Chapter 3: Adieu (2)
Naruto shifting his head and feeling his environment, he stared Jiraiya right in that face…and grinned.
"Tch, Naruto playing around with bets isn't safe, especially with a Sannin" his face full of concern shone through the rising sun, they had spent a good measure of time it seems.
"I've survived Orochimaru once I can survive miss I pity myself over there, besides, I want to take my job as Godaime seriously, even if it means lying for the sake of the village."
Jiraiya sighed all while nodding his head in understanding, his eyes still showed concern, 'maybe he isn't ready for this responsibility' "I understand your perspective Naruto, but it doesn't change that she is far more dangerous than you are at the moment, you need more training Naruto, you're going to need a lot of it too before you can indirectly challenge anyone, do you understand?"
Naruto nodded, his chin rested on his right hand in thought "I understand Jiraiya, but who is the one to train me if not you? You've got a spy network to control, and I've got a village to rule over, both these things are not easily abandoned…so what do you propose?"
Jiraiya had been shocked, he never even thought in that direction, he thought things would sort themselves out once he got Tsunade and Naruto had been inaugurated. But it seems that was not the case. He had to think.
"I've got it!" he said after what felt like an hour of deep thinking, it might as well have been, the sun had risen to a good point. "I could spare at least a year, the toads can moderate the network status from time to time, but I'll still be away sometimes, those days you can have Kakashi or someone train you, I mean you're the Hokage right?"
Naruto's face scrunched up, it seemed like a good idea, plus one year with a Sannin isn't so bad, plus Tsunade is coming back with them, meaning he could order her to train him! It was perfect. "Okay, we'll see how it goes".
Jiraiya grinned at him and held out his hand, forming a bright blue spinning sphere, Naruto's eyes widened and he grin opening his mouth to ask what it was but Jiraiya was already speaking. "This my cute apprentice, is your father's technique the rasengan!"
Naruto once more was cut off as he opening his mouth to ask another question "I'll be teaching you this once we get a good rest 'kay?" Naruto nodded and fell into step besides the Sannin, he did feel sleepy. Well his thoughts and questions would have to wait for him to have a good rest.
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Squirming away from the sun's rays, Naruto flipped over and begun to sleep once more. Yet he noticed something spectacularly confusing, he had moved away from the windows yet still felt a soft yet raging wind that had a bright light. How was this possible? Deciding to find out he prepared himself and opened his eyelids.
He saw Jiraiya, his hand outstretched with a rasengan in his palm, he looked up to see the man's face, seeing him grinning he felt bewildered. "How can you hold such a dangerous technique to my face yet assume its safe?"
Jiraiya's grin faded and he turn around, promptly ignoring the question "Tch gaki these days, do you wanna learn or not?" hearing this, Naruto jumped out of bed and began to wear some clothes…that is, until Jiraiya stopped him with and incredulous look on his face "Ever heard of a shower kid?" hearing this Naruto glared and spat out "Well…have you ever heard of knocking?!" his face scrunched up and his glare well pronounced 'that was a good one! Hive five and thumbs for U-Z-U-M-A-K-I N-A-R-U-T-O!' Naruto thought secretly happy.
"Yosh! Naruto, Ikouze!"
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As expected, the last step to the rasengan seemed to baffle Naruto, his face scrunched up and his body soaking wet as he had been practicing the other two, Jiraiya took pity on the boy, "why don't you use that Kage bunshin of yours? The additional memo…" a loud shout of realization cut Jiraiya off net thing that could be heard was a Kage bunshin popping into existence, Jiraiya looked over to them and saw how both boys nodded to each other and in a few seconds a full rasengan came to life.
Jiraiya's mouth agar as he saw his the fourth's technique in the hands of its rightful owner. His moment of euphoria didn't last long though, Naruto's face didn't sit well with what he had expected "Naruto, what's wrong? You got the technique down, aren't you happy?"
Naruto lifted his downed head, looked at the rasengan in his hand and looked at the clone beside him and with an angry cry he punched the clone with the rasengan drilling it out of existence and making the smoke swirl.
Jiraiya didn't understand, wasn't the rasengan good enough? What exactly was going on here? "Naruto…take a deep breath and explain to me what has you worked up, okay?"
"How am I supposed to be a ninja…when my every move is read? If I accept my rasengan the way it is now…I'm going to be read easily. Every time I make a clone the first thing that enters my enemies mind is…ambush, rasengan, and decoy. I can't work that way as a Kage, besides that, Sasuke-teme doesn't need a clone to perform his fancy electric move and neither does Kakashi-sensei, you don't need a clone to perform the rasengan and I bet my ass the fourth didn't need clones either, why am I any different?!"
Jiraiya sighed heavily, 'looks like it's time for that godson-godfather advice session
"You know, Naruto, everyone is different, but if want to perform the rasengan the way I do it, all you have to do is practice and not go around cursing the world and reason, do you understand what I'm trying to say here?"
Naruto seemed to have finally understood what Jiraiya was telling him, he nodded and got back to work. Determined to prove the voice in his head wrong, to prove to himself that he wasn't what he thought he was.
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