Training
After leaving the tower and the forest I use my super sense of smell to track Kakashi to the hospital. I had no problems as I can check on my teammates and maybe Kakashi would be there.
"Sorry sir but there's restrictions on who can see Sasuke, and Sakura checked out a while ago after waking up," the nurse said.
"Well is it okay I find someone that might be visiting someone here?" I asked.
"Not unless you're planning to visit that person as well or that person is working here," the nurse said.
I look down but then I thought of something. "Wait…" I said until Kakashi disrupt me, "Its okay Naruto I figure you would track me here."
I turned to see Kakashi standing there.
"Kakashi-sensei I need you to ask you something," I said.
"Hold on Naruto, I know what you're about to asked, and lord Hokage already arrange someone who is better to train you than me," Kakashi said, "In fact he's the same person who was taught by the third, and taught the fourth Hokage."
"Really!" I responded, "But wait, what about Sasuke?"
"I'll train him for his match, from what I heard he's facing the Jinchuuriki Gaara, and I might have a jutsu for him that might help him," Kakashi said, "Meanwhile there's another chakra control exercise I want you to learn first that I told your trainer to teach you before anything else."
"So where do I meet him, is he coming here or I go to him?" I asked.
"You'll have to meet him at the hot spring where he'll most likely to be at," Kakashi said, "Oh and the chief told me of a certain transformation that might get this trainer's attention. You'll find out when you meet him"
"Well then I'm off," I shouted leaving.
"He left in such a hurry I forgot to tell him what Master Jiriaya looks like, or something to track him by," Kakashi thought with a sweat drop.
That got me confuse as I had no single clue what he was talking about.
I went home and wash up after my fight in both the forest and the preliminaries. Then I took my scooter and drove off to the hot spring.
First thing I did was track Sakura down because I realized what Kakashi thought, not to mention don't even know his name. I found her heading home.
"Hey Sakura," I shouted.
"Oh hi Naruto," Sakura responded.
"I need ask you about something that has to do with the 3rd and 4th Hokage," I said.
"Sure what is it?" Sakura asked.
"Well you see Kakashi said that the fourth arrange me a new trainer, who I'm suppose to meet at the hotspring, and I forgot to ask for something to track the guy by," I said, "Only clues I got is that he was trained by the third Hokage, and taught the fourth Hokage…"
"And since you haven't been in the leaf long enough to learn its history, you don't know who the guy is," Sakura said.
"Yeah basically," I responded.
"Well then the one you're looking for would be Jiriaya," Sakura said.
"Okay thanks," I said about to leave.
"Wait Naruto," Sakura said.
I stopped cold and turned to her.
"I heard you're up against Temari, and Sasuke is up against Gaara, is that right?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, but Kakashi-sensei said he had a jutsu that might help Sasuke against Gaara," I said.
"What about you though," Sakura said, "I mean I know what Temari can do from our fight."
"Don't worry Sakura, I'll be fine," I said, "I can handle her."
"I just wish you luck," Sakura said.
I nodded before riding off to the hot spring.
I parked my scooter on the side and look around. Now that I know this guy's name it can't be too hard.
I avoided the girls side thinking that if this guy was suppose to train me he/she wouldn't train me there. I stopped however when I saw an old man with white long spiky hair, wearing odd clothes and scandals, and as I noticed by my nose, have a hint of smell of toad.
At first I didn't think it was the guy I was looking for and look around, but no one else was there that goes by that name until I was left with that old guy again. "Please tell me this is some kind of joke," I thought.
"Master Jiriaya?" I asked.
"Yeah I don't need anything," the old man said making me believe that his name was Jiriaya since he responded to it.
"I don't work here," I said.
"Then don't bother me," Jiriaya said.
"But aren't you suppose to train me?" I asked.
"Sorry but I'm suppose to train the son of the nine-tail fox name Naruto," Jiriaya said.
"My father is the nine-tail fox, my name is Naruto," I said.
That caught Jiriaya's attention as he turned to me. "You don't look like someone whose son of the tail beast," Jiriaya said.
I was annoyed by that, I mean sure I'm in human form but its not like I'll transformed in front of him and show off my…tails…That's it!
"Wait if I show you one of my tails will you believe me?" I asked.
"Yeah sure," Jiriaya said.
I lowered until I was on all four and summoned one of my tails and hit it on the ground causing it to shake a little.
"So this is the new Nine-tails," Jiriaya thought.
"Well?" I asked.
"Okay kid I believe you," Jiriaya said.
I called back my tail and stood back on my back legs.
"Okay Naruto, according to Kakashi, he wants you to learn how to walk on water," Jiriaya said.
"Yeah that's right," I said thinking that it was the chakra control training Kakashi was talking about.
"Well for water walking you must be able to exert the same amount of chakra to stay on top of water as unlike a tree water moves freely," Jiriaya explained. He focus chakra to his feet and walked on top of water.
"That's all? I can do that," I said. I focus chakra to my feet and started walking on water. However I was wobbly and fell into the water. "Hot! Hot! Hot!" I screamed getting out of the water rather quickly.
"Well it is a hot spring," Jiriaya said, "Now if you excuse me I got some work to do."
I focus chakra to my feet and tried again. I lasted a bit longer until I dived. After a bit I was walking on water. "Hey I got it," I said looking at Jiriaya. I sweat drop as he wasn't even paying attention. Then it hit me of what Kakashi meant. He's a pervert, so the best way to get his attention was giving something he wants.
I took out one of my seals and place it on my forehead, made the hand sign and transformed into a girl in a bikini.
"Oh master Jiriaya," I said in a girly voice.
"Oh ho, so a girl decided to see me," Jiriaya said turning to me just to see that I forgot to hide my tail. "Nice jutsu kid but I know its you," Jiriaya said even though his nose was bleeding a little.
I transformed back to normal laughing, "Man you're such a pervert."
"Hey do you have any idea who you're talking too?" Jiriaya asked.
"Not really," Naruto responded.
Jiriaya summoned a large human size toad and did his stance. "I'm the lady man's everyone wants, one of the legendary three Saunin, and toad sage, Jiriaya," Jiriaya said.
I was look at him weirdly but the fact he was one of the legendary three saunin sound familiar. At least the toad explained the hint of toad smell on him.
"So you're basically a purvey sage," I said.
"Don't call me that," Jiriaya said, "Maybe you recognize this." He pulled out a book. I recognize it as one of those books Kakashi read.
"That's the book Kakashi-sensei read," I responded.
"Oh so you heard of it," Jiriaya said, "Anyways, I was just told to look after your training. And right now I think the first thing we should do is to unlock some of your abilities."
"Abilities?" I asked.
"That's right, the nine-tails was believe to have more than the destructive power of creating earthquakes, and being his son you must have that ability as well," Jiriaya said, "We'll start tomorrow when we'll have a fresh start."
The next day I took my scooter to the training area where purvey-sage was peeping again.
"Now, for your training I want you two meditate," Jiriaya said.
"Meditate?" I asked.
"Yes, meditate, that's the only way you're going to find your inner power," Jiriaya said.
"Alright I'll try it," I said sitting in a stance and try to meditate. The last thought on my mind was how was the other finalist were preparing.
Meanwhile in another training area after Tenten had recovered, she agreed to help Neji master some main branch jutsu.
Nearby Lee was being trained by Gai to prepare for the finals as well.
Kurenai and Kiba both were training Hinata and Shino and was helping Hinata unlock her own fighting style of the Gentle fist since the normal Hyuga Clan Gentle fist was difficult for her.
Sasuke escaped from the hospital but the only one who wasn't concern about Sasuke might of join Orochimaru was Minato as he knew that Kakashi had disappeared the same time Sasuke was found missing.
Shikamaru was being pushed into training with Choji and Asuma at the time to improve his technique.
Meanwhile the sand siblings were preparing for something more than the finals.
Days passed and I haven't unlock much of my power. Finally I went into deep meditation and found my mind in a new realm. "Where am I?" I asked.
"You're in the realm of tailed fox," someone said.
I turned to see a grey fox with red eyes and four tails that was the size of a small house.
"Realm of tailed fox?" I asked.
"Yes, your father founded this place long before you were born, although we been here longer," the tailed fox said, "My name is Kurama and I'm in charge of this place young nine-tails."
"Ah, you can call me Naruto," I said. "So you help my father destroy homes?"
"No, unlike your father we don't seek harm to humans, thus he never actually use us even though he was able to summon us," Kurama said, "However Naruto, we've been waiting for you to end up in our realm."
"Wait I don't understand," I said.
"You see Naruto we watch you grown a bond to humans and we agreed to allow you to summon us, along with it we got some other things to teach you," Kurama said, "The only difference between your summoning from a humans is that all you need is a little bit of your blood. No summoning contract needed."
"Alright," I responded.
Meanwhile back in reality Jiriaya noticed how quiet I was. "Hmm, he's sure quiet I wander if he found that power," Jiriaya thought.
Finally I open my eyes and gave a fox like grin.
"Whoa-ho, I guess everything worked out," Jiriaya said.
"Yeah watch," I said.. I bit my thumb and made the hands sign. "Summoning Jutsu!" I shouted slamming my hand on the ground.
In a puff of smoke a two tail fox with blue fur appeared. "Hello my name is Shippo," it said.
"So Naruto found out how to summon the tail fox clan. His father might of not been born from that clan but it makes since if Naruto was able to summon them," Jiriaya thought.
"So Shippo, are you my trainer?" I asked.
"Sorry Naruto, but you need to summon Akagitsune," Shippo explained.
"Ha-ha, nice job," Jiriaya said.
"Let me try again," I said biting my thumb.
This time I summoned a red human size fox with 5 tails. "My name is Akagitsune you must me Naruto," he said.
"Yeah that's right," I said.
I started training at that moment learning how to fuse my normal jutsus with summoning jutsu.
Soon enough 2 weeks passed and I been working on my fox training, plus purvey sage had me try and pop some water balloon with one hand saying it was the first step of a jutsu called Rasengan. After I done that he made me pop a rubber ball.
Now I was done with popping the rubber ball and finished my training.
"Now Naruto I want you to try and use the first two steps to spin your chakra into this balloon without popping it," Jiriaya said.
"Wait why this?" I asked.
"You see you been spinning your chakra and added power into it but now you must learn how to control those two elements to create a distructive ball of spinning chakra," Jiriaya said.
I started working on the training. After a few baloons popping I decided to meditate to let my chakra restore.
Suddenly I found myself in a dark room in my mind. It wasn't like when I learn how to summon as I couldn't see what was in front of me.
"You have grown Naruto," someone said.
I turned to see a giant fox bigger than Kuroda with 9 striking tails. He had red-orange fur and eyes that was fox like.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm not surprise you don't recognize me, after all, you were just a little pup when I was killed," the fox said.
"F-Father?" I responded.
"Now you recognize me," he said.
"Wait you're dead, why are you here?" Naruto asked.
"I maybe dead, but I still have responsibility over my kit," my father said.
I didn't know what to say but I had a creepy feeling down my back.
"Naruto I'm here to warn you about that Jinchuuriki, not only he's unstable but if he released the Shukaku you won't stand a chance at your current size," father told me, "You need to fuse your transformation with the summoning if you want to beat him."
"You're telling me this why?" I asked.
"Because, mankind may have killed me, but it was mankind that saved you, and since you have created a bond with humans, all I can do is help you in the backgroumd," He said.
I open my eyes after talking to my old man and got up. I needed to experiment with the fusion just in case.
"Hey what are you doing?" purvey sage asked.
"I'm going to try something," I answered.
I bit my thumb placed a scroll in my mouth and made the hand signs. "Summoning Transformation Jutsu!" I shouted.
A puff of smoke surround me in an instant I was in my true form but the size of my father.
"Naruto figured out how to change his size at will," purvey sage thought, "But is that him?"
I look around and saw purvey sage. "Purvey Sage I did it," I shouted.
"That's good now return back to normal before someone sees you," he responded.
I did so and turned back to normal. Now I know I got something I can use if Gaara does release the Shukaku.
A/N: This is probably not what you expected but I'm going to use the next chapter to show Naruto being with his friends for the final week before the finals. Naruto will know the Rasengan by then, and he'll get a new set of clothes from his summoning.
Oh yeah Kurama and Shippo names I used from the names used from Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha but Kurama's previous form was in a form of a fox with 4 tails in Yu Yu Hakusho, and Shippo was a fox demon in Inuyasha so I thought of using those names. Kurama isn't the size Naruto grows from the combo though.
I thought of giving Naruto a tail fox summoning since he's the son of the Nine-tail Fox.
Next Time: I have a new set of clothes that makes anyone have a hard time recognize him unless they're facing me. I have the remaining week off to rest up for the finals, and I spend the last week with my friends but something about Gaara makes me worry even more after what my father told me. What happens?" Read to find out...