AN: Sorry for the delay, there is a heatwave on my city and my AC broke, I simply couldn't get to write in a 120F room.
Anyway, I did have a chance to fix some of the grammatical errors in earlier chapters, at least the ones Grammarly caught. And just so you know English is not my first language, if you see anything that doesn't make sense drop me a line and I will fix it ASAP.
I rewrote the stabbing scene in Chapter 7 (Sakura), thanks to twinbuster2 to pointing out that normal clones are immaterial and there was no way for Sakura to know about shadow clones, I think I like more how the scene ended up.
Also, we go past the 900 follows mark, fun fact: Shewolf1990 was follower #900
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Kisosho village was, in Jiraiya's opinion, a depressing place. He liked that there was a brothel in every other corner but he didn't like the overall feel of despair and hopelessness. The gate guard had been a bit pugnacious until Jiraiya adjusted his forehead protector so he could get a good look at it, after that he became cooperative in an instant. He quickly pointed him to Hanako's house.
Hanako had been a childhood friend of Kushina, they both lived in Whirlpool before it was destroyed. During the yearlong training, Kushina used to come to Kisosho to meet with her. It was at that time that Kushina had been pregnant.
That was something Jiraiya had pondered over the past two weeks, in a way it made sense to keep Kushina's pregnancy a secret, Minato at the time hadn't been the Hokage, he was an up and coming Jonin, a very talented one, but not one who had the influence to protect the nine-tails jinchuuriki giving birth, and considering how her second delivery ended up, he understood.
But, it still hurt that he hadn't been told.
And now, their daughter showed up from nowhere and decided to start living with Naruto. If she was really their daughter, and Sensei thought she was, Naruto would have someone to watch over him, something Jiraiya had been unable to do the last ten years.
It was something he regretted.
Years ago, he had offered Sensei to take Naruto on a trip, train him and let him live a normal life. He would be safe in Mount Myoboku. The man had rejected the idea. He wanted Naruto in the village where he would be the safest and where he could become the hero of the village, as Minato had wanted. Jiraiya scoffed mentally at that, it would have been kinder for the boy to live among the toads who wouldn't care about his prisoner.
Jiraiya stood in front of the dilapidated house, the dead tree at the front garden and the peeling paint on the yellowing walls made the house feel like it was abandoned, as he walked to the porch the only sign that the house wasn't was the warm light coming out of the curtained windows.
As he reached to knock the door it opened.
A girl, about one head shorter than him, with blond hair in a ponytail, green eyes, and Minato's face. Her eyes rested for a second on his chest before she slowly looked up until she met Jiraiya's eyes. Her shoulders tensed and her eyes became round and big like saucers, she took a step back, her mouth moving but no words coming out.
Who was she? She had Minato's face and Kushina's jawline and nose, and those eyes even though they weren't Blue, they were Minato's eyes. But if this girl was their daughter, what was she doing here? So far away from Konoha.
It was suspicious
"Who are you?" the girl said she glanced at Hanako "Do you know him?" Hanako shook her head eyes wide in fear as she too took a step back.
"I could ask you the same question," said Jiraiya, frowning at her and using his best stern voice, the girl's eyes darted to his forehead protector, her eyes widened a bit before she lunged at him. Jiraiya reacted to the aggressive movement by preparing a substitution jutsu in case the girl did anything dangerous but as soon as she put a hand on his shoulder Jiraiya was enveloped by darkness, he felt as if he was being pressed from all directions and he lost the sense of himself, for a moment he thought he had underestimated his opponent, but just as the thought came to his mind, his face landed on something soft and squishy, it smelled of flowers and rice. His stomach felt like that one time he had tried of drink Tsunade under the table, he shook his head, opened his eyes but all he could see was green. Then he felt a sharp pain in his groin and the girl pushed him away.
"P-Pervert!" The girl said, Jiraiya mastered the unbearable pain he was feeling, he unsteadily stood up and gasped for air.
Then he doubled over and vomited.
He finished emptying his stomach on the grass, his eyes focused and he realized he was in a forest clearing, he looked at the girl, she was clutching her left shoulder with her right hand, and her left arm hung limply beside her, her black cloak was stained red on her left shoulder, when the girl noticed Jiraiya looking at her she took several steps backward and clumsily wielded a kunai in her right hand.
"S-Stay away!" she pointed the kunai at Jiraiya, he noticed her hand trembling. Jiraiya raised his hands to show he didn't mean her any harm.
"Calm down girl, you'll get hurt" that didn't come out as Jiraiya had hoped, it sounded more like a threat than anything else, the girl spun on her heel, threw the cloak towards Jiraiya creating a black curtain, it was an obvious distraction for something else, Jiraiya had already decided that the girl was at less than genin level by the way she gripped the kunai and how she had tackled him at Hanako's house.
Although she had at least knowledge of some advanced Justus. If whatever she had done to bring them to this clearing wasn't the Hiraishin or something similar he would eat his geta. He rushed towards the cloak, he heard the familiar sound of a kunai flying, without thinking he brought his own up and deflected the lone Kunai and in the same motion he slashed the cloak in half, when he finally got a glance of the girl, she was painfully trying to make some hand-seals, he didn't recognize the sequence, he would bet his forehead protector that it was that same space-time jutsu thing she had used earlier.
She was trying to escape.
Jiraiya frowned, he extended his arm, he knew exactly the seal he needed to stop the girl from getting away, his hand landed on the girl's chest and he molded the chakra needed for the jutsu
"Sealing Jutsu: Five Elements Seal!" Jiraiya felt the chakra on his hand transfer to the girl's chest, the girl brought her hands together but nothing happened, she frowned.
If someone were to walk into the clearing and see both of them, they would probably get the wrong idea.
Jiraiya's right hand was resting on the girl's left breast, he was in a wide stance leaning towards the girl, and she was frowning at her own hands, they stayed like that for a few seconds until the girl's eyes looked at her chest, then at Jiraiya's hand, her frown deepened and cheeks flushed, she brought her right hand backward and before Jiraiya could react the girl smacked him, hard, in the face.
He was sent flying sideways, during his short trip, he felt a little bit nostalgic, it was as if he was with Tsunade all over again, he stuck hard on a tree but the damage he received was more to his pride than to his body.
He gathered himself up and looked at the retreating girl, she had started running towards the tree line, she probably had the idea that she could escape from him, Jiraiya sighed and followed her at a slow pace, using everything he knew about stealth so the girl wouldn't notice, he wanted to observe how the girl acted.
She finally stopped running about ten minutes in, she rested her back against an old tree and thick before sliding down onto the forest's ground, she opened her jacket revealing an amazing pair of knockers bound with bandages, Jiraiya made a mental note to add something like that to his next Icha Icha book, she looked at her own arm it was missing a good part of flesh and blood kept gushing out, she went completely pale and her eyes widened, but she still unbound a strip of bandages from her chest, Jiraiya tried not to focus on that, not too much anyway, she applied it as an emergency tourniquet to her arm.
So the girl had a good base of first aid, interesting, and big boobs, that was interesting too. The girl unbound her chest completely when she noticed some of the markings left by the Five Elements Seal. She frowned and pursed her lips as she tried to scrap it with her finger. Jiraiya almost laughed at that.
Jiraiya noticed how fast she was breathing, she was about to go into shock, not to mention the Five Elements Seal was disrupting her chakra flow, he was surprised that the girl hadn't fainted yet considering her arm was probably numb. She grabbed a stick and started playing with it, Jiraiya frowned, was she going insane? Then she threw it away and started trying to do hand seals, after four seals she touched her chest and said something Jiraiya couldn't hear, nothing happened, she tried this again but her eyes started to close, but she didn't go down.
Jiraiya was impressed
He decided that he had seen enough and used a body flicker to appear next to the girl. The girl tried futilely to stand up, Jiraiya growled at her.
"Oh for the love of—don't you know who I am?" the girl stared at him for a moment before shaking her head, "Really?!" Jiraiya felt insulted, he knelt beside in front of the girl and his loud voice said "I am Jiraiya-sama! Toad Sage from Mount Myoboku!" the girl stared at him with a blank expression "No? Jiraiya-sama of the Legendary Sanin?" the girl's expression didn't change, Jiraiya filled his hand with healing chakra and started treating the girl's wound, it wasn't really that grave as he first had thought "The Village's Madness?... no?" Jiraiya said hesitantly, the girl shook her head minutely "…I did train the Fourth Hokage…" The girl's shoulders relaxed and she let out a sigh, like if a heavy weight had been removed from her shoulders.
Damn you Minato!
"Then, Yo-you aren't going to hurt me or Hanako?" Jiraiya frowned
"Why would I do that?" the girl pointed at her own forehead, Jiraiya frowned, "Because I'm a Ninja?" she nodded and he looked questioningly at her
"Shinobi don't have a good reputation in the Land of Water, I can't expect all shinobi to be nice like those in Konoha, and you don't wear the leaf symbol, Oil?"
"Long story, girl, let's leave that for later, who are you?" he finished mending the girl's arm, he was proud of himself, he was sure it wouldn't leave a scar. The girl stared at Jiraiya before her eyes rolled back and her body rested limply against the tree. Jiraiya sighed. She did keep up for longer than he had expected.
"Well, let's find a way for you to rest"
Jiraiya carded the girl and started his way towards the village
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When Jiraiya went back to Hanako's house the woman was hysteric, it took some time for him to calm her down, but once he explained who he was (she did recognize his 'Toad Sage' title) she started fussing over the girl, Jiraiya deposited the her on a bed in a room with pink walls, Hanako prepared tea for the both of them while Jiraiya tried to fish for information on the girl. Her name was Haruko, she had received Kushina's last name because Minato was a clanless shinobi, she was born in March Twenty, hence her name, she went to Kisosho Village's elementary school and started her apprenticeship in sewing at fourteen, one day while doing her cleaning chores she stumbled upon one of Kushina's letters and discovered that she had a little brother in Konoha, after a bit of fighting and yelling Hanako let the girl travel to Konoha on her own. That had been three weeks ago.
While Hanako tended to the girl Jiraiya looked around the room, it looked any like any room of an average teenage girl, there was a desk next to the window, several sewing utensils over a half-finished pink yukata, the bookshelf had an assortment of romance novels, teen magazines, and sewing guides, Jiraiya stopped looking around when he heard the girl grunt and stir on the bed.
"Hanako?" Hanako narrowed her eyes, but then smiled gently at the girl
"Haru," she said in a sweet voice "What did I tell you before you left?" the girl paled a bit
"Uh, don't go looking for trouble…" she sighed "I'm sorry, I thought he was going to hurt you" Haru's stomach growled as she said this, Hanako smile widened.
"I Think, I still have some rice and grilled fish dear" she stood up and glanced at Jiraiya, she left behind an awkward silence
"My name is Haruko Uzumaki" Haruko suddenly said, breaking the silence "I'm from Konoha"
"Yeah I know a bit about you," he said in a gruff voice "girl, you are far away from home, why?" Jiraiya tried and failed to avert his eyes from the girl's impressive bosom, she zipped up her jacket up to her neck and frowned at Jiraiya.
"I came to visit Hanako." she was still frowning at him
"Just like that?" the girl nodded "What about that thing you did that got us to the forest?" to her credit the girl didn't flinch, though she looked a bit sheepish. She rolled her shoulder to test it and smiled
"Thank you for healing me"
"You didn't answer my question" Haru's smile wavered a bit
"Well, It's a jutsu I created," she said "I read a few books and came up with it when I read about dad's techniques," she frowned "why?"
Why!?
If it was true that this girl had just created a jutsu that worked like Hiraishin just by reading a few books, it could mean she was the kind of genius that came once every ten generations, this girl, with proper training, could be at the same level of the first Hokage, he needed to play it cool.
"No reason, does it have a distance limit? Does it need any kind of anchor like Hiraishin?" the girl pondered her question for a second
"No, it shouldn't have a distance limit, though I haven't tested it, and I only need to know where I'm going to be able to use it, I guess"
The possibilities for such a jutsu where… limitless
"I see, do you know that finding you here is really suspicious?" the girl gulped and averted her eyes from Jiraiya
"I know, but… I don't want to be a ninja, I didn't want Hokage-sama finding about this jutsu" Jiraiya's eyebrows raised almost up to his hairline, the girl looked again at Jiraiya "I just want a normal life, with Naruto"
Jiraiya thought that that would be a total waste of talent, but the way the girl talked, trying to force her or even lightly push her into the world of shinobi would be counterproductive. Jiraiya let out a heavy sigh
"Do you think sensei would force you to become a Ninja?" Haruko opened her mouth to respond but Jiraiya spoke before she could say anything "The old man isn't like that, he would respect your wishes, and the last thing he would do is force someone to do something they don't want, I have to admit that your jutsu and your talent are impressive, but at most the man would ask you to share your knowledge with other people" Haru' crossed her hands and let out a huff, stubborn girl
"Ok, you are going to rest for a bit and then we are going to set out for Konoha"
"I could take us there… but after what happened to my arm…" she trailed as she rubbed her shoulder "that's without considering I can't use my chakra," she narrowed her eyes at Jiraiya "What did you do to me, there are some strange markings on my chest"
"It's the Five Element Seal, it disrupts your chakra flow, it was the less violent way to stop you from running away" he extended his arm towards the girl's chest she pulled away and clasped her hands over her bosom in a protective manner, her eyes almost slits
"What do you think you are doing!?"
"Removing the seal? I need to touch the, erm, general area where the seal was applied…" the girl looked dubiously at him, Jiraiya forced his face into a neutral mask.
"Ok," the girl removed her arms from her chest and Jiraiya reached for them, just as his hands were an inch away the girl said "If you squeeze them I'll teleport you to the moon" Jiraiya gulped as he strengthened his willpower
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The girl rested for about two hours before she was shaking with unspent energy, hyperactiveness was, apparently, an Uzumaki trait. They had decided against using the girl's Teleport Jutsu so soon after it had taken a good part of her shoulder. They would make their way to Konoha the old fashioned way, walking a little bit and sitting on a boat for a longer bit.
As they left Hanako's house, the girl gave the woman a hug and a promise that she would come back later, the woman, on the other hand, gave them more of that simple grilled fish and a thermos with hot black tea.
they set out at a sedate pace, still unwilling to push the girl after she lost all that much blood, he planned to take a boat to the Land of Fire and walk the rest of the way to Konoha. It was slow but it didn't risk losing an arm or a leg.
They made their way through Kisosho Village. they entered what looked like the bad side of town (and that was saying something considering the state of the rest of the village) there was nothing but brothels, bars, the occasional casino and some abandoned buildings where you could see homeless people congregating, the girl scooted closer to Jiraiya and warped tighter the blue cloak Hanako had given her. The docks where just past the block and if they were able to not attract much attention they would be out of Kisosho's red light district in half a block.
Unfortunately, It wasn't meant to be.
"That's right, little girl, we have some food here, come 'ere," Said the slick voice of an older man
"Yeah we have some toys to give you," Jiraiya turned to see two grown men flanking a little girl, she had black unwashed hair and was a bit on the skinny side, yet you could see she was really cute with those big black eyes and her full pink lips, the girl followed the men unquestioningly. One of the men had a short sword on his hip and the other wore bandages on his fists, civilian law enforcement or Bandits it didn't really make a difference here. Jiraiya frowned as he looked at Haruko. She was staring daggers at the men, releasing killing intent, it spiked when the men, entered a dark alley, one of them was giggling in a way that betrayed his true intentions. Jiraiya frowned feeling a bit of anger but before he could take a step he heard a loud crack.
He searched for the source of the sound and realized that Haruko wasn't at his side anymore
"BASTARDS!" he heard Haruko's voice come from the alleyway "LEAVE THE GIRL ALONE, YOU BLOODY WANKERS!" Jiraiya didn't recognize the last two words but by their tone, he was sure they were insults.
"Damn it" Jiraiya rushed to the alley to help the girl
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Harry was furious, bloody fucking pissed, even more than when Ron was being an ass during their fourth year, she was so angry her hands shook, she was sure her body was releasing so much adrenaline she was at risk of suffering a heart attack.
She didn't much care
The small pains she still felt on her shoulder and chest a few minutes ago were completely gone, the only thing she was feeling now was fire flowing through her veins, and the pressure of wanting to release magical doom on these bloody arse-lickers. She apparated into the alley with a loud crack.
"BASTARDS! LEAVE THE GIRL ALONE, YOU BLOODY WANKERS!"
One of them, the one with the sword, looked up at Harry, he licked his lips and set his mouth in a silly smirk
"Oh my, girl, do you want some of thi—" the man fell back hitting his head on the alley's cobbled ground as a red beam hit him directly in the chest, the other man, the one with the bandaged hands, stared dumbly at his fallen comrade and only had a second to avoid another stunner.
Harry clicked her tongue
She apparated behind the man, pushed as much chakra into her fist as she could and primed a punch, the man barely had time to react as he brought his arm to protect himself from the train in form of a fist coming towards his face.
Harry's fist connected with the man's face and he flew backward hitting the wall of a building. He slid down and fell to his knees and hands. The man was shaking his head, he was stunned. Harry walked calmly and pulled one of Naruto's enchanted Kunai.
Just as Harry was a foot away from the man, the bandages on his arm uncoiled themselves and curled on Harry's ankles, the man jumped backward pulling the bandages with him and tripping Harry. Harry slashed the bandages as the man bounced on the brothel's wall and launched himself fist first towards Harry, she could see a blue glow on the man's hand
Chakra
Harry apparated thirty feet above and started to fall down, she looked down, the man hit the ground with his fist creating a crater sending debris flying in every direction, without thinking Harry apparated in front of the girl and made several hand seals
"Protergo" a shimmering energy shield appeared in front of Harry just in time for the first pieces of debris smash into it, Harry spared a glance at the girl whose eyes were wide in awe, then she looked at the man, he was now standing, he was in a stance similar to that of a professional boxer.
Harry narrowed her eyes at him and stood up, she sent a stunner at him, but the man avoided it easily and gained a bit of ground, getting closer to Harry.
He was clearly a close range combatant and was being super cautious with Harry's long range attacks, Harry smirked, and she made the seals for a stunner. She rushed at the man, head on, and Harry saw how he smirked at her.
To the man's credit his taijutsu was superior to Harry's, but considering that all Harry knew of taijutsu had been taught to her by her little brother, the dead last of his class and a few Bruce Lee flicks she saw in her other life, it was not saying much.
The man avoided most of Harry's punches and kicks, and Harry blocked most his, It wasn't until the man did a backhand wide strike that Harry saw the opportunity she was waiting for. She clashed her forearm with his, stepping inside the man's guard, she slammed her palm against the man's chest, there was a red flash and the man eyes widened, then rolled back into his head. The man fell limply to the ground.
Harry let out a nervous sigh, she fell to her knees, her whole body was shaking and her respiration was quick, it was probably because she was having an adrenaline crash.
A shadow loomed over her and Harry readied herself to continue the fight until she realized it was Jiraiya. He looked at the men sprawled on the alley's floor and, then at Harry.
"I'm surprised you struggled with these nobodies" he sighed and Harry narrowed her eyes at him. Good, if Jiraiya knows that Harry has no formal shinobi training, he couldn't suspect, incorrectly, that she is some kind of spy or worse, the truth.
"Yeah? Well, my Sensei is Naruto" Jiraiya cringed a bit, Harry looked at the girl she was trembling and Harry realized that the girl was wearing an iron collar with a foot of chain dangling from it.
A ball of fire raised to Harry's throat, she frowned, the girl cringed and tried to draw away from her, Harry steadied her face and tried to smile, even though that was the last thing she wanted to do. He wondered for a moment how Hermione would react to this little girl.
She was able to smile again
She stood up even though her legs were shaking and walked to the girl. She crouched so her face was level with her.
"Where are your parents?" the girl's eyes flashed in pain, before it became an expressionless mask, if not for her dead looking eyes. "I'm Sorry," Harry said and she meant it, and the girl realized for a moment that she was being sincere because her face opened up a bit, breaking her fake mask. "Where do you live?"
The girl looked at Harry, but then shook her head and whispered "nowhere"
"Well then, if you want, you can come live with me"
"Hey—" said Jiraiya but Harry Ignored him
"I have a little brother, but I guess I can take care of you too" the girl's eyes widened in surprise, her mouth hanging open, she started to shake.
"W-Why?"
"Why? Because I don't think a little girl shouldn't have a family and live nowhere" Harry smiled at the girl showing her teeth "What do you say?" the girl's eyes started to water and she started crying
"I'm sorry—" Harry was confused, she looked at Jiraiya and his expression was the same as her "But— I'm not a girl" she sniffed "I'm a boy" oh
"Oh sorry, I thought you were… because you are really cute" Harry smirked at the boy "but whenever you are a girl or a boy, it doesn't matter… if you still want, you can come live with me" the boy's sobs increased in intensity as he nodded
"Ok, err… what's your name?"
"Haku, my name is Haku"