Holy S#! on a banana peel! Three in one day!
Major: Da...dere ist something not quite right about zis.
Captain:...
Kyugan: The canine is right( rumages through a box) Here, have a cookie.
Captain: (Catches biscuit)...
Complete disrespect! Tsunade's Wager!
'I don't believe it.' Jiraiya thought numbly, as the group sat in one of the more private booths in the bar, 'I spend all day trying to find a trace of Tsunade and Naruto manages to just bump into her in a casino?' He snorted, shaking his head in exasperation, 'Ku-chan's luck seems to have rubbed off on him.'
"So your saying big-booby neechan is this old teammate of yours Ero-sennin?" Naruto asked in amazement, Jiraiya choking and moving to silence the boy, lest he trigger the wrath of said well-endowed kunoichi. When no vengeful fists descended upon the teen, the sennin looked over to meet the bored, almost annoyed features of his teammate.
"So what're you doing here?" Tsunade repeated, looking over him flatly "Or did you just come to talk about the good old days?"
"Nah, reminiscing is for old farts and people with too much time on their hands." The Gama sennin snorted, flagging down a few entrees, "Why, you feeling lonely?" he asked, smirking slyly.
"You wish," Tsunade snorted, sipping at some sake dissmissively as she spoke "Just tired of running into familiar faces today, that's all."
"You mean Orochimaru?" Jiraiya asked, the trio snapping to attention at the sound of the serpent's name, Domon wiping the drool from his chin in the process, until the entrees finally arrived. "You two must've had much to talk about."
The burly sennin easily noticed the furtive look Shizune cast towards her master, as well as the glare Tsunade shot back to keep the younger woman silent. Flicking his gaze sideways, he noted that his students were far more concerned with fighting over the salted mackerel than noting her movements.
"Nothing much," Tsunade replied offhandedly, "Just passing by and thought he'd say hello." She leaned over, a slight flush gracing her cheeks as she pointedly ignored the trio, though Shizune did fret as each attempted to devour the others' heads in their attempts to lay claim to the food "So what about you?" the legendary healer asked in a bored tone, "Whadd'ya want with me?"
"I'll get straight to the point," Jiraiya stated, pouring the woman some sake from his own jug, "Tsunade, the village requests that you accept the title of Godaime Hokage."
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Silence fell over the booth, Tsunade pausing in shock with the sake half way to her lips, Shizune's eyes widening and the trio pausing in the midst of their fistfight to gawk at Jiraiya as if he'd sprouted another head. 'Godaime Hokage?!' they thought in unison, looking between themselves conspiratorially, Domon swallowing the mackerel in the process 'Where in the hell'd THAT come from?!'
"I'm certain that having run into Orochimaru you know the fate of the Sandaime." Jiraiya noted, earning a saddened frown from Shizune as Tsunade finally brought the sake to her lips.
"Orochimaru killed him, right?" the buxom blonde replied lightly, "You're right, I heard it straight from the snake's mouth, so to speak."
The trio froze again, shock lining their faces at the revelation of the Sandaime's killer. Naruto found his tongue first, slapping the table top in anger, "That Ero-hebi from the forest of death?! HE killed Sandaime Ji-chan?!"
"You're kidding!" Domon countered, slapping a hand on the table "The old man was WAY to tough for some old pedophiliac snake to do him in!"
"Yeah!" Recca agreed, ignoring the flush on Shizune's face from his rival's words and the snort of laughter from Jiraiya, "Just who is this Orochimaru bastard anyways?!"
"The third of the Densetsu no sannin," Jiraiya muttered, recovering from Domon's comment, "And the former teammate of both myself and Tsunade."
"The hell's up with that?!" Domon yelled, gripping his head in manic confusion "I thought all three members of the Sannin were from Konoha!"
"Yeah!" Naruto added, slapping the table for emphasis "Why the fuck would he attack his own village like that? He goin' senile or something!"
"And wasn't Saru-ji you're jounin sensei?" Recca asked, looking between the two sennin for confirmation "Why the hell would he kill him?!"
"Who're the brats Jiraiya?" Tsunade asked eyeing the trio mockingly "Don't tell me you've taken up another genin team after the balls you made of the last one."
"Heh, you could say they caught my attention." Jiraiya muttered, nodding towards the annoyed trio, "The big one's Ishijima Domon, he could give YOU a run for your money in the brute strength department."
Tsunade scoffed at this and eyed the largest member of team seven, at first passing him off as many did, a brainless mongoloid with an ugly face, until she sensed the chakra flowing through him, which was already nigh jounin level.
"The kid with the Tekko's Hanabishi Rekka," Jiraiya continued, "He's a member of a new clan that's arrived in Konoha, the Hokage clan."
Tsunade and Shizune blinked at that, eyeing the teen as he glared back. "Kinda presumptuous aren't you?" the blonde smirked, "Taking the village leader's title for your own?"
"The clan's name has existed since it's founding." Jiraiya muttered quickly, catching the fire in his student's eyes, "It was merely a coincidence."
Tsunade snorted dismissively, though she did eye the enjutsu-shi out the corner of her eyes, before flicking her view towards exhibit C, "And the runt?" She asked, "I got your first name but other than that and the fact he's got some pretty good gambling skills nothing else."
"Figure's you'd notice those and nothing else." Jiraiya mocked good naturedly, grinning as she shot him a warning glare "This here's Hanabishi Naruto, Recca's Outoto." He nodded at the blonde, "He's Kushina's kid."
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Once again Tsunade froze, recalling a certain red-haired, fiery tempered Kunoichi that had been the scourge of many a gambling casino and battlefield alike. Whilst most Kunoichi had preferred Genjutsu and long to mid-range ninjutsu, Kushina had, much like Tsunade, took her opponents head on, with powerful Taijutsu and rapid ninjutsu, favoring those that could be combined with close quarters combat.
She had been notorious as a girl for her bright red hair, odd eyes and her temper which rivaled Tsunade's, but what made her so well known was her ability to fit in, until most of her comrades quite forgot she was a girl and started treating her as 'one of the guys'. She could swear like a sailor, drink like a fish, and was known to have beaten men three times her size even before becoming a jounin. She'd been popular at every social get together, able to laugh off rude jokes and crack back ones that were even worse, and no-one dared to challenge her to games of chance, as her luck was notorious.
In the end though, she'd died in childbirth, the only reason Tsunade knowing of this being the letters she received from Sandaime up until a few years ago, when she'd severed all ties with Konoha.
'Not even lady luck herself could cheat death.' The sennin recalled thinking dimly, eyeing the red ringed eyes before her, 'Yet it seems her luck's rubbed off on her brat…if you consider having the Kyuubi sealed inside you as GOOD.'
"And another thing!" Recca snapped out, snapping the blonde out of her daze "What's with HER becoming the Godaime? I thought we were brining her back to take care of Sensei, Sasuke and Lee!"
"Urusei!" Jiraiya snapped, cowing the boys with a glare, before turning his attention to Tsunade, who was looking non-plussed "Well? Your response?"
--
The blonde kunoichi fell silent again, gazing at the table top whilst the group regarded her carefully, the trio trying to envision HER filling the Hokage robes, and fighting down nose bleeds at the resulting image. "Sorry," she said at length, looking her former teammate in the eyes, "I refuse."
Shizune and the trio flinched, looking at the woman in shock, the latter actually wondering if the woman had her head screwed on right as Jiraiya chuckled. "That line takes me back," the burly sennin noted, "I recall you used to say the same thing every time I asked for a date."
"Hey! What's the big deal here!" Recca yelled, looking irrate "I thought you were picking her up for 'research', the hell's going on!"
"Ah forget it!" Domon swore, "We found her right? Let's just take her back to Konoha and have her heal Sensei, the bastard and Lee!"
"Yeah!" Naruto agreed, "Maybe we can get her head checked while we're there too! I mean she turned down the Hokage title like it was nothing!"
"Calm down." Jiraiya ordered, pushing Naruto back into his seat, "There's no-one more suited to fill the position of Godaime than Tsunade." He looked the woman in the eyes, "Not only did she contribute heavily to Konoha's victory during the war, no-one has ever come close to matching her in regards to battle experience or medical Ninjutsu." He nodded, "Also, she also has unique honour of being the granddaughter of Shodai Hokage, making her a shinobi of the most exalted bloodline."
The trio gaped at this, trying to see something of the Shodai's features in the blonde before them and coming up dry, even as Jiraiya snorted. "If she accepts the Hokage title, she will have to return to Konoha with us," the sennin explained, "There she can easily see to Kakashi and the rest." He shot them a look filled with understanding, "This decision was made by the highest ranking minds in Konoha…the opinions of three genin are moot compared to that."
--
The trio fell into a bitter silence, whilst Tsunade chuckled at the sheer folly of what she was seeing before her. "Ne, Jiraiya, these guys are nothing compared to your old team, all mouth and not a brain among them." She scoffed, "Not much to look at either."
"Well that's not fair." Jiraiya reprimanded, cutting off the yells from the trio, "Nobody could really compare to them." He nodded, "They were all shinobi of unparalleled capacity, overflowing with talent for jutsu, popular amongst their peers." He preened proudly, "Hell, Yondaime got his dashing looks from me after all, and Kushina and Suzuka grew up to be real knockouts!"
"…but even with all that going for them, your team was still wiped out prematurely." Tsunade noted sadly, "Sacrificing their happiness for the sake of the village…"
The group fell silent, eyeing the female sannin as she stared at her sake cup, before taking a deep chug of the stuff. "Life's not like money," Tsunade stated with a wry smirk, "To risk it all and just throw it away recklessly is a fools errand."
The trio grit their teeth as one, knuckles whitening beneath the table as they glared at the woman.
"They say my grandfather and his brother the Nidaime wished to end the hostilities within their lifetime," Tsunade noted, "yet in the end they died for the sake of their village, their dreams unfulfilled."
"You've changed Tsunade." Jiraiya opined flatly, looking his former teammate in the eye solemnly, "I don't know how long you've been thinking such morbid thoughts, but to be voicing them aloud, even under the influence of sake…"
"Hmmph, I'm in my fifties you know," the kunoichi noted bitterly, titling her head slightly to look the man in the eyes, "and besides, times change people." She scoffed and waved a dismissive hand before her face, "Same could be said for Sarutobi-sensei," she added, "if some doddering old geezer tries to relive his glory days of course he's gonna croak."
Jiraiya scowled, whilst under the tables, three pairs of knuckles popped audibly enough to draw the attention of Shizune and Ton-ton, who gazed at the looks of fury on the trio's faces in surprise.
"The tile of Hokage's a joke." Tsunade stated at length, looking her teammate in the eyes, face set in stone, "Only a fool would want it."
--
No sooner had the words left the woman's mouth when she was shoved to the side by Shizune. Looking over at the woman in shock, Tsunade blinked as a massive fist pulverized the space her face had previously occupied, smashing a massive hole in the wall large enough to fit a cart. She quickly rolled aside as another fist shot towards her, deflecting several blows from the other teens, even as Jiraiya put Domon and Recca in a headlock.
"Calm the fuck down!" the sennin growled, gripped Naruto's belt in his teeth to keep the blonde from charging forwards, "This is a bar! And just who do you think is paying for that wall?!"
"LET US GO!" Recca snarled, clawing towards the shocked Tsunade like a wild animal, wisps of flame rising off his tekko in his ire.
"YEAH!" Domon opined, straining against the sennin's impressive strength like a tethered ox "WE'RE NOT JUST GONNA SIT HERE WHILE SOME WASHED UP, DRUNKEN OLD HAG INSULTS THE OLD MAN!"
Tsunade scowled at that, and was about to get to her feet when Naruto slammed his foot into Jiraiya's crotch, catching the man off guard and releasing the trio. "I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU'RE A LADY!" the blonde snarled, eyes flashing between a stormy blue and a murderous red, "I'M GONNA KILL YOU FOR INSULTING SANDAIME-JIJI!"
For a few minutes, everything was silent in the bar, the trio seething at Tsunade whilst Shizune worried over the trembling form of Jiraiya, who was nursing his family jewels. Then the female sennin smirked and placed her foot on the table, leering into the trio's eyes with a look of confidence.
"Well you three certainly aren't lacking in the balls department," she noted, "Challenging me to my face like that." She tilted her head towards the impromptu exit Domon created, smirking all the while, "C'mon, we'll settle this outside."
"Tsu-Tsunade-sama!" Shizune implored, only to be ignored as the woman led the trio outside into the street, deciding to help Jiraiya hobble out, rather than leave him on the floor.
"Dammit brats," the sennin growled, clutching his jewels in one hand as he used the other to support himself on Shizune's shoulder, "Those mouths of yours just bit off more than you can chew!"
"Jiraiya-sama!" Shizune begged imploringly, stumbling slightly under the large man;s weight "You have to stop them! Tsunade-sama's not herself!"
"Tell me about it," the sennin muttered sarcastically, wincing as the yelling began anew "but there's little I can do about those idiots, let 'em learn the hard way what it means to piss off the infamous Tsunade-Hime."
--
The crescent moon shone high above the group, Jiraiya leaning on the wall on one side whilst Shizune stood on the other; ready to rush in should the group require medical assistance, as was normally the case when Tsunade lost her temper.
"Despite my appearance I AM one of the densetzu no sannin." Tsunade boasted, smirking with her eyes closed, "Even facing three genin there's no need to go all-out." She smirked at the looks of outrage on the trio's faces, before holding up a finger, "This one finger's all I need to take you brats out."
"We'll see about that!" the trio yelled, splitting apart, Recca and Naruto flanking the sides whilst Domon charged Tsunade outright.
'Pretty clever.' The medic admitted, 'trying to catch me off guard by coming from all sides.' She smirked, shaking her head dismissively 'Still nowhere near good en-eh?'
"Shuriken Kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto called out, a swarm of throwing stars raining down towards the blonde sennin, catching her off guard as she backtracked to avoid them. "Aniki!" he yelled, drawing Tsunade's attention to the figure to her right.
"Katon: Housenka!" Recca called out, launching several miniature fireballs at the woman, forcing Tsunade into the air as she leapt to avoid the blast as they detonated beneath her.
'Such teamwork!' she wondered, 'I haven't seen a group that complimented each other this well since the Ino-Shika-Cho!' She winced as she realized she'd lost sight of Domon, only to blink as something blotted out the moon, looking up to reveal a massive shadow with a shaved head descending from above, fists at the ready.
"GUNAREI MOHAWK HEAD!" the giant roared, ramming his skull down, barely missing Tsunade and pulverizing the earth as he crashed into it headfirst.
"Tsu-Tsunade-sama!" Shizune called out, concern for her master shining through, sighing in relief as the woman landed just outside the dust.
'What a monster.' The sennin wondered shakily, even as Domon got to his feet, looking none the worse after his collision with the ground, 'Did he even FEEL that?!' she eyed the other two warily, 'and those two…their teamwork is extraordinary!' she shot a look at Jiraiya, who was smirking at her smugly, 'You bastard…where'd you FIND these kids?!'
--
"Still think we're not worth you're time?" Recca mocked, cracking his knuckles confidently, "Looks like you're losing your touch in your old age."
"Yeah," Domon agreed, "Even old man Sarutobi could whup us faster than this," he snorted, "Heck, this one time he took us down without even letting go of his pipe!"
"So don't you go around dissing the old man!" Naruto bit out, pointing at the woman angrily "You're not even HALF his age and already you're on the defensive!"
"Oh?" Tsunade asked, a vein pulsing in her forehead, "Is that a fact?" she cracked her knuckles angrily, even as Shizune looked on in terror, "Playtimes over brats, time you learned some respect."
Domon blinked, and was suddenly sent flying, Recca and Naruto pushing against him, the latter with a dent in his stomach. 'What the hell?!' the giant wondered, landing on his feet and catching the others, even as he skidded back, 'Naruto got punched but she sent ALL of us flying!' He blinked, looking from the coughing blonde to Tsunade in awe, 'No…not punched…she…FLICKED him?!'
"You see?" Tsunade boasted, raising her pointer finger mockingly, "One finger's all I'll need to deal with you."
The trio exploded, leaping to take all sides again, only for Tsunade to appear before Recca, jabbing her finger into his midriff, driving out all the air from the teen's body. "Katon jutsu rely on the lungs to supply oxygen." Tsunade lectured, "If you can't breath you can't release the jutsu." With that she used her grip on his clothes to toss him into the path of Naruto. "And Shadow jutsu like Kage bunshin may surprise the opponent once, but if you can predict the users next move you've got it shielded.
"Who said I was using Kage bunshin?" the blonde mocked, catching his aniki even as the force of the blow sent him sprawling to the ground, "We figured you'd go after one of us, so we drew your attention!"
Tsunade blinked, realizing too late that Domon had disappeared once again. Not one to fall for the same trick twice, she checked above her first, before realizing immediately what was going on. "That washed up old trick won't work on me!" she yelled, before jabbing her finger into the earth with a roar. The road divided, sending out a shockwave that revealed a rather terrified Domon, who leapt out of the crevice, only to blink at the sight of Tsunade's finger in his face before everything went starry.
--
"You see?" Tsunade mocked, sniffing as the giant sprawled out on his back, his teammates having caught him as he hit the ground, "You could keep that up all night, it won't change a thing."
"Fuck you, you old hag!" Domon swore, giving the sennin the finger as he sat up, a small mark on his forehead from where she'd flicked him.
"Yeah, we don't go down that easily!" Recca opined, holding some gunpowder balls between his fingers. "We're ready to keep going!"
"Even if it takes all night, we'll make you regret insulting the Hokage!" Naruto grit out, pointing at the woman confidently.
Tsunade frowned at the trio, put off at their lack of respect and fear. Normally whenever she completely owned someone like that they'd either be out cold or begging for mercy by this point. Yet here these three were, defying all logic by standing against her, simply for insulting the Hokage?"
"Kid," she called out, nodding towards Naruto, who seemed the most worked up over everything, "I got one question before you pass out…just why the hell are you so worked up about the Hokage title?"
Naruto stared at the woman for a moment, before smirking confidently as he laughed tiredly, "Because unlike you…I want that title myself one day!" he replied, looking the woman in the eyes, unaware of the spectral faces she saw behind him. "Because to become Hokage…is my dream!"
Tsunade flinched, her brown eyes widening in disbelief at the words that the child uttered, the images of her beloved lover and brother hovering behind him, their eyes mirroring his resolve and passion for the title.
'Dear God,' she swore, hands trembling as she fought the desire to fall to her knees, 'he even has Nawaki's face…his drive…his attitude!' she stared into the teen's face in shock, even as the images faded away, 'How could he…want something so dangerous?'
The necklace around her neck seemed to shine briefly, causing her to lower her head to regard it carefully, though it appeared she was gazing at the ground.
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(Hey, she dropped her guard!) Naruto signed, not making a sound lest it caught the sennin's attention, (Listen, if you guys can distract her for about a few seconds, I can come at her with Rasengan!)
(But you haven't mastered it yet!) Domon signed back, looking between his teammate and the distracted kunoichi in concern and not a little dubious (What if you screw up?)
(Times like this call for desperate measures,) Recca opined, (We can't go all out against a fellow shinobi, even if she DID insult the old man.) he nodded at Naruto, (We'll do what we can, make it count.)
--
Tsunade blinked as several spheres were hurled in her direction, snapping her out of her daze. The blonde sannin swatted them aside, only to yell as they exploded on contact, the gunpowder detonating and blinding her with smoke and pain. "What the hell?!" she roared, only to flinch as she sensed a movement in the air, ducking aside to avoid a haymaker from Domon, the teen quickly shifting up a gear to unleash a barrage of high speed punches that could flatten a plough horse.
"ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA!" Domon bellowed, his face somehow resembling a certain bad tempered spirit, headband and all, as he attempted to flatten the woman before him. Tsunade merely weaved between the blows, surprised at the force behind them, but years of experience enabling her to predict the teen's pattern. Sure enough she found and opening, and jabbed her finger into the space between his arm joint, paralyzing him before sending him flying into Recca with a flick to the chin.
"Is that the best you can do?" she taunted, only to blink as a sudden surge in chakra rushed towards her, spinning round just in time for Naruto to ram a VERY familiar chakra spiral into her midriff.
'Is That-?!' she began, only to sigh in relief as the sphere shattered as it made contact, sending the blonde flying backwards as the chakra escaped. To her horror however, the backlash also destroyed her top, leaving her exposed from the waist up.
"NICE NARUTO!" Jiraiya cackled, nose bleeding and giving the teen two thumbs up, whilst Shizune gawked at her master in embarrassment "I TAUGHT YOU WELL MY STUDENT!"
"JIRAIYA NO HENTAI!" Tsunade bellowed, upper cutting the sennin in a manner oddly reminiscent of a certain pair of Todai hopefuls, the sennin slamming through a wall, eliciting a number of shrieks, before being punted through it again to crash in a heap at his former teammate's feet.
"Just when I thought you couldn't get any stupider!" Tsunade reprimanded, kicking the prone man repeatedly, "You go so far as to teach the Rasengan to a kid like that?!"
"I'm his mentor." Jiraiya replied, getting to his feet with little more than a groan despite the agony he'd endured, removing his outer coat as he spoke "And besides, he certainly has the talent."
"Feh," Tsunade muttered, wrapping the red coat about her with a flush, noting the warmth it provided, "Reminiscing the old days by passing on a jutsu like that?" she scolded, "It's stupidity like that that puts the whole 'I'm gonna be Hokage' crap into kids heads!"
"It isn't crap!" Naruto yelled, getting to his feet with a yell, the other two, standing behind him, at the ready, "And I'll prove it! Gimme three days and I'll not only master this Jutsu, I'll ram it down your throat!"
"Yeah!" Recca agreed, Domon cracking his knuckles beside him, "Give us ALL three days, we'll come back stronger than you'd dream of!"
--
Tsunade snorted, eyeing the trio, and the determination in their eyes with almost fond mockery, "Hmmph, bold words brats," she admitted, "But a man's word should never be broken you know."
"You obviously don't know us very well," Naruto replied with a smirk, pointing at himself as the others matched his smirk with their own, "There isn't a man among us who'd go back on his word…that's our Nindo!"
Jiraiya beamed at the trio, even as Shizune and Ton-ton stared at them in wonder. Tsunade merely smirked, fingering her necklace as she did. "Alright then," she began, "Lets make a little wager." She smirked at their looks of confusion, "I'll give you a week, if all three of you can become strong enough to face me in that time, I'll acknowledge you as Shinobi worthy of the Hokage name." She flicked the necklace, "I'll even throw in this if blondie can master the rasengan."
"Tsunade-sama you mustn't!" Shizune rebuked, looking at the stone around the woman's neck in terror, "That, that necklace is-!"
"The hell would a man want with a piece of crap like that?" Domon muttered, eyeing the rather plain lump of emerald with a deadpan expression.
"Yeah," Recca opined, mimicking his rivals disdain for the rock "Looks pretty cheap to me, can't be worth much if you're betting it like that."
"Fools," Jiraiya opined, cutting off Tsunade's growing look of ire "That necklace is an heirloom of the Shodai Hokage, it is said to be carved from a rare ore, so rare that selling the necklace could buy three gold mines and the mountains on top of them."
The trio stared at the necklace; slack-jawed and bug-eyed, snot running from their noses at the sheer thought of that much wealth hanging around someone's neck. Jiraiya merely sighed at the looks on their faces, though he had to admit his reaction had been pretty much the same when HE'D found out, all those years ago.
"However," Tsunade called out, "if you fail to master it, you lose," she held up three money pouches, "And all your money is mine."
--
The trio gasped in horror as they realized that the scrolls they'd stored their money in were gone as well, not noticing the distraught look on Shizune's face, as the attendant eyed her master concernedly. 'Tsunade-sama…' the young medic thought, 'She's NEVER wagered that necklace, no matter what happened.' Shaking herself, the young woman realized her master had called out to her to follow, trying once again to get an answer out of the older medic.
"They'll never manage it." Tsunade assured her, waving a hand dismissively "Now let's get back to the inn."
Shizune bowed her head, recalling Orochimaru's attendant's words, fearing in her heart that her master may have already reached a decision about the proposal. Therefore it was much to her relief when Jiraiya called out, snapping her attention away from such morbid thoughts.
"Tsunade," the toad sennin called out, "Why don't the two of us go out drinking for a bit?" he nodded over his shoulder, "You know, for old times' sake?" He nodded towards Shizune, who blinked as he smiled at her, "Sorry to trouble you Shizune, but could you make sure those baka-deshi of mine stay out of trouble? They can help you find the night's lodgings."
Shizune bowed gratefully, mentally thanking the sennin for keeping an eye on her master, as she really couldn't face the woman at the moment, before turning to face the trio, who were muttering amongst themselves. "Shall we get going?" she asked politely, to which there were a round of childish mutters, making her giggle as she recalled they were still only genin.
"OY!" a loud voice yelled, causing the group to gaze in horror at the pissed features of the owner of the bar they'd ruined "WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR MY WALL?!"
Shizune blinked as a strong set of arms scooped her up bridal style and leapt up with her in the air, looking up to see a sweating Domon, flanked by an equally nervous Recca and Naruto as they fled the scene, ton-ton tucked under the blonde's arm. "Standard procedure for traveling with Jiraiya-sama?" she asked, to which the trio nodded, "I can relate, people always start yelling about money wherever Tsunade-sama goes too."
"Can't imagine why." Recca noted sarcastically, noting the two sennin had also made their escape "I wonder if Ero-hebi has these kinds of problems?"
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Orochimaru hissed in anger as he swallowed the Kusanagi no ken, having just dispatched some little weasel who had DARED to assign him a tax audit. Did they honestly think he had the time to balance his accounts?!
"KABUTO!" he hissed, "FETCH ME MY SEDATIVES!"
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THree in a row...I need help...or Decaf.
Wesker: So you do.
Major: Da, Coffee is bad for you.
R&R, plz!