Chapter 12:

Naruto was growing bored, him and Jiraiya were moving from tanzaku town and when the old pervert said he was going to teach him a Jutsu, he was overjoyed which were quickly crushed when he just simply gave him a water balloon and told him to burst it using chakra, and the worst part is the guy is not telling him how to do it just to figure it on his own

Naruto had figured out that all roads in the Fire country tended to look the same. Long, dusty, rutted and surrounded by forest—there was never much variation. Towns tended to look the same too. Sure the decorations and people were different, but the buildings all kinda looked the same and the villages were usually laid out in the same order. Essentially, traveling in the Fire country got old fast.

Sighing, he tore his eyes away from the road in front of him and looked down at the water balloon held in his hand. He'd been shown by Jiraiya a day ago what to do but he hadn't yet gotten the damn thing to pop yet. The only time it ever popped was when Naruto got frustrated and squeezed it too hard.

Looking forward again Naruto saw Jiraiya walking ten paces in front of him. Suddenly Naruto got a great idea for the Sannin for not giving him a hint. Smirking evilly Naruto stretched his arm back before hurling the balloon as fast as he could at Jiraiya.

Jiraiya was pretty sure he was lost. He wanted to go to Kekko, but they should have been there already according to the map. He turned the map this way and that trying to determine if he read it wrong. Suddenly a flying object hit him straight in the back of the head, bursting on impact and soaking his hair.

A dark aura surrounded the man, "Na-ru-TO…" The map got ripped in half. "You better RUN!" Jiraiya whirled and took off after his laughing student.

Naruto ran under branches and over bushes laughing maniacally the entire time. Jiraiya was close on his heels. Eventually Naruto burst out from the tree line onto another road, before he could make it to the trees on the opposite sides however; he was grabbed by the back of his collar. Pulled backwards he landed heavily on his butt at Jiraiya's feet.

"You brat… you better be prepared to face the consequences for your…" Suddenly Jiraiya noticed a sign just beyond his student's shoulder at the edge of the road. 'Kekko, Ten Miles' it read accompanied by an arrow pointing south, the opposite direction they had been traveling. "…You're one lucky idiot, Naruto. Because you managed to find the right road I won't punish you." Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. "At least, I won't punish you now."

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At Kekko,

"Come on Brat it is a long day, lets get a room, I already have a room rented for us" said Jiraiya after coming from another bar

"Whatever Ero Sennin" said a bored Naruto, due to keeping a low profile, he is forbidden to practice Rasengan near population so without doing any thing he was getting bored. Just then a beautiful lady walked by and winked at Jiraiya. He immediately gave a lecherous grin and murmured to Naruto to go to the hotel room and stay there while he will come shortly and speeded away chasing the woman.

Naruto sighed at this and muttering about incompetent old perverts and walked to the hotel room and started to practice his Rasengan there when there was a knock on the door.

"You got dumped already that is a new record, Ero Sennin "said Naruto in a humorous tone

When he opened the door there were two people there both wearing black cloaks with red clouds on them, one was a blue skinned man with a huge sword looking thing on his back, the other was a pale skinned man who resembled Sasuke

Naruto looked at them for a minute and simply said "I did not order any room service especially sushi so get lost" and slammed the door and started to run towards the windows

Sweat drooping at that Kisame asked "did he just call me a sushi Itachi"

Itachi never losing the emotionless face simply replies "I believed he did Kisame"

Kisame getting a tic mark on his forehead simply punched the door and smashed it to splinters and they both saw that Naruto was heading towards the window, Kisame just sighed and got to the window at high speed before Naruto and cut off his escape and said "you called me sushi brat big mistake samehada will feast on you"

Naruto started sweating bullets, he could sense these guys were strong and turned to the other man who was simply walking in, Itachi simply looked at Kisame and his eyes started to spin and Kisame got a dazed look, he then turned towards Naruto and said "that is a nice bit of acting there, you even fooled me for a second Naruto"

Naruto lost the terrified look on his face and said in a humorous voice "well I am a method actor otherwise I would have never survived Konoha without my acting skills and I did learn from the best did I not………Itachi sensei "

Flashback:

"Please…….stop…….. I did not do anything….. why are you attacking me" screamed a 6 year old Naruto , he was making his way from the ramen shop when a few drunks started attacking him and beating him when one of them went to stab him with a broken bottle he had parried and the drunkard dropped the bottle Naruto seeing the chance took the bottle and had stabbed him and his eyes gone wide as he saw the life leave the man's eye and the others seeing this shouted to the people that the Kyubbi is breaking loose resulting in a mob and his current situation but Naruto was nearly catatonic when he killed so he was unable to run away leading to his current situation

"Why because you are a monster, demon" yelled a random villager as he kicked Naruto in the ribs

"Yeah you killed thousands when you attacked Konoha demon" screamed another

"Die demon"

"Demon brat"

"Kyubbi"

"You will pay for your crimes"

A random Chunnin who stepped out of the crowd said "though I hate you fox I have another motive, the Yondaime is remembered as the ninja who defeated the Kyubbi, I will be known throughout Konoha as the ninja who did what the greatest of Hokage was not able to do I KILLED A DEMON, then I will become famous and power shall be mine, with your death comes my glory, now time to die demon brat" he said in a smug grin and as he raised his kunai to go for the killing strike he let out a blood curdling scream

As Naruto heard his words he understood that he will not live today as he gave in to the inevitable when he heard the scream he managed to open one of his eyelids and look upon an ANBU wearing a weasel mask holding a katana which just decapitated the Chunnin before him

The ANBU said in an emotionless voice "you all have disgraced the fourth's wishes and broke the Sandaime's law, for that the punishment is death, now die" saying this he killed the ring leaders and used a Genjutsu to knock the others out

When the other ANBU arrived they rounded the fallen people and the weasel mask ANBU took Naruto to the hospital

At the hospital,

When Naruto woke up he was startled to see white ceiling and recognizing the hospital room saw the Sandaime there smoking his pipe looking thoughtful and sad

He drew his attention by jumping from the bed and crying on the man's shoulders which started the old Hokage who gave a tight grand fatherly hug back, making Naruto sit on his lap he made him repeat the story and when he heard that Naruto had to kill, he immediately comforted Naruto and told him that it was alright to kill in self defense and the reason why they kill and as he comforted Naruto the weasel masked ANBU came in and bowed before them sitting on one knee while placing his hand out front in a token of respect and said "the mob has been given to Ibiki Hokage Sama, I suspect he likes the boy a little as he gave a more sadistic laugh than usual and was a tad BIT more brutal during interrogation "

"I suspected he might be, what happened to the ANBUs I posted around Naruto, why did they not interfere" asked the Sandaime in a controlled voice due to the presence of the boy who having recognized his savior was looking at him curiously

The ANBU was not fooled, he could sense that even though the Hokage's voice was controlled his chakra was rising rapidly indicating his rage, he simply replied "They were mysteriously engaged and some of the younger ANBU were backing them up Hokage Sama should I take care of them"

"No I will do this personally" said sarutobi with a grim smile and a terrifying look which made his enemies cower in his presence in his eyes

he continued"you guard this room and let no one enter except the Doctor Orihime Inoue, she is the only one I will trust with Naruto's welfare and she will not sent any aides or whatever so don't be fooled if any body comes and says they are, if such person comes detain them I will speak to them personally, just don't let Naruto try her cooking, alright"

"Acknowledged Hokage Sama" said the ANBU bowing his head

"Naruto duty calls I trust this man he will look after you okay I will return in the morning, get some rest" said Sarutobi in a kind voice

Naruto just nodded at this and saw the Hokage nod his head to the ANBU as he left the room and looked at the weasel masked ANBU with a little fear, even though the hokage told him it was safe he could not help but have a little fear

The ANBU seeing his fear just slipped of his hood to show his black hair which was tied in a pony tail and took of his mask, he had a handsome face which was a bit pale and when he opened his eyes instead of the normal eyes he had red eyes and what seemed to be commas around the eye which faded to normal black eyes and said in a soft voice "You need not fear me little one, I can train you to control your emotions so you can show them you are no threat yet be stronger than they realize, what say you Naruto"

"Okay thanks for the training I guess, but who are you" asked Naruto

"Where are my manners, my name is …………. Itachi Uchiha" said Itachi

Flashback End:

"It has been a while hasn't it Naruto, though why are you not fearing me, I did kill my entire clan" asked Itachi

Naruto snorted at this and said "I may not know the reason why you killed them Itachi, but I have my theories"

"Oh and what is that then" asked Itachi with a curious air

"the killing of your clan portrays you a mad man, yet you spared Sasuke and all the Uchiha deaths were all quick kills if the report was true not at all a work of a psychopath if you ask me, not to mention before you ran away from the village you came to me to say good bye, though the killing I suspect it has done something to do with the Hokage and their advisors though "said Naruto in a serious voice

"And how you came to that conclusion" asked Itachi in an emotionless voice

"you were named a high ranking missing nin yet you were avoided at all cost even the snake freak who is just as powerful as you gets hunted from the hunter nin, only the higher echelons have that kind of authority" said Naruto with a smile

Itachi just gave a laugh that was so unlike him at this and asked "it would seem I did train you well in looking underneath the underneath, very good Naruto how are you and how is my brother" losing his emotionless façade and giving a little smile to his one time student

"I am fine and as for your brother well he is fine and I fear for his life since he is convinced that other than him no one should be strong, he is getting a little too power hungry if you ask me " said Naruto

Itachi sighed at this and said "power hungry huh, an Uchiha trait one I had hoped that he will never acquire, that it would seem I was wrong, give this scroll to Jiraiya and it would seem we will have visitors" giving Naruto a thick scroll, who hid it beneath his black cloak and at that moment Kisame seemed to come out of his reverie and said" well Itachi what is going to be, he will no doupt try to run lets us shave of his legs"

Itachi simply replied "we must bring him as a single piece, leaders order but you can knock him out and I will take out the trash, is it not right Sasuke" looking in the direction of the hall

Sasuke came from the hall and said "Itachi I lived like you said, I have hated you with every fiber of my being now is time to meet your fate" and started to do handseals and soon the sound of a thousand chirping birds filled the hallway

"CHIDORI" screamed Sasuke as he shot at this brother but Itachi was simply standing there and at the last second caught his brother's arm and giving a slight twist broke his arm and said "foolish brother you are not strong enough, you have not that much hate in you now relive the past Tsukiyomoni" looking at Sasuke's eyes and Sasuke screamed out as he saw his parents death over and over againfor 72 hours

Meanwhile Kisame was having fun at trying to slash at the blonde who was using flash step to parry his wicked sword which seems to absorb his chakra as he tried to mold it into jutsu but was unsuccessful

"Stand still so I can shave you" yelled Kisame in a gleeful tone

"Yeah right" deadpanned Naruto and flash stepped behind Kisame and tried to slash him with his kunai but Kisame moved with speed that belied his size and kicked him into the wall and brought his sword down in him

But the sword was blocked by a toad who was holding his sword in both hands and then Kisame flew sideways as Jiraiya kicked him sideways and said "you are 10 years too soon to think you can fool me with just with a woman and a Genjutsu Uchiha Itachi, what is Akatsuki planning to do with the Bijuu Uchiha" said Jiraiya as he spoke in a threatening tone

"it seems I under estimated you Toad Sennin,clearly you are the one who warned Kakashi about our organization, no matter Kisame we are leaving we are no match for his toad arts, now come on" said Itachi, Kisame just shook himself from the powerful blow, he just nodded and they were prepared to run when the walls turned to organic walls and they heard Jiraiya say "Toad arts: Toad Mouth Bind, this Jutsu teleports us to the mouth of the fire toad and it is impenetrable now surrender and I will ease your passing"

"I think not Jiraiya Sama, Amateresu" said Itachi as he sprouted Black flames which burnt right through the wall and they escaped through the man made escape

Jiraiya sighed at this and said "well that it then no don't go near that Gaki" as Naruto walked closer to the black flame to investigate it "that flame is said to be from the sum goddess herself it will burn for 7 days and 7 nights with no fuel and is hotter than normal flames, now don't disturb me"

Jiraiya then started to draw some intricate seals and he sealed the flames on the scroll and turned to Naruto but at that moment Gai in all his spandex glory came and kicked Jiraiya in the head and after profusely excusing himself he took Sasuke and left, then both he and Naruto went to find another hotel

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"well what news from Itachi" asked Jiraiya as they settled in the new hotel suite

Naruto gave him the scroll that Itachi gave and told of this meeting and promptly went to sleep

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After their journey to Kekko and they still hadn't found Tsunade. Sure they heard about her a lot, the Legendary Sucker was after all legendary, but they always seemed to have just missed her every time. It was enough to make even Jiraiya twitch with irritation.

Without warning Naruto suddenly plopped down in the middle of the road. He released a small scream of frustration before throwing the balloon in his hand at a near-by tree.

"Why can I make it work?!" He cried. "Hey, Ero-sannin can't you give me a hint or something?"

"Nope." Was the pervert's quick reply.

"WHY NOT?" Naruto jumped back up to stand in front of Jiraiya. He attempted to glare menacingly at his teacher but the effort was wasted as he stood about a foot shorter than the older man.

"It's something you have to figure out on your own." Jiraiya smirked down at his student, enjoying torturing him like this.

"ARGH! Fine!" Naruto stomped away down the road. For a while there was silence between the pair as Naruto had resumed his training and Jiraiya was trying to read the new map he bought. Suddenly Jiraiya got an idea.

"Hey Naruto, how about you take a break with this technique and I teach you another one?"

"No way! I won't give up!" Naruto told him with fire flashing in his eyes.

"It's not giving up. This technique will be easier for you to learn. Who knows, maybe you'll figure something out if you take a break." Jiraiya told his student. Jiraiya then attempted to fold his map, eventually giving up when it wouldn't fold back into its original shape. He stuck it into his pack before turning to face Naruto. "Okay this is a wind technique so you should pick it up easily. It's called Fuuton:Wind Blast. If you do nothing but put chakra straight into the attack it creates a blast of wind that can push back enemies or allies without hurting them. If you spin the chakra before putting it into the technique it'll create a small tornado that can do minimal damage but will put a good distance between the enemy and you. The more chakra you put into the attack the stronger and more powerful the wind is, got it?"

He then performed three seals and shouted out the name of the attack directing a blast of wind at a nearby tree causing the leaves to be stripped off the branches. "Alright now you try."

"Right!" Flipping through the seals Naruto shouted, "Fuuton:Wind Blast!" Instead of a burst of wind like Jiraiya created, a large tornado formed and began ripping up trees as it made its way through the forest. The tornado dissipated once it got about two hundred feet away, leaving Naruto and Jiraiya to stare at the destruction.

"You might want to try putting less chakra in it given your enthusiasm for new jutsu," Jiraiya stated calmly, his eyes surveying the tornado's path.

"A lot less."

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Three weeks later Naruto had finally mastered the first step to learning Rasengan and the second step, much to the surprise of Jiraiya who thought it would take three times as long. He was now attempting to master the third step and wasn't having much luck, he can do the darn thing two handed but Jiraiya was adamant in learning it to do it single handedly and also to work on the timing.

Jiraiya on the other hand was having a lot of luck. The last town they'd been in they'd only missed Tsunade by a day, so hopefully they would finally catch up with her in this latest town.

Suddenly a large crowd ran past the two, shouting something about a giant snake. Jiraiya quickly took off, without a word to Naruto, towards the location the villagers were running from. Surprised Naruto ran after him, barely able to keep Jiraiya in his sights.

At one point Naruto lost Jiraiya completely but quickly found him again next to a destroyed wall.

"She was here. Her monstrous strength must have done this. Orochimaru was here too." Jiraiya told him as they both stared at the rubble.

"Orochimaru… that snake freak is here?" Naruto asked. "

Yes." Jiraiya turned and started walking away from the site. "Come on, we might as well go get something to eat. Tsunade may still be here but I'm hungry, let's eat first."

"Right, but can we at least not go to a bar again?" Naruto followed Jiraiya back the way they had come.

"No." Jiraiya stated.

"Aww, you suck!" replied a pouting Naruto.

"Kid I keep telling you the bar is the best place for information gathering that is the place where tongues are loosened" said a patient Jiraiya

"Yeah and hitting on the woman there is also the part of the bargain" said an irritated Naruto

Jiraiya wisely did not say anything and entered the bar when

"Jiraiya what the hell are you doing here" asked a buxom blonde who was sitting with a black haired woman holding a pig

"Well speak of the devil hello there Tsunade" said Jiraiya as he gave a smirk

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