-Kurama-

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While it isn't exactly in Kurama's area of expertise, fuuinjutsu is a rather interesting topic. He's always been curious about the way humans influence chakra through symbols instead of their natural chakra network. Of course, he's never really had the opportunity to experiment with it. Humans can afford to make mistakes when pouring their chakra into seals because chakra doesn't comprise their whole being, but Bijuu have no such luxury. Kurama would rather not completely destroy himself because he was messing with something he shouldn't have.

With all that in mind, Kurama is very eager to exploit this opportunity to learn about fuuinjutsu. If he can get at least the basics down during this kid's lifetime, he can explore its possibilities much more safely in the future. Plus, he's just curious about a different way to view chakra. You're never too old to learn something new, after all!

Unfortunately, Naruto's having a bit of trouble. He gets the concepts, but he doesn't have the experience to grasp the theory fully. Oh, well. Kurama can certainly help with that. He only really has to scan the scrolls once or twice from Naruto's eyes to get the gist of it, so he runs over the possible applications in his head for preparation for tonight's rant. With any luck, Naruto discovers he inherited his parents' talent and Kurama can observe the inner workings of a fuuinjutsu master's mind.

Ah, Naruto's taking a break to nap. Better get his speech together.

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-Naruto-

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Thankfully, Fuzzy actually had some pretty good ideas. Naruto didn't have a whole lot of hope when he decided to take a nap, since Fuzzy didn't seem to know much of anything about fuuinjutsu the last few times he tried to bait that kind of dream. Meh, Fuzzy's probably just really smart and learned it fast. Either way, the theory was actually pretty easy to get once Fuzzy took out all the big words and gave an easier explanation. Naruto had a pretty good grasp on the theory now.

The problem was that Fuzzy was just starting out, and they only really understood the most basic theory. Neither of them could really look at a seal and deconstruct how it works, or figure out how to put together the base parts into a working seal. Naruto figured that'd be his job. Fuzzy tells him the parts and he puts it together. That doesn't sound too hard.

Nodding to himself, Naruto pulled out the sample seal section of his scrolls and got to work.

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-Jiraiya-

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Jiraiya was completely stumped. He hadn't succeeded in saving Minato's son, but the kid seemed fine enough? At the very least, he hadn't exploded leaving the Kyuubi to rampage all over the village. Maybe the seal was less damaged than he thought? But how is Naruto dreaming about the Kyuubi if the seal doesn't have a leak? And why isn't the Kyuubi taking advantage of said leak?

Jiraiya needed more information, but Naruto wouldn't let him get close enough to get anything useful. And the kid seemed to have warned Sasuke and his family off too, and Uchihas tend to be stubborn once they decide to protect something. Jiraiya wouldn't get anywhere with them unless he got Naruto to change his mind somehow. But how was he supposed to do that when Naruto wouldn't let him get close? And thus, Jiraiya was back where he started.

Jiraiya sighed. Women were so much easier. Go to the baths, get a peek of heaven, get beaten up, write for Icha Icha, wash, rinse, repeat. No life-threatening situations (unless Tsunade was in the bath), no major consequences (unless Tsunade was in the bath), no village-endangering demons (unless Tsunade was in the bath).

As Jiraiya continued to ponder his predicament, he noticed a vaguely annoyed chakra presence poking at his chakra. He turned his head to see who was poking at him, only to promptly shut down all mental faculties as he saw a very blond kid staring straight at him with a look like he just ate something sour. Clearly, Naruto was not happy to see Jiraiya, but he was looking to talk to him. Jiraiya would take what he could get at this point.

"Hey kid! Since when do you come to say hi to me?"

Naruto narrowed his eyes and shoved a rumpled notebook in Jiraiya's face.

"Shut it and look."

Jiraiya took the notebook curiously and began to flip through its pages. A storage seal? The handwriting is awful, but Jiraiya can see the building blocks. The last page has a semi-completed seal, but the release mechanism is so sloppy, there's no way it...

And a ton of pink glitter explodes in Jiraiya's face.

Naruto looked torn between manic glee and absolute frustration.

"What the heck was that?!"

"It always does that! I can't get the release part right, so as soon as you try to get stuff out the stuff explodes! I figured if I can't fix it, I can at least make it blow up in stupid people's faces."

"STUPID?!"

Naruto grinned very smugly. Jiraiya wanted to wipe that smirk off the brat's face. Did the glitter smell? Of course it does! It smells like overripe tomatoes, of all things! Why?!

"Don't worry, I got Jiji and the pedo creep too."

"Who?!"

Somewhere deep underground, Danzo cursed as his whole secret ROOT bunker was filled with smelly, bright pink glitter. Whatever crazy idiot did this, Danzo would not stand for it. He would find this danger to Konoha, and make certain that...

Danzo sneezed. Kurama and Naruto both cackled.