Naruto: A New Beginning
Chapter 3
In the dead of night Naruto suddenly appeared before his apartment complex. He stood there for a bit as memories flooded his mind of most of his childhood.
'I'm finally home . . . been a while since I've seen this place (sigh) might as well go inside.' Naruto opened the door to his apartment complex and entered the stairway; it's been a while since the place was cleaned so you can imagine how dusty everything was when he opened the door to his abode. 'Looks exactly how I remember it . . . empty.'
At the moment Naruto was still feeling the excitement of everything he learned with his perverted one armed sensei that he suddenly got a feeling of inspiration. Deciding to clean his home the fastest way possible Naruto created two Shadow Clones and had them move all his salvageable items to a corner of the living room while he performed pure wind elemental manipulation to clean the dust that littered every surface of his apartment's rooms.
"Now that that's taken care of, Ero-Sennin did tell me to continue practicing my Seal work." Naruto said to himself, an old habit that especially made itself-known when he was by himself in his home. He sat down in the middle of his cleared and recently dusted living room and took out a small storage scroll from his left kunai pouch. When he unsealed some of its contents what appeared before him was his calligraphy set along with his specially blood infused ink well.
"All set." He stated. "Hmmm I should make some exploding tags, that's some good penmanship practice and Ero-Sennin told me to never slack off on that cause it's the basis of the Sealing Arts . . . BAH! It's still boring though. I could just get a Shadow Clone to do them for me." With that Naruto ordered his previously made shadow clones to do the exploding tags for him while he worked on something else. Begrudgingly the Shadow Clones accepted the task and got to work. "I guess I'll try making stronger barrier seals, I haven't really gotten the chance to apply the knowledge I learned about seals today."
And with that Naruto got to work on making as many barrier seals as he can until he fell asleep. By the time the shadow clones dispersed and Naruto was knocked out on his living room floor he had accomplished 25 barrier seals and 100 high-grade exploding tags. That should last him a bit.
THE VERY NEXT DAY
As Naruto continued to sleep late into the day Jiraiya suddenly appeared in his balcony looking for him. He opened the sliding door and decided to play a prank on Naruto when he saw him sleeping peacefully in the middle of his living room with a bunch of seals around him.
'This is payback for that time when we were in the land of hot-springs you little punk.' Jiraiya pictured a larger sized Gamakichi and whispered his technique. "Summoning Jutsu." And when the smoke dispersed there stood the son of Gamabunta staring at Jiraiya while eating a bag of regular potato chips. Throughout the years Gamakichi has grown to the size of taking up half of Naruto's living room. Before Gamakichi could say anything Jiraiya made a be quiet gesture and walked up to Gamakichi's ear hole.
"Hey Gamakichi can your glands produce oil yet." Jiraiya whispered with a mischievous gleam in his eye.
Gamakichi nodded and whispered back. "Yeah but why do you need oil . . . and why are we whispering." Jiraiya Pointed at Naruto's unconscious form and told Gamakichi. "We're going to give this brat a nice wake up call." Gamakichi being the prankster he is smirked an evil smirk.
"Ready when you are Jiraiya-Sama." Jiraiya calmly took a crouching stance in front of Gamakichi and yelled his improvised technique to the top of his lungs.
"Collaborative Jutsu: Wind-Propelled Toad Oil Bullet!" Gamakichi Spit out a fluctuating blob of oil while Jiraiya used a seal less great breakthrough technique. The result was the toad oil bullet being propelled towards Naruto's prone form and exploding with the concussive force of a smoke bomb, splattering oil all over the walls and drenching Naruto's now awake form with greasy hard to clean toad sludge, But Jiraiya didn't stop there, the icing on the cake was when he disappeared and reappeared in front of Naruto and snuffed him in the cheek with enough force to knock him off his feet. The result is what you get from a slip'n'slide, Naruto was knocked off his feet and slid the rest of the length of his apartment ending at the entrance with a dazed look and a bruised cheek that was already fading.
"That's what ya get for making me wait hours for you at the training ground, I COULD HAVE SPENT THAT TIME CONDUCTING MY RESEARCH YOU LITTLE SHIT!" Okay so Jiraiya was actually very angry.
Finally getting his wits about him Naruto stood up really fast only for physics to catch up with him and make him slip and fall on his ass. "OW! WHAT THE HELL ERO-SENNIN isn't this going a little overboard!."
"Hah! You think this is overboard I suppose you don't recall our time in the land of hot-springs you punk."
"GRRR! I'll get you back for this YA HEAR! Nobody pranks the king and gets away with it." Naruto said with a slightly lower tone of voice at the end. Jiraiya didn't seem to care as he told Gamakichi he could go home now, his face was now replaced by a serious mask. "Get yourself cleaned up brat we have to continue yesterdays training which you basically put off today."
"Damn it! When am I gonna get some time to see my friends!. I MISS Sakura-Chan and I'm sure she misses me to but all its been with you is training." Naruto said with a pout that just did not his sludge covered form at the moment.
"You know damn well we have to get you up to speed before Akatsuki attempts to attack you again." That shut him up pretty quickly. " Now stop slacking off and get yourself cleaned up, you also have to clean this mess up as well for extra punishment brat." With that Jiraiya disappeared with smugness written all over his face.
"Fucking Pervy-Sage, when I get through with him he won't know what hit him." And with that Naruto got to work in cleaning himself up and his living room. It wasn't easy, since there was oil all over the floor it was actually next to impossible, toad oil isn't at all like regular oil, it's much denser and more slippery than even the greatest lube, Naruto was having a hard time until he remembered.
"Ahh crap, I could have just used the tree climbing technique! I'm such an idiot!" Naruto was exasperated, but who can blame him? With a wake up call like that i'd still be slipping on the floor from my rage, it just goes to show how far Naruto has come, both mentally and spiritually, in the end he handled it pretty well, although he's still cooking up his revenge. "When I get my hand's on you Pervy Sage, you're gonna regret ever messing with the prank king of The Leaf Village" And with that Naruto set about cleaning his home again with the help of a few shadow clones, no elemental manipulation in his arsenal was gonna help him here.
Slowly updating all the chapters, re-editing and adding some more context, trying to get back in the game since my love for this has never died. Peace.