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The night of Naruto's departure

Naruto and uncle ran from the village he had once called home in some new clothes his uncle had provided. The clothes where mainly greens and browns with grey thrown in every now and again. His uncle said it was for concealment and Naruto didn't protest since he knew that his orange jumpsuit would only last so long. But he was leaving to be with a man he now realized he didn't even know the name of but figured it would be explained later. Right now they had to put distance between them and the village. Suddenly his uncle stopped in the trees ahead of him. Naruto landed next to him and waited for any communication from the man.

"We will stop here so that we can insure they can't track us," said his uncle. "I need you to summon some toads. But these toads are special and will need more chakra than you used for the boss summon and be thinking about elder toads. When they arrive you will have to give up the toad contract so as your godfather cannot track us."

Naruto was a little hesitant to give up the contract but figured he could ask the toads to just not track him for Jiraiya. He bit his thumb and went through the necessary hand seals all the while thinking of toad elders. When the smoke cleared it showed two small and old looking toads gazing at him.

"Why did you summons us young one?" questioned the apparent male of the two.

"Yes, you have just ruined my beauty sleep!" exclaimed the female.

"Sorry, but I needed to talk. I was wondering if you could prevent Jiraiya from using toads and the contract from tracking me. I would very much appreciate it if you could do that," asked a slightly hesitant Naruto since he really wanted to be going soon so that he and his uncle could be leaving for Ame.

"Sorry, the only way for that is if you cancelled the contract since he is the older summoner and therefore has priority. But why are you wanting this anyway? Are you running from him?" asked the male.

"Yes, he and others have kept information from me that should not have been kept."

"Are you talking about your heritage and the fact that your father was our other summoner?" asked the female.

"Yes. I see now that you also knew this information. Why would you withhold this information from me, one of your summoners," asked the disheartened blonde.

"It was thought that it was for the best," said the male toad.

"Well it wasn't! Cancel my contract, it seems even my summons, who I thought I could always count on to help me and be there for me have broken my trust in such a manner that I could never use them for anything of importance," stated the hurt blonde as he saw the gaping toads.

"Very well then. If you treat us like that than your contract is cancelled and you shall never be able to sign the contract again even if it was what you father wanted," said the female right before both toads vanished.

"That took longer than expected but we must be off. And since they can no longer track us through that means I will be sending off clones to lay traps, you will also send off clones so that you can learn how to do that yourself. Do not question me on this, I will explain more later but we need to move now," said the man claiming to be an Uzumaki.

"Hai, just one thing. What is your name?"

"Harike-n (hurricane) Uzumaki and I didn't tell you because we had more important things to think about. Now let us be off," the man said as he jumped away.

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"You will stay here and practice the exercise that I showed you and have your clones read the books I showed you. Remember to only have one clone working on the books at a time. I should be back in a few days with everything I need from Lord Hanzo to make you an Ame-nin and to get time to teach you to be an Uzumaki," said Harike-n to Naruto before he left the hotel room they shared.

They had been on the run for about a week leaving false trails and taking many round about routes to their current hotel in Tsuchi no Kuni on the border with the country that housed Amegakure, the village that his uncle had moved to after his own was destroyed. He stated that his sister would have come if see hadn't fallen for Naruto's father. To enter into the country though he needed permission from Hanzo and so he was stuck here because of that. There was also some sort of rebellion going on but he had not paid much attention to it.

Currently he was doing some physical exercises that his uncle had set out for him so as to make his body stronger and faster. The man also had given him several chakra control exercises in addition to the ones he already knew but told him to master and not just learn the exercises and had preached about the difference in knowing a skill and mastering a skill which Naruto found odd but started to understand after falling into a pond when he lost concentration when he demonstrated his water walking abilities. He realized he had not fully mastered it yet.

The last thing his uncle pushed on him was to read several books that ranged from anatomy to jutsu theory and finally the one he really wanted to read, family history. The man said that he should read the others first only so that he had some goal to work towards. His uncle said that there was to be a quiz when he got back and that he would know if he failed to follow his instructions.

The weirdest thing he saw was that his Kage Bushin actually gave him information and when he had first attempted to create an army to practice with his uncle had stopped him. The man said he did not know how many clones would over whelm his mind and that he should take it slow on the learning until they had a medic around to make sure he did not hurt himself. Naruto agreed when he thought of what could happen if he over loaded his brain and for now he had a clone read and three doing chakra control while he exercised and went through some taijutsu forms his uncle had shown him.

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It had been a week since Naruto was left alone by his uncle and he was nervous since it was only suppose to be a few days. His thoughts turned to maybe the man had abandoned him when he heard a groan from out in the hall in front of his door. As he opened it up he saw Harike-n with a large bag over his shoulder leaning on the wall outside and he looked pretty hurt from the blood on his shirt and his grunts of pain.

"What happened uncle?" said Naruto as he took the older man into the hotel room?

"The rebels conquered the village and killed Hanzo. I got there in time to see the slaughter. I was able to salvage some items from some hidden catches Hanzo left. He had instructed me to get them out of there if he was to die. On my way back I was ambushed and while I won you can see I did not get off completely," said the man as Naruto bandaged the man.

"So, what now? Obviously we can't just go back to Konoha and your village is now out," said Naruto.

"I have a plan but we need to leave as soon as possible. There may be others following me. So make some clones and pack everything. Then rig this place to blow when the open the door, we will go out the window, which I will rig myself. I know you probably don't want to harm any civilians but sometime there are costs to freedom and your own life. Now hurry," said the man as he stood with a grunt and went towards the window.

They were about a mile out of town when the explosives went off. They knew that some people had probably died but they continued to run.

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They had travelled around for about one and a half years now trying to find the perfect place to train for a while. It seemed that every time they stopped for more than a month someone would find them and they would be off and running again. But during every single break there was Harike-n tried to stuff information into his nephews head. This usually took more time than it should because Naruto lacked something's that most people had.

The things he lacked were a proper education and was not so much stupid as ignorant. It seems very few people had explained things fully to the blonde and when they tried they automatically assumed he knew certain things, like how to properly read and write an how to understand peoples facial expressions. But most of these subjects were taught by families and while Naruto had got some instruction in these areas he had been left mainly to his own devices and had done remarkably well but had made several critical errors that hindered his advancement.

Several humorous times happened when his uncle explained women, sex and love. Seeing his nephew's hesitance and negative reactions when he tried to talk about, especially when Harike-n was called a pervert. When Harike-n finally sat Naruto down and explained everything to him the boy was obviously embarrassed but understood the reason for the talk.

When the topic of women's reactions to men and men's reactions to women came up there was another surprise. When Harike-n talked about how sometimes people are shy and blush around the ones they like and how this can lead to nervous behavior which included stuttering Naruto groaned and called himself an idiot. His uncle asked why he thought he was an idiot, which Naruto talked about how there had been a shy girl in his class that had done all the things he just described while around him. Harike-n laughed and said that while it was funny it was not Naruto's fault as he had no idea what to look for when it came to being liked by a girl and how to interpret the signs she had given. Naruto slowly agreed with this assessment.

But toady was the day that they hoped would put their troubles behind them. They had left a pair of clones with the last group of bounty hunters about a month ago. The clones had a large amount of explosive tags and had suicide, taking many of the bounty hunters with them. Since then the pair had never entered a town and had remained in the hidden valleys and passes of Tsuchi no Kuni in the area close to the border countries that separate it from Kaze no Kuni.

"This is where we will train until I deem you fit to bare your ancestors' name. This will be grueling work and up until now you have had warm ups for this. One thing we will work on is your weapons skills. All Uzumaki's use a weapon; I use a standard sword most of the time but was also train with long katana's. Your mother used a tanto and wrist blade. I will test you to find out your weapons and then I will help you make them. The test will be one of you using everything in your arsenal, including the ninjutsu's you have been sneaking off to practice with clones," said Harike-n to the embarrassed blonde.

"Come at me when you are ready," stated Harike-n as he got into his taijutsu style.

"Oh, this will be fun," said Naruto as he ran at his uncle.

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AN: Sorry for the long wait and I hope this is satisfactory.

Next chapter is after the training, maybe a flashback or two.