Chapter 2: Icha Icha HELL NO!

Kenny looked over at Jiraiya "Where are we going?" Jiraiya dryly responded, "Tenzaku City, a Paradise of Women and mixed hot springs."

Kenny was wondering why was always obsessed with hot springs... ...And women.

Jiraiya looked on ahead "So tell me a bit about you?" He asked the boy with the miracle arm.

"I'm irritated, I'm hungry, my arm feels funny, you never answer any of my questions, and I'm wearing the same wet clothing from yesterday."

The Sennin sighed. "I know your condition, but not who you are..." he responds to the answer blowing off Kenny's complaints...

"So, you where really good in that bath house how did you get up there anyways?" Jiraiya asked.

"I opened my eyes and I was falling I already told you that." Kenny was getting vary irritated with this super pervert who was vexing him to no end.

Jiraiya sighed again. "I know you fell there but I didn't even sense you coming." he said hinting at his sixth sense.

"I don't know." Kenny responded, thinking that this person wasn't the best person to give knowledge to...

"Well I need to test a few things come with me we are going to the bath house, you have ladies to thank for there helping you at there expense." Jiraiya said pointing at the bathhouse that just came into view. Kenny's jaw dropped "YOU LEAD IS AROUND IN A CIRCLE FOR AN ENTIRE DAY!" he yelled angrily.

Jiraiya calmly responded "I'm a powerful shinobi! I can do that." leading Kenny to the bathhouse woman's side. "Just what exactly are you think...ing…" Jiraiya then shoved Kenny through the door to the woman's side causing him to loose his footing and fall face first in the woman's bath water. After recovering himself, Kenny yelled at Jiraiya, "GREAT, NOW MY CLOTHES ARE WET AGAIN!"

The women almost screamed then realizing it was that poor boy Hiroshi they all ran over to him "Are you okay? Did your damn uncle take care of you Hiroshi-kun?" A purple haired woman asked him who was without covering, all the while Jiraiya taking notes from a hole in the outside.

Kenny was caught of guard by the comment, "Uncle! GAHHHHHHHH!" He fell back and covered his eyes, "Sorry, so sorry, forgive me!" She looked at him with a slightly confused look then looked down realizing she was undressed started to blush plunging into the water "At least you don't take after that pervert, and you're kinda cute." Kenny blushed, half looking away, "I'm sorry for being a disturbance, it won't happen again." With that he made his way back toward the door.

Jiraiya thought to himself "Play it for what its worth, damn I'm going to need to abridge this a little bit!" The girl seeing him leaving like all the other girls did grabbed him "Oh no you don't, you're filthy and this is a bath house." she smiled yanking him into the water making Jiraiya's, who was writing, jaw drop.

Seeing his slight hesitation, she quickly said, "Think of it like mixed bathing."

Kenny didn't know what to think, he half wanted to faint, half wanted to leave and a third half still wanted to kill Jiraiya. She pulled out a scrub brush and smiled at him with a non threatening look that dripped danger. Kenny was getting more nervous by the second, he didn't know what to think or do. "No, really, I don't want to be a disturbance." He said trying to makeup and excuse.

Jiraiya looked on and wrote in his book (He looked into her eyes as she took out the brush he tried to refuse but in the heated passion he submitted.)

She caught him and started throwing off his clothing and proceeded to half drown him in bathing himJiraiya only looked on in glee and squealed to himself, "He has 'tact,' and lots of it!"

She had not only removed his clothing but tore it up leaving him only a bathhouse towel that was sitting outside the hot spring.

After 30 minutes of mindless scrubbing and drowning later she finally let him go, Kenny was left standing in the waiting room in nigh but a towel facing the man who caused all this. Kenny stared down Jiraiya, but was speechless.

Jiraiya looked at him "What? I got you a free bath with a nicely stacked babe, and now you don't even thank me!" he said, more of a statement then a question. "Well, I'll make it up to you... ...want to become a new character in my new book?" he asked.

Kenny's stare became darker, "ALL I HAVE IS A TOWEL NOW THANKS TO YOU!" he then stated "But it is a very fine towel at that." Jiraiya quickly responded.

Kenny was speechless. He had never been this annoyed with anyone in his life.

"So do you want the part in my book? With the pay as a character in it you will get enough money to get some... Ahem... "Pants"." he said highlighting the last word

Kenny was used to people like Ray, always bribing him into things. "What is the catch?" he looked at him "No catch, No clause, but you will be starting into the series at book 3, Icha Icha Paradise 3: The Phantom Incubus" "Icha Icha Paradise?" Kenny responded thinking, 'Where have I heard the term icha icha before?' The title was sounding fishier then ever, "What is this novel about?"

Jiraiya saw that his plight was not going anywhere so he decided to avoid the subject. "Come my boy, we can talk about it more in town." Kenny, very irritated, followed.

He led Kenny to the store and told him, "I need you to go by the name Hiroshi you can come up with a surname but Kenny sounds too foreign and that draws unwanted notice.""Ok." Kenny quickly responded, walking into the store. Jiraiya looked over the outfits "Hmm... no, no, no... Ah-ha! This one!" he then pulled out a black ninja outfit with short pants and a sleeveless jacket and grabbed some ninja tape and sandals and through them at Kenny "Here." they where on bargain to. Kenny was at the check out already with six other sets of clothing and a backpack. "I see you found... What! You only get two!" he yelled in shock and horror.

"Yeah, that guy is paying!" Kenny quickly said to the clerk.The clerk normally complained but seeing as it was that BUM decided he was paying, before Jiraiya could say a word, and Kenny had walked out of the store with the clothes and backpack. The shop keeper yelled "NOW PAY UP!" in fear, Jiraiya paid in full even for the black outfit.

A few hours later on the road Jiraiya looked over at Kenny darkly, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT BOY!" he shouted out of the blue "ARE YOU TRYING TO RUN A POOR HERMIT INTO THE GROUND!" Kenny raised an eyebrow, "Poor? You said it yourself, that I was the star in your new "BESTSELLING" novel! You got to have some cash if all you do all day is walk in circles and peep on women!" Jiraiya sighed "Look, kid I just want to stress that as an author that I don't carry much of that around on me at a time" he then said "so do you want to learn something?" "Yeah! I do!" Kenny responded with dark determination, "What is this book about and why haven't you answered any of my questions about it!"

"What do you want to know, how to be a strong shinobi, or about the book?" Jiraiya asked assuming a tone that said I am a legend.

Kenny stared. "THE BOOK! I have little interest in anything but this book and finding my friend!"

At this Kenny remembered that Ray usually could only dream of being a ninja. "Is both possible?" he asked.

"Well maybe, but you don't seem that strong." he said looking at Kenny

"I can help you in three ways: First, becoming a ninja. Second, finding your friend and third, telling you about the book..." he then grinned "but for me to help you must agree for me to use you in my book... ...without pay as it makes up for your training." "Ok!" Kenny quickly agreed to Jiraiya's stipulations. "So what's the book about?" He smiled "Its about our hero Jan a charming adventurer who wonders around saving women from monsters and marrying them, but in this book a new monster awoke, the INCUBUS!" He then went on "The Incubus is a demonic creature that came from space and seduces women into crimes of passion and sucking out there life energy in the process.

At this Kenny's face darkened, "Crimes of passion? What is that suppose to mean, what type of novel is this?"

"THE BEST! Plain and simple!" Jiraiya shot back. "The best? Can I see one of you books?" Kenny asked still wanting more information. Jiraiya dug in his pack saying "are you over 18? Don't answer that." he tossed Icha Icha Paradise at him.

Kenny looked at the novel. "WHAT THE... IT'S A PORNO NOVEL! I'M NOT DOING THIS! NO WAY AM I DOING THIS!"

"You already agreed... AND IT'S NOT PORNO! Its erotica." Jiraiya stated. "Otherwise you can find this friend on your own and die in the woods untrained. I am a Sennin and it's no skin of my back if you die."

"I'd rather die than be in this!" Kenny shouted back.

Raging on Kenny said, "No way in heck I'd let myself be put in this, I'd rather kiss Tony Danza!" Jiraiya looked at him, "Then you don't want to find your friend?" He walked into the woods thinking "Danza hmm..."

"I still want to find my friend!" Kenny shouted back, walking after Jiraiya, "Can you at least help me with that?" Jiraiya looked at him He then said woefully "I will help you find him but you will have to earn my training."

"What do I have to do to earn your training?" Kenny asked.

"That is for you to find out... but I have contacts that help me ship my books" Jiraiya said looking at the sky.

"Contacts; so you want me to help ship your dirty novels?" Kenny asked with a large amount of sarcasm.

"No... They have info from around the countries spanning from the hidden village of the rock, all the way to Sunakure, if anything turns up they will know." Jiraiya said indignantly.

"Then what is my job?" Kenny tried once again to inquire what Jiraiya wanted of him.

With that Jiraiya smiled "Well you see it's actually important to gain info fast so you will be like a messenger when I'm to busy to do it my self." he then added "If you have talent I'll 'maybe' train you." grinning as he said the last part.

"So I'm like a chore boy!" Kenny exclaimed. Kenny was getting a little wearier of Jiraiya every second they were together.

"Baka." Jiraiya muttered "I thought anyone knows how vital information is to a shinobi." he then performed an exaggerated sigh "you job is more important then errands." Kenny thought to himself, 'Here he goes again with that "SHINOBI" thing.

Looking at him, the Sennin sighed "Lets go there's a lot for 'us' to do... ...then we can go take a nice bath."

"Fine!" Kenny responded and followed the Sennin, hoping that they were not going to go in another circle.

A few days of travel later they stood in Tenzaku city where Jiraiya spoke to him "I need to get some information and also have some a message I need to have delivered." he handed an envelope to Kenny "The person you are looking to deliver it to has black hair and is 5'4 feet tall and has a scar across his face. "Just, uhh… don't piss him off."

"What's his name?" Kenny asked looking for more info to make sure he didn't mess up.

"Buki." Jiraiya said pointing to the cities seedier side "Now off you go meet me back here in 3 hours."

Kenny went off seeing that Jiraiya was already gone, "I hope I don't get mugged." He said looking at how run down the side of town was where he was heading.

After a while Kenny stopped and looked around. He saw that he was finally in the area Jiraiya pointed him too. He looked over and asked a man nearby, "Do you know where I can find a Mr. Buki?" The man glared back at him and he saw eyes glaring at him from windows and heard doors and windows being shut or in most cases slammed, "Asking questions like that get people killed 'round here." He then walked off.

'Who the heck did Jiraiya send me after!' Kenny thought to himself. He walked on toward the middle of the area.

As he walked he saw some people following him they looked mean and one stood at 6'2 glowering at him, they started to advance on him drawing knifes until he saw a bar to retreat into. He quickly retreated into the bar thinking it was his only resort without trying to outrun them.

Inside the bar he found people drinking the atmosphere in there was dense and the people hostile, he saw a person at the bar downing a mug of ale matching Jiraiya's description except he was built like a brick house. Kenny quickly went over to the man, "Sir, might I ask what your name is?" He asked.

The man looked at him a hostile glint in his eye as his other one was missing, He grabbed Kenny by the front straps of his pack and thrust him against the wall "That depends' on who's asking!"

Kenny half in shock and the other in fear quickly grabbed for words, "I... I'm sorry sir, it's just I'm looking for a man named Buki to deliver him something from Jiraiya!" Kenny shouted, not realizing how loud he yelled.

"Jiraiya hmm... that old bastard!" He then threw Kenny to the side, "Give it to me! I'm him." he said sharply. "Here sir!" Kenny quickly got back up and gave the envelope to Buki.

Buki took the note and after opening and reading it started laughing manically "So that's It ehh!" he then grinned, "Tell him that there is odd happening in Sunakure!" He chuckled pulling out a kunai "Assuming you survive to deliver the reply!" He then started to advance on Kenny.

Kenny quickly looked behind himself knowing that the people who were trailing him were probably there but much to his relief they where not but his thoughts where interrupted as Buki slashed at him. "GEH?" Kenny quickly fell back but got a cut on the cheek. "What was that for!" Buki suddenly threw a kick into him sending him flying out the bar door then lunged after him "YOUR DEATH WILL TELL THAT BASTARD TO COME HIMSELF NEXT TIME." to Kenny's dismay the other people who where advancing on him drew around the corner "THERE HE IS KILL HIM!" they ran at him. Kenny quickly got up gasping; he started down the main road only he was going the opposite way that he needed to go. "How the heck!" He muttered to himself. Buki who was outrunning the others, suddenly lunged in front of Kenny and stabbed him in the left forearm. "AHH!" Kenny quickly yelled as he pulled away from Buki. His arm bled, pain shot up it his muscles tensing to the point where they hurt, the kunai stuck into his arm. He quickly reared himself forward and tried an off balance right jab. He hit but Buki didn't even budge, he then laughed "you really have no talent maybe I'll cut off your arms and show you pain before you die!" the spun a kick hitting the back of the kunai. Pain shot up his arm as the kunai went through the bone and almost out the other side.

Kenny tried a sweeping kick quickly thinking that he might just trip Buki while he had one leg off the ground. The Sweeping kick connected to the shin but he didn't even get off centered, he spun fast, connecting another blow to the kunai in his arm. The kunai went through his arm; only the small portion of the grip remained visible. Pain shot through the arm as the kunai went through his arm, but more than that, the funny feeling that he had been feeling in his arm was getting stronger. In fact, he felt the feeling was circulating through his body. Suddenly he spurt a large amount of blood, as the lower part of his arm almost exploded from the inside. The small cut that was from the kunai coming through became larger and longer, going down and up his arm toward his wrist and his underarm. "GAHHHH!" Kenny yelled loud enough that anyone in town could here it.

Jiraiya ran towards the battle hearing the commotion thinking I hope "I'm not too late."

The splitting pain was terrible as the cut reached his wrist and his arm spurted a larger amount of blood then the previous time. Suddenly Buki assaulted him again throwing a hit into the kunai in his arm intent on driving it into his side he was surprised that when he hit, the kunai didn't budge at all.

Kenny was still yelling even though the pain was being overcome by the power he was starting to feel in his arm. He felt the kunai moving out of his arm and his bone healing as the cut had finally stopped growing but was now bleeding profusely. He stopped yelling and came to his senses. He removed the kunai from his arm quickly. Buki leapt back drawing another kunai then lunged at Kenny. Kenny's arm felt tense as though he had an electrical current going through it, Buki slashed at his right arm yelling "YOU ARE A DEAD MAN, I WILL KILL YOU HERE!" he slashed at him with his new kunai. Kenny quickly blocked with the kunai that he pulled out of his arm, as the current started flowing through his arm faster and with more speed. Buki twisted around slashing at him again hitting his left arm with a slash that was deflected of his muscles he then spun and slashed again confused as to thy his arm was not knocked off his body. Kenny finally tried to move more of this electrical current feeling into his arm. Suddenly his arm started to throb, but he felt power rushing to it. It began to transform, growing bigger and longer than before. Buki lunged forward right up into Kenny's face wondering how that much chakra was running through his arm he then spun again to kick his head. Kenny's arm transformed more, this time the muscles grew and the whole arm became wider. He threw the kunai backhanded at the hip of Buki while turning his hips and blocking the kick with his left arm. The kunai imbedded in his hip as his kick was stopped without even budging Kenny he then after landing pulled out the kunai and ran strait at Kenny doing some hand seals.

Next, the outer part of Kenny's arm grew larger then the inner part, almost like armor, and the hand grew to match the proportioning of his arm, which now if standing would fall down to his knees. He felt like the transformation was almost complete. He then stood up and observed the hand movements ready for another attack. His opponent finished the hand seals "Katon: Gokakyo no Jutsu" a Roaring fireball erupted from his mouth straight at Kenny. As it came toward him, his arm finished transforming, as the armor spread up to his shoulder. "You can't beat me like that!" Kenny yelled at Buki.

Kenny was not sure how much his arm could do, but he was willing to take a gamble right now. He reared back his arm. Buki ran behind the fireball as it went towards Kenny doing more hand seals. Kenny started running toward the fireball with his arm reared back. The fireball raged forward about to engulf Kenny when about 4 shuriken flew through it at Kenny. Kenny used the weight of his new arm to increase his speed in spinning around twice, once to block the shuriken. He then kept spinning and the fireball hit him just as his arm came around a second time. As Kenny's arm hit the fireball, his fist hit Buki in the face, thus dispelling the fireball and sending Buki flying twenty feet backward. "Who is next?" Kenny said turning to the crowd.

Buki lay there for a second before pilling himself up and telling his men "Kill Him!" then passing out, almost immediately all the thugs started to advance on him pulling out knives maces and the like "avoid his arm and go for the heart." the big one ordered the band against him now numbered twenty. Kenny's eyes opened wide, he wasn't sure he could take twenty in one shot; He braced himself defensively with his arm in front of his body.

A red blur was seen it collided with two of the thugs pinning them to the wall knocking them out the figure turned and was revealed to be Jiraiya, He leaped in front of Kenny as one of the thugs slashed at Kenny grabbing the thug's arm, twisting it, then yanking it straight. He then did some hand seals too fast for Kenny to see. Suddenly, the earth in front of him spiked up sending tremor and cracks through the ground and raining ten pound rocks onto the rest of them.

Kenny was speechless; he half wanted to beat up Jiraiya for sending him down here in the first place, "What are you doing here? It's barely been an hour and a half." Jiraiya walked over to him "saving your life, as for the hour and a half I sensed the chakra in your arm and came as fast as I was able." he then surveyed Buki "Did he have any information?" he asked.

"Something about odd things in Sunakure. WHY THE HECK DO YOU MAKE DEALINGS WITH THUGS LIKE THIS GUY!" Kenny had finally got that question off his chest.

Jiraiya walked over to him and started to examine his arm that had not yet returned to normal "Who else can get information outside of the law... Anyways I'm going to wrap your arm... you might just be a good shinobi one day." he offered his hand to Kenny.

Kenny just dusted himself off ignoring Jiraiya's gestures. "So what's next?"

He only replied with a slight snort "what an ingrate…" he muttered under his breath "well do you want my teachings or not boy?"

"Sure, let's just get the heck out of this town." Kenny replied, starting to walk toward the entrance of the town.

Jiraiya just nodded in agreement remembering his trip to the 'Gentlemen's club', where the women were not that pretty.

A few minutes later, as they were walking away from the town, Kenny asked, "Jiraiya, when I was fighting that guy the funny feeling in my arm got stronger and eventually my arm ended up like this. What the heck is wrong with my arm?" Jiraiya looked at him, "It's not what's wrong with your arm it's what's wrong with you, you have a bloodline limit that I have never seen before."

Jiraiya went on with explaining what a bloodline limit and chakra were and after a few minutes Jiraiya said, "I'm going to have to seal your arm." "What!" Kenny responded but before he could he was knocked out.

During the time Kenny was out cold, Jiraiya made preparations for the chakra seal that was to be put on Kenny. Jiraiya had noticed that Kenny bled more profusely out his arm than any where else. He deduced that the chakra is Kenny's arm and his ability to heal is closely connected. He kept that in mind and made the chakra seal right where the cut was. A while later Kenny woke up. "Wha… What the heck?" He looked and saw that his arm was back to normal, only the cut that had developed was a scar and the scar along with most of the inner arm had the seals on it.

Jiraiya then spoke, "I put a seal on your arm to limit the chakra flow to your arm; your chakra and your body's ability to heal are closely connected, so if you burn all your chakra, you will lose your ability to heal and you will just bleed to death..."

"You mean that chakra stuff you were talking about?" Kenny asked. "Yes but you may need to use your arm later so notice I put seal over the scar, all you need to do to activate your arm is reopen the wound and in doing so you will break the seal." He stated this to Kenny, handing him the kunai that had been thrust through it the first time.

Kenny raised an eyebrow, "This chakra thing... How exactly do I use it?" He asked hoping to figure out just what type of force chakra was.
"Chakra made when you combine your physical energy and your spiritual energy and tha--- (After a long explanation of what chakra is) --- And that is what chakra is." he finished smiling at the explanation he gave "I will teach you how to mold chakra as we travel to Konoha, during the trip I will teach you what you can learn."

"Konoha? What's in Konoha?" Kenny asked, looking forward to learning more. "You will learn," he said to Kenny walking off along the road with his new student.