"This here is the Sacred Oil Fountain" Fukasaku told the last person that would attempt to become a sage themselves.

"Then what with all these toad statues though" they said.

"This one looks rather nice but why is it the only of one human though" he said looking closely at statue of a girl that seem roughly his age.

Noticing how it was also not wearing anything either like the other statues and yet was clearer than them as well.

"That because she was lucky, Naruto" Gamakichi said.

"What are you talking about as..." Naruto Uzumaki began saying though seeming out of nowhere Gamatatsu appeared.

"Ranko has not failed yet she coming back" the younger brother of Gamakichi said.

"It been nearly two decades since that day. It about time you accept that Ranko is not coming back" Fukasaku told him.

"SHE!?...Why he is talking like this is a real person" Naruto asked.

"Cause she is as Ranko will come back one day she promised me snacks. She always gave me them" Gamatatsu said.

"*Sighing* You always use that a excuse to reject what happened" his brother said.

While Naruto realized was this was reason he always wanted snacks as that was never really explained to him but it could make sense if that was the case though. However Naruto was never told one way or the other if this was the case.

"These were all people once!?" Naruto exclaimed.

"Not all of them as some of them mostly likely the bigger ones were once toads to start with" Fukasaku informed him.

They left as Gamatasu went about cleaning Ranko as he called her hearing he had been doing that cloth he claimed that Gamamaru, the Great Toad Sage, gave him. Telling him to use to clean the petrified Ranko with it at least once every day.

Over the course of time Naruto began learning how to draw in natural energy and over time began to master how to do so. Of course like how things were with most things Naruto did. Because he used way more charka than need be thus why he could use the Shadow Clone justu easily and to degree never thought possible before him. However could not use the standard version that was consider the most basic of the basic things for a ninja to know.

This was also true of natural energy, as he took in far more than he needed to thus why Fukasaku always kept real close eye on him and whack it out of him whenever he drew in too much. Of course what know of them knew was that all the natural energy that he was draw in was not just coming from nature itself. He was also draw out the natural energy that had been absorbing the excess by those that had failed.

Normally this would not have cause any problems as if the excess natural energy was absorbed those that failed previous were not coming back as they had already completely become one with nature thus all of sense of self.

However there was one expection that while they had indeed failed they tried prevent the process of becoming one of nature fully. Though they failed on their own it was not a wasted efforts since they were not alone. There was someone that unknowingly helping them slow down the process even if it was only a little bit of them truly becoming one with nature. The two of them alone how were merely slow down the process yet it was until Naruto arrived and began a sage in the same manner he completed the Rasengan.
All those shadow clone he used at the start and than just him by himself with his overdoing it nature when came to using gather charka spread over to him gather natural energy as well.

Ranko's statue cracked and eventually she collapsed to the ground gasping for air. Staring up at the sky with unfocused yellow eyes devoid of irises and her once red hair now mostly stone grey with only very tips of it retaining her original red color.

Thus it was at this very moment that two sages were born. Cause the moment Naruto became a sage himself that when Ranko was finally freed all of the excess natural energy she could not get rid of on her own.