Did I write a chapter that is pretty much all Naruto and Jiraiya bonding? Yes, yes I did. I hope you guys enjoy-I like the dynamic between them because Naruto is very much aware of who Jiraiya is to her and Jiraiya knows he doesn't have to hide anything from her and he knows she's not some clueless kid like cannon Naruto was and he can treat her a lot more seriously.
To the person asking Naruto will first meet Itachi in chapter 53. There meeting is going to end very differently from in cannon I gotta say-she always speaks her mind after all.
Naruto and Jiraiya got along, as Rin had remarked three days in, like a house on fire.
Naruto had managed to summon a small toad named Gamakichi, and then two days later-in the safety of the Uzumaki training area, Gramabunta himself, who, upon finding out that Naruto was Minato's daughter, had promptly declared that if she ever needed help she could summon him-a fact that had made Jiraiya pout and grumble about favorites, and had made Naruto cackle with laughter when the summons had promptly allowed her to perch on his head-Rin had been there unfortunately and had ensured that Naruto was not, in fact, allowed to get drunk with him-Naruto had joined Jiraiya in his pouting at that point-getting drunk sounded awesome.
While Sakura trained with Rin and Kakashi kept up with his training with Sasuke, Naruto and Jiraiya spent hours doing their own training, working on the Rasengan's completed form and learning a few new jutsu.
The old man was unending encouraging, and whenever they took breaks they often went to get food, and on several occasions Naruto had had to drag him away from the hotsprings.
Of course she hadn't expected to have her own inspiration from her new sensei's ridiculous perverted nature, but she did.
She was able to put it into action a week after their first meeting.
Jiraiya, curious to see how strong she was-without Kyubi mode at least, had suggested they spar, and the spar itself had been incredibly fun for Naruto-unlike her fight with Orochimaru she could truly take the chance to enjoy the fight since she knew that the old man wouldn't actually hurt her, this wasn't a fight to the death, she didn't have to worry about her friends, it was freeing.
She was able to go all out against him-she hadn't been able to do that with anyone who wasn't likely to kill her in a long time-she was stronger than her mom and Kakashi-sensei was generally busy training the others so he didn't have the free time to spar like this.
And the fought for over an hour, until both of them were panting and worn out, and Jiraiya had a wide proud grin on his lips, "Well you definitely won't fail the final exam." he panted out, "Your dad would be proud of you kid, going toe to toe with the Sannin, even if I am holding back-you are too."
"I'll have to go finding Tsunade-sama and get the full set." Naruto laughed back, before they returned to the fight once more.
And as one hour turned into two and then three, and both of them tired Naruto decided she needed something decisive to win, and she had been looking for the chance to test it.
She leapt backwards away from him, hand's moving quick as she did her somewhat modified henge-usually she'd look somewhat like an older version of herself but she'd made some additions for this time-after all Jiraiya was her godfather and that'd just be super weird and creepy.
Instead she shifted into a beautiful twenty something brunette, completely naked with strategic little clouds of smoke covering up the private areas.
Sure enough her plan worked spectacularly, she'd never known anyone go air born from a nosebleed before but Jiraiya did, his eyes widening and his mouth dropping open as fountains of blood burst from his nose and he went flying backwards.
Once he landed Naruto transformed back and rushed over to the twitching wide eyed man led out on the floor. "You okay Ero Sennin?"
"T-that technique." the man pushed himself up so that he was leaning on his elbows, his eyes narrowed as he focused on Naruto, "That technique is very very dangerous Naruto-chan. Your mom and dad would have killed me if they saw that."
"I like to think they'd be proud." Naruto shot back lightly "It's like, the ultimate technique to use to knock out the average pervert."
"It worked on me! But I am a super pervert."
"You're so proud of that." Naruto laughed, shaking her head with a wry smile.
"Of course I am." Jiraiya climbed to his feet, hand landing on the top of Naruto's head, "It's something everyone should be proud of brat."
"Do you think we can work on some Fuinjutsu this afternoon?"
"You don't ever take a break do you." the smile Jiraiya gave Naruto was fond, "You're so much like your father in that respect. He'd work himself to the bone to try and finish something. What seal are you working on? I know you have some top secret project for the Chunin exams and one for after."
"The Chunin exams one I won't talk about." he'd feel obliged to stop her because her plan involved royally pissing off the idiots in the Hyuga clan, and the other project was Kurama's new seal.
"I'm working on Kurama's seal-if you could look it over with me, I'm pretty close to perfect but you're a seal master so..."
"Kid don't sell yourself short." Jiraiya chuckled as together they left the latest training ground-they had a bad habit of destroying them-Hiruzen had complained about it more than once.
On one day they'd gone through three of them in one day "You're a Fuinjutsu master in your own right, you're a lot more inventive with your seals than I am."
"You know a lot of seals I don't."
"I've been doing it a lot longer than you. But yeah I'll look it over."
Together they made their way through the streets, Naruto leaning into the man's side.
It was as they were walking past the Hokage's tower that Naruto spotted Shikamaru, with a man who had to be his father, the younger of the two yawning as they walked, though the older of the two perked up when he spotted Jiraiya.
"Jiraiya-sama. I heard a rumor you were back in the village."
"You heard right Shikaku-san, I'll be here at least until the end of the Chunin exams."
"Of course, and-" Shikaku blinked, his eyes focusing on Naruto and he stared for a long moment, his eyes flicking between the girl and the old man, an eyebrow raising before he gave a small shrug, "A new student?"
"I'm Nohara Naruto." Naruto declared brightly, "It's nice to meet you Nara-san. I've already met Shikamaru-san."
"Hn." Shikamaru glance between the two adults and the girl, clearly very suspicious about his fathers reaction to the young blonde. "Naruto-san is troublesome. Ino-chan doesn't like her."
"Why?" Shikaku raised an eyebrow."
"Naruto-san is on Sasuke-san's team. Ino's jealous."
"Ugh." Naruto pulled her face, "Ino-san's the blonde fangirl right? No offence but I dunno how you put up with that."
"Sakura used to be worse than Ino."
"Clearly I'm a good influence." Naruto gave a proud grin that made Shikaku smile faintly.
"You look like your mother when you smile like that Naruto-san." that made Jiraiya tense slightly, but Shikaku winked, a conspiratorial smile on his lips that just made Shikamaru's eyes narrow.
"Thank you Nara-san." Naruto flushed slightly, a proud look on her face- it seemed that even if he knew, Shikaku-san wasn't going to tell
"She was a troublesome one. I assume you're the one who caused trouble with Anbu and the Hyuga?"
"I wouldn't know what you're talking about." Naruto had an innocent look on her face, "I certainly didn't use seals to do it."
"I bet you're a wild one." Shikaku shook his head.
"I like to think I take after her." Naruto gave a proud little grin that made the man chuckle and shake his head.
"You're going to be very troublesome aren't you Naruto-san?"
"Always." Naruto nodded.
"Anyway Shikaku-san." Jiraiya spoke up, looking much more relaxed now that it was clear that the man wasn't going to run around telling everyone just who the blonde girl was. "We should probably go, I was going to look at some of Naruto-chan's latest Fuinjutsu designs."
"Of course." Shikaku nodded, "We should be off too anyway, if we're late home Yoshino will kill us."
"Troublesome." Shikamaru muttered the word, though his eyes were filled with curiosity as he watched Naruto, and that would be interesting Naruto decided.
She wondered just how much digging Shikamaru would do into her history. His curiosity was definitely piqued, it probably depended on just how lazy the boy really was.
With that said they parted ways, and Naruto and Jiraiya arrived back at the Uzumaki compound and headed to the main house, where Naruto quickly dragged him to her room and got out her scrolls for him to look over, the old man turning uncharacteristically serious as he took them from her and look at the designs.
After perhaps half an hour he lifted his head, "I can't see any faults in it. You plan on replacing your current seal with this one yeah?"
"Yep." Naruto nodded, "Think that'll work then?"
"I think it's ingenious." there was a proud gleam in the old mans eye, "I think you could teach me a thing or two about sealing-hell you could have probably taught your dad a thing or two."
"Really?" Naruto's eyes widened hopefully and she perked up, "I know he was a Fuinjutsu master."
"Yep, but he was no Uzumaki-your mom would have been ridiculously proud of you." Jiraiya smiled fondly at the memories, "She used to boss your dad
around and take him to school when it came to Fuinjutsu. But then she was an Uzumaki-and you are too even if you go by Nohara now. You have Uzumaki blood and it seems you have an innate talent for sealing because of it."
"I just... it makes sense to me. Does that make sense? I look at the seals and I can make sense of them."
"Yep, that's an Uzumaki thing." Jiraiya smiled, "And they always said that the only limits to Fuinjutsu were the users imagination."
"And I have a great one." Naruto grinned, "So you think it'll work."
"I know it will. When do you plan on doing it?"
"After the exams."
"Then when the time comes I'll help." Jiraiya promised, "I'll get you the key your dad made and we'll do it together."
"That'd be awesome-"
"Finally." Kurama's voice was relieved, "I swear if I had to wait too much longer I'd have eaten you when you freed me-" "Stop your whining fuzzball or I'll delay it." "You wouldn't dare." "Watch me-" "Yeah but you love me anyways." "Clearly I've been trapped inside of you so long that some of your stupidity has worn off on me." "Eh that happens to everyone I'm around for too long."
"You know." Naruto opened her mouth, smirking, "Ac-"
"Alright alright brat! Kami you're evil you know that?"
"Everything okay Naruto-chan?" Jiraiya's brows furrowed, "You zoned out there kid."
"It's fine." Naruto gave a sunny grin, "I was just screwing with Kurama."
"You... screw with the Kyubi?" Jiraiya shook his head, "I know you say you're friends with him but I still find it hard to believe."
"Our friendship is a weird one I will admit. He's a grumpy asshole and as mom says, I am a living ball of sunshine, but it does work surprisingly well."
"Well the seal you designed will give him more freedom inside of you." Jiraiya nodded, "If you trust him then we just have to trust your judgement."
"Of course." Naruto paused, "On a similar but unrelated subject regarding sealing... on a scale of one to ten how much chaos do you think there'll be if I, just for example-purely hypothetically... removed a Hyuga's Caged Bird seal."
"I think the Hyuga elders would want you dead and Hiruzen-sensei would probably just cry from the sheer amount of paperwork it would cause." Jiraiya grinned, "But it does sound like the chaos would be fun. That part of your plan to deal with the Hyuga brat?"
"Yep." Naruto nodded, "It'll be pretty fun if it all works out like I think it will."
"I know your mom attempted to do it more than once. Your dad had to drag her away kicking and screaming... of course he had safety concerns. The Caged Bird seal has a lot of built in failsafes in the case of it being removed... have you considered those."
"I've done my research." Naruto shrugged, "It's not gonna be easy but it's very much doable if I take my time. It'll hurt him so I'll use a paralysis seal to stop him from messing it up by struggling, but I can definitely remove it."
"I'll back you up when the council comes for your head." Jiraiya chuckled, "And I'm sure Kakashi-kun and Rin-chan will too. And that friend of yours, Sakura-chan will probably punch her way into the Council chambers to threaten to murder anyone who tries to hurt you."
"Also I'm friends with Suna's Jinchuriki and I'm friends with the student of the Mizukage's right hand man."
"You're a terrifying girl." Jiraya said looking amused, "We keep letting you make friends and you'll end up being untouchable."
"That's the plan." Naruto carefully rolled the scroll up again, "I think I'll spend the rest of the day relaxing if that's okay with you Ero Sennin."
"Of course brat." Jiraiya leered, "I should try and do some research while I've got some free time."
"Why do you peep through holes?"
"You already know brat, I'm a super pervert I have to maintain my status-"
"No-no I mean... why do you watch from outside?"
"I can't go inside! I'd get attacked."
Naruto stared at the man for a long moment, blinking slowly before she sighed loudly, "And you call yourself a Shinobi."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Jiraiya's eyes narrowed, "What are you thinking Naruto-chan?"
"Ero Sennin." Naruto looked at him as if he was an idiot, "Henge." and she watched as the man's brows furrowed in confusion before going almost comically wide, then he was lunging forward and grabbing Naruto in a bone crushing hug, making the blonde yelp and try and squirm free.
"GENIUS! GENIUS NARUTO-CHAN! You're officially the best student I've ever had!" he rushed out of the bedroom, nearly colliding with the wall opposite the door in his haste to rush and get to the hotsprings, Naruto's laughter echoing behind him.
