Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: Lil Legendary Sannin
Favoritism
This chapter takes place when the Three Legendary Sannin (Orochimaru, Jiraiya and Tsunade) were little and innocent. You know, BEFORE Orochimaru decided that he didn't want to be precious anymore and actually wanted to be a bastard. OKAY! ONWARD!
Since Orochimaru never really DID get his Magic Crystal Ball of the Past back, we thankfully still have it. Now we shall go back to a time when the world made sense and all the characters with the exception of a few are yet to be born!
It might be hard to imagine, but the third Hokage AKA Sarutobi actually used to be a young man fifty years ago. Today, it was time for him to train his wonderful students!
There was Tsunade. What can a teacher say about his random girl that every team has? But Tsunade was rather exceptional, but it was impossible to be able to keep up with the other two who were above and beyond exceptional. Jiraiya was a fast learner, though extremely rambunctious and it really got on Sarutobi's nerves. A LOT. Then there was Orochimaru. The PERFECT student. He was well behaved, gifted and had the ability to calm the other two down whenever they got in a tiff. This may have been one of the reasons why Orochimaru was Sarutobi's favorite.
"HEY GUYS!" yelled Jiraiya, catching sight of Tsunade and Orochimaru who were walking together. He ran over to them. "Just why are you guys walking together? Are you boyfriend and girlfriend?"
"No we're not!!" yelled Tsunade, punching Jiraiya half way across tone. Jiraiya came back a second later as Orochimaru only stood there and was all like; "Okay…"
"Then why are you walking together?" Jiraiya asked, getting in between them.
"We were going off to meet Sarutobi!" said Tsunade. "We have training today, remember?"
"Oh yeah!" said Jiraiya. "Good thing I saw you guys or else I would have forgotten."
"That happened yesterday." Orochimaru said.
"Yeah so?" said Jiraiya. "I don't have SELECTIVE short term memory. I just have short term memory in general!"
"All right…" said Orochimaru.
"Oh shut up Jiraiya." Said Tsunade. "You're such a dork. You should learn to be more like Orochimaru."
"What and wear PINK?" said Jiraiya, pointing to Orochimaru's little robey thing that was, in fact, a very light shade of pink. "Yeah right. I'm too manly for that."
Orochimaru didn't take any offence. He was used to Jiraiya being a knave and making fun of his pink clothes. But Orochimaru felt that pink brought out his eyes better and made his pale skin look darker. Besides, Tsunade took enough offence for the both of them so Orochimaru couldn't be bothered with taking offence as well.
"You shouldn't say that kind of stuff while the person you're insulting is standing right there!" said Tsunade angrily. "As a matter of fact, you shouldn't say that kind of stuff at all!"
"You want to fight?" Jiraiya said, bouncing back and forth and putting up his dukes.
"You're not even worth my time!" said Tsunade, putting her hand up in front of Jiraiya's face that CLEARLY told him it was time to talk to the hand.
"Hey!" said Jiraiya, pushing her hand away.
"We're going to be late if we don't hurry." Orochimaru said.
"Yeah, what he said!" said Tsunade.
"Fine!" said Jiraiya as the three of them picked up their pace a little bit and went off into the forest where they found Sarutobi waiting for them.
"It's about time you three!" said Sarutobi. "What have I told you about punctuality?"
"Um…have it?" Jiraiya tried.
"Exactly!" said Sarutobi. "Now, for today's training—"
"Aw man!" said Jiraiya. "We've trained every day this week! Can't we do something else today?"
"Jiraiya!" said Sarutobi angrily. "You have no drive whatsoever as a ninja! You're lucky you're where you are because of natural talent! No don't force me to hurt you because we are training today whether you like it or not!"
"Fine!" said Jiraiya.
"Geez, I'm glad I'm not YOU or else I would just DIE." Said Tsunade to Jiraiya.
"That could be arranged!" said Jiraiya, rolling up his sleeves. "You dying, I mean! Not you being me, but you dying!"
"Why you!!" yelled Tsunade as she jumped on Jiraiya and started beating him up. Orochimaru only stood idly by with a small smile, finding the argument slightly amusing on his standards.
"Okay." Said Sarutobi, taking a deep breath as he grabbed the two students people and separated them. "Our training mission for today is this. We're going to have a small spar and the victor gets to decide the punishment for the losers."
"Ha!" laughed Jiraiya, pointing at Tsunade. "When I win, I'm going to make you do laps all day long!"
"I'm not worried because I know I'LL win and force YOU to do laps all day!" said Tsunade as they got all in each other's faces. Orochimaru and Sarutobi only looked at each other and shrugged.
"Did I forget to mention there would be teams?" Sarutobi said.
"Ah!" said Tsunade, grabbing Orochimaru's arm. "I want Orochimaru on my team!"
"No, that's not fair!" said Jiraiya. "Because then it's two against one!"
"Well, I'll be participating too." Said Sarutobi.
"Then I want you to be on my team!" Tsunade corrected herself as she dropped Orochimaru's arm and grabbed Sarutobi's.
"And I'll be picking the teams too." Sarutobi said.
"Oh…" said Tsunade, knowing exactly what was coming.
"The teams shall be you three versus me." Said Sarutobi.
"What?" said Jiraiya. "You've practically already lost!"
"We'll see, won't we?" said Sarutobi.
"Don't spoil it by making him change is mind!" said Tsunade, elbowing Jiraiya in the stomach. "We'll get to make him do laps all day once we win! You ready Orochimaru?"
Orochimaru only looked at her and nodded slightly.
"Wait for me to give the word to start." Said Sarutobi.
Everyone stood around and waited.
"Start." He said finally.
"I'll take care of this!" said Jiraiya as he immediately leapt up into the air and attempted to Judo chop Sarutobi but Sarutobi only grabbed Jiraiya's arm and threw him half way to Hong Kong.
"You're going to have to use TEAMWORK to defeat me!" said Sarutobi.
"Jiraiya, stop being stupid and cooperate with us!" called Tsunade as Jiraiya came running back.
"You guys try and keep up!" instructed Jiraiya.
"Yeah right, Jiraiya!!" yelled Tsunade. The two of them turned to each other and started cat fighting.
"You two!" said Sarutobi. "Can't you put aside your differences for just a minute?!"
"NO!!" screamed Tsunade and Jiraiya.
"Then I'm changing the teams." Sarutobi said.
"GOOD!!" yelled Tsunade and Jiraiya.
"It's now Orochimaru and I versus the two of you." Sarutobi said.
"WHY?!" demanded… well, you know.
"I think it's unfair for him to have to deal with you two." Sarutobi said. "Besides, I feel like punishing you for being annoying but Orochimaru didn't do anything wrong so he doesn't deserve to be punished."
"THAT'S FAVORITISM!!" yelled Jiraiya.
"Actually, I think that's more of UN-favoritism." Commented Tsunade. "On our part, I mean."
Orochimaru didn't feel like beating up his…er…"friends" dare we say? So he only watched as Sarutobi gave the two of them an appropriate beating and decided that they were defeated and couldn't say that they could fight ON!
"All right, one hundred laps!" Sarutobi said.
Tsunade and Jiraiya moaned a little bit but then were off.
Orochimaru only stood there. Something different.
"Orochimaru, I DO believe you have the potential to be Hokage someday." Said Sarutobi wistfully as the two of them looked up at the giant Hokage Mountain. If only he hadn't said that. We could avoided MANY problems in the future.