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Disclaimer: I do not own naruto
Updated: April 16th, 2018
About a week later:
Naruto is walking through the streets to the Hokage tower from his new apartment. Might as well say apartment building. Once everyone heard that his jiji had rented him an apartment everyone moved out, including the land lord. So now he had his own apartment building.
He would have to bring up to jiji about how people from trashing the building. When the villagers found out that he was living there, they have been writing graffiti on the walls, some even brave enough to try to break in and try to kill him again. The ANBU guarding him had made quick work of them though. Weasel-nii was of course one of the two guarding him. As long as he could remember Weasel-nii was there helping him or watching over him. The first time weasel had ever helped him was when he found him running from a mob. One of the men had tried to grab Naruto but Weasel had cut off his arm before he could grab the young boy.
With everyone in the crowd too scared to try to get passed the ANBU, the mob soon left. Ever since Naruto had dubbed him Weasel-nii. One of his precious people. His Ji-chan was his first precious person though.
He would always come to visit Naruto in the orphanage, and when he was around everything was a whole lot better. He would buy him all kinds of things, but if the other kids didn't take it away the people over the orphanage did.
Jiji had caught one of the people over the orphanage trying to take a brand new toy that he had bought for Naruto, and that person was immediately sent to the T&I department. He was the first to actually try and protect him.
Shisui had become one of his precious people when Naruto was at the park one day. Naruto was playing by himself since no one would play with him, and he was also getting some very hateful glares from the parents that were there.
Soon after Naruto had gotten there and started playing. Three older boys started to throw rocks at him and call him "demon" or "devil spawn".
One of the kids had asked the leader of the group why they were calling him that and the leader just said
"I don't know, but my mom and dad do it every time they see him so he has to be for something."
Shisui had found the group of boys throwing rocks at Naruto and had thoroughly beat the three boys. He was so mad when he had found them that he had fractured one of the boy's arms when he grabbed their wrist when they tried to throw another rock.
Shisui had told Naruto that if he ever needed him that he should ask the Hokage for him and he would be there within minutes.
To this day every time Naruto sees someone being bullied he stops the bully. If there was ever a thing that Naruto hated it was bullying.
While Naruto was roaming through his thoughts he didn't even notice that he was already at the Hokage tower until he hit into something and fell.
"Naruto-kun I think you need to watch were you are going" spoke the Hokage who was looking down at Naruto.
"Oh hey jiji! I was coming by to pick up the things I needed to start training" said the boy whose smile could have blinded anyone.
"I see my boy, I actually wanted you to meet one of my students before I gave you the training materials I just have to find the man" said the hokage
"But jiji I thought I told you that I don't want a sensei!"
"Naruto, you need someone there to see you are doing it right and to show you what is next after you master the first part. However, he is only in the village for small periods of time so he will only be over seeing your training, than being a full time sensei."
"Oh I see, I guess I'm okay with that, but I swear to kami himself if he holds me back I'm leaving" said Naruto as he crossed his arms in a stubborn manner.
The Hokage could help but let out a chuckle. His surrogate grandson always seemed to amuse him and liven things up.
"Now let's see if we can find him, I think I have a clue of where he might be" said the Hokage.
Naruto and the Hokage and been walking for a little bit, Naruto had no idea where they were going, but a few minutes later and he found themselves outside of a hot spring. As soon as they had tried to enter they were overcome by a crowd of angry women chasing a large man with long snow white hair.
"Get back here and deal with your punishment you old pervert!" yelled one of the woman
Naruto was very annoyed. He knew that the man had done something wrong and needed to pay for it. With a single motion Naruto stuck out his leg and tripped the older man. Within seconds the mob of women were now beating the man and stomping his balls. When the mob dispersed the older man sat up and gave a death stare at the younger boy.
"What the hell was that for kid!" yelled the white haired man
"You obviously done something to make them mad, so I helped them." Spoke the boy
"Wait you don't even know what I was doing?"
"Nope" Naruto said with a deadpan expression.
The man then got a very perverted grin and leaned over and told the young boy in great detail what the older man was doing. The younger boy looked confused at first but then it clicked. Immediately he yelled
"You're a stinking pervert!"
"I'm not just a pervert, I'm a SUPER pervert!" the man screamed to the world getting some very angry glares from the women walking by.
"Naruto I would like you to meet your godfather, and my student Jiraiya. One of the legendary Sannin. This is the man that I want to oversee your training." The Hokage finally speaking up, shocking both of them. Jiraiya for telling Naruto that he was his godfather, and Naruto for telling him the "super pervert" was going to help train him.
"Naruto, my boy, I know that Jiraiya here has his quirks but I trust him with my life, and your parents did too when they made him your godfather." The hokage spoke sincerely
"Wait you knew my parents?" Naruto's eyes widened at this.
"Yes we both did, but we should talk about that in private when you are a little older. It is very complicated." The Hokage said
Naruto looked kind of hurt by this but said "Okay jiji I trust you, doesn't mean I have to like it though"
He crossed his arms and started to pout. Both men couldn't help but laugh at the boy. He looked so much like Minato, but acted completely like Kushina.
"Now Ero-sannin can we start my training?" asked Naruto who was eager to get started
Jiraiya immediately face vaulted and the Hokage laughed harder that he had since he got back in office. It took nearly 5 minutes for him to stop laughing. Jiraiya was now giving the kid a death glare. Then his face then turned into a sadistic smile
"Oh don't you worry you little shithead, I'm going to train you all right. This is going to be a hell you going to wish you hadn't asked for. Your first lesson will be right now. First lesson for a ninja is evasion" with that Jiraiya's twisted smile got even bigger as he pulled several kunai and threw one at Naruto. Naruto easily shifted out of the path of the kunai.
"You better run boy, because if I catch you I'll be sure to toss you into the women's side to repay for my beating earlier." Jiraiya said as soon as he started running at Naruto.
This caused Naruto to pale. He saw how those women were, and did not want any part of it. So with that he immediately took off. He ran faster that had ever before.
A few hours later:
The Hokage is sitting in his office going through the last of his overwhelming paper work of the day. Oh how he hated paper work! If only Minato had told him his secret of how to deal with paper work, it was the bane of his existence.
About half way through the stack he stopped and looked up.
"You can come out Jiraiya, I know you are there." Said the aging Hokage
"Damn I guess you still got it old man" Jiraiya said while jumping through the open window where he had been sitting for the past few minutes.
"I may be old, but I'm not that old yet." Said the Hokage with a sharp look. He hated it when people thought he was too old for this job. He would show them a thing or two if they underestimated him.
After a few minutes of comfortable silence the Hokage spoke up first.
"So how did the boy do?"
"Oh he is still running, I switched out with a clone a little while ago. That brat sure has some stamina, and he may be wearing a bright orange jump suit but even I lost track of him a few times" Jiraiya said shocking the village leader, but then the shocked expression turned to a scowl.
"That's what happens when you have to run for your life when you are constantly being chased around the village Jiraiya." The man with the white hair winced a little, but he knew that his teacher was right.
"I know, and I'm glad you chose me to be his teacher, I'm going to teach him everything that his mother and father knew. If he grows up to be anything like those two then he is going to be a beast on the battlefield" Jiraiya said
"Yes I would love it if he becomes strong enough before I retire. No other kage has ever announced that both of his chosen successors were father and son." The Hokage said with a smile.
"Well I'm going to start his major training tomorrow and I'm going to help him with his Chakra. We will definitely have to work on his Chakra control if has big reserves. If he has reserves like an Uzumaki then I'm going to teach him the shadow clone Jutsu. The Jutsu will help us tremendously if he learns it properly. I'm also going to teach him history, politics, fuinjustsu, and some formal stuff. That way he can learn early what it's like to be Hokage. I will also tell him that we will be using my old personal training ground. That way no one can see anything if he makes up any Jutsu or cool moves, but so far the boy is a natural. The boy does have a bright future ahead of him." Jiraiya said has he was making his way to the window.
"Thank you Jiraiya, I am sure that those two would be very happy that you are training their son" the Hokage said with a smile.
"Oh and learn how to use the door Jiraiya." The Hokage said with a stern look
"NEVER!" jiraiya yelled before he was out the window and gone.
"I'm too old for his antics, why can't i just smoke my pipe in peace." The Hokage said before starting with his paper work again.
The next morning at Jiraiya's personal training ground:
"So Ero-sannin what are we going to do today?" Naruto said eager to start.
"Well kid we are going to mainly be working on your speed and strength today, but I want to check and see how big your chakra reserves are so I can put my plan in motion or to plan something else." Said Jiraiya
"What's Chakra?" Naruto said very confused
"Chakra is the result of your spirit and body becoming one. Mixing the two allows you to do all kinds of stuff, like walk up walls or walk on water, preform ninjutsu, genjutsu, fuinjustsu, and even some taijutsu." Jiraiya said sagely.
"That's so amazing!" Naruto shouted with stars in his eyes
"Now most academy students manage to harness the Chakra with the help of their teacher, and that is what we are going to do today. So I want you to sit down and try to focus on bringing forth your Chakra I will being helping you do so." Jiraiya said
Naruto then sat crossed legged and held his hands together. Jiraiya saw how the young boy had sat and it looked exactly like the pose that most used to harness nature energy for sage mode. He couldn't help but ask.
"Naruto where did you learn that pose?"
"I learned it from a scroll when I was four. I used to get mad a lot at the villagers for what they did to me so I found a scroll to help with it. It was a book on mediation. It said to take the pose and calm my mind. It really helps a lot. That's how I usually calm myself down now when I get upset."
"Oh, okay then. Close your eyes and try to bring forth your chakra. I am going to place my hand on the center of your back and help you."
"So how do I know when I got it?" asked Naruto
"You will should feel a warm feeling in your gut when you first use your chakra, so that will be how you know when you have it" Jiraiya said
Jiraiya waited a few seconds and started using his own chakra to try and help Naruto use his own. He knew this might take a bit since it was usually hard for beginners to use their chakra right off the bat. Naruto's next question is what caught him off guard.
"Okay I think I found it, but what do I do now?"
"Try to tug on it, or pull on it, once you do that it should start flowing out in small waves" Jiraiya said, but what happened next shocked him completely.
Within seconds of Naruto "tugging" on his chakra there was almost like a small explosion on chakra. If Jiraiya hadn't been slightly on guard he would have been blown back all together. There were visible waves of chakra pouring off Naruto like it was nothing.
'The only people who have this amount of chakra are me, the old man, Danzo, and maybe Kakashi and Itachi. How is this even possible!? He is just a kid, barely five years old, how in the world does he have this much chakra already? It has to be the Kyuubi's chakra from the seal, it's probably been slowoly stretching his reserves over the years.' Jiraiya thought
"Naruto you need to start controlling it, what I want you to do is imagine the largest dam you can think of and start holding in your chakra like you would water."
Naruto did just that. It took a few seconds for the chakra to start receding, and within a minute its presence was all gone. Almost like it was never there.
"Now Naruto since I know you have well enough chakra for a jutsu that I was going to teach you later on, I will go ahead and teach it to you now. Let's get started. I am going to explain first what this jutsu does. This jutsu allows you to make an exact copy of your self but it isn't an illusion like the academy students are taught. These clones are solid and one of the perks they have is that you can retain any knowledge that they have. I will show you once you learn how to do it. Here is the scroll, I want you to master this jutsu I don't want you to come back until you can perform it with only one hand sign." With that Naruto sped off to learn his awesome new jutsu. Just as Naruto ran off a Weasel ANBU appeared at the tree line.
Jiraiya made his way over to the ANBU and sat down near him. "What do you say Itachi? That little runt has more energy than that damned cat Tora."
The ANBU immediately tensed up and shot his head toward the toad sage. "How did you know my name, Lord Jiraiya?"
"I run the entire spy network for this village, do you really think I can't find out the name of the ANBU who has been protecting my godson?" Jiraiya said with a sly smirk.
Jiraiya and the ANBU, now reveled to be Itachi, just sat in the shade and talked about the young boy and how his life had been up unto this point in his life. They were drawn out of their conversation when a very torn and tattered Naruto had come back holding the scroll with a wide smile.
"I did it Ero-sannin!" Naruto yelled
"What there isn't now way possible you mastered that jutsu in an hour, no way." Jiraiya said
"Well I will show you!" Naruto yelled back the sannin. Naruto brought his hands to a hand sign that resembled a cross.
"Muti-Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he yelled. With that there was a massive poof of smoke. When the smoke died down both men were completely shocked. What stood before them was a forest full of Narutos. They couldn't believe their eyes. Then Jiraiya was brought out of his shock.
'If this boy ever gets half way decent control over his massive chakra reserves, he will be able to make his own army with a quarter of his reserves. Too bad that kind of control for him is years away.' Jiraiya thought
"Well I guess you did show me huh?" Jiraiya said with a smile
"Now Naruto start dispelling your clones little by little so we can start your training. Don't dispel them all at once, if you do the memories will flood into your brain and knock you out." Jiraiya said, and Naruto complied.
Just as the last of Naruto's clones had dispersed Jiraiya spoke up again "Naruto I am going to show you the perk of the shadow clone jutsu that I was talking about earlier. So, I want you to make one clone." With that both men made a hand sign and two poofs of smoke appeared next to them.
"Now you two walk out into the woods and after you're done dispel, ok?" Jiraiya said as both nodded and walked off past the tree line.
"What are they going to do Ero-sannin?" asked the small blonde boy
"Just wait and see" the sannin said with a perverted smile
Just a few minutes passed then the look of pure horror came over Naruto's face. He immediately started to dry heave and ended up on his knees. "You dirty old pervert!"
Jiraiya couldn't help but laugh at this, but then the boy's face changed to an expression of confusion.
"Wait how did I know what your clone told my clone?" Naruto asked.
"That is the perk of the shadow clone jutsu, anything that the clone learns is sent back to the caster. This is why I taught you that, we are going to use it to speed up your training. However, it doesn't transfer the work of the muscles. So to get your speed and strength up you are the one that has to do that, but they do remember muscle memory so we can practice taijutsu, or kenjutsu without any hassle." Naruto looked amazed at this
"Now Naruto I want you to make five clones. Your brain is still developing so we are going to start it off slow with the clones." Naruto then made five clones and Jiraiya started telling each one what to do.
"You I want reading the history books, I want you throwing shuriken, and kunai, I want you going over politics, I want you going over survival in the wild and stealth, and number 5 you are going to work with my clone on fuinjustsu." Jiraiya said as he made his clone.
"Wait what is fuinjustsu?" Naruto asked
"it is the art of sealing my boy. I happen to be a master of the art just like both of your parents once were." Naruto perked up at this
"Both of my parents were masters of sealing?" Naruto asked as if he was on the verge of tears.
"Yes Naruto they were and they both were much better that I was, or will ever be." Jiraiya said softly
"Then I am going to master in it too! I am going to honor them the best I can, even though I still don't know who they are or what they did." Both men standing there winced at this. They both knew that they couldn't tell the boy until he was able to protect himself.
"Good" Jiraiya said with a smile, and then he took out a scroll rolled it out and put his hand over the seal that was drawn on the paper. With a poof of smoke what looked like weights appeared on the seal.
"Naruto these are chakra weights. We are going to use them to boost your strength and speed. I know you are still a little knew to chakra and I know I'm working fast but the faster that you get stronger the sooner I can tell you who your parent were." Naruto's head shot up from looking at the weights.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get started!" the young boy yelled
"First let me explain how you weights work. You will put chakra into these weights, and doing that increases the weight, but also helps with making your reserves even bigger do to the excessive use of your chakra" Jiraiya said 'not like you need any bigger reserves though'
Naruto then took the weights and started to strap on the weights. He soon started to channel a little chakra into the weights and started to feel the difference.
"Naruto I want you to put chakra into the weights until you can barely move your arms and legs then stop the flow of chakra to the weights" Naruto did as he was told
"Are they ready?" asked Jiraiya
"Yeah they are ready" said Naruto as he was trying to move his limbs a little bit
"Good" Jiraiya said as he was pulling out a kunai. "Now I want you to run, and if you slow down even a little I am going to cut you with this kunai."
With that Naruto paled and immediately started running from the older man. He ran for a little while and started to get tired he thought it would be best to slow down to a jog now. Although, as soon as he tried to slow down there was a wiz by his face and a shallow cut appeared on his face. The boy turned around to see Jiraiya with a very twisted smile. Naruto had overcome is fear when he was younger but seeing this he couldn't help but gulp.
Hours later:
Naruto was walking back to his apartment, and was cursing Jiraiya all the way there. He was cursing him because Jiraiya said that he had to keep the weights on 24/7 underneath his cloths. He was not looking forward to this.
Within a few minutes of walking he had made it back to his place and proceeded to go to his bed. As soon as he fell onto the mattress he was out like a light. However, instead of dreaming this night he woke up in his mindscape.
"Hello Naruto" the giant fox bellowed "it is good to see you back so soon."
"Oh hey Kurama, how are you" asked the boy
"I am doing fine young one, but I did not bring you here for idle chit chat" spoke the fox
"Then what did you bring me here for?" Naruto said confused.
"I brought you here because I too want you to get stronger, I cannot have weak container, and if I forced my way out then I would just be hunted down and sealed again. There is only one option, staying with the container who has done more for me than any human except my father." Kurama said looking down at the boy.
"Who was your father?" Naruto asked
"My father was the sage of the six paths, some of your history books mention him but all of the stories are either vague or wrong. He was the father to us biju. He was the one that appointed me the strongest of the biju, so that I can protect my brethren."
"That is so cool!" shouted the young blond causing the giant fox to chuckle.
"Yes that as it may be Naruto, you need to get stronger. There are people in this world who will come after you so that they can obtain my power and you need to be ready to face that. "
"Okay then how do you want to do this?"
"What I am going to do is push a very small portion of my chakra into your system at all times. I'm doing this so that you can get used to the strain of my chakra on your body. Once your body can deal with the strain of my chakra we will undo the seal and you can take my chakra. We do have to battle for my chakra so I expect you to train your hardest until then. If you can't beat me then you will die. That is why you must be strong enough to beat me when the time comes"
"Okay I will do just that! Just you wait and see, ain't no way I'm dying before I become the Hokage!" Naruto said with a very determined look.
"Is there anything else Kurama?" the boy asked
"Yes while we are getting your chakra system used to my chakra I will be teaching you of the other biju and what information I have of there jinchuriki."
"There are others like me?" Naruto said as his eyes widened
"Of course there are. There is nine biju all together. There are Shukaku the one tail, Matatabi the two tails, Isobu the three tails, Son Goku the four tails, Kokuo the five tails, Saiken the six tails, Chomei the seven tails, Gyuki the eight tails, and me Kurama the nine tails."
"The sage of the six paths created us from the ten tails. Which is a beast that almost destroyed the world. My father Hagoromo Otsutsuki and his twin brother Hamura defeated the beast, and it was sealed into my father. On his death bed he separated the chakra into nine living entities that are today called the nine biju."
Naruto was amazed at the fox's story. He couldn't believe all of this, but he knew it was all true. He knew from this point on that he had to help Kurama and bring his family back together. Even though he couldn't bring the fox's father back to life he knew that he could get the fox back together with his brethren.
"Man that's a lot" Naruto said.
"Yes it is" the mighty biju said "Now that is enough for tonight. You need to rest you have a lot waiting for you. We will cover more over the biju later. Goodnight Naruto"
"Goodnight Kurama" Naruto said as he was fading out of his mindscape
The fox couldn't help but think that this boy was the one that his father had spoken of when he told them his prophecy when they were first created. He had heard the boy's thoughts about bringing his "family" back together. Everything the boy had thought the fox could hear so he knew exactly how the boy felt always.
"I think you were right father, and I believe I have found the one that would show us true strength and bring peace to this kami forsaken world."
With that said the fox went back underneath his tree and decided to take a nap. It had been long day for the boy and the fox that was contained within him.
Author's note:
I hope all of you liked the new chapter! I am trying to write longer and longer chapters so that you guys have more to read. Please review the story so that I can have your guy's thoughts on what I should change or fix. If you guys have any ideas for this story please message me and I will see if I can throw your guys ideas into the mix
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