AUTHOR NOTE: THANKS EVERYONE! That plagiarist on wattpad, HunterWater0...

THEIR PROFILE IS GONE!

Sitting at a bar located in Mount Myōboku, all Jiraiya could do was wallow in his misery. Never before had he felt so pathetic.

If anyone saw him now, they wouldn't cower in awe or assume he was a Sannin, all they would see was a drunken, lecherous old man who had the disposition of a child with an overly-eccentric and boisterous personality. He supposed that in his heart, he was always a child. He could face death and battle, but he had never wanted responsibility. Being responsible frightened him. Always had.

Being a godfather? Where was he for OVER TEN YEARS of Naruto's life? Being a teacher? How much did he actually teach anything to his student before going to an adult club?! Hell, Naruto was almost maimed in his first run-in with Itachi and Kisame while Jiraiya was out flirting!

Some "Sannin"...some ninja...some godfather...he left out a scoff of self-disgust.

Jiraiya could practically feel Minato, Kushina, and Sarutobi-sense glaring at him for his utter failure at being both a godfather and a mentor. To think a little girl had sent him running scared after she had to step up and fix his messes...it was a low point for him. He really felt worthless.

"Oi, Jiraiya-boy. What's eatin' ya?"

Looking up from his drink, the man grunted in acknowledgement of Shima and Fukasaku as the two elderly toads came over. Just great. Exactly what the skirt-chaser didn't want right now: company.

"...Recent mentor role blew up in my face...Minato's kid...current Kyubbi Jinchūriki...I just...it was like he couldn't get what I was teaching him...then some squirt kid showed up and not only salvaged things, but took my student...now here I am..."

At that, Fukasaku frowned at the white-haired man. "Couldn't get what you were teaching? You were just as bad as you're describing him; and you didn't have a Biju to drag you down. If he's a bad student as a Jinchūriki, what does that make you?"

Jiraiya winced in guilt at Fukasaku's words. He was right; Jiraiya had been a terrible learner and struggled through everything taught to him when he was Naruto's age. To make matters worse in comparison, Naruto had a valid reason for his difficult time learning while Jiraiya did not; and he ignored that just to save face and not be told off by someone less than half his age.

He sighed as he realized his success with the Fourth Hokage had gone to his head, making him arrogant as a supposed instructor. Minato was a genius in comparison to Naruto, not needing anything other than someone to point him in the right direction. And that was all Jiraiya had done; show him the first steps before Minato took over on his own. And then Minato went on to teach Jiraiya the Rasengan! His own student was the one to teach him a powerful jutsu!

"You fucked this one up, Jiraiya," he muttered to himself, self-loathing in his tone. He sighed and stood up.

Past time he did the right thing. Now to go find Naruto and get his student back...

Naruto panted, his whole body felt like it was full of red hot, steel pins that were trying to push their way out of his skin. She might not look it, but Cus was an utter slave driver when it came to training! And Cus was obsessed (or at least it seemed that way) with ensuring nearly every moment was spent with Naruto honing his abilities, not a single day was wasted. She was like an EXTRA psychotic, sawed-off, possessed sadist!

Yet his eyes still burned with will and rebellion, if Cus was going to pressure him and his ability so much, then he'd take that pressure to become a diamond. Yet there was one thing that bothered him about her training...

"Come on, sensei! Come at me full force!" He demanded.

Cus sighed, "Naruto...you aren't ready yet for me to use my full power in our spars..."

"Then how will I ever be if you keep holding back?! I know I'm not there yet, but I need to know the level I need to be to handle it, and the only way to do that is to see it first-hand!" The Uzumaki argued.

The angel actually blinked at that, ok...she'd admit, that was actually a fair point. "Fine...if you can get me to use more than just my left hand against you, I'll step up your training, then."

It took all of the blond's self-control to not flinch visibly at that. Odd as it sounded, he was starting to view Cus' left hand as a personal nemesis of his. Every spar, she beat him into the ground using just that one hand. He could never get past it and it was used to rag doll him in every instance! Still...if beating that hurdle was what was needed to get Cus to come at him with everything she had...

Taking a deep breath and forcing his exhaustion aside, Naruto stood and got into a stance while his teacher looked calm, just standing straight with her rod in one hand. Naruto charged with a burst of speed, as he was in range, Naruto sent a punch which Cus just sidestepped to the left and poked the blond teen in the head. The action sent Naruto flying backwards and tumbled along the ground, causing dirt and dust to shoot up.

As the dust went away, Naruto went at it again with multiple jabs and a roundhouse kick. The Angel moved her head side to side dodging the punches, with occasional twists of her body, then grabbed the leg and playfully began to spin him around when she grabbed his leg, getting a comical scream from him before letting go.

Naruto was sent flying, Cus vanished at high speed and appeared behind the whiskered teen who poofed, revealing that it was a Shadow Clone. Naruto jumped up and tried to grab the girl from behind, key word was 'tried'. Cus vanished again and smacked the blond on the head, revealing another Shadow Clone.

So...he used the dust cloud from his landing as a smokescreen, huh? Not bad...but "not bad" wasn't the same as "good".

Looking where the dust cloud had been, there was now a fairly large hole that went straight into the earth.

Cus jumped back just in time to see the masked, whiskered teenager burst through the ground in front of her with a raised fist that would have connected with her jaw if she had moved any slower. The uppercut couldn't have missed her by more than a couple of centimeters and judging by the wind that came in its wake, lightly slapping her in the face, she came to the conclusion that the punch most likely would have shattered her jaw if it had been allowed to hit its intended target.

Cus lashed out first, her left hand catching Naruto just bellow the ribs in a knife thrust, causing him to double over at the blow before the angel picked him up by the throat. "You know...you shouldn't have challenged me while you were still weary from training, Naruto...Kisses!" Cus smiled, before slamming Naruto into the ground hard enough to knock him out.

By the time Naruto awoke, he found Cus had managed to lay out an entire picnic with a bowel filled with plenty of small dumplings for them both to eat.

Naruto groaned, knowing he lost.

"Looks like you're staying at your current level for now. Oh well...let's eat, Naruto." She said. As she sat down on the mat, Naruto was confused, "Wait...Just like that? No spars? No push-ups or sit-ups? No sudden surprise attacks, even?"

Cus giggled to her student's questions, "I know I've been running you into the ground and even further than that, but even Gods need to take a break every once in a while... and I see that you've been working very hard in your training, so consider today a "day off". Now, you are free to eat."

Naruto, still suspicious about all of this, sat down across from Cus and grabbed some chopsticks and quickly took a dumpling from the bowel while never taking his eyes off his sensei.

"Naruto...do you really think I did all this just to for you to be a warrior constantly? Relax and please, enjoy." Cus said with a smile as she began to eat.

Hearing that, Naruto seemed to relax a bit and even gave Cus a smile, "Thank you, sensei... and to be honest, this does look really good..." As Naruto then opened his mouth to eat, Cus suddenly snatched the dumpling with her chopsticks and zoomed back to her seat.

"HEY!?" Naruto yelled at seeing what his sensei just did and she looked like nothing had just happened and was chewing on the snacthed dumpling, "I said you're free to eat, Naruto..."

Naruto then attempted to get another only this time, Cus swatted Naruto's arm upward sending the dumpling into the air only to snatch it again and she then ate it.

Seeing this, Naruto then narrowed his eyes at his sensei, "I said Naruto... You are free... to eat..." Cus said with a threatening tone in her voice as she then glared at her student.

"WELL, AM I!?" Naruto shouted at Cus.

"ARE YOU!?" Cus shouted back as she then twirled her chopsticks around like they were weapons.

Feeling he should have known this would happen, Naruto simply cracked his neck and snapped his chopsticks in a challenging manner.

Naruto then grabbed the bowl and threw it high into the air and Cus jumped after it, swiftly plucking each dumpling and eating them all until there was only one left, and that was when Naruto attempted to strike, as he jumped to catch it, only for Cus to follow him and intercept him by catching it first. But Naruto then knocked out of her chopsticks just as she was about to eat it and it landed right into the bowel, and both Naruto and Cus used their chopsticks to grab it but they also blocked each other in a chopstick battle, until Cus then slapped Naruto's hand with her chopsticks and then turned the bowel over as well as the others and began to spin them around in a rapid speed.

Naruto attempted to follow the bowels until he suddenly stopped Cus to reveal the dumpling but then Cus resumed their chopsticks duel Cus even used her fingers to "Kick" Naruto's fingers and he attempted to knock Cus' hand off balance by swinging his chopstick under her hand which she then dodged but she then countered.

Having enough of this, but smiling from this kind of "fight", Naruto then got rid of the bowel and sent the dunpling flying, but Cus then threw her chopsticks like a kunai, stabbing the dumpling through while the chopstick embedded in a tree branch.

Then they both attempted to claim the dumpling but Cus jumped off Naruto's head only for him to grab her ankle and he slammed her onto the ground, then they saw the dumpling slid off the chopstick and Cus attempted to get Naruto to let go of her but Naruto held on while doing a flip and they then began a little fight under the tree thus causing the dumpling to fall, Naruto attempted to catch it with his mouth but Cus then closed his mouth with her remaining chopstick as the dumpling then gently rolled off his face.

But Naruto then sent it back into the air with a kick and he and Cus began to fight again, but occasionally kept the dumpling from falling onto the ground as they fought. Cus then kicked the dumpling and Naruto chased after it. Fully smiling, Cus then threw the chopstick away and chased after Naruto while grabbing her staff to polvolt herself over him, then she and Naruto resumed their battle.

Naruto and Cus batted while still making sure the dumpling didn't touch the ground until Naruto got the advantage and kicked the dumpling a little further over Cus and when he landed, Naruto then finally caught the dumpling from the air and stood victorious as Cus smiled in pride at him.

After popping the dumpling into his mouth, the Uzumaki fell over, beyond dead tired.

If he wanted to eat, Cus made it into a fight like that! If he wanted, to sleep (or if he was run into the ground to where he passed out) Cus would enter his mindscape and make him endure training against her there! Thank all divinity and damnation she left him alone whenever he was going to the bathroom, at least! But basically, the only way she'd ever stop torturing him with the sheer load of training would be if he was dead!

In short, THIS was what Naruto expected training to be like! And he loved it! Besides, Cus managed to balance it out with making it a positive teaching experience. Lots of encouragement and praise. Kind words. If he was doing something wrong, she gave him a gentle nudge could help him in the right direction.

Before Cus had shown up, the trip itself had been very underwhelming for the Uzumaki who was expecting to learn most of the tricks and skills that the Toad Sage was capable of using.

That wasn't the case.

Instead, the first year was devoted solely to mastering basics that should have been gone over by Kakashi; his official teacher since he had been assigned to Team Seven. His taijutsu had been smoothed out so that he didn't fight like some common brawler, his chakra control exercises had increased in difficulty, and he had finally learned how to dispel genjutsu.

It bothered him that it took an entire year to fix those concerns when Kakashi should've noticed them much sooner. No doubt he helped Sasuke figure out his own issues while he was teaching the Uchiha that damnable Chidori. He was going to hold onto that grudge for a while, considering how he had suffered being run through by that jutsu twice during his fight with Sasuke.

The second year had Naruto practice with his Rasengan while also trying to develop one that was larger; thereby giving it more power. While he had improved greatly in his chakra control, he couldn't make the larger Rasengan without the assistance of a clone. Thankfully, though, he was finally able to use a standard Rasengan one-handed.

It was halfway through the second year that Jiraiya decided to start the real training. To Naruto's dismay, the Toad Sage felt that the best training Naruto could do was practice using the Kyuubi chakra; which he honestly hated to use.

Sure, the power boost was phenomenal; but the aftermath of the chakra was not a fair trade in his eyes. His body was left weak, and his chakra coils would practically rage with pain due to the corrosive chakra being pumped through them. Being the Jinchūriki of the chakra helped, but only by so much.

And then, Jiraiya had the brilliant idea of loosening the seal so that more of that twisted chakra could be accessed. Not once, but TWICE! All because of how the Toad Sage focused more on his "research" than actually training his so-called apprentice.

He sighed, feeling depressed about the lack of real value this trip had. But the time away from the Hidden Leaf was being wasted in his eyes. Everything he had done – barring the use of the Kyuubi's chakra – could have easily been done within the village walls. He had constantly worried about the idea that by the end of the trip, he'd barely be any stronger. Cus had fixed that concern easy!

"You are getting better, Naruto...but you keep overtaxing your body. I know you have stamina in spades and heal quickly, but those are no reason to ignore when you need rest." Cus told him.

After chewing and gulping the food in his mouth, Naruto sighed, "I know...I just feel I need to push myself that hard to make up for all the time I could have been getting training this hard when my other teachers before you brushed me off, sensei."

At that, Cus frowned. She was well aware of the slights against her pupil that his former senseis had done after using her staff to see how her predecessor had taken to teach Naruto in the past, it left her feeling it was amazing poor Naruto had gotten as far as he had!

She already knew Jiraiya's faults, but then there was who the incompletely-trained sage had taken over for: Kakashi.

While Kakashi was one of the top Jonin in the village of Konoha and more or less it's resident jutsu master. But other than that, Cus was deeply unimpressed. She had seen that Kakashi was a porn addict who was constantly late to everything (barring the new releases of Icha Icha anyway), he was a sub-par teacher at best. The man had passed them on the barest hint of teamwork. Kakashi had absolutely no idea how to train newly minted genin. All he did was get on their nerves by telling them to work as a team, and yet he never told team seven how, seeing as the academy didn't exactly teach teamwork like they should, even though it was one of the biggest requirements to becoming a genin in the first place, yet he seemed to think that they did.

Kakashi's treatment of Naruto was wrong starting from the bell test. How on earth do you expect a boy who had been ostracized by his own village for simply being alive to just grasp the concept of teamwork at the drop of a hat like that? Naruto never had anyone really looking out for him, especially not his classmates. While the exercise would be understandable for Sasuke (if he weren't such a stuck up prick) as he has been pampered by his village, it made no sense for Kakashi to reasonably expect Naruto to rely on two people who have never been there for him, namely Sasuke and Sakura, to help him. Naruto, despite his outgoing personality, is a loner from the beginning. What kind of idiot was Kakashi not to be able to see that anyway?

Next was the training. Or lack thereof. Listing what Kakashi taught Naruto was easy: Climbing Trees using his energy, and...that's it. Kakashi regarded Sasuke more highly than Naruto, that much was pitifully obvious; as he watched Neji fight Hinata, he thought that not even Sasuke could stand up to him, as if that emo-bastard set the bar for Genin standards; also when he told Naruto that he couldn't train him, he blatantly said he had more important things to take care of: training Sasuke. How Kakashi abandoned Naruto during the one month break of the Chunin exam was more than a little messed up. Granted that things worked out for the best, but Kakashi didn't know that would happen. What exactly was better chakra control going to do to help Naruto defeat a Hyuuga prodigy who had no problem with attempting to murder members of his own family!? He probably planned on Naruto losing, the bastard.

First and foremost, if you can't train more than one student at once, don't take a three man squad. Secondly, Kakashi knew the Kage Bunshin. Why couldn't he have at least taken two seconds to cross his fingers and made one to instruct Naruto, just crossing his fingers, how hard was THAT for a Jonin of Kakashi's renowned and caliber? Thirdly, and this was the kicker, knowing Kakashi, he'd more than likely have the gall to reprimand Jiraiya for teaching Naruto the Rasengan after he had taught Sasuke the Chidori! He actually believed that Sasuke would use it to protect his fellow shinobi of Konoha. Didn't he spend a lot of alone time with Sasuke? You'd think he was a little more observant of the fact that everything Sasuke did was toward killing Itachi...especially since the prick had said that!

Iruka had been the most attentive, but as a teacher in the academy back in Konoha, he had been unable to focus on aiding Naruto's personal development as much as he would have liked to since he had to give all the students equal attention and time as a group. That at least was understandable and something Cus could forgive.

"...Hey, Cus-sensei?" The whiskered young man called, getting her attention.

"Hm? Yes, Naruto?"

"Where did you learn to fight like this and get to be such a good teacher, anyways?" her student asked, honestly curious.

At that, Cus cringed. That would mean telling him about Universe 10...she sighed, "...I...I know I should explain that, Naruto...but...not yet...please..." she pleaded, feeling horrible. She knew he was just out to get to know her as a person, and she wanted to tell him, but with the sheer level of loss she endured, she wasn't ready. The hurt was too much...feeling herself start to tear up, she squeezed her eyes shut. She hated feeling this way! But apathy was too dangerous, especially with an angel's battle power levels! before she was enveloped in warmth.

Looking to the source, Cus' eyes widened...she should have figured! Naruto was holding her, trying to offer what comfort he could. The dam burst at that and she clutched the ninja for everything she had and started bawling. All the while, he held her close and offered what comfort he could, an anchor in the storm of upsetting emotions she was caught up in.

As she clung to him, Cus had to admit a doubt to herself: Naruto was too sweet to carry out the duties of a God of Destruction. Not that Cus minded that personally, but it was something that would no doubt cause problems later on. Thing was, she didn't want Naruto to change. Casting aside the things that made him who he was? The angel couldn't bare that happening to Naruto. She felt so confused! She needed a God of Destruction, but not someone that would abuse the power! In that regard, Naruto was perfect! But she wanted him to stay true to who he was! And if Cus were honest, she HATED seeing lives destroyed! Why couldn't Gods of Destruction settle for doing things like vaporizing uninhabited worlds?!

It was all so frustrating!

As she was mulling that over, a sudden sensation at her sides made her yelp, and as she tried pulling away, Naruto

Before long, she was laughing out loud. And she knew both the cause and the culprit. Naruto! He was...he was tickling her?!

"Oi! No fair!" Cus laughed.

"ALL'S fair in love and war, sensei! You're being broody! Snap out of it!" Naruto countered.

Still laughing, Cus managed to tap her staff on the ground and the orb glowed before a whirlwind kicked up and Naruto was sucked into it, the orb's light ceasing as he was pulled within it. Standing by using her staff, the angel caught her breath, "...Ahhh...I admit I needed that! Still...bit of timeout for you! Enjoy it in there!" Cus teased, smiling while looking at the orb of her staff.

Her student really was a good soul. No question. She really felt she owed Hamura again. She could thank that old specter for all eternity and couldn't be enough. Still...preparing Naruto as best she could was a nice start, seeing as Indra was still out there somewhere.

Looking at the orb, the light blue-skinned girl activated it again and went into the staff herself. Needed to make sure Naruto was ok, after all.

Going into the pocket dimension of her staff, Cus found herself in a groundless void with a hazy atmosphere like a dense fog. Due to its abundance of godly ki, the pocket dimension had immense gravitational pressure that made it hard to move about (not that aspect was a problem for her, though), and time in the dimension flowed differently here.

Looking around, Cus grinned. Ah...there he was.

Floating over to where her student was suspended, she smiled. "Hello Naruto."

"...Gahhh...! Sensei...where are we? Why's it so heavy here...?" he groaned, the pressure restraining him uncomfortably.

"Special training space." Then she blinked, seeing him immobilized by the environment, Cus smirked deviously, "You know, my little seito, there's something I've wanted to do to you ever since I first met you..."

Naruto's eyes widened in horror as Cus removed and held his mask in her right hand while her left hand reached out towards his face. Oh no...not that...! Anything but that! He didn't want to have a funeral for his dignity like this!

Cus lightly ran her thumb along his left top whisker mark. Naruto's eyes instantly drooped and a small rumble that could be described as a purr came from his chest as she stroked the thumb over the grooves of each mark. Momentarily surprised, Cus blinked, but found herself enjoying this. So too, did Naruto, it seemed, as he began to subconsciously nuzzled his cheek against her hand, seeking more comfort from her fingers' gentle touch. Beaming in delight, the angel ran her fingers over another whisker mark, earning another drawn out purr and causing Naruto's eyes to shut and she continued to run her fingers across the whisker marks on the blond's cheeks, causing him to purr in content.

"...oh god...senesi...please stop..." Naruto whimpered at the gentle touches being applied to his facial markings. He was sensitive there, and his pride would never be able to live down if anyone found out.

"Nope! You have to make me stop, Naruto; otherwise, you're all mine to pet and toy with!" Cus laughed. She just found this adorable seeing her student turned into a purring mess like a common house pet. She could already tell this was something Cus was going to be more than happy to exploit as a newfound "weakness".

His head turned into Cus's hand and his eyes drifted shut while pleasurable tingles went down his spine. When she pulled away, Naruto released what sounded like a small pitiful whimper until his eyes flickered open and he shook his head to rid himself of the dream-like bliss that fogged his mind due to her fingers' gentle ministrations.

"...Please don't tell me I..." He asked hesitantly.

"Adorable!" Cus beamed.

Naruto groaned. Cat was out of the bag!

"Oh, Naruto, relax...of course I won't tell! It'll be our little secret."

Still mortified, Naruto felt a tiny bit relieved Cus wouldn't tell anyone what happened if his marks were stroked.

"But like I said: if you want me to stop, you'll have to make me. So whenever we're in this space, I will enjoy petting you like that. Since this space is designed to help teach power through extreme control. You see, what most don't know is nearly everyone subconsciously leaks their energy while they attack or raise their energy. For that matter, it happens subconsciously, even doing base-level things; breathing, blinking, heart beating...that's where this pressure is from. To keep from being restrained by it, you need to hold your energy all within your body without letting it leak. Once you figure out that, you'll be able to move properly and stop me."

Naruto paled. As a Jinchūriki, he was willing to bet he had to deal with those "subconscious energy leaks" a lot since he had stores of energy that were hardly even human! No wonder moving was so hard in here!

"Energy control is an issue with you, Naruto. I understand that. Your internal energy network is overdeveloped and you have denser energies than normal; but do you feel it's fixable?"

Naruto rolled his eyes."Of course. Work hard enough and the impossible becomes possible. I just wish energy exercises wasn't all my training until you showed up entailed, sensei."

Cus nodded at his answer. "In that case, I'll leave you here for a bit to at least try and get used to this place. But first..." placing her hand on his chest, she sent a bit of energy into him and directed it to cause a shift in his body's functions before pulling away, "There! Now your body's need for things like food and waste disposal are cut off in this space. Should make it easier with less to worry about when you're in here. ciao for now, Naruto." she told him, putting his mask back on his face then exited the dimension.

After she emerged, she took up and started twirling her staff casually as the angel walked off, whistling to herself. Then she suddenly stopped a a thick plume of white smoke erupted right in front of young-looking humanoid gained a flat expression as the cloud dispersed to show Jiraiya in front of her, a serious expression on his face.

"What do you want?"

"I'm here to get my student back, you brat." The sage growled.

Cus snorted. "Yeah right...when were you ever a teacher to him?"

Jiraiya frowned at the remark, but stood his ground and instead, slipped into the stance for the Kawazu Kumite fighting style used exclusively by those who trained with the toads of Mount Myōboku.

"You really wanna do this?" Cus couldn't help but laugh. Seeing the old man remaining how he was, she shrugged and planted the end of her staff in the ground before walking forward a few paces, hands behind her back. She remained in her pose as a razor sharp smile graced her features.

Challenge issued and accepted.

"Your funeral, old man...just know if you'd taken being a mentor to him this seriously to begin with, none of this would be happening. Let's rumble!"Cus pointed out.