Sorry for the wait I meant to have this done last week but studying for finals and some last minute papers got in the way. I would like to thank everyone that has read it and reviewed. Keep them coming! I have already made some changes in the story because of some of the reviews and I believe it makes the story considerably better.

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Dregus: Yep you are exactly right and that will come up in later chapters.

Evil-pain, SilKillerDonut: Same here! And I hope I did better on the length of the chapter it is longer than the first two combined.

Shortfused24: Thank you for noticing I will change that form now on.

GodShadowEX: Thank you for such an interesting review. I had a laugh while reading it. I am afraid that he will not be getting it but Madara will have an influence on Naruto. I promise there is a reason. I plan on having Naruto learn all of that and more and I would be stupid not to make him a master. Hope this is ok and you don't hate me because of it. But you were one of the people who got me to change things around so thank you very much!

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Now lets get back to the story!


Ch. 3 Naruto's Beginning

'I can't believe it has been six years already' Kakashi thinks while watching Naruto practice his tijutsu on a wooden dummy. Kakashi continues to stare and thinks back upon all that has happened over the years. He and Anko have been married for three years now and have taken Naruto in as an adopted son. They currently reside next to a small village in Tea country. Right now Anko is out on a small mission and Kakashi is watching and training Naruto. The couple has taken to switching between training Naruto and doing missions so that the boy isn't put into danger. Whenever Anko trained Naruto they generally worked on messing with an opponents mind, traps, and first aid. When it was Kakashi's turn the scarecrow helped the young fox jinjuriki they worked on improving Naruto's tijutsu, working on chakra manipulation, and battle strategies. Kakashi is shaken from his recollections when he heard two large cracks. Kakashi looks more intently at the dummy Naruto was beating on and notices a few cracks on the surface. 'Wow, I am impressed that Naruto is able to deal that powerful of a blow at suck a young age,' after this thought he calls Naruto over to him. "Hey Naruto come here for a second will you?"

Naruto turns his attention away from his practice dummy and rushes over to his stepfather. "What's up Tou-san, are we going to be able to work on chakra stuff?"

"Be patient, but yes we will," Kakashi then smiles down at his son. "Once you master this technique you will be able to channel and manipulate chakra, which is very different than just calling on it I may add." Kakashi looks sternly at Naruto at this point, "Now you know that having the demon sealed within you will make it more difficult to manipulate and control you chakra. Because of this we will work on chakra control exclusively until I deem fit."

Naruto looks a little sad that he won't be doing cool jutsus any time soon but them perks up. "Say Tou-san, will this mean I will be able to run straight up trees and walk on water?"

Kakashi was surprised because he never explained to his son that those were chakra-controlling exercises. "Yes Naruto you will but not for some time you have to get past the basics first," he then proceeds to walk over to a near by tree and plucks off a leaf and walks back. "This will be your new training partner" the scarecrow proclaims holding the leaf out for Naruto to grab. Once said boy grabs the leaf Kakashi tells him to lie down on his back and place the leaf on his forehead. "Now here is the hard part. I want you to focus chakra into the leaf making it stick to your skin. When you think it is good and stuck tilt your chin and see if it falls off, if it does start again but if it stays on continue getting up slowly until you are standing perfectly straight. Got all that?"

"Yep, now watch me master this in ten minutes flat!" Naruto exclaims and starts focusing chakra into the leaf. Kakashi then walks away knowing that this exercise will take at least a day to master.

Kakashi enters their home and enters the pantry. He walks to the very back and turns to face were they keep lima beans. 'Thank God no one likes these nasty things otherwise my hiding place would be ruined.' Kakashi reaches out pulls the lima beans out and pushes a hidden button. A small unnoticeable trap door opens up and the scarecrow walks down the trap door closing behind him. Inside was a beautiful library filled with books. The weird thing was that all the books were the same color, orange. Kakashi then sits down an armchair and grabs the orange book next to him. He opens it up and almost immediately begins to giggle.

-Back with Naruto-

Naruto was trying his hardest to force his chakra into the leaf but for the strangest reason instead of sticking to his forehead the leaf would shoot off. There was no wind so this confused the young fox jinjuriki. After what felt like the hundredth time Naruto had a small melt down and started to yell the leaf. "What is your problem you stupid leaf why do you keep shooting off my head instead of sticking!" he then realized that he was yelling at a leaf and felt really stupid. 'Tou-san said this would be hard but I can't believe it is this hard there must be a trick to it' the blond thought. He then proceeded to do what he always did when in a predicament that required his full attention he meditated.

'Ok so I am putting as much chakra into the leaf as I can to super charge it so that it sticks to my skin. What am I doing wrong? Waite I'm treating this like a magnet aren't I. If I put to much pressure it will shoot off but if I put to little it wont be able to attract' Naruto finished his thought got the leaf and lied back down. 'Ok so now all I have to do it figure out how much chakra I will need to put into it.

Ten minutes past and Naruto is able to sit up. This drives the little blond even further.

'Now that I understand how much it takes to keep it on I just have to concentrate to keep it at that level and I will be golden' Naruto thought with a fox like grin on his face. He continues sitting up with the leaf on his head for another five minutes until he can stand up. Finally after five more minutes he is walking around with the leaf stuck to his forehead.

"Tou-san, I did it," the young boy shouts.

-Back with Kakashi-

Kakashi hears something that sounded like Naruto but brushed it of as him getting angry about the exercise. In this time he had finished the orange book next to him and is currently reading the next in the series. After ignoring Naruto's yell of frustration, at least that is what he thought it was, he brings his perverted novel back up to his face and proceeds to giggle like a school girl.

-Back with Naruto-

Naruto runs into the house in search of Kakashi. He looks in the kitchen, living room, office, and also the bedroom but couldn't find the man. "Where could that guy go," Naruto muttered under his breather growing anxious about showing his step-dad how he accomplished a task said father said would take a full day. He continues to search the house until he looks into the pantry and sees a sack of lima beans on the floor. "Why in hell would these even be in our house everyone hates them," Naruto asks to no one. He goes to put them back on the shelf when he notices that there is a button he has never seen before in his life. Out of sear curiosity he reaches his hand out and pushes it. When he does a trap floor appears.

'When did we ever have this,' the young blond wondered as he approached it. He looks down and sees that light is glowing down there. After seeing this his curiosity got the better of him and he sneaks down the stairs. Half way down the staircase he hears some giggling. 'Now that's a weird sound.' He proceeds to walk down, with more care this time, until he reaches the last step. Naruto looks around the corner and sees a huge room filled with book. "Wow, this is amazing, but why are all the books the same color?" the young fox asks as he stairs in wonder at the vast collection. Suddenly the giggling he heard early starts back up again and he notices an armchair facing away form him. Naruto creaks over to it wondering who would be under his house when he notices a tuff of white hair. "Tou-san you jerk," he muttered under his breath. Then suddenly he gets an evil grin on his face as the best prank in the world settles on his face. Unknown to both Kakashi and Anko Naruto has been working on a gift only certain ninja can perform without a transformation jutsu. Naruto has, for the past year and a half, perfected his ability to mimic both Kakashi and Anko's voices. Getting ready to try it out he takes in a deep breath and yells as loud as possible in Anko's voice, "What the hell is this!" Kakashi literally jumped out of his seat and crashed into the ceiling.

'Oh shit, oh shit, o shit I am soooooo dead,' were the only thoughts going through his head. Anko had threatened to cut his little friend off if she ever caught him with another of Jiraiya's masterpieces. He was sweating bullets until he hears a laughter that didn't sound at all like his wife but his adopted son. "Naruto!" shouted Kakashi after seeing the boy lying down on the floor laughing with tears coming out of his eyes.

The yell caught Naruto's attention and he looked up. Kakashi was clocked in a dark aura that had Naruto whimpering in the corner. "Naruto, do you have any idea what you have just done!" Kakashi said in a quiet voice that would make the dead cower in their graves.

"Tou-san what do you mean?" Naruto said almost wetting himself.

Kakashi realized what he was doing and cut of the killer intent (from now on KI) he was emanating. "I'm sorry Naruto. It's just that this is my biggest secret and if Anko finds out I'm dead" Kakashi said in a dejected sort of way.

"Don't worry Tou-san I won't tell Ka-san," Naruto reassured his adopted father. With that said Kakashi calmed down and took his son up stairs, closed up the secret library, and replaced the lima been bag. He guided the young boy back out side and told him to show how far he had gotten with the leaf exercise. Naruto then immediately placed the leaf on his head and it stuck. Kakashi had Naruto run laps and do pushups and other forms of physical exercise but the leaf never left the boy's forehead.

Kakashi was vey surprised and pleased, 'He mastered this in less than an hour, and he has the fox inside that messes this chakra control. My boy may be a genius like his father.' With that thought he remembered how amazing his sensei was, 'I promise, I will do my best to train him and make him powerful.'

Naruto noticed that Kakashi was zoning out and decided to play a trick on him. The young blond went up behind him and, with his best Anko impersonation, shouted, "Hey Kakashi-kun, so were where you and our son off to when I got home?" Kakashi jumped out a good twenty feet in surprise and slowly looked behind him fear in his eyes. What he saw really pissed him off. "Ok Mr. Prankster it looks like you have plenty of energy left lets get to your next lesson."

Naruto looked really excited about more training. But little did he know Kakashi planned on working the young boy down to the bone for that last prank. "Ok Naruto here," Kakashi said throwing Naruto a small twig. Naruto caught and weighted for instructions. "Now for this exercise you will hold your palm out flat and balance the stick vertically. It's not too different from leaf exercise," Kakashi instructed. Kakashi was sure that this would take Naruto some time but decided to stick around instead of wondering off. However Kakashi was surprised that Naruto stopped trying after ten minutes of work. He just sat down and appeared to meditate. 'Is he meditating? I don't think Anko nor I have showed him that. I wonder were he got the idea' Kakashi pondered.

Before the young fox was even instructed on what to do he came up with a game plan. First he would experiment and get a hold of what was going on. Then he would meditate on it and try to figure out the trick. Finally he would implement it and hopefully speed up the proses.

'Ok so the same concept applies here where I have to have a specific amount of chakra coursing through it at a time. But because it is not flat I have to shoot my chakra up the center like a pillar for stability. Alright I think I understand now.' Once he finished his thoughts, this taking about five minutes, he picked up the stick and tried out his method.

To both Kakashi and Naruto's surprise the young blond did it perfectly on the first attempted. "Did I do that correctly Tou-san?" Naruto said in disbelief.

"Good job Naruto I guess we can move on to the next step," Kakashi said still a little surprised. "The next step is to flip your hand over so it is facing down, but you have to keep the stick fixed to your hand."

"How am I supposed to do that!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Well mister smarty pants if you could master the first two so easily you should be able to figure this out."

"Fine, but if I get it within the hour we are having raman tonight for dinner."

"Sounds good, but if you don't I will be having pot stickers while you eat a plate of veggies."

Naruto crumbled up his face and thought, 'I hate vegetables but if I can get Roman out of it I will take that chance.' "You're on old man" Naruto yelled giving this dad a thumbs up.

-Fifty minutes later-

"Looks like your going to be eating nothing but veggies tonight gaki."

'Oh crap, I only have ten minutes until times up!' Naruto thought nervously. Naruto had just figured out the trick on how to keep it on but he had yet to master it. Naruto proceeded to focus with all his might on the task at hand.

Nine minutes then passes and there were still no results any of the hard work the young blond was putting in. "You have thirty seconds Naruto you lost." But once Kakashi said that Naruto flipped his hand over one last time and it worked.

"Yahoo!" Naruto yelled after completing the task. "In your face Tou-san, and you told me to just give up."

"Well I have to say I am impressed. You have mastered three different chakra exercises in one day. With the amount of chakra you have and how little work you have done before hand you have an amazing skill. You may even have gained your father's genius.

Naruto went wide-eyed because Kakashi rarely talked about his real dad. Anko would tell him stories whenever he asked but Kakashi always seemed to shut down. Anko told Naruto that his father was Kakashi's sensei and that Kakashi watched him sacrifice his life for the village. "He misses him greatly, just like he has been a father for you your father was a father for him" was the last thing the shadow snake told him.

"Well we still have a couple of hours before dinner lets start your next lesson, tree climbing."

After Kakashi gave Naruto a kunai and explained the concept the young blond went rushing over to the nearest tree and preseeded to run up it. The first attempt almost made Kakashi laugh because once the young boy's momentum stopped he fell and landed with a loud thump on his head. But after thirty minutes Naruto was able to run half way up the tree. Kakashi was impressed and decided that it was time to call in Jiraiya for some extra help.

-Two weeks later-

Anko had come back, the day after Naruto had worked on chakra control, with the payment of an S-ranked mission. Naruto had mastered the tree climbing exercise and is in the process of mastering the water walking technique. Kakashi was just preparing to head out on his own mission, this one an assassination mission on a bandit gang. This was an S-ranked mission because there were four ninja of unknown power leading this gang. Neither Kakashi nor Anko would tell Naruto what their mission was because they didn't want him to worry. But unknown to both Anko and Naruto they were going to be visited by the first Konoha ninja they had seen sense leaving the place.

Naruto was out at the edge of the lake near the house. He wore only a pair of shorts and was drenched because of the amount of times he has "taken a plunge". Because he was concentrating so hard on the task at hand he hadn't noticed that a man with a lot of white spiky hair was sitting on a stump behind him. The man seemed content with just watching the boy. In truth he was reminiscing on the past when he trained anther young blond. He was awoken from his trip along memory lain when he herd a shout.

"Damn it why can't I get this right!" Naruto yelled absolutely pissed of that he wasn't getting this exercise. He then turned around and saw the strange man behind him. "Um hi."

Naruto said a little wary of who this person was.

"Well hello there I take it your Naruto" responded the old man.

"How did you know?"

"You carry an uncanny resemblance to my old apprentice." Naruto just stared in response. "Also Kakashi asked me to come and help out with your training."

"Tou-san asked you to help me? And who was your apprentice?"

"Yep and it looks like you need it" responded the man avoiding the second question. That statement really pissed Naruto off.

"Well I don't need help from an old man like you who wears a head band that doesn't even make sense. Oil? Seriously? I may not know much about the world but I know there is not oil country. So who are you?" Naruto shouted. Now it was the old man's turn to get angry.

"You little brat do you not know who I am?"

"I have no idea" Naruto dead paned causing the man to fall on his face.

Getting back up he takes what looks like a tijutsu stance and for some reason the sound of drums start up. "I am the great toad sage. But that is merely a disguise. But I will tell you my true identity. I am the man who has no enemies in the North, South, East, and West, not even in the heavens. I am one of the Sannin, white-haired frog-tamer. Even a baby crying would stair in awe. I am the great Jiraiya!"

-This was taken straight from the anime with slight changes-

Naruto just stared at the man with a "what the fuck" expression on his face. "Never heard of you" Naruto responded making Jiraiya face plant again.

Jiraiya then turned to a tree not far away and yelled at it, "Care to explain why you never told my godson who I am."

"Well if you would drop by every once and a while I may have bothered but you haven't seen the kid since the day we escaped form the village" Kakashi countered.

"You know why I haven't come."

"That excuse would only be credible if you came at least once a year but you haven't seen the boy for six years ass hole."

"I'm sorry alright but I didn't come here to berated by a Cyclopes and be made fun of by a six year old" Jiraiya exclaimed. "I came here to put a couple of seals on him, see how he has progressed in the ninja arts, decide when I will train him, and leave."

"Wait your not staying for a while?" Naruto asked.

"Why would I.?"

"I just found out that I have a godfather. If that is not enough you also trained my father and I know so little about him."

Jiraiya turned to Kakashi and said, "So I'm not the only one who tries to keep those memories repressed."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.

"The death of your father was traumatic experience for the two of them Naruto" a new voice answered.

"Ka-san what do you mean?" Naruto asked Anko

"Do you not remember what I told you earlier?" Anko asked and only got a headshake in response. She sighed, "Your father was like a father to Kakashi. Imagine if he died how would you feel?"

"But he wont die, he's not old or anything."

"Nether was your father Naruto nor your mother. Your mother died giving you life and your father died protecting you and Konoha" Anko spat out the last word. Naruto froze because discussing Konoha was a tabu in the family and because he just realized how much pain his step-dad must have felt. He also realized why Kakashi never spoke of his father.

"Jiraiya has an equal if not harder burden. Minato was as close to a son that the old hermit ever had. He has been in more battles than I care to imagine, has killed men without blinking an eye. He is one of the toughest people in the world but when we told him what happened to your father Jiraiya cried."

Naruto turned to Jiraiya who was wearing a somber expression. "The truth is you look so much like Minato when he was a kid that it is hard to look at you and not remember him."

They continued to talk about the past until it got dark and Anko told them all to come to the house and have dinner. When they got back to the house the mood had lifted tremendously and they were all making jokes.

After dinner Naruto was tired and went to bed. The other three on the other hand continued to talk and reminisce about the past. They discussed Konoha and how it has gone to shit ever since Danzo took over, well that is what Jiraiya said. In actuality Jiraiya has been working against Danzo and making sure that the old war hawk had plenty of paperwork. When Jiraiya told this to they couple they all had a good laugh because they remembered how much Minato used to bitch and moan about doing it.

"So Jiraiya I take it you are going to observe Naruto tomorrow?" Anko asked.

"Ya but unfortunately I have to leave right after it. I had word about another hide out belonging to Orochimaru that I need to check out as soon as possible."

They continue to discus all that is going on in the ninja world until they all headed off to bed.

-At Naruto's Testing-

Naruto was sweating and tired because he had just finished an all out brawl with Jiraiya. Well a brawl isn't the best way to put it. It was more like Naruto attempting to land a blow on Jiraiya and the Sannin standing on one place blocking every single move the young boy tried to land.

"Well I am impressed Naruto you have grown well and have a great grasp on tijutsu for only being six" the toad hermit said. In reality he was surprised by the about of force the kid could put into his attacks. He seemed to be as powerful as someone twice his age.

"Thanks" Naruto said happy for the praise. Naruto knew he wouldn't be able to do anything against such an experienced ninja and getting praised by one was no small feat Kakashi had told him.

"If you keep training at the level you have you will be a force to be reckoned with. Now we will go to chakra control." With that said Naruto performed the leaf, stick, tree climbing, and attempted the water walking exercises. The young blond had improved being able to stay on top of the water for five minutes before he lost concentration. "I see the problem you are not letting you're chakra flow. Water is a fluid so if you want to interact with it you must be fluid as well."

Naruto nodded and put the old toad sage's advice to work. To both of their surprise once Naruto put the new technique into action he stood on top of the water with out any problems. He just stood there no concentration or anything. "Well that was easy" the young boy said. He was pretty happy and wanted to test it out some more so he decided to take a few laps around and do some push ups.

Throughout this time Jiraiya was flipping shit. 'This cannot be possible, it just can't, no one has that kind of chakra control. Is it possible that he has a water affinity? But his mother was a wind and his father a lightning how could he have developed a water affinity.' These were only a few of the thousands of thoughts racing through the pervert's head. But he was sure that Naruto was ready for the two training seals. Only a few people can handle them and everyone who had these placed upon them became renowned ninja. "Naruto come here please."

"What's up old man?"

"Well I believe you are ready to obtain the two seals that made men like Kakashi, myself, and your father great."

"Are you serious there are seals to make you great?"

"Well not really but it will aid in your training and you will become more powerful because of it."

"Really well lay it on me."

"Ok but I have to let you understand what they are, how to remove them, and some of the side effects of it. First off I will be placing an advanced resistance that will slow your movements to one forth your base line speed. This will force you improve your strength, speed, and power in order to be proficient in your ninja abilities. This seal is called Fuinjutsu: Kazeteikou (Seal technique wind resistance). As the name implies the air around you will cause major resistance, to the point were you can only travel at one forth your base speed. In order to release it simply say the name of the technique then release while holding the ram sign. But unlike normal seals this one will not fade away once release. It will stay on you and you can reactivate it by saying the name then activate while holding the ram seal. Now with the explanation out of the way were would you like the seal to be placed?"

"Well Tou-san's Anbu tattoo looks really cool and seals look a lot like tattoos right. So I guess on both of my shoulders."

"Ok then lets get this started" Jiraiya said forming hand seals to prepare for the seal. Once he finished the sealing sequence he had little green flams on the tips of his index and middle fingers. He then reached out and made two diagonal lines appear on the young boy's right shoulder.

Naruto was amazed by the skill level that the old hermit had. He had only herd of seals being able to be placed through paper and ink, or blood. His parents had told him that only true masters of the sealing art could perform seals with only hand signs and that those seals were extremely powerful.

"Ok now Naruto try to move."

He did and it took all his effort to move his arm up to shoulder level at his normal speed. "You were not kidding when you said this would slow me down but I couldn't imagine that it would slow me down this much!" Naruto was truly shocked by what the seal was doing to him but he also saw how fast he could become because of it. "Thank you Jiraiya-san. So what is this next seal?"

"Well this seal is called Fuinjutsu: Supiritto Baindo (Seal technique: Spirit Bind). This seal is very special were it restricts you chakra availability. It restricts it to the point that you can use it perfectly. Every time you use large amounts of chakra or use very technical forms of chakra your chakra capacity grows. So this seal only allows you to use what you can perfectly. The rest of your chakra will continue to grow but you will not have access to it unless you release the seal. If you train correctly you will be able to increase your chakra control faster than your chakra capacity allowing you access to more and more of your chakra until you have full control over all of it. The reason I have decided to put this one on you it that you have more chakra at this age than most elite jounin. For heavens sake you give Kakashi a run for his money in regards to chakra reserves. But there is also anther level to this seal that will awaken when you have control over a large portion of your chakra. This level will allow you to seal away as much chakra as you please and you can call upon it at a later time. This does not mean you can store chakra and have a large supply to take form but rather you will be putting blocks on your chakra. This will help mask how much chakra you have and allow you to surprise your enemies when you show just how much chakra you have."

"Wow that sounds really cool! Will it limit me as much as this other seal does?"

"It wont be as recognizable at first but yes. You have a surprisingly large amount of chakra control but you don't have enough to use most of your chakra. This means that you will grow tired quicker when training your chakra control and using jutsus."

"But if it will help me in the long run than it is worth it."

Jiraiya smiled and though, 'Just like Minato, you would be proud gaki.' Once he finished his thought he started forming seals. This time a purple flame appeared on his index, middle and ring fingers. He started to reach out to place them on Naruto's left shoulder and said, "Oh ya, I forgot to say this will hurt." Naruto didn't have time to respond when Jiraiya's seal came in contact with his skin. He didn't scream, even though he wanted to, but just let out a grunt of pain. "Wow, you are an impressive kid your father screamed like a girl when I put that seal on him," the toad sage said with a grin.

Naruto was about to grin back when a new pain greater than the first hit him and he couldn't help but yell out in pain. "Oh, did I forget to say that it takes a little bit for it to really kick in, but don't worry that was it." Naruto was pissed off at that comment and tried to hit the old fart but forgot about the first seal and could barley move.

"Now Naruto don't be like that. In your state a snail could move faster than you," chuckled Jiraiya.

"Oh well it looks like I have a lot of training to do before I can do anything. Thank you for all of this" Naruto said then moved to give the old man a hug but had difficulty taking a few steps. Jiraiya noticed what the brat wanted to do and walked over to him and gave him a hug.

"Train hard gaki and I will come and give you some personal lessons." This brought a huge smile to Naruto's face. Jiraiya then picked the boy up put him on his shoulders and walked to the house.

Jiraiya left about an hour afterward with Kakashi. Jiraiya was headed off to do more reconnaissance on Orochimaru and Kakashi when to meet with his client about the S-ranked mission. Anko stayed with Naruto to help his get used to his two new seals. Naruto kept looking at the one on his left arm amazed because it had three different designs. First was a water droplet, the second was a bolt of lightning, and third was a swirling ball. Jiraiya was surprised that that had happened and explained that the boy had an affinity for all three. And because they were all the same shade they were all primary affinities. Everyone was shocked except for Naruto who hadn't really learned about it. The adults decided to wait and explain everything to him once he advanced in his abilities.

End


Well tell me how it went in a review. I am always open to criticism. I am coming to the point where Naruto will start elemental training so any cool water, wind, or lighting jutsus would help.

Next time Naruto will learn more jutsu and we will have a surprise visit form an old friend.