Chapter 3
On their way to Naruto's room Tsunade turned to Shizune, "I want you to go and get Gohan's stuff and bring it to Naruto's room."
At first it looked like Shizune was about to protest, but then she sighed in defeat at the stern look Tsunade gave her. "Yes Lady Tsunade."
I thought her name was Hokage? Gohan silently thought.
Gohan looked confused as Shizune walked off, Tsunade seeing the confusion cured it by saying. "Tsunade is my actual name but my title in this village is Hokage. You shall address me by Hokage." Gohan nodded slowly in understanding, well that makes some sense. He thought. Sort of…
"Well Gohan." Tsunade said with a glare in his direction. "We have a lot to discuss about." It's weird he doesn't seem to know what a Hokage is and he probably thought it was my name. We definitely need to talk. She thought.
Gohan laughed sheepishly in response to her commanding attitude.
Tsunade stopped walking, causing Gohan to stop and look back at her. "You must understand that I WILL get the answers I desire from you."
Gohan couldn't help but gulp and nod. This lady was just as intimidating as his mother was. All the woman needs now is a frying pan.
She then let out a sigh as she rubbed her temples. "But that will have to wait until after I visit someone." She then sent him another glare as they started walking again. Gohan started wondering if the woman ever did anything else than glare.
They turned a corner and they both saw a girl with pink hair standing in front of a door. Even though Gohan didn't know who it was, Tsunade sure did.
"You came to pay a visit Sakura?" Tsunade added Sakura's name so Gohan knew who it was. "Information spreads quickly."
Sakura smiled weakly in return.
Tsunade stepped towards the door and Sakura backed away to let her through. Before opening the door though Tsunade turned to Gohan and stated coldly. "You stay out here and if you leave you WILL regret it. So you better be here when I get back." Gohan gave her an innocent look as she glared at him. Tsunade then opened the door and entered the room with a confused Sakura following her.
Once the door closed, Gohan's innocent look changed into an evil one. "She said I had to be here when she came out. She didn't say that I had to stay here until then." With that he walked down the hall, it will be a good time to merge with his other self now. Finding a bathroom he waited a few minutes until his other self came into the bathroom.
Before he could ask his other self how he got away from the guard his other self responded. "I told him I had to use the restroom and to wait outside the door to make sure I don't leave." My other self sighed. "The guy has a good heart but he is not very bright."
Gohan POV
"Ready to merge?" I asked my other self. It nodded, and a second later there was only one of me.
Still garbed in the doctors uniform I passed the guard unnoticed. Deciding that I still had time to wander the hospital before the Hokage lady finds out I'm gone, I walked down random hallways. When all of a sudden I hear talking in one of the upcoming rooms. Curious I went to investigate.
There were two people in the room. One was an older man in green spandex with bushy brows. The other seemed a splitting image of the older man but was a kid in a hospital gown currently in a bed.
"Lee I am glad that you are O.K. but you really worried me running off like that." The older man said to the younger boy, which I just found out was named Lee.
The boy looked at the man and said, "I'm sorry for worrying you Gai-sensei." Ahh…so the man's name is Guy? It sounds like Guy's parents took a lot of time coming up with his name. I thought sarcastically. "But I had to help my friends and prove to myself that I can still be a ninja that does purely Taijutsu."
Taijutsu, I wondered to myself. What is that? But before I could ask something happened that was far more scaring mentally than anything in my life.
Guy's eyes started to water, "Oh Lee." He said with arms looking ready to embrace the boy.
"Gai-sensei."
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei." They then hugged and started yelling out each other's names as tears went down their faces.
As I left the scaring scene to where the Hokage told me to be in a dazed horror induced stupor. I couldn't help but curse the Hokage for being right when she said that if I left I would regret it. I shivered; Piccolo and I had a teacher student bond but NEVER like THAT!
When I got outside the room where the Hokage was I decided to lean against the wall until she came out.
She seemed shocked when she saw me waiting. "I didn't think you would listen to me."
"After what I just saw I WILL always listen to you," I mumbled to myself.
"What did you say?" She asked in anger not hearing what I said.
I sighed, "I said I wonder where that Shizune girl is."
She gave me a slight 'yeah right' look. She was probably going to say some snide remark when a voice interrupted her.
"I am right here." It was the Shizune girl and she was carrying my stuff. "Lady Tsunade how was Naruto?"
Even though the Hokage's facial expression was stern, I could see from her eyes that she cared about this 'Naruto' very much, "He is doing alright but he is set on keeping his promise to Sakura."
Shizune accepted the answer and then asked, "What do you want me to do with this?" lifting my stuff up to show Tsunade.
"Give it to him." The Hokage told her.
"What?" Shizune began, "You must be joking lady Tsunade." Even I was shocked at what the Hokage said.
"I am not joking," Looking at me the Hokage finished off. "This will test him to see if he is trustworthy. Besides he just saved two of my Shinobi's lives."
I didn't know what a Shinobi was but I was quite honored she would trust me.
Shizune had a mistrusting look on her face as she handed me my stuff. I then put my stuff in their respective places. Before I could thank her someone came running down the hall while screaming, "Hokage-sama." It was then I realized it was the guard.
"What is it?" The Hokage asked with a groan.
"I'm sorry Hokage but it seems the man you made me look after has escaped!"
Shizune and Tsunade looked at him like he was retarded. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor sod at the moment.
"It took you a long time to figure that out." Shizune told the guard.
"What does that mean?" The guard asked really confused.
"Look beside you." Tsunade told him while trying to sooth a headache. At least it looked like it from my point of view.
The guard then looked beside him to find me waving at him innocently, "Hiya!" I told him.
"Yo-you. How-I don't-where-why are you?" The man than shook his head, "I am so confused." The guard turned to the Hokage and was going to try to explain when she stopped him with a raise of her hand.
"Don't worry, you won't get in trouble. I will overlook this incident since he was with me. Now leave before I change my mind." The Hokage told him, he immediately complied.
"Now Shizune, I am going to take Gohan and question him on my own. I want you to make sure everything is running smoothly when I am gone." Shizune looked ready to object.
"But Lady Tsunade…" Shizune trailed off as Tsunade grabbed me roughly by the arm and puffed away.
Tsunade POV
I don't know what caused me to grab the boy and then leave. Probably because this will be a way to get away and hopefully relax…but since I have to interrogate him it will probably not happen.
I poofed us outside the hospital and then let go of his arm.
"Neat trick." He told me.
"Do you know anything like that one?" I asked him as we started to make our way away from the hospital.
"I know something somewhat similar to that, except there is no puff of smoke."
I raised an eyebrow. He knows how to bring out my curiosity. "Can you show me?"
"Sure!" and before I could react he pulled me into a hug, which for some reason made me blush. How could I be blushing? The kids probably only half my age! Then he put two fingers on his forehead and the next thing I know we were on a bridge in Konoha.
A kid that saw us suddenly appear ran off in fright making the bridge empty with only us two. A couple seconds later Gohan finally realized he was holding me in an embrace and quickly let go blushing lightly. For some reason I couldn't help but think it was cute. I shook my head. Cute? Come on Tsunade get a hold of yourself.
Gohan POV
I blushed lightly and let Tsunade go when I realized I was holding her in my arms. I didn't mean to do it on purpose but I always get really enthusiastic when I use Instant Transmission because it is really fun.
"Sorry," I told her sincerely.
"It is O.k." She told me with a light glare. "But don't do that again or I will punch you to the moon." An evil glint appeared in her eyes as she said that.
I gulped; even though she is probably a lot younger than me she is still really scary.
She then looked around and said, "I guess this is a good place to talk." Turning to me she then said, "First you have to change though."
Looking down I realized that I was still in the doctor's uniform, "Oops," I said "Let me change that." I put a hand on my shoulder and a moment later the doctor uniform was replaced with my usual outfit. My pole was still on my back, the sword was attached to my side, and the sensu were in one of my pockets.
When I looked at Tsunade she stared at me with shock. She then shook her head, "You have a lot of explaining to do."
"What do you want to know?" I asked her.
"First where do you come from and how old are you?"
"Are you trying to get a date?" I asked her.
She snorted at me, "You are too young for me kid."
I raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure its not the other way around?" I asked her.
"I am 51." She told me. I opened my eyes slightly in shock. She is 51? She appears to be only in her twenties though. Could she be just like me? I had to find out.
"How?"
"I have a very strong illusion jutsu that makes me appear to be this young."
"What is a jutsu?" I asked her.
She looked at me funny, "You don't know what a jutsu is?" I shook my head negative. "Chuunin?" I shook my head again. "Shinobi? Konoha? Kage's? Ninja Villages?" I shook my head a third time.
Tsunade POV
After I asked him those questions, I started to believe he was trying to just trick me but when I looked into his eyes I saw honest confusion. The guy really doesn't know a thing about where he is. Then that makes my question I asked him before more prevalent, Where is he from?
I rubbed my temples in frustration. "It looks like I have a lot of explaining to do." I then told him about ninja villages, kage's, pretty much a general over view of what a life of a ninja was and what weapons and techniques they use.
I gave him a few minutes to process everything before I asked him again, "Where are you from and how old are you?"
He looked at me and said, "You probably won't believe me."
"Try me."
Gohan POV
I raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure? It is pretty unbelievable."
She gave me a look that said 'bring it on'.
"I am 53 years old and I look this young because I have eternal youth. Also I come from another planet."
Tsunade POV
I gaped at him in disbelief. When he said it was unbelievable he really meant it. As he started to explain though and gave proof like that metallic thing we found him, which he told me, was called a ship. He also proved it by showing me these outrageous techniques. The pole on his back actually extended and that he could FLY!
He even talked about a little of his life and as I looked into his eyes I realized he was telling the truth. I could see the wisdom of being alive for quite some time, the pain of losing people precious to you. You could clearly see from his eyes that he has been through a lot. There is something though that I found that he and I share that was hidden deep within those black orbs…
Loneliness.
Maybe a date with him wouldn't be so bad.
End Chapter 3(A/N) Sorry it took forever I hoped you all liked it. Please review if you did.)