Dexter's POV;

The month between the second and third part of the Chunin exam was now half way over and I was still keeping up the farce of training in preparation to fight Neji.

My shadow clone, that is acting as Baki, wasn't dispelled yet and Hayate kept the act up as well. He, Hayate, even gave me a few training sessions in swordsmanship.

But today wasn't such a day, today I was doing a few Chakra exercises near a creek that ends in a pond. The exercise was easy to know but hard to learn. It consisted out of a different kind of water walking, you have to use the normal water walking exercise, but increase the difficulty by further using Chakra to propel yourself forward or in a wanted direction. Effectively using water walking as waterskiing. The quicker the turns and faster the movement the better. So far I was doing a good job of mimicking a jetski on kerosene. The next step would be to use this technique on normal land.

It was at this moment that I, even if I don't know how with all the noise that the water was making, heard perverted giggling and lewd comments about a women's bust.

°Took him long enough to seek me out°, I commented in an unamused tone.

°Yeah, and I'm not even sure it was you or the fact that we deliberately trained near a well-known bathing place for women°, replied Kura-chan.

I stopped my training briefly and skipped over to the turn of the creek that leads directly towards the pond. Once there I quickly spotted the white mane of Jiraiya. He was perched on his toad summon and was scribbling down on his notepad. Not so silent giggles came from him and it was a near wonder the women weren't hearing him.

°One way silencing seals?°, guessed Kura-chan and, after a quick confirming look from my Rinnegan, I confirmed her guess. The seal was on the toad and was silencing it and Jiraiya who was sitting on it, yet only towards the front.

°So the pervert is using these seals to not get heard by his targets but forgets to make them effecting his back?°, I asked more than stated, a little confused at his stupidity.

°I think he's a masochist that wants to be found and then punished by these almost naked women. The fact that he's always right back on his feet shows that he isn't as affected by the beating as he shows°, explained Kurama and I nodded to this logic. I didn't condemn the man for this. Everyone has his or her very own fetish, hell I developed a tail fetish over the last years.

Kurama's tails were just so fluffy and pretty and soft and flexible and luster and....

°Dex-kun, please focus°, asked Kura-chan with a slightly heated tone.

°Right, sorry. It's just that they are so beautiful and fluffy and there are nine of them°, I quickly justified but also tried to refocus on the real topic. I'll have time to think about these holy tails of her later, during the night.

I walked right next to him and poked him on his shoulder. At fi, st he froze and then slowly turned around to me, he then got wide eyed when he saw my evil grin and silently mouthed for me to stay quiet. Of course my grin grew even larger and I breathed in, before shouting “Sorry ladies, but here is a perverted old man that wants to ogle you while you are bathing!”.

We both heard loud cries of angry women and then saw a group of nine storming towards us. I, intelligent as I am, closed my eyes and put my hands over them.

What then followed was the pained cries of Jiraiya and more angry shouts of the women.

“Thanks kid, you can open your eyes now”, then said one of them and I did so.

They were now wearing towels and some were still stomping on the downed form of a bloody man.

“I was training on the creek and heard him giggling and came over to see what happened. I promise I didn't see anything”, I quickly said. It's well known that women in Konoha are quick to attack anyone who only just thinks about what they think as perverted.

Idiots all of them. You can't force someone from stop thinking about what turns them on. However, this does not justifies Jiraiya's actions. If he wants to get stomped on, then he just has to pay a whore for it. Or find a girlfriend. Then again, this would probably not satisfy him.

“Your that Genin that has to fight Neji Hyuuga aren't you?”, then asked a second woman, also clad in a towel.

“Yes, I was training for the fight”, I confirmed.

“Well, we wish you luck. These Hyuuga's do need to be put down a step or two. I heard that Neji is called a prodigy, but he didn't even managed to graduate on his first try”, said the first and two other, who finished with the beating, nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, I heard his teammates in that year weren't good enough with their teamwork to convince their sensei”, I said casually and looked down at Jiraiya. He looked to be in pain and bliss at the same time, but was also listening in on our conservation.

“Is that so? Didn't know, anyway, thanks again. We'll go now”, said the first woman and then pegged a quick kiss on my cheek, before all nine of them walked back to their clothes.

°Bitch!°, growled Kura-chan, but it wasn't meant in earnest.

Not five seconds later and Jiraiya was back on his feet and dusting off the foot marks on his clothes.

“So, you're the Genin that has to fight against the Hyuuga and was training before interrupting my research?”, he then asked.

“Yeah, so what?”, I shot back.

“Easy there, I could help you”, he said and held his hands up in a none aggression gesture.

“How could a perverted old man help me?”, I asked and he began to grin.

“I'm not an old perverted old man, I'm a super pervert and known far and wide under the name of Jiraiya, one of the legendary Sannin and Toad Sennin”, he then said in grandeur and with music playing in the background.

“So?”, I asked and he face faulted.

“Hey, listen! I fought Hanzo the Salamanda, he granted us the title of Sannin and I'm one of the strongest Ninja from Konoha. I even trained the Fourth Hokage”, he shouted and expected some reaction of awe, but got merely a shrug from me.

“So, you fought three against one, got beaten and the enemy had even enough strength to casually tell you that he will name you as the Sannin? Isn't that more like a mockery? And you trained the Fourth Hokage? So what? He's dead, I see how good your training was”, I replied in a bored tone and saw that he started to get angry.

“Listen here Naruto, I'm one of the best Ninja in the world and the Fourth died fighting the legendary Kyuubi, the strongest Bijuu in the world. No one ever survived a fight against a monster such as this”, he countered.

°I wish, I got beaten by Hashirama, your father, Madara and Obito. Dark spots in my live°, muttered Kura-chan.

°Most of them don't count. The Mangekyou Sharingan is designed to force Bijuu into submission and Hashirama's Chakra was a counter against yours. Only my father was without advantage and he did not really win°, I said in support. And then refocused on the other conversation I had going on. Something that I didn't miss was that he called me Naruto.

“Sorry, but as far as I know the guy named Naruto died during the second part of the Chunin exam. My name is Dexter Uzuki”, I said.

“I know who you really are and it saddens me to have learned about what happened to you”, he said and his tone didn't hold a lie, Kura-chan's ability to feel emotions confirmed this as well.

“I still insist on you calling me Dexter, there is a reason for why I am no longer Naruto”, I replied firmly and he nodded sadly.

“Anyway, the fact is that you still don't have anything to teach me”, I added.

“Oh, but I have. I can teach you the summoning”, he said with a happy grin.

“Don't need it, I don't like toads”, I said and stomped on his hope to continue his legacy as a toad summoner.

“But toads are awesome, they are strong and really nice people”, he said and emphasised his point by petting the head of his still summoned toad, “there are many Ninja who wish to have a summons”, he continued and gestured towards Konoha, ”and the Fourth was also a toad summoner”, was his last argument.

I just gave him an unimpressed look and counted my counter arguments on my fingers, “They are all warty, not really fast and slimy”.

“You have no idea, it seems like you can't even begin to comprehend the epicness of toads”, he said with a huff.

“Might be, I don't care. If that was all, then excuse me, I have to train”, I said before shrugging and turning around.

“Wait!, I could also teach you the Rasengan, an A-Rank technique that was mastered by the Fourth Hokage”, he quickly said and was already forming an Rasengan.

“Why are you always mentioning the Fourth?”, I asked and he stopped briefly before he said something that terribly sounded like an excuse; “He was just one of the strongest Ninja ever”.

“If you think so, I personally think that Hanzo the Salamander, Tobirama Senju, Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, The Third Raikage, Itachi Uchiha and a few other were stronger”, I replied. He visibly deflated at the mentioning of all these legends and had no counter.

“So you don't want to learn a really strong technique?”, he asked for a final confirmation and looked disappointed.

“Why should I try to learn a technique, that is rumoured to be very hard to learn, when I only have a little bit less then two weeks left before I have to fight in a tournament. It would be far better to learn something easier or increase my proficiency in already known skills”, I replied and the logic behind my words didn't miss him.

“That's true, then what about me helping you with refining some of your Jutsu? I may know a thing or two”, he then asked with hope.

°Be careful, he might notice something in the time you two will spend together. He isn't the spymaster of Konoha for nothing”, warned Kura-chan when she read my thoughts of accepting his offer.

°I know”, I replied before looking directly at the man that was co-responsible for the death of my current village. I'm fairly sure he didn't do it out of hate or vengeance. It properly was only another mission for him. Possibly not a mission he is proud of, but still a mission.

I, and many other Ninja, would have done the same in his shoes.

“Why not”, I finally said after a long pause and Jiraiya sighed in relive.

“Okay, then let me ask you what you have so far”, he said eager to start with some bonding. His happy go lucky attitude was also gone and in place was a more serious persona. He seemed to have realised that I'm not one for such a behaviour during training.

“I'm quite skilled in a similar stile to the Gentle Fist. I may not target the Chakra in the Tenketsu with precise attacks, but am more cutting them through a Chakra scalpel. This has the effect of hindering the enemy from using Chakra and cripples him in the same attack. I'm also able to attack pressure points.

Other than that I have a few wind Jutsu and am fairly fast”, I listed and he nodded at each point.

“That is pretty good for a Genin, especially the Chakra scalpel. Do you have a strategy against Neji? Because, I don't think this will be enough on its own”, he asked and dismissed the toad he was standing on, before walking over to the now vacant pond, where he sat down and gestured for me to do the same.

“Yes, I plan to release Chakra in my environment and render his Byakugan ineffective with the over influx of visual stimuli.

He mused over this strategy for a moment but then nodded slowly.

“That might work, but isn't guaranteed. Anything else?”.

“I know that there is a skill of the Gentle Fist that allows the user to protect himself from any incoming attack, it's called Rotation or something. This is said to be one of the strongest defences of the Hyuuga, but has a big flaw that I hope to exploit. That is, if he knows this skill”, I further said and he gestured for me to continue.

“Rotation doesn't stop air, so I would only have to hit him with a strong fire Jutsu and wait until he either suffocates or gets burned to a crisp”, said and grinned at the end. A grin that was mimicked by him.

“A good strategy, and would surely work against new and inexperienced users of Rotation. Older and more experienced user would never use the technique against fire Jutsu to begin with, but he might do it”, he confirmed.

“Do you have a fire Jutsu that is strong enough?”, he then asked.

“Yes, I asked my sister to teach me the Great Flame Thrower Jutsu”, I replied and he whistled impressed. It's an A-Rank Jutsu and highly Chakra consuming.

“So you have that covered already, I might be able to help you with the refining of your Taijutsu. I heard your teacher is Guy, so I can already say that you are better than many Genin, but there are still a few things I could show you. I may be old, but age comes with experience”, he said sagely and for once I agreed. I might be able to win in a fight against him in more than one of my skill departments, but he still is skilled in hand to hand combat.

°Don't forget that you aren't able to go all out on him°, warned Kura-chan and I deflated a bit.

°Yes honey°.

“Good, then let's start right away”, called Jiraiya suddenly out and jumped up. This was followed by a surprisingly good and hard training in Taijutsu.

Even if he couldn't suppress his giggling whenever he saw some women coming for a bath. Well, it allowed me to kick him in the nuts, so nothing lost.

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Jiraiya's POV;

The training with Naruto was good, even if it didn't start as I hoped. He didn't want to learn some cool and awesome Jutsu from his father, not that he knows that Minato is his father.

Still, his reason was logical. Except the Hanzo thing, he didn't mock us.

“So, how did you meeting went?”, asked Sensei.

“Good, a little bumpy at the start, but the end was fairly good. I offered him the toad contract, but he declined. He said he doesn't like toads. How could someone don't like toads?”, I answered and put some fake tears in the end for a good statement.

Really, toads aren't all warty and slimy. They are awesome. Almost as awesome as boobs and booty, well not really, but they are cool as fuck.

“And what about his skill? I heard from Guy that he is strong for a Genin, but he is slightly biased with his students”, was Sensei's second question.

“He is strong, around mid Chunin. I think he won't have a problem with Neji. But I noticed something else. He seems to hold back in everything he does. So mid Chunin is probably not his best.

There was also a distaste to his real name. He firmly stated to only wanted to be called Dexter or Uzuki”, I stated and he nodded after a moment.

“Yes, that is something that I noticed too. I fear his childhood ruined every possibility of having him keeping the name Naruto. It must wake bad memories. What about his allegiance to Konoha?”.

“Didn't pry into that too much, would be suspicious of me asking too many questions after only meeting for the first time. But he only spoke well about his sister and with clear fondness. The few times he mentioned Neji weren't with much sympathy, which is understandable after what he had done to his cousin.

Other people didn't came up in our talk”.

“Very well, keep me up if something happens. Now, what was that about a possible invasion?”.

“Ah yes, I heard rumours off Suna and Sound were in an alliance talk....”.