This is and was largely inspired by Obito and how Madara made him op so fast.
It is a brother story to an Unwilling Ear... you'll see what I am talking about.
The Day After Naruto Fails to Retrieve Sasuke at the Valley of the End.
"And Naruto's neck was broken!" Those words, spoken by a nurse outside his room, froze Naruto's soul. His mind, muffled by painkillers, reacted with an openness his normal mind would never allow. "We checked his body, his scar tissue history. Even with his powerful healing factor, Naruto has scar tissue. We checked his whole body. Sasuke Uchiha punctured Naruto's lung, set him on fire, and broke his neck. Naruto should have died."
Naruto couldn't breathe, his heart aching as those words, simple as they were, made a powerful realization overtake him. Several in fact, all pushed by his high.
Sasuke tried to kill him... He almost died... He was nowhere near as strong or skilled as Sasuke despite his raw natural power and the Fox...
Mind moving at a hundred miles an hour, Naruto realized many other things, big and small. Like a veil tearing from his eyes, he realized the failure of his senseis, who never taught him enough to match Sasuke. He realized his own failures, never studying and training like Sasuke or Lee. He realized that had he trained like Lee, or Sasuke, or Neji, his overwhelming power would trump Sasuke. As it was, Sasuke was skilled enough that with a boost of power inferior to the power of the Nine Tailed Fox... Sasuke overcame him, and nearly cost him his life.
He had been relying on the power of the Fox, with Haku, Sasuke, Gaara, Neji and he attempted to do with the Akatuski guys Kisame nad Itachi and they easily bested him and Sasuke.
No, Naruto needed to be better, do better, overcome his limits...
Jiraiya was a bad teacher, that spent most of his time playing and drinking and whoring. If he really was going to take Naruto out, Naruto knew he would learn nothing...
That would never work... and so delirious with pain and loss and shock and great drugs, Naruto began to plot, to find a way to greater power still and actually focus the skills he had, gain more skills...
And put Sasuke in his place for nearly killing him and maybe one day become Hokage.
He would do it...
BELIEVE IT!
"Boy... if you wish to learn greater power... I can help you, with that." And before he could say a damn thing, Naruto was pulled into the seal, right in front of the Fox. His mind clearing from the drugs but keeping the ever forward momentum.
Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.
This was a joyful chapter. Naruto is high on painkillers.
Love, your Ninja Overlord,
Mika.
