"Jiraiya, don't," a hushed voice snapped.
"Oh c'mon, it's just a little joke," a cockier voice told the hushed one.
"Let him be Tsunade, he knows what would happen by now," a snake-like voice chuckled.
She groans in her sleep and rolls into a comfier position. She really need to spend less time with those guys... WAIT A MINUTE!!! WHERE'D THEY...?!?!
SPLASHToo late. The girl woke up, dripping wet, hissing dangerously at the white haired teen that was holding his sides laughing, while his teammates were a safe distance away. Oh, they knew how mad she got when someone wakes you up.
"Man, Chie-chan, you're just like a cat!" Jiraiya laughed out, "You even hiss like one!"
Tsunade and Orochimaru sweated dropped in the background.
"Sometimes I wonder if he even remembers what she does," Tsunade said to her pale partner.
Orochimaru chuckled and answered, "Jiraiya isn't the brightest of people." Tsunade smirked. Chie felt her cat ears twitch under her hair as she listened to the conversation.
Chie stopped hissing at Jiraiya and smirked evilly. "Oh Jiraiya-san...." she sang. Jiraiya stopped laughing and looked at her. At once the smell of fear was all over him.
"Oh shit..." he muttered.
"You have a 7 second head start," she smiled sweetly, "D-don't you mean 10?" "You just wasted 3."
Faster than you could say "Oi," Jiraiya was gone, a trail of dust trailing behind him. Chie smirks, proud of her work, and laid back down. "You two should keep him on a leash or something," she says as she heard Orochimaru's and Tsunade's footsteps come close.
"Just because you don't like him doesn't make him a dog," Tsunade said, sitting next to her friend.
"I never said anything about him being a dog," Chie says, yawning at the end, "I mean you should seriously keep a leash on him so he doesn't do anything stupid, like spying at the hot springs." Both of her friends chuckled.
"True, but I think it's more of the waking you up," Tsunade smiled.
Chie gave a 'pfft' and sat up. "So what pleasure do I have for being rudely awaken?"
"Jiraiya being himself," Orochimaru answered, "bored."
She winced. Oh, Jiraiya and bored did NOT go well together. "But why me of all people? Why not some poor girl at the hot spring?" she wined.
"That would be because of Tsunade," the snake said. Chie put on a pouty chibi face and the two friends laughed at her childish nature.
"Hey, just be glad he didn't throw you into the river or something," Tsunade said patting her head.
"You're making it sound like I'm a cat," Chie said, "I know neither of you wouldn't like it if he dumped a bucket of water on YOU when you were taking a nap. It's human instinct to be startled when cold liquid is poured on you unexpectedly."
"He knows that we'd kill him if he tries something like that on us," Orochimaru smirked.
"He knows I would too, I just forgot to chase him." She stands up and takes off in the direction that the toad summoner took off in, while leaving the others to stare at where she was just seconds ago.
She sped quickly through Konaha's forest, Jiraiya's scent becoming closer with each step. Oh how she enjoyed the fear that was coming from it. Toying with him must be her favorite thing to do. Chie leaps into a tree and continued the chase. Soon she hears his panting and looks down and sees him. She chuckles to herself when she saw the fear on his face. Chie quickly did a shadow clone jutsu and had it jump in front of him. He nearly jumped out of his own skin when he saw it. He quickly turned around, only to see the real her, smiling sweetly. Jiraiya looked around desperately to escape. The clone grabbed him from behind, its arms under his.
"N-no hard feelings, right Chie-chan?" Jiraiya asked, shaking. Chie smirks and then rammed right into him, causing the clone to disappear, and Jiraiya slamming into a tree. Before he fell, she ran to him and hold out a kunai to his throat.
"Now what have we learned today, Jiraiya-san?" she asks sweetly.
"N-not to dump a bucket of water on you," he whimpered.
Chie nods. "And what else?"
"Don't wake you up when y-you're napping?"
She smirks and puts the kunai closer to his throat. "Right. And you know what'll happened if you do it again?" Jiraiya nodded carefully and swallowed.
Then a wet pink thing wrapped around Chie's wrist. "That's enough, Chie-san," Orochimaru said walking out of the trees behind her.
"You know what, I've always wonder how you can talk without your tongue," she smirks, turning to face him. Yes, it was the Snake Ninja's tongue that was on her wrist. He pulled her hand away from Jiraiya's throat and Jiraiya quickly slipped through the gap between Chie and the tree and ran as fast as he could behind Tsunade, who had just arrived. She laughs to herself, seeing chibi Jiraiya hide behind normal Tsunade from her.
Orochimaru walked closer to her, smirking. Wow, he looked so creepy when he does this, tongue sticking out and smirking… and boy did she love it!
"Ok Orochimaru-san, you can let go now," Chie says, trying to get her hand out of his tongue.
"No, I think I'll just watch you struggle," he said, the 's-es' held out. Just like a true snake.
She giggles and says, "Alright then." In one swift movement she switched the kunai to her free hand and she pulled the tongued up hand and had Orochimaru's tongue resting against the tree with the kunai touching it slightly. "My struggling is over with," Chie smiles.
Orochimaru's tongue unwrapped itself from her wrist and zipped back into his mouth. He smirked and said, "You're no normal Kounochi." Chie smiles, sticking out her tongue, while she felt her ears twitch slightly.
"OK you two, that's enough," Tsunade said coming between them. Chie frowns and Tsunade smirks at her. Oh how she wished that she could erase her memory…
"Chie! Your friend's at the door," Jun called. Chie sighs and puts down the book she was reading.
It better not be Jiraiya. She hears the footsteps of Ken and Seiji running to the door. They probably think that it's Orochimaru-san or Jiraiya-san… oh well we'll see who it is soon enough.
She stands up, stretches, and heads to the door. When she arrives, her brothers standing there with huge smiles on their faces and Tsunade, in the doorway, with a confused look on her face. Once she saw Chie, she looked at her like she just came back from the dead.
"What?" Chie asked.
"Is it true?" Tsunade asked. The boys nodded and Seiji said, "We heard her talking to herself about it." Tsunade ignored them because, apparently, the question was for Chie.
"Is what true?" Chie asked. What was Seiji talking about? She never talked to herself… when somebody was nearby...
Tsunade stepped closer to her and whispered, "You like Orochimaru?" Chie stood there, no readable emotion on her face. Finally it sunk in.
"KEN! SEIJI!" she yells at the top of her lungs, "YOU'RE DEAD!" Chie runs after them at an average human speed as they ran away from her, into the kitchen. She snarls as they hid behind their mother and Tsunade came and held you back.
"What's going on?" Jun asked, raising an eyebrow.
"They need to know not to tell other people about what other people say," Chie growled.
"Calm down Chie-chan, it's common for younger siblings to rat out their older sister's secrets, trust me on that," Tsunade said.
"What did they do?" Jun asked.
"We just told Tsunade-san that Chie liked Orochimaru-sempai," Ken said from behind his mother's kimono. A blush crept up on Chie's face and she looks down as her mother looked at her.
"Tsunade-chan's right, Chie" Jun said, walking toward her daughter, "siblings do that." Chie refused to look up when Tsunade let go of her. Her mother pulled her face up so they were looking in each other's eyes. "I'm proud of you."
Chie stares at her with confusion. How would liking Orochimaru make her proud? Maybe she was in the middle of one of her romance novels again.
Jun smiled at her daughter and then turned to her sons. "Ken. Seiji. You shouldn't say things about people without permission first."
"But Chie's always telling her friends about us!" Seiji argued.
"Without our permission," Ken added.
"That's because I love you so much," Chie said with a hint of sarcasm.
Tsunade pulled Chie out of the kitchen and asked, "Why do you like him?"
"Umm… I-I don't know…?" she said, her face heating up. Oh, she did not like this blushing thing one bit.
Tsunade gave her friend a look and sighed. "C'mon." She grabbed her hand and dragged her up to her room.
"I know where my own room is Tsunade-chan," Chie said, irritated.
"You looked nervous downstairs near your brothers, so I thought I'd bring you up here so you can tell me," she said, flashing her rare, cocky smile.
Chie sighs and asks, "Jiraiya-san's curiosity has rubbed off on you, hasn't it?"
Tsunade shrugged and said, "Maybe, but also I'm a girl and girls talk about each other's love lives."
Chie sent her a glare and asked, "You won't leave me alone until I do, right?"
Tsunade nodded and said, "And I might just tell your brothers that you said to tell Orochimaru." "You wouldn't!" "Wanna bet?"
Chie growled, admitting defeat, and started off with Orochimaru. "Well, he's different from other guys, that's mostly why. Also he's a great Shinobi. He's smart but does have a sense of humor. And umm he's cute when he smirks… PLEASE DON'T TELL ANYONE TSUNADE-CHAN!"
"Don't worry, Chie-chan," Tsunade said patting her head, "You're my friend and I will let you tell him when you're ready."
She gaped at her and said, "I-I can't!"
"And why not?" she asked, raising her eyebrow.
"Well… 'cause he's him."
Well, the only good thing from that is that Ken and Seiji respected her privacy more and Jiraiya and Orochimaru are clueless.
"OK then, what do we do now?" Chie asks, putting away her kunai.
Tsunade shrugged. "I don't know. But I have to go shopping, Mom needs some things for Nawaki." She turned away, waved, and ran off.
"Well since Tsunade-chan's gone," Jiraiya said with a sly chibi smile, "I have research to do." And before you or Orochimaru could say anything, he was gone.
Chie sighs and then laughs, "I don't think he'll ever change." She heard a twig snap about a dozen yards away. She glances over to the direction of the sound and sniffs the air. She then sighs with annoyance, causing Orochimaru to raise an eyebrow at her.
"You'll see," she groaned. In little less than a minute, the Renski brothers, Ken and Seiji, came out of the trees and stared at their sister and Orochimaru.
Seiji opened his mouth to say something, but Chie's voice came before his, "Nothing happened if that's what you're thinking." She could tell that Orochimaru was staring at her while she looked at her brothers.
"For your information Chie," Ken said maturely, before his younger brother could say anything (again), "We were coming to tell you that Mom wants you to come home to help clean." Seiji, who apparently forgot what he was going to say, nodded in agreement with his commander and chief of a brother.
Oh no… cleaning could only mean one thing.
"No…" she whispered to herself.
Orochimaru walked up next to her and asked, "No, what?"
Chie shakes her head and mentally cursed at herself for saying that out loud. "Nothing, Orochimaru-san!" she smiled while scratching the back of her head nervously. "I was just, err, enjoying the silence that was here before Ken and Seiji came!" She laughs nervously and then sighs. Nothing can get this snake to lose sight of what he wants.
"Her dad's coming and Chie doesn't like him," Seiji piped in. Curse his 7-year-old brain… Orochimaru looked her in the eyes and she quickly nodded, before she could get caught in his golden eyes.
"He's just so… I can't even describe that…" Chie held held tongue otherwise her mother would have her head if she heard the boys repeat what she were going to say.
"So your demon father is visiting," the snake chuckled.
"Don't get any ideas Orochimaru-san, he's 10 or 20 times stronger than I am!" Chie said, knowing that chuckle. And to make matters worse, there was a hint of concern in it. SHIT! Her brothers chuckled, causing her to groan in annoyance.
"Well, I'll see you around, Orochimaru-san," she said with a small smile, walking to her brothers. She took their hands and walked in the direction of their home. Chie felt her ears twitch as Orochimaru walked away. She sighs and the spaces out, anything to get the thought of Riku coming out of your mind. Thank the gods that she had trained herself to control her mind from wondering to the snake ninja.
"Onee-chan, why do you hate your dad?" Seiji asked with pure innocence in his voice.
Chie smiles slightly at him and answers, "Because he doesn't love Mom, or me for that fact."
"But if he didn't love Mom, you wouldn't be alive!" he whined.
She shook her head and said, "It's too complicated for you to understand Seiji. He doesn't care about what happens to her or us. He only cares about me getting stronger so that I don't make him look weak." The sound of disgust was heard throughout her voice, even your brothers caught it. Ken nodded, as if understanding, while Seiji looked at the ground sadly. The walk home was continued in silence.