Chapter 01

Naruto sat cross legged on his bed looking at the two scrolls he had received from the Third. He had defeated Mizuki a little over four hours ago and had received pay for a 'B' rank mission.

The two scrolls in front of him was the money for said 'B' rank mission while the other a jutsu. The Third had given him it saying it was rightfully his due to him being the last Uzumaki.

He was hesitant at first but had accepted saying her would take his training seriously. The Third had then decided to push back the date for team selections.

Naruto grinned. He was officially a Ninja. He then turned his focus back to the scrolls. How was he going to train in a month?

He made three shadow clones and sent them for books on throwing Kunai, throwing Shiruken, Chakra control, History of the Elemental Nations and anything Ninja related.

The three cloned nodded and left. A little later Naruto felt a presence. He turned to his window on the left to see a man. He had waist length spiked hair, a headband with the Kanji for 'oil'.

"And you are?", Naruto said reaching for a Kunai.

"Jiraiya of the Sannin, student of the Third and teacher of the Fourth and the Toad Sage", he said doing a pose with a toad that appeared out of nowhere.

"O…Kay", Naruto said slowly putting back the Kunai but keeping his guard up.

"Sarutobi-sensei told me you know about your burden…being a Jinchuriki", Jiraiya said and Naruto sighed and nodded.

"Yes, I found out a little while ago after one of my former teacher tricked me into stealing some kind of Forbidden Scroll", Naruto told him. "Why are you here?", Naruto asked.

"To train you", Jiraiya said. 'I promised your father I would'. Naruto looked at the man and laughed. "What's so funny gaki?".

"I know it's a prank Jiraiya-san, nobody wants to teach the demon brat", Naruto said only to receive a slap across his face from Jiraiya.

"Stop calling yourself that, you are the Jinchuriki; the jailer NOT the Kyuubi", Jiraiya said furious that Naruto would call himself that. Naruto looked at the man then his face turned grim.

"Damned librarian", Naruto said a loud then looked shocked that he knew that.

"What?", Jiraiya asked.

"I don't know how but I sent a shadow clone to get some books for me and the librarian threw a book at me…ironic isn't it?", Naruto asked with a chuckle and Jiraiya chuckled as well but grinned at Naruto.

"Looks like you found out the trick to the shadow clone", Jiraiya told him and he just looked more confused.

"What?".

"Look, shadow clones were made for espionage or spy mission, they are solid and can take up to one hit and what they learn are stored in your memory", Jiraiya explained.

"Oh I get it, they're like a cheat for training", Naruto said in realization. Jiraiya nodded as the two clones entered juggling multiple books.

"Sorry boss but number two was killed by that crazy woman of a librarian, and she says be quiet", the clone mumbled the last part.

"Thanks guys, reward yourself with some ramen", Naruto told them and they dashed away at a speed that could beat the Flying Thunder God Technique.

"Alright gaki, change into more appropriate training clothes let's go", Jiraiya ordered and Naruto took off the top of his jumpsuit then his t-shirt showing a strange seal on his back.

"Hey gaki hold up, lay down on your bed", Jiraiya said suddenly.

"You're not some kind of pedophile are you?", Naruto asked suspiciously.

"What? No, there is a strange seal on your back and I want to see what it is", Jiraiya explained waving his hand defensively.

Naruto looked him up and down again and shrugged. He laid down on the bed on his stomach and Jiraiya began examining the seal. It was strange. It was a box that had an ex in it and the Kanji for 'brain' on the top.

'Did Minato put this here? No. It looks like an anti-concentrating seal…is that why he's a retard? I thought he was just more like Kushina in personality and looked like his father', Jiraiya thought with a chuckle as he removed the seal.

"Alright, done", Jiraiya said after five minutes.

"What was it?", Naruto asked.

"An anti-concentrating seal, it's the reason you're an idiot", Jiraiya said bluntly.

"HEY", Naruto yelled but then everything seemed to make sense.

He was always acting like an idiot. He never had good marks in the academy. The only thing he excelled in was the stealth portion.

'Jiraiya-sensei was right', Naruto thought. "Okay, I can focus more, let's go to a training ground so you can see what I have to improve on". Jiraiya nodded.

(Training Ground Thirteen; Ten Minutes Later)

"Everything".

"What?", Naruto asked.

"You have to improve everything", Jiraiya said with a hand on his chin in a thinking pose.

"What do you mean?", Naruto asked.

"Your Taijutsu is more like a brawler than actual Ninja like hand to hand combat, your Chakra control is as good as a monkey with herpes, you only know the Shadow clone along with the transformation and substitution and when it comes to throwing Kunai and Shiruken you throw like a blind as a dead man", Jiraiya said looking at Naruto directly in his eyes.

"Oh", he said sadly.

"Make one hundred and twenty shadow clones", Jiraiya commanded as he took Naruto's jutsu scroll and did hand seals and six more appeared. Jiraiya chucked the scroll to Naruto who now stood in front one hundred and twenty shadow clones. Naruto caught the scroll and slipped it in his pocket.

Jiraiya made six shadow clones and handed each a scroll.

"You are going to break up in groups of twenty. One group is Ninjutsu, dispelling Genjutsu, Taijutsu, Kenjutsu, Fuinjutsu and History", Jiraiya said and they broke up with a Jiraiya leading the group.

Jiraiya and Naruto remained.

"What am I going to do?", Naruto asked in anticipation.

"Nothing", Jiraiya said as he sat in a meditative pose.

"WHAT? I want to learn something on my own to", Naruto yelled and Jiraiya smirked.

'Just like Minato and Kushina, Minato was a prodigy but still worked hard and Kushina…well she was Kushina', Jiraiya thought with a chuckled.

"What's so funny?".

"Nothing, follow me, we are going to practice throwing weapons", Jiraiya sai walking off followed closely by Naruto.

(Naruto's Apartment; Eight Hours Later)

"Damn perverted sage", Naruto muttered as he remembered Jiraiya leaving him with a clone saying he had to do some 'research' only for Naruto to find out he went to peep on women.

He entered the apartment to see Jiraiya sitting with three scrolls in hand.

"What's up Pervy-Sage?", Naruto asked only to smirk at Jiraiya's irritated face.

"Stop calling me that and you are moving out of this dump and into a house I bought for you", Jiraiya demanded/told him.

Naruto was quiet. The only people to every buy him something was the Third and Iruka-sensei. Occasionally he would get free ramen but no one ever bought him something as expensive as a house.

"Y-You bought me a house? How can I repay you?", Naruto asked his appointed Godfather unbeknownst to him.

"Stop calling me Pervy-Sage", Jiraiya said.

"Fine, but if I see you peeping I will call you it…for the women to hear", Naruto said and Jiraiya shivered.

"Okay".

"Great Ero-sennin", Naruto said and Jiraiya face faulted…like literally.

"That's the same as 'Pervy-Sage'!", Jiraiya yelled in outrage.

"Respect is earned not given or bought", Naruto told him.

'Oh yeah?', Jiraiya thought with a smirk. "If you stop calling me something with the word 'Perverted' in it I'll teach you a jutsu made by the Fourth".

"Deal Jiraiya-sensei", Naruto said instantly making Jiraiya smirk in victory while Naruto was thrilled to learn a jutsu made by his hero.

(Naruto's House; An Hour Later)

"How's the house?", Jiraiya asked as they sat across from each other in the living room.

"Great".

The house was one story tall with three bedrooms, one bathroom, and a training ground in the back, an armory, a secret dojo underneath to work on secret jutsus, a kitchen, the living room and storage room.

In truth Jiraiya had given Naruto Kushina and Minato's house they used to use before. Minato would stay here during the night and flash in the Hokage's mansion before anyone saw him.

Jiraiya had made sure to remove all the pictures of Minato and Kushina, change the baby room and removed Minato's blood seal. Naruto now had a blood seal with his Uzumaki clan scrolls which Jiraiya had. Kushina had given him them before she died saying it was to be given to Naruto when he turned Genin.

"Alright Gaki, I have to go talk to the Old Man, meet me at the same training ground with the same scroll from earlier", Jiraiya said before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

'I think I'll eat out for dinner', Naruto thought as he changed into a white t-shirt and black short pants, grabbed his key and was gone.

(Hokage's Office; Two Minutes Later)

"Hey sensei", Jiriaya said as he stood on the sill of the window.

"Can't you use the door Jiraiya-kun", Sarutobi pleaded but Jiraiya only chuckled and jumped through the window.

"ANBU out", Jiriaya said but the ANBU stayed.

"ANBU, give us a moment", Sarutobi stayed after seeing Jiraiya about to blow a fuse from being ignored. The ANBU left and Sarutobi activated a privacy seal.

"I gave him Minato and Kushina's house", Jiraiya said suddenly.

"You did what?", the Third asked dropping his pipe.

"Don't worry, I took down the nursery and moved all the pictures of them and everything related to them and hid it in a scroll which is hidden on me", Jiraiya told the panicking Hokage.

"Good, I need you for a mission, Taki wishes to strengthen their alliance with Konoha and asked for a meeting, I cannot go for obvious reason and you have the second most power when it comes to the village", Sarutobi explained.

"Fine, I'll go but Naruto's coming with me, they have a Jinchuriki and I want Naruto to meet him or her, I also have to meet a spy", Jiraiya told him and he hesitated.

"The council will not like this", Hiruzen sighed out.

"I don't care, he is in my care, it's either both of us or no", Jiraiya demanded.

"Fine, just bring him back in time for team selections, dismissed", Sarutobi told him.

"Sure thing Old Man", Jiraiya said as he exited through the window.

'Use the damned door, I am getting to old for this, maybe Naruto can take this burden off of my hands', Sarutobi said wearily as he watched the stack of paperwork and went wide eyed.

"HOW DID IT GET BIGGER!?".

(Naruto's House; Later)

Naruto walked in to see Jiraiya with a scroll.

"What's up sensei?", Naruto asked.

"We're going to Takigakure, I have to do a mission and I want you to come for the experience, maybe when you're older you can take over my spy network", Jiraiya said with a chuckled.

"Okay, let me change".

(Council Chamber; Next Day)

"I was summoned", Sarutobi stated as he watched the members of Konoha's Council.

Seven clan heads, one of which was himself; Hiashi of the Hyuuga, Tsume of the Inuzuka, Shibi of the Aburame, Inoichi, Shikaku and Choza of the Yamanaka, Nara and Akimichi and finally himself as Sarutobi.

Three advisors; Danzo Shimura; head of ANBU ROOT, Koharu Utatane and Homaru Mitokado; Hiruzen's former teammates.

And finally, seven merchants for the civilian side.

"Why is our weapon out of the village?", Danzo asked boldly making the civilians chuckle and glares from the clan heads.

"He was sent on a mission with Jiraiya", Hiruzen stated boldly.

"The demon should be locked up and used to fight our enemies", a pink haired woman screeched. Tsume had to cover her ears harder because of her enhanced hearing while some ANBU fell out of their hiding places.

"That is your opinion", was all he said as he exited the room.

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