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Chapter 4

"Come on Naruto, you can do it, just three more!" Sakura said watching her blonde teammate.

It was early in the morning at the Haruno household and even though Naruto had been here for a two weeks he still felt like he had made little progress, still, he had to admit that it felt good when Sakura was cheering him on.

The Haruno's had been kind and polite to Naruto during his stay here. They had moved him to one of their guest bedrooms and Sakura would always come in the mornings and they would do various exercises and activities, such as arm wrestling Sakura and walking around the house

He lifted the small weight in his right hand half way to his face from the arm rest three more times before finally putting his arm down panting.

"Hey Sakura, how long is this going to take? I used to be able to lift these things for hours, now I can barely do it for a few minutes" he said

Sakura smiled kindly at him, although her eyes held a bit of sadness

"This is physical therapy Naruto, it takes time, your arm is going to have to re-learn how to function and build up strength and even then your arm still won't work at what it used to" She said putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

But Naruto's frown deepened

"But Sakura, I can't use Genjutsu, I never have been good, and now my Ninjutsu is virtually gone and I'll never be able to be on the same level of Taijutsu as Lee or Neji"

He looked at the floor with frustration clear on his face

"How can I be a ninja if I can't do those things?"

Sakura was thinking of what to say when a loud voice interrupted

"You think Ninjutsu, Genjutsu and Taijutsu is all there is? Don't be ridiculous, there are other areas that great ninja have used as their main skills"

Naruto and Sakura looked at the window with the new arrival making them jump out of their skins

In the window of the Haruno's guestroom stood a man with long white hair

Sakura now knew this man to be Jiraiya of the legendary Sannin

Naruto on the other hand knew him as something different

"PERVY SAGE!" Naruto said excitedly

"STOP CALLING ME THAT, YOU'LL SCARE ALL THE LADIES OFF YOU BRAT!" The Sage yelled back in false anger

Sakura just sweat dropped at the whole thing, not sure what the relationship between these two were.

As the two bickered back and forth over what he should be called Sakura decided to intervene.

"Um, Lord Jiraiya, what did you mean by what you said a moment ago, and how do you know Naruto?" Sakura asked still confused on how somebody who was deadlast in the Academy know somebody as famous and skilled as the Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya the Toad Sage.

Jiraiya smiled at Sakura as if pleased with her answer, then turned back to Naruto

"See? Your girlfriend knows how to properly address me so be sure to pick up that habit up brat"

At the mention of girlfriend Naruto started grinning stupidly and stuttering as he blushed

Sakura went red and started stuttering and shaking, trying to get words out until she finally did what she always did in these situations

She went full on violent mode and punched someone

Usually this would mean Naruto

But he is injured so that's a no go there

So she punched the only other person in the room

A certain Toad Sage

Jiraiya barely had time to register what he saw then he looked surprised and before the punch connected he gaped at the situation.

The punch sent him across the room into a wall

Immediately afterwards it seemed to dawn on Sakura what she had just done and she went pale as a ghost, turning to Naruto, she grabbed him by the hands and looked at him with a panicked face

"I JUST PUNCHED A SANNIN, WHY DIDN"T YOU STOP ME!" she said

"How was I supposed to do that?" Naruto said

"I don't know you're the number 1 unpredictable ninja, you could have come up with something!"

Then Jiraiya's voice cut off anymore conversation

"Looks like we have the same taste in women brat" he said looking at Naruto

Then he turned his gaze towards Sakura who actually began shaking under his glare, sure she was going to pay heavily

Then he sighed

"Don't worry about it, I get hit harder by Tsunadae all the time. In fact this morning alone I've been punched three times"

This drew Sakura's attention

"Why would the Hokage punch you?" she asked confused as to why her childhood hero would punch one of her closest friends on a regular bases, although she conveniently seemed to forget the majority of her and Naruto's relationship up till this moment had consisted of her punching him.

"Well-" Jiraiya was trying to think up a reasonable excuse when Naruto opened his mouth

"That's because he's a big p-"

"NARUTO LOOK, IS THAT A CLOUD SHAPED LIKE A BOWL OF RAMEN!" Jiraiya yelled while pointing at the window

"Let me see, let me see, let me see!" Naruto said heading over to the window befor gaining a confused look

"Hey there's not a cloud in the sky" Naruto said disappointed

"Really my mistake" Jiraiya said

Naruto sighed disappointedly

"And here I thought I finally understood how Shikamaru felt about clouds

In a meetings of Chunin

The head Chunin was going over a map detailing all the assighnments everyone would be given when a loud sneeze interrupted the senior officer

He looked back at the Chunin who had sneezed

"You okay back there Nara?"

The person in question sighed like he was extremely bored

"Troublesome, I have no idea where that sneeze came from"

The senior officer nodded his head

"Still stop by the Hospital later and have a medic nin check you out, can't have you giving away our location in the middle of a stealth mission"

"Troublesome"

Back at the Haruno household

Jiraiya stood in front of the young teens

"Now as to what I was talking about earlier, many famous ninja had skills despite those three they teach you in the Academy, you already know of Sealing and Sakura here has been training in medical ninjutsu and kenjutsu, I mainly use sealing, summoning and Taijutsu. There are several weapon based you can learn, for example the 3rd Hokage was a Bojutsu fighter, and there are many other skills" he said catching the young Uzumaki's undivided attention.

"There are also many different kinds of Taijutsu. Such as Goken like you friend Lee uses and Jyuken with the Hyugga and I use a style known as Frog Kata so even if you can't use the same style as that Lee kid, just find a teacher who can teach you a style you can use"

Then turning to Sakura he said

"For you other question about my relation to Naruto the answer is simple" he said in a serious voice.

Before grinning a pointing at himself

"I'm his Master!"

Sakura had the look she would have if someone told her that she thought would have been impossible.

Then she face palmed

"Of course you are" leave it to Naruto to somehow get one of the legendary Sannin as his Master.

She wonders if she could convince Tsunade to make her an apprentice?

Jiraiya clapped his hands together

"Ok then, let's get started!"

From his haori he pulled out a scroll and he pulled some ink and brushes out of his ninja pouch.

"Alright Naruto, first step is to learn how to properly write characters"

Naruto looked uncomfortable at the prospect

"Well, you see I can't really write with my hand right at the moment" he began only to get cut off

"That's fine your left hand still works good and training that will help you on the field of battle, shinobi using two hands equally are quite fearsome" he said as if he was trying to sell Naruto on the idea while also slipping 'you're not getting out of this' into his tone of voice.

"I'm your Master! Do you really think I'd do anything that could seriously hurt you?"

Naruto gave him a deadpan look

"You threw me off a cliff"

Jiraiya mumbled a "Oh yeah I forgot about that"

Sakura looked mortified at what she just heard

"YOU THREW HIM OFF A CLIF, CHA!?"

What happened to Jiraiya after that I'll leave to your imagination

ON THE ROOF TOP ACROSS FROM THE HARUNO HOME

Kakashi Hatake sat watching everything go on in the room.

Frankly he wasn't sure what to do.

He felt like he should tell Naruto to quit the ninja life as it would be too dangerous for him and he would be at a greater risk of death.

The other part wanted him to succeed and overcome the odds and become a great ninja, and eventually, a great Hokage.

Before he made a decision one way or the other he would need to think carefully on what he did next, right now everyone was being supportive of Naruto working his way back into the ninja forces but they were being idealistic and Kakashi was being realistic and frankly he didn't want to lose anyone else.

'Those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum'

Those were the words he tried to live by, but this situation was complicated.

If he supports Naruto and he ends up dying then his blood will be on Kakashi's hands, but if he doesn't he might be betraying his student?

Kakashi looked at the sky

What should he do?

He knew one thing he needed to do and now was the perfect opportunity, he had already put it off too long.

Konoha Jail

A door opened in a cell and Sasuke looked to see who his ANBU guards had let in.

Kakashi

"Kakashi, what do you want" Sasuke asked as if his former teachers very presence annoyed him

"I want to know why" Kakashi said, his single visible eye looking down on the young teen in front of him

Sasuke raised an eyebrow

"Why what, can you be more specific" he said although Kakashi knew he knew what he wanted to know

"I want to hear from your own mouth why you tried to kill Naruto"

Sasuke's infamous smirk appeared

"That's simple Kakashi, I wanted to leave and he was in my way, there was also the added potential that I could unlock the Mongekyo Sharingan"

Sasuke looked Kakashi in the eye

"Simly, killing him was more advantageous for me at that time, and even though I failed he's still in the hospital in a coma" Sasuke said with his smirk widening

"So much for his dreams of Hokage"

Now it was Kakashi's turn to smirk, to the confusion of Sasuke

"Naruto's awake, and more than that he's already out of the hospital and on his way to recovery"

Sasuke looked shocked at this news

"You wouldn't have heard this as your contact with whats going on outside this cell, so I'll say it now"

His eye narrowed

"You failed Sasuke"

Sasuke's eyes narrowed in anger but Kakashi continued

"I use to think you were like a younger me, but now I know you aren't. Even in my darkest moment of my life I would have never tried to kill a comrade"

Kakashi turned towards the door and began walking towards it. But before leaving he decided to say one last thing. Without turning around, he said

"Remember the first lesson I taught you, 'Those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their comrades are even worse than scum'. So Sasuke, you tried to kill yours, what does that make you?"

And with that he left the cell, the ANBU guards closing the door and locking the door securely.

Another chapter done

I wanted to show some of Naruto's early recovery in this chapter and introduce some of what he'll be training in during this story. In Shippuden it was shown that Naruto was skilled in seals, he was able to understand and use the key to the 9 tails seal, which only a seal master should have been able to understand. So it always bothered me that they never showed him using seals in the series. Another thing Naruto will likely be learning if I don't change my mind is Bojutsu as during the fight with Madara and Kaguya Naruto showed that he had considerable skill in staff fighting. I asked myself, where was this skill the rest of the series?

I also wanted to have Jiraiya make an appearance in this chapter that fit his character. I also included Kakashi questioning on what he should do and him confronting Sasuke. also the parts where it would get serious then funny were things I always liked so I tried to have that in this chapter with Jiraiya's appearance.

Now for reviews

Bankai777: it's a common misconception but there is a difference between jail and prison. A jail is used to hold someone until a trial and a prison is for if they are found guilty. As Sasuke is awaiting trial he would go to a jail rather than a prison, but if he makes it to trial and found guilty he would go somwheres like the blood prison..

Ivan meza: I translated what you said and I couldn't understand it completely, it translated to 'shall drama' if you were wondering if drama will appear in the story, probably it appears like all stories have a bit of drama

Stitchman626: thanks for the compliment, schools started back for me so I'll try to update this story at least once a week, I don't plan on abandoning any of my stories but I do tend to take breaks every now and then to work on other stories then come back but I'd let you know if that happens and it usually does if I'm having writers block on one story or if I have a story idea in my head and I just cannot write until I get it out and write it down, and if I write it I might as well post it, and I do not like it when stories are abandoned either especially good ones but I understand that sometimes life happens.

Wyle23: um, could you be a bit more specific because you may notice things that I don't

Thedarkpokemaster: I have a plan for Naruto and how he'll become a shinobi which is why his recovery will be told in time skip form as his recovery is just a part of the story as he will still have to learn a new way of fighting and being a ninja.

Thank you for reading, please review and have a nice day!