Chapter three
"Hey old geezer," Naruto called as he entered the Hokage's office only to run into a white haired man.
"Sorry," Naruto quickly apologized as he sat down in a chair.
"Whose the idiot?" the stranger asked rudely as he turned towards Naruto.
"That idiot is your future student," the Third replied a bit annoyed.
"WHAT?" they both shouted.
"This idiot is my student?" Jiraiya asked.
"Who're you calling idiot, idiot?" Naruto retorted back. Jiraiya was about to reply when the Third cut him off.
"Let me explain. Jiraiya this is Naruto. You will be training him for the next two months until the chunnin exams. Naruto this is one of the legendary sennins, Jiraiya. You can learn a lot from him," the Hokage explained when they had both calmed down.
"What about my team?" Naruto was the first to protest at the idea.
"Oh that is easily fixed. While you are away Haku will take your place,"
"But," Jiraiya started but after one look at the Hokage they both knew it was no use.
"Very well," Naruto agreed knowing that he lost "When do we leave?"
"Today," the Third replied as he pushed them out the door.
"Stupid old geezer," Naruto cursed for the five time that day. They had been traveling for hours now. They being Naruto and the perverted Jiraiya.
Naruto practically had to drag him away from the bathhouses in the last village.
"Oi, Ero-sennin where are we going?" Naruto asked curiosity getting the better of him.
"I don't really know. We are probably just going to wander around," Jiraiya replied. "Let's stop here for tonight. I do have to train you after all,"
"Like there's anything I can learn from you," Naruto muttered under his breath but unfortunately for him Jiraiya had heard the last comment.
"Oh so you think I don't have anything to teach you," Jiraiya smirked an evil smile plastered on his face.
"No, of course not, Wh... where did you hear that from," Naruto stuttered liking that smile lesser by the second as he backed off.
"I'm sure you want to know how strong I am," Jiraiya smiled in his way to sweet voice as he advanced toward the retreating Naruto, "Why don't we have a spar," he stressed the word spar as if it was the biggest understatement of the year.
"Wait," Naruto protested but Jiraiya had already disappeared from view.
He reappeared behind the blond and aimed a kick at his head only to have his foot grabbed by Naruto and throw back a few feet.
"Not bad," Jiraiya complemented as he readied himself for the second round.
This time it was Naruto who charged first kunai in hand. Jiraiya go ready to block the metal blade only to have it disappear moments before the attack was to land.
The legendary sennin's eyes widened in shock as he felt Naruto behind him before receiving a kick in the head.
Jiraiya skidded a few feet before stopping. He was shaking in excitement by now. Who knew this midget was such a hard opponent.
Jiraiya smiled as he began performing a set of seals, "Rasengan!" he yelled as balls of chakra formed in his hands as he charged at Naruto.
Not knowing what this attack was Naruto's only choice was to dodge. He managed to invade the first but was caught unaware as a second rasengan whirled towards him.
"Shit!" he cursed as he started performing seals at top speed. He finished them just in time as nine tails of red chakra rose up to slap away the whirling ball from Jiraiya.
Naruto unraveled his barrier of chakra only to come face to face with a Gumbunta, a giant warrior toad.
"Shit!" Naruto cursed again as he bit his thumb and swiped a line of blood across his arm.
Naruto staggered a little from the use of so much chakra as a warrior fox was summoned to the battlefield.
Both fighters glared at each other as their summons duked it out on their own.
"Who are you," Jiraiya asked suspiciously as Gumbunta vanished in a puff of smoke.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto of course," the blond replied as he unsummoned his fox.
"How are you so strong? I heard you were the dead last at the Academy," Jiraiya pressed on.
"Would you believe me if I said Kakashi was a great teacher?" Naruto answered sheepishly as he scratched the back of his head.
"Guess not," Naruto replied when he saw his sensei's glare.
Seeing that he wasn't going to get any more information from Naruto Jiraiya decided to change the subject.
"So now that you know how I fight what do you want to learn from me? To say the truth there isn't much I can teach you,"
"Well, I have to admit you're strong especially that rasengan attack. Can I learn that?" Naruto asked bouncing up and down with excitement.
"Of course," Jiraiya smiled "I'll teach you how to summon toads too. But first we have to work on your chakra control.
Naruto's face fell at the last part and he grumbled about "stupid fox" and "too much chakra".
The next day Naruto opened his eyes to be greeted by a splash of water as Jiraiya smiled wickedly.
"What? It's your fault for sleeping in," he had replied innocently when he saw Naruto's glare, "Besides don't you want to start training?" he quickly changed the subject when he saw Naruto's murderous look.
Completely forgetting about the water accident Naruto began jumping with join when he heard the word training.
"So what are we doing first?" he asked barely able to contain his enthusiasm.
"First put on these weights," Jiraiya ordered as Naruto did so grudgingly, "Now follow me," he said as he started to jog.
The days passed quickly as everything began to fall into a routine. In the morning it was always jogging and in the afternoon came the fun part. After Naruto proved that he could walk up a cliff Jiraiya had forced him to learn to walk on water.
Then it was time for Jiraiya to teach him different justus and fighting styles and boy did Jiraiya know a lot of them. Naruto was a quick learner and in no time at all he had learned most of the sennin's techniques.
And so the two months flew by and it was almost time to return to Kohana.
On one starry evening a week before the exams were due to start Naruto and Jiraiya were gazing at the stars when a messenger from Kohana came.
He delivered a letter to Jiraiya without a word and promptly left. Naruto watched as Jiraiya's face became paler with every word he read.
"What does it say?" Naruto asked as he grabbed for the letter.
"War is brewing between the Sound and Leaf," Jiraiya answered as he burned the letter.
"Orochimaru," Naruto muttered to himself as he sat back down. Fortunately the perverted sennin didn't hear, as he was too busy burning the letter to ashes.
"Oh yeah. I forgot to tell you Naruto. Haku will be taking your place in the chunnin exams so the Third assigned you two new teammates. They will be arriving tomorrow," Jiraiya informed the blond as he tried to lighten up the atmosphere.
"WHAT?" Naruto bellowed as he jumped up again, "WHOSE STINKING IDEA WAS THIS?"
"This was the Hokage's idea besides don't you want to give your friend Haku a chance to become a chunnin?" Jiraiya smiled when Naruto faltered.
"I guess. So who are my new teammates?" Naruto asked in a defeated tone.
"You'll see tomorrow," Jiraiya, grinned as he rolled over and fell asleep.
The next day Naruto had a sleep in and by the time he got up it was already noon.
"Hey come here dobe and meet your new teammates," Jiraiya drawled as he practically dragged Naruto toward two masked gennins, "Now I have to go gather information so have fun," he smiled wickedly as he disappeared.
"Hi I'm Uzumaki Naruto," the blond introduced cheerfully.
"We know who you are idiot," the taller of the two replied in an all to familiar voice as he took of his mask to reveal a pair of Sharigan eyes.
"Itachi," Naruto muttered as he leaned against a tree for support, "After all those visits you could have at least warned me!" Naruto scowled as he playfully threw a kunai at him, which he caught easily.
"Well this was a last minute arrangement," the shorter black head finally spoke up as he removed his mask to reveal Dareada. He was the legendary Hyuuga that didn't think his clan was good enough for him and ran away to join the Atasuki until the organization broke up a year ago. Now he just wanders around.
"Is Orochimaru planning to attack at the exams?" Naruto asked being smart for once.
They both gave a slight nod as they began filling Naruto in on the information they had gathered while he had been away.
"Orochimaru has taken over the sound and has formed an alliance with the sand and they plan to strike at the chunnin exams. We also believe that Sasuke is Orochimaru's target," Dareada explained to a very attentive Naruto, "So we're there to make sure Orochimaru does not succeed."
Naruto nodded to show that he understood as he began pacing around. "But what am I supposed to call you guys? I don't want the Third to find out about you too. You aren't the most welcome people at the Leaf you know?"
"You can still call us by our names I'm sure there are other people named Itachi and Dareada in the world. As for our appearance we'll use henge," Dareada replied.
"There's something else. The remainders of the Atasuki are also planning to attack the Leaf soon. We may have to stay awhile as a citizen after the chunnin exams,"
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"Hey old geezer," Naruto called as he entered the Hokage's office only to run into a white haired man.
"Sorry," Naruto quickly apologized as he sat down in a chair.
"Whose the idiot?" the stranger asked rudely as he turned towards Naruto.
"That idiot is your future student," the Third replied a bit annoyed.
"WHAT?" they both shouted.
"This idiot is my student?" Jiraiya asked.
"Who're you calling idiot, idiot?" Naruto retorted back. Jiraiya was about to reply when the Third cut him off.
"Let me explain. Jiraiya this is Naruto. You will be training him for the next two months until the chunnin exams. Naruto this is one of the legendary sennins, Jiraiya. You can learn a lot from him," the Hokage explained when they had both calmed down.
"What about my team?" Naruto was the first to protest at the idea.
"Oh that is easily fixed. While you are away Haku will take your place,"
"But," Jiraiya started but after one look at the Hokage they both knew it was no use.
"Very well," Naruto agreed knowing that he lost "When do we leave?"
"Today," the Third replied as he pushed them out the door.
"Stupid old geezer," Naruto cursed for the five time that day. They had been traveling for hours now. They being Naruto and the perverted Jiraiya.
Naruto practically had to drag him away from the bathhouses in the last village.
"Oi, Ero-sennin where are we going?" Naruto asked curiosity getting the better of him.
"I don't really know. We are probably just going to wander around," Jiraiya replied. "Let's stop here for tonight. I do have to train you after all,"
"Like there's anything I can learn from you," Naruto muttered under his breath but unfortunately for him Jiraiya had heard the last comment.
"Oh so you think I don't have anything to teach you," Jiraiya smirked an evil smile plastered on his face.
"No, of course not, Wh... where did you hear that from," Naruto stuttered liking that smile lesser by the second as he backed off.
"I'm sure you want to know how strong I am," Jiraiya smiled in his way to sweet voice as he advanced toward the retreating Naruto, "Why don't we have a spar," he stressed the word spar as if it was the biggest understatement of the year.
"Wait," Naruto protested but Jiraiya had already disappeared from view.
He reappeared behind the blond and aimed a kick at his head only to have his foot grabbed by Naruto and throw back a few feet.
"Not bad," Jiraiya complemented as he readied himself for the second round.
This time it was Naruto who charged first kunai in hand. Jiraiya go ready to block the metal blade only to have it disappear moments before the attack was to land.
The legendary sennin's eyes widened in shock as he felt Naruto behind him before receiving a kick in the head.
Jiraiya skidded a few feet before stopping. He was shaking in excitement by now. Who knew this midget was such a hard opponent.
Jiraiya smiled as he began performing a set of seals, "Rasengan!" he yelled as balls of chakra formed in his hands as he charged at Naruto.
Not knowing what this attack was Naruto's only choice was to dodge. He managed to invade the first but was caught unaware as a second rasengan whirled towards him.
"Shit!" he cursed as he started performing seals at top speed. He finished them just in time as nine tails of red chakra rose up to slap away the whirling ball from Jiraiya.
Naruto unraveled his barrier of chakra only to come face to face with a Gumbunta, a giant warrior toad.
"Shit!" Naruto cursed again as he bit his thumb and swiped a line of blood across his arm.
Naruto staggered a little from the use of so much chakra as a warrior fox was summoned to the battlefield.
Both fighters glared at each other as their summons duked it out on their own.
"Who are you," Jiraiya asked suspiciously as Gumbunta vanished in a puff of smoke.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto of course," the blond replied as he unsummoned his fox.
"How are you so strong? I heard you were the dead last at the Academy," Jiraiya pressed on.
"Would you believe me if I said Kakashi was a great teacher?" Naruto answered sheepishly as he scratched the back of his head.
"Guess not," Naruto replied when he saw his sensei's glare.
Seeing that he wasn't going to get any more information from Naruto Jiraiya decided to change the subject.
"So now that you know how I fight what do you want to learn from me? To say the truth there isn't much I can teach you,"
"Well, I have to admit you're strong especially that rasengan attack. Can I learn that?" Naruto asked bouncing up and down with excitement.
"Of course," Jiraiya smiled "I'll teach you how to summon toads too. But first we have to work on your chakra control.
Naruto's face fell at the last part and he grumbled about "stupid fox" and "too much chakra".
The next day Naruto opened his eyes to be greeted by a splash of water as Jiraiya smiled wickedly.
"What? It's your fault for sleeping in," he had replied innocently when he saw Naruto's glare, "Besides don't you want to start training?" he quickly changed the subject when he saw Naruto's murderous look.
Completely forgetting about the water accident Naruto began jumping with join when he heard the word training.
"So what are we doing first?" he asked barely able to contain his enthusiasm.
"First put on these weights," Jiraiya ordered as Naruto did so grudgingly, "Now follow me," he said as he started to jog.
The days passed quickly as everything began to fall into a routine. In the morning it was always jogging and in the afternoon came the fun part. After Naruto proved that he could walk up a cliff Jiraiya had forced him to learn to walk on water.
Then it was time for Jiraiya to teach him different justus and fighting styles and boy did Jiraiya know a lot of them. Naruto was a quick learner and in no time at all he had learned most of the sennin's techniques.
And so the two months flew by and it was almost time to return to Kohana.
On one starry evening a week before the exams were due to start Naruto and Jiraiya were gazing at the stars when a messenger from Kohana came.
He delivered a letter to Jiraiya without a word and promptly left. Naruto watched as Jiraiya's face became paler with every word he read.
"What does it say?" Naruto asked as he grabbed for the letter.
"War is brewing between the Sound and Leaf," Jiraiya answered as he burned the letter.
"Orochimaru," Naruto muttered to himself as he sat back down. Fortunately the perverted sennin didn't hear, as he was too busy burning the letter to ashes.
"Oh yeah. I forgot to tell you Naruto. Haku will be taking your place in the chunnin exams so the Third assigned you two new teammates. They will be arriving tomorrow," Jiraiya informed the blond as he tried to lighten up the atmosphere.
"WHAT?" Naruto bellowed as he jumped up again, "WHOSE STINKING IDEA WAS THIS?"
"This was the Hokage's idea besides don't you want to give your friend Haku a chance to become a chunnin?" Jiraiya smiled when Naruto faltered.
"I guess. So who are my new teammates?" Naruto asked in a defeated tone.
"You'll see tomorrow," Jiraiya, grinned as he rolled over and fell asleep.
The next day Naruto had a sleep in and by the time he got up it was already noon.
"Hey come here dobe and meet your new teammates," Jiraiya drawled as he practically dragged Naruto toward two masked gennins, "Now I have to go gather information so have fun," he smiled wickedly as he disappeared.
"Hi I'm Uzumaki Naruto," the blond introduced cheerfully.
"We know who you are idiot," the taller of the two replied in an all to familiar voice as he took of his mask to reveal a pair of Sharigan eyes.
"Itachi," Naruto muttered as he leaned against a tree for support, "After all those visits you could have at least warned me!" Naruto scowled as he playfully threw a kunai at him, which he caught easily.
"Well this was a last minute arrangement," the shorter black head finally spoke up as he removed his mask to reveal Dareada. He was the legendary Hyuuga that didn't think his clan was good enough for him and ran away to join the Atasuki until the organization broke up a year ago. Now he just wanders around.
"Is Orochimaru planning to attack at the exams?" Naruto asked being smart for once.
They both gave a slight nod as they began filling Naruto in on the information they had gathered while he had been away.
"Orochimaru has taken over the sound and has formed an alliance with the sand and they plan to strike at the chunnin exams. We also believe that Sasuke is Orochimaru's target," Dareada explained to a very attentive Naruto, "So we're there to make sure Orochimaru does not succeed."
Naruto nodded to show that he understood as he began pacing around. "But what am I supposed to call you guys? I don't want the Third to find out about you too. You aren't the most welcome people at the Leaf you know?"
"You can still call us by our names I'm sure there are other people named Itachi and Dareada in the world. As for our appearance we'll use henge," Dareada replied.
"There's something else. The remainders of the Atasuki are also planning to attack the Leaf soon. We may have to stay awhile as a citizen after the chunnin exams,"
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