I don't own Naruto.

My first fanfic! Well, sorta. The first chapter of my first attempt at a fanfic was almost completely ignored. (How was I supposed to know that people would run when they saw 'centered around Original Characters'!). Anyway, this starts when Jiraiya begins training Naruto for the chunnin exam finals. I just picked a random spot in time. The only thing I know about this fic is that it will be NaruHina, as well as some very vague conceptions of an evil plot. Planning is too troublesome. I'll just make it up as I go.

Foolish mistake!

Death of a loved one!

Splash!

"I think I know what might be the problem…" murmured the large, white-haired man, more to himself than to his soaking wet student. "Naruto! Come over here!" The boy waded out of the river with a grumpy look on his face. "I have a theory I'd like to test. I need you to lift up your shirt and try channeling your chakra." The boy did as he was told.

Jiraiya froze. "Naruto…" he began in a calm and patient voice, "Where the hell is Kyuubi's seal!" He stopped channeling chakra and put his hands behind his head to relax. His reply was much too casual for this situation: "Oh, that's all? He offered to go get me some ramen if I let him out. That was back when you were watching those girls in the river, so…he should be back pretty soon." A grin overtook his face at the thought of his ramen finally arriving. "BAKA! What were you thinking!" This time he replied as if the answer was obvious: "Well, only Kyuubi and the Ichiraku guy know my favorite type of ramen, and if that ramen guy was here right now, I wouldn't need anyone to go get it for me." "Isn't it pork with extra noodles?" "No" he lied, struggling to control his temper. Sure, he didn't really know why he was so angry, but he didn't really care. Before he could jump at him though, he felt a tug on his orange jacket.

They both looked down to see an average sized fox with nine tails. His front paw was on Naruto's jacket, and in his mouth was a paper bag with the Ichiraku's Ramen logo. Naruto took the bag from him and patted him on the head, receiving a disapproving growl in response. Jiraiya just stared at the scene, not knowing what to think. As Naruto began eating his ramen, he felt the need to talk at the same time.

"Kyuubi here opened one of those parts of my brain that most humans don't use. His reason had something to do with dumb questions." "So are you smarter now?" asked the still startled man. At this question, Kyuubi snickered silently behind Naruto's back, causing Jiraiya to let out a small chuckle. "What? What's so funny?" Naruto managed to ask between mouthfuls of ramen. "Iie, it's nothing. Just hurry up and finish eating so we can go back to training."

By the time Jiraiya finished his sentence, Naruto had already finished his ramen at an amazing pace and made it over to the river. Jiraiya had already forgotten about Kyuubi, he had other things on his mind. "Naruto," said Jiraiya. His eyes focused on a spot farther down the river, "Try walking on the water again, you need to continue until you get it right." He awaited another splash, but none came. "Ne, Ero-sennin, how's this?" Jiraiya frowned at the student's name for him, but shrugged it off and turned his head just enough to include Naruto in his field of vision. Sure enough, Naruto was standing on top of the river with ease. "So, Naruto, you figured out what the problem was?" "Yeah, I think I was just too hungry to concentrate, and knowing my ramen would get here soon didn't help much either…" Jiraiya sweat-dropped. "Well, now that you've got the hang of it, can you lower yourself an inch into the water?" "Nope." Naruto replied simply. "Huh? Why not?" asked Jiraiya. He found Naruto's following explanation to be a bit odd: "I didn't wanna waste time finding the right amount of chakra to release from my feet, so instead I just put a whole bunch of my chakra into the water to begin with. See?" He pulled out two kunai, dropping one and tossing the other a few feet away. The on furthest from him quickly sank to the bottom, but the one he dropped landed near his feet as if the water around them was solid. What an interesting but utterly useless approach…I'm not sure what Kyuubi did to his brain, but I don't think it made him much smarter…wait, Kyuubi! I need to talk to him about that…

"Naruto! Get over here!" he yelled, finally turning his head toward Naruto. "We need to talk about your friend over there." He motioned to Kyuubi, who was chasing a rabbit around the clearing just to watch it run in fear. "Don't you think releasing Kyuubi from the seal is a little bit dangerous!" "Relax, Ero-sennin, I said I'd only let him out if he left his chakra with me. He's just a harmless little mutant talking fox now." Hearing this comment, Kyuubi clawed at his legs, only to end up leaving the bottom of his pants torn. "Wait, what do you mean, talking?" "Oh, that?" answered Naruto, "He uses the air as his mouth or something like that. I think he said it uses fox magic." explained Naruto, wearing his 'I know exactly what's going on' look. "Baka." came a voice from the fox now standing at Naruto's side. "I can use my demonic aura to vibrate the air around me. The vibrations are interpreted by your ears as sound. It works almost the same as you humans' vocal chords." Jiraiya nodded, understanding what the fox had said. Naruto also nodded, pretending to understand what the fox had said.

Naruto had finished training for the day, and was now walking home by himself. Kyuubi had gotten bored watching him train, and had left for Naruto's apartment an hour ago. As Naruto walked, he remained unaware of the two dark figures lurking in a nearby alley.

"There he is." said the first one, referring to the boy walking on the other side of the street. "Okay, now that we've found him, our plan should progress smoothly from here." said the second, forming a hand sign. "You're going to use that? Is that really necessary?" the first one questioned. "No," replied the second, "but it will not only make this more enjoyable, it will get this over with really fast." "Then hurry up a do it!" urged the first, "As long as it gets that blonde-haired brat to stop interfering with my plans to get Sasuke, why would I complain?"

End of chapter 1

This chapter was short, but the story will be long.

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