Conflict within could be Naruto.
Unlikely. Possible, but unlikely.
Thing is, Naruto isn't actually fighting Kurama most of the time.
Until Shippuden, the extent of their interaction was "Give me chakra!" "Okay."
Also, can we vote to warn Neji? I mean, he's our teammate, and that's Jiraya of the Sannin we are talking about.
Two questions there are:
1)Does it fall under the category of what Tenten would regard as privileged information? GM hasn't said one way or the other.
2)It's Naruto.
At this point in the timeline, he gets very little respect regardless, even from his teammates.
His mentor is Sharingan Kakashi; if that hasn't made Neji take him seriously, Jiraiya is unlikely to.
Everyone else who might believe in him are dead.
You forgot Kiba on that list.
Turns out, getting the shit kicked out of your raises your respect levels for the kicker's skills.:V
Dudes, conflict within is obviously Sakura. Inner Sakura, duh!
Not actually in conflict with herself.
She and Inner Sakura tend to be in tune; just that she exercises more verbal(and physical) restraint.
 
His mentor is Sharingan Kakashi; if that hasn't made Neji take him seriously, Jiraiya is unlikely to.
Jiraya of the Sannin is very much on a different level, of both power and fame, than Kakashi. Jiraya is roughly Orochimaru's equal, and Orochimaru can casually punk Kakashi. Plus, at least as far as Neji knows, Kakashi has to train two people at the same time for the finals, one of them to fight Gaara. So, yes, I can definitely see how this piece of information would change Neji's calculus.
 
Jiraya of the Sannin is very much on a different level, of both power and fame, than Kakashi. Jiraya is roughly Orochimaru's equal, and Orochimaru can casually punk Kakashi. Plus, at least as far as Neji knows, Kakashi has to train two people at the same time for the finals, one of them to fight Gaara. So, yes, I can definitely see how this piece of information would change Neji's calculus.
I don't.
You don't seem to get just how deeply held Neji's Fate philosophy is, if he's held it through two years of working with Lee and Gai.
And frankly, he'd be right about how being trained by an S-class nin is no guarantor of anything; ask Obito about his first chuunin exams.

To repeat:
Naruto surviving the Forest of Death uninjured brought him no respect.
His beating Kiba in front of Neji brought him no respect.
His getting a fancy new teacher is unlikely to change the calculus either.

Neji is fully aware that his opponent's mentor Sharingan Kakashi is someone at least as good as his own, and yet he isolates himself from Gai in order to train alone, at a time when said mentor is training either Naruto or Sasuke or both .
That's the ultimate sign that you are dealing with a teenage knowitall.

Only difference being instead of playing hooky from school and smoking cigarettes, Neji's teenage angst involves long hair and muttering about fate.
 
[X] Yes
[X] A Traitor's Lot

I'm confused, I don't watch naruto can someone give the dumbass version of what's happening.
 
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I'm confused, I don't watch naruto can someone give the dumbass version of what's happening.

Naruto sullied his relationship with people for years by playing practical jokes in order to gain attention and loudly declaring that he shall grow up to lead the people even though he terrorize them by being a little hellion. Now that he has an old master to teach him the way to cultivate his soul, he will eventually realize pranking people is not how you gain respect, but through action... no matter how many times the old master had to hit him on the head with the enlightenment stick.

Next time on Naruto, the old master teaches Naruto how to commune with his inner demon by wisely throwing him off a cliff. This causes Naruto to make a foolish mistake with a nine tail fox. Since instead of calling it his prisoner, he calls it his tenant and demands rent in the form of it's chakra. We shall get to why that is a bad idea later but with that chakra he summons a great toad spirit and later, through actions and not falling off it's back, earns his respect.

Later Naruto returns home semi drunk as he had to drink sake with the great boss toad in order to complete an ancient ceremony of mutual respect, Naruto finds someone humming in his apartment and actually cooking what smells like a decent meal. He looks towards the kitchen and sees a woman with nine red fluffy tails. Stirring soup and shaking her butt to music only she can hear. Thus as per the deal, the nine tail fox is renting a room from him in his apartment complex, which is much cozier than a dirty sewer.

Nextime on the Xianxia tale called Naruto; The orphan, the hot nine tail fox chick, and the old master's headache.
 
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Naruto sullied his relationship with people for years by playing practical jokes in order to gain attention and loudly declaring that he shall grow up to lead the people even though he terrorize them by being a little hellion. Now that he has an old master to teach him the way to cultivate his soul, he will eventually realize pranking people is not how you gain respect, but through action... no matter how many times the old master had to hit him on the head with the enlightenment stick.

Next time on Naruto, the old master teaches Naruto how to commune with his inner demon by wisely throwing him off a cliff. This causes Naruto to make a foolish mistake with a nine tail fox. Since instead of calling it his prisoner, he calls it his tenant and demands rent in the form of it's chakra. We shall get to why that is a bad idea later but with that chakra he summons a great toad spirit and later, through actions and not falling off it's back, earns his respect.

Later Naruto returns home semi drunk as he had to drink sake with the great boss toad in order to complete an ancient ceremony of mutual respect, Naruto finds someone humming in his apartment and actually cooking what smells like a decent meal. He looks towards the kitchen and sees a woman with nine red fluffy tails. Stirring soup and shaking her butt to music only she can hear. Thus as per the deal, the nine tail fox is renting a room from him in his apartment complex, which is much cozier than a dirty sewer.

Nextime on the Xianxia tale called Naruto; The orphan, the hot nine tail fox chick, and the old master's headache.

Ooooohhh, got it, thanks. This show is weird
 
Ooooohhh, got it, thanks. This show is weird

It's a summery, there is more too it but the only inaccurate thing in my explanation is basically Kurama's gender and him getting out of the seal and cooking dinner for Naruto.

Naruto not having anyone believing in him/respect is somewhat accurate, probably more accurate than the fact that people hate him for having Kurama sealed in him. He was a little shit that never took anything serious and boldly declared that he would someday become their leader when he's half assing everything until his Jounin straitens him out.

Jaraiya's version of training is to steal from his apprentice, unseal the seal Orochi put on his stomach, and then throw him off a cliff in order to get him to use the ninetail's chakra to summon a giant toad rather than you know, teaching Naruto the basics beyond water walking. But to be fair, Naruto sucks ass at picking up the basics due to the years he half assed things but learned a forbidden complex technique in a few hours.

God damn inconsistent idiot savant.
 
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