Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto: Shippuuden, it is owned by Masashi Kishimoto.

Note: Primary pein (Yahiko) will just be called Pein. nothing else.

And also, there will be a huge Narusaku moment in a small bit of the chapter, if you don't like that then.. fuck off Narusaku is the primary couple.

Jiraiya enters sennin mode as the animal path summons a huge three headed wolf. To which Jiraiya summons a large toad to keep Jiraiya safe from it.

The large frog looks at Jiraiya "J-Jiraiya-sama..! I dont know if I can handle this guy!" He beats one of the wolf heads with a spiked club.

The white haired toad sage sighed at this "Do the best you can! I'll handle the rest of the Peins!" He then looks at Fukasaku and Shima "keep an eye out to make sure they dont try to attack me from behind.." they both nod slowly.

Yahiko-Pein then sticks his hand out "almighty push.." Jiraiya's eyes widen as he jumps out of the way of the pressure wave, he then runs over and punches Pein in the face. Then proceeds to roundhouse kick him in the gut.

"Jiraiya-chan! behind you!" his eyes widen at Fukasaku's warning, but it was to no avail as he gets a punch to the spine by the Preta-pein. who then proceeds to start sucking the chakra out of him.

Jiraiya then kicks the preta off of him, then runs at the human-pein, charging his attack in hand "Rasengan!" he hits human, sending him flying back.

"Almighty push!" his eyes widen as he gets sent flying back by Pein. Then finally crashes into a wall.

"Jiraiya-boy!"

"Jiraiya-chan!"

Jiraiya slowly pants as blood leaks out of his mouth. He wipes it away as he looks at the two "..I dont know how this fight'll turn out... but we got to take down at least one of them.." he then notices the animal-pein being held off by the frog summon.

He then smirks "and I know just how to do it.." he looks at the two frogs, who nod, knowing what they need to do. They jump off of Jiraiya and charge at animal.

"Magen: Gama Rinshō!"

"Magen: Gama Rinshō!"

They both shoot off a soundwave, locking the animal pein into a genjutsu. Jiraiya then charges up charging up a huge Rasengan in hand. "Chōōdama Rasengan!" He has the rasengan make contact with animal, shredding up its insides and most of its outsides.

After the blast clears, Animal falls limp on the floor. Jiraiya quickly pulls out a scroll and seals animal into it. He then hands it to Fukasaku and Shima. "Go! Now! I'll hold them off so you all can get away!"

Fukasaku looks at him in shock "W-What? dont be ridiculous Jiraiya-chan! You'll die if you fight him alone!"

Jiraiya looks to the side "...I know. That doesnt matter though! I've lived a full life!" he then turns around. after a moment of silence, and the peins staring at him waiting for his next move, he looks at them "Just... tell Tsunade and Naruto that.. I'm sorry." he then jumps off the building towards the Peins.

"JIRAIYA!"

Tsunade looks at Fukasaku in dead shock, her eyes widened a great deal as everyone just stares in silence. her bottom lip is quivering slightly, Shizune notices this, and bites her lip, she just knows the anguish her master- no.. her sister was going through.

Tsunade then breaks the silence "T-This cant be right.. How do you know he's dead!" everyone was shocked by her sudden outburst, Sakura wasn't though, she was too busy thinking of the worst to come.

'once Naruto finds out he'll...'

'shut himself out forever? probably...'

Fukasaku looks to the side with sadness written on his face "I checked the summoners scroll.. Jiraiya-chan's name disappeared a half hour after we left..."

Tsunade then punches her desk, a large crack goes straight through it. Everyone jumps at this sudden reaction, but they should've expected it. Jiraiya was her teammate... her friend.

During this tragic revelation, Naruto is walking upto the hokage tower, hoping to get a new mission, and a nice break from the village. He was sick of just about everyone there. Especially...

'Sakura-chan..'

"She's annoying ya that much, huh?"

'Well it's YOUR fault, dumbass! Ever since she started using that demon chakra shes been a bit more hesitant about things! its like shes scared and nervous all the fuckin time! Whats worst is that it all has to do with ME!'

"tsk, I didnt tell her to use it. She tapped into it on her own. Not my fault, kit."

'Tch.. whatever.'

Naruto then blinks when he sees Gamabunta, along with his two kids, Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, standing next to the tower. He hops upto them "Why're you guys here? Wait... is Ero-sennin back? That'd be the only reason you're here right?"

Gamakichi then reluctantly looks to the side "W-well.. Naruto.."

Gamabunta then gives him a sharp look "Quiet! It's not your place to tell him, son!" his son slowly nods as Naruto looks at all this in confusion.

"..What're you talking about?..." they stay silent, to this Naruto just walks past and up the stairs of the tower, then knocks on the office doors. "..Tsunade-baachan?"

"..come in..."

Naruto slowly walks in, and to his surprise, sees looks of pain, depression, and surprise. He just stares at them all "..what's going on? it's like someone died in here."

Tsunade then looks to the side, biting her lip. Naruto folds his arms "...you gonna tell me or what?" Fukasaku looks back to Naruto.

"So, you must be Naruto-chan. Jiraiya-chan told me a lot about you." Naruto raises an eyebrow to this, then shakes the little frogs hand.

"You must be pretty powerful if your calling him 'chan' like hes beneath you." Naruto smiles slightly at the old frog.

Fukasaku chuckles slightly "Well, I did teach Jiraiya everything he knows about the frog summon."

Tsunade then interrupts them "..Naruto.. About Jiraiya..."

"Yea, where is the old perv, honestly he promised to train me and its been a month since I last saw the old man."

Tsunade closes her eyes "..Jiraiya's dead."

Naruto looks at her, dead silent. Sakura at first expects him to not react, but her worst fears come to pass as his eyes widen and his mouth hangs open slightly "w..what?.."

Naruto slowly starts to shake slightly "...he..he's dead..?" he clenches his fists. he then hangs his head. "Tsunade... did you let Ero-sennin go on that mission..?"

Tsunade's lip begins to quiver again, shes trying really hard to remain strong, this however causes her to stutter, and her voice is slightly choked. "Y..yes.."

Then everyone was shocked beyond belief at what Naruto did next, He jumped at Tsunade in an attempt to attack her. Sakura manages to grab him in a hold when hes just inches away from her face.

Tsunade looks at him in utter shock as his red kyuubi eyes stare at her in hate "You old bitch! If you had told him to stay, HE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE!"

His eyes widen as he sees tears slowly running down her face, he then slowly calms down. She looks at him "I'm sorry Naruto... He told me to let him go... and I trusted his judgement..."

Naruto then stays silent as he gets out of Sakura's grip "...tch, whatever..." he punches the door, causing it to shatter as he walks out. They all stare in shock.

Tsunade hiccups slightly as she slowly wipes the tears from her face "Sakura... go to his house and wait for him there.. he'll need someone..." Sakura's eyes widen slightly from her masters request.

She then stutters slightly "B-but, Shishou shouldnt I stay with you..?"

Tsunade gives her a half hearted smile "I..I'll be fine... he'll need you though.. I can tell he's bottling up his pain..." Sakura slowly nods as she walks out, along with everyone else, except for Shizune, who then hugs the weeping hokage.

Naruto slowly trudges through the village, he feels like everything around him is non existant as his eyes stare directly at the ground infront of him. He feels a rock hit his head, but instead of ignoring the guy, he outright punches him in the face. Then he keeps walking.

'Ero-sennin...'

a short 12 year old Naruto stands in a field with Jiraiya "So what're you teaching me Ero-sennin? I bet its AWESOME!"

Jiraiya laughs at his student's antics "Well, Naruto." he then raises a finger "I'm going to teach you an enhanced form of the rasengan."

Naruto's jaw drops as drool hangs out "whaaaat? FUCKIN AWESOME!" Jiraiya laughs a little again

"calm down baka, here I'll demonstrate." he then starts forming the rasengan in his hand "then, once the rotation is at its maximum, start adding chakra to it." the rasengan starts growing "when you first start using this technique, take your time, alright? dont want the damned thing to explode on ya, right?"

Naruto jumps up and down in total giddyness "heheh! that is soo cool!"

Naruto then shakes his head as the memory stabs his mind, as if to rub in the fact that his teacher died. The memory echoes in his brain, he rubs his eyes as he keeps going.

The sun begins to set as he then sees a man, and his son together, eating popsicle sticks. Naruto's eyes widen slightly at this.

12 year old Naruto starts pumping chakra into a rubber balloon, his hands in total pain from the excessive chakra use. Once he feels the chakra is at its maximum, he presses down on the balloon "AUGH! THIS FUCKING HURTS!"

However, despite all the pain and agony, he only creates a small hole. He blinks at this and examines it "whaat..? thats it..?"

"So, I see you've finally made some progress." Naruto glowers at Jiraiya as he folds his arms like a little kid

"yea! and I did it with out your hel.. what're those for?" he notices the popsicle sticks in Jiraiyas hands, he breaks them apart, then hands one to Naruto.

"Here, a reward for making it this far." Naruto's eyes widen slightly, then starts smiling genuinely, not his traditional goofy one.

He then goes back to his goofy grin "Heheh! Arigatou!" he takes the offered popsicle and starts to eat it.

Naruto sits on a bench, the sun fully set. a light post turns on above him as he just sits with a melted popsicle stick in hand. He clenches his teeth as his eyes twitch slightly in pain from holding in his feelings.

"Naruto..."

His eyes widen as he looks up to see his old sensei Iruka standing infront of him, he has a look of concern on his scarred face. He then sits next to Naruto "..I'm sorry this happened to you."

Naruto just stares at the ground "..What do you mean?..."

Iruka sighs slightly at his student's monotone voice "Jiraiya-sama was like family to you, he took you in... He was like your grandfather."

Naruto sighs as he gets up "...I know..." he then looks at Iruka, and gives a bittersweet smile "Ya know... you always were like a father to me, sensei." Iruka stares at him in surprise, but only gives a smile in return.

Naruto then tosses the popsicle stick in the trash and stuffs his hands in his pockets "I'm gonna go home.. we can talk later, Iruka-sensei." He nods at this

"A-alright, Naruto." with that the blond haired young man slowly walks off, away from the ever concerned Iruka.

Naruto finally makes it to the door of his house, but when he starts fishing for his key, hes alarmed to see his door is unlocked. He opens it and looks around with his guard up "Whoever is in here, made a big mistake to try and catch me by surprise..."

"Would I really try doing that, baka?..."

He looks into the darkness of the living room to see the pink haired kunoichi he secretly cared for. He glares darkly at her "Why're you here Sakura..."

She flinched slightly at the lacking of 'chan' in his sentence, she could tell he was mad, she responded to him "I.. came to make sure you were okay."

He folds his arms as he closes the door "I dont need you checking up on me, dammit!" she jumped slightly from his raising voice. "You're the last person I wanted to see today! I could've handled Kakashi, or Tsunade-baachan, but not YOU!"

She was shocked-no, she was hurt by his words. However, she knew he didnt mean it. She knew that he was hurting and he didnt want her to see his emotions.

She folds her arms "Naruto, I dont care if you don't want to see me... I want to help you, to be here for you... Also, Tsunade-sama ordered me to stay here with you, so nothing you say can change my mind."

He growls at her as he starts shaking. Red chakra starts surrounding him, not the red chakra cloak though, the red chakra she had seen surround him during the chunin exams. His eyes glow red "GET OUT!" He whips his hands in an extreme motion "Why would you even care? You've never cared about me!"

Her eyes widened greatly by this outburst, she never heard this from him before. He only growls more "Besides, you could never understand.. YOU would NEVER understand what it's like to lose someone so dear to yo-"

*SLAP*

A loud smacking sound could be heard throughout the house. Naruto's head is turned in another direction, his eyes widened as they go back to their blue color. A bright red mark on his cheek from where Sakura had slapped him, hard.

He looks at her, and his eyes widen more to see tears running down her cheeks. She looks angry, upset, and hurt all at the same time "Dont you dare say another word, you bastard..." he just stays silent, with his mouth hanging open.

She looks up into his eyes "Do you even know what I went through when I thought you died? I made you go through hell! I drove you to dangerous training, and you nearly died because of it! I wanted to apologize to you, try to make up for the suffering I put you through for years!"

He just stares at her in utter shock, his inner defenses breaking as his emotions start leaking out. She's now screaming "When you were presumed dead, my world shattered! Without you around the team fell apart! You held it together when it was fractured! Without you around I fell apart! I barely talked to anyone, I only spoke to Tsunade-sama!"

"So dont you even for a FUCKING SECOND! Say that I never lost someone so dear to me!" she's taking slow breaths to recover from her screaming fest. then her eyes widen greatly to see something she never thought she'd seen. Tears began to run down Naruto's cheeks.

She put a hand over her mouth in utter shock "N..Naruto.. I-I'm so sorry! I-I was just angry, an-"

"No.."

she looks at him in surprise, he clenches his teeth as he tries to stop the tears, but they wont stop. "It wasn't what you said... Its just that.. its finally hitting me.." he looks up at the cieling, tears still falling.

"My grandfather is dead..."

He then breaks down into tears, Sakura wraps her arms around the blond haired boy as she sits down with him on the couch. He instinctively buries his face in her hair as he begins crying more. She hugs him tightly, tears are pouring from her eyes as well.

'you were holding a lot in too.'

'yea...'

They just sat there, in total silence as they both cried for what felt like hours. Eventually though, they both finally cried themselves out, and passed out in eachothers arms.

The next morning, Sakura slowly woke up with a small ray of sunlight peeking into the room. Her eyes slowly fluttered open as her vision blurred, getting used to the light. She then felt something warm engulfing her. She blinks and looks to see Naruto holding her as he sleeps peacefully.

Her face turns red quickly, but she smiles a little then relaxes again.

'oh yea, I could stay like this...'

'you pervert you.'

'whaat? its comfortable...'

'yea, I'm sure thats the only thing thats 'comfortable'. Does he got the infamous mornin wood?'

'shut up! I'm not talking about that!'

"Mnn..." She hears Naruto slowly wake up, getting used to his surroundings "Havent slept that good in a long ti- huh?" she looks up at him. They stare at eachother for about a minute before they quickly back off.

She coughs lightly into her fist "ahem.. Sorry about that."

He looks to the side "N-no it's cool..." They then sit there in the awkward silence.

Naruto leans back on his couch, looking over at the pink haired beauty before him "Sakura-chan..."

She looks at him "Yea?..." she was pretty happy he brought the honorific back.

"Why did you say all those things last night...? I'm pretty sure most of it you didnt need to say to me..." He guessed that question threw her off since her face burned red.

She definitely wasnt expecting it as she begins to stutter "W-well.. uh... um..." she then sighs again "It's because I meant it... Naruto, you mean a lot more to all of us then you think.."

He then does something she never thought he would ever do. He proceeds to wrap his arms around Sakura, and hug her tightly. While whispering a "Arigatou..." into her ear.

This makes her face burn a darker red "w-w-well.. Y-you're welcome." They then stare into eachothers eyes, entranced by eachother. They then instinctively start leaning in to kiss eachother. As they're but inches away though-

"Hey Naruto, you awake?" They both jump away from eachother, feeling their lives flash before their eyes.

Sakura gulps slightly "W-well, I should get going." she opens the window and jumps out of it, after saying goodbye.

As she's jumping from rooftop to rooftop, her face is glowing completely red

'were we seriously about to KISS?'

'Yea! you were so fuckin close too! Talk about bad timing! SHANNARO!'

'w..why did I feel so entranced by him...'

Naruto sighs slightly, then walks over to the door to see Shikamaru on the other side, he looks bored as usual.

Naruto blinks at this "Shikamaru? what're you doin here so early?" he groans in annoyance as he rubs the back of his head.

"Tsunade-sama told me to come and tell you to head to the hokage tower right away. She has some mission for you." Naruto looks at him in surprise, then slowly nods in confirmation.

At the hokage tower, Naruto walks through the door to see the blond haired hokage sitting there, she looked pretty tired. sitting on the table was Fukasaku. They both had smiles on there faces.

Naruto folds his arms, his expression a bit lighter than usual "So, why'd you call me on such short notice?"

Tsunade smiles slightly "Before that, I see you're in a better mood than usual, did something happen with my apprentice by chance?" She chuckles slightly as she sees the blond young man go a bit red in the face.

He quickly shrugs it off "Not the time Baachan..."

She nods as she waves him off. "Right right, anyways. Starting today, you will be going with Fukasaku to train to master something not even Jiraiya could."

Naruto's eyes widen at this "w-what? are you serious?"

Fukasaku smirks at the young man "That's right Naruto-chan. Go and get things ready, we depart immediately."

Naruto nods "hai, right away." he then vanishes, excited to get stronger.

'hrm.. I haven't seen you in this good of a mood for a long time.'

'yea.. I'm surprised by it myself... maybe its because I let out a lot of pent up feelings... or maybe its because I almost kissed the girl I've had a crush on for years... I dunno... Not like it matters, it was probably only a fluke, we were both still sensitive from the crying..'

A few hours later, he walks to the village gates, seeing Fukasaku waiting there along with Tsunade and Sakura.

Naruto walks upto the three and stretches his arms "Alright, lets get going. The sooner I can get this training done, the sooner I can kill Pein." He didnt realize it, but he got two looks of concern from the light blond and the pink haired women.

Fukasaku folds his arms "I'm glad to see you're looking forward to this. Say your good byes, we'll be done in about 2 months."

Sakura looks at them in surprise "W..wait.. Why can't I go with you?.. I'm sure Naruto'll need some medical help during his training."

Fukasaku looks over at the pink haired kunoichi "Sorry Sakura, Mount Myoboku can only be reached by those with the frog summon."

Sakura then sighs lowly, slowly nodding. Naruto looks over at her "I'll be back soon Sakura." he makes a very small smile "Hell, I'll be strong enough to bring Sasuke back to you..."

Her eyes widen greatly at this, she felt like punching him in the face in that instant, but she held back. Tsunade looks at the two in surprise, as Naruto looks over at Tsunade "see ya soon baa-chan."

With that, Fukasaku and the blond whiskered ninja vanish. Sakura then looks down, her fists trembling. Tsunade puts a hand on her shoulder "Sakura.. are.. you okay?.."

"Shishou.."

Tsunade looks at her in surprise "Y...yes?.."

Sakura looks at her master "Can you please help me push my abilities even further..?"

Tsunade blinks at this, then smiles slightly "Of course I can, Sakura. However, I want to know why.."

Sakura sighs at this "...Im nothing but a burden to Naruto... I want to show him that I am strong, and that I dont care for Sasuke anymore... He hasnt gotten that fact yet."

Tsunade chuckles slightly at this "alright..."

Sakura then blushes slightly "o-oh.. and.. um.. you know that offer you made when you first took me under your wing..?"

Tsunade then raises an eyebrow to this "offer?.. what're you-" she then sees how her student is reacting, then a sly grin appears on her face "ohh I get it, you want your boobs bigger for Naruto~"

A deep red covers Sakura's face, she then turns to Tsunade "T-That is so wh- I mean NOT what its for!"

Tsunade laughs at this "You're such a bad liar Sakura! hehe, alright then I'll help you."

Sakura sighs again "Why did I ask for this...?"

At Mount Myoboku, Naruto appears with Fukasaku infront of a group of frogs. The eldest and largest frog looked down at the blond jinchuuriki, then smiled "ah, so this is the young man that Jiraiya-chan had told us so much about.."

Naruto looks at him in shock, then looks at Fukasaku "w-who is that? and why is he so huge!"

Fukasaku looks at Naruto "this is Ogama Sennin, the oldest and wisest of us all."

Naruto blinks, then looks at the giant frog "oh, hey there Ojiji-sama." Gamabunta and Gamakichi facepalm from this, Fukasaku and Ogama just laugh a little.

Ogama looks down at Naruto, smiling a wrinkley smile "So, you're here to learn Sennin mode, I see."

Naruto blinks at this, then looks at Fukasaku "Sennin mode? What the hell is that?"

Fukasaku smirks at him "That is what you'll be training to learn and master, Naruto-chan. I'll explain more on the way to the training area."

After awhile-and a gruesome lunch-they both reach the training ground along with Gamakichi, Naruto stares at it in awe "whoa.. this place is amazing!"

Naruto looks at the sight before him, a large fountain with a strange liquid rushing out of it. the place surrounded by huge stone statues. Not only that, a plain water lake, perfect for sparring. Then in the distance, sharp pillars of rocks.

He then turns to Fukasaku, excited for his training "So, where do I start? I want to get this done!"

Fukasakus smiling face, then goes to a serious one "You cannot achieve Sennin mode." Naruto looks at him in shock, but he then puts a hand up "Atleast.. Not yet."

Naruto raises an eyebrow to this "Not yet?..What do you mean?.."

Meanwhile, in Konoha, Sakura is staring at two white pads with seals on them, her eyebrow twitching "..So, I'm supposed to put these on my chest Shishou?.."

Tsunade nods "Yes, er well, for this method. I would've normally used the method I used, but we dont have enough time. That took about a year for me, this is the faster.. and more painful method."

Sakura gulps at this, then slowly nods. Tsunade then smirks at her "You will wear them 24/7 for the next month! At first it'll be painful, then it'll be pleasurable. Once it doesnt affect you, then we'll know that they will no longer work. I will say this, by the end of this you'll have atleast C size breasts, I garauntee it!"

Sakura proceeds to facepalm at this "What about my other training?.."

Tsunade nods "Right. In the next two months I will raise your strength, endurance, dexterity, and healing abilities." she folds her arms in confidence.

Sakura smiles brightly "Really? Arigatou, Shishou!"

Tsunade then laughs "Now put those things on, we're starting training immediately!"

Sakura begins to flush as her eye twitches "Shishou is a pervert.."

Fukasaku raises his hand to Naruto, raising three fingers "You must overcome three stages of emotion in order for you to both achieve and master Sennin mode."

Naruto's eyes widen slightly "emotion..?"

Fukasaku folds his arms as he nods "Yes, it'll go from least important, to most important, least emotional, to most emotional." Fukasaku then stares right at Naruto, as if looking into his soul.

Fukasaku then raises one finger "First stage, Anguish and depression!" He palm thrusts Naruto's chest, sending him flying into the lake.

Naruto quickly recovers as he stands on the water "what the fuck old man!"

Fukasaku then appears infront of him "You must-and without the Kyuubi's help-realize that bottling your emotions is not the answer. They will only hold you back." Naruto stares at him in surprise.

Fukasaku continues "You showed potential the night you grieved over Jiraiya-boys death. However, you need to show more emotion, otherwise you'll lose yourself forever... Even the most battle hardened warriors, will open themselves to emotion."

He then turns around "I'll give you a week to meditate, review your life, and overcome this barrier." With that he walks away.

Naruto sighs lowly, then meditates on the water. He stares at his reflection, only for himself to be swept up by darkness, and turning into the kyuubi. His eyes widen at this.

'What is this lake..?'

He looks back in the water, he sees Sasuke driving a chidori at him. Iruka turning away from him when he was young, everyone turning their backs on him. He clenches his teeth. The fourth Hokage sealing the Kyuubi into him with a smirk on his face. His eyes widen even more as a younger Sakura is glaring at him "I hate you, Naruto."

His head shoots back, he begins catching his breath as tears run down his face "W..What the fuck..."

In Konoha, at a training field. Sakura is being beaten around by Tsunade, in an attempt to get stronger. Sakura avoids one of her punches, only to get kicked in the face. Tsunade smirks "Whats wrong Sakura? Having a hard time keeping up?"

Sakura lands on the water, catching her breath "Yea! These patches fuckin hurt! There taking up a lot of my concentration!" She then gets dropped kicked by Tsunade into the water.

After awhile, she pulls her way out of the water. She's slowly catching her breath as she wipes blood off of her mouth.

Then, simultaneously, Naruto and Sakura both say to themselves-

"This is gonna be a lot harder than I expected..."

Now we are back to the good characters! My concentration is finally here!

Im sure you already noticed, but yes I'm going to be doing it from a normal P.O.V from now on. cause I was starting to get annoyed with the whole jumping from one P.O.V to another, I'll only do personal P. for certain moments.

Okay, now we're in the Pein saga, officially. Dont worry though, after this saga the story is irradically different, fuck the shinobi war crap that shit was stupid. and Yes, I wasnt going to make it easy for Naruto, he has to deal with the emotion test lol. Though that'll only last for.. another chapter.. I think.

Now for Sakura, yes she's training at the same time as Naruto. Only... hers is more deadly lol. Also, yes, I'm gonna run the whole 'Sakura is flat' joke into the ground. Cause Im just that evil! lol.

anywho, later bitches!