Fox In The Leaf

Gambling and the Gambler

"Ok Gaki, you finished both steps, even though you had such odd problems... So! Let's see how you do on the last step!"

Naruto was about to start but he paused to looked at Jiraiya "You mind showing it to me again...?"

Jiraiya grumbled at being asked this "You're gonna kill me with chakra exhaustion if you keep asking me to do this for you..." Jiraiya brought his hand up and created a Rasengan for what felt like the hundredth time that day.

Naruto leaned forward to look at the attack. After a minute he pulled back and decided to try it himself. He brought both hands up with one palm facing upwards and the other hovering a foot away. He began to focus on gathering chakra in his palm, he didn't know why it was so hard to gather chakra in his palm when he could focus chakra in his fingers so easily... After a few seconds, he shut his eyes and tried to force the chakra into the desired shape.

Jiraiya could see the start of the jutsu begin but soon his look of amazement became dread as he saw that the orb that was forming wasn't a swirling blue... It was a dark purple. He felt the air around them begin to become heavy and watched as the ground under Naruto slowly started to crack "Uh Gaki…"

Naruto continued to focus on the jutsu in his hands, tuning Jiraiya out.

"Gaki!"

Naruto felt that he was close to getting it right... 'Just a little more...'

"NARUTO!"

Naruto's eyes shot open in surprise and due to the weight and shock the orb of purple chakra dissipated and he fell on his ass. He then realized that he felt lighter now as he didn't realize that he was getting heavier. Looking to Jiraiya he quirked an eyebrow when he saw that the man was a few feet further away and hiding behind an earth wall.

Jiraiya peeked out from his hiding spot and sighed in relief, seeing that the extremely dangerous mini Bijuu-dama dissipate. "Ok, scratch everything else. We need to work on separating your chakras"

Naruto tilted his head in confusion "Huh? Why...?"

"BECAUSE YOU DAMN NEAR BLEW US TO KINGDOM COME..!" After taking a breath to calm down he spoke normally. "The old man told me that you have your human chakra, your demon chakra, and the Kyuubi's chakra. What you need to do is just use your human chakra. What you were doing was mixing your human and demon chakra, I don't know if you are adding Kyuubi's but since you were mixing them, you were creating a mini Bijuu-dama."

Naruto grew excited, visibly perking up. "Really!?"

"DON'T BE SO HAPPY! FROM WHAT I COULD TELL YOU COULD BARELY HOLD IT TOGETHER...! LOOK AT THE GROUND RIGHT NOW!"

Naruto looked at where he was sitting and noticed that there was a set of footprints that were a few inches buried in the ground and cracks all around them. There was even a small crater... "Oh... Wow... I did that?"

"That's why I didn't want to teach you the Bijuu-dama... You're not ready to handle the weight of the attack."

Naruto felt crestfallen at this. 'I was just excited about using an attack our kind is known for...'

Jiraiya sighed 'Maybe I should have taught him some water jutsu instead...? Sure would've been easier...' He looked behind him to see that they were almost at Tanzaku. "Ok, let's call it a day. We're almost there and I can almost guarantee that we'll find who we're looking for."

Naruto got up and dusted off his pants. "How can you be so sure?"

Jiraiya smiled fondly as if he was lost in a memory "She's a chronic gambler... With the event going on she's bound to be here!"