Three days after meeting Mito and young-Kyuubi, Jiraiya arrived at Uzushiogakure. He was immediately- well, not immediately, he had visited the hot springs before doing so- escorted to the Kage Tower.

As soon as he laid his eyes on the white-haired man, Arashi could practically feel the power he emitted. He certainly was the student of the God of Shinobi, and one of the Three Legendary Sannin.

He stood up, walking up to his guest, and shook his hand in greeting, exchanging pleasantries, before offering him a seat.

"Now, I would like to talk to you about the real reason I have called you here," he told the slightly older man, whose face barely visibly stiffened, eyes narrowing sharply.

Inclining his head, he urged the man to continue his explanation, but instead, the redhead tapped a seal on his desk.

The action wasn't missed at all by him, and as he could clearly see the many seals carved on the desk, he could only wonder what this one did, as it wasn't nearly as visible as he would have liked from the angle he was looking.

Suddenly, a blur came in through the window, and Jiraiya's hand immediately met with his kunai out of reflex. His hand quickly relaxed, though, when his eyes rested upon a blonde child with eyes mature beyond her years. He could only wonder why she was here.

Arashi nodded at Naruto in greeting, and the blonde grinned back at him, before taking a seat herself and saluting the Sannin childishly.

"Yo! You're that perverted toad sage, right? The name's Naruto; Uzumaki Naruto, dattebayo! Nice t' meet'cha!"

She stared blankly at the man, and even though she covered up all the emotions that swelled up inside her after seeing her mentor for the first time in ten years, she couldn't avert her gaze at all.

Jiraiya stared at the blonde kid in wonder, then turned to Arashi with an eyebrow quirked, a silent question visible in his eyes.

'What does this kid have to do with anything?'

As socially observant as ever, Naruto picked up on his bafflement, blocked her yearning feelings and spoke up once again, her eyes gaining a strange glint looking to be a mix of amusement and cunning.

"I'm the one who wanted you here."

This time, the Toad Sage voiced out his surprise.

"Oh? And what does a Gaki like you need me for?" His eyes never left the girl as he spoke, picking up on every reaction she had. His eyes had held an aura of authority, and his voice was that of a commander.

The girl, not intimidated in the least, had the audacity to snort at him. Her nickname from her last life made her heart clench painfully, but outwardly, she mirrored none of her true feelings.

"I need you to convince Konoha to help Uzushio from being defeated by Kiri and Iwa in their upcoming invasion in a couple of months."

The Sannin's eyebrows nearly reached his hairline, and he whipped his head towards the Acting Uzukage, who only nodded at him, confirming the girl's words were true.

Jiraiya slumped backwards on his chair, a grim aura embracing him, his eyes clouded with thoughts, obviously not completely in the real world.

Naruto stood up and trotted towards the man who suddenly seemed to have aged several decades, and tapped him on the forehead, snapping him out of his stupor.

"Oi, don't panic, will ya?" she grumbled, but while her voice was laced with displeasure, her eyes were filled with satisfaction. She was obviously pleased that he seemed to care about Uzushio. "We already have a plan to win, but we need your help." She then sighed, running a hand through her hair, her nervous tick showing that she trusted the two other people within the room, not that they were aware of the meaning of this seemingly normal action. "But first, we need to explain just why I am involved."

And since she had arrived at the timeline a week ago, Naruto told her life story for the fourth time.

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Jiraiya tapped his chin thoughtfully, staring at the girl in front of him with an entirely new perspective.

A time traveller who looks like a kid, but was actually in her mid-twenties and a future Hokage... Who would have thought?

His gaze bore into the girl's eyes, but she did not flinch in the slightest, merely narrowing her eyes slightly, as if silently challenging him to dismiss her tellings.

The white-haired man felt his lips quirk upwards slightly. He liked this kid. Although from what she said they were acquainted in the future, close even, it was still an achievement to disregard his strength so easily.

Jiraiya could clearly see that the blonde was not arrogant: she had the skills to back up her confidence; if the heavy weight her gaze, when it had fallen upon him, wasn't enough proof, the bloodlust she carefully hid, but sometimes let out for intimidation was.

He nodded at the two Uzumaki and allowed a broad smirk to engrave itself on his face.

"Alright: I believe you. Now that you have told me this, what do you want from me?" he asked, setting his cheek on his palm and letting his amusement show.

The two glanced at each other, before Arashi sighed, and spoke up.

"Before the Kyuubi is sealed in Naruto-san, we would like for you to adopt her."

Jiraiya choked on her spit, coughing a few times, before raising his head, eyes filled with disbelief.

"What?!"

Naruto snickered at his reaction, earning a glare she ignored, before stepping forward, stopping an arm's length before him.

"Arashi-sama and I both agree that after the war is over, it is most beneficial for me to join the Shinobi ranks of Konoha. As Uzushio is a small country, with manpower barely matching a fourth of Konoha's, the risk of keeping a Jinchuuriki here is too much to be safe. And for me to join Konoha, the easiest way is to be adopted.

"Also, the adoption must happen before the Sealing Ritual, as after the sealing, I will officially be recognised as a 'weapon', and adopting me will be seen as an attempt to gain power." She raised an eyebrow, daring him to refute the plot. "Have you a better plan?"

Jiraiya sat contemplatively for a few minutes, before he sighed, rubbed his face with his hand, and nodded.

"Alright, I accept," he muttered in defeat. "Seriously, I never thought I'd have a daughter one day, and one around my age mentally at that! It would have been much less awkward if I was at your father's age mentally."

Contrary to his expectation, the previously energetic girl did not tease him. Instead, she started shifting nervously, as if she wanted to say something more.

Seeing the girl suddenly turn shy, Jiraiya narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

The girl flinched and started sputtering incomprehensibly. It took her around ten seconds to gain her composure, and even then, she couldn't look him in the eye.

"Actually... I might have a way to help you regain your mind and memories from my time," she said, and two heads immediately snapped towards her, Arashi obviously unaware of this piece of information.

"What?!" they both cried out, Jiraiya standing up in alarm.

Naruto scratched her cheek sheepishly, an awkward smile on her face.

"I might have a way to give you your future memories," she repeated, raising her head and staring at the two for a moment, before looking away.

It had been a spur of the moment decision, and she was already regretting saying what she had now. It would have been much easier if she hadn't relaxed and kept her mouth shut, but being near her old mentor again was too heavy emotionally for her to keep her usual composure.

For her, it had been more than ten years since she had last seen him. Over those years, she had stopped grieving, but she had always missed the first father figure she had ever had.

Jiraiya was perverted, yes, and maybe a bit immature, but he had still been the guardian figure she had lost at the day of her birth and had craved for ever since.

The two males shook their heads, Arashi feelings headache coming up with an internal groan.

As much as he appreciated the girl's help, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto was a headache and some, with all the secrets and surprises she had.

It didn't help that she liked blurting them out abruptly either, like the time she had told Arashi that the Acting Uzukage's cousin twice removed, and currently nine years of age, was Pein, formerly(or currently right now)known as Uzumaki Nagato, wielder of the Rinnegan, and an S-Rank Ninja who had once destroyed Konoha by his own hands, though he had reverted it before dying.

"And how in the hell are you going to do that?" asked Jiraiya, incredulous yet very much intrigued.

Naruto blushed slightly in embarrassment, remembering the reason and method of this amazing feat.

Flashback

A nearly fifteen-year-old Naruto pouted, glaring daggers at Tsunade and Jiraiya as they shooed her out of the former's office under the pretence that they would be discussing matters they could not disclose to her.

Naruto knew that meant Jiraiya had new information about the Akatsuki, who were clearly after her by the way! It was information that concerned her, yet she was not allowed to listen: this was unfair, dattebayo!

"But why can't I stay and listen?" she whined, stomping her feet childishly and crossing her arms in refusal.

Tsunade sighed, rubbing her forehead in annoyance, having repeated why several times already.

"Because, Naruto, you do not have the rank qualified to know this information!" she replied for the fourth time, teeth gritting impatiently. She had had enough repeating herself.

Naruto scowled at the answer, finding it utterly ridiculous and relaying her dissatisfaction.

"You do realise that it concerns my wellbeing, right? The Akatsuki are after me! I should be aware of what's going on with them, if not because I deserve to, but because I need to protect myself!"

Tsunade slammed her fish on her table, having run out of fuse, a furious expression on her face.

"Enough is enough, Naruto! You are to obey my orders as the Hokage!" She calmed down slightly, but even if her facial expression cleared, her eyes did not, as cloudy as before. "Now, Genin Uzumaki, get out before I kick you out personally and assign you D-Ranks for a month!"

Jiraiya stood at the sidelines, not wanting to be included in their confrontation, and sighed at the sight in front of him. He did not like the idea of excluding Naruto, especially because she had the right to know the information concerning her life, but knowing her, the information would only infuriate her hot-blooded personality.

Naruto was only a Genin right now, she couldn't directly confront an organisation of S-Rank missing ninja. Even if she was strong, she still didn't have enough strength to beat Kage-Level ninja.

Naruto stood at her place for a second, before she turned around and stomped outside, face filled with so much anger that when she slammed the door shut behind her, the poor secretary sitting there startled and turned around, before paling and possibly wetting herself.

The blonde let herself dissolve into a powerful Wind Shunshin, leaving behind a thunderous explosion of wind currents, and appearing on a rooftop around a kilometre from the spot she previously occupied, jumping from roof to roof until she reached Training Ground 43, next to the Forest of Death, and unoccupied due to the cursed, if rumours were to be trusted, grounds that occasionally had various vicious animals escape from.

It took her several hours of ruining the place and collapsing due to chakra exhaustion to be able to think clearly again from where she lay, covered in sweat and dirt with the crater from an Oodama Rasengan she had slammed to the ground.

It was infuriating, not being told anything, when the choice of the topic involved you.

She lay there for what felt like hours, just replaying the earlier scene over and over again, alongside familiar ones that happened every so often, before a spark appeared in her eyes and she sat up, once again full of energy, and a determined smirk on face.

She had an idea on how to get the information she wanted.

Flashback End

After that, Naruto had worked on a seal of her own creation for three months, before finally achieving one that didn't explode in her face or tried to suck out all her memories from her brain; the latter one later inspiring her creation of the Chakra Leech.

It was a seal that copied and transferred the memories of the entity it was placed on to a linked seal, by being provided chakra from the link.

Unfortunately, after she placed it on Jiraiya without him knowing, something that took her hours of scheming to do, and tried to activate it during a meeting, she found out that her seal was a failure.

She tried for some more time to fix it after that, but to no avail, and eventually, the seal hidden beneath the Toad Sage's spiky hair on the back of his neck was forgotten.

It was several months after that that Jiraiya was reported dead, but what nobody knew was that just before the man's brain stopped functioning, every single memory stored in there was suddenly transferred to Naruto, becoming a part of her own memory.

It has been a complete accident on her part, but her seal has essentially turned the Toad Sage into a Kage Bunshin memory-wise.

This was why Naruto could give Jiraiya his memories: she already had them in her head!

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After telling this story to the two men in the room, Naruto swept her gaze to the side, cheeks still flaming in embarrassment.

As a Seal Master now, looking back to her mistakes, and idiotic ones like this one made big blows to her pride.

It also didn't help that Jiraiya cracked up after hearing the story, while Arashi buried his face to her hand, trying to hide his own amusement.

Cheeks flaming like a tomato, Naruto punched both men in the gut, before threatening them so viciously that they agreed to never tell the tale to anyone else, covering their private parts while shivering in fear at the demon standing front of them.

Who said the Kyuubi was a demon?

This girl was clearly the devil itself!