When Naruto next woke up he was being carried on Jiraiya's back with his blindfold still on. When he went to sense out any familiar chakra signature's he found he was too far away to even feel Kotetsu's or Izuno's chakra. "How far out are you taking me?"

That's when Jiraiya dropped him. "You're awake now good, you can walk with me."

The young blonde growled. "You didn't answer my question old man."

The avenger felt a cold pressure pushing him into the ground that he knew was KI or killer intent. "And I won't be answering until you learn to show respect boy. From the way I hear it you've done nothing but get worse and worse after the death of that Uchiha boy and couple that up with Orochimaru's seal you're on the fast track to being a flight risk and I'll kill you before you can just hand over the kind of potential you have to that snake!"

After a minute the pressure let up and he was able to breathe again. "Now let's go, we still have a ways to go before we reach our destination."

And so they continued onwards at chunin level speeds. After close to two hours Naruto could sense two chakra signatures that he'd never forget in his life… Haku and Zabuza. "What are they doing here?"

The hatred in his voice was loud and clear and Jiraiya was going to put a stop to it at all costs. "Sensei has asked them to come here and help train you. You will behave yourself or I will not be training you and will have those eyes removed permanently."

Naruto snarled but ultimately stayed quiet. Following Jiraiya he heard people talking quietly. "It's him! He's returned to us!"

The blonde smirked. "It seems you actually have an adoring public ero-sennin."

Jiraiya chuckled. "These aren't my fans but yours, we're in Wave and we're on our way to the homeland of your mother's clan seeing as you have been told about it by a fellow clansman plus it being your birthright I'm taking you to find what we can and you'll learn to use it."

Naruto felt two chakra signatures that he'd never felt before run up to him. "Naruto-nii san!/ Naruto my boy!"

The young genin smiled slightly. " Tazuna! Inari! How have you been?"

He felt a big hand on his shoulder that he recognized as Tazunas. "We're doing fine my boy but what about you? Last we saw you you were mourning that other boys passing through your training."

Naruto stayed silent and lowered his head. The bridge builder sighed. "Listen, it's not much of a consolation but we made a memorial plaque in his honor and hung it on the bridge, would you like to go see it?"

The blonde nodded silently and the bridge builder led him to the plaque. Taking the blindfold off he saw a golden plaque with the Uchiha symbol on the top and it read as such. "Sasuke Uchiha, genin of Konoha and one of the four to defend Wave from Gatos tyrannical rule. This child soldier sacrificed himself for the sake of his teammate and this village, may his sacrifice be a reminder that we must never allow someone like Gato to take our freedom again, that we should never be weak again."

For the first time in a long time Naruto gave a real smile as a tear rolled down his cheek. "Thank you old man, he'd truly appreciate such a thing."

Tazuna frowned slightly. "He'd have never needed such a thing if I would have come forward with the whole truth from the very beginning, I could have brokered a deal with your hokage and gotten a jounin team or a chunin team at the very least and your teammate would still be alive."

Jiraiya looked to the blonde and watched for any sign of him thinking of attacking the civilian but he was pleasantly surprised to find that Naruto stayed calm. "You are not at fault, how could you have known that he'd hire someone of Zabuza's skill level."

Right then both Haku and Zabuza walked forward. "Did I just hear my new student bragging about my skills? I'm blushing." Joked the swordsman.

Naruto growled deeply. "Don't mistake my acknowledgement of your skill as me warming up to you, I'd love nothing more than to be the one to kill you where you stand along with your ice using boy toy."

Jiraiya flared his KI warningly. "Enough, you will behave! Naruto, Zabuza is now your assigned kenjutsu sensei while Haku will teach you about the anatomy of the human body, how to be faster and more flexible and helping you increase your accuracy during a heated battle where you need to be quick with your projectiles. You will show them the same respect you show sensei."

The Uzumaki scoffed. "Even a sennin such as yourself could never in a million years get me to show even an ounce of that kind of respect to the ones who are responsible for the death of Sasuke."

Before Jiraiya could speak Haku decided to do so. "I understand that you're angry, I get that it hurts to lose someone so close to you but you seem to have forgotten the promise that you made to the Uchiha."

That did it, Naruto was on him within seconds pinning him to a tree by the throat and his implanted sharingan spinning wildly. "I haven't forgotten a single thing, I'm growing stronger every day so I can avenge the Uchiha clan for him and I will never let anyone or anything get in the way of that!"

Naruto facial features grew wilder as he tapped into Kurama's chakra. It took Jiraiya, Tazuna, and Zabuza to pull Naruto's hand off of the ice users throat and as he gasped for much needed air he spoke. "Not… that… part… I'm talking… about... the other part of your promise to him."

The blonde raised a single eyebrow. "What other part?"

Haku stood up all the way. "The part where you promised to live your life, to not be solely focused on killing this Itachi guy, to actually talk to people and socialize. You've completely ignored this side of the promise unless it was necessary or it furthered your own goals. In conclusion you have already failed him before you could even glance at your target."

Naruto was in shock of how he'd not only ignored a part of his promise to Sasuke but completely forgot about it. He got a determined look in his eyes, he swore that he would never forget his promise to Sasuke again.

The blonde released his hold on Kurama's chakra and nodded. "Let's go we're burning daylight." Turning to Tazuna and Inari he smiled. "Thanks again for honoring him like you did, I appreciate it more than you could ever know." Finally turning to Haku and Zabuza he nodded to them. "I will never forgive you for what happened to Sasuke but I am grateful for you showing me the error in my blind rage and obsession, I will learn to temper my anger and use it better than I have so far."

With that the four shinobi began their journey to Uzushiogakure."

(Time skip: 1 month)

After a whole month of training Naruto had made insane amounts progress. With the use of the shadow clone jutsu he searched the entire island/village and found six small bunkers hidden behind low level blood seals that would let in anyone with Uzumaki blood and a large bunker that had a high level blood seal that would only allow a member of the royal/main family of the Uzumaki clan in.

In the six small ones he found very powerful water style ninjutsu, multiple types of taijutsu that varied immensely, multiple types of weapons, very powerful lightning ninjutsu, books/scrolls on the bloodlines found all over the elemental nations, and finally the last of the small ones was full of techniques for the chakra chains. In the large bunker he found hundreds of books/scrolls on fuinjutsu and kenjutsu.

For the entire month he had his shadow clones read through all of the clans knowledge and even practice the jutsu and the chakra chains while he did physical exercises and learned one of the taijutsu styles he'd found along with one of the kenjutsu styles.

At the end of of the month he'd mastered the chakra chains, all of the lightning ninjutsu, half of the water style ninjutsu, his new taijutsu style, and his kenjutsu style. While he'd focused on these things he does have all of the knowledge from everything here and the anatomy charts Haku madefrom ice memorized to an exact because of the sharingan and would be working on his fuinjutsu skills later.

Within the first week Jiraiya had created a temporary seal on Naruto's request that made a small 'hole' in the gates that holds Kurama back and he immediately destroyed the purple goop in Naruto's mindscape before returning to his seal where the 'hole' was closed back up by the other seal being taken off and while he now had free reign to use the power within the seal as he pleased he didn't do much with it other than test the limits of the boost he got from it which doubled his power. Every punch and kick could turn trees into splinters or stone to dust, all of his jutsu were far more destructive, and his genjutsu were harder to escape from where he could keep Jiraiya in a C-rank genjutsu for two minutes in his cursed form. (curse mark lv1)

Now Naruto stood on the bridge in Wave which he'd found out was named the great Naruto bridge in a pair of black anbu style pants, combat boots, a fishnet undershirt, a black T-shirt, and he had his headband around his waist as a belt. He'd let his hair grow out and Jiraiya was forced to tell him about his parents due to the hair naturally going into the same style that Minato's was always in.

Over the horizon he watched as Jiraiya, Zabuza, and Haku walked forward. When they got to him Jiraiya handed him a black piece of cloth. "Your new blindfold since your old one was destroyed during training." The blonde nodded and went to tie it around his eyes when the toad sage stopped him. "Wait one second, I have one last thing to teach you before we leave and that's your birthright from your father." The old sage created a ball of spinning chakra in the palm of his hand. "This is the Rasengan, your father created it after seeing the tailed beast bomb for the first time."

Naruto's sharingan copied the jutsu down to the finest detail and he nodded to signal that he had it memorized. "Now what you need to know is that this is actually an incomplete jutsu, your father was planning on adding an element to complete it like fire or wind so it would be far stronger. If I'm remembering correctly he had even started his research a week before you were born, it should still be in his old home."

Naruto was determined to go get those research notes as soon as possible but for now he put on his new blindfold and turned in the direction he knew Konoha to be in and started walking. "Let's go, Orochimaru's invasion isn't going to stop itself."

XXXAN: hello and welcome to the newest chapter of one difference changes all, what do you all think? Is he growing stronger to quickly? Is he too angst for y'all? Let me know so I can get better at this.As for the pairing the votes are in and it's harem, now your vote is for a total of two girls to be added as Ino's here to stay.Also as a secondary vote, should I make it to where Naruto can pass down the sharingan? Like for example Indra talks to him and changes his DNA enough to make him part Uchiha, if you guys and gals choose yes but have a better idea of how to do it then speak up. And as always MCL homies.