OK I just want to get this across before I start, I have often been told how close this story is to Kenchi618's "the sealed Kunai" and as I have said in the very first chapter and in several chapters in response to a review where I was asked, Kenchi618, in all his awesomeness allowed me to make this spinoff off his idea to have Naruto retain emotions while in Root and also to go to Oto and then get picked up by Jiraiya after that it's all my own stuff sorry to all my other fans for my rambling I just hate constantly repeating myself to questions when the information is right there to see.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, do you? The only person who does will never read this story so what's the point of this?
Review shout outs
JaCk-o'-LaNtErN 91: Yah I hope it's just you but if you get any ideas don't hold them back this is still a learning process, I've got tons of ideas for new stories I want to try out once I'm done with this one so let's just say this is still my rough draft.
redlox2: yes Naruyugi forever! I just wish there was more author's that are far more skilled than me that would do Naruyugi stories sniff I hate being a newbie
mellowsmilie: thanks man I was a little worried that came out wrong but I'm glad you enjoyed it
toolazytomakeanaccount: thanks man I don't try to make a Naruto that's completely different from my personality he's like a blonde haired version of me that kicks slightly more butt than I do and can scale walls hehe.
Nxkris: thanks man I have yet to find one other than the sealed kunai that has a root trained Naruto with emotions (besides this one) so if you know of any don't hesitate to tell me.
Blackroselover: Don't sweat it man it's a perfectly fine, yah there's probably a ton that do we just haven't found them all.
lightningblade49: yah I don't intend to start spamming it and some of Naruto's stuff like Kishimoto has with Sasuke and his MS I like to keep things in reserve.
Naturokurosaki: ok hopefully you read all that I said up on top so you know that this is just very changed version of that the only part the same that isn't in other stories is the fact that he went to Oto and then got found by Jiraiya. And thanks for commenting on that I can never know if I'm actually making you guys laugh or not it's good to know I'm not sounding like some idiot trying to make jokes.
Frezzeca: I was hoping you guys might enjoy that idea.
To all of you who think I made Naruto easily angered in the last chapter, it wasn't just a two second thing it's gonna be rare when he loses his cool like that but that's been building a lot for the past 6 months from the academy until then. Just picture Sasuke as Inari except he's hell bent on revenge instead of giving up, so he's had to deal with his constant whining on about his family (well Sasuke's kind of whining) and how bad his life sucked while Naruto's lived a worse one then anyone, and then Sasuke went on and said that Naruto had a perfect life while Sasuke had everything Naruto ever wanted. Sorry for the rambling I did but I just wanted to get that across. OK now that that's over we can now go on with the next chapter.
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The next morning Naruto got up at his usual training time as he was leaving he saw a note on his door. 'Naruto, Kakashi will be unable to train you due to us all preparing countermeasures for you know what, but I have the perfect trainer for you, meet him at the hot springs at noon.' –the Sandaime
PS check outside the women's side first
'Well that gives me plenty of to train like normal might as well keep on trying to perfect "that." (A/n I bet you five bucks you already guessed what it is)
At about noon Naruto arrived at the hot springs, he started walking around and quickly heard giggling alongside the wall. He quickly recognized the man from the history books Danzo made him study and also from when he woke up after his mission to Oto.
"How are they looking today Jiraiya-Sama?" Naruto questioned while leaning against the wall.
"Just perfect, they are all so luscious and curvy, oh and it's such a beautiful day, there's a surprising lack of steam as well." Jiraiya replied in-between giggles.
'So it seems Danzo was right, the most powerful of ninja are insane.' Naruto thought to himself.
"So anyway, I guess you're the instructor the old man arranged for me. Never expected one of the Sannin." Naruto asked the somewhat rhetorical question.
Jiraiya looked away before looking back at Naruto, he then quickly did his kabuki dance while on one of his summons, then finished while in his pose.
"Ya know, to make that dance even more amazing (A/n he's trying not to anger him right now when he kinda wants some extra training) some dancing girls would add a whole lot more flair to it." Naruto said while rubbing his chin.
"That's genius how come I never thought of that! Although, it'd be hard to get them there in the middle of a battle, oh well I cross the bridge when we get there. I like you gaki so let's get this all over with follow me to my favorite training ground." Jiraiya replied.
"Alright Naruto, the first thing I want to teach you is the summoning jutsu, I assume you already know all about it by now just lack a summon correct?" Jiraiya asked before summoning a toad with a scroll in its mouth.
"That's right, and I see you're providing the summon let's get to it then." Naruto replied before biting his thumb and then writing his name in blood next to a Namikaze Minato.
"Alright now I want you to put as much chakra into this as you can ok Gaki?" Jiraiya ordered.
"Hai"
He then performed the necessary hand seals and then slammed his hand to the ground.
Jiraiya saw only a tiny puff of smoke, 'hm I would've expected better oh well guess I have my work cut out for me.'
"Jiraiya-chan why have you summoned us I was right in the middle of making more centipede soup for Pa's lunch." A certain old toad said.
"Now now Ma it's fine there's probably a very good explanation for this now speak up Jiraiya-chan… Jiraiya-chan?" the elderly toad questioned.
Jiraiya was too gob smacked to respond. 'You have to be kidding he summoned those two on his first try? It takes me at least ten minutes to build up the chakra in order to summon them, and yet it took him less than a second!'
"Awww man I must suck in order to only summon a couple of old geezer toads. And there tiny!" Naruto said
"Hey who are you calling old Gaki! Wait what do you mean you summoned us?" Shima questioned.
Jiraiya finally shook out of his stupor "H-how? How did you summon the two great elder toads? I anticipated the boss toad but not these two!"
"So it's true this little kid managed to summon us? Wow you must really know how to pick good students, first the Fourth and now this gaki" Shima cried out while Fukasaku continued to process this new development.
"Wait so this is a good thing? Ok sweet I thought something must've gone wrong when I tried." Naruto said with a sigh of relief.
"So if there's no emergency we'll be going now, I'll leave you to your new pupil." Fukasaku said while Jiraiya nodded and then the pair proceeded to disperse themselves.
"Welll that takes care of that then, they will be telling the boss about you being the new summoner, so we don't have to worry about that, now we can work on collaboration jutsu's with the toads among other things." Jiraiya said while dispersing the toad with the scroll.
Naruto then created two thousand clones, "So where do you wanna start?"
Jiraiya smirked 'this'll be fun.'
One Month Later
At the end of the month Naruto arrived at the stadium to see everyone already there. After a couple more minutes passed so all of the spectators could arrive and then the Sandaime gave another one of his speeches before Shiranui Genma, their newest proctor (A/n just so you know Hayate's not dead) called out began the proceedings.
"Alright everyone, the rules are the same as in the preliminaries, so don't worry about anything new except the terrain, now can everyone else go up to the competitor's booth while Rock Lee and Hyuuga Neji remain here." Genma said.
After everyone had gone he called out the first fight "First match! Rock Lee vs. Hyuuga Neji Hajime!"
"Yosh I am eager to show you my flames of youth Neji! May we both do our best and show the world the power of youth!" Lee said exuberantly. He was ready for this fight, Gai had greatly increased his speed while he had trained with Hayate and his purple haired girlfriend in kenjutsu, another ninja art that he found he could still perform without the molding of chakra although he could channel chakra into the blade. (A/n Lee can actually do the water walking and tree climbing he did it in the anime when he fought against Guren I know its not manga so it doesn't officially count as solid proof but I'll take it.)
Neji just assumed his stance and prepared himself, wary of Lee's speed. The old him would have gone on and on about fate and crap like that but now he actually believed that Lee could beat him.
Lee quickly dashed forward at a speed only the jounin and a few other people could follow. He went pulled out his blade and went with an overhead swipe that made Neji immediately use Kaiten while Lee jumped back. 'It seems that there is only one opening in that defense and that is just as it is ending so I'll need to time this perfectly, he can guess when I'm going to attack while his eyes definitely aid him as well.'
He quickly charged at Neji while making sure to be off by a few inches to avoid being caught in the defense. Just as Neji realized his mistake it was far too late Lee followed up quickly with an Omote Renge not willing to showcase any of his other moves. This time as he finished it he was only slightly winded, his muscles adjusted and improved to handle the strain.
"Well that was a quick match eh Hokage-dono?" the Kazekage said.
"Indeed it was, although it was a bit unfair for Neji, only the fastest could actually keep up with him, and even with Neji's ability to see him it's physically impossible for him to move his body out of the way. Lee also displayed a good strategy to exploit the weakness in the Hyuuga's ultimate defense."
"Shousa Rock Lee!" Genma called out while medics quickly took Neji down to the infirmary.
"Next match "Higurashi Tenten vs. Sabaku no Temari so get down here!"
Temari proceeded to float down on her fan while Tenten took the conventional way.
'Ok she seems to definitely be a long range fighter so if I can get her in close with one of my bigger weapons, things can start to go my way. I don't want to be like that Uchiha idiot and try to beat someone in their best field when I have a chance in my own field pride be darned.' Tenten thought. 'I'm also glad I went to the library to pick up some jutsu scrolls to counteract a couple of her techniques.'
"Second match! Higurashi Tenten vs. Sabaku no Temari Hajime!"
Temari decided to go on the offensive to make this quick "Wind Scythe Jutsu!"
Tenten smirked this was perfect. "Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu!"
Temari's eyes widened as she watched her primary attack get turned against her she quickly jumped away to try and avoid it only to be me with a hail of kunai. She managed to shield herself with her fan but still managed to get slightly burned on her back for not getting far enough away.
'This is bad it'll be hard to use any of my jutsu now if she can counter them so quickly, and now it'll be a pain to swing my fan with my back burned as it is.'
She was interrupted from her musings as Tenten attacked from behind while with a twitch of her fingers a hail of kunai came from the other direction so Temari couldn't stop her with a jutsu.
"Dynamic Entry!" cried out Tenten as she kicked through Temari's defense i.e her arms. Which then slammed her hard into the arena wall, as she shakily got up, she heard another name called from her left.
"Leaf Hurricane!" Temari turned her head just in time to het struck square in the face with one of Gai's signature moves passed onto his students.
As she was sent flying once more, she failed to be able to stand this time around prompting Genma to call the fight.
"Shousa Higurashi Tenten!" as the crowd cheered.
(A/n I know Tenten actually lost but if she would've stuck to Taijutsu or at least pulled out one of her bigger weapons she could've done a whole lot better or at least thrown some paper bombs at Temari to buy time to get close enough.)
"Next match! Nara Shikamaru vs Akimichi Chouji!"
The lazy Nara was promptly chunked from the wall courtesy of Naruto in order for him to get there. (A/n some things never change no matter what dimension)
Seeing as they were both ready he started the match "Third match! Nara Shikamaru vs Akimichi Chouji Hajime!"
Chouji bounded away knowing that Shikamaru would immediately try to get him into a Kage mane. Well he attempted to but quickly found himself inside of one the second he neared the shadows of the trees. He looked across and saw that Shikamaru had stretched his shadow through the shadows of each tree until it reached up to where he was.
"Troublesome, let's just get this over with so I can take a nap."
Up in the stands Ino and Sakura were currently sitting next to each other. "Wow it makes me feel kind of bad that I'm the only one on my team not going to the finals, like I'm kind of the weak link of my team or something… Oh well onto things that matter how's Sasuke-kun? Ino questioned while up in his spot Inoichi was crying tears of shame as his two buddies were cheering their sons on.
'Hmph might as well not give up, it'll be more troublesome hearing Ino rant about how I lost to chouji and that I'm the weakest link.' Shikamaru said while proceeding to meet Chouji in the center of the arena.
"Shadow strangle jutsu" he called out, a few seconds later an asphyxiated Chouji passed out.
After checking that he was ok Genma called the match. "Shousa! Nara Shikamaru!" (A?/n sorry if too short I just cant really imagine Chouji getting away from Shikamaru he doesn't have the speed for it and he's not strong enough yet to break through the Kage mane)
"Fourth match! Nii Yugito vs Shin!"
After they both arrived Shin sneered "C'mon make this interesting ok weapon? Let's not make the council pick a new jinchuuriki because this one was weak."
'I thought I broke him out of that, or he was just plain scared to get back to that whenever I could just hurt him but now I can't without Yugito-chan getting disqualified.' Naruto thought while getting angered, he wasn't quite sure why though.
"Cus you love her dummy" Kyuubi said nonchalantly.
'Hey I don't, she's just a good friend of a mine.' He responded.
"Sure the friend that you have wet dreams about every other night, while the other one being that Anko chick."
Naruto had the decency to look away ashamed as she said that part. 'I guess it's impossible to argue with someone who can read my mind and know what I feel.'
"Yep but you wanna know what I say to all this?" Kyuubi questioned.
'Sure what?"
"THREESOME!" the bijuu screamed.
'Not the worst idea you've come up with.' He muttered if you can even do that in your mind.
He then proceeded to watch the fight develop. It seems they had already started but had stayed in place sizing the other up and seeing what the other would do.
Shin charged first assured of his victory he pulled out a kunai and enhanced it with raiton chakra before striking. Yugito dodged the first swipe and then decided to go use her full speed to kick him right in the stomach while spinning on her heel. Which sent him flying back while Yugito shunshined behind him while putting a blade to his neck.
"You make think your hot stuff 'cus your dad's in the council and all but when it comes to out here your not so great." She then shunshined to back to where she sensed the real one was while the other 'shin' exploded into lightning.
As he went to his knees from the chakra loss she proceeded to call out her technique "Raiton: Oodama Raikyu!"
Shin was in no condition to dodge especially considering how he was still surprised that she knew where he was so quickly. He just watched as the massive lightning ball headed his way and then he was completely fried.
Genma looked him over and saw that there was no pulse, 'The lightning must've screwed up his heart big time not to mention these wounds.'
"Shousa! Nii Yugito!" (A/n as you've probably guessed I hate all powerful oc's and I like to make mine pretty weak)
"Next match Uzumaki Naruto vs. Sabaku no Gaara!"
After both arrived they nodded when asked if ready and then got into their respective stances if you can call Gaara just standing there with his arms crossed a stance.
"Fifth match Uzumaki Naruto vs Sabaku no Gaara Hajime!"
Just as he said go Gaara went all nuts (A/n just think of what happened in his fight with Sasuke… times 2)
Not wanting to waste an opportunity when Gaara was open for attack he quickly decided to test out just how tough Gaara's defense really was. In a blur of speed he pulled out his blade and enhanced it with Raiton chakra guessing that the sand's base was earth it would be more susceptible to that instead of Fuuton.
His blade went through the automatic defense without much difficulty while not managing to cut very deeply into Gaara's torso. Naruto was then quickly forced to dodge several sand strikes and back away.
He decided to use some of his longer range jutsu while creating a clone.
"Katon: Laser beam/Fuuton: wind beam!"
Gaara quickly resorted to his ball like shield to protect him from the attack.
The blast was quickly turning the sand to glass and then managed to pierce all the way through and then come out the other side.
Naruto went to check his work but then all sand crumbled away with a fading Sand bunshin there. He quickly called out his technique "Suiton: Four pillar Water wall!" To block the attack of sand coming from all sides. He then shunshined back to where he could start again analyzing ways to get at Gaara.
(A/n wow this is hard to do a long fight where my Naruto doesn't waste time and make long drawn out battles with people weaker than him and its also hard with Gaara not really being an offensive person until after the Chunin exams.)
He decided that he knew enough about how fast Gaara's sand moved in order to get past it, and chose the correct technique.
He quickly went at full speed while concentrating on his jutsu.
Gaara and everyone in the stadium of a chirping birds screeching throughout the place.
Gaara didn't even have time to turn as he was pierced from behind right through his sand armor, his natural defense having no time to stop it, not that it would've done much good anyway.
"Chidori/Rasengan barrage!"
Just as Naruto stopped. He then swung with his other hand which held a swirling blue ball of chakra and thrust it right into Gaara's gut.
As Gaara was sent spinning far into the stadium wall, most of the crowd was speechless, watching two famed hand held jutsu's being used at the same time.
They were interrupted by Gaara's screams of pain and then him quickly going into his one tailed Tanuki form.
Orochimaru motioned to his guards to hold off the signal for now, unaware that all of the sealing circles and most of his men were now dead and gone courtesy of Kakashi, and tons of squads of anbu.
Naruto had to quickly dodge overtop several suna shuriken before body flickering behind Gaara and planting half a dozen paper bombs on him before returning to his original spot to watch the fireworks.
After the smoke cleared a very battered Gaara was laying there with his Sand smoking around him. As Naruto was moving forward to finish it he felt a massive pulse of chakra as Gaara transformed once more. Filling up about half of the stadium.
Naruto quickly decided to summon his own twenty stories tall fighting machine. As the smoke cleared there stood a red toad wearing a Yakuza shirt with a tanto while smoking a pipe.
Most of the villagers who saw the fight with the Kyuubi easily recognized this beast as the one the Fourth summoned.
"So you're the new summoner aye?" Said the massive toad while taking a whiff of his pipe. "If you're able to summon both of the elders on your first try and not some tadpole, I think you're worthy of being a summoner of mine." 'And the fact that out of respect for your father I would probably do it anyway.'
"Good thing too because we have to deal with big, fat and ugly over there." Naruto said pointing.
"What is it with you Nam- ur i mean you blondes and summoning me to fight bijuu's? do I look like some kind of bijuu killer or something?" the toad boss yelled.
"Umm no, I'd do it myself, but I'm can't exactly match up to that in the bulk department. But anyway we'll be fine just give me some oil." Naruto replied as he saw a wind bullet coming towards them.
"Heh fine "Ninpou: Toad Oil bullet!"
Naruto then called out his technique "Katon:Endan!"
Then they called out the jutsu together "Katon: Gamayu Endan!"
The collaboration ninjutsu easily overpowered the wind jutsu and then combined with it as well and then proceeded to turn the sand into glass. Per instruction Gamabuntan drew his blade while Naruto hopped onto it channeling wind chakra into it.
Gamabunta then proceeded to cut off the head of the Tanuki while the rest of its body crumbled away. Gaara was completely unconscious while the Shukaku was out of it and unable to continue.
"Well nicely done Bunta I'll be calling you again soon if I ever find another bijuu for you to fight." Naruto said with a smile and a thumbs up.
Genma then came out of his hiding spot straightened his clothes and then called the winner. "Shousa Uzumaki Naruto!"
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Hey guys sorry if you were disappointed with the big Naruto vs Gaara fight, it's just really hard for me to change their fighting styles as of now. My Naruto doesn't waste time or moves, he's efficient. If this wasn't supposed to be such a big fight I would've had Naruto give him a five pronged seal or some other kind of a sealing method to hold back the Shukaku instead of making it drawn out. I still hope it was good enough considering all of this and I'll be posting up the newest chapter shortly to conclude this arc.
