Road to Konoha Present Day

"Whoa, whoa, don't stop there! It was just getting good!" Tsunade grumbled, who had become genuinely interested in the brat's story. Jiraiya had decided to stop and scout out a suitable camping location. They had been traveling for a few hours already and as it had already been dark when they left it was almost midnight.

The next morning Tsunade, who had taken last watch, woke Jiraiya up by kicking him in the ribs. "It's morning. Get up and get on with the story you evil bastard."

"Ugh, Woman, I think you cracked my ribs. You could have just shaken me awake. I took middle watch; couldn't you let me have another hour of sleep? The sun's not even up yet." Indeed, the sky was grey with predawn light and they weren't due to start traveling for another hour.

"Just shut up and tell the story." Jiraiya decided that even her interest in the story wouldn't save him if he pointed out the contradiction in that statement.

"All right, get Shizune and I'll pick up where I left off."

Konoha: Five years, Two Months, Eleven Days ago:

Naruto and Kakashi had just got to Training Ground Seven when it happened. The training ground filled with a thick white fog, and a voice echoed from around them,"Eight Fatal Targets; Larynx, Spine, Lungs, Liver, Jugular Vein, Subclavian Artery, Kidneys, Heart. Which One Should I kill you with?"

"Shit! This is the Kirigakure no Jutsu!" Kakashi was worried; he was almost certain the person was an assassin after Naruto, which meant that the user of this jutsu was skilled in the silent killing technique. Kakashi grabbed Naruto by his shoulder. "Naruto on the count of three, I want you to fire a Daitoppa directly ahead of you," Kakashi whispered into the blond's ear.

"One."

"Two."

"Three!"

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu."

"Fuuton: Daitoppa!"

The two techniques collided with each other, the wind feeding the flames until the fire ball had reached humongous proportions. The heat from the flames evaporated the mist, revealing a large pale man with his hitai-ate sideways, the lower half of his face hidden by bandages, striped grey-blue pants, black and white camouflage patterned leg and arm warmers, and a belt over his shoulder which was used to hold the mammoth zanbatou he held casually over his shoulder.

"Momochi Zabuza, The Demon of the Hidden Mist. I heard you became a missing-nin, what are you doing all the way out here?" As Kakashi entered his combat stance he lifted his hitai-ate to reveal his Sharingan.

"Copy-Cat Ninja Kakashi, what an unpleasant surprise. I'm going to have to renegotiate my price for killing the boy." As he was speaking the mist was slowly getting thicker. Suddenly charging forward, Zabuza swung his sword, the mighty Kubikiribōchō (Decapitating Carving Knife/ Executioner's Blade), directly at Naruto, who was frozen in fear. Kakashi managed to intercept the blow with a kunai, which Kubikiribōchō immediately began to cut through.

"You can't beat me with just a kunai, Kakashi." Zabuza said while increasing the weight he put behind his sword.

"Good thing I have more than a kunai." Kakashi kicked Zabuza in the gut, sending him flying backwards a few feet.

Kakashi charged, getting inside Zabuza's guard, using the Kubikiribōchō's massive size against Zabuza. Keeping up with Zabuza with his Sharingan, Kakashi's punches and kicks flew with blinding speed. Unfortunately, Kakashi didn't realize he was pushing Zabuza towards the small stream that bordered the Training ground.

"Not bad, but your still going to die." Taking a deep breath and making the Tiger hand seal, Zabuza continued his attack, "Suiton: Teppōdama" (Water Release: Gunshot), spitting several blasts of water at Naruto, he forced Kakashi to move to intercept them, giving him enough time and room to gather water for a slightly larger attack. "Suiton: Suihachi" (Water Release: Water Bowl). Using the high powered jet of water spraying from his palm to force Kakashi farther away from Naruto, allowing Zabuza to begin his third attack "Suiton : Suiben" (Water Release; Water Whip). Firing three whips at Kakashi, Zabuza used the momentary distraction to charge in close and try to decapitate the Copy Ninja. But, just as he raised his sword, a flying ball of orange slammed into his side. So instead of taking Kakashi's head off in one swipe, the sword just bit into his side, injuring Kakashi but not killing him out right.

"Naruto, run to the Hokage's office, I'll hold him off as long as I can."

"HELL NO! There is no way I'm leaving you here Kakashi-ojisan! I can fight too! Fuuton: Daitoppa!" Unfortunately instead of the huge blast of air Naruto had fired earlier this one was barely more than a sneeze. Zabuza barely had to move to dodge the attack. Zabuza countered his attack with a roundhouse kick that cracked Naruto's ribs and sent him crashing into a tree. As Naruto was sent flying, Kakashi broke free from the water whips. Tired and bleeding heavily, Kakashi used the last of his energy to charge up a Chidori and rush at Zabuza. Unfortunately, the blood loss and the onset of chakra exhaustion were setting in, so instead of impaling Zabuza through his heart he gave Zabuza a wound on Zabuza's left side to mirror his own wound on the right.

Clutching the wound on his left side Zabuza looked down at the unconscious ninja, "Ugh, what the hell was that?"

Ten feet away Naruto was coming to, and part of him would have rather stayed unconscious. His right eye, the one with the purple ring around the pupil, felt like someone had stabbed him in the eye with a kunai. His vision swam, strange colors swirling in the air. He felt something warm and wet, like tears but sticky, flowing from his eye, rubbing it off of his face he looked at his hand and realized he'd been crying tears of blood. "That can't be healthy," Naruto thought. Trying to focus on what was in front of him he saw Kakashi on the ground and Zabuza standing over him one arm clutching his side the other holding his sword over Kakashi. As he swung his massive sword, Naruto stretched his hand out, wishing there was something he could do. Suddenly, his Chakra flared and Kakashi flew through the air to Naruto's outstretched hand.

Growling, Zabuza turned to the bleeding blond, who was gasping from the sudden loss of chakra and the stabbing pain in his eye. "Nice trick kid, but that only bought you a few more seconds to live."

Remembering the desire he had to bring Kakashi to him and the feeling of his chakra flowing through his eye, Naruto inverted it, and prayed to Kami that it would work. Naruto clapped his hands and focused as much chakra as he could into the move. The results, to say the least, were surprising-everything in a 60 degree arc in front of him had been uprooted and hurtled away. Blinking as his vision swam Naruto stared at the devastation in front of him-everything for a quarter mile seemed to have been swept away by a mighty blast of wind. His eye throbbed once more, the pain of it knocking him out, just as the Hokage and a team of med-nins arrived on the scene.

"Kami, what happened here?" one of the medics asked, staring at the devastation with a look of awe on his face.

"Over here, you can stare at the landscaping later. This man's bleeding out!"

Naruto woke in his least favorite place in the whole world-the hospital. "Ugh. My head is killing me… Kakashi-ojisan!" Remembering the fight Naruto tried to jump out of bed. All he managed, however, was rolling out of bed and straight on to the floor. Naruto choked back a scream as he landed on his broken ribs. He began to drag himself towards the door, desperate to find out what happened to Kakashi.

Before he got there the door opened, and the Hokage stepped into the room. "Naruto, what are you doing on the floor?" he sighed, and bent down to pick Naruto up. "Believe it or not, you're suffering from severe chakra exhaustion. Whatever you did to level the Training ground like that sucked your chakra dry."

"What about Kakashi-ojisan?" Naruto croaked "He's alright isn't he? I tried my best but my second Daitoppa barely did anything."

"Yes, Naruto, Kakashi will live. We got there in time to seal the wound and give him the blood pills he needed to survive, but it was a close thing. As of right now, Kakashi is suffering from chakra exhaustion, and will have quite the scar on his side. By the end of the week he'll be back to normal." The Hokage carried Naruto and placed him back on the hospital bed. "Now, I need you to tell me exactly what happened after Kakashi passed out."

Naruto explained what had happened; about the pain in his eye, the tears of blood, how he pulled Kakashi to him, and how he then blew away Zabuza. "Well," the Hokage said when Naruto was done, "that explains the damage to the chakra pathways around your eye. Several of the smaller ones burst, damaging the capillaries that fed your eye. Whatever that technique was you overloaded it. I recommend that you practice controlling that technique somewhere that can afford to be damaged, like the newly cleared Training Ground Zero." He was, of course, referring to the quarter mile arc on the edge of training ground seven that Naruto had cleared.

Half a mile from Training Ground Zero, the trees, rocks, and dirt had landed in a large tangled pile of debris. Suddenly, a pale fist clutching a large sword broke through the detritus that had buried him. Pulling himself out from under the debris, Zabuza staggered off, as fast as he could move, using his sword as a crutch. "Okay, no one told me the brat could do that-that's way outside my contract parameters. If I ever see that pink haired banshee again, I'm slitting her from neck to navel and dumping her body in the street." Unwrapping the bandages around his face, Zabuza used them to bind his side. "Maybe I should go back to Kirigakure, find some people with a Kekkei Genkai, and set up a rebellion now," he grumbled, turning around to look at the devastation his blond target had caused. "I mean, Yagura certainly can't cause that much damage just by clapping-I hope…" Grumbling under his breath about overpowered midgets, Zabuza staggered away from Konoha. "If I never see that blond midget again it'll be too soon."

Much to their mutual displeasure, Kakashi and Naruto had to spend the rest of the week in the hospital. Needless to say, when Jiraiya returned, he was less than pleased with what had happened. Vowing to make both their lives miserable for at least the next six months, Jiraiya demoted Kakashi from fellow instructor to student, and expressly forbade him from using his Sharingan until Jiraiya said so. Jiraiya had claimed that Kakashi's reliance on his Sharingan's ability to predict his opponents' moves, and as easy way to learn new moves, would get him killed. Jiraiya had assigned Kakashi eight hours of Ninjutsu practice a day. He gave Kakashi a list of Ninjutsu and only allowed him to practice one move at a time until Kakashi could perform the jutsu in his sleep. Only then was he allowed to practice the next jutsu on the list. Much to Naruto's dismay, Jiraiya added another two hours of practice to his day, as well as dropping his Genjutsu training. Naruto's Genjutsu ability had plateaued-he could at least recognize and break most basic Genjutsus, but his control was still so horrible that actually using any Genjutsu was beyond him.

His schedule was now:

6:00-10:00: Physical exercise and Taijutsu training.

10:00-2:00: Chakra control exercises.

2:00-2:30: Lunch.

2:30-4:30: Ninjutsu Practice.

4:30-6:30: Fuinjutsu training.

6:30- 7:00: Dinner.

7:00-9:00 Practice with his eye's unusual abilities.

Jiraiya was still unsure as to what Naruto's eye actually did. At first he thought it had something to do with high level wind control, but until Naruto was able to actually perform the move without leveling a city blocks worth of terrain, Jiraiya couldn't be sure what exactly it did.

The next sixth months were rather uneventful. Naruto's Taijutsu increased by leaps and bounds. In the end, they hadn't found a style really suited to him, but trained him in several different styles that he felt comfortable with. During spars, he would change styles on the fly. The randomness of his mixed styles worked well with the Naruto's unpredictable behavior. His chakra control, while still poor, was advanced enough for the water walking exercise. Much to Naruto's dismay, Jiraiya had refused to teach him any new jutsu until he had demonstrated the ability to perform each jutsu he knew flawlessly with exactly the same amount of power 30 times in a row. Naruto could barely make it to ten. But where Naruto's training was paying off the most was his skill with seals. His homemade explosive tags packed almost as much power as the ones you could buy at most ninja supply stores, and his storage seals, while nowhere near as good as Jiraiya's, took up less space and held more than they did before.

Konoha: Four Years, Ten Months, Thirteen Days ago:

Naruto was excited, tomorrow was his first day at the academy and this morning Jiraiya had decided that Naruto was ready for the "secret" skill that would help Naruto train while he was at school. "Okay Naruto, let's try one more time before bed, you almost got it the last time." Unfortunatley it looked like he sucked at it.

"But I thought it was a cool jutsu! I suck at clones!"

"How much chakra are you putting into it?" Jiraiya had figured that Naruto's overabundance of Chakra would make learning this jutsu easy.

"As little as I can, just like with the normal Bunshin, why?"

"Because, if you were paying any attention, you'd have realized that I said this was a chakra intensive Jutsu. Go ahead and use as much chakra as you want." Jiraiya expected that Naruto could pull off three or four clones at a time so telling him to go all out wouldn't cause a problem. Boy was he wrong.

"KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!"

A/N: And cut! So that was my first attempt at writing an action seen, how'd I do?

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