Uzumaki vs. Senju
The first two punches caught Tsunade by surprise, Naruto managing to hit her in the face and on the shoulder.
The third also managed to hit her, but as she already had her guard up, Tsunade managed to move the fist so it hit her on the shoulder rather than the neck as Naruto had intended.
Pushing Naruto off of her, throwing him two tables away, Tsunade stood up and glared at him, but it was not the scariest glare he had been subjected to, so it wasn't as effective as it should have been, which added to the fact that Tsunade was not projecting KI.
Jumping to his feet, ignoring the shouts of the owner, who Jiraya was trying to calm down, Naruto once again ran towards Tsunade.
The woman slapped him out of the air with a backhanded strike, but Naruto proved to be heavier than she expected so when he grabbed onto her arm as she hit him she was brought down with him.
Proving that her strength should be more than just a small factor in a fight without her reinforcements, Tsunade managed to correct her footing and using her arm to smash Naruto on the floor and throwing him through the wall, again, but this time following him and smashing one of her fists, this time laden with chakra, on the ground as she landed, cracking the street outside the restaurant and succeeding in stopping Naruto from raising.
Naruto created a shadow clone and it grabbed his legs from the crack they were in, and spinning as fast as it could, threw the real Naruto towards Tsunade, who had expected the clone to attack her, and not to throw the brat that had insulted her.
But once again she proved her worth as an S-class ninja, jumped over Naruto and kicked him just as he was passing under her, making him crash into the ground.
Adding to the injury, Tsunade proceeded to bury her feet into Naruto's back, cracking some of his ribs and driving the air out of his lungs.
But the clone proved to be smart at not dispelling once it threw Naruto, and Tsunade was surprised when a head-butt to the head sent her tumbling to the ground, allowing Naruto to shakily stand up.
The two ninja glared at each other, both preparing their personal favorite jutsu.
Tsunade's hand glowed a dark green while a bright, blue swirling ball formed above Naruto's hand.
With a cry on both sided they rand towards each other, both of the hands with the finishers drawn and ready to smash into each other.
Then the two found themselves in the ground with Jiraya glaring down at them like a father would to a petulant child.
Naruto looked away, not standing the look, and stood up, not looking up from his shoes.
Tsunade had no such reservations, and glared at Jiraya with everything he had, "Why did you interrupt you pervert?" she barked at the Toad Sage.
"Because I don't want my apprentice death when he's thirteen, for one, because you two were causing a scene, for two, and because I don't plan on paying for your disasters, Tsunade" Jiraya answered, nodding towards the restaurant, where a lot of people were looking out of the holes on the wall and out of the windows.
"It's your brat's fault, if he had taken the insult with grace we wouldn't be like this" Tsunade snapped at Jiraya.
Naruto growled and glared again that the woman, "If you hadn't insulted the death and my mom then I wouldn't have attacked you, you frigging old hag!" Naruto stormed off, but not before flipping Tsunade off from over his shoulder.
Fuu looked at Jiraya, who was her commanding officer, silently asking to go after him, something she would do anyway, but she preferred not risking insubordination charges.
The man only glanced at her and nodded, still looking down at Tsunade, who looked as if she wanted nothing more than to smash Naruto's face into the ground, but Jiraya's glare stopped her.
She was under no illusions that if Jiraya was serious against her she could win, she KNEW that Jiraya would win, cope a feel of her brests, and walk away without so much as two black eyes and some broken bones, yet still able to move.
On the other hand she would end up with a rasengan to the stomach, broken arms, busted face, cracked ribs and probably a broken leg-bone.
Thirty years ago that would not be the case: Jiraya, while crafty, had preferred close combat with the occasional supporting jutsu, that was it, while Tsunade could use her medical knowledge, super strength and looks against who she came across, literally pounding them to death, and Orochimaru could come up with strategies that would use the less possible amount of chakra, cause the most damage while receiving little in return, making him a hard man to hit.
But after the Second Ninja War Tsunade had started to train less, after her brother died, and then her lover, a man she had found a year after the death of her little brother, had died on an A-rank and she had stopped training altogether, eventually leaving the village with Shizune in tow.
But Jiraya and Orochimaru had continued growing, the former learning seals, finding them applications everywhere and becoming the first Sage, honest sage, not those wandering vagabonds that claimed to have reached enlightening, since her grandfather; and the later became one of the most known scientists and jutsu creator of the current time, while she just drank and gambled her life away.
When new reached her that Orochimaru had deflected the village some ten years ago, she had been surprised to know that the rumors also said that a man with pain in his face had been the one that forced him to flee the battlefield instead of the snake just leaving corpses behind.
She was no fool; Tsunade knew she was outclassed, even if she could draw out a battle.
"Now, please tell me why did you decide to insult the wife of the man that I thought my son?" Jiraya asked, pausing long enough for Tsunade to open her mouth before continuing, "And why, if you knew he was their son, did you insult Kushina?" once again he waited for her to open her mouth and cut in, "I suppose it was because Kushina HAD to spent time with Mito to keep the Uzumaki Fuinjutsu alive" he kept his eyes on her, ready for if she snapped.
"SHE STOLE MY GRANDMOTHER FROM ME" Tsunade shouted, a tear falling from her eye.
"She did what she was ordered to when she left Uzu" Jiraya said, his voice calm, "After she married Minato, the night she discovered she was pregnant, she told me that her father told her to tell Mito that she was to teach Kushina, would you disregard an order if it came from you grandfather, how about from your grand-uncle?" the sage sighed, "Tsunade, the only thing the kid has, the only thing he can always take for granted, is that he is the heir of the Uzumaki, even if they are not a clan anymore, he has clan honor, something you seem to lack"
His piece said, Jiraya walked back into the restaurant and talked to the manager, eventually coming to the deal that he, Jiraya, would pay with a signed, first edition of his newest Icha Icha, leaving Tsunade to pay only half of what it would cost to repair the wall of the restaurant.
Then he took out a small, green book and walked the same road his two quarries had taken.
Tsunade stayed there, looking at where her teammate had been not ten minutes ago with a vacant expression, his last words replaying on her mind, once, and again, and again, until Shizune finally came and took her to the hotel they had booked for the week.
That night Tsunade could not sleep, for her mind could not stop questioning itself, asking 'would I spend time with someone else's family if I was ordered by my father? If it was the only way to keep my name alive?'
She could not answer.
Three days later, days that she used to drown herself in sake while Shizune visited Jiraya and his brats, she was joined by said pervert in the bar, but after three plates spent in silence, she could not stand it anymore, "What do you want?" she muttered as she was served again.
"I never got to hear your answer, will you return to Konoha or will you live as a missing nin?" Jiraya looked at her curiously, his saucer already empty.
"I don't know" the woman answered, "After what you told me, I just don't know what to do"
Jiraya slammed his saucer down, "Let's not talk about that, let's act our age and talk about the good old day, how about that?" he smiled at Tsunade.
Tsunade snorted, "Knowing you, you'll talk about some woman you saw in your travels"
"No," Jiraya paused, "Well, eventually, but first I was going to ask if you remember our mission to Swamp"
Tsunade snorted again, harder this time, "which one, the one where they sacked you from the castle for groping the Daimyo's daughter or the time they sacked you from a fort because you groped an officer"
"Okay, so maybe not Swamp, how about Sea Shell?"
"You were thrown overboard for groping the captain's daughter"
"Fine, then…"
They spent the afternoon chatting, and by the end of the night she had decided on what to do.
*With Naruto, Fuu and Shizune*
"So her luck is the complete opposite of mine?" Naruto asked a bit incredulously.
Yes, he was the embodiment of good luck, but for someone to lose more than ten thousand Ryo a day?
That was bad luck.
"Well, not everyone can have your luck" Fuu muttered, "One day we're coming back and we're staying for a week"
Shizune looked at them curiously, so Naruto explained, "I cleared four tables in one hour in Tanzaku, I could probably bankrupt this town in a week," The red-head smiled, but then he cried, "but the luck is only in gambling"
"How is that?" Shizune asked.
"Well, I was orphaned at birth, my second mission, real one, not chores, turned into an A-rank, so did my mission to Taki, and the finals of the chunnin exams, and two weeks ago we had to run away from two s-ranks"
"But it balances out," Fuu said, "I mean, he met Haku and Hagane in Wave, his little sister in a clearing job, me in his mission to Taki."
"And you got promoted" Shizune interrupted Fuu, but the girl nodded, "you do have great luck, Naruto, I only wish Tsunade-sama could have it too"
"Can you tell us stories about her?" Fuu asked, "She is Tsunade, even if she is a grumpy old hag"
Naruto smirked and hugged Fuu with one arm, nodding towards Shizune to say that he wanted to hear too.
"Ah, well, she doesn't talk much of her past, but I do know enough," The woman put on a thoughtful expression, "well, there was this one time…"
The three of them spent the day trading stories.
Some of you will bitch about how the fight went, but I did it so for a reason.
Tsunade is a S-rank, easily after Shippuden started, but she let herself go after she left the village, only keeping track of what she ate and keeping herself from muscle atrophy and gathgering fat, but she did not train so her skills and streng could have dimmed.
Naruto, how I've made him out to be, is chunnin in skill(control, temper and smarts) and power (capacity, stamina and strenght), but if you look properly, he only good three good hits and a half-scored one, the two at the beggening, the head-butt and the parried punch to the shoulder, while Tsunade threw him through the wall twice, bashed his body against the floor, punched him really hard mid-air, landed on him.
You read it.
So don't flame, I knew what I was doing.
