Hello again! You guys ready for the fourth chapter? Hope so, because here it is!

(Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto. Enough said.)

Konoha's New Teacher

Chapter 4: Naruto's Note

It was the morning after Jiraiya's first training session. The birds were chirping. The sun was rising. It was looking as if it was going to be yet another beautiful day in Konoha.

It was also a morning in that found Jiraiya walking down the street to Ichiraku Ramen to meet up with Naruto for a second day's training. However, upon arrival, Jiraiya found no sign of Naruto anywhere. 'Perhaps he's just running late,' Jiraiya thought to himself, shrugging.

He was just about to sit down to eat something while he waited for Naruto, when Iruka came walking up. "Hello, Jiraiya."

"Oh! Hi there, Iruka," Jiraiya replied. "What brings you here?"

"Not much, other than Naruto wanted me to give you this," Iruka said, handing Jiraiya a folded piece of paper.

Jiraiya unfolded the paper and instantly recognized Naruto's untidy scrawl. "Why would Naruto have you bring me a note?" Jiraiya looked up, but found Iruka had already left. He decided the best way to answer his own question was to read the note. Jiraiya looked back down to the piece of paper in his hand and began to read.

Jiraiya,

I just wanted to let you know I won't be able to train you in the ways of sexy no jutsu today. See, I ended up with a really bad stomachache after eating too much ramen last night after our training session. It's such a bad stomachache that I just don't feel well enough to do any training whatsoever today.

Sorry to let you down. I should be able to continue training tomorrow, though. See you then!

Naruto

P.S. Feel free to practice on your own till next time.

'Maybe now he won't eat so much ramen now,' Jiraiya thought. After a brief moment, Jiraiya then thought, 'Yeah right!'

Of course, no amount of ramen could ever make Naruto sick enough to skip training. After all, he still needed to defeat Sasuke. Truth was, he still wasn't ready to commence teaching Jiraiya sexy no jutsu after yesterday's fiasco. He just couldn't tell Jiraiya such a thing, being his teacher and all, and so came up with the best excuse he could think of and hoped Jiraiya believed it.

Jiraiya sighed and walked off to train in sexy no jutsu by himself.

So, what'd you think? I know it wasn't all that long, but I can tell you the next chapter will be a good deal longer and much better! As a matter of fact, for those of you who are interested, the next chapter will be called Jiraiya's Adventure (or something along those lines), and I will have it submitted shortly (unless my busy schedule gets in the way of things, but I doubt it will).