A Space-Time Ninjutsu Mess

Chapter Seven: Naruto tries to survive a very pissed off Ino and gets a visitor. Arashi pays a visit to a Namikaze safe house miles from Konoha while his clone tries to explain their situation to two Sannin. The Clone makes a mess and has to spend some time in hiding with Jiraiya. I end this with a bit of a preview for what's happening next chapter.

Special Thanks to DragonKnightRyu for being this story's beta reader.

Disclaimer: I do not in any way shape or form own Naruto Shippuden, or anything unique to it. The show and manga are owned by Kishimoto-Massashi. I think I do own Namikaze Naruto though, or at least the one in this fiction since as of yet Naruto hasn't changed his name in the manga, and also Anko's snake summon. I do not own Uchiha Itari, both the name and her appearance belong to fellow author BigCC. The Fusion Sword belongs to the team who worked one FFVII: Advent Children and, just to be safe, Square Enix. Also, there may be parts of this story where I combine certain things from the English, and Japanese parts of Naruto.

"Normal Speech"

Normal Thoughts

'Human Speech' (Inside Mindscape)

'Human Thought' (Inside Mindscape)

"Bijuu Speech" (Outside Mindscape)

-Bijuu Speech- (Inside Mindscape)

'Bijuu Thought'

"Summons Speech"(With certain exceptions)

'Summons Thoughts'(With certain exceptions)

Nara Shikamaru, Chunin of Konohagakure and Nara Clan heir, stood outside of hospital room 352 A. The laziest man in the village remained where he was and stared at the door with his hands hanging loosely at his sides. Shikamaru had proven many times that he was gifted with an incredibly high level of intelligence and level headedness. The pine-apple haired Chunin had used both to come to the decision that he would not enter the room at the moment. He had a feeling that if he were to do so that his life would be cut tragically short.

"Stay still!" Shouted a feminine voice before being followed by a shout of fear. Shikamaru sighed before shaking his head. Ino, the genius thought silently.

"No!" The voice was masculine and was accompanied by the sound of glass breaking. As that voice reached his ears the lazy Chunin immediately looked at the door wide-eyed. Naruto? What is he doing-

"If you don't stay still I swear to Kami-sama I'll kill you!" Shikamaru reflexively winced at the tone in his blonde-haired teammate's voice. It was the tone of voice she used right before either he or Choji found themselves on the ground and in pain. He pitied Naruto at that moment.

"You're trying to kill me right now!" Yep. That confirms just what's going on in there. Well, at least he's already in a hospital.

"Only because you groped me you bastard!" The Nara Clan heir felt both of his eyebrows rise up in shock and disbelief. What the hell was going on in there?

"I didn't mean to, honest! It's just, you were right on top of me and I just reacted!"

"Reacted? You call pulling me on top of you, and then groping my breasts a reaction!"

"They were in the way!" Shikamaru heard a loud scream of vengeful fury before he instinctively ducked his head down. No sooner had he done this when a kunai broke through the small window of the door and passed the area where his head had just been. Naruto, what did you do? Getting Ino to calm down when she's like that is going to be such a drag. And I'm the only one here who can do it!

It wasn't the first time a former member of Team Ten had been called down to the hospital. Occasionally someone would say or do something that would push his friend off the deep end and start something truly frightening, and only one the Yamanaka's friends or parents could prevent her from killing some poor soul. In this case it was one of Shikamaru's older friends from the Ninja Academy, Uzumaki Naruto; who just so happened to be uninformed about what not to say or do in the presence of the blond Kunoichi.

"WHAT!"

"You were practically pressing them up against me!" Oh man, that is so not good!

The Chunin quickly forced the door open in time to see Naruto just barely dodge a chakra-enhanced roundhouse kick from Ino. The blonde-haired village prankster quickly made his way to the other side of his hospital room, trying to put as much distance between him and his fellow blonde. Spinning around to face him Ino growled before reaching into the single pouch she had on her. The Kunoichi pulled out a trio of senbon needles before moving to launch them at the hospital-gown clad Naruto.

Knowing Ino's preference of poison-tipped senbon, Shikamaru quickly made the Rat hand seal. Molding his chakra Shikamaru called out, "Kagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Possession Jutsu)!" His shadow extended outward before splitting in two and going for the two blondes. The lazy Chunin mentally patted himself on the back when the jutsu caught them just before Ino had thrown her senbon. Naruto, who had closed his eyes when he saw the needles, opened them halfway and saw that both he had Ino were unable to move. It was then that he finally realized that Shikamaru had entered the room for the first time.

Moving his eyes to look in the direction of his friend, the Uzumaki smiled. At the same time his female counterpart was busy glaring daggers at her flak jacket wearing teammate. Shikamaru slowly brought both of his hands down and slid them into his pockets before opening his mouth, "Okay. Slowly, and clearly, would one of you troublesome blondes please tell me what is going on?" Immediately the two opened their mouths at once and began to speak a mile a minute. The Nara brought a single hand up to silence the barrage of explanations, an action the other two were forced to do as well. As the silence returned he decided to try a different approach, "Okay, I probably could have said that better. This time I want Ino, and only Ino, to start talking."

An emerald-green eye looked at the prankster on the other side of the room before narrowing, "A while ago Naruto and the others got back to the village while I was here in the hospital. The baka over there," Naruto looked ready to fire off a retort before he caught Shikamaru's own stare, "Was in some kind of coma. Tsunade-sama called my dad in to see if there was any way to wake him up. After a few hours of nothing my dad left to take a break and asked me to stay in the room incase he woke up. I was changing the plants in the room because it was so plain and ordinary when he woke up. And then he grabbed my arm, pulled me on to the bed with him, and groped me like the pervert he is!"

Naruto decided that he had kept silent long enough, "Oi! I wasn't thinking straight when I woke up! And it's not like you didn't like it."

To the great surprise of the Nara heir a Genjutsu of a fire appeared behind her visible eye, the same kind that appeared in the eyes of Gai and Lee. Although something told the Chunin that if either man saw it they would say that it had nothing to do with the 'Flames of Youth' at all, "What did you say?"

Oh man, this is bad. C'mon Naruto, show that you have some sense in that head of yours and be quiet! Unfortunately the Uzumaki seemed not to have been aware of Shikamaru's silent pleading, "You closed your eyes and moaned! And if I've learned anything from Ero-Sennin, it's that girls only do that if they like something!" Ino growled in the back of her throat before she tried to break free of the Shadow Possession. Shikamaru widened his eyes in shock when he felt his hold over the Yamanak weaken.

Bringing his hands back up to form the Rat hand seal once again he began to strengthen his jutsu. While he focused more on his teammate the Nara purposely loosened his hold on Naruto, who quickly began relieving the slight stiffness in his body. Turning to look at the spiky-haired blonde he said in a deadpanned voice, "Naruto. Run. Now."

Naruto blinked twice before looking from the red-faced Ino to the straining face of Shikamaru. The blonde Genin didn't need more than an instant to realize what was happening. Shooting a grateful look at the shadow-user Naruto quickly ran out the door. Ino cried out in anger as the teen made his escape, "Shika if you don't let me go right now I'll make sure that tomorrow you won't even remember how to get dressed in the morning!"

The Nara Clan heir gulped before refocusing on his jutsu. Naruto you owe me for this. What a drag this all is.

Naruto ran down the halls of the hospital with the sole thought of finding somewhere to hide until Shikamaru managed to convince Ino not to murder him. Already the Genin was halfway to the top of the hospital and there was no sign of pursuit. He soon came to a sudden halt however as he realized two very important things. The first was that he had nothing on but the hospital gown. The second was that he was an idiot for running when he could just open a window and walk down the side of the hospital. After palming his face and muttering under his breath Naruto's head darted left and right.

Damn it, he mentally groaned. There weren't any windows on either side of the hallway, just a bunch of rooms. His electric-blue eyes were soon locked on the nearest door to his right. He knew from experience that most hospital rooms had at least one decent sized window. The few times he had been in the hospital before he had tried to escape by using them, and he knew that the windows were usually left unlocked. If there was anyone in whatever room he decided to use then he was reasonably certain they wouldn't mind at all.

The only question was whether or not he could manage to stick to the walls. He still felt slightly disorientated which was unusual; under normal circumstances he would have felt good as new. Then again it might have had something to do with the Kyubi sealed within him. The Fox hadn't been overly criticizing during their last meeting, if anything it seemed uncaring. Maybe it had decided to let him get back to normal on his own as some kind of twisted lesson. Naruto narrowed his eyes; that would be something the demon would do after all. Regardless, the point was that he wasn't a hundred percent certain that he wouldn't just fall down to the ground if he tried walking up the building.

So…It's either risk Ino catching up to me, or chance falling down the side of a hospital. On the one hand, Ino wants to kill me. On the other, the fall could break a lot of bones in my body. But didn't Sakura-chan say that Ino had some lessons from Baa-chan? The image of a broken and bleeding Jiraiya with an annoyed Tsunade standing over him came to mind, followed by one of him and Ino in their positions respectively. A shiver went up the blonde's spine at the possibility, "Walking up the side of a wall where a fall could end with all the bones in my body broken it is."

Naruto walked to the nearest room close to him and reached to open the door. Turning the knob the door swung open seamlessly and he walked in. Turning around he stuck his head out to check if Ino had managed to catch up at all. To his relief there was no sign at all of the green-eyed blonde in sight. That was when he heard someone cough from inside the room, "Naruto? What are you doing in my room?"

Hearing the familiar voice Naruto slowly turned around to look. Sure enough the sight of a silver-haired, one-eyed, Jonin greeted him. He smiled nervously at his Jonin sensei before a hand went up to rub the back of his head, "Hi Kakashi-sensei! Uh, this might sound weird but, can I use your window?"

The lone eye stared curiously back at him for a moment before curving upwards. Taking the familiar eye-smile as a yes Naruto quickly thanked the Hatake before moving. He was almost halfway to the window before he noticed that the room had three occupants at the moment. It was the smell of non-hospital food that got him to actually look in the direction of his former teacher's bed. Light-brown pupil-less eyes, violet spiky-ponytail, an overcoat, orange miniskirt, and a mesh body suit ending at her thighs; Mitarashi Anko.

A stick of dango was halfway to the woman's mouth when she realized that Naruto was staring. She blinked once before giving him a single wave of the hand, "Long time no see brat." The woman soon returned her attention to the meal in her other hand. Naruto shrugged and turned to open the window when he did a double take.

Eyes widening and his mouth opening and closing rapidly, the blonde weakly raised an arm and pointed at her. Kakashi, noticing the state of his student, looked curiously between Naruto and Anko, "Am I missing something here?"

Naruto immediately regained control of himself and looked at the man before asking dumbly, "Kakashi-sensei, why is the crazy Snake Lady in your room eating dango?"

"Anko? I think it would be pretty obvious for you to see Naruto, even with your legendary denseness. Everyone gets hungry sooner or later, and she has an obsession with dumplings."

It took all the self-control he had learned during his training for Naruto to keep himself from dropping face first to the floor. With a noticeable twitch in his left eye the Uzumaki shot his sensei a dry look, "No Kakashi-sensei, I mean what is she doing in your room?"

The Hatake blinked innocently at his loudmouthed student's words. Mentally he decided to play around with the blonde's limited patience a bit more. The longer he stretched these games out the more enjoyable the reactions he could get. Putting on his eye-smile once again Kakashi continued to play with the teen, "The hospital does provide every patients room with a very comfortable chair Naruto. I assume she got tired of standing up and decided to take a seat and enjoy the nice chair."

Konoha's Snake Mistress quickly caught on to the hidden game playing out right in front of her. Hatake Kakashi sure was fond of the whole 'underneath the underneath' thing. Smirking she decided to join her boyfriend in messing around with the blonde-haired Genin with her own brand of teasing, "Its perfect for relaxing for just a few minutes. Of course, you wouldn't know anything about that would you?"

This time Naruto turned to respond to Anko, "What are you talking about; I totally know how to relax!"

The woman had on a look of mock shock, "Really? I just assumed that since you can't seem to stay still for more than a few seconds."

"I think I once saw him go a whole five minutes doing anything during our mission to Nami no Kuni," Kakashi quipped from his stationary position while mentally laughing at the look of indignation on Naruto's face.

"Kakashi-sensei!" The Uzumaki whined pitifully with a slightly hurt expression on his face. It quickly disappeared in time for him to scrunch up his face in annoyance, "Why are you two picking on me at the same time?"

Anko rolled her eyes while Kakashi's eye-smile still remained firmly in place, "Naruto, we are not picking on you. It's just that I'm more afraid of her reactions than I am of yours."

"Um, what?"

"Don't worry; not understanding something doesn't mean it's impossible to understand."

Naruto was tempted to give into the appealing urge of pulling at his blonde-hair. Why couldn't they just tell him what he wanted to know? Sure they were all ninja, and the oldest of them was so secretive he kept a mask under a mask, and the woman was certifiably insane, and…The blonde was certain that if he had said any of what he was thinking out loud he would have felt very foolish. With a low groan the teen felt his shoulders slump; they could keep whatever they didn't want him to know between themselves. "Never mind, I don't really need to know what Snake Lady's doing here. It's not like your dating or anything right?"

…Awkward silence.

…More silence accompanied by the sounds of shifting bedspreads and whistling.

…No way. There was no chance at all right? Hesitantly Naruto opened his mouth to ask, "Kakashi-sensei? Crazy Snake Lady?"

Anko stopped whistling and turned to look at Kakashi, "Can I kill him to keep it secret?"

To Naruto's growing sense of horror the masked Jonin seemed to consider it. To his immense relief the man shook his head in a 'no' answer.

That relief quickly disappeared with the next spoken words, "No. But you can if people start hearing about it before we tell everyone ourselves." The Tokubetsu Jonin childishly made a show of stomping her foot and pouting in disappointment.

A second later three eyes moved to stare directly at Naruto. The teenage Jinchuriki reacted by bringing his hands up to try and ward off any attempts at bodily harm and looked fearfully back at Anko, "Don't worry! I swear I won't say a word, honest!"

Seemingly satisfied with the statement Kakashi eye-smiled once again, "All right. We'll hold you to it Naruto. Now, go away."

Sighing in relief the blonde did just that and walked right out of the room, carefully closing the door behind. Kakashi moved his up from the bed and held up three fingers before counting down. With one finger left Naruto quickly opened the door and moved his head into the room with a wide smile, "By the way, if you buy me some ramen Kakashi-sensei you won't need to keep your secret by scaring me."

Dejectedly the Hatake let his arm drop, "No more than five bowls Naruto. And you have to bring me something to eat next time you drop by."

"But you already have a girlfriend who brought food!"

"Correction; I have a girlfriend who I think loves dango more than me, and didn't bring food for me." The blonde nodded his head in satisfaction before complying. He felt a pair of eyes turn their focus on him as soon as Naruto had left. Curiously, he moved his head to look in the direction of the younger woman.

Anko had crossed both arms over her chest, he silently bemoaned that, and looked just a tad insulted. She had a slight grin to her face and he could see that familiar mischievous gleam, "That's not true Kakashi. You're a little bit more important than my dango…But just a little."

The Hatake was torn between feeling glad or annoyed that he was only a little more highly rated than dumplings.

Outside the room Naruto was halfway down the hallway when he stopped. He cried out in exasperation when he realized that he had forgotten to take the window out of the room as per his plan. He was lowly chewing himself out for forgetting to do so when he picked up on a noticeable amount of nearby Killing Intent. Stiffing immediately the Uzumaki slowly turned his head to look down the other end of the hallway.

He whimpered in fear.

Ino however, dragging a babbling and drooling Shikamaru by his hair behind her, smiled evilly.

(Emergency AN: I would just like to prevent any confusion here. For the record, I did state that when alone Namikaze Arashi would be written as Namikaze Naruto. He's only Arashi when someone not from his dimension is at the scene. If it's just him, Itari, or Itari's Kisame, then he'll be refereed to as Naruto. His Blood Shadow Clones are always Arashi though. Savvy? )

Namikaze Naruto stood in the center of a large open field. Just half a mile away from the field he could see a large and bustling Hi no Kuni port city harbour. The Namikaze could also hear the gentle and relaxing sound of waves slamming up against rocks, and felt a light breeze pass over him. His trained eyes identified more than two dozen familiar shipping companies and more than three that he was certain did not exist in his world. Naruto closed his eyes and took in a deep breath of air.

It was exactly the same as in his world. The smell of the ocean mixed with that of civilization.

Opening his eyes he smiled at the busy harbor, and enjoyed the moment. Now that he was alone he could stop using an alias. Boats and ships of all sizes, along with their crews and dockhands, jockeying for a chance to enter or leave with empty or fully loaded cargo holds. The sight brought back fond memories of his childhood. Times when his family would be able to go outside the walls of Konohagakure and be normal; well as normal as a Kage and his family could be anyway considering that they always had an ANBU guard detail accompanying them.

He looked around the field for the fifth time with a quarter hour. The only difference was that there was no house within the field at all. His family had always had house situated near the port city of Zousenjo even after the deaths of his parents. The home wasn't overly expensive, nor did it flaunt the Namikaze's immense wealth. It was… homely and average. The perfect setting for a family to remember not to let their status go to their heads; he'd met many a member of one of Konoha's clans who let their family name define their very lives. His family's vacation home was also the place where, he had been too young to understand the meaning at the time, he was 'made' according to his mother.

Naruto failed to suppress the shiver that traveled up along his spine.

All right, time to stop thinking about my parents and their sexual interaction that led to my birth. Ugh. If ever there were words that should never be in the same sentence, they would be 'parents' and 'sexual' all the way. Hell, who actually wants to anywhere near the spot they were conceived?

The Namikaze closed his eyes and once more inhaled the air surrounding him. He used it as a focal point to put his mind back on track. Naruto had not come to this place so that he could remember much better times, no matter how much he missed them. He had made the decision to visit this place because of what else was left hidden there. Something that he hoped his family in this world as well as his own had in common.

The sign he had found thus far would point one towards that conclusion. There was no natural reason for a field this close to a large source of water to be virtually devoid of all plant life; the only thing that grew in the field was grass. The Namikaze could also make out faint markings etched into several well sized rocks, their symbols worn away long ago. In addition to these he had also found something which he now held in the palms of both hands; one of his father's tri-pronged kunai.

The blade of the Yondaime Hokage had long since become virtually worthless based on his up close observations. For starters the ring at the end of the blade was missing. Directly next were the wrappings around the handles, of which only a few torn bits remained. The steel which should have been devoid of many signs of use was riddled with scratches and chipped away fragments. Rust clung to nearly every visible part of the weapon, a clear sign of just how long it had lain there in the dirt forgotten.

Tossing it up in the air Arashi held out his left index finger. His father's rusty weapon spun in the air a pitiful three times before falling back downwards. Disgusted by the amount of flaws he was finding in the blade Naruto channeled a minute amount of chakra into his index finger coating the appendage in a light blue, almost purple, glow. The tri-pronged kunai did manage, much to his surprise, to land blade down on the digit. The Namikaze brought up his right hand and grasped at the handle of the weapon. Lifting it up just an inch he ceased the flow of chakra to his finger and swiftly jabbed downwards with the weapon.

How…Refreshing, he thought while watching a steady flow of red blood pour out from the surprisingly deep cut. To his great shock he had nearly sliced off a chunk of his finger with the jab. The pain was relatively minor and he pained no attention to it. Instead the Namikaze flipped the kunai so that its blade was pointed at his face. He watched his own blood flow down the rusty blade and fall to the ground beneath him. He continued to do so until he smiled widely.

Then he started to chuckle.

"Wow dad," Naruto said while he continued to chuckle, "You're cheap even in another dimension!"

It was a well known fact that the great Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage and his father, was a closet miser. The man was very much a zealot when it came to saving money. His father was very careful in finding the perfect metal for his custom made kunai that was cheap, easy to maintain, and durable. Still he disliked having to use more than one at time however. According to the man constant use of the kunai would lead to its sharp edge wearing down, tears to form in the steel, and for the once beautiful weapons to become rusted. 'And that's,' his fathers own words, 'a real waste.'

That was why he only spent larger amounts of ryo on a rare alloy used in constructing the three tips of the kunai. Naruto also had a small suspicion that the man was lying about that part. No matter what he did, no matter what he used, none of the Hiraishin kunai he made after leaving the village was ever as sharp or long lasting as his father's own. Nevertheless the fact was that only the three tips of the kunai were in good condition while the rest was…Well, crap.

Soon the spiky-haired blonde man was able to stop chuckling a few moments later. Wiping away at a few tears he had shed seconds earlier his eyes were soon darting around everywhere. The Namikaze heir was looking for one thing specifically as he looked all over the open field. It wasn't long before his keen cobalt-blue eyes found something in the form of a medium sized rock. The stone was very unnoticeable upon first glance; just as it was meant to be. Naruto covered the distance quickly with only a few long strides of his legs. Bending down to get a better view the blonde placed his blood covered left hand, the cut was in the process of healing itself slowly, on the stone. Swiping away at the layer of dirt and grime he was soon looking at a faint etching of the Namikaze Clan symbol; a large wave connecting with a massive wind blast. A quarter of a foot above the seal were three small slits in the stone.

Smirking he looked down at the tri-pronged kunai still in his right hand. Naruto stood up and moved three meters back away from the rock. After coating the kunai in a layer of his wind-chakra and eyeing the three slits for about two seconds more he threw the kunai. The three blade tips of the weapon fully slid up to the handle into the rock. A second after that the rock fell into the earth along with a piece of the surrounding ground. Naruto walked up to the edge to peer down into the newly revealed underground entrance…And then barely managed to twist his body to avoid being skewered by a pair of spikes launching out from the ground. To his annoyance one of the shoulder pads on the borrowed Suna flak jacket had been taken clean off by one of the spikes.

Damn. Forgot that mom probably left a few surprises behind to mess with dad.

His mother was a prankster of the highest caliber, but she only ever did something like this for his father. He was the only man whose reflexes were fast enough that there was no chance of him ever being injured; just scared out of his skin. Not even Naruto held a candle when it came to speed and his father. That was the reason why the man only needed a handful of his custom kunai to take out dozens of Iwa Shinobi and Kunoichi in a single hour. The only time he could remember matching his father in a contest of speed was during their infrequent spars after he had made his deal with the Kyubi.

Knowing full well that there were almost certainly more traps waiting for him Naruto sighed before taking the first step. He froze up without warning and felt a familiar tingle in the back of his mind. Hm…I wonder just what that clone I left in Konoha did just now. With my luck he's probably done something to tick off both the Sannin there. If he weren't me I'd call him an idiot.

The Shinzui Kage Bunshin sneezed without warning. His sneeze forced him to throw his cup of coffee into the air. That cup of caffeine landed perfectly atop the spiky white haired pervert that was Jiraiya of the Sannin. His sneeze also forced an out of it Slug Princess to snap back to attention and rapidly move to sit straight in her seat. The action caused her ample bosom to jiggle. Jiraiya's eyes caught sight of this and he whipped his head to stare at the them.

That was when the hot coffee filled cup fell off from his head and spilled all over that of the Godaime Hokage.

Tsunade growled.

Jiraiya rushed to the far side of the room in terror.

"Oh shit," Arashi-clone said when he realized that Jiraiya and he were in grave danger. The Arashi clone gulped in worry before quickly grabbing the pen within reach of the Hokage. The clone swiftly wrote down his signature before pushing his seat back and leaving it. Turning to face the other man in the room he jumped out forward to him. Grabbing the man by the shoulders he quickly used a Shunshin and both men vanished in an explosion of water.

They reappeared two blocks South West of the Village Intelligence Division's department building. Taking a step back from the white-haired pervert both men let out long sighs of relief. The Arashi clone and Toad Sage suddenly stiffened as they felt waves of Killing Intent roll over them. "So," Arashi-clone turned to look at Jiraiya who had turned a bit pale, "I have to visit the Gaki and Kakashi at the hospital anyway. Wanna, you know, tag-along?"

Arashi-clone was about to answer when a loud scream of fury reached the pairs ears, followed by something flying out of the roof of the Intelligence building. Tentatively he looked over his shoulder for a moment before turning to look at Jiraiya. "Does she know you want to visit them?" Jiraiya nodded. "She'll head there first. We need to hide out somewhere for a while."

"Kid's apartment."

"Huh?"

"Naruto's apartment. She'd never think to look for us there, and I know where he keeps his spare set of keys."

"Good a place as any."

Jiraiya gripped the shoulder of the clone and they both disappeared in a puff of smoke. Ten minutes later Arashi-clone was looking through Naruto's refrigerator for something to eat. The clone had yet to eat since it had been created and, since it was an exact copy, needed food to survive just like its creator. It soon became apparent however that Naruto needed to really spend some of his pay on a food run, "What the hell is this?"

Flipping the channels on Naruto's television while sitting on the only chair in the apartment Jiraiya turned his head, "What the hell is what?"

The Namikaze clone slammed the fridge shut before walking towards the Super Pervert. The apartment was very small with only three rooms; the living room, the bathroom, and the bedroom. The 'kitchen' was on the far left corner of the living room and there was a balcony on the opposite side. It was a far cry from the mansion that someone of Naruto's lineage deserved to say the least.

Arashi-clone came to a halt beside the Sannin. He was holding a carton of milk curiously in both hands, searching for something. Jiraiya had an idea of just what he was looking for but decided to play dumb as the clone opened his mouth, "This is a carton of milk."

"Yes, I'm not old enough that I can't see boy."

"Ignoring that," Responded the blonde-haired clone. He flipped the milk carton to look at the bottom, "I can't find an expiration date anywhere on this thing."

Feeling particularly mischievous Jiraiya simply waved the man off, "You really think the Gaki would be dumb enough to keep spoiled milk in his refrigerator?"

Arashi-clone gave him a blank look, "Do you really think I'm dumb enough to fall for that?"

"Good point."

"Of course. I made it."

"Arrogant aren't you?"

"I prefer to think of it as me exercising my well deserved confidence to speak the truth as I see it."

"That a yes?"

"Yes."

"Don't drink the milk."

"Poisoned?"

"Wouldn't surprise me."

"This common?"

"No. Kid was only in the village a little while before he had to go on that mission to Suna."

"So?"

"I took him on training trip that lasted two and half years. It isn't hard to figure out."

"…This has been here…"

"Like I said, wouldn't surprise me."

"…" Arashi-clone stared at the milk carton another few seconds before tossing it in the direction of the balcony. The carton sailed over the railing and down to the streets of Konohagakure. "This is disgusting."

Jiraiya sensed that something had changed in the young clone's(young man's?) mood. Turning off the TV he set down the remote before turning to level a serious look at his companion, "You're not talking about the milk are you?"

The clone turned to look in the direction of the white-haired man, "He shouldn't be made to live here."

"And just where do you think he should be living?"

"The Namikaze Clan compound." Arashi-clone said without a hint of hesitance. If Jiraiya hadn't been questioning the man for hours straight he knew that answer would have seemed very left field. As it was it made perfect sense that the clone would say that. "Jiraiya you know that he deserves that place more than I do. He was born here, he's the son of the this Konoha's Yondaime. Naruto's does so much for this village and he doesn't even know half the secrets surrounding him!"

The Sannin stood up and towered over the younger man's Blood Clone. His stare was heated and showed that he did not like being spoken to in the way that the clone was doing so, "He doesn't live there, because it was Minato's wish."

"You expect me to believe that my father would want-"

"-Naruto to live a normal life? Look at you. You were hiding things from me and Tsunade, don't think we couldn't tell. You carry yourself like someone who's lost a lot of things, you've had to become a Nuke-Nin to survive. ANBU Black Ops Captain at fifteen? Great job. But how much of yourself did you have to kill to get there? What have you done that gives you nightmares, that you regret?"

The Arashi-clone narrowed cobalt-blue eyes at the older man and his hands turned into fists.

Jiraiya continued on knowing that he wouldn't be interrupted, "You're from another dimension. You're the son of a Kage. Look where your life is at now? What has knowing just who you are gotten you? Naruto's been treated poorly, and that's as much my fault for not being there as it is the stupidity of the villagers. But look at what he has right now, what he's done. He mastered the Rasengan in just over a single week, learned Kage Bunshin overnight, fought off another Jinchuriki who had given control of his body to his Biju and won! He wants to bring a Shinobi back who put a Chidori through his chest three years ago, and considers him to still be his best friend."

Jiraiya watched as the clone's eyes briefly flashed a demonic red. The Sannin blinked in surprise at that; it was just like Naruto when he was using some of the Kyubi's chakra. Could that mean that he was also a Jinchuriki? The Toad Sage was so caught up in the sight that he barely noticed that the clone was speaking, "Don't pretend Jiraiya. You. Don't. Know. Us! Everything you just said means nothing to me! If anything, they just mean that Naruto could have done a hell of a lot better knowing who he was and you know it!"

The Sannin narrowed his eyes, "How do you know him better than someone who spent years teaching him?"

"Maybe I don't." The Clone closed the distance between them in an instant. "But I know as much as someone who abandons the son of his prized pupil for thirteen years."

"…I am going to enjoy tossing you around tomorrow."

"And I'll enjoy making you wish we're allowed to kill."

The two men glared daggers at one another as the conversation died down. The silence was broken when they both heard a light knock on the door, "Jiraiya-sama?"

It was the Sannin in question who broke their staring contest first to turn at the door, "Shizune?"

"Tsunade-sama is going to debrief Kakashi now…She's cooled down and wants you to be there."

"All right. Just give me," Here he turned to look back at the clone. Or rather the empty air where the clone had been seconds earlier. "Actually lets just go."

AN: I'll start off this notice with an 'I'm sorry.' I would have updated this earlier but I recently signed up for Gamefly's services. I've been distracted with Assassins Creed Brotherhood and Crysis 2 these last few days.

Anyway. In case you couldn't tell by the last few paragraphs the next chapter is going to be a fight between Jiraiya and the Arashi clone. I'll let you draw your own reasons for why this is happening. I will tell you all though that you're going to find out just what Namikaze did inside his mindscape back in Chapter Three. Specifically what he did regarding those seals. The point is that I'll hopefully get that chap out earlier than I did this one, hopefully by the weekend.

With luck this will be my only delay for the summer. How are your summers going by the way? Back on track, bad ADD. Did this chapter come off as I dunno… Rushed? I don't like this chapter all that much, its giving me a bad feeling. Anyway glad to see the previous chapter got me ten reviews. Much better than the four I had for number five.

You think I made Ino a bit OOC at the start? I'm certain I got Shikamaru just about right but not so much for her. Also the bit where Naruto runs into Kakashi's hospital room. Strangely that part was the one I liked most from this. How do you guys feel about it?

I'm feeling really proud about this story. Its been out a little over three and a half months and I'm probably gonna break 100 reviews before the next three updates hit. Its all thanks to you guys. To this anonymous review left on 6/16, yes Kakashi is fully aware of just who Naruto's parents are.

Here is hoping for twelve more reviews. Oh, and to whoever catches the reference to a game I included in this chapter, copy and paste the line you think its in and PM me it. If you're right I'll pay you with a bit of info regarding what I'm going to have happen later on in this story. But this only applies to the first person who gets it.

-SpartanCommando