"You? Your primary element is Earth and secondary is Fire," noted the Hokage.
Jiraiya made a feeble gesture. Water gathered in mid-air. Jiraiya made a second gesture. The shape of the water changed. At a third gesture, the water froze.
"That's Hyouton?" asked the Hokage.
"No, with the water contract - it's water in all its forms," said Jiraiya. "I was trying to make an ice goblet. Need practice I guess."
"I'd say so," said the Hokage.
"Well, in any case, it'll take Naruto a year to properly train in this wind contract," said Jiraiya. "I'm going to go off and train on my own. I'll need some medical texts to make the most of my new talents in that regard though."
"So we have three of these four elements contracted within our village," mused the Hokage. "Young Rock Lee for Fire, Naruto for Wind, and you for Water."
"Yeah, the final element - Earth might be tricky," said Jiraiya.
"How so?" asked the Hokage.
"Snxxxxxxx," said Jiraiya.
"Ah, well, I'm surprised he lasted this long," said the Hokage to no one in particular.
It had taken an additional week to find someone who passed muster as the Earth Contractor. Oddly enough, though the Regents of the Elemental Forces were inhuman beings - there were a few aspects of their beings that could be related to by those humans. One of which was that rivalries existed.
It was even worse though, in which the legendary Jiraiya had ended up going through basically the same situation with the Queen of Earth as he had with the Queen of Water.
He also nearly died on three separate occasions within the process, but couldn't sign the Earth Contract as he already had the Water Contract. After that, his affinity to the Earth element was strengthened to a great degree but not to the extent it would be as a Contractor.
He also had plans to write out a SEVERELY edited and shifted version of events as Icha Icha Elements.
The mighty (or at least mightily tired) Jiraiya pointed out that he knew enough not to have to take the "year and a day" training in bending the element to his will. He was an exceptional ninja after all.
As for the Earth Contractor, that was:
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