He wouldn't dare...
That boy wouldn't dare attack Jiraiya in the four-tailed stage. Not again. He'd promised it on his heart.
He wouldn't dare, and yet it happened. Unchecked abilities running wild due to overtraining, paired with no wood-style user there to stabilize the bijuu, were all it took to set the boy's rage ablaze.
A powerful Rasengan technique straight into the abdomen had knocked Naruto's teacher and mentor unconscious completely, and the mere shock of seeing him in that state sent the bijuu running out of Naruto, as the boy's own rage began to build up, cursing himself for what he'd done without even being aware of it and screaming his head off at the heavens as if that would wake up his poor old master. Naruto screamed, and screamed, and those screams turned to frustrated sighs as he wept next to the unconscious member of Konoha's legendary three ninja.
He transported, with much difficulty, the Sannin member out of the shallow river and onto a grassy plain, where he summoned a falcon and sent away for Lady Hokage, telling her the shameful news of what he'd done. He didn't want to shame himself, but he didn't want to see Jiraiya die either, and that was more important to the boy than his young pride.
When Tsunade arrived, she was shocked as well to see the state in which her darling Jiraiya had been placed into by the boy's unruly state paired with Yondaime's jutsu. Seeing as she was the hokage, however, she would not be caught dead crying in public, especially over something such as a wounded comrade. She instead opted to give the wound a thorough examination after moving him to a room in Konoha Hospital.
"You… you really did a lot of damage to his internal organs, Naruto. Well, it wasn't you that did it, but it was the bakegitsune inside you."
Naruto gritted his teeth so that his whiskers twitched and his canines extended, clenched his fists, and looked down, trembling with rage. He despised that term that Mizuki sensei and all the other misled townsfolk had used to describe him. Bakegitsune, the monster fox.
"I know… I hate myself for it, and you better believe it's the worst thing I've ever done. I hate being a jinchuuriki. I hate the damned fox… everything about myself… because I hurt Ero Sennin… while he was trying to help me grow stronger of my own strength… and if I hurt him, who knows what'll happen to my friends…" He thought in particular of the young pinkette that was his best friend and academy-level crush. "Sakura chan…" he whispered under his breath.
"Naruto… please relax," Tsunade ordered, seeing the fox's chakra build up around him as he spoke. "It's quite alright. I'm not the only one who is skilled in medical ninjutsu. There's still hope for Jiraiya."
Naruto looked up at her curiously. "But.. you're the best medical ninja in Konoha.. no, in Hinokuni…"
"That may be so. In fact, I know that I am without a doubt the greatest healer in Hinokuni. But… not in the whole world. There is another. But.. I doubt that man would agree…"
"What, you mean there's someone out there who can heal ero sennin?" Naruto's face lit up with the glow of youthful hope.
"Yes. Don't you remember, Konoha had three Legendary ninja. Not just Jiraiya and me."
"Yeah but…" Naruto looked down as he tried to remember who he'd been told was the third member of the Sannin. "N.. no way! You mean you want to go to Tanokuni… no.. Otonokuni? To seek out that horrible monster that wanted to destroy our entire village?! Grandma Tsunade, you really are going senile!"
"That's enough, Naruto. I tolerate that talk from you under normal circumstances, but this is the death of a comrade we are talking about. I was willing to heal Orochimaru's arms once… so maybe he'd feel the same way about an old comrade… though I'm not entirely sure." She bit her red thumbnail hard as she frustratedly remembered the day she'd actually almost agreed to heal that wretched man's arms so he could cause even more destruction. 'Foolish girl I was…'
"But Tsunade no baa san… O..Orochimaru is so scary! What if I go crazy before him and then turn into the… the kyuubi?" Naruto asked concernedly.
"I didn't say anything about letting you come with, little boy. You're staying here in Konoha where it's safe. I won't let you enter Otogakure ever again… not after seeing how you barely escaped with your life last time…" She remembered hearing from her student Sakura about how Naruto had gotten himself stuck in one of the Fuma clan's prism Justus in Orochimaru's hideout.
"Tsunade no baa chan, no fair!"
"Enough!" Tsunade roared at him, her hand striking the table and nearly splitting it in two.
For a second, all that could be heard was the soft beeping of the heart monitor for the Sannin member that was in a coma.
"Naruto, you're a child and it's evident that you don't know how to quit acting like one. Therefore, I cannot let you go to see Orochimaru with me. However, I can let you do something else very important."
Naruto wrinkled his nose and and crossed his arms, expecting something dumb. "What is it?"
"Naruto, how would you like to be hokage for a week?"
"W...what…?!" He shouted, his eyes widening drastically. "N.. no way! You mean that!?"
Tsunade chuckled softly and her eyes crinkled in a soft smile. Truthfully, she was going to have several Anbu in charge as well as Kakashi, but Naruto didn't need to know that. She'd just let him wear the robes for his own personal enjoyment and let him think he was in charge.
"Of course I do. A hokage never goes back on his word, after all," Tsunade replied, arms crossed supporting her large chest that weighed her down from standing up so long.
Naruto looked up at her, nearly in disbelief at the offer he was receiving, and stumbled forward a little just before passing out and falling backward halfway onto Jiraiya's hospital bed.