Battle of the sannin.

*Gambler's town*Hi no Kuni*Friday*

Friday arrived as brightly as the rest of the week had, but unlike the rest of the week, it had been too late by the time Fuu and Naruto stopped their exchange and training with Shizune, so the older woman had invited them to her room at the hotel she and Tsunade had been staying at.

Since neither wanted to stand Jiraya's antics that late, the two had agreed and Fuu slept in the second bed while Naruto took the uncomfortable couch, but he had had worse, so he could stand it.

It was a groggy Naruto that sat up from the couch the morning of the day they were supposed to make their way back to Konoha, so without really noticing any of his surrounding he went to the kitchenette the hotel had provided, opened a cupboard and reached in to grab a cup of instant ramen, a testament to how good it was that they had taken the bother of providing it to the room, and a kettle to boil the water to put in it.

Ten minutes later, enough for him to take a proper but quick shower, he moved back to the kitchenette, only to find the kettle half as full and his ramen cup gone.

Someone had stolen his ramen, and since Shizune was still asleep, judging by the bump at her bed, so that left only a suspect.

A loud slurp followed by a satisfied burp was all the proof he needed, "you ate my ramen!" he shouted at Fuu, who smirked at him, showing him the empty cup.

Fuu shrugged, "you left it there, and since the kettle woke me up, I took my breakfast" she said.

"It was mine," Naruto grumbled, but moved to grab another cup and filling it up with the still hot water in the kettle.

"Aw, don't be a cry baby," Fuu moved to hug him from over his shoulders, but he did not respond to her, "come on, give me a kiss Reddie," she closed her eyes and moved her head a bit.

"Not until you apologize, Greenie" he grumbled, picking up the cup and the chopsticks, but otherwise not moving his head.

With his arms restricted at the shoulders, however, he did not have all the movement he wished he could have, as it was somewhat uncomfortable not only eating while standing, but also without the cup moving more than half an arm's length.

"Kiss me and I'll let you go," Fuu said.

"Apologize and I'll kiss you" Naruto answered.

Naruto could have easily made a clone, switch with it and eat the ramen in peace at the couch, but he did enjoy having Fuu pressing against his back, even if it did restrict his movements.

That was part of the fun of having a girlfriend, enjoying each other's bodies, thought the two were only thirteen, almost fourteen in Fuu's case, so their physical contact under the clothes was not much.

The having things in common was also important, Naruto would say that knowing each other was the most important thing if he was to start a friendship with anyone, but he was going through puberty, at an accelerated rate because of Kurama's body accelerating his metabolism, but still a pubescent .

His hormones were high as fuck.

Having to drag Fuu around when he finished his cup of ramen was indeed a bit of an annoyance, but he was rested, so it was not much of one.

It did, however, make his balance uneven, so it was not really a surprise that he smashed against the floor when he stepped a bit on the side of his foot.

Fuu landed over him, and he was squished under her weight, sixty kilograms of muscle in a rather small frame, smaller than Naruto's, but he was already an inch over the average Konoha male at his age, so that wasn't saying much.

It was however, the moment when Shizune woke up, and also the moment when a stumbling Jiraya went through the doorway.

Shizune did not do much other than yawning and giggling at them, normal giggles, while Jiraya, who obviously had something important to say yet preferred to do the normal thing for him, only said, "I'll have to add that soon," creepily before turning serious, "Shizune, get dressed, you two, stand up, Tsunade is going to fight Orochimaru alone and she will need back up." Jiraya collapsed to the ground, clutching his sides.

"Jiraya-sama," Shizune was by his side fast, asking him what was wrong.

"Tsunade drugged me, said she didn't want me interfering in her fight" he shakily stood up.

Shizune made some hand-seals and pressed her now green hands to the skin above his liver, "I don't know what it had, but that is the best I can do" she looked at her pet pig, "Tonton, can you get us to Lady Tsunade?" the pig snorted then gave a positive squeal, running out the door.

*With Tsunade*

"So, have you decided, Tsunade?" the snake summoner asked the woman.

"Yeah, I've made my decision," she started to lift her hand up, but when Orochimaru lifted his to grasp it she let out a punch that Orochimaru barely dodged, so it destroyed the wall behind where he had been.

"So you decided to betray me?" the traitor himself asked the woman, who cracked her knuckles and glared at him, "What about Dan, about Nawaki?"

"They're dead, and it's not like you didn't plan on slaving them" Tsunade jumped and punched the ground where Orochimaru had been standing, but the Konoha traitor dodged before she landed, resulting in a crater, "Stay still, would you?" Tsunade growled, jumping with her fist cocked again.

So started a game of cat and mouse, with Tsunade blasting the ground and Orochimaru dodging the crater-creating punches, until eventually they reached the forest near the town.

It was then that Orochimaru's follower, a bespectacled teen with gray hair and dark purple clothes, Kabuto, who had been a spy that had been forced to leave the village he was posted at, Konoha, when Hatake Kakashi caught on to his ruse.

Orochimaru fell back and let Kabuto fight Tsunade, but the teen, a jonin in skill, was not much of a fight for an S-rank kunoichi like Tsunade, even if she had left herself go, so he was dodgind and rarely getting a good opening to hit Tsunade.

But Kabuto had good Intel in Tsunade, so he knew exactly what to do if the fight started to get out of hand, and fifteen minutes into it, that started to happen.

So Kabuto took out one of his kunai and stabbed himself in the palm, sending Tsunade into shock, leaving her staring at nothing and shaking.

"Kabuto, finish it," Orochimaru ordred.

The teen nodded and angled himself to stab Tsunade in the chest, but before he could a blue and red streak that pushed the kunai away and then hit him in the stomach, succeeding in defending Tsunade from a sure death.

Behind Naruto was Shizune, who was now fusing over Tsunade, who showed no signs of answering to her apprentice.

Fuu was helping a limping Jiraya, who felt only somewhat better than he had in the morning, good enough to fight, but if Orochimaru somehow managed to summon a snake, then he would have to resort to Naruto to summon something.

Maybe he would give Fuu the summoning contract.

He wasn't able to give to Naruto, but if he was to give it to Fuu, then it would technically stay in the 'family,' if what he thought would happen to their relationship was true, and if they managed to beat Akatsuki before they got married.

Naruto and Shizune were in a fast battle with Kabuto, with the older boy staying ahead of them by a tight margin and managing to get in a good couple of hits on both of them, but Naruto shrugged them off, relying in his healing factor, while Shizune stopped every once in a while to heal herself from the damage Kabuto inflicted on her.

That was until Kabuto severed her tendons and sent her to the ground.

Naruto docked under a green hand and made a fast rasengan in his right hand, thrusting it in Kabuto's abdomen, sending him spiraling into a rock some meters away.

To his amazement, the older teen managed to somehow heal himself as fast as Kurama's youki healed him, his red skin turning pink.

"Hehe, seems I underestimated you, Naruto-kun, I'll have to get serious then" the teen said, his hands taking a darker shade of green.

Naruto got himself into a stance and called his claws out, covering them in a rasenha, waiting for Kabuto to attack him.

The older teen did not disappoint, coming at Naruto with a flurry barrage of punches and kick that would have left the red-head a twitching mess if the connected, but his claws provided an efficient defense from the chakra scalpel.

Jiraya meanwhile was engaging Orochimaru in a taijutsu battle, with the occasional jutsu coming from Fuu to help Jiraya, who still did not have his chakra under full control, but the jutsus she launched had to be very carefully aimed and meditated for minutes before they were thrown, for she could barely see what was happening, that fast were the two fifty-year-olds, fast enough that to her eyes, better than the average because of her tenant and even better because of her training, had trouble following the pace of the battle.

The jutsu she used the most was her specialty, the hidden bright dust, used whenever the two men stopped their blows for breath, to give Jiraya more time to strike against Orochimaru, but she had used a jutsu she did not have much experience too, the underworld swamp, but while Jiraya had managed to take some advantage from it, since it was one of his favorite jutsu, next to the summoning, Orochimaru had jumped away from it before she could get him in it.

Ten minutes in Orochimaru decided that he would try to kill Tsunade and extended his neck while a snake with a blade in its mouth came out from his mouth and tried to impale the woman.

Naruto had seen this and jumped away from Kabuto in order to try to block the blade with his claws, having to dig his talons on the ground to get better purchase once the Kusanagi hit his hard bock, but he was still being pushed back, "GET OUT OF HERE" he shouted to Tsunade, but the woman did not react.

Shizune was still in the ground, trying to heal her torn tendons, something that was taking her longer than her pick-up teammate would have liked, so she would be of no help, the only thing she could do was send poisons, but that was still away while she tried to heal herself.

Orochimaru, seeing that he would not get the satisfaction of Killing Tsunade yet, retracted his neck back into his shoulders and called Kabuto to him, the teen serving as a summoner with the tattoo Orochimaru had on his arm.

Manda appeared in a puff of smoke, arguing with a nonchalant Orochimaru once it did.

Naruto shouted at Tsunade to get her head back in the fight, looking at Fuu and Jiraya both of whom looked nervously at the giant snake before them.

He slapped the woman in a last resort attempt at waking her from her shock, succeeding only after he turned away and started doing the signs for the summoning jutsu, thinking 'warrior' as he slapped his hand to the ground, calling one of the many warriors of the griffin contract to the battle.

The griffin, dressed in a leather armor with claws that looked longer than the ones he had seen in the feet of Talin and a beak a dark red in color, shook itself when it appeared, almost throwing Naruto off, "I need your help to fight that snake, please"

The griffin cocked its head and screeched, but otherwise did not respond, and took a running start towards Manda, who coiled and attacked back.

Yet another puff of smoke appeared in the battlefield, but this time it brought a giant slug with it, the summoning of Tsunade, who was now standing atop the slug with a glare aimed at Orochimaru.

Jiraya carefully did his hand-seals, molding the chakra he would need with the utmost concentration, to summon one of the higher toads of the clan, if not Gamabunta, then at least Gamahiro or Gamaken, the second and third best warriors.

He did not summon the toad chief, but he did manage to summon Gamaken, which was good enough to fight Manda with the help of Katsuyu and whatever the name of Narut's griffin was.

Orochimaru made contact with Kabuto, who nodded and jumped off of Manda, taking off running towards the North West

The snake of the sannin molded chakra for one of the few jutsus he had mastered to the extreme, the substitution and the mud clone, and walked away once his mud clone was the one above Manda, his direction the same Kabuto had taken.

It took the Konoha ninja a long while to dispel Manda and the Orochimaru clone, and by the end of the battle the griffin was missing quite a few feathers and Gamaken had more than one bruise already in the making, while Katsuyu looked not a little bit worse from what she had at the beginning of the fight.

Being a slug had its benefits, some good enough to compensate for the weakness to common salt.

The next day Tsunade and Shizune joined the Konoha ninja on their way back to the village.