Naruto looked at Jiraiya for a few seconds before he sighed and walked over to the trio. He sat on the left, next to a woman with brown hair that went down to mid back and honey colored eyes, "Oh my Jiraiya-sama, you didn't tell us you were traveling with someone so cute!"
The young blond was very hard pressed to control his eye twitch, What the hell is it with females calling me cute! I am not cute damn it!
However in the end he just sighed and decided to take the compliment for what it was worth, after all, there were worse things for him to be called.
Jiraiya gave a large grin, "This girls, is my apprentice, Uzumaki Naruto! Naruto, I would like you to meet Susuki and Momiji."
Naruto offered the girls a smile and a small hello. Susuki, the girl he was sitting next to him, got off Jiraiya and leaned into him, wrapping her arms around his neck, "It's nice to meet you cutie. Jiraiya-sama, you really picked quite an apprentice, I can tell he's going to be a lady killer in a few years." The girl looked at Naruto's cheeks before gently touching his whisker marks, "What are these whiskers? Birthmarks?"
Naruto would have answered except the girl began stroking his markings, getting the blond to close his eyes and start purring.
"Kawaii!" Susuki squealed and Naruto felt an instant of horror, remembering what happened the first time Anko had found out about his purring. He was very lucky, or unlucky if you're someone like Jiraiya who was hoping to get a good story out of his apprentice's interaction with the woman, when the girl did not suffocate him in her bosom, and instead seemed to get more enjoyment out of continuing her ministrations.
Of course this did have a small problem that came with it, and that was that Naruto was finding it increasingly hard to keep down his natural reaction to the girl's activity with his whiskers. It also did not help that the girl seemed to be enjoying running her fingers over them so much that she had ended up practically sitting on his lap in the end.
He was thankful when Jiraiya eventually blacked out from drinking too much, and used it as an excuse to bid the two good bye and proceeded to drag an unconscious Jiraiya through the streets.
A few seconds after they left, Jiraiya got back up as if he had not just managed to drink seventeen bottles of sake, "Alright, let's go find an inn."
"How the fuck are you still standing?" Naruto asked incredulously. "Seriously, I've seen Anko drink less and after ten bottles she's so drunk she's likely to try and molest me!"
"Heh, you say that like it's a bad thing," Jiraiya looked at his student with a lecherous grin. When all he received was a glare in return he shrugged, "I've been drinking far longer than Anko has, and I'm not a lightweight like many shinobi are. You know I'm actually kind of surprised that you didn't try to drag my ass out of there as soon as you found out what I was doing."
Naruto sighed, "Do I look like your keeper? I don't give two fucks what you waste your money on. And I am well aware that every shinobi has some kind of odd quirk that keeps them from going insane thanks to the things our profession calls for. So if you want to spend your money perving on women then be my guest."
"I suppose one can't argue with that logic," Jiraiya shook his head a bit before grinning. "Though, I suppose I should say I'm surprised you decided to join me then."
Naruto looked at him before giving a halfhearted shrug, in truth he just did not want to deal with the hassle trying to get Jiraiya out of there would have caused. "After spending as much time as I have with Anko, I've been pretty much desensitized to these things. Well come on Ero-sennin, might as well find a place to sleep before we head out to search for your old teammate."
Jiraiya watched as Naruto walked away before he chuckled and shook his head, "What an odd kid."
The next day, the two had woken up and set out on the road again. While the two were walking Jiraiya pulled out a water balloon and tossed it to Naruto. Said blond gave the man a blank look as he switched from staring at the water balloon to him, "Ero-sennin, what the hell is this for?"
"That is for the first stage of the new jutsu I'm going to be teaching you," Jiraiya held out his own water balloon. "This jutsu has three steps to complete. The first step is rotation; you need to pop this balloon by spinning the water with your chakra."
Naruto looked from Jiraiya to the water balloon, and then back to Jiraiya, "Right, and just what the hell is this amazing technique?"
In response to Naruto's sarcastic voice, Jiraiya smirked and held out his other hand and formed a rapidly spinning ball of chakra.
Noticing the blonde's slightly gaping mouth, Jiraiya grinned, "It's called the Rasengan (Spiraling Sphere), and was one of the Yondaime's prized techniques. The technique is incredible as it does not require any hand seals to use. That means doujutsu like the Sharingan won't be able to copy it. That's because this jutsu is pure chakra manipulation taken to the highest level."
"Wow…" Naruto whispered as he stared at the spinning ball of chakra, it looked like a miniature maelstrom inside of that blue orb, "That is some seriously compressed chakra."
"Wow is right gaki," Jiraiya grinned. "Now as I said, the first step to this technique is rotation. Tell me, how is tree climbing and water walking done?"
"With tree climbing you have to release a set amount of chakra and maintain it so that you stick to the tree. And with water walking its similar, except rather than maintain a set amount, you have to continuously release chakra and change it depending on the density of the liquid's surface."
Jiraiya blinked at the not only accurate, but decently complex answer, I have to remember this kid isn't as dumb as he likes to sometimes act.
"That's right, this could be considered a step higher, or several steps higher. Now watch this."
Naruto watched as Jiraiya held out the hand with the water balloon. He could feel the chakra that the Toad Sennin was pouring into the balloon, and saw that it was starting to form lumps on the surface. Less than a second later the balloon popped, letting water explode everywhere. Jiraiya shook the water off his hand. "Now that you've seen it I want you to-"
POP!
The old Sannin was cut off by the sound of a balloon popping and water splashing along the ground. Jiraiya looked at Naruto to see him cursing and shaking his hand of the water, having seemingly had enough Naruto channeled massive amount of youki to his hand and used a quick Kitsune-bi to dry himself off.
"Let's see you do that again." Jiraiya took out one of the extra water balloons he had and tossed it to Naruto.
Naruto caught the balloon and channeled some chakra into it, Jiraiya watched in shock as the balloon gained a lumpy surface and then popped, "How did you get that down so quickly?"
"What do you mean?" asked Naruto as he tilted his head to the side in confusion. "I just saw the way the jutsu worked. When you popped the balloon, the surface became lumpy before popping. When I saw the jutsu outside of the balloon, I noticed that it had chakra swirling in all different directions. Honestly it wasn't that hard to figure out that in order to make the balloon pop, I had to rotate my chakra in several dozen directions. So what's the next step?"
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