I Do Not Own Naruto
A/N I'm never answering that many questions again. Ever. That took up too much space in my opinion, but I thought that they needed answering to the public. The right to know, after all. I didn't even bother reading the reviews last chapter because I knew somebody was going to complain that the end didn't make much sense. That's the point. It didn't, there's more to it, and I finally get to introduce the bigger picture in this chapter.
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Jiraiya was rubbing his temples. Mizuki, an obvious traitor, had gotten off almost completely free. According the council notes in front of him, Mizuki's only crime was being an accessory in the theft, as apparently Naruto had been the one to do the actual theft.
Mizuki was stripped of his title as a shinobi for this. In most cases that is a fate worse than death, and to Mizuki it was.
When the council released him to ANBU, they had had all of his chakra sealed off, in effect making him almost harmless to other shinobi. That didn't make a fully grown man harmless against a 13 year old girl, though.
Then the bail was insanely low, and the cash had been put forward by a council member. When Jiraiya thought about it, it was probably because the council member had thought that he had done a service by fingering Naruto.
The justice system wasn't that hard to understand, as Jiraiya went through the case. The council took the justice cases. It was one of the few areas that the Hokage had little say.
Death was only the penalty if someone was harmed in the crime. This was why most missing Nin are labeled "Kill on sight". More grievous crimes, like trying to sell out the village, for one, was dealt with by stripping the shinobi's title, and sealing of their chakra with a fail-safe. If the seal is removed, or if the person leaves the confines of the village, it kills the person who had it.
Jiraiya suspected that there was some greasing of the palms, as Mizuki's 'trial' was like a bad joke. Something else bothered Jiraiya though, "If he was stripped of his status, why did he have Hiate-ate?" He thought to himself, "Why did it have the symbol of the leaf?"
Other things bothered Jiraiya, too. While Inoichi did have a great distaste for the kid, he never would have called the Hokage a fool to his face. Something was off about the whole village, and Jiraiya had been gone a long time.
Jiraiya stopped his musing as Naruto approached, and prepared to try and get Naruto to summon the boss toad. He would, or else.
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Ibiki handed in his report to the Hokage, sitting rigid. Something was definitely off today.
"Is this all, Ibiki-san?" Sarutobi asked quietly.
"DISAPPOINTING," a voice sounded in Sarutobi's head, "I have witnessed this brat time and again escape me, Now he is all but untouchable by me."
"Please, stop," Sarutobi thought quietly, "stop this."
"Sarutobi-sama?" Ibiki questioned.
"Thank you, Ibiki," Sarutobi took a drag from his pipe, "I need to think on this."
"Who is this Uzumaki? Answer me Sarutobi!" the voice echoed inside Sarutobi's head.
"You don't remember?" Sarutobi thought quietly. As soon as the presence left Sarutobi's mind, he couldn't remember anything it had said.
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Inoichi walked quietly to sit in his home, and listened to his daughter cry softly. The demon, had saved his daughter. Using it's power.
"What was he trying to do?" Inoichi thought quietly to himself, "Was it a trick? It couldn't have been. I was the one who paid off the bail for Mizuki, and the demon was nowhere around then."
"Inoichi-kun?" Inoichi jumped at the sudden, quiet voice, "I want you to do something for me," the voice chuckled, "I want you to get inside Naruto's head. I can't touch your daughter, and I need something."
Remembering everything, when that presence touched his mind, of what the voice had told him earlier, Inoichi grew angry, "No."
"What?" the voice said with a deadly edge to it's voice, "You forget yourself Yamanaka."
"Your forget yourself!" Inoichi cried out loud.
"But you need a refresher course, Yamanaka," Inoichi felt chakra gather around him, "Shintenshin no jutsu!"
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Naruto approached Jiraiya with a serious look on his face.
"Ready, brat?" Jiraiya asked.
Naruto nodded.
"Good," Jiraiya quietly approached Naruto, and grabbed him by the collar.
"What are you doing, Ero-sennin?" Naruto asked, confused.
"I'm sorry brat," With that, Jiraiya threw Naruto off the cliff.
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As Naruto fell, he felt strangely calm, and then panic hit as he realized he was actually falling. He grabbed at the sides of the canyon, only to have the walls to slippery to grip.
He thought back on Kurenai's training, "For jutsu, feel for a trickle, that is then enough."
Naruto bit his thumb as he tried the jutsu, only pumping as much chakra as he could into it, and was surprised, that instead of feeling a trickle, it felt like the chakra was going to peak.
He screamed out the name of the jutsu as he felt his chakra reach that peak, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
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Jiraiya meanwhile, was panicking, "WHY IN THE LIVING HELL DID I THROW HIM OFF THE CLIFF?!"
Jiraiya was flailing his arms about and screaming as he tried to figure out what to do, then he heard an ominous voice call up from the crevice.
"Jiraiya, why have you summoned me!" Jiraiya could only cringe as he recognized the voice
"Oh crap," Jiraiya thought quietly.
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Naruto heard the deep rumble come underneath him as he looked around uncertainly. He got up and ran to the edge of the red thing he was on.
He heard the thing he was on yell at Jiraiya, and he quickly became ticked at being pushed aside.
"Hey you stupid toad!" Naruto yelled at it, "I summoned you!"
He could feel the thing's eyes shift upwards, "Really," Naruto felt the giant toad take a deep breath, and exhaled, Naruto coughed on the smoke that came up, "I doubt a little brat like you could summon me."
"Hey!" Naruto screached at the toad, "I did summon you! Dammit, I did! Not that pervert up there!"
The giant toad chuckled, "I like you brat. I'll tell you what, I'm going to give you a little test."
"What test?" Naruto called down as he felt the toad tense underneath him.
"Stay on my back!" the toad called out as he jumped straight up with Naruto screaming as well.
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Jiraiya felt the earth rumble, and doing the only thing he could think to do, he ran for cover.
He saw the massive toad jump out of the crevice, with the pale skinned blond screaming for dear life.
Jiraiya watched with a grin twitching at the corners of his mouth as he saw the toad keep jumping around with Naruto clinging for dear life.
He'd did what he wanted to have happen, but he still could not figure out for the life of him what happened to make him decide to throw Naruto off a cliff, of all things.
He watched the show until well into sunset.
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The giant toad, while it would never say it out loud, was having the time of his life. The was the same game he played with Gamakichi, and he enjoyed using as a test for a brat near it's son's age.
He continued jumping well into sunset, only stopping when he heard the unmistakable sound of Naruto vomiting.
"Sorry," Naruto called weakly.
"Well, brat, I'll give this for staying on so long, I'll let you summon those from my clan," the giant toad took a giant puff from a pipe Naruto was just now noticing it had, "What's your name?"
"Uzumaki...Naruto," Naruto said in between gasps.
"Brat, I'm your new boss, Gamabunta. I had heard about you from my son, so I expect to here more," Gamabunta took a puff a blew it into a crop of trees, "I won't let you summon me just yet, though. We must share a drink first."
"Gotcha," Naruto gasped, "Boss."
Then he passed out.
A hacking cough broke out of the tree line as a scroll flew at the toad, showing the last name on the list, "Uzumaki Naruto."
"I knew it was him, Jiraiya," Gamabunta chuckled, "He's tired, though. I'm going to get the brat to the hospital."
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The populace of Konoha was scrambling to get out of the way, though that was unnecessary, as the giant toad watched his step as he hopped through the city.
Sarutobi watched the toad as it hopped through the city, chuckling to himself, "What are you doing, Jiraiya?"
The giant toad came to a stop in front of the hospital, extending it's tongue to deposit something in front of the doors. Then the toad disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Naruto merely turned over where he lay, with a big smile on his face.