Chapter 1

Hello guys, Iskander Mandoraekon here with the adopted Sage of the Leaves with permission from 'HistorianoftheKais' Not much will change except for some parts where I will add my personal touch and some grammar fixes. Pairing will still be Naruto x Temari and I might kill Sasuke in a slightly different way than death via the crushing of Toads.

Also Naruto will be a redhead like his mother because I wanted the irony of both red haired Uzumaki's falling for blond/es.

That is all for now.

I do not own Naruto or the original concept of this story that honor goes to HistorianoftheKais.

Jiraiya, the Toad Sannin, student of the Sandaime Hokage, teammate of the Slug Sannin, Tsunade Senju, and the traitorous Snake Sannin, Orochimaru, and teacher of the Yondaime Hokage, was not happy in the slightest. Originally he had been on his way to Wave Country in order to follow up on some money trails that his spy network had detected fueling bandits and lowlifes. However, Jiraiya came to the decision to place his mission off to the side when he stumbled across the newly created genin team seven that was heading towards Wave on their own mission.

The old Sannin of course had decided against revealing himself to the team, to see how they would act, and instead he had decided to discreetly follow them.

In Jiraiya's own opinion of questioning his sensei's thinking process, Kakashi was an abysmal genin team instructor. What was that Cyclops thinking when he decided to continue the mission after the Demon Brothers of Kiri tried to kill the bridge builder? They were widely known to working with a certain Swordsman of the Mist.

At the very least the student of his former student should have called for backup. Thanks to Kakashi's showboating, Jiraiya had nearly been forced to reveal himself during that little fight the out of shape man had with Zabuza Momochi, the infamous Demon of the Hidden Mist. And to make matters even worse in Jiraiya's mind, Kakashi was just now introducing his genin to tree climbing. That was something they should have been taught during their first week as genin! Not an entire three months into their profession when they were on a C-rank turned A-rank mission!

Needless to say, Jiraiya was not amused with the antics of his porn novel's number one fan. Kakashi might be one of the strongest ninjas currently living in Konoha, but that didn't necessarily mean he was suited to teach. However, even though Jiraiya wasn't happy with Kakashi, he was less than thrilled with the rest of Team Seven. The Uchiha's personality was just a bit too much like Orochimaru's when the Three Sennin was still together as genin for Jiraiya's comfort. The pinkette was way too much of a fangirl in her outlook on the world that surrounded the object of her crush and that was the one type of girl that could turn this legendary pervert off completely.

As for Naruto, his godson, well that was complicated.

On the one hand, Naruto was very determined to succeed and was too stubborn to give up on anything. But on the other hand, the boy was too hyper and seemed to let information pass through one ear and out the other when it came to learning things. Seriously, didn't the kid pay any attention in his class during the Academy? All and all it seemed to Jiraiya that Naruto had stamina, unpredictability, and sheer determination going for him. It was obvious that it would take a lot of work to get Naruto to become a great ninja like the kid wanted to become… Just like his parents had wanted for him.

A part of Jiraiya wanted to leave the young red haired boy on his own for now and let Kakashi deal with trying to teach the brat. After all, it was Kakashi's responsibility to insure that Naruto learned how to be a decent enough ninja to be able to survive in the world. Jiraiya however quickly realized what he thinking and smacked himself. Kakashi obviously wasn't going to cut it as a teacher for Naruto or the brat wouldn't be in his current condition after spending several months as an active ninja!

Something had to be done, but what? Jiraiya couldn't just poach Naruto from Kakashi. Besides there was the fact that stealing a student from another teacher was heavily frowned upon in any shinobi village, whether they were a major village or a minor; plus Jiraiya didn't want to commit himself to the time and energy of taking on a new student. It had been easier with Minato's team since the Yondaime had been a genius; even as an academy student going on genin and he had helped his teammates Mikoto and Ibiki learn when they were confused. However, he couldn't just leave his godson in this state and hope for the best. For the next several hours Jiraiya watched as Naruto tried to get the hang of tree climbing. Then finally after another hour, Jiraiya figured out the answer after Naruto fell asleep from exhaustion.

In a nonchalant manner, Jiraiya whipped out a few scrolls and books from one of his summoning scrolls. Jiraiya then placed the scrolls and books on Naruto's chest. Next the toad sannin pulled out his notebook, wrote a note, and then stuck the note on the side of the scrolls where he would see it when he woke up. After that Jiraiya looked over his work and muttered, "Don't disappoint me brat. Show me that you're willing to take the next step."

Next Morning

Naruto groggily started to wake up when the sun first started to rise in the sky. As Naruto raised his hand to rub the sleep from his eyes his elbow knocked over a stack of scrolls.

"Huh? What's going on?" Naruto asked himself as he looked down in bewilderment. Once his vision cleared up, the boy wonder of the Rookie squads noticed the messed up pile of scrolls that were at his side. Without thinking at all about there being any enemy shinobi or Gato's mercenaries around, the redhead practically shouted out, "Where did these come from?"

Since he couldn't figure out how those scrolls and books got there, he simply decided to randomly pick one and start reading. The chosen manuscript happened to be a book on Chakra that was titled '101 Ways to use Chakra for Dummies'. At first the Uzumaki wanted to chuck the book since it seemed to be one of those theory books that he could never get. But then Naruto remembered that tree walking was a method of using Chakra and there was the chance that the book contained cool tricks like that.

The book immediately and utterly captured Naruto's attention from the get go. The book was written in an easy to follow manner that explain Chakra in a manner that the boy could understand. Unlike the lectures at the academy, this book was able to catch and hold his usually wandering attention. Amazingly, Naruto was so caught up in what the text was telling him that he didn't skip to a chakra exercise as soon as the book mentioned them.

It would be shocking to everyone in the village in a show that he was so engrossed in the book that he didn't notice his silver haired sensei come out of the client's house and approach him.

Naturally Kakashi was more than a little worried about the book and scrolls surrounding Naruto. He knew the boy hadn't brought them with him and Kakashi knew that neither of his other students would let Naruto borrow a book, much less touch any of their belongings even with permission.

Just as Kakashi was about to confiscate the book in Naruto's hand, Kakashi noticed the note that was lying on the ground. After picking up and reading Jiraiya's note Kakashi said, "Naruto. Do you know where these books and scrolls came from?"

The red haired genin immediately looked up from the current object of fascination in his hand and replied, "Huh, oh hey Kakashi-sensei. Does it really matter where the books came from?"

Kakashi let out a small sigh of frustration and tried to enlighten his foolish student by putting it in words the boy could understand. "Yes Naruto, it does matter. You've got to look underneath the underneath, like I told you and your teammates during the bell test. These books could have been planted by an enemy as a trap. Luckily, these were left by an ally of the village who was passing through so it's okay to read them. Next time Naruto, please use your head."

"I understand Kakashi-sensei," Naruto said as he looked back at the book in his hand. "But sensei, why would anyone set a trap with books? Wouldn't ramen be better bait for a trap?" Kakashi sighed and shook his head while he decided to not dignify that last comment with an answer and left the red haired offspring of Kushina Uzumaki alone to read his book. After all, it wasn't like the idiot would apply what was in those books in real life and Kakashi was just happy to not have Naruto bugging him for jutsus.

It took Naruto most of the day to read through the book he started off on. As soon as Naruto finished the last page of the book he looked around to see the setting sun and screamed out, "What! I blew off the whole day? Great, just great, now I'll have to work twice as hard to catch up on my training."

However before the boy could get up, Kakashi suddenly appeared in front of him in a shunshin and held up a hand to stop him, "Hold your horses Naruto, you're going straight inside the house. It wouldn't be wise to spend two nights out here in a row. Now collect your things and head inside."

Naruto started to grumble about not being able to practice, but did as he was told, much to the wonder of his sensei. There was no way he'd let his 'Sakura-chan' get the idea that he was an immature child by disobeying Kakashi's command.

When the two Konoha ninja entered the house, they found Sasuke and Sakura already seated at the table for the dinner Tsunami was making. Dinner was a fairly quiet affair since Naruto was sitting off to the end of the table silently pouting about not getting any training in. None of the other members of the team wanted to hear their comrade complain about missing out on training, so they kept their voices down and didn't mention anything remotely related to training.

Once dinner was over Kakashi had Naruto and Sasuke go to their room and told them to get plenty of sleep for their training tomorrow. This left Naruto with a bit of a problem. He wasn't tired enough to go to sleep yet since had only read the book today. For a second Naruto thought about sneaking out for some late night training, but then he remembered that his teammate crush wouldn't like it much if he disobeyed the older shinobi.

Since Naruto couldn't do any physical training, he started to rack his brain to figure out what he could do to make himself tired enough to go to bed. At first Naruto came up with the idea of talking to Sasuke to pass the time.

Unfortunately for the redhead, his Uchiha teammate had already fallen asleep and he knew better then to try and wake him up once the Uchiha entered dreamland. He had tried that once a few days ago and his healed kiester had discovered that the duckbutt believed that a kunai made a good substitute teddy bear. So, Naruto was left with only one option to keep from going bored: reading. Needless to say, the Uzumaki-in-training wasn't too thrilled about reading since it was the reason for him not getting any practice in today. However, boredom eventually forced Naruto to pick one of the books that he had received and read them.

This time Naruto looked at the titles and settled on a scroll that was labeled 1001 different Ninjutsu you should know or watch out for. At first Naruto was ecstatic because the scroll had dozens of high level jutsus listed. However, when Naruto started to read the pages that held the higher level jutsus, he discovered that the scroll only described those jutsus in general terms. Sure the scroll allowed you to know what the higher level jutsus did so that you could recognize it being use against you, but Naruto didn't want that. He wanted to learn how to do all of them.

Naruto was beginning to think about pitching the scroll when something in the Shadow Clone's description caught his eye. After reading the description again Naruto scratched his head and said, "Huh? The person using the Shadow Clone Jutsu learns whatever his shadow clones learn. Wait a second, if this is correct then I could create a whole army of shadow clones and I'll learn everything faster than Sasuke!" As soon as that thought entered Naruto's mind he continued on reading trying to see what other tricks about Shadow Clones the scroll contained.

For the rest of the week the forest around Tazuna's house was infested by a swarm of Naruto's shadow clones. Now using shadow clones in this manner can't grant the user any physical benefit. In order to get physically stronger Naruto would have tough it out and put himself in a physical conditioning regime. However, since chakra control was a mental process, Naruto was able to use his shadow clones to work on the tree walking exercise.

While the clones were trying to go up the trees they had been designated to, the original spent his time working on some of the jutsus that were written on the 1001 different Ninjutsu you should know or watch out for scroll. It turned out that there were a few jutsus on the scroll that had instructions in addition to the descriptions. None of these Jutsus were above C-rank, but Naruto was so happy about learning new jutsus that he didn't have time to complain about the other jutsus he couldn't learn just yet. Of course, Naruto completely disregarded the D and E-rank jutsus and just focused in on the available C-rank jutsus.

However, there was one small snag with Naruto's plan to learn these certain jutsus. Since the scroll was originally made in Konoha, it only explained those moves that Konoha ninjas usually used. That meant that most of the C-rank jutsu in the book were fire style jutsu and there was no way Naruto was going to learn one of those.

After all, how could he possibly prove himself to Sakura if it looked like he was copying Sasuke?

Luckily for Naruto's ego and unknowingly disability, his unknown godfather had penciled in the instructions for a few C-rank wind jutsus, having believed that the boy might have inherited it from either of his parents since Minato had strong wind and lightning affinities while Kushina had the affinities for wind and water. When Naruto had read about the jutsu listed under that category he knew that they would be perfect for him. After all, wind jutsu were big, strong, and unstoppable, making sure that your enemy remembered that you kicked their ass.

Of course there wasn't a whole lot of wind jutsu in the scroll, but Naruto knew that he'd have them down by the time Zabuza and his accomplice came back for round two.

The rest of his genin squad had mixed feelings about Naruto's new training regime. While a part of the pink haired fangirl known as Sakura Haruno was curious about what Naruto was doing, the dominant part of the pink haired girl's psyche (A.K.A Sasuke's bitch) was happy that Naruto wasn't bugging her so she could focus on the object of her obsession uninterrupted. Said obsession being Sasuke Uchiha, was also curious about Naruto's new style of training, but the last Uchiha preferred to leave his Uzumaki rival alone. Since the redhead could never beat him in their spars, he figured the training would hopefully make Naruto less of a hindrance than he currently was.

As for their silver haired cyclopean sensei, the man was just happy that Naruto was improving without him having to hold the boy's hand every step of the way. However, Kakashi decided to make some changes in how his team was currently running. For instance he imposed a strict curfew after which no one could leave the house and he had Naruto set up some of the perimeter traps he had learned from one of his books. Even though it was one of their allies that happened to be in the area, it was completely unacceptable that someone had been able to get that close to the house without someone knowing.

That was one mistake that the only remaining student of the Yondaime Hokage wasn't planning on making again any time soon.

About ten days after Jiraiya left those scrolls to Naruto, the heralded Demon of the Hidden Mist showed up for a rematch with Kakashi and his students. The first sign that Zabuza had arrived was the thick mist that suddenly rolled in from the far end of the bridge. As soon as the first signs of the mist appeared Kakashi's lone eye narrowed and he called out to the genin standing behind him, "Sakura, I want you to stay back and guard Tazuna. Naruto, Sasuke, you guys form a line between Sakura and me. If Zabuza's partner shows up, you two will have to delay him until I finish off Zabuza."

The two male genin quickly glanced at each other and begrudgingly nodded in sync. They might not like each other at times and would rather fight the enemy by themselves, but somewhere deep inside their brains they knew that they'd have to depend on each other to win, especially since they knew next to nothing about their opponent. After the brief pact of comradeship was made, Naruto and Sasuke turned their attention to the smaller form they saw appear in the mist alongside the large form of Zabuza.

Sakura was a mess mentally and physically as she took her assigned spot in front of Tazuna. On the one hand she was happy that she wasn't anywhere near the front lines of the coming battle. However, on the other hand she didn't like the idea of Naruto backing her crush up.

After all, in her mind the redhead would just be a large target and her 'Sasuke-kun' would have to work twice as hard to defend both himself and Naruto from the enemy.

Haku took a look at Naruto and Sasuke as she came out of the mist alongside her leader trying to figure out how she should handle the two of them after their show of being able to get past her mentor's guard the first time their team fought the Demon. It was obvious to Haku that in terms of physical skill, the Uchiha was the bigger threat. However, the masked ninja remembered that she shouldn't discount the redhead for the plans he could make up on the fly. Because while Naruto's style was more unrefined then Sasuke's clearly clan learned fighting style, the redhead's unpredictability and stamina was enough to put him at about the same threat level.

The battle of the two stronger, more experienced shinobis' students began with Haku throwing a spread of Senbon needles towards her opponents. Naturally both boys dodged out of the projectile's paths; though Sasuke's evasion was as usual far more graceful than Naruto's due to the constant physical training he had been doing since the massacre of his clan in order to catch up to his powerful brother.

Haku then followed through her opening attack by jumping towards the duo, landing on her hands, and delivering a blow to the head via a kick to both genin.

Naruto and Sasuke quickly recovered from Haku's opening attack and immediately retaliated with their own strikes. Sakura and Tazuna watched on in silent shock as the three ninja entered a taijutsu battle.

The masked ninja had quickly caught on to the fact that the two boys weren't used to fighting with a partner in close quarters combat. Thus she began forcing the boys into close combat by getting in their faces. Since Haku was always too close to either the redhead or black haired boy, they couldn't attack the fake hunter nin with any of their jutsu.

However, things weren't exactly going to plan for Haku. While Zabuza had trained her to be able fight multiple opponents, the swordsman had only taught her how to fight opponents who used similar styles. So due to their varying styles, the girl simply couldn't keep track of both of her opponents or predict their wildly different attack patterns. Slowly, but surely, the small shallow cuts and the glancing fist blows that the brunette received started to add up in number around her body.

It was obvious to the fake hunter ninja that if she didn't do something soon, then she might slip up and either of her opponents could land a fatal blow on her body. Haku then gracefully swirled away from another attempt from Naruto to punch her in the back of the head and Zabuza's apprentice rapidly went through a series of hand signs. The instant Haku finished her movements, a giant dome comprised of ice mirrors suddenly enveloped the trio. Haku capitalized on Naruto and Sasuke's momentary confusion by diving into the mirror behind her.

The two team seven genin quickly moved back to back out of instinct in order to guard their backs and keep their eyes on all of the mirrors. As they looked outwards at their icy prison Naruto decided to speak up, "Hey Sasuke. Let's try to blast our way out." Sasuke shot out a fireball at one mirror while Naruto also flashed through hand signs and launched one of the wind jutsu he had learned from his fist a different mirror.

Unfortunately for the two of them, Naruto and Sasuke's attacks only scratched their targets. Then as if to add insult to injury, both mirrors rapidly repaired the small scratches leaving nothing to show for the two boy's technique. Haku's voice then echoed throughout the icy prison, "This is my ultimate attack," she said with a triumphant look beneath her mask. "Neither of you has any hope of escape. Make your peace with whatever gods you worship for you will soon be leaving this life behind."

"Hey Sasuke," Naruto said after a moment of looking around at the multiple Haku's. "What happens when fire gets caught in a breeze?"

For a second his duckbutt teammate wanted to strike the redhead over the head. Seriously, how could the idiot even think of asking a question like that at a time like this? But then the Uchiha heir caught on to what the Uzumaki was suggesting and he started to smirk in the usual Uchiha way.

In a slightly less arrogant then normal manner Sasuke spoke up, "3 o'clock on 3; 1, 2, 3!" As soon as Sasuke ended the countdown, he launched the largest fireball that he could make within the span of a few seconds and Naruto almost instantly followed with a Great Breakthrough, the strongest jutsu he had learned at the moment.

Once they met and combined, the two teammate's attacks formed an enormous, blazing hot fireball.

Haku was completely paralyzed in shock when she saw the massive fireball approach where she was hiding. Zabuza's apprentice tried desperately to think of a way to escape from the oncoming attack; however no matter where the ice using girl looked, she couldn't find a way to escape. Naruto and Sasuke's combined attack was big enough that no matter which mirror Haku jumped to she would be hit by the attack in some way and it would be disastrous for her. Knowing that escape was impossible, Haku merely closed her eyes and calmly waited for the attack to hit.

Instantly after the fireball collided with the frozen mirrors a huge explosion occurred. Both Naruto and Sasuke were forced to cover their eyes from the bright flares and minuscule ice shards. As soon as they could, they uncovered their eyes and gazed at the destruction they caused. While the actual damage to the structure of the bridge was light, there was vast surface scarring and there were occasional wisps of smoke coming up. The redhead blinked his eyes at the damage and dumbly said, "Whoa, I didn't think we'd do this much if we teamed up."

Sasuke would have retorted that he had been the one to do the most damage, if he had been paying attention to his teammate in the first place. Currently the avenger of team seven was staring at their opponent's corpse. Even though the Uchiha didn't like to admit, the masked ninja had been stronger than him and that angered and exhilarated Sasuke; by beating Haku, the duck haired boy had proven he was one step closer to reaching his older brother.

However, there was one thing about the battle that infuriated Sasuke. Why hadn't his Sharingan been activated? According to the Uchiha family scrolls, his battle with Haku was an almost perfect situation for his Kekkei Genkai to emerge. Sasuke's face hardened and he turned to glare at Naruto from the corner of his eye. Could it have been Naruto's presence in the battle had prevented the Sharingan's emergence?

Sasuke's musing and Naruto's staring quickly ended when the two of them heard the sound of birds chirping coming from the mist where Zabuza and Kakashi were fighting. Next, they heard a meaty smack and saw a figure start to walk towards them in the mist. Both Naruto and Sasuke let out sighs of relief when they saw Kakashi emerge from the mist.

When he finally escaped the mist, Kakashi looked around at the damage caused by the two genins' attack, then at Haku's body and then at the boys. It didn't take a genius to figure out that the two had teamed up to defeat their opponent. There was no way that, even though while a genius and rookie of the year, Sasuke had enough chakra to create a fireball big enough to do this kind of damage; and while Naruto might have enough chakra, Kakashi knew his red haired student didn't have the control or the knowledge to create a fireball capable of this kind of damage. So in his typical manner Kakashi said, "Good job you two. This is why teamwork is so important. Now why don't we go check up on Sakura and Tazuna?"

Over at Gato's compound while the fighting was going on, Jiraiya was sitting at Gato's desk reading the newly deceased piece of shit's trade documents and papers that detailed the extent of his criminal organization. At first Jiraiya had been planning on leaving Gato alone and just gathering more information on the crime lord. Sure the toad sage didn't like what the man was doing, but taking out the crime lord would have created some tangles for Jiraiya's spy network. That had all changed when Jiraiya had discovered that Gato was into forced prostitution.

Sure Jiraiya liked to visit brothels and fool around with the ladies, but forced prostitution was something he hated. After all, it was one thing when the women choose the profession and it was an entirely different thing to force a woman into that line of work. Jiraiya was the biggest pervert on the continent; however, he had a strict look but don't touch unless the woman agreed policy. In fact, Jiraiya was known to beat down any guy who groped a girl who didn't want it. That was why so many of the older kunoichi could stand to work with the Sannin despite his peeping habits and the fact that he wrote the most famous pornographic novel on the continent. None of Gato's men had been spared from Jiraiya's wrath during the one man assault on the base after he found several of them raping female prisoners.

As Jiraiya went through Gato's ledger he could scarcely believe his luck. Gato had kept a clear record of every illegal business that he had been involved in. More than that, Gato kept a record of every public official that he had been bribing and even had them down by name. That little bit of news had surprised Jiraiya since crime lords usually used code phrases for their bribery accounts. Gato must have been one confident son of a bitch if he willingly wrote all of this down without trying to hide anything. Of course Jiraiya reason, this ledger was never meant to see the light of day and this was just for Gato's private viewing.

While Jiraiya was collecting the various official papers needed to put over one hundred corrupted political officials and law enforcement, and practically every two-bit gang in a dark hole without the hope of seeing sunlight again for the rest of their miserable lives, a small toad hopped into the room. In all honesty Jiraiya couldn't remember who the toad was, but he could remember that the toad was one of Gamabunta's nephews. In a disinterested manner the toad sage said, "What do you have to report?"

The toad just sent Jiraiya a piercing glare before replying, "Just reporting about the bridge. All of the Konoha shinobi survived the battle relatively unharmed. The Jounin took out the rogue member of the Seven Swordsmen, while the two boys took out the other ninja with a combo fireball attack. That's all, so can I leave now?"

Jiraiya waved the toad away and said, "Sure, sure."

While the toad disappeared, Jiraiya thought about the report on the bridge. From the sound of things everything was turning out all right. Obviously, Naruto had been studying those scrolls that he had left the brat. Depending on how far Naruto came, the boy might get another gift like that the next time Jiraiya was in Konoha.

Later that night

Naruto sat alone on Tazuna's dock as the evening star first appeared and stared out across the water. For the first time in the Uzumaki's young life he had killed somebody and it was eating him up inside.

This wasn't just 'an enemy' that he had killed, but a real human being with hopes and dreams. Did he, Naruto wondered; have the right to take those hopes and dreams from someone? Was he really a monster like many of the villagers claimed?

No, he couldn't be a monster. A monster wouldn't feel remorse over killing someone. Since he felt remorse over the hunter ninja's death, Naruto knew without a doubt that he wasn't a monster. But still, what was he and what right did he have to take someone else's life?

Slowly Naruto started to remember everyone that he cared for ranging from the old man Hokage, the Ichiraku family, Iruka, Sakura, Kakashi, and even that bastard Sasuke. Then Naruto's mind moved from those happy memories onto what he had seen here in Wave Country. Tears started to fall as he thought about his few precious people suffering like that.

Naruto suddenly opened his eyes as he realized that he would do anything to prevent his friends from suffering like this.

That was his only reason to fight and kill someone else.

Naruto slowly pulled one of his kunai from its storage pocket and brought the blade towards his right palm. Ever so slowly, Naruto cut his palm. The cut was deep enough so that his blood flowed, but not so deep as to create permanent damage on a normal person. Naruto closed his bloody palm and let a few drops of blood drip onto the pier. Then in a solemn manner he vowed, "I will never use lethal force against an opponent unless it's to protect someone."

For a few moments, Naruto just sat where he was and looked at his bloody fist.

Then Naruto slowly opened his right hand and to his surprise a small scar was starting to form. Usually small cuts like that wouldn't leave a mark. It was the only real benefit that Naruto got from holding the Kyuubi that had destroyed his village.

So why was this scar not being healed?

Personally, Naruto didn't really care whether or not that cut scarred. If it didn't then oh well, but if it did scar then it would serve as a reminder of his oath.

After that Naruto stood up and headed towards Tazuna's house. For a second the redhead thought about joining in the celebratory feast that the bridge builder was throwing, but then he decided against it. There was a major reason why Naruto didn't want to join in the party, besides the fact that he never really felt comfortable around large crowds of people due to being ostracized for most of his life. That fight on the bridge had made Naruto realize that he still had a long way to go before he could match Sarutobi or even his sensei. If Naruto was going to protect everyone that he cared about, he'd have to train a lot harder. That meant he needed to break out those books again and study them.

Back at the academy, Iruka had always said that the worst thing for a ninja was to be blind to one's own weaknesses. Naruto had always wondered, when he wasn't ditching school that is, what Iruka meant by that. Now that Naruto knew exactly what Iruka meant, he was determined to correct his faults. Even if it meant studying, Naruto would take it like a man and study those books.

Omake:

Jiraiya set several scrolls down near Naruto and started to chuckle. Once Naruto started to read these scrolls, the brat would be ready to be his apprentice for sure.

'I'll do my best to corrupt you Naruto-kun,' Jiraiya thought with a pervy smirk on his face. 'I'll bring you to greater heights than your one woman father!'

In the morning Naruto woke up and looked at the scrolls that littered the ground all around him. The Uzumaki's curiosity got the better of him and so he picked one of the scrolls up.

He then broke the seal and read, "1001 to peek on babes without getting caught? Kakashi! This is NOT what I meant when I said I wanted more training!"

Hey guys, I hope you all loved this chapter, I am sorry for the late time that I am finally putting this up, I just got carried away with business and off track. As I said earlier, I have permission from 'HistorianoftheKais' to adopt this story so I don't want to hear any bitching from people who don't like me.

For this story not much will be changed except for some parts where I will add my personal touch and some grammar fixes. Pairing will still be Naruto x Temari and I will be killing Sasuke in a different way.

That is all for now.