After leaving Kakashi and Naruto, Hiruzen went to the Hokage building.
He kept reviewing the conversation he had with naruto in his head over and over again.
He still had a feeling that something was wrong but he couldn't point out what's wrong.
After he felt that he can't find anything, he decided to watch Naruto and Kakashi training as it might give him some insight.
But as he watched the training, he found nothing.
"Am I over thinking this?."
Taking a puff of his pipe, he calmed down and felt that it seemed to be the case.
After checking for some more time and noticing Kakashi frustration with Naruto, he smiled as he thought that seemed to be really the case.
Deciding that, he started to think about the cloud village matters.
The war completely stopped and there are signs that they probably will send peace negotiations.
They probably want to focus on the rock village as they ambushed and killed the the third Raikage.
Hiruzen was happy that things were starting to calm down. Now only the Uchiha clan remain a problem.
He really doesn't know how to solve this problem. The only thing that might act as a deterrence for the Uchiha clan is calling back tsunde and Jiraya back.
But Jiraya may feel disappointed that he let Naruto live by himself by the age of three. So Even though Jiraya may know how the villagers probably treat Naruto as a jinchuriki , he might have thought that I'm taking care of him by putting him in some family.
But I can't do that, because there's no ordinary family will be willing to take such risks and smart but not ambition family will also refuse . So that leaves only strong and ambitious family like Uchiha and huyga , but that's impossible as he would lose control over the jinchuriki. While he himself is busy with the Hokage, so he can't take of him.
Hiruzen shook his head with a sigh and said to himself, there's no time to think about that now. He looked at a place and said.
"Call the council."
He needs to talk to them about Naruto situation and what they will do about the cloud village.
Meanwhile Jack and the others, not knowing that Hiruzen while has some doubts, he believed Jack story. They met naruto with Naruto inside the mental space.
After Naruto returned home to rest, he entered the mental space again as he wanted to spend some time with his parents.
"Naruto, you almost caused us to be caught today, but I will give you that you seemed to know that you missed up and reacted quickly switching with me."
"Ahahaaha, sorry about that uncle Jack."
"Be careful next time."
"Okay."
After that he went to his parents who greeted him.
Kushina asked with a worried face.
"Naruto, aren't you tired of training, you should sleep for a while first. You are still young and need to rest after such a difficult training sessions."
Naruto shook his head and said that he was okay.
After talking with his parents, he still wanted to stay but Jack talked.
"Naruto, you should absolutely sleep as i want to borrow some of your chakra and refining chakra too many times will affect you. So it's better to sleep to regain it naturally."
"After wake up release a shadow clone and let it start training the leaf concentration exercise then come inside."
"But remember to eat something first after you wake up."
Kushina said.
Naruto looked at his mother who also nodded then went out and slept as he was tired.
Minato however kept silent and only talked after saying good night to Naruto.
"Jack, when do plan to start acting?"
"I wanted naruto to still had some time accompanying you but I don't want to be too late so the earlier the better.
I will train with Naruto chakra tonight and when he start training water walking I will dive into to the water and slip away."
"Good."
Time passed and Naruto had enough sleep and wake at 2 am as he slept too early today.
After eating something he didn't know why he had to release a shadow clone before coming inside but he did it anyway.
Minato looked at Naruto and asked Jack.
"Do you think it would be good for him to learn the Uzumaki clan sensory technique.?"
"I don't know . Naruto might slip up at any moment and ask the Anbu why they are following him. Unless you want to lie to him and say they are protecting him because he has kurama inside, you better not to."
Minato knew that it would be too cruel for him right now to tell him the truth, so he lit go.
"You can train his combat. He could even cover it up by training outside with shadow clones. This will be a good thing for him as Naruto really was quite weak in this area."
Minato was about to nod but stopped because he felt a chill down in his spin that didn't exist. He turned and saw kushina looking at him with a smile that wasn't smile as she probably heard them.
Minato turned to Jack again.
"Let's focus on you for now. Naruto is still young after all."
".... you had a rough time, brother."
Jack said as wiped the imaginary tear from his eyes.
They then started training. First basics again then techniques and finally combat.
Jack was really weak compared to Minato that wasn't using any of signature moves.
Naruto happily watching his father showing of by kicking Jack's ass over and over again again.
There's really nothing that Jack can do. He was clearly under Minato in every aspect . Experience, techniques, speed, even chakra that comes from kurama was much stronger than chakra from Naruto . But this was training, so it's still good.
However after a while Minato said.
"Jack, you won't be able to gain combat experience now. As it needs accumulation. So try flying thunder technique and Rasengan."
Jack knew so he tried it and it really worked.
He scripted a mark at the wall and immediately began to feel it then transferred.
"What the fuck."
But Jack wasn't happy at all.
Naruto was shocked by what he saw as he was amazed by such a technique.
Kushina however shouted.
"Language, jack.there's a child here."
Jack wasn't going to pay attention to that now and asked Minato.
"My chakra was nearly emptied, what's going on."
Minato however smiled and said.
"Don't worry that's normal at the beginning. Because you spent some time before you transferred.
If you just remembered the place where the mark is, then sense it and transfer to it after you sense it , your chakra wouldn't be depleted so quickly.
The chakra in your body will open the space node you are at. The mark will open the space node at its place. All of this will happen simultaneously so you don't have to keep feeling where the mark is all the time.
Like this."
Minato shot a kyunai and immediately appeared after it transferred for some time.
"This was the problem with Tobirama sama. The old seal he used was really not for normal humans use. But it's actually a lot more stable than mine.
But mine is faster in opening and takes a lot less chakra. When you get used to it too, you wouldn't feel the issue of stability."
Naruto ran to his father and asked.
"Dad, can you teach me this technique too. It's soo cool."
Minato knew Naruto would have difficulties to learn this technique so he was about to try to let him down gently but Jack interrupted.
"You can't Naruto, to learn this technique there several perquisite.
1)you need to learn writing and reading first.
2) you need a refined chakra control, that right now isn't you forte.
3) you need to learn fuinjutsui.
4)you need to be smart to understand laws of space and stuff like that
So it's impossible for you to learn ."
Minato looked at Jack with a weird look. As Jack didn't have to put down naruto like this. Kushina was also about to explode when she saw Naruto seemed to be on verge of crying.
But then Jack asked.
"Well, it's not that it's impossible but incredibly hard.
1)Because you will need to learn from your mother writing and reading.
2) because you will need to keep training chakra control to the point of hating your life.
3) your mother is an Uzumaki that came from a clan that invented fuinjutsui. But you don't seem to have the patience to master the art.
As for the fourth problem , I may have a solution for it if you can learn the other three.
So do you still want to learn it and prove me wrong.?"
Naruto said with determination.
"I do."
"Are you sure. A ninja should not say words easily then fail to achieve it. You may end up regretting your choices."
"I will never regret my choice."
"Well, it seems we have a bet. So let's try chakra control and writing and reading first. Then see how things turn up."
"Of course. "
Naruto went back to kushina to ask her to learn writing and reading.
Kushina of course were happy to help.
Minato approached Jack and asked.
"You know it's near impossible for Naruto to learn flying thunder technique. If you wanted to motivate him, you didn't have to lie to him."
Jack shook his head and said .
"Don't underestimate your child, Minato. There's something that have bothered me greatly watching Naruto in the canon.
Hashirama was really overwhelming overpower compared to Madara.
They weren't on the same level at all. I came to this conclusion especially after watching Hashirama take down rinnegan Madara who also had wood escape like Hashirama.
According to black Zetsu , Asura and indra incarnations kept fighting each other for a thousand years but indra never.
So you would think that Naruto would be overwhelming more powerful than Sasuke because he also had kurama with him.
But no, they were evenly matched. Maybe because Naruto wasn't trying to kill Sasuke. But Naruto was no where the level of overpowering Sasuke. At the time of course i was just watching a show and didn't think it over.
But now thinking about it, it doesn't make sense.
So I began to look at Naruto history and immediately found the problem.
Naruto training was extremely short and without focus. He skipped the basics entirely and just ignored it.
Jiraya himself told him directly to ignore the chakra control because you have too much chakra that will never end.
During the two years skip, Jiraya focused his training on how to control the kyubi and his ideological thinking of peace and love.
You could see the difference between Naruto and Sasuke in a glimpse with their short confrontation.
Naruto kept short but extremely powerful power up, while Sasuke kept progressing step by step and they ended with the same strength.
Now, Naruto doesn't need to be worried about kurama. He can focus entirely on basics and also fuinjutsui that will be a powerful card against Outsutsuki.
If Naruto learned those two to the extreme level, he might be really surprise us and become the strongest Hokage without kurama interference."
Minato was surprised to find that by looking back that it was really true.
Before 12 years old, Naruto didn't have a teacher and was wasting his time doing pranks and stuff like that.
Kakashi taught him for one month about tree climbing.
Ebzo taught him water walking for a day and jiraya continued screwing around with naruto for two years.
Then Rasenshuriken training. Then sage mode and kurama mode.
All in all Naruto trained maybe for two years in total, three if we were generous.
Time passed until the next morning when Jack looked at the time he said.
"Naruto, you should start training climbing the tree now. You wouldn't learn writing and reading in a single day. Or because you don't won't to leave your mommy you forget about the promise."
Jack knows he was being harsh but there no other way. Naruto must complete the tree climbing tree today and start the water walking so they can began.
Naruto looked reluctant but nodded. Kushina also looked reluctant but let her child leave so that he can live his own life.
Naruto got out and then dispersed the shadow clones. Then started refining chakra as he had given chakra to Jack previously.
After refining he started training tree climbing.
Maybe because he had a goal to learn the flying thunder god technique and because the clones had much lower chakra he saw 27 clones succeeded in climbing the tree.
After seeing that, he dispersed the shadow clones to get their experience.
After refining the chakra one more time
he tried one more time and all the clones successfully climbed the tree.
"Hahahaha, I'm really a genius."
He immediately entered the mental space to tell his parents. But kushina was already watching so she hugged him once he entered and said.
"Congratulations, Naruto. You learned much faster than even you father. Now you are one step closer to prove to that arrogant Jack that he is wrong."
"Thanks mom, I will absolutely prove him wrong "
Minato also congratulated him but not Jack who knows what Naruto mentality was like. He always needs a stick with the carrots. As his parents were the carrots, then he would be the stick.
"Well, not bad. But I would have done that in a single hour without even the need to use that much shadow clones. But well average people also have their strength. But I wonder if you could keep training with the same level after achieving some results. Well I hope so but I won't hold my breath over it."
"Hmph, just wait and see I will definitely succeed."
"Good I will wait . Now take your shadow clones to the hot spring but you have two things to do
first tell to a shadow clone to switch with me.
Second, at the spring let ten shadow clones take a dive first to test the water temperature "
"Okay."
Naruto and his shadow clones went to the hot spring and found the water was hot.
Naruto looked at the shadow clones and then saw that the one he asked to switch Jack wink at him.
Naruto smiled and said.
"Okay I want ten clones to dive to try the temperature."
Jack immediately said I will.
After that nine others went with Jack.
Jack and the other clones jumped into water, immediately Jack used a shadow clone ninjutsu and returned the control to Naruto shadow clone again while he jumped to his own shadow clone.
It was easy because he is a soul not a real body.
Naruto continued with his training while Jack kept himself under water. He continued to swim until he reached a place where he didn't sense anyone nearby and got out.
"Mmmm, I didn't think that the hot spring would have so many people, but as you would expect in this cold weather. Looks like it may snow."
Jack used henged technique making his look change. He looked exactly like Luffy.
From the many animes he know, Luffy looks were the most unnoticeable. He looked exactly like a farm boy. He chose a normal genin dress and a scarf to hid his nose a mouth and the forehead protector.
He started to feel this shadow clone and was happy with the results.
"Yeah, I can definitely feel the difference. Now that's what you call my shadow clone. There's no disparity between my soul and the clone. Shadow clone seems to be a really mysterious technique."
Jack not the one to waste time. He went first to the woods. Inscribed a mark here first then entered the mental space.
He said immediately with a smile.
"It worked. No one noticed anything. I can start taking action."
Minato became serious and said.
"How will you reach fukagu now.?"
"I'm going to look for shisui Uchiha now.
If I find him, I will go to Uchiha compound in the night. With my sensory technique now covering the entire of Konoha, It will be easy to infiltrate any place and Uchiha are too arrogant to think someone will attack them."
Minato said .
"Be careful, we might have only shot at this."
Jack started moving towards the Uchiha clan compound but started to frown when he got near there.
"What's going on. Why are there so many guards ?."
He didn't understand because with so many guards, it's impossible for Itachi to kill everyone without anyone in Konoha noticing.
He suddenly paused in his footsteps and cursed.
"Fugaku, you dumb fuck. You handed the clan to Itachi, didn't you?. Now it all make sense. No matter how Danzo tried to cover it up, it's impossible for things to go so smoothly without Konoha entire shinobi feeling nothing."
But then he smiled. Looks like itachi and Sasuke are his reverse scale. Good, this will be easy.
He approached a place on the side of the compound and panted a mark on the ground. Then kept moving planting marks until he sensed someone starting to pay him attention. He immediately started to move away.
The person still found him suspicious, started to follow him but he saw jack enter a narrow place between two buildings, just he came to the place, he found nothing.
Just as he entered someone touched the back of his neck.
He immediately startled and moved away. He can't believe someone managed to sneak up on him like this.
He thought this guy was suspicious so he checked it out just to see who this person was who dared to approach te infamous Uchiha clan.
But this guy manged to black sided him.
" Hehehe, I can't believe I managed to meet the famous Uchiha shisui.this really a great honor for the humble me to meet such an extraordinary genius from the Uchiha clan."
Yes, the guy who manged to notice Jack was Uchiha Shisui. He seemed to be fifteen years old now. That means he might die the next year if nothing changed.
Uchiha Shisui with his three tomes sharingan looked at Jack with a wary eyes and asked.
"Who are?."
"Oh, looks like I started you but not too much as you didn't open your mangekyo.
Such a shame though, it would have made my day."