Hey guys, new story, and seeing that A shinobi's Fayth is having some reasonable success, ya'll might appreciate some variety and like to read something else while I'm working on the next chapter to that story. I binge wrote this one as I jst had to get the idea out of my head and on to some kind of medium. Seen a few Naruto x DBZ stories, but nothing that definitively said in my head. "This is what would happen if naruto came to DBZ earth at such and such time." So here's my interpretation and I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Gt, super, or any other variation of it there in, and not naruto either. What I do own is my goofy sleep deprived redition of the kamehameha and rasengan that will never see the light of day.

Enjoy

Naruto just stared out the window of his hospital room as he kept recalling that fight with Sasuke. How had it come to that? Why hadn't he seen the changes that was happening in his best friend sooner... He was a horrible friend. Hell, he had thought of sasuke as a brother. Wouldn't a brother had seen his sibling was in pain and trouble and helped him?

Naruto breathed heavily, his eyes fixed on the horizon. It wasn't that long ago that Kakashi had brought him back unconscious, bleeding from gaping chest wounds that reopened when his and the kyuubi chakra he could access were depleted. He didn't even remember them, he was down when he felt the chidori tear through his solar plexus, his last thoughts being scratching sasuke's forehead protector by accident... No. Not accident, he missed on person. He culd have torn out his eyes, he'd been intending to, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. One claw swipe and Sasuke's greatest tool would have been ripped from him. The etire reaso orochimaru wanted him would be gone. He should have done it. A tightened fist, the straining of muscles in the right arm was his only visible reaction.

Then there was his promise. He promised Sakura to bring sasuke back. Bringing back another guy for the girl he liked. He wanted her to be happy, but making that promise hurt so much, still hurts. She asked him with tears and he couldn't find it in his heart to not make his promise. His word was everything to him, it was the one thing he truly had control of in his less that spectacular life. Hell, a shitty life really. And then he compounded that promise with another that 'the promise of a lifetime.' Seeing her fake smile had somehow hurt more than her tears, and when she cried in honest emotion, it was more relieving than her faked emotions. Those promises were heavy and he was honestly scared of them. Scared of hat the result was when he came through with them, and what he might be left with, if anything, when he did.

Naruto also realized something. In the fight, he had effectively been killed with finality a total of 3 times, maybe more. The first chidori, the head drop into stone, and the chidori to the solar plexus. He survived only because of the regenerative healing factor the Kyuubi gave him. He stayed in the fight and gots his hits in with tricks and gimmicks, creative uses of the skills he did have. But sasuke with his sharingan had kept up, and the curse seal allowed him to match the cloak with a tail. He concluded sasuke had real skill, while his were half assed and followed up with his tricks.

He cursed Mizuki and the other academy instructors for this, maybe even iruka a little. He knew afer the fact that his education had been sabotaged, mizuki's manipulation of him that night was proof of his ill will, and he got things, so why did he always fail s hard in other areas at school. When he looked back, it should have been obvious. Just another mark to his own personal failings. As much as he wanted to curse them, he felt it was more his fault, because he didn't question things earlier. Just accepted. His tightened fist, his ails digging into is palms were drawing blood now.

He wasn't strong, not on his own. Teamwork and friends could carry him. Precious people gave him the will to fight. But the actual strength to fight and carry out his will to protect them and stand with his friends, that was what he lacked. What he needed now. "I will be stronger." He whispered aloud to himself.

Naruto would be leaving with Jiraiya soon, and his friends would be meeting him at the gate to see him off. Opening his hand, he saw the cuts from his nails healing quickly, and grimaced. This was why he had gotten by. So many times before that fight, he should have been dead, but wasn't. He realized now that his healing was making him sloppy, he could just tank hits. But what happens when it's not enough. The fight with sasuke happened. He was allowed to live. A kunai would have been enough to end it there, yet he didn't.

Getting his orange jumpsuit on, he made his way out of his hospital room and made his way home to pack his things. He ignored the glares and the whispers, all of the people wishing for him to die on that mission. Getting home, he packed up what he needed plus a few extra things into his pack, using the storage scroll Jiraiya had given him to hold all of it. Once ready, he left out and headed for the gate. This training trip, he had to hit the ground running, and hit it hard.

When he arrived at the Gates, he was surprised to see most of the Konoha 12, minus a few, and a few more there. Getting near, he smiled as they turned to him with similar smiles on most of them. "Hey guys. Didn't expect all of you to be here."

"Well, we wanted to wish you well on your way out. Plus we all decided to give you something we think may help you." Spoke the familiar and welcome voice of Iruka, is older brother figure. On cue, he and everyone else pulled out scrolls, books and other odd and end things. Iruka came forward first, since he spoke. "This is from me. A storage scroll containing some of the basics you learned in the academy, so you can properly review and work on your foundations. A strong foundation, a strong house can be built on it after all. Also, I've included a few other things too, like my echolocation technique." He said with a smile. He stepped back, knowing he didn't have much time and others had things to give Naruto.

"Naruto." A low, aloof voice spoke, though there was a weight within it that was heavy with doubt and sadness. "I can't say how much I've failed as your sensei. I should have seen this coming." Kakashi spoke, but held up a hand when naruto went to speak. "I am your sensei, I should have done more about it. This is my failure. I should have taught you and sakura both more than I did. So here's this. A scroll containing a basic elemental ninjutsu of every element and training methods in the elements. They're useful for chores ad training for learning future elemental ninjutsu. I've also included a notebook detailing your flaws and strengths and what to work on and how. Learn well in these next few years naruto." Kakashi spoke, his voice sullen, but he tried to be more cheerful for his student. But he couldn't get the image out of his head of a gaping bloody hole in Naruto's chest out of his head.

After that very depressing moment, someone intent on cheer stepped forward. "No worries Naruto! Your fires of youth will bur brilliantly and we shall all see how brightly they burn upon your return! I talked with Gai-sensei, ad we came up with this. Some Weights, a book on aijutsu and gai's personal notes and instruction, learn from this and surely your flames with blaze with everlasting youth!" Spoke the bushy brow'd genin. And the depressing atmosphere was blasted away just like that without problem, which everyoe was thak for. Naruto took the scroll, still a bit stunned from the full energy of those words directed at him.

After Lee, Kiba decided to keep it going. "Hey deadlast, close your mouth or you'll attract flies. Take this." He said tossig him a scroll. "A taijutsu scroll we inuzuka use to help in our training. Not really a clan thing, but every inuzuka swears by that scroll. So you better learn from it." He spoke, bumping fists with naruto after a moment. Shino stepped forward next.

"Naruto. We may not know each other well, and I may not have much to give. But we are konoha ninja and comrades. So I present this." He spoke, giving a book and scroll. "The book details many types of insents, which are poisonous and their cures and what may help you. and a stasis scroll, for any bugs you come across but cannot identify, so you may bring them back." Everyone was a bit stunned to hear shino speak so much, but laughed when they realized his gift also helped him if he came through with just one new bug. Always the efficient one.

"Lady Hinata, you've something to give I think right?" asked a new voice, who naruto saw was Neji. But slightly back a little was Hinata who was nodding at neji, but looking away nervously as she stepped forward.

"N-naruto. I know you'll be g-gone for a long time. s-So I made this for you." She said, handing him a storage scroll as well. "More of the healing cream and some notes on things you may find useful." She said, finally. She had gotten better than the stuttering and consistently pausing mess she used to be, but in front of naruto, she'd likely always be shy. "a-Also, I asked kurenai sensei, and she gave me a scroll on breaking genjutsu to help you." She finished, handing him the other scroll she had in her hand.

"Hinata. Thank you." He said, a gentle genuine smile. He didn't know why, but Hinata was always kind to him, and it was something he appreciated greatly, unlike sakura who hit him, ino who yelled at him or other girls aside from Ayame, she was really the only girl that was nice to him. She bowed her head, ad stepped back, muttering a welcome.

"Naruto." Spoke the serious voice of Neji. He was still injured from his fight days ago. "I know we've had our conflict befre, But I still thank you for what you did for me. In return, though it's not enough to pay back that debt, I doubt anything will. I hope this helps. This is a scroll I wrote on the development of many of my techniques, past, present, and future, my ideas and conceptions. I know you can make use of this, But I also ask you destroy it when you finish with it. benefit from it and I hope to see you grow stronger with it." He stated, giving a confident smirk, saying he'd of course grow strong with training like his.

"Heh. Here you are in bright orange, smiling you head off at all the things your getting. Well don't let it go to you head. Here." Said a female voice this time, catching a scroll. Tenten just smiled at him. "That's some stuff from our shop. A compliment of brand new equipment and gear, plus...well, the orange has got to go. Your a walking kunai target, no two ways about it. So there's a few sets of clothes in there for ya. They're a little big so you can grow into them. Now please, ditch the orange. It's an eyesore." She said, though no real negativity in her voice, it was all teasing, though naruto could tell she was serious about being a kunai target.

"If she's the one to get you out of the orange, then we'll be throwing her a party. But you need more than a wardrobe make over to improve. you get these from me." Spoke his fellow blonde of the group. "A botanist book to identify flowers and the uses. Good for cures, poisons, cooking and more. Plus a few books on mental fortitude and meditation. You need to think more so hopefully those will help. And please, style your hair." Ino poked. She couldn't let tenten be the one to get the last jab in at his looks if they were going that way.

A little offended, but smiling since they apparently cared, he guessed, he turned to the next. "Troublesome. Don't listen to the women naruto, they'll only give you a headache." Indignant 'hey's could be heard. "My point exactly. But you will benefit from thinking before you leap. So here. Books on strategy tactics, creative thinking and combatives. Plus a storage scroll full of board games and their rule books. I want a game with you when you come back alright?" Shikamaru spoke, getting a big smile and nod from naruto.

Chouji was next, and he help out a small bag. "I asked my dad for help in getting somethings for you, and we made this up. A guide book to proper nutrition and cooking, so you can eat better and grow taller and stronger. Ichiraku ramen is nutritious but variety helps. We also got you some of our pills of different types that can help in your training or in a pinch. Go sparingly on them though, they're stronger than any pill of any kind you've had before, promise. Dad also tossed in a book on controlling your body better with chakra. Something we use in training to learn our signature jutsu. should help you." Chouji spoke, more than happy to give his fellow glutton as much as he could.

The Ichiraku Father daughter pair stepped frward then. Ayame immediately grabbing naruto into a hug. "I'm sooo gonna miss you naruto. You have to come see us soon when you get back." She said giving naruto, who was essentially a little brother figure by now, a kiss to the cheek. "Now take this." SHe said, handing him a small bag to him before leaning and whispering in his ear. "It's a learn to cook book. But also a notebook on how to treat girls. You could have done better during that lunch with sakura some time ago, but I've included as much as I can think of in there. Just promise t read it and learn as much as you can. Okay?" She finished, getting an embarrassed nod from naruto. Had he really messed up a simple lunch that much? Instantly he was thousand times more grateful to Ayame for that and being discrete.

Teuchi laughed a bit at his daughter's antics, the turned deadly serious. "Naruto. Listen well." He spoke, this getting everyone's attention. The only time they'd ever seen the ramen chef so serious was the one time they'd seen a guy bash naruto's head in years ago while eating in their stand. The man found teuchi's largest knife to his neck then, before he ran. "What I'm about to give you must never be shared with another soul in the Elemental Nations. Am I clear?" He spoke, arms crossed, and now everyone was nervous, just what did a ramen chef had to give that required such a conditon and such seriousness? When naruto nodded mirroring a similar seriousness, teuchi nodded and pulled a thin booklet from his sleeve and handed it to naruto. "This is the base recipe for Ichiraku ramen. The base upon which every permutation and variation of our ramen builds off of, including our diet ramen. I've included a few of our recipes including your favorites. But this is for your benefit, to cook for yourself, and when you return to show me your own recipes you create. Understand?" Teuchi spoek, still deadly serious. Naruto nodded furiously, holding the booklet like it was the meaning of life.

Everyone was silent a moment, still leaning forward expecting something life altering. Until the event caught up with their brains and the face planted the ground. All except chouji however, who was in awe. "What!? A ramen recipe! Tat's it. I though It was gonna be the secret to immortality or something. Hell even the sagely advice of an older man would have been better!" In shouted out.

"Nonsense!" CHouji shouted, huffing steam from his nose. "A working man's money making service, has just been handed down. You may only see a recipe, but this has the weight of all of the man's working life now placed in naruto's hands. is secrets and efforts gone into making that recipe, the ramen that is delicious as it is nutricious. Now lays with naruto. this is a sign of complete trust. Learn to respect what is taking place. In the life of food, this is a moment of rare happening and great importance." Chouji spoke passionately. Teuchi and Naruto didn't even pay attention to those talking, as naruto slipped the small booklet into his shirt to be secured, bowing respectfully to teuchi, and bowed his head slightly in returned, as they stepped back. Te moment of full formality left everyone utterly slack jawed. Seriously. what had they just witnessed?

There was a loud bark of laughter, a womans voice, before the current hokage stepped forward and smiled. "Brat. I hope you realize what all of this means. Despite how things happened, you got friends and people that care for you here. Always remember that. and the best way to repay them for their friendship and care, is to come back alive, so I want you to take this." She spoke, handing naruto a storage scroll of her own. "It's got comprehensive scrolls on first aid, field aid, battlefield care, and alternative care options. Along with medical supplies that will be useful. You may heal fast, but I'm wanting to hedge my bets on you as much as I can, to make sure you come back. And there might be a time when you need to help others, and knowing how to throw a punch can't be your answer to help them sometimes. But a simple bandage, some medicine and kind words can do wonders. Got that?" She asked, and a firm nod later, earned him a smile and a kiss to the forehead. "I'm betting on you brat. Now get going." She spoke with a smile, sneding naruto over to Jiraiya.

"Lucky brat. She doesn't had out those kisses lightly you know. Better treasure that." The toad sage spoke, though he had a teasing grin on his face, while naruto's was a bit red from all of the attention. He waved to all of his friends, his precious people. But as they left and the gates faded out of sight, he sighed. "Here kid." The older man spoke, and naruto took the offered scroll, confused. "That's your training menu for the immediate future, to help guide you along the way when I'm not available, and give you an idea of what we're going to be doing. We're gonna have to break you down and rebuild you from the ground up. I won't lie to you. If it wasn't the furball in your gut, you should have died. I saw your medical files, you should have died years ago kid. But it's not all your fault. nor does it do any good to dwell on it now, because your alive, and we're gonna fix it." Jiraiya spoke, giving naruto a smile."By the time I'm done with you, you'll be biting at the bit to test your mettle." finished with a confident smirk.

"When we get to our camp, we'll review all of the scrolls your friends gave you and compile everything into a neater, comprehensive and easy to understand form, alongside my training menu, so you can benefit best from everything they gave you, and what I have to offer, add and refine into you. Understand?"

"Hai, Jiraiya-sensei." Naruto spoke, jiraiya's attenton grabbed. It was usually ero-sennin, but he wasn't going to look a gift horse i the mouth right now.

"Good. Now let's hop on it, we gotta cover a fair distance today before we can set up camp. But while we move, we're going to talk and train. Here." He said, handing naruto...a water ballon. Naruto cocked an eyebrow. "Going through the steps to making a rasengan counts toward chakra control. If you can perform each step with just one hand, and faster, than you could before with better results, the better your control and the closer you'll be to formig a rasengan with one hand. Once you actually master that step ompletely in your dominant hand, you'll d it again in your off hand, before doing it again with both hands at the same time as quick as possible, as many times as possible, then moving onto the next step. Now get to work." He stated, smiling as naruto grumbled and started.

They walked and talked for a while, Jiraiya running naruto's mind though many possible scenarios and seeing how naruto would respond, before telling him what he'd do right, and wrong, or how the scenario would change. Naruto had trouble with the rasengan step again, as he suspected, his clone method had stunted and even regressed his control of the rasengan. He could dedicate half the work to the clone while he provided the rest, a work around, but a wasteful one and time consuming. and it sent his control backwards. By the time they stopped, naruto managed to pop the water ballon one handed, but ti took a lot of effort, so he still had a ways to go.

In the camp, naruto dumped his pack and unsealed everything, then arraging everything allowing Jiraiya to read and look everything over. The man nodded while Naruto kept working on his rasengan training, and got to work writng up a new scroll to encompass everything there, including his menu and details, with more to bring together what his friends gave him. Yes this would do nicely. Jiraiya set all of the taijutsu scrolls together, ninjutsu scrolls, chakra scrolls, technique scrolls and supplies, and information all together. "Naruto, make a group of clones, at least one for every book, scroll and piece of text here." He stated, and naruto just did it, no complaints as he was too focused on his rasengan. "Alright clones, each of you pick up something and start reading. Keep reading until you either finish, then dispel, or until you run out of chakra. No whining, just do it." He spoke, stopping it before it started.

He watched the clones get to work and smiled. Kid didn't even realize the potential of his clones, but he soon would. He sat back as he cooked their dinner, waiting for it to happen. About an hour later there was a pop and the original naruto shot his head up, as did the others, before looking over to jiraiya. "Did what just happen, I think just happened?" Asked the whiskered blonde, as he looked back to the scroll lying on the ground where a clone used to be. Jiraiya just nodded.

"That's right. Kage bunshins send their memories ane experiences back to their original when they dispersed. Kage bunshin was originally a jutsu meant for scouting. I'm surprised kakashi never told you about the secret of the technique, though he probably assumed you already knew." He stated, smiling. "Now, make another clone to reread that scroll. Every time a clone dispels, make a new one to replace it to pick up, or reread." Jiraiya finished, before returning to working on the food. "Might as well make a few to practice the leaf exercises, tree and water walking too." He finished, and naruto did just that.

Watching naruto training with his clones was something else, but it was necessary. three years was actually short to get this genin strong enough to potentially face s-rank threats. So he was going to have to pull out the stops, and rebuild his foundations, and he was gonna build them as rebar reinforced occasional pop of clones would be the only real sound in their camp, and jiraiya would look the over from time to time. He didn't mention how he had secretly sealed the full Icha Icha series, Blackout Author's cut special edition, signed, into his supply scroll with a note that would garuntee naruto read them, though for good measure he added the signed personal copy of tales of a gutsy ninja with his parents note in it, known he'd find it eventually. He wouldn't be actively tainting naruto, but he could do it indirectly-ish, at least. He smiled perversely, oh yes this was going to be great.

Soon all of his clones had dispelled at least twice by now and it was starting to get dark, so jiraiya called it quits for the day. "Finally." Naruto moaned out as he dispersed all of his clones, wavered a bit, but shook it off. All the information was staggering, but amazing. Creating a few clones to pack everything up, he went over to Jiraiya.

"So kid, what do you think of this training method?" He asked.

"It's Awesome! It's like I learned all of that without even trying, but I know I did. It's weird but awesome!" Naruto called out smiling.

"Alright, settle down brat. You're probably the only one who can train like this. This method would kill most people. So we're going to take advantage of it. Now you read everythng and know most of the material by now. what can you tell me about what you learned." He asked, serving up their food.

"Well, it was like that, what I learned from one book or scroll, I was able to see the similarities to something in another scroll and better understand it, when before it would have been harder." He spoke, remembering what he was speaking of.

"Right, this method allows you to cross reference information quickly and make connections, but since your're learning ti quickly, it's all fresh and thus meshes better. You'll continue to do this with what you have in your pack, as well as other reading material I gve you, memorizing everything. Then when it's time to practice what the scrolls teach, you'll be better prepared to implement it successfully. Your learning with clones, is comparable, if not better, than a uchiha learning with the sharingan. I say beter sice you are actually learning it, rather than just copying it. Understand?"

"Yeah I do. So when do we start actually practicing then though." He asked.

"Not for a week at least. I want us well far away from konoha and other before we get into serious workouts, so we don't draw attention. Nw eat and get to sleep, tomorrow you put those weights on and we're running tomorrow while talking and you working on your rasengan." He stated, much to naruto's groaning, but keeps his words to himself.

Their training went on liek this for the week, and like jiraiya said, once they got to practicals, they cut loose. Jiraiya was practically beatin naruto into the dirt with full contact sparring, forcing him to adapt, and cool downs of naruto practicing the taijutsu forms in his scrolls before back to sparring to use what he memorized the week before and practiced in his cool downs. Then doing all f this while weighted on his legs, wrists and waist, was insane. But jiraiya kept him on this training menu. Like he said he was going to have to break him down before he could rebuild him from the ground up. But while the original naruto trained physically, his clones read, did chakra control and rasengan exercises, and others were combining exercises, while some were doing their own R&D on their old techniques, and new ones.

The clones doing R&D discovered something. Their Henge and sexy jutsu while different to one another, were similar in one oint, the same point that made his henge different than what he read a henge was supposed to be in the review material Iruka gave him. They were real. Skin and blood, pain, real. He remembered the time he henge'd into a Fuuma shuriken and sasuke threw him at Zabuza. If that had been a regular henge, then that honestly shouldn't have worked. When the clones tested this, they immediately went through a rigorous string of tests, and breaking it down like jiraiya showed them how to when analyzing a jutsu. Eventually they found the common element and hand seal combination that made both is henge and sexy jutsu the same, and manage'd to combine them. Creating a new type of Henge that he dubbed the Kaihen, a literal transformation.

Jiraiya was shell shocked by the complete version of the jutsu, but noticed something, a large part of the success, like his original henge, was the mental image or knowledge of what he was transforming into. Jiraiya Immediately had an idea and snickered to himself. When they got to the next town, iraiya bought whatever books on human anatomy and female form he could find, telling him to study, so he could properly imitate a woman to the last detail, since women can always seem to see the smallest wrong detail. Embarrassed all to hell, he grumbled as he read, reading by himself so he could avoid the embarrassment and teasing from his now rechristened Ero-sennin, but he didn't care, this jutsu was worth the old name.

Once naruto had the books memorized, He immediately tossed naruto into the women's baths and told him to kaihen into a girl and 'research' otherwise he was going to get beaten like he did. Naruto could only panic before he did just that and sank into the water. To his, or her now, eternal embarrassment, women, a group of beautiful, and naked women, came in, pretty much like jiraiya planned all of this. Which he was sure he did. But the other women saw 'naruko' and pulled her in to talk with them, and naruko had to adjust really quick if he didn't want to be discovered. naruto never saw so much variety of the female anatomy...ever, and in such detail than he did then. But something he noticed was that he was too distracted to focus on her mental image of kaihen, realizing that once you transform, it stays, no extra focus or even fear of dispelling, just the initial large chakra use to transform and then the lower upkeep to sustain the shape shift. By some stretch of luck, Naruko got out of their without injury and turned back to naruto once safe.

Jiraiya found him soon afer and proclaimed it a success, though received a kick in the nuts from naruto. "And what in the hell was all that abut, you could have gotten me killed!" Naruto shouted at his sensei.

"R-relax kid. You're alive. But you didn't even notice it did you? Your kaihen was dead on, no missing details." Jiraiya enlightened his little apprentice. "I couldn't even tell when I was peeping, and that's-" Another kick to the nuts downed the toad sage, while naruto shivered and felt very dirty and violated.

"Don't even go there. Now i'm going to go back to training, I'll see you later." He said, still shaking slightly, not at all liking the the fact that, even as a woman while it happened, jiraiya was purposely peeping at him. It was worse than using the sexy jutsu during the month training for the chunin exam.

Naruto got back to his training as he said, and eventually Jiraiya came back with a shit eating grin. "what are you so happy about?" He asked, almost afraid to ask.

"Oh nothing much, just conducting research in the best way possible." He said, giggling perversely. "that jutsu of yours can't be detected you know. Its something else kid." He said, a hint of pride, awe and even envy. But naruto did not look pleased.

"You took my jutsu to use for peeping..." He asked threateningly.

"Well I was there watching when you redeveloped it ya know. Did you expect me not to pick it up?" He asked, before avoiding a rasengan aimed for his nuts. "Hey watch it! Who's going to train you if you do me in eh?" He asked. He aoided another but just laughed. "Gotta try harder than that, i'm too fast for you and you still make your rasengan so slowly. But better luck next time." He laughed, as naruto grumbled and got back to work.

Eventually Naruto had revisited all of his jutsu and with jiraiya's help, had refined everything. By this time, his conditioning was on the rise and his taijutsu was coming along nicely. Chakra control was increasing, as was learning how to manipulate chakra from all his tenketsu, using the hyuuga style chakra control exercises. From cross referencing the scrolls he got back in konoha, he learned the Iruka's echolocation technique, which he was quickly taking to, was a pulse of chakra similar to one of the genjutsu breaking methods in the scroll hinata got from kurenai for him. A little tweak and it worked perfectly for just that. The weeks started to pass by, and naruto's progress using the shadow clones was staggering. He had undone years of a sabotaged education, and now he was by far much stronger than he could have hoped to be at this point, and idly considered where eh culd have been before is he knew the secret to shadow clones in the first place.

Eventually he was starting to really master the content of his current training menu jiraiya had modified with all the stuff he gotten from his friends. Jiraiya was considering the next phase of the training while they walked, to is side, Naruto was practicing with a full rasengan in either hand, training to reduce his time in creating a rasengan with either hand at the same time. His rasenga were now larger than normal, and more powerful, nearly getting to the point jiraiya would say he mastered the rasengan to the point the fourth did. Almost. Naruto was already developing those 5 basic elemental ninjutsu and their training methods, if he kept going like this, Naruto may be the one to complete the rasengan past what the yondaimei could.

Eventually they stopped for the day to set up camp. Naruto started into the forest first. It'd been nearly two months already and the training was having an effect, as he grew and filled out better. He was wearing the clothes tenten got him, a pair of black clothes with burn range trim, though simpler in aesthetic than his old jumpsuit as simple trousers and shirt. And like Ino said, style his hair, so he let it grow and tried to tame it with little success. this merely resulted with a neck long spikey blonde hair that flowed back away from his face and eyes, and along his scalp, his headband helping to keep it back.

"Hey Ero sennin! There's a crater here and something in it." Naruto called out from what they had thought was a clearing they could camp in deeper in the forest after walking off the road. Jraiya was curious of what naruto could mean, so he stepped a bit faster and arrived and indeed it was a large crater, but it was overtaken by nature. But it didn't look like a crater from a jutsu.

"Here, hold this." He tossed his pack to naruto, who grumbled and pulled it on to keep t out of his way. Jiraiya explored the perimeter of the crater, while naruto went down to the center, where the overgrowth was covering something jutting up from the center. He took a kunai and started cutting off vines, sheets of moss and weeds. Jiraiya meanwhile, found something a bit disturbing. He used a stick to pick apart the overgrowth to reveal what was hidden to find a skeleton, but it was t his sadness to see it was small, a babe's skeleton. However his interest was grabbed when he looked to see what he could see as a like of bones extending from the pelvic area, which he could only determine to be a tail. "what in the world..." He muttered to himself.

Naruto had gotten a large portion of the vines and overgrowth cleared away, revealing an off white sphere, perfectly spherical, though there was a circular window set within. Wiping his hand over it, it cleared away the dirt, dust and grime from the window, letting light bleed in. Suddenly the sphere started making a whirring noise, and it broke apart, a door pushing outward and open, revealing a pristine inside. "A chair inside a ball? what is this?" He questioned more to himself than anything. Moving inside to get a better look, he sat in the chair. "Hey, this is really comfortable. Even better than my leather chair." He mused to himself. If there was one piece of furniture he liked above all else, it was a good relaxing chair. Jiji had given him one f the leather chairs from his office, and he practically slept in it enough from when he was a kid to make it his.

The whirring by now was starting to get louder and then naruto figure'd it was time to get out. But as he was getting up, his hand pressed against some of the controls, the pod's door closed quickly. "HEY! Let me out!" Naruto shouted, banging against the door.

Jiraiya heard the whirring, and turned to see the door of the pod snapping back closed, and narto starting to shout. Running down to the center, he looked at the pod, but nothing he could see would help. "Kid, calm down! Look around inside for anything that can help." Jiraiya commanded, appearing calm, but it was a farce, as he was panicking himself, but letting it conrol him wouldn't help.

Naruto did as commanded and sat in the chair, lookn around. He found some buttons on the armrest of the chest, and then on the inside of the door too. Looking over the controls, he couldn't read the language, but tried his best to press only a few buttons seemed to be what he wanted. However the whirring got louder and then the pod started to rise from the dirt. "It's not working!" Naruto shouted.

"Hold ON!" Jiraiya shouted, as his eyes suddenly turned toadlike, warts on his face. It was half assed, but one good solid hit was all he wanted. Rearing back his fist, he roared as he bashed his knuckles into the sphere, where it smashed into the ground, a firm indent of knuckles into it's steel, but no dice. The sphere just floated again.

Naruto was officially scared now, and in his panic started pressing whatever buttons he could hopefully for a exit button. "Activity confirmed." A feminine voice spoke out. Looking around, where? "Following pre-established orders. Returning to home base. Welcome back Okar." The voice spoke. "Warning, fuel reserves are low, plotting course to nearest planet with sufficient resources to refuel." The pod started to rse higher and higher.

"Jiraiya! Help!" Naruto Shouted again, but now the pod was too high for naruto to see the man. Jiraiya pulled out a tag, and used chakra to mark it with a seal, before jumping up and slapping it onto the sphere, activating it. A tracking and locator seal. That was all he could do at this point withut risking naruto's life with something like a explosive note. The pod suddenly took off into the sky and jiraiya's face was set in stone as he gripped his fists.

Naruto was still panicking, banging his fist against the doo, but suddenly blue skies shifted to black, and then he saw stars. His eyes widened as he saw the moon getting bigger and bigger, and then going off to his side. But a glimpse of green light across the moons surfae caught his attention, however it was out of view before he could get a read on it. "Now away from the planets gravitational pull. Initiating Hibernation. Estimated travel time of 91 galactic standard days. Rest well Okar." The voice spoke, and naruto could tell a gas was flooding the pd, he tried to fight it, but it quickly made him drowsy ad sit back int the chair. His and jiraiya's packs on the floor between his legs as his head fell back to the head rest, and he was out.

"Damn it...I'm sorry, naruto." He spoke, looking down. But he did at least get a tracking seal on it, so there was some hope. Where ever he went he might be able to get the toads to reverse summon him. So he calmed and just tried to do what he can. He looked around the area and found nothing else of use. So he carefully sealed the remains of the babe in a scroll, obvious it came from the pod, where else. But as he was thinking of his next action, he suddenly came to realization. Naruto has his pack, and he was two months away from konoha. And the memory of naruto's send off showed how many people may very well get in line to kill him when news of what happened get's out. "Oh shit...I'm dead." He spoke aloud, goig pale and feeling a heavy weight sinking down into his gut.

Not at all happy with the situation, he swallowed his terror, and started making his way back to konoha. Truthfully he was fully afraid of what may happen to him. Naruto may as well be a surrogate little brother or even the closest thing to a mother son relationship that the two could possibly have considering their individual damage. That wasn't to mention Kakashi either, the son of his sensei. He had a feeling he would know how naruto felt to have a chidori shoved through his chest. He shivered at the thought. Iruka...e wasn't sure what he would do, but he had a sudden cold chill that spoke of nothing good. Teuchi honestly scared him, as did his daughter Ayame. The two might as well be family to naruto, and saw the man work a knife, and he doubted ayame's knife skills were any less than her father, difference was though she had righteous feminine fury on her side. Then there was all his friends. Yea, he was going to have to be sure not to stick around unless he really wanted to die excruciatingly painfully.

So how's that for a first chapter for a new story. Hope it measures up to expectations, because I have no wishing balls to make it happen otherwise.