Naruto: hey FR

FR: yeah?

Naruto: what are your plans for me anyway?

FR: that would be spoiling my plans

Naruto: what plans

FR: I've been scheming this from the start of the chunin exams

Hinata: so you already have it planned out

FR: just some bits here and there :)

Ino: at least tell me you have something planned for us

FR: ….oh yes Mwahahaha

Sasuke: I still think you made me too much of an ass

FR: I've read worse….trust me…..I think

Sakura: what kind of writer are you

FR: the one that just lets the story come out as I write. Heck a lot of ideas I had for how it would go kinda got changed when I got to the part

Naruto: kinda?

FR: I'll let the readers find out how it came out. Anyway take your places everyone…..aaannnddd action!

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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, it's owned by one wiser than me

Chapter 28: meeting with the sage

Naruto was making his way through the hospital to check up on his friends that ended up here. He was right now, a little angry at what he had been told by the hokage. He knew that it wasn't anything personal but he hated having secrets kept from him, especially if it has to deal with his past. He thought about it as he was visiting Lee and Hinata since they were the only one of his friends that were staying in the hospital

Flashback

Naruto and Karin were standing in front of the hokage both expecting answers.

Karin wanted to know why the history of the Uzumaki clan was unknown

Naruto wanted to know if he was really part of a clan and why he was never told about it

Hiruzen looked at the two and waited for what they might have wanted to talk about "well you two. Is there something that you wished to talk to me about?"

Karin didn't want to beat around the bush so she just blurted out "why isn't the Uzumaki clan in your history books? And why is it that Naruto here doesn't know about it?!"

Hiruzen was both confused and a little concerned at these questions 'odd. It should be common knowledge that the Uzumaki clan were allied to us and it should be taught in the early years of the academy'. Looking at the two he saw that they were completely serious "I'm afraid that I am unsure about…"

Hiruzen was interrupted by a very angry red haired girl "DON'T GIVE ME THAT! The Uzumaki clan were allied with Konoha and now I find out that my...our clans massacre was swept under the rug."

Naruto kept quiet but he was feeling his anger rise at the idea that the old man was hiding something extremely important 'how could you jiji?'

Hiruzen raised his hand to get her to stop her yelling "it should be common knowledge….."

He was interrupted again "DAMN RIGHT IT SHOULD BE! You shouldn't hide our clans involvement in many of konoha's achievements. We should be in history books so everyone knows about…"

"You are"

Karin paused as she heard this "...say wha….?"

Hiruzen opened up a drawer in his desk and started rummaging through it until he pulled out an academy history book "hmm this is an old edition but should still have it." he then gave the book to Karin "go to pa~ge…..213"

Naruto was looking over Karin's shoulder as she flipped open the book until she arrived to the page

Karin felt her anger grow as she looked at the chapter title "this is about the battle of IWA!"

Hiruzen coughed before he spoke again "ahem forgive me …..try 235"

Karin again flipped through the book and her eyes widened when she saw it and read the title out loud "'The Uzumaki clan and the history of Uzushiogakure' so we are in the books. But why doesn't Naruto know about it?"

Hiruzen felt even more confusion "the Uzumaki clan is a history lesson that is taught in the early years of the academy. We honor them by not only having their history be taught early. We honored the relations between the two clans by having their clan symbol on our shinobi attire" Hiruzen looked towards Naruto "did you not pay attention to the lessons?"

Naruto crossed his arms and looked up in thought, trying to remember his years in the academy. As he thought he saw that not once were either Uzumaki clan or Uzushiogakure mentioned. "They never said anything about it. Sure I wasn't a good student but I would remember hearing my last name being used in a history lesson"

Hiruzen had several thoughts enter his head. Many trying to think of a reason on why he didn't know about it

Naruto asked a question to the hokage "you knew I was part of a clan. Why didn't you tell me"

Hiruzen could hear the distrust growing in the boy and sighed "I had planned on telling you about your clan when you came to me to ask questions about it but you had never asked. I assumed that you learned about it from the academy and since your clan is by many rights extinct, you did not wish to know about something that you could not regain."

Naruto felt his spirits drain when he heard this. It was true, if he had learned about his clan and that it was extinct he would try to avoid the subject. It hurts to know that he was part of a clan that is almost dead

Karin saw the sad look of her now confirmed clansman "what about his parents?"

Hiruzen's face grew somber "I have kept his parentage a secret until he was ready to know it ...before you begin to yell" he said as he saw that Karin was about to yell at him again "it was mostly his father I wished to keep secret. His mother was not so much a secret as it was more a risk." turning to Naruto he continued "Naruto, in your early years you were, rambunctious child. You would run around screaming that you did something 'awesome' as you said"

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and gave a sheepish laugh at remembering how he used to be

"Your mother was an amazing kunoichi but she had many enemies not only from outside the village but from within as well"

Naruto's eyes grew wide "what do you mean 'from within'? She was part of the leaf wasn't she?"

Hiruzen nodded "yes she was but much like you, she had massive amounts of chakra and a special ability that could be considered a kekkei genkai"

Naruto's eyes shot open "I have a kekkei genkai?!"

"It is unsure. Your mother had the ability to manifest her chakra into chains that she could manipulate them so she could use them as weapons or restraints. There were and still are, people that want to get their hands on that ability. I wasn't sure how far they might have gone to get it so I made the choice to hold onto the information until you came to me"

Naruto now really wanted to know "what was her name?"

Hiruzen opened another drawer and pulled out a photo of a woman with long red hair and a big smile on her face. He handed it to the boy "her name was Kushina Uzumaki"

Naruto felt tears well up in his eyes. He may have Kurama as a father but he sometimes wondered who his human parents were. He wiped his eyes with his hand and began to hand the photo back

Hiruzen shook his head "no Naruto-kun. That belongs to you more than anyone"

Karin asked another question "what about his father"

Hiruzen's face grew grim "I am afraid that I have no right to tell you that"

Both Uzumakis screamed "WHAT!?"

Hiruzen felt a burst of wind and chakra coming from Naruto's scream 'interesting'. "This was something that I have chosen to keep secret for Naruto's safety. I was unsure how well he would be able to keep this a secret as there are greater dangers that come with this knowledge. However as I see it, he would have been able to keep this to himself very well as he had kept a VERY BIG secret from me for many years and I only found out through odd means"

Naruto felt a bit guilty at having to keep Kurama a secret but he didn't regret it

Karin began to tap her foot "so you are going to keep this from him than?"

Hiruzen shook his head "no he will learn it from someone who has more right to tell you. In fact he is the very person that I called upon to remove that little problem of yours Naruto-kun"

Naruto felt elated at earning who his human father was and if he only had to wait a bit than he can wait "thanks Hokage-jiji"

Hiruzen smiled "now I believe that you have better things to do than talk to an old fossil like me. Karin-san I would like to speak to you at another time so when I am ready I will send an Anbu to your hotel at the time"

Karin nodded as her mood had improved a bit at knowing that the Uzumaki clan had not been forgotten entirely "very well Hokage-sama"

Both Uzumakis began to leave and at the door Naruto turned to look at the old man "Later Jiji!"

Hiruzen could only laugh at the attitude of the boy "I hope you never change Naruto". Hiruzen's face then grew grave when he thought about why the Uzumaki clan were not discussed in class. A thought then hit him and he let lose a little bit of KI 'they wouldn't be this stupid would they?'. He then pressed his finger on his intercom to call his secretary

"Hai Hokage-sama. How may I help you?"

"Yes I would like you to get me Iruka-san for me"

"Yes sir"

End of Flashback

Naruto shook his head to get the event out of his head as he had finished visiting his friends and even left some flowers for them as a get well present. He would have liked to stay longer but the hospital staff would have thrown him out with some stupid reason like he was poisoning the air or something. both were unconscious and he felt that they needed to rest after their fight. Once outside he lifted his nose in the air to see if he could catch the scent of his sensei. 'Now where…*sniff sniff*...are you'. After a few more sniffs, he caught the scent and jumped away to get to him

~Memorial stone~

Once Naruto arrived he saw that Kakashi was standing in front of the memorial stone. Naruto chose to give his sensei a moment before he got his attention

Kakashi knew that Naruto had come to him to ask him about training and he was somewhat surprised that the blonde found him so quickly "how did you find me?"

Naruto was startled by the sudden question but he shook his head "I have enhanced senses Sensei. I found you by your scent"

Kakashi sweatdropped at being found like that. He turned to look at Naruto and had a stupid question he felt like asking "ok….question. What exactly do I smell like?"

Naruto blinked at this and answered "you smell like dog and paper."

Kakashi's sweatdrop grew twice in size and cleared his throat "well ...that's nice to know. Anyway what ups?"

Naruto looked into Kakashi's eyes "I need your help in my training"

Kakashi knew that the blonde would ask him this and he also wanted to help the blonde but he had been ordered by the civilian council to focus on the Uchiha. 'Biggest annoyance any of us shinobi have to deal with. Well I can still help'. "Well Naruto-kun I would like to train you for the full month but I won't be able to help you out entirely"

Naruto was hoping that Kakashi wouldn't be doing what he thought he was doing and he still felt a bit of frustration "WHY?! Because your going to train the Teme! He deserves all your time right! All because he is the great Uchiha! WELL FINE!" Naruto turned and began to stomp away but he suddenly stopped when he felt a sudden tug on his sash. Turning around he saw that Kakashi had grabbed his sash

Kakashi felt hurt at the harsh yelling and accusation Naruto sent him but he needed to calm the boy down "whoa calm down Naruto-kun. I said entirely. I had already planned something out for you"

Naruto calmed down a bit and looked at Kakashi and gave him a suspicious look "like what?"

Kakashi let go oh Naruto's sash and spoke "I already knew you would ask me to help train you but I have been given orders by the civilian council to focus on Sasuke-kun. Now calm down…." he said as he saw Naruto glare at him "yeah I know but I plan on giving you a set of training that will help you out"

"Like what?"

"Oh you will find out soon enough"

Naruto glared at Kakashi as he crossed his arms "is this going to be real training or something simple?"

Kakashi shrugged "well depends on how you see it. I'm sure this will be useful to you, though it will be difficult with your…...condition"

Naruto gave Kakashi a deadpan expression "don't make it sound like I'm sick…..."

"Sorry just not sure what to refer it to. Anyway meet me at our training grounds tomorrow morning"

Naruto's expression grew deeper "are you going to be on time or make me wait three hours ?"

Kakashi gave an eye smile "who knows?" he then disappeared in a poof of smoke

Naruto grew a tick mark "I want to prank you so hard that you lose your mind….but if what you do helps than I'll spare you…..for now" Naruto then began to walk back into the village "I need ramen"

~Meanwhile~

Ino was sitting in her room sulking and trying to get the swarm of insects out of her head. 'I know that I was fine, but I still can't handle it'

"Ino! Your sensei is here to see you!"

Ino heard her mother Noriko call her. 'Wonder what Asuma-sensei wants?'. She made her way down to the entrance of her family shop to see Asuma standing there. "Hey Asuma-sensei. What is it? Team meeting?"

Asuma pulled out a cigarette and lit it as he took a drag of it. He looked at his female genin and took notice that she was slumping a bit and her hands would tremble a bit. 'The kid was right. He must have known that she would be like this'. Letting out a puff of smoke he spoke "no. actually it's just you and me. Come on" he said as he began to walk away

Stood there confused for a second before she went to catch up "Asuma-sensei! Where are we going?"

Asuma continued to walk "you will find out"

They continued to walk until they arrived at their first destination. An Ice cream parlor

Ino looked up at Asuma with a confused look "what are we doing here?"

Asuma looked down at her "I'm treating you. I already plan on treating Choji tomorrow so today is your turn"

Ino looked at him suspiciously but decided to go with it for now and went in to get an Ice cream sundae.

After Ino had a sundae, parfait and simple cone, Asuma took her to a clothing shop where he felt his wallet become thinner and thinner as her new wardrobe grew larger and larger.

Asuma just sweatdropped as he saw Ino happily carry her new clothes back to her home 'damn it Naruto! You owe me for this'

After Ino dropped off her clothes the both of them made went off to the park where they walked a lake path. Ino was enjoying this little outing and looked at Asuma with a sly grin "you know Aauma-sensei, if I didn't know any better, I would think that this would be a date…."

Asuma tripped on air and inhaled too much of his cigarette causing him to cough hard.

Ino laughed at the reaction and smiled "thanks Asuma-sensei. I needed this"

Asuma was on his hands and knees, pounding his chest trying to get the air back in his lungs "*cough* no *cough cough* problem. Just *cough* don't say that again"

Ino chuckled at that and looked to the lake. She began to think about the last time she looked at it. She paused when a memory hit her "hey Asuma-sensei, why did you really do this for me?"

Asuma got back to his feet and cleared his throat "you seemed to be out of it from the chunin exams and I felt that you needed a way to calm your nerves"

Ino could tell that it was true but the way he did it made her think of another time "hey Asuma-sensei can we make one more stop"

Asuma would have said that she had enough but he could see a pleading look in her eyes "sure. Where to?"

Ino smiled "follow me"

~sunset~

Both Ino and Asuma made it to the top of the Hokage Monument. The sun began to drop to the horizon and the orange tint of the sky made the view of the village something to see

Asuma wondered why she wanted to come here of all places. 'I figure she would want to go buy something else. Why come here?'

Ino walked forward leaving Asuma to stand where he was. Ino made her way to the top of the fourth Hokage's head and sat down as she looked to the village. She brought her knees to her chest and just looked on

Asuma walked up to her so he was standing behind her

Ino felt Asuma come closer and asked the question again "why did you really do this Asuma-sensei?"

Asuma knew he was found out "let's say that someone told me to do this. How did you know that there was something else going on?"

Ino smiled sadly "everything you did for me today were the exact same things that Naruto does for me when I feel down". An image of Naruto sitting next to her watching the sunset appeared and she could feel a tear fall down her cheek

Asuma could tell that something was wrong "something happen between you two?"

"...I hurt him….badly and I know he will never talk to me again because of it"

Asuma stood there as he also looked towards the village "it was him that told me to do this so I don't think that your friendship is broken entirely"

"Maybe…..but I wish he would talk to me again"

~that night with Naruto~

Naruto was back in his apartment and for the first time in a very long time, he was lying in his bed, although he wished he wasn't. 'Rama-tou-chan, shouldn't I be starting to shift again? Why hasn't it started'

"The seal that is still on you is causing it to delay. We need to get rid of it"

'Hopefully soon! My skin feels like it's getting tighter by the second and my inside feels like it's bloating!'

"Well when the person who is supposed to remove it gets here, get him to remove the last of it as soon as possible. I don't know what will happen if we leave this the way it is for too long. It's already been days since it's been placed. It's like a boulder blocking a river. It holds most of it back and all that flows are the small trickles"

'Yeah. hopefully the guy gets here soon'. With that Naruto tried to fall to sleep and after a bit of struggle he fell into an uncomfortable slumber

~next day~

After the night, Naruto felt even more constricted but he powered through it as best he could. Naruto was leaning on the middle post of his team training grounds and was waiting for Kakashi to arrive. As he waited he thought back to what Neji said to him when they found out they would be fighting in the first match

Flashback

Everyone had taken a number to see who would be facing who in the finals.

Hayate told everyone to look up to the screen to see the match ups

Naruto's was somewhat surprised to see the line up

First match: Naruto Uzumaki vs Neji Hyuga

Second match: Sasuke Uchiha vs Gaara

Third match: Kankuro vs Shino Aburame

Fourth match: Temari vs Shikamaru Nara

Dosu will face the winner of the first match

Winner of the first match shall face the winner of the second match

Winner of the third match shall face the winner of the Fourth match

Naruto turned to Neji who was smirking at him

Neji walked up to Naruto "train as much as you want. You will learn that your fate has already been decided." he then began to walk out of the room.

Naruto spoke up before he got far "when we fight in the finals….I'm going to make you bleed"

Neji stopped for a second but then kept walking

Naruto was glaring so hard at the back of Neji's head that he himself almost thought that his Bijuu fire would come out of his eyes. His glaring was stopped when he heard another condescending voice behind him

"Hm looks like I wont get the chance to beat you into the ground Dobe"

Naruto turned around to redirect his glare to Sasuke "you never got the chance to do so in the first place. All the times you beat me in spars were because I was not at 100%. If you do win your match, you will lose, like the other times"

Sasuke stood in front of Naruto giving his own glare and everyone thought that they would fight but Naruto just turned around and left the room as well 'I have better things to do than listen to stuck up assholes'

End flashback

Naruto was brought back to the present when he caught the scent of Kakashi. Looking up he saw Kakashi land in front of him

Kakashi gave his usual eye smile "yo"

Naruto smirked a bit "your only ten minutes late"

Kakashi just chuckled at this 'well if I didn't, then I wouldn't have time for what I have planned'. "Well I'm here now so we should get started as I don't have a lot of time until I have to leave"

Naruto tilted his head in confusion "where are you going? And why can't you stay here?"

Kakashi sighed "I plan on taking Sasuke-kun out of the village to train him for the whole month."

Naruto felt some irritation on this "why does he get most of your time and I only get a small amount of time?"

Kakashi looked sternly at Naruto "Naruto. Between the two of you, who do you think is the most skilled?"

Naruto didn't know if he was being tested for a bit of humility or modesty but he Kakashi should know the answer so he answered "between me and the teme. Me"

Kakashi nodded "exactly. I agree with you. Based on skill, speed, strength, you outshine him, even with his Sharingan. I was ordered to focus on him but I'm doing it more to calm his aggressive tendencies. Now I will be teaching you some things that you can work on your own for the month and based on how good you are in learning jutsu, you could come up with some interesting ways to use it"

Naruto's irritation died down and nodded his head. 'It's better than nothing and if he believes that I can come up with some moves for it than I can do just that.'. "Ok then what are you going to teach me?"

Kakashi brought up a finger "I will be teaching you…..water walking"

Naruto face faulted at this "WATER WALKING!? How is that going to help me"

Kakashi laughed at this "well water walking is an excellent way to improve chakra control and gives you a new surface to fight on. Now I'm going to explain to you how to do this"

As Kakashi explain how to do this exercise, Naruto felt the need to prank his sensei hard. 'Make him suffer. Guy sensei as a bed buddy!. Guy-sensei destroying his book collection'.

"Now I want you to try it on the water there" Kakashi said as he pointed to the small river that runs by the training field

Naruto stomped over to the river and began to channel his chakra into his feet. He took a step onto the water and he felt that he might be able to do it. However after a few seconds he fell into the water

*SPLASH*

Kakashi laughed at Naruto as the boy came out of the water and glared at him. After a few more seconds of it he calmed down "ok, now for the real part of what I wanted to teach you"

Naruto was dripping wet and his glare was so fierce that one would think that the water would evaporate instantly. 'Make him suffer, make him suffer, make him suffer. Guy-sensei will be your partner for life!'

Kakashi pulled out a slip of paper and handed it to Naruto "I want you to channel chakra into that piece of paper"

Naruto swiped the paper out of Kakashi's hand and brought it up as he did what was asked. 'If this turns out to be something dumb, I'm pranking him for a whole year'. Naruto channeled chakra into the paper and waited for something to happen

Kakashi watch with anticipation to see what elements he would have. His only visible eye grew wide when he saw what happened

The paper split in two before both became soaked in water. Finally the water evaporated and the two slips burst into large flames

Naruto used his other hand to block his face from the sudden fire coming out of the paper. Once the paper turned to ash he looked to Kakashi "uh what exactly does that mean?"

Kakashi had many thoughts coming to his mind 'the wind element he must have gotten from sensei, the water element must be from Kushina-sama, the fire…..must be from being a pseudo bijuu…..oh boy'. Kakashi shook his head to clear his mind "that, Naruto-kun was chakra paper. It helps us know what your elemental affinity is and from the spectacle that was just shown, you have three elements. The slicing of the paper means that you have Wind element, the soaking of them is clearly water and the…...burst of flames, is obviously fire"

Naruto gave a cocky smirk and crossed his arms "that's right I'm awesome"

Kakashi chuckled at this "well it is impressive. This means that you have many areas we can work on, so tell me, which one do you want to work on first?"

Naruto thought about it for a minute before he spoke "well I already have a fire move so maybe wind. Don't know what I can do with it but I might think of something"

Kakashi nodded "ok then. As I know, you already know about using Kage bunshin for training so I want you to make as many clones as you can but make them so they all have a good amount of chakra each."

Naruto nodded his head and did the hand sign for it "Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" after massive puff of smoke, a small army of Narutos came into view.

Kakashi's eye widened at this 'so many! He might be able to finish the training sooner than I thought'. "Ok Naruto I want you to send half of them to try the water walking exercise" seeing the half make their way to the river, he immediately knew that the river was going to be covered with Narutos. 'Maybe I should have given him a number instead of saying make as many as you can'. "The rest of you, I want you to grab a leaf and I will explain what you should do with it."

~two hours later~

An Anbu landed in training ground meant for team 7 and paused at what he saw. Several trees had been plucked of their leaves and there was a field of orange, black and blonde that stretched beyond the training field and into the forest. Looking around he finally spotted what he was looking for, a small bit of silver hair in a tree looking down at the field. Jumping to the tree he spoke "Kakashi-san, the hokage has requested Naruto Uzumaki's presence."

Kakashi looked at the mod and sweatdropped "uh sure, hang on". Kakashi cupped his hands to call out "Hey Naruto!"

All of them turned to look at Kakashi "YEAH?" they all said

"Uh the real Naruto"

"WE'RE ALL REAL"

"Urgh the 'original' Naruto"

"WE'RE ALL ORIGINAL!"

Kakashi felt annoyed now "Naruto!"

A single Naruto in the crowd jumped up onto the tree with a large foxy grin on his face "hehe whats up?"

The Anbu looked between the Naruto in front of him and to the mob. Looking back at the single Naruto "you have been requested by the hokage to meet with him. He states that it's about what you requested"

The Naruto smiled wide "yes! Finally!" he said before he went up in a poof of smoke

Kakashi grew a tick mark "NARUTO!". All he could hear at that time was the mob laughing and he saw a single Naruto leaping towards the Hokage tower.

~45 minutes late~

Naruto was making his way to the hot springs as the hokage had told him that the person he was looking for would most likely be hanging around there. 'Wonder who this guy is? Hokage-jiji didn't tell me anything about him. He just said he is the most interesting man I could ever meet.' Naruto made it to the hot springs and began to look around for anyone that might be waiting for him. He didn't see anyone so he just chose to wait. After a few minutes he heard some chuckling coming from somewhere. Feeling his curiosity peek, he followed the sound and found himself looking up into a tree, that gave a view of the woman's side of the hotsprings, and saw a white haired man peeping on the woman in the bath. He couldn't help but give a stupefied look at the blatant peeping the man was doing. 'Pranking target: locked on'. He didn't have anything to make it big but he knew that sometimes the smallest things can have the biggest results. Clearing his throat he cupped his hands to his mouth and in a girly voice he screamed "EEEEEKK PEEPING TOM! What do you think your doing in that tree! You pervert!". When he finished his little squeal he jumped into the air behind the man and kicked him hard into the woman's side. Naruto landed back on the ground and walked back to the entrance as he heard the sound of women yelling and pummeling the man as he pleads for mercy.

Naruto leaned against the wall by the entrance of the hotsprings to continue waiting for the guy the hokage called. After a few minutes he sees the peeping tom limping out of the hotsprings. Naruto couldn't help but smile at the punishment he got.

The man looked over to Naruto and gave an indignant look "you brat! You cost me valuable research data" he said as he pulled out a small black notebook that was shredded and soaked

Naruto deadpanned "since when is peeping on women 'research'? Your nothing but a pervert"

"Hey I am NOT a pervert"

Naruto got in his face "oh yeah! then what are you?!"

The man got a goofy look on his face and brought his hands up to his chest and began wiggling them in a weird manner "I'm a SUPER pervert"

Naruto felt like his brain just shut down at the amazingly stupid confession he just heard '...uh'

The man crossed his arms and gained a smug look on his face "and what I was doing was research for my book series." he then reached into his red haori (I feel like I get haoris mixed up with another piece of clothing) and pulled out a familiar green book

Naruto pointed at the book "hey that's the book that Kakashi-sensei is always reading! Your the one who writes those? Who are you anyway you pervert"

The man grew a grin "who am I?"he began to do a weird shogan dance as music began to play in the background. Bouncing on one foot he struck a pose with his hand stretched forward, hand open while his other hand was stretched behind him in a similar manner "I shall tell you my naive friend.". He then grabbed his bangs and swung his head around so his hair would swing in a circle behind him "I am the envy of all men in the north, south, east and west. The man all women want to be with", he tossed a large scroll in the air and brought his hand in a two finger hand sign "one of the Legendary Sannin." he summoned an orange toad with blue markings as he stood on top of it "tamer of toads! Jiraiya! That's me!" he said as he entered his earlier hand pose

Naruto had his eyes in lines as he gave an unimpressed "erm". 'This guy is interesting. Wait! Is this the guy Hokage-jiji requested!?...no'

Jiraiya stayed in his pose as gloom fell upon him

Naruto just turned around and began to walk away

A random crow began to fly overhead "Aho….Aho…..Aho"

Jiraiya felt his ego crack and fall apart at the lack of reaction from the boy '...ouch'. He turned around and ran after the boy "hey wait!"

Naruto stopped and gave a sigh at this 'why me?'

"...kit don't forget that if this ningen is the one the old man says can remove the seal than we have to get him to do it…"

'Urgh fine' he turned to look at Jiraiya "are you the guy that Hokage-jiji said can help me with my problem?" 'say no say no say no'

Jiraiya looked at Naruto "he had called me back to the village but he hasn't really given me any details on exactly why"

Naruto was relieved 'at least jiji kept it a secret. Still don't want others to know yet'. He pulled up his black shirt and showed the three remaining kanji on his stomach "I need you to get this off me"

Jiraiya knelt down to look closely at the seal 'hmm this looks like the remains of a five pronged seal. Sensei must have removed the other two ...but where is the 8 trigram seal?' "hey kid channel chakra for me"

Naruto looked down "look there is a lot you don't know and if you are trustworthy I'll tell you some of it but right now I just need you to remove this stupid seal, it's messing me up pretty bad"

Jiraiya gave him a skeptical look 'he's hiding something ...and he seems to know that this seal is causing him problems. Hopefully it's nothing bad ...and this might be a good start at repairing a non-existent relation'. "Alright kid. Hold still" he said as he began to bring up chakra to his fingers

"KIT WAIT!"

Naruto jumped back just in time to avoid the impact from Jiraiya

Jiaray went spinning with the momentum of his swing and after he spun around he landed ungracefully onto his back

Naruto would have thought what happened in front of him would be funny but he was at the moment talking to Kurama 'what's wrong Tou-chan?'

"Remember that you should have shifted back already and this seal is the only thing keeping you in you human form. If he releases it now you could start your shift the second it's gone and you are right now in public. We should wait until night where you are in your apartment and get that Hana woman to be there in case as I don't know what will happen."

'Well I hope that it works, cause my skin feels like I'm wearing clothes that are three sizes too small'. He looked over to Jiraiya who was now dusting himself off "sorry about that but can you remove it tonight. It would be better for everyone if we did it than"

Jiraiya scowled at the boy "there's more to it than what you let on…..but fine. What do you plan to do till then"

Naruto jabbed his finger to the direction of his teams training ground "I'm in the middle of training for the finals of the chunin exams"

Jiraiya smirked well maybe I can help. With my infinite wisdom I could make you into a mighty Shinobi like me" he said as he placed a hand on his chest

Naruto sweatdropped at this "well I'm already a powerhouse of a shinobi but if you can help in my training, than I guess so"

Jiraiya smirked again "lead the way and I'll help you in it"

Naruto smirked "fine lets go Ero-sennin". He laughed as he saw Jiraiya facefault

~Training grounds~

Jiraiya could honestly say he was shocked. When they got to the training grounds, he couldn't see any ground just a horde of blondes. He spotted Kakashi sitting in a tree watching them do their work. Seeing Naruto join his clones, Jiraiya leapt up to the tree to sit next to Kakashi "so, you the one to tell him about this method of training?"

Kakashi looked up from his book to address Jiraiya "actually it seems that he found this on his own. I'm just using it to allow him to learn as much as possible. Have you checked the seal on him yet?"

Jiraiya nodded his head "yeah I have but before I could remove it, he moved out of the way" he crossed his arms and had a grim look on his face "he is hiding something and I'm worried that it has to do with the kyuubi. I didn't even see the fourths seal on him and that worries me"

Kakashi looked at Jiraiya 'I'm not sure how he is going to handle what happened to Naruto-kun but I hope he doesn't react badly'. "Trust me the secret he holds is not as bad as you might think. Did he ask when to remove the seal?"

Jiraiya nodded "yeah he wants me to do it tonight. He said it would be better for everyone, I just can't see why. Unless it lets out a burst of the kyuubi's chakra that could cause panic"

Kakashi sweatdropped at how accurate the assumption could be "well it should be fine. Anyway, I can only stay for about another hour. Do you mind taking over his training?"

Jiraiya smiled at Kakashi "that was the plan from the start. So from what I can tell he seems to be working on wind nature chakra manipulation. Anything else"

Kakashi decided to give him a rundown of what he learned, from the boy's elemental affinities and water walking. Anything else Jiraiya will learn when he trains with the boy

~that night~

Jiraiya felt confused as he watch Naruto placing privacy tags in his apartment. Not only that but there was a female Inuzuka who he learned was named Hana. "so kid, what is this all about? Anyway. Don't get me wrong this woman is really attractive but I don't think I'm keen on watching what you two do". This comment got him a hit to the back of his head from said woman

Hana looked angered at what Jiraiya was insinuating but right now she was not looking forward to this. "Naruto-kun, is there anyway to make this go more smoothly?"

Naruto finished placing the last tag as he turned to the adults "nope. I wish there was but I haven't been given another means. I was also told that this might hurt more since the seal on me is keeping me this way longer than I should"

Hana paled a bit at that "you are not doing anything tomorrow than!"

Naruto nodded "I don't think I'll have the energy to do so"

Jiraiya now felt worried on how the conversation is going "ok gaki, what are you two talking about?"

Naruto shook his head "it's a lot easier to just see it. I honestly don't want anyone else to know or deal with this but you are the only one who can remove the seal. Just …..whatever happens don't try and stop it." he turned to Hana "you know you could wait outside until he gets you, you know."

Hana's shook her head "if you say this is going to hurt you more than I think I can at least ease it a bit with what I know of medical Jutsu"

Jiraiya was now feeling dread. 'What do they think will happen?'

Naruto went to his room and returned wearing only a pair of shorts and a small metal bar "Remember don't do anything to stop it". He placed the metal bar in between his teeth and nodded

Jiraiya lifted his hand and three of his fingers lit up with kanjis "Five elements Seal Release!" he slammed his hand into Naruto's stomach and removed the last of the seal from him.

The hit pushed Naruto back so much that his back hit the wall. He fell to his hands and knees and began to feel his body start to burn. He bit down hard on the bar as the pain started to increase more "gggrrrrr" he fell to lay on his side as he began to convulse 'GODDAMMIT! IT HURTS'

"Easy kit. Just like before try and endure it"

Red chakra burst from Naruto's body like a fire that engulfed his body and Naruto began to flail about kicking his table and chairs away. Hard enough to shatter them against the walls.

Jiraiya looked wide eyed "what the hell!" he began to go through handsigns to try and subdue any of the kyuubi chakra he could but a hand gripped his wrist to stop him

Hana held firmly on Jiraiya's wrist "don't!"

"But the Kyuubi is breaking free!"

Hana shook her head "no. it's not the kyuubi, it's just him" Hana made her way to Naruto trying her best to avoid the red chakra but it flared again pushing her back. "Damn it I can't help him in this until that chakra dies down"

After a few minutes the metal bar Naruto was biting down on shattered from the force of the bite and the corrosion of the chakra "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"

Hana had a tear roll down as it had begun "I can't help him in this."

Jiraiya stood there, feeling sick at what was happening and hearing the blood curdling screams coming from the boy "what is going on here!"

Hana kept watching "this is the burden that he has to go through"

An hour later, Jiraiya could see that Naruto was going through some changes. The boys hair was slowly changing color, small hairs were growing on him, his mouth seemed to be pushing forward.

One thing that surprised them both was that he was getting bigger

The red chakra stopped swirling, leaving burn marks all around the kitchen, dining room and the flowers that were around the place turned to ash.

Hana moved over to Naruto as he kept flailing and grabbed his wrists and held him down. She turned her head to look at the stunned Sanin "don't just stand there help me hold him down!"

Jiraiya shook his head and quickly went over and helped hold his arms. Now closer he saw that Naruto was growing a muzzle and his hair was now getting an orange tint with some plack lines going down his back to what looked like tails were growing "I need to seal him NOW!"

Hana glared at the man "don't even think about doing anything to him! We will explain later but right now hold his arms" pulling her hands off Naruto's wrists she began to channel medical chakra into her hands and tried to ease the pain

"AAARGH AAAHH GGRRRRRRR"

Hana looked down sadly at the boy "easy Naruto-kun. You can get through this"

~hours later~

Jiraiya watch buffudled as the Inuzuka woman was tending to a large five tailed fox two times the boys original size. Throughout the whole ordeal Jiraiya had insisted on placing a seal on Naruto to stop the Kyuubi from taking over but he was stopped everytime by Hana. He felt some fear towards the fox but when he looked at Hana, he didn't see any fear at all, only concern.

Hana was trying to ease the pain the boy was in and hoping the heavy breathing he was doing would ease a bit. She was shocked to see the size increase but her concern for his well being out did her curiosity

Jiraiya crossed his arms and gave an angry look "ok mind telling me what is going on here?"

Hana continued to focus on Naruto "Hokage-sama knows more about this than I do but I can tell you that Naruto-kun…..isn't human"

Jiraiya quirked an eyebrow "I'm listening"

~Naruto's mindscape~

Naruto slowly opened his eyes to see he was in the open field of his mind. Shifting his eyes to the sky, he looked at the moon and smiled.

"Good to see you again kit"

Naruto shifted his head to look above him to see Kurama laying down and looking at him "Hey Rama-Tou-chan". He got to his feet and walked over to Kurama and sat on his haunches in front of him while his tails wagged a bit at see Kurama again

Kurama leaned down to nuzzle his kit. He pulled back and grew serious "kit. Remember when I said I would tell you who removed the fourths seal when you got that snakes seal off" Seeing his kit nod he continued "well now that you are here it's time you met him". Kurama gestured his head behind Naruto

Naruto turned around to see a man with spiky blonde hair, two bangs framing his face. He wore a standard Jonin jacket over a blue shinobi body suit. Finishing the outfit was a long white cloak with orange flames at the bottom.

Naruto recognized the man in front of him as the fourth hokage but what the man said made all his thoughts stop

"Hello my son"

And there's the end of the chapter

So made some obvious changes and have other changes planned for the finals of the chunin exams.

I didn't want Hiruzen to seem completly incompetent so I tried to make it so he had been honoring Uzushiogakure but not sure if I conveyed that well. Karin is still around and spoilers: I plan on her staying. Not a very big spoiler but it's there

The Sasuke training thing still happens but I wanted Kakashito give Naruto something to work with and Ebisu didn't show up.

The intro for Jiraiya was something that I wanted close to the original but with some different dialogue. And I wanted to and the crow at some point in the story just cause I always thought it was stupidly funny

For the size increase, I have a reason ...not a very good one but I wanted to do it for a small moment later on.

Should I do a chapter on the training or have it go to the big event of the finals and we see the end results only

Next chapter will be a meeting that Naruto never expected to have