Naruto spent a few hours going through the town, cheating in- err…partaking in some games and winning some prizes, getting a bite to eat. He had to admit, he may have lost a step or two in battle, but he was having more fun now than he would have been having in Ne if he was still one of them. That was one thing he had inherited from his old self and learned to love since he broke the seal, the value of a good time.
He eventually got worried about the white-haired pervert he had been taking company with and set out to find him. It didn't take long for him to hear his rather distinctive laugh booming from a nearby tavern. Naruto entered to find Jiraiya with alcoholic beverage in hand and pleasurable company on both sides, one of which was hanging off of him, "Eh? Hey Naruto! Come over here and take a load off!"
Naruto shrugged and walked over, sitting down to the woman on Jiraiya's left, a brunette with hair going down her back, "So Jiraiya-sama, who's the little cutie here with you?"
Naruto raised his eyebrow, 'Cutie? Yeah right… I can't get a girl in Konoha to even so much as look at me with anything less than a sneer when I speak to them.' Naruto let out a bitter chuckle that was missed by everyone else.
Jiraiya grinned, 'This is my student Naruto Uzumaki, Naruto say hello to Tokoko and Tsukina."
Naruto waved and let out a small hello. Tokoko, the girl he had been sitting next to that wasn't on Jiraiya, leaned on him, wrapping her arms around his neck. Naruto figured she must have been around five years older than him, "He's so cute Jiraiya-sama." He heard the girl let out a gasp as she touched the scar on his face, "How did you get something like this? You're so young."
Naruto shrugged, "Life is hard… It's just a scar. It's nothing important, just a reminder to duck next time." He was a good sport about it as he let her trace the mark over his eye. Naruto and Jiraiya stayed and talked with the women until a few hours after nightfall. Naruto had refrained from drinking the entire time, letting Jiraiya get his fill for now, he knew the man would pay for it in the morning.
Naruto waited until Jiraiya was blackout drunk, (which took way longer than Naruto figured it should have been, what the hell was his alcohol to blood ratio? Kami.) bid goodbye to the women they were with and proceeded to haul Jiraiya out of the bar towards an inn for the night.
As he got a certain distance down the road Jiraiya seemingly got a second wind and rose from Naruto's shoulders, "Wow you are strong gaki. That was quite a ways to haul dead-weight like me."
Naruto looked up at Jiraiya who had seemingly shrugged off the effects of an entire day's worth of binge drinking, "You should be laying face up choking on puke right now. How in the hell are you even standing straight?"
Jiraiya smirked at the boy as he continued looking for a place to stay, "I'm no lightweight kid." Naruto deadpanned a look at him saying that he didn't drink a lightweight's share, "While Tsunade would have dropped hours ago, I'm just that good. I'm surprised you didn't drag me out or call me an old perv or something."
Naruto sighed, "I'm not adverse to enjoying myself… And those women were hot… Besides, you said we were relaxing today, even a brainless sealing asshole like you needs to rest, and that's obviously how you take the edge off so why should I have interrupted you?"
Jiraiya chuckled, "You sure are different these days gaki. I think Tokoko liked you, that damn scar is going to get you all sorts of pity sex when you get older."
Naruto snorted, "It's just because she doesn't know who I am. If we were in Konoha I'd have been shoved to the backburner there and you know it."
Jiraiya hmm-ed in response, "Maybe you should get your head off of that pink-haired girl then? There are plenty of other women that won't try to give you brain damage."
He expected him to start ranting about how he'd never betray Sakura-chan, or how she was just complicated or something, what Naruto said made him almost fall in the street, "Huh, so true… Well, you were the one who did it."
Jiraiya looked over at the calm expression on his face, "What?"
Naruto looked at him with a cocked brow, hiding his slight glare, "The first thing I thought of her when I had time to think about my team again was what the hell was my other self smoking to think she was any good for me? My dumbass, childish self was the one that was attracted to her, therefore it's your fault. However I don't interact with any other girls, my age or otherwise, not before you sealed me and sure as hell not after, they all got used to the me that was terrible at everything."
Naruto looked up at the moon, "All the kunoichi my age all think I suck, or they can't stand me, all of the civilians fawn all over Uchiha-teme, or are too weak to be able to put up with my life and the ones that don't, all hate me anyway. I think Danzo might have been on to something when he told me to get rid of my emotions, because knowing you'll never get laid out of love kind of sucks ero-sennin."
Naruto scratched his chin in thought. Jiraiya flinched as he noted how calmly he had just said that he would never find anyone to be with. No one should just accept that kind of thing as a fact of their life.
Naruto left Jiraiya with one more thought for the night, "That Tokiko girl was pretty cute though…"
XxX
As they had woken up the next day and headed out on the road Jiraiya tossed Naruto a water balloon. Naruto looked up at him blankly, "What the hell is this? It's not that hot ero-sennin. You're a grown man."
Jiraiya held out another in his own hand, "The jutsu you're learning has three steps, the first one is to pop that balloon with just the rotation of your chakra."
Naruto yawned, "Uh huh… Well does this mystery jutsu have a name, or will I have the pleasure of doing that?"
Jiraiya held out his other hand as a rapidly spinning blue ball of chakra formed in it. Naruto noticed the speed and the size of the jutsu compared to the massive amount of chakra rolling inside of it. Jiraiya smirked as he saw Naruto's eyes affixed to the ball, "It's called Rasengan. It was one of the Yondaime Hokage's prized jutsu."
Naruto nodded, "Whoa…"
Jiraiya let the jutsu fade, "Indeed… Now lets-."
He was cut off as the sound of water splashing rang out. He turned to see Naruto shaking his hand and picking pieces of rubber off of it. Jiraiya held out his balloon, "Do that again."
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