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Chapter 4
The scene opened in a room that could only be the reception of the Konoha hospital.
"Umm, where's the room that Sasuke's in?" asked Naruto at the lady of reception.
"Sasuke-san is not allowed any visitors." Replied the lady.
"Sasuke's in the hospital? What happened?" asked a worried Mikoto.
"Orochimaru gave him a hickey." said Naruto with a straight face, struggling to suppress laughter.
"What?" asked Hiruzen with a disturbed look on his face.
"This is a few days after the last memory." Naruto explained. "We managed to pass the second exam and after that there were preliminary rounds. I only learned about this afterwards, but after I fell unconscious, Sasuke apparently decided to fight. However, Orochimaru placed a cursed seal on him by biting his neck. He won his fight in the preliminaries but he had to be hospitalized afterwards. I don't remember him staying there long though so he was okay." he ended with a shrug.
"What?! Hey, hey! What's up with that?!" screamed Naruto surprised.
"You're so loud." complained Shikaku.
"Weird, your son says the same." Naruto grinned.
Shikaku blinked in shock. His son?
"I'm sorry, those are the rules."
The scene shifted to show Kakashi coming out of a corridor.
"Why, nee-chan, tell me why?" asked Naruto.
"Naruto," Kakashi reprimanded with a bored look on his face, "this is a hospital. Keep it down."
"Ah, there you are, Kakashi-kun." smiled Rin.
Besides her, Obito grumbled.
With a big smile Naruto approached his teacher. "Say, say! I've got a favour to ask!"
"You don't need to say it." Said Kakashi. "Well, I thought it would come to this so… I searched for someone to watch your training."
Naruto grimaced before Kakashi finished speaking.
Minato frowned.
"Why?!" said Naruto, pointing an angry finger at his sensei. "I want you to train me, Kakashi-sensei!"
"I have some matters to take care of. I don't have time to trouble myself with you." Kakashi still had that same bored expression on his face.
Naruto crossed his arms and frowned. He was clearly thinking. Suddenly his eyes opened and once again he pointed his finger at Kakashi.
"Ah! You're going to train Sasuke, aren't you?!"
"Well… don't say that. I found a sensei who's more reliable than I am!"
"Really Kakashi, you shouldn't play favourites with your students. You're responsible for all of them so you should threat them all the same."
"And if you provide someone for Naruto, what did you do for Sakura?" asked Tsunade with a frown.
"It's not like I know what my future-self is thinking. Leave me alone." Muttered Kakashi with a bored look.
The scene showed Naruto's back as he talked to Kakashi.
Naruto hesitated.
"Well, who is it?"
A body, dressed in black, appeared behind them, showing only a hand and part of a leg.
"It's me!" exclaimed the newcomer, clearly a man.
Naruto turned around and then exclaimed in shock, again pointing his finger, this time at the newcomer.
"Aaaah! You!"
"You can be so dramatic." Sighed Shikaku.
Naruto beamed.
An average looking guy was shown wearing a black bandana with his headband on and black sun glasses.
"The Closet Pervert!"
"The what now?" asked Minato perplexed.
Kushina burst out laughing. "Nice nickname!"
The others looked amused.
"Hey, I can't help it that almost every sensei I have ever had is a pervert!"
The man adjusted his glasses with a frown. "Such insolence!"
As Naruto continued pointing, question marks appeared behind Kakashi.
"Ebisu-sensei is a closet perv?"
"Why is this guy my training teacher? For a start, he's weaker than me!"
Again the question marks appeared around Kakashi.
"What did you say?"
"But you see, a long time ago, with my Harem no Jutsu, this guy…"
Ebisu visibly tensed. The scene turned black and white to indicate a memory in a memory.
"Oh this should be good!" Jiraiya grinned while rubbing his hands.
"Would you behave yourself?" frowned Tsunade with a sigh.
"I'm sorry Tsunade-sama, but I don't think sensei can change his behaviour now. He's too old for that." Said Minato with a serious look on his face.
"Oi, brat." Jiraiya tried to hit his former student but the blond dodged and Tsunade grabbed his collar. Jiraiya paled as he was dragged next to his team-mate.
Naruto, without his headband, was shown.
"Henge."
And a large cloud of smoke revealed a whole lot of beautiful, naked girls. They all had whisker marks like Naruto, and the watchers could assume they were all blonde.
"Ebisu-sama." All the girls moaned before they all tried to hug Ebisu, who was clearly stunned. The man flew back with a giant nose bleed and landed a bit further on the ground, twitching.
"That is brilliant!" shouted Jiraiya in glee.
The other men twitched in their seats, trying to hide their blushes, while the women were glaring at them.
Tsunade hit her team-mate so hard on the head, she left a Jiriaya-shaped crater in the floor. Wisely, he stayed there, and no one commented. The other men inched away from her.
The scene turned normal again and showed a scared Ebisu back in the hospital.
"B-By any chance…?"
He quickly jumped forward and put a hand on Naruto's mouth.
"Harem no Jutsu?" asked Kakashi, curious.
"Ha, you pervert Kakashi!" laughed Obito.
"He really is!" commented Naruto. "He always walks around with porn books in his hands!"
"Shut up!" said a slightly blushing Kakashi.
"U-Uh it's nothing…" stammered Ebisu.
He gripped Naruto in a head lock and whispered to the kid. "I'll treat you to and buy you whatever you want later! Just be quiet about that!"
"He's bribing his student?" asked Rin, shocked.
"Who doesn't?" said Jiraiya, Tsunade, Hiruzen and Minato in chorus.
"It's the only way to get you brats to do anything these days. Sensei did it all the time." Said Jiraiya nonchalantly.
The third Hokage only laughed cheerfully.
"You better." Muttered Naruto with a scowl, trying to get his face away from Ebisu's.
"Wow." said Kakashi as he slumped a bit. "I didn't know you were acquainted."
Having released the kid, Ebisu patted a scowling Naruto on the head.
"Well, they're unsavoury ties, but…"
"But why this guy?" complained Naruto again. "I definitely don't want him to."
"Same here." Ebisu became annoyed. "If it weren't for Kakashi's favour, who'd teach you for the fun of it?!"
"Now that's uncalled for." Said Kushina with a scowl. "Does he also see you as Kyuubi?"
"At that point yes, but he got better over the years." Said Naruto calmly, as if such a reaction was normal.
Kushina didn't look happy with his answer.
"Then don't. "said Naruto as he crossed his arms again.
"Exactly, 'ttebane!"
"Now, now, both of you," tried Kakashi to calm them down. "Don't say that.
He knelt by his student. "Naruto, Ebisu-sensei is a private tutor who teaches the elite – a special jounin. He's better at teaching than I am."
Still, Naruto didn't look convinced. "Well, Naruto, of the three kids in squad seven that I taught, you're the worst at the basic skills. Get taught with care this time around."
"How the heck am I inferior to Sakura and Sasuke?!" asked Naruto angrily while pointing at himself.
"Of course our son is the best." Said Fugaku proudly.
They all ignored him. He twitched lightly and his wife put a hand on his arm with an awkward smile.
Kakashi sighed. "Naruto, its fact that you don't have the fundamentals down. No matter what you do, the basic skills are important. If you really want to become strong, just be quiet and listen to what I say."
"Doesn't that imply you'll teach him and not leave him with someone else?" asked Minato.
"How should I know?" asked Kakashi. "I barely recognise myself as it is…"
Naruto's frowning face was shown.
"Now then Ebisu-sensei, I'm leaving him with you."
"Yes, yes."
And with that Kakashi walked away.
"I still think it isn't right…" Minato muttered.
"Would you stop repeating yourself, Minato." Said Shikaku in a bored tone. "How troublesome."
"You're one to talk." Said Naruto in defence of his father. "Whose been complaining about all the monologues all the time?"
"It's not my fault all you future people do is monologue."
"Because let me tell you, if you think this is bad, you'll be bald by the time we're halfway through these memories."
"Nice. Something to look forward to." Cheered Obito.
The scene shifted.
Ebisu and Naruto were walking at the hot springs. Naruto had his hands behind his head as he complained.
"We've come quite a long way. But this is the hot spring town, right? It doesn't look like we've come here to leisurely soak in a hot spring…"
The man stopped walking and yelled at Naruto, who continued. "Hey! Naruto! That's the women's bath! I will not allow indecent behaviour!"
"Oh come on," whined Jiraiya. "It's a completely natural reaction for a growing boy to try and research the fairer sex."
"Ero-sennin, I'm not like you!" protested Naruto.
"W-what did you call me?!" spluttered Jiraiya.
The others burst out laughing.
"E-ero-senin?" laughed Minato softly. "How fitting."
"Oi!"
Naruto turned around.
"Huh? I'm not you…It's not that I was trying to peep, dattebayo!" he replied with an annoyed expression on his face. "Thinking of something like that in the first place makes you a Closet Perv."
He walked back to his sensei.
"What's with that look?"
"N-nothing. More importantly, why have we come to a place like this?! Will soaking in a hot spring do anything for training?"
The man adjusted his glasses again with a smirk.
"No! The training will be here in this hot spring area. "
"Huh?" Naruto tilted his head confused.
They walked to a part were there wasn't a fence, just next to a waterfall.
"Okay, this is the place." Said Ebisu.
"It's a bath, sure enough." Exclaimed Naruto surprised.
"What are you saying?" asked Ebisu with his hands in his sides. "I did say this is training, didn't I? Training!"
"We're going to train here?" asked Naruto skeptically. "What the heck are we going to do?"
Ebisu chuckled as he once again adjusted his glasses.
"Walk on this hot water!"
"What?!"
"Water walking? Isn't that a bit late, seeing you already entered the chuunin exams?" Asked Kushina.
For a split second, Naruto looked surprised, then he looked at the man through slatted eyes.
Ebisu looked taken aback. "What is it?"
"Walk on hot water?" asked Naruto disbelievingly. "Can you really do that?"
With a quick use of Iruka's big head jutsu, the man screamed indignant.
"Of course!"
He coughed and continued talking with a smirk. "I heard from Kakashi-sensei you already did tree climbing training without using your hands, right? It's an application of that."
"Hmm… What do you mean? Besides, I don't really remember stuff from long ago."
"It can't have been that long." Said Shikaku. "It don't look like you're much older than at your graduation."
Naruto huffed but didn't say anything.
"Admit it squirt, you're short." Said Obito with a grin.
"I don't want to hear that from you!" yelled Naruto. He calmed down a bit. "Besides, with what the villagers sold me as food, I'm lucky I'm as tall as I am."
Silence.
"How about you come and eat dinner at my place tonight with Minato and I?" asked Kushina.
"Yes!" screamed Naruto enthusiastically. "Well, that is… Is it really okay? I wouldn't want to intrude…"
He looked at Minato for the last part. No matter how he longed to eat with his parents – maybe his mom would even cook – he didn't want to make things awkward. It would be a while yet before the two found out he was their son…
Ebisu explained: "In tree climbing, all you do is accumulate only the necessary amount of chakra in one necessary location and maintain that amount of chakra all the while. Trees are fixed objects, so you only need to be attached to it."
Naruto's frowning face was shown.
"In other words, it's training for building up a fixed amount of chakra. To float on the surface of water, you have to discharge on a constant basis an appropriate amount of chakra from your feet to the water and balance that to the extent that you can float your own body."
"Huh?"
"Kami, it's clear you don't understand any of that, why does he keep going?!" exclaimed Rin angrily. "All he's doing is confusing you!"
"This chakra control is more difficult than maintaining and is a control training for discharge and usage of fixed amount of chakra for jutsu and alike."
"Hmmm, I really don't get it!"
"Well maybe it would be better to show you in your case."
The man formed a seal. His feet were shown.
"First, you build up chakra in your feet." His feet started to glow in a blue color. "Then, while constantly discharging a fixed amount, you balance it with your body weight."
And just like that he stepped onto the water. After a few steps, he turned around.
"And … well, this is how it goes."
A stunned Naruto watched him from on the road.
"Oh! Okay! I'm going to try!" The blond boy exclaimed enthusiastically.
He made the same hand seal. "First, build up chakra in your feet." And just like his sensei before him, the blue glow also appeared around his feet. "Then, discharge a fixed amount, right?"
He put one foot on the water and immediately fell in.
Jiraiya, Kushina and Obito burst out laughing. The others tried to hide their amusement.
"Oh come on, it was my first time trying."
"Hm." Snorted Fugaku.
"Oh and by the way, Sasuke couldn't have been much better. We started and finished the tree climbing exercise together after all." Smirked Naruto.
The man blanched.
"I knew it." Sighed the man.
"Hot-hot-hot-hot!" screamed the blond.
"I forgot to mention it," Ebisu smirked. "but this water is 60° C. If you do nothing but fail you will become a boiled octopus!"
"Damn it!" Naruto cursed as he climbed out of the water. "I'll do it no matter what!"
He tried again, only to fall in again... and again, and again. Ebisu watched him with a frown.
"What was that you were saying?" grinned Jiraiya happily.
"Leave me alone." Pouted Naruto.
Until…
"Oh!"
Naruto managed to balance himself, his feet in the water until his ankles.
"Much better, 'ttebane!" Grinned Kushina.
"I'm starting to get it!"
'To think he would get the hang of the chakra control this quickly… I never thought you would grow this much.' Thought Ebisu. 'It appears I had the wrong idea about you… You are not just a demon fox, you are a splendid Hidden Leaf Village Ninja!'
"Finally he realises!" yelled Kushina.
"Aaah!" screamed Naruto as he pointed again looking shocked.
This however, broke his concentration and he fell in the water again. "HOT!"
Ebisu looked in the direction Naruto had pointed in. "Hm? That is…"
A man with white long hair and a scroll tied on his back was seen sitting before the wooden fence of the onsen. He was giggling perversely.
"Jiraiya…" asked Tsunade with a sickening sweet smile. "Is that you?"
"I didn't know you recognized me from behind, Tsunade." Leered Jiraiya.
With one hit, she made a matching Jiraiya-print on the back wall.
"Definitely sensei." Sighed Minato focused on the memories.
"Oi!
Ebisu smiled as he readjusted his glasses.
"Humph! I don't know who you are or where you're from, but I will not allow indecency!"
And just like that he charged at the man.
The man turned around.
"Man…"
His face was revealed. He was an elderly man with a different headband on his forehead and red lines running down his face, starting under his eyes, and with a simple hand seal he was suddenly seated on a big orange frog.
"Not bad looking, for an old man." Snickered Kushina.
"Oi!" exclaimed both Jiraiya and Minato.
"T-that is.." Ebisu recognized the man.
The frog's huge tongue came towards him, wrapped around, lifted him in the air then slammed him down on the ground. Ebisu was immediately unconscious and the frog pulled his tongue back.
"Nice entrance!" cheered Obito.
Minato hit his hand on his forehead in exasperation.
"Don't make such a ruckus." Moaned the man. "Jeez, it won't do to be found out."
Naruto could only watch with big eyes what was happening…
'The closet perv lost? W-what's with that shameless perv?'
The screen zoomed in on the man's smirking face.
"Hehehe."
With a sigh, Naruto got out of the water and approached his teacher.
"Hey, perv are you awake?"
He got no reaction. He made a seal he once remembered Kakashi making.
"Leaf village secret finger jutsu: one thousand years of death!"
Jiraiya, Kushina and Obito burst out laughing again. The others looked taken aback.
"Where, in Kami's name, did you learn that idiotic technique?" Asked a face palming Minato.
"Kakashi-sensei." Naruto grinned.
"Kakashi? What happened to you to change you like that?!" asked Minato unbelievably.
Kakashi blushed. "How do I know…?"
Naruto frowned. He thought they had told the newcomers everything, but maybe they had only been told about his memories and not about the stuff he had said. He would need to make sure they were caught up before his more recent memories of the Fourth Shinobi War were shown…
Still no reaction.
"He's totally knocked out… He's weak, sure enough."
His hands balled into fists. "What's with that big frog? What the heck are you?!"
"Thanks you for asking!" said the man starting to do a weird dance on top of the frog. "Know me as the Mountain Toad spirit sage, who acquires immortality. Also commonly called the Toad Mountain Sage."
"M-mountain sage?"
"Exactly." And with a puff of smoke, the toad disappeared.
"Hey, ero-sennin, what're you going to do about this? He was supposed to watch my training. You did that to him."
"He interfered with my research." Stated the man.
"You dare to call that research?" Tsunade ground out.
Jiraiya wisely didn't answer that.
"Research?"
The man searched for something in his clothes. "I'm a writer. I'm writing a novel. This is it!"
And out came a familiar orange book. Make out paradise.
"Oho, so I keep writing. Good to know."
Naruto blinked. Kakashi appeared in a black screen with the same book in his hand, giggling as he read with a blush on his face. That's when he remembered.
"What kind of book is that?" asked Kushina with a frown.
"I think it's labelled as porn with a plot." Said Naruto thinking out loud.
Before anyone else could react, Obito burst out laughing. "Kakashi is a pervert!"
"Oh that is…!"
The man grinned in delight. "You know this?" he chuckled. "I've gotten quite famous."
"That's not much of a novel! And anyway, what research are you talking about?"
Through steam, feminine hands reached for a wooden bucket with hot water. Not much could be seen; only part of her legs as she was kneeling to reach it. The hands halted and Naruto could hear screaming. More women could be seen inside the onsen.
"Nice view!" cheered Jiraiya.
This time it was Kushina who hit him. She was seated closer to him since he moved away from Tsunade.
"You're just peeking at the girls bath!"
"Yikes!" and with that all the women left running.
"No!"
Shocked, Jiriaya saw them all leave. "Baka, baka, baka! My peeking has been found out."
"You pervert!"
"Fool!" The man screamed as he shook his fist before Naruto. "I'm not just a pervert! I get inspired by peeking and can write better pieces."
Naruto kept a deadpan look on his face. "Liar. No excuses." Then he got angry. "More importantly, what're you going to do about my training?"
"You mean the walking on water technique you were doing earlier?" asked the man.
"You know it? Then take responsibility and continue my training!" And again with the pointing finger.
The man snorted "I don't care about such things." He walked past Naruto.
"Hey, hey wait ero-sennin! Join my training, hey!"
The man turned back with an angry look on his face. "Shut up! I hate people who don't know how to talk properly!"
Naruto flinched back.
"It's not like I can help it…" muttered Naruto.
"What do you mean?" asked Minato.
Naruto flinched. He didn't mean for that to be heard.
"Well, it's not like anyone bothered teaching me. Iruka-sensei taught me to read after he found out why I failed the Academy graduation exam for the first time."
"They didn't teach you at the orphanage?" asked Minato, scowling.
"Oh, please." said Naruto, ignoring the angry faces of everyone around him. "I'm the Kyuubi brat. They threw me out of the orphanage when I was four. Sandaime gave me my apartment after that."
"And I don't like men." Continued the man.
"Oh, umm, umm, that book was really exciting, cool and interesting." Lied Naruto cheerfully.
"The purchase or viewing of that novel is prohibited for those 18 years or younger. You liar!"
"The reviews that I've heard are great!" continued Naruto.
"Nice try." Shikaku grinned lazily.
"It's useless to flatter me. I'm a sage!" scowled the man. "I'm not the type of fool who can be coaxed by a fledgling like you."
He jumped onto the railing and made a hand sign. A harsh wind appeared out of nowhere.
"Hey now, wait!"
"Farewell kid!" screamed the man as he used the wind to escape on the rooftops.
Naruto grinned in delight. "Wow, he's cool even though he's a pervert."
"Haha! Glad you noticed kid!" laughed Jiraiya.
"He's an idiot, even though he's a pervert." Corrected Tsunade.
Hiruzen laughed at his students' antics.
And with that, he ran after the man, leaving Ebisu on the ground.
In the next scene a village was shown. Naruto could be heard before you could see him.
"Heeey, ero-sennin!"
He came running out of a street and looked around.
"Where'd he go?" he continued running.
A bar was shown, a women screamed and someone was slapped. Naruto stopped at the commotion.
"What are you doing, you old pervert?!"
He saw an angry woman walk out of the building, the sage just behind her.
"Typical."
"What is this, bash Jiraiya day?" whined the man.
"It's always bash Jiraiya day. What makes you think today is special?" The blonde raised an eyebrow.
"No, no, I'm sorry miss… but what lovely breasts…"
The woman stopped, turned around and… "Pervert!" slapped him again.
Tsunade nodded in agreement.
Jiraiya watched her walk away, with handprints on both cheeks.
She snorted in a very un-lady-like manner.
"This grown up is disgraceful." Muttered Naruto with a deadpan face. "Maybe there is nothing special about him after all… but there's nobody else."
"I'm really starting to like you, brat." Grinned Tsunade.
"I hate you." Sulked Jiraiya.
No one bothered asking him who he meant.
Slowly he walked closer.
"Good grief." Muttered the pervert. "As usual the women in this village are strong-minded. However, that's what makes them so good!"
Naruto interrupted him. "'As usual'? Meaning you've been here before?"
He turned around. "You."
"And you did nothing but peeping, right?" continued the blond, not caring that the man was looking around franticly. "You pervy sage!"
"Shh! Don't say 'pervert, pervert' in such a loud voice!"
"Shut up!" screamed Naruto. "I bet that one shot on the closet pervert was a fluke! Anyway, I'll have you take responsibility for ruining my training! Whoa…"
The man lifted him with one hand.
"Jeez, you're a noisy brat."
And just like that he threw a screaming Naruto in a big ceramic vase and put the lid on with a big rock on it. Just in case…
"Really sensei?" asked Minato wearily.
"They are brilliant together." Laughed Obito with tears in his eyes.
"Be quiet inside here for a while." Said the man as he walked away laughing.
The next scene showed the sage calmly smoking in the forest.
"I want to have a romantic encounter with a stacked girl." Pouted the man.
He looked up at the sky. Staring at the clouds, which seemingly transformed to resemble naked women, he started drooling.
"Really?" Minato face palmed again.
Hiruzen giggled. They all watched him with a raised eyebrow, except Naruto. He smiled knowingly. He had discovered the secret stash of books in the old Hokage's desk as a kid and he had always teased the man about it.
He was greatly surprised when, out of nowhere, shuriken were thrown his way. He jumped behind a fallen tree.
"How dare you do that to me earlier!" screamed Naruto as he appeared in the clearing.
However the man was gone. In his place was a statue of a raccoon-like animal.
"Kawarimi no jutsu? Sure enough, he's not an ordinary old man."
The blond grinned and leaped away.
Once the coast was clear, the statue disappeared in a cloud of smoke, revealing Jiraiya.
The man coughed. "Hm, that punk… It's a million years to soon for that kid to take me on."
A pissed off Naruto appeared at the other side of the fallen tree. "Not really."
Jiraiya screamed in surprise.
Minato burst out laughing. "You got bested by a genin, sensei!"
Tsunade was quick to join the laughter as Jiraiya pouted.
They were shown sitting next to each other.
"It seems you have a bit of talent." Said the older man.
"Then you'll watch my training?"
"Give and take. I'm not averse to listening to your favour as long as you listen to mine."
He stood up. "So what is it?"
"Listen up…" the man stood before him and started gesturing with his hands, almost tracing woman curves. "Nice ripe fruit that looks like this, like this and this. I'll watch your training if you bring me that."
Tsunade hit him again. "Don't go teaching kids these things, you idiot!"
Naruto got up as well. "You really will, right?"
"This toad mountain sage doesn't lie."
"Okay, wait here!"
And the blond ran off.
Naruto chuckled, remembering what happened next as Jiraiya grinned in anticipation.
The scene went black for a bit and then showed Jiraiya sitting by some ladies in front of a shop.
"You're so funny." Said one of the girls laughing.
"No-no, this is the solemn truth." Charmed Jiraiya.
"Yeah, and then what happened?"
"Oi! Ero-sennin!" screamed Naruto, interrupting their conversation.
Jiraiya looked shocked as the girls continued laughing. "Oh no, ero-sennin, he said."
"You fool, who's a pervy sage?"
Naruto appeared on screen.
"I brought the promised item."
He held a wig-covered watermelon is his hands, strangely enough with all the curves Jiraiya had asked for.
They all burst out laughing. Except Jiraiya of course. The man grimaced.
"Nice ripe fruit."
Jiraiya's eye was shown up close, twitching dangerously.
With big movements he pulled a big knife out of nowhere …
"Baka, baka, baka, baka! That's not IT!"
And cut the melon in little pieces.
"Looks good." Smiled Naruto delighted.
"Don't hesitate. Help yourself." Said Jiraiya, in a friendly way.
"It seems you're warming up to him, Jiraiya." Smiled the Hokage happily.
"Thanks!"
With a glance, Jiraiya saw the girls had left.
"No, where did the ladies go?!"
"Well, I got my fill." Sighed Naruto as he rubbed his full belly. In the meantime, Jiraiya was pouting.
"Good grief. I've wasted time…" The man stood up and slowly walked away.
"Hold it! Where are you going?! What about my training?!"
"I don't care!" screamed Jiraiya wildly waving his arms around. "My precious research has been ruined thanks to you!"
Naruto pointed at the man with a scowl. "Research, my butt! I can't be standing around here either. I'm going to train hard, become stronger than anybody, pass the chuunin exam, and then I'll exceed the Hokage!"
Jiraiya studied the kid for a second before he looked away.
"Humph, I don't care about such things. Here all you do is get in my way. Jeez, what a repugnant brat!"
Jiraiya held up his hands and twirled his fingers. "Stacked girls like the ones from earlier are indispensable for my great writing enterprises."
"Oh, would you just give it up?" Sighed Tsunade irritated.
"I see… So I should bring some stacked girls, right?" asked Naruto with big, innocent eyes. "Okay."
He cracked his knuckles and made a hand seal.
A second later a beautiful blond girl stood where Naruto had been. She was naked, with only some smoke covering her more intimate parts.
Jiraiya's face went from annoyed, to stunned, to eyes-bulging out of his head. Naruto looked up at the Sage through his eyelashes and smiled. A pink sparkling haze fell over the sage.
This time Minato sighed. "Oh, kami-sama…"
"W-wow!"
"If you gaze at me like that… I feel embarrassed." Said the girl shyly.
Slowly Jiraiya inched closer, arms stretched as if to grab her.
"Oh!"
And then he burst into flames! She smiled cutely at him.
"What a … What a cute girl!"
The flames disappeared and he gave her two thumbs up. "I like you! You pass!"
She face palmed and Naruto's voice could be heard saying: "Idiot!"
Jiraiya studied her from every angle. "You're really my type of girl. What's that technique called?"
"It's called Oiroke no Jutsu."
"Oooh, what an idea. You're a genius!"
'I get the feeling all adults are really affected by this technique.' Thought Naruto with a sweat drop.
With big eyes, a bright smile and sparkles floating around her, she looked at him hopefully.
"Then you'll watch my training?"
"Sure! However, I have a condition."
The girl became unsure, looking up at him with big puppy eyes and a finger to her lips.
"A condition…? What is it?"
Jiraiya finally began drooling. He turned around, crouched a bit and with a bloody nose he poked his fingers together is a very Hinata-like action. Slowly, he turned his face.
"A-Always be… in that form when you're in front of me!"
"You really have no shame, do you Jiraiya-sama?" Said Shikaku with a scowl.
"Hey!" Protested the man.
"You do realise you're drooling over a twelve year old boy, right?" sneered Shikaku. "It's disturbing, you paedophile."
"No-no-no-no-no-no-no!" denied Jiraiya rapidly. "I'm admiring his – no her! – adult form!"
"You're only making it worse, sensei."
"Well, not to say it's okay, but we do become legal adults when we graduate the Academy. If we're old enough to kill, we're old enough for other things as well." Said Obito with a blush.
Shikaku groaned. "While true, that is even more disturbing. And your sensei is supposed to teach you what is and isn't appropriate for your age."
An angry expression was seen on the girl's face, before Naruto transformed back. "Hey! Sure enough, you're just a pervert! You pervy sage!"
Jiraiya looked indignant. "No! I'm not just a pervert!"
He started laughing, his nose still running blood. "Kakakakakaka! I'm a super pervert!"
Naruto started shaking. "Damn it… He admitted it."
"You act like you are proud of that fact. I still think it's a disease." Muttered Tsunade.
The screen turned black again.
They both were seen sitting by a river, in exactly the same position.
"Well, brushing off the stuff until now as a joke, I'll watch your training."
Naruto looked at the man sceptically. "You mean it, right?"
"A sage doesn't go back on his word. Okay, kid. Do the training that you were doing before one more time."
"Okay."
Naruto stood up, walked to the river, did the same as before and took a few hesitant steps on the water surface. Jiraiya smiled as he watched Naruto try to keep his balance. Naruto took a few more steps and fell into the water. Jiraiya frowned and then started laughing.
"I hope you're serious with this, sensei. After how future-Kakashi treated him, he really needs a decent teacher." Commented Minato.
Naruto cursed as he got out of the water.
"Totally worthless."
"Shut up!"
Bright orange clothes and blue sandals were thrown on the ground. "It's pointless to wear clothes."
"Hey, build up your chakra one more time." Said Jiraiya to the blond, only wearing green boxers.
"One more time?"
"Just do it, quick."
Naruto did as told. Jiraiya stared intensely at the boy's stomach.
"You! You're pretty sexy when you're naked."
"What was that you said before, mister paedophile?" Gritted Kushina through her teeth.
JIraiya shrunk in his chair.
Naruto was startled. "Jeez, I'm concentrating, so don't interfere!"
"Oh, sorry, sorry. Continue."
"You're messing with my focus."
Once again Naruto focused his chakra. This time Jiraiya could see the Kyuubi's seal appear.
The man stood up and knelt before the boy.
'I see, so this is the seal keeping the Kyuubi locked away. Two tetragram seals making a double Tetragram seal… Is this an 8 signed seal Formula? Kyuubi's chakra is leaking from between the Tetragram seals and is fixed so that it can return to this kid's chakra. Yondaime…' thought Jiraiya with a fond smile. 'It's to protect this kid, huh?'
Then other symbols appeared around the first seal. 'But after that, it's stopped with a five pronged seal.' Gently, he patted Naruto's stomach. 'Putting an odd numbered seal over an even numbered seal. This kid's chakra and that of the Kyuubi are discreetly intermingled and are not stable. No wonder he is not able to build up chakra very well. '
"It's impressive he manages to mold any chakra at all with that seal." Said Kushina.
Minato nodded in agreement.
Naruto started laughing. "That tickles, old man."
"Oh, sorry, sorry."
He stood up. 'Perhaps someone else did it. The formula is rough. Well, it's probably Orochimaru. '
He cracked his knuckles. He drew is right hand behind his back, symbols appeared at his fingertips.
"Kid, give me a hurrah."
"What?"
"Just hurrah? Come on, hurrah!" Jiraiya showed him with one arm.
Unsure, Naruto lifted his arms in the air.
'Jeez, he's demanding…' thought the blond.
"Five pronged seal: release."
And with that Jiraiya slammed his hand onto Naruto's stomach. Naruto was thrown backwards, with a shocked look on his face. The extra seal disappeared, Kyuubi's seal faded back into his skin.
Naruto coughed, hand on his stomach.
"What are you doing?"
"Well, I just pushed the pressure points for relaxing. Just try walking on the water once more…" said the man pointing towards the water.
"Sheesh." Muttered Naruto arms still wrapped around his pained stomach. He tried again.
"What?"
He stood on the water, with seemingly no difference at all. He tried standing on only one leg, then jumped to the other.
He laughed delighted. "I don't know why, but it's going well!"
"So it wasn't working because of that seal?" asked Rin.
"Yes. Still, he did manage to learn that exercise quickly, seal or no seal." Smiled Minato, both at his student and at the blond, who beamed proudly.
He jumped around in victory. On chore, Jiraiya smiled. 'I guess it's about time to teach him how to control the Kyuubi's chakra.'
"Okay kid, come on out." Naruto looked back. "I'll teach you an ace technique."
Nothing could motivate Naruto quicker than that.
"What? What ace technique? A deadly technique?"
He came running over the water.
"There is something you need to understand before I teach you techniques."
By now the sun was going down. They were seated, both facing the other.
"Oh, great," muttered Shikaku sarcastically, "more monologues."
"You probably haven't noticed, but you possess two types of chakra."
"Huh? Two types?"
"Until now, have you ever felt a special chakra?"
"Special? Hmm…" Naruto crossed his arms as he thought about it. "Come to think of it…"
A flashback was shown of Naruto's first time using the Kyuubi's chakra, on the bridge in Wave country. "Come to think of it, I get the feeling there were times when chakra span up and an awesome power came out. But I don't really remember those moments…"
"I see."
"But I do remember sensing it was different from the chakra I always build up. If I liken it to colours, while it's always blue, it felt like it was red or something."
"I see." Said Jiraiya with a peaceful smile on his face.
They both looked up at the sky.
"Okay, that's it for today's training." Stated Jiraiya.
They walked back, Naruto once again clothed.
"What?! Already?" whined Naruto. "What happened to the ace technique? I can still train!"
"With training, a watched pot never boils." Said Jiraiya wisely. "Ah, as long as we're here, let's have a bath… not just falling in."
The next scene opened at a bath in a hot spring out in the forest. Their clothes were hung over branches.
Only Naruto's head came above the water.
"Warms me up." Smiled the blond contently.
Next to him sat Jiraiya, drinking some sake he had brought.
"A drink after training is the best."
"Say, say, Ero-sennin. What kind of technique is that ace technique?"
"You'll find out tomorrow."
Narto made a noise of protest. Jiraiya's toad appeared out of the water and sprayed water.
"We'll turn into boiled frogs if we stay in here too long" said Jiraiya.
And then both of them started laughing happily.
"Ah, some student-teacher bonding time." Smiled Minato.
"Yeah, as long as the teacher keeps his hands to himself." Grinned Kushina.
"Oh come on." Whined Jiraiya.
"Ero-sennin never touched me like that." Said Naruto as he took pity on his teacher.
The new scene opened at a waterfall. Three girls in bathing suits were playing in the water at the bottom.
From behind the bushes, Jiraiya's face appeared, clearly leering at the girls. He giggled to himself.
"Nice, nice."
Behind him Naruto had his arms crossed and he glared at the man.
"Hey…"
Jiraiya ignored him.
"This is paradise!"
"Hey, I said." Said Naruto annoyed.
Still no reaction. Jiraiya continued giggling until hands were put before his eyes, blocking his view.
A female Naruto whispered over his shoulder. "Isn't it time for you to turn this way already? If you join my training, I'll give you lots of 'service'. P-l-e-a-s-e."
"W-WHAT?!" spluttered Minato.
"I'm not serious." Said Naruto quickly. "It's just, Ero-sennin lacks some motivation…"
"Like that makes it okay!"
"So you finally came out… I was waiting for you!"
Naruto jumped back as Jiraiya turned around, and dispelled the henge.
"What?"
The man twitched irritated. "Are you making fun of me?"
"Right back at you." Said Naruto lazily with his hands behind his head.
"Oww, darn it." Moaned Jiraiya as he saw the girls leave. "Okay, I'll teach you a technique."
"Do you really mean that?" asked Naruto skeptically.
In the next scene they were standing next to the river. Well, Jiraiya was standing, Naruto laid on the ground exhausted.
"Now, at last I'll teach you the technique."
Naruto jumped up and cheered. "Oh, I've been waiting."
"First I'll show you. Watch carefully."
Jiraiya bit his thump, smeared some blood on the palm of his hand and quickly went through the hand seals.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
"The summoning jutsu? Isn't that a bit advanced for a genin." Asked Chouza.
"It should be okay. With the Kyuubi's chakra at his disposal, he can handle such jutsus." replied Jiraiya seriously.
He slammed his hand on the ground. Naruto barely had time to see the symbols appear on the ground before a toad bigger than a human appeared.
"Oh, so cool!"
The orange toad extended his tongue, handing Naruto a large scroll.
"Open that scroll." Grinned Jiraiya. "It's a contract with the summoning toads that I've taken over from generations. Sign your name in your own blood and stamp the fingerprints of one hand in blood under that. "
Naruto did as he was told.
"Welcome to the club." Smiled Minato happily. He really liked that kid.
Naruto smiled proudly.
"Then build up chakra in the place you want to summon and set down the hand you contracted. The signs are boar-dog-bird-monkey-sheep."
Naruto bit the thumb of his right hand, and wrote his name. Then he briefly touched his fingers to that same thumb and made a print of his fingertips under his name.
"Okay, this is fine, right?"
"It's easier for you to release red chakra right now. So give it a try."
"I already am." Said Naruto with a serious look on his face. He went through the seals and slammed his hand on the ground.
"Ninja art: Summoning jutsu!"
The same symbols he saw earlier briefly appeared until there was a small puff of smoke.
A little orange tadpole appeared.
Briefly there was silence. Then they started chuckling, if not outright laughing.
Minato only chuckled. "It was a good first try for someone your age."
Jiraiya on the other hand was rolling on the floor in laughter.
Naruto sweat dropped. Jiraiya's toad croaked, looking down at the little floundering tadpole.
Jiraiya twitched irritated. 'A tadpole…? This kid has no talent, after all.'
TBC.