"Hello." Someone else speaking

"Hello." Kyuubi speaking.

"Hello." Thoughtst

"Hello." Kyuubi thoughts

Chapter 3

Kakashi quickly blocked a kick heading straight for his head making him walk back a few steps.

"Since when have you gotten so strong?" asked Kakashi.

"A while ago while you were busy pampering your precious Sasuke…" shouted Naruto. He then threw his kunai right at the silver haired jounin but it was easily dodged.

"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu! (Shadow clones)" shouted Naruto. Kakashi soon found himself surrounded by at least 100 clones running furiously at him. He quickly began to perform several seals as well while jumping high into the air.

"Katon Housenka no justu." (Mythical fire flower) Fireballs reigned down upon Naruto's clones causing a huge white smoke to appear indicating that most of the clones were destroyed.

"Too slow Kakashi…" said Naruto from behind stabbing the jounin in the shoulder. Naruto's eyes widened when it turned into a log. "Pretty good."

"You've gotten so much stronger Naruto…" thought Kakashi. "I wish I was there to see you grow…" Kakashi was currently behind a tree observing Naruto who was looking around.

Kakashi's eyes widened when he saw Naruto disappear in a poof of smoke! He was then swept of his feet and as he was heading towards the ground he saw 10 kage bunshins appear right before his eyes.

"Naruto made his bunshins turn in rocks as well?!" thought Kakashi.

"Let's go!" Shouted Naruto jumping high followed by 4 clones in the air. "Uz-u-ma-ki! Naruto combo!"

Kakashi was now in the air watching as 5 Naruto's approached him. He used both of his arms and legs to block the attacks of the kage bunshins but saw that he was helpless towards the real Naruto. The blond ninja then kicked Kakashi as hard as he could sending the Jounin into the ground creating a cloud of dust. Naruto and his kage bunshins then took out 5 shuriken each and prepared to throw it at his former teacher. Kakashi who was under the smoke had other plans then to get hit by several dozens of shuriken's. Naruto and his shadow clones soon the let weapons fly but before they could hit their target they heard a booming voice.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!(Summoning technique)" shouted Kakashi. Suddenly a huge metal dog a little bigger then the jounin appeared deflecting all of the weapons. Kakashi then crawled out from underneath his summon to face Naruto who had landed on the ground. "This battle has gone on long enough… Nothing you have can beat by summon…"

Kakashi then pulled up his forehead protector band revealing his left sharingan eye. The dog soon tackled Naruto throwing him at a tree. Naruto slowly got up wiping some blood off the corner of his mouth

"Tell me Kakashi…" began Naruto looking angry once again. "How much time did you take to find out about my battle between Gaara… Or did you only find out information between Sasuke and Gaara's fight?"

"I know everything that happened Naruto… You fought Gaara and you were victorious." Said Kakashi. Now a huge load of guilt had set into his heart. In truth that was all he knew about Naruto's fight, he had mostly tried to find information on how Sasuke had faired against the demon boy.

"That's it huh?" said Naruto. "Figures… I bet you spent most of your time trying to find out about the battle between Gaara and Sasuke… But let me show you something that will turn your stupid dog back into smoke…" Naruto bit his thumb and performed several familiar seals making Kakashi's surprised enormously. "Kuchiyose no jutsu!(Summoning technique)" A huge toad at least twice the size of Kakashi's dog appeared with Naruto on it's head.

"You know how to summon?!" said Kakashi. "When?!"

"Once again I learned this a while ago… Plus some help from Kyuubi showed me how to summon frogs at different levels." said Naruto. The toad shot out its tongue hitting the dog into the air then smashed it with its left foot. "I'm going to end this right now!" He once again bit his thumb and put his hand on the ground once again concentrating his hardest. The previous toad soon disappeared and was replaced by a huge leg.

Kakashi looked from the leg and raised his head higher and higher until he saw a red toad head with the blond ninja on it.

"Ga…Gamabunta…"

"Oy Kid! Why are you fighting your teacher?" asked the frog boss.

"Because boss! All he cares about is that damn traitor! He doesn't pay any attention to me or Sakura for that matter…" began Naruto. "He just another heartless person in this damn village… He never acknowledged me… Please help me end this battle."

"Kid… This isn't the way to do things… You know its wrong." Said the frog boss.

"But… I hate him…" began Naruto looking at the puny Kakashi. "What should I do then boss?"

"Leave the battle how it is kid. I know everything that has happened to you in the recent days…" said Gamabunta. "Unseal it…" Naruto reluctantly released his genjutsu. Kakashi was confused and looked around to see faint traces of Chakra all around him. His eyes widened when he saw dozens of traps aimed right for him.

"So that's what he was doing with the rest of his kage bunshins while we were fighting…" thought Kakashi. "I should have used my sharingan earlier to see this… I might have ended this battle early."

"Naruto…" said a familiar voice behind the boy. Naruto turned around to see the pervert. "Come Naruto… Let's talk for a while huh?"

"Sure ero-sennin." Said Naruto quietly. "Thanks for your help Boss… Sorry for calling you out here for nothing."

"Its fine kid… Go on…" said Gamabunta. In reality he was taking a nap and was ready to squeeze the kid with his tongue but he remembered what the kid had been though and felt sorry for his subordinate. When Naruto and Jiraya had left Gamabunta turned towards Kakashi who was looking down. "The fourth was always a fair teacher Kakashi… I thought that you would learn from him but if he saw you today, I'm positive he would have been disappointed in you." The frog boss then disappeared in a bug poof of smoke.

"What have I done…" thought Kakashi. "I can't believe I have let things sink this low." He turned towards the bridge where Sakura was crying at what she had just heard.

"Since when have your known Genjutsu?" asked Jiraya sitting in a stool at Naruto's favorite ramen stand.

"The fox taught me a few things. Hey! Two Miso ramen please!"

"Coming up Naruto!" the man said happily beginning to work on his customer's orders."

"Naruto I have to ask you a few things…" began Jiraya. "Do you hate me and Tsunade as well?"

"What?! Why would I hate you guys for?!" said Naruto looking at the ramen the man had just brought him. "Ah ha! I will always hate you until you stop being a pervert but you're still my teacher so I can't hate you fully! I'm not totally changed Ero-sennin." Jiraya smirked digging into his own food. "So what are your goals now Naruto?"

"I'm actually still working on that Ero-sennin." Said Naruto. He began to slurp his ramen down almost instantly. "One more miso please!" He continued this routine until there were 16 bowls stacked up in front of him making the toad sennin cringe.

"Where does he put all of that stuff?" thought Jiraya.

"Well ero-sennin… I should get going, I have to start to pack."

"What? Where are you going?" the sennin asked.

"I'm going to leave the village for a while." Said Naruto at his teacher with a smile.

"Why?" asked Jiraya.

"To train and just go around meeting new people seeing how they live. Go experience something new other then the hate these villagers give me… It's just something I have to do myself… I think its time that I self learn for now…"

"As much as I don't want you to go by yourself kid… I guess I'll support you on your decision." Said the white haired sennin. "You've grown Naruto… Your starting to think like a true ninja…"

"Thanks ero-sennin… I knew you would understand… Do you think you can give Oba-chan a heads up?"

"Sure kid…"

"Then I'll c ya later ero-sennin."

"Hey what are the chances that you're going to stop calling me that when you come back?"

"Zero! Bye!" shouted Naruto running off to his apartment.

There was a hard knock on the Hokage office door waking Tsunade instantly.

"What do you want?!" she shouted.

"It's me…"

"Oh come in Jiraya. Did you find Naruto?"

"Yeah… He was fighting Kakashi and summoned Gamabunta to do it…"

"What?! What happened?"

"Gamabunta stopped it before it could get ugly. By the way Naruto wants to leave the village to train."

"That shouldn't be a problem I was actually going to encourage him to do it."

"Alone."

"What?! Nope! Not happening, I am not sending my little brother off while the Akatsuki are out there hunting him." she said closing her eyes.

"Try to understand him Tsunade… He isn't a little kid anymore. The kyuubi has opened his eyes. Naruto sees clearly now, he was giving Kakashi a hard time in the fight!"

"But the Akatsuki!"

"I don't like the idea of sending him away by himself either but this is his decision… We have to respect that Tsunade…" Tsunade stood up and looked out of the window at the mountains where the sun was beginning to retire for the day.

"Very well Jiraya… We'll let him leave."

Hinata was walking down the road towards the Hyuga mansion. The very shy girl was deep in thought about a certain blond ninja.

"The Hokage had told me he went home since his wounds had just recovered but when I went over to his house no one answered…" she thought. "Why had all of those villagers attacked him like that? That was just so cruel…"

She soon entered the mansion and walked into the living room where her father was already waiting for her.

"Father! Your back!" she said looking up at him.

"What is this that I am hearing about you protecting Naruto?" Hiashi asked in a cold voice.

"He's my friend… Of course I would help protect him."

"I told you to stay away from him when you were young!" shouted Hiashi. "How dare you disobey me?!" He went up to his daughter and slapped her hard in the face! "Can for once just bring light to our name?! Always such a weak fighter! How did I get such a disgrace for a daughter? Leave this place! I never want to see you ever again!" Hiashi began to walk up to her to slap his daughter once again.

Hinata now had tears streaming down her cheeks. A memory of Naruto standing up to Neji at the chuunin exams appeared in her head. She clutched her fist and saw that Hiashi was about to hit her once again.

"I won't just stand around to let myself be hurt!" thought Hinata angrily. "Naruto-kun would never let that happen!"

Thanks everyone for your reviews. I keep updating the story as fast as I can. I also want to thank TokehGecko for allowing me to use some of his Justu's.