I'm going to try and keep these drabbles in chronological order as much as I can, and thanks to Ayase Reincarnated for reviewing.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
"Jiraiya-sensei, what is this plant?"
Nagato, Jiraiya was beginning to realize, liked plant life.
The red-haired boy was crouched over a small flower slightly off the forest path, staring at it intently.
Yahiko and Konan stopped as Jiraiya went and knelt beside Nagato.
It was a small white flower with a daisy-like wide yellow disc, but it wasn't a daisy; it was too small to be one.
Jiraiya frowned as he remembered the horticulture class he'd been forced to take in the Academy so he'd know which plants were good for making poisons and which were good for antiseptics, anti-venoms, emetics, et cetera.
Finally, he got an idea of what it was. "I could be wrong, but I think it's aster." He fingered the small petals gingerly.
Nagato frowned. "I've never seen this plant before."
Jiraiya snorted. "I'm not surprised. Aster doesn't grow in Ame no Kuni; it's too wet there. I think most flowers in Ame no Kuni that you'd see in a florist's shop are all grown in greenhouses."
Nagato nodded, satisfied with this. They all kept on walking, slowly in the humid heat that characterized the forests on the border of Kusa no Kuni and Hi no Kuni.
Thirty minutes later:
"Jiraiya-sensei, what is this plant called?"