Naruto grabbed the balloon from his and popped it like clockwork. Jiraiya had to rub his eyes, "What? How?"
Naruto shook more water off of his hands as he kept walking forward, "I saw that the jutsu had chakra flowing in all directions, I just did that to the balloon and, pop."
Jiraiya shook his head, "A genin shouldn't have gotten something like that so quickly."
A tick mark on Naruto's head appeared, "Yeah well I'm not supposed to be a genin either. I'm supposed to be a Ne Anbu, remember? Noticing a detail like that is amateur-hour stuff." Naruto looked at him expectantly, "What's the next step?"
Jiraiya dumbly held out a rubber ball, "Pop this with your chakra. It should be the most difficult step, it has to do with just power-."
BLAM!
Naruto's hands snapped to his ears as the rubber ball exploded in his hand, "Damn it, why was that so loud?"
Jiraiya almost had a seizure out in the open road, "How did you get it that time! Generating a consistent amount of power like that takes time!"
Naruto dug into his ear, "And I have what sealed inside of me again? I've been dealing with powerful chakra since I was little, my own naturally got stronger. Danzo had me spamming high level jutsu all over the place by the time I was eight."
Jiraiya opened his mouth but nothing came out, "I'll show you the final step later. I need to find something new to start you on. What about your elemental affinity?"
"Wind, and I have several jutsu for that element, I just need to re-learn the big ones again." Naruto walked along with a bored expression on his face, "Where is Tsunade damn it? Did you find out anything in that town we were in?"
Jiraiya ceased his thoughts on Naruto's training and answered, "I did actually. She was heading up towards the edge of the country, she'll probably wind up in Tanzaku Gai, so that's where we're going."
Naruto grunted, "Tell me the third step so I'm not wasting time on the way. If I can't get my conditioning in then I'll have to work with this jutsu until we get somewhere where I can actually work on it."
Jiraiya sighed and blew up a balloon, "The next step is to mix the first two steps in this balloon."
Naruto looked at the balloon in Jiraiya's hand, "So what am I doing?"
Jiraiya lifted his other hand and formed a Rasengan for Naruto to see. Naruto opened his mouth, forming an 'o' in recognition, "So I'm doing that, just inside the balloon instead right? So I can get the spatial composition down?"
Jiraiya nodded, 'It took me two months just to get this far. It hasn't even been an hour yet for him. Kid what were you like before you were sealed? Thinking about something like that terrifies me.'
Naruto attempted Jiraiya's instructions. Jiraiya actually breathed a sigh of relief when Naruto's balloon popped. If the kid got Rasengan in one day then he would have had a fit. Naruto received the pack of balloons from Jiraiya and took out another to blow up, "Well it looks like this will keep me busy for a while."
XxX
"What happened here?"
Jiraiya and Naruto looked at what used to be the famous castle of Tanzaku Gai. It was nothing but rubble at this point. Jiraiya and Naruto walked over to the scene and looked around. While Naruto kicked at the rubble under his feet Jiraiya noticed holes in the wall nearby, a sign of his wayward teammate.
Jiraiya jerked Naruto by his arm to lead him away, "Come on kid, we're close, very close."
After searching the town all day they stopped at a tavern for a little meal before retiring for the night. Jiraiya stopped as he walked inside, "Tsunade?"
A blonde woman with a jewel looking mark on her forehead looked up in shock, "Jiraiya? What are you doing here?"
Jiraiya and Naruto walked over to her table where there was a black haired woman holding a small pig, "Well we just stopped here for a bite to eat. Imagine meeting you here of all places."
Naruto took a seat alongside Jiraiya and looked out at the two women, 'Tsunade… So this is the last of the sannin. Looks like I've met the full-set. Lucky me…'
Tsunade's eyes drifted over to him, "So who's the brat Jiraiya?"
Naruto's eye twitched, 'Yep… Lucky, lucky, lucky…'
Jiraiya looked at Naruto, who was wearing an unreadable expression, minus the twitching, "This is Naruto Uzumaki, my new apprentice."
Naruto's eyebrows shot up, "Apprentice? Since when?"
Jiraiya smirked at the boy, "Since you signed the toad contract before the invasion kid. Congratulations."
Naruto grumbled and placed his face on his hands, "Great… The guy that locked away my strength and skill wants to make amends and teach me how to fight again…"
Jiraiya looked confused, "Kid don't you want me to do that?"
Naruto slammed his palms on the table, "I'll tell you what I want. I want to go home so I can get my shit together and get strong again. I want to yell at you and beat you to a pulp. I want something or someone to cling to, because I think I'm starting to lose it with all of the shit running through my mind!"
Naruto was standing now, "But I can't have those things, not for a bunch of reasons. I can work on one of those things now though." Naruto pointed at Tsunade, "You. We're going back to Konoha. Time to go home."
Tsunade was stunned silent by the sheer fact that some kid just ordered her to do something of that magnitude, and he didn't even blink. Jiraiya palmed his forehead, "Smooth kid… Really subtle stuff there."
Naruto glared at Jiraiya, "You can shut up too. I'm still pissed at you damn it."
Jiraiya groaned, "When won't you be pissed at me?"
Naruto smirked, "When I can do everything I used to be able to do and then some." Naruto looked back at Tsunade, "So let's go. Come on."
Tsunade flipped the table over angrily, "Who the hell do you think you are runt? Where do you think you can get off telling me to go back to that place?"
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