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Naruto: Seal Master of Konoha

Chapter 3: Seals?


The sun hit Naruto's eyes, waking him up. He got up groggily, swinging his legs out of bed and stepping onto the carpet. 'Wait…carpet? My floor is-' The the boys blue pools lit up with joy. 'It wasn't a dream! I have…Family.' He ran out of the bedroom, wanting to find his godfather.

"Ohhh… Yes Tsuna-chan…" Came a voice from the living room,

'Is that Jiraiya?' Naruto walked toward the living room to find the toad sage sprawled out on the couch asleep, mumbling incoherent words while drooling. Naruto observed his godfather for a second before a mischievous smile crept onto his face. 'Hehehe…perfect.'


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Naruto sat on the other side of the room, Scissors in his hands, ready to cut the string next to him. 'Ok good, everything is set, now is time to sit back and watch my plan unfold… 3…2…1…begin!' Silence reigned throughout the house for a bit. That all changed when a single bucket of water dropped from the ceiling, straight down onto a unsuspecting sage.

"Shit!" The Sannin jumped to his feet alert for anything that could of made that happen. Sadly for him, this caused another trap to be set, sending pink paint bombs his way. Just before they could detonate, Jiraiya whipped out a sealing scroll, and threw his remaining hand into a half ram seal. "Seal!" Immediately there was a small flash of light and the bombs were gone, a Kanji for bomb surrounded by symbols appeared on the paper.

"Whoaa what was that? How did you make the paint bombs disappear?" Naruto said, coming out from his hiding spot with wide eyes.

Jiraiya turned around, and struck a kabuki pose. "So you are awed by my awesome ninja prowess? The might that causes full grown men to shake in fright, the sight that makes all women tremble with anticipation. The power of the great Jiraiya-sama-"

"Yea yea." Naruto dismissed him, wanting to see what he did. "I mean that cool light thing that made my bombs disappear."

Jiraiya face faulted when he was easily dismissed, but heard the last part. "Wait… your bombs! This was your prank gaki! You almost made a mess throughout the living room!"

The blond paled a little, knowing he was pretty much trapped now. "That's not what this is about, Dattebayo!"

'Sounds just like Kushina.' Jiraiya thought with a little melancholy. "Your lucky you didn't get it anywhere…" He grumbled. "Anyway what I did was just a basic storage seal."

"Whoa could you show me how to do it? They would be perfect for my future pran- I mean ninja skills." Naruto quickly corrected himself seeing Jiraiya's face.

The toad sage thought about it for a bit. 'I was already gonna teach him, might as well start early.' "Ok I'll teach you, but there is a lot more to sealing than just storage seals. There's endless possibilities, from suppression seals, all the way to teleportation. It's probably gonna be confusing at first so you're going to have to pay close att-" He noticed Naruto stopped paying attention and deadpanned. "Were u not paying attention to anything I said."

The last words snapped the young jinchuuriki out of his daydreaming. "Huh? Oh yea, you said you were gonna teach me the cool sealy thingy!"

'I'm not ready for this… gonna have to work on his attention span.." "Anyway, I want you to clean this place up, I'll be back in about a hour to get all your things from your apartment , I gotta do some 'research'." He said that last part with a perverted grin on his face.

"Ok fine… I'll clean this place up… wait move in? You mean I can stay?"

"Of course, why wouldn't you be able to? I am gonna take care of you." Naruto was overjoyed with the news. "Thank you!"

Jiraiya chuckled a bit. "No problem Naruto." He waved then shunshinned off with a puff of smoke.

"Wait…" Naruto looked around the apartment. "I have to clean everything?! I only got water on the floor!" He grumbled but got to work.


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Scribbling and giggles could be heard coming from a bush next to the hotsprings. "Hmm yes… now that I remember, Konoha always did have the best women… Ooo I didn't see you yesterday." He giggled again and thanked kami he remembered to put up the privacy seal.

"I think the brunette shows some promise, you gonna use her in your next book? I just finished the last one and can't wait for the next." Came an aged voice from behind.

"Yes, she does, but I feel the blonde would be better for the next one… so Sensei, what brings you here? Escaping your paperwork and Anbu again?" He turned around to face the Hokage.

Hiruzen chuckled, "You always did have a thing for blondes… No I came by to see how yesterday was with Naruto-kun."

"How do you think it went, after all I am the great Toad sage of , loved by millions of ladies all over the globe." Jiraiya said with a smile.

"Jiraiya…I'm being serious."

"It went well Sensei… I'm glad that he ended up accepting me. I don't know what I would have done if he didn't…I still have a long road ahead of me to make up for all I missed and should have done."

The old Hokage smiled, "I'm glad it went well… As Hokage I can only see him so much, so it's good he has someone…. Now about your new book…"


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Naruto sat down on the couch, admiring the cleaning he did. "Finally all done! Yatta!" A poof could be heard coming from the window and Jiraiya walked out.

"Hmmm looks good! Now let's run over to your apartment and grab your stuff." Naruto got excited and started running out the door. "Hey, you forgetting something?" Said The Toad Sage, holding up Naruto's sandals.

Naruto scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment, " Hehe…Oops."

Jiraiya laughed at the small child's forgetfulness. "Ok let's get going."


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The two of them were coming upon the apartment building when Naruto realized something. 'What if he sees the graffiti and the things the villagers wrote about me… What if he doesn't want me anymore.' Naruto thought, hoping his Godfather didn't end up acting like the villagers did.

"So this is where you live?", Jiraiya said as they stopped in front of the apartment building.

"Y-Yes, I've been living here since I started attending the academy..." He said a nervous about the sages reaction.

Jiraiya looked towards the boy and saw that he looked a little nervous. 'It's probably nothing' . When they arrived at the door of the apartment, Jiraiya saw all the writings on the door and wall of 'Demon' and 'Monster' and became angry, letting out some of his killing intent. 'Those villagers! If I got my hand on the ones who would say this about a innocent child, I don't know what I would do!'

When the Sannin started to get angry, Naruto became scared and broken-hearted. 'No! Why did my only chance have to get ruined! Does he hate me? Does he not want me now?' His eyes started to water because the thoughts.

Jiraiya calmed down and then saw his Godson's expression. 'Oh shit! I didn't mean to scare him!' He quickly bent down and tried to calm the kid. "Kid, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. It's just I was mad that these people for writing something like this about you. Now, ready to pack?"

Naruto's face brightened.'He doesn't think that way!' "Yea, I'm ready! Let's do this packing, dattebayo!" The blonde said with renewed exuberance. The two walked into the mess that Naruto called an apartment.

Jiraiya looked around was pretty small, but a big enough size for one person. There was a small room that was the kitchen and living room that has a door on both sides of the room. The door on the right led to a bedroom, and the door on the left led to the bathroom. There was one thing that was universal though; it was a mess. The dishes were stacked up, along with ramen cups, and the bedroom had clothes everywhere, all of them orange and dirty. "Kid, this place is a mess. Do you ever clean it?" He said observing the mess.

Naruto laughed nervously and scratched the back of his neck. "Well… every once in a while… I've just been busy! Planning pranks takes a lot of time!" Naruto said getting a little flustered at the end.

The sage just chucked at his Godson's antics. "Alright, alright, let's get to packing, you can tell me all about your pranks later." Jiraiya paused and thought for a second. He then took out a scroll and handed it to Naruto. "Here, this is like the sealing scroll I used earlier. When you grab the things you wanna keep, put them on the scroll and then concentrate your chakra into it. I'll go grab your clothes, you can go get all the things that are valuable to you." The sage then walked off towards the bedroom to pack.

Naruto followed Jiraiya to the bedroom, and went to the side of his bed. He pulled out a small chest from under the bed and opened it up. Inside was a photo album, a kunai, a red scarf, and a fox plushy. The blond opened the album and looked through the photos. It was filled with pictures of him and the sandiame throughout the years, leading to his recent 8th birthday dinner at ichiraku ramen. There was also a photo of a white haired, dog masked anbu, pushing him on a swing while reading a orange book. 'I'm going to miss this place' Naruto thought. He closed the album, put everything away, and went to try the sealing. 'Alright so I put this right, here. Ok got that and then I push my chakra into it.' As he pushed the chakra into it the seals started to glow. After a second they stopped glowing, but nothing happened. 'What! I swore I did everything right!' "Hey, why didn't this thing work!? I did what you told me to do." Naruto asked Jiraiya a little angry.

"Alright alright, calm down…sheesh…alright try it again like I told you." Jiraiya said turning around to face the boy.

Naruto did as told and the same thing happened again. "See I told you, it doesn't work." He said, pouting with his arms crossed.

"Alright your pushing too much chakra into it. With seals there is an amount of chakra that every seal takes to activate it. Too much and the seal overloads, not activating. It also works the other way, not enough chakra and it doesn't work." Jiraiya said, trying to be serious so as to explain everything to the boy.

Naruto stared at him dumbly and nodded. "Uh huh, so I just uh do what I did with the leaf?"

Jiraiya was a bit surprised he got it that fast. "Yes actually, that makes things a lot easier than having to show you… Ok so I have your clothes and such all sealed, but I suggest we go to the clothes shop… The clothes you wear are a kill me orange, not something a ninja should wear gaki."

"Hey! Orange is an amazing color!" Naruto replied, "And hey look at you, your wearing a bright red haori and announce yourself all the time!"

"Once you're a ninja as amazing as me, and a master of stealth, then you can wear whatever you want, but for now a least look like a ninja!" The toad sage said, now butting heads with the blond jinchuuriki.

"Fine but I'm having some orange in whatever we get!" The boy said, turning and crossing his arms in a frustrated manner, though a smile was on his face.

The Sannin sighed but a smirked graced his lips."Alright, hurry up. I'll be waiting outside until your done."

When Jiraiya left Naruto focused on the scroll. 'Ok let's try this again. Place the chest in the center, got that part. Now focus on my chakra, and let it flow into the seal.' Naruto pushed some chakra into the seal and then he felt the seal come to a high point and stopped letting it flow. The seal turned white and then in a poof of smoke the chest disappeared, and the kanji for chest appeared on the scroll. "Yea!" He yelled in victory. After finishing, Naruto walked out the door, and took a quick glance at his old apartment before closing the door.

"You ready kid? Let's head over to a shinobi clothes store so we can get this over with. Here let's do something cool." He put his hand on Naruto and shunshined away in a flurry of leaves.


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Jiraiya and Naruto appeared on the top of a building in the middle of Konoha's shopping district. "Whoa that felt weird, what did you do?" Naruto said, not paying attention to where he was.

"Just take a look around gaki." Jiraiya told the confused Naruto. He looked around and realized he wasn't by the apartment any more.

"Awesome! Did we teleport or something? It was so fast!" Naruto said extremely excited.

"No it's called the shunshin no jutsu, and before you ask, no not until I think your ready." Jiraiya said knowing that the boy was going to ask him to teach it to him.

"Ok fine, lets get this shopping over with…" The blond said, a little apprehensive about it because the shop owners usually kick him out.

The two walked down the streets of Konoha, making their way to one of the shinobi stores. They were walking around and they came upon a shinobi store named 'Hiragashi Shinobi Supply'. "This is the place I usually go to when I need equipment, so don't worry about the owners trying to do anything." Jiraiya informed the boy, seeing worry on his face.

"Alright…I've never actually been to this one before," Naruto said. They walked opened the door, and walked in, making a bell ring.

"Welcome to Hiragashi Shinobi Supply, any way I can help?" Came the voice of a young girl. She was standing behind the counter, and could only be around 9. She was wearing a pink Chinese style top, hakama pants, and had her brown hair back in buns.

Jiraiya walked up to the counter. "Yes, gaki here need some more shinobi style clothing, something a little less orange."

The girl looked up from the counter and saw Jiraiya and a blond boy. "Hello Jiraiya-sama, so for this boy over there?" Jiraiya nodded to the girl. "Ok I'll see what I can do." She walked up to Naruto and greeted him. "Hello I am Tenten, what's your name?"

Naruto looked up at her and realized she looked familiar. " I'm Uzumaki Naruto… You look familiar, are you in the academy?"

She looked at his face and then understood. "Yes, I believe I'm in the class above you… Anyway let's go so I can get you your new gear."

Naruto complied and walked away with her.

Before they both walked away jiraiya called out to Tenten. "Hey, is your father here?"

"No he's out in the land of iron at the blacksmith festival right now, he'll be back in a week if you wanna talk to him though."

"Alright, I guess I'll talk to him another time… Ok kiddies run along, and don't do anything that I wouldn't do." Jiraiya said. Both kids just looked at him not understanding what he meant by that. They looked at each other then shrugged and walked off to get clothes.

A whole 30 minutes later they came back and Naruto looked very different. Now he was wearing an orange long sleeve shirt, black anbu pants, orange wrappings on his ankles, and black shinobi sandals. Over this he wore a black sleeveless hooded sweatshirt. On his hands were black fingerless tactical gloves with a metal plate on the back.

"Whoa looking like a real shinobi there gaki, I see you fit your orange into the scheme." Said Jiraiya as Naruto approached.

"Yea I like this one, but it could use some more orange… " Naruto said, moping about having to let go of his precious orange colors.

Jiraiya chuckled at his Godsons antics. "Alright, if that is everything then let's ring this all up. I'm starving so let's go eat before we go home and train." They walked up to the counter to get ready.

"Okay, how many outfits did you need?" Tenten asked, now behind the counter.

"Hmm I believe five will be ok, he won't be tearing them too much yet." The toad sage answered.

"Alright then that will be 700 ryō. Is there anything else?" Tented asked the duo.

"No that'll be fi-" Jiraiya was about to answer when Naruto cut him off.

"Can you put this symbol on the back of the shirt in red?" He pulled out his necklace that had the uzumaki swirl on it.

"Yea I can. Alright, we'll have it ready for you in about two days. I'll throw In the customization for free. You take what your wearing home, the others will have it on it." She finished, writing down the order.

"Thank you Tenten-chan! Hope to see you again!" Naruto said running out the door, pulling an unsuspecting Jiraiya to a certain ramen stand so that his wallet could lose a few pounds. Tenten was left sitting there with a small blush. 'Chan? He doesn't even know me that well. Oh well I guess it's nothing'.


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After a lunch at Ichiraku's, Naruto and Jiraiya were walking into a training field, bickering about the deprivation of money in his wallet.

"How the hell did you even eat 22 bowls of ramen!? Do you know how much it costed me to buy you all that ramen?!" Jiraiya said franticly to Naruto.

"I didn't even eat as much as I could! Jiji always gets it for me so I never thought it was that much… But you promised me lunch so no whining!" Naruto said trying to not be in the wrong.

Jiraiya just sighed and let it go. "Next time you are paying for your own ramen… Anyway let's get to business. I don't know what your worst at so I need to know what to train you in to start off, so what you are going to do is come at me with all you got."

"Alright, get ready for beating Jiraiya-sensei! Naruto said as he charge forward trying to deliver a haymaker to Jiraiya's face. Jiraiya seeing this just tilted his head to the right, not bothering to do anything. Naruto's fist sailed past him and caused himself to become unbalanced and fall down. He quickly got up and rushed his godfather, flinging his legs and arms in random order in order to hit him. Jiraiya just sat there snoring while his hand moved, seemingly on its own blocking it. Getting tired of this, and now having his assessment he hit Naruto in the back of the head, knocking him to the dirt.

"Alright first assessment! You suck at taijutsu. You have no type of taijutsu form. I though they would have taught the academy style by now, but you have none at all, so we will have to work on a style for you… Now show me what you got for ninjutsu." Jiraiya said after knocking Naruto to the ground.

Naruto got up of the ground, rubbing the top of his head. "Damn it sensei! That hurt! We haven't started learning ninjutsu yet, that's not until next year…"

"Oh ok well I guess we will have to start on that too, but first lets get you on a taijutsu. This style is called Goken. Now I am not a master of this style, but the style that I use you cannot learn yet because you do not know safe mode. Now the basis around what Goken is, it is speed and strength based. It is used to strike fast, and break bones. Now this is not very useful as you are now, but I am going to make you strong and fast in time." The Toad sage said. Naruto was excited to learn a new style that would be strong.

"I'm going to be hokage in no time with this!" Naruto said, pumping his fist in the air.

"No!" Jiraiya bonked him on the head: "There are no shortcuts to true strength…Now with hard work and enough dedication, I think you can make it!" He said smiling at his student at the end. "Ok so these are the basic kata's." The Sage demonstrated. "I want you to learn these and memorize them. Once you have mastered the basics, I can get a master taijutsu expert in here to show you the rest. Until then I want you to practice all of these. I'll leave a clone here to watch over you and make sure you do it right. I'm going to do 'research', if you need help ask the clone." Jiraiya made a shadow clone for Naruto. "Alright get to work, I'll be back when your ready." He waved to Naruto and shunshined to his favorite peeking spot.

"Alright! I'll get this by the end of the day." Naruto declared to the world. He worked on the style until he dropped of exhaustion In late evening.

Jiraiya came back and carried him on his back home so the boy could rest. 'He works hard and has so much dedication, just like his parents. I know your going to do amazing things one day Naruto..' Jiraiya thought as he walked home.


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A/N: Hello everyone I would like to say sorry for not giving warning to this break in the story, school got very busy, and I lost some motivation to write… But now, I'm back and more ready than ever! I have a million ideas, and a buttload of free time so I'm back in action. I hope you guys enjoyed the new chapter, trying to show bonding and relationship between Naruto and Jiraiya. Next chapter will start on the first arc, though it will not be very large. If you have any questions, constructive criticism, or comments, please write a review and I will get to you.

Ok to clear up 1 ryō is about 1 dollar, so it should be pretty easy to imagine the money.

Alright so that's everything, have a nice day and enjoy! See ya!