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Chapter 2

Tsunade and Jiraiya turned out to be quiet hard to find. By the time they were found and heard the news about the young demon vessel, they didn't hesitate but came back with their ANBU escorts immediately.

They both had their reasons to return to the village and be there for the young boy. The female sannin happened to be the only family he had left from within Konoha, albeit distant. Also, after all that had occurred recently she felt somewhat guilty for not being there to help when Kyuubi attacked. After losing both her lover and little brother while on active duty, she deserted her ninja way and wandered around the shinobi lands for years accompanied by her former apprentice and attendant Shizune.

She had been gravely disappointed by her former sensei's reluctance to push through her proposal to include a trained medic-nin in each ninja squad. For years she had spent her days drinking sake and losing her money through gambling. The news brought forward by the ANBU squad that found her had made her frozen heart melt a little. The thought of her far cousin's death and his son's terrible destiny saddened her and made her decide to return at once.

Jiraiya's reasons for returning were a lot less complicated. He felt he owed it to his former student to teach his son as well. Also he knew he would be the only one to be able to locate his mother's family. The Hitomi clan members left alive had turned into nomads, not staying at the same place for a long period of time. Only through his information network would Naruto be able to be trained in his Hitomi bloodline limit.

On their return, Tsunade and Shizune took the young baby in. At first Tsunade had her doubts about this, but when she heard that Jiraiya was the only other option, she quickly changed her mind. After all, she wasn't going to let her old team mate turn her only family left into a pervert like himself.

They soon moved into the abandoned Uzumaki manor on the edges of the village. The perverted hermit opted for a significantly smaller house near the village's hot springs. His reason was simple. Work still had to be conducted to collect the money he needed to fulfil his greatest dream; owning his very own chain of luxurious hot springs all through the ninja world.

With all of them back in Konoha and finally settled in, regular meetings were held to discuss Naruto's training plan. The Third wanted a thorough plan to be worked out before the boy's training would start. All of his senseis were given their own role in his training, which would commence as soon as he was able to walk steadily and could talk.

"Okay friends, tomorrow Naruto will start his quest to become stronger than any shinobi has ever been before him. I want to go over the details one more time to put all the heads in the same direction," Sandaime spoke.

It wasn't long after Naruto's first birthday. He already managed to walk properly and more and more words started to come out of his already loud mouth.

"First of all Tsunade-san and Shizune-san will teach the boy to draw out chakra and to mould and control it. Being medic-nins you are most proficient at this. This will also give you the chance to be with him more as you are his adopted family."

The aging Hokage continued, "Ladies, I understand your reasons for not performing any ninja duties thus far. However, now that you're used to live in Konoha again I want you two to take up active duty again."

"I will not teach Genins!" Tsunade yelled. "Taking care of one brat is more than enough for me. Also, I refuse to do any missions outside the village." She continued. The Hokage thought for a second and then suggested her taking charge of the hospital, work as a medic there and prepare for a system to train young ninjas as medic-nins in the future, knowing all too well that would sparkle her interest. Shizune agreed to be reinstated as Jounin, go on missions and assist her master in training future medics.

After the group finished discussing the rest of the plan, the Hokage dismissed them. When he was alone again he looked out of his window onto the Hokage Monument. After seeing the Fourth's sculpture, he looked up at the sky and thought.

"Well old friend, I hope we're doing the right thing here. I'm sorry I couldn't help more. This village needs you so much more than me. If only I could have taken your place."

When training started, Naruto was given a weighted suit to increase his stamina and chakra capacity faster. He would need to increase he speed for the upcoming taijutsu training as well. For a year and a half he would run around Konoha daily besides the chakra control training he received from his kaa-san and nee-chan. To much of their joy, their adopted son proved to be quite a fast student. Within no time he had learned to walk up trees and on water with the use of his chakra. Then the time came to introduce more advanced methods to him.

First he was taught to release chakra from his hands and climb trees using only his open hands. Coming from a family of known pranksters, he abused this technique to climb the Hokage Monument and dress up the former leaders of the village to his own design. This caused for the villagers to hate the 'demon boy' even more, demanding him to be killed or banished. It took a very angry and dangerous medical sannin to 'convince' them otherwise.

Naruto's physical development came on well. He had gotten used to his new suit quickly and was soon given a new one since he had already outgrown the first one. His new weighted suit turned out to be a lot heavier, three units to be precise which made it hard for him to walk, let alone do his daily running.

His new exercise made him use his chakra to move objects by enveloping the object with his chakra and pull it back to him or push it forward by releasing more chakra. He found this much more difficult to perform as it required very precise control. Too little chakra wouldn't move the object, while too much could damage it. He started off by trying to move eggs into marked areas on the floor. After months of breaking eggs he finally succeeded and was told to move on to kunai and shuriken. Some months later he managed to move his first weighted suit and even Nara Shikaku's young son Shikamaru.

The two spent a lot of time together and soon became best friends. They seemed to have a good influence on each other as Naruto calmed down a little bit and Shikamaru got rid of some of his laziness and carelessness, which made his mother happier than ever before. Shikaku introduced them to the game of shogi, forcing them to utilise their obvious above average intellect. They soon became very adept at playing this game, creating a friendly rivalry as each tried to come up with creative strategies to beat the other.

A couple of months before Naruto's third birthday, his mother and the Hokage decided it was time for him to start his taijutsu training. The Hokage's wish was for Naruto to learn more than one style to become a more complete fighter. Gai and Tsunade were his first sensei, teaching him Gai's Konoha Ryu style and his mother's medical taijutsu style.

On his third birthday, Shizune gave her little brother his fifth weighted suit, again 3 units heavier than the previous one. Because of his increasing stamina he was now able to drag his big sister along for about 20 metres. He found this new skill very useful in pulling new pranks. One day he used his developing stealth skills to sneak up on Gai and drag his screaming sensei into a nearby lake. He soon learned not to mess with the proud taijutsu master as he was put into a weighted suit twice as heavy as the one Shizune had given him. He also increased his daily training which caused Naruto to collapse due to exhaustion most days. Gai justified this by saying that 'his youthful spirit should not be stained by an appaling tendency to disrespect his admirable elders'.

At the age of five, Naruto came under Hatake Kakashi's tutelage. The lazy Jounin wasn't a stranger to the Uzumaki household anymore. A year before, it was him who along with Tsunade and Shizune told him about his parents and the demon sealed inside him. At first he was very distressed to find out that the greatest of all Youkai was trapped inside him, but after endless reassurance by his loved ones that he wasn't a demon but the one who kept it under control, he regained his upbeat composure and for the first time expressed his desire to become Hokage so that everyone would acknowledge him.

At the same time Naruto enrolled into the ninja academy. His sensei there was informed that Naruto was a special case who had been trained for some years already. Outside his classes, Naruto continued to train with Tsunade and Gai to further develop his chakra control and taijutsu skills. Kakashi, being the jutsu library he is, was instructed by Sandaime to help the prodigious Uzumaki in obtaining as many jutsus as possible. As expected, the boy was a quick learner but chose to perfect each new skill and incorporate it into his fighting style before moving on to the next one.

Having started his academy classes was the moment the Third had been instructed to start handing the boy the Uzumaki scrolls. He was ecstatic to receive techniques that actually belonged to his biological family. Kakashi and Jiraiya, being the ones who knew most about these skills because of their history with Yondaime, would help him in learning them, though they could only tell their student what to do as the techniques were all part of the Uzumaki bloodline limit.

One day, the two of them came to the Uzumaki manor to talk about Naruto's heritage. While the young boy worked his way through his fourth bowl of miso ramen, Jiraiya started. "Naruto, what do you know about your father?"

The eating child looked up from his precious food with a sparkle in his eyes and thought for a second. "Well I know he was the Fourth Hokage. The called him Konoha's Yellow Flash and he was very strong, strong enough to kick your ass Ero-sennin!"

Hearing this, Kakashi smirked as Jiraiya tried to control his twitching eye. "Shut up brat! I am the legendary toad sennin, feared all over the lands for my incredible powers!" he finished as he performed his stupid dance.

"Feared by bathing women you mean," was the boy's schmuck reply. "Do you think I haven't noticed you peeping around the hot springs?"

Thinking about his escapades around the springs, a light blush appeared on the older man's face as he quickly whipped his nose. "I'm merely conducting high class research for the good of the people for I am a slave of my success!" he defended himself, although in vain as the damage had already been done.

"Anyway, Kakashi and I are here to explain you a bit more about your father's bloodline limit and its techniques."

The words bloodline limit and techniques made their respondent jump up. "I have a bloodline limit? Really?"

Kakashi interrupted. "Well, actually you sort of have three bloodline limits. One from each of your parents and…" he paused for a second before continuing "…also because you have Kyuubi you will be able to obtain her techniques and as you are the only one who could do that we can consider that to be a bloodline limit as well."

This new information made Naruto believe he was the luckiest boy on the face of the planet. "THREE BLOODLINES? YOSH!" he yelled, showing some of Gai's strange behaviour had rubbed off on him.

The grey-haired Sharingan user spoke again. "Your Uzumaki bloodline has everything to do with speed. This is the reason you have been wearing weighted suits since you could walk." He looked proudly at his sensei's son. "You are improving rapidly, I couldn't wear the amount you have on you until I was 10 years old."

The toad sannin took over. "The bloodline limit doesn't consist of many jutsus, though the ones you have will definitely make up for that. The first techniques you will learn is called Kirameki no jutsu and the Uzumaki Kenamju taijutsu style." When he handed the boy the scrolls he said: "Before we start training tomorrow I expect you to have read the first stage of your new taijutsu style and the complete Kirameki scroll."

"We expect you to master Kirameki no jutsu within 6 months so you can actually use it without hand seals. Then we will move on to the second technique, called Shunshin no jutsu." Seeing the young boy understood what he had said he told him the rest. "These two techniques come together. Your Kirameki will enable you to move around at very high speed. If your normal speed is high already, then you will be even faster when you use Kirameki. When it is activated, a genjutsu will affect your opponent, causing them to see nothing more that a yellow flash because of your hair colour."

"Like I said the next step then is Shunshin no jutsu." Jiraiya went on. Normally a technique such as this one wouldn't be very special as it is simply a teleportation skill. Its power lies in the speed at which it is used. When mastered and used together with Kirameki no jutsu, enemies will not be able to defend themselves properly as they haven't got enough time to do that. Using these two techniques your father managed to decimate the Stone Village significantly during the last Great Shinobi War." he concluded, his voice filled with parental pride thinking back of his legendary student.

Kakashi finished the explanation. "When you're older and stronger you will be learning many of the sealing techniques your family is famous for, but that will be much later."

"Meet us at the Uzumaki training ground tomorrow at 05:00 am so we can make a start before your first academy class," Jiraiya said as he patted the young boy on the back. "For the next year or so we will work on these skills. One of us will train with you on this every other day, but in the meantime we expect you to train alone. The time has come to become serious about your training."

Naruto's other sensei added to the strict words. "Slacking off will be out of the question. Besides the Uzumaki techniques, I will start teaching you elemental ninjutsu as well. You are expected to master a new jutsu every three weeks. If we find out you've been neglecting your other training and your academy classes you'll have to answer to us."

Naruto just stood there dumbfounded. "NANI? How do you want me to pull that off? Do you expect me just to stop sleeping from now on?"

A big smirk appeared on Jiraiya's face. "As a matter of fact we do. As you know Kyuubi has offered to assist in your training so I think we should pay the nice lady a visit. Thus far, you have been kept from being able to talk to Kyuubi because of an extra seal placed on you by the Third. I will release that seal for a couple of minutes to allow us to see her. Afterwards, I will put it back as we don't want you to worry about those things yet," he said as he wondered what the nine-tailed lady fox would look like in a bathing suit.

Before Naruto could say anything, he quickly performed some seals and put his hands on the demon seal and Naruto's head.

Inside his body, Kyuubi explained to him that there was a reason why she had been sealed inside his body, without yet revealing his terrible destiny. She told him not to worry as she promised she wouldn't try to harm him or take over. She told him she would start paying him rent by given him some of her powers like her fast healing, which the boy didn't have up until now and the fox's advanced senses.

She would start given him small portions of her chakra, which his body would merge with his own. He was told that at the moment he was by far not strong enough to learn any of her demonic jutsus, but that she would start teaching him about the shinobi history and things about every shinobi village and its people.

Before he returned back to reality, Jiraiya asked for his student to be able to go without sleep for a couple of nights. Kyuubi's answer was that she was aware of Naruto's exploits so she would know when to boost his body, enabling him to stay awake longer. When the jutsu was cancelled, Naruto fell asleep almost instantly because of the great strain the jutsu had put on his mind.

Six months after his first talk with Kyuubi, his training was progressing smoothly. Tsunade was very proud of her adopted son, but sad because they couldn't see each other as much as they would have liked as both led busy lives. The medic-nin training program had been up and running for two years now and more and more shinobi signed up for it. Because Tsunade and Shizune were the only ones skilled enough, all the training came down to them.

Naruto was given another weighted suit with the old one becoming too small and too light. His academy classes were boring but the Third and his mother insisted upon him doing the same as everyone else.

Tsunade had forced her young son to learn some useful healing jutsus, not because he would ever need them but they could always come in handy for one of his future team mates. She had given up on convincing him to become a full-fledged medic-nin as it was clear that didn't interest him. He always pushed himself to show enough interest in it to prevent upsetting his mother but for him that was as far as it goes.

He was now able to perform Kirameki no jutsu without the use of hand seals most of the time and was able to keep it activated for longer periods of time. Kakashi had recently made a start teaching him Shunshin no jutsu.

Having reached a very decent level of Gai's Konoha Ryu taijutsu style, it was decided that his training time in this style would be brought back to a quarter of its original. This gave Gai, who was also well informed in the Uzumaki style, the chance to focus on that part of the boy's training. This in return gave Kakashi the time to train more on the blonde's ninjutsu and perform his own missions for the village.

By now, Naruto had learned 11 techniques, of which 5 were Katon, 3 Mizu, 2 Doton and 1 Raiton. He had already learned the obligatory academy techniques alongside Kage Bunshin no jutsu, which the Third taught him after being defeated by the brat's devastating Oroike no jutsu (sexy no jutsu).

Kyuubi kept on giving him more and more chakra, adding to the already impressive capacity for a boy his age. He was being taught during the two nights a week he actually slept. With the toad summoner's help he had learned to control his new chakra source. He signed the toad summoning contract himself. When he managed to summon Gamabunta, he obtained the mighty toad boss's co-operation by knocking him out with a toad version of Harem no jutsu, resulting in Konoha Forest being stenched in toad blood for weeks. He turned out to be the first academy student to have a summoning contract ever.

With Tsunade's permission, Naruto's medical taijutsu training was aborted as it was decided he knew enough of that now. Instead, he was introduced to Mitarashi Anko, who would start teaching him her specialty: (creepy) genjutsu. Although not very talented in this, the loudmouth blonde was able to learn a few illusions and was taught to recognise and handle some basic spells that were put on him. Even though he liked her a lot, Anko often freaked him out with her seductive sexist comments and sadistic nature.

Then the day of Naruto's graduation came. As expected he was pronounced 'Rookie of the Year'. Graduating at the age of five, he had become a Genin slightly earlier than his fellow prodigies Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi he would now be known as the youngest academy graduate ever. Despite requests from some of his senseis to promote him to Chuunin straight away, Sandaime waved it off, saying that Naruto should just prove himself as an active shinobi, just like everyone else.

The new Genin had almost mastered the second of four stages of his father's taijutsu style now. He could now perform Kirameki no jutsu without seals every time and was close to doing the same with his Shunshin no jutsu. Thanks to Kyuubi's constant gift, his chakra capacity had almost quadrupled.

Kakashi was able to teach his student another 12 techniques, this time 4 Doton, 3 Katon, 2 Mizu, 2 Raiton and 1 Sand technique.

Despite her sincerest efforts, Anko still hadn't managed to seduce her 'delicious' trainee or turn him into a sadist but overall they got along fine. She taught him 4 new genjutsu skills and even her Souja Sousai No Jutsu (Double Snake Assassination Technique)

After his graduation, Kakashi and Gai would keep on training his Uzumaki Kenamju taijutsu. Jiraiya, after a lot of begging, promised to teach the kid some of his slightly stronger techniques when he was around. Sandaime had asked him to start looking for members of the Hitomi clan to start teaching Naruto in his other bloodline limit. The aging sannin was also close to releasing his second book: Icha Icha: Attack of the Nymphomaniacs. Kakashi and Anko would occasionally train him in his nin- and genjutsu.

Naruto was put in a Genin team, which existed for two years already but had lost a member due to a promotion after the latest Chuunin exam. His sensei was Hyuuga Hizashi, who still lived as young Hyuuga Hinata's abductor was captured ad lefty alive. His two team mates, Kiba's older sister Inuzuka Hana and Shino's older cousin Aburame Taiko, were somewhat sceptical about the new team member but soon realised that their far younger team mate was a very good addition to their squad.

Because his team mates had been active Genins for some time now, he was able to escape from doing all those tedious D-raked missions. Instead he was regularly sent on more challenging C-rank jobs.

During one, what seemed to be a fairly straightforward mission, things went haywire, turning into a high B-rank mission which forced the young Uzumaki to make his first two kills in order to save his two team mates.

Life wasn't always great….

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