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TWO DAYS AGO

Sarutobi sighed as finished up another document. Looking up to see the pile of documents that still remained, he felt like slamming his face into the desk repeatedly. He cursed the Nidaime for coming up with the torturous process but knew it was necessary.

To most other kage, the idea of doing piles upon piles of paperwork was laughable, but that was one of the reasons it was necessary. The thousands of bureaucratic papers held snippets of spy reports within them that allowed the hokage to have a continuous picture of what was happening within his land. These reports were updated as they happened and so they allowed him to see patterns as they emerged. This was one of the reasons that he couldn't use shadow clones to do the work for him as they wouldn't be able to see the patterns in time as they would each only be seeing a portion of what was happening. The reports were safer than just having a separate department handle the reports and send him a cohesive document as with the current method, the documents would only be useful if they were all read and taken into account, so a spy stealing a paper or two wouldn't glean them any useable information, while taking any more would be noticed and tip the hokage off that it had been compromised.

Speaking of being tipped off-

"Come in Jiraya," the Sandaime said, happy for the distraction.

Sliding the window up, the white haired man squeezed himself in. " What gave me off this time?" Jiraiya asked, easing himself into a chair. "I was sure I completely suppressed my chakra."

"You're right," the Professor started, with a small smile tugging at his lips." your chaka was completely suppressed, but the ANBU on the opposite roof saw you and signaled me."

Jiraiya facepalmed at his stupidity and then laughed."So what exactly happened that required a A-Class return directive? Especially since you knew I was in Iwa at the time." Jiraiya prompted, wanting to find out why he was here.

"Nearly two months ago", the old man started, "following his third attempt and failure at the genin exams, Naruto was approached by one of his Chunnin Instructors, a man by the name of Mizuki. That night, Naruto snuck into my office and proceeded to steal, what he thought, was the Scroll of Seals. I allowed him to think he knocked me out when I confronted him, and then proceeded to have the ANBU pry out some spies or traitors during the ruckus. I had sent a pair of ANBU to trail Naruto. His other Academy Instructor eventually found Naruto, and, when he realized that the boy had been tricked, protected him. The ANBU were on standby, ready to intercept Mizuki before any lasting harm was done before it all went to hell. The sight of one of the few people who acknowledged him seemed to send Naruto into a pit of rage and apparently awakened something in him."

"The Kyuubi?" Jiraiya asked, wondering if the seal had already started loosening,

"Not entirely. While reports do indicate traces of chakra that match samples taken post it's attack, the Kyuubi's chakra seemed to be on a different wavelength than before, possibly due to running through Naruto's coils, but what was truly unexpected was that along with the Kyuubi's chakra and his own, Naruto had been releasing a third type. Senjutsu."

Jiraiya sucked in a breath at that. Senjutsu was an extremely powerful but extremely dangerous source of energy. If the brat was already using it, then he would have to be trained sooner rather than later. Jiraiya would rather avoid that. Most kids around Naruto's age, especially Naruto, had trouble sitting still for any period of time, so trying to teach him how to utilize a technique which required complete immobility, would most likely result in Naruto failing and turning into a statue.

"Where is he right now?" Jiraiya asked, in a hurry to prove both himself and his sensei wrong. It would truly be disastrous if it was Senjutsu and Naruto didn't have to patience to properly learn it. .

"They should be in Wave country right now." Hiruzen responded, taking a drag on his pipe. "They just got their first C-Rank and should be there for the next month or so."

Jiraiya took a moment to think about what to do. He had heard some rumors about a new so called Hidden Sound Village that had sprung up in Land of Rice. Jiraiya felt uncomfortable with the fact that such a new village already had genin that they thought were ready to send to the chunnin exams, and wanted to check them out before the international event began. Seeing as it would take upwards of month to infiltrate the Village, Jiraiya decided that he couldn't wait for Naruto's team to get back, so he would have to go meet them in Wave, give Naruto a little check up, and then hightail it to Sound to find out as much as he could.

"Then I'm heading out." Jiraiya announced heading towards the window. Before he could open it once more, the Sandaime threw a sealing tag that stuck to the sill and created a small barrier in front of Jiraiya's planned exit.

"The door baka."

Jiraiya complied with the Sandaime's orders, amused that the God of Shinobi had a pre-prepared sealing tag to block off Jiraiya from exiting through the window.

NOW

It was nearly 8 hours after Naruto had rudely asked Jiraiya his name, and they were now sitting in the clearing the young jinchuuriki had made earlier that day.

"Ano, Jiraiya-san. Why did you want me here again?", Naruto asked, sitting crosslegged in front of the Sennin.

Jiraiya took a moment to think about how to phrase his requests without tipping Naruto off to the existence of Senjutsu. It would do no good to tell him if he were unable to currently utilize it. Choosing to start with the seal, he decided that he would figure out where to go from there.

"What do you remember about your incident with Mizuki gaki?", Jiraiya asked, his voice much more serious then one would have thought.

Naruto scrunched up his face at being called 'gaki' but put it off for the moment, realizing that this was more important than his pride. "I remember that the traitor tricked me into stealing the Scroll, and when Iruka came to - " Naruto started before Jiraiya cut him off.

"I've already heard the official report. What I want to know is if you can remember what specifically happened during your fight with him." Jiraiya asked.

" I remember that he came at me and Iruka wanting to kill us, and that I won and-" Naruto froze. He scrunched up his face trying to remember the rest of the fight, coming up blank. " and...and...why can't I remember?" His voice now showing a touch of concern.

Jiraiya nodded. This was inline with what he was expecting. Most jinchuuriki couldn't remember what happened when they went into a rage. "When teams later investigated the site of your battle with him, they found large traces of the Kyuubi chakra."

Naruto froze. He'd used the Kyuubi's chakra. Was that why the Hokage had sent a Sannin out to find him (Kakashi had explained who Jiraiya was and just how strong he was to Naruto after his rude outburst)? Had the Sandaime decided that this would be the best place to put him down? In wave where nobody would get hurt when the Kyuubi was released? Asking those questions to Jiraiya, he saw as the older man's lips twitch before he burst out laughing.

"No gaki," Jiraiya said, his voice softer now as he came down from his laughing fit," sensei sent me here to check on the seal. We just wanted to make sure it hadn't loosened."

"Sensei?" Naruto asked, confused.

"You might know him," Jiraiya responded."He's old and usually sits behind a desk wearing a hat with the fire symbol on it."

Naruto took a moment to put the clues together, but ,when he did, he pointed a finger at Jiraiya and exclaimed "Jiji was your sensei?"

Jiraiya nodded before motioning for Naruto to stand up. "Take of your shirt gaki. I need to see the seal"

Naruto complied and slipped of his orange jacket and the shirt beneath, shivering in the damp air of Nami.

Jiraiya had him channel some chakra and examined the seal, deciding what to do. "The seal looks fine, it hasn't changed from when I saw it on your eighth birthday."

"My eighth birthday?" Naruto asked. "I don't remember seeing you on my eighth birthday."

"Sarutobi had you sedated before I checked up on it." Jiraiya explained. "I did leave you a present though. A nice little toad wallet."

Naruto pulled out Gama-chan so that Jiraiya could see it.

"That's the one." Jiraiya affirmed,"Now hold still, I'm gonna make some changes so that you don't accidentally pull out some of the Kyuubi's chakra"

Jiraiya took out his sealing tools and spent the next half hour placing a deadbolt seal across the Eight trigrams seal, making sure that he placed a 3 point lock to keep the seal from changing from it's current orientation. Finished with the changes, Jiraiya told Naruto to put his clothes back on and packed away his tools.

"I have just over 24 hours before I'm gonna be leaving to get some other business done. So before then I want to see if I can do a few more tests." Jiraiya bit his thumb before pouring tons of chakra into the summon. He'd already contacted his target before hand, asking for their help.

"Must you always summon us just before we have supper?" came the high pitched voice from within the smoke cloud. Naruto watched intently until the smoke cleared to show two elderly toads who proceeded to jump onto Jiraiya's shoulders.

"Gaki, meet the toad elders." introduced Jiraiya.

"A...Nice to meet you" he replied a bit meekly, unsure of how to process the two toads now sitting on Jiraiya's shoulders." My name is Naruto"

"They are the elders of the toad summoning contract that I hold. They're very old and wise so respect them." Jiraiya explained before being smacked on the head by what Naruto could only assume was the female toad.

"Who are you calling old", she chided before turning to Naruto."Don't you mind him Naru-chan. I'm Shima and the senile old thing on Jiraiya-chan's other shoulder is Fukasaku. Just call us Ma and Pa."

Naruto smiled at the kindly toads. Ma's friendly demeanor soothing him.

"Now Naruto, I need you to sit as still as you can. The next test i'm about to conduct requires you to be motionless. It might take a while, but you'll need to try not to fidget."

Naruto nodded in compliance and closed his eyes before lowering his breathing. Meanwhile. Shima and Fukasaku kept a wary eye out for any signs of senjutsu, ready to knock it out of him if necessary.

An hour later, Jiraiya called it quits, when there was no change, and allowed the two toads to spend some time talking to Naruto. He was relieved that Naruto wasn't instinctually absorbing Nature chakra, meaning that he be able to wait a few more years before teaching it to him.

As Jiraiya spent some time mulling over what to do now that it was confirmed that Naruto didn't need any training that he could provide. Just as he was about to call it a day and dispel the two elder toads, Shima came hopping up to him

"Jiraiya-chan, take out the summoning scroll. I want Naru-chan to become a summoner right now." Jiraiya raised his eyebrows. The plan had been to have Naruto gain the contract during or after his first chunnin exams, but seeing as it was one of the elders demanding that it happen right now, Jiraiya complied.

"Why now?" Jiraiya asked. truly curious as the matriarch of the toad summons took the scroll as he handed it over.

"He's alone Jiraiya-kun. He tries to hide it but I can see how alone he feels. Bunta's kid needs some friends as well and shouldn't be too chakra consuming to summon. The two will do each other some good." Ma answered and Jiraiya nodded, agreeing with her sentiments.

Pa stepped back to watch with Jiraiya as Ma went through the explanations with Naruto.

"Why me?" Naruto asked, just before he was about use his blood to sign his name on the scroll. Ma merely smiled and patted Naruto on the head. "Why not you Naru-chan? You're a good kid."

Naruto smiled at the affection and signed his name on the scroll. Copying the hand seal sequence Shima showed him Naruto felt really happy that he now had more people to acknowledge him.

"Good," Shima said as Naruto finally got the hand seals. "Now you need to spread some blood on the hand you signed the seal with and then pump pump chakra into that hand and then release it as you smack it on the ground. Different toads require different amounts of chakra, but for now just pump in as much as you" Naruto nodded, showing that he understood and bit his thumb to draw the required blood.

Jiraya sat back against the tree trunk as he prepared for Naruto to do his first summon. Ready for the tadpoles that were sure to follow. As they watched, Naruto completed his seals and got the chakra he would need to summon ready. He pulled his arm back and closed his eyes to concentrate. Jiraiya's eyes widened as he felt the huge amount of chakra that Naruto began to channel into his arm. Before anyone could say anything, Naruto slammed his hand down into the ground, and a large poof of smoke enveloped where Naruto had been sitting.

As the smoke cleared, Jiraiya could only stare, dumbfounded, while Fukasaku chuckled beside him.

"Much better then you did at first neh JIraiya-chan?" Fukasaku said, eyes gleaming in mirth at the older summoners incredulity.

Jiraiya could only nod as he witnessed Naruto standing atop Gama. Sure, it wasn't the Boss Summon, but Naruto had managed to summon a cart size toad with nothing but his own chakra. What was even more surprising was that Gama had been summoned in full battle regalia, meaning that Naruto was pushing the limit of the size range, having used almost enough to summon a toad the next step up. And this was all on his first try, leaving Jiraiya to pout about how another blonde idiot had surpassed him.

Shima meanwhile watched as Naruto introduced himself as the new toad summoner to the large amphibian. She had felt the chakra build up inside Naruto during the summoning but also noticed how his arm seemed to be hanging limply by his side as he talked to Gama. Wanting to find out what he had done, she jumped up on top of Gama and got Naruto's Attention.

"Naru-chan, what was it that you just did?" she asked while the boy sat crosslegged.

"Ah" Naruto rubbed the back of his head with now functional arm."I decided to try using a new technique I came up with, Ninpo:Doki to help with the summoning. I push a bunch of chakra into my arm and then let it go all at once. It hurts a bit when I use it, but I'm used to it now. Jiji said its cuz I overload my coils or something. He said that if anyone but a Jailor used it, then they'd probably not be able to use chakra anymore."

Shima pondered on that while Naruto went back to chatting with Gama. Overloading one's chakra should theoretically lead to a higher flow rate of chakra but it took much too long to heal from to be a viable way to train for most shinobi. If this was what was truly happening, then Naruto might have found a way to push himself to new heights.

"Naruto-chan, I want you to use your Doki technique for me please." Shima asked.

Naruto just shrugged and jumped of Gama. With a small grunt of exertion, Naruto brought the one armed Doki against the ground to create a small crater beneath him. The tree walking exercises their sensei had taught them had really helped Naruto by allowing him to use one armed Doki strikes without flying off. Meanwhile, Shima subtly shifted into a semi-sage mode so she could sense his chakra better. Once, the reduced 9-second recharge period had ended, she asked Naruto to fire off another one with the same hand.

Noting the changes, Shima's mouth opened slightly in wonder. The increase had been so miniscule that anyone but another sage concentrating on Naruto would have missed it, but it was there. There had been some along the lines of a .1% increase in Naruto's flowrate. By itself it wasn't much, but when tallied up, Naruto could double his flowrate about every 700 strikes. Despite the odds, Jiraiya had managed to find another summoner for the toads with a stupid high potential. Potential that she wasn't allow to go to waste.

"Jiraiya-chan," Ma said seriously,"dispel us and then resummon us with enough chakra to last us a day or two. You can then go do whatever you need to do while me and Pa will spend sometime with Naruto."

Jiraiya just kept gaping at Naruto, his mouth not having been shut since the brat had summoned Gama. Just what kind of potential did Naruto have for Ma to want to train him straight away?

Two days later, Naruto jumped from tree to tree, heading towards the bridge as quickly as he could. Kakashi had let Naruto sleep in following his two days of training with the toads and he woke up to the screams of Tsunami and the shouts of Inari. Naruto took out the thugs easily and then proceeded to head towards the bridge, hoping that two fake samurai didn't mean that Zabuza was attacking.

"Hold on guys," Naruto prayed," I'm coming."

A/N:
As you can tell, the writing has gotten a lot more descriptive as we have finally skipped over much of the setup and have gotten to where the story really starts to diverge. There will still be bits where I skip or have less-descriptive sections in the Chunnin Exams arc, but those will hopefully be few and far between.

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