"Kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

"Regular Talking"

'Regular Thinking'

I Do Not Own Naruto

Naruto the Crimson Chain Wielder

Team 7 left Wave with heavy hearts as they had all grown attached to the village and the people who lived there but they did want to get home to their village too.

"Will the village really accept me into it?" Haku asked Naruto has she had been worried for quite some time about that.

"Yea, the village will love you and I can get the Hokage to let you in." Naruto said with a reassuring smile making her blush prettily.

"How do you know that?"

"I'm pretty close to him, so I know I can convince him."

'Hmmm, I guess I got really lucky to have met a friend of the Hokage.' Haku thought to herself as she felt really happy to be getting another chance at living a life of her choosing. 'Plus this gives me time to get to know Naruto-kun more.'

A couple hours later the group of ninja can see the front gates of Konohagakure, "there she is." Naruto said happily as Haku looks on, amazed at what she is seeing.

"Its beautiful."

"Halt!" One of the gate guards said as they approached, "You all need to sigh in."

"Team 7 returning from a successful C-rank mission with a new ally." Anko stated to him and the other guard as she handed them her documents.

The guard seemed to look over the documents and glanced at the new addition to this group for a bit, as if deciding what to do. As he finished looking over the documents, he decided to let them through, but not before telling Haku to speak with the Hokage. With that done the team jumped to the rooftops in order to reach the Hokage Tower more quickly.

Upon reaching the Hokage Tower Anko turned to the team "I can handle the official report while me and Naruto will get Haku settled in you two are dismissed until further notice." She told Kiba and Sai.

"Good I need some sleep and then hopefully some training, I'll see you later Anko-sensei, Naruto-taicho." Kiba said as he left while Sai simply nodded.

They entered the Hokage's office to see Kurenai and team 8 in front of the Hokage's desk and decided to shout out about her team's success. "Anko Mitarashi reporting in for team 7 and our successful C-rank turned A-rank mission." She says loudly making Naruto shake his head a bit and Haku giggle at that. After Anko had yelled that out it shocked everyone in the room but made Sasuke fume.

"What! That loser got an A-rank mission but I'm still stuck doing chores." Sasuke yelled at that fact. "I demand we get a better mission." He yelled as he looked at his sensei who seemed to narrow her eyes at that.

The Hokage then let out some killing intent on him making everyone sweat a little bit. "You don't make demands of your superior boy, but if you want a new mission then so be it." The man behind the desk said to them and stopped his killing intent.

Haku also didn't take too lightly to having the person she admired insulted but Naruto had calmed her down with a grateful smile.

"Are you sure Hokage-sama? I'm not too sure of my team's readiness for a C-rank." Kurenai said kindly while composing herself after the little incident. She knew Shino and Hinata were ready but the stuck up Uchiha could use some more training to control his emotions.

Hearing his sensei try to avoid a C-rank mission just made the Uchiha fume even more but the other two understood what she was talking about.

"Nonsense Kurenai-chan, I'm sure they can handle the mission I had in mind." The old man said and proceeded to give them a mission while watching the Uchiha carefully.

"Alright team, meet up at the north gate in two days at 11 am, fully packed for a three week mission." She said to the team and they nodded and left the room.

"Hey Nai-chan, meet me at the bar tonight with the other girls." Anko said to her friend who just nodded happily and left as she waved to Naruto and glanced curiously at the girl next to him.

"How did the mission go Anko-chan, Naruto-kun?" The kind old man asked them as he looked to Haku. "I see you have brought a new friend with you."

"It went perfect old man. Naruto was a perfect leader and he took on Zabuza for a short while and managed to defeat him. The second time, it was closer but me and him worked together to beat him. He also offered Haku here a place in our village but she was the accomplice of Zabuza and wasn't treated all that well. Naruto took it on himself to see that she would be safe." She said making the two teens blush a bit making the Hokage chuckle a bit.

"Wow. I knew you were better than you let on but I didn't think you hid that much Naruto-kun. Congratulations and I would like to know a bit more about you, Haku-chan." He said as smiling as Naruto blushed at the praise but he still looked to the now uncertain Haku in reassurance.

"Well, I am from the Yuki clan from Kiri but I had to flee from there." She said not noticing the widening of the Hokage's eyes. "Bloodlines were hated there and when my father saw that I had one, he killed my mother in front of a mob he formed." She said as she tired to force the words out through her tears making Naruto pat her back in comfort. Haku didn't say it but she was grateful for his presence.

"After that he had came and I was so afraid that my ice bloodline kicked in and made sharp spikes of ice that killed all the people of the mob." She explained as she looked at the ground.

"I see." Hiruzen said as he was saddened at the poor girls loss but he could see the care that Naruto had in his eyes and the happiness that the girl had from being close to the boy and he grinned. "In that case I welcome you to our village Haku-chan."

The girl looked up quickly while wiping the last of her tears away, "Ar-are you sure?" She asked him with a lot of hope in her voice.

"I'm sure." He said kindly at her, "I will get the necessary work done and I know of a place where you can live in."

Haku didn't know what to say so she just turned to Naruto and jumped on him while letting a few tears fall. "Thank you so much for what you have done for me Naruto-kun."

Naruto blushed a light pink but smiled softy to the girl, not really paying attention to the half amused, half annoyed look from Anko. "I'm glad to have you here now Haku-chan."

Haku just hugs him tighter hiding her blush from his face. 'I truly believe that I have found something that I have always wanted.'

Turning back to the woman in front of him, the Hokage said, "well Anko-chan your team can have about two weeks off of missions unless you are needed."

"Alright, bye old man." She said with a relieved sigh, something that Haku and Naruto both could agree on and they left the room.

Leaving behind the grumbling Hokage, "I'm not that old."

Later on we see Anko, Hana, Kurenai, Yuugao, and Tsume at a restaurant just sitting down when Hana asks, "hey Anko, how was your mission? My brother didn't do anything too stupid I hope." She finished making them all giggle.

"No, he followed his orders perfectly, all the hell I put them through is paying off I guess. We ran into some problems along the way but nothing too bad, although Naruto got wounded when we were there though." She responded with a small frown.

"What? Is he ok?" Hana asked worriedly for her crush while the others were worried for their student. All except Kurenai as she had seen him earlier and he looked alright.

"Yea, he's fine. He's really strong already after all and he has his clan's quick healing. With my training he's practically unstoppable too." She said with pride although she still felt bad about him getting hurt though.

"Then how did he get hurt?" Tsume asked making the others nod.

"Well, he had just defeated Zabuza Momochi in battle. It wa-

"Wait, he beat Zabuza the demon of the bloody mist in a fight. That's incredible." Yuugao said with shock and awe on her face that resembled the faces of the other women at the table as well.

"Yea, he hit him with powerful wind jutsu he shot off. But anyway, a hunter-nin came out and threw senbon needles into Zabuza's neck when I had arrived and was trying to take him away. I asked what was going on but Naruto already had suspicions that the girl was a fake and questioned her about it. Out of nowhere, she threw some senbon at me and I wasn't ready for them at all but Naruto jumped in front of me to protect me and took the hit." Anko finished with a small, guilty expression on her face.

The women were in shock that Naruto would do that but quickly got over it and their admiration and respect, or in Hana's case, love for him went up by a lot.

"Wow, so he saved you from taking the pain. He's a hero, not to mention the perfect guy. Probably the only one and you don't need to feel guilty about him getting hurt. It wasn't your fault Anko-chan." Hana said after a while with a small blush that her mother saw.

'I knew that he would be a perfect fit for her.' She thought with an amused smile, 'now I wonder how long until I have some grand-pups.' "Yea, and besides he's perfectly fine."

"Yea, I guess. I just really felt bad about not being ready for it at all and watching him get hurt because of me just got to me a bit." Anko sad a little sadly but it was replaced with a grin making them all suspicious. "On the bright side, I have admitted my feelings for him and he admitted to having feelings for me too. We're now officially together; along with Hinata though." She said making the Hana fume slightly at that but the other women smiled happily for their friend.

"What! You guys got together, that's no fair I thought we were going to get him together." Hana yells loudly making the other women look at her in amusement, seeing this she quickly blushes and sits down.

"Aww is Hana jealous." Tsume said with a smirk at her daughter as she watcher her blush more."Well, I approve of him so you better snatch him up soon. I do want some grand-pups to spoil."

"Mom." Hana whines with a blush at that thought a bit making the whole table continue to giggle while Anko blushed a bit too.

"I'm sure that you will both be happy to be with Naruto. We had helped raise him after all." Yuugao said to the two women with a triumphant grin at their finally being a guy who wasn't a huge pervert, but a perfect gentleman.

"Now, all I have to do is get Ayame so we can snag him too." Hana said making them all giggle again as they begin their meal.

Then next morning Naruto is spending time with Haku and showing her around when they hear some perverted giggling, and its not from a woman. Naruto looks around and finds himself nearby a hot spring and he instantly grows annoyed. Haku sees what he sees and the air around them begins to get much colder but she just smiles sweetly, making even Naruto afraid. They both know what is going on so they follow the giggling.

Sitting in a up on the next building over was a pretty big guy. He was a tall man with waist-length, spiky white hair, that was tied back into a pony tail, with two shoulder-length bangs that framed both sides of his face. He also had red lines that ran down from his eyes and wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for 'Oil.' He wore a green short shirt kimono and matching pants; under which he wore mesh armor that showed out of the sleeves and legs of his outfit. His outfit was completed with hand guards, a simple black belt, traditional Japanese getas, and a red haori with two simple yellow circles on each side. He appears to be about 6' 7, maybe a little more.

Naruto and Haku decided to slowly approach the man and knock him into the hot springs so the women could have their revenge on the disgusting pervert. Getting closer, Naruto suddenly yelled, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU OLD PERVERT," right behind the man making him jump in surprise as Haku threw some senbon at a very weak area on the man and forced him to jump away.

He didn't really notice where he was jumping though as he was much more focused on protecting himself and he landed inside the women's side of the hot springs and was promptly beat up.

"PERVERT."

"LET'S BEAT HIS ASS."

"I'M GOING TO CASTRATE YOU."

These were some of the shouts coming from the hot springs making any near by man protect their weak zone and shake their heads in pity for the fool. Naruto just looked away and listened to the righteous feminine fury taking place with a chuckle as Haku just smiled and looked like everything was going right in the world..

Shortly after the horrific beating of the older man he was thrown over the wall and he landed on the ground in a bloody heap. "WHAT THE HELL GAKI." The man shouted at blond walking towards him with a smirk on his face.

"Not my problem your a shameless pervert." He said calmly to the man.

"I'm not a pervert... I'm a super pervert." He said making Naruto sweat drop while Haku fumed at him but that was before some nearby women came over and pummeled him quickly which she joined in on. She did get annoyed when the women left as they blushed and waved at Naruto who, being polite, returned the gesture. They ran off after that with even bigger blushes and more giggles while whispering to each other.

'Hmph, fangirls.' Haku thought to herself as she then began to get back to Naruto.

"Anyway, who are you and why did you do that to a fellow man?" The older male asked as he looked the blond over, already knowing who he really was and he warily looked at the girl next to him. She was definitely a looker all right, but he sensed a familiar aura of death around her, it was almost exactly like his old teammate Tsunade's. "Do you even know who I am?"

"No and I don't really care. My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I did that because I don't like perverts." Naruto answered shocking the man while Haku smiled happily with a blush at having found a good man.

'Hates pervert... Aww Minato was the same way.' The old man was thought to himself in minor disappointment but on the outside he was calm. "Alright Naruto, how about I train you a bit?"

"What?" Naruto asks confused and a bit suspicious. He just sold this guy out to a bunch of angry women and he wants to train him?

Haku wasn't doing any better as she would have thought the man would be angry at them. She then stepped closer to Naruto which was noticed by the man as he smirked at them.

"Yea, I'm going to teach you a couple things. Actually I have the perfect jutsu for you to master." the older man says while still grinning like an idiot.

"I still don't even know your name yet and you want to train me. Why?" Naruto asks again.

"Well first of all, my name is Jiraiya, the Toad Sannin and the greatest man in the entire world. As to why I want to train you, I see a lot of potential in you." He yelled out at the beginning before ending completely serious getting Naruto and Haku to sweat drop. 'I also owe you about 12 years of lost time.' He thinks to himself sadly.

"Your Jiraiya of the sannin... Wow, I thought you were going to actually be awesome and not some perverted sage." Naruto said making Jiraiya face plant into the ground while Haku giggled happily.

"Fine, I guess you don't want to be trained by a sannin." He said while turning away childishly while beginning to walk away.

"Wait, I do want to be trained by you ero-sannin." He said making the man get a tick on his head at the nickname.

"Fine, but don't call me that. Follow me brats, were going to the store." He said and led the way to the closest store they could find. He bought a bunch of balloons and rubber balls making the two confused and then they left the store.

"Ok... Why did we just buy some water balloons and rubber balls?" Naruto asked Jiraiya.

"Man your impatient, you'll see when I show you the technique I'm going to teach you." He said and then stopped in the center of the random training grounds they entered. "Now this is a secret technique that only a few have ever learned so do you want her here to see this?" He asked pointing to Haku.

"Of course she can stay. I'm sure you can keep a secret, right Haku-chan?" Naruto asked as he looked at her while she nodded seriously.

"Alright then." Jiraiya said while making sure no one else was around, he put the supplies on the ground and lifted his hand out creating a swirling ball of chakra in his hand.

"Wow, what's that ero-sannin?" Naruto asked in awe at the blue ball of chakra while Haku is just as amazed as he is.

"One, don't call me that and two it's called the rasengan (spiraling sphere). The Fourth Hokage taught it to me after he created it and I'm going to teach it to you." Jiraiya said and smirked at Naruto's stunned expression.

"The Yondaime's prized jutsu, next to the hiraishin of course." Naruto said. "This is amazing, and your going to teach me how to do this?" He asked almost not believing him.

"Yep, first you have to gather the chakra in your hand and pop a water balloon. That is the first step of the rasengan." He said and popped the balloon as an example and gave Naruto one and began to leave.

"Where are you going?" Naruto asked as he and Haku watched him leaving.

"I'm going to have a word with the Hokage. Just keep training until you can pop the balloon with your chakra and I will find you for the next step." He said and disappeared with a shunshin leaving Naruto to grumble about lazy old perverts while Haku laughed and waited for him to begin.

Jiraiya appeared right in front of the old Hokage with an amused look on his face making Sarutobi get a knowing look.

"I see you have met you godson, Naruto." Said the old man smiling as he had been watching the whole event take place through his crystal ball.

"Yeah I met the gaki and his little girlfriend after they sent me into the hot springs to be beaten down. I guess I know why you called me back to the village now." Jiraiya said making the old man chuckle a bit. "I have him learning the beginning steps of the rasengan now.

"He is trained very well so I'm sure it won't take so long I made sure of that." Hiruzen said with a smile, "he is already low jounin strength around now."

"Low jounin strength already?" Jiraiya asked a bit surprised as that is even better than his father was at that age.

"Yes, he also has his bloodline from his mother's side of the family."

"Really? Does he know about his family yet?" Jiraiya asks.

"No, but I'm guessing you want to tell him and train him more as well. I'm sure he could also use the hiraishin some day too as Minato-kun had made it to where only people of his blood could. He learns very quickly and has two weeks off so I think he will get fairly far in that amount of time if you really train him well." The old man said happily that his student will train his surrogate grandson.

"Hiraishin, yea I'll teach him some fuinjutsu along side the rasengan and I will also help him with summoning. After he masters the rasengan's first form I will tell him about his family and then start on sealing. Its in his blood after all and I'm sure he'll excel quickly in it just like any Uzumaki would." Jiraiya said and moved to leave the room but was stopped.

"Get some of those special fuinjutsu scrolls ready Jiraiya, he probably already popped the balloon." The old man laughed when he saw the gobsmacked expression on his student's face as he hid the crystal ball under his desk.

"Wow, he must be pretty good then. I'm gonna spar with him too and see exactly where he's at right now. He'll be a hell of a lot stronger for his next mission that's for sure." Jiraiya said with a laugh and shunshined out of the room.

It has been about six days since Jiraiya has been training Naruto in the use of the rasengan and some basic fuinjutsu, although Naruto had already known some of them having read a bit about them. He had completed the first two steps of the rasengan in the first two days showing how much of a prodigy Naruto was to Jiraiya. Haku was also helped a bit by Jiraiya but not too much as she had begun to take medic training at the hospital and was busy for a good amount of each day.

That doesn't mean that she and Naruto hadn't spent much time together though, she lived right next door to him and they had dinner together a lot. They were constantly growing closer together.

In the training field Naruto is now on the last step and has been at it for the last two days, "man, why is this step so hard to do?" He questioned mostly to himself getting a chuckle from the nearby Sannin surprising Naruto as he hasn't been sticking around to train him, only giving him some instruction and then doing what he does best. He stops by now and then but not enough times if you ask Naruto.

"Its incredible you have it this far along in the first place. I thought you would take a lot longer than four days to get to this step." Jiraiya said with a good amount of respect and pride in his voice.

"Hey ero-sannin, you're actually here today. Are you going to stay with me as I master this or just go and peek of women again?" He asked while the old sage smirked at his student.

"I came by to see how you were doing and I also wanted a spar with you. I need to see your low jounin strength for myself." He said as he hadn't gotten around to sparring yet but this time Naruto was smirking.

"Low jounin strength, who told you I was low jounin strength?"

"The sandaime did, and your name has been spreading quite a bit around Wave and even Mist. A lot of people have heard of the chidarake chiein sureiya (bloody chain slayer)" Jiraiya said with a smirk at the slightly shocked but still prideful Naruto.

"Awesome, people are learning of me in the mist village. The people of Wave must have really looked up to me to spread the word so quickly." Naruto said with a smile.

"That's not necessarily a good thing Naruto, other ninja are going to be looking out for you now. They may have even added you to the bingo book. I'm not sure as of now but I'll have to get the updated version soon." Jiraiya said sternly making the blond get serious.

"Alright ero-sannin, I'll just have to train harder and be more careful is all." Naruto said confidently, not that worried about being added to the bingo book, besides he had an awesome title.

"Alright then Naruto, lets start our spar for now. Come at me with everything you've got, but I'm not just going to be standing here waiting for you to attack, so be prepared. I'm so going to get you for calling me that stupid nick name." Said Jiraiya with a only small amount of amusement in his tone of voice.

"Sure thing ero-sannin, I just hope you don't break a hip while avoiding my attacks." Naruto said while stressing the nick name he gave to the sannin. He then calms himself and gets into his fighting stance.

'Well, at least he knows when to be funny and when to be serious. This is going to be interesting, that's for sure.' Jiraiya thought to himself before beginning a set of hand seals and whispering "Suiton Suiryuudan no Jutsu" (Water Release: Water Dragon Jutsu). Instantly, from a nice sized lake nearby, the dragon suddenly emerged and attacked Naruto, who was remaining calm upon hearing the dragon roaring.

The blond calmly processed that he probably shouldn't get hit by the massive water dragon and chose not to face the danger. Using some chakra, he jumped to the side and whipped some of his chains into the head of the dragon.

He charged Jiraiya, once again, adding chakra to his feet for an upgrade in speed before reaching and aiming a devastating punch to the man's chest. Jiraiya used his hand to swat Naruto's punch to the side and used the other arm to attempt to punch the blond's ribs, but barely missed because of Naruto bending his body a little bit.

After jumping away from the sannin, while doing some back flips, Naruto jumped a little higher before taking some shurikens and throwing at Jiraiya before making hand seals and calling, "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" (Shuriken Shadow Clone). Jiraiya was only a little impressed upon seeing the four shurikens become forty but made some hand seals of his own technique. "Doton Doryuuheki" (Earth Release: Mud Wall Jutsu), he called out. Still in the air, Naruto saw the wall being formed and saw all the shurikens being blocked before cursing and making a plan to beat his opponent in this battle.

After he landed from his jump, Naruto began charging once again and went up the earth wall. Behind the protection, Jiraiya smiled at the blond's insight as the mud wall technique had a weakness of blocking the user's sight, thus Jiraiya couldn't see the blond, but he heard the sound of steps on his wall.

Looking up, he saw as Naruto jumped the wall and made some hand seals before he was hit back by a powerful Fūton: Renkūdan (wind release: drilling air bullet). Naruto, however, never actually believed he had beat the pervert and remained on alert as he looked into the dust cloud, which paid off as said man was now at his right, aiming a kick at his side stomach which sent the blond flying.

Wanting to stop his momentum, Naruto called out his chains and stabbed them into the ground before eying Jiraiya for a while. The pervert for his part jumped and landed right in front of Naruto while looking at him with a slightly impressed look. "Very good Naruto, your ninjutsu was surely flawless, however, you still need some experience. Your taijutsu is also very good, your speed and agility is high and your strikes are accurate. Overall, I do believe what sensei said when he told me you were at low jounin strength." Said Jiraiya, earning a quick 'thanks' in appreciation from the blond.

"I would also like to see you use your sword a bit though, so lets get on to some close up weapon testing." Jiraiya said with a smirk, which made Naruto grin.

"Alright, I'll use my sword for you but be warned, kenjutsu is my best ability of all." Naruto said to the sannin calmly and coolly, making the sannin wonder if he had made a mistake in challenging the blond to a weapon spar. He watched as Naruto pulled out his katana and he had to stare at the beautiful blade for a few seconds.

"That's an interesting blade," Jiraiya commented as he now saw that Naruto was armed with the dark crimson katana with a dark crimson handle. "However, I won't go easy on you just because you're my temporary student."

"I didn't ask you too." Naruto said calmly as he shot forward and his blade clashed against Jiraiya's kunai knife that he took out. He was a little surprised to have found himself to have been pushed back slightly with the blond's ferocity. He then pushed him off, and made to slice his neck. Naruto just brought his chains to block that fro him and he brought his blade up to stab at the man forcing him to jump back.

'Damn, with those chains of his, kenjutsu is very risky. Just like the other Uzumakis back when they were around.' Jiraiya thought to himself as he was now dodging chains and a sword.

Naruto knew that Jiraiya was strong, very strong, but that didn't scare him. He made to slice his midsection in two but saw as he jumped backwards and he just sent his chains back at him. He knew that his style was very wild and not really refined, but he never thought he needed to with his chains helping him out. But having Jiraiya's foot kick into his shin caused him to think differently.

Naruto wouldn't give him the satisfaction of seeing shock on his face though. 'Damn it, he's freaking strong!' Naruto thought but remained as calm as he could be.

"Alright, I've seen enough for now Naruto." Jiraiya had to admit he was skilled, very skilled. His form wasn't the best in the world but with the chains it didn't really have to be, not that he wouldn't fix it anyway and he had monstrous strength behind his swings and blows.

"I would agree on that, it seems like I win this time ero-sannin." Naruto said making the man chuckle a bit as well.

"Stop calling my that stupid nick name gaki."

"NEVER!"

Chapter End