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Konoha's New Teacher
Chapter 5: Jiraiya's Adventure
Jiraiya was about to go back to the spot he and Naruto did their training at yesterday, when an idea came to him. 'It's not really all that hard a technique to master,' Jiraiya thought. 'I just need to think about what I want to transform into, concentrate on that and nothing else, and just transform. I just can't let Naruto's "old" comment get to me again, otherwise I'll just become an old hag again.' With those thoughts in mind, Jiraiya turned around and walked off towards the hot springs, instead.
As soon as he arrived at the hot springs, Jiraiya hid in some nearby bushes. Suddenly, there was a poof of smoke; Jiraiya had transformed using sexy no jutsu. Having forgotten to bring a mirror with him, he decided to just walk on into the girls' hot springs without even knowing what he looked like. He felt confident that he had transformed properly, anyways.
As soon as he walked in, Jiraiya spotted three girls in a nearby spring, chatting with each other. Jiraiya found himself frozen in place, just staring at the girls, trying with all his might not to flood the place with his drool.
After awhile, one of the girls noticed they were being stared at. She pointed this out to the other two. They all giggled for a brief moment, then they got out of the water and made their way over to Jiraiya. Jiraiya shook his head to clear his mind of the daze he was in once he noticed the girls were standing right in front of him.
"Why, hello miss," greeted the girl who first noticed Jiraiya. Jiraiya grinned inwardly. So, he did manage to transform into a girl. This was a good sign. Also, this was the first time he had a young girl walk up and actually talk to him in a long time. At least, without resulting in getting slapped. "My name is Kasari, and these are my two friends: Mai and Rin," the girl continued, pointing to her two friends.
"Hi!" Jiraiya replied, still very pleased that the girl was actually talking to him. "My name is Jir –" Jiraiya paused, realizing he was just about to tell the girls his name. 'What if they recognize my name from my books?' Jiraiya thought. He really couldn't have something like that happen. He had just gotten there, after all. " – ana," he finished.
"Nice to meet you, Jirana!" Mai and Rin said at the same time, waving to him.
"Same to you," Jiraiya said, giving a slight bow to all three girls.
"Listen, would you like to join us in the springs?" Kasari asked.
'Score!' Jiraiya thought to himself. However, remembering the situation at hand, he simply replied, "I'd enjoy that very much, thanks!" With that, the four of them got into the nice, hot water and relaxed.
"So, Jirana," Mai said, breaking the silence after about five minutes had passed, "I've never seen you here before. Is this your first time at the springs?"
"Hmm?" Jiraiya replied, coming out of his private thoughts. "Oh! Yes, this is my first time here. I find my work usually keeps me too busy to come into such places."
"Oh? And what kind of work do you do?" asked Rin, looking rather intrigued.
"I'm an author," Jiraiya replied.
"Really?" Kasari asked, looking as interested as Rin. "And what do you write about?"
"Oh, nothing too exciting," Jiraiya lied, doing his best to keep his true identity in check. "Mostly just romance novels."
"Is that so?" Mai inquired. "I think I'll be making a stop at the bookstore on my way home today and buy one of your books. I love to read romance novels."
"Oh, well, you won't be able to buy them, I'm afraid," replied Jiraiya. 'Man! This lying stuff is getting difficult! If I'm not careful, I might just blow my cover!' Jiraiya thought.
"Why not?" asked Mai.
"It's…well, it's just a hobby of mine. I've never really taken it too seriously. I just write them to give myself something to do in my spare time. I never really had the intention of actually publishing them for others to read," Jiraiya replied. 'Man!' he thought, 'Girls sure do ask a lot of questions!'
Just then, Jiraiya heard a familiar voice come from behind him. "Hey girls!"
'That voice,' Jiraiya thought to himself. 'Where have I heard that voice before?' He didn't feel like turning around to see whom it was.
"Oh! Hey Tsunade!" the other three girls said, waving to the new arrival behind Jiraiya.
"Who's the old lady?" Tsunade asked, settling herself in the water beside Jiraiya.
'Did she just say "old lady"?' Jiraiya hoped he had misheard her.
"Oh, this is Jirana," Kasari replied, introducing Tsunade to the first-timer. "Jirana, this is Tsunade, though I'm sure you know her already, being that she is the fifth Hokage and all."
'Oh great!' thought Jiraiya. 'Not only did I screw up the jutsu, yet again, and look like an old hag, but Tsunade had to get tossed into the mix.'
"Nice to meet you, Jirana," Tsunade said, giving a slight bow of her head to Jiraiya.
"The pleasure is all mine," replied Jiraiya, returning the small bow and trying his best to keep himself under control.
They sat in silence for a few minutes, until Tsunade spoke up. "Jirana. That's an interesting name. Are you in some way related to the infamous Jiraiya, by any chance?"
'Is that a look of suspicion on her face?' thought Jiraiya. "Jiraiya, you say?" he said, looking up rather fast. 'Think fast, Jiraiya. Think!' he thought to himself. 'Now, of all times, would be the worst to blow your cover!' "Nope, never heard of him," Jiraiya said, shaking his head.
"Is that so?" Tsunade said, raising an eyebrow. Tsunade seemed to be looking more suspicious as time went by. Jiraiya shrugged it off. He was probably just acting paranoid.
"Should I have heard of him?" Jiraiya was having a hard time keeping his cool. 'Come on, don't blow it!'
"I guess not. It's just that most everybody I meet has heard of him at some point in their lives." Tsunade shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, seems like I have heard of him now, doesn't it?" Jiraiya said.
"Seems that way," said Tsunade as she changed her position slightly to get a bit more comfortable. Kasari, Rin, and Mai just looked at each other, not quite sure what to think of the strange conversation between Tsunade and Jirana.
The five of them then sat in silence again: Kasari, Mai, and Rin not knowing what to say after hearing the conversation between the other two women. Tsunade seemed to forget all about getting Jirana to admit that she knew Jiraiya. Jiraiya sat there, trying to think of additional cover-up stories to keep himself out of trouble. However, after a few minutes of sitting there, the steam started to get to him and he began to feel that perhaps Tsunade wasn't out to get him after all, and he stopped worrying about her. Instead, he his thoughts wandered off to the other three girls.
After about fifteen minutes of silence, Tsunade finally spoke up again. "So, how's Naruto's training coming along?"
"Hmm?" Jiraiya came out of his thoughts, yet again. "Oh, he's doing very well. Getting quite strong, I must say."
THWACK! Tsunade just slapped Jiraiya on the back of the head, with a long of strength behind her swing, too. "I knew it!" Tsunade exclaimed.
"Knew what?" Kasari asked. She and the other two girls looked at the Hokage, confused.
Poof! Tsunade's slap was so hard it made him drop his transformation. "Aahhh!" the three young girls screamed as they jumped out of the water and ran off to get dressed and away from the pervert that was in their midst.
THWACK! Another slap from Tsunade, this time right across Jiraiya's face. "How dare you do such a thing!" Tsunade yelled as she grabbed her towel and wrapped it around herself in a huff. She then turned on her heels and stomped away, looking very, very angry.
All Jiraiya was able to do was stand there, staring at the spot Tsunade was just at. 'What just happened?' Jiraiya thought. 'What? Did I say or do something to make her notice it was really me? Or did she just make a lucky guess?' He then thought about the conversation they were having just before he was slapped. "Let's see," he said out loud to himself. "She asked about Naruto's training and I…Oh great! I blew it by saying how well he was doing, and thus admitting I was his trainer!" He then slapped himself in the forehead with the palm of his hand repeatedly. "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" he reprimanded himself. "How could I have let something as simple as that slip and give me away?"
Just then, someone tapped him on the shoulder. Jiraiya turned around to find a very upset woman glaring at him. "Out! Now!" she growled.
Jiraiya started running out just as THWACK! the woman snapped his rear end with a wet towel. "Ouch!" Jiraiya yelped as he jumped into the air then continued to run out as fast as he could to avoid the angry woman and her wet towel.
Just as he had put good distance between himself and the hot springs, Jiraiya collided into someone. They both fell to the ground in a big heap. Once he and the someone untangled themselves from each other, Jiraiya noticed whom he had collided with: Naruto.
"Oh! Hello Pervert Sennin!" Naruto said, waving at Jiraiya. "About today's training THWACK! "Ow! What was that for?" Naruto howled. Jiraiya had just smacked him upside his head.
"Do you have any idea how much trouble you and your sexy no jutsu got me into?" Jiraiya growled.
"Uh…" Naruto looked completely clueless. "My guess would be…uh…a lot?"
"Here, let me 'enlighten' you with the general gist of things," Jiraiya said, tugging Naruto by the ear into an abandoned alley. He didn't need anyone else hearing about his experience. "I went to the hot springs, used sexy no jutsu, ended up looking like an old hag again, but didn't know it until Tsunade showed up and made mention of it while I was soaking in the hot springs with three other girls, and then that woman had the audacity to reveal who I truly was, in front of the other girls, mind you, and I had to run out of there for my life while getting smacked by some lady and her wet towel!" Jiraiya said this all, without gasping for a single breath until he finished.
Naruto just stood there, eyes wide open in shock of the perverted Sennin. After a few seconds, Naruto finally spoke up. "Well, you can't say I didn't warn you." He was referring to the comment he made about Jiraiya's age when Jiraiya first asked him to teach him the jutsu. "You should have realized that you would need to train more than such a short period of time before you preformed the jutsu correctly. After all, it was only your second try at the jutsu. Did you really think you'd pull it off?"
Jiraiya glared at Naruto. 'How dare he make such a comment to me!' "Well, just for your information, I've decided I no longer want to use sexy no jutsu, anyways. So why don't you go back to your ramen."
"Fine, if that's the way you feel, go ahead and give up!" Naruto replied. He turned around and left.
So, from that day on, Jiraiya decided to go back to his old form of "gathering data". Oh, and just so you know, Jiraiya had not given up because he didn't think he could pull off the jutsu. As a matter of fact, he practiced every night and finally managed to transform into a very beautiful girl. The thing that kept him from using sexy no jutsu to get into the girls' hot springs to gather data was that he felt he couldn't keep up the lies effectively enough, and he really didn't need another incident to occur.
THE END
So, what'd you guys think? Hope this chapter's length made up for the last one, hehe.
I also want to thank everyone for the reviews you have given this story up to this point, as well as the ones that are bound to come in the future. You all have really encouraged me to continue writing my Fan Fictions. I also want to thank gargoylesama for giving me the idea for this chapter. Without the suggestion he made in his review, I would have probably ended this on a much more boring note, hehe.
So, with that all said and done with, I'm going to go take a short break (probably very short) and then get started with my next Fan Fiction.
