Chapter 35: True Display of Skill

Whispered rippled through the contestants and their sensei's even the Sandaime was slightly curious about this match-up. It wasn't because it was a battle between two Konoha-nin, but of a battle between these two specific genin.

Everybody knew Sasuke hated Naruto with a passion and Naruto while he held no hatred toward Sasuke he never saw eye to eye with him, but there was no doubt that this match was definitely rigged to happen. Most likely Sasuke had somehow whined his way into this match and the civilian council found it in their all-encompassing wisdom to grant him that wish… pathetic really…

Sasuke leapt over the railing and onto the arena where Naruto was already standing and gave Naruto a smirk, "So I finally get my chance to show this dobe what real power is and put him in his place… this must be my lucky day!"

Kurama in Naruto's mindscape snorted, "Does this fool really believe he can defeat you? Let me out and I will crush him beyond recognition!"

Hashirama said with a smirk of his own, "Now, now Kurama… at least give me a chance to get a go at beating on one of the Uchiha's for old times sake."

Kurama responded with a smirk and said, "I don't know Shodai-chan, you know how much I really hate those guys!"

Naruto just shook his head and said, "Calm down you two… letting either of you fight would be over kill… especially you Kurama."

Kurama just snorted then laid back down onto his arms and said off handedly, "What can I say Uchiha's make the best toothpicks…"

Shaking his head one more time Naruto exited his mindscape just in time, as Hayate was about to call for the start of the match.

The moment Hayate dropped his hand and yelled, "Begin"

Sasuke charged at Naruto with all his speed, ever since he had gained his Sharingan he had taken his family's taijutsu style to a new level. Now he didn't have to stay back and wait for his opponent to attack first. He could throw some basic attacks to draw out his opponent than he would be able to copy and counter them with ease. "You're done Naruto!"

Sasuke threw a punch forward and Naruto slipped into a taijutsu stance and easily parried Sasuke's fist, Sasuke then tried to raise his leg to drive his knee into Naruto's stomach but he suddenly couldn't lift his foot. Looking down he realized Naruto had stepped on top of his foot preventing him from lifting it up. But by looking down Sasuke had already made a mistake, as Naruto lifted his foot that had distracted Sasuke and backhanded him sending him flipping through the air, then landing painfully on the ground skidding across it.

Sasuke winced in pain as he swore a couple of his teeth had been knocked out by that hit. Sasuke realized that what Naruto didn't show enough of his style, because his Sharingan apparently couldn't pick up any new forms or stances.

Once again Sasuke charged in at him this time opening up with a kick which Naruto caught with ease, Sasuke looked to swing his other leg upwards to kick Naruto in the head but just as his other foot left the ground Naruto released the leg he had originally caught while pushing down on it with a large amount of force and then taking a step backwards.

Because both of Sasuke's legs were off the ground and he had started a violent spinning motion he couldn't control his body and plus the fact that Naruto had shoved him downwards caused him to once again land face first onto the stone floor with a loud thud.

"Dam you dobe!" Sasuke gritted out while slowly standing up. "Fight me like a real Shinobi you useless excuse of a human being!"

Naruto showed no change in emotion and that annoyed Sasuke especially because Naruto was now walking in a circle around him, Sasuke didn't like this one bit he was the one that was supposed to be the predator not the prey!

Immediately Sasuke lunged at Naruto throwing a barrage of fists at him, and Naruto once again was able to easily parry and defect them all but Sasuke smirked at Naruto's undoing slowly Sasuke was seeing it now he was slowly gaining knowledge on Naruto's stance…

Sasuke was able to spare a quick glance at the position Naruto's feet were set at, and then it hit him like a ton of bricks. He now realized why his Sharingan wasn't copying Naruto's form… It was because he already KNEW THIS FORM! IT WAS THE MOST BASIC ONE THEY TAUGHT IN THE ACADEMY!

NARUTO WASN'T FIGHTING HIM, HE WAS JUST MOCKING HIM!

Sasuke threw another jab in anger but Naruto easily caught his fist holding it in place with an absurd amount of pressure, Sasuke immediately tried to yank his fist back with all his might but he didn't count on Naruto letting go of it so easily. With all that strength Sasuke had used to try to pull his fist back he didn't have time to stop it as his fist barreled into his own face causing him to stumble backwards and nearly fall onto his backside.

Sasuke expected Naruto to stand there while laughing and gloating at him but what he did was even worse, he used that same dam impassive and emotionless mask that Itachi had used.

But while Naruto wasn't laughing at him many of the other genins were, especially that mutt, the cat boy from Suna and this large tubby Shinobi from Iwa who were all holding their sides in laughter. Looking up Sasuke could have sworn that even Neji and Shino had a grins on their face.

Kiba in between laughs was able wheezed out, "The so called elite Uchiha fighting style beaten by a simple academy fighting stance!"

Sasuke turned back to Naruto with pure hatred imbued into his face, mentally he ranted "how dare this worthless worm embarrass him in front of all these people. HOW DARE THEY MOCK ME I'M A UCHIHA ELITE!" Well apparently loss of sanity was something that ran in the Uchiha family.

"YOU SCUM YOU THINK YOU'RE SO STRONG, WELL ACCEPT THE TRUTH THAT YOU ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO ME!" Sasuke yelled in an almost hysterical tone. All the people who were laughing immediately became silent as they watched Sasuke continue to unleash his rage. "AND YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW YOU'RE NOTHING… BECAUSE YOU ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOTHING!

Kakashi's one eye widened as he realized what Sasuke was about to do Kakashi muttered to himself inwardly praying, "No Sasuke don't do it! Don't provoke Naruto that way!"

But Kami above proved to not answer his prayers when Sasuke spat in Naruto's direction, "You know I thought Hinata was strong… but she proved to be another piece of worthless trash when she lost, this just proves that doesn't even deserve to be a stepping stone for me… Actually maybe if she gets on her knees and submits to me like she's supposed to then I will consider using her as breeding stock than afterwards I would toss her away like the trash she is! Sasuke finished with a grin as if that was actually going to happen.

Nearly everybody watching the match was disgusted by Sasuke's words, especially the respective Jonin sensei's. Asuma shook his head at this show of disgrace, Gai found what Sasuke said to be extremely unyouthful than there was Kurenai who saw Hinata as a little sister oh how she wanted to castrate the last Uchiha with a rusty kunai but the one who was most embarrassed was Kakashi he knew he would be facing heat from his comrades later they would definitely blame him for the boys outburst.

A bit away the Hokage stared down at Sasuke while his face was impassive inside Sarutobi was disgusted, "What kind of disgusting and vile perverted fantasies did this boy have?" Sarutobi thought. Clearly the civilian council had something to do with this boys inflated ego, they fed him their lies and promises for so long he actually believe himself to have everything what a fool…

All these years Sasuke's madness grew each time Naruto proved to be stronger than him and this… well it was just the tipping point.

Kurama for once sounded pissed off and commented, "Are you going to stand and take that from him kid? Let me out and I'll tear him apart nice and slow so I can hear him scream!"

Naruto darkly replied, "Not a chance Kurama I will personally take my revenge on him! He will regret ever saying those words!

Sasuke snarled and roared out at Naruto who's eyes seemed like they were now piercing into Sasuke's very soul judging him, "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

Running through hand signs Sasuke finished and yelled, "KATON: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"

The fireballs raced toward Naruto who didn't move an inch and it was too everybody's surprise when one of the fireballs actually hit him… but suddenly Naruto's body began to break apart into black pieces which were actually… crows!

Sasuke saw the crows erupting front Naruto's body and suddenly his blood ran cold his body began shaking as the crows flew around occasionally letting out a caw.

There was only one other person Sasuke knew that knew this technique, "Uchiha, Itachi!"

And as the crows started reforming Sasuke swore he saw of glimpse of Itachi instead of Naruto. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STEALING MY FAMILYS TECHNIQUES!" Sasuke yelled as he threw a kunai at the reformed Naruto who burst into crows again. But this time the crows reformed into two Naruto's and every time Sasuke would destroy them, more would reform till Sasuke was surrounded by half dozen of Naruto's crow clones.

"This is coming from the clan who steals other people's techniques?"one of Naruto's clones asked emotionlessly."

"Quite clans full of hypocrites aren't they…" another one asked.

"Though I want to clarify Uchiha your brother's crow techniques never belonged to the Uchiha's…" a third one stated.

"I'm sure that infuriate your father when he refused to hand it over to them." One of the clones behind him added on.

"But what could he do Itachi was far too powerful for your father to force him to do anything…" another one stated

"What about you Uchiha… does it piss you off that your brother would teach me rather than you or your family? Speaks volumes about what he thinks of his clan."

"SHUT UP… ALL LIES YOU BASTARD! YOU CORRUPTED HIM YOU DEMON! I WILL KILL YOU THEN I WILL KILL HIM AFTERWARDS!" Sasuke roared as suddenly an evil presence could be felt emanating from him. In a matter of moments black markings emerged from a point in his neck and started wrapping around Sasuke's face.

Anko who was watching from above saw this turned to Kakashi said, "I warned you this would happened Kakashi! You should have taken him out of the exams you idiot, you don't know how dangerous that seal is!"

Inside Naruto's mindscape the sudden spike of evil chakra even drew the attention of Kurama who seemed slightly intrigued. But then he let out a snort of laughter, "Well isn't this a surprise, the Uchiha has gotten a hickey just like your Anko-chan."

Naruto narrowed his eyes as the marks spread more and more along Sasuke's skin, "Than that means the snake Orochimaru is here!"

"We can think about taking care of the snake for Anko's sake later, right now you have to put the Uchiha down who knows what damage he can do with that abomination active." Kurama said with loathing as he sensed that the seal was partially constructed with bits of demonic chakra… where Orochimaru gained the demonic chakra Kurama didn't know and while the demonic chakra did give the wielder of the seal additional power it also gave the wielder one weakness… It could be suppressed with the Mokuton ability.

"MOKUTON: Wood Binding Hands!" Naruto said as he aimed his palm at Sasuke immediately his hand transformed into wood and long branches shot out toward Sasuke. Who tried to fight off the branches but they overwhelmed him and completely bound him up so that only his head was showing.

Sasuke tried his best to struggle out of his wooden prison but made little to no progress against the unrelenting grip of the wood. But aside from restricting his movement Sasuke also felt as his new found power began leaving him. "NO STOP YOU BASTARD! WHEN WILL YOU GET IT THROUGH YOUR STUPID HEAD THAT I DESERVE THIS POWER! THAT'S WHY I WAS GIVEN KAKASHI AS A SENSEI SO HE COULD GIVE ME ALL HIS POWER!"

"Surrender Uchiha you have lost…." Naruto stated as he tightened the wood around Sasuke.

Sasuke gritted his teeth and defiantly yelled, "NEVER YOU WORTHLESS TRASH, WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE I WILL SUBJECT THAT HYUGA BITCH TO MY SHARINGAN AND MAKE HER SLIT HER OWN THROAT IN FRONT OF YOU EYES."

Naruto tightened his fist in a moment of anger which caused the wood to squeeze Sasuke even tighter, slowly Naruto reeled in his emotions and darkly replied, "I will never allow you to do that." Lifting his hand up Naruto formed a long splinter of wood in his palm, stared at it for a moment then launched it at Sasuke's head.

The next thing anybody heard was screams of pain from Sasuke as the splinter of wood had embedded into his right eye. "MY EYE YOU FUCKER! YOU DESTROYED MY SHARINGAN, HOW DARE YOU THE COUNCIL WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD!"

Naruto just answered plainly, "You wanted to be like Kakashi… thus I took out one of your eyes so you can look like him… actually my bad that's the wrong eye let me fix that." Naruto then formed another wooden splinter in his hand and just as he was about to throw it Sarutobi yelled out, "NARUTO!" Naruto turned too Sarutobi briefly who just shook his head, Naruto answered him with the slightest of nods and then he turned to Hayate and asked, "Hayate-san call the match."

Hayate nodded and announced, "Sasuke can no longer continue, winner by forfeit Uzumaki-Senju, Naruto!"

Naruto gave Hayate a short bow then released Sasuke from his wooden prison, who collapsed onto the ground in a heap having fainting from the pain and loss of blood. Medics were instantly upon him hoping to somehow save the boy's eye. Naruto ignored then as he walked back up toward the rest of the genins. Right as Naruto reached the top of the stairs Naruto was immediately confronted by Sakura who looked slightly deranged with a Kunai in her hands, "YOU BASTARD YOU HURT SASUKE-KUN HOW DARE YOU!"

Naruto narrowed his eyes at her and said, "It was authorized matched Haruno… if I were you I would put away that Kunai before I deem it a threat on my persons and act on that threat!"

Sakura tried to say something more but was interrupted when Kakashi grasped her shoulder harshly, "Sakura stand down… don't make me pull you from the tournament!"

Sakura leered at her sensei for a moment then type a step back with a look of loathing on her face.

Naruto turned to Kakashi and asked, "Do you disagree with my actions…"

Kakashi didn't say anything for a moment then replied, "No… while it seemed a tad excessive… I really can't blame you for what you did to him, especially not after what he said."

Naruto nodded and walked over to Anko who was all smiles, "Brutal yet effective I like it!"

Naruto gave her a light smile, "Well we all know who I learned it from" giving Anko a slight wink, "Inform me of how the rest of the tournament goes I have to speak with Hinata-hime…"

Anko gave him a little smirk and said, "kay say Hi to the princess for me."

Naruto just answered, "I will don't worry." As he walked toward the female section of the hospital wing, Naruto wanted to think about how he was going to explain what happened in the forest to Hinata.

But he was distracted by all the noise coming from the hospital wing, sounds of things being thrown across the room and glass shattering could be heard emanating down the room. Naruto quickened his pace and threw open the door to the room to discover the entire room looked like a battle ground glass vials were shattered everywhere, medical scalpels were embedded into the wall and electronic equipment laid broken on the floor.

And standing on their respective beds were Hinata and Kurotsuchi, Hinata had a hand full of syringes ready to throw them and Kurotsuchi had a bedpan in hand using it to knock them away. The nurse was huddled in a corner with a distraught look in her eyes, the moment Naruto entered the room the nurse bound over to Naruto and said while clutching onto the front of his pants and said hysterically, "Thank heavens you're here these two are crazy! YOU DEAL WITH THEM NOW!" than ran off out the door

Naruto walked over to where Hinata was standing; gently he removed the syringes from her hand than swept her off her feet and softly sat her down onto the bed. Taking a seat on the bed next to her Naruto asked, "Causing trouble my love?"

Hinata pouted slightly then leaned back onto Naruto's chest and said, "She started it!"

Naruto sighed as he lightly ran his fingers across the bandages on her face, "Regardless you're hurt, you shouldn't overexert yourself like this.

Hinata gave Naruto a tiny giggle than said, "Fine, fine so who did you end up fighting Naruto-kun?"

Naruto smirked slight and responded, "I was matched against the Uchiha, and then he had the audacity to mock you in front of me. Safe to say I cannot forgive somebody who insults the matriarch to my clan.

Hinata softly pecked Naruto's cheek and said, "Thank you for defending my honor my love."

This would have been a nice romantic moment had Kurotsuchi not suddenly busted out with, "I'm guessing by the way she is acting, you forgot to tell her what we did in the forest Naruto-kun, because I remember it very clearly. That's what we tend to do though remember the enjoyable experiences."

Hinata disliking Kurotsuchi's tone growled at her slightly and said, "What did you do to him!"

"Now, now that's a private moment between two lovers. Though I can say it's rather intimate." Kurotsuchi said with a giant grin and a wink towards Naruto.

Hinata let out a gasp as she guessed what Kurotsuchi was implying, "No…" she shook her head and looked up at Naruto hoping he would ensure her it wasn't true. But even he had turned is head away slightly in what looked to be shame. "Why…" Hinata asked as a tear slipped from her eye she grabbed onto Naruto's vest and shook him slightly wanting an answer, "I didn't want too…" Naruto whispered.

A look of shock overcame Hinata's face as Kurotsuchi then gloated, "Jealous? Jealous that I got to Naruto before you did. I guess in the end… you lose."

Anger and realization kicked in and Hinata grabbed one of the syringes off the table and made an attempt to lunge toward Kurotsuchi ready to run her through had Naruto not dived on top of her and restrained her from leaping off the bed at Kurotsuchi. Struggling against Naruto's grip Hinata just yelled, "YOU HARLOT, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DID IT BUT YOU RAPED MY NARUTO-KUN! JUST WAIT I WILL ENSURE YOU CAN NEVER HAVE CHILDREN! I'M GOING TO TEAR YOUR ENTIRE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM OUT WITH A CORRODED KUNAI"

Naruto sweat dropped at Hinata's statement, "She's just like Anko when she's mad… though her threats could use some work"

"Now, now it wasn't really rape… he just kind of ate me out and after a while he seemed kind of into it too." Kurotsuchi stated as she put her hands onto her tinted cheeks with a reminiscing look on her face.

"RAPE IS RAPE!" Hinata said as she flung the needle toward Kurotsuchi but missed because Naruto shifted her hand as she threw it.

"Jealous now aren't we." Kurotsuchi said then with a smirk she said. "And you know what will be even better, when I go back to Iwa I can tell every female there about how I dominated the great son of the Yondaime won't that be great! However it might lead to an influx of Iwa Kunoichi flocking to Konoha to try their hand at the same thing. Though there is a very simple way of stopping me from doing that you know." Kurotsuchi finished as she switched her position and laid down onto her stomach and elbows than leaned over her end of her bed toward Hinata's bed.

Hinata narrowed her eyes and stopped struggling against Naruto. "Are you blackmailing us!"

Kurotsuchi leaned further toward Hinata and said, "Not really blackmailing…" tapping her chin lightly for a moment than she said, "More like compromising…"

"What do you want," Hinata asked in a skeptical tone.

"You know exactly what I want princess…" Kurotsuchi replied.

"And you know my answer! I will not give you Naruto-kun!" Hinata responded with slight anger.

"AND YOU SHOULD STOP TAKING ME FOR A FOOL PRINCESS!" Kurotsuchi yelled as she leaned all the way over basically face with face with Hinata now, "I can put two and two together Naruto is clearly planning to invoke Konoha's CRA. I've notice the way he acts around that blond hair girl with a pony tail and the protector for 2nd part of the exams. Now I'm asking nicely at the moment, don't make me change my mind!"

They both glared heavily at each other, than Hinata let out a loud hmph and said, "Fine… But if you want to join than we are going toset down some ground rules right now!"

With an amused looked Kurotsuchi leapt off her bed and onto Hinata's which was quite cramped with Hinata, Naruto and Kurotsuchi on it than she asked, "Oh so what are these conditions then?"

Hinata narrowed her eyes than said, "I will allow your little transgression to slide only and only if you accept the fact that when it comes time that Naruto is ready to move on with his relationships with us… it will be with me first."

Kurotsuchi groaned slightly and said, "Seriously…" than she leaned into Naruto while throwing her hands around his neck, "Well what about a little bit of oral pleasure." She said with a perverted grin as her face was mere inches from his. "Naruto-kun's tongue felt really good inside of me. Do you remember what I taste like Naruto-kun?"

Instantly Naruto's taste buds were assaulted with the flavor of Kurotsuchi's juices. "YOU DAM RIGHT HE DOES" Kurama yelled from inside his head.

Naruto nearly choked at this whether it was from Kurotsuchi's question or Kurama messing with his taste buds he wasn't sure.

Hinata's eyes narrowed and said, "Stop tempting me from tearing you apart! I might take a page out of Anko's book because I'm pretty sure dead people can't black mail you…"

Kurotsuchi pouted while leaning further into Naruto who seemed slightly hesitant of the close contact between the two, but with Kurotsuchi basically exchanging carbon dioxide with him now it was getting real awkward "What about if we just use our hands to help relieve each other?"

"No…"

"What if we kept our clothes on?"

"No…"

Naruto let out a mental sigh of relief that the whole situation was somehow able to resolve itself, but he felt that something's were going to get difficult now, Kurama just snorted and fell back asleep but said before he did, "Luck of the dam Shimigami…"

A couple of days later

Senju Compound

Naruto still really had no idea how everything had worked out in the end, but didn't really think about it much. After the second phase of the exams all the contestants were given a month to train and rest. Naruto and Hinata officially moved into the Senju compound with Kurotsuchi staying there as a temporary guest, well the fact was she had pretty much invited herself to stay there. Anko would have moved in as well had she not had another few months of rent paid onto her apartment and she definitely wasn't going to waste it.

As for the results of the prelims apparently Neji had defeated Kiba and was now matched up against Naruto who had to think of a way to bring Neji's ego down a couple levels, and maybe get in a few hits for his constant mocking of Hinata.

The next match was Ino vs. Sakura where Ino easily came out on top and for the final was matched up against Shino and now spent her days either training or reading about Shino's clan to find any potential weakness. Shino had fought against Suzumebachi, and once again it was another controversial battle between Konoha and Iwa the rivalry between the Kamizuru and Aburame very well documented. But unlike the first match Shino came out on top and proved to everybody that the Aburame were still stronger of the two insect clans.

Shikamaru had outsmarted a Sound kunoichi named Kin and was now matched against the blonde kunoichi from Suna who effortlessly blew away Ten-Ten.

Sai's ink beasts had devoured Zaku and was scheduled to fight against Akatsuchi whose stone golems overcame Kankuro's puppets.

And lastly Gaara had brutally injured Rock Lee and now waited to face Dosu who beat Choji.

Naruto tried to sit up off his bed but a groan and body kept him from getting any further. "Where you think you going Naruto-kun?" Kurotsuchi asked as she pinned his body down with her own. Another voice answered for him, "Training you wouldn't need it cause you're not in the finals." It was Hinata who had been pushed off of her spot on top of Naruto by Kurotsuchi in the middle of the night.

"Neither are you princess." Kurotsuchi sweetly replied as she drew spirals on Naruto's chest with her finger.

Hinata just growled and mashed her forehead against Kurotsuchi's who responded with her own growl, both females were pissed that the other one was there. It was Kurotsuchi's turn to sleep with Naruto but… Hinata refused to allow those two be alone. Reason was simply Kurotsuchi's sleepwear… she had worn a tiny almost see through baby blue sleeping gown. It was ridiculous she even had something like this, and the fact that she tried to wear nothing underneath was even more absurd.

Thank heavens Hinata had decided to check up on Kurotsuchi to see if she needed anything, or else Naruto's purity might have been stolen away. They nearly had gotten into another fight right there on the spot.

Naruto shook his head he knew that situations like these would probably be happening often especially with these two, trying once again Naruto was able to sit up this time. Kurotsuchi took this opportunity to latch tighter onto Naruto she wrapped her legs around his back burying her face into the crook of his neck while she gently kissed and sucked the area.

Hinata leered at Kurotsuchi slightly how dare her she was hogging Naruto all to herself! Ugh Kurotsuchi had spent nearly every waking moment clung to Naruto and even when sleeping she was clinging onto him. She was in every definition a fan girl but unlike the ones from Konoha she had some skill to back it up

The term personal space meant nothing at all to this girl if all those hickeys on Naruto's neck were to go by anything

Naruto made some shadow clones so they could fix some breakfast, as he could not do it himself. He would allow Kurotsuchi to have her fun because after she was done then they could get down to some serious training.

And while the start of the day was all fun and games, training was brutal, it was pretty much a 3 VS. 1 with Naruto being the one. As neither Kurotsuchi nor Hinata were in the finals they just spent their days helping Anko train Naruto and occasionally Ino would stop by for lunch or to make it even more difficult for Naruto.

But aside from training with the girls Jiraiya did some training with Naruto of his own. Yeah the man was a pervert and he spent a majority of the time peeping on girls but when a legendary Sannin offers to train you… you don't turn it down. Also it gave Naruto a marker to gauge where his skill level was, he was strong but without Kurama there was no way in hell he could even dream of beating Jiraiya.

Though he could give him a good run for his money, forcing Jiraiya to at least pay attention and try. Especially after Naruto nearly broke both of his forearms with an overhead swung using the katana's sheath.

And Jiraiya had to take it up another level when Naruto started using the blade and sheath simultaneously instead of just sticking with using it as a bo-staff. Jiraiya had found that out the hard way when he caught Naruto's katana after a sweeping strike just for him to pull the blade from the sheath leaving a long diagonal cut right across Jiraiya's chest.

But at least Jiraiya got him back when they were practicing rasengans, and how do you test how strong a rasengan was simple you smash it against another rasengan and did Jiraiya ever enjoy watching Naruto get launched across the field or into a river.

Nevertheless Jiraiya couldn't be more proud of how Naruto was developing as a ninja and while there were times he seemed a bit cold and distant but Jiraiya just chalked it out as Naruto's multiple personality disorder…

I mean there were times when he would become cold and emotionless like in battle for example, than there was kind and caring Naruto which he normally used among close friends, and the scariest of all of them was what Jiraiya describe as vindicator Naruto if you had somehow made this Naruto come out then you were in simple terms royally fucked.

But if you had a death wish it was rather simple just say or do something overly insulting or demeaning about any of Naruto's girlfriends/wives or do something that was legally and morally inhumane and there you would have a one way ticket to pain and torture followed by a long drawn out death.

Don't believe me ask Gato or Sasuke Uchiha, one died painfully and the other has been broken both mentally and physically beyond repair.

However If you were to ask which of Naruto's personalities was Jiraiya's favorite it definitely had to be romantic Naruto, why you ask simply put Jiraiya made a killing on all the inspiration he gained from spying I mean observing Naruto's interactions with his lovers.

It was borderline pedophilia but Icha Icha had to live up to the moniker of "based on a true story…" and they were!