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"Nice. Turn the entire clone into a lever and topple it. And if you used that on a real person, not only would they fold like a deck of cards, but they'd be blind for quite a while because of all that wind to their eyes. Effective." Jiraiya grinned. "I always get the good students. Who needs a genius when you've got a hard worker?"

"What if you're a genius AND a hard worker?" Naruto asked.

"Well, then you'd be the Yondaime."

"WOOHOO!" Naruto cheered. "Take that! I'm gonna beat your record and be the most awesomest Hokage yet, Yondaime! You just watch!"

"Well, then you'd need to get a 'flee-on-sight' order from every other village out there." Jiraiya said wryly. Naruto's face showed his shock.

"No way!" he exclaimed. "How the heck did he do that?"

"Well, he only got it from Iwa, but the other villages were about to do it just out of principle before he died. And it was entirely because of his signature Jutsu that gave him the name 'the yellow flash'." Jiraiya smiled.

"TEACHMETEACHMETEACHMETACH-"

"Nope." Jiraiya said simply.

"What!" Naruto squawked. "Why!"

"Because I don't know it. He took the secrets of the Hiraishin to his grave." Jiraiya said simply. "And don't think that other people haven't tried to crack it, either. I know for a fact that there's been an entire division in the Iwa R and D department dedicated to trying to deciphering the seals behind it for longer than you've been alive, and they still haven't figured out a scrap."

"What?" Naruto was stunned. "What the heck did the Yondaime put into his technique that makes it so undecipherable? You'd think that an entire research department would have figured out something in over twelve years!"

"Beats me, kid." Jiraiya shrugged. "You'd have to ask the man himself what he did. Personally, I think he learned the true name of lightning and incorporated it into the seal. I have NO idea how he would have figured that one out, though."

"True name? What's that?"

"Advanced theory. REALLY advanced theory. If you get into seal-making, I might tell you."
Naruto: Game of the Year Edition, Chapter 15

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