Naruto: The Third Eye

Kyuubi Talking

'Thoughts'

Flashback

Chapter Twelve: The Hermit Known as Jiraiya

After getting bit of medicine that Haku made for Naruto, he was able to speak again, but just by enough. After thanking Haku, he headed out with his a bag of supplies for long term training including food and began to figure out what he should do for his one month training. On his way to the river where he had trained since meeting the Kyuubi for the first time, his sharp hearing picked up a giggle. Naruto had walked this path many times, but he never heard giggling.

'Probably a pervert or something.' Naruto thought since he always passed a bathhouse on his way to train.Ignoring whatever was going on, he went on his way.

When Naruto got to the training field he opened his mental link with Kyuubi. Seeing as he taught him shinobi skills since the tragic accident, he hoped that his sensei would teach him something.

"No, I won't train you."

'What? I didn't even ask you yet.'

"Okay, brat do you want me to train you?"

'Yeah sure!'

"Well too bad! I'm not going to train for the third part of the Chunnin Exams. Hahahahaha!" Kyuubi laughed manically at the expression Naruto made when he heard what he said.

'What? Why not?'

"Simply because I have nothing to train you in as of now. I will train you again when the time comes, but for now get training from someone else."

'I don't know who else can train me.' Naruto thought sounding annoyed.

"Well there's Kak-"

'Wait I hear something. Sounds like screaming or something and it's heading this way!' Indeed it was screaming as Naruto said. It was as if someone was running for their life and for what reasons he did not know. Naruto did the best thing possible. He decided to hide nearby to know what was going on.

A little while later the scream was getting louder signifying that the person was approaching. The man came into view. He was an older man with a huge scroll strapped to his waist and he had long white hair and had these red lines on his face. The screaming, not only was it coming from the man, but from many females that were clad in only towels chasing the man down. The man was running so fast that he did not see that there was a bag in his path and he tripped. This was not the man's lucky day and the women, well basically beat the crap out of him. Naruto flinched as he heard the man's screaming and was quite afraid of what females could do when angered. These were some of the reasons he was glad he could not see what was going on. Kyuubi, however saw everything and was telling Naruto what was going on. After the screaming had subsided and all the women left, Naruto walked over to the figure on the ground and prodded him with a stick.

"Hey, you okay?" Naruto asked. His response was a groan from the older figure and nothing more. Dragging him over to a nearby tree he left him there till he regained consciousness.

One Hour Later...

The unconscious figure was regaining consciousness and his groaning was caught Naruto attention as he headed towards the sound. The first thing the old pervert saw was spiky blond hair and and sunglasses.

"Hey, are you okay old man?" Naruto asked. If the old guy wasn't so disorientated he would have knocked some sense into him for his remark. Instead he answered. "I been in worse situations..."

"So anyways, who are you?" Immediately as if he was never beat up at all he got up and struck a pose while dancing and saying a bunch of random stuff like how he was the great sage of a mountain many people have never heard of and then he introduced himself as 'The Great Jiraiya', which earned him a sweat drop from not only Naruto and the Kyuubi, but as well as the surrounding wildlife and maybe the trees as well.

"Anyways, who the heck are you kid?" Jiraiya said while staring intently at the younger boy. He reminded Jiraiya of 'him'.

"Uzumaki Naruto, future hokage of Konoha!" Naruto replied with enthusiasm. Jiraiya stiffened a bit at the name, but then he smiled inwardly at how much sounded like his old student. Naruto felt different emotions coming from the man and thought he might be one of the people who thought he was Kyuubi.

"So anyways what happened?"

"Well I'm not sure, but I assumed you were the one peeking at the bathhouse and you must have been caught peeking and the all the women chased you all the way here and then you tripped. From there, it was horrible to describe what happened, but at least your alive."

"Wait how did I trip?" Naruto pointed at the bag on the ground. "So it's your fault I'm in this state."

"No it was your fault for being a pervert in the first place, ero-sennin!"

"Brat, don't call me that, and by the way I never get caught!"

"Well you must have been caught or you wouldn't be your state."

"Oh wait I remember something happening..."

Flashback...

Jiraiya was having a great time peeking. He had forgotten how awesome the women here were being gone for a few years. If he wasn't so involved in his 'research' he would've heard someone coming. The person was none other then Zabuza who was whistling to himself while doing his community service by cleaning out the hot springs outside of the women's bathhouse.

Zabuza was pissed that he had to do community service for blowing up a training field and damaging some nearby buildings with the chakra that was released from the blade from a single swing. Naruto had made a new addition to his zanbato and when he returned it, the blade had turned to a blood red color. When Zabuza asked what he did to it he only replied that he had forged a piece of metal he had found into it. Saying that Zabuza had a great swordsman spirit and would be able to handle the power that is exuded from it while others would be corrupted by blood lust.

Anyways while he was cleaning it out he backed into Jiraiya and caused him to fall over. Picking himself he turned to glare at Zabuza and started to yell at him.

"What the heck? Watch where your going? Can't you see I'm in the middle of important research!?"

While he was saying this women began to throw various object at him and was chased away. Zabuza stared to see the legendary toad sennin run away in fear.

'Eh, whatever. It's not my problem.' And with that Zabuza got back to cleaning. He also happened to pick up a notebook. The contents inside caused Zabuza to fall over blood spewing from his nose.

End of Flashback...

"...And that's what happened." Jiraiya said as if he was a kid explaining to an adult why it wasn't his fault.

'The guy he described must've been Zabuza.' Naruto summed up. "Well anyways, I gotta get back to training, ero-sennin."

"Don't call me that! So what are you training for?" Jiraiya asked.

"For the finals of the Chunnin Exam of course! Passing this will get me another step closer to being hokage!"

"Hmm...how about I offer to train you?" Jiraya said.

"Why should I take training from a pervert?"

"Brat, didn't I say I'm the great Jiraiya of the Sannin!"

"No, you said something about a mountain and saying the great and handsome Jiraiya."

"Oh..." Jiraiya said face faulting.

"If you really are Jiraiya, then your the student of the old man and also trained the Fourth..." Naruto said in wonder.

"Yep, getting training from me is something I don't offer just anyone. So it would be wise to accept it."

"Sure, I accept. I was just told I wouldn't receive anymore training from my...uh...furry red friend."

"Brat! I'm not furry. My coat is sleek and shiny!"

"You were trained by the Kyuubi? Why would he offer to train you?"

"Well it was only because I was helpless without my eyesight and the Kyuubi didn't want such a weak container and ended up helping me out through my years before the academy." Naruto explained. "Personally, though, I think he took pity on me and actually cared for me like a parent would. So for that I owe him a great deal." Naruto finished with respect in his voice.

"Sniff...that really got to me. No! What's this I'm crying? NOO! I'm getting too soft! I'm a demon dammit. I'm a demon! I don't have a heart..."

Naruto mentally laughed at his friends predicament and would remember to use it for black mail material.

As Naruto had finished Jiraya had many things go through his head. Like how did he lose his eyesight? And if the Kyuubi was really all that evil then he wouldn't have helped the boy this much. He would go to his sensei later to ask what had happened in the past few years.

Naruto spoke up seeing Jiraiya had become silent. "Well if your gonna help me train then let's get started."

"Oh right! Okay let's begin then. So for starters do you have any summons?" Naruto shook his head. "I didn't expect you too. So here the question. Would you like make a contract with the toad summons?"

Naruto thought about it. 'Hmm...maybe I mean the Fourth used toads and so does the Jiraiya. What do you think Kyuubi?'

"Take the offer. I respect the toads after there chief stood up to me with the Fourth during the attack. If I know something about toad summons, then it's that they don't lack courage to stand up to beings stronger then themselves."

"Okay, I'll take up that offer." Jiraiya nodded and unrolled the scroll on his back.

"Now sign your name in your blood with your dominant hand." Naruto bit his thumb and did so. Jiraiya showed him the hand signs for the Kuchiyose no Jutsu. "Now as you perform the summon push as much chakra as you can so that the more chakra the bigger summon."

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" There was smoke and what stood there was...

'This is...' Jiraiya thought.

'Is this what I summoned?' Naruto thought at the same time.

"A tadpole!?" They both yelled at the same time staring at the tadpole.

"Maybe I expected too much of you brat."

"No I just need to practice. It's not like you didn't have the same problem when you first started summoning toads."

"And how would you know that brat?"

"The old man told me about his students when I was younger. " Was Naruto's reply.

"Hmmph!"

"Okay time to get serious then. Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Several Naruto poofed into existence and all began doing the same hand seals for the summoning.

"Kage Bushin? Guess your smarter then you look."

An Hour Later...

Naruto regained all the knowledge he gained over the last hour and felt confident in summoning a bigger toad this time. Jiraiya was bored of watching Naruto, but luckily for him a few young girls arrived to entertain Jiraiya in his research so he sat their giggling for the past hour. He was disappointed that he lost his notebook and would go look for it later.

"Hey ero-sennin, I'm about to do my summoning now. Care to watch?" Getting no response from the super pervert. He began to do the seals putting as much chakra as he could into the technique.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" This time instead of a tadpole, he was actually able to summon the boss toad! The giant toad boss know as Gamabunta stood there in all his glory while all the girls Jiraiya was watching, screamed in fear and ran away. Jiraiya looked was amazed that Naruto was able to summon the boss during the past hour he was training.

'JIRAIYA! Why have you summoned me!? The great toad demanded.

"Uh..." Jiraiya gulped. "I didn't summon you it was the blond brat." Jiraiya said pointing to the Naruto on top of the great toad's head.

"You expect me to believe that this blond brat was able to summon me!?"

"Well the boy has great potential, just like 'him'."

Gamabunta stared up at the blond jinchuuriki on his head and realized what Jiraiya meant by 'him'. "What is your name!?" the toad boomed.

Naruto jumped at the volume the boss spoke in, but quickly replied. "Uzumaki Naruto, sir! Future hokage of Konoha!

"Hokage eh? I can see you will be able to surpass anybody you wish to. I can see it in your spirit. You will be a worthy summoner. I give you my permission to summon me and my kin, but only summon me when it is needed and not for trivial matters like Jiraiya here. Well I must be off now. You have earned my respect just by who you are. There will be no need for a test." And with that he vanished.

"You really are something else brat. To gain the respect of the boss summon so easily." Jiraiya said in awe.

Naruto was quiet. To hear someone say what the Gamabunta said really made him feel like he had more of a purpose then just being a container.

"Anyways brat, I need to cut this training session short. So for tomorrow just come find me. I'm sure you know where." Jiraiya said as he vanished. Naruto was left pondering in his own thoughts.

Hokage's Office...

The old hokage had a surprise visit from none other then Jiraiya.

"Jiraiya!? I heard you were in the village, but why are you here?" Jiraiya spoke three words.

"Naruto's life. Now!" The Third saw Jiraiya was serious about Naruto and could only assume he met him. As he told Jiraiya about Naruto Jiraiya could only feel anger and pity for the boy. When the third finished, Jiraiya stood up and spoke seriously.

"Sarutobi-sensei, I must request a mission for me and Naruto to go on."

"What would this mission be?"

"It would be training, but outside the village. As well as one other thing. We are going to get Naruto's family scroll."

Sorry long time already. I was gone for the summer about sums it up so now I can update. Hope you enjoyed. Review if you can!