It took the Hokage three days to finish his iigation on the ambushers but failed to find any hints as to who sent them. I was less than thrilled at that news but there was nothing I could do about it. During these three days of down time I had goo see my sensei so that she could hopefully help me uhe egg I got from the market but even she said that it would take awhile si was an unknown seal and she o study and replicate it's effects before she was fident on lifting it from the egg.-

  Tampering willy nilly with a seal was a good way to ruihing so I just left it with her a about my own business. Naruto somehow found out that I was in the vilge and tracked me down at Ichiraku while skipping css that I had to knoe seo his head for doing. Iruka sensei looked amused when I dragged him into the to drop off but didn't say anything. Other than that though I hung around with the yellow haired brat for most of the few days and even showed him a few of my new abilities.-

  "Ah man , I 't eve a stinking e jutsu to work even after all that chakra trol practice!" he pined and I had him show me what he meant.

  As far as I could tell his trol had greatly improved since I st saw him but moments before he'd plete the jutsu his chakra would riot unnaturally.

  "Let me try something." I said and pced my hand over his stomach before closing my eyes and sending my chakra into his body.

  At first everythi just fi when my chakra got close to his reservot attacked by SOMETHING there and received severe backsh. My whole chakra flow was disrupted and I had a massive migrai me but I for the briefest mome araordinary amount of anger from whatever attacked me.

  "Are you alright!?" Naruto asked horrified as he tried to help me up since I had fallen from the sudden pain of the attack.

  "Yeah I'll be alright but me and yramps are gonna need a long talk about whatever the hell that is. You don't suck at jutsu but rather something is inside your chakra reservoir messing you up for some reason and I want to know why." I said frankly pissed at the discovery.

  It was crystal clear that whatever that was was not just some part of Naruto but something else entirely and my instincts told me the old man knew precisely what. Naruto himself tried to stand up for the old man saying that he must have a good reason for hiding it if he had and I didn't argue about that as it made logical sense.-

  What wasn't okay was that the old man had allowed Naruto to think that he was some sort of talentless hack this eime. Frankly speaking it was a miraaruto hadn't turned into a bitter hate filled person with the way the vilge treated him till now in addition to his struggles to improve himself as a shinobi pared to all their cssmates. Yet the old man hadn't made any attempt at all to tell Naruto that it wasn't his fault and just left him to his own thoughts instead. Look I get that the man was too busy to personally see to Narutos wellbeing but the man had to known what something like this could do to a kids mind.-

  Unfortuhe old man wasn't receiving visitors and I was turned away at the door to the building. I was halfway tempted to just walk up the side to his window but unlike when I was an academy student this would get me in serious trouble this time. There was a reason for the way things worked in the vilge and I had to respect the rules et punished for it. One of those rules was that you couldn't just go bursting into the Hokages offiless it was an emergend this didn't t.-

  Whatever with Naruto had clearly been there for a long time and wasn't a threat to his immediate health and thus not an emergency. I had eveed my frustration at the matter to my sensei and she gave me a weird look before tellihat it robably best if I let it go. She wouldn't say why though which made me even more frustrated aermio ask the old man what was what when I saw him .-

  Ahing that was worth mentioning was that Jiraiya was usually around in sard where my sensei was ed. I bck listed him from my list of people to try ahough as he broke the bro code and ratted me out to my sensei who tried to extort me in exge. That didn't go great for her though as I made a wager instead for my entire fortuhat she took and promptly lost setting us back to square one on that front. The Hokage ended up summoning us again on after this three day period for two reasons, to tell us he couldn't find anything oackers and to discuss my new forbidden teique.-

  "I don't mind expining what it does and even the few things I have learo watch out for when using it but I refuse to hand over teique itself. Speaking of expnations what the hell is inside Naruto?" I asked bluntly.

  "Oi! I told you to leave that alosunade said sternly.

  "And I would if whatever the hell it is wasn't actively trying to sabotage him." I shot back firmly.

  "How did you e to learn of this matter and what do you mean by it actively sabotaging Naruto?" the old man asked with a frown.

  "I had noticed that Naruto had trouble with his chakra trol a while back but just thought it was just crap skill until a few days ago when I sent in a probe to try and figure out where the issue was ing from only to get attacked by whatever that thing is. I know it's not Naruto because whatever it was was absolutely full of anger and he was very muot. When I mean sabotaging I mean his trol of his chakra is good even by my standards yet the momeries to use a jutsu that thing riots making him fail." I expined heatedly.

  "I see why you are upset and in this case yer is justified to a degree. I holy didn't know that that thing was causing him such problems but I assure you that i will rectify this issue by the end of the day. Now I'm afraid that I must insist on you leaving a record of the teique behind as it is far too important to risk losing should you die." the old man said seriously.