Chapter 10: story of the cursed necklace and Tsunade's decision
Inside a hotel room Naruto was excited to have a challenge right now, Ryu on the other hand was thinking about the bet Tsunade made earlier. 'There's something about that necklace and she's afraid to tell us about it'
Just then a knock came to their ears "come in" they both said and Shizune entered. "Oh Shizune, what are you doing here?" Ryu asked
The medic-nin was feeling a bit worried and she spoke "sorry for interrupting your night, but there's something that you two need to know" she sat down in front of them "it's about the necklace Tsunade wears… it's cursed"
That got the boys attention, "really? Then please explain" Ryu said and Shizune nodded. She started to tell the whole story about the cursed necklace.
Meanwhile we see Tsunade on top a tengen gate she was feeling sad about the necklace around her neck, she held on the jewel and then started to remember her precious ones "Nawaki...Dan"
-Flashback-
We see Tsunade on top the hokage's tower looking over the whole village she admired the view while the wind blew her hair. "Onee-chan!" a voice called out to her, she turned around seeing her younger brother running up to her. He looked just like Naruto but he has greenish-grey eyes, brown spiky hair and instead of orange clothes, he wore a dark teal colored poncho and grey pants.
"Oh hi Nawaki, what are you doing here?" she asked her younger brother. The boy in front of her was smiling seeing his older sister "I just wanted to see my nee-chan and tell her my dream to become hokage one day like grandfather" Nawaki said with enthusiasm
"Are you sure? Being hokage can be boring." Tsunade said "hey don't make fun of that title! Grandfather worked hard in founding this village. If I were to claim that title it would be of great honor for me to carry it" he said with pride.
Tsunade smiled seeing Nawaki have such a noble goal "well if you're going to be Hokage like grandfather, then here" she gave his brother a small box. Nawaki opened it and was surprised to the item, it was a green jewel tied to a string. He took the necklace out and it sparkled with the sun. "This is" he said slowly
"That's right, it's grandfather's necklace. He always wore it during his leadership in the village" Tsunade said.
Nawaki wore the necklace and smiled "thanks nee-chan, someday I'll be hokage and make grandfather proud."
Tsunade told her brother to take off his forehead protector, the boy took off his head band and asked why but he was suddenly kissed on the forehead by Tsunade. She said it was a sign of good luck and she hoped to see Nawaki grow up to be hokage one day.
A few days later
It was a rainy day, Tsunade rushed back to her home with a fearful look after what she heard on what happened to Nawaki, when inside she saw her teammates Jaraiya and Orochimaru. Jaraiya didn't look at Tsunade but Orochimaru on the other hand smirked "I know what happened to your brother" he said and showed the same necklace her brother wore.
It has been a week since Nawaki's death. Tsunade kept the necklace around her neck as a reminder of her little brother. During some time she met a chunin ninja who was assigning a medic-nin in every ninja squad and they started dating, during their walk Dan started to talk about his dream of being hokage of konoha.
Dan said that he lost a sister and was now taking care of his niece Shizune, Dan wanted to become hokage so that he can protect everyone. Tsunade admired his wishes and gave Dan her necklace to help accomplish that dream.
During a mission something very bad happened, Dan was badly hurt. He had a big wound on his torso with blood dripping out of the heavy wound. Tsunade used her healing techniques and tried to stop the bleeding but it was too late, Dan was now dead. Tsunade looked at her hands which were covered in blood.
After that trauma the female sage took Shizune as her medic apprentice and left the village.
-Flashback end-
Back at the hotel Shizune just finished her story and the boys were just taking the whole story into their heads. The girl was worried for Naruto's safety the curse of the necklace might take hold of him too, the blond ninja paid no mind to that he stood up and left the room not backing down on his challenge.
A week later
The time came Jaraiya was weak from Tsunade's special remedy of chakra depletion powder during the time she's with him.
Tsunade was at the outskirts of the town with Orochimaru and his assistant on an open field. She started to use her medical technique and walked toward the snake sannin.
But before she was able to touch Orochimaru, Kabuto dropped with a kunai in hand, he felt killing intent from Tsunade. Orochimaru was surprised, he asked why and Tsunade answered that even though she could see her loved ones again they would scold her for sacrificing other people to bring them back.
Just then Tsunade saw Jaraiya, Naruto, Shizune and Ryu running toward them. The group was quite relieved to see that Tsunade decided to not help the snake revive his arms. Now that the three sage ninjas came back for a reunion which will be their last time for being together, Kabuto rolled up Orochimaru's sleeve with the young medic using his blood and drag it on the snake tattoo.
Kabuto made a few hand signs and slammed them down on the ground "summoning jutsu!" A giant puff of smoke came and when the smoke disappeared reveals a giant purple snake with a black underbelly and black stripes over its scaly back, this was Manda the strongest and most feared among the snakes Orochimaru summoned.
Orochimaru what is the meaning of- the snake looked down seeing two other sages below I see that having your ex-teammates around. I'll help, but in exchange for my services you must make a hundred human sacrifices.
Jaraiya started to summon his toad but instead of summoning his toad but it revealed to be a small orange frog sporting a blue vest with purple marking around his eyes, lips and stomach. This was Gamakichi a toad that Naruto summoned before while fighting Gaara's inner beast Shukaku. Jairaya was still low on chakra and this was the only size he can summon when he regained a bit of his strength.
Naruto tried to summon that toad himself but instead it was a small yellow frog with orange marking on his eyes, lips and stomach. He was quite the calm one hey there do you have any sweets?
Hey Gamatatsu you're not supposed to be summoned here! Gamakichi said to the now named Gamatatsu Really, I've been summoned? Hooray!
It seems that Naruto's chakra control was still in need if training since his chakra is still out of balance so he can only summon a small sized toad for a while.
Jaraiya tried again and finally summoned a large toad red toad with a metal pipe in mouth a scar over his left eye he also carried a tanto knife strapped on his back. Gamabunta has been summoned.
Tsunade did the same technique and summoned a giant white slug with blue vertical streaks on its back.
This was final battle amongst the 2 sages and the treacherous snake. It seems that this will be our only battle against that traitor of a sage, aren't we? The giant toad asked with Jaraiya nodding "we have to put every power to beat him"
Lady Tsunade I won't let myself lose to a man who calls himself a ninja the giant slug said with no fear. "That's right Katsuya you and I will get rid of him." The sage said to the slug now called Katsuya.
While the three sages were at a showdown Naruto, Ryu and Shizune were in front of Kabuto. "It seems that I will have to take care of you three to not interrupt Orochimaru's battle" he said and took out a kunai.
Ryu turned to Naruto "Naruto why don't you show us what you're capable of" he said to the boy. Naruto nodded, he stepped forward determined to beat Kabuto.
Shizune starts to get worried "are you sure that's a good idea?" She asked. Ryu just smiled with confidence "just sit back and watch the fight, it will surprise you" and Shizune watched.
Naruto was in front of Kabuto prepared to fight him. "Can you really defeat me?" Kabuto said sarcastically "I don't need to answer that cause you will be the one to be defeated." He said with fire in his eyes. And before long they got into battle, Kabuto was able to make a good fighting start and with the knowledge of the human body he knows where to strike at his target which mad Naruto only to evade with zero percent chance to fight back.
But when Kabuto was about to stab Naruto, the boy quickly grabbed the weapon with his hand and blood started to drip from his hand. Kabuto was surprised to see Naruto make such a reckless move, Naruto was breathing heavily but he still had that fire in his eyes, "I may not be as good as anyone around me but I won't be the one to wait and let them take care of me. I made a promise that I will handle myself no matter the odds and I don't break my promise!"
Naruto made a shadow clone and he opened his right hand, the Naruto clone used his chakra and spun his hand forming a sphere of blue chakra and in one move Naruto pushed the sphere against Kabuto's chest and the white haired medic-nin spun backwards at breakneck speed towards a boulder behind him when Kabuto was finally hit against the boulder he was out cold with a spiral gash with blood dripping on his chest.
When Naruto finally defeated Kabuto his vision started to get blurry before he to the ground. Ryu and Shizune ran towards the blond ninja who was still breathing, Shizune checked for any signs of unusual effects and found that he was poisoned. Ryu checked the kunai that Naruto still held in his hand and saw a purple liquid substance on the edge.
Shizune quickly started to use her medic skills and try to slow the poison from flowing throughout Naruto's body. 'You did good Naruto, get yourself some rest, you deserve it' just then Kabuto started to move his wound started to close almost looking like there was nothing. "It seems that I have underestimated him, I never would expect that he would use the Rasengan"
But before he could continue Kabuto was knocked out by Ryu in his Diend form. "I couldn't allow you to interrupt Naruto's treatment just because you survived that attack" Ryu placed Kabuto gently on the ground and he dashed to the battle of the three sages.
Manda was coiling around Katsuya and squeezed her very tightly but then the slug dispersed into small tiny slugs breaking free from the snake's binds. It started to reform into its giant state, the slug continued to battle Manda. Gamabunta and Jaraiya made combination jutsu, the giant toad spat oil from his mouth while the toad sage breathes flame from his mouth when the two elements combined, and a giant hose of fire was aimed at the snake.
After the flames were gone it revealed nothing but burned snake skin, Manda made sneak attack and coiled himself around Bunta's legs. While that happened Orochimaru and Tsunade were at a one-on-one battle at each other, the snake used his tongue and it stretched towards Tsunade but before the tongue can reach Diend grabbed it and used it to tie Orochimaru down. When Tsunade turned and was surprised to see the rider handle Orochimaru tied up by his own tongue.
"It seems that the snake has been… tied up at the moment" Ryu said before walking up to the giant battle he stopped after walking past Tsunade "don't beat yourself up just because you lost your precious ones, even though they are gone they would still say that you should protect everyone" and he started to walk again leaving a silent Tsunade behind him.
Tsunade turned around and asked Ryu "just who are you?" Ryu turned his head "I'm just a rider who fights to protect" he answered "remember that."
When Diend was in front of the giant animals Diend pulled the barrel back and slid a card Kamen Ride Kiva he shot forward summoning the bat rider. Diend pulled the barrel back again and slipped in a gold card Final Form Ride K-K-Kiva Diend pointed his gun behind Kiva "this won't hurt" and shoot him.
Kiva changed itself in a giant bow and arrow, Diend placed one last card in his gun Final Attack Ride K-K-Kiva
Diend held the Kiva arrow and pulled the string back "Kivvate Ikuze!" the arrow tip glowed bright red and Dien let go firing the arrow straight to Manda the sanke saw the red light and moved away he was alive but the arrow hit his left eye and he screamed in agony before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
Jaraiya and Gamabunta were surprised at what they saw. The giant toad disappeared in smoke leaving a stunned toad sage, Kabuto was able to wake up and he saw the fight among the sages was over. He quickly grabbed Orochimaru and left the scene. Shizune was tired in using her medic jutsu, Naruto still breathes and was still alive. Tsunade looked down at him and used her medic jutsu and continued to heal Naruto "after what happened today, I have decided to take the title of hokage and protect the village." She proclaimed, Ryu smiled at Tsunade's decision. She will now carry her loved ones dream on her shoulders.
A few days later
When everyone was back at the town Naruto was surprised to hear that Tsunade will be the fifth hokage. When Naruto accidentally insulted her Tsunade grew mad and almost shouted at Naruto, she pulled him outside for one last battle. After the short loss Tsunade gave her necklace to Naruto for completeing the Rasengan jutsu, Ryu asked for a picture of Tsunade and Naruto togetherwhich they obliged. When Ryu took two pictures he gave one to Tsunade.
When she saw the photo it surprised her, it revealed her and Naruto but there is Dan right beside her smiling warmly and right beside Naruto was his her little brother Nawaki. Tsunade would treasure this photo as a reminder that she has shouldered her precious people's dream of being hokage.
Chapter End