Chapter 4 ~On her way~
Naruko stood before the hokage's desk waiting for her trainer. He was… late. 'Why was every trainer or teacher she had always - and I mean always - late?' She could clearly see how angry Tsunade was just by looking, judging by how she clenched her hands in fists and closed her eyes just so she wouldn't let go of her fury right there and then. She sighed and gave Naruko a look telling that she could sit down.
She hadn't longed for going on a training trip with the hokage's husband, but in the same time she also looked forward to become stronger!
Just in the moment when Naruko was supposed to sit the door swung open and a morning -groggy Jiraiya set his foot inside and almost ran into the desk and was already begging for forgiveness because he was so slow. Tsunade hit him in the head and the desk broke in two. Meanwhile Jiraiya made something like an acrobatic performance and as a final landed on the floor like dead meat… Naruko giggled a bit before letting her face show some empathy before a straight face and she went to stand beside the now awakening Jiraiya at the floor. She nodded to Tsunade and helped him up on his feet. He brushed away the dust murmuring some swears under his breath before he started to talk
"Well I see that little Miss Noisy is ready to go so~ We won't be here any longer holding you away from your job, Milady" he said a bowed before her, and Naruko was sure she saw him grin.
"Sure - go now before I change my mind leaving her to be trained in your care." she said in a somewhat dark voice, and waving a hand while sighing so they got the hint and made their way out of the village.
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Naruko held her hand behind her head and leaned backwards as she went, they had been walking for some days now and she had asked a-heck-lot-of-times when he was going to train her. And he always said "everything has it's time". But now she was sick of it, she sat down on the path right there and crossed her arms over her chest and pouted. Jiraiya raised an eye-brow at her and asked
"What the hell are you doing?" looking at her with a weird look on his face.
"I don't want to go any further without you teaching me some kind of super-awesome jutsu!" she said with her eyes closed making a face not wanting to look at him.
"You really are a pain in the ass, do you know that?"
"Sure, I'm like that to everyone, just a pain in the ass…" the look on her face saddened and she opened her sky blue eyes a bit.
"…"Jiraya eyes softened, and so he sat down beside her, poking her cheek so she would turn and look at him. She did.
Her eyes full of confusion; he had just insulted her, now he looked at her with comfort. Not wanting to give her any other shitty comments, but sure it was too good to be true… Just as fast as he had turned into some kind of comfort he started;
"Little brat…" even though she was used to crap, this wasn't like the crap she normally got. This was like when granny-Tsunade was calling her brat, it was soothing in a way.
"What..?" Naruko asked looking him in the eyes
"Look here" he put his hand out and rotation blue chakra was forming into a ball in the palm of his hand "This is the jutsu I'm going to teach you"
"Looks like a blue hairball of chakra, I'm sure it's a suckish jutsu" she said not completely convinced.
He frowned and looked a bit pissed as he stood up with the blue ball of chakra. He walked off the main road and stood by a tree, he waved his hand for Naruko to come closer. She got up and walked over to Jiraiya - whom was now grinning - and then he pushed the ball into the tree.
Naruko gasped when she saw the result.
There was a huge hole in it from the front side, and the tree trunk was enormous. Jiraiya smiled a big grin shaking his head to his side for her to see the back of the tree.
There was an even bigger hole on the back of it and then he started to explain how it worked. Naruko, as the less sharp knife in village she managed to get to the conclusion:
- Three steps:
First;
She had got to manage to burst a water balloon in her hand.
Second;
She has to do the same with a rubber ball, even harder.
And last make it real! Which then is about controlling the power…
(As I said not the sharpest) she first got a water balloon, many water balloons. And that was the first step to manage it; she had to burst it with her control of the water. She made it spin and the balloon was almost flat, but it didn't burst… She used three days; three fucking long days to figure that she couldn't burst it with only a one-sided rotation. She came up with the idea after watching a cat play with her water balloons turning it from side to side until it popped. That's when she figured that she'd use one hand to steady the water balloon and the other to make the water rotate different ways.
She held the water balloon in her hand, clenched her eyes together and gritted her teeth together as the water balloon exploded in her hands and she fell on her butt. She looked confusing just spacing completely out before her eyes withed and a smile grew big on her face before she jumped, fist in the air and she jumped happily before she felt something heavy come in her mind and first her eye sight went black, then her hearing... and a sharp sound was the only thing she heard and then she felt that she fell. The pain of exhausting her chakra was away and she drifted off before she hit the ground in a loud "THUD". The toll of her keirakukei(1) had started to show.
What she didn't know was that all the time she had been training there had been someone watching her all the time. In the shadows behind a little cliff at the beginning of the forest, the shadow's eyes looked happily at Naruko. The shadow smiled and took a step from the cliff. It stopped and talked to itself, some of a red cape was shown and it looked like dark spiky hair.
"It's still too early, my chance will come later" and a grin appeared on its face showing white teeth.
The shadow went back behind the cliff again any didn't come back, yet.
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Naruko woke up by something cold dripping on her face. She opened her eyes slowly and focused to see Jiraya holding a blue ice-cream over her face. She smiled and grabbed the ice.
"It is legal to say a polite 'thank you', you know?" Jiraiya said as he took a bite of a blue ice cream too, the two ices had been one at some point.
"m-ank- yu" Naruko said with the ice in her mouth.
Jiraiya sighed and stood up as he finished his ice. "I guess you are done with the water balloon and this was a little congrats' fir finishing the first step." he said in a happy tone "So I brought you the next! Here~" and he pointed at a bag full of rubber balls.
He took one of them up and the sides of the rubber ball started to shake right before it burst into many pieces just like the water balloon.
Naruko watched with exited eyes and she took one of them, stopping as Jiraya walked away.
"Aren't you gonna help me train? Comon' help me some" she begged making a puppy face.
Without even turning around, he said;
"No way, you're so slow and this is something you gotta do on your own. And by the way - the rubber ball is a hundred times more solid than the water balloon so this is gonna test you power to the maximum while the other was about rotation. Good luck!" He walked as he waved one of his hands over his shoulder.
"Well thanks for nothing, BAA-KAA!(2)" she ate the last of her ice cream while she looked at the rubber ball she held in her left hand. Sighing she stood up with the ice cream stick in her mouth the held the rubber ball with both hand and focused. She thought of what the wolf had learned her, and now she was pretty confident with placing her chakra and not to forget forcing it. She took a deep breath and she growled as she forced her chakra inside the rubber ball to spin. The ball only made a little movement and Naruko fell and landed on her butt.
'DAMN, this is going to be a lot harder than I thought…' she gritted her teeth, and tried again.
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It had been days since Jiraya gave her the rubber ball to train. She sometimes managed to make a hole in it, but it was not even near of bursting. They had been walking to another town. Jiraya had taken Naruko's money, and he used it all on and in whorehouses! And since he was staying there, she had to stay there too in the nights...
At night when she got back to the whorehouse, she could feel from time to time just the walk up the stair that someone grabbed her ass. She never turned back, just walking steadily to the room, exhausted… as always she fell into the bed. She looked at her hands; they were shaking. And she sighed and slept until the morning. Just like always. As fast as the sun was up she got out of the bed and went out of the city. Everything was so quiet. Nobody was up except of her on the dusty streets and only a small breeze caught her hair and she smiled. She had a good feeling for today. The problem was the small fact that her 6th sense was as bad as a dog can see color.
She went to the forest just beside this village and started her training. It had been tree weeks since she went off on this journey with Jiraya. Last night when Jiraya came back, in his boxers, he said that she should store the chakra up, a lot, before she wanted to burst it. So now she only had to try this out. She focused and stored up a heck-lot-of chakra, she stood there focusing for hours' damn-it. She could feel the power and she put her other hand on top of the rubber ball and she let the power out. "BOOOOM" and the rubber ball exploded! Naruko screamed and was pushed back by the force she let out. She was slammed into a tree and her eyes went shut, a little trail of blood from her head and as she was lying before the tree. She opened her eyes a bit, chuckling a bit. "I guess I overdid it, again…" she said as her eyes closed with a small smile forming on her lips. She now knew she had managed it, it's just that she went on with a bit too much power. 'Next time' she thought to herself 'Next time I'll definitely show Jiraiya that I made it so I get on '.
Behind a tree there was once again a shadow. This time the grin was pure evil. The eyes were black, filled with lust and greed. Naruko was lying unconscious by the tree, not knowing of the danger approaching her slowly. The shadow walked slowly toward where she was lying. He stopped right before her, and now licking his lips as he bent down before her.
"I guess I want take my reward now that I actually can" he turned his head to both sides as his spiky hair stood up "Nobody is around to stop me neither. What luck!" He slowly reached his hand down to her face stroking her cheek. She was unmoving and the black eyes shadow got his other hand to the zip of her sweater and started to drag it slowly down.
DUN-DUN-DUN
Who is this?! and what the hell do this man want with Naruko?!
Sorry for the little delay but I hope you forgive me for than, and to make the little cliff hanger some better I can publish the next ch on Friday if you want, BUT ONLY if you review and tell me^^
Love ya all, Domi you're amazing^^
