Ero-pops
Jiraya walked through the towns market district in a sullen mood. It was the day of the celebration. That blasted celebration. He hated this goddamn event. These people lined the streets to glorify the attack on this village, his village by the Nine Tailed Demon, the Kyuubi. To celebrate and remember the battle to repel the beast. The one that killed his student… his all but adopted son. "Fricken' idiots, all of them" he spat in his mind while subconsciously glaring at all the villagers around him who had the audacity to look happy on such an occasion. At least the ninja in his presence had the sense to appear docile and slightly put off at the whole event, least he decide to turn his aggression onto them. Being one of the legendary Sannin had its perks after all.
He doubted there was a single person in the entire expanse of the nations that hated this specific day more than he did. Well, maybe that kid, he couldn't have it easy today at all, seeing has how almost the entire village saw him as a reincarnation of the Kyuubi himself. Speaking of which, where was that blonde kid that was always hiding from everyone? Jiraya hadn't seen him in over a year. His supposed to be god-son. "Humph, as if I could be a father!" he chuckled lowly to himself. He paused in the middle of the road for a second listening intently. He could have sworn that he had heard the subject of his thoughts. Shrugging it off he continued along his stroll back to his apartment.
"BLAHHHHHH YOU A MEANIE"
Goddamn it! He knew he had heard that this time! He quickly sushined, disappearing into a swirl of leaves, to the source of the noise, appearing outside of a simple fruit stall. He saw the familiar mop of blonde hair and cursed his luck that his sense of hearing was right and he was now stuck in the middle of this. He decided to observe until further notice.
He watched the little boy pick himself up off the floor and dust his green, knee length shorts off. Why the hell was he on his own? He's 4 years old for Gods sake! The child approached the stand and tried, probably for the second time, to quickly grab an orange as the merchant had his backed turned. The stall owner whipped around and grabbed the child by the goggles resting on his head and pulled him off his feet, dangling him in the air at eye level.
"Listen here Demon." he spat out the word like venom. "You lay one more finger on my stock and ill do this village, and the world a favor by throwing you off of the Hokage monument." He was actually threatening the little boy! Jiraya was shocked to say the very least, in fact that was the biggest understatement possible. He had half the mind to throw the civilian off the monument himself, into a puddle of flaming oil. This was his students legacy! He watched in horror as the child was backhanded hard enough to go skidding across the ground towards another stall, where he promptly slammed into the pole holding up the sign of the vendor. "Authentic Ninja Toys" read the sign, and on display where a number of plastic weapon replicas.
Upon seeing the small blonde haired child, the female store owner let out a scream of sorts, maybe more of a yell, "GETOUTOFMYSIGHTYOUFILTHYDEMON!". She screamed without taking a breath. She proceeded to pick up her merchandise, a couple of shuriken, and through them as hard as she could at the young child. Being a civilian, these throws weren't accurate so the kid was rarely hit. However, where ever they managed to make contact, the hard plastic items left large, red, sore looking welts; and since most of his body was covered by clothes, these welts appeared on his face. Jiraya looked around at the faces of the other civilians, and even a few ninja who were standing around and found them staring blankly and even smiling sinisterly at times, clearly enjoying the show. No one made any moves to stop the women or help the poor boy. In fact, some of the civilians moved towards the stand, laid down a handful money, and began throwing the plastic objects too. A couple of the civilians handed them to their children and urged them to begin throwing them as well, telling them it was a game.
Through all of this offense to his person, the boys facial expression never changed. He sat there, staring straight ahead without a single sign of life in his eyes. He barely registered enough emotion to flinch when something hit him. He slowly began moving, he began to get up and start moving away, shuffling his feet as he went. He was about to leave the market district when a rather large plastic kunai hit him square in the back of the head; completely nocking him off his feet. The only person who could have thrown that accurately was a ninja, which meant that they were now apart of this sadistic torture.
The boy was promptly dragged back into the center of the market for more things to be thrown at him, this time, some metal. Jiraya made a decision, it was time to intervene. However, before he could even gather enough chakra to shushin' into the square in front of the child, a metal object, probably a plate of some sorts, struck the boy in the forehead, knocking him unconscious and opening a vicious wound. Anger swelled within Jiraya, who was well renowned for his calm demeanor. He shushin'd down in front of the boy forming hand seals before he went. He appeared in a swirl of leaves and finished his jutsu. "SPIKED MANE JUTSU: Paralysis technic!" He yelled out. His hair had elongated down his back and taken on a hard, sharp look. After the saying of the jutsu, the hairs stood up on end and shot in all directions. Some hit people others just stuck into the walls of building, but all had the desired effect. All eyes moved slowly from the bleeding child on the ground, up to the very, very angry Sannin standing before them.
Jiraya began leaking killing intent at all the life forms around him, wether intentionally or uncontrollably, he couldn't quite say. He was pissed. Too say the least of it. He picked up the boy cradle style, and began carrying him out of the market. He was slowly trudging away when a child, no older than four, maybe five, walked up behind him. The small boy tugged on Jiraya's scroll, hoping to get his attention. In his haze of rage, Jiraya whipped around expecting to see a civilian stupid enough to try and take his godson from him. "Did he just call him his godson? jesus." However, he looked around and found no one at his eye level to try and challenge him for custody of the child. When he felt another tug he glanced down to see a raven haired boy staring up at him. His eyes where jet black, and he had black hair. As if that weren't enough to easily sort out which clan he belonged too, he even had their crest stuck on his back and pant legs. "What is it, young Uchiha?" Jiraya asked, hopefully relatively calmly.
The young child looked up at him fearfully but for some odd reason, Jiraya sensed that the child wasn't afraid of him. It was then that he noticed the boy was not staring at him, but at the small bundle in his arms, containing none other than young Naruto. The young Uchiha looked up at Jiraya with small appearings of tears in his eyes, "Is blondey gonna' be okay?" he asked quietly. "I couldn't stop them sir, I tried to make a fireball jutsu to make them stop, but all I got was smoke.." he trailed off, staring down at his hands like he had just killed a man. Jiraya registered that the young Uchiha boy was worried for Naruto and softened up his attitude. "The boy will be fine. Some bruises and a cut is all, now run along to your family." The child turned around to walk away when a taller, similar looking boy appeared from the shadows of the ally next to them and stopped him. He had the same black hair and eyes and was very Uchiha-esk. He had deep grooves running from his eyes down his face and was extremely high profile in the leaf village.
"Itachi." the Toad Sannin stated as a greeting. Itachi bowed his head "Greetings, Sannin-sama."
Jiraya watched as Itachi knelt down before the younger Uchiha boy. "What is the matter Sasuke?" Sasuke looked up at his older clan member. "I couldn't stop them Itachi, all I got out of my fireball jutsu was smoke again." Itachi let out a sigh, "Alright then, you better practice some more in the woods too make sure that next time someone is in trouble, you can save them and be the big hero of the day." Itachi gave a smile, that was easily seen as fake to Jiraya, and ruffled the boys hair before motioning to the woods. Sasuke ran off too go train so more, clearly his mood had improved after the visit from Itachi.
"Sorry for my younger brother interrupting your departure Jiraya-sama." Itachi said as he bowed from the waste. Jiraya examined him with the new realization that this Sasuke child was Itachi's younger brother. " It was of no harm Itachi. He was just worried about this one." He sighed as he lifted Naruto for both him and Itachi to examine. There was a multitude of bruises, already blackening, on his face and legs. The cut over his eye had a tint of blue around it from the hard impact. Hell, he probably even had a concusion, if only someone had stepped in sooner. Suddenly an idea donned on Jiraya. "Why the hell didn't you stop them?" he questioned Itachi. "I know you where there with Sasuke after all" Jiraya was mad now. "Well, Jiraya-sama, you yourself didn't jump in until little Naruto here was hit in the head." Said Itachi as he gave Jiraya a smile.
"Whatever Itachi." Jiraya said and began walking away, before turning around and shouting back, "Bring that brat around my apartment later too see the Naruto. I think he could use some friends!". "Yes." replied Itachi "Sasuke as well. Are you staying in town long Sama?". This maid Jiraya think. Would he stay in town long? I guess after saving this brat, and seeing what had happened to him, he had to protect him. He was his godson after all. "Yes, I absolutely will be." He decided at last. Itachi nodded his goodbye and shushined off, probably to go find Sasuke and explain the plans for the boys playing together.
Now, what to do about this little tadpole. Wait. Did he just call him tadpole? Well, that about settles it, with a pet name in place, play dates being made, and his former student in mind, Jiraya was adopting Naruto. Time to become not only the legendary Toad sage and sannin, but also a father. Jesus he had a hard time ahead.