Chapter 29: Vegeta! The Prince of All Saiyans!

A man walked though the streets of Konoha. His hair was flame shaped and a deep black color. Beside him was a young boy, maybe around twelve or thirteen years old. The boy had unkempt purple hair. Both wore blue spandex suits with white armor on their torso.

"Hey dad, are you sure that they're here?" The boy asked his father.

"Of course, I felt your little friend's ki flare a few hours ago." The man answered, "But now he's hiding it." 'Cheeky brat'

"What if I flare my ki? If Goten can sense it we can use our mind link." The boy said.

The man stopped and scowled, "Do it Trunks."

Trunks nodded and flew into the air, flaring his ki a few times.

"Trunks? IS that you?" The son of Vegeta heard in his mind.

"Yea Goten, it's me. My dad and I are here, come find us." Trunks responded, then landed on the ground, "He's coming dad."

Vegeta just crossed his arms and leaned against a tea shop that was right next to him. It only took a few moments for Goten and Kai to arrive at the two Saiyan's location.

"TRUNKS!" Goten shot towards his friend, the two performing their handshake -which consisted of a side-ways high five, a props, and then making some strange shape by linking their thumbs.

"Goten how've you been?" Trunks asked his best friend.

"Well, I'm a ninja now, and I can shoot fireballs from my mouth and make big pointy rocks come from the ground, and it's pretty fun."

"Hey Trunks. Hello Vegeta sir." Kai said. He was still afraid of Vegeta.

Vegeta just nodded, "So you two live here now?" He asked Goten, Kai was on the long list of people that Vegeta only spoke to if it was necessary, coming just above Yamcha -Vegeta couldn't stand the baseball player.

"Us four actually. Gohan and Videl live with us. Gohan is training with Piccolo and Videl is probably with Gai and Lee somewhere." Kai said.

"I didn't ask you." Vegeta glared at the God-runner.

"Sorry." Kai murmured, "I'll see you guys later then." Kai waved and disappeared, his form fleeting into a nearby shadow.

"BYE KAI!" Goten and Trunks waved.

"OH!" Goten shouted, "I should bring you guys to see the Hokage."

"Who?" Vegeta asked.

"The leader of the village, he's in charge of all the ninja." Goten said, "He does other stuff too but that's really confusing."

"Lead the way." Vegeta said, getting off the wall and glaring at Goten.

Goten nodded and walked towards the large building that the Hokage called home. The demi-Saiyan walked in, followed by Trunks and Vegeta.

"Can I see the Hokage?" Goten asked the secretary, she was a woman -about thirty- who looked completely average she had black hair that was up in a bun, brown eyes that had little life to them, and an easily forgettable face, "I've got two travellers he needs to meet."

"I'll need to have them searched by ANBU first." The secretary said, suddenly four ANBU appeared. One had a Byakugan and scanned the two, while one frisked Trunks and two Vegeta.

"Clear" The Byakugan user said, all four ninja disappearing once more.

'I couldn't even sense their ki' Vegeta realised after they left.

"You may enter" The woman at the desk nodded.

Goten knocked on the large red door to the Hokage's room.

"Enter"

Goten walked in, flanked by his two Saiyan allies.

"Hey!" He waved with a large smile on his face.

"Good afternoon Goten. Who are your uhm, companions?" The old man asked, sensing a power that could rival what he had seen of Gohan.

"This" He pointed to Trunks, "Is my best friend Trunks."

"Don't point stupid it's rude" Trunks said.

"Is it?" Goten cocked his head.

The Hokage cleared his throat.

"Oh right!" Goten pointed at Vegeta, "And this is Trunks' scary dad Vegeta. He's a full blooded Saiyan."

"Nice to meet you" Trunks said with a wave.

Vegeta merely nodded to the village leader.

"You two are welcome to stay in our village, as long as you follow our laws." Hiruzen said.

"What are these, laws?" Vegeta said the word as if it were a foreign language.

"First off, you two must join the Shinobi Corps, secondly as a shinobi you may not harm a civilian or a fellow shinobi without good reason. You two are to take any missions you are given and follow the parameters of said mission. I expect nothing of you two that I do not expect from all of my shinobi."

"Count me out" Vegeta said, "Trunks, if you want you can stay here with Kakarot's brats, but I'm going to train."

"Dad, wait!" Trunks grabbed his dad by the back of the breastplate, "Stay here, please"

"I take orders from no one" Vegeta turned around to face the old man, "I'll come and visit, you could even consider me an ally, but I refuse to be called a shinobi and I refuse to take orders from anyone."

"Very well" Hiruzen said, hiding a small smile. He took out one of his monkey emblems and threw it to Vegeta, "This is a symbol of our alliance. I do hope that you'll reconsider living in the village in the future."

Vegeta grunted, "We'll see, just take care of my son." Vegeta put a hand on the boy's head, "He's a bit of a troublemaker." The Saiyan prince smiled fondly at the boy before turning and walking towards the door, "Trunks, I'll see you soon."

"Vegeta wait!" Goten yelled, "Why don't you stay for a month, you'll be able to help me train for the chunin exam finals and you can decide to stay or leave after that? Gohan'll be back by then too."

Vegeta stopped, "Train you for what?"

"It's a tournament, I'm going to be fighting Gohan so I need to be in tip top shape for it. I have one month to train"

"Fine, one month. I'll train you and Trunks"

"YAY!" Goten jumped up, "Let's go Trunks, you can meet all of my friends!" Goten ran off, followed by his lavender haired best friend.

Vegeta sighed and turned to the old man, "Can you spit fire as well?"

Hiruzen laughed. "I can teach you if you'd like"


Naruto had found Jiraiya, the man was around six feet tall and had white hair that went down to his lower back. He wore a red haori with a green short kimono and matching pants. He had a red mark under each eye that went to the bottom of his face. He had a large scroll on his back.

Naruto had found the man peeping on girls in the hot springs and had justly dubbed him 'Ero-sennin'

"So, Ero-sennin, what are you gonna teach me first?" Naruto asked the large man.

"Well we have four weeks so I'm thinking one week per technique, sound okay?" The large sage asked.

"What first?"

"The first week will be dedicated to learning the summoning jutsu."Jiraiya said, slamming his hand onto the ground, "Meet Gama!" Jiraiya beckoned to the large red toad he now stood on. The toad had a light red, almost orange skin tone with blue markings around his body. He had a scroll in his mouth and seven bead around his neck, with the largest bead holding the kanji for loyalty (忠) on it.

"WOAH!" Naruto exclaimed, you're gonna teach me to do that?"

"Well, the old man told me you already have a pack with the Kyuubi or something like that so yea, you're gonna use a mix of both your chakras to summon the boss toad, Gamabunta."

"SWEET!" Naruto fist pumped.

"Now sign here in blood" Jiraiya took the scroll from Gama's mouth and unfurled it, there was a few paragraphs on the scroll but Naruto skipped them entirely, his eyes darting to the bottom where Jiraiya was pointing. There was a few names he didn't recognise, then Jiraiya's name, under Jiraiya's was two names on one line. Minato Namikaze and Trunks Briefs.

"Hey Ero-sennin, whose Trunks Briefs, I know that Minato was the Yondaime Hokage, but I've never heard of anyone named Trunks."

Jiraiya bellowed out in laughter, "I guess they never told ya eh? Well since you're my new disciple I'll let you in on a secret, but you can't tell anyone, it's SSS classed."

"You could get the death sentence for telling me then!" Naruto knew the laws quite well, every time Iruka had caught him after a prank the chunin forced the blond to review the penalties for each rank of law -including the classified information levels of law.

"Nah, the old man wouldn't kill me, I'm too important, besides, it's partially my secret." Jiraiya said, "So let me tell you a story" Jiraiya smiled.

Flashback

Jiraiya walked up to his team's training spot. It was the day after their bell test and he had passed this team, noticing how well they worked together. Fugaku Uchiha was incredibly talented, as was Shibi Aburame, however the real talent was in Minato Namikaze -The blond had been able to get the other two to work together. Seeing as how Fugaku would listen to no one unless he respected them or agreed with him, and Shibi was as introverted as a katydid (It's a kind of bug that camouflages with its surroundings and is super hard to find). Minato was somehow able to pull the two together and the three managed to use their talents to almost hit him. The Sandaime was right, Team 7 was always blessed with exceptional talent, however bad their luck was.

When the large man reached the spot he saw Minato falling to the ground and his two teammates rushing to his side. The was a strange machine on the ground and the body of a young man with purple hair laying on the ground beside the blond. Jiraiya appeared in between his student and the strange newcomer. He quickly surveyed the scene and saw no harm on either of them.

Jiraiya turned to Fugaku, "What happened?"

"The machine, it appeared here while we were waiting, the guy fell out and Minato rushed over, but they both fell as soon as they locked eyes, I'd suggest genjutsu but it wouldn't knock both of them out, and this guy doesn't have the eyes to be a Yamanaka." The future clan head told his teacher.

Jiraiya was stunned, Minato had little to no ability in using genjutsu, and this newcomer didn't look like a shinobi, he looked like he was from a separate continent if Jiraiya were being honest. The blue jacket was made of some foreign material and he was wearing boots, plus the make of his sword was unlike any Jiraiya had seen.

A small green toad wearing a grey cloak appeared on Jiraiya's shoulder in a puff of smoke.

"Jiraiya, the Great Toad Sage Gamamaru-sama sent me" Fukasaku said, "Both these boys draw life from the same flow of destiny" The old toad said, "That's what I was told, though I have no clue what it means"

Jiraiya recalled the Great Sage telling him something about the flows of destiny once, how each person had one that they drew their life from and once a life was over the flow gave energy to someone new eventually, much like what happened with Asura and Indra, the cycle of reincarnation.

"One of these two is a reincarnation of the other!" Jiraiya realised, "Is there a seal I can use to merge the two into one body?" He wondered aloud.

"There is one, Gama has it in his possession." Fukasaku told the man, "But it must be applied to the one with less life energy"

"How am I supposed to figure out who has LESS LIFE ENERGY!" Jiraiya snapped, he had no clue how to tell the life energy of a person and he was about to lose a student, again. After Yahiko's death Jiraiya wasn't sure he could ever deal with that pain again, and Minato reminded the white haired sage so much of himself in the past too. He strived for greatness even though he had no one to go home to. But unlike Jiraiya Minato would go far in life, he would go down as one of the strongest shinobi in history. Jiraiya had little to no natural talent but an amazing work eithic, but Minato had a better work ethic and prodigious natural talent. It wasn't fair.

Fukasaku stayed silent, he could tell that Jiraiya was having a rough time.

"Sesei, I believe my clan's talents can help, if you get the seal ready I will figure out who has less life energy." Shibi said.

"How?" Jiraiya almost growled.

"I have a species of insect with sensory abilities." The stoic young man said.

"Get them ready." Jiraiya said, biting his thumb, "Summoning Jutsu!" He shouted, calling on the red toad that held the summoning contract, "You have a seal that can merge bodies?" He asked.

Instead of a response Jiraiya received a scroll from the toad, who then nodded and dispelled.

Jiraiya got to work creating the seal.

Shibi summoned his insects and had them scan both Minato and the stranger. They reported back and the Aburame smiled a little.

"Which one is it?" Jiraiya asked as he finished the seal.

"It's Minato" Shibi responded.

Fugaku let loose a small sigh of relief he hoped no one saw.

Jiraiya channeled chakra into the seal and slammed it onto Minato's chest, it lit up blue as did the stranger's body. The time travelling teen's body ebbed closer to Minato's eventually ending up right beside him. The light erupted, causing both bodies to glow blinding blue. When the light subsided Minato was sitting up, sweating.

He turned to Jiraiya, "What happened sensei?"

Jiraiya fell to the ground with tears in his eyes, "You're safe"

END FLASHBACK

"So the Yondaime was two people at once?" Naruto asked.

"No, he had the lifeforce of two people, what happened was Minato gained Trunks' abilities and memories but kept his identity." Jiraiya said.

"What kind of abilities?"

"The ability to go Super Saiyan for one." Jiraiya smirked.

Naruto went slack jawed, "You know?"

"Of course, after all you're my favourite student's son." Jiraiya smiled.

"I'm the son of the Yondaime?"

Jiraiya just smiled, "Let's get training,and keep that secret!"

Naruto nodded.

Naruto Week 1:

Naruto slammed his palm onto the ground, a large plume of smoke erupted from the earth beneath the blond and he was suddenly atop a large red toad wearing a large blue vest appeared. The toad had a pipe in his mouth and a large blade at his hip. His left eye had a scar going over it.

Naruto Week 2:

Naruto held his right wrist tightly with his left hand and shouted, "Rasengan!" suddenly a blue sphere of chakra formed in his hand, he rushed forwards and slammed it into a nearby tree, decimating it.

"Hyoton: Ice Wolf!" He threw his right hand forwards, a large wolf made of snow flew at Jiraiya, who melting it with a fireball just laughed.

"Nice try Naruto"

Naruto then shot his left hand forwards, "Fuuton: Wind Blast!" A ball of wind shot at the man, who was laughing and nearly getting hit by the ball.

Naruto Week 3:

"BUSTER CANNON!" Naruto brought a hand from either side of his body and clapped then together, shooting a large blue blast of ki towards Jiraiya. The man shot his own blast and the two slammed into each other, creating an explosion.

Jiraiya wiped sweat from his brow, "Wew, you're pretty tough Naruto" Jiraiya laughed. "Now, try Final Flash again."

Naruto Week 4:

"Vermilion Rasengan!" Naruto created a dark orange Rasengan in his right hand, "I did it Ero-sennin!" He shouted.

"That you did." Jiraiya had a red Rasengan in his hand, "The mixture of ki and chakra is quite an advanced technique, I'm surprised it only took you a week and a half."

"Thanks sensei" Naruto rubbed the back of his head.

Sasuke Week 1:

Sasuke was a top a cliff with Kakashi, "Chidori!" Sasuke lunged towards Kakashi with his left hand, the appendage was covered with a knife of lightning, crackling with the sound of an entire flock of crows.

Kakashi sidestepped the attack and grabbed Sasuke by the wrist, flipping him over. "And that, Sasuke, is the weakness I tried to point out before you decided to start our spar early." Kakashi let go of the raven-haired boy's wrist and kicked him in the ribs, "Even more important that speed is stamina." He lectured as he knocked the boy around, "And what else is important in a fight?"

"Strength!" Sasuke lunged at Kakashi with a punch, but ended up getting kneed in the stomach instead.

"Wrong, mitigation" Kakashi said.

"What?" Sasuke stumbled back.

"Mitigation, the ability to reduce the severity and/or strength of something" Kakashi tutored, "Now attack"

Sasuke once again lunged at Kakashi.

Sasuke Week 2:

"Pinton: Shadowless Flight!" Sasuke shouted, the area around him seemed to slow down as the lightning flowed through his body. Theoretically the wind would slow Kakashi down, but Kakashi was using the technique as well and the winds canceled each other out.

"Now show me the combination jutsu we worked on" Kakashi demanded.

"Shadowless Chidori!" Sasuke shouted, creating a Chidori while in his Shadowless Flight stage. He flew at Kakashi with amazing speed and jabbed at him with the blade of lightning.

"Shadowless Raikiri" Kakashi whispered, creating his own, high powered Chidori and countering Sasuke's attack.

"Good job." Kakashi said as the two fell out of their Shadowless Flight stages. "You've graduated my training."

"Who's going to train me now?" Sasuke asked, visibly irked. He knew for a fact that Naruto wasn't done training yet, and he wouldn't fall behind the dead last.

"I am." A shadow came into sight, wearing a black robe adorned with red clouds. "Hello, brother"

"ITACHI!" Sasuke's Sharingan flared to life, "CHIDORI!" He shouted, rushing at the elder Uchiha.

Itachi grabbed Sasuke by the wrist and flipped him over, "I'm here to help, and explain"

"EXPLAIN WHAT! THAT YOU KILLED OUR ENTIRE FAMILY?" Sasuke shouted with tears flowing down his face.

"It wasn't what I wanted to do"

"Itachi, you shouldn't be here." Kakashi warned

"Yes I should." Itachi -while still pinning Sasuke- used his free hand to show Kakashi the monkey emblem.

Kakashi backed down.

"Now both of you listen well, I will not repeat myself, the massacre was not my idea. I did it for the village."

"How is killing our family for the village?" Sasuke asked from underneath his brother.

"They were planning a coup. I tried to find another way with Sandaime-sama, however Danzo's solution was the only one that we knew would work for certain."

"And Danzo thought that killing the entire clan was the best idea, makes sense, he's always been afraid of the Sharingan, even more so after the Kyuubi attack." Kakashi said.

Sasuke looked confused but decided to stay quiet.

"Yes, Danzo blamed our father, Fugaku Uchiha, had planned the Kyuubi attack and then later the coup so that he could get revenge on Konoha, for Madara Uchiha."

Itachi then turned to Sasuke, "If you'll allow me, I would like to teach you some genjutsu for the finals, and help you train your Sharingan more." He said.

"Answer something for me, why me? Why was I spared?" The boy asked.

"I couldn't kill you, you're my younger brother, the one person in the world whose life means more than mine" Itachi smiled.

Sasuke was speechless.

"That being said, don't expect me not to hurt you while we're training."

Sasuke Week 3:

Sasuke dodged Itachi's fireball and sent one of his own, then began his hand seals, "Magen: Tree Binding Death!" Sasuke attempted to catch Itachi in the illusion but it failed, Itachi was in the tree one second, then Sasuke was stuck in the trunk the next, "How?"

"A genjutsu of that level won't work on me Sasuke" Itachi said, releasing Sasuke from the illusion.

Sasuke leapt back and tried to hit his brother again.

Sasuke Week 4:

"So are you coming to the exam Itachi?" Sasuke asked his brother. They were resting on the mountain top with Kakashi, eating rice and tomatoes.

"I will be attending yes, but I will be in disguise as a guard in the Hokage box, so we will not be in contact." Itachi said.

Sasuke looked down at that but then smiled, "So you'll be able to watch me kick Naruto's ass then."

"Yes I will." Itachi smiled.

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So that's that. I'm not doing any more for training but next chapter will kick off the finals. How'd you guys like the chapter? I hope it was good.

Pinton is Swift Release, it's usually Jinton but I changed the Jin (Jinsoku) part for a different Japanese word for quick (Pinpin) because the romanisation of Dust Release is Jinton also.

Thanks for reading :D