Chapter 2
CHAPTER 2- APRIL
'Naruto Uzumaki- Namikaze wake up and listen to me right now!'Roared Kurama as his tails flew wildly around the mind-scape.
'Ouch Kurama. What the hell was that for?'
They were in her mind-scape however the last thing Naruto could recall was being back in Uzushiogakure, when she jumped in front of Gaara.
Her eyes widened. 'What happened to them? Are they okay? Wait, what happened to me? That tail went straight through me! I should be dead!'
Kurama in turn hit one of his tails on the top of her head, causing her to cradle it due to the shock and pain he had induced. 'If you'd shut up for five minutes I can explain!' When he finally had silence he sighed and mentally thanked the rikudou sennin even though he had no part in silencing the girl. 'You were on the brink of death so I transported us back in time.'
He counted up till four to which he received a very loud reply which caused his ears to tuck against his head. 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU SENT US TO THE PAST?!'
'You're loud voice is grating on my sensitive hearing so stop it! I sent you back to save you. I don't know when in time we are, after-al I simply charged your damnable seal which you had been working on with my chakra. I hadn't meant to send us back too far but I apparently had, don't you dare start talking. However, you are now being looked after by your perverted teacher.'
'Kakashi sensei?'
'No the other one.'
'Ebisu sensei?'
'The other one! The one with the toads!'
'Oh, Ero-sennin! Wow, now that I think about it I sure do have a lot of perverted sensei.'
'You yourself are perverted so you have no room to talk. Now before I send you to the realm of consciousness, you may not hear from me for a month perhaps even longer as I will require time to regain my strength. And another thing, you are in the body of a five year old and cannot do what you could do at your older age.'
He pushed her out of the mind-scape before she could tell him off, basking in the silence that it allowed. He rounded into a ball and closed his eyes, regaining as much energy and chakra he could as soon as he could.
As Naruto tried to wake up, she tried to sit up however there was a strong hand pushing her down and a wet cloth on her forehead. Opening her eyes, she was greeted by a face she had thought she would never see alive again.
"Hey kid. Take it easy. You were badly hurt, though it seems you heal quickly since most of those nasty cuts are gone as well as those broken bones." He seemed to be talking at her instead of to her, he thought, so he waved his hand in front of her which caused her to blink rapidly and move back her head.
Looking around she asked in a hoarse yet childlike voice, "Where are we?"
She could see trees and, boulders, plants and a waterfall so she had an idea, "Takigakure. About a half day civilian walk from the borders of Konoha… Hey kid, what's your name?"
She thought about it for a moment, essentially there was no reason to lie. Even if this man wasn't the same man from her own time, he always had Konoha's best interests at heart. She would leave the man to make his own decision at the end.
She held out her hand and said, "If you'd like, I can show you some parts of my past to decide what your decision of me will be."
Jiraiya furrowed his brows, confused by what the young blonde was going on about however took her hand none-the-less. After-all she wasn't under a henge and his gama would have informed him if something was off.
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As soon as his hand touched hers, it was as if he was being sucked into a void, entering a chasm of darkness before black flame lanterns lit up on a corridor. Deciding to follow it he reached a few doors, something he wasn't sure was ordinarily there when it came to young children.
A moment later, said child appeared dressed in the standard clothing of a Konoha orphan which confused him further. "This door." She said, her voice echoing within the corridor as she opened the middle door. The door itself was grey but had white and yellow fuinjutsu scribbles around it.
"This is my mindscape." She said, her voice leaving whispers around the new corridor they were walking in. He was no Yamanaka, but he was certain she shouldn't have this many doors in her mind. "I know a lot of information that's too hard to remember sometimes so I've organised it per door. You're welcome to read the door names."
He did as she suggested, reading each door name however each one juts confused him.
First war. Second war. Third war. Fourth war.
Tailed beasts- a door per beast.
Fuinjutsu- double doors.
Academy days.
Genin days.
Chunin days.
Clans.
Rookie nine moments.
There were many others but those ones stood out to him the most.
None of it made any sense. There was no such thing as the third war let alone a fourth. Sure, they were on the verge of war however it hadn't been announced.
Instead of questioning it, he carried on walking trying to ignore the feeling that he was being watched.
They stopped at a bright looking door which was already different to the others. However, he took notice of the dark intricate lines covering a large part of the door.
"This door leads to a mash up of memories, good and bad that made me who I am- who I was." He chose not to question her choice of words, feeling a bit like Minato in the sense that he found a very interesting puzzle he'd like to put together.
However, it was a puzzle he wished he could remake for no one should have a past as dark as hers.
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When they returned from her mind, after having witnessed her memories both the good and the evil he felt a need to empty his stomach. Konoha had damaged his god-daughter, Minato their yondaime's daughter till she could find no true happiness.
He tried to process everything with a level head, Minato dying, Obito starting a war that destroyed one fifth of humanity. Rin being killed, Kakashi bearing all that on his shoulders. Tsundae's return, Orochimaru's defection, the sandaime's death, the death of her friends and allies.
He knew she kept a lot from him, showing only fragments of her memory which Kyuubi had allowed him to see. Kyuubi alone had almost made him jump when he had appeared from seemingly nowhere.
He didn't speak for a few minutes so she looked down and saw she was wearing a red happi that she knew he wore when he wasn't in his war clothes. She looked up at him and glared when she noticed there were no clothed underneath, meaning he had seen her naked.
Jiraiya came back to his senses when he felt a large amount of KI directed at him from the little blonde girl sitting across him. "What is it?"
"Why am I in nothing but your happi, ero-sennin?"
If Jiraiya wasn't a war veteran, or a sennin he would have quivered at the glare alone never mind the KI that she was radiating. As it stood he was, and would not be bullied by a child.
Yet he did have self-preservation instincts.
He raised his hands and said, "One, I found you in tattered clothing that had blood all over it so I had to put you in it. Two, what's with the ero-sennin thing?"
Her eyebrow twitched in annoyance, however after taking a few calming breaths she spoke, "You… are a self-proclaimed super pervert who spies on unsuspecting women in the bath-house. You are also a sennin, so ero-sennin for a perverted old sage it is!"
"We will get back to that soon enough. But for now… What do you intend to do?"
She started at the darkness within the forest, eyes devoid of emotion, "Fix our mistakes and the mistakes of my predecessors. Akatsuki, Obito, Madara, the kage… all of them. I'll make sure humanity survives no matter what." Her hand clenched tightly into the haori she was wearing, the only sign that showed how she felt.
He stared at her, once again as a puzzle he wished to piece together. However, gazing at her now he realised she was more like a broken mirror which had fixed itself, missing pieces along the way.
"You keep that up ero-sennin and I'll use my sharingan to record the moment."
That got him back to normal, well as normal as a self-proclaimed super pervert with little to no morals could be. "Sharingan?!"
"Okay, I'm gonna tell you my powers capabilities. I don't have those powers now, but since I know what I'm doing it shouldn't take me quite as long as last time for me to learn.
"Right so I can make a thousand or more shadow clones, I can do the rasengan and other S and A rank jutsu no matter the element due to my fuinjutsu skills, I managed to make a seal that allows me to use each element. I am a gama sennin like you but I don't take any frog like features like you do. I added a change in chakra nature into the rasengan and made it into the rasenshuriken. I have complete control of the nine tails chakra and we're partners as well. I also bear the power of the rikudou sennin, I gained that power during the fourth war. I gained the light half and Sasuke got the dark half.
"I have the sharingan, the most powerful if I do say so myself but not from my power. It belonged to and Uchiha, obviously, and he made it as powerful as it is now. It's the mangekyo sharingan and with it I can do the Susanoo, Amerterasu and kotoamatsukami which is a powerful genjutsu, so great that you won't even know you're in it. I have the chakra of all nine of the tailed beasts, and whilst they are all doing their own thing, they can meet up in my body. I think that about covers everything. Oh no wait, I can do the hiarishin as well."
Once again there was a pause as Jiraiya tried to consume all the information he was receiving. It was hard to picture the little girl in front of him at some point being able to do everything she was saying she could do, and had he not been in his sage mode he would have thought she was lying or just plain delusional.
One kai later, and he was still in the same predicament as he was before, much to the blonde's amusement.
As it stood, she was neither so he had to accept reality. After what seemed like an age he finally spoke up, "Okay… What is it you intend to do? Where will you stay?"
She seemed to deflate at his questions, "To answer your earlier question… I don't know. Before becoming hokage I was secretly promoted to chunin and entered into the Hunter Corps. A role that befit me more than the seat of kage." She smiled ruefully at the memory of her secret induction, even Hunter Commander had been surprised.
She trailed off so Jiraiya took the lead, "Why don't you come to Konoha with me? The war has yet to be announced, even though there is a lot of fighting going on. I can say you're Minatos father's daughter. He fled from Konoha after his wife had Minato so we can say that whilst I was in Ame he and his mistress found me and gave me you before she passed away. I know they're dead so they can't exactly claim otherwise. I can also say that when I returned to Konoha I left you with some people to look after you whilst I dealt with whatever the matter was, but when I found out it was about a war, I decided to come back to inform the people looking after you only to find that the home they lived in had burnt to the ground with them killed. You survived only because they told you to flee before they were murdered. That's when I found you and decided to bring you to Konoha. How does that sound?"
It was now Naruto's turn to look shocked, her mouth was agape and her eyes were wide. She had no idea the old man was capable of making up such an elaborate story but then again. He was an author who could pull a story line out of a large pair of breasts, so it was only natural he could make her a back story out of his ass.
Ignoring that, Jiraiya clapped and got up, picking his things and hoisting them on his back before picking her up princess style and made his way back to Konoha, ignoring the blonde as she kicked, punched and yelled till they made it to the gate.