AN: Alright, instead of me choosing the pairing, I'm leaving it up to you. The choices are (Courtesy of SSJ3 Kyuubi Gohan) are:

Mei

Fuka

Yugito

Tayuya

Tenten

Konan

Temari

Samui

Ino

Fu

You can either PM me, or put it in a review, but please choose from the above choices. And on to the story:

"Naruto!" Jiraya yelled out as he walked the of rest path towards the Namikaze estate. It was eerily quiet, and he was hoping he could reach his grandson fast. He was coming to the end of the tree line when he saw it; a huge, 15 meter tall concrete wall with a 16.3 black iron gate with a seal that had a blood seal.

"Oi! Who are you?" Naruto said, appearing in his trademark orange jumpsuit, on top of the wall.

"My name is Jiraya, the toad sa-" Jiraya was cut off as Kakashi came running to the gate, holding several Icha Icha books in his arms. He looked expectantly at the sage, holding a pen in his right hand.

"Oi! Kakashi-sensei, wait until he's done explaining, then you can pester him with your stupid perverted books," Naruto said, not mentioning he had each book hidden in a scroll under his bed, which even Kakashi didn't know about.

"As I was saying, I'm Jiraya the toad sage!" Jiraya said, striking a ridiculous pose.

"I heard you're just a pervert, ero-sennin," Naruto said, inwardly laughing as he saw Jiraya's face. The elderly man looked angry as a tick mark grew on his face.

"That's super pervert to you!" Jiraya shot back, making Naruto sweat drop.

"What do you want? I know you're not here just to see your old student's son, are ya?" Naruto questioned, receiving his answer as Jiraya shook his head, "Then come on in, I know that blood seal works with Kakashi, the old man's, and your blood along with mine," Naruto said, jumping down from the wall. Jiraya bit his thumb as he walked up to the gate and smeared his blood on the seal, it being instantly absorbed and the gat being opened. The Estate was still as breathtaking as it was when Minato first bought it for him and Kushina. A two-story house that was placed in exactly the center of the property, a good 200 meters from the gate. Itself spanned about 100 meters from side to side, a deep blue color with orange shutters running across the whole house. Just past the house, one could see a rather large training ground with several training dummies, all brand new by the looks of them. For Jiraya, it was like stepping through time, he hadn't seen this house in 12 years, and it looked exactly the same. He was kind of expecting his old student to come running out to greet him, Ramen in hand. He chuckled at those memories, they were nothing but the past, but they were the good times.

"Oi, super pervert, what are ya staring for?" Naruto asked as he walked to the gate.

"I'm just remembering your father when he first bought this house, it looked exactly the same. Now, Kakashi, I have a scroll for you from the Hokage, and I'll sign your Icha Icha books afterwards. Naruto, let's go inside, we have to talk," Jiraya said, walking towards the house as the two leaf-ninja followed, slightly confused. They reached the house in silence, entering just as silently as they had walked. They came into a large living room with two red couches and a blue chair.

"So, what'd you want, ero-sennin?" Naruto asked, sitting down on the couch.

"Well, I know you're supposed to help protect Sasuke in the upcoming exams against Orichimaru," Naruto growled as he heard this, and Kakashi looked to his memories at those words…..

Flashback, 7 years ago

"Naruto, come on, it's ok. Come on out from there," Kakashi said, trying to coax his 'son' out from under the bed. He'd been there for 2 weeks, eating the occasional meal, but never coming out. He'd been like that since he came home, crying and mumbling something incoherently. Kakashi just didn't get it, and he couldn't even get Naruto to talk to him. "Naruto, don't you think it's about time you come out? At least tell me what's wrong, it's been two weeks. I need to know what's wrong," Kakashi whimpered in desperation, this was his last chance to get Naruto out. He'd tried everything, from unlimited ramen to no chores for a year, but nothing had worked.

"Al-alright. I'll come out, but promise me you're the only one in here," Naruto said shakily, as he slowly crawled out.

"I am, now what's the matter?" Kakashi questioned, helping Naruto to sit on his bed.

"Monster was making person scream, cutting him open. Girl tried to help me, but jumped in front of monster to give me a chance to escape. Then, girl starts screaming in pain as I run away," Naruto said, trying to keep from crying.

"There there, Naruto, the monster won't get you here. Did you happen to catch this girl's name, or what she looked like?" Kakashi asked, trusting his surrogate son.

"I think monster said her name was A-anko, and she had purple hair," Naruto said, watching as Kakashi's expression darkened.

"Orichimaru, you bastard!" Kakashi yelled, uncontrolled bursts of adrenaline and anger flooding his system.

"Is monster's name Orichimaru?" Naruto asked, receiving a nod from Kakashi.

"Yeah, he defected from the village about a week and a half ago, right after his student, Anko, went missing. Tora-san, tell Hokage-sama of this, and to send out a search party for Anko, she didn't defect with him," Kakashi said as a cat-masked ANBU appeared, and sunshinned to the Hokage.

Flashback end

"Wait, so you're saying if I go with you, I could be strong enough to fight the teme?" Naruto asked, a fire burning in his blue eyes.

"Yep, now Kakashi, where are those books you needed me to sign?" Jiraya asked, breaking the Jonin out of his daze.

"Huh, or, there right here," Kakashi said, setting the books down next to Jiraya. He stood there, watching as the toad sage signed the books, not really thinking about the current situation. He was thinking about Anko, and how she turned out after what Orichimaru did to her. Granted, she came out fine comparatively, but still, it was quite bad.

"Alright, now Naruto, go pack. We're going to have to do a year's worth of training in three months, so hurry. Everyday counts," Jiraya said, sitting onto the couch as the blonde ran up the stairs.

"I'm coming with you, and so is my team. They need to get stronger, if that snake bastard is going after them," Kakashi said, a fierce look in his eye.

"No, you're team needs to complete miss-"

"No. We need to get stronger, that's what. We have two new ninja in the village, they can take over. Naruto can't be the backbone of the team, goddammit. The strongest team is equal parts, where one may be lacking, another can protect, and so forth. If we can do that, this team may be able to defeat Orichimaru, not just stall until the ANBU arrive. What if Orichimaru sneaks up on Sasuke before anybody can do anything, and he gets away? No, this team needs stronger teamwork, and they need to cover each other's strengths and weaknesses," Kakashi said, cutting off Jiraya with a stern tone in his voice.

"Alright, gather the rest of your team, we leave tomorrow morning. But, note this, the training will be nothing that you have seen before, even ANBU would cower in fear of this training regime, so be prepared," Jiraya said, with a dark look on his face as he disappeared in a sunshin. And Kakashi sent out his dogs, each with information on what to be prepared for, and if you can't do it, be prepared to be replaced and sent back to the academy.

AN: Alright, yet another update, and hopefully this one was good enough. I just want to note something; this may be one of the last updates for a while, since I'm having some psychiatric issues right now, but I'll still try to update. Don't forget to give me your votes for who Naruto shall be paired with in either a review or a PM