He Sees Darkness, But Smiles Like The Light
By The Un-wanted Angel and Beta'd by Morgan Yukimari
The Chuunin exams are coming up really soon and it looks like Naruto needs more and more practice each day the exams come closer. While he's off practicing with his godfather, what had Minato stirred up to prevent Naruto from taking part of the Exams? Can he really do that? With an Over-protctive father, anything can happen. Thank you all for the reviews, let's keep them coming. :D Language, slight sexual content, and lots of cursing frogs are in this chapter.
This is The Un-Wanted Angel and Morgan , hoping you'll enjoy this chapter!
We do not own Naruto
CHAPTER 17
"Wrong.." Jiraiya spoke, not even looking up from his manuscript of his next book, but he heard a loud splash as Naruto fell into the icy cold water.
"Wrong" He said again, becoming annoyed with Naruto as he once again fell head-first into the water.
"Dammit! You're doing it wrong!" He tossed his script and marched over to Naruto who didn't even bother coming out of the water this time. Naruto looked up at Jiraiya who had his hands on his hips and he peered down at Naruto, slightly teasing him.
"It's a good thing you're a blonde, so you have an excuse for being stupid. Because if you weren't then you'd have a problem." Jiraiya sneered.
"Shut up! I'm trying my best!"
"Kakashi-san taught you how to walk on trees, it's the same thing as walking on water" Jiraiya spoke, not impressed. "Just do what he taught you."
Naruto hoisted himself out of the water, taking his big toe, placing it on the water, he was pleased to know that he hadn't fallen threw-yet. Jiraiya smiled slightly but frowned seeing Naruto hadn't had two seconds standing on the water and he fell in once again. "You need to create a set amount of chakra needed to expel for the use of jutsu," He spoke. Naruto groaned, not understanding at all what Jiraiya was talking about and his face showed his expression: Clueless.
Jiraiya took a step forward, doing exactly what he told Naruto to do and he stood on water.
"See? It's only slightly harder than Tree-climbing. Now you try it." He spoke.
Still, Naruto fell threw the water.
"Grrr...Do I need to dress in a pink Tutu and ballet slippers and prance around on this water, to show you how easy this is?!" Jiraiya screamed. Naruto glared at his Godfather.
"Listen old man! I'm trying my best, if you don't like it then-"
"Naruto."
"You can leave! I don't need your help anyway!"
"Naruto...you're doing it."
Naruto looked down, then he grinned, leaping in the air with a big: 'yahoo!' Naruto called as he jumped in the air, landing on the water without falling. Jiraiya smirked. He knew if he insulted the younger blonde then he'd do it correctly.
After lunch, Jiraiya and Naruto were in the great fields of Konoha. Naruto was pumped and ready to go.
"Now that you've gotten down chakra control well, I can start teaching you the summoning jutsu." Jiraiya smiled. Of course with Kyuubi's chakra "helping" Naruto, things could get out of hand, but I promised Minato-kun that I'd step in if anything got out of hand.
"History lesson, Naruto, so listen up" Jiraiya spoke before continuing. "Who did I teach this to when he was my student?" He held up his index finger and Naruto was quiet. After five minutes Jiraiya opened his eyes seeing Naruto staring at him
"Oh, come on. You don't know the answer?"
"...Is it the first Hoakge?"
"I'm not that old!"
"...your mom?"
Jiraiya growled seeing Naruto giggle.
"No! I tought this move to your father." Naruto gasped, Jiraiya continued to talk. "I tought this to him when he was my student and I will admit, he didn't get it on the first try, so don't feel guilty if you get this wrong." Naruto grinned, nodding his head.
"But that water-thing, after what fifteen times and you still didn't get it right? Then you should be embarrassed about that one." Jiraiya smirked.
"Shut it!" Naruto stood with his feet apart. "Tell me what to do Ero-sennin."
"Say: Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto repeated, "got it" Jiraiya yanked out a scroll from his backpack and the scroll opened. Naruto looked at it. It had many, many names on the scroll. Naruto could see Jiraiya's name and his father's. He smiled, his heart filling with pride seeing he would soon write his name on the scroll soon. "It's the contract of the frogs for summoning purposes. It has been passed down for many generations. I gave this to your father when he was ready to own it, but before I owned it and before me the third owned this"
Naruto's eyes widened.
"First, write down your name with your blood, and beneath that, put down your hand print. Then, mold chakra and place the hand you used on the contract to where you want to summon the thing. The seals are the Boar, the Dog, the Bird, the Monkey and the Sheep," Jiraiya commanded.
Naruto nodded, bitting his finger, writing: Uzumaki Naruto.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" He hollered, hand signs correct. But instead of a frog...there was a baby tadpole.
Jiraiya bit his lip and took in a deep breath.
"Try...again."
Here we go again.
Minato groaned, even using "yellow flash" harmed his back. He winced when he heard a loud pop. He stumbled over to his desk, looking for files, especially Naruto's file. It had every record for Naruto's Exam Information. All Minato had to do was "decline" the file and Naruto won't be able to participate in the Cunnin Exams.
"Hee, hee. Try and hurt him now." He grinned evily at the file, almost accusing the file of being the cause of all of Naruto's Pain. He was just about to open the file when Shizune walked in to the room.
"Hokage-sama!" She shriked.
Minato turned around quickly.
"Shizune? What are you doing in here?" He asked.
"I came to grab somthing for the third, what are you doing in here?! You're supposed to be resting!" She was flustered and worried, rushing over to The Hokage as he could be seen hunched over his desk.
"I can't help it" He admitted. "I can't have Naruto entering in the Exams, I change my mind." He hurried threw the files and Shizune snatched them out of his hands.
"What are you talking about?" She asked.
Before Minato could reply, the double doors slammed open and in came Tsunde, obviously very mad, making Minato cringe in almost fear. Stomping over to the patient she had on bed-rest only to see him standing made her upset.
"Minato!" She screamed. "What are you doing here?!"
Minato bit his lip, thinking for a moment, then an idea came to his head. "Just getting a little sunshine." He smirked, trying to raise his arms to make it sound real, but instead he popped a nerve, that sent him almost screaming in pain. Tsunade glared, and of course she "escorted" Minato home. (By escorting, she kicked his ass all the way to his own home) After the Hokage was laid in bed, Tsunade looked threw the files Minato was trying to replace.
"Those are confidental." Minato spoke.
"Obviously they're not if you went to great lengths like you did." Tsunade spat. "Why do you need these anyway?" She asked.
Minato sighed. "I...I want to pull Naruto from the Exams."
"What? Why?" Tsunade asked.
Minato felt anxious. He felt he didn't want Naruto to take part in the exams, hell, he wasn't so sure that he wanted Naruto to become a ninja anymore. Tsunade found this slightly barbaric. She grumbled at Minato who was helped into bed by a few copy-ninjas. She tucked the files into her duffle bag, making sure to take it back to The Hokage's office.
"Now listen here, Minato. You nearly cost your job by doing somthing that dramatic, not to mention the relationship with your son, what would he say to you if he found out all his hard work to become a ninja was cut-short because you wouldn't let him compete?" Tsunade hollered.
Minato frowned. "I...I don't want him to be hurt."
Tsunade frowned more. "Minato, it doesn't matter what you do, somehow, someway, your child will experience pain. It's a human emotion that cannot be replaced, nor helped. Naruto's lucky I had Shizune catch you red-handed. Leave this bed one more time before your period is up and I will break every bone in your body, is that clear?!"
Minato didn't answer. He just sadly sighed.
"No, no, no, no, no, NO!" Jiraiya screamed. "Wrong!" He was frustrated. This was the umpteenth time Naruto tried the summoning jutsu and all he managed to do was create tadpoles. Jiraiya knew this jutsu was tough, but it shouldn't take this long.
"Hey, I'm trying my best!" Naruto called. "And look, this one has legs!"
"Still, it's not a toad!"
"Your face looks like one" Naruto muttered.
"What was that?!"
Sasuke huffed and he puffed. It was neer dusk and some of the stars were staring to come out of the sky. The cool wind grew colder each minute. He felt pathetic. He was sparring and so far he hit only 29 bull's eye targets out of 30. He puffed and wheezed. He had been working non-stop.
"Well, well. This is impressive." a voice spoke. Sasuke turned seeing Kakashi.
"Kakashi-sensei?" He asked. "Nice to see you, but what are you doing here, if I may ask? I thought you went to see Minato-kun"
"Hm? Oh, me? I was just walking down the road of life, watching evolution form, watching the old and the sick fall into sleep and babies taking their first steps" He sighed, smiling. "You should see it sometime."
Sasuke's face was blank. "...I see the orange book."
Kakashi looked down in his book pocket, it seemed to have been open, revealing his favorite book.
"...Well, then. Enough about me" He blushed, embarrassed on how he was caught on his lie. "What have you been doing? Oh? practicing I see?" he noticed the targets and their bull's eye hits. He was slightly impressed but something bothered him.
"Yeah...I need to keep praticing, if I want to win. I don't help at the moment, sensei"
Kakashi nodded. "I see...well, I was only going to offer you only the strongest chidori's I knew but, oh well." He brushed this off as if it was nothing but Sasuke reached out, tugging on his shirt, smirking.
"Teach me. Please."
Kakashi smiled, very interested in Sasuke "That's more like it." Training the Uchiha would be tricky, but maybe it would be worth it.
Naruto was beat. Still after six hours he still couldn't summon a stinking toad! Only tadpoles would emrge when he he tried. He was tired, he was hungry and needed a bath. What sucked was his sight was gone for the last three hours so doing that blind wasn't improving anything.
"I'm home..." Naruto called out, closing the front door.
"Oh! Naruto, is that you? come, come tell me about your day!" Minato called for Naruto upstairs in his room. Naruto slowly walked up the steps to where the light laminated the room from the double doors. There laid Minato propped up on various pillows while Shizune gently replaced his bandages wrapped around his chest. Naruto set his bag of weapons (that he packed but really didn't need) on the floor, sitting in a chair next to the king-size bed.
"So, how was your day, Naru-chan?" Minato smiled.
Naruto shrugged. "It was okay...Jiraiya-pervet-sensei taught me how to walk on water."
Minato smiled, impressed. "That's my boy. Good job, did he teach you anything else?"
Naruto told his father about the summoning jutsus Jiraiya had shown him how to do, but every time he tried to do it, he only managed to summon tadpoles or something smaller.
"He got mad at me," Naruto said. "I couldn't summon anything else."
Minato smiled sadly. "Well, don't be too hard on yourself," He patted Naruto's knee. "It was your first try."
"I'm a failure." Naruto pouted. "I can't even summon one thing!"
"Naruto...you're not a failure." Minato spoke softly yet, seriously. He didn't want Naruto to think he was no-good at anything, it wasn't true at all.
"Naruto, I can bet that with everyone who signed that scroll, that not one of those people got it on the first try."
Naruto raised his eyebrow, crossing his arms. "Did you?"
"Well, um.." Minato didn't want to lie, but the answer was yes and Naruto could tell by the sound of his voice. Naruto groaned in anger and Shizune looked up from her patient.
"If it helps, Naruto-sama, I'm a klutz." She giggled. "I'm always tripping over my feet. And Tsunade-sama is dyslexic."
Naruto gave a big disbelief face that made Minato giggled. "Oh, and let's not forget Hiruzen-san can't tell his left from his rights."
Shizune nodded. "Kakashi couldn't read until he was about ten or eleven. We're all different Naruto, so what if you can't summon things the first time. We all couldn't and still can't do certain things right at first, don't let yourself down by thinking you can't do stuff. I mean, look at your dad, he can't put his shoes on right sometimes" Minato quickly put his hand up to Shizune's mouth to prevent her from talking.
Naruto laughed. "Is that true?!"
Minato blushed. "No..."
Sakura giggled, skipping to her room with her hairbrush. Chunin exams were only a few days away and she wanted to fix her hair so it was special for her Sasuke-kun. She blushed and sighed. Sasuke was the love of her life. He was so handsome with his silk, jet-black hair and his dashing black orbed eyes.
She began to skip over to her window when she couldn't believe her luck.
Sasuke was there walking down her street talking to Kakashi!
She hurried as fast as she could outside.
"Sasuke-kun!" She chimed. Sasuke turned around, giving a small smile.
"Hello Sakura-san."
"Hello, what are you two up to?"
"Well, I'm-" Kakashi started but Sakura cut him off.
"Yeah, that's fine-what about you, Sasuke-kun?" She blushed.
Sasuke shrugged. "I'm headed home. See ya' around." He waved, being polite.
Sakura waved back, giggling.
Kakashi had a bad feeling about Sakura, as much as he cared for her as his student, he had somthing telling him somthing was going to happen in the back of his head.
Well, as you have all noticed by my poll, that the voting is now over and I think you all know what ending you're gonna' get. So, now that you're reading this, I guess it's time to review! :)
-The Un-wanted Angel
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