Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 37:The Snakes Cave
It was several days after the chunin exams and Naruto was currently heading to the Hokage tower to search for his sensei.
Arriving at Tsunade's office he decided to enter in the way that he normally would. "Good morning Baa-chan" Naruto called with a smile as he jumped in through the window.
"Damn it Naruto cant you ever enter like a normal person, you either barge the door down or just jump through the window" Tsunade said.
"Oh you love it, your life would be boring without me and Jiraiya sensei around" Naruto teased.
Tsunade could not dispute this claim, she did miss them both when ever they were out of the village.
"Fine but make sure that entering through the window is the only bad habit you pick up from that old pervert" Tsunade said.
"Hey we are the same age" came Jiraiya's voice from the same window Naruto had just entered by.
"Hey Jiraiya sensei, Konohamaru and his friends did great the other day huh" Naruto said giving himself a mental pat on the back for helping in there teaching.
"Yeah, you should see Ebisu talk about them, he's being praised as a genius trainer again now" Jiraiya laughed knowing it was Naruto Yugito and Kakashi who really deserved the praise.
"Pfft Like that closet pervert could teach Konohamaru the rasengan" Naruto said offhandedly.
"Yeah he is giving you the credit for that one" Jiraiya admitted.
"Look it doesn't really matter. Now will you please tell me why you both are here" Tsunade said slightly irritated that they had both just completely forgot about her.
"Oh sorry Hime, guess we got lost in our own little world, we came here because I want Naruto to come with me to the land of tea, my informant there has not sent any word in over a month now and I need to look into it" Jiraiya said.
Tsunade thought about this for awhile "I will need him back in well under a month so he can complete some teamwork exercises with Gai's team, he will need them for the exams in Iwa" Tsunade said
"Yeah no worry's, he will be back in time shouldn't take much more than a week, I need to talk to some other sources of information first" Jiraiya admitted.
"Fine but no dragging him off to strip clubs or seedy whore houses you hear me" Tsunade ordered.
"Yes maam" Jiraiya moped.
To Naruto there conversation seemed like those had by old married couples squabbling over the right way to raise there child. Naruto felt that to him that is exactly what they were Jiraiya was his fun loving laid back father, while Tsunade was the strict but caring mother and watching them squabble over where Jiraiya took him brought a smile to his face.
After a long discussion and several rather revealing diagrams of where Jiraiya can and can not take Naruto the two toad sages left through there favorite windows and began to head to Naruto's place so he could collect his things.
"What are you smiling about sensei, Baa-chan basically just told you you cant go to any of your favorite places while we were away" Naruto asked seeing the smile on Jiraiya's face.
"Why not be happy, this is the first time we have gone on a mission together since we went to bring back Tsunade to be Hokage, and she only said I couldn't take you to any of those places not that I couldn't go to them, and its not my fault if you have to come in to get me at any point" Jiraiya laughed.
Naruto just shook his head at this. 'Trust Jiraiya sensei to figure out a way around Baa-chan's rules' Naruto thought as the pair arrived at his house.
"Hey Yugi-chan I'm back with Jiraiya sensei" Naruto called out when he entered the apartment, he did not want Jiraiya to catch his girlfriend with out a top on, at least not again after what happened before the chunin exam final's.
Yugito came out of the bedroom fully dressed and with a smile as she entered the living room where Naruto was waiting with Jiraiya. "Good morning Jiraiya-sama" she greeted politely.
Jiraiya didn't answer he was busy inspecting the seals that had ruined his hopes of the happy couple staring in his next book.
"Jiraiya sensei what are you doing" Naruto asked with a fake smile that basically told him that he should leave the privacy seals alone before he uses Kakashi's favorite jutsu for testing genin's taijutsu on him.
"What, oh sorry I was just um... admiring your work" Jiraiya stammered out at seeing the threatening expression on his pupil's face.
"Yeah what ever sensei" Naruto said.
Naruto left to grab his stuff and when he came back he found Yugito giving Jiraiya the exact same lecture that Tsunade had given him at the Hokage's office.
"look at that word for word what Baa-chan said" Naruto joked from the doorway "Ok sensei I'm all set lets head out once Yugi-chan has finished with warning you about what will happen to you if you take me to any of your less savory hangouts"
After Yugito had her say Jiraiya left the room to wait for Naruto outside.
"Be careful Naru-kun, and remind Jiraiya-sama that if he even thinks of taking you out to pick up women I will remove the tool that allows him to even attempt such activity's" Yugito said.
Naruto leaned in to touch his forehead against hers making her purr loudly at the closeness. "Don't worry Yugi-chan, I wont let my mean perverted sensei get to me, after all I love you too much to ever think of doing something like that" he said before giving her a light but passionate kiss.
"I love you too my Naru-kun" she said when they broke apart, he left after that to meet Jiraiya waiting outside.
"Well Naruto lets go, hopefully we can have a great adventure you know one you can tell your kids one day, I would be upset if I was never in any of the stories you could tell them after all" Jiraiya said.
"I wouldn't worry about that Jiraiya you may be a shameless pervert but you are also the person who taught me how to be a ninja, and your the closest thing to a parent I have ever known, you will be in all the stories I will tell my family one day" Naruto said in confidence.
Jiraiya didn't say anything for a moment, he was touched that Naruto would think so highly of him and not just as a teacher. "You know, I'm really glad I decided to take you as an apprentice. The old grand geezer toad once told me a prophecy, that I would one day train a great ninja who would either save the world or destroy it, and I would make a choice when the time came that would determine there future. Twice in my past I thought I found that student, Nagato and then your father, they are both dead now so maybe I have failed. But even I can see that hatred is growing in the world. I want to do something about it, that's why I write my books, but if I fail, maybe you will be the one to bring the world peace"
Naruto just smiled as they walked. "For you, Anything... besides the only way your books would change the world is if they actually started selling, you should make more stories like your first one" he said producing a small green book from his pocket.
"Hey my books are best sellers, and that book didn't sell at all" Jiraiya said defending his works of high class smut.
"I don't care, this book is brilliant, so much better than the others" Naruto said placing the book back in his pocket carefully.
"Your father liked that book as well, but I guess you could have figured that out from reading it" Jiraiya said.
"Yeah it is sort of obvious, thanks for the name by the way" Naruto joked as they approached the village gate.
(Sealing Cave)
"That took so fucking long" Deidara said as the body of Roshi fell to the ground lifeless.
"Without the two tail's sealing the higher level Bijuu will take longer as we need to compensate for that loss of power" Pein said.
"We should have had Yonbi a month ago, he proved to be difficult to catch" Itachi said plainly.
"He ran for a month before we finally caught up to him" Kisame finished for his partner.
"It doesn't matter, you are to begin hunting the Gobi, have you experienced any resistance from Iwa" Pein asked.
"When we first approached Yonbi there were a team of Iwa ninja on there way looking for him with a message from the Tsuchikage, but Zetsu was able to stall them, they have need been concerned with us since then" Itachi said.
"Yeah that would be about right, the old man probably would be glad to see those two gone, he doesn't care about the jinchuuriki" Deidara said.
"Then we will proceed without disturbance then, Deidara be ready once Gobi is sealed I want you and Tobi to retrieve the Rokubi" Pein said and faded from view followed by the others.
(Orochimaru's Hideout)
Orochimaru was sitting in a high backed chair looking over his experiments and pondering his next move. It was this scene Kabuto and Sasuke walked in on.
"Orochimaru-sama is there anything you need" Kabuto asked.
"Yes Kabuto pack up where heading to a base in the land of Earth" the snake said not taking his eyes away from his work.
"The land of earth but Orochimaru-sama are you sure there will be a lot of groups heading to Iwa for the jonnin exams, are you sure that it is wise to be that close to Iwa" Kabuto asked.
"Yes because we are going to send a team to the exams, I want a Yoton user, and there will be one competing in the exams" Orochimaru said.
"Hn so what, your going to send a team to capture her while the exams are on" Sasuke brooded.
"Oh no not just any team Sasuke-kun, I am sending You!" Orochimaru said knowing Sasuke would react to this.
"What why? I don't want to fight a bunch of weaklings, find someone else to do your dirty work" Sasuke said.
"Ah but Sasuke-kun they wont all be weaklings there, I have received word from a spy in Konoha that Naruto Namikaze will be competing" Orochimaru sneered.
Sasuke's hand erupted in a spasm of lightening. "Fine! I will do it who are my teammates going to be" Sasuke said the chidori slowly fading.
"Ah I thought I could get you to see things my way, you will work with Suigetsu and Karen, that should be more than enough to deal with the Yoton user and her team" Orochimaru said.
"Fine, who is the target" Sasuke asked and Orochimaru handed him a picture of a kunoichi with pink pupil less eyes and short black hair.
(Land of Tea Several day's Later)
Naruto and Jiraiya walked into a small town they were supposed to meet Jiraiya's wayward informant in.
"Hey sensei isn't this a bit of a quiet place to have an informant I mean what can they hear out in this place" Naruto queried.
"That's exactly the point it is so out of the way that people will be less careful about what information they give up" Jiraiya answered.
"Huh fair enough so how do we find this guy then" the blond asked.
"Simple we go to the bar" Jiraiya said eagerly.
"I should of known, oh well lets get going it's not like where going to find him standing around out here" Naruto sighed.
"That's a good attitude to have, and while we are waiting I can buy you your first drink, that is something fathers are supposed to do but your going to have to settle for me" Jiraiya said as he walked towards the bar. He was looking forward to toasting the fact that Naruto had become a man.
"Oh why not, but only one I want to keep myself alert" Naruto said as he followed his surrogate father.
Sitting down at the counter the bartender quickly noticed he had two more customers that were ninja and immediately came over to serve them "Good afternoon ninja-sans how may I help you" he asked.
"Ah can I get a bottle of Saki and two saucers thanks" Jiraiya said before deciding to ask about his lost informant. "Oh and one more thing, I am looking for Hasiro Pato, short man always wears a suit" the toad sage asked.
"Yes I know the man, I haven't seen him in almost a month now, said he was going to explore some caves he had heard some information about to the north, sorry I cant help anymore than that... I will go get your order" the bartender said and went out the back to bring out a bottle of saki and placed it on the counter with two saucers.
"So what do you think sensei, should we stay here or go check out the caves" Naruto asked.
"We will stay here and have a drink, then later we will go check out the caves at night, that way we can have the cover of darkness...Now drink up" Jiraiya said pouring Naruto some of the clear liquid.
Naruto swallowed it quickly but then realized it may have been a good idea to sip it the first time. It was strong and for Naruto who had never tasted alcohol before it had been quite a shock and started coughing.
Jiraiya started to laugh out at this "Get to ya hey, don't worry it wont be as bad now you know what to expect" Jiraiya laughed out.
Jiraiya was right after the initial shock of how strong it was Naruto enjoyed the taste of the drink and could understand why Tsunade drank it so much.
Once they had finished there drink they checked into a hotel and waited till it was dark to investigate the caves that the bartender told them about.
"Guess that's them, they don't look natural something is very wrong here" Naruto thought and as he moved in to get a closer look he felt one of his senjutsu seals activate. 'genjutsu, should have known'
when the illusion cleared they saw a cave with a second entrance like a secret pathway hidden in it. Naruto paused and turned to Jiraiya. "What should we do, do we go in or wait and see if anyone comes out" he whispered.
"You wont be doing anything Konoha scum" came a voice behind them and they turned quickly to see a tall woman with light blue hair that was tied up in a ponytail and there were a couple of long strands loose framing her face. She wore a green dress with one long and one short sleeve and calf high combat boots.
Naruto and Jiraiya just looked at her then at each other trying to determine what type of threat she posed, then they was the symbol that was on the belt she wore loosely around her waist. "Oto" they both said together then got into a stance prepared for anything.
"Well looks like we have found one of Orochimaru's bases, what fun, do you mind if I ask your name miss" Naruto said lightheartedly.
The woman did not look amused at Naruto's calm almost taunting tone but answered anyway "As you are about to die anyway I don't suppose it matters. My name is Guren, I would ask yours but the dead don't talk" Guren said and she raised her arm and sent a large dragon made out of crystal at Naruto.
Naruto was stunned by this as it flew at him, but in sage mode it posed little threat and delivered a punch shattering the crystal dragon with ease. "Well would you look at that I can still speak, can you still speak sensei" Naruto asked jokingly.
Jiraiya smirked and replied "I do believe I can, so what do you say we tear this base apart and blow it sky high" Jiraiya suggested.
Guren was shocked. Naruto had just shattered her Shoton dragon without even trying, knowing she would need some help now she signaled to a hidden ninja who opened a door and let out hundreds of experiments that Orochimaru had created.
"Fuck me would you look at that" Naruto said as the horde approached. Deciding it would be better to not let them any closer he pulled out three of his small shuriken and threw them.
The shuriken expanded once they were close to the onrushing horde and expanded with Fuuton blades tearing a large chunk of the experiments apart. "Hey sensei, give us some fire while I provide the wind" Naruto said with a smirk.
Jiraiya nodded breathing in deep before spewing out a thin stream of chakra that combined with Naruto's great breakthrough turning the remaining experiments to ash.
Guren looked on shocked she knew she could not run she had to fight. Coming back to her senses she decided to try and turn Naruto into crystal using her Shoton: Stasis Jutsu.
Naruto saw the crystals forming but couldn't do anything about it and was soon covered in them.
"Well that's one down, now for you old man" she taunted.
However she taunted to soon as the crystal around Naruto exploded outward leaving a completely unharmed blond knucklehead.
"How, it's not possible" Guren stammered as Jiraiya and Naruto slowly approached.
"Nothing is impossible, Naruto said.
"He's right now, tell us have you seen this man" Jiraiya said taking out a photo of his informant.
"Fuck you, I'm not telling you shit" Guren spat.
"Figures, what would you expect from one of Orochimaru's pawns" Naruto said.
While Naruto and Jiraiya were deciding if they should kill Guren or not take into account that there were other Oto ninja approaching them.
The Oto ninja who had been surrounding Naruto and Jiraiya quietly then attacked charging from every angle.
Jiraiya's hair extended and wrapped around himself as a shield that stopped all incoming projectile's while Naruto lazily swatted them away. "Needle Jizo" Jiraiya called from inside his hair cocoon and his hair spikes out and sent wave upon wave of spikes impaling many of the surrounding ninja.
During this time Naruto was picking the others off with a combination of Fuuton Jutsu's and taijutsu.
Guren watched in horror as Naruto and Jiraiya systematically eliminated every last ninja in the base with ease, sure they had only been low ranked genin and chunin but the numbers alone should have made it a difficult fight. "Wh-Who are you people" she said to scared to move, she knew without her Shoton jutsu she was as good as defeated and the blond had proven that her Shoton was useless against them.
"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze and Jiraiya. And we are the Toad Sage's of Mt Myobokuzan" Naruto said plainly.
"Damn it Naruto where was the dance" Jiraiya said wanting to do his usual introduction.
"That dance is embarrassing" Naruto dead paned.
"You just don't recognize style, my introduction has character and its dignified" Jiraiya said indigently.
"No it doesn't, it makes people take us less seriously" Naruto yelled back.
"Your both loonies" Guren moaned thinking about her current situation.
"Ah now look what you have gone and done, now she thinks where a couple of incompetent idiots" Jiraiya complained.
"Who cares what she thinks, shes the enemy, where not here to make a good impression" Naruto argued back.
"Fine" Jiraiya pouted folding his arms in defeat.
"Ok now that is over tell us if you have seen this man and we will only take you as a captive and not kill you" Naruto said showing Guren the photo of Hasiro Pato.
Guren weighed up her options, either fight back against someone who was completely unaffected by her jutsu, run and be killed by Orochimaru when he found out what happened, or surrender and be placed at the mercy of these two, surprisingly strong idiots.
"Fine, he came around about a month ago while Orochimaru was still here training that Uchiha. Anyway Orochimaru is always looking for new people to experiment on, and well you probably killed him when the experiments attacked earlier" she said honestly.
"Shes telling the truth" said Jiraiya who checked several of the monsters that had attacked them. "Stay here Naruto I'm going to have a quick look around" he said before entering the small passageway leading into the base.
Jiraiya returned around an hour later with several sealing scrolls and made his way to tie Guren up before flinging her over his shoulder. "Come on we need to get back to Konoha so we can have Tsunade look at some of the stuff I found in there" said Jiraiya disgusted at the depths to which Orochimaru had sunk.
End Chapter!
Not a great fight I realize that but I just couldn't see how Guren could put up a good fight against Naruto if he was in sage mode.