Chapter 103: CH 103
Kakashi visibly deflated, 'I had a good one all set up to use too…' Getting himself together he got to business, "So Hokage-sama. What is it that you need of me?"
She got herself back into an informative mode, "Kakashi, I need your help. You'll be getting a reprieve from the S-ranked missions for the time being but you'll still have to go on other missions."
Ever since Team 7 had dissolved Kakashi had been taking the highest ranked missions available that the village could muster. The fact that he was one of the strongest ninja in the entire village pretty much led to him doing so. Kakashi looked at Tsunade, "Tsunade-sama, what do you need me to do?"
Shizune dropped two files on Tsunade's desk who then motioned for Kakashi to look at them. Upon opening them he found the first page of each to be a picture of Naruto, one that was the picture that went on his ninja ID, the other a picture that Tsunade had him take after he returned from Kumo."
Tsunade let Kakashi look them over for a moment, "Notice any differences between the two?"
Kakashi nodded, "Yes. The first one is obviously Naruto's personnel file. I read it last year when he was assigned to my team and I was the one that added on to it." Pointing to the other one he continued, "I have no clue what that one is for, but my guess would be you want me to begin filling out his updated file."
A nod and a small smile were his answers, "Yes Kakashi. When Naruto returns I want you to be his leader when he goes out on missions. You will be giving me progress reports on his progress and how he operates on missions. I was tempted to promote him straight to jounin after his promotion test all those months ago but thought that some more seasoning in the field was required first beforehand. The second thing I want you to do is to help me configure a more permanent team for him."
Kakashi's eyes widened, "Is there any way I could get Sakura for that team? I still want them as my squad."
Tsunade looked at him strangely, "I was thinking more along the lines of a team that clicked with their combined skills. Sakura isn't ready for a team like what Naruto's would probably end up being. She still needs far more training, and Naruto isn't a genin any longer, you're his squad leader for this period of time until I find him ready for a promotion. I don't think it will take long for him to get it either."
Kakashi nodded, "All he needs is the field experience and I would be hard pressed to say anything to hold him back from jounin rank. So you basically want me to keep tabs on him and keep you informed on what he does and how good he's getting."
Tsunade shrugged, "Pretty much. Until further notice you'll be keeping an eye on him, he should get stronger very quickly now that he knows that Akatsuki will be coming for him in two more years, just make sure he gets that far to worry about them."
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(Tsuki no Kuni – One Week Later) So now instead of the usual one hundred Kage Bunshin that Naruto had dedicated to training he had five hundred. Due to him being utterly bored and sick and tired of waking up to the sound of loud crashing water every morning he increased the intensity of his workout. Two hundred and fifty on the waterfall training, two hundred and fifty working on his handwriting, the pain in the ass that it was, and hearing one hundred clones gripe to one another about the boring-ass monotonous practice was getting old. Still, Jiraiya figured that his handwriting was good enough for him to begin actively practicing. While his clones were now working on increasing the speed of their strokes, Naruto himself was learning firsthand from Jiraiya about making seals.
The first thing he learned from Jiraiya was how to make his own storage seals. Naruto figured that it was all a part of the learning experience, but he didn't see any use for having a ton of sealing scrolls, maybe he could sell them, but otherwise he was just going through what Jiraiya told him to do.
The next step was making his own ink. Jiraiya instructed Naruto to drain a bit of his own blood into the ink and channel chakra into the mix for a responsive seal. Naruto wanted to know how to make explosive notes, but Jiraiya wasn't sure to trust Naruto with the knowledge of how to make his own high explosives. Simply put, when he started teaching Naruto things like that the boy could easily then go out and get his own things to make them.
He still had money left over all the way back to the mission to Nami no Kuni a year ago, he was now taking higher ranked missions and Jiraiya had seen his home, it wasn't a very lavish place, therefore now that Naruto had something to blow all of his stacked back money on besides ramen, namely ink and the material for seals, in addition to having a nigh inexhaustible supply of Kage Bunshin manpower to make the seals, and the normal male desire to make things go boom, as well as something akin to a blood feud with the abnormally large spiders in the Forest of Death (Jiraiya had learned this when he found Naruto talking in his sleep about 'the eight-legged bastards'), and you can see how Jiraiya may have had reservations about getting the kid into making explosive notes.
Jiraiya now had Naruto sitting down so that he could hope to find out what Naruto wanted to do with fuuinjutsu, "So gaki, what's your reason for wanting to know about fuuinjutsu? What are you hoping to get out of it, it's a kind of obscure art."
Naruto was currently multitasking as he was testing out his seal making speed with regular ink, "Well… I'm a jinchuuriki. It would be pretty stupid if I didn't know anything about fuuinjutsu. Hell, I'm a walking example of fuuinjutsu aren't I?"
"More than you'll ever know ningen, more than you'll ever know." Were the rumblings from the fox within Naruto. Cryptic? Oh yes. Was he going to go and deal with it? Not now, he was having a conversation. Naruto cleared the Kyuubi's words from his mind and focused on the old man in front of him, "I made a promise too. I promised Anko that I would get the cursed seal off of her. When I was in Otogakure all of those years ago I memorized Orochi-teme's notes on it. Some of that stuff I wish I could forget… But I have an idea of what to do to get it off of her, I just need some things first before I can do anything about it, one of those things is knowing exactly what the hell I'm dealing with, hence why I'm doing this."
Jiraiya nodded, "And none of this is stemming from you wanting to get the seal off of Sasuke Uchiha? He was your teammate like Orochimaru was mine. I know when Orochimaru left Konoha I was like that, I wanted to save him."
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