Tsunade gasped and her body gave out a huge shiver when she returned to her body. She could hear Shizune trying to wake her up and Jiraiya demanding to know what was happening, but the only thing she could do was look over to Naruto's wrist. She couldn't see it though, because Naruto still hadn't woken up and his hands were in his lap where Sasuke had let them rest. She gave another shiver as Naruto's eyes blinked open and he pulled himself up from his slumped over position. In doing this he put both his hands on the table and Tsunade was relieved to see that there was no blood on him. Her body slowly calmed down and she was finally able to pay attention to what was going on around her.

"What the hell is going on here?" Jiraiya demanded again.

"I-I don't know," said Tsunade as she lifted her hand to her head to try to shake away the memory of so much blood.

"So did I win?" asked Naruto.

"What is that supposed to mean?" growled Jiraiya.

"Did I win our bet?" Naruto rephrased.

"What did you do?" asked Jiraiya.

"I just used a jutsu that I made up to show Tsunade why I think that her brother and boyfriend deserved to be hokage," Naruto answered.

"How did you do that?" asked Tsunade. "I don't have any of those memories. Did you accumulate the memories from other people?"

"Being the Kyuubi," Naruto paused and quickly rephrased his statement so that they wouldn't realize that he was now the Kyuubi. "Being connected to the Kyuubi has its perks. Nature likes to speak to me and tell me all its secrets. I can take the memories from nature. I don't need human memories."

"So then that jutsu?" asked Lady Tsunade.

"Is something only I can do," Naruto nodded his head. "You never answered my question. Did I win our bet?"

"I don't know," Tsunade said as she shook her head once again. "Just give me some time to think."

"Alright," Naruto agreed.

"We have to go anyway," Sakura said.

"It's getting late," Sasuke continued.

"We aren't just going to leave right now," growled Jiraiya. Naruto only smiled. He always knew that Jiraiya had a huge crush on Tsunade and the fact that Tsunade had just had a somewhat traumatic experience made him less eager to leave the woman even if she was in the care of Shizune. It was only too bad that he died in the future before he was able to tell her how he felt about her.

"You can stay here," Naruto said, "but the three of us are tired after our long journey and we would like to rest. We're just going to go to that hotel that we checked into earlier and sleep a bit. If you need us you can find us there." All three of them stood up and were about to leave the restaurant when Jiraiya stood up and grabbed Naruto's collar, lifting him up until he could no longer touch the ground.

"You aren't going anywhere until you explain to me what is going on," he growled.

Jiraiya only had Naruto in his grip for a moment before he found himself on the ground with his head held up by someone holding his hair and a kunai placed right in front of his throat. "Don't ever touch Naruto again," Sasuke growled in his ear softly.

"Sasuke!" Naruto gasped. "Get off of him. You're going to hurt him."

"Fine," Sasuke agreed reluctantly as he removed his kunai and let go of Jiraiya's head so suddenly that the man wasn't expecting it and his face slammed into the ground rather painfully. He got up off of Jiraiya and immediately stood in front of Naruto just in case the man tried anything else. Sakura joined him except she stood back a little more so that she was beside Naruto instead of in front of him.

"What the hell is going on?" Jiraiya growled as he stood up from the ground and faced the three of them. "The hokage told me to keep an eye on the three of you while we were on this mission because he suspected that there was something fishy about you guys, but this is just wrong. No first year genin should be this strong."

"We aren't just any first year genin," Naruto answered calmly. "I have the Kyuubi."

"I have the sharingan," Sasuke growled.

"And I'm stuck with these guys," Sakura said. She was trying to ease some of the tension of her two teammates and it seemed to have worked. At least for Naruto, but she had the feeling that nothing would work on Sasuke at the moment. He tended to get like that whenever Naruto was put in any sort of danger no matter how miniscule it was.

"That's so mean Sakura," Naruto whined. "You know you love us."

"No," Sakura said. "I love Ino. You guys are just the people I'm stuck with."

"You're so mean to us Sakura," Naruto whined again, but there was a bright smile on his face.

"Enough!" yelled Jiraiya. "You will explain to me what is going on or I will be forced to take you down."

"Is that what the hokage ordered?" Naruto asked. He seemed a little pained by the thought that the hokage would actually order their deaths. He thought that the hokage might understand them a little better than that, but it was a foolish hope.

"This was an order given by the council," Jiraiya said.

"Oh that makes more sense," Naruto smiled again. The council was always out to get him so he didn't feel so bad about them ordering his death.

"Now explain what is going on," Jiraiya growled.

"That's enough Jiraiya," Tsunade said from her seat.

"What!" yelled Jiraiya.

"Well we're just going to be going now," said Naruto. "You guys look like you want to be left alone so we're going to the hotel. Come and get us if you need anything." With that the three teammates from team seven left the restaurant before there could be any protests.

"Since when do we look like we need some time alone?" Jiraiya asked himself totally confused. Those words had immediately stopped all his anger as he pondered their meaning. Did Naruto know of his feelings for Tsunade? That couldn't be true. They had only known eachother for a couple of days and he had shown very well that he was a complete pervert.

"Jiraiya," Tsunade muttered.

"What is it?" Jiraiya asked as he slid back into his seat.

Shizune looked very worried and somewhat out of place as she sat with the two of them and she wondered if she should leave as well. "I'm going to go find a hotel for us Lady Tsunade," she said nervously. Tsunade only waved her off before looking back at Jiraiya. She left nervously, only hearing the first sentence that Tsunade spoke, but even that was enough to make her worry for Tsunade.

"He showed me their deaths," Tsunade said quietly.

"Who's deaths?" Jiraiya asked.

"Dan and my brother."

"Don't you think you went a little far?" asked Sakura. Her and Sasuke were in the room that the three teammates were going to share because there were only two vacancies and they all refused to sleep in the same room as the pervert sage. Naruto was taking a bath at the moment so she took the time to talk to Sasuke.

"No," Sasuke answered. She could tell by his one syllable answer that he was still slightly angry that Jiraiya had dared lay a threatening hand on Naruto. He truly did love Naruto with all of his heart.

"Sasuke," Sakura sighed. "You held a kunai to his neck. We're supposed to be keeping a low profile here and you aren't helping any."

"We aren't keeping a low profile anymore," Sasuke answered. "We can't. They know we're stronger than we let on and even if they didn't I will not hesitate to protect Naruto no matter who it is that's threatening him."

"Naruto can take care of himself Sasuke," Sakura said. "What will you do when the day comes that he doesn't want you to protect him?"

Sasuke tensed visibly and Sakura got the feeling that she hit a sore spot. "Then I will kill any enemy that remains."

"Sasuke," Sakura shook her head slowly. "You're too overprotective."

"I'm sorry, but I'd like to be able to have Naruto nearby while I still can," Sasuke growled.

"That doesn't make any sense Sasuke," Sakura tried to say. "Naruto's not going to leave you."

"You don't understand," Sasuke sighed.

"Then help me to understand," Sakura begged. "Help me understand why you and Naruto can't just live together happily for once in your life."

"I can't Sakura," Sasuke muttered. "I can't do that."

"Why not?" asked Sakura.

"Please don't ask me Sakura," Sasuke begged. "Please don't ever ask me that again."

Sakura was silent. She had never heard Sasuke sound so desperate before except for when Naruto died in the future. Something was truly wrong and she didn't understand it, but she would not force Sasuke to talk about it if he so desperately wanted to avoid it and she knew that Naruto probably wouldn't understand her even if she did ask. She would just have to wait and see what would happen between them, but that didn't mean that she was going to stop trying to get them together. No matter what the future held for them, they deserved to be together in the present.