96 Encounter

'Kami, he would look just like Minato if he had longer hair. What are you trying to pull here, sensei? I already have enough PTSD as it is.' Jiraiya grumbled in his mind as he looked at Naruto standing beside him with a bored expression.

Currently, they were waiting for Satsuki to finish dressing up. The Uchiha had rushed Naruto out of their hotel room as soon as the blonde finished putting on his Shinobi attire.

"Hey, sensei. Can we get started on that Jutsu already?" Naruto asked Jiraiya who hummed and took out something out of his pocket.

"Start with this first. It's the first step to learning the Jutsu. Here ya go, a water balloon."

"You've been saving that balloon for this moment haven't you?" Naruto grumbled as he caught the water balloon Jiraiya threw at him.

"One thing before you start training, don't use any clones until you figure out how to do this exercise." Jiraiya advised him. Naruto shrugged, not really caring about the handicap.

"Observe." Jiraiya held up a water balloon of his own. Naruto paid close attention and raised his eyebrows as the water balloon started spinning wildly in Jiraiya's hand.

*POP!*

The water balloon popped, the water previously inside it splashed onto the floor. Naruto scratched his head.

"It got all dented and deformed before it broke." The blonde commented his observation. Jiraiya nodded.

"That it did. I want you to recreate that with your chakra. This should be done using one hand." Jiraiya taught as Naruto stared at the water balloon.

"Sounds simple when you say it." Naruto mumbled as he started channeling chakra to his hand. He immediately thought back to the Tree Climbing and Water Walking exercises.

'Maybe this exercise is the combination of those two exercises. Channel a sufficient amount of chakra and keep releasing it. Then I need it to make my chakra inside the balloon go all over the place before it eventually breaks the balloon.' Naruto thought out a plan and went straight to work.

It got really quiet after that, Jiraiya was silently observing Naruto working on popping the water balloon with his chakra.

It was going smoothly, too smoothly for Jiraiya's tastes. The Toad Sage palmed his face and started grumbling.

'It's like that Jutsu is coded in Naruto's genes. I get that Minato invented the Jutsu but, this kind of Jutsu shouldn't be learned that easily.' Jiraiya complained about talent and genetics in his mind as Naruto kept working on popping the balloon.

Satsuki was still taking her time in her hotel room.

And eentually a few minutes later....

*POP!!*

"Yes! First try!" Naruto cheered as he flung his right hand which was now soaked in water. Jiraiya had a gloomy expression on his face as he knelt down to draw circles on the ground.

"First try.... That first step took me weeks even with Minato's instructions!!" Jiraiya whined. Naruto furrowed his eyebrows and looked at the sulking Jiraiya.

" Dad knew this Jutsu?" Naruto muttered. He felt weird saying the word 'dad', but it made him happy saying it because it was proof that he had parents who love him.

"Knew it he says, more like he created it. You wanna hear a story" Jiraiya asked, regaining his composure and standing beside him again.

"Hell yeah! I wanna know more about my dad! Believe it! " Naruto shouted excitedly. Jiraiya's smile could only brighten up.

"Minato decided create this Jutsu after seeing a Tailed Beast Bomb being used. He created it for your mom which you know was a jinchūriki so that she could use it to match against other jinchūriki." Jiraiya explained.

Naruto widened his eyes, the chance that his mother knew this Jutsu which apparently he still doesn't know the name of made him want to learn and master it even more now.

'The reason behind creating it is kinda cute to, didn't know dad was such a romantic.' Naruto mused with a smile on his face.

"It was a wonderful idea since it worked with her chakra volume as a jinchūriki but Minato struggled with the original concepts for the technique, as they were either too weak or too unstable for use." Jiraiya chuckled.

"He suddenly got inspired by having only a simple conversation with good ol' me. And then he succeeded a second later, he wasn't hailed as a genius amongst all geniuses for nothing. What came to was this...."

Naruto watched as Jiraiya raised his right hand and opened his palm. He widened his eyes as he saw a blue spinning orb forming and enlarging in the middle of Jiraiya's palm.

A majestic sound was heard and it was complete in Jiraiya's grasp. Jiraiya grinned proudly at Naruto's reaction.

"Minato called it Ice Pop-Inspired Nimbus Jiraiya Twin Whorl Sphere. Stupidly long and let's you know that he had a very poor taste in naming things, especially techniques. Did you know he was about to name you Menma?"

Naruto's facial expression contorted into one with disgust. "Menma... Uzumaki...Namikaze? Ugh!"

Jiraiya nodded in understanding. "Yes, that's right. Everyone isn't perfect Naruto, even your seemingly perfect father. Thankfully, Kushina was there."

" Wait, so my mom named this Jutsu?" Naruto asked while he pointed at the spinning orb on Jiraiya's palm. Jiraiya nodded.

"Yes. The name was something related to the Uzumaki Clan. The Uzumaki clan symbol had a spiral to it, and since this sphere is also spiralling, she quickly decided a name for it. Three years of development later....here you have it, the Rasengan."

"Rasengan.... " Naruto whispered and looked at his palm. Even when his parents aren't here, they somehow find a way to still be a part of his life.

Naruto didn't know why, but he felt like he had been letting them down for not realizing his full potential, what he could truly do in this lifetime.

He clenched his right hand tightly. Jiraiya raised an eyebrow curiously as he looked at his apprentice's fiery determined expression.

"Sensei, what are you waiting for? Give me more water balloons to pop." Naruto demanded seriously. Jiraiya smirked and let the spinning orn on his hand disappear.

"Thought you'd never ask."

Twenty minutes and one giant water puddle on the floor later. Naruto was staring at his soaked hands and then looked at the pile of destroyed water balloons below him.

He was now a master at popping the water balloons with the exercise Jiraiya showed him. He even took it up a notch and used both hands at the same time.

Jiraiya ran out of water balloons to pop, so here they were waiting for Satsuki again. Jiraiya sighed and took out a sealing scroll and unrolled it.

*Poof!*

A white rubber ball was then summoned. He handed it to Naruto who looked at it curiously.

"Since your girlfriend's taking her sweet time in there, how about we start the second step to learning the Rasengan?" Jiraiya asked. Naruto's grin was his answer.

"That's what I thought. The first step is rotation, and now the second step is to add power. This rubber ball doesn't have any water in it, so it's hard to feel the chakra moving and in turn, hard to power it up or control it."

Naruto stared at it and a few seconds later scratched his head. Jiraiya smirked and crossed his arms before leaning against the wall.

'He won't get it. This step 100x more difficult than the first step. If he does he'll merely rupture it, as only by destroying the ball will he know that his chakra is sufficiently concentrated and with that meaning mastering it.'

*POP!!!!*

Jiraiya widened his eyes in horror as he looked at Naruto groaning and covering his ears while hearing a loud ringing sound in his mind.

"Damn, why was that so damn loud?" Naruto grumbled before he uncovered his ears. He looked to see Jiraiya having his jaw dropped to the ground.

"How did you do it this time?! Generating a consistent amount of power like that takes time! Answer me!" Jiraiya shouted while pointing at Naruto. Naruto scowled a little and dug into his ear.

"Geez, so loud. Don't you remember what I have sealed inside me? I've been spamming the Shadow Clone Jutsu which I shall remind you that it's a high level forbidden Jutsu for ages, my own chakra naturally got stronger. Do you know that I create 1000 clones for training everyday?"

Jiraiya stopped making his stupid expression and wanted to say something but nothing came out. He sighed and scratched his head.

"I'll show you the final step later. For now just take this, it's full of rubber balls to pop. Like what you did last time, master that step with both hands."

"Alright, I'll be a ball handling master at the end of this." Naruto grinned as he received the scroll full of rubber balloons. Jiraiya snorted at the innuendo and shook his head.

Right after that, the door opened and out came Satsuki. The master and the student looked at her.

Satsuki crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at them.

"What?!" She asked grumpily.

"You sure took your sweet time, princess." Naruto commented. Satsuki scowled.

"I'm a girl, dumbass! And we have all day! Can't I just take my time dressing up like other girls do?!" Satsuki asked him. Jiraiya whistled.

"She's got you there, kid. Girls sure do like taking their time for things like this. You just have to deal with it." Jiraiya advised Naruto who could only sigh.

"Sorry Satsuki, must be the frustration of not finding that old granny getting to me." Naruto apologize, getting an angry huff as a reply from the Uchiha.

"So what happened here?!" Satsuki pointed at the pile of destroyed water balloons and the large water puddle on the ground.

"Long story. I'll tell you while we checkout."

"You better, Naruto."

To be continued.....