Hey! I'm back, late, but I'm back!
I was once again very busy and it doesn't seem that it'll change, but anyways.
Today's chapter has Danzo, so enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own DB nor Naruto, all the rights go to Akira Toriyama and Masashi Kishimoto.
Naruto had been quite mad recently, mainly because of Kakashi's decision of training Sasuke exclusively, excluding not only him but also Sakura, but for some reason, he wasn't anymore that day, he was even happy and excited. He was waiting for his teammate and new master to arrive, as he had waken up earlier. The heat of the place was quite strong, though, as the vapor left by the hot springs created quite a hot enviroment, but Naruto ignored it as he believed that something as insignificant as that could not bother a future Hokage like himself.
I will become Hokage... He thought, smirking as he did, sure of himself and that he would achieve his goal. You'll see!
Soon after, he noticed the pink-haired girl walk towards the place, her green gaze filled with determination. This last detail noticed by the blonde boy caught him by surprise and called his attention as it was quite unusual from her. Normally, you'd see nervousness on her eyes, or maybe even fear prior to a fight, but such determination was something you would actually see in himself, not in her.
As she got closer and noticed her teammate's presence, one of her eyebrows raised as he eyes distorted into confusion. "Huh? You arrived so early?" Sakura asked with a calmer tone that the blonde genin had expected.
"Of course! I will become the greatest Hokage ever, after all!" Naruto yelled as he gave her a thumbs up and a confident smile.
She laughed softly before replying. "I'd like to see it, believe me!" She tried to emulate his tone, ending her phrase with a thumbs up similar to the ones the blonde boy did after every time he said he would become the best Hokage ever.
"Huh?" Naruto's face quickly filled with confusion as he wasn't able to understand that Sakura was imitating him.
"Sakura is imitating you, idiot." Ebisu said from behind the Uzumaki, making the blonde genin scream as he was surprised by the jounin. "Come on, don't tell you didn't notice when I arrived." His face denoted slight disappointment.
"HEY! Why did you do that?!" Naruto angrily asked as he got ready to fight the jounin.
"Oh, you don't want to fight me." Ebisu answered as he adjusted his glasses.
The pink-haired girl could only watch the two ninja ridiculously fighting, but she ended up interrupting them as she wanted to start her training. "Ahem." The jounin and the genin turned to Sakura before she continued. "Will we start our training?"
"Ah, yes, of course." Ebisu replied as he threw Naruto away from him and adjusted his glasses once again. "Ahem. So, I brought you here because today's training requires of the water of the hot springs." He grabbed his glasses and cleaned them as they had tarnished, then putting them back on as he continued speaking. "We'll work on the basics, so we'll start with the water surface walking practice."
"Above the hot springs?!" Naruto asked as his eyes widened immensely in shock.
"Yep." Ebisu answered calmly. "Shall we start?"
Sakura was the first one to go on, which surprised the jounin as the girl seemed different from what Kakashi had told him, and start practicing to walk on water. Naruto followed almost instantly, being even more excited than before as he saw his teammate's eagerness to train. Ebisu saw this and figured that everything would go along perfectly, but just then, he noticed that something was going on.
"Hey, you, old man!" Ebisu yelled, pointing to a man that was standing next to the bathrooms of the place, the one of the ladies, specifically. "Are you spying on the girl's bathroom?"
"Don't interrupt my investigation!" The man yelled back as he sat on a giant toad, his long and white hair moving as his head turned back.
"Dirty old man, stop spying on the girls!" Ebisu angrily yelled as he charged against the man, intending to defeat him, but he was quickly beaten by the giant toad, that used its long tongue to knock the jounin out.
"And he intended to defeat me? Ha!" The man laughed before turning back to what he was doing. "Now back to my investigation."
Naruto had gone out of the water to see what his master was doing, but only finding him unconscious in the floor, noticing who had done such thing. "Huh? Let's see... Secret finger jutsu: a thousand years of death!" The blonde genin inserted his fingers in his master's ass, confirming that he was indeed totally knocked out.
Sakura, who had followed Naruto, noticed the man that was next to the bathrooms. "I-is that old man spying on the bathrooms?"
"Apparently, Ebisu-sensei attacked him for that, but as you see, that man clearly won." Naruto said before turning to the white-haired man with an angry expression. "Hey, you!"
The man's white and long hair turned once again to reveal his face. "Me?"
"Yes, you!" Naruto yelled. "This guy was supposed to train me, and now he's totally knocked out here."
"And?" The frog turned to the kid, showing how the man answered carelessly.
"That you have to make something about it!" Naruto replied.
"I'm sorry, kid, but I'm in the middle of an investigation right now." The toad man answered, with a grin in his face.
"You mean spying on the girls?" The blonde kid answered, being heard by the girls inside the bathroom, causing them to run away.
"No! You just ruined my spying, I mean, my research!" The toad man said as his face showed true disappointment. "You little kid!"
"Dirty old man..." Naruto and Sakura said to themselves.
"There's nothing dirty on that!" The toad man yelled in response, scaring the girl and annoying the blonde boy. The toad he was sitting on suddenly disappeared into a cloud of smoke. "Anyways, I have to go to do other things, a novelist like me is always busy."
"Hey! Wait!" The Uzumaki yelled at the man, who had started to walk away, receiving a raised eyebrow in response. "What about our training? You have to do something about it!" Sakura was just remaining silent at this point, she just didn't want to be trained by such a dirty man, but she also didn't know what to do about Ebisu.
"I won't train anyone ever!" The man said, suddenly feeling he had seen the kid somewhere before, as he gave him a strange feeling of familiarity. "So, if you excuse me, I'll go!" A little tornado started to form all around him as he got ready to leave, but took his time as he tried to recognize the kid.
"No, sir, stop please!" Sakura, surprisingly for her teammate, intervened in the conversation.
The tornado stopped as the toad man gave the girl a chance to speak, but it was taken by the blonde genin, who wouldn't give up until the man accepted to train them. "We'll do anything you want if you train us, please!"
"Anything I want, huh?" He clearly knew what he wanted, and he showed it with his face. "Then, I want you to show me a sexy girl." He crossed his arms and smiled confidently.
"Like her?" Naruto asked, pointing his finger at the pink-haired girl and catching her by surprise, then igniting her anger. Fortunately for him, though, the toad man replied before he was hit once again by the girl.
"No, that would be creepy, I mean a real woman." His face now showed total perversion, which gave Naruto an idea.
"I think I have an idea," Naruto said, turning to the pink-haired girl, "but I need you to promise you won't kill me."
Sakura doubted at first whether she should forgive whatever the her blonde teammate was about to do, but, after remembering her fight against Ino and her motivations, she figured that it would probably be beneficial for their training, deciding to accept it with a nod. Naruto nodded back before turning to the old man, making several hand seals before releasing the jutsu that Sakura already knew from before, getting a disappointed face.
"Sexy Jutsu!" He yelled as he was covered by a cloud of smoke, which dissipated to reveal the now feminine version of the kid, who now appeared to be a young woman with great attributes.
The toad man was instantly captivated and shocked with what he saw, his nose bleeding in consequence of such sights. The nose bleed caused him to fall down, but he was able to stand up in little to no time, nonetheless. He wiped the blood from his face and then proceeded to look back at the kid, who had already de-transformed. He cleared his throat, and after that, his two hands forming a thumbs up and his face turning into one of total approval and pervy happiness. "I liked it!"
"Will you train us, then?" Naruto excitedly asked.
"Hmmm..." The toad man got his hand into his chin as he started to think in something. "Only if you do something for me... he he he."
"That's enough, you're just a pervert! You pervy sage!" Naruto angrily yelled back as Sakura was already thinking of going back and training on her own and wait for Ebisu.
"Oh... I'M A SUPER PERVERT!" His face turned into one typical of a creepy, old and perverted elder. He laughed as he saw how Naruto's anger had given up into unexpectedness and even shock. "You're so funny, maybe training you won't be that bad." His tone turned into a calm and more serious one as he analyzed the boy's face one more time. "Is the girl coming, too?"
"Yes, sir, if that's not a nuisance, that is." The pink-haired kunoichi answered, with surprising good manners for the man.
After all that and she still talks to me as if I could be respected, that's weird... He waved his hand in a careless gesture. "I don't care, you can come."
"And what's your name, sir?" Sakura asked. She had always considered it important to ask for someone's name as it was always polite.
"You can call me Jiraiya-sama." He answered with a big and confident smile on his face, but it was cut dry by the blonde genin, who intervened in the conversation.
"Nah, I'll call you ero-sennin." The kid answered as his two hands went behind his head restlessly, igniting their new master's fury and causing Sakura to laugh at the two of them as they started fighting.
It wasn't easy for him to stay in a hospital room while his teammates trained and one of them got ready for her match in the Chunin Exams. Although for as much as he wanted to go out and train along with them, he also knew that he'd be told about his failure in his preliminary match, and maybe even Neji would take advantage and make fun of him. He remembered how he was always rejected by many members of the clan, but he was fortunate that, for some reason, Hinata's father did accept him; luck that his father did not share, though, as the clan fully rejected him to the point that their house was out of the Hyuuga district. He still didn't know exactly why, but he had a certain feeling that it was because of her mother, who according to Genma was an Uchiha.
He turned his sight to the window of the white room, staring at the Hokage mountain, his limbs entirely bandaged. The door of the hospital room was opened, surprising the half-Hyuuga as he did not expect any visits.
"Oh, Danzo-san, it's you." Nobuyuki said, turning his sight towards the window once again. "I didn't expect you to visit me again."
"I'm just interested in the well being of a talented young shinobi, that's all." Danzo said with a calm voice, sitting down in the chair that was next to the bed the half-Hyuuga was laying on.
"Why would you think I have any special talent? I'm not like Neji..." The brown-haired half-blood said, more to himself.
"Neji Hyuuga is quite an interesting prospect, and you are right to say that you are not like him," his half-bandaged face showed no emotion, which only startled the genin more than he already was, but he was taken by surprise by combination of words that came out of his mouth shortly after, "because you are superior."
"Superior? To Neji? Why would you say such a thing...?" Nobuyuki was shocked at the man's statement.
"No one has ever seen a single person able to hold both the Byakugan and the Sharingan, that alone makes you superior." Danzo remarked, his calm voice now having a chance of mystery and something else that the genin could not exactly point out.
"I still was destroyed by that shinobi of the Sand..." The half-Hyuuga pointed out, as if he was trying to convince himself and the man that he was weak.
Danzo shook his head in disagreement, a strong snd serious expression in his face. "With the proper training, you will reach jounin level in no time."
This sparked the interest in the genin, as it was just what he wanted to hear, but he found it hard to believe. "I'm sorry, sir, but I just don't think I can ever reach Neji, he is just so talented and trains so much..."
"Join ANBU, and you will become one of the strongest shinobi in the village." Danzo directly offered, catching the injured genin by surprise.
"I don't think I'm ready for such a thing-" Nobuyuki was interrupted by the door, which was opened by his father, who was surprised to find Danzo Shimura, there.
"Oh, good morning, Danzo-sama." He bowed as he entered the room, leaving the present he'd brought to his son in the little table next to his bed.
The member of the council of the village stood up, thanking the man for his respect towards him. "Your son is quite impressive, you should be quite proud of him." He said with a friendlier tone than could be expected from him, catching even Nobuyuki's dad by surprise. "Anyway, I hope he recovers, have a nice day."
Once Danzo left, the father sat down in the chair Shimura had previously been sitting on, handing his present to his son. "How have you been?" His warm smile only made his son's happiness even greater as he opened the present he'd been given, revealing a pair of fingerless gloves with an emblem similar to that of the Uchiha, but it wasn't the same. "Those were made by your mother for you, but she did them too big for a baby and I decided to keep them until you were able to wear them."
Nobuyuki tried them on, them being still a bit big for his hand but not really being an important difference. "They fit perfectly." He said with a smile on his face. "Um, and, about mom..."
"You already know, don't you? It wasn't hard to figure out anyways." He said, his smile now acquiring certain nostalgia. "That also explains why you were able to awake the Sharingan... I never expected that."
"Nothing changes, really, don't mind it." He said as he looked at his gloves and then to his father. "Thanks for these, I like them a lot."
The man's long and brown hair moved as he went on to give his son a hug, being corresponded by the genin. The two of them had gone through a lot, so it was natural for them to have such esteem for each other, specially his dad, as his son was the only thing he had at that point. "I love you, my son."
Meanwhile, Danzo had already left the hospital, meeting with two ANBU who were waiting for him outside the place. Danzo beckoned them to escort him, which they obeyed without hesitation. As they walked, Danzo awaited for them to ask them for orders, but as they didn't, he decided to take the initiative. "The kid is not that convinced in joining ANBU."
"Is that so? Then what will we do?" One of the ANBU asked without moving at all except for continuing to walk.
"I'll try to convince him, but be ready to execute the assassination." Danzo coldly and firmly answered, his only visible eye as serious and emotionless as it could me. "It's necessary that he becomes one of my men."
So, that was the chapter, hope you enjoyed it.
I'll see you when the next chapter is ready, hopefully this same week. Have a nice week!