Chapter 3
Three months passed by quickly, too quickly. He hadn't been able to allocate Naruto, he had completely disappeared. But then there was some rumors about a perverted, white-haired man that had been pestered the hot-springs around that town… and Sasuke were only familiar by two perverts, his old sensei Kakashi and someone named… what was his name again? Argh, he didn't have a bad memory, but he figured the man wasn't something worth remembering. Oh well, it poppoed up for him now, his name was Jiraya… so he sat out to search for the last person to have seen Naruto. Well, from Leaf, anyway.
Let's see…it should be around here… There it was, "Sympathy for the Devil". And YES, it was the name of the inn he would be staying in. So he pushes the door aside, and steps in. It was a nice, little inn, nothing in common of the name it wore. He was about to go to the reception, when he caught sight of something! A big, white hair-thingie. He had such big luck, and he knew it.
"Ah, Jiraiya-san? Is that you?" He walked forward to the man sitting outside the inn, in a little stand, drinking some alcohol.
"Huh?" The white-haired man turned around, with red cheeks and all. "And who are you?" He had cosumed too much sake this evening. Yes, too much…
"Uchiha Sasuke, do you remember me?" Gotta take it easy with the old man… He didn't like me the first time he saw me. Hmph.
"Ooooh, the Uchiha! What do I have the pleasure of having you come visit?" He asked. Damn brat. "I heard you managed to get away from Orochimaru…"
"That is correct." They didn't like each other at all, but Sasuke had some respect for the old man. He was, after all, one of the three legendary Sannins. "I'm… looking for Uzumaki Naruto." The legendary Sannin flinched.
"Oh… I see…" Jiraiya said in a low-voiced voice. He cleared his throat, and followed up. "You know, I'm really close to finding him… and I could use some help. So sit down. Here's the traces I've found this far…" And they stayed up all night, discussing about nothing about Naruto… and the white-haired man's newly written books, with Sasuke having the displeasure of listening. He could only hope that finding Naruto wouldn't take long.
"You sure this is it, Jiraya-san? It's well-hidden, too hidden for it to have any connection to Naruto..." Sasuke pondered. They had walked in hours, and finally stopped when they detected an awful strong genjutsu. With a Sharingan-wielder on his side, Jiraiya was very glad to have gotten help from the dark-haired prodigy.
"Definitely." Before them lay a circle of approximately 100 meter in diameter. Now that was strange indeed, but what was even more strange about the place was that the whole place was painted with seals. "This is… the style is refined, and the functions…" The white-haired man glanced up to get a view at the seals at a whole. Then he looked down again, and started examine the seals again. "According to… the seals, you shouldn't cross the outer line." He then tossed a twig into the circle of seals, and it immideately vanished. "It's probably for safetycautions. Whoever made up this seal is a specialist. And the style of it… it seems somehow familiar. I'll go on a little tour around it."
What a seal… I've only learned some low-level healing seals before, but even I can tell that this is probably a seal over Jounin-level.
Additional hours later, Jiraiya had managed to orbit the seal, and had come up with a conclusion…
"It's no doubt about it, it's Naruto's doing." Jiraiya said. "And I think I can counter it, it will take a while, though." So day became night, and night became day again until Jiraiya had finished.
The seal was in the form of an inverse pentagram, pointing south. The legendary Sannin had managed to weaken the seal at each five points of the seal, rendering it vurnable to the…
"Hushokeii!" (Unknown Seal Release) And the outer circle began moving toward each of the five points of the inverse pentagram. It was strange, because the ground shaked… "Be ready, Uchiha-brat. We may have to fight, depending on what was sealed." The shaking increased, and by now the five points had started to withdraw, and the area of the seal had subtracted to half. After another increase of shaking, the seal was now smaller than a meter in diameter, and Jiraiya and Sasuke was now on their toes of what to come.
All of a sudden, the remaining marks of the seal dove into the ground, and you could feel when they traveled through the earth. Soon after, the place where the seal had disappeared started to break, as something that had been stored under ground for a long time resurfaced. First came something that looked like blonde hair, soon followed by the rest of the body, with an orange t-shirt complete with orange trousers and the classic sandals, only that this pair was black. The markings of the seal carried him and put him down with his back down to the plain earth, all the while materia started creating something white that looked awfully a lot like bandages, around the blonde's body. The two watched in awe. Then, the seal started travel up the bandages, and when all the bandages finally had seals over them, the process stopped.
The watchers then went forward to the body, to check up on it. They were startled when they noticed that the body had started to shake. Then, it let out a sound. "Uhh…" They quickly rushed to it's side.
"Naruto, is that you?!" Jiraiya quickly adapted to the strange situation, put one of his arms behind the body's back and adjusted it to a sitting position.
The head of the body steadied on Jiraiya's face. "Jiraiya-sensei…? Is that you…?" Naruto said weakly. "What are you doing here?"
Authors noteShould I have continued?
The seals I've used; I don't speak japanese, fyi. May as well say it right now. The keii used in Hushokeii is the unseal-part, I think. Well, the counter-part of Goguoufuuin (used by Orochimaru in the Forest of Death against Naruto) is named Goguoukeii (which Jiraiya used to unseal the Goguoufuuin). So, I figured that keii is the unseal-part, because the fuuin in Goguoufuuin means seal. Oh hell, I shouldn't be lecturing in japanese, but… I think it's correct. :P
Also, I'm sorry for the long delay, I've postponed the KurenaiNaruto-fic, dunno if it'll be released. I think I'll finish this story first. Oh well. From here on, the chapters are going to be about this long. Please put up with it. :/ I'm already working on next chapter.