Omniscient
Jiraiya had been away for a month now,Aikiko mused. He is on mission one after another. The last time they were together was not very pleasant.
He came home very drunk and was very mad accusing her of flirting with other men.
He then jumped on her and forced himself to her. It was like reliving nightmares from long ago.
He was able to do as he please as he was stronger. But in the morning, she never saw him again. There was just a scribble note of apology and a promise that it will never happen again and a short line about how he will be on missions.
The only time she saw him again was in the hospital. He was hurt and one of his comrades was critical. Good thing that one too recovered shortly.
She didn't know what's going on but she heard people whispering about him being careless and causing his comrades to get hurt.
Aikiko refused to believe that about her husband. But she cannot ask him because he had been distant and cold saying just one line here and there whenever he got home from the hospital.
They were doing fine after the festival and then it went downhill from there. He became very irritable and suspicious again.
Aikiko sighed. She must focus on this new jutsu she just learned from Iruka. It's a called transportation Jutsu. There are many ways to do it but the one she found easy was with tags. If you put certain tags on appropriate distance, or as far as your chakra can reach, then you can travel from one place to another in second. The fourth Hokage was even able to use it as a fighting strategy said the book found in the library. Of course she diligently studied the different variety of this jutsu, whatever version she can have access too.
You see, Aikiko has a plan. She noticed that her husband had been getting hurt during the last few missions so she decided she will not allow it anymore.
She learned a tracking Jutsu where you can put something on another individual and you can find out where they are. But better than that, she found in an old library book, if you can imbedded a jewelry of both blood and chakra of another person, you will be able to feel not only where they are but also their current state if they are in peril or not.
Unbeknownst to Jiraiya, she was able to do that when he was sick and she was taking care of him. He was able to draw some blood from him when she was cutting his toe nails. And she was able to capture some of his chakra one time he was drunk and was demonstrating one of his jutsu.
She embedded both in two stones, one she gave Jiraiya as a bracelet, and one she wore around her neck as a pendant.
So now she can feel if he is in trouble or not. The teleportation Jutsu is the next step so she can reach him where he is.
Iruka said that the distance you can teleport to your target depends on how strong your chakra is. But as long as you can feel your target, such as the tags, you should be able to teleport to the target's location.
So far so good, she just needed to perfect controlling the distance she wants to keep from the target.
It's a good plan theoretically, and she believes it may work.
Jiraiya is already out of breath. He can feel his chakra draining but he has to keep the pursuing mist nins at bay to at least give his two already wounded teammates a chance of escape.
The mission had gone terribly wrong. Admittedly, his carelessness had now put him and his team in this position. Tairu, a class S rouge ninja was after the scroll they have to deliver. He under estimated the strength of the ban of thieves after them.
He had been careless and was still recovering from some poison laced sake given to him by one of the pretty geisha. He was fooling around last night and now he is unable to fully use his strength.
Chakra infused spikes were now flying all over and Jiraiya swung his silver hair to prevent some spike to hit his team mates but he was one hit at the thigh. It's not the first wound he has received since the pursuit.
He was on the ground now bleeding; forming several signs in his hands he blasted a fire and heard one or two enemy Nins cry out in pain.
He smirked then in his blurring vision, he saw Tairu standing a few yards away. "Bastard" He thought, as the missing nin willed his jutsu and sent a few dozen spikes toward Jiraiya. "I guess this is it…and I never even had a chance to tell…" Then there was a loud shout, a bright light and a splash of what seem like water on his face.
He suddenly felt the chakra of the pursuing nin suddenly wiped out.
He squinted his eyes and when his vision cleared, he saw her long black hair blowing softly as if there was wind. Is this an apparition he thought? Why am I thinking about her at the very end of my life?
Then she turned around and touched his face. "Jiraiya sama are you hurt? don't worry I will heal you.." Her small hand blazed in blue as hee stared dumbfounded at her face.. "Beautiful… but how? Why? Aikiko?" he thought feeling daze.
The color of the chakra was turning to green and Jiraiya suddenly snapped out of his seeming trance. He looked down and saw four pikes through Aikiko's little body... the water he felt was really blood splattered all over him.. but they were not his.
"You are hurt!" He exclaimed. Aikiko laugh softly.. "I don't get hurt…"
Jiraiya held her hand to stop the chakra transfer as Aikiko slowly close her eyes with a smile and a whisper" ...I never get hurt" Then she slumped unconscious towards Jiraiya. He can feel her fading and fast.
Jiraiya was in panic… he mustered the last of his strength and summoned his old friend.. When the old toad appeared Jiraiya shouted, "reverse summoned us to the village!... please!... Immediately to the hospital!" Gagumka had a look of surprise, he glanced at the body being cradled by Jiraiya then gasped, he then did his reverse teleporting jutsu as requested.
Tsunade wondered what the big commotion was about in the middle of the afternoon… then she can't believe in front of her was Jiraiya muddied and bloodied, plus his two comrades sprawled on the hospital floor.
"Please save her" he weakly pleaded. Tsunade's eyes grow big in horror as she saw the body being cradled by Jiraiya, a limp body of Aikiko with four spikes through her upper trunk.
"Baka, how did this happen? Why the hell would you carry your wife to your mission?" Tsunade whispered.
"Sakura, Shizune take her to the emergency room, we will do surgery, Taka prepare the cell reproducing jutsu immediately. The rest of you, take these other three and provide them first aid" Tsunade bellowed.
As everyone scrambled to heed the Hokage's command, Tsunade turned to rush and prepare for the surgery only to hear her old friend whispering... " I don't know.. she just appeared... she just appeared before me."
The surgery has been ongoing for 6 hours now. Jiraiya, found himself in another room being tended by a nurse he didn't recognize. "Aikiko?" He asked. The nurse turned and smiled sadly. "Lady Tsunade, Shizune and Sakura san are still in the operating room working on her... Please don't move, you are injured."
The white sannin, ignore what he was instructed to do and slowly made his way to the waiting room in front of the emergency room. He didn't remember pushing the poor nurse a little too hard but he just walked half daze through the hospital corridors and sat himself in one of the bench there.
He waited another 3 hours before the door of the emergency room opened.
Tsunade came out first and saw him. "Hey, it's you... what happened? Why is she with you?"
"I don't know. She just appeared before me. I just saw a flash and then there she was…" He replied.
Both of them were silent.
"I see... looks like she mastered a teleportation jutsu by Minato..." Said Tsunade while leaning on the wall in front of Jiraiya, she looked exhausted.
"Ridiculous, for such a long distance?" Jiraiya retorted.
"You do not know your wife well until now then… she has a kekkei genkai but not only to wield ice but the same kekkie genkai allowed her to slow down age and decay. She came from a clan that was long destroyed when their secret was discovered. Her body heals continuously, she has ton of chakra reserve and her body is always at optimum unless…" Tsunade said
"Will she be alright then?" Jiraiya looked up.
"Unless they are hit by chakra infused weapons, then their body is no better than the regular persons." She sighed.
"What are you saying?" He said looking annoyed
"Jiraiya? What is she to you?" Tsunade asked quietly.
"She's my wife Tsunade, dammit, what kind of question is that?" he bellowed
"You don't seem to be treating her as so… I mean, I know you were dupe and all at the first place but then…" Tsunade giving her cold reply.
"What are you saying?" Jiraiya is feeling sick now, tired and even a little angry.
"Jiraiya, we did what we could to knit up what was punctured. She was hit in several vital organs her heart, her lungs… we did what we could but she is not responding…" Tsunade said closing her eyes.
Jiraiya was staring at her now like he didn't understand.
"We lost her twice on the operating table but were able to revive her, but truth be told... she might not be with us before dawn… you might want to tell her your good bye before that time... I'm sorry." Tsunade finished and opened her eyes.
She then slowly walked out of the waiting room as tears started flowing from her eyes.
Jiraiya, opened the emergency room and he barely recognized his wife's tiny body with the wires and tubes inserted in her. He caught Sakura crying while cleaning up the tools used. She looked at him but didn't say a word, he can't tell if it's pity or condemnation he saw on those eyes but for some reason, it didn't seem to matter now.
He sat in the lone available chair beside the bed and held the one exposed hand.. such tiny hand Aikiko has, he thought to himself. He just stared at her like he was in a trance… this is not happening he told himself… this is not happening..