Chapter 4

Being the more or less Hidden leaf's golden boy had its pros and cons. One of its perks was being trained by a powerful Shinobi. It's downside however was being trained by a unwanted powerful Shinobi or sannin to be precise by the name of Jiraiya. Naruto was annoyed and stumped with a stupid Balloon in hand. Hinata giggled at his frowning face.

"I thought you were supposed to cheering me on like a good girlfriend",Naruto pouted at her.

"No she's supposed to be training as per agreement"

Naruto sneered at the sannin. It was true. He had only agreed to be trained by the sannin if Hinata was to be trained too. The toad master was having her learn control and manipulate lightning which turned out to be her affinity. To him, it was the perfect plan. The hyuga would never reject the chance to have one of their own be trained by a legendary sannin. He would get see more of Hinata's cute face and less of Hiashi's horrendous face. As a bonus, the rasengan was great jusu to add to his unbeknownst to people weak arsenal. By his own admission, Uzumaki's skill in ninjustu was limited. Due to most of them deviating from his quick style of combat, he never used much of them in actual battle other than his body enhancement induced ninjustu repertoire consisted of those with few hand seals :kage bunshin, Air bullet, air repulsion and finally the odd one out - air dragon was why the rasengan was gives an edge in combat as it requires no hand seals to create and is knew he can tweak it more to make it more devastating. Still, the sannin was still a downside. Why couldn't he get Orichimaru instead? Naruto cried internally.

Jiraiya was not oblivious to his newest apprentice's vexation over his presence. It wasn't a surprise though. How else would a child react when he learns that his godparent, father's adoptive son and predecessor kept secrets and their distance from Kakashi and the sandaime, Jiraiya considered the child's reaction to be mild than what he had imagined. The boy could have easily just left Konoha and swear vengeance or done other emotionally charged decisions that could have led to the absolute destruction of Konoha as he knew it. Okay,that was a bit too much but the idea still remained. He was glad that it was not so. Right now, he had to focus on mending the relationship if it was possible. He owed it to the boy.

"oi brat"

Hinata giggled while Naruto bristled. "Don't call me that"

"whatever... I heard that you somehow replicated the Raikage's lightning Armour technique"

Naruto groaned once more. This again? It would be complete waste of time to tell him because people will still have the same conclusions. NaRuTo StoLe The RakAige'S JusTu. Either way, he would humor him because he had a feeling the man would pester him for eternity if he didn't tell him.

"I didn't copy or replicate it"

"Well. It sounds like you did. A reliable source told me so"

'Kakashi' "Well, I didn't. Its simply Chakra enhancement. Lightning is not even my main element or my secondary for that matter"

Jiraiya eyed the boy doubtfully. Naruto shrugged. He can't have them all. Hinata however didn't want to leave it at that and came to his rescue. '' It's true, Jiraiya-sama"That felt so wrong to Naruto's ears that he thought he might start bleeding from them for a moment. Hinata continued, "Unlike most Shinobi who decide to simply enhance or to be more exact encase their limbs with Chakra for increased impact, speed, strength and so forth. Naruto-kun(that healed said Shinobi's ears) pushes his charkra to his neural pathways which inturn increases his reflexes to inhuman levels and had the special effect of also increasing his speed as a whole as well"

Jiraiya was really impressed to say the least. To be able to focus one's Chakra on such a minute level is no small feat. No doubt the added Chakra would not only increase his bodily effeciancy but also his mind... That's means the boy in such a state can perceive time down to nanoseconds! . Everything would be in slow motion to him. He worried though for the after effects as Chakra enhancement in no different from drugs... It would cause strain one way or the other. He inquired of this.

Naruto answered with a chuckle, "I got that after a few tries. I was hospitalized for months after my nerve endings were fried too. My body adjusted with time time though. I don't feel a thing anymore other than a feeling of increased adrenaline and exhilaration" His last words of assurances did not wipe off the look of mortification from Jiraiya and Hinata who apparently had only learned of this just then. While Naruto was under a onslaught of Hinata's chastisement, Jiraiya shook himself out of reverie. "But what about the lightning covering your body... Kakashi elaborated"

Naruto scowled"Not lightning... Just electricity from my body... Sort of an effect from pumping my nerves... After all nerves do run on electricity.. I believe it's the excess electricity that fried my nerves if l think about it.. You do know what I'm talking about right? " " Uh.. Huh" Deep in Jiraiya's mind, a battle of epic proportions was ensuing. Who was the most ingenious student of Master Jiraiya! . Minato Namikaze? The man who created the rasengan and mastered the hiraishin or Naruto Uzumaki whose ingeniuty is still on the rise." He might be a greater legacy than my Icha Icha books", Jiraiya thought to himself. Not soon after, he chastised himself for holding such ' blasphemous ' thoughts.

Pop The sound drew the sannin's attention back to earth and to the boy. He made a face-splitting grin. "ha! I must say you are what they say you are". Naruto shrugged and said,"It was hard... But as soon as l saw that I should be focusing on changing the form and movement of my Chakra to replicate your technique. I realized the concept. It's just shape transformation"

"Hold up brat...shape transformation isnt something you can say the word just behind off..it a whole different level,there is a reason why it took the yondaime three years to create the technique... Besides, you are only on the second stage you haven't begun anything"

Naruto laughed at the sannin and elaborated, "shape transformation requires control over one's Chakra enough to direct it where you want to go. To bend,shape, curve, harden or in this case rotate .Though I must say the rasengan is quite complex as it requires a lot of rotating at different angles from the surface to the core to be maintained. At first, I was confused cos I thought that the speed of the rotation would be the most important aspect.. And with a single flow, but actually multiple flows were needed to create an orb inside…not speed. So walla''

"well.. If you have figured it out so well. Do it then"

Naruto held out his hand. 'No' Jiraiya mused to himself in shock. For a while, nothing happened and it showed that the young chunin was struggling. A bead of sweat was streaking down his cheek. Jiraiya laughed and then held his breast to sigh a breath of relief. He almost had a heart attack. No genius could complete a technique with only basics to work on. Just when he was about to scoff at the boy's attempt,A blue sphere floated above Naruto's hand. It shone and gave off a threatening whissing sound that was reflective of its power. Jiraiya almost shat himself. Naruto snickered. Jiraiya thought he might have a winner.

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