NARUTO:The sealed shinobi. Chapter 97: CH 97

Naruto picked up the bottle he had purchased and stood, "Well then let's go do this already, Akatsuki isn't going to wait for to get stronger and this obviously isn't a mission. Is that all we're going to work on?" Jiraiya stood up after him and led him out, "Nope. You obviously know how to draw upon the Kyuubi's chakra if you've been experinting with it like you've said so I don't need to give you ti to learn that. You can make Rasengan absolutely perfectly so you don't need to work on that, speaking of Rasengan, if we can get through your training the way I anticipate we can then I'll tell you sothing special about that."

Naruto looked up at the taller man, "So what are we going to do?"

Jiraiya grinned down at him, "You needed to know the next step to furthering your wind manipulation didn't you? Well I'll show you what to do to work on that. You started on it back when you were a kid right?"

Naruto nodded, "Danzo told about the leaf-splitting exercise a few months before my little incident in Otogakure. I still bla you by the way."

Jiraiya's face fell, 'So you still hate do you kid?"

Naruto shook his head, "No. Not anymore. If there was anything that I learned in Root, it was that Konoha cos first. If you and the old man thought that I was a threat to the village, I can see why you didn't wait for to wake before acting. I don't like it, I probably never will like it, and I'll always have so spot in that resents that, but I understand." Naruto saw that they were exiting the town, "It's why I can forgive my father too."

Jiraiya's eyes widened at that, "Y-You know?"

Naruto gave him a foxy smirk, "Tsunade-baachan never told you that I did, did she? Yeah I know, and I have to say that I need to be more observant. It was staring in the face every damn day for years and I had to have help to figure it out."

Jiraiya sighed deeply and looked down, "You know gaki, I was supposed to be your godfather."

Naruto didn't bat an eye, "Oh really? That's cool. So I should call you ero-kyoufu now right?" Naruto didn't receive an answer and turned to see Jiraiya staring at him with his jaw dropped, "What?"

Jiraiya wiped the look of shock off of his face, "You aren't upset or even in denial on that?"

Naruto shrugged, "Why would I be? Even if you had been looking for in Konoha you would have been hard pressed to actually find and do anything godfatherly with . I went to Danzo when I was four, I only went to the apartnt to keep up appearances with Hokage-jiji, he was like clockwork, it was easy to figure out when he was showing up so I was always ho on days when he would visit. I'm not going to be a little punk and complain about why you never ca to check up on , because I never asked to be checked up on, you had your responsibilities and your own baggage to deal with. I did too, and I don't think I want to find out what I would have ended up like if you had been an active influence in my formulative years." Naruto finished with a smirk.

Jiraiya smiled down at Naruto, "So you know about your dad do you? Are you going to follow in his footsteps? You're damn talented kid."

Naruto put on a thinking face, "If you're asking whether or not I want to be Hokage, I don't know. It doesn't seem like my niche in the grand sche of things."

Jiraiya looked at him in slight surprise, "You're really different from your other self, being Hokage was the thing that drove him. He always said he'd be Hokage and get everyone's respect."

Naruto raised a finger, "And that's my point. I'm not like that anymore. I didn't want their respect by wanting to be the Hokage, I wanted their adoration. I don't give a fuck what the majority of those people think about . If they hate , fine, go ahead and hate , but I want their respect in the purest form, not any kind of love from them. They can sneer at and say things behind my back all they would like, but when I'm dead they better recognize the fact that I was the best damn ninja that they ever had the pleasure of seeing in person." Jiraiya grinned at how brash he was being, 'It's almost like how he would talk about being Hokage back when he wore that jumpsuit... I don't even think he knows he's saying it like that.'

Naruto continued, "As long as my na is emblazoned in the history books and a 97 year old Iruka-sensei is still yelling at a classroom full of brats to shut the hell up so they can study Naruto Uzumaki and why exactly he was so important to the village I'll be fine. I want the kids of my generation to sit down with their kids and tell stories of the ti that Naruto Uzumaki saved their asses." He chuckled slightly, "I'm kind of already doing that. I've already manipulated the landscape on a massive scale, the crater and the forest of bone near the Valley of the End was made during my fight with Kimimaro Kaguya, it's not as big as the Valley of the End, but it's the best anyone's done in almost one-hundred years."

Jiraiya picked up on sothing during his monologue, "How did that crater even get there in the first place? The Kaguya clan doesn't have any attacks that could make craters like that."

Naruto pointed to his stomach, "It's a part of the thing that I ca up with to make up for not being able to use that much of Kyuubi's chakra. It's strong, but damn does it hurt. It cracked every bone in my body to use. *chuckle* Kyuubi bitched out about it after the fight."

Jiraiya had a new point of interest now, "You speak to the Kyuubi?"

Naruto nodded, "Yep. When I was little it was a hard-ass, as a matter of fact it's still kind of a hard-ass, but I can't imagine not having it in . It's like I was never alone, even when I was." Naruto snickered, "By the way, you're on the Kyuubi's top twenty list of people that it wants to eat one of these days."

Jiraiya blinked in confusion, "It has a list of people that it wants to eat? And I'm on it?"

Naruto grinned, "Yep, you're number fourteen because of when you sealed , that really pissed it off. Jiji is number four because of giving the order. It said I used to be on it, but I ended up getting myself off of it after I unsealed myself."

Jiraiya had to ask, "I know I'm going to regret asking, but who is number one? It's Minato right?"

Naruto shook his head, "Nope, he's actually number twenty and bordering on leaving the list altogether. Number one is Madara Uchiha. The Kyuubi says that it hates that bastard and wants to eat him without chewing so that when it swallows him he can die the slow way. Number two is Hashirama Senju. It says that the tree hugging bastard can go down the wrong tube just so it can spit him up and eat him again."