I forgot to say this, but I DON'T OWN NARUTO!
On request of FireDragonBL, I'm going to have some NejiTen.
To answer Dragon Man 180's question "How did the original missing-nins get to the island", I have an answer. After some ninjas left the island, they discovered that society outside of the ninja countries did not know that ninjas existed. These ninjas, who were exploring, came back and reported everything to the countries and villages. Before they could arrange the international treaty, some missing-nin decided to seek refuge in the newly discovered lands, hoping to escape from hunter-nins. After they were safe in the new lands, they became to get greedy and became mercenaries.
Chapter Two
A huge swirl of chakra spun, deflecting a storm of kunais, shurikens, hooks, and other various weapons. The many blades fell to the ground, and the swirl of chakra stopped, leaving a huge crater with a 14-year-old male in the center of the crater, wielding the famed Byakugan. Suddenly, four kunais whizzed at his back. Caught off guard, the white-eyed Hyuuga was forced to dodge the kunais, barely missing him. A 14-year-old female walked towards him.
"I'm getting better! I almost got you that time."
Neji merely kept quiet and listened to Tenten, who was happy that she was a little closer to bypassing Neji's absolute defense.
"Hey Neji, we're partners because I use medium to long-range techniques, and you use short range with your Jyuuken, right?"
Neji nodded, not saying anything.
Tenten sighed. Even though Naruto had changed Neji, who had become much nicer, he was still extremely quiet. Tenten had some feelings for him and cared about him, yet he didn't seem to notice her. She had accepted long ago that Neji probably wouldn't get associated with any girl.
"Neji, do you want to stop for lunch? We can continue after."
Neji nodded again, keeping quiet.
Tenten smiled and led him through the village and chose a small café, where they sat down across each other.
Neji glanced at Tenten, who was browsing the menu. Neji was grateful that he was partnered with Tenten. He might be able to stand other people training with him, yet Tenten seemed to be the only one who respected his quietness. She somehow managed to be able to cope with his quietness, to be able to talk to him in a friendly manner without being too loud and annoying.
"Uh…Neji, what is it?" Tenten asked nervously.
Neji realized that he had been staring at her and immediately turned his head back to the menu.
"Nothing."
Tenten held her menu up to hide her blushing face. 'Neji stared at me!'
Neji felt extremely embarrassed without showing it. He knew that Tenten would have strange thoughts about him.
They ordered their food and left to go train again. Tenten suggested, "Neji, do you think that we should try to use our attacks so that they complement each other? We could train to do that, since we are partners."
Neji thought it over and agreed with his simple nod.
Tenten smiled, and they headed off to the training area.
"…and that's why the villagers hate me, because the Yondaime Hokage sealed Kyuubi inside of me," finished Naruto.
Hinata gasped, and she saw that Naruto was doing his best to hold off some tears by looking away and turning his back to Hinata. He sighed and said, "I understand if you don't want to be my partner anymore" while looking at the ground.
Hinata placed her hand on his shoulder and said, "I don't think you're a monster."
Naruto looked at her. His bright blue eyes were dimmed with sadness.
Hinata continued, "I think that you're very brave and strong for bearing through this pain without telling anyone about it. When you said to Neji about having a seal that can never be taken off, you said, 'So what about it?' You dealt with the pain without trying to gain any sympathy from anyone. You're still Naruto, you're not Kyuubi. That's why you're so strong, because you dealt with loneliness, found some people to acknowledge, and bore through the pain without giving up because you had to protect those people."
Naruto looked at her in surprise, and to her surprise, he hugged her while saying, "Arigato, Hinata. Few people have acknowledged or understood me like that."
Hinata came back to her timid self and blushed deeply. Naruto released her from the hug and looked at her in the eyes.
"You know what, Hinata? You're also one of my precious people. During my fight against Neji, I thought of keeping my promise to you."
"What promise?" Hinata asked softly.
"Oh right, after Neji's fight, I promised to you, Neji, and myself that I would take revenge against Neji since he mentally attacked you during your fight."
Hinata blushed while thinking, 'Naruto really did that?' "That's why you managed to win, because you had to live by your nindo."
Naruto smiled and said, "Of course! I can't take back my words."
Jiraiya interrupted them, "Alright, now let's get to training." 'I'm glad that finally, another person has accepted Naruto even through the Kyuubi.'
The three ninja set off to the river, where Naruto learned how to summon and how to water-walk. He smiled and thought, 'This brings back good memories.'
Jiraiya sat down and said, "I'm assuming you guys don't know much about each other's techniques, since the Chuunin exams were almost six months ago, and both of you must have developed some new techniques. Since you both haven't been able to see each others techniques for close to six months, I recommend you show them to each other and to me so that I know how to train you two. Well, ladies first."
Hinata glanced at Naruto, who sat down and grinned at her. She blushed and demonstrated some Jyuuken.
Jiraiya nodded in approval, taking note of her surprising speed and perfect chakra control.
Hinata stopped and prepared for the Kaiten. Circulating chakra throughout her body, she whirled like a top, causing a crater to form beneath her feet. Naruto gaped at this, while Jiraiya looked surprised.
"Hey Hinata, when did you learn that? Isn't that the technique that Neji used against me? It's pretty much at the same level as his Kaiten," yelled Naruto in approval.
Jiraiya shook his head and said, "This Kaiten is much better than any other Kaiten I have seen. Flawless chakra control and good spin. While it's still not as powerful as some other Kaiten, it has much better structure and form."
Hinata, not used to receiving such complements, looked at the ground, smiling to herself.
Jiraiya smiled at her, then said to Naruto, "All right, let her see what you can do."
Naruto smiled and started off with a Tajun Kage Bunshin No Jutsu. He dispelled them immediately and formed the seals of Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, and Sheep to summon a medium-sized, armored frog. After learning to control his chakra better, he could summon the right sized frog whenever he needed it, at least for most of the time.
Hinata looked in wonder at Naruto's frog summon, which also dissipated right away. She had no idea that he was this strong.
Naruto spoke up, "I also have a couple scrolls to summon some frogs, but I'll skip those."
He then prepared for his trump card technique by standing next to a tree. 'Ero-sennin hasn't seen me attempt the one-handed Rasengan yet, but I'll try it out. Besides, he knows that I can do it two-handed.'
Naruto swirled chakra in his hand, taking his time to create the multiple rotations. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Hinata gazing at this technique, since he didn't use it in the Chuunin Exams. He also saw Jiraiya, who was amazed that Naruto was attempting it one-handed. Naruto stared at the tree ahead of him, then at the ball of rotating chakra in his hand. He swirled it even faster and slammed his palm into the tree, hoping that it wouldn't immediately explode in his hand.
To his surprise, the Rasengan grinded the tree trunk into bits of bark. Allowing it to grind an average-sized hole, he released the jutsu. Hinata looked amazed while Jiraiya looked in disbelief.
Jiraiya recovered from his shock and looked at them both while smiling. "Well, this surprises me. It looks like we have another Hyuuga prodigy and a dropout who managed to master the Rasengan one-handed. Well, it looks like I'll have to teach Hinata jutsus that require a lot of chakra control, and Naruto, you'll work best with rotating chakra. I have two techniques, one for each of you.
"Hinata, yours is known as the Chakra Bullet, which fires off compressed chakra that explodes on impact against the target. I am teaching you this technique because you have great chakra control, so you can use this jutsu from any place on your body. I fire the bullets from my palms, but you may be able to fire it from your chakra holes. "
With that explanation, he held his palm, facing outwards towards a tree that was about 15 feet away.
"Chakra Dangan (Chakra Bullet) No Jutsu!"
Jiraiya then fired waves of small chakra bullets, shaped into tiny spheres. The bullets shot out of Jiraiya's palm as though it were a machine gun. The bullets hit the tree and caused small, blue explosions, covering the tree with chakra explosions.
Jiraiya then continued, "You can combine this with your Kaiten so that you fire the chakra bullets while you spin around so that you can use the jutsu even faster. You can also combine this with your Hakke Rokujuu Yonshou (64 Tenketsu thing). You can use the bullets instead of your fingers to hit the tenketsus so that you can close the chakra holes from a distance. However, that will require precise aiming, and you will need to practice hard for that. What's good is that this jutsu requires no hand seals and works extremely well for both offensive and defensive purposes.
"Naruto, your new jutsu is called a water element technique called Water Vortex. I am using your talent for rotating chakra, since the technique required in this jutsu is similar to the Rasengan."
Jiraiya then place his hands together in a seal similar to the Sheep seal, except with the ring fingers and pinkies interlocking with each other.
"Suiton: Mizu Kadou (Water Vortex) No Jutsu!"
A whirlpool formed in the river, and a column of spiraling water burst out of the center of the whirlpool. The column of water headed straight for a nearby tree, the water impacted against the tree, and pieces of bark and wood flew out from the impact. (A/N: Just to use an analogy, this technique is similar to the Grand Waterfall that Kakashi used against Zabuza, except that the diameter of the column of water is about 5-6 inches or around 14 centimeters.) When Jiraiya released the technique, a hole was left in the tree.
"You can also create multiple vortexes at once. I can create about seven vortexes at one time. Naruto, start off with only one vortex. You can try to attempt more than one later on.
"I'll help you both in your jutsus. Naruto, you go and swirl your chakra around in the water, but create multiple rotations, like the Rasengan. This will be much more difficult, since instead of swirling it in your hands, you have to swirl it in the water. I'll help Hinata out first.
"Oh, and, Hinata, my teaching styles may be much more different from those of others. I want to teach my pupils how to independently train so that if I am not present, they can still train by themselves without me. Well, let's get started on this jutsu. You saw how I did this, so attempt to fire one chakra bullet."
Hinata thought to herself, 'Jiraiya-sama fired them from his chakra holes, and he also compressed his chakra. The problem is, I don't know how much to compress it.'
Hinata compressed some chakra into a chakra hole in her palm, held it in front of tree, and started to compress the chakra into a small sphere. She then released the small ball of chakra, which flew straight towards the tree. However, instead of exploding, the chakra merely dissipated when it hit the tree.
'I need to compress it more.'
Hinata then compressed the chakra until the pressure from the chakra was extremely strong. She then released a bullet, which, to her happiness, exploded against the tree.
"Good job, Hinata. Now, the problem is that you have to be able to fire those rapidly. Try firing two from the same chakra hole, except make them fire directly after the other."
Hinata compressed a ball of chakra and fired that. However, she found that she would have to compress the chakra all over again in order to fire a second round. She then took a larger amount of chakra and compressed all of it. She then decided that maybe, she should split that amount of chakra into two sections and shape the two sections into two spheres. That way, she would be compressing all of the chakra in the beginning and fire the bullets after she had compressed a large amount of chakra.
Hinata then fired two bullets, which both hit the tree, creating two small explosions. Jiraiya smiled and said, "I am surprised. You have found out how to fire from the same chakra hole in quick succession. However, as you know, there are more than one chakra holes in the palm. Try to fire two chakra bullets, each one from a different chakra hole, and fire them at the same time. I will let you try this on your own. After you do this, continue doing the same exercise, except with three chakra holes. Do this until you can fire chakra bullets from every chakra hole in your palm. I am going to aid Naruto in his technique now. Judging from your rapid learning, you should be able to master this technique in a few days."
With that, Jiraiya went off to help Naruto in his jutsu while Hinata trained for her technique against a very battered tree.