A/N Originally Naruto and Jiraiya were only gone for 2 and a half years, I changed that to 4 years, but every event that happens has been postponed according to Naruto and Jiraiya's travel. Now that that is out of the way,
I do not own Naruto.
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Jiraiya sighed as he made his way towards the looming gates. It had been four years since Naruto and he had last been in the great city. Tsunade might be livid about him staying on the trip an extra half a year than planned. Sure he sent her messages explaining that little fact, but he burnt all the ones he got in return, in fear of what they would say.
"Well sensei, we are finally done with the training." Naruto said as he stood next to Jiraiya, smiling broadly at the world.
"Hey gaki, don't think that means you stop training, you know what to do, you have to stay in top condition." Jiraiya said scolding the boy walking next to him.
"Alright sensei." Naruto said as both teacher and student continued to walk towards the gates of Konoha.
When they arrived in front of the two chunin that were guarding the front gates they were stopped.
"What is your purpose here?" asked one with a lazy drawl, while the other leaned against the gates, in a relaxed posture.
"We are returning from a training trip." Jiraiya said as he handed over some papers to the guard. The guard looked up from the papers and nodded at Jiraiya before he signaled for the gates to be opened.
"Yes! We are finally home!" Naruto shouted as he pumped his hand into the air, smiling and looking around him, taking in the sight of his home.
"Before you go anywhere we have to go see Tsunade, debriefing." Jiraiya said, the blood flowing from his face as the ever pressing time was coming.
"Yeah, that's going to be fun," Naruto said as he rolled his eyes, he knew he was supposed to be back half a year ago, and the fifth Hokage will not be pleased that they are late. "just blame half of it on me, and hopefully things won't be too bad." Naruto said, trying to think of a positive way out the situation they were in.
Jiraiya laughed, "Take half the blame? I'm going to say it was entirely your fault."
Both traveling companions shared a laugh as they made their way towards the Hokage's office.
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Tsunade was busy, she was just about done with a large stack of paperwork that had previously dominated the space on her desk. Just a few more papers and she would be…
BAM
That sound from outside her door, and had her on alert in an instance. She moved her hand to a part of her desk that held a kunai, and grabbed it, ready to throw at whoever opened the door.
THUD
Another noise, this one was closer to the door now, Tsunade moved and had the kunai ready to throw. The door handle turned slowly, before the door was thrust open, and Tsunade let the kunai fly…
…only for two people to deftly dodge the kunai.
"Whoa! Take it easy Tsunade." Jiraiya said as he looked at the kunai that flew past Naruto and him, and noticed that it went completely threw the wall behind him. Jiraiya and Naruto walked into her office, Jiraiya stayed the same, just like she had suspected, but Naruto had changed.
Naruto stood at about 5 foot 10 inches, with his blonde hair longer than he usually kept it before he left for the training trip. He had pieces of hair that fell to either side of his face, framing it, and making an uncanny resemblance to his father, the Yondaime. His body structure had changed also, now he was lean and had plenty of toned muscle.
He wore a navy blue vest over a skin tight orange long sleeved shirt. The navy blue vest remained open in the front, to reveal the fishnet shirt that he wore underneath the vest but over the orange long sleeved tee. Both of his hands and knuckles were tapped, going further up the arm, but hidden from view by the long sleeved tee. He wore his Hitaite around his waist, using it as a belt almost. He also wore midnight black pants, where on both legs were kunai and shuriken holsters. The black pants made their way towards his ankles, where they were tapped off. He wore the standard ninja sandals, they were a dark blue, matching his vest. His feet were also wrapped in tape up to where his toes started. The change in appearance surprised the fifth Hokage.
She got up from behind her desk and embraced the young boy she hadn't seen for 3 years, and gave an acknowledging look towards the toad sannin. She then walked back around her desk and sat down, and asked one simple question, "Why are you half a year late?" She asked.
…No one said anything as the traveling partners looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes, and looked away still not saying anything. Tsunade was beginning to get annoyed.
"An explanation please." Was all Tsunade asked for.
Silence still reigned in the office.
Eventually Tsunade stood and gripped the desk with her hands, anger seeping into her body language
"Now hold the phone Hokage-sama." Naruto said waving his hands in the air, seeing the threatening pose the fifth Hokage had taken.
"IT WAS ALL THE BOY'S FAULT TSUNADE, HE MADE ME DO IT!" Jiraiya said, in desperation to save himself, tears streaming down his face.
"No way, your the one who tied me up and made me do it!!" Naruto retorted, forgetting Tsunade.
"I wouldn't have had to tie you up if you didn't take her home and-" Jiraiya was about to finish the sentence before Naruto interrupted.
"Don't even start sensei! You are the one who locked that girl and me in the room! So really it's your fault her father came after me, and I told him that you cast a genjutsu on me!" Naruto yelled back at his sensei. Tsunade was angry at first but as she listened she was almost entertained, and wanted to know what they had done.
"Well I wouldn't have had to lock you in the room if you hadn't joked and told me to kidnap his daughter while I was rip roaring drunk!!!" Jiraiya said, defending himself.
"Yeah well your just lucky that her father's aim was two inches below my-" Naruto was about to finish his sentence before he was interrupted by a roaring Hokage.
"SHUT UP!!!" Tsunade screamed, successfully silencing the traveling companions. She was baffled by the tale that they were arguing with each other over.
"Why did you take so long to get back?" Tsunade asked. It was a simple question.
"It's simple, the boy needed more severe training." Came Jiraiya's curt reply.
"Did you have many missions during his training trip?" Tsunade continued to interrogate the toad sannin.
"Yes, but even during those missions Naruto maintained a grueling training schedule." Jiraiya said, feeling relief wash over himself as he watched Tsunade's features soften.
A small silence took place while the members in the office waited for the Hokage to talk.
"…It's good to finally have you both back." Tsunade finally said as she smiled at the two of them. They both looked at each other and visibly sighed. They had been expecting Tsunade's wrath, they weren't big fans of that.
"So how did his training go?" Tsunade asked.
"Excellent, the kid is quite powerful now." Jiraiya said, his chest puffing out, proud of what he did with the kid.
"Good, I'll let you mingle with the rest of the genin teams Naruto, but later today you and Kakashi will spar with Sakura." Tsunade informed the boy.
Said boy smiled, "Sure thing Hokage-sama." Naruto was about to leave the office before he heard a familiar voice coming from the office window sill. A man that Naruto had known through his genin days was crouching in the window.
"Yo" Was all Kakashi had to say to get Naruto's attention.
"KAKASHI-SENSEI!!!" Naruto cried as he turned around to see the cycloptic nin on the window sill of the Hokage building. "Long time no see."
"Yeah, you can say that. Well you certainly have changed since the last time I've seen you." Kakashi said as he took in all the physical changes that had happened to the blonde over the 3 years he was gone.
"Yeah I guess so." Naruto said, before he got a devilish smile on his face, one that he usually had before he pulled a big prank. "I got you something Kakashi sensei." Naruto said quietly, catching the jounin's attention. As he reached into one of his kunai holsters, and started looking around.
"That's good Naruto, but I'm not a big fan of rame-" Kakashi started, but couldn't finish his sentence as he was gaping at what Naruto held in his hands.
"Is that…?" Kakashi asked, unable to form words at what was being presented to him.
"Yes, the gold edition of Icha Icha Paradise volume 12, with the bonus pictures." Naruto said as he handed his sensei that book.
"Naruto…I can't even imagine how…" Kakashi was still at a loss of words.
"It's alright Kakashi sensei, have fun reading that book cause I'm going to go meet up with everyone." Naruto said as he began to move back to the Hokage's door. "See ya later today!"
But before he could actually leave the office, he was interrupted again, as Shizune entered, looking down at some papers in her hands.
"Tsunade-sama, there have been reports of the people going crazy-" Shizune entered the room and looked up, to see two people she hasn't seen in 3 years.
"Naruto!!! Jiraiya-san!!!" Shizune said as she rushed forward and hugged both of them.
"That's more like a welcome home." Jiraiya said, happy that someone showed him affection.
"Yeah, I liked that better than I did the bullet kunai." Naruto also added, causing Tsunade's eye to twitch.
"Brat you better get out of here before I end up beating you to a pulp." Tsunade threatened.
Naruto smiled at her as he got up and started walking towards the door before he responded, "Alright Hokage-sama, I guess I'll see you guys around." Naruto said as he left the office, leaving the adults to discuss what occurred during the 3 years he was absent.
A calm silence overtook the adults after the boy left, until Tsunade broke it. "How powerful has he really gotten?"
Jiraiya smirked, knowing full well what his capable student can do, "He has been able to beat me a half of the time we spare going all out. His strategy has increased unceremoniously, not as good as the Nara boy his age, but pretty close. He has his father's speed." Jiraiya stated, causing both women's eyes to widen.
"He can use his father's style of taijutsu also, and he has incredible chakra control, and quite a formidable library of useful jutsu." Jiraiya finished his overview of Naruto's skills.
Tsunade looked at Jiraiya, and smiled, he had actually trained the boy. "If you were to give him a rank, what would it be?" Tsunade asked.
Jiraiya still had the smirk plastered on his face, "Jounin, easy."
Tsunade's eyes widened slightly at that, but not much. "I take your word for it."
"But you might want to be there when Kakashi spars with Sakura and Naruto, he's in for quite a surprise." Jiraiya said, confident in his student's abilities.
Tsunade smiled as she replied, "Alright, we will go and watch that spar."
The adults sat in a comfortable silence enjoying each other's company for a few moments, before Tsunade broke it again. "Since when has he begun to use manners? Addressing me as 'Hokage-sama', and you as 'sensei'?"
"Well I was getting quite sick of him calling me ero-sannin, so I told him that since I was taking his training serious that he had to respect me as a serious student would, and in the end the respect ended up being used in everything he did." Jiraiya said, explaining the transformation that happened to Naruto.
Tsunade nodded her head in understanding, "I see now. But I have another question for you."
Jiraiya looked at her, but said nothing.
"What happened with the father and daughter and why did you have to tie up the kid when you were drunk?" She asked, truly curious as to what the conversation they were having earlier.
As soon as Tsunade asked the question Jiraiya's eyes got big and he began looking around, searching for something, or someone.
"I can't tell you that, it could be considered an S-class secret," Jiraiya said, as he began to sweat, continuing looking around the room, "But it was all the boy's fault, he was the one who pushed the rock off the cliff onto the house."
At this Jiraiya stood up abruptly, and looked at the women in front of him, "Well the talk was good, but I think that I have to go now." He finished, walking briskly behind Tsunade and Shizune, opened the Hokage's office window and jumped out of it, looking for Naruto, leaving the two women too look at each other. Tsunade even more confused and curious as to what happened, while Shizune thought Jiraiya finally went off his rocker.
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Naruto had been walking through the streets of Konoha, taking in all the sites, as it had been 3 years since he last seen his hometown. Not much changed in his absence, which the boy was appreciative of, he liked familiarity. He continued walking around, reminiscing in the past, all the places he could remember from his childhood, making him smile.
As he continued walking a person came in step next to him, and they both walked at a leisurely pace through the town.
Naruto decided to break the silence, "So how did the rest of the meeting go sensei?"
Jiraiya glanced at Naruto, who had a small smirk on his face, and answered, "Alright, Tsunade wanted to know how powerful you have become and the likes, the changes you went through."
Naruto nodded his head at what Jiraiya had sad, the two walked in silence as they turned a corner. As soon as the two got a clear view of the street Naruto's face visibly brightened.
"Sakura!!!" Naruto called to get the said girl's attention who was walking away from the two guys walking side-by-side. He had spotted the bubble-gum pink hair, and not many people had that type of hair.
Sakura turned around to see her blond teammate that she hadn't seen in 4 years. She turned around and ran up to both Jiraiya and Naruto, she looked at Naruto and took in his changes that happened over the years.
"How's it going Sakura? How have you been?" Naruto asked, excited to see his teammate after such a long absence. Noticing all the changes that had happened to her as well.
"I'm good, and life around here has been really boring. Not many exciting missions, and all there is to really do is train." Sakura answered the questions Naruto asked. "What about you Naruto, how was your training trip?"
"It was too long," Naruto said exasperated, causing Jiraiya's eyebrow to tick. "but I have learned so many new things that it's awesome and makes up for it."
Sakura's nodded her head, she knew that training under a sannin would do good for Naruto but she also wanted to see what Naruto could really do. "Well we might get to see what you really did learn on that training trip, cause we have to spar with Kakashi-sensei in a little while."
Naruto nodded his head, and looked excited about the fight to come. As they were catching up on the latest things, Naruto noticed two people walking down the street towards them who looked awfully familiar.
"Shikamaru? Temari-san?" Naruto asked as he noticed how the lazy boy had changed over the years, and also noted how Gaara's sister had changed.
Said two teens looked over at the boy who had called to them, and got a surprise. Temari got a blush as she remembered the short kid at the chunin exams who had obviously grown out of his midget-ness. All the while Shikamaru felt like he was looking at a young Yondaime Hokage, with whisker like birthmarks.
"So…what are you two doing today?" Naruto asked with a smirk.
Shikamaru sighed at the boy's antics, "She is the sand representative, and I am here to escort her around."
"Okay." Naruto said, obviously not believing it, "So Temari-san, how is Gaara these days?"
"He is good, no longer having his crazy sprees." She said, both of Gaara's siblings were eternally thankful for Naruto's deed during the invasion 4 years ago. He beat some sense into Gaara, and had calmed him down quite a bit; and in the end both boys became close friends.
"That's awesome, I'm gonna have to go see him sometime soon." Naruto said, but as he finished that sentence he noticed Tsunade, Shizune, and Kakashi walking up to them.
Jiraiya looked at the number of people who had just arrived, eyebrows raised, "You actually came to witness his spar?"
"Yeah, we actually have, I am interested in viewing his battle capabilities." Tsunade replied.
"That's good, because I didn't want to be the only one watching the fight." Jiraiya said.
"Alright, let's get this over with." Naruto said with a sigh, starting walking towards team 7's training ground. Soon the group of people began walking there too, as they were curious to see what the two students of sannin were capable of.
On their walk to the training ground Jiraiya fell in step with Naruto, and they were leading the pack, with everyone closely behind. Despite the close proximity, Naruto and Jiraiya were talking in a hushed voice that no one else could hear what they were talking about. Tsunade and Sakura saw this, and looked at each other, over the four years they had grown quite close. But they seemed truly curious as to what Naruto and Jiraiya were whispering about.
"Excuse me but what are you talking about?" Tsunade inquired.
Jiraiya and Naruto jumped a little, noticing that they were talking to the two of them. Naruto got red in the face, and looked away, while Jiraiya fumbled with his words. "We were, uh, discussing, the . . . yeah. We weren't talking about anything important."
Tsunade usually got her way, and she didn't like it when she didn't get her way, and she was the Hokage. When Jiraiya and Naruto refused to tell her what they were talking about in the office she got a little upset, and now they were refusing again, and she wanted to know what they were talking about.
"You are going to tell me what you were talking about." Tsunade said in a threatening way.
"We can't, it's something that shouldn't have happened." Jiraiya said, getting nervous again, looking around searching for someone…or something.
"As Godaime Hokage I order you to tell me what you were talking about." Tsunade said with a dead serious voice that left no room for argument.
Naruto and Jiraiya looked at each other, still walking towards the training ground, before Jiraiya looked back at Tsunade and began explaining. "Okay, I'll tell you. It was the second year of his training, and we were somewhere by Tea country. It all started by me giving the boy something to do, while I went off to do something productive, I was-"
"Something productive?!?!? You went off to peek at girls in the bathe houses, you perverted sensei!" Naruto yelled, completely forgetting that they were trying to keep this thing a secret a second ago. At Naruto's outburst everyone in the group stopped to look at what was going on, as Naruto and Jiraiya seemed to forget everyone around them.
"Details! Who needs them!!! We wouldn't have gotten into a bad situation if you hadn't used so many exploding notes!!!" Jiraiya yelled back.
"I had to do something to get your attention!! I tried calling your name, but NOOOOO you couldn't hear me over your perverted giggles!!" Naruto yelled back, both Naruto and Jiraiya began to get red in the face.
"Yeah but because of you, we disturbed IT!!!!!" Jiraiya cried, with a look of fear in his eyes.
The blood rushed from Naruto's face, making him pale, "That's not a time, place, or thing, I want to remember…" Naruto trailed off, as he and Jiraiya reminisced in the past.
Everyone listening to the argument wanted to know what happened now, and they wanted to know what the it was, but no one said anything for a second, before Sakura got brave and asked, "Um, what exactly did Naruto disturb?"
Both Jiraiya and Naruto looked at the group with wide eyes and white faces, before Naruto answered, "A seven tailed…demon duck…" Jiraiya flinched when Naruto had mentioned it.
The group of people looked at the two in front of them, thinking that they were pulling a joke on them, and expected them to burst out laughing any second; but they didn't. They both had a look of utter terror, and one of mental scaring. They stayed like that for a few seconds, before they returned to normal and began walking towards the training ground again, smiling laughing about something only the two of them would know. Everyone in the group looked at their backs and wondered it if there was even a seven tailed demon duck, and if there was, how did they escape? No one would know…except for the two of them.
'Dammit.' Tsunade thought, disappointed that she still had no idea what the heck was going down with those two. Shizune was starting to understand that they must have a lot of inside stories. Sakura, Kakashi, Temari, thought that they were straight up crazy; but Shikamaru deduced that Naruto and Jiraiya were enemy ninja and were setting up a trap around them, so he decided to whip a few kunai and get in a battle stance. This caused everyone in the group to wonder if Shikamaru finally went crazy also.
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Eventually everyone made it to the training field, not many planned on staying there the entire spar; they only wanted to see some of the action. Now everyone was off to the side a little bit as they looked at the three participants. Kakashi standing reading the latest version of Icha Icha that Naruto had given him; Sakura stood opposite him, and was staring at him, just in case he tried pulling a fast one. Naruto just stood in a relaxed stance facing Kakashi also, forming a triangle.
"Alright you two, you have until dawn to get these from me." Kakashi said as he held up two bells. Both ex-members of team 7 had a sad smile on their face, remembering the first time they took this type of test. Kakashi looked towards the sky realizing that it was around 6 o'clock pm, he hoped the two team-mates could get done with the test in a descent amount of time. Looking back at his students, Kakashi tied the bells to his pants, then put his book away, and then his hands moved towards his mask, and he slowly revealed his sharingan eye; he knew he would need it against these two students of the sannin.
"Begin."
No one moved, Kakashi kept looking between Naruto and Sakura, and noted that Sakura had put on black battle gloves, before he looked at Naruto again, which sent a shiver down his spine.
As Kakashi looked at Naruto, no longer was the soft smile, or the bright blue eyes present. Instead Kakashi was looking at the face of his former sensei, the Yondaime Hokage. Naruto's eyes not once leaving Kakashi. Then he had to look away as Sakura had punched the ground in front of her, growing tired of the stalemate, sending jutting rocks at her sensei.
Kakashi jumped off to the side and then had to jump in order to clear the damage area. Once he was clear of danger he looked back at his opponents, only for his eyes to widen slightly in surprise. Naruto had disappeared, leaving only Sakura in his vision, who was now running at Kakashi.
The sharingan user focused on the girl charging him, as her chakra enhanced attacks could put a hamper on his day. She attacked swiftly, but not that quickly, he was easily dodging attack after attack. Then he sensed something coming at him unbelievably quick. Kakashi jumped in the air to avoid whatever it was, only to realize that it had fazed into existence next to him in the air, with a punch aimed straight for his head. Kakashi realized that it was Naruto, before he moved his head to the side, barely dodging the attack, before grabbing the blond and pulling him behind him through the air.
As Naruto was passing Kakashi he brought his knee straight out in front of him, successfully striking Kakashi hard in the chest cavity with his knee. Both of them began the descent to the ground, both landed on their feet. Naruto turned around to see Kakashi holding his chest with his right hand, obviously his attack was a success.
Kakashi looked at his blond student, the kid was fast, and that face without emotion was starting to bug the cycloptic nin. He stood slowly, wincing as his ribs flared in protest. Looking back towards his student he found that Sakura had made her way over towards Naruto already. There both of his students stood side-by-side, silently watching him.
Kakashi stood there, frozen in place as he watched the very real threat present before him. He had never imagined that Sakura would be as good as she is, but what Naruto had become was unconceivable. As he watched the two teammates, he realized that Naruto was beginning to gather chakra. It was a little at first, but it eventually grew to a ridiculous amount.
Kakashi's eyes narrowed as he was still gathering the chakra. The sharingan user was preparing for the boy to use a powerful nin-jutsu, when all of a sudden the chakra was non-existent, and noted that Naruto was now a mere two feet away from him to his left, Kakashi turned just in time to block a punch aimed at his head. Then he had to duck under a reverse punch that caught the cycloptic nin off guard; while Kakashi was ducking he received a knee to the chin, not realizing the fluidity that Naruto could use in his taijutsu style. Skidding backwards a way Kakashi got to his feet quickly and moved his line of vision so that he could see his two opponents.
Naruto walked to stand over besides Sakura, as they both stared at Kakashi. Now standing across from each other Kakashi decided that he should take to the offense, slouching forward slightly before he heard the familiar sound of a fast moving kunai flying through the air. His instincts told Kakashi that the kunai was aimed with pinpoint precision at his jugular vein in his neck. Moving to the side slightly Kakashi allowed kunai to pass by his neck by a hairsbreadth, only to have his eyes widen as a second kunai pierced his jugular, before the cycloptic nin was replaced with a log and a kunai sticking out it.
Sitting in a tree 30 yards away from where he had last been he watched as Naruto withdrew his left hand with a smirk on his face. 'So it had been Naruto who threw the kunai, one frighteningly fast and with deadly aim, and he also threw a second in an arch hiding within the shadow of first throughout the arch. That is a truly deadly combination.' Kakashi mulled this over as he stared at his two ex-students as they both turned to look at him in his hiding spot. Kakashi felt an unfamiliar shiver of fear climb his spine as he stared at the ice cold eyes of one Uzumaki Naruto.
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Naruto stood beside Sakura, as they both stared at the sharingan user sitting in a tree just staring at the two in return. Naruto started thinking through all the scenarios that could help them complete this task with the least amount of time.
"…That's it." Naruto whispered to himself, deciding that course of action would be the best way to obtain the bells for Sakura and himself.
"Mind queuing me in on the plan Naruto?" Sakura asked, not once taking her eyes off Kakashi, still sitting in the tree.
"I want you to create as much mayhem and destruction as you can," Naruto said letting Sakura know exactly what he wanted her to do. "Make it as deadly as you can too."
Sakura spared Naruto a quick glance before looking back at Kakashi, a smile spreading across her face, "Sure thing, but why?"
Both teens tensed their bodies ready for an attack as Kakashi stood from his crouching position in the tree and launched himself into the air towards the two teens, Naruto breathed out his answer loud enough for Sakura to hear, "I need a distraction."
As Kakashi was descending upon the team-mates he began forming rapid hand seals, finishing the jutsu he prepared in a matter of moments. Kakashi cried out "Tsuchi gosunkugi no jutsu!" releasing the technique he had gathered the chakra for.
Sakura's eyes widened as she launched herself backwards several times, just fast enough to avoid the spiked pieces of earth as they jutted themselves out of the ground. Naruto Launched himself into the air, attempting to meet Kakashi head on.
Kakashi saw this and twisted in the air managing to create enough distance between himself and the blond, then Kakashi started flying through another set of hand seals, gathering more chakra than the last jutsu. Just as Kakashi landed between to spikes of earth he turned and aimed his jutsu at the still ascending blond, who looked mildly interested at what the cycloptic nin was doing, and released the jutsu.
"Raiton suto-mu no jutsu!" Kakashi cried out as lightening shot out of the sky straight at Naruto still suspended in a fixed flight pattern above ground.
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Kakashi watched in a cold sweat at what he saw; he was expecting Naruto to create a kage-bunshin and use that as leverage in the air to clear the lightening that was closing in on the blond. Instead he watched as the blond spun around facing Kakashi in the air, raised his right arm towards the lightening and aimed at Kakashi with his left hand.
The cycloptic nin watched in almost slow motion, taking in every detail with his sharingan eye. The lightening came down, and made contact with Naruto's arm, but a second later the lightening shot out of Naruto's left arm as it flew towards Kakashi, leaving the man with no time to react what-so-ever. The lightening attack connected with Kakashi's chest as his world exploded into pain, the jounin's body was sent flying through a tree and violently stopped as he hit a second one, cracking the fern in half.
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No words could describe what just happened. Sakura stared at her blond teammate as he landed gracefully onto the ground, still staring at where Kakashi's body lay. She couldn't believe that Naruto had turned an attack like that around on the infamous sharingan Kakashi.
"…Naruto," Was all she could whisper as she looked at the blond figure who stood completely still, with a hard look in his eyes.
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Tsunade, Shizune, and Shikamaru stared in horror at what had occurred. This was only a sparing match and Naruto had pulled off a most astonishing attack at the cost of injuring a fellow Konoha ninja.
Tsunade, losing her temper turned to look at Jiraiya, who had a large smirk plastered on his face. "What the hell is so funny?" Tsunade asked with a heated voice.
"That was a message for Kakashi," Jiraiya said without taking his eyes off of the blond. "Naruto is letting Kakashi know that he is getting serious now."
Shizune and Shikamaru looked at the white haired man as if he was crazy. "And he hasn't been taking Kakashi on seriously enough?" Shikamaru asked.
Surprisingly, it was Temari who answered the question, though she was also focused solely on Naruto. "Nope. Naruto hasn't used his true speed yet, and he also hasn't even used a single technique yet."
Tsunade, Shizune, and Shikamaru's eyes all widened as they released the second statement was true, but Shizune voiced her question on the first statement.
"Naruto-san isn't using his true speed?"
Now it was Jiraiya's turn to answer the question, "No, he hasn't taken off his weights."
"And," Temari cut in, focus still on the spar, "Naruto is on the offense."
With that said, Temari was met with odd and confused looks, when Jiraiya explained. "The boy's specialty is counter-attacks. He is good at offense, but when it comes to counter attacks he is unbeatable."
Conversation ended for the moment as the group of spectators turned their wide eyes and full attention to the fight.
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Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief as he watched his shadow clone poof out of existences, it had taken the entire attack, and he was relatively shaken. Naruto had obviously been trained excessively in counter-attacking. And it was probably safe to assume that the blond could put together a solid offensive attack.
Still keeping an eye on the blond Kakashi had to swear as Naruto turned towards his location in the foliage. The silver haired man decided to wait out what was going to happen, and see if Naruto could pull off an adequate offensive attack.
As Kakashi stared at the blond he saw his lips move ever so slightly, but no noise came out. That's when to the left of Naruto Sakura jumped from the foliage also and punched the ground, causing pieces of the earth to jut up everywhere dangerously as they made their way towards the scarecrow nin. As Kakashi deduced that he did not want that attack to be successful he jumped into the air, and looked for the blond haired threat, only to see the said boy crouching down, preparing to launch himself towards the cycloptic nin.
Kakashi prepared himself as he watched the blond, but was astonished as he felt a presence behind him. Kakashi turned to his right barely able to block a flying kick that was aimed at his head, but he was astonished as he felt three other hefty blows connect to his kidney, stomach, and back, sending the silver-haired man crashing towards the ground.
Kakashi was able to land on his feet but had little to time to react as he was attacked with more invisible taijutsu, he sensed the attacks coming but couldn't react fast enough to stop them. His sharingan was barely able to pick up on Naruto's speed making him appear almost as if he was a ghost. After being thrown through another tree Kakashi rolled to kill off some speed, then landed on his feet looking at Naruto. Sakura appeared behind the boy, and threw a handful of shuirken towards the cycloptic nin.
Kakashi, not willing to have to put up with anymore taijutsu attacks from Naruto, grabbed a kunai out of his weapons pouch and deflected only the shuriken that would have otherwise pierced his body, not once taking his eyes off of Naruto. What Kakashi had neglected to perceive though were the exploding notes on the inside ring of the shuriken. Sensing them a second before they went off Kakashi barely had the time to use a kawarmi before the explosion rocked the training field.
Kakashi was able to look at the explosion and was glad that he made it out of that are before those notes went off, that could have ruined his day. As the silver haired man was staring at the explosion, he felt the air around him barely shift, indicating something was within the vicinity. Kakashi whirled around, expecting to see or come across Naruto, but nothing was there.
Kakashi was disturbed from his silent search around himself by Sakura who whistled to get his attention. Looking up, the cycloptic nin saw that Sakura was holding a bell, along with Naruto, who was standing right beside her, with a grin of laughter on his face. Quickly the jounin looked down at his belt, and was confirmed with the sight of both bells missing from his belt completely.
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Shikamaru, Shizune, and Tsunade all watched in quiet amazement as Naruto, Kakashi, and Sakura started making their way over to the spectators of the match. The three looked at each other, not one of them understood how Naruto had gotten the bells from Kakashi without even moving.
"Sheesh, about time he ended that match." Temari said as she turned towards the group of confused looking people.
"Yeah, I think the gaki just wanted to show off his skills a little bit." Jiraiya said with a small smirk on his face, obviously proud of the blond that had ended the sparring match.
Tsunade recovered from her shock at the display Naruto had put on for all of them, and looked over to Temari. "You've seen Naruto spar before?" The slug sannin asked truly curious as to what the answer would be.
"Yeah I have, and so has Jiraiya-sama. We both witnessed Gaara and Naruto spar many times." Temari said, as she prepared to leave. "That is a match that you would have to see to believe."
Jiraiya snorted in agreement, "Yeah, Naruto sure does know how to make things interesting."
"Interesting?" Shikamaru inquired.
"Yeah, Naruto and Gaara go all out, and Naruto not only has beaten Gaara every single time, he has figured out a different way to beat him every time." Temari said, watching the group that just got done sparring make their way over to the spectators. "He even does it without using any of his old tactics."
At that statement Jiraiya had a small grow on his face. Then they all heard Naruto shout something incoherent.
That's when the party looked at the two conversing shinobi, then took a glance at the group with Naruto, who had reached the aforementioned group. Without acknowledging anyone else Naruto walked straight towards Jiraiya; as soon as they were side-by-side they both began walking together, with the rest of the group following behind them.
"Good job gaki." Jiraiya said as he stared straight ahead.
"Thanks sensei, but is there any advice that you could provide from that match?" Naruto asked as he looked towards Jiraiya, a serious look upon his face.
"For the most part you did excellent, your speed was a little slow though, and you need to make more of a theatrical entrance." Jiraiya summarized as he rubbed his chin in thought.
"Kay, I'll work on my speed more." Naruto said as he looked back towards the path they were all traveling on.
The rest of the group could hardly believe what Jiraiya had told the blond, his speed was unbelievable and Jiraiya told him that it was lacking. Their shock was added even more so when Naruto and Jiraiya started talking in a hushed whisper, looking back at the group following them occasionally. Tsunade unable to hear what they were conversing had ordered them to cease what they were doing. Which they obeyed, but after a few minutes they began communicating with sign language, peeving off the slug sannin even more.
Later on down the path, the group was making their way towards the Hokage tower for a meeting regarding Naruto. As they neared the building Temari and Shikamaru departed from the group saying goodbyes to the rest of the group as they continued towards the office.
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At the Hokage's office
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Tsunade sat behind her desk, with Shizune right beside her. Across the desk stood Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, and Jiraiya, all watching and waiting for the Godaime Hokage to get the meeting underway.
Tsunade decided that it was time to start the meeting, "Well congratulations Naruto and Sakura on defeating Kakashi, within the first hour the test was administered." At the mention of this Naruto and Sakura smiled brightly, while Kakashi's head dropped a little bit.
"While during the spar I have decided that Naruto had shown a knack for fighting on the fly, and had performed outstandingly well; while Sakura, still skilled, had very little to do with this spar." Tsunade continued, deflating Sakura's smile a little bit. She knew she was skilled, and she also knew that Naruto had out performed her during the spar.
"I have a question Hokage-sama." Kakashi said getting the attention of everyone in the room, "I want to know how exactly you got the bells off of me person?" the lanky man asked Naruto.
Naruto brought his hand up to his face, and looking sheepish said, "I used speed alone, left an after image besides Sakura got the bells, and returned by Sakura's side, and handed her one."
Kakashi looked at his former student with a little fascination. What the boy said was truly impressive, he felt outclassed a little though, the blond had used superior speed to win the spar alone.
"It was due to this spar, and the recommendation of a fellow sannin, that I am now appointing one Uzumaki Naruto, of Konoha, the position of jounin." Tsunade said as she tossed the typical jounin vest to Naruto, who caught it deftly, with a look of sheer joy plastered upon his face.
Sakura felt envious towards her blond team-mate, before she realized that he was more powerful than what he let on, and she knew that the said blond deserved the position of Jounin.
"Thank you Hokage-sama." Naruto said, in a voice that let everyone know of his gratitude for the promotion.
"With that note you are dismissed, the two of you." Tsunade said with smile at the two teenagers. "But, Naruto!" Tsunade called out getting the boy's attention before he left.
Said blond turned around and looked at the Godaime Hokage, letting her continue, "I would like to see you in two days time, at 10 o'clock sharp. There are missions that need to be done."
Naruto face brightened even more before he responded, "Hai Hokage-sama." With that the two teenagers left the office, leaving the last four occupants.
A comfortable silence hung in the room after the two had left, leaving everyone to their own thoughts for the moment.
After a while Tsunade decided to break the silence, getting straight to business. "Is he capable of completing any type of mission?" the Godaime Hokage asked Jiraiya without looking at him.
The white haired man pondered the question for a second. "He is definitely able to complete all types of missions, except protection and delivery missions. He can't do it without having collateral damage to the targets of the mission." Jiraiya finished his analysis of Naruto's mission skills.
"So he should essentially be able to complete most type of missions I give him?" Tsunade asked, wanting to affirm what Jiraiya had stated. At the toad Sanin's nod she looked back towards the small pile of paper upon her desk. "Good, we have a back-up of high ranking missions that need to get done, as they are critical to Konoha's safety."
At that statement Tsunade turned her attention to the cycloptic nin, getting his attention. "On that note, Kakashi I have an A-rank mission for you to complete." Tsunade said as she reached into her desk, withdrawing a scroll. "It'll be a transportation and protection mission, seeing how Naruto lacks those skills." She said, handing the scroll to Kakashi.
"What are the mission details?" Kakashi asked as he opened the scroll, looking it over.
"To guard and defend a man named Takuni. He claims to have vital information on the Akatsuki, which may be true, we don't know. But opportunities like these don't come around that often so we are going to see what type of information he has." Tsunade said as she watched the cycloptic nin before her.
"You are to meet him in the Zeimakagure, a small village outside of the fire country's border. You are to use any method you deem necessary to bring Takuni back to Konoha alive." Tsunade paused, still analyzing the man in front of her. "Do you accept the mission?"
Not missing a moment, Kakashi replied, "Hai Hokage-sama." And with that Kakashi left the Hokage's office, ready beginning his mission.
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After being dismissed from the Hokage's office
Sakura walked next to the Naruto, as they both exited the Hokage tower. The blond had become an enigma to her, as she hadn't talked to him in the past 4 years. She hadn't even seen him in the past 4 years, and the changes helped the boy out quite a bit. He used to be short and an eyesore with his orange jumpsuit; now he was tall and had what appeared to be matching articles of clothing, something that caught Sakura off guard.
She turned her head towards the blond, "Hey Naruto,"
"Yeah?" the orange clad nin replied without looking at her.
"Do you want to get some ramen or something?" she asked him, knowing his weak spot.
Naruto looked thoughtful as if he was contemplating something. "I haven't had ramen in a while…Sure! I'll go with you Sakura." The blond said as he looked at her.
Sakura smiled lightly as they began walking towards Ichiraku's ramen stand. Sakura did note that he didn't seem to be quite as infatuated with her as he used to be. She didn't know if she should be happy or disheartened, but she put that in the back of her mind.
"So Naruto, do you have any good stories from your travels with Jiraiya-sama?" The pink haired girl asked truly curious to hear what Naruto had to say without the interruptions from the toad sannin.
The blonde's face lit up, and he smiled before he animatedly began talking. "Yeah I do, but I guess I have to start if off at the top. When we were in a rather large village that had a king, Jiraiya thought it would be funny to get extremely drunk. As he was getting hammered I was there training, and I made an off-hand comment insulting him, and he tied me up to VERY large log." Naruto paused to look at his companion's facial expression, which amused him.
Naruto then continued. "After he tied me up to the log, I yelled at him, and told him he was a worthless ninja. He didn't believe that. So I told him that I doubt he could kidnap the king's daughter, and he smiled and disappeared, leaving me tied to a big log in our training area."
As Naruto was about to continue they made it to Ichiraku's ramen stand, catching the blonde's attention. "AWESOME!!!! Ramen time!" With that the blond began ordering ludicrous amounts of ramen, leaving Sakura more enlightened than what she was before, but still confused as hell.
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Jiraiya had left Tsunade's office after Kakashi's briefing on the A-rank mission. He had left and made straight for his small camp he had inside the woods, preferring the wilderness to the suburban districts in Konoha. As he landed in his camping area he created two shadow clones, and set them off to do some work. After that the toad sannin sat down and withdrew a small little booklet and began drawing lurid things in it's pages.
This took place for about 20 minutes before another presence was introduced to the camp. There were no indications as to the newcomer's presence, but they held no hostility towards the white haired man bent over his book.
Naruto walked across the camp fire quietly, and began setting up his own tent, opposite Jiraiya's own across the camp fire.
"How do you like being back in Konoha?" Jiraiya asked, breaking the silence, as he looked up towards the blonde.
Naruto was quiet a moment before he responded. "Almost a little anti-climactic, I did miss this village, but it's exactly the same as we left it."
Jiraiya nodded in understanding, as the blonde kept working on setting up on his tent. Though the white haired man would never admit it, he was proud of the boy and what he had become. A comfortable quiet reigned for a few more minutes before Naruto was finally done setting up his tent, and turned to sit across the fire from Jiraiya.
"So how can I fix my speed, get it back up to par?" Naruto asked, breaking the silence.
"Keep doing the sprinting exercise, but try staying as fast as you can for as long as you can." Jiraiya replied, putting his book down, "and good job on not revealing any techniques to the sharingan yet, a good strategy."
Naruto beamed for a second and looked back towards the older man, "Will we be doing any missions together sensei?"
Jiraiya smiled, "You bet we will, but not for a little while yet. When we do we will dominate."
"Yeah we will, like that time in Iwa, against those 6 men," Naruto began.
"And 5 women, they had no idea what was going on. Brilliant plan brat, kawarmi with each other threw them off, and they didn't know how to handle it." Jiraiya smiled as he remembered the fight.
Naruto laughed out loud, "Don't forget the look on their faces when we started using their clothing for the kawarmis."
For a couple more hours, Naruto and Jiraiya both talked about scheming new strategies, laughed about past experiences, and thought up new ways to mess with an opponent's mind.
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Sakura jerked awake by the sound of her mother dropping a plate to the floor, without realizing it she had a kunai in her hand, ready to defend her life at a moments notice if necessary. With the rude awakening, the pink haired girl turned her attention towards her alarm clock beside her bed. It read only 9:12. It was her day off, and she didn't have the pleasure of even sleeping in.
She made her way downstairs quickly and grabbed a bit to eat before leaving her house and shouting out a quick bye to her mother.
As Sakura made her way down the streets of Konoha she decided that she would train on her day off. After making it to her favorite training ground the pink haired girl started going through katas of her taijutsu style, putting everything she had into it. The practice of her taijutsu eventually wore her out after an hour of intense nonstop activity.
After Sakura had completed what she thought was a good taijutsu practice she sat down on the ground and calmed her breathing. The pink haired girl then meditated for another 40 minutes before she decided that was enough of a light training for the day. Standing up she made her way towards the heart of Konoha, planning on spending the day looking at shops and maybe getting a bite to eat at a nice restaurant later.
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Yamanaka Ino sighed as she walked through the crowded streets. She had just got done training with Chouji, which had so far made her slightly tired. Though Chouji may not look like it, but the boy is a fighter, and can put up a great spar when he wants too. Since the chunin exams the two of them had practiced very intensely, and made chunin during the second exam. Ino knew that she had made quite a bit of progress, and was now lethal at close range using her small size to her advantage, utilizing a taijutsu style that lands rapid and quick blows that eventually take a toll on the target.
But at the moment though Ino's mind was preoccupied. She hadn't been imagining that sand kunoichi walking next to her team mate, or the way he looked at her. Shaking her head as if to get rid of the images in her mind she pushed her way through the crowd and over to her favorite restaurant. Though it was a little pricey the girl loved eating at this restaurant, as it served almost anything that her heart desired.
After walking inside the girl looked around for a place to sit, analyzing everyone in the room at the same time. There were a few shinobi in this place, but her attention was quickly diverted as someone was calling out her name.
"Ino! Hey Ino!" A girl with brown eyes and her hair put up in two buns cried out, getting the blond girl's attention.
Making her way over to Tenten, Ino asked a simple question. "Tenten, why do you have to be so loud?"
The brown eyed girl had the decency to blush before she moved on, "Why don't you sit with me today? You look like you need someone to talk to."
Ino smiled at the genuine look in Tenten's eyes before she accepted the offer and sat down next to the girl. Over the course of the next 20 minutes and both of their meals Ino talked about the situation she was in, and how she felt when she witnessed Shikamaru walking with Temari. Tenten was adding her own comments, and making Ino feel better the way the brown haired teen was putting down Temari.
"But, yeah. You shouldn't worry too much about Shikamaru, he is a smart guy and I think he can figure out that she isn't really right for him." Tenten said as they sat and ate their food, enjoying each other's company.
"So have you heard anything about Naruto returning?" Tenten asked, trying to start another conversation.
Ino looked up from playing with what was left of her food, "No, I haven't heard anything. He's back? I wonder how much the kid changed." Ino said, now contemplating what could have changed about the blond haired boy she knew from her past.
"Yeah, Neji-kun said that he heard Naruto was back in town, and he wanted to spar with him. Wanted to see if anything has changed since the chunin exam I guess." Tenten added to the conversation.
Both girls were interrupted as the bell to the restaurant door was rung, indicating another arrival. The two girls looked over to see a head of pink hair. Ino called out to pink haired girl getting her attention, and indicated for the girl to join her friends sitting already.
Sakura walked over to the two, "Hey Ino, Tenten. Are you two leaving soon?"
"Nope, we are just having a talk, want to join us?" Ino answered.
"Sure, I would love to." Sakura said
As Sakura sat down and ordered her food the three of them talked about nothing important, until Tenten asked Sakura the same question she asked Ino.
"Hey Sakura," Tenten inquired.
The pink haired girl looked up from her food, raising an eyebrow, "Yeah?"
"Have you heard if Naruto is back in Konoha?" Tenten asked.
Sakura smiled before responding. "Yeah he is, today will be his second day home. He arrived with Jiraiya-sama yesterday, but Kakashi-sensei, him, and I had a spar to test how our skills have improved over the years."
Tenten was quick to respond. "How good has Naruto gotten, Neji wants to spar him, see if he is still better than him."
Sakura snorted and almost choked on her drink, causing her two companions to look at her. "Tenten, do you think Neji could beat Kakashi in a fight?" The pink haired girl asked.
Tenten shook her head, knowing that as a senior jounin Kakashi would beat Neji in a fight.
"Well," Sakura continued, "Neji wouldn't stand a chance against Naruto now."
It was Ino's turn to speak up. "What do you mean? He is a Bakyugan genius, and he is a jounin, Naruto would be hard pressed to beat him in a spar."
Sakura looked at her good friend and spoke quietly, "Naruto was able to beat Kakashi single handedly yesterday. I barely did anything, it kinda pissed me off. But watching Naruto made me realize that I would have just gotten in the way."
Both Ino and Tenten's eyes widened as Sakura continued telling them the events that took place yesterday during the spar.
"Naruto also didn't use any techniques to beat Kakashi-sensei, he only used pure speed, and taijutsu alone. He did use a kunai and shuriken with an exploding note, but that was it. When Kakashi tried using a Raiton jutsu Naruto countered it without using any techniques, he only used his body." Sakura continued remembering every little detail about the fight.
"He moved so fast, leaving after images, and I couldn't even keep up with his speed. I felt more like a spectator than a participant in the spar." Sakura finished up. Looking at her two companions, she noted they both had wide eyes.
Tenten Sakura another question, "Is he as fast as Lee?"
Sakura looked at the brown haired girl and nodded, "Yeah, he disappeared whenever he moved, and he supposedly wasn't using his true speed. Jiraiya-sama and Temari were talking about it yesterday, and I guess he uses weights also."
Tenten eye's widened even more, and Ino was looking at Sakura like she was crazy. A few seconds went by, everyone digesting the information, until Ino decided that she wanted to break the silence.
"It's people like him that make me feel like I will sum up to be nothing." Ino sighed, as Tenten and Sakura looked down and nodded their heads in agreement.
"Well, enough with this serious oppressing stuff, how much has Naruto changed? Is he hot now that he is almost a grown man? What type of clothes was he wearing?" Ino shoot out question after question to the pink haired girl, who tried to answer as many as she could, leaving out some embarrassing ones that would make her blush. Tenten was listening in on the Q and A interested in had changed about the blond also.
Sakura just sighed and realized that she wasn't going to get out of this easily.
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Jiraiya watched Naruto stumbling back and forth across the clearing they made as a makeshift training ground. He was finishing up on his sprinting exercise, taking him roughly an hour and a half. The blond in question looked like he was going to fall down and break at any moment, which is what Jiraiya expected him to do, hence the reason why he was there.
The white haired man smiled, the blond knew how to push himself to the limit. As Jiraiya watched, Naruto fell over forward, queuing the white haired man that his workout was done for now. Walking over to the gasping blond Jiraiya leaned down and started doing hand seals. 24 seals later he applied chakra to the tips of his fingers and pointed towards Naruto's right shoulder and touched a seal underneath the clothes lightly. The seal altered the way muscles moved in regular gravity, a seal that made it harder for the muscles to react and more difficult to move. It felt as if they were under a different gravity pressure, when really the person's muscles were just placed in a seal that changed reality.
After Jiraiya unsealed Naruto, he picked the blond up and carried him over to the camp and laid him on his sleeping bag. It'll take Naruto a few minutes to recover from the training.
Sitting down across from said boy's sleeping bag, Jiraiya took out a small book and a pen, and started drawing certain things, smirking and giggling to himself occasionally.
The white haired man looked up from his drawings as he noted Naruto started stirring. Begrudgingly Jiraiya put away his small notebook, telling himself that he would have more time to do it, and looked at the beaten blond before him.
"You should probably drink some water, gaki." Jiraiya said as he tossed a canteen over the fire. Catching the canteen Naruto started gulping down copious amounts of water. Having his fill of water, Naruto looked at the older man sitting across from him.
"What should we do now, sensei?"
Jiraiya put his hand up to his chin and rubbed it thoughtfully, "I don't know. We could go into town and find something to do, it is only about noon, we have half a day to find all sorts of trouble to get into."
Naruto smiled at the idea of it, "Sure let's do that."
With that Naruto got to his feet slowly and started making his way towards Konoha, with Jiraiya walking closely behind him, both talking jovially about the fun things that they could do in Konoha
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Tsunade had to keep from growling at the crowd of people that were in her office. Jiraiya and Naruto sat in the middle of her office, with seals around them, and their hands and feet tied with every knot tied known to man. With chakra strings. Blindfolded, and gagged. With a room full of ALL the ANBU the village had to offer. Somehow the two in front of her had just managed to cost the village 250,789,231 ryo.
Shuffling through a few sheets of paper, she looked at the two in front of her, "How? That's all I want to know, is how you managed to do this. I mean you cleared out an entire connect four house of money, destroyed a Hyuuga branch family house, destroyed 21 stalls of street vendors, and found with the fire daimyo's 19 year old kidnapped daughter tied to Naruto's leg." Tsunade said, trying to conceive of the whole ordeal.
"Bvt vt vnt mht mwnt dwn." Naruto tried defending himself, finding it difficult to speak with the gag in his mouth. Tsunade nodded to an ANBU and the shinobi moved forward and un-gagged Naruto.
"Bah, but that wasn't what happened." Naruto said exasperated.
"Really? Then explain." Tsunade ordered.
Naruto nodded nervously, gulped and began. "Sensei and I were walking around town looking for something to do, when…"
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flashback 4 hours earlier
Naruto walked next Jiraiya as they were walking through the gaming district of Konoha. There were street vendors everywhere with their carts trying to sell their merchandise to the people walking the streets. Naruto was then taken into a gaming house that was holding a connect four tournament, for a prize of 1,000,000 ryo. Plus there was a cool looking trophy. As the two entered the tournament they both progressed through the ranks, and eventually made it to the finals, against each other.
As they faced off people were upset that these two who obviously knew each other were facing off for 1 million ryo, but they couldn't do anything about it. As the game wound down, it turned out that they had somehow tied the game (it's impossible), and they split the cash prize, and grabbed the trophy, ready to leave the game house.
That was before an upset person cried out that they were thieves and had stolen their money and trophy. So as gracefully as Naruto and Jiraiya could, they made a run for it, leaving the gaming house. On their way out though, Naruto tripped, knocking into one street vendor's cart, causing it to fall over and collapse knocking over another and another, all the way down the street. Since Naruto tripped, he fell into Jiraiya's back, who then proceeded to fly headfirst into the carts on the opposite side of the street. This caused all of those carts to collapse on each other, destroying each stall and its merchandise. A man who owned the cabbage cart even had his cart catch on fire, destroying his cabbage's.
After that incident Naruto and Jiraiya had an angry mob following them, and they had to make a get away. So they both decided that they could probably lose them in the woods, so they took a sharp right and made a mad dash in the woods. As they were running they still heard the mob behind them, and eventually they ran into a clearing with a big white house with guards everywhere with the Byakugan.
Looking for an exit Naruto looked to the left, there were guards there looking at them. Naruto looked up on the roof of the house, there were still guards there looking more agitated though. Naruto looked to the right, there were guards that looked like they were ready to attack. Seeing no other option Naruto made a dash forward, his bag of money swaying everywhere, Jiraiya following the blond.
Naruto smashed through the wall of the house, with Jiraiya right on his trail, along with the guards, who were very angry, and the more angry mob. As they made their way through the house, the foundations were destroyed, and after everyone ran through the house, it collapsed. Thankfully though, it was an empty house, and no one got hurt in the collapse of the building.
After they were clear from the building Naruto and Jiraiya separated, and disappeared from the irate mob, and angry guards.
Later, in an alleyway, Naruto emerged. His head looking everywhere for a sign of movement, and eventually decided that it was safe, and got out of the dumpster he was hiding in. As he stood there, he waited. Jiraiya was going to be there any moment. The blond wasn't disappointed.
Jiraiya arrived, though he had an odd sack, slung over his shoulder, and the man appeared to be very distraught, before Naruto could ask a question as to what was happening, Jiraiya bent down and tied a rope to Naruto's leg. Upon questioning Jiraiya revealed that he had kidnapped the fire daimyo's daughter because she recognized who he was, and after he kidnapped her in front of her guards, he realized that wasn't probably the greatest of moves.
All the two had to do was lay low for a couple of hours, the heat would blow over. They were then promptly found by the group of the fire daimyo's guards, who had alerted the ANBU, who had in turn alerted the whole of Konoha's shinobi about the predicament at hand, and had them
It took 2 hours, 12 minutes, and 5 seconds to apprehend one Jiraiya. It took 2 hours, 24 minutes, and 55 seconds to apprehend on Uzumaki Naruto, and they were tied up, sealed, blindfolded and gagged, and escorted by every ANBU in Konoha right before Tsunade.
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"…And that is what happened Hokage-sama." Naruto said with a straight face, finishing retelling of the events that lead up to that particular moment in time. Then Jiraiya started muffling something, and Tsunade had his gag removed.
"Thank you Tsunade," Jiraiya began, before he coughed. Finishing his spasm he continued, leaning towards Naruto, "And I did that with out a drop of sake."
Tsunade sighed at their antics; she didn't know how to punish the two before them. It almost all seemed like an accident of events that went horribly wrong. The slug sannin felt a smile spread across her face, the story itself was so inconceivable that if she didn't have so many agitated people at the events, she wouldn't have believed it herself.
Tsunade was interrupted though, as Naruto coughed to get her attention. She looked at the two men she had tied in her office, and alarms started going off in her head instantly. Instead of being thoroughly tied up, Naruto sat with his arm outstretched, holding hands with Jiraiya, who had his arm outstretched from the ropes that entangled the rest of his body.
"Sorry, but me and the gaki have to get back to our camp. He has to get a good night's rest before a mission you know." Jiraiya said with a slight smirk on his face, while Naruto had a full blown smile plastered on his face.
Tsunade watched as the two of them created a few seals, very quickly. Then a plume of smoke appeared. Tsunade felt the molding of chakra, but when the smoke cleared there stood a man that looked like someone combined Naruto and Jiraiya into one body. As she looked at the clone in front of her Tsunade glanced at the seats that held her prisoners.
As Tsunade looked at the seats, she felt the hair rise on the back of her neck, as the seats were empty. Looking back at the clone the slug sannin watched as the clone gave everyone a peace sign.
Tsunade's eye twitched several times as the clone burst into smoke, filling her office with a foul smell and blinding everyone in the room, leaving Naruto and Jiraiya to get away, without any sort of punishment.
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Day of Naruto's mission
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A blond haired teen made his way towards the Hokage's office slowly, knowing that dozens of unseen eyes were staring at his back. As the teen opened the door to the Hokage, he was almost afraid to speak to the woman who sat behind the desk.
Stepping into the office Naruto noted the lack of Tsunade's assistant, Shizune. However there was someone else there standing against the wall with her arms crossed and eyes closed. Naruto got the familiar sense that she looked familiar, but couldn't place it. Sitting down in front of the Hokage, Naruto sat absolutely still, waiting for Tsunade to give her orders, and mission briefing.
"This A-rank mission is an assassination mission. There are two targets, and little time, hence the reason why there are two of you participating in this mission." Tsunade began, in a serious tone.
"One of the men you are to assassinate has recently been leaking information about Fire Country's defense, towns, shinobi, political leaders, and the like. He is leaking potentially deadly information, so we need him eliminated as quickly as possible." Tsunade said, pushing a folder over the desk towards Naruto, who picked it up and began looking through the contents.
"A retired shinobi? What rank was he when he retired?" Naruto asked without looking up from the file of the target.
"He was Jounin. Very decorated, many A-rank mission, and participated in the war with Iwa." Tsunade answered.
Naruto studied the folder in his hands a moment longer before looking up at Tsunade, "And the other target?" The blond teen asked.
"An Akatsuki spy, located on the opposite side of the same city as the other target, we have viable information indicating that he is a legitimate spy for Akatsuki." Tsunade continued, handing the other folder to Naruto, who in turn to it and began looking through the folder.
After a couple of minutes of studying the folder Naruto looked up at the Hokage, and said, "I accept Hokage-sama."
"Very well, you have a span of three days to get this mission completed, and back to Konoha for debriefing." Tsunade began, "Your partner on this mission Naruto, is Mitarashi Anko."
At the mention of her name, Naruto turned to look at the woman. Anko in response remained completely motionless, but stared Naruto straight in the eyes.
"You may begin your mission." Tsunade said. As soon as she stated this, Naruto was out of his chair, and heading towards the door with Anko hot on his heels. Upon reaching the door first, Naruto opened, and let Anko go first. As she passed the blond teen, she whispered something quietly to him, causing the blond to respond, "Pfft, yeah right, you only wish I do."
Tsunade watched the two of them leave her office, wondering if she had done the right thing, putting these two on the same mission. Her mind was distracted a moment later though as Shizune came in with a stack of paper work, most of it from Naruto and Jiraiya last night.
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AN: Sorry for the really long chapter, I didn't plan on making it this long, but things just kept coming to me. There will be more action in later chapters, and the book isn't going to be just comedy, but I try to add light humor here and there. There is a pairing but I am going to keep that a secret for those of you who read this.