"Alright Naruto, time to get up." Naruto's eyes snapped open as he rolled of the bed and reached for his kunai pouch. Which of course wasn't there. "Calm down brat, I know genjutsu sleep sucks, get your bearings." Naruto shook his head and looked around, discovering a small cell. There was a cot that he had been sleeping on, a toilet and a very solid looking wooden door of reddish oak. There was a small seal on the door behind Jiraya. "Do you remember how you got here?"

At the mere mention of memory, the images quickly rammed into his skull. He flashed through the invasion and then the council meeting. He nodded. "I think I was sentences to have you as my probation officer."

"That's right. Good, your not suffering any lingering effects. I have a important mission, which means I have no choice but to take me with you while I evaluate your loyalty to this village. Actually." Jiraya double checked the seal on the door. "We have three missions. The first is to find Senju Tsunade, and request for her to come heal Sensei. The second is to convince her to become the fifth Hokage. It is there I think you'll have particular success. And finally the third and last. During the trial, Danzo overplayed his hand. We need to make sure that his little political stunt is the only power he has." Jiraya pulled the seal off the door. "If your ready, we have places to be, people to find, and a Hokage to appoint."

Naruto followed him out of the small cell. They went down a hallway before reaching some guards. "Code, Not A Frog." The guards nodded before opening a heavily locked door covered in seals, letting them out into the lower basement of the Hokage Tower. Jiraya grabbed a hold of Naruto, taking him out of the tower via shushin. Naruto stumbled away from the pervert, glad to be outside once again. The village had signs of hasty repair that were still being undertaken, so he couldn't have been locked up too long. "One week, it's been a week from the invasion, and it may have already been too long. Where as we can't hurry this mission, it is vital we start it immediately. I have your gear, and a few additional pieces of equipment on me." Naruto stood blankly before responding.

"I have someone I have to see before I go Ero-Sennin." Jiraya shook his head, sadness on his face.

"She's fine kid, still recovering, but fine. Sensei doesn't have time to waste, do you understand?"

Naruto hesitated before nodding his head. "Yes Jiraya-Sensei." Jiraya nodded before heading to the gate, Naruto looked towards the hospital, and then cursed himself a fool. A hand sign later and another one of him appeared, it walked off towards the hospital. Naruto's eyes lingered on the clones back, before he turned and followed quickly after Jiraya

Naruto wrote a letter to Hinata while he sat at her bedside. She was sleeping peacefully, which made Naruto's feel very content. He reached the end of the letter and checked it too make sure it was up to his standards. Hinata, I'm sorry to say that I have had to go on a trip. I don't know when I will return. Please be safe while I'm gone. Ok so he wasn't a great letter writer, but who is these days, it was short sweet and to the point. He added another sentence, I will miss you, and be thinking of you. He folded the paper before placing it on her bedside. He leaned down and kissed her forehead. "I love you Hime, sweet dreams my heart." Naruto made to disperse but was stopped by a sound. Hinata had let out a moan that had sounded an awful lot like his name. Maybe he could stay until he ran out of chakra. Naruto returned to her bedside, and held onto her open hand before laying his head down next to hers.

Naruto walked along side Jiraya, they had been traveling for quite some time by this point. "Alright, this should be far enough. Here's a few new pieces of equipment I had made especially for you. Before we get to that, what is your primary weakness Naruto?" Naruto opened his mouth to say genjutsu but stopped short. His mind could tell when he had a genjutsu on him, and it allowed his the control needed to break it. A replay of getting stabbed in stomach happened, alright, so it wasn't perfect, but it worked. So then what was it? "Alright, I asked the wrong question, how about this, what is rule number four?"

Ebisu popped into his head. "The Battle is decided from the first strike" Jiraya nodded and threw a scroll at him. "Whats in this?"

"A way to get the first strike." Naruto pulled it open to find several weights. "I won't go into the science behind it, frankly I'm not sure I understand it myself, but if you wear these, your body will have more difficulty moving and will be forced to use chakra to overcome it. It will train your body to unconsciously release chakra to allow you to move normally, when you release the weights, the same mount of chakra you were using to move normally will now allow you to move far faster than anyone can see. Normally it would take years of training or a Sharingan to achieve the results this training will give you. You have two advantages most don't. One, your body is already used to channeling chakra without conscience thought, and two, you have more chakra than almost any other genin on the planet. Your body will be able to use it to adjust faster without having to worry about running low on your reserves."

"The reason Rock Lee can move so fast is because he works harder than any other genin I have ever seen, and because he never touches his chakra. In a way, it's thanks to his defect that he can advance as quickly as he does. When Lee finally gets his form down, even a sharingan will have trouble tracking him. He'll just be too fast for it. Imagine Gai and Kakashi's challenges. The real ones are almost always a toss up." Jiraya tossed him a second scroll. "I've decided you earned this, so here you go, the secret resengan training." Naruto opened the scroll to find two types of balloons and several rubber balls. "Start with the water balloons, pop the balloon, and You'll..." Naruto popped the water balloon effortlessly "That was cheating brat."

Naruto stuck his tongue out at Jiraya. "Rule Number Six, There is no such thing as fairness or cheating, only the victorious and the defeated." Jiraya slumped over before finally speaking again.

"Fine, here you go, stage two, this requires pure power. Pop... Alright now that's just garbage... To have mastered the first two stages in less than five minutes?" Naruto Shrugged.

"I've seen the completed version." Jiraya grimaced, Naruto choose to ignore that. "Thanks to my bloodline it was easy to tell the basics of it, I already had a rough version of it before today. As to power, thanks to Summon Training, I don't have to many problems releasing a lot of chakra. Its the third stage I'm worried about." Jiraya nodded.

Jiraya continued down the path as Naruto followed "We are going to combine these two training methods, you will start again from start. At first I wanted you to learn both separately, but I fear it will be to easy. A power you have not worked on, struggled with, fought for, is a power you will not respect." Naruto nodded before sitting down to put on the weights, Naruto quickly caught up with Jiraya a moment later.

"Are you sure these things aren't defective? It doesn't feel like its anymore difficult to move" Jiraya raised his hand with three finders, that quickly changed to two, before dropping to one, as the last finger went down, Naruto felt a huge weight settle upon his body and he dropped. Jiraya simply kept walking.

"Time waits for no man Naruto, and I'm afraid I don't either. The next village is ten miles down this road. I will be at the inn on the furthest side of the village, the Hare and Doe Tavern. You better start moving if you want to get there by nightfall." Jiraya just kept walking, and soon, Naruto had lost sight of him. Naruto struggled to get to his feet, he just managed it, feeling his heart strain against the effort it was putting out. Naruto took a step forward, and began his journey.

Jiraya was leaning against the Inn's outer wall as he watched Naruto approach, Naruto collapsed in front of him, exhaustion over taking him. "I bet it never even occurred to you to take them off." With that, Jiraya picked Naruto up. Naruto breathed in deeply before closing his eyes, in the morning he would kill his sensei, but for now, he'd sleep.

A/N Short chapter I know, but next one will be all of Naruto's first mission. Besides, I'm trying to build a few of these up... Ok so maybe I shortchanged you a little bit this chapter, but what did you want me to do? Tell you what, to appease the trolls, I will answer your reviews for chapter thirty three and thirty four.

Rose Tiger - Keep it up!

I CERTAINLY SHALL!

brown phantom - Sasuke's sure got an ego here, where he said Gaara was about to be beaten by the Uchiha Clan. He's just one person, not a clan, and the way he said it makes it sound like he feels he alone is equal in strength to his entire clan when it was around. He needs to learn some humility soon and about being proud credit for the right things, not simply pride by association.

That's one thing I wanted to keep, is Sasuke's Ego and Pride. It's his deadly sin, and it's the one that now pushes Naruto away, oh he thinks Naruto is helpful, and not a waste of space, most of the time, but he can't accept that he can't do everything alone. He will learn it, or end up as Orochimaru's henchmen. At this time in the plot it could go either way. Of course, I know where he is going to be, but meh.

BloodIronAngel - Just spent two straight days reading this fic. I want you to know i haven't read a Naru/Hina pairing in over a year (Way overdone and always shitty quality now-a-days). That right there should make you feel special lol. Ive been on this site for i think close to 7 years now, and i always get very happy when i can still find great quality fics. You just made my week. I cant wait for next chapter. You've made a fan of me.

what really impresses me is that you have an intelligent fic on your hands and you work yourself around all the cliches i see all the time. That and your grammar is smooth too. Shows growth.

Thanks for the pleasure,

Ryan

I'm very happy to hear that. And I do feel very special, though more of in a retarded way. Finally someone appreciates my writing style! I might just have to fire my beta and stop rewriting earlier chapters. I think we'll actually stop rewriting them at one point, once I'm happy with my english in comparison.

Mboz1018 - I really enjoy your story! I'm amazed you don't have more reviews. Keep up the great work!

Frankly, so am I, I should be overrun with reviews. I guess since it's only my first story, I don;t have a lot of fans trying to track this one down and tell me how much they love it.

Dragon Man 180 - Shukaku uses wind, not water. Some nice changes from the original fight, but I liked seeing Naruto's clone working on strategy and then Jiraiya breaking the morale of Suna and Oto.

DOH! Yea, I screwed up there.

I'll do only five reviews from Chapter 34.

jayley - huh, i guess he got off with nothing but a lack of promotion since he'd have been with jiraiya anway, but i think part of being a ninja is fighting and knowing what to do to best fight off an invasion, so in that regard i don't really think they'd be arresting ninja and putting them on trial. destruction is going to happen when you're fighting anywhere. and interfering in a fight seems a tad overstated when all of the anbu were similarly trying to interfere in the fight...so i don't really agree that any of that was truly something that should happen, though i agree that if you're doing a bit of council bashing then by all means it was done much better than anything i've ever seen

The trial is the part I meant he wouldn't get off with anything. He did several actions that were negative to Konoha, even if they did help in the long run.

He interfered in a fight outside his RANK, a genin, no matter how strong should ever interfere with a Hokage's fight, it's a little different for the Hokage's personal anbu.

Small scale destruction yes, destroying a entire city block? Conspiring to have leaf ninja Abandon the village walls? Bombing the village archives? It is only because they had such positive effects, he got off so lightly, otherwise any single one of those acts would have called for the immediate execution of him.

Yea, I bashed the council a little bit, but really it was more of setting up another part of the story. The whole thing has really revealed to Naruto, just how much Danzo should not be trusted. His first experience with him is during a war tribunal.

Dragon Man 180 - Given that Naruto also saved the village and showed tactical knowledge, he'd better get a Chunin vest in three years. And can a possibly Godaime Hokage overrule the prohibition if Naruto does something like kill a bunch of missing ninja that are S rank? Or what happens if the Fire Daimyo remarks, "I hope you gave that young man a promotion for saving all our lives?" and is told no? I just feel that the Naruto haters should have this come back and bite them in the butt.

I won't deny the possibility of his getting the vest after the sentence has been fulfilled, but the Godaime can not. It would set a bad precedent, not to mention it would call into question her judgment and ultimately her ability to govern. Maybe without the council and without Danzo she could get away from it. Politics would eat her alive otherwise. As far as the Fire Daimyo knows, Naruto Uzumaki is just another genin, not worthy of any special treatment. The village survival could not be due to one genin, or else the strength of the village would be called into question, and that would be bad.

Ladygoddess8 - That's a whole bunch of bull. Poor Naruto. But this could be a good thing in long term standing. This taught that his actions can have far more out reaching consequences. Hopefully Naruto will finely have the time needed to fine tune his abilities.

He will learn it, though he has finally grasped the basics of that. Maybe he will, and much more likely he won't.

Johnjohn – this chapter was meant to piss us readers off damn im pissed lol.

Nah, it wasn't. I needed that chapter to set up three new interwoven arcs, as well as bring in two new characters that will be playing a major part in this story. Especially in following arcs. It also showed some of the consequences. For instance, the Hokage is alive, but injured, possibly badly. Second, that Orochimaru managed to escape, and if the Hokage is alive, it means he still has access to his arms. Naruto will be learning just how far the consequences of his actions go into his world. He won't get it all at once, but slowly he will discover just everything he made right, and everything he screwed over.

Mrharris31 - i really love this story but i really hate the whole village counsel plot device but the awesomeness of this story just overshadows that

Like stated in the previous review, I needed it to advance the story. Without it, one of my arcs would have just come out of nowhere, and I like to introduce main characters before they actually become so. If I give someone a name, its because at one time or another they will show up in the story again, possibly multiple times. Hint hint.

Alright and that's that. I hope you all enjoy.