements where better and when they thought they should go after the Akatsuki. He was quite fun and easy to talk to, once you got though the "Oh I'm a big bad ass fox, fear me" thing.

'I can hear you, you little shit…'

Oh yeah, and once you get passed all the insults and death threats….and the mind reading think.

Naruto mentally snorts. 'Well then you shouldn't listen then eh?'

Kurama didn't respond as usual. He didn't respond to things like that.

'So brat….as you know, I am slipping more and more of my charka into your body.'

Naruto raised an eyebrow up in thought as Kurama said this.

'Yeah, we went over this remember?'

The large fox grunted in response.

'Well, other than strengthening your body, this will allow you to be able to handle more of my charka, which means you can control more tails. Because I am apart of you, and now that we more or less agree on things, the charka will not be AS harmful to you anymore. All it will take now is you learning how to control more of my charka, and since we will be in sync, this will be far easier than before.

Naruto blinks at this. 'Wait one second. I remember the fight with Sasuke and how I become much stronger and faster when I used one tail….what happens once I go past that?'

Kurama grunts. 'Good question brat. The first to third tails are basically the same; you have a charka cloak that can protect you from all physical attacks as , quicker healing, heighten reaction time, and you will be stronger and quicker to.

The fourth though seventh tails….you will become a mere mindless beast if you do not learn how to control my charka. There is so much of my charka pouring though your system at this time that your body will need to change to handle it, so you will take on a fox/human hybrid form. You will truly become a demon unless something breaks you out of your state.

And the eighth and ninth tail forms…in the eight tail state, the only thing you are lacking to be me is only skin. And you can probably gauss what happens at nine…

Naruto gulped at this newly revealed info. 'But I can learn to control it right? You said that a couple of times.'

The large fox nodded in his cage. 'Yes, but it will be a long time before you can control it properly'

Naruto grunted as he finished his last crunch. 'It seems that everything I'm going to be learning is going to take a long time eh?'

The large fox shrugged. 'The road to power is often long and not easy. In the end it will be worth it. Trust me on that.'

If the kid was anything like his father he would be a ninja worth noting of.

Naruto pushed himself off the ground and started to jog to the path that leads down to the base of the mountain. Time to do his daily jog to the little village at the base of the huge mountain he was residing at the moment.

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(With Jiraiya, 4 days after leaving Konohagakure, border of Hi no Kuni)

A small poof of smoke went off in front of Jiraiya, signaling that one of his summoning toads had left to return to their own realm.

A frown spread across his face as he thought to himself.

'Iwagakure eh? So that's where he is…it's a good choice, no one from Konoha with a half decent brain would go anywhere near it for oblivious reasons. But it's bad for him because of what he looks like. Anyone there would immediately say he was Minato's son, and they would be correct in that regard.'

He sighed. The brat was becoming more and more of a problem. He was going to have to sneak into the country, find the little shit, see how he was, and then maybe give him all the stuff he had collected.

…Yeah, way more trouble than he was worth….

He sighs. "Better start off soon and find him sooner rather than later…"

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(4 days later with Naruto, Iwagakure Mountain Range)

Naruto whistled to himself as he carried up a bag full of fruits, vegetables, and sadly, very few meat products. He had just got done shopping in the village at the base of the mountain. While he did not have much money, he was able to work off his debt by doing simply and easy things (to him).Contrary to popular belief, your body only needs 3 and half ounces of meat a day!

Kyuubi had already won Naruto over to eat much more healthy foods other than ramen. And while he might not like to give up his comfort food, he had to say he did feel a lot better. With the heavily rigorous exercise, much better nutrition, a good amount of sleep, he was shaping up quite well.

But this was only the physical aspect of his training. Soon he would start to work on his charka control and then later move on to ninjutsu. Even if he did learn how to perfectly control his charka, he wasn't one much for genjutsu. His fighting style did not require it, and he had done well enough without it so far.

But the Kyuubi had explained something interesting to him. Since the large fox had been put in him right after his birth, not only had he improved his stamina, immune system, given him a large boost in his charka system, and damn near regeneration , but he had also given him the ability to control fire itself.

This was a quite shocking, but happily received thing from Naruto. He was already looking forward to training his new ability.

The Kyuubi had been amused by this. How he did not know the pain he would go though to work this ability to perfection.

But Naruto could find that out later.

Naruto grunted as he pulled himself and his newly bought food up to the tip of the mountain. He grinned happily as he walked to the mouth of the cave and set his food next to his straw mat bed. While very simply and spartan, it fitted his needs.

With his back to the mouth of the cave he soon had a fire started. He grinned as he leaned back and enjoyed the warmth of the flames, moving every now and then to warm up a certain spot on his person. He loved the warmth the flames gave…he couldn't believe that he was going to be able to control this ability…

While Naruto was relaxing to himself, enjoying the warmth of heat, he had not noticed the tall figure staring at him from the entrance of the cave.

The tall, broad shouldered figured silently moved forward, not a sound being made from his presence

Naruto dazed off into the night. He had worked hard, he was tired and sore, and he also had a full stomach and was warm. Who wouldn't fall asleep in his situation?

The figured crept closer. His long fingers slowly slide around his targets throat and gently began to squeeze.

"AGH!?" Naruto choked, his hands grasping at the ones holding onto his neck, trying to fight back.

"Because of you brat….i had to sneak into not so friendly waters….ignore many beautiful women, and miss out on some damn fine sake! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF!?" Jiraiya yelled in anger, righteous fury blazing in his eye as he began to strangle the life out of Naruto.

Naruto knew that voice…and only one man who would do this to him and care about women and sake at the same time…

"ERO-SENNIN?!" Naruto yelled/gasped as the last thing he saw was a pair of angry red eyes.

Kurama was laughing his ass off at the moment though….was that good? Most likely not…

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The tall man now identified as Jiraiya smirked as he laid Naruto down next to the fire he had built earlier.
Said man looked at the boy lying in front of him. While he had been 'dead' now for over almost going on 2 weeks, he had to say, the kid was in damn fine shape. He could tell from just looking at him that his body was much more solid and his face and body lacked the fat that use to reside there. It was now replaced with strong, lean muscles built to outlast their opponents. He was also slightly taller, not by much, but probably a half inch or so. Kami the kid was forcing himself to shape up, and doing a damn fine job at it to.

Jiraiya set the backpack filled with the scrolls down as he looked around the cave. It was simply, not much in creature comforts other than a straw bed, covers, and no pillow.

Simple, affordable, and easy to replace. The perfect set up for a person ready to leave at any time.

It was surprising that someone with Naruto's mindset was able to think this far ahead of his end goal, which to him was unknown. But maybe the little brat would tell him when he woke up.

And lo and behold, that's when said brat slowly started to come to his senses

Naruto groaned as he held his head in slight pain, trying to recall what had knocked him out.
He gasped before he quickly rolled to the side, moved a stone and picked a hidden kunai up before hurling it at his intrudes head, aiming right between the eyes.

The blade never got close before Jiraiya simply stopped it by sticking his forefinger up and catching the blade's small ring at the bottom of the hilt, causing the blade to spin to a stop after a long tense second.

Jiraiya merely snorted.

" I see you missed me brat…your aiming sucks as usual. Work on it, it just needs a little bit more practice and you will have it down for sure."

To say the least, Naruto was shocked as hell. With the low visibility and flickering flames he was not able to see Jiraiya's face. All he could hear was his voice, and boy did he know it.

" Jiraiya?!"
At the saying of his name, the man seemed to peak up. Hey, the brat hadn't said Ero-Sennin, and that was always a plus.

He smirked as he looked at Naruto and crossed his arms and responded.

"The one and only kid…now, we have a lot to talk about now don't we?"

All Naruto could do was gulp and merely nod.

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Well guys, here it is, chapter 2 is now up and running!
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