Well, I'm back! Yes I have returned!
A lot of people really dug the attachments joke. It greives me to tell my adoring fans that this is just a joke. There will be no attachments seen in this fic. for then I would have to right a lemon scene, and I don't think anyone wants that. Although this will be an on going joke. YAY!
The voters have spoken. To those out there that thought she shouldn't be in the harem...you lose. Sorry, but more people felt that Naruto should have her in the harem. Check yourself if you want. In regards to her as a character, it won't suck. I assure you. Also, Aiko is not Kyuubi leaking out, she is her own...thing. To those who vote after I've sent this, it's already to late.
The rest of the harem is unbelievable. There are people out there who have chosen some women I've only vaguely heard of, like Fuuma Sasame, ya, took me a while to remember her to. But one thing remains the same, everyone wants puppet Naruto to be with a ton of women, harems numbering in the tens are average right now. If this doesn't stop soon, I may have to put a limit of the number of women Naruto can have.
One person is still curious as to what will happen with Naruto's body. I assure you, this is a surprise, just wait. But be prepared to wait a long time.
Yes , so that is pretty much it. This chapter covers the second part of the two part chapter. This one, Aiko will be introduced, and Naruto will meet a very important person (Who is also a pervert Wink ). Until next time.
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Naruto lay on the brink of consciousness, very little thought happening in his mind. He was comfortable, and didn't want to wake up, not yet, anyways. But sadly this was not meant to be as a tiny voice invaded his conscience, one that he vaugly remembered.
He groggily opened his eyes, taking in the sights around him. He was positioned at an odd angle on the floor, proped up against his door. He was a little surprised to find one Aiko laying on top of him.
"Naruto-kun?" She asked in an small, sweet voice, one that dripped with cuteness. It was high, but not so high it hurt his ears.
"Um, Aiko, why have you...you know...changed...form?" He asked, slowing down at some points as to find the right words to describe what was going on. Aiko had used shape-shift.
Shape-shift, as the name described, allowed kitsune, to change form. How was Aiko a kitsune? The tails are a good clue. The form she had chosen was that of a...human.
A human with fox ears, and two soft, bushy tails. She had long, flowing hair, colored a dark orange, with one long blach streak through it. Her face was cherubic like, giving the impression she was an angel. It was ironic she was technically a demon.
On her cherubic face, she had three long whisker marks, not unlike how his used to be, only now, his were wild and ferocious. Hers made her ever cuter. Naruto had to restrain himself as he realized how close he was to his face, she was close enough to get close enough to see through the lenses in his goggles.
"Well, you seemed upset when you came home, and well, I wanted to make you happy! So, I thought, what makes Naruto-kun happy, and I thought, give him a hug!" She said as she tightened her hold around him, she had already enveloped him in a hug the night before.
"Okay..." She did this sometimes. In human years she was ancient, but sadly, she was kitsune. They could live for thousands of years without fatique, so a hundred years or two wasn't much on them. Aiko was like a teenager in there books. One that refused to grow up.
"...thanks..." He said as he wrapped his arms around her. To some, this would have seemed very intimate, but to them, it was fine. Hugs were alright, although kissing and things of the like they didn't do. That was taking it to far.
Aiko looked up at him with big eyes, her mouth in a small pout. "She's been attacking you a lot recently, hasn't she?" She asked, generally concerned. Naruto seemed to tense at this. This only reinforced Aiko's suspicion.
"Hai, she's been more active, I had to use her in the exam." Naruto said. Aiko looked concerned, she rarely needed to.
She was none other than the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the very plague of Naruto's existence. When the insident had gone down, she had lay dorment, until later. The seal had been severly weakened by the cultists attempts, the fruit of there labours surfacing later.
It had started as nightmares. Horrible images of ghostly apparations and death, gore and blood, played in his head as he slept for countless nights. Then it had progressed to voices. He heard them sometimes, Kyuubi, whispering in the back of his mind, speaking horrible things. Small fears, she reinforced, anger, she fanned its flame, happiness, she crushed the first chance she got. She was the bain of his life.
About a year after Naruto had gotten Aiko, no one had known about what Kyuubi was doing. He didn't need the villagers thinking that there container was falling apart, they'd linch him if they knew. Then the first attack happened. He had been at home, and he had been in a bad mood. Kyuubi's voice was stronger than usual, commanding that he let her out, and that if he did, she'd help him get revenge.
Aiko had been lounging in her favourite form, that of a fox. Naruto was making her dinner, his mood steadily getting worse. Then it happened. Kyuubi tried to force her way out.
Naruto had suddenly lurched forwards, causing the bowl he had been using to hold Aiko's food to clatter to the floor.
Aiko came to investigate immediately. She came to the form of Naruto, sitting not unlike he was now, only more tense. He had been cradling his head, muttering at nothings, tears streaming down his face.
Aiko had immediately panicked. Naruto was getting worse, his muttering becoming faster, doing everything he could to hold the beast at bay. One final word was spoken by him, before he went limp, his body drained from the mental fatigue that had been dealed upon it just then.
When he had finally woken up, he had been greeted by the human form of Aiko for the first time. Had he not been so out of it, he probably would've screamed.
Since then, he had had more attacks. They were very rare, and even then, he could usually surpress them, but there was the occasional one that caught him off gaurd. In fact, he had had a pretty bad one in wave country (That's what Zabuza saw)
That was then, and this was now. Standing up, Naruto was again caught off guard by something unforseen.
"Uh, Aiko?" She gave him a funny look, like he was doing something stupid and funny at the same time. "Yes?" She asked in that high tone she had.
"Why are you naked?" He asked, the angle she had been hugging him before making it difficult for him to realize this until now.
"I don't wear clothes, remember? I'm a fox." She said matter-of-factly. Naruto paused at this, before turning his head, as to not invade her privacy. "Could you put some on please?"
"Only if you do oooonnnneeee thing." She said as she drew out her one. Naruto paused, he wasn't sure if he should agree. She was known for tricking people.
"Alright, what do I have to do?" He said, sounding really un-amused. "You...have...to...make me BREAKFAST!" She shouted, waving flags that somehow appeared from no where around, in all her naked glory.
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One very large breakfast later, Naruto was setting out. He had a lot of training to do, if he was going to stand even a tiny chance against his opponent, Hyuuga Neji (Yes that's his opponent, sorry if I haven't mentioned this).
Grabbing the last of his kunai, he prepared to set out into area's unknown. Aiko was still human, which struck him as odd, but she was now wearing an overly large tee-shirt, and a pair of his old boxers.
She had enjoyed her Flambe breakfast, accompanied with several flap-jacks and a large bowl of strawberries dipped in sugar. She was contempt, although she would need something bigger for lunch.
Naruto grabbed his pack, and with a wave, he was out the door. The second it closed, Aiko lost her happy demear. She was smiling, although her eyes were sad, and from the looks of it, lonely.
Naruto never saw this. He was to busy trying to figure out what that was all about. Usually, as in almost all the time, Aiko was in her fox form. She only ever changed to either reach something high up, like a cookie jar (That damned jar will forever be out of my reach), or something of the like. Or if he needed help, that to, although even then, she only changed when things got really hairy.
He hadn't known the emotions she was showing back there, and it scared him. If he had known, the things he would've seen were care, concern and a hint of love, mixed in with worry.
But he didn't.
The bridge he was supposed to be meeting Sakura and Haku at was looming ahead. It's red color was very eye catching, to say the least.
The thought of Haku and Sakura caused him to become downtrodden. The way they had looked at him wasn't something he could identify. There they were, in there usual clothing. Sakura was talking hurriedly to Haku, before she noticed Naruto's approach.
As soon as was close, she broke eye contact, instead finding the ground very interesting. 'So, she still thinks I'm a monster.' He morbidly thought to himself.
Had he been able to read minds, he would have found out what she was really thinking. Her thoughts were on that sparkling face she had seen yesterday, and the comment Anko had made.
She blushed scarlet at that thought. Her mind was a elsewhere as Naruto's hidden piercing blue gaze scanned her. "Is something wrong?" He asked, although he thought he already knew what she was thinking.
Haku was pretty much the same. She was blushing uncontrollably, the thought Anko had put in her head replaying over and over again. She was considering asking him about it, but then strongly beat this down. It was undignified she had let Naruto see her...in a less clothed form, but to actually ask him...
Haku blushed twice as hard, as blood trickled down her lips, flowing from her nose. Naruto was still confused, his two teamates, who had been confident enough yesterday, were now blushing up a storm and couldn't look at him. This was, as I have said before, very confusing.
But that was for later. Over the horizon, one Hataki Kakashi walked along, his face deep in his favourite novel. As he came up, he looked from the neutral form of Naruto, to the insanely blushing two beside him.
"Do I even need to ask?" He said, snapping his book shut with a 'clap'. Naruto just sighed.
"Okay, so, I've let you guys relax for about a week now, it's time for some serious training." Kakashi said matter-of-factly. Sakura and Haku looked wary at this, relaxing was anything but what they had been doing for the past couple days.
"So, I have managed to devise training regiments for all of you. Naruto, Haku, Sakura..." He trailed off for dramatic affect.
He resumed talking in a cheery tone. "Zabuza will be covering your training! Congratulations!" He spoke.
Silence met this, before Sakura finally spoke up. "...what...?" She said, her eyes had become scrunched closed, a nasty twitch blessing them. Haku was actually happy to hear this, she hadn't been spending a lot of time with her teacher, so it would be good to have some one-on-one time with him.
Naruto...was being Naruto.
A poof of smoke appeared beside Kakashi, and out of it stepped Zabuza, finally wearing a shirt. Kubikiri Houcho hanging over his shoulder, glinting slightly in the sun. He looked really odd, in a jounin vest, one that signafied that he was a jounin. Where his usual Kiri headband used to sit, a Konoha one resided. His pants were the same.
"Man, is it good to be back. I really missed the title of jounin." Zabuza said. Zabuza, Demon of the hidden...leaves had returned (Had to change the name, he can't be from the demon of the mist if he's from the village of the leaves. It makes some sense)
"I see you got your license back." Kakashi drawled, totally killing the mood. Zabuza twitched slightly.
"Anyways, Kakashi has asked me to cover your training, at least until he's done personnaly training Sasuke." Naruto raised an eyebrow at this, turning to his sensei. Kakashi shrugged. "The sandaime asked me personnaly. I'm the only one in konoha that has a sharingan right now, and as such, I have to train him." He finished, his explination not really satisfieing Naruto, but it did for then.
"I'll see you guys later, m'kay?" Kakashi said as he straddled off. Zabuza turned to his temporary students. "Okay, we start with the small stuff." He said as Naruto got a bad feeling.
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About half an hour later, Naruto was at another hot spring. He was there to...water walk.
Forming a quick handseal, he channeled the correct amount into the bottom of his feet-puppet-things. He relaxed himself, and tried to take a step onto the hotspring water before him. As he stood there, he began to get the rytheme of the waters flow. Many would have thought that this was easy. It wasn't.
Water-walking was a skill that required minute timing. There was no trick, other than learning to predict how the water would ripple around him. When he did manage to get his predictions right, he had to change the output he was using to match the flow almost a second later. He was at the moment halfway training himself to do this.
He continued to do this, trying time in and time out to get things right. But each time, just as he got himself back on the surface, he would slowly sink back down.
Deciding to take a break, he trudged over to shore. His ankles would have been badly burned, had they not been made of wood. He sat down, his whole body soaked from trials before.
He was perplexed on how he would do this. He was not anywhere near smart enough to do all these predictions at once, it was just to confusing.
A slight chuckle was heard, sinister in nature in the back of his head. 'Poor, poor, Naruto-CHAN! Always trying, and always failing! Will you ever realize your very existence is in vain? Just give up, relax completely, it'll be over quick, just relax...
Naruto was smart enough to tense at this. The Kyuubi was present. He debated responding to this, and finally did.
'No, you have to be pretty stupid to actually think that I'm dumb enough to relinquish control. I see your getting senile, you hag.' The comment reverberated through his mind.
Seconds past, nothing. Then Kyuubi's wrath came down on him like a ton of bricks. 'YOU INSOLENT, MINISCUAL WORM! YOU'll RUE THE DAY YOU DARED CALL THE GREAT KYUUBI NO KITSUNE A HAG! I'LL SPATTER YOUR INSIDES ACROSS THE CONTINENT, STARTING WITH YOU MANHOOD! Oh, wait, that's right, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE!'
That one cut deep. It was always something that had really wounded Naruto, to know that he would never actually have children. It was true what they said, you never missed something until it was gone.
To onlookers, Naruto appeared totally fine, but on the inside, he was battling the will of a several thousand year old fox demon. One that was very intelligent, if rash. And she was attempting to try to take over his mind, through any means necassary. She screamed, shouted, and used bad memories to get what she wanted.
He managed to beat her down, forcing her back into her cage, and away from his thoughts. He lay on his back, staring up, mentally exhausted. He knew she would be back, he could already feel her, pacing her cage, waiting for the right moment.
He lay there, when a peculiar sound hit his ears. More chuckling. At first, he thought that it was the Kyuubi again, trying for a second time in a row, to destroy them all, when he realized something.
The chuckling was male. Older, and very perverted, and it wasn't in his head. He started looking around, trying to locate the sound of the laugh. His eyes rested on the back of an old man.
He had a massive scroll on his back, one that was quite colorful. He had a massive head of white, spiny hair, in a long pony tail. He was dressed in what appeared to be kabuki clothing (Type of japanese play), from what little he could make out from his back.
Another chuckle issued from him, as he obviously peeked on the woman bathing behind the wall that seperated the bath houses. "Ahem, excuse me, but I don't think your allowed to do that." Naruto spoke up, drawing the attention of the old pervert.
A quick look over his shoulder, and the perv turned back to what he was doing, almost daring Naruto to attack him. Naruto contemplated actually backing off, his danger sense was going haywire (Think spidey sense). But he blew that off, this guy was not allowed to do this, for good reasons, like womans privacy as one. Ironic, coming from a dude that had shared a bath with about eight naked woman at once.
"I said stop doing that old man." He said, this time actually catching the attention of the jiji. A quirk of an eyebrow, and the man was facing him. "Old man, am I?" He said, his voice full of mirth, and a bit of anger.
"I'll show you old, you little punk!" He shouted in a low voice, biting his thumb, and running through a small chain of handseals, generating a fair amount of Chakra. As he placed his hand on the ground, a complex seal appearing under it. A cloud of smoke, and then there was a frog.
A very big frog. One as tall as a man, orange with purple swirls covering it, wearing samurai armor. The toad's appearence caught Naruto off guard, although he didn't show it. Lightning fast, a long, sticky tongue shot out, and spun around Naruto's legs. He had no time to react as the toad slammed him hard into the ground.
"Heh, that should teach that punk to mess with me. Little shits these days, never respect there obviously supirior elders..." He trailed off as he turned back to his peeping. He didn't notice the outcold form of Naruto burst into smoke, revealing the form of Kagai. It stood up, re-adjusting it's arms back into there original shape, as they had been dislocated from the attack.
Naruto landed beside him, silently patting himself on the back for switching with Kagai at the last second. His assumption had been right, the old man was stronger than he had first thought. This was good for him.
The pervert had let his guard down, even better. Naruto took a flat palm, and pointed it right at the man, as Kagai retreated underwater. Naruto's palm opened up, his fingers and thumbs shrinking in. A barrel shot up from his open palm, rectangle shaped, and gray. It was time to test out his new toy.
A soft click was the only warning the pervert got, before hundreds of Senbon rained down on the spot that he had just been sitting. Just as he had predicted, the brat had bounced back, but he hadn't expected this. He slammed his hands into the ground, the jutsu he was using one he could do without handseals. Not a second after, a wall of rock burst up from the earth.
Naruto was happy with the way things were going. The senbon launcher was working perfectly, the rate of fire was fast, and had good accuracy. A loud clang was heard, a sound that Naruto knew was bad, before the barrel exploded, raining what little senbon it had left around Naruto. 'Damn it! I thought I fixed this stupid thing!' He thought, and it didn't help that Kyuubi had to add her two sense 'HA! You can't even do that right! What are you, a failure? Oh ya, that's right, you ARE! HA HA HA AH!'
It was this that distracted Naruto long enough that the perv got close enough to attack. He slammed his fist into Naruto's stomach, causing his armor plate to crack and splinter. He flew backwards, skidding on his back as he tried to gain his barrings.
He eyed the old man again. The guy wasn't even winded, although he was eying Naruto as a new someone, not prepared for that attack before. The old dude was going down, that Naruto knew for sure.
Clenching his fist, Naruto signaled Kagai to prepare to attack. Turning to the man, Naruto figured he'd try to distract the guy. "So, the old fart can fight-" He said, trying to use tactics that got a rise out of Sasuke on the man "-then I'll just have to beat your perverted old ASS!" He said uncharacteristicly. This worked really good on prideful Sasuke, so it might work on this pervert.
Luck wasn't with Naruto that day. "Heh, we'll see, you little brat." He said, getting back into a fighting stance. Naruto raised an eyebrow, before shrugging. "Actually, no, we won't."
The jiji also raised an eyebrow, before smirking "Yes, we will."
"No, we won't." Naruto said again.
"Yes, we will."
"No, we won't."
"Yes we will!" The man said with irritation.
"No, we won't."
"YES WE WILL!"
"No, we won't."
The pervert was now irratated. The brat didn't know when to be quiet, so, he decided to let him know. "OKAY BRAT! Your going down, and once I take you down, I'm going to go sit over there, look into that little hole, and peep at WOMEN! YOU GOT THAT!" The perv shouted.
It was all quiet after the old jiji ranted, before loud screams issued from the womans side of the bath house. Screams of "PERVERT!" and "PEEPING?!" Were heard as a loud trampling was heard. If the man had gone back to look for woman, he would have found the bath empty.
"See, I told you, no, you won't." Naruto said once again, drawing the mans full wrath upon him. "You little son of a BITCH! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find good inspiration like that?! How the hell am I supposed to write my book?!" Said, pulling out one very favourite book to Naruto. Icha...Icha...Paradise...
"Your lying." Naruto said, his voice slightly faltering as he denied his favourite book was writen by a perverted old codger (I still have no idea what this actually means) "There's no way that you write that book!" Naruto shouted, trying to convince himself that this was not true.
"Oh? And who does it say wrote the book? Why none other than me, Jiraiya, the Toad Sannin! Even if you don't believe me, I don't care, your a snot nosed brat that nows nothing of the world." Jiraiya stated, smirking slightly.
Naruto started shaking. There was no way that a book so AMAZING was written by this guy. Absolutely no way.
"Look kid, face facts here, if I didn't right these books, then why does it have my name on it? Jeez, kids don't know anything anymore." Jiraiya said. Naruto was still upset. "Oh ya, and how do I know that your not lying?" He said, still trying to convince himself that this was false.
"Well, you see, um..." Jiraiya trailed off. The boy was more perceptive than he had first thought. He had seen a valed reason that he might lie.
"Well, you saw me summoning toads, right?" Naruto nodded, unsure where the man was going with this. "And the author on the covor is named Jiraiya the toad sannin, right?" Again Naruto nodded, trying not to believe what the man was saying. "Well why would the author have the title 'Toad Sannin' unless they did something toad related. My summons prove that I'm the author." Jiraiya finished.
Naruto had to admit, that was valed. He sighed, before eyeing the man. "Fine, your the author. I suppose now, I can't kill you, so, you can come out, Kagai." Naruto said, as Kagai trudged out of the river, making the toad sannin raise an eyebrow. How had that thing gotten so close, or more importantly, what the hell was it?
"I'm out of here." Naruto said as Kagai burst into smoke, going back into his scroll. "Hey, wait a minute there. There's no hurry!" Jiraiya was interested in this boy, though he would never admit it. There weren't many genin out there that could survive a punch from him, much less take a beating like Naruto had.
"Yes there is. I highly doubt I'm going to be able to water walk today, and I don't think your gonna be any help." He said as he trudged off. But before he could get five feet, the perv was infront of him, forcing him to stop. "And what, pray tell, makes you say that, my very stupid friend?" Jiraiya said sarcastically.
"I'm not your friend, you old coot." Naruto shot back, slightly annoyed. This guy was really bugging him, and Naruto wanted him to stop.
Jiraiya was even more intrigued. This kid was ignoring someone like him, a guy that walked around in bright red and green clothes, with a big head of white hair. That was no small feat.
"Tell you what, I can see your doing the water-walking exercise. I happen to know how to already do this, so I'm willing to give you tips. What I want in exchange...I don't know...I'll think about it." He said, unsure what a snot-nosed genin could offer to him.
Naruto contemplated this. If this guy could do this, then it was worth having a man as senile as him around. "Fine, but I definately want those tips." Naruto said, his main goal still in mind.
"Fine, fine, comeon, I know a better spot than this..." Jiraiya said, walking off.
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Naruto was having progress. The water walking was going good, and surprisingly fast. The pervert was over by a bush, eyeing woman with a telescope, no regard to there personnal privacy. That was to be expected.
He could manage to stay afloat for almost a minute just standing there. Impressive, for someone that had just learned how to do this. Naruto eyed the giggling pervert, as a full minute ticked by.
That was all he aimed for. Mastery level was sixty seconds, so he had conquered this skill.
"Oy, Ero-sennin, I finished the technique." Naruto called over, causing the pervert to twitch. "What did you just call me?" Jiraiya said slowly, letting the name roll off his tongue. "Don't call me that, I have a title you know."
Naruto was indifferent. "And it's just as lame. 'Jiraiya the Toad Sannin' is quite sucky."
Jiraiya whirled around. "I beg your pardon, but at least I have a title. Your just..." Jiraiya trailed off, finally realizing something. "Boy, what's your name anyways?"
"My name...is Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto replied back, charging more chakra to do the exercise again, his back to the sannin. If he had looked back, he would've seen the look of astonishment of Jiraiya's face.
So, this was the boy, the person they sealed it into. Jiraiya had to admit, the boy was strong, but not anywhere near as strong as he could be. That got him thinking. This kid, was a lot like Arashi, his former student.
While he definately didn't like the kid, he had skills. But he lacked one thing, the will of fire. He could feel it, something was very wrong in the boy, he just hadn't mentioned it. But he could feel it, right under the surface, something very bad.
Not evil, just indescribably bad.
Jiraiya may have been the perverted idiot of the three sannin, but he was definately no fool. It had first struck him as odd that the kid hadn't removed his poncho or any clothes to water walk. Wearing soaking weight clothes, weighed down was not encouraged when doing this particular exercise.
Yet, even with this, Naruto was still doing it. What also drew Jiraiya's attention was that no matter what, Naruto never showed his hands. They were always hidden, even when he gathered chakra. That indicated one thing.
Naruto was hiding something, something other that the kyuubi, and if his assumptions were right, it was pretty bad.
"Oy, Naruto, come over here." He hailed over, drawing the blonde over. Naruto trudged over, and sat down cross legged. Jiraiya noted that he didn't use his arms like a brace, unlike most people.
"Naruto, have you ever noticed you have two sets of chakra?" Jiraiya inquired, setting Naruto up for a different topic. "...yes, I am aware of that..." Naruto said, not really liking where this was going. Jiraiya hummed, before smirking.
"May I see you use it?" He asked, hoping Naruto would agree for two reasons. 1) This would reveal something about the blonde he didn't know. 2) Even if nothing happened, he hadn't been there for the kyuubi attack, so as such, he had always wanted to see what all the hub-bub was about it, and why it was so feared.
Naruto paused, before staring directly at Jiraiya's eyes. "Tell me, sannin, would you take the devils offer?" Naruto asked cryptically. Jiraiya thought for a moment, before replying sagely "No, for the devils reasons are always its own, always leading to your destruction." Jiraiya spoke back, nodding to himself.
"Then why, pray tell, would you ask me to use something's strength that will destroy me? The kyuubi is not a toy, it will kill me if I use it to much. I only ever use it for when I must." Naruto said, his voice becoming razor sharp. Jiraiya was taken aback, this kind of knowledge was far beyond this boy's age, and yet here he was, speaking the truth.
"My answer is no, and that is final." Naruto finished, before getting up, using only his legs. Jiraiya raised an eyebrow, before smirking. "Well, I can see your smarter than I first thought. That was fairly wise of you, Naruto." Jiraiya said, grinning.
"Why did you want to see it anyways?" Naruto asked, curious as to why a pervert was interested in him. Jiraiya's grin turned into a smirk. "I wanted to test you-" He lyed "-and you pass. I've decided that your actually worth teaching. Do you agree?" Jiraiya asked.
"That depends, will you stop being a perverted ass, and actually teach me something?" Naruto replied. Jiraiya scowled, before smirking again. "We'll see, but I'll only answer if you agree." Naruto thought for a moment, before also smirking behind his mask. "Agreed."
Jiraiya laughed. "In answer to your question, no, no I won't stop being A SUPER-PERVERT!" He shouted, drawing the attention of the girls playing in the lake. Screams were heard, as they took off, screeching indecentsis. Jiraiya pouted, as Naruto shook his head.
"Poor, poor, ero-sennin."
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The next day was interesting. Naruto woke up with Aiko on his head again (This time a fox, as per usual). A quick breakfast, consisting of french toast and a bit of bacon, and he was out the door, leaving Aiko to herself.
He was supposed to meet the other two at the bridge, and tell them that he had found someone else to train him. He just hoped Zabuza didn't take it the wrong way.
Coming up on the bridge, he found Haku and Sakura there again, both talking to themselves excitedly. As Naruto came within sight distance, they still continued to talk. They didn't seem to notice he was here.
"Um, hey." He said, causing them to jump quite high. Sakura spun around, and on impulse, whacked him quite hard on the head. Or at least tryed to, she found it difficult to do so.
As he was beside her then. She fell forwards, overbalanced, before his hand caught her in mid-fall. Haku was thankfully in enough control to not attack him on sight.
"Gomen, Naruto, I didn't expect you to show up so soon!" Sakura said, slightly out of breath as she was held at an interesting angle by Naruto, who as of yet, hadn't stood her up.
"Wow, good technique Naruto, although I would have first dated her before trying something like that." Zabuza spoke up, causing Haku to squeak in surprise, and Sakura to blush uncontrollably at his assumption.
In a nano-second, she was on the other side of the bridge, still blushing, but seemingly more peeved. Zabuza just chuckled, slightly, before out of no where, a fryingpan flew by and just grazed his head.
He sighed as it clattered to the floor, or that was, until the fryingpan, ricochetted off the bridge wall, and smacked him square in the centre of his forhead.
He growled slightly, as Naruto and co. chuckled at his unlucky antics.
Naruto suddenly became serious, as per usual, before hailing Zabuza. "Um, Zabuza, I have some bad news for you." Naruto said, trying to make it seem as though he was the victim of circumstance.
"...okay, spill..." Zabuza said, becoming his usual self as well, that was, sinister as his title suggested.
"Okay, well, you see, I managed to get a new sensei." Naruto said, causing Zabuza to raise an eyebrow. "So...what are you trying to say, that I've been replaced?" Zabuza said surprisingly calmly.
"Hai, but I have a good reason. The guy that agreed is supposedly very strong, although, he is slightly perverted...Anyways, he's agreed to take me on. I'm sorry that I have to do this to you like this, but I need someone that is willing to train me one-on-one." Naruto finished.
Zabuza closed his eyes, contemplating what Naruto had said. On the one hand he was a little upset that a student was being trained by someone else, but then again, getting strong was a ninja's top priority...
"What's his name?" Zabuza asked, if this guy was as strong as Naruto claimed, Zabuza may have heard of him. "Jiraiya the Toad Sannin." Naruto said, non-chalantly, doubting Zabuza knew the guy.
Silence was all he heard, before "...no...freaking...way..." From Zabuza. The demon in question was slack jawed, completely and utterly slack jawed. "You mean to tell me, that you by coincidence, managed to snag a sannin to train you personally?" Zabuza said in a stunned whisper.
"Um...ya, is that good or something?" Naruto was in the dark, the old perv wasn't that strong...was he?
"Naruto...could you get me an auto-graph. This is a one in a million chance you know." Zabuza spoke out, pulling out his copy of Icha icha: Violence. Now it made sense, of course Zabuza had heard of Icha icha, so he naturally knew the authors name when he heard it.
"Okay then, I have to go meet him, see you!" He said as he took off, somehow snatching the bood without Zabuza noticing his hands.
//about five minutes later//
Naruto came to a stop in the old training area he had met the sage at before. There the old man sat, giggling as he watched several woman bathing. Naruto was still getting over the fact that this was the very process that spawned the greatest book ever written.
"I'm here, now, what did you want to show me?" Naruto asked. Jiraiya looked over his shoulder at his pupil, as of yesterday, who was watching him intently, from what little he could make out from his face.
"Fine, fine, come on. Sheesh, I don't think I'll ever actually get to writing my book with you around." Jiraiya said as he walked over to where Naruto was.
"Now, training. What I want you to learn, is a very powerful technique. It is one that has desimated a lot of very powerful enemies, with only one blow." Jiraiya said.
Naruto was intreged. A technique that could beat an enemy with one blow, was that possible? His agreement was turning out to be more and more promising than he had hoped.
"Alright, what is it?" Naruto said, curiously. "You should probably know, I didn't actually intend to teach you this yet. What I wanted to teach you, was how to summon. But since you won't use the Kyuubi, this is plan b." Jiraiya told the boy. Naruto was not expecting that. Jiraiya, after only knowing him for two days, was planning on teaching him a technique like THAT?!
"The technique, is known as-"
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Yes, I'm cutting off Naruto's training. Yes, I am an evil bastard, and yes, this isn't the best chapter I've ever written. But I needed to make these fillers for good reasons.
To those out there, I know the way that Jiraiya reacted to Naruto as of yet was a little different from the manga, but hey, this is my stroy after all. I've decided, with the help of some advice, to improve on the characters, and story itself. While I have the basics, if I wish to be the best, I must make a better effort.
I got a lot of reviews recently, and I now have more than 100! Yes, I was so proud! I wish I had confetti, just to throw around right now!
I hope those that read Aiko's human form enjoyed it. I wanted to make her playful, funny, but sad about a reason that will later be revealed. I chose to have her a kitsune, because they are neither technically a fox, nor a human. The foxy cuteness that she has is just something I've always wanted to put in a story. It should also be noted that Kyuubi is a total B-I-T-C-H, but that may change...
Not to long ago, I'm not entirely sure, but I think I just got my first official flame. I actually can't totally tell, but I found the persons words, a tad harsh. Truthful, but harsh, considering I'm a noob. Big note right here, if you want to lodge a complaint, first read all the chapters here, then review. Usually, by the time you spot a problem, I may have actually fixed it by the second or third chapter after the one you've read. Once you reach the end of the chapters out there, your say is free reign.
Next chapter is the final battle, and the fight with Gaara. There hasn't been much mention of Gaara yet, so I may do a little diddy on him while I do the chapter. Naruto vs. Neji, the mystery technique revealed! will be the starting of some major plot stuff, and IT'S GONNA BE GOOD!
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