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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
Demon/Summon speech
Demon/Summon thoughts
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters created by Kishimoto
Author note: Wow! I gotten over one hundred alerts just for the first three chapters of this story, Well I hope it continues to live up to your expectations.
Endermon: I put it under those two (for now may change it later) because Tsunade becomes Naruto's Mother and those two are the main characters. As for your second question I have thought about that, but for now I'll keep my thoughts to my self, I may want to change them as the story progresses.
Narutomaniac: Your first question will be answered in this chapter. As for your second question at this point in time no, but Naruto is working on improving his speed so he can keep up with Tsunade.
Now on with the Story
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It has been one year since the Uchiha Massacre and Tsunade was no closer to understanding what Itachi meant about Anko's seal other than what they already figured out. Tsunade had thought about talking to Jiraiya about the seal but there were three reasons that this didn't happen.
The first was the simple fact that she has no idea were he was our how she would go about finding him without aimlessly wonder all over the place. Something that she had no intention of doing right now.
The second was because Jiraiya was a self proclaimed super pervert, and she didn't want him to try and corrupt her son.
The third and most important reason had to do with Naruto himself, she didn't want to gamble on whether Jiraiya would keep quit about Naruto or would he tell Sarutobi-sensei about him. Tsunade may be a chronic gambler but one thing she will not gamble with his the safety of her son.
Because of these reasons Tsunade decided to contact Jiraiya as a last resort, but that wouldn't stop her from asking him if they happened to come across each other. So she has been looking for any information she can find about seals at every village that they come across. She would talk to anyone that had any experience with seals and would try to find books on the subject, but still no luck and Anko's seal seemed to have been suppressed by whatever method the Hokage used, so she still had time.
Right now she had more pressing matters to attend to, like getting back to Naruto's training. Tsunade wanted to try a new type of chakra control technique that would help him if he wanted to try and control Kyuubi's chakra in the future.
So she had Naruto on the outskirts of town, after picking up some pebbles she starts her lesson.
"Alright Naru-chan today I'm going to teach you a new control technique. I want you to use these pebbles and keep them perfectly balanced on the tips of your fingers while being able to move your fingers like you normally do, like this ok." after this explanation Tsunade gives a demonstration of the technique by moving her fingers around while keeping the pebbles on the tips of her fingers.
"Come on Kaasan this will be easy, I was hoping for a more challenging exercise, I'll have this mastered by the end of the day." said a confident Naruto.
"Confident aren't we, it's not as easy as you think it is but how about we make a little wager on it huh?"
"A bet Kaasan?"
"Yes a bet, if you can get to the point were you can do this exercise with your left hand by the end of three days, than I'll give up sake for a week."
Naruto was shocked by this statement; his Kaasan was willing to give up sake for a week just to prove him wrong? His only response was "Really?"
"Yes really, but if I win you have to give up ramen for a week."
"WHAT!!! Not the ramen anything but my ramen!" yelled a shocked Naruto.
"What? Did my little Naru-chan lose all his confidence already, what happened to mastering it in one day? I'm giving you three full days to learn it, pretty generous of me don't you think?" Tsunade said to egg him on.
Naruto thought about it for a moment before saying "Ok it's a bet, but are there any other restrictions besides the time limit?"
Puzzled Tsunade decided to see were this line of questioning was leading to "No I won't put any other restrictions. So why did you want to know about that anyway."
Naruto just rubbed the back of his head while giving a sheepish grin "No real reason really, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to be cheating using this move."
Raising her eyebrow slightly Tsunade asked "What move?"
Naruto's sheepish grin turned into a foxy grin as his hands formed a cross seal as he shouted "Kage Bunshin No Justu!" as five Naruto's appeared.
Tsunade eyes widened in shock, 'What the Hell! Kage Bunshin's! Where the hell did he learn Kage Bunshin No Justu?' "Naru-chan where did you learn that move and why haven't you used it before when we were training?"
He rubbed the back of his head again while saying "Well you see…."
(Flashback 6 months ago on Naruto's Birthday)
Anko had just finished up one of Naruto's training sessions when she asked him a question "Hey gaki how many Ninjustu skills do you have?"
"Well all Kaasan has taught me is Kawarimi, Henge, and Bunshin No Justu, aside from that just some medial justu. Why?"
"Well I thought I would give you a special justu for your birthday present. It's called Kage Bunshin No Justu." said Anko with a grin on her face.
"But Anko-neechan I already know a Bunshin justu." said an annoyed Naruto.
Hitting him on his head Anko responses "It's not a regular Bunshin gaki this justu creates solid clones not just illusions but the best part of all is that when you dispel them that you gain all of there experience. Meaning you could use this justu to learn at an incredible rate."
Naruto's eyes got real wide hearing this and said "Awesome I can use those clone for all sort of sneak attacks when I get into a real fight. Hurry up Neechan, I want to learn this justu before we go and meet back up with Kaasan and Shizune-neechan."
Anko couldn't help but smile at her otouto's enthusiasm at wanting to learn a new justu. "All right gaki here's how it done."
(End flashback)
"…and that's how I learned it Kaasan." said Naruto.
Tsunade just shook her head after hearing Naruto explanation "Why am I not surprised. Anyway now why don't you tell me why you haven't used it before now?"
"Well I don't like to use it when I'm learning something new it just feels like I'm cheating or something, but I do use it when I want to refine any of skills."
"Then why are you using it to learn this technique?"
"Since my ramen is at stake here, I'll use everything at my disposal to win." Said all five Naruto's as they started to train.
As Tsunade watched him train she started to regret ever making this bet. 'I have a feeling that I'm going to have a rough week after this is over. When we get back I'll just have to drink my fill till then, but if he can master this then I think it's time for him to learn some of my more advanced techniques.'
Tsunade feeling turned out to be true as Naruto mastered the control exercise, winning the bet and teaching Tsunade to never bet against him. After a miserable week with out her sake Tsunade finally decided to teach Naruto how to summon.
As Naruto was signing the Slug contract, Shizune decided to talk to Tsunade about this. "Tsunade-sama do you think he ready for this, I mean he is still just a kid after all."
"You worry too much Shizune, trust me if he can master the peddle exercise in three days he'll be able to do this easily." said a proud Tsunade.
"But still don't you think your giving him to much power for his age?"
"That's enough Shizune, he'll be fine. Have faith in him, we raised him better than to let it go to his head."
"I know but…" Shizune never got to finish that sentence as they felt Naruto building up his chakra.
After Naruto finished signing the contract, he bit his thumb and went through the hand seals that his Kaasan showed him, before slamming his hand into the ground while saying "KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!"
When the smoke cleared the same slug that delivered the messages to Anko all those years ago, was before Naruto.
"Impressive Naruto-sama to be able to summon me on your first try, you are definitely someone my mistress Katsuyu will want to keep an eye on." said the slug before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
Naruto just stared at the spot where the slug had been before saying, "Wait don't I even get to say hello?"
Tsunade started to laugh at the events that had just transpired. "You'll have to forgive Kamikeo for her abruptness it's just in her nature to report directly to Katsuyu when she finds something of interest." 'If he's already able to get to this level in his summoning, than I think I'll have him figure out how to use my super strength on his own, with just a couple of hints along the way.'
Shizune for her part was just in a state of shock 'Naruto-kun was able to summon a slug of that size on is first attempt?' turning her head to look at Naruto walking over to them, just giving one of his foxy grins while he has both hands behind his headshe could only think 'I see what Tsunade-sama meant now, no matter how much power he acquires, it doesn't change him at all. It's like he was always meant to have it.'
(Time skip)
It's been one year since Naruto learned to summon and his progress with Tsunade's super strength technique has been slow. Even with Tsunade's hint it has taken him this long to get the basics of using his chakra to heighten his strength.
I fact this is what we find Naruto working on right now, he is standing on the water in the middle of a lake with Shizune by the shoreline leaning against a tree trunk reading a book, with her pet Ton-Ton sleeping beside her. While Tsunade is in town taking care of her business.
Naruto was staring at one of the pebbles in his hand trying to figure out how to use his chakra to enhance his strength so he can imbed the pebble into the tree trunk that Shizune was leaning against.He starts to channel his chakra while thinking, 'Lets see if I can control my chakra enough to enhance and strengthen my muscles to do this.' Naruto takes aim and flicks the pebble toward the shore.
Shizune was really enjoying the book she was reading when she suddenly felt something wiz past her head and then she heard a cracking sound behind her. Turning her head to look at what caused the noise; looking at the tree she sees a small pebble embedded into the bark. Shizune looked back over at Naruto to see him jumping up and down in joy; she then looked back at the tree trunk. 'Did Naruto-kun figure out how to do it already?' "N-Naruto-kun, how did you do that?"
Before Naruto could answer clapping could be hear as Tsunade came walking up to the to tree trunk. "Well done Naru-chan, looks like you were finally able to figure out the basics for my strength. I'm impressed it took Shizune about a year and a half before she figured it out. Now we can focus of strengthening it and making it a permanent and we will also work on how to meditate, because I think it's time that you learn how to access Kyuubi's Chakra."
Over the next few months Naruto had a hard time learning how to meditate, the main reason for this was his mind was always on alert, even tough he's been with Tsunade and Shizune for more than five years he still had a hard time letting his defenses down. When Tsunade found out about this, she couldn't help but feel sorry for Naruto and her anger toward what Konoha has done to him would grow.
As time pasted Tsunade did everything she could to help Naruto realize that he no longer had to keep his defenses all the time. Then one day as Naruto was trying to meditate he heard what sounded like a low growl. Opening his eyes, he was surprised to find himself in what looked like a sewer.
Naruto lowered his head and just sighed 'Great, just great, I guess this gives new meaning to the saying having your mind in the gutter.'
After hearing another growl echo through the corridors, Naruto just shrugged his shoulders and thought 'Might as well follow the sound.' as he headed down the corridor. Eventually he came before a large gate with a paper that had 'Seal' written on it.
Two big glowing red eyes can be seen behind the gate as a loud voice says "So my jailor has decided to grace me with his presence." as a giant fox comes out of the shadows behind the gate.
Naruto's eyes narrow at the fox as he says "So you're the Great Kyuubi I've read so much about. You're also the cause of all the hatred I got while I lived in Konoha."
Kyuubi mentally flinched at the last comment before saying "Don't believe everything you read kit. You might be surprised by what you find."
Naruto raised an eyebrow and said "And what would surprise me?"
Kyuubi get a smile on its face as it says "Well for starters this." Then the giant fox starts to transform into it human appearance. The first thing Naruto noticed as the Kyuubi came into view was the fact that the great demon fox was in fact a woman, and a beautiful one at that with shoulder length blood red hair, she was wearing a red battle kimono with a navy blue sash around her waist, black shinobi style pants with white rapping around her shins and a black pair of shinobi sandals.
Naruto had to admit that his was indeed surprised, none of the text he read about the Kyuubi ever mentioned that the demon fox was in fact a girl.
Kyuubi couldn't help but laugh at the look of shock on Naruto's face. After she calmed down she got a sad look on her face before saying "Look Kit I just want to say that I'm sorry for how your life has been like before you met that Tsunade person. I'm not asking for forgiveness or any thing like that, and I can understand if you hate me, but I just wanted you to know that's all."
If Naruto was shocked before he was totally floored by that statement. 'What the hell? I figured that Kyuubi would be a bloodthirsty monster or something. If she's being honest with me than who knows what else about her has been misleading.'
After recovering from his shock Naruto decided to ask "Look there's nothing to forgive, you weren't responsible for the treatment I received when I lived in Konoha, and anyway I have a couple of questions. First would have to be why did you attack Konoha in the first place? The second would have to be why everyone always refers to you as a bloodthirsty monster?"
Kyuubi was surprised by the fact that Naruto didn't blame her for what happened to him. Then she heard his questions and she sighed before saying "I'm not ready to talk about why I attacked Konoha yet kit but I will tell you that I had my reasons."
"Fair enough I guess but when you're ready I would like to know."
"Fine" Kyuubi sad before she got a smile on her face and continued "Now about your second question, I've been around for thousands of years kit so naturally I've gotten a reputation for being a bit aggressive when I get mad."
"A bit aggressive? If I believe what I've read, YOU'VE LEVELED ENTIRE CITIES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!"
Kyuubi gets a sheepish smile on her face and uses her right index finger to scratch her cheek before saying "Well you know what they say 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorn'"
Naruto just stared at her for a second before saying "You have got to be kidding me; you're telling me that you leveled those cities because someone pissed you off?"
Kyuubi just shrugged her shoulders and Naruto brought his hand up to his lowered head and started to shake it back and forth "Unbelievable, remind me to never get on your bad side Baa-Chan."
A vain started to pulse on Kyuubi's forehead as she clenched her fist and yelled "I'm not old!"
"But you said that you've been around for thousand of years, so you must be really old Kyuubi-Obaachan."
Kyuubi just sweat dropped after hearing that, and then she just shook her head and decided to get to the point. "Look kit; let's just get back to the original reason that you came here ok. That being you want to gain access to my chakra correct."
Naruto just nods his head and lets her continue.
"I've seen how your training has been going and I must say that I'm impressed. So I've decided that along with giving you access to my chakra, when I deem it necessary, I'll also be training you in the art of Genjustu."
Naruto was completely surprised by this, and he couldn't help but ask this question "Why are you offering to help train me?"
"Consider it an apology for all the pain my coming to Konoha has caused you." said Kyuubi with a sad smile.
After thinking about it Naruto could see no cons for taking up her offer. "Alright I agree to your offer besides my Genjustu need a lot of work anyways."
With the two of them coming to an agreement Naruto returns to the real world, where he is greeted by a concerned Tsunade and Shizune. After explaining what just happened and his talk with Kyuubi, Tsunade reluctantly agreed with Naruto's decision with the condition that Naruto will tell her everything that Kyuubi teaches him.
(Time skip)
So over the next four years Naruto's skill improves with Tsunade and Shizune helping him with Medical justu and Taijustu, Anko's help in Ninjustu, weapons and speed, and Kyuubi helps him with Genjustu and also giving him tips on how to increase his speed.
Naruto's appearance has changed over the years, he let his hair grow a little longer (about the yondaime hair length with the hair on the back of his head being a little long to put it in a low ponytail), a fishnet shirt with an orange sleeveless battle robe, a blue sash around his waste, black ANBU style pants with white shin guards, and your standard shinobi footwear.
Now we find Naruto celebrating his fourteenth birthday at a ramen shop with Tsunade, Shizune and Anko. As he opened the gift Anko got him he was happy to get a tan trench coat that looked just like Anko's.
Naruto put on the trench coat and then got a smile on his face and said "Perfect fit, thanks Anko-neechan I've been thinking about getting one for a while now. How did you know?"
Anko just gives a quick glance over toward Tsunade and ruffled his hair before saying "I have my sources gaki I'm just glad you like it."
Naruto pushes Anko's hand off his head while saying "Stop that Anko-neechan I'm not a little kid anymore you know."
The group just laughed at Naruto's antics, he opened Shizune gift next only to find a brand new kunai and shuriken set.
"Thanks Shizune-neechan I've been needing a new set my old one is starting to get a little worn down."
Shizune just smiled and said "You're welcome, Naruto-kun."
After Naruto finished putting his new weapons away Tsunade walks up to him looks him in the eye. 'Kami please let this feeling I have be right. It just feels like he should have this.' Tsunade reaches behind her neck and takes off her necklace.
"Naru-chan I want to give you this." says Tsunade as she places the necklace around his neck overtop the necklace that Anko gave him on his fifth birthday.
Naruto widen his eyes in shock, knowing full well the story behind it. "Kaasan I'm not little anymore you don't have to call me that anymore, and besides this belonged to great-grandfather as well as…." he looked down and let the sentence drag out.
Tsunade just smiled and said "You'll always be my little Naru-chan." causing Naruto to pout a little.
Shizune decided to ask "Tsunade-sama why?"
Tsunade looked reflective as she said "Watching Naru-chan's training over the years got me to thinking about it, and you know what it just felt like the right thing to do."
Hearing the tone in Tsunade's voice Shizune and Naruto knew not to press the issue. Naruto just looks down at the necklace before smiling up at Tsunade and said "Thanks Kaasan I promise to take good care of it, and prove to you that your feeling was right."
Just as Naruto finished his sentence a voice saying "Tsunade!" was heard from the front door of the shop. Tsunade turned her head toward the door only to see the one person she was not expecting to see the only word to escape her lips was "Jiraiya?! What are you doing here?"
Naruto looked over a the door to see a man with white spiky hair made up in a ponytail a headband with the kanji for oil on it a scroll on his back, with a green robe and pants with a red vest. His only response was to ask "Kaasan who is this guy?"
Before Tsunade could answer Jiraiya goes into one of his introductions by hopping around on one foot, one arm stretched out and the other behind his head. He starts to say "I'M KNOWN AS THE GREAT TOAD SAGE BUT THAT IS JUST AN ALIAS. NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, AND WEST! I AM THE TOAD……" Tsunade comes up behind Jiraiya and hit's him in the head "Cut the theatrics Jiraiya!"
Jiraiya rubs the back of his head as he says "Man Tsu-hime is that anyway to greet an old friend." Jiraiya then notices the boy that is with Tsunade and his eyes widen in shock 'It can't be, I was told he was dead.' getting a serious look on his face he points to Naruto and asks "Tsunade is that who I think it is?"
Tsunade got a worried look on her face before asking "And who do you think he is?"
"Cut the crap Tsunade! The look on your face tells me that I'm right, he's Naruto Uzumaki isn't he?"
This causes everyone in the group to stop what they were doing and look over at Jiraiya. Tsunade gives him a harsh glare and responds with "And what if he is?"
"Well first off I would like to know how he is still alive and how he came to be with you."
So Tsunade reluctantly told Jiraiya the story of there first meeting and her taking him on as her son and apprentice, getting in contact with Anko, and all the training he's done. By the end of the story Jiraiya couldn't help but feel a mixture of anger and happiness for everything that has happened to the boy.
Tsunade had to ask "So now that you know the whole story what do you plan to do now?"
Jiraiya thought about it for a while before raising his fist in the air and saying "Right now nothing besides it looks like I interrupted a party so let's get back to it."
So they resumed the party for awhile before it was staring to get late, at the end of the party Tsunade takes Jiraiya outside so they can have a private conversation.
"Alright Jiraiya what are you really planning to do about my son?"
Jiraiya just looks at her before sighing "Look Tsu-hime I really don't plan on doing anything about him, I mean he really does seem to be happy here. But you can't really blame him, I mean he's surrounded by beautiful woman twenty four-seven, man some people have all the luck."
Tsunade just shook her head "I see you haven't changed. Anyway since we ran into each other there is something I want to ask you. Can you look into what the seal on Anko is really supposed to do?"
This caught Jiraiya's attention "What exactly do you mean by that?"
"Well a few years ago someone told Anko that she was no threat to them because of the seal that she has, so I've been trying to find out what this person meant by that. I haven't been able to found out anything out on my own."
"So you would like me to look into it huh?" He thinks about it for a minute before saying "I'll help you out Tsu-hime, I can't just leave someone to Orochimaru's twisted plans now can I?"
Tsunade let out a sigh of relief before looking back at Jiraiya "There's just one more favor I need to ask, and that is could you keep the fact that Naruto is still alive to yourself. I don't want anyone that wants to harm him to find out he's still alive."
"Fine I'll keep your secret for a now, but you have to realize that you can't keep it a secret forever. They will find out eventually you know." Jiraiya said in a serious voice.
Tsunade puts her head down and says "I know Jiraiya but when that time comes I want him to be ready. I want Konoha to realize what a mistake it was to just throw him away like that. Jiraiya it pains me to ask this as well but do you think you could help Naru-chan with his Ninjustu skills, Anko-san has already taught him some Justus but she doesn't want to teach him any of Orochimaru's Justus."
"Let me think about it ok. You know I said I wouldn't train anybody else after 'he' died."
Tsunade just nods and then returns to the party leaving Jiraiya to his thoughts. 'Man when Sarutobi-Sensei asked me to keep track of Anko to see if she had become a threat to the village, I didn't expect to find this.' He looks up at the night sky and sighs 'Sorry Tsu-hime but I will have to tell him that Anko meets up with you and your new family, so he knows that Anko isn't going to betray us, but I won't tell him that the boy is Naruto. Though he may figure it out.' Then he too goes to rejoin the party.
Next Chapter: Journey to the Land of Waves
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Author's note2: Well there's Chapter 3 I hope it wasn't to boring. But just to let you know Jiraiya will be training Naruto a little later in the story.
On another note do you think Naruto should have more than one girl? I really haven't decided yet. So let me know.
