Naruto: A New Perspective

Chapter 31

Naruto and Sakura watched curiously as the water balloon convulsed, multiple bumps littering its surface as Jiraiya's chakra was pumped into it from his hand, finally the balloon couldn't take the stress and popped, splattering the genin with water.

"You could have warned us." Sakura glared at the Sannin, absentmindedly trying to wipe away the water from her now wet clothes, "You're worse than Kakashi-sensei..."

"I'm really sick of getting wet." Naruto grumbled, equally annoyed with his perverted sensei.

Jiraiya glared at Naruto, who gulped, "Enough complaining brat, did you see what I did? That's the first step to mastering this jutsu."

"Uh..." Naruto chuckled weakly, "Can I see it again? I wasn't really paying attention."

Sakura was about to reprimand Naruto, but Jiraiya's killer intent spiked and froze her in her tracks. She looked at the Sannin, the man didn't look angry, but he did seem annoyed with Naruto.

"Look, I get you like to play the idiot." Jiraiya said impatiently, "But if you continue to act stupid during training, its just going to slow you down in the long run, got it? Now what did I do?"

Naruto frowned, acting like that just came natural to him, it was a lot easier than thinking about stuff himself... thinking was tough, since if he got it wrong, he only had his own mind to blame.

The blond scrunched his brow, playing back Jiraiya's popping of the balloon in his mind, he knew the man was channeling chakra into the balloon, and it seemed to make the water stir enough to make the balloon pop itself...

"You're churning the water with your chakra?" Naruto guessed.

"How?" Jiraiya asked patiently.

"How?" Naruto shrugged, "I guess you channel it in and that's what happens."

Jiraiya didn't confirm or deny, instead he filled a balloon up with water and handed it to his apprentice, "Try your theory."

Instead of arguing, Naruto did try it. He channeled shape chakra into the balloon, but nothing happened, instead his chakra simply seemed to pass through the balloon and out into the environment. Naruto concentrated on holding and building the chakra into the balloon, but still nothing.

"I guess I was wrong." Naruto sighed, "How about a hint, Pervy Sage?"

"You should know better than to ask me for one of those." Jiraiya responded disapprovingly, "Use that brain, boy. Think."

Naruto did, obviously Jiraiya was doing something to his chakra, not just letting it sit in the balloon... but what?

'Moving it.' He realized, but Jiraiya was moving it in the balloon and not letting it escape. The chakra moved and made the water move as a result. But what kind of movement would pop the balloon...?

Naruto knew very little about physics, but he understood a bit about momentum from his academy reading reviews. His bunshin memories still came sharply to the surface, momentum basically meant that a substance (like water or chakra,) in motion wanted to stay in that motion, and trying to change it would cost energy and speed. If Jiraiya was constantly changing his chakra's direction in straight line motion to stay in the balloon then it would never move fast enough like the balloon had right before it popped. That meant... spinning?

"My brain feels weird." Naruto pouted.

Sakura was impressed, "You were quiet for almost three minutes, Naruto. I think that's a record."

"That's mean, Sakura." Naruto sniffed, "I can be quiet, I just don't want to!"

"Enough of that now." Jiraiya rolled his eyes, "I'm missing out on valuable research time... have you figured it out?"