In my defense the chapter had been ready since sunday but I haven't had much time to check it for grammatical and orthographical errors (Yes I know I'm sure there're still some errors but if I didn't do it there would be even more... and it's like that even in my native language! Maybe even worse... lol). =P
A few months had passed since what had happened in the Wave country, with Zabuza and Haku, and team 7 was now back to normal… or as normal as this team could ever be… A bond had been built between Naruto and Sasuke but that didn't stop the fact that they were rival. Naruto was always fighting like cat and dog with Sasuke and trying to outdo him on missions. Sakura would always look at them with a bewildered look, like she was wondering why they were behaving like that when they had seemed to have gotten closer to one another during the mission in the Wave country. Kakashi understood what was happening. After all they were guys. Guys had this weird habit of, even though they might care about the person, bickering if they see this person as a potential rival or anything. Actually it reminded him of how it had been between him and Obito. At that time he had been as cool and indifferent as Sasuke, while Obito had had this explosive personality like Naruto. At that last thought, a small smile crept up on Kakashi's face. Naruto really resembled Obito in some ways. The blonde's personality was very similar to his late best friend's. It proved that he had inherited more from his mother on the personality side than from his father. Kakashi let out a sigh at that. Kushina-san had been a really nice woman. But he remembered that every time he would go to his shisho's house, Kushina would tease him and mistreat him with great slaps on his back, nearly making him fall over every time. He had his back sore just at the thought of all the back slaps he had received from this woman who had the audacity to say she wasn't strong when her hands felt like iron.
Right now the silver haired jonin was walking in the streets of Konoha, toward the bridge where he had told his team to meet him. He was on his way to tell them some great news. They had been whining non-stop that they weren't doing interesting or exciting missions, so he was sure they would jump in joy at this news. He finally arrived at the meeting place, appearing on top of one of the arches that were on the bridge.
"Morning people!" he said in a cheerful tone, though knowing it was already noon and that they had been waiting for him for 2 hours, "Today I got lost on the road of life."
"Yeah right! Liar!" Naruto and Sakura yelled at him, looking like they were going to murder him.
"Well anyway…" the jonin said jumping down from his perch, standing in front of the genins who were waiting impatiently for the reason they had been summoned here while it was normally their day off, "This is sudden but... I've nominated you guys for the chunin selection exam."
The genins looked at him with blank looks, not fully registering what the lanky man had just said. Before the news could fully dawn on them, he held out the application forms to them. Apparently this helped the kids realize what was happening as Naruto suddenly pounced on Kakashi.
"Kakashi-sensei! I love you!" the boy cried happily, his arms flung around the jonin's neck, his smaller body pressed against his.
"Oi stop, let go of me…" Kakashi said embarrassed, a blush creeping all over his face.
At this moment, the boy realized the position they were in, as well as the way he had acted, and pulled away quickly, his own face becoming quite red in embarrassment. He then backed away and went to sit on the floor to look at his application form with more reserved excitement.
"This is just a nomination. Whether to take the exam is up to each of you." Kakashi explained to them, "Those who wish to take it should sign those papers and turn them in at room 301 by 4 pm tomorrow. That is all."
With that said the jonin disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving the three genins standing there on the bridge. He had some things to settle with the other genin team leaders. As he was walking, he remembered the conversation he had had with the hokage after he had said that he recommended his three genins for the chunin exam.
Flashback
They were in the hokage's office, Sarutobi sitting at his desk while Kakashi was standing in front of him.
"So Kakashi," the old man began to say, "I was rather surprised when I heard you were recommending the three genins of yours for the chunin exam."
"Though it doesn't surprise for Sasuke," the Sandaime continued with a certain glint in his eyes, "it does surprise me for Naruto. I never thought you'd voluntarily put him into this kind of dangerous situation."
"Well I thought this would be a good training for them." The silver haired jonin replied with a shrug, "They will learn what the chunin exam is made. I think it's good for them."
"Moreover they are running on your nerves with their whining about doing more interesting missions." The hokage added, a hint humor in his voice.
"That too." Kakashi said sheepishly rubbing the back of his head, smirking.
"You know Iruka is not happy about it." Sarutobi told the jonin with a serious expression.
"It would have been hard to ignore his loud protests as he was just behind me." The jonin said a little annoyed as he remembered the way Iruka had intervened during the meeting, in which they saw whom of the new genin team would participate.
In the end, the three new team leaders, including Kakashi, nominated all of the genins of their team. This is where Iruka-sensei had intervened loudly, saying that those genins had been his students and that they weren't ready for something like this yet. Annoyed, Kakashi had confronted the chunin about it and it had resulted into an argument in front of all the other jonins and chunins who would participate into the planning of the chunin exam. In the end, Kakashi had told Iruka-sensei exactly what he had already told him a few months before. They were now his students and Iruka had no right to say anything. That had made the brunette upset though he did shut his mouth after that.
"Just say that you didn't like his comment about Naruto not being like you." Sarutobi couldn't help but say to the young man, an obvious amused glint in his eyes, "You haven't been tender with him after that."
"He needs to learn where his place is. A chunin shouldn't speak like that to a superior." The jonin grumbled, his face showing his clear annoyance for the chunin's behavior.
"Well you'll have to stand him at least a little since you and him are two of the most important in Naruto's life." The old hokage said with a serious look.
"I know." The jonin replied in a softer voice, his face's features loosening a bit.
End of flashback
The next day, Kakashi was walking toward the training ground when something green appeared in front of him.
"Kakashi! My eternal rival! Long time no see!" Guy exclaimed with a big grin of his, "How are you on this fine afternoon?"
"Hey Guy." Kakashi greeted back with a wave of his hand, "I'm good thank you."
"You know I've met your students today. They look like good kids." The Green Beast of Konoha told him with a smile, "The Uchiha kid looks a bit too dark on the edges if you ask me but I guess the little blond makes up for it with his energy."
"Hmm Naruto has this unique power of making people to never give up and do the best they can." The silver haired jonin agreed in a low warm voice, a fond smile unconsciously playing on his lips, "He is like a sunshine, shining brightly and forcing his rays upon everyone whether they like it or not."
Guy looked at Kakashi with surprise at first before a knowing smirk crossed his lips as he watched the lanky jonin lost in thought about whom he could only assume was a little blond called Naruto. Then as if lightning had struck, the green spandex wearing jonin's eyes widened in realization.
"Hey wait just a second!" the man exclaimed, "Isn't Naruto the little boy you had raised for a year?"
"Hum yeah it is." The lanky jonin said, startled out of his thoughts.
"Wow what are the odds for you to have had the boy in your team!" the man exclaimed in awe, making the jonin in front of him squirm uncomfortably as he knew he forced the odds to be in his favor.
"What about your students? What are they like?" Kakashi asked his friend, and supposed rival, quickly changing the subject.
"Ah yes they are full of youth!" Guy declared with pride, "There is Neji Hyuga, a girl named Tenten and my taijutsu apprentice Rock Lee."
Noticing the hint of tenderness and possessiveness that Guy had used for the latter one, which hadn't been there for the other two, Kakashi looked at his friend in wonder. He couldn't help but notice how his friend's eyes warmed up and sparkled, which fed his curiosity even more.
"This Rock Lee…you seem very fond of him." The silver haired said carefully, not wanting to offend or put the man on the defensive.
"Lee? Huh yes he is really hum…" Guy began to say with a slight blush, struggling for words.
"Special?" Kakashi proposed gently.
"Yes special." The green tights wearing jonin said with a soft smile, "He is so…full of life and gentle. He has such a big heart."
"You really like him a lot don't you?" the silver haired jonin asked, smirking at his friend that he had never seen him act this way.
"He has a special place in my heart." Guy said in acknowledgment of his feelings for his student, "I just want to make him happy."
"That's good." Kakashi said with a smile, "I'm happy you found someone important to you."
"Thank you." The other man said with a big smile, looking expectantly at his rival, "What about you? Don't you have an important person in your life?"
"Oh well I don't really have time to have one. I'm rather busy." The silver haired man mumbled rambling his face beetroot red.
At hearing this, Guy raised an incredulous eyebrow.
"What about your team? What are they like?" the green wearing jonin pressed on in a hopeful manner, which startled and confused the lanky jonin a bit.
"Sasuke is really skilled. He and Naruto have a rivalry going on." Kakashi began to say, "Sakura is infatuated with Sasuke and it seems to interfere with her work as a shinobi. She has a harder time progressing than the other two. At first I thought Naruto would be the one to progress slowly as he seemed to have some trouble with chakra control and all. But since he is part of team 7, he has gotten stronger."
Guy watched him as he was talking on and on about his team and more especially Naruto without noticing. A smile was stretching on his face as he listened to the way his friend talked about the little blond. Then suddenly, Kakashi must have realized he was rambling on or that he was being stared at because he stopped, an embarrassed flush appearing on his cheekbones.
"They all seem really good. Especially Naruto." Guy said, his smile widening at the latter part.
"Yes they are." The silver haired man replied with an awkward smile at his friend's own smile.
The smile was kind of creepy, as he didn't really know what the meaning behind it was.
"I believe they will become great ninjas." He added squirming uncomfortably under his friend's persistent gaze as if he was trying to tell him something.
"Oh I'm sure." The other said amused at how his friend was being consciously or unconsciously evasive.
After Orochimaru had marked Sasuke with the curse seal during the second part of the chunin exam, things began to slowly deteriorate. The Uchiha survivor was quicker to get irritated and would react in a disproportionate way at anything. His temper was unstable. But thanks to Kakashi it had been tampered a bit with a seal he had put on him after the third part of the chunin exam. Right now he was resting in the hospital to recover from the energy drain he had suffered from the curse mark. Naruto, who was worried about his friend, went to the hospital with the intent to talk to him. As he arrived in front of Sasuke's room, the boy took a deep breath before knocking on the door. Without waiting for a reply he knew he would not get from the other boy, Naruto entered the room to find Sasuke sitting quietly on his bed, his head turned to the window scowling at nothing in particular.
"Hey Sasuke!" the blond greeted with a cheery smile, "How are you feeling today?"
No response.
"Oi I asked you question." The boy said, his brow twitching in annoyance at the lack of response.
"Get lost usuratonkachi." The dark haired boy finally said, not even throwing a glance at the other.
"What did you say? Here I am worried about you and you have the gall to push me away!" Naruto said slightly angry, "What's wrong with you lately? You've been even more crabby and antisocial than before. You are making Sakura-chan worry!"
"That has nothing to do with you." Sasuke replied throwing a hard glare at Naruto's direction.
Though he hadn't the intention to touch Sasuke, Naruto approached until he was nose to nose with the Uchiha, looking right into his eyes.
"It's that mark on your neck isn't it?" Naruto said in a matter of fact tone, his voice filled with concern, "You need to tell Kakashi-sensei or someone else about it."
"I don't have to receive orders from someone like you!" Sasuke told him in a loud voice.
"Well someone has to reason you since you are more stubborn than a mule!" the blond replied, a deep frown appearing on his face.
"Says the person who can't even admit his own feelings to the person he loves." The dark haired boy commented snidely with a nasty smirk, "Tell me Naruto, does Kakashi know you fancy him?"
Naruto's face flushed in embarrassment and anger at the latter part.
"You…" he said feeling his blood boil at the taunt.
"Or maybe…" Sasuke began to say with a cold smirk, as he pulled on the blonde's arm making him lose his balance and fall on the bed where he pinned him to the mattress with his body, "maybe I could help you get him. Huh? What do you think of it? We could give him a show and make him jealous."
After saying this, the Uchiha nuzzled the crook of Naruto's neck with his nose, while still pinning him to the bed. He inhaled deeply, taking in the scent of the blond, making his primal instincts as well as his mark flare up.
"W-what the hell do you think you're doing teme!" Naruto exclaimed while trying to push him away.
"Quit squirming and hold still idiot." The dark haired growled, pushing the blond further into the mattress before taking another swift of the boy's scent in and purring, " You smell so good. Let's have some fun while making sensei jealous."
With this said Sasuke grabbed Naruto's chin, forcefully turning the blond's face toward him, and crashed their lips together in a brutal kiss.
Kakashi was walking into the hospital hall, toward Sasuke's room. Even with the seal he had put on the boy, he feared that without training the boy would be consumed by the cursed mark and become a danger not only to others but also to himself. It seemed the cursed mark released the darkest side of a person.
'That might be the reason why Anko is so creepy.' The jonin thought, cold sweat running in the back of his neck at the simple thought of the crazy kunoichi.
This is for those reasons that Kakashi had decided that he would train Sasuke during the next month before the finals. He wanted to train him in controlling the cursed mark and maybe even learning a new technique to use all the pent up energy inside of him. As he arrived near Sasuke's room, he heard strange noises coming from it. It sounded like it was whimpers and rustling sheets.
"Sasuke please stop." A voice that sounded suspiciously like Naruto said.
At hearing this, Kakashi felt a feeling of worry seep into him and quickly opened the door to see what was happening. Never would he have thought of this scenario. When he opened the door, what he saw made his blood both boil and freeze as both anger as well as horror ran through his body. What he saw was Naruto pinned to the bed by Sasuke, who was kissing him. The blond didn't seem okay with it at all as he was squirming and trying to get out of the Uchiha's grip. He could see the cursed mark slowly expand along the boy's neck. Without waiting another second, he quickly got near the two boys and grabbed Sasuke by the back of his hospital robe and pulled him away from Naruto.
"Oi what do you think you're doing Sasuke?" he asked in what appeared to be a calm tone of voice but had clearly a dangerous edge to it.
Sasuke seemed to take control back of himself as his body went slack and his head hung low in shame. Naruto, who had been trying to regulate his heartbeat and regain his normal breathing pace, stared at them, without really looking at them, with a slightly shocked expression. He had believed for a moment that Sasuke would force himself upon him without him being able to do anything about it.
"I'm sorry Naruto." Sasuke apologized in a low voice tainted with remorse, making the blond look intently at him, "I don't know what came over me."
Kakashi kept his grip on the back of Sasuke's robe for a few more minutes, to make sure it wasn't a feint or that the boy wouldn't relapse, before releasing it and letting the boy go sit on the edge of the bed though he was still watching him carefully. He then remembered Orochimaru's words. The words that the Sannin had said to him when he had appeared while he was putting the seal over Sasuke's curse mark.
Flashback
"Why are you after Sasuke?" the jonin had asked the snake like man.
"You're lucky, since you got what you wanted already." The Sannin said, the words startling the silver haired, as he didn't exactly understand the meaning behind them, and continued with a bone-chilling smirk, "You didn't have that a long time ago. That…sharingan in your left eye."
"I want it too." He added his creepy smirk widening a bit, "Uchiha's powers, that is."
When Orochimaru had taken a step forward, Kakashi had immediately taken a defensive position, activating a chidori as a threat that he would not hesitate to attack at any suspicious move from the snake.
"There's no point in using that seal. You know right?" The Sannin had then said in a dark chuckle, "He has a heart that seeks power no matter how evil it is. He possesses that kind of disposition. He is an avenger."
"So you took advantage of that. But Sasuke won't…" Kakashi began to argue but got interrupted by the snake like man.
"Eventually, he will seek me out." Orochimaru replied, "Seek me out for power, that is."
End of flashback
He really wished what Orochimaru had said wasn't true. He couldn't believe it. He knew Sasuke had a slightly darker place in his heart than most people but that didn't mean that he would willingly let it overwhelm him. Though he had wished at first to train Naruto, with Sasuke getting the curse mark he had felt he should concentrate on the Uchiha kid instead. Moreover, after what happened just right now with the boy, it was more proof that he needed to work with him instead. He needed to teach him how to control the mark and not let the evil side take over. Like that he would also have an eye on the boy. Letting out a breath he hadn't known he was holding in, the silver haired jonin let out a weary sigh before he turned toward Naruto.
"Come on Naruto let's leave and let Sasuke rest." Kakashi said, urging the blond out of the room with a hand on the boy's back.
The blond followed him out of the room without saying a word, his head hanging low. As soon they were out of the room, with the door closed, Kakashi turned Naruto around and looked at him, crouching to be at eye level.
"Are you alright Naruto?" he asked with concern in his voice, and his eyes creasing in worry as they scanned the boy for injuries.
"Yeah I am." The blond said in a slightly shaky voice, his eyes wet with unshed tears.
"Come here." The silver haired man told the boy, opening his arms in invitation for the blond to hug him.
The boy didn't need to be told twice as he hurried to go into the jonin's arms and locked his own arms tightly around the man's neck, his face furrowed into the jonin's jacket softly crying as he let the stress seep out of him.
"It's ok I'm here." Kakashi murmured softly, patting the blond hair.
'Why did these kind of things always have to happen to him?' the jonin thought, his heart tightening painfully at the silent sobs he could feel coming from the boy.
When the boy had calmed down, the silver haired man stood back up and looked at the blond who was wiping his face with a handkerchief that he had given him. They then started walking again. The jonin's hand never left the boy's back, always keeping a physical contact with him even as it glided to his shoulder. The weight of the silver haired man's hand on Naruto's shoulder was comforting. It brought warmth to Naruto as it squeezed lightly his shoulder in a reassuring gesture, telling him that he was not alone. They were walking toward the hospital entrance when Naruto decided to speak for the first time since they had left Sasuke's room.
"Ne Kakashi-sensei…" the boy said, his voice hesitant but hopeful as he turned around to face the man, already missing the warmth of the man's hand that had fallen on the man's side as he had moved, "I have a request."
"I know what you are going to ask me." the jonin said, "I'm sorry but I can't train you Naruto. I think you saw how Sasuke was not himself lately. I need to take care of him so that something like earlier never happens again, or that would mean that we would be forced to lock him up. Do you understand?"
That latter part closed the blonde's mouth, as he had been about to protest about not having Kakashi as his trainer. He had really wanted the silver haired jonin to be the one training him. That would have been a chance to spend more time with him. But he also understood Kakashi reasoning. He had been really scared when Sasuke had begun pinning him to the bed and kissing him. He had felt powerless and had prayed that someone would come save him. Thankfully before anything horrid had happened Kakashi-sensei had arrived. He had never been so glad to see him. So he understood why his sensei preferred training Sasuke instead of him but that didn't mean he had to be happy about it. He looked at his sensei, pouting, before looking away.
"Yeah I know." He grumbled.
"Now now! Don't be like that..." Kakashi said in a half amused half guilty voice, having a hard time resisting smiling at the cute disappointed pout that was on the blonde's face, "Because I've found a teacher for you who's much more reliable than me!"
At this the blond glanced at him from the corner of his eye, his pout lessening, looking at him suspiciously like he thought there was a trick.
"Who is it?" he finally asked cautiously.
"It's me!" a voice behind Naruto proclaimed in a pompous tone.
Turning around to see who had said that, the blonde's eyes widened comically as he recognized the person.
"Oh! You're the closet pervert!" he exclaimed, pointing an accusatory finger at said man.
Ebisu blushed heavily at the boy's exclamation and under Kakashi's confused gaze. The silver haired jonin was looking between the two without really comprehending. They looked like they already knew each other but they didn't seem to really like each other. Naruto looked less than pleased by his teacher's choice. As he watched with slightly amused interest the two bicker, with Naruto whining and Ebisu lecturing the boy, he hoped internally that Naruto wouldn't be too mad about him letting him alone to deal with Sasuke.
Later, after Kakashi had announced to the Uchiha boy that he would train him, the silver haired man was walking to a bar where he was meeting Inari and Iyashi. The nurse had been pestering him about going for drinks and talk for weeks, as they hadn't had the opportunity to keep in touch much for the last month or two. Iyashi of course had just quietly followed his twin sister with her idea, too used to his sister's antics to mind them anymore. So that's why Kakashi was now entering a bar called Akachochin where, according to Inari, they served the best yakitoris she had ever tasted.
"Ah Kakashi! Over here, over here!" the already tipsy nurse hailed loudly, making more than one head turn in her direction.
"You don't have to be so loud sis' he can see you fine." Iyashi chided her, making her sit back in her seat as Kakashi approached them, feigning that he wasn't embarrassed by his friend eccentric behavior.
'Why do I always get people with strange behaviors as friends.' He thought sighing internally.
It's not that he was ashamed of his friends or anything but he sometimes wished that they would act more normal from time to time.
"Inari-san, Iyashi-san how have you been doing?" the younger man asked as he sat down.
"I am good. Work is the usual..." Iyashi said while Inari ordered another of drinks and snacks to the waitress, as she and her twin had already had a drink before Kakashi had arrived, and added with a teasing smile, "and I'm happy to see you less often in the hospital. Being a genin teacher must agree with your health."
At this remark the jonin flushed in embarrassment.
"Speaking of genin." Inari began, a mischievous glint in her eyes, slightly hazy from the alcohol, and a smirk that Kakashi couldn't seem to interpret, "How is the evil little brat doing?"
"You haven't had news from him?" the silver haired jonin asked, a bit surprised that the little blond wouldn't keep in touch with the few people who had been with him since the beginning.
"Well yeah I have. He tells me all about his missions and he always talks about the great Kakashi Hatake and all. But I want to hear what you have to say." The nurse said with again that mysterious smirk on her lips, as she crossed her hands together and rested her chin on them, leaning in to show Kakashi that she was waiting for him to talk.
"Well Naruto is doing good." The younger man began, "His ninja skills are progressing rather rapidly. I guess you could say that he is more a practical kind of learner than cerebral. He understands much faster if you just show and explain to him with simple words instead of trying using special words. All in all he is good kid."
"Argh but that's boring." Inari whined, slumping her head on the table like a five year old, "You're just saying generic stuff. Can't you tell us more than that? Something more personal."
"I don't know what I could tell more than that." The jonin replied startled, as he didn't understand what the nurse wanted.
The twins exchanged exasperated looks at each other while Kakashi was looking at the both of them feeling lost. Why did people look at him like this, with those strange smiles and expressions in their eyes? Before it was Guy and now those two. Even the hokage had had a weird glint in his eyes the last time he had spoken to him! Inari then sighed loudly while shaking her head seemingly at nothing while Iyashi smiled sympathetically as if he was feeling sorry for Kakashi. What Kakashi didn't know is they had noticed how his eyes were lightening up whenever the topic of discussion was about a certain little blond. And so they were desperately attempting to make the clueless jonin realize it on his own but until now every attempt had been unsuccessful.
"Really Kakashi you're hopeless." she told him in a dramatic voice.
"Huh?" the younger man asked taken aback.
"Forget it." The nurse said with a wave of her hand before adding with a grin, "Let's rather drink until dawn!"
Both Iyashi and Kakashi groaned at this, as they knew that the woman would keep them and force them to drink for the entire night.
Earlier that day, at the hot springs of the neighboring town, Naruto was standing on the spot, looking deadpanned at the scene that was just before his eyes.
'That's just great!' Naruto thought sarcastically as he stared at Ebisu, his temporary sensei, who was lying on the ground unconscious.
When Kakashi had told him that the closet pervert would be the one to supervise his training, he had been a bit disgruntled at this news. And then, as he was finally coming to terms with having Ebisu as his trainer, a long spiky white haired man had appeared and had beat the living daylight out of the four eyed man, knocking him unconscious and unable to teach him anymore. While the boy and Ebisu were training near the bathhouse, the weird old man had been peeping into the women's bath. Always being the "prude" type of guy, Ebisu had jumped and ran toward the perverted man to teach him a lesson about peeping. Now he was without a teacher and there was a weird old man standing in front of him on the back of a huge toad. Feeling anger rise into him, he had walked up to the open pervert.
"What's with the frog?" the blond yelled loudly at the man with his finger pointed at him, "Who the hell are you?"
"Alright hold on!" the weird old man exclaimed in a dramatic way, doing a theatrical pose, "Thanks for asking! Mount Myobokugama's holy master sennin, also known as toad sennin, remember it!"
"Sennin?" the boy repeated looking a bit bewildered at the old man, before coming back to his senses, "Hey! Ero sennin, what did you do? He was supposed to train me! Look what you did to him!"
"It's because he was in the way of my work." The perverted sennin replied calmly as he jumped down from the toad that was disappearing in a puff of smoke.
The old man had waist length white hair that were tied back in a ponytail, though two shoulder-length bangs framed both sides of his face. He also had red lines that ran down from his eyes and wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for 'Oil'. He wore a green short shirt kimono with matching pants, under which he wore a mesh armor that showed out of the sleeves and legs of his outfit. His outfit was completed with hand guards, a simple black belt, wooden sandals, a red cloak with two simple yellow circles, and a huge scroll attached behind his back.
"Your work?" Naruto said, raising his eyebrows in question as he was studying the old man.
"I'm a writer. I'm working on a novel." The man said as he took out a book from his vest before shoving it in the blonde's face with a proud smirk, "This!"
"Ah!" the boy exclaimed, his eyes widening in recognition at the orange cover, as an image of Kakashi-sensei always reading this book appeared in his head, "That is!"
"Oh! You know about this?" the sennin asked grinning smugly.
"I know about it! That's a nasty book!" the boy said pointing once again an accusatory finger at the book, before yelling angrily at the man, "Anyway, what the hell did you mean by 'work'? All you were doing was peeping into the woman's bath you pervert!"
"If you were my age it might be just a prank." He added, "But an old man doing that is totally a crime!"
"You fool!" the open pervert yelled back at the boy, "I am not just a pervert! Peeping gives me inspiration to write a better…"
"You liar!" the blond exclaimed, interrupting the man, "Now what the hell are you going to do about my training?"
"Training?" Ero sennin said with surprised curiosity, "Are you talking about that water walking?"
"You know about it?" Naruto asked suddenly getting an idea and pointing at the old man determinedly, "Then take responsibility... and help me with my training!"
"I hate disrespectful and rude brats!" the perverted old man replied loudly with annoyance in his voice, "And I don't like men!"
At the latter part, Naruto made a sound of repugnance in the back of his throat. The old pervert was weirder and creepier than any old man he had ever met. And here he had thought that Super bushy brows sensei, Kakashi-sensei or even Inari-neesan were the weirdest people he knew. As he looked at the perverted sennin in front of him, the boy decided that he would need to flatter the man's ego if he wanted to get trained by him.
"That Come Come Paradise is so cool…" he said tentatively with a big fake smile.
"Liar, this book is only for adults." The man replied not impressed nor fooled at all by Naruto's acting skills, or lack of it in that case, "Compliments will get you nowhere with me."
'Damn… Then I'll…' the blond thought dejectedly before an idea struck his mind and he decided reluctantly that it was his last resort.
"I'm a sennin, I'm not stupid enough to be fooled by a shrimp like you." The old man continued, "Geez, what an annoying brat."
As Ero sennin was ranting about not being deceived by this kind of trick, Naruto used the sexy no jutsu and transformed himself into the gorgeous curvy blond woman he had modeled for this technique.
"How about this?" his feminine self asked in her cute, enticing voice, with a wink, as only the smoke from the technique was covering the strategic parts.
"I LIKE YOU!" the perverted old man exclaimed loudly, his thumbs up, a trail of blood coming down from his nose as he drooled at the sight of female Naruto.
'He's an idiot…' Naruto thought deadpanned.
"Wow, just my type of girl!" Ero sennin said excitedly turning around female Naruto, "What's this jutsu? Huh! Eh!"
"Oh… I call it sexy no jutsu but…" the blond began feeling uncomfortable under the leering eyes of the perverted man.
"Oh! What creativity!" the old man exclaimed blood still running down his face, "You're a genius!"
'I get the feeling that all adults are very weak against this jutsu…' the blond thought, as he felt astonishment at how weak grown men were about these kinds of things.
After using a few more of his feminine charms, the boy finally managed to get Ero sennin to agree to train him. The blond trained all day and managed, at the end of the day to master walking on water. As he was preparing himself to go to bed and rest for tomorrow's training, brushing his teeth and changing into his pajamas, he thought about the month of training that was awaiting him with Ero sennin. He sighed heavily as he felt that he would sometimes need to do his sexy no jutsu again if he wanted the old man to stay serious on his training. He was kind of glad that he was not a real woman as he was sure that it would have meant that the old man would have been more interested to get into his pants than to train him. But then again, that meant that he would have an awesome new technique to show to Kakashi-sensei. This thought brought a smile on his face.
'I'm going to make him proud of me.' He thought as he was lying in bed, his eyes closing, drifting off to sleep.
TBC
Yep I finally introduced Jiraiya! How much fun is that? =P
I wanted to write further but the chapter would have been too long so I decided to stop it here.
I hoped you like this chapter and do not hesitate to tell me what you did or did not like. ;)
See ya next chapter!