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Demon/summon talkings

Demon/summon thoughts

Thoughts

--The next morning--

The trio had woken up without any problems the following morning and quite cheerfully one might add, seeing as Haku and Reina just had their "fix" leaving them in a great mood.

When the trio had arrived at the training grounds at the designated time, they noticed Jiraya hiding, quite well too if not for Naruto excluding an enormous amount of chakra making any foreign chakra all too easy to sense.

"Jiraya-sensei, you can come out now," Haku called out in his direction.

In slight shock the Sannin walked out and decided to question them, "How did you all know I was there?"

"Well, Naru-kun here excludes plenty of chakra all the time, whenever we feel anything besides his it's all to easy to find," explained Reina.

Giving them a slight look of jealousy he began to talk, "Well, congratulations on that, you found me even though I was using some of my legendary cloaking Jutsu, I can't help but wonder if you've all had experience in this field before, seeing as you are proficient in Covert Ops and you had almost no reluctance in choosing," he commented near mumbling to himself near the end.

With a slight nervous chuckle the trio replied in unison, "Of course not..."

Jiraya looked them over for a second before locking onto Naruto's seal which was showing outside his shirt for easy access should the occasion arise.

"You know," he began, "Being a sannin and all does give me lots of field experience... and I'd never seen a necklace like that before... except on one person,"

Slowly catching on the team began quickly thinking of a plan. At first they thought having a sannin sensei would be great, but now seeing and experiencing it a normal sensei who wouldn't be able to teach them anything would of been nice too.

While the team was thinking Jiraya continued, "There was a story about a mercenary who slaughtered a full bandit camp within an hour and disappeared before anyone could arrive, but they had missed one person allowing the story to be told," pausing for a moment, he continued, "They said the man went by the name of Ren Akashiya, and was described very similar to you, yourself Naruto, though he was said to have red eyes and silver hair, they said he had worked with two other members seeing as no single man could do that, but never actually seeing it they just called one member ghost who seemed to be disappearing and reappearing as though through the mist, and the other one shadow, seeing as it never left his side."

"Doesn't ring a bell does it Ren?" before the sannin could react he had 3 blades on him, one at his jugular, another above his heart, and the third above his liver.

"I think you may know too much," said Naruto, slowly making sure to emphasize every word.

"I think... you should... move," said Jiraya, eliciting plenty of confusion, soon the questions were answered as the clone exploded causing them all to jump back.

Looking around, the group saw Jiraya jumping into the woods, holding a sign that said 'catch me if you can'.

Feeling the thrill of the chase, they rushed off after him as if taking down their prey.

--in the forest just outside the training ground--

The trio had been able to catch glimpses of the sannin for over an hour but hadn't managed to catch up with him.

Reina had began to get impatient and wanted to release one of her seals and get it over with, but persuasion from Naruto that the whole village would come, stopped her in her tracks.

"Wow, what a sneaky bastard," commented Reina, running beside Naruto.

Suddenly 8 kunai were thrown at them from random directions, thinking quickly Naruto made three clones and had them all use kawamari on Reina, Haku and himself, placing them in harms away instead of the latter.

"Very nice," said Jiraya clapping on the branch of a tree nearby.

"You are such an annoyance, you know that right?" commented Haku idly before rushing him with a kunai.

"I know I am," he said before exploding and throwing Haku back.

"Wow another exploding clone, it's getting old," commented Naruto as he caught Haku and set her on her feet.

Jumping up they followed the old man's trail far along until they found him in the middle of a clearing.

Walking forward Haku was suddenly stopped by Reina.

Confused, Naruto pointed out the strange patches of dirt between the man and the trio.

"You've got to be kidding me," Reina said before tossing a rock into the clearing only to see it fly 80 feet into the air.

Thinking off the spot Naruto threw all the pebbles he could into the clearing hoping to blow the man up himself along with the entire field.

Suddenly a voice spoke up behind them, "Good job, but we're still not done yet," and once again Jiraya disappeared.

--Countless traps and ambushes later--

Naruto was becoming fed up with the dead ends. Coming up to another clearing they saw Jiraya but this time Naruto wanted nothing more to do than run over there and tear the old man's throat open.

"You know," said Jiraya, suddenly interrupting his thoughts, "It's perfectly safe this time, nothing in the clearing is going to hurt you," Naruto just laughed, "Fine, I promise on my title as Sannin that no harm will befall you if you enter this clearing," once again Naruto was cautious but the trio slowly walked out into the clearing.

"Any last words?" asked Naruto smirking before suddenly rushing the man.

"Just one, Activate," Suddenly with wide eyes Naruto grabbed both the girls and rushed out of the clearing fast as he could before he was frozen mid jump and suspended in the air.

"Stasis seals, interesting are they not?" commented Jiraya, plainly as if talking about the weather.

"You know, I really hate liars," said Naruto making sure to emphasize the word 'really'.

"Ah but if you remember, I said no harm will befall you and have you gotten any injuries yet? I don't think so, I just wanted to say... You pass."

The trio face faulted, "You mean this was just some kind of sick messed up gennin test?" asked Haku curiously.

"Yep" came his reply.

"But you know about the living outside the village part?"

"Yep" came his reply once again.

"And you're still going to train us?" this time asked Reina.

"Yep" repeated the Sannin.

"And is there a reason for this?" asked Naruto, becoming very irritant.

Suddenly smiling, Jiraya said, "Do I need a reason to train my godson?"

A/N:

Uh no excuse this time... just yeah... enjoy the story I suppose and I'll try updating somewhat... sooner

-The Purple Critic

P.S. I could use some Ideas... possibly... they'd be appreciated =)