Chapter 7: The Sage and the Saint.
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Naruto had received a message to head for the Hokage's office after aiding Lee at the hospital so right now he was on his way to the Hokage's building, when he got there he changed back into his usual jumpsuit and raced up the stairs before finally reaching the door. He took a moment to collect himself and knocked on the door. "Who is it?" asked the voice of the 3rd Hokage.
"Old man open up it's me Naruto." Naruto answered.
"Please come in Naruto." Sarutobi said and when Naruto did so he was shocked at the sight of not one but two other people in the room with the old man. The first was a man with long, wild, spiky, and unruly white hair wearing a long red vest, a fishnet shirt, grey pants, wooden sandals, and a headband with the kanji for oil on his head, while he was carrying a huge scroll of some kind on his back. The other person if you would call him that was a man or what Naruto assumed to be a man with grey skin, a crescent moon shaped head, but what caught Naruto's attention was the ring and uniform he was wearing as it was the same color and bore the same insignia as his did.
"You're a Blue Lantern?" Naruto asked the alien visitor.
"Yes I am brother, I am Saint Walker and I've come to help train you in the use of your ring brother Uzumaki." Walker said.
"Okay I got all that but who is this guy?" Naruto asked pointing to the old man causing him to fall over.
"You stupid little brat, I'll have you know that I am the most powerful of the legendary Sanin, the great sage of Mount Myoboku, and number one ladies man in all the land, I am the Gallant Jiriaya-sama!" He exclaimed with an exaggerated pose similar to a kabuki performer which got little to no reaction other than a sweat drop from Naruto, the third Hokage, and Saint Walker.
"He's kidding right old man?" Naruto asked the third causing the hermit to fall in heap.
"Sadly Naruto he's not kidding, Jiriaya is one of the Sanin and one of my students." Sarutobi replied as Naruto turned his attention back to the hermit and then back to the Hokage. "So why is he here?" Naruto asked.
Jiriaya smirked at the stupidity of Naruto's question, "Easy brat because I'm going to train you for the finals." Jiriaya replied but Naruto just looked at him with an unconvinced look in his eyes.
"Oh really and what do you think you can teach me?" Naruto asked the sage.
"I'll have you know I trained the Fourth Hokage, so if I can train him then I can sure as hell train you squirt." Jiriaya bragged as he and Naruto stared each other down with lightning bolts crashing in between their eyes, before Naruto turned his attention to the alien.
"So why are you here?" Naruto asked the alien lantern.
"I have come here to help train you in wielding your ring with more proficiency brother Naruto." Walker said with a smile still on his face. "However seeing as how your ninja training takes precedence at the moment over your lantern training I'll leave you with Lord Jiriaya for a few days." Walker said before turning to the Hokage, oh and please do not trouble yourself with finding me accommodations to stay at I will let that problem handle itself." He told the old man before looking back at Naruto.
"Peace and Hope be with you brother Naruto." Walker said as he flew off through the window. Jiriaya then turned back towards his new charge in training, "meet me outside the hot springs in 15 minutes okay brat." Jiriaya said as he left the office through the window like Saint Walker did earlier, Naruto and the Hokage just stared at each other with a nervous glance.
"Well I might as well get going old man, see you later." Naruto said.
"Goodbye and good luck Naruto." Sarutobi said as Naruto then popped his head back through the window.
"Oh by the way old man, have ever considered using Shadow Clones to get all this paperwork done?" Naruto asked causing a tick mark to appear on the 3rd Hokage's head.
"No Naruto I never did consider it until now." Sarutobi said angry at himself "and they called me the professor back in my prime?" He asked himself as Naruto just shrugged and left, as soon as he did, Hiruzen put a silencing jutsu on his office and locked the door and windows before finally letting out a string of curse words at himself for having never considered using Shadow clones to get his paperwork or anything political about his job done.
Meanwhile outside of the hot springs Naruto sat outside the hot springs waiting and waiting, and waiting all the while he grew more impatient. "If that slacker of a hermit doesn't show up soon I'm gonna go insane." He screamed until he heard a faint giggling coming from behind one of the fences on the women's side of the bathhouse he ran over towards the fence and spotted the hermit on a toad about the size of a horse looking through a telescope with a notepad in his hand and a lustful look in his eye.
"Oh yeah that's nice come on give me more material." He chuckled quietly too bad for him his little peep show was about to be interrupted by a certain Blue Lantern.
"You're no sage you're just a gross pervert!" Naruto screamed as all the women in the bathhouse heard him and started screaming while Naruto flew off not wanting to get caught with the old horned toad as he flew off he could hear Jiriaya screaming in agony as he got hit with numerous kunai, shuriken, kettles, and anything else the women had with them to hit him with. Several hours later Jiriaya caught up with Naruto and he was angry with the kid.
"Why did you leave me to die with those women?" Jiriaya asked his new charge.
Naruto just stared at the hermit with an even look, "Why were you spying on them Pervy sage?" Naruto asked in rebuttal causing a vein to bulge on Jiriaya's forehead.
"I'll have you know that I'm not just any pervert brat." Jiriaya shouted indignantly.
"Oh really then what are you?" Naruto asked him as Jiriaya performed another stupid kabuki pose.
"I'm a super pervert! I also happen to be the author of an award winning novel series." Jiriaya declared proudly the latter of the declaration caught Naruto's attention.
"What series do you write that requires you to peep on women for inspiration anyway?" Naruto asked him causing Jiriaya to sweat drop before producing one of the books from his vest to reveal that it was one of the books Kakashi always read. "You really are a sick bastard." Naruto said bluntly causing Jiriaya to sigh.
"Look in any event let's just get this training over with." Jiriaya said as he pulled the scroll off his back and unrolling it. "Okay squirt listen, this is the toad summoning contract just sign your initials in your blood and leave your fingerprints in the paper and you'll be recognized as a toad summoner just in case your ring runs out of juice." Jiriaya explained as Naruto cut his thumb and signed his name in one of the open spaces next to a name that seemed familiar to him.
"Minato Namikaze, hey Pervy Sage I know that this Minato Namikaze guy was the 4th Hokage but is their anything else I need to know about him?" Naruto asked the toad hermit causing Jiriaya to sweat.
"No nothing else you need to know about him at all Naruto." Jiriaya replied. "Now go on and practice the jutsu." Jiriaya said as reluctantly Naruto formed the hand signs and slammed his hand on the ground.
"Here it goes summoning Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as a small orange toad with a blue coat appeared out of the smoke.
"Hey who's the wise guy who summoned me here?" The toad asked before spotting Jiriaya. "Oh hey there Jiriaya what's up ad who's the boy in blue?" The toad asked.
"Oh hey there Gamakichi, I would like you to meet the newest toad summoner and my new student Naruto Uzumaki." Jiriaya said to the toad.
"So he's the new guy huh?" Gamakichi asked before shrugging; "Alright I'll go tell pop about it and just remember kid." Gamakichi said talking to Naruto now. "You ever need any of us you know how to call us." He finished before going back to his home.
"That was one odd toad." Naruto said as he headed home. "See you soon Pervy Sage." Naruto called out as he flew off.
"STOP CALLING ME THAT BRAT!" Jiriaya roared as Naruto flew off.
Later Naruto met up with Saint Walker at one of the training grounds.
"Greetings brother Naruto, are you prepared to carry the banner of hope?" Walker asked him.
"I am Walker-sensei, shall we get started?" He asked the alien who smiled back.
"Yes we shall brother." Walker said as he and Naruto pulled out their rings and said their oath.
"In fearful day, in raging night
With Strong hearts full our souls ignite
When all seems lost in the war of light
Look to the stars for hope burns bright." They chanted in unison as they took off into the air. The two went at it for hours as they sparred with various constructs ranging from kunai, shuriken, kusramigamas, and other various ninja tools before heading back down to ground level as Walker decided to aide Naruto in another way.
"Brother Naruto, I noticed something about you that was unusual. Aside from your own chakra as your people call it, as well Aadara inside you I couldn't help but noticed that there is a lot of rage locked up inside you why is that?" Walker asked with a raised eyebrow if he had one. Naruto sighed reluctantly and explained.
"It's because I'm a Jinchuriki Walker-sensei." Naruto said.
"I believe I don't understand what does that mean?" Walker asked.
"It means that I have the power of a demon trapped inside me, thirteen years ago a nine tailed fox appeared and destroyed everything in it's sight however one ninja rose up to face the beast, that ninja was the 4th Hokage of our village." Naruto explained to Walker.
"How did he defeat it, a creature that powerful most certainly can not be killed?" Walker asked once more.
"You're right sensei, he did the only thing he could do he sealed it away in a newborn infant at the cost of his own soul." Naruto said sadly as Walker began to understand.
"You do not need to say anymore brother Naruto," Walker said as he continued "I think I know where you are going with this." He finished before placing a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Just remember that no matter how many evils come your way always believe that all will be well in the end." Walker said as Naruto nodded his head and headed home.
Meanwhile in another part of the woods in an old shack, a certain snake was fuming as the events from the forest kept playing over in his mind.
"How is it possible, how could anyone find a way to remove the heaven's seal?" Orochimaru asked himself as he paced around in anger when there was knock on the door. "Enter." He said as an unknown ANBU Black Ops ninja appeared and kneeled before him. "What news do you have for me?" He asked the ninja.
"Sasuke Uchiha has been moved to a different area in the hospital and it's being kept pretty quiet as of the moment." The ninja replied Orochimaru smiled slightly at the sound of that news.
"So they think they can hide the last Uchiha from me well there's no way that will keep me from my prize for very long." Orochimaru said to himself.
"What else do you intend on doing now my lord, after all the Chunin exam finals are still a month away." The ninja mentioned.
"Not to worry, I already have Suna tightly wrapped around my finger, all we have to do until then is make sure no one else knows of our connections otherwise our cause will be lost!" Orochimaru said.
"I understand my lord." The ninja bowed his head.
"Good and I trust you can handle things here without blowing your cover?" he asked the fake ANBU.
"You can count on me Orochimaru-sama." The ninja replied.
"Good, out of all my subordinates only you I can really rely on… Kabuto." Orochimaru said as the ninja removed his ANBU mask revealing it was Kabuto Yakushi.
"I live to serve you Orochimaru-sama," Kabuto said as Orochimaru snickered at his subordinate's reply before his thoughts trailed off, "Is something wrong?" Kabuto asked.
"I could just be over thinking this but that Blue warrior I fought in the forest, I have this feeling I haven't seen the last of him." Orochimaru said.
"Do you think there are more just like him?" Kabuto questioned.
"If it's the case I will have to double my army." Orochimaru answered.
"Yes sir as you wish." Kabuto said as he left.
Orochimaru smiled in anticipation he thought about his prize. "Soon the Sharingan and the power of the Uchiha will be mine." He said to himself before laughing like a drunken hyena.
Oh boy things are about to get hectic when the final stage of the exams comes about. Will all be well? I don't know but read and review.