"Whatever we feel like I guess," Naruto said. "Since being in the seal is the same thing as going to sleep, I figured it would be better to spend time with you and maybe learn something useful then sleep."
"So you want to spend time with me? How flattering," said Kyuubi, batting her eyelashes at him.
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Whatever, so what exactly do you do when I'm not here?"
"You mean besides sleep?" asked Kyuubi, her tone sarcastic. "Not much, it's not like I can go outside, and even if I did, I'm not sure what there is to do in your mind anyways."
"What did you do before being sealed?"
"Traveled," Kyuubi said, "I was constantly traveling. I learned early on that it was never good for me to stay in one place for too long, most of the people I enslaved could only stand being under my charms for so long before they became brain dead. I would usually stay for several dozen years, sometimes a lifetime depending on what I was doing at the time. If I was pretending to be the daughter of a noble, I would usually stay a lifetime before quietly disappearing. Most of the time, I would find a rich merchant and place them under my charms, then leave when they got older."
Naruto nodded, her answer was more or less what he expected by now. He was surprised she was so open about her past, but with no way of escaping the seal he figured she just found it easier to be honest and upfront with him. It was something he was appreciative of since it at least meant she was being honest.
"How come you could never stay around for too long?" asked Naruto.
"You mean aside from the fact that people would get curious if I didn't die when I was supposed to?" asked Kyuubi, reminding the blond that the people she disguised herself as were human. "If I stayed longer than a natural human lived, people would get suspicious. I couldn't afford to let other people know I was immortal or other countries would come to the one I was staying at in order to...acquire me and find out how I could live for so long."
"I suppose that makes sense," Naruto said, he felt slightly embarrassed that he hadn't thought of that. It also made him wonder if he would be forced to do that as well, constantly travel to keep people from becoming suspicious of him, never being allowed to truly settle down, always having to remain on guard from people wanting to use him for their own purposes. Whoever said they wanted to be immortal obviously didn't realize how much it sucked. He hadn't even been alive for fourteen years and just thinking about the problems that came with it were enough to worry him.
"Something wrong, Naruto?" asked Kyuubi, raising an eyebrow as the blond went silent and pensive.
"Huh?" Naruto looked up to see the red head staring at him. "No, I was just thinking about...something." Kyuubi raised an eyebrow at the blond, getting him to look away, but she shrugged any curiosity away for the moment. She didn't particularly care what he was thinking so in the end it didn't matter.
"So what else did you want to know?" she asked, getting the blond shinobi back on track as he started asking questions about her life before being sealed.
The next morning the apprentice-teacher pair were off again, making their way through the forest and then cutting through the desert. When they reached the gates of Suna it was around mid-day. They were stopped by a pair of guards who asked for their ids and passports. When Jiraiya gave them a letter bearing the Hokage's seal the two immediately escorted the two Konoha ninja to the Kazekage tower.
As soon as they were directed inside Naruto saw Baki sitting at the desk. "Yo! Baki-san, how are you?"
Baki looked up and grinned a little when he saw who it was, "Nice to see you again Naruto-san, though I did not expect to see you so soon." The man looked over at Jiraiya. "And Jiraiya-sama, it's a pleasure to finally meet you."
Jiraiya gave the man an easy grin, "Same to you. I have a letter from the Hokage." He gave Baki the letter bearing the Hokage's seal.
Baki unrolled the seal and frowned when he saw what was on it. "I see, so the Hokage wants us to help Naruto-san here finish his wind training."
"That's the gist of it." Jiraiya nodded. "As you know, wind users are rare in Konoha. In fact we only have the gaki here, and Sarutobi Asuma."
"I see…" Baki set the scroll down. "I have no problems with this, even were we not getting on better terms with Konoha I would probably do this since Naruto helped Gaara so much. I'll just need to find someone suited to the task, but that should only take an hour or so."
"Oh yeah! Speaking of Gaara, you should have Ero-sennin look at his seal." Naruto spoke excitedly. "He should be able to do something about Gaara's sleeping problem better than my seals can."
"Would you be willing to do that Jiraiya-sama?" asked Baki
Jiraiya looked thoughtful before shrugging. "I suppose I could do that. Since I'm not a wind user I can't exactly help the gaki with his training. Alright! I'll take a look at the seal while Naruto begins his training."
"Thank you." Baki bowed his head slightly in a sign of respect. "Right now Gaara is on a mission so we'll have to wait until he comes back, until then how about I have someone escort you to a hotel?"
"That will be fine." Jiraiya said as an ANBU appeared in one corner of the room and escorted them outside.
Naruto plopped down on the couch in the hotel room that Baki had given him and Jiraiya. It was a very basic two bedroom hotel room with a kitchen/living room combination and two bathrooms. The young blond had kind of hoped he would be able to go and live with Gaara, Temari and Kankuro, he was a little disappointed that he couldn't but understood that it might not be the best idea with Jiraiya. The teasing he was likely to get from the man would likely send him and Temari over the edge.
Speaking of…
He looked over to see said man already hopping out of the window. Probably going to a tavern to get drunk and pay some woman to hang off of him…
'Well that is the only way he can get anything from a woman.'
Naruto chuckled a bit as Kyuubi's voice resounded from his mind. 'That's probably true; I doubt the old perv could actually get a woman without money.'
The blond heard the soft alto laughter he had come to know very within the past few months since the Chunin Exams. He always found it so odd that the Kyuubi, the most powerful Bijuu in existence could have such a pleasant sounding laugh.
'Why thank you.'
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