9 First meeting!

-2 years after the last chapter-

Six year old naruto uzumaki practically bounced out of the academy doors in excitement, tied around his forehead was his new shinobe headband! He had done it, he graduated the academy in just two years instead of four! He transformed into his fox form which was about knee hight – to an adult- and dashed off towards the hokage tower to show the old man. As he ran, feeling the wind pass through his fur he began to think about the last two years.

After spending the day with the hyuuga girls, he had grown really close to both hinata and hinabi. Hinata was his best friend and he visited her at least three times a week. Hinabi, that little firecracker, had grown on him. She was three now and she saw him as her older brother and her his little sister.

He also changed his wardrobe up. Now he wore a black long sleeve button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, black pants and black sandals with grey shin guards. He had black fingerless gloves with silver metal plates on the back of each hand, and a black facemask that covered everything from his nose downwards.

He started wearing the mask about last year in order to keep himself from being recognized by the villagers. He was honestly surprised to see how dumb they were. They didn't seem to recognize him – even though he was the only one in the village with the rinnegan - at all and it allowed him to enter stores he usually would get kicked out of and buy thing the shop owners would make him pay double for, for its original prices.

His hair was still the same spiky blond it was two years ago but now his sideburns had grown out – making him look like a young masked fourth hokage- but the difference between the two was that naruto had two wooden beads that were about an inch long in each sideburn. The right side bead had hinatas name engraved on it and the left had hinabis. The two had crafted them one night during what hinata had called a 'sleep over', hinata had to help hinabi since she was only two at the time. But naruto loved the beads as they were some of the first gifts hes ever gotten from anyone before, so they were precious to him.

Training wise, the last two years had been good to him. He mastered the 'swirling storm' tijutsu style in a year, mastered his gravity control, learned the shadow clone jutsu from kurama, mastered most chakra control exercises – which was pretty easy since he found out that his eyes gave him almost perfect control over his vast amounts of chakra- and is even able to create what kurama called 'chakra rods' from any part of his body.

The chakra rods were pitch black in color and he found out that they could cut through almost anything, and once a chakra rod was stuck in any part of an opponents body it disrupted their chakra and drained it, which usually left them paralyzed. He found that out when kakashi – or the anbu dog- had 'volunteered' to be a test dummy, taking the rod into his arm during one of their spars that seemed to get out of hand. Naruto shivered at the memory of that spar. He actually almost killed kakashi by accident and the third forbid him to ever use the chakra rods on any leaf shinobe or during any spars unless authorized by him or the jounin that was handling the match. He agreed hole heartedly.  

Kakashi had become like an older brother to naruto after stumbling into the training ground naruto was using one night. Instead of leaving like most would he introduced himself and stayed to help naruto with his training. After that kakashi had helped him numerous times with his tijutsu and gravity control, giving him pointers to what might help him. Treating his gravity element like any other element. But when asked to teach the blond to control the other five elements kakashi had shot the idea down stating that it was to early for him to be working on that stuff.

But if naruto had been asked what his main focus was on during his last two years of training, he would answer his speed. Kami above was the little blond fast! After upping his weight seals over and over again after unnaturally getting used to the previous levels – which he later found out was that it was kuramas chakra healing his muscles after he tore them when he kept putting to much chakra into the seals all at once – his top speed with the weight seals activated was high chunnin, with the seals off he was about mid jounin in speed. Which was great for his tijutsu style as it mainly focused on speed and strength. Thought since he was still a kid he had to adjust the style in order to actually take out bigger enemies, so for right now until he got a little older, speed was his greatest asset.

He alao managed to make some other friends during the last two years. He had met shikamaru nara, who was a lazy genus and a master shogi player even at the tender age of six, which boosted narutos planning and forethought skills for the battlefield. He also met choji, a big boned kid who loved to eat and was the heir to the akimichi clan, shino abruame, heir to the abrume clan, kiba inuzuka, heir to the inuzuka clan, and a girl named sakura haruno, who was the daughter of the head of the haruno clan which was mainly merchants. He was friends with ino as well but ino usually hung around most with sakura, the two had become best friends.

The one kid he didnt really like was sasuke uchiha, heir to the uchiha clan. The kid was alright about a year ago, that is until his elder brother and former anbu captain, itachi uchiha massacred his entire clan, leaving only sasuke and his mother, mikoto uchiha, alive, that had happened around the end of last year and it was a huge blow to the village, both in strength and pride. The uchiha clan had practically given birth to some of the best shinobe the village had. So losing them was a big set back in the villages shinobe strength. Naruto felt for both sasuke and mikoto, he really did, but the way sasuke practically demands to be handed strength so he could get stronger to kill his brother, well it rubbed him the wrong way, and he felt upset knowing that the village elder handed the kid everything he asked for on a silver platter. He had few interactions with mikoto but even he could tell that she didn't like the way her son acted. 

Anyways naruto came out of his thoughts as he stopped in front of the hokage tower and changed back into his human form before dashing into the building and straight up to the thirds office.

The last thing the blond heard before literally kicking the hokages door open was a loud shout of-" WHAT?!?!"

- Ten minutes before naruto kicked the door open-

Hurizen sarutobie was sitting back in his chair, smoking his pipe, and looking over some paperwork he had lying around. He almost jumped out of his skin when a loud knocking came from the window to his right. He put the paper down and looked at the window before seeing someone that made him frown.

Currently crawling into his office through the window was a tall bear of a man. Standing around 6'3 in hight, long spiky white hair that was tied into a lose pony tail ending just above his waist. Wearing a red sleeveless jacket with a green shirt under it, green pants that ended just above his ankles and wooden open toes sandals, was his last fully loyal student, one of the three sannin and sage of toad mountain. It was jiraya.

"Hey old man" jiraya greeted with a nervous smile as he scratched his cheek. Sarutobie stared at him with a deep frown on his face.

" you have a lot of nerve showing up here when I asked you to be here two years ago" hurizen stated as he refilled his pipe with tobacco.

" listen-" jiraya put his hands up in an attempt to calm his sensei."- I know youre probably pretty mad-"

"Mad? No." The third cut his old student off as he lit his pipe and stood up from his chair. He put his hands behind his back and walked to the giant window he had, looking out over his village he continued." I was mad after six months of you not replying to my message nor showing up. I was pissed at the year mark, and now im just disappointed in you."

Jiraya looked down in shame. He hated upsetting his sense." I was busy with my spy network, you know that" the white haired man tried to defend himself, but they both knew it was a weak excuse.

" I care not for what you were doing!" Sarutobie spun around with fury in his old eyes." Do not try to make up an excuse! I know youre a busy man jiraya and I try to respect that! But I thought that if I called for you, out of all of my three students, you would be the first to arrive. Orochimaru is a traitor, tsunade is a drunk, gambling her life away, but you are the only person I could fully trust!" Sarutobie took a deep breath as he closed his eyes. He didn't like yelling at his student but he was really upset with him right now." I called you here because youre the only person, out of this entire village except for kakashi, that I trust with naruto" jirayas face grew serious.

" tell me what happened." The sage ordered. Sarutobie looked at jiraya critically for a moment before complying.

" almost three years ago a kumo ambassador came to our village in order to form a peace treaty with both the hyuuga clan and the village." Sarutobie took his pipe from his mouth a blew out a cloud of smoke." It was a farce, as that very same night the kumo ambassador snuck into hinata hyuugas room, the clan heir, and abducted her."

"I assume he didn't accomplish his task?" Jiraya asked, getting a nod from his sensei.

" somehow little naruto managed to see him. The boy tracked the ambassador to a clearing and saw that he had kidnapped hinata. Long story short naruto managed to protect hinata and alert the shinobe forces while also holding the jounin off until help arrived. But just as we got there naruto took a kunai to the chest in order to protect little hinata."  Jiraya looked both worried and anxious after hearing that his godson to a knife to the chest.

".. what happened next?" He was almost afraid to ask.

" naruto was a few seconds away from death when the kyuubi stepped in. Some how the kyuubi forced the kunai out of the boys chest and healed him." Haruzen sucked on his pipe." When naruto awoke he stated that he met kyuubi before passing out again. I also noticed that his eyes had changed from their bright blue to something..else.."

" im dying over here old man! Just tell me already!" Jiraya practically cried out. The third sighed.

" two or three days later naruto awoke in the hospital. He told me how in his words ' the kyuubi was a goof ball'-" jiraya looked shocked at that."- and that he had indeed talked with the fox. He got confirmation from the nine tails that there was indeed a third part involved the night of the foxs attack"

Jirayas eyes widened at that. Both he and sarutobie had speculated that there was someone else there that night but he could never find any evidence, now he knew both he and sensei was right.

" we managed to find out that it was indeed an uchiha that was able to control the bijuu with some sort of genjutsu, making the fox go on an anger fuled ramage through our village. But the bad news is that even the kyuubi wasn't able to figure out who the uchiha was. Both naruto and I speculated – and thankfully proved wrong- that it was madara. But kyuubi said that before he was put into a mindless rage he had been able to feel the uchihas chakra and it wasn't the same as madaras, due to it being an uchiha the chakra was close to being the same but thankfully it wasn't" jiraya let out a thankful breath. If madara was still around then it wouldve been bad for everyone.

" now onto naruto. During his time unconscious in the clearing he had a meeting with kyuubi. They agreed to become partners in order to hunt this uchiha down eventually."

" is it a good idea to trust the fox sensei?" Jiraya asked skeptically.

" I had the same concerns but naruto put my mind at ease. He explained how the kyuubi had given him his new eyes. He said that, like most bijuu containers, they got some sort of advantage from their bijuu, you most likely know this-" jiraya nodded as he crossed his arms over his chest." Well unlike the other bijuu, kyuubi could choose wether to give one of his gifts the his container or jot. Wether its because hes the strongest bijuu ir what, im not sure but he had a choice in the matter. Narutos first advantage was his ever growing chakra pool, thanks to both kyuubi and his uzumaki heritage. The second one well.. kyuubi decided he could trust naruto enough to give him the second 'gift' as naruto called it. It was an unknown doujutsu"

" that's why you contacted me isnt it? To see if I would know what it is ir to see if I could help him with it." Jiraya stated.

" youre correct. But you never showed up so we had to get answers from the only other being who knew what it might be, the giver itself. The kyuubi." Sarutobie stroked his beard.

" so what was it?" Jiraya asked curiously." What did the fox say?"

" kyuubi said that its creator had the same eyes, the bijuus father if you will. And his father gave him the ability to give one human the same eyes he had" sarutobies eyes grew serious." Its called.. the rinnegan" there was a few moments of silence before jiraya exploded.

"WHAT!?!?!"

That's when the door was kicked in, fallowed by an" old man you better give me that hat right now!"

-with naruto, presents time-

The room fell silent as both men looked at naruto who was standing with his knees slightly bent, his right arm forward and his index finger pointing right at the aged leader.

" naruto-kun?" The third asked in confusion. Naruto grinned under his mask and flicked his new head bang, creating a small 'ting' sound.

" I passed the test out exam old man, im a gennin now" naruto said happily, the third smiled proudly  down at the blond.

"Oh kami.. its true" jiraya stated in shock as he saw the silverish purple ringed eyes of the blond kid before he did what anyone would do! He fainted and fell right onto his face.

Naruto and Sarutobie stared at the unconscious man in silence for a moment before naruto pointed at him and spoke up.

" whos the old fart?" Naruto asked in a plain tone as he kicked the man in the ribs.

"This, naruto-kun" the third smiled brightly." Is your new sensei"

There was a silent pause before: " WHAT!?!?" Echoed out over this village.

- With hinata-

Hinata was currently sitting in the living room of her home feeding hinabi a cinnamon roll before she heard a distant shout of " WHAT!?!?" Both her and hinabi looked out the window towards the village.

" aniki?" Hinabi asked with a cute tilt of her little head.

"Hmm" hinata hummed softly." Ibwonder what narutos screaming about now?" She asked no on in particular before she took a bite of her cinnamon roll and began to feed hinabi bits of it as well.