He needed to keep them both from thinking too much about why he would have needed to talk to Tsunade. He scratched his chin a bit. "Hey Ero-Sennin," he noticed the slight twitch from Jiraiya. It was so easy to rile Jiraiya up. "What are my chances of making Chunin when we get back?" he asked.
Tsunade perked up a little bit, hearing the question. She had heard the Chunin Exams had happened. Even that the little blonde walking alongside the group had decimated his competition. She was going to have to look at the videos when she got back, see what had happened and all. She needed to see who deserved a promotion.
Jiraiya scratched his chin. "Well, I'm not sure truth be told, and I'm not the Hokage who you should be sucking up to for the promotion. I'd say not answering a damned question on the first exam will hurt you, though Ibiki got a kick out of that for a little bit of time."
"Oh come on! That was such a bullshit test!" Naruto shouted. "Literally everyone but me had a method to cheat with. Hinata and Neji had their Byakugan, Tenten and Lee had the experience to do that mirror bullshit Ibiki called them out on at the end, Kiba had Akamaru, Shino had his bugs, Sakura was just that damned smart, Ino sat behind Sakura, Shikamaru is that smart, Choji got Shadow Possessed by Shikamaru," Naruto didn't know that last one for sure, but it was an educated guess, "Sasuke had his Sharingan. The fuck do I have? A giant mass of chakra sealed in my stomach and shit loads of Shadow Clones that I can't make without them being noticed in an instant? Kakashi-sensei hasn't taught us anything about stealth and infiltration."
Tsunade suppressed a faint smile at the blonde's words. He was quite smart to figure all of that out by himself and while she didn't know any of the clans most of the people were part of it wasn't hard to tell whom was part of what clan "And what did you do for the second test?" she asked. Tsunade knew that it took place in the Forest of Death; it was part of why she wanted medics on every squad.
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Naruto shrugged. "That I cheated my ass off on. I picked Anko's pockets for the scrolls before the test even began. Then I just booked my ass to the tower with my team. Ji-san…" Naruto winced at the name but swallowed the pain down. "Ji-san said I was allowed to pass. He seemed to like that I thought outside the box." He said.
Tsunade was a little thoughtful. Naruto did think outside of the box and he must have had some big ass balls to try something like that with Anko. She really would have to see the videos of the various matches; she wanted to see the blonde work a bit more under pressure. She would also talk to the various Shinobi in Konoha and find out how he did under the duress of War.
But Tsunade was also thinking about her newfound youth. If the Kyuubi gave Naruto the abilities he got by way of having a sample of Chakra, then wouldn't he have gotten the Hyuuga's? Jiraiya told her who the blonde fought and as a medic she knew that residual chakra would have been pumped into his system.
She had discreetly, while scanning herself earlier, taken a sample of the Kyuubi's chakra and while it seemed manipulative even on a DNA level, how else would she be younger, the chakra didn't seem potent enough to adjust DNA purely on a foreign chakra alone. Something else was going on and she damned sure didn't know what it was. Plus, even if the Kyuubi had been able to adjust DNA on a foreign chakra alone, it would need a sample of the chakra from someone with a Mangekyo Sharingan, which to her knowledge no one outside of Madara had obtained one. Even with Naruto's cover of Kyuubi having been controlled by Madara, it still wouldn't make any sense and the 'feel' of the chakra wouldn't be enough.
Tsunade was the best damned medic in the world, but she couldn't get a fix on how the blonde was gaining these abilities. She damned sure knew he hadn't been born with him. She didn't want to confront the blonde either until she had a damned good idea as to how he did it, and possibly proof as to how he did it.
Tsunade went up to Naruto and put a hand on his head, scratching him on the top of his head, making him look up to her with a raised eyebrow. She wouldn't make mention of it until she had some proof. She liked the blonde though, she wouldn't tell him to stop. Not unless it was a security issue with the village. He was just getting stronger and as a Hokage who was she to stop one of her Shinobi from doing so?
If it became an issue though in the future, Tsunade would put her foot down on the matter.
The trip back to Konoha was relatively uneventful other than occasional craters being blasted into the country side when Tsunade helped train Naruto in her super strength technique. It was impressive that he was picking up on it, despite the fact he had such a deep well of chakra to attempt to control in his gut.
It made her wonder how vigorously he trained to keep it up.
As they made it back through the gates, Naruto looked to Jiraiya, almost begging to be let go to his own devices. The white haired super pervert waved him off. Tsunade rolled her eyes as the blonde bundle of energy sprinted off.