Hello again! I bet you thought I wasn't going to come back to this story. Actually, I was busy finishing up a different story and then going right into the second draft. But now I think it's about time I come back to this one and get back to work. SO, here's the next chapter!
Kawaii smiled as the women got him dressed. He thanked them generously for the bath. It really meant a lot to him that they were willing to take time out of their day to help him clean up. The women smiled at Kawaii, stating that it was no trouble at all. Kawaii continued to smile as they said goodbye before he went back over to where he had first seen the researcher. "Kawaii?"
Kawaii turned and smiled when he saw the Rensakage leaning against the wall. "Hi!"
The Rensakage smiled at him then nodded in the direction her headquarters were. "Someone wants to see you, Kawaii. He said that he'd wait until you were fully clean first."
Kawaii smiled. "The researcher?"
The Rensakage grinned. "His name's Jiraiya. Here, you can ride on my shoulders."
Kawaii was delighted as the Rensakage gently lifted him up. She grinned up at him as the two of them went through the street to her headquarters. However, Kawaii frowned when they abruptly stopped. He looked down to notice the Rensakage was looking up at a certain building, looking extremely annoyed. "Damn him, I knew . . . we're going to go this way for a bit. Something tells me Jiraiya's not where he said he would be."
Kawaii did his best to hold on as the Rensakage wall-jumped up to the top of the building. Kawaii was shaken like a ragdoll, but on the bright side he was still alive for now. Once he finally figured out which way was up again, he was surprised to see Jiraiya was up on the roof, looking through the telescope again. Kawaii smiled as he said hi, and as Jiraiya quickly turned around, seeming surprised to see them. "Huh, got done faster than I thought."
Kawaii smiled. "Did you learn anything from your research?"
Kawaii frowned and gulped as Jiraiya gave a strange, creepy smile. "Oh, yes. I learned a lot about it, and I can assure you I will put this to good use."
As the Rensakage frowned at Jiraiya, he sighed. "Yeah, yeah. First off, we'll want to get to lower ground."
Kawaii cocked his head, but gulped as both the Rensakage and Jiraiya leapt down to the ground. As Kawaii's heart started to beat again, Jiraiya laughed. "You don't normally tag along for a jump like that, Kawaii?"
Kawaii shook his head no. He was a little unnerved by that, it scared him when his survival depended on if the person holding him was holding on strong enough. As the Rensakage apologized, Kawaii smiled at her. "I-it's alright, I'll be fine."
Jiraiya chuckled as the three of them went to a more secluded area. Kawaii was confused when they reached the forest, where were they going? After the Rensakage asked Jiraiya, he said that about here should be far enough. "Alright Kawaii, you're gonna have to be on your feet for this."
Kawaii was now really curious, and once the Rensakage got Kawaii down Jiraiya told Kawaii to stand in a specific spot. While both Kawaii and the Rensakage were curious about it, Kawaii obliged. Jiraiya smiled. "Alright, two more things to do. First of all, we're going to need your shirt off for this Kawaii."
Kawaii obligingly lifted an arm, and Jiraiya helped him remove the shirt. The desire to know what they were doing was driving Kawaii crazy, but he trusted them. Jiraiya smiled at Kawaii, although Kawaii also noticed Jiraiya was putting one of his hands behind his back. "Now Kawaii, I'm going to do something that should help you out a bit. It won't fix your motor skills, but it's the most I can do."
Kawaii's eyes sparkled in glee and thanks, but before he could express how grateful he was Jiraiya spoke again. "The last thing I need you to do is to close your eyes and think happy thoughts. You'll know when you can open them, okay?"
Kawaii smiled as he nodded. "Okay!"
Without another word, Kawaii shut his eyes. Oh, he wanted to know! What was the gift, he was so excited, he loved getting gifts! Maybe it was a new shirt that he could somehow get on quicker, maybe it was something that could help him move, maybe it was . . . oh, he needed to know! "Can I open them now? Can I can I can-"
Kawaii's eyes flew open as he felt a very powerful hit to his stomach. "FIVE PRONG RELEASE!"
Kawaii barely got any time to think about it, he was sent flying backwards, through the trees and right back to the village. He tumbled through the streets as he slowly began to come to a stop. When he noticed the scenery change, he was astounded as he found he had gone all the way through the village.
Still he tumbled, until a large rock acted like a ramp and tossed him up into the air. When he came down, he was quite surprised to find himself landing in water, which stopped his tumbling. He grew nervous, he couldn't swim! Just when he was wondering if this had actually been an attempt to kill him, he felt some hands grab him and pull him to the surface. For a while Kawaii coughed, getting the excess water out of his lungs as his body shook in both shock and pain. That had really hurt!
When he finally could move again and his coughing fit subsided, Kawaii was shocked to see the same six women from before surrounding him. "Wow Kawaii, just can't stay away can you? Are you alright?"
Kawaii weakly nodded as he tried to catch his breath.
"Who did that to you?"
(Switch-to-the-Rensakage's-view-jutsu)
The Rensakage gnashed her teeth as she glared at Jiraiya. "You never told me that 'fixing' the seal would mean slamming your hand into his gut!"
Jiraiya grinned at the Rensakage. "Well, that part had more to do with his interruption of my research. Come on, he should have stopped tumbling about half-way through the village."
The Rensakage gnashed her teeth at Jiraiya, but she soon dashed forwards to find Kawaii. While Jiraiya seemed confident that they'd find Kawaii right away, which was why he had sent Kawaii in the direction of the town, they soon found that while quite a few people had seen Kawaii flying through, no one knew where he had stopped. Eventually she raised her hands in frustration. "Now what are we going to do? Thanks to you Jiraiya, we can't figure out where he landed! This is your fault! And you hit him that hard just because he stopped your perverted actions, which knowing Kawaii wasn't actually intentional?"
Jiraiya frowned as he put a hand to his chin. "This is strange, I hit him in this direction so he'd just roll to a stop. Where could he have landed?"
As Jiraiya and the Rensakage continued to look for Kawaii, the Rensakage began to get worried. Orochimaru and the Akatsuki had already proven themselves to be after Kawaii, had Jiraiya just gotten Kawaii captured? Come on, there had to be a way to find him! And once she found him, she was going to murder Jiraiya for hitting Kawaii like that!
"There he is!"
The Rensakage and Jiraiya both turned, and the Rensakage lifted an eyebrow as Jiraiya paled. Six women were standing there, glaring viciously at Jiraiya as they cracked their knuckles. "So you think it's funny to hit poor little Kawaii when he was expecting some sort of present? Just because he can't pay you back doesn't mean we can't do it for him!"
Jiraiya gulped as the women charged at him. The Rensakage quickly stated for them to halt, which to her surprise they did. One began to angrily speak at the Rensakage, but the Rensakage interrupted her. "Kawaii, where is he?"
The women looked at each other then nodded to the forest on the other side of the town. The Rensakage couldn't believe it, and wheeled around to face Jiraiya. "You sent him into the forest after he tumbled through town?"
Jiraiya seemed just as surprised, but one more woman spoke. "He landed in a lake after apparently getting hurled into the air after hitting a rock."
Rensakage gnashed her teeth. "I'm going to see him. You six, this is an order. Beat the shit out of Jiraiya."
"Wait-I DON'T LIKE THIS PLAN!"
The Rensakage ignored Jiraiya, and instead grinned as she heard the beginning of the beat-down. As she walked into the forest, the sounds of the beat down faded away. Almost two minutes passed before the Rensakage finally found the lake, seeing Kawaii on his side next to the lake, drenched from head to toe.
He looked badly bruised as he lay down on his side, his face turned away from the Rensakage. The Rensakage immediately went to work, using medical techniques to help ease the pain. "I'm so sorry Kawaii, I had no idea he planned on doing that."
Kawaii grunted before he spoke. "I just . . . what did I do? I'm sorry, I won't do it again, I just need to know what I did."
The Rensakage sighed. "You annoyed him, apparently. The hit wasn't . . . he told me he was going to help you out, I had no idea he was going to hit you like that!"
Kawaii gave a slight grunt before he spoke again. "So . . . I didn't do anything?"
The Rensakage nodded. "You didn't do anything Kawaii. How do you feel?"
Kawaii sighed as he stated that he had felt worse before. "By the way . . . i-is there something . . . weird about this forest? Or did I hit my head on something? Or is it always . . . I don't know how to explain it, I think something's wrong with my eyes."
The Rensakage stepped over Kawaii's body, and flinched when she looked at Kawaii's eyes. Instead of the normal green they had been before, they were now red. Not just that, they were unmistakably red, not just a tiny bit. "I . . . I don't know, I'm going to have to ask Jiraiya about it."
Kawaii smiled at her then both of them flinched when Kawaii's eyes abruptly glowed red. "Huh?"
Kawaii shook his head for a bit before he looked around again. "Well that was weird. Huh."
The Rensakage frowned as she soon put Kawaii onto her shoulders. Just what had Jiraiya done to Kawaii?
Ah, good old Jiraiya. I never got tired of his amusing actions.