Chapter 99: CH 99
Naruto looked at Jiraiya before forming a cross-seal, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu)." Naruto filled the bridge with copies of himself that immediately went to work trying to cut the waterfall, "I just wanted to try it for myself before I had my Kage Bunshin do it. I have something I need to do for myself right about now."
Naruto jumped off of the bridge to the surface of the water and walked to shore before sitting down and getting into a meditative position. Jiraiya appeared at his side, "What are you going to do gaki?" Naruto looked up at Jiraiya, "I'm going to go into my mindscape so that me and the fox can hash out our little situation."
Jiraiya looked apprehensive, "That might not be such a good idea if its mad at you kid."
Naruto shook his head, "Why not? I mean we've been at each other's throats before but it blows over. We fuck with each other, I stopped being malicious about it years ago." Naruto shut his eyes and put his hands back in the ram sign.
Jiraiya grabbed his hands and broke his concentration again, "Don't. Remember when I told you that I was going to loosen the Kyuubi's seal to give you better access to its power? Well I did it the other night while you were asleep when I said I was going to check your seal. Haven't you felt yourself getting easier?"
more
aggressive
and
angered
Naruto nodded, "I figured that puberty was finally starting to make me nuts with all of the shots of testosterone. You're telling me it's because the Kyuubi's chakra is leaking out more steadily now?"
Jiraiya pulled Naruto's shirt up and revealed that the seal was showing even though Naruto wasn't doing anything, "Your body is adjusting to the influx of demonic chakra, though now it's more important than ever for you to control your emotions. It's now far easier for you to lose control when you become angered. You tried picking a fight with the Kyuubi a few minutes ago, I would have slapped you right then if I wasn't sure that it would have made you madder."
Naruto blushed out of embarrassment of being called out like that. It had been months since anyone had called him out for being overly emotional, having been in Root he took it somewhat personal that he was being told that he needed to control himself until he realized that he had been freer with his outbursts than even four months ago.
Jiraiya noticed this, "I'm not saying that being expressive makes you a bad ninja, I mean just look at me!" He said with a stupid grin that got Naruto to crack a smile, "But you've got to know how to manipulate your emotions rather than just go with them or cover them up. If you're mad, learn how to channel that elsewhere, I've seen that you're none too shabby at the trash-talk, that's good. Things like that can help you."
Naruto nodded, "So you don't want me to go into my mindscape, at least not right now anyway?" Jiraiya patted the boy on the shoulder, "No, don't go in there for a while at least. Probably until your seal disappears from view when you're just sitting idle like now. I'll tell you when it's okay to try." He pulled Naruto to his feet, "Now while your clones are doing their thing why don't you show me what you can do?"
Naruto smirked and started bouncing around in loose stance, "You do know that I'm going to take out quite a bit of aggression on you don't you?"
Jiraiya grinned and crossed his arms across his chest, "You do realize that I'm the strongest ninja in Konoha don't you gaki?"
Naruto rolled his eyes, "There's that S-ranked superiority complex again. I can't wait until one of you guys gets schooled by some low-level nobody that couldn't shine your hitae-ate on your worst day."
Jiraiya barked out a laugh, "It's not like I'm taking you lightly Naruto, I've seen what you can do. Now that was then, this is now, feel free to cut loose and hit me with your best shot."
Naruto looked somewhat apprehensive, "Are you sure? I mean some of my stuff is really heavy. I mean really heavy. And I'm not talking about the stuff you've seen either. I could get you with a lucky shot and you could be a goner."
Jiraiya waved him off, "If you manage to push me that far to the extent that actually you wound me like that then that just means I'm getting rusty and needed the ass-kicking anyway. Now come on kid, you're still ten years too soon to beat me." Naruto's smirk returned full force as he blurred from Jiraiya's sight. Jiraiya wheeled to the side to block a jumping kick from the blonde. Jiraiya's face held quite a bit of amusement, "Faster now aren't we?"
"I've been training with Rock Lee and Maito Gai for a while now. They said that I was slow… that kind of pissed me off, but damn, the way that they train I'm not surprised." Naruto pulled his leg from Jiraiya's arm and lashed out at his body with a straight punch that Jiraiya parried down. Naruto kept his attack low with sweeps, low kicks, and attempts at body shots, but Jiraiya was way faster than him without the Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto expected as much, but it was still a kick in the teeth to stomach.
Speaking of kicks in the teeth, Jiraiya eventually got tired of dodging and planted the soles of his geta into Naruto's face, sending him flying back, "Don't get lazy with your attack pattern kid. You're not faster than me so you can't overwhelm me like you do everyone else. Fight smarter."
Naruto picked himself up and made three Kage Bunshin before rushing Jiraiya again. That brought a grin back to the legend's face as he found himself in a hodge-podge of a pre-meditated tajutsu assault from the clones and the boy himself. Jiraiya had to admit that the clones were very coordinated, they definitely knew their role in the attack.
Since one hit would dispel them, Naruto had them play more of a pestering role, trying for low success rate strikes from Jiraiya's blind spots. Things like flashy jumping spin kicks and the like, he also had them shouting and yelling. While this was a good way to distract most opponents with the false threat of the clones it also gave away the real Naruto, who was right in front of Jiraiya the entire time, staying out of range of the man's attacks and trying to keep a lower profile by staying silent until he thought that one of his Kage Bunshin feints had enough of Jiraiya's attention to attempt a short rush.
If he had tried this on anyone his rank or below, hell if he had tried this on a few jounin that specialized in flashier arts and weren't good enough at taijutsu to keep the kid off of them he would have beaten them into a bloody pulp fighting the way he was. Unfortunately for Naruto's plan, Jiraiya was fast enough and aware enough to dodge everything and pinpoint the real body. Averting his eyes as a feint of his own to draw the real Naruto in, he grabbed the original's arm while ducking kicks from two of the clones.
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