Note: I have no ownership to Naruto

Part 5 – 05/10/06 – Sorry about this being so late, life became busy, but I will have quite a bit of open time to write now.

Watch out Konoha, Naruto is back!

A Kitsune's Adventure

"We're almost to Konoha", "We're almost to Konoha!" was the chant that was quickly driving Jiraiya insane as it was barked, yipped, and sang by Naruto and Yuki, with snickering snorts from Kui.

"They are quite amusing, wouldn't you say Jiraiya", barked Kui as she leaped gracefully from tree to tree in the forest that surrounded Konoha.

Currently the traveling quad was about two hours outside of Konoha. They had made good time on their journey to Konoha from Water Country. They had just passed through Wave Country and had seen the start of the construction of the new bridge. The bridge was being built to help the economic in Wave Country, as it was sorely needed for the poor country.

"Yes, quite amusing, if you can stand the constant repeating of certain phrases", snorted Jiraiya, as the toad-sannin jumped from tree to tree.

"Hmm, yes the ramen chant could use a new tune" snorted Kui as she smirked and her eyes flashed a gleaming red in the afternoon sun that was being filtered through the forest canopy.

"But in all seriousness, do you think that there will be any problems with Naruto, Yuki, and myself being in Konoha?" barked Kui with concern to Jiraiya.

"Well, yes and no" stated Jiraiya with thought. "I was able to send off a message to Konoha, so they know to expect us at the village gates at some point. We will need to go directly to the Hokage Tower to check in with the Sandaime. He will want a status check of our travels and of Naruto's shinobi training. In all honestly Naruto would be ranked a mid to high level chunin, and while Naruto and Yuki make a good team; he has not worked with other ninjas and he has not been around other children his own age. So it will be a good idea to place him on a genin team where he can learn teamwork with different personalities. Then he can take the chunin exam when it rolls around again. As for yourself and Yuki being in the village, well the village may not like it but the Sandaime has already given his approval and safe passage to have you in the village. Most people will have forgotten or do not know that Naruto has Kyubi sealed inside of him. Thankfully since he has been outside of the village for the past ten years, most of the genins Naruto's age will not know Naruto or have an opinion about Naruto. Their parents will not have taught them to hate or ignore Naruto, and that there will give Naruto the chance he needs to create new friends. This is one of the reasons why the Sandaime sent Naruto out of the village years ago. Naruto had been attacked a number of time during the first two years of his life in Konoha, and this was creating a negative impact on Naruto life. The Yondaime wanted Naruto to be considered a hero to the village; not as a monster that the villagers actually treated him as. The Yondaime and the Sandaime wanted more for Naruto, so the Sandaime gave Naruto to me to train and protect. Although his introduction to the spirit kitsunes and Yuki has greatly helped his shinobi training" commented Jiraiya, as he ran along side Kui.

"Yes, the elders were greatly impressed with Naruto-sama when he was introduced to the elder spirit kitsunes" barked Kui. "His fire, determination, and spirit reminded the elders of their own youth and passage through life. They were sad to hear about Naruto-sama treatment in his early childhood, but were glad to see him under your own guardianship. It was sad to see Kyubi-sama sealed as he is, but had he waited and received the correct intelligence data about the death of his mate and kit. He would not have attacked Konoha thus ending up being sealed with Naruto. Nor would have Konoha suffered all that death from the massacre that happened from the setup from Orochimaru" barked and yipped Kui as the forest continued to flash by them on their journey to Konoha.

"Yes Orochimaru, has much to answer for these days, unfortunately he is also hard to track down and defeat. Many an ANBU and Hunter-nin have died or gone missing from their pursuit of Orochimaru" stated Jiraiya as he kept an eye out for Naruto and Yuki who were playing tag in the treetops around them as they ran.

"It was very generous of the elders to help in Naruto shinobi training" commented Jiraiya in remembrances. "Yes the elders thought it only fair to help in Naruto-sama training, since Kyubi-sama was incorrect in his actions towards Konoha. Thus resulting in the unfair treatment of Naruto-sama" barked Kui. "When it is time the spirit kitsunes will aid Konoha in its fight against Orochimaru, in anyway that we can" growled and barked Kui with conviction.

"The Hokage will be glad to hear that and to have the support" stated Jiraiya. "Together we can bring about the end of Orochimaru and his rein of terror in the shinobi countries.

To be continued