Chapter 21
Ashe stretched her sore muscles and felt her neck joint pop in pleasure as she prepared for the day, she heard a familiar snoring sound from the bed next to her. "Oh so you decided to come back last night?" Ashe whispered seeing Naruto roll over and fall of her bed face first.
"Owww." Naruto let out a long groan as she got up. "Why is Auntie sleeping on the floor?" She asked, Ashe gave her look of utter silence then immediately went to check on her mom,
Ashe first checked her pulse and was relieved as she was ok just knocked out, "Mom are you ok?" Ashe asked as she shook her body. Shizune slowly rose into a sitting position and rubbed her stomach.
Shizune looked at Naruto puzzled, "How are you feeling? You were supposed to be out until tomorrow."
"Oh." Naruto smiled at her, "I just need a good night's rest, and I'll be at 100%."
Shizune just stared at her, "It has to be the nine tails giving Naruto some regenerative properties." Shizune suddenly stood up, "Have you seen Lady Tsunade?!" Ashe and Naruto both shook their heads, "Damn." She opened the window to quickly leave and was just about to get impaled by a kunai knife. She looked to where it was thrown.
"She gave me a minkie..." Jiraiya huffed as he sat down on the tile panels on the roof.
"Ashe give Master Jiraiya some water!" Shizune demanded causing Ashe to look confused before getting him some water.
"Got it." Ashe ran to the sink grabbing him a cup of water and shortly came back with it giving it to Jiraiya.
"I let my guard down thinking we'd just catch up over the years." Jiraiya said taking a large gulp of water. Shizune gave Jiraiya a very guilty look and he caught on it.
"How didn't you detect the drug, Pervy Sage?" Naruto asked, clearly knowing it would aggravate him. "Thought you were one of the best."
"I am the best! I trained your Uncle and the Fourth Hokage." Jiraiya complained passing the cup to Ashe so she can refill it. As soon as Ashe took the cup the from Jiraiya she felt a familiar presence nearby, but when she looked towards that direction it vanished. "You sensed it too?" Jiraiya asked, only receiving a nod from the young Genin.
"I'm sorry, Master Jiraiya... I should have told you about the meeting with Orochimaru... He said that if Tsunade restored his arms, he would bring back Nawaki and Dan."
Jiraiya stayed silent for a moment, "Then Tsunade didn't read the scroll that I handed her."
"The scroll of her being nominated as Hokage?" Naruto asked,
"Well yes... There were two there was that one and the one that Jo gave me." Jiraiya gulped the last of his water, "Other than Orochimaru that fought the Third Hokage he reanimated the First and Second. Even though they were weaker the Third was too old to keep up."
"Wait?! But the First and Second Hokage have been for over 40 years." Ashe yelled back
"Ashe... There are forbidden jutsu's much like the one Naruto learned from the scroll that he stole. Just cause your uncle let you off doesn't mean I will."
Naruto scratched the back of her head and left and apologized, "We need to get to Tsunade before she heals Orochimaru's arms."
Time Skip (Tanzaku Castle Grounds)
"No!" Shizune fell to her knees and pouted
"Are you ok there, Shizune?" Jiraiya asked
"I never got the chance to at least walk the grounds, since Orochimaru destroyed the castle."
Ashe and Naruto both let out a nervous laugh, Jiraiya stepped over the rubble and found Tsunade's green jacket. "I guess that means she refused to his arms." Ashe said,
From the back Shizune let out a sigh of relief, "Well TonTon can you get a smell of her."
TonTon sniffed the jacket and faced the forest and immediately raced into the trees, "Oink!"
All of us jumped from tree branch to tree branch, "Ashe, can you get a fix on their chakra signatures."
I shook my head, "I can't just pinpoint on just a certain individual yet." I admitted, "I do sense a dark chakra from earlier though."
Shizune looked back at me, "Dark Chakra?" She asked,
"When we were on the roof there was a dark presence I felt, but as soon as I noticed it… It disappeared."
"So, this is the same one?" Naruto asked and I nodded back to her. "Do you think the old hag is ok?"
"Lady Tsunade is as strong as Master Jiraiya, I would not worry about her." Shizune called back to Naruto. "Come we're almost there!" She commanded jumping further ahead.
I jumped next to Jiraiya to ask him a question, "I understand that Tsunade was her mentor and stuff, but why is mom so adamant to protecting her?" I asked
"Hmm." Jiraiya pondered about it, "Well other than the fact the Tsunade pretty much raised her as her own daughter. Your mother doesn't really connect to her family after Dan passed away she was only five years old at the time, but her uncle was probably the closest to her." Jiraiya said
"Until her and dad got together?" Naru asked behind us,
"Yea. How he did it baffles me. Always figured she would be single." Jiraiya,
"Hey, that's my mom you're talking about!" I hit Jiraiya in the shoulder causing him to skip a jump and fall to the forest below with a thud, "Hurry up, old man!" I laughed
A few minutes later
Tsunade was breathing heavy as she took this time to heal herself causing a wounded Kabuto, "Surprise!" He yelled as he spun around and charged at the wounded Sannin, "Let's see if your weakness is true!" Before Kabuto got too close a smoke bomb erupted near the area where he was about to attack Tsunade.
As the smoke cleared Jiraiya, Naruto, Shizune and I appeared in front of Tsunade. Orochimaru smiled at this, "My, my how long has it been since we stood of like this old friend?" He hissed causing me to shiver,
Jiraiya smiled at him, "It has been. Only been about two months since I last saw you. Well it was indirectly, after you reached when you killed the Third Hokage using the Forbidden Reanimation Jutsu to bring back the First and Second Hokage." He said causing both Shizune and Tsunade to freeze and stare at him. "By your reactions I assume you didn't open the scroll?"
"He… reanimated my grandfather… and uncle?" Tsunade asked in disbelief and shocked at the same time she collapsed on to her knees Shizune ran behind her and wrapped her jacket around her to give her some warmth.
"Kabuto?! What are you doing here?" Naruto asked as he pointed to the Genin from the Chunnin Exams,
I walked next to him, "Look at his headband, Naru. He works for Orochimaru, all those cards he has on us contained our strengths, weaknesses, and abilities." I said
"Is she and Sasuke still pulling your dead weight?" Kabuto asked giving us a murderous smile,
Jiraiya and Shizune stood in front of us both, "Shizune and I will deal with the both of them. You protect Tsunade!" Jiraiya yelled seeing Naruto run ahead quickly both my mom and I called for her back over to us.
Shadow Clone Jutsu! Naru crossed her finger into a cross and summoned four clones to attack Kabuto they split up in a pincer attack coming from the front and sides, Kabuto dodged the first attack from the clone and snatched her kunai and started killing each clone with it. Kabuto threw sand at one and grabbed a nearby clone and threw it at her causing that to dissipate into a small poof of clouds. The real Naruto skid across the plains until Shizune grabbed and skid backwards with him, but in the process she shot two poison needles from her mouth.
Kabuto moved his head further down to block it with his headband. "Impressive skills." Jiraiya said,
He jumped back towards Orochimaru, "Lord Orochimaru, don't you think it's time to take off the bandages?" Kabuto asked fixing his glasses and cut his hand with a kunai that he stole from Naruto and at the same time Jiraiya bit his thumb. Both of them both did the handsigns for the summoning jutsu and slammed their hands onto the ground creating a large cloud of smoke covering the field. After a minute or so the first cloud to disappear was Orochimaru's show two large snakes that look like it could break through the sky.
As Jiraiya's smoke disappeared it revealed a small orange toad, "Where the hell is your father?!" He yelled.
From the top of one of the snakes I could hear Orochimaru's sinister laugh, "Still playing the fool Jiraiya? I always knew you were weak." Orochimaru laughed
Kabuto fixed his glasses again, "We did need a sacrifice for the jutsu perhaps Tsunade thought ahead and suppressed his powers somehow."
Jiraiya sighed and smiled, "Well they know that I can't gather enough chakra now."
Naruto clenched her fist hard thats he was bleeding and did some handsigns and slammed her hand toward the ground Summoning Jutsu she called allowing another poof of smoke come and go revealing another small toad but it was yellow now. "Hey Gamakichi this is the first time I've ever benn summoned." The yellow toad said
"You idiot get some snacks and hide somewhere!" Gamakichi yelled,
"This place has snacks?! Gee whiz this place is the coolest." He said as I walked behind her and patted her back
"It's ok Naru. I will make fun of you later." I said,
"I hate you." She replied
"They're coming! Everybody move!" Jiraiya yelled jumping up in the air, Shizune grabbed Tsunade and TonTon and evaded the snake as well. As the snake crashed into the ground it created a massive crater causing rubble to fly everywhere and separate us from each other. Kabuto took advantadge by jumping off the snake and hitting Shizune square in the face.
"You are gonna pay for that." I mumbled and pushed off the rock in front of me heading back towards Kabuto.
Jiraiya stood off against Orochimaru doing a few handsigns causing a massive dark swamp to appear. Immobilizing the giant snakes into one spot. Kabuto was in front of my mom and I stood next to her as additional backup, "Where is Naru?" She asked,
"That I don't know I think he got swallowed by that snake." I said pointing at one resting its head on the ground
"Go help her!" She demanded,
"What? She's been eaten twice already. She knows how to escape…" I said rubbing the back of my head,
"You're not taking this seriously." Shizune said rolling up her sleeve and reloaded her needles, "Don't let him touch you or you're going to die." Shizune said as she pulled back a string aiming at Kabuto and releasing the needles straight at him. I had my bo staff in hand and ran straight towards him as he evaded the needles.
"I'm surprised you can even fight with that weakling!" Kabuto yelled as he raised his hand to strike me, but I blocked it with my staff then delivered a kick to his gut,
"She's family. Probably something you don't experience since you are working with that monster." I replied twirling my staff and taking a defensive position
"Shut up you bitch!" He yelled throwing a smoke bomb on the ground,
"I'm the bitch? I didn't betray my village. How long were you there for? Four years?" I yelled back trying to get a track on his chakra signature. "Mom! Underneath you!" I yelled watching in horror as Kabuto grabbed my mom's ankles causing her to fall down,
"This is it for you." Kabuto said as lunges towards her with a kunai in hand I did a few handsigns Water Style: Water Dragon Missile the water from Jiraiya's swamp rose into the shape of a dragon and lunged at Kabuto catching him his blindside pushing him a few meters away from my mom and Tsunade,
I ran next to her and knelt next to her, "Your father would be disappointed at me. Guess I lost my touch in fighting." She groaned as she grabbed her ankles
"Auntie!" Naruto called as she landed next to us,
"He weakened my leg tendons. I won't be able to help you for now." She said healing her ankles. Naruto and I stood in front of both Tsunade and my mom Naruto drew the katana that he received over a month ago. "Naru I'm pretty sure you've seen how Jo fights with a blade. Try to mimic him as best you can." Shizune said
"I know. I've seen him and Ashe train for a while. I've memorized a little bit." She said
"Good. Let's end this and go home." I said entering my offensive stance with my staff facing at Kabuto.
Part 1 Finished
Sorry for the wait guys I know I promised to have this up sometime in early September, but yea… No excuse. Some of you might remember this fight between the three Sannin. And Kabuto actually used his blood to shock Tsunade, but I changed it to the news of the First and Second Hokage killing her mentor instead. It felt appropriate due to that being her family killing someone that close and pretty much raising the Sannin. I am also bad at writing fight scenes too, so it will take a little practice before I get it perfectly. As always see y'all in the next chapter