Chapter 3

Next Day

Naruto and Hinata once again sat down in the training ground. Naruto was instructed to meditate while Hinata attempted to unlocked her chakra.

He was told that mediation was necessary for a shinobi, that it helped keep one calm and clear of unnecessary thoughts and it helped one with being aware of their surroundings.

So that's what he did, he was sitting in the lotus position for about an hour now, amazed at what he could feel. He could feel everything, the chakra flowing through the world, in the animals, the lake, trees and even the chakra from the air.

"It's everywhere" he whispered is awe. His Oji-san was right, it really was everywhere.

It was so pure, more than his own, so fresh, full of life, and he wanted to feel it. So he reached out to it and let it enter his body.

He immediately felt refreshed, like he was one with the world. He smiled, he couldn't describe the feeling he got, it was omnipotent, heightening all his senses.

Unknown to Naruto, he was once again enveloped in his chakra, radiating life energy around him. The air was purer, the flowers, trees and grass around him growing before everyone's eyes. The animals surrounded him, wanting to feel the life energy he was emitting.

His chakra was warm and welcoming, everyone within the village felt it. Covering the entire village in a thin blanket of calmness. Every civilian and shinobi felt it and stopped what they were doing to bask in it.

They didn't know what it was but they knew it was powerful and commanding. Yet it didn't make them cower in fear, it made them feel more alive, their entire body could feel it and it was incredible.

Hiruzen, who was doing his paperwork in his office felt the chakra and immediately Shunshin'd to it to know who was radiating such a presence.

He arrived at the Hyuga compound and much to his surprise every Hyuga was standing in a training ground, surrounding something or someone.

Hiruzen walked through the Hyuga's and his eyes widened at what he saw. He saw Naruto sitting in the lotus position, with a veil of silver chakra around him.

But most of his shock came from what was happening around him. Everything was greener, the plants seem to be growing, and animals surrounded him, playing around in his presence.

Hiruzen in his shock walked over to Hiashi, "H-Hiashi-san, is… is that what I think it is?" Hiruzen whispered in complete shock.

"Hai… I can see a new kind of chakra merging with his own…but how is this possible?" Hiashi asked in a whisper.

Naruto who was yet to move from his position sensed every Hyuga within the estate surround him. He also felt someone with a massive amount of chakra arrive and knew who it was.

Opening his eyes, he let the intake of the chakra from the nature stop. The chakra around him too receded back into his body. He looked at everyone's amazed looks and gave his own questioning look in return, showing that he had no clue what happened.

Hiashi looked around and ordered everyone back to their duties before he along with Hiruzen, Hizashi, Hana, Kasumi, Hinata and Neji approached Naruto.

"Naruto-chan, what were you doing just now?" Hana asked in a gentle voice.

"That, I was meditating, it was amazing Oba-chan, Oji-san was right, chakra is everywhere. It was like I could communicate with nature itself" Naruto said with excitement.

The adults looked at Naruto dumbfounded, they knew of Senjutsu. An ability that took Senju Hashirama, Jiraiya and even Namikaze Minato years to learn. An ability so hard that Jiraiya of the Sannin couldn't even master it, yet a 5 year old child had been able to sense and even utilize its chakra effortlessly.

"Naruto-kun, that is amazing, but how did you do such a thing?" Hiruzen asked.

Naruto bowed, "My apologies for any disrespect Hokage-sama" Naruto bowed in shame knowing he didn't show his leader any respect.

"Don't worry about that Naruto-kun, there was no disrespect" Hiruzen smiled.

Naruto nodded happily, "Ok, so I was just meditating and I could feel the chakra. It was so pure and I wanted to feel the chakra, so I let it enter my body" Naruto replied with a smile.

'You really have no clue what you did' the adults thought amazed at the blond boy.

"Naruto-kun, I want you to refrain yourself from doing that again until I get my student here to supervise you. What you were doing just now is using Senjutsu. The chakra that you felt from the atmosphere is called nature chakra or Senjutsu chakra. Not everyone can do this Naruto-kun, I only know of three that can do this, that is Shodaime-sama, Jiraiya of the Sannin and Namikaze Minato, so until my student Jiraiya gets here please don't use it" Hiruzen warned.

"Why can't I use it, I was able to do it just fine" Naruto frowned.

"The problem is that many have tried to use Senjutsu and have turned to stone in the process of it, the jutsu is hard to use, so I don't want you to use it unsupervised" Hiruzen said.

Everyone paled at the possibility of failing this technique, it now made sense why only three were the users of it.

"But-" he tried arguing but Hinata spoke up.

"Please, it's only for a while Naru-koi" Hinata pleaded not wanting her beloved to turn to stone.

Naruto looked at her, he couldn't stand to see her beautiful pale eyes glistening with tears "Okay Hina-chan, I won't do it" he gave in.

Hinata nodded, "Thank you" she said happily taking his hand, that's when she saw it. "What's this Naru-kun" she asked confused.

Naruto looked at his hand and frowned, "I don't know, I got it yesterday after unlocking my chakra. I have another strange marking on my other hand" he said showing her his left hand.

"Hmmm, Naruto-kun, do you feel anything odd about those markings or are they just markings?" Hiruzen asked going into professor mode.

Naruto closed his eyes for a second, "It feels like the sun marking is the brighter side of my chakra, but the half crescent moon is darker. It feels odd but that's how I would describe it" Naruto said.

Hiruzen stroked his beard, "Maybe the sun is your Yin half while the half crescent moon is the Yang half of your chakra. But it makes no sense as to why you would have these special markings to indicate it since everyone has Yin and Yang chakra, unless your chakra is special" Hiruzen said.

"I believe that is the case, the color of Naruto-kuns chakra is silver not the usual blue we all have" Hiashi spoke up.

"Naruto-kun what color would you say these two sides are?" Hiruzen asked curiously.

"Hmm, I think the sun would be yellow, but the moon would be...purple, yes that seems right" Naruto said.

Hiruzen nodded, he didn't understand how yellow and purple made silver but he chose not to question it.

"Anyways I will send word to Jiraiya" Hiruzen said.

"Hai" Naruto nodded before Hiruzen left in a Shunshin.

"Naruto-chan, your not meditating until Jiraiya-sama comes her" Hana said and Naruto nodded sadly.

Three Days Later

Jiraiya had finally arrived at the village, he had put everything else on delay for the fear of his godson turning to stone by misuse of Senjutsu.

But Jiraiya was still skeptical about a 5 year old using Senjutsu, he himself took years to use it, and even Minato a prodigy took years to master it. So a child using it was unlikely, but he wasn't going to give up an opportunity to see his godson.

Jiraiya made his way to the Hyuga compound and knocked on the main house door. He saw a boy around 6 years old open the door and greet him.

"Hi, I'm here to see Hiashi-sama" Jiraiya said.

"Who are you?" the child asked curiously.

"I'm Jiraiya of the Sannin" he said and the boys eyes widened.

"Your the one that's here to make sure Naruto-chan doesn't turn to stone, right?" he asked in realization.

Jiraiya nodded, he thought the child would have recognized him by the title of Sannin. "Then come in" the boy said and led Jiraiya to Hiashi's office.

"Hello Jiraiya-sama. Neji-kun can you bring Naruto-kun to the train grounds please" Hiashi asked the boy.

"Hai Oji-san" Neji said before running off, Hiashi smiled at his nephew, he was quite fond of him, like the son he never had and he treated him as if his was his own child, just how Hizashi and Kasumi did with Naruto, Hinata and Hanabi.

A few minutes later Hiashi and his family were at the training grounds to watch Naruto use Senjutsu.

"Hold on Naruto-kun, I need to do something" Jiraiya said before going through hand seals. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu" he said before slamming his hands in the ground.

There was a poof of smoke and a toad appeared appeared before him, "Hello Jiraiya-sama, what can I do for you?" The toad asked greatly surprising the children.

"I need you to tell Fugasaku-sensei to be prepared to come here, and tell him to bring his staff" Jiraiya said.

The frog nodded and disappeared in a poof of smoke.

"Just wait a few minutes okay Naruto-kun" Jiraiya said and Naruto once again nodded still trying to get over the shock of a talking toad.

A few minutes later, Jiraiya summoned another toad, this one was older, he was green with white hair, thick eyebrows and a goatee.

The moment the toad appeared, it jumped up and smacked Jiraiya with the staff. "Is this why you asked me to bring the staff" the toad asked.

"No" he glared at the toad. "Its for Naruto-kun" he said.

'Naruto, as in Minato-chan's tadpole huh' Fugasaku thought.

Naruto paled, "Hold on a second, I didn't do anything wrong" Naruto said waving his hands in front of him making everyone chuckle at his predicament. Though Hinata was worried for Naruto.

"Calm down, you won't get hit unless you take in too much nature energy" Jiraya said and Fugasaku once again hit Jiraiya.

"Hey" the toad Sannin yelled nursing his head.

"Are you crazy, teaching a child Senjutsu?" Fugasaku asked.

"No, but apparently he can do it on his own" Jiraiya spoke up.

"Right" Fugasaku scoffed.

"Naruto-kun, if you will" Jiraiya said.

Naruto nodded and sat down, he closed his eyes and sensed the nature chakra around him flow. He willed the chakra to enter his body much to Jiraiya and Fugasaku's shock.

"Impossible" Fugasaku whispered with Jiriaya nodding his agreement. They watched as the nature chakra rushed into his body, Naruto didn't even need to make a conscious effort to absorb it, it just rushed into his body and balanced with his own chakra.

"When did you learn about this?" Fugasaku asked.

"It happened just a few days ago, the day after he unlocked his chakra" Hiashi said shocking the two. "And he has these two markings on his hands" Hiashi said.

"Mind if I see these markings?" Fugasaku asked.

"Ask Naruto-kun" Hiashi said and Naruto got up and walked over to Fugasaku to show him his hands.

'It's him, the chosen one' Fugasaku thought, eyes widening.

"Jiraiya-chan, its him, Naruto-chan is the one" Fugasaku whispered making Jiraiya's eyes widen.

"You mean the saviour?" he whispered back.

"No, my personal bug catcher, of course the saviour you baka" Fugasaku replied sarcastically.

"Umm, what are you talking about?" Naruto asked both confused and curious.

"Don't worry about that right now Naruto-chan" Fugasaku said before turning to Jiraiya.

"Jiraiya-chan, I want you to let Naruto-chan sign the toad contract, I need to train him in Senjutsu" Fugasaku said.

"Hold on he's only a child, you can't be thinking of that" Jiraiya said, he wanted his godson to have a regular childhood.

"How old are you Naruto-chan?" Fugasaku asked the boy.

"Five" Naruto said a little worried on what the toad had planned.

"Ok, I'll givw you 7 years, when you are more mature you will be training with the toads in Senjutsu" Fugasaku said and when Naruto nodded he disappeared in a poof of smoke.

"Ano, so am I allowed to use Senjutsu?" Naruto asked hopefully.

"No, not until you get training" Jiraiya said and Naruto pouted.

"Why not" he whined.

"Because you could still end up with some serious injuries if it's used wrong" Jiraiya said.

"No I can use it perfectly fine" Naruto argued.

"Naru-kun, please" Hinata pleaded and Naruto sighed.

"Fine" he said pouting.

Everyone smiled at Hinata, glad that she had some control over the blond.