NARUTO:The sealed shinobi. Chapter 106: CH 106

Jiraiya watched Naruto's face roll through a gambit of emotions; overwheld, irritated, sowhat frightened, calm, and then strangely lucid. Jiraiya kept an eye on the boy as the look of lucidity stayed, 'One. Weird. Kid.'

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(Konohagakure no Sato – Two Days Later)

"So brat, how was the mission?" Tsunade said through her crossed fingers, trying and failing miserably to hide the smirk on her face.

Naruto gave her a dry look, "Oh yeah, it was a real tough 'mission'. Baa-chan the next ti you want to swerve into doing sothing, just stop and think, would coming out and telling what you want to actually go and do really be so bad?"

Tsunade moved her hands and made no attempt to hide her smirk, "It wouldn't have been as fun as it was imagining the look on your face when you t the pervert so yes, yes it would have."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Yeah because I would have been such a bastard about taking the mission. What would I have done, turned it down?" Naruto scoffed, "Since when do I turn down anything?"

Tsunade got the conversation back on track, "Alright. Now seriously, how was it?"

Naruto grinned at her, "I can split a waterfall with my bare hands. Does that answer your question?"

Tsunade looked over at Jiraiya who was smiling in approval, "In a month Tsunade-hi. It took him a bit over one month to learn how to do that. Those Kage Bunshin are sothing else I swear. He could have stayed the way he was before the invasion and as long as he knew how to train with those things he still could have been a force."

Both looked at Naruto who was standing in front of Tsunade's desk with a combination of being at attention and at ease. Tsunade nodded, satisfied that sothing had been accomplished while they were gone, "Anything else I need to know about?"

Naruto raised a hand, "Actually yes. My seal, after ero-sennin tried to let more of Kyuubi's chakra leak out he made it so that using its chakra was more dangerous, I need to learn how to control it almost all over again or else I might just up and kill my entire team while I'm using it. I could go too far by accident. I'm just now getting a few people to think I'm not a demon, it would certainly suck if a lapse of control on my part threw all of that work away."

Jiraiya looked at Tsunade questioningly as he let Naruto's words sink in to her, "So do you think I need to take him away again until he has it down?"

Naruto visibly frowned but kept his mouth shut. He really didn't want to traverse to the ass end of nowhere again only a few hours after getting back to the village, but if it was an order from Tsunade there wasn't any amount of griping that he could do about it. The most he could do was just take it and hope that it wasn't for too long.

Tsunade looked as though she was seriously considering letting him go to deal with it, "No. We need Naruto back for now. We're getting more missions now that the ti for the genin exam is coming up in a week and we need him to help with the influx. He can work on his control in the Forest of Death the way he has been, he just has to let know what he's doing before he goes to do so."

Naruto let a small smile grace his face, "Thanks baa-chan."

Tsunade gave him a smile in return, "You're welco brat. But still, I'm trusting you. I'm counting on you not going overboard with the Kyuubi's power, especially after you yourself had to tell just how dangerous it was for you to use it right now."

Jiraiya patted Naruto on the shoulder, "Maybe I should teach you how to prepare chakra suppressing seals so that you can have your team prepared in case you lose it on a mission."

Thinking about losing his cool on a mission made Naruto bristle. Keeping his cool during monts like that was one of the things he prided himself on, but he knew that from the Kyuubi's description of exactly what he would beco if he did go out of control it was the best idea, "If you say so ero-sennin. I'm heading out now, if you guys need I'm sure you know how to find ." Naruto walked over to the open window and jumped out, not getting any dispute from Tsunade on his chosen thod of exit.

Tsunade looked away from the window with a sigh, "So how is he?"

Jiraiya scratched the side of his face, "He just started breaking through with when he told he knew about his father. I really thought the kid was going to start opening up, and then this happens. He'll probably try shutting himself off again if I had to guess, out of fear of hurting soone he shouldn't."

"Should I schedule sothing with Inoichi? Maybe whatever is affecting the seal is ntal." Tsunade didn't want Naruto to beco reclusive. He was a good kid. It was kind of unnerving how efficient he was, but he was a good kid nonetheless. Jiraiya couldn't give her an answer, "I'm not sure. He's not holding back any anger or anything. To make the kid mad you have to really grate on him. It's just when he does get mad the chances of him drawing too much of the Kyuubi's chakra is magnified, that's my fault though, I underestimated the complexity of Minato's seal. There was more to it then I could have figured before I ssed with it. I need to head to Mt. Myoboku for a while."

Tsunade laced her fingers and set her chin down, "Go and do what you need to in order to figure this out. Just keep in contact, send a toad with letters or sothing."

Jiraiya got a grin on his face, "But of course. You going to send so revealing pictures back hi? It might get lonely out there by myself."

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(With Naruto) Naruto's attention was drawn upwards as a white blur flew from the direction of the Hokage Tower. Shaking his head, Naruto continued on his way, "I knew it was a good idea to leave that window open, ero-sennin is seriously a glutton for punishnt, I swear."

Finding himself at his destination, Naruto's stomach growled in anticipation as he threw aside the curtain keeping him from the stools of the Ichiraku Ran Bar. Taking his seat he smirked to himself, "Hey! I'm back and I've been deprived for far too long!"

Teuchi ca from the back, grinning as he realized it was Naruto making all the racket, "Well look who ca back from the dead. Where have you been Naruto? We've been wondering where our primary patron was."

Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Yeah, I was away for a while. I'm going to start getting more back to back missions too. You know, with the village recovery and all, we need every shinobi we can get out there."