Chapter Seven: Naruto and Jiraiya Spar

Bold- Kyuubi/Demon talking

Italics - Inner Monologues

" "- Character talking to another character

Summary: What happened when Naruto and Jiraiya leave on their 3 year training mission? What if Naruto learned more then he could ever imagine about himself and becoming a great ninja? AN: I have not decided on any pairings and Naruto will become strong and intelligent during this trip.

Recap: Naruto learns Muay Thai and begins to work on drawing out the Kyuubi's chakra.

AN: I do not own Kishimoto's work or characters. I only own the rights to the original characters that I create.

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AN: Thank you to Anomie86 for once again cleaning up my grammar and other errors.

Naruto had spent the past 3 months working on his Taijutsu, and he had grown by leaps and bounds. The Muay Thai style and Capoeira styles were being mastered by the young Genin. His use of the clones had allowed him to master each style. Over the first month, Naruto had worked on being proficient with the leg striking style. In fact, it had become natural for Naruto to keep Jiraiya's clones constantly blocking with the speed of his leg strikes. In the second month, he had learned the graceful style of Capoeira. The original Naruto learned the Capoeira style, while his clones worked on Muay Thai mastering the katas. In the third month, Naruto would work on blending the styles, while the clones would work on each of the styles to continue his mastery of them.

Moreover, Naruto's speed had been growing by leaps and bounds as his gravity seals had been increased. Naruto was now carrying 1.8 times his weight. As he had continued his strength programming on alternate days to his taijutsu training, he had seen the results begin to show. He was now doing on his workout days over double his initial repetitions while having his weight almost being doubled. Naruto's body had tightened into a powerhouse with very little body fat. He may not be able to match Lee's or Gai's work out program, but Naruto's program would put him on a tier below those taijutsu masters in strength. However, his yoga was an area that he knew that he had gained even more. Before the program, his flexibility was limited or average, but he had now gained tremendous the limberness to effectively perform the dance-like Katas of Capoeira. Naruto could perform various maneuvers such as doing roll, do handstands to move away, perform low leg sweeps, go ahead from his hand stand to helicopter like kicks.

Jiraiya knew that Naruto would have to change up his work out routine to complement his student's progress. Naruto may have to alternate the meditation and working out during the week, and focus on taijutsu everyday. Blending these two styles is more difficult then I had originally thought, and I want Naruto to begin incorporating his taijutsu styles while in his tailed form. To maintain his tailed form will get Naruto to make it a 2nd skin where it will not bother him when he draws out Sage mode.

"Naruto, before we start today's taijutsu session, I want to inform you of your progress, and alter our program. We have made great progress over the past three months, as I think your speed, strength, mental acumen, and flexibility are now high Chuunin level. At this rate, you will be high Jounin level by the end of next year. Though you have made incredible progress, you should always remember the speed difference between Chuunin and Jounin is vast. For example, Kakashi is much faster than for example Iruka. This does not mean Iruka could not defeat Kakashi, but it will take more effort to do this. Iruka would have to work out a plan to negate the speed advantages that Kakashi has. This is not as much of a problem as your shadow clones negate speed advantages to a degree because you can overwhelm with sheer numbers no matter how fast they maybe. Since you are not slow, even a Jounin can be overwhelmed by Chuunin level speed clones. It is similar to how your clones overwhelmed Mizuki. You were just out of the academy and he was a high level Chuunin, but your clones overwhelmed whatever speed advantage that he may have had in a one on one fight."

Naruto nodded realizing that his clones had allowed him to kick Mizuki all over the forest. There were just too many hands and legs for Mizuki to block. A small smirk went across his face while remembering how he beat the life out of that psychotic idiot Mizuki.

Jiraiya continued to speak snapping Naruto from his day dream. "I do not want to stop working out, but to keep this up, we will limit need to limit your meditation sessions. I think you have made tremendous progress in achieving balance and steadiness. I do not want to say any person can master meditation, but you have made great strides. Now, you will meditate in the morning three times a week and the other four days continue work out in the morning. We will work out every day with your taijutsu. After you warm up with your katas for an hour or so with your clones in three groups, two of the groups will be focused on each style of taijutsu separately; and the final group will work on whatever moves or motions that we have developed from blending the styles. After the groups have finished, we will spend the entire day for the next month working on simply sparring using taijutsu. You can use whatever styles or combination that you would like. However, I want you to fight me in your tailed form.

I will be using clones and some toads to help me keep your tails busy. I will be gradually coming at you with everything that I have in terms of ninjutsu or taijutsu. The reason that I can come at you with my vast arsenal is that your chakra shield and tails will provide armor that will protect you. However, you can only use the power of the tails and taijutsu against me. Now power up!"

Naruto nodded, and began to call forth the power of the tails. Over the past three months, he would meditate for an hour or so. The sessions had been very healing and the Kyuubi's natural anger and malice had begun to recede through these sessions. The Kyuubi had begun to see Naruto as a kit to protect. His own self interest was merging with Naruto's.

After the meditation, the Toad Sage and Naruto had worked on calling out the tailed form of the Kyuubi. Naruto had complete control of his faculties and could easily draw out three of the tails. The Kyuubi's chakra's corrosive nature was limited as Naruto had developed a technique of drawing out his own chakra as an underlayer to the Kyuubi's chakra shield. This technique had been an idea that Naruto had come up with as he watched how the red chakra coated his skin.

Naruto had asked Jiraiya if his blue chakra could coat his skin like the red chakra did. Jiraiya thought about and said he could see no reason that it could not. He would just need a huge amount of it, but this was no problem with Naruto. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, I know that red chakra is not good for people over a long time, but somehow my chakra is able to help me deal with the fox's. Maybe, if I create an underlining of blue chakra, it would reduce any harmful effect of the red chakra on my skin."

Jiraiya was floored by the intelligent well thought out concept by his apprentice. "What you say makes a lot of sense, kid. Now, how do we go about dealing with it?"

"Maybe, I can call out my blue chakra like I did with the red chakra. I have to feel for it, and call it out." Naruto began to withdraw into himself to ready himself to draw out as much of his own chakra as he could.

Naruto found his core chakra and pulled it out that day in an impressive visible display of chakra swirling around Naruto. After this initial attempt, he would try to pull it out as part of his meditative sessions. It was very difficult but Naruto worked to help mold the chakra around his body versus it swirling as a massive blue mass that engulfed Naruto. He had worked on drawing out the blue chakra shield before he called out the red chakra to overlap it.

Over the three month period, he had been able to refine his technique. His blue chakra shield was not as dense as the red chakra, but it did provide protection. Jiraiya and Naruto had worked on throwing projectiles and ninjutsu at his blue shield. It worked as a hybrid of Kabuto's technique to draw chakra to an area to lessen an impact from an enemy's attack and Neji's Kaiten shield.

The Kaiten used rotation to expel the chakra so that there was a sphere made around the user. Naruto's shield worked more like armor and did not take up as much space. The blue chakra armor held up well against most kunai or projectiles. However, Naruto's chakra skin shield could be overwhelmed with jutsu. Jiraiya told Naruto to not worry if the A-level jutsu could pierce the chakra skin shield, as it was a second level of armor. The primary goal was for blue chakra to prevent the fox's chakra from burning Naruto's skin. It took Naruto the third month before he could comfortably call both the red chakra shield and tails with the blue chakra shield. The blue shield helped reduce the fatigue and recovery Naruto needed after his training sessions. It turned out that the fatigue that Naruto often felt was a combination of the amount of chakra that he was wielding and the energy that his body used in healing itself from the effects of the red chakra.

Even though the blue chakra skin shield used a lot of chakra, the level of chakra needed was nowhere near the level of energy that Naruto's healing factor required. In the end, Naruto used less chakra with this technique due to not having to constantly use his healing factor. Additionally, Jiraiya noted that Naruto did not need to power up his blue chakra shield too much when he overlapped it with the red chakra. The purpose of the blue shield when they overlapped was to be strong enough to keep the red chakra off Naruto's skin. If Naruto could not call out the Kyuubi's chakra, then he could intensify his blue chakra shield to make it more of a defensive armor.

Now, Naruto had layered his skin with his own blue chakra shield, and then the red chakra had overlapped this shield. He stood with three tails waving behind him. Naruto had gained control of the third tail during the 2nd month. The speed of the two shields enveloping Naruto was now almost instantaneous.

"I am ready, Ero-sennin! You are in for a whooping. Believe it!" Naruto grinned knowing he was just revving the legendary Sannin up.

"Brat, you may be good, but let us see if you are on my level!" Jiraiya smiled, and put his hand down to summon the toad that had saved Naruto from Itachi and Kisame, when Jiraiya and Naruto went to look for Tsunade to bring her back. He then followed it up by summoning four more armor clad toads to the forest field. "Attack the kid, but I want you to only let up when I tell you."

Jiraiya then summoned five Kage Bunshins with at least ten percent of Jiraiya's chakra reserve. He nodded at them, and they dispersed into the forest.

"Kid, go ahead and during this sessions release your gravity seals. As we get used to fighting in this mode, we will increase the weight. However, for this first session, I want you to measure yourself where you stand to someone of my level. Remember all the Akatsuki are S-level so they are all near or at my level. This is for you to honestly see where you stand after six months of training."

With that Naruto released all his restriction seals and gravity seals, Naruto felt incredibly light and ready.

Jiraiya rushed Naruto blowing out fire from his mouth calling out "Great Fireball Technique" and sent a huge fireball at Naruto. Naruto simply shushin'd out of the way.
At that moment, he saw a toad launch at him with a battle axe in hand. The frog swung downward, and Naruto rolled under the leaping toad. He quickly launched from the roll into a spinning wheel kick, which hit the frog in the back. The toad flew into the tree from the kick, but it used his legs to propel himself off the wall back at Naruto.

At that moment, Jiraiya's clone launched several shuriken at Naruto. His tail shot out to stop shuriken. The other tail launched to counter attack the Toad Sage, and the third tail launched back to attack the toad. The toad was in midair since it used the wall to propel back at Naruto. The toad could not avoid the incoming chakra tail and returned back to his realm versus facing death.

At that moment, from the ground, a Jiraiya clone emerged from the ground with a Rasengan in his hand. Naruto jumped into the air, and the third tail went to spear the Jiraiya clone. The clone could not avoid the tail, and it speared him. However, at the last second, a log emerged where the clone was. Damn, he used kawamiri to get away! I need to get the numbers down or they will wear me down.

Naruto's tail hit the ground, and he used it to hold his body in the air for a second. He scanned and saw that two of the toads were coming at him. He had the tail release him and jumped back to avoid the two katana wielding toads. Naruto kicked his leg out towards one of the frog's leg, and then he spun his body and angled his body to deflect the other toad's wrist to deflect his sword swing.

Naruto followed up the deflection, by bringing his elbow into the head of the toad. He caught the toad in the eye area, which stunned the toad. Without missing a beat, he spun around the stunned frog, and he launched his leg out to the other toad, which was not prepared for such a quick fluid movement. The spin and kick caught the other toad squarely in the head sending it back flying.

Naruto heard Jiraiya scream "Earth Style: Dark Water Swamp of the Underworld!" The ground became soft and Naruto began to sink. Naruto used the tail to pole vault him away from the large 100 yard area that Jiraiya had surrounded Naruto. The two toads disappeared back to their realm.

The chakra tail had expanded to help Naruto avoid being stuck in the mud. As Naruto moved in the air, he saw the air bullets shooting towards him. Unfortunately, Naruto could not avoid the hit. He angled his body towards his shoulder and allowed the armor to absorb the blow. It did not penetrate the armor, but it definitely impacted his body.

When Naruto landed, he charged Jiraiya who stood in front of him. He launched a leg strike to Jiraiya's head, and followed up with a midsection kick. Jiraiya blocked the first kick. At this time, Naruto sent two tails from each side at Jiraiya. Jiraiya knew that he would have to move. He substituted with one of his clones. The clone was impaled by the tail, and at the same time, Naruto's kick to the midsection had connected. The clone disappeared after having it sternum cracked since it could not avoid the tails.

The toad that saved Naruto from Itachi jumped out and tried to kick Naruto in the head. The third tail grabbed the toad's legs and threw the toad against a tree. The toad then felt a knee to the back of its head. The toad then took its tongue and caught Naruto's ankle tossing him. A tail then emerged behind Naruto to help prevent him from being slammed into the tree. Naruto's other tail then lashed out towards the toad forcing him to release Naruto. Naruto then began a barrage of leg strikes at the toad. The toad tried to deflect the blows, but the arms were taking a beating in blocking all the kicks. Naruto alternated his strategy by striking at the legs knowing it was the strongest advantage of the toad. He wanted to limit the high flying moves of the toad by striking and damaging its legs.

At that moment, Naruto saw two clones trying to attack him. Naruto bent backwards and swung his legs above his head and did a hand stand. He quickly began rotating his legs like a helicopter striking both clones. The clones jumped back not fully being prepared and appreciating how flexible Naruto had become. The clones after overcoming their initial sting began attacking Naruto by trying to grab his legs. However, Naruto swung from the upside down helicopter and swung his legs into a low leg sweep which caused both Jiraiya clones to back up.

Man, this kid has improved a lot. He has taken on toads and clones. Time to see how he can handle the heat!

One clone then began to form the Fire Style: Phoenix flame jutsu, and the other clone began to form "Fuuton: Great Wind Release!" The wind knocked Naruto off balance, and as the fire and wind jutsu combined, the fire became hotter and wider. Naruto knew that he would struggle in this kind of heat. Naruto jumped back trying to avoid the wide expansive flame that had grown stronger when combined with the wind jutsu.

Unfortunately, Naruto could not move fast enough from the ever widening flame area, and Naruto instinctively called out to the Kyuubi for help. The Kyuubi's tail grew larger and enveloped Naruto in a dome of red chakra. This helped keep a pocket of air to breath. The Kyuubi's chakra shield could have absorbed the jutsu, but the wide expanse of the flames would have made it difficult to breathe in that environment. However, the wide flames caused the toad that saved Naruto from Itachi to disappear back to his realm versus becoming a platter of fried toad legs.

Naruto then launched the other two tails at the clones. Naruto, knowing that Jiraiya clones would be able to avoid the tails decided to turn up the pressure. He removed the chakra dome and had the tail attack one of the clones. He then engaged the other clone to effectively make it a two on two. However, Naruto decided that reducing the 'enemy' forces was more important. He went in and directly began a barrage of strikes to Jiraiya's head. The goal was to fully engage this clone to allow the third tail to disengage from this attack and attack the other clone. With the speed of the third tail rushing towards him, the clone could not avoid a direct attack and was impaled. It disappeared from the field.

Naruto kept the tails on guard for an ambush from the remaining. There are three more clones plus the real Pervy Sage out there. I have got to focus! Maybe, if I can set a trap or two, then I catch the other clones.

Naruto using his speed decided to launch the tails in a search and destroy mode to keep the remaining enemies off balance. He could sense the other signatures faintly, and he had the Kyuubi keep them off balance. Naruto jumped to a high tree, but while jumping to the tree, he left a chakra sensing tag at the base of the tree and near the branch. Naruto jumped from tree to tree, but at each tree, he placed four to five paper seals that he pulled out of his pocket when he pulled a few kunai out. He jumped from the trees to that were around him creating a perimeter, but he made it seem as if he was searching for enemies.

Naruto returned back to the ground, and knew that Jiraiya or the clones would engage him soon enough. As soon as he landed, a barrage of shuriken flew at Naruto, and he heard a voice yell "Shadow Shuriken Jutsu" which filled the earth with hundreds of shuriken. Naruto's tails worked feverishly to block all the incoming shuriken. The handful of shuriken that did escape the tails bounced off the chakra shield. As soon as he blocked those, another barrage of kunai flew from the trees multiplied by the cries of the "Shadow Kunai Jutsu". What is he doing? He knows that the shields block weapons.

As if Kami wanted to answer his question, he noticed that the kunai had various paper tags associated with it. "Oh shit!" Naruto yelled as he knew that he was surrounded by paper bombs.

Naruto's tails surrounded the chakra shield to enforce it and the explosion rocked Naruto off balance. As he fell back, he was enveloped in the soft flesh. Damn, I am in the toad mouth bind jutsu. Ero-sennin bragged that nothing could escape the binding. It was only those crazy black flames that allowed Itachi to escape, and Pervy Sage was blown away by how strong those flames must have been.

"Brat, I got you now! You are now trapped within the legendary's Toad's Mouth." As Naruto struggled with being eaten by the lining, the tails were lashing out at various angles of the mouth. Jiraiya knew that if any power could overwhelm the binding that it could be the Kyuubi, so he decided to end this battle quickly.

He charged at Naruto with two Rasengans in hand and the tails instinctively came to block the powerful attacks. Jiraiya's Rasengans pushed them against the tails, which sensing the danger went forward to block the Rasengans. Naruto's third tail was trying to push Naruto back to a standing position. The power of the Rasengans fought against the tails in a powerful explosion of power. The backlash of the explosion was awesome, and it blasted Jiraiya back into the wall of the toad's mouth. The backlash knocked Naruto back into the binding. He knew that it was going to be over without a miracle.

"The match is over!" Jiraiya bellowed and dispelled the jutsu. Naruto felt relief as he felt his mobility return, and he began to withdraw the tailed form and blue chakra skin shields.

"You did very well Naruto. You used the tails effectively, and you were able to keep up the attack only using taijutsu and the tails. I know you were trying to trap me with those seals, which is why I decided that it was time to turn the tables on you. I put you in the middle of a trap. If we incorporate your clones to this style of battling, then it would make it even more difficult to concentrate on you. Your clones could prevent enemies from ganging up on you or being able to simply sit back and use ninjutsu Also, if you use clones, then you can set traps more effectively without the enemy being able to notice that you are setting them. In a real battle, you will not be as handicapped. However, if you learn to fight in various situations with various limitations; then you will learn to fully utilize your core moves more effectively."

Naruto sat on the ground worn out from the battle. He had never maintained the tailed form and blue chakra shield in such an intense manner. He needed a moment to catch his breath. He nodded as he saw how he could improve his style when he could incorporate the clones and ninjutsu to his arsenal.

Sasuke, I am going to bring you home, even if I have to break every bone in your body. I am definitely going to be ready for our rematch!