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Fools of Fate
By:Christina/ Aikiko-Ashra
Chapter Five
"Tsunade-sama! Mizukage-sama is here!" exclaimed Shizune, slapping the heavy doors to Tsuande's study open.
Tsunade put down her cup of sake and peered at Shizune through her blue orbs. "W-who's h-here?" she hiccupped. Her face was flush and red.
Shizune's hands flew up to her head and screamed, "Argh! You've been drinking again? The Mizukage is here fore the peace treaty and you're drinking! Tsunade-sama!" cried Shizune, exasperated. She rushed to Tsunade's side and tried to grab the sake bottle away from her. Tsunade placed a firm grip on the bottle, refusing to let go.
"Let go Shizune," ordered Tsunade, taking another sip from her cup.
"But Tsunade-sama! We can't let the Mizukage see you like this! Drunk and still drinking! What if he sees what you usually look like! It'd be so shameful!" shouted Shizune, gripping her head so hard, that it was a wonder that it hadn't exploded yet. "What will he think of us! He'll end the treaty, go back to the water country and declare war on us before we know it!" A vein stood out on the side of Tsunade's temple as she heard her student rant and rave about her bad habits. "We can't let him see you like this!" repeated Shizune, running wild around the room.
"He already has," replied the blonde woman, pulling out another cup from her desk drawer.
"Huh?" questioned Shizune, stopping dead in her steps.
"I wasn't expecting you till tomorrow," stated Tsunade, pouring sake into the second cup.
A smile spread across the young man's face who stood beside he open doors. "I just wanted to be able to explore the village before everybody finds out who I am," he answered. He walked forwards and sat down across from her. A girl with short, brown hair that fell to her shoulders stood next to him.
"Sake?" she asked. He nodded. She threw him the cup of sake and he caught it, not a single drop missing. "Obviously, Yoshiro, you're not the little kid I remember who tailed the past Mizukage like a puppy," she commented. "Actually, I'm surprised you accepted the post as Mizukage." she informed.
He took a sip of the sake. "Of course I've changed since you've seen me the last time, when I was young, but only physically, because inside, I'm still the same," he sighed. "I accepted the job as Mizukage because the former had requested it of me," he confessed. He brushed his fingers through the dark, brown strands of hair.
"So he still controls you, even after all these years," she commented, closing her eyes and, instead of drinking from the cup, she grabbed the bottle and gulped the whole thing down in one go.
He shook his head and changed the subject, "Of course, I'm also surprised when I heard that you had become Hokage. I didn't think you'd accept even if they had bound and gagged you to drag you back."
"Thing've changed," she admitted, shrugging. "About the treaty..." she started.
"We will sign the papers exactly a month from tomorrow, and no, this is not a trap that otosan has plottted," he answered, taking one last short sip from the small, ceramic cup.
Tsunade nodded and accepted his words. "Alright, a month from now. Anyways, who's this girl? And how'd you like the city? I made the genins dress it up for you guys, and I personally inspected it myself," she grinned. Actually, she had only inspected Naruto's side, gladly issuing orders to make the three genins run about and nearly die. She smiled even wider as she remembered how she had made the three of them pick leaves from the forest and scoop water for the waterfall, and made them wash every building wit it so that it could have a balmy water and grassy smell. Supposedly, it was supposed to represent the union of two nations, but of course, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke knew better.
"This is Rei, and the city was quite interesting actually," he replied. "The east side had flowers and potato chip bags everywhere, the south had bugs and dogs crawling in and of the buildings doing stuff, the north made us think that we had walked into a swamp, with all the water and leaves everywhere, and the west was quite interesting," he smiled. He leaned his back against the chair, and watched, amused, as Tsunade and Shizune cringed.
"Well, that aside," said Tsunade, trying to change the subject. "Did you meet anybody interesting? Like Hiashi of the Hyuuga clan? Or Kakashi of the Sharingan?" she asked.
"Iie," he replied, "but I did meet some very interesting people though," he informed.
"And who might they be?" she asked.
"The team in charge of the west gate," he answered, thinking back tot he team that he had ran into. Of the two guys in green spandex suits and bowl shape haircuts, and of the kid with long, black hair, and milky white eyes, and of the cheerful girl who had two dark, brown buns at the top of her head. "Very interesting people," he repeated.
Okay, I know this chapter is really bland, and it sucks too, but I'll go back to Neji and Tenten and kind of what happened in the next chapter. So please bare with me. No flames, but please R&R.