WHY I'M SO STUPID?

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, or its characters.

Heads up, but if this story has an M rating, it means that I'm playing it safe since the next few chapters might be heading in that direction if I'm not careful, especially when it comes to writing about Naruto's training trip with Jiraiya.

It has already been a month since Naruto left on his training trip, and he is currently doing some meditating to help with his chakra control since now that he has dojitsu to add to his training. Right now he was having a little conversation with his prisoner.

"Hey fox, we need to talk."

"Why would I have anything to say to such a puny human such as you?" Kyubi asked.

"Because you owe it to me since I had to endure all the bullshit from the day I was born." Naruto answered, reminding the fox who has been in charge since that day, "Just as much as you owe Madara Uchiha for using you the same way the council used Itachi."

"How do you know about that name?" The fox asked, knowing that nobody else in Konoha knew about the real meaning behind the attack.

"It was in my father's journal. He wrote it on the day of the attack. In his last words, before he placed it with the rest of my inheritance, he noticed right away that your attack seemed more focused on something, or rather someone. He even somehow noticed that in your eyes you seemed to be under somebody's spell, and the person he could think of that was capable of doing such a thing would be a really strong Uchiha."

The Kyubi gave a loud chuckle, "Your father truly was an incredible human. I can see where you got some of your smarts from." He said, "You're right, I was used, although I'm still not sure why because around that time, I was no different then Gamabunta. I was a summon meant for Madara Uchiha, and him alone. I would have ignored his order except that he had the advanced stage of the Mangekyo Sharingan. I'm still not sure what it was, so don't ask."

Naruto nodded his head, "Another question, why did you activate the Rinnegan while I was checking my elemental affinity?" He asked.

Kyubi just chuckled again before speaking, "That wasn't me that activated it, it was you." When he saw Naruto give him a look that told him he didn't completely buy the whole thing, "As soon as you learned about the Rinnegan, naturally you wanted to know everything about it, which woke up a part your body that was waiting to be used. When you started to channel chakra that was when the Rinnegan made itself known."

Naruto nodded his head, "Anyway, I'll talk to you later. Right now I need to get ready to go so that we would be able to make it to Suna before nightfall." He said, while getting ready leave.

"Hey kid." Kyubi yelled out, getting the blondes attention, "If its okay with you, I would like to place a mental link between us. It would help both of us in a long run. All of your senses can become as good as my own, while at the same time it would provide me with a second chance to enjoy the world again. It would also give us a chance to talk to each other without you having to meditate or close your eyes."

"As long as there is an off switch to it, then I'll agree to it." Naruto said before vanishing. When he opened his eyes, he could feel his senses on high alert, "This will take some getting use to."

'Tell me about it.' The fox said, 'I've been trapped inside this damn cage for so long, I thought I would die from boredom alone.'

"Well, since Jiraiya didn't return from his little 'research' trip, then it's about time for me to knock him down a few pegs." Naruto said, while getting his little plan into action. Right now he already has a little plan made up, and Kyubi was laughing his tails off when he got a good look at what it was.

Naruto put on a muscle shirt and his vest, before biting his thumb. He went trough the proper hand signs before saying "Summon Jutsu: Gamakiki!" He said, before placing his hands onto the ground, causing a small puff of smoke appeared. When it cleared, their stood a red toad that uttered the word, "Yo."

"Hey Gamakiki, you up for a little fun?" Naruto asked with an evil grin.

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Just as predicted, the self proclaimed super-pervert was up behind a pile of rocks, leaning against a boulder, looking through a telescope while blood was currently trickling out of his nose. Out there in his line of sight, was a trio of beautiful women soaking it up in one of the hot springs that Suna was currently famous for.

Right now he already has an idea on how to do his next story in his head until he saw something that made his blood boil, 'No, no, no! What does that brat think he's doing?' He watched as he saw his student walk right up to the girls in full pack, with his sword on his back and a map in his hands. He was thinking that he would have to pick up what would be left of his student until he saw something that changed his mood from mad to envy. The girls weren't even close to mad in fact two of them, even though they seemed to be a few years older than his student, seemed to have a blush forming all over their bodies.

This was when he got a good look at his student and realized why. His student was wearing a black muscle shirt, with his vest opened, along with a pair of black pants, and with the sweat making them cling onto his body, while he on one of knees, gave the girls the same kind of thoughts he gets whenever he looks at beautiful women. 'Lucky bastard!' Came to his head before another showed up, 'Why didn't I think of that?' He wondered, too focused on what was going on before him to notice a red toad sneaking up on him from behind.

Naruto was busy chatting away with the girls, getting directions to Suna, "So it's about a couple of hours to the East from here." He said, confirming what he just heard.

"Yeah, just keep going threw a bunch of sand dunes and you should be able to spot the village in no time." The girl said, while trying to keep her thoughts from taking over. Being this close to this boy, whose body can be seen perfectly through his clothes, she can't help but image what this boy would look like within the next few years.

"Well thanks, I better get going now." He said, while getting back up on his feet. When he got a couple of feet away from the women, he was stopped by them, "What is it?"

One of them blushed before saying "We wanted to ask your opinion on something." When he gave her a nod in return, "Do you think we look beautiful?"

Naruto just looked at them for a sec and said "Yes, and as long as you have a good kind heart beating inside of you, then I'm pretty you'll each find a man who would be more then pleased to have you by his side." He continued to walk away, while leaving three very happy and contented ladies behind him.

When he was a good distances away, he gave a slight whistle, which was followed by a loud "YOWWW!" He turned around just as his perverted sensei landed just a couple of feet from the spring. He looked towards the rocks to see Gamakiki jump up, and gave a small wave before poofing away. He looked to notice that his sensei was getting up, with a really ticked off look on his face, "Why you little brat." He said, while dusting himself off, before feeling three very strong killing intents aimed at him, remembering where he just landed.

"Ladies, please make sure my sensei can at least limp away. I still need him for my training." Naruto said, just as a shadow clone came by with Jiraiya's stuff. He grabbed it and looked at his sensei, "Consider this payback for all that Ryo you stole from me just so you can go get drunk and laid."

Just as Naruto started to walk away, the killer intent that Jiraiya felt turned into a hurricane. Just as the women were just about to beat him into a bloody pulp, the only thing the Sannin could think of right was 'Oh crap!'

* * *

Back at Konoha . . .

Sakura, Ino, Hinata and Tenten were at the dango shop, enjoying some girl time out, along with Kin and Karin, who were both taking some time off from their duties. Kin was found not too far from death after the invasion. When she made a full recovery, she decided to switch sides after getting a good look at what her former Kage's true purposes were when he started the Sound village.

Karin was also from the Sound village, not as a ninja, but as one of Orichimaru's little science experiments. She manages to sneak away a couple of weeks ago, and she was found by Team 8, who were just returning from a mission. After recovering in the hospital for a couple of days, she became good friends with Sakura, who was just starting the hospital part of her training. After she was released, and allowed to become another apprentice of Tsunade's.

"So Karin, how are things going between you and Sasuke?" Ino asked, causing said girl started to blush like crazy, "That good huh."

Another thing that went well for Karin was that she started to date Sasuke about a week ago, when Sakura introduced the two. Something clicked since that day, and they started dating ever since, "Yes well, I'm a little more grateful since I don't have his fan club to deal with anymore."

"And me and Ino are both glad to be out of that club." Sakura said, Ino nodded her head in agreement, "All that did was turn us against the world just so we could be with somebody who wasn't interested in a bunch of people looking to improve their image." She was feeling sad about that part, including Ino, when they started to remember what they were in the past.

Hinata decided to lighten the mood a bit, "Anyway, back to relationships, I'm not sure, but was that you I saw kissing Choji at the park, Ino?" She asked. A small smirk started to appear on her face when she saw said person turn red with embarrassment. "When did you two started going out?"

"After Naruto left to go on his trip." Ino said, "He was wanting to ask me ever since we were in the academy, but he couldn't because I was too busy trying to think of a way to gain Sasuke's affection, and more concerned about my image to care about anything else. Ever since that first date, when I got to see a side of him that I've been missing out for so long, I realized that we were meant to be."

Tenten, who just finished off her pocky, said, "Just one more reason to be grateful for having somebody like Naruto for a friend."

"I know, and I'm grateful that he's giving me a chance to make it up to him for all the hell I helped the villagers put him through." Ino said, with a real smile, "Although forehead here is probably hoping to snag Naruto for a boyfriend."

Now it was Sakura's turn to blush. Before the exams, her old self would have denied it right on the spot, now she wasn't afraid to admit it, so the only thing she could do was give a slight nod as her response.

"Well, as much fun as it is to discuss relationships, I better go get some of my training done before I get ready for my date with Neji." Tenten said, before getting up.

Hinata got up next and said "Don't forget, it's a double date tonight."

"We're still on for that double date, right Kin?" Ino asked the dark-haired girl just as they were about to go off towards their own destinations.

"Yeah, I've already made sure to remind Kiba about tonight, and what I would do to him if he doesn't act properly." She said, causing the girls to give a slight giggle, while said boy felt the sudden urge to protect his boys.

Just as there were two left, Karin noticed the sad look on her pink-haired friend's face, "Are you alright Sakura." She asked, concern evident in her voice.

Sakura snapped out of her trance, and quickly stood up, saying "Yeah, I'm fine, I just don't want to be late for the other half of today's training with Tsunade-Sensei." She quickly ran off towards the Hokage Tower.

'You still can't let go of the past, can you Sakura?' Karin asked in her mind.

* * *

A couple of hours later, at training ground 7, Kakashi was helping Sasuke learn how to do jutsus without relying on the Sharingan too much. After learning some things about Naruto, especially about his past, and thinking about how it was through hard work that enabled Naruto to become a Chunin, he decided to follow his example. Even Itachi fit into the same category as the blonde.

Kakashi was showing him how to the hand signs for a lightning jutsu, and what it could do, until he was stopped by Sasuke, "Kakashi-Sensei, can I ask you something?" He asked. When he received a nod, "If I wasn't an Uchiha, would you have stilled trained me the way you have now, or would have given me the cold shoulder like you did with Naruto and Sakura?"

Kakashi gave a small sigh, knowing that this question was due to come up eventually, "Actually I would have trained you because you were the rookie of the year in your class. That was my biggest mistake because I never took the role of being a Jounin sensei seriously. I never bothered with Sakura when it came to training because she was too focused on you, while Naruto on the other hand was wearing his mask, making it easy for me to underestimate him." He explained, then deciding for the first time in his life to tell him a little bit about his past, "That is something that would give the Fourth a reason to rip me a new one because when he was my sensei, the one thing he never did was neglect anybody on his team on their training, no matter what."

Knowing that this would be a touchy subject for his teacher, he decided to help get his mind off the past, "Now can we hurry up and finish training? I have a date with Karin tonight, and I don't want to pull off an impersonation of you're timing."

Kakashi gave an eye smile and got into position until the word 'date' finally registered to his brain, and he froze like a statue, "Oh crap!" Were the only two words that came out of his mouth.

Sasuke caught this, "What's up?" He asked his teacher, who looked like he was going to die on the spot.

Kakashi stood straight up and said "I've got a date with Shizune tonight and I forgot to book some reservations for tonight!"

Sasuke now knew that his sensei really was going to die at the hands of Tsunade's assistant if he think of way out of this mess, "Too bad you can't cook, or you could give a nice picnic with a view somewhere." He said.

"You got right." Kakashi said, "Looks like we'll have to finish training early today Sasuke while I go out and . . ."

"Make sure Shizune still allows to have children." Sasuke said, not helping to chuckle at his teacher's response by shivering all over while placing his hands over his groin.

"Later." Kakashi said, before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.

Sasuke gave a little laugh before walking away, "I guess I better go get ready for Karin."

* * *

Naruto was just getting to the top of the sand dune that faced the outskirts of Suna. He was starting to catch his breath from all that walking, when he felt something dangerous heading his way. He turned around "Finally got away, huh?" to greet Jiraiya, who looked like he got run over Chouji one too many times.

Jiraiya took his pack out of Naruto's hand, "I'm going to make you wish you hadn't done that to me brat." He said in anger.

"Try it and I'll use a sexy jutsu version of what Tsunade looks like without her jutsu." Naruto said, causing Jiraiya to shiver at the thought, "And to warn you, Gaara has two older siblings, one of them a sister and they're both a bit overprotective of her. Plus she has a fan that she tends to use as a club, so you better be careful if you value all of your body parts."

Jiraiya was as pale as a ghost as they started walking towards Suna.

Here is the latest chapter. Jiraiya getting pounded was the only action I can think of since I'm still trying to figure out how to make this story run smoothly. Next chapter will be Itachi vs. Naruto, Sharingan vs. Rinnegan, so it should take me awhile to figure out how to work it out. Read and Review.