"Ah, good, early enough to get some training in," said Jiraiya from his position in the yard.
"Eh?" asked Naruto. "Pervy-sage?!"
"Oh, yessss," said Kazehana.
"I do NOT need those images," said Naruto, beating on his head as if that would clear them out.
"In any case," said Jiraiya, "I ran into an old... associate. He'll be joining us for a bit of our journey."
"Another old man?" asked Naruto. "Ain't that gonna slow us down?"
"No, he's a roaming-nin, no affiliation with any village," said Jiraiya. "Hates the whole system in fact, and is well known for that. However, he's also one of my contacts."
"What does that mean?" asked Naruto.
"It means that he's one of those who gathers information for me that I pass on to Konoha," said Jiraiya. "In return for that, I put his name in as one who doesn't get hunted down as missing-nin or something similar. He can operate in the Land of Fire as long as he doesn't turn to banditry or something. He also doesn't get hunted down for his bloodline ability - so outside of current company don't mention it."
"'Bloodline'?" asked Naruto. "Oh, you mean like Sasuke's Sharingan?"
"Right, something like that," said Jiraiya.
"Like a Sekirei's abilities?" asked Kazehana, sounding curious.
"Right, something like that," repeated Jiraiya. "In some areas of the world, that's practically a death sentence. Other areas, like in our home of Konoha - it's considered to be a plus more often than not."
"I see," said Nina, glancing around. "This contact of yours is here?"
"Yeah, Luke's a bit odd, but that's to be expected considering how he arrived here," said Jiraiya. "He was summoned accidently from the Overworld."
"'Overworld'?" asked Nina.
"Most fuuinjutsu experts are familiar with the idea of multiple worlds, I mentioned that already," said Jiraiya, stopping briefly to sip at his tea. "Occasionally something goes wrong. Sometimes dreadfully wrong. Sometimes just wrong. My associate, Luke, was one such. When I ran across him, he was being pulled from an experimental site and being hustled towards Kumogakure where he most likely would have spent a very unpleasant time having his bloodline extracted and experimented on."
"So he owes you," noted Ikki.
"Yes, and for some reason he really didn't want to go to Konoha," said Jiraiya. He finished off his tea and set the cup down. "Taught him a few skills and let him work on them over the years. Guess it's been a five years or so, he's gotten a lot better."
"So has he got some really weird ability like Haku did?" asked Naruto. On getting many blank looks, he elaborated. "Haku could do a lot of neat things with ice."
"Ice release? Yeah, that's another kekkei genkai," said Jiraiya. "And no. He's got a potent ability, but it's not completely under his control at least last I saw. It's:"
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