"YES FINALLY, I've been waiting for you to teach me that all day!" Naruto got back up like he wasn't dying a few moments ago. His excitement could be felt through the air.
"I couldn't tell. Alright, first I'm gonna show you how it's done. Now watch carefully." Jiraiya bit his thumb, drawing blood. He smeared the blood onto his palm, went through some hand seals, and finally slammed his palm into the ground. "SUMMONING JUTSU!"
*Poof* Smoke engulfed Jiraiya's surroundings and dissolved into the wind, revealing Jiraiya perched on the back of a toad that was larger than Jiraiya himself.
"Woaaah, that is totally awesome. That might be the coolest thing I've ever seen."
The giant toad had a scroll held by its tongue that extended towards Naruto, handing over the large scroll to him. "Go ahead, open that scroll and take a look inside. It's a contract with the summoning toads that's been handed down from earlier generations of ninja. Just sign your name in your own blood and stamp the fingerprints of one hand in blood beneath your signature. Find the place you want to summon the creature, then build up chakra and press down the hand you used on the contract after you use the seals I showed you before."
Naruto bit his thumb and signed the contract with his blood. "Here goes, Na~ru~to~ Uzu~maki~" He then stamped his fingerprints in blood beneath the signature using his right hand. "Ok, I'm all done."
"After burning off all your chakra, it should be easy for you to release your red chakra now, so give it a try."
"Quit bugging me, I'm already trying, ok?" Naruto performed the hand signs with ease. "NINJA ART: SUMMONING JUTSU!"
*Pop* A tiny puff of smoke appeared under Naruto's hand. He moved his hand out of the way to reveal a tiny tadpole. A long moment of awkward confusion passed. After all that build-up, all he ended up summoning wasn't even a toad yet. Jiraiya was speechless. 'A tadpole? Sure enough, he has no talent.'
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Hours passed by as Naruto persisted with the summoning jutsu. So far, he only summoned tadpoles. As he was about to try again, Jiraiya stepped up. "You can't just force it, Naruto. This isn't an enemy you can punch, it's a friend you're asking to help you."
Naruto had a spark of inspiration. "At least you're useful sometimes, pervy sage."
Jiraiya's veins bulged. "You little brat, didn't I tell you not to call me that?"
"Yeah, yeah," Naruto brushed him off and focused. He began thinking about what a friend is. He doesn't have many, but all of them have one thing in common, and that is the bond that their friendship forged over the years, through the good times and the bad. A friend will be there no matter how far, no matter the danger.
Naruto had a surge of chakra flow through him as he felt that this time he would succeed in summoning his partner. He went through the seals and bit his thumb. "NINJA ART: SUMMONING JUTSU!"
*POOOF* A huge cloud of white smoke was released from under Naruto's palm. Naruto was freaking out, his excitement overflowing. "HAHA, pervy sage, I bet my toad will be bigger than yours."
Jiraiya was shocked with Naruto's sudden success. 'Could it be... I'm that good at teaching?'
As the wind cleared up the smoke, Naruto was still standing on the ground and not on a giant toad. Naruto was utterly confused. "Hey pervy sage, what's going on?"
Jiraiya was just as confused. 'This isn't how this usually works, at least it's never happened to me before.' "Well, maybe the toad you summoned wasn't impressed and decided to go back without saying a word?"
Naruto was shocked to the core. "THIS ISN'T THE KIND OF FRIEND I WANTED TO SUMMON. IT'S LIKE ANOTHER SASUKE TRYING TO ACT ALL COOL." Naruto fell to his knees, a wisp of his soul threatening to leave his body.
As more smoke faded away, a white object came into Jiraiya's view. "Hey Naruto, what's that behind you?"
Naruto shot up, clinging to the last bit of hope he had left. He turned to look behind him and saw a giant white egg.
"Naruto, you went from summoning tadpoles to summoning eggs. You're getting worse, how is that possible?" Jiraiya sighed in defeat, almost giving up on the stupid blonde and throwing him off a cliff. Naruto, on the other hand, couldn't look away. From the moment he laid his eyes on it, he felt a bond, one that he has never felt before. It drew him in, calling him to be with the egg.
Jiraiya took another look at the egg and realized something. 'This egg, it's white with a hard shell like the eggs you would find in reptiles or birds, not the typical transparent and soft membrane a normal toad egg would have. But it's impossible for him to summon anything other than a toad because he's signed a contract with Mount Myoboku. What's going on?'
While Jiraiya was thinking, he failed to notice Naruto had already reached the egg and placed his hand on it.
"Woah, it's warm." Naruto felt another energy enter his body while some of his own left him and entered the egg.
"What are you doing, Naruto? Get back here," Jiraiya rushed to Naruto. Naruto turned back and said, "It's fine, it's not dangerous."
Just then, blinding rays of azure light peeked through cracks forming on the egg's surface.
"Get down, you idiot, it's gonna blow!" Jiraiya grabbed Naruto's arm, dragging him away from the egg. "EARTH STYLE: EARTH WALL JUTSU!" Slamming both his arms to the ground, a giant wall was made, separating the two from the egg.
Time passed and the light died down. The expected explosion never occurred. 'That shouldn't be possible. A newborn tadpole should not be able to handle such chakra without exploding.' Jiraiya has never heard of such an occurrence in all the history he studied.
"WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT, YOU GEEZER? Must have gone senile or something." Naruto rushed around the wall back to the egg. "Hey, wait a minute, it might be dangerous, Naruto!" Jiraiya was ignored like the words never left his mouth.
When Naruto found the egg, it looked the same, nothing had changed.
*Crack*
"OOOOHHH, IT'S HATCHING PERVY SAGE, COME LOOK."
"Hmmm, interesting. This will be the first time I see a toad hatch from a chicken egg. I wonder if it'll have wings."
"That's the biggest chicken egg I've ever seen. Are there giant chicken summons?"
"I doubt it. If there were, they would be hunted to extinction."
"WHAT!!, no one's gonna touch my partner!"
*Crack* *Crack* *Crack*
"Froakie"