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Okay! This is the very first chapter in the 'Nozomi Chronicles!' Book One: Tsunade's Chance- Here We go again! If you like it but don't want to read it all as one long story I have them separated into the individual books. So go to my user if you would prefer it that way!
Book One: Tsunade's Chance- Here We go again!
"Tsunade! Tsunade, wake-up!" Someone called.
Go away! I thought pulling the covers over her head.
"Tsunade, get up now or you'll be late for your last day at the Academy!" The man's voice came again.
The Academy? What's this guy playing at I'm in my fifties. Not proud of it… But still this is so not funny, Grandpa! Wait! Huh? Oh I get it I'm dead! Pain must have killed me… And I thought I was only in a coma!
"That does it, Tsunade!"
My covers were ripped off. I sat up, rubbing my eyes. My blurred vision came into focus slowly. I looked around dazed. It was my room, my old childhood bedroom. I sprang out of bed and ran for the full body mirror across the room. I uttered a small cry. I was young, as in six years old young.
"Tsunade I know you hair is a mess but you don't have to scream." My grandfather said as he shut the door.
This is a dream it has to be! I pinched myself, "Ow." I said dully. The panic hit me. What's going on? Where are, Sakura, Ino, Shizune…? Naruto? No stop freaking out! A shinobi never panics! Yea, well… I'm not one yet apparently! That doesn't matter! Stop making excuses!
I sighed and looked at myself in the mirror. I studied every visible inch of myself; I was a short, flat chested, six year old again. This ought to be good. I have to listen to Jiraiya call me a flat chest again! Jiraiya! Ohhhhh, man! I have to go through allof this again! Please let this be a dream or a genjutsu! Oh well might as well play along. I thought as I dressed and got ready.
"Tsunade, breakfast!" I heard my mother's voice form the kitchen. My heart lept, I haven't seen my mom since I was eleven! Or will be eleven… Oh forget it!
I raced down the halls of my childhood home to the dining room. I skidded to a halt when I entered the dining room. It was hard to contain my excitement. My parents and grandparents looked at me amused.
"Someone's excited." My father said with a grin.
I nodded, though the reason why was different than what they thought. I hugged my mom around the waist. I plopped down in a chair next to my grandfather and I ate my breakfast as quickly as I could and raced to the Academy.I can't believe I'm thinking this but I'm looking forward to seeing that baka Jiraiya and creepy Orochimaru. We'll be Team Hiruzen again! Or- Will you stop trying to make sense of this! You're not going to win!
I stopped in my tracks. Do I want things to be the same as last time? No, they don't have to be you can change things.I smiled to myself and set off again. When I got to the Academy Jiraiya was there, surprise, surprise.
"Hey Tsunade!" Jiraiya said.
"Baka." I said evenly as I walked past him, though my heart sped up a little.
Jiraiya caught up to me in the hall, "Hey Tsunade, do you think we'll get put on the same team?"
I just shrugged, though I knew the answer. Yes.
"Do you want to be on the same team?"
"I don't care. If we do get stuck on the same team then it gives me more of a chance to kick your butt. And if we don't then I don't have to put up with you!"
"Sheesh Tsunade you don't have to be like that!"
Yes I do. Rejection makes a man strong as you put it-Will put it- Ohhhhh just give it up! This is too confusing!
I walked into the classroom. I looked around at the faces, knowing who would die and when. I felt sick to my stomach. Jiraiya walked past me giving me a funny look. I shook my head and took my seat next to Ami, an old friend of mine.
"Hi, Tsunade." She said cheerfully.
"Hey, Ami." Yep that was Ami. Bright, cheerful, slightly reckless Ami. She died when she was around forty-five. Don't know anything else. Looking around I see many faces that will disappear too soon. The path of the shinobi… is a dangerous one… but we all know the risks and are willing to except the consequences. Maybe you can change it this time around.This time around! I don't even know if this is real or a dream, or a genjutsu! Worth a shot. I have got to stop arguing to myself. You're telling me!
"Tsunade! Konaha to Tsunade!" Ami said as her waved her hand in front of my face.
"Huh?" I said snapping out of my thoughts.
Ami sighed, "Who do you think you'll be put with? On your squad?"
"Oh, I don't know! You never know until after the exams!" I snapped slightly. The good thing about Ami was that she ignored me being snappy with others, including herself.
"Sheesh, Tsunade! Do you have to be so short with people?" Jiraiya asked from the row behind.
"Shut up, Baka." I said as calmly as I could despite my rising temper, my eyebrow twitching.
"That would be a yes." Jiraiya said.
The exam was too easy, especially since I'd already taken it before. When the class's sensei started to announce the names of who would be with whom on the squads. I listened extremely bored; I knew who would be assigned to what team. Finally they got to me, and of course I was with mister pale, creepy, power hungry, doom and gloom, Orochimaru and the super pervert, Jiraiya. Needless to say Jiraiya was thrilled, Orochimaru looked sour about being put with Jiraiya but I couldn't care less, so I shrugged.
"Sooo, Tsunade pretty cool that we're on the same squad, huh?" Jiraiya said.
"I couldn't care less." I replied without emotion, my arms crossed.
"Suuure, Tsunade whatever you say."
It's good to see again, Baka. I thought fondly.