(Chapter 9: Sage in waiting)

It would be quite some time as Naruto would journey with Jiraiya to Mt. Myoboku the home of the toads; to which Naruto was quite excited about due to the fact that it would be an immense amount of power he'd be gaining. Therefore he was very adamant on getting started as despite the risk of his turning to stone should he overdo things or becoming a toad, it did little to deter his wanting to learn senjutsu; for he would not let something such as that deter him from gaining the power that Jiraiya had so that he could stand on even ground with the man he saw as his true father.

Granted the progress wasn't rapid considering the gravity of the power he was trying to acquire, therefore he was working on other things such as refining his Rasenshuriken and working on the lighting release variant to his Rasengan. To which both endeavors were coming along well enough on their own; but the progress was still steady and knew that he couldn't rush it or it would wind up in disaster, so for now he was content with that and working on some more higher end Swift Release he'd been wanting to test out but hadn't been able to do for the longest time


(October 15th 996 S.E, Mt. Myoboku, 12:25 Pm)

It was 5 minutes till half past noon as Naruto was focused on gathering natural energy and staying still to better achieve Sage Mode; something of which was proving to be quite arduous all and of itself, yet Naruto refused to give up or get angry since every little step of progress was that much closer to power.

"And dammit this meditating crap is hard." Naruto cursed in frustration

"I told you from the beginning that this was going to be difficult." Jiraiya told him having watched Naruto stop the attempt at trying to go into Sage Mode

"I've been at it for 3 and a half hours so give me a break already." Naruto responded considering that he'd been at this for nearly 4 hours

"You're the one who wanted to learn senjutsu. With a principal of senjutsu being that you have to have balance within yourself." Jiraiya told him considering that if Naruto was adamant on learning to utilize Sage Mode he'd have to find balance

"After all this is also a good way to control that rage of yours. Since it's only gonna take you so far before it bites you right in the ass." Jiraiya added as well

Considering that another part to Naruto's senjutsu training was him controlling his wrath and fury; due to how he so easily let's himself get caught up within its grasp to the point where he was almost addicted to his own wrath.

"Well what do you expect from me? Because in case you haven't in noticed, if there ever was a definition for wrath my face would be front and center in the dictionary. So excuse me if I'm not the poster boy for being well put together." Naruto retorted semi heatedly considering that his one defining trait for so long was his wrath

"I know that better than anyone, considering I helped train with you and that your pretty much like a second son to me. Yet I also know that your wrath isn't just what defines you and in fact that you've got something greater than that." Jiraiya spoke hopping down towards his surrogate son

"What's that?" Naruto asked as to what he had within that was greater than his own wrath

"Its your willpower. Since I've rarely seen anyone with that much willpower and grit in them. Because you forget that it wasn't your wrath that got you to where you are today. But it's because you've got so much willpower and stubbornness; that if I ever had to choose a successor as the Toad Sannin. Then it'd be you, because there's no other person I can think of that'd be worthy to replace me." Jiraiya answered back knowing that Naruto's almost ungodly amount of willpower was what truly made him the almost unstoppable threat he was today

"Thanks I appreciate it. It's just that throughout most of my life it's felt like I've had to rely on my rage for so long just to get by and get stronger It almost feels strange to consider that I was also driven by my will when to be something greater, when my rage was what guided me for so long." Naruto replied considering that for so long his homicidal rage and wrath were what guided his actions for so long

"Since it feels weird that now to get stronger, that I have to draw not from rage anymore. But from my own strength of will is something that is strange to hear myself say." Naruto added as he felt strange to know that if he'd want to gain anymore power then he couldn't dependably straw on his rage and wrath any longer

Which to the Leviathan felt alien to him, because of the fact that for all of his life he only really knew how to draw on his homicidal rage to keep him going; while his indomitable willpower was for the most part always an afterthought. Therefore to have to flip the switch and no longer draw on what's been the primary motivator of his life….well it felt as though it were a complete and utter reversal of his entire character as a whole.

"Well we all have to change to get to where we need to. Which means you aren't exempt from this at all Naruto. After all I've gone through more than my fair share of changes in order to not be the strongest of the Sannin. But also the fact that I've gone through more than my fair share of changes, so that I could find my long lost daughter; in the hopes that when I found her again. That I could be a good father to her, like I should've been." Jiraiya told him considering that he himself had gone through a number of changes in order to find his child that was taken from him

"And have you gotten any closer to find her?" Naruto questioned his teacher and surrogate father

"Yes actually as after years of searching and tracking her whereabouts, I've finally found out where she is." Jiraiya told him with elation in his voice considering that after so long he'd manage to finally track down his daughter

"Really where's she at?" Naruto further questioned as to where Jiraiya

"She's where the civil war is going on at." Jiraiya informed Naruto as to the whereabouts of his daughter

"Huh now that's a coincidence if I've ever seen one. Then again if she's like you, she probably couldn't allow for what's been going on to continue whatsoever." Naruto noted the coincidence of this situation

"Also whose side is she fighting on anyways?" Naruto asked further in wanting to know whose side she was on

"She's been fighting with the rebels for a little over a year now and in fact next to the leader of the rebellion, is there strongest war asset." Jiraiya told him of the fact that next to Mei Terumi she was the strongest their was

"I guess it would make a lot of sense. After all strength probably runs in the family." Naruto remarked at the strength of his master's daughter

After all if you were the child of someone who was of Jiraiya's status and level of power, that it would be an understated given that you'd be a complete powerhouse; therefore it made him want to do one thing against his master's daughter and that being fighting her in an all out brawl.

"I know what you're thinking of Naruto, and no you can not fight against my daughter." Jiraiya told him knowing full well what the homicidal jinchuuriki had in mind

"But I wasn't gonna do anything that bad to rough her up." Naruto spoke as Jiraiya remained unconvinced

"Then how come you can't say it to me with a straight face?" Jiraiya inquired noticing that Naruto's silence and excitement betrayed him

"That's what I thought, now then get back to your meditation. After all senjutsu and the power that comes with it won't come to you so easily; if you don't put the work towards it." Jiraiya added as Naruto sighed and went back to trying to balance himself in order to gain access to senjutsu

"Soon that kick-ass senjutsu power is gonna be mine." Naruto thought as he went back to meditation


(3 days later, October 18th 996 S.E, Mt. Myoboku, 1:45 Pm)

It was a quarter till 2 as Naruto was hard at work trying to perfect the lightning release variant of his Rasengan and while it was progressing better than his trying to attain Sage Mode, it was still harder than his making the wind release variant.

"This is what I get for working with lightning, especially when its for making a Rasengan variant." Naruto remarked at the healing electrical burns on his hands

"I take it that your completing that new Rasengan of yours isn't going so well." Kurama noted at the burns on Naruto's hands

"Well I've managed to get it to remain in a stable shape, which was the easy part. But then the difficult part comes in which is keeping it contained inside itself...and is one of the reasons I don't really like to use lightning." Naruto told his tailed beast as to the problem he was having and his distaste for the use of said element

Because despite his affinity for destruction he did value control and efficiency in his abilities which was why he never really used lightning release or had trained in it, except to help in keeping his Swift Release up to par. Considering that unlike his wind or water release which were controllable despite their destructive capabilities, lightning on the other hand was erratic and not sustaining for ongoing assaults; to which he detested since his whole way of doing things was for long term destruction.

"So what is the problem that your having exactly?" Kurama asked as to what the defined problem he was having with the Rasengan variant

"Well it's like I just said I can get the shape to be maintained no problem, but keeping all of the power inside of it is where I'm coming up short on." Naruto spoke as his hands continued to heal

"Because the amount of lightning I'm having contained within in it, it's difficult to keep all of it within. Since I'm dealing with the most chaotic and erratic of chakra natures, it's made the task of keeping it all of the power together in one singular mass without hitting me difficult. Considering that I have to make it so that I don't sacrifice the power of it to keep it stable." Naruto explained the main problem he was having with the lightning release variant of his Rasengan

"Well like I said I'm not a genius on coming up with techniques. Considering that for the most part I've just excelled with just overwhelming force and just stuck with that, so I can't really help you out on this." Kurama told him considering that for all of his natural life he mainly just used pure destructive force and from there on just winged it

"Fair enough I suppose and I guess that's why we can get along so well. After all besides Haku there's nothing really that I love more than causing mass destruction." Naruto noted considering that next to his ice princess he loved destruction and murder as a close second

"You really care for her don't you?" Kurama questioned as Naruto sat down and sighed

"Of course I do, after all she's not only been the one woman I found that could actually put up with me despite all my rage and my compulsions to kill. Because she somehow sees beyond what I am and sees me as not just the the destroyer that I'm proud to be. But as someone that she saw as…..human and something that was worth loving." Naruto answered with a small smile that cracked itself across his face

"And because of that I found that beyond my being Leviathan; something that I will always find the utmost pride in being. That I have value as being human and not just a awesome weapon of mass destruction. Which is why I care and love her so much, since if she can see beyond all the rage and murderous desire to kill; then that's a woman I'd give my life for." Naruto added considering that he truly did love her for that

After all when someone like her can see beyond the wrathful killing machine that he enjoyed being and saw him as something beyond that...well she more than deserved his love and dedication, especially since she was the only woman that could put up with him.

"I can tell considering that she's been the focus on your mind since you've had your unofficial exile." Kurama replied as he felt it in Naruto's heart the love he had for the ice user

"Of course she would be. After all besides the old man, she's really the only one I've got looking forwards to coming home to." Naruto told the great kitsune as she was the one thing that made going back there an actual home

"Well maybe she's the answer to your mastering this lightning variant to your Rasengan." Kurama suggested to Naruto who had a semi thoughtful look on his face

"What are you getting at Kurama?" Naruto questioned the beast within himself

"That all this time you've been trying to control something as chaotic as the element of lightning without something in mind to focus it. Yet think everytime you've tried to keep it together what helped in making it become the most stable?" Kurama answered him considering that their had been a constant that had allowed for Naruto to keep it at its most stabilized

"You mean my thinking about Haku is what's gonna be the key to me mastering this? Are you sure all the trying to attain the power of Senjutsu isn't getting to you too?" Naruto questioned with scrutiny in his voice at the suggestion

"It is worth a shot. After all do you have any better ideas at this point?" Kurama countered as Naruto tried to come up with something to refute this but came up short

"Touche my good monster fox...touche." Naruto conceded to the monster fox within himself

That in mind he made a standard Rasengan as normal before summoning a clone that began adding lightning chakra to it, with forks of lightning arcing out of it as it began to expand and grow in power; that soon began to fill the air with the metallic smell of ozone. Yet while this was happening Naruto took a deep breath and focused on Haku from her smile that made his heart feel light as could be, to her presence that offered nothing but comfort when he wanted to hang someone by their entrails, or better yet when he'd get to sleep next to her and dream of peaceful slumber.

With him opening up his eyes to see a warbling mass of lightning twice the size of a football that was spiraling rapidly in his hand that had bolts of lightning shooting out in randomized directions, with Naruto smirking at the incomplete yet stable lightning release variant to his Rasengan.

"Well will you look at that..I was right after all." Kurama spoke as Naruto smiled at the raw power he held in his hand

"Hey don't ruin this for me Kurama. As I finally have found the missing piece of the puzzle and all it took was my ice princess. Who would've thought." Naruto chuckled to himself at the fact that Haku had been the key to his mastering this

"Since even in spirit you're still helpin' me out." Naruto thought with mirth

"So where do you go on from here?" Kurama questioned Naruto as to where he'd progress in his variant of the Rasengan

"Easy enough as now I just focus on keeping the shape in a more stabilized form and from there on I'm good." Naruto answered back

"Hey boss you may want to pay attention." Clone Naruto told his creator as the lack of focus to the Rasengan was causing it to go haywire

"What do you need me too...oh shit." Naruto cursed before his lack of attention towards it caused it to explode in a blast of electromagnetic force and lightning

"Alright….mental note….pay attention to the raw mass of concentrated lightning or else you'll get exploded." Naruto coughed as he sustained electrical burns from the lightning variant exploding point blank in his face


(The next evening, 6:30 Pm, October 18th 996 S.E, Mt. Myoboku)

It was soon the next evening as Jiraiya was looking up at the evening sky, with thoughts of his impending meeting with his long lost daughter running through his mind on a endless loop.

"Everything alright their Jiraiya?" Naruto asked the pensive toad sage

"I'm fine just thinking about how for the better part of my adolescence and young adulthood of how I wasted my time on Tsunade." Jiraiya half lied as thoughts of the other loyal sannin was on his mind as well as his daughter

"I don't get how or why you would've wasted anything on her. Since she's just nothing but an self absorbed alcoholic that burns through money faster than my falchion goes through a body." Naruto wondered as to why he'd even spare a moment's time on someone like her

"Because Naruto as a fellow bastard and orphan I wanted someone that would give me the time of day. I didn't really care if it was negative or positive at the time so long as it was something. Which is why when I had been partnered up with Tsunade who was not only the First Hokage's granddaughter but also one of the best up and coming medics around. Then how could I not just for one moment of her life, want her to look at me as something more than just another no talent orphan who wanted to see some skin." Jiraiya answered back since that was all that he ever wanted from Tsunade or from any girl really

"I never really knew that about you. As how come you never told me any of this?" Naruto questioned the toad sage

"It never really came up in conversation." Jiraiya told him as Naruto shrugged at the answer

"Fair enough I suppose, but then again I do gotta ask how did you ever go from pining after Tsunade to meeting your wife?" Naruto asked once more as Jiraiya smiled at that

"Well that's an easy one as it was during the war and to be honest she reminds me a lot of how you are….minus the whole psychotic need to murder." Jiraiya answered back before continuing

"As she wasn't afraid of damn thing, never backed down even when she was getting her teeth kicked in and stubborn to no end just like you, not to mention aggressive as all get out. Since I've never seen someone beat up the daimyo's cousin and his guards, because they not only hit on her but also tried to outdrink her." Jiraiya spoke in fond memory of his now deceased wife as the aggressively vibrant woman she was in life

"Wow she sounds amazing." Naruto said liking the sound of her

"She sure was and their is one thing that I know in the depths of my heart concerning her. And that is she was the best decision I'd ever made in my life." Jiraiya replied considering that throughout his 51 years of living his late wife was one of the best he'd ever made

Because next to having trained Minato, his having his now long lost daughter and helped in training/raised Naruto; his having met and soon later spent over a decade with his late wife was the best decision he'd ever made in his life and one that he treasured above all else.

"Well is there some cool stuff that you two did together when she was still around?" Naruto questioned in wondering if there was anything awesome they did back in the day

"Let's see there was this one time where it was just me and her against half a battalion of Kumo ninja and managed to take out the former jinchuuriki of the 2 tails to boot. And in its full form no less." Jiraiya answered back causing the homicidal young man's jaw to drop at that

"Holy shit that sounds so damned cool!" Naruto spoke with stars in his eyes at the feat described

"Yeah as you should've seen her in action Naruto. As after having taken multiple B-ranked and A-ranked lightning jutsu to the face she not only managed to keep going, but somehow had the audacity to call them pussies for hitting her harder. Since she was nothing if not a juggernaut with that axe of hers." Jiraiya recounted at the sheer durability and constitution his late wife had

"Not to mention the fact that like you she's was inhumanly strong seeing as how even without the use of her axe she quite literally tore a maple tree from its roots, and then proceeded to beat him with it like he was a mere child. As you should've seen the look on that man's face when she used a fully grown tree to spank him in his fully transformed state like he was a toddler." Jiraiya added as the scene was as amazing as it was comical to see a tailed beast get spanked with a maple tree

"Alright that sounds completely cool as all hell." Naruto responded finding such a thing to be so awesome

"It sure was and I'm pretty sure you two would've gotten along great. Considering you two are so much alike that it ain't even funny." Jiraiya said knowing that his late wife and Naruto would've gotten along quite well had she lived

"Well she sounds like a hell of a woman, that's for sure." Naruto spoke finding Jiraiya's wife so far to be an incredible woman

"She sure was Naruto, as she was the first woman to make me feel like I was somebody. And part of the reason I am who I am today." Jiraiya said as a smile came across his face at the memories he shared

"Heck she would even help me with my research, something that I'd never thought I'd see any woman do in my lifetime. Yet here was this woman who made me feel actual love, wanting to share in what I did and be apart of that." Jiraiya added as he chuckled a bit at the memory of when he and his wife used to go and do research for his novels

"Now that sounds like you guys were a match made in heaven for each other, as what happened to her that caused her to….ya know?" Naruto questioned as Jiraiya let out a weary sigh

"What caused her death is one of the reasons as to why I'm not particularly fond of Tsunade. Because it was thanks to her inaction and drowning herself in so much liquor that I'm sure she had to get a kidney transplant, that my wife is now dead. Which is why to do this day I will hate her till the end of my days." Jiraiya answered with bitterness and scorn aimed towards the slug sannin at her own inactions and selfishness that led to his wife's untimely death

"Well I guess that's another one to the list of reasons why I hate her." Naruto spoke finding rage bubble up in knowing the alcoholic excuse for a medic played a part in his surrogate father's wife's death

"You and me both Naruto. Anyways I'm going to go as I want to work on something that I've been practicing with." Jiraiya told him as he left the jinchuuriki

"Alright and see you later." Naruto replied as he went elsewhere to practice his lightning release variant to his Rasengan

"I swear that you would've liked the kid, after all this time it's damned shame that we never got the chance to start our family together like you always wanted." Jiraiya spoke to himself as reached under his shirt and took out a silver and brass locket

"Because no matter how many time I try to look at it otherwise, you were and always will be my better half and I am still so sorry I couldn't have saved you. As maybe one day when I'm in the afterlife you can forgive me for not only having failed you, but our daughter as well." Jiraiya added as he looked at the picture of him and a woman with vibrant ruby colored hair and golden orange eyes


(The next morning, Naruto's mindscape, October 19th 996 S.E, 2:46 Am)

It was 14 minutes till 3 in the morning as Naruto was within his mindscape due to the fact that his mind was restless, what with the fact that he no longer had Haku with him he was left with now many a restless night as he tried to sleep but couldn't.

"Another restless night I assume." Kurama said as Naruto was staring up at the ethereal looking sky

"You struck it in one Kurama, as things really aren't the same without her next to me. Because at least if I had her then I could have peaceful rest. But now that I'm training without her here, then that's next to impossible." Naruto replied considering that without Haku his nights were now the often restless ones prior to when he met and then fell in love with her

"Take it from someone who's had to be on the run from humans and then imprisoned in one flesh and bone prison cell to the next, that nights like what you have and used to before you met the woman will become a normality. Because between the two of us I know that better than anyone." Kurama told him considering that with how his life had played out since the humans discovered the sealing arts his having restless nights became practically routine, especially when he was forced into being imprisoned

"The thing is that I'd hoped that it wouldn't return to what is was, before they came along and ruined everything for me and before I met her. Because the thing is Kurama she made everything better." Naruto spoke as his blue eyes stared back up at the starry sky

"Because at least when I had her by my side I knew that I had something to come home to after missions and someone that made me feel for the first time in a very long time….human." Naruto added as whenever he was with Haku he felt that he could act as though he were really human and not a force of pure destruction

"So what are you saying then? Are you telling me that you've grown tired of the rush of tearing someone in half and causing destruction?" Kurama asked as Naruto merely scoffed and let out a laugh that to any sane person would sound horrifying

"That's funny Kurama. As I will never get tired of splitting someone open with my sword, or tearing their limbs off with my bare hands or causing nothing short of annihilation with all the powers I have at my disposal. For that is something that will never change." Naruto spoke because his love for murder and destruction was as great as his love for Haku and in short would never die out

"Good to know Naruto. Because here I'd thought you'd gone soft on me." Kurama said as he let out a low chuckle at the thought of that

"And like I told you from the first day we met, I will always be who I was meant to from the start and that is a homicidal little bastard that will destroy all or nothing in my sights." Naruto replied as that was the person who he was at his core, nothing more than a murderous bastard that enjoyed the thrill of killing

After all Naruto just eventually accepted and embraced that he would always be a killing machine of pure destruction and would never let anything stop him from embracing what he was meant to be all along, which was a major part of the reason as to why he cast out the light from himself and banished it to the furthest corners of his own mind.

"Yet despite all of that Haku for some reason that I can't understand sees me as something more than that, and actually sees me as a human being worth loving as ludicrous as that sounds. Which is why I can't help but love her. Since she's able to see me as something greater than what I've been. So I can't help but try to be a better man when I'm with her." Naruto told the great kitsune as Haku was what compelled him no matter what to try and be a better man

"I guess I can't argue with that. Since I used to have someone who made me feel the same way, but that was before my own immortality came to be my greatest misfortune." Kurama replied with a somber look in his large ruby colored eyes

"You mean the Sage of Six Paths?" Naruto questioned as Kurama nodded

"The very same man and my father." Kurama answered back

"Because I used to hold hope for humanity as he did and at first I tried to be a guardian for them. After all we tailed beasts were meant to be guardians and protectors, so I'd thought why not try to live up to that. But your kind is warlike and hardwired for violence, no matter how much they try and say otherwise under the veil of wanting peace and unity. Which is why it took them no time in which the majority of them saw my as a mere mindless monster made of chakra and attacked me over and over, as I was forced to defend myself against them." Kurama spoke as in the past he'd tried to be humanity's guardian but their ignorance and fear they tuned to violence against him

"And overtime I gradually lost hope as I saw that no matter what I tried to do to help, or how I tried to protect them from themselves it would just kept repeating. With it only getting worse when I was sealed and saw more of how they were, because I saw their hypocrisies of how'd they preach for peace and unity one moment. But soon enough they'd behead and slaughter as though it were nothing but child play in the very next few moments." Kurama further added in seeing the hypocrisies of man throughout the generations as time went on

"What's the point your trying to get at?" Naruto questioned in not fully grasping what the kitsune was trying to get across to him

"It is that while you should try to be a better man, pray that you don't do as I have Naruto. For I have lived for far too long Naruto and because of that my hope for humanity and anything ever truly changing has died out. Which is why you should hope and pray that you die a happy life, because when you live for too long as I have you see the world and everyone around it for what they really are. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling inside." Kurama replied as he truly envied humans in that regard in their ability to have something finite

Because the great kitsune had tried for so long to do what his father had created him for and be a guardian for the humans he gave chakra too, but every time they long since continued to abuse the gifts bestowed upon them. And as they turned it against him despite his efforts to do right by him and his having seen too much of their atrocities over the countless decades, he eventually had just lost hope in their abilities to change and seen too many hypocrites and fallacies that he truly wished he could move on from this plane of existence, but yet and still he was unable to and all because of him having to be one of the 9.

"You won't have to worry about that Kurama, because once everything is said and done and I've wiped the Akatsuki off the map. Then I'm going to get to work on making sure no one can ever imprison you again and then I'll live out the rest of my days with Haku, as long as time permits me too." Naruto swore to the massive kitsune that brought a fanged smile to its face

"Well at least I know that I can always count upon you, since out of all my hosts I've had. You've been the only one that has come to truly understand me and because of that I thank you." Kurama told him considering that Naruto was his favorite for the sole reason that he was the only one out of them that took time to know him beyond a beast of burden

"It's no problem. After all we're both monsters and therefore us monsters have to stick together." Naruto replied as he leaned back against one of the massive legs of the great 9 tailed demon fox

"Indeed as maybe one day it'll happen where I'm finally free and no longer have to worry about being weaponized any longer. But until then I'll do my best to fight alongside you, as you are the only one who I trust to use the full might of my power." Kurama said as Naruto was the only one he trusted to use the full destructive might of his chakra

"Thank you I appreciate it. Now then if you don't mind I have some sleep to catch up on." Naruto spoke as he closed his eyes and tried to go into peaceful slumber

"The only thing I have to worry about now is us going against those bastards in those cloaks…." Kurama said before he thought he saw something in the grasslands that made his eyes widen

"Scratch that it seems there is more to worry about, because it seems as though Naruto didn't fully banish the light inside himself after all." Kurama thought to himself as his eyes took in the appearance of the figure that said something that caught the foxes attention

With it looking like a body double of Naruto except vastly more pale and gaunt with eyes full of hope and none of the manic and homicidal mirth that pervade Naruto's expression, with him wearing brown and black rags like a beggar as blonde and crimson hair went down to his waist in a tattered mess. As he spoke one sentence before the darkness pulled him back into the depths of Naruto's mind once more.

"He will never get rid of me. As the light always finds a way to shine on even pitch black shadows." The double of Naruto said cryptically before the shadows took him

So then with progress in Naruto's training being made it seems as though things are on a slow upswing for him as the bond between him and Jiraiya strengthens. For find out how Naruto shall grow in power in the new chapters of Naruto: The Leviathan Chronicles.


Hello everyone and sorry about the long wait and all as it was due to writers block and because of some harassment from a reviewer that goes by KamiKageRyuuketsu who had pretty much made updating the story feel like more of a chore than actual fun. Because whenever you wanna do stuff like what he goes on about in the reviews it extremely takes the fun out of updating my stories and slows it down greatly, but with that out of the way let's get to it.

First up we've got a bit between Naruto and Jiraiya in Naruto's attempts to do meditation for Sage Mode. Which I thought would be a bit nice in showing Naruto's normally violent nature conflicting with his attaining Sage Mode, while also getting to set up the fact that Naruto and Jiraiya will be encountering Jiraiya's daughter during the civil war.

Following that up we've got a bit between Naruto and Kurama when Naruto is making his Lightning release variant to his Rasengan. Something that I thought would be a neat little process to show and a bit of showing how he's going to go about creating and finalizing it into it's finished product.

Next up we've got Naruto and Jiraiya having a bit of a moment in which Jiraiya recounts what his late wife was like, which I thought would be nice to expand upon considering that not many people touch up on the fact that it would've been possible for him to have a love life. Which is a real shame when you think about it.

Lastly we got a moment between Naruto and Kurama which I thought was cool in further expanding upon their relationship with one another, not to mention the little surprise a put at the end of the chapter.

With all that being said please remember to favorite, follow, review and share this story out as possible also thanks for all the support you guys have given the story so far. Also remember flames will be ignored since they aren't worth my time and constructive criticism is welcome so long as it well thought out and reasonable as well as it making sense.

That being said this is Pravus666 signing out until next time, as the next chapter will be of Sasuke going out on his ride along mission with Hawk so stay tuned for that.

Part 1 Theme Song: Mercury Shadow by Soilwork

Random End Song: Lesson Learned by Alice in Chains