Tsunade stood on top of the Hokage Tower looking up at the sunset drenched mountain that now bore her visage, "You need to go see the brat. His house is starting to look like the inside of a hodge-podge file cabinet. Get him to calm down so."
Jiraiya looked at her from the corner of his eye as he looked out onto the village, "Get him to calm down? He isn't losing it about the whole Akatsuki thing is he? I figured that he would be taking it way better than that."
Tsunade shook her head, "He's not losing it. I an it isn't like he's scared of them, or scared of them taking him, nothing like that. He seems more tense these days though, more along the lines of the way he used to be when I first t him."
Jiraiya looked at her as understanding washed over his face. That was enough proof that he was feeling the squeeze of the situation. When Naruto was with Jiraiya looking for Tsunade he was scared. He would never have said so, he would never have even shown it but Jiraiya could feel the fear on him no matter how well he hid it. He was weak, he had just been attacked by Itachi Uchiha and Kisa Hoshigaki, and a few days prior to that he had just been unsealed and had a multitude of questions and concerns to work out. That had to have been a stress tidal wave hitting right after a simultaneous stress earthquake and volcano. Coming back to Konoha to see the boy llowed out after the failed Sasuke Retrieval really did Jiraiya's mind good.
Tsunade continued, "Every wall of his apartnt living room is plastered with all kinds of amassed information; patterns of known movent, hot points of contact, eyewitness reports of known mbers, personal files on whatever he could get on each, which for more than a few isn't very much. He has a room full of clones going over this information and either spends the rest of his ti studying with Hamako or in the Forest of Death, and that would concern if he hadn't been using it as his own personal playground for the last few years."
Jiraiya made a noise of acknowledgent, "Maybe I should take him with again? A trip elsewhere should do him so good. Maybe I can get into what his deal is once we get away from the village, maybe he's just nervous... it's understandable, he has a lot on his plate."
Tsunade took a mont to think about it, "A trip to where though? I don't think I can swing another training mission. I barely got the last one through the channels since I was sending him alone. The elders sure loved that idea." Tsunade said sarcastically.
Jiraiya waved it off, "Just give us any old rinky -dink chore. Preferably one that takes us out of the country for at least a week, that kid can be one tough nut to crack when he wants to be and I have a feeling he isn't waiting for soone to spill his guts about his anxiety to." "Alright then." Tsunade said as she turned to face him at last, "I'll get it set up soon after a go over what we need done. He just got back from a short courier run earlier today so I'll leave it up to you whether or not to see him now or later."
Jiraiya scratched his chin, "Where is he now?"
Tsunade smirked, "The Forest of Death if I would hazard a guess."
Jiraiya let off a sweatdrop, "I'll go see the kid later."
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(Konohagakure no Sato – Outside of Training Area 44 a.k.a. Forest of Death)
The light of the moon bathed him as Naruto was on his hands and knees dripping sweat after his most recent episode with his most prolific adversaries, the giant spiders in the Forest of Death. Naruto panted and glared at the sword in his grip on the ground, "*pant pant* You certainly crap out at the absolute worst tis imaginable. I swear you do it on purpose." Naruto then proceeded to flop face first on the ground to give himself a mont of rest.
He went directly into the known nest area of the spiders to test the limits of the Sen'nen Kougake transformation of the Sen'nenki no Ken the best way he knew how; with wanton slaughter, and the endless waves of spiders that had beco his favorite targets/the bane of his existence were the perfect test dummies for him and his bladed gauntlets and grieves.
The good part about the training; the blades were as good as he assud they were. He cut right through the spiders like a hot knife through butter, it was absolutely effortless. His senses, reflexes, and physical attributes were heightened exponentially just from wearing them, and it seed that the longer he had them on the stronger he seed to get. Every spider he cut down was seemingly replaced by two like always, but he couldn't have cared less at the rate he was slicing them apart, he was moving so fast by the end that the blades didn't even get any spider gore on them.
Then ca the bad part. That little feeling of supre authority and superiority over the eight-legged lower life forms ca at a price as it always had. The power growth was apparently sothing of a supernova as it just left him all at once, no fading, no waning of energy. When it decided to go, it took everything with it all at once. The euphoria of showing those stupid spiders who exactly the boss of that woodland area was and who ran things with an iron fist in the Forest of Death caused Naruto to lose track of ti. Now he had painstakingly prolonged the amount of ti he was able to keep going while using the Sen'nen Koukage from the pitiful five minutes he displayed against Sasori to fifteen. Still pathetic... suprely pathetic, but ti flies when you're cutting down mindless drones by the dozens. When the fifteen minutes that he lost track of ti of elapsed it took everything he had to not instantly drop to the ground and black out. By all rights he should have been devoured by the damned plagues of the forest, but he saved himself at the very last second with a quick boost of Kyuubi's chakra so that he could...
A human sized orange toad in a blue jacket poked at Naruto with a slight glare on his face, "Don't you ever, ever, ever do that again aniki. I never want to see another goddamn spider for as long as I live. I should bodyslam you."
...Summon Gamakichi.
Naruto rolled over slightly, "I never make you do anything. I can't rember ever making you actually fight anything. Ever. All I ever make you do when I summon you is either train with you, or get you drunk and feed you. Cashing in all of that goodwill for you running a few kiloters to get us out of a forest is nothing."
Gamakichi frowned, "Well... I did get to test out the blade the old man gave ." He grumbled to himself for a mont, "Next ti call Gamatatsu to do the hard work."
Naruto scoffed, "If I had summoned Gamatatsu he probably would have just sat there and watched get eaten before asking the remains of my spider violated corpse for a snack."
Gamakichi was about to respond before he dropped it, "Okay, you've got there, but you owe big next ti you summon ."
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