Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!
I figured I'd publish this chapter on my computer so I could organize and type it faster. I'll be revising and updating the previous two chapters to be more organized too!
Meh! Another time skip, how repulsive! Anyways hey guys I'm back with the next chapter. I've tried to lengthen this one out but it's going to be around the same size as the previous chapter but they will be getting larger as the story progresses.
Key:
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Tailed Beasts/Inner-Sakura Talking"
'Tailed Beasts/Inner-Sakura Thinking'
Flashbacks
Well here it is, Enjoy!
Introduction Arc: Chapter 3 – Homecoming
(4 Year Timeskip)
A boy and man were walking through the woods at a steady pace. The boy had blonde spiky hair and bright cerulean eyes. He wore a black cloak with a red Uzamaki symbol in the center of the back and orange flames on the bottom edge, black ANBU pants, a black shirt with an orange symbol for Konoha on the front and standard ninja sandals.
"Oi ero-sennin, up for a challenge?" asked Naruto.
The sage sighed then responded. "Sure but if I win you have to call me, hm... Jiraiya. The great! The Gallant! The Heroic! The, Oof!"
Naruto looked down smugly at his master who was currently lying on the ground. "Maybe The Clumsy too eh?" he suggested before stepping over him and continuing walking.
Jiraiya soon caught up. "Alright fine it'll be anything but ero-sennin. So what's the challenge?"
"First if I win you owe me all the money you used for uh entertainment at the brothels. Alright the challenge is..." he paused. "FIRST ONE TO KONOHA WINS!" he shouted while taking off.
Jiraiya quickly went through many handsigns. "Summoning Jutsu!" and with that Gamabunta appeared.
"This better be good ero-sennin." he grumpily said. Jiraiya sweatdropped before getting to business.
"Get me to Konoha as fast as you can!" he shouted.
Gamabunta got a little more serious. "Why, is it under attack?"
"No, worse!"
"No... There's only one thing. You're broke and Naruto made a bet where you will owe him all the money you "borrowed." Well I just realized I have an.. uhm.. appointment! Yes an appointment. Goodluck. Ero-sennin." Gamabunta then poofed out of existence.
"Shit, I guess I better start running. Naruto wait up! You cheated and hey I didn't know that wallet in your backpack was yours! It could have been anybody's!"
"Well ero-sennin, you lost. And I already know your dirt poor due to your "research" so I'll let it slide." Naruto stretched and yawned. "Whew! It's nice to be home. Everyone your future Hokage has returned!" he shouted.
Jiraiya shook his head at his shenanigans. "Come on Naruto let's go see the Hokage."
"No need, I'm right here" spoke a voice from behind.
"You really are a stalker sensei... Do I even need to summarize our trip and how well Naruto has progressed or did you happen to follow us all around then too?" questioned Jiraiya sarcastically.
Naruto simply smacked Jiraiya upside the head. "You're just as bad if not worse ero-sennin."
"Ero-sennin eh? I kinda like that." By now Jiraiya looked like he was ready to curl up and cry. "So Ero-Sennin, how about you give me the report later and go relax for a day. I'd give you more days but I've got an itching feeling those brothels you visited were pretty, relaxing... Naruto, you get the next two weeks off. Teams aren't picked until then and I know you worked your hardest. Jiraiya I want that report in two days!" the Hokage finished before poofing away.
'Damn I only have tomorrow off and I have to write a report about a 4 year trip in under 2 days... I get the feeling I'm not going to be relaxing at all...'
"Well ero-sennin, good luck with those reports!" said Naruto before running off.
Jiraiya's hand was cringing in pain when he finished the report. It turned out it was actually dislocated but the Hokage didn't spare him any time to recover.
-With Naruto-
Naruto walked back into his apartment, he really didn't need a break from his training, but he decided he'd have lunch before taking a small nap to recover from his travels. After that was done he went back out to find a training ground that was open. He of course eventually stumbled across one which was a large open grass field surrounded by trees with a pond on one side of it.
'Perfect! Now let's begin!' he thought before forming a seal. "Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu!" and with that five shadow clones appeared. They all looked at one another before looking at him and coming to a silent agreement. 'Let's beat him this time!' and so they charged at him. Naruto just sighed at their all to direct approach before straightening his posture and sticking his left arm out and planted his right leg behind him firmly on the ground.
The first clone that made it to him went for a direct approach, a punch straight for the face. Naruto pivoted to his left on his right foot, easily avoiding the punch. Before he had time to retaliate he noticed another clone above him with his leg raised, ready to deliver a painful kick to the head. Naruto narrowly avoided the kick by jumping backwards and out of harm's way.
"Now I've got you!" screamed a clone behind him. Naruto jumped up into the air to avoid the legs that swept under him trying to make him loose his footing. 'Do I seriously alert my opponents to when I'm about to attack…' Naruto thought as he sighed.
He then sensed a figure above him and looked up in time to see a clone throw a shuriken and then go through multiple hand seals. "Now I've got you! Multi-Shadow Shuriken Jutsu!" The shuriken went from being one to a couple hundred shuriken flying at him. 'Shit! I've got to think fast, I can't avoid this I'm still suspended in air!' he thought. He then formed a few handsigns, "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!" shooting a pulse of air at the shurikens, scattering them across the training ground.
As he started to descend back towards the ground he realized a clone was missing. 'Underground!' He then looked down to see the last clone burst from the ground, his palm covered in wind chakra. Naruto quickly performed the same jutsu.
"Wind Release: Wind Palm!" they said as they collided. The resulting explosion of air pressure not only sent them both flying in opposite directions but also destroyed the other clones. When the last remaining clone and Naruto recovered, they smirked before charging at one another. They began the engagement throwing fists at any openings they thought they could hit, only to be blocked and countered. Finally they both pulled out kunais and began clashing, with the sound of metal resonating throughout the training field. After a few minutes of their struggle for dominance they simultaneously decided that the spar needed to end and both went for the others neck.
Naruto smirked at the situation, "Draw" he spoke as he looked between the kunai at his neck and the one at the clone's. The clone smirked before cancelling itself. Naruto sighed in content at his warm up spar. 'Now to just train chakra control for a while before I go visit the Hokage.'
-Later that day at the Hokage Tower-
*Knock, Knock*
"Enter!" spoke a firm voice from inside.
Naruto walked in to see the old Hokage working on the same thing as always, paperwork. He held back a chuckle and walked into the office. The Hokage looked up and smiled at the person as he recognized who it is. "Naruto! What can I do for you? Are you here to report some bad behavior from Jiraiya? I can most definitely take of it if that's the case!" he inquired.
Naruto laughed and shook his head, "While Jiraiya was rather terrible when it came to brothels and other 'research', I already got my revenge." Naruto then let out a devious laugh before quickly becoming serious again. "Anyways I'm here to see if you can finally answer my question I asked before I left." The Hokage's previous smile turned extremely serious, he really had been dreading this moment.
-Flashback-
(4 years ago, right after defeating Mizuki)
"Hey! Let go!" screamed Naruto. "Who are you?" he questioned irritably.
"I am your godfather, my name is Jiraiya." said the man.
"And your also being unusually serious for once." spoke a voice from behind. It was the Hokage.
"Hokage-sama!" "Sensei!"
'I'm still not used to Naruto being like this... 8 years old, already a genin, one of the most intelligent of his generation and respectful. That last one still gets me the most...' thought the professor as he continued approaching them.
"Well Naruto, me and Jiraiya have an offer for you. If you wish, we'll allow you to go on a training trip with him for four years where then you'll return and have the ability to be with a team your age or remain here and be by far the youngest genin." Spoke the old man.
"I don't know... I barely even know the guy and he claims to be my godfather. If that's the case I don't see a reason I should if he hasn't been here for the past 8 years of my life to take care of me." Both the Hokage and Jiraiya opened their mouths to speak but Naruto continued, "but, I'll give you ONE chance to make it up... While I'm furious that you're just now coming to help, you're the only family I seem to have." Naruto said exasperating. "Just one request though, if you're my godfather, you must know who my parents were, can you at least tell me?" Naruto asked with a hopeful voice.
Jiraiya and the Hokage looked at one another before sighing. "Naruto," Jiraiya spoke up, "We both know who it is and it's not safe to tell you now, please try to understand."
Naruto grew aggravated, "Soooo…. Why should I go on a training trip with someone for FOUR YEARS if he can't even grace with the knowledge of who my parents are! Especially since you claim to be my 'GODFATHER,' or were you lying?!" he yelled.
Jiraiya's expression grew gravely serious, "Naruto, it's for your own protection. How about this I'll tell you a little about them and eventually once Hokage-sama thinks your strong enough to know it, he'll tell you. Sound like a deal?" Naruto sighed, this was better than nothing and then nodded his head in agreement.
"Well your father was one of the most deadly ninja of his time, known throughout the ninja world as a dangerous adversary. But his great power brought him numerous enemies much stronger than you can currently handle. That's why you can't know for now. Now, your mother. She was a beautiful young woman but…" Jiraiya stopped to shiver for a second, "Pissing her off was more scary then facing the Kyubi itself… Anyways I'll let you know one more thing about her. She was the previous jinchuuriki of the Kyubi."
Naruto took in all the information he had received while Jiraiya and the Hokage hoped that would be enough for the time being. They almost jumped for joy when he looked at them with a small smirk, "Thanks for at least telling me something," he then turned serious and focused on the hokage. "But you better be ready to tell me when I get back, because when I do, I'll be more than strong enough to defend myself against anybody who would try to attack me."
-Flashback End-
"Naruto, I still need to test your strength. In two weeks, you'll get your sensei and you and your teammates will be tested by him. I'll observe you then and if I do indeed deem you worthy, I'll tell you about your parents." The Hokage said.
"Be ready." Naruto said with determination as he left the Hokage's office.
The Hokage sighed, 'I will be, I just hope you can handle the truth.'
A/N: And there we go! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, Naruto's question will be answered soon but how will he react? Anyways all the details of what went on during his training trip will be answered, just not all at once(because that's way too much to put into once chapter, unless I make that chapter much bigger than one like this one.) Sakura will come in next chapter, but she'll start off disliking Naruto, who still has a crush on her but also is annoyed with her constant obsession over Sasuke and seemingly endless hatred towards himself.
Multi-Shadow Shuriken Jutsu – B-Rank due to its deadly potential. Basically it clones the target weapon into a desired number of that weapon, of course the higher number of clones the more chakra it costs.
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough – C-Rank Technique that scales depending on user or input of chakra. It's a pulse/gust of wind in one direction.
Naruto Uzamaki: Genin.
Age: 12
Speed: 8.5
Stealth: 8 -NEW
Stamina: 13.5
Strength: 8.5
Chakra Reserves: 13.5
Chakra Control: 5.5
Intelligence: 7.5
Taijutsu: 8
Ninjutsu: 10.5
Genjutsu: 1
Fuinjutsu: 3
Kenjutsu: 4.5 – NEW
Update will come when I get the chance to polish up Chapter 4 and post it!