A Long Road

by Code Awesome

Naruto has been gone for 5 years and has learned new fighting styles and abilities from a land far away. War and loss has taught him maturity and has left him effected for the rest of his life. How will he deal with his life in Konoha after all he has been through? Naruto/Knight i may incorporate a love interest later in the story.

3. Chapter 3

A Long Road Ch 3

A Naruto Fan Fiction

I do not own Naruto

Ch 3 Run!

3 Months after Naruto left Konoha.

Naruto was having a hard time believing that this was the man that had trained the forth Hokage. In the few months that he had left to train with Jiraiya only a few days were put aside for Naruto. The old sage had spent most of his free time chasing women and Naruto had been fed up with the situation for quite some time.

"Yo, old perv! When you going t' teach me some new moves!" Naruto yelled impatiently at Jiraiya "When you've mastered the rasengan ill teach you more." "I have you lazy fart! Its all I've been doing since we left!" "Fine if you stop yelling ill teach you something when we reach the next village!" With that they both walked in silence.

They had both been testing each other's patience for a long time now and Naruto had been wondering if he could have learned more if he had stayed at Konoha with Kakashi. Still, as long as he was with Jiraiya he had a feeling he would learn important life lessons; like leaving your wallet with a stripper or giving a hooker the key to your apartment. Naruto couldn't imagine what was going through his head most of the time, not that he would have wanted to.

By the time they arrived at the village it was dark and Jiraiya insisted that Naruto's lesson would have to wait until morning. Naruto was having a hard time sleeping he was restless at the thought of what he would learn. Jiraiya woke up abruptly and looked around the room. "Naruto we're leaving." Jiraiya said in a serous tone worrying Naruto. "What?" "We're leaving right now." He got up and started packing his things quickly. Naruto was still a little confused by the situation "Jiraiya what's happening?" Naruto was starting to panic and Jiraiya noticed. "Naruto ill explain everything soon but for now go and take only your essentials."

Naruto grabbed everything that he could and put them in a storage seal. Jiraiya pulled out some explosive tags and stuck them by the creases on the door. "Naruto we need to leave out the window." Naruto stood by the window waiting for Jiraiya to finish packing. "Hey! Your not allowed to bring those weapons inside!" they could hear the owner yelling down stairs "Their here." Jiraiya said in a hushed tone sticking a few more tags on the door. Naruto could hear a scuffle and then the sickening crunch of bone. Jiraiya turned to Naruto and said, "Jump to roof of the next building. Ill be right behind you." Naruto was frightened; he had never seen Jiraiya act like this before. "Go!" at that Naruto jumped. He landed just in time to turn and see the apartment erupt in flame. The walls near the window blew out completely and rubble pelted his face. Jiraiya had got out just in time avoid the blast but wasted no time. "RUN!"

Naruto started to go as fast as his feet could carry him; he didn't look back for fear that he might trip. His eyes darted from side to side looking for a danger he couldn't see. Within a few minutes they reached the edge of the small town and darted into the forest. They both stopped to rest before they had to run again. "Wh—who were they?" "They call themselves the Akatsuki," he said trying to catch his breath "now come on Naruto, this isn't over yet." Just then a man wearing a black robe with red clouds walked out from seemingly nowhere. "Y'know for a old man and a kid you sure can run." The man in question resembled a fish with a giant sword on its back, with blue skin and gills he was a very surprising site. Naruto felt the urge to run but he knew it would be safer with Jiraiya. Yo, kid come with us now and we will let him live." "Us?" Jiraiya questioned. Darting out of the trees behind them was another man wearing the same outfit, only this one had the eyes of an Uchiha.

This caught Jiraiya off guard and almost didn't notice the fish-man charging at him, sword in hand. He managed to jump to the side just in time to avoid the blow. The old sage then realized that the attack was directed at Naruto. Like Jiraiya Naruto managed to dodge by jumping into a tree; but he had not expected a follow up so soon. He could have been killed by the strange man if not for Jiraiya who tackled Naruto onto the ground. Getting up as fast as he could he preformed a series of hand signs. The surrounding forest came alive as pink moist flesh sprouted from everywhere and consumed their adversaries.

Naruto noticed that Jiraiya was holding his side and panting heavily. "Are you alright?!" On closer inspection he noticed that blood was running down his side like a stream. "Jiraiya!" Naruto called "Ill be fine Naruto. Listen take these kuni and explosive tags and run until you can't move a muscle. You got that?" he said calmly "WHAT? I'm not leaving you here! Lets go together while there distracted!" "That wont work Naruto. I'm sorry this is what needs to happen… ill find you later when I'm done with these two. Ok?" a gentle smile appeared and Naruto knew what was about to happen but still he couldn't move from that spot.

The cocoon that had surrounded their enemies erupted in a black flame. "GO!" Naruto didn't have a second of hesitation about him as he took off running into the forest. Jiraiya looked at the direction Naruto had gone. "You will understand someday this is the way it had to be."

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Thanks for reading.

I was thinking that the next few chapters would be like this and then I alternate between the two parts to this story as it continues.

The more reviews that I get the faster I will come out with the next chapters

Currently I don't have a Beta reader to edit for me if you would like to volunteer you can PM me.

If you have an idea for the story I would be glad to hear it .

Code Awesome out!