Onegai! Tsunade-Hime
Disclaimer: look in prologue
(A/N: I think it only makes sense that Naruto is older than everyone else because he failed the genin exam three times right? Also if I made Naruto twelve, Naruto and Tsunade's ages would be too far apart. As for the setting it's before the genin exam)
Italics are thoughts
Bold is Tsunade's narration in the Flashback part
Chapter 2: Riyuu(reason)
"Then tell me how you got to the forest Naruto was training in" Tsunade sat down and said "All right then, it was when we were on a mission…"
FLASHBACK
We had been sent on routine scout mission through earth country, everything had been going well until….
(A/N: The sannin are already Jounin here by the way.)
Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade can be seen walking through a forest, well Orochimaru and Tsunade were walking, Jiraiya was walking and scribbling something onto a notepad. "What the hell are you doing Jiraiya? We're in the middle of a mission you know?" Tsunade shouted, irritation clear in her voice. Jiraiya looked up from his notepad and regarded Tsunade for a moment "Middle?" Jiraiya looked thoughtful for a moment before breaking into a lecherous grin and then returning to his scribbling, giggling all the way. Tsunade stomped over to Jiraiya and swiped the notepad from his hands "What the hell are you writing that's more important than focusing on the mission!"
Snapping out of his perverted fantasies, Jiraiya decided to answer Tsunade's question "HAHAHAHAH! What you are holding right now my dear still flat-chested Tsunade-hime is the draft of future best selling novel in not only in fire country, but in all four great countries, I will call it Icha Icha Paradise BOHAHAHAHAHAHA" A few meters from Jiraiya, Tsunade was trembling and a battle aura seemed to glow around her. Orochimaru, knowing better than to be in Tsunade's way when she's angry, carefully scooted away from her. "You-you-you PERVERT!" with that battle cry Tsunade punched Jiraiya into the ground "You think that just because you can put your perverted fantasies on paper that you're a writer now huh?" and with that she proceeded to tear the notepad into little pieces. "What the hell do you think you're doing you flat-chested bitch?" Jiraiya shouted from his face-down position "What else? I'm ridding the world of another horrible idea from a perverted freak like you!" Tsunade replied.
We were too careless, we thought there were no enemies in the area, we were wrong….
All three suddenly tensed up and shifted into ready stances "Oi Jiraiya, Tsunade, did you feel that?"
"Un" both of them replied "How many do you think there are Orochimaru?" Tsunade asked. Orochimaru's eyes darted left and right, looking for the slightest distortion in the trees "Four possibly five most likely all Jounin". "Yosh! Finally some action, this mission won't be so boring after all!" Jiraiya exclaimed while pulling out a kunai from his holster. "Don't let your guard down, the enemy appears to have some skill as well." Tsunade exclaimed.
The three started moving through the forest again, tension clearly seen on their faces. "The enemy is most likely following us from a safe distance, don't let your guard down" Orochimaru said. "Damn it! I hate these waiting games why don't we just find them and beat'em up?" Jiraiya shouted from his position. "Also, our mission was to scout out enemy territory and gather information, not engage the enemy in combat" Tsunade added in.
We were still two days away from the rendezvous point we were expecting an attack, they did not let us down…
Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru sat around a small fire, their kunai right in the ground beside them should there be an attack. "Ne..it's been a day already, do you think they gave up?" Tsunade turned to Jiraiya and said "Probably not, maybe they went to get reinforcements or they decided to regroup, what do you think Orochimaru?" Jiraiya directed his gaze at Orochimaru who looked to be deep in thought "They probably decided to call reinforcements seeing as how the three of us are actually well known in the five countries. The so called "Sannin" a team who was taught by the current Hokage himself, it would not be a surprise if they decided to call for reinforcements"
Both Jiraiya and Tsunade looked a bit surprised We're that famous? "Which means-" Orochimaru continued "-that we will have to expect a bigger more coordinated attack" Both Jiraiya and Tsunade nodded, seeing that once again, that Orochimaru was right. It was to be decided that Jiraiya was to take the first shift. After a few minutes Jiraiya started to feel drowsy and unable to resist fell asleep himself.
In the shadows of the tree tops, a group of ten stone nin waited. A man with long black hair whom I will call stone nin0 was directing his men. "Alright, you there" he said pointing at a man whom I will call stone ninA "Take two men to the ground, set up a perimeter around those three and ready that jutsu" stone ninA nodded and pointed at two other men situated on branches behind him and disappeared. "Yosh, now you" he said addressing a stone nin to his left "Take another squad and drop down to about mid-level of these trees and commence the attack on my signal" stone ninB as I will now call him nodded and disappeared along with two others and positioned themselves a few branches lower than stone nin0.
A hand signal later and the attack had begun, a barrage of kunai from stone ninB's squad flew towards the three blankets that were situated on the forest floor. The kunai hit, sticking into their targets with dull thuds. Slightly surprised that the barrage actually hit their target, stone ninB and his squad decided to confirm their kill. Kicking the blankets, stone ninB and his squad did not have time to escape as three explosive tags that were attached to logs well, exploded, ending the lives of stone ninB and his squad.
Stone ninA's squad had noticed the explosive tag and kawarimi combo a little earlier and quickly made hand seals "Doton: Tsuchi Tate no jutsu"(Doton: Earth Shield technique) and slammed their hands into the ground, creating a wall of earth to shield them from the explosion. After the explosion their shields were completely obliterated but the stone nins themselves remained unharmed.
Tsunade appeared from behind stone ninA and quickly delivered an earth shattering punch to his gut, grabbing him by the vest Tsunade lifted him just in time to block two incoming kunai from her left.
Discarding the corpse Tsunade ducked a swipe from a wristblade, grabbing the outstretched arm, she pushed at the elbow joint of the attacker, satisfied to hear a loud snap from the assailant's arm she stepped back just in time to avoid a downward slash from the one remaining stone nin and allowing it to cut the arm right at the elbow. Shouting in pain the stone nin grasped at where his forearm used to be. Quickly moving behind the still active stone nin, Tsunade tripped him and as he was falling, she plunged the severed forearm that still had a wristblade attached right through him.
From his position in the treetops, stone nin0 regained composure just in time to see Tsunade attack stone ninA's squad. He was about to order the rest of his squad to go and assist but instead of finding his squad, he only found two corpses riddled with needles and another corpse nailed to a tree by a sword. "How do you like my Harigami no jutsu(Hair needle technique)" a cocky voice shouted from behind stone nin0. Whipping around, stone nin0 found Jiraiya and Orochimaru standing just a few branches away "As expected of the team trained by the current Hokage himself it seemed as if we have lost from the very start" "You're damn right you did!" Jiraiya shouted.
Quickly tossing a smoke bomb, stone nin0 decided that retreat was better than capture but before he could even jump, a fist was quickly planted into his gut courtesy of Tsunade. Falling to the forest floor stone nin0 pulled out a scroll from one of the many pockets of his jounin vest and quickly opened it. Right before landing stone nin0 bit his thumb and ran it across the scroll leaving a red streak on it, quickly closing the scroll again he held it between his pointer finger and thumb "Kuchiyose: Tomon no Jutsu(Summoning: Time Gate)" suddenly blue charka burst out and leaped out towards Tsunade who followed stone nin0 after he fell. I can't move Tsunade thought, then a big gate appeared in front of her. Behind the gate, stone nin0 laughed "With this the Stone will have one less problem to deal wi-" he was unable to finish his sentence as two kunai hit him in the head, but it was too late to stop the summoning.
Jiraiya and Orochimaru arrived just in time to see the gate open up and a strong wind seemed to blow out of it. "Tsunade!" Jiraiya and Orochimaru shouted at the same time while trying to get closer to her however, the wind was too strong.
There was a bright flash and when I woke up, I was near that kid….
END FLASHBACK
Tsunade took a deep breath after telling the story. The Sandaime looked at her and took a puff of his pipe "I see, such a summoning is considered rare even in this continent" Tsunade looked at the Sandaime "What do you mean sensei?" the Sandaime took another puff of his pipe before replying "Tsunade, the ninja wars have ceased, we are now in a time in wherein Konoha is at peace"
Tsunade looked shocked "What?"
"That gate you saw was probably a very rare summoning jutsu in which the user can send and enemy of theirs to whatever time period they want" Tsunade looked on in disbelief "But jutsus like that were said to have been lost!" "That still does not change the fact that you are in the future, Tsunade"
Tsunade suddenly became silent as the gravity of the situation hit her. Seeing his student like this, the Sandaime decided to brighten up the situation "There may be a way to return you to your own time in the scroll of forbidden seals I wil look into it, for now, why don't rest and have a look at what your efforts during the war brought"
Tsunade looked up and smiled "I would like that, sensei" Tsunade then thought "But sensei where am I going to stay?" Sandaime looked at her "Don't worry I know just the place"
Tsuzuku
So tired…wrote this at 3 AM need sleep