Chapter 25: Bridging chapter to PART TWO!!!
(I didn't want to have to write up every single day so I decided to have a time skip. this is a brief accound ot what went on during, it may be streched out into many chapters after this whole thing is finished, but for now, Its' short. ~Ratpigeon)
Jiraiya TSunade and Orochimaru spent the next three years on missions, barely seeing their teacher, Sarutobi, and spenidng most of their leisure time training separately, Jiraiya with Fukasaku and the toads on Myobokuzen, where he learnt the prophecy about his student, Tsunade with the medics, focussing more and more on her medical jutus as the war progressed and she saw her brother brutally murdered, and Orochimaru by himself, in the library, studying ancient scrolls for new, more powerful jutsu. Even so, the bond between the three deepened, and when Tsunade got her first boyfriend - neither Orochimaru nor Jiraiya - the rivalry between the two faded, and was replaeced by a shared, intese dislike of the jerk who Tsunade had fallen in love with, now a huge-chested seventeen-year-old, or at least in like with.
This coincided with Jiraiya's jonin exams - him being the last member of the trio to take them, having been too busy with his training on mounto Myoboku to complete them.
The Shodaime was still fearful of Madara's schemes, and, fearing Uchiha treachery, began to subtly contain them, sending Tobirama out for whatever news possible. While, in Kirigakure, a mad Kage came to power, intensifying the bloody training regime of the young genin there, and revelling in the pools of bloodt that caused the town to be renamed Bloody Mist.
Koharu Utatane and Jisuke create a constant tension within their cell, and many times nearly forfeit an entire mission in their disputes.
The war continues, unabated, ravaging the great nations, and bringing the lesser nations to the brink of destruction.