A/N: Man I keep forgetting to give the hints like I promised involving the filler arc... anyways. I will give you a ton of hints for the filler arc: First off there will be only 6 to 7 Naruto characters appearing in that arc (I won't go into much detail about one of them as it's rather confusing). Next up one of the characters is a current Kage, I won't say who, but the person's nickname is mentioned in the chapter... and it's not the Raikage. Along with current Kage, there will a better explanation about the Kage System (which once again, hints about in this chapter) and finally the name of the filler arc shall be: The Chidori Scroll Arc! Yes, it's a Sasuke heavy arc inking him and Chidori, but there's going to be some really awesome stuff in it... Anyways enjoy the chapter and hopefully this will get your mind off cartoon network stopped showing One Piece... again (just when it was getting good too!).
Chapter 59: Monster Reindeer
Down the mountain, the other group managed to get out of the snow… with the exception of Usopp and Sasuke all were conscious. Vivi was trying to wake up Usopp while Ino seemed to be examining Sasuke.
"I don't think Sasuke is breathing!" said Ino.
Hinata sweat dropped at she could see Sasuke breathing, "Um…" said Hinata.
"That's it going to use mouth to mouth!" said Ino.
"Um… Ino…" said Hinata.
Ino leaned in closer so he could give her mouth or mouth… that's when Sasuke woke up and pushed her away "Ino! What are you doing!" he yelled.
"Well you weren't breathing and I…" said Ino.
"Darn it! He ruined my plans!" said Inner Ino (apparently Ino has a seldom seen Inner Self too.)
"Whatever…" said Sasuke staring at Ino.
"So how Usopp?" asked Ino.
They saw Kiba and Akamaru rolling on the ground laughing… why, because Vivi was beating the shit out of him so he would wake up.
Shortly after the beating, Usopp was awake, but with an extremely swollen face.
"Thanks Vivi, you really saved me." Said Usopp who began pat his extremely swollen face, "Is my face swollen?"
That one question made Kiba start laughing again.
"What's so funny?" asked Usopp.
"Oh just the fact Ino tried to kiss Sasuke under the guise it was mouth to mouth." Said Kiba.
"Really?" asked Usopp trying not to laugh at Ino.
Ino her teeth in anger… and glared at them… it wasn't the time for her revenge.
That's when something came out the snow… it was muscular and had green hair… that's right it was Zoro… when he came out the snow he shocked the others… well other than Sasuke.
"Damn it!" muttered Zoro.
"What were you doing?" asked Sasuke with his eye twitching, it didn't help that Zoro was half naked when they found him.
"Hey, guys…" said Zoro though it took him a minute to figure out who was Usopp due to his psychically swollen head (after all… he does have a swollen head a lot).
"See… I told you it was a bad idea to leave him charge of the ship." Said Sasuke with his eye twitching.
Apparently, Zoro went for a midwinter swim, saw a fish, chased the fish, wound up on the wrong of the river and wound in the middle of the woods.
"I'm beginning to wonder why my dad put you in charge of me…" muttered Sasuke staring at Zoro.
Zoro didn't listen as he was asking Usopp (who's head was back to his normal size) for some of his clothes…
"No!" yelled Usopp.
"Boys are stupid." Muttered Ino.
Sasuke looked at her… "I don't mean you Sasuke!" said Ino, which only made Sasuke sweat drop even more.
"Hinata… how do you deal with them?" asked Vivi.
"Well… I grew up with Naruto and Luffy… so…" said Hinata rather sheepishly.
"Never mind…" said Vivi with a sweat drop.
"Hey look!" said Kiba, he pointed to what looked like a village.
"It's Bighorn." Said Usopp.
They walked up to a group of people.
"What's going on?" asked Zoro.
"What the hell…" muttered the guy as he looked at Zoro… looking at a half-naked guy in the snow would make you say that.
"The Avalanche buried Mr. Dalton!" said someone else to the ones that were there before.
"What, Dalton!" said the other members.
To catch those up, Dalton tried to fight off Wapol and his men, things did not turn out well… in the fight Dalton was hit by three Arrows and then the avalanche hit… Wapol's men were keeping him away from where Dalton was buried but prevented anyone form attempting to dig him out.
"I've seen those uniforms before haven't I?" asked Zoro.
"Yeah it's those guys who attacked us, yesterday." Said Sasuke.
"So they're our enemy." Said Zoro with a smirk.
Zoro ran towards one of them that was about his size and punched him in the face. Why the part the about the size was important may cause one to wonder… the reason. He stole his clothes.
"You just wanted his clothes?" yelled the town's people.
"Is it too late to pretend I don't know him here?" asked Sasuke.
"Yes." Sighed Kiba, "You already talked to him."
"Damn it…" muttered Sasuke as he watched the men go to kill Zoro.
Meanwhile at the castle Nami managed to wake up and was staring and he was staring back… she was shocked at the sight of the teddy bear like reindeer talking… however she quickly forgot about it when she heard "Nami! You're awake!"
She saw Sakura, Shizune and the pig enter the room.
"Sakura." Said Nami, "Where others that came up here with me."
Sakura's face turned grim, "Luffy and Sanji were injured on the way, Sanji suffered from some broken bone while Luffy almost had hypothermia." Said Sakura, "Though I'm not surprised the two of them are sleeping in the other room… you know them."
"What about Naruto." Said Nami.
Both Shizune and Sakura sweat dropped.
"Him… he's fine… as to be expected…" said Sakura, "Well he might some new injuries unrelated to the climb."
"What do you mean?" asked Nami blinking.
That's when Naruto flew into the room and crashed into one of the stonewall, Tsunade entered the room after him.
"Stop brothering me for autographs I don't do it!" yelled Tsunade.
"But Kakashi gave me his! I'm trying to get all the current Kages autographs and without yours it will be an incomplete set!" said Naruto practically begging.
"I don't care!" yelled Tsunade, "Unless you get every other Kage to sign then maybe… then maybe… I'll sign it!"
"Just sign old lady! Then I'll stop bothering you." Said Naruto.
"What did you call me?" growled Tsunade.
"Old lady… I mean you're over 50 yet you use illusions to make you look like you're in your twenties." Said Naruto, "If you're not an old lady then I don't know what is."
To Tsunade was angry would be an understatement… she looked like she as going to kill the fox boy… that is until she head Shizune say "Tsunade, not in here!"
Tsunade turned to find everyone staring at her.
"Oh, sorry…" said Tsunade nervously.
"This is Tsunade… she's the doctor…" said Sakura with a sweat drop to Nami.
"I see…" said Nami with a sweat drop.
Tsunade sighed and sat on the bed next to Nami.
"I haven't explained it to your friend yet." Said Tsunade who lifted up Nami's shirt, there was a strange mark on her stomach.
"What's that?" asked Sakura.
"It's the bite of an infectious tick called the keschia. It's bite infects the victim with a bacteria causing a multitude of symptoms. From the looks of it, you were beaten three days ago. If you hadn't made it in two more days you have died." Said Tsunade.
Nami, Sakura and even Naruto breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's great, I was afraid I'd lose one of the few mature girls on the ship… you know until a couple more years once they start to develop." Said Kyubi.
"Now's not the time you perv." Thought Naruto.
"I've never heard about that… it's a good thing that I took her to see you." Said Sakura.
"You said you were a doctor in training earlier… right?" asked Tsunade, "So I'm not surprised you didn't know about it, the keschia was eradicated over 100 years ago, I just happened to have the vaccine."
Everyone in the room anime fell…
"Either way, I'm sure you bitten at a prehistoric island… what made you think you go around half naked?" asked Tsunade.
"It's a long story." Sighed Nami, she smiled, "Well I guess since I'm better…"
"Oh no you're not!" yelled Sakura, "I know Vivi's in trouble but right now you need you're rest!"
"But Sakura!" said Nami.
"Tsunade told me that the treatment lasts 10 days! We're going to rest here for a few more days before we go back to ship." Said Sakura, "Tsunade going to teach me how to treat you before we go… I'm not going let you strain yourself and have a relapse."
Nami's eye twitched, she knew when it came to this, there was no way Sakura would be able to bend.
"Fine…" she sighed.
"Since that's done!" said Naruto, "Sign my book!"
"For the last time no!" yelled Tsunade.
"Oh come on! You're the Hokage!" said Naruto.
"Why don't you go after Sarutobi's, he's still alive." Said Tsunade.
"I will one day… but you're right here and you haven't retried from your title!" said Naruto.
"I didn't even want this title! I just took it as a favor to an old friend of mine!" said Tsunade, "Who even wants to be a Kage? I mean half of them die pointless deaths anyways. Take the my predecessor, he sacrificed his life to protect some hapless village, the Yellow Flash was just a fool."
"Don't you dare bad mouth the 4th Hokage!" yelled Naruto.
"Why should I? He's just a fool, along with my Grandfather and Grand Uncle! I don't even want this title…" said Tsunade staring at Naruto, "And why should you even care about the Kages anyway?"
Naruto smirked, "To be a Kage! That is my dream." Said Naruto.
Tsunade stared at him… blinking.
"I think I'm going see what Chopper's doing." Said Shizune with a sigh, knowing that whatever is going to happen in there would be a good thing avoid…
However thing quickly changed when Luffy and Sanji came in… holding on to Chopper making everyone in the room sweat drop.
"What are those idiots doing this time." Said Nami.
"I think… they're trying to eat him." Said Shizune.
The pig oinked something, which made both Tsunade and Shizune sweat drop.
"Tonton…" said Shizune with a sweat drop.
"So…" said Naruto, "What is he anyways, some kind of blue nosed talking deer? I mean it's really cool…"
"That's Chopper, he's just a blue nosed reindeer." Said Tsunade.
"But deer don't talk." Said Sakura with a sweat drop as the three were fighting.
"Yes, but Chopper ate the Human Human Fruit." Said Shizune.
"Which mean he can do anything a human a can do." Said Tsunade.
They watched him transform into an abominable snowman like creature and pound the two into the ground.
"Idiots." Thought Sakura, Nami and even Kyubi.
"I've taught him all of my medical skills along." Said Tsunade with a smirk.
Not too long later, they all talked awhile drinking tea… or in Tsunade's case sake.
"Come on you should join my crew!" yelled Luffy.
"No way!" yelled Tsunade, "I am not joining a pirate crew!"
"She's a afraid that if she begins to travel around then her debt collectors will find her easier." Sighed Shizune.
"They don't call her the Legendary Sucker for nothing!" laughed Naruto.
Tsunade glared at Naruto, "Oh really… I bet if you ever become a Kage then you'll have a better name." she said.
"I've been spreading my nickname around, Shadow Fox!" said Naruto.
"That's actually a pretty good Kage name and its original." Said Shizune.
"Thanks…" said Naruto with a big grin.
"I really don't get the whole Kage thing." Said Sakura with a sweat drop.
"Me neither." Said Nami.
"It's rather complicated." Said Sanji, "If they gain a good enough reputation or spread around a good one then they usually end up with a very stupid nickname."
Both of them sweat dropped as they thought about possible stupid names for Naruto… most of them involved Ramen, Idiot and Demon…
"You really think you become a Kage, who's ever heard of a pirate Kage?" asked Tsunade.
"Oh yeah, what about "That Crazy Bitch"?" asked Naruto.
"We both know she not a pirate…" said Tsunade, "But I have to give you… she does have a bounty."
"Look, I don't care if I'm a wanted man, I don't care if I'm a pirate! What matter is that I will become a Kage no matter what anyone says." Said Naruto.
Tsunade stared at Naruto then shook her head.
That's when Sanji and Luffy noticed Chopper was peeking at them though the doorway, it was noticeable… mostly because he was doing it backwards, his peeping eye behind the doorway and his body in full view, of course they began to chase him again.
"Don't worry Nami, I'll come him up nice for you." Said Sanji.
"Didn't you say one of them was the captain?" asked Tsunade with a sweat drop.
"Yeah, Luffy… he's my brother." Said Naruto.
"I see…" said Tsunade, "So Naruto was it…"
Shizune looked at Naruto then at Tsunade, "Tsunade, can I speak with you in another room please."
"Sure Shizune." Said Tsunade.
The tow left the room, which made Naruto laugh, "I'm going to spy on the them." He said giving the V is victory and then he followed them.
Sakura noticed that a nearby door was open and went to closer it then Chopper came into the room and shut it.
"Thanks." Said Sakura, "Oh by the way Nami… Shizune told me he's the one that's been taking care of you."
"Really?" asked Nami, "Thank you."
"Shut up asshole!" yelled Chopper, "I don't accept thanks form humans!"
While his voice was angry… his body language… um… he was dancing and of course this made the two girl's sweat drop.
In another room, Shizune and Tsunade talked about something.
"I know that face Tsunade…" said Shizune looking at Tsunade, "You're thinking about them aren't you?"
"He reminds me so much… of Dan and Nawaki…" said Tsunade, "He especially looked like Nawaki."
"No matter how much you deny it, wasn't just the favor you became Hokage." Said Shizune with a smile.
"I still don't like the title…" muttered Tsunade.
"Just don't do what I think you're going to do?" said Shizune.
"I know you're spying on us." Said Tsunade.
Naruto came out hiding, which was behind a nearby doorway.
"I told you to transform into something small." Said Kyubi.
"Shut up." Thought Naruto.
"So you little brat wants to be a Kage… how about little wager?" asked Tsunade.
"What sort of wager?" asked Naruto.
Tsunade held up a necklace that was wearing, "If you can prove to me that you're Kage material by the time you leave not only you can have my autograph but you can have my necklace."
"No thanks about the necklace." Said Naruto.
"This necklace is a rare stone, only two in existence have ever been made it's worth so much money that you can buy two whole islands with the money." Said Tsunade, "Not only that but I inherited from my grandfather, the 1st Hokage."
"Really! Then you have a deal!" yelled Naruto.
"Tsunade! This what I was trying to warn you about!" yelled Shizune.
"Oh come on… I doubt he'll be able to prove it me by the time he leaves." Said Tsunade pointing the Naruto who was in daydream mode.
"But Tsunade…" sighed Shizune who quickly realized she lost, "Maybe I should warn him about it later." She thought.
Meanwhile with Sakura, Nami and Chopper, Chopper was staring at the two.
"So you're really pirates?" asked Chopper.
"Sure are." Said Nami.
"So you have a flag?" asked Chopper.
"On our ship." Said Sakura.
"So what do you do?" asked Chopper.
"Well I'm the navigator and Sakura is the doctor." Said Nami.
"You're name is Sakura and you're a doctor?" asked Chopper with a slight blush.
"Yeah but I'm not very good…" said Sakura, "I still need some more training."
"So are interested in pirates?" asked Nami.
Chopper back away and crashed into a bookshelf.
"Of course not idiot!" he yelled.
"Sorry I asked I asked." Sighed Nami.
"So you want to join?" asked Sakura giggling, "You were trained by Tsunade… and you could help me learn."
"Plus it would be nice to have a doctor who's not as strict." Said Nami.
Sakura stared at Nami… with her eye twitching.
"What does she mean by that!" yelled Inner Sakura.
"No way! I can't! I'm a deer! I can't live with humans! I walk on two legs and I can talk! And I have a blue nose…" said Chopper.
Before they could talk some more, Luffy and Sanji ran into the room.
"There he is!" yelled Luffy.
And of course the chase began again.
"Idiots…" said the two girls.
"So… that was certainly interesting." Said Tsunade with Shizune and Naruto entering the room, "You two trying to convince him to join…"
"What do we need you're permission to get him to join?" asked Nami jokingly.
Both Tsunade and Shizune became quiet.
"Chopper, Chopper heart has been broken too many times. He has a wound in his heart that may never heal" Said Tsunade, "When he was born his parents abandoned him because of his blue nose."
"What?" said Naruto getting into the conversation.
"That's right, he would always have to walk in the back of the herd… and then he ate the Devil Fruit and they cast him out…" said Tsunade.
"Then he tried to search for friends in a human village. But when he got there, they treated him like some blue nosed monster, they attacked him and called him monster. When he wanted was to his friend." Said Shizune.
"Because of that Chopper always been alone." Said Tsunade.
"So they called him monster and treated him horribly because of that?" said Naruto.
"Naruto…" said Sakura and Nami.
Memories replayed in Naruto's mind… the people treating him horribly, the people calling him "Demon" "Monster"… but of course the good memories came to his mind Luffy, Hinata and other kids as well playing with him.
"So kit… looks like you found a kindred spirit in that reindeer." Laughed Kyubi.
Naruto nodded and Naruto ran out of the room, "I'm go find him and talk to him!" yelled Naruto.
"Okay that was weird." Said Tsunade with a sweat drop.
"I'm not surprised he ran out of the room like that." Said Nami.
"Me neither… because Naruto might be one person that could probably heal his heart." Said Sakura.
"What do you mean?" asked Tsunade.
Nami and Sakura looked at each other.
"Naruto… that kid who keeps annoying you… I know he'll whine at me for telling you this but you should now his full name." said Sakura and then took a breath, "It's Fox D Naruto."
"Wait you're saying he's Fox D. Naruto?" asked Tsunade with her eyes wide.
"Um… Sakura! How did you know that she'd know who Naruto was?" asked Nami with a sweat drop.
"Because I'm a Kage… all Kages know who Fox. D Naruto is…" said Tsunade with a sweat drop.
"Oh… right…" said Nami with a sweat drop.
"So a boy who knows the same pain he went through… interesting." Thought Tsunade.
"I really have to warn him about the necklace now." Thought Shizune with a sweat drop.
"So Tsunade…" said Nami.
"Care for a game of cards?" asked Sakura taking out a deck with an evil smirk.
"Why not, what are the rules?" asked Tsunade.
"If we lose we pay for services, if we win you and assistants work for free." Said Nami.
"Fair enough." Said Tsunade.
"Tsunade! Stop this! Don't you ever want to get paid for once?" asked Shizune.
"Fine then I accept." Said Tsunade with a smirk.
Meanwhile with Luffy and Sanji they had realized there was something funny about Chopper.
"Wait if he's able to do that then he's a…" said Luffy.
"Hey! I thought you're not supposed to use the M word around me." Said Naruto jumped from a nearby balcony.
"Sorry…" said Luffy with a laugh.
"Anyways… please don't eat him." Said Naruto, "Please!"
"I changed my mind about eating him anyways!" said Luffy who had that look again.
"He has that look again… the one that means he going to force someone to join whether they like it or not." Said Kyubi.
"Well that would awesome!" cheered Naruto who suddenly became serious, "Especially since he knows what I went through."
"What do you mean?" asked Sanji.
Naruto sighed and Luffy picked up on it, "So… he's a Jinchuriki too?" asked Luffy.
"No! He's just knows what it's like to be an outcast." Said Naruto.
"Oh I see…" said Luffy.
The two… then they saw him again and they began to chase him… well it was more like Naruto took Sanji's place in chasing him, but instead of wanting to eat him. It was during this chase Chopper smelled something.
"It can't be." He thought.
"I wonder what that's about." Thought Sanji who the followed the two.
Meanwhile in the bedroom, with the girls, three of them were playing cards while Shizune was sighing in the background with Tonton the pig with her.
"Long time ago there was someone cared about Chopper… it was an old Quack named Dr. Hiriluk." Said Tsunade, "He treated Chopper like a son and even gave him his name."
"Really? So did something happen?" asked Sakura.
"I'm not getting a good hand…" thought Nami.
And with that they showed their hands…
"Oh my gosh…" said Sakura.
"But you're nickname." Said Nami.
"Tsunade…" said Shizune staring at Tsunade's hand… which was a Royal Flush, "You finally won one!"
"I did…" said Tsunade in shock, "This doesn't look good…" she thought.
"So…" said Sakura with a sweat drop, "How much will the bill be?"
"I can't believe we lost." Cried Nami.
"I can't believe she won! Finally" said Shizune in celebration.
Before Tsunade could say anything Chopper in a full reindeer form ran into the room.
"What is Chopper?" asked Tsunade.
"It's Wapol! He's back!" cried Chopper.
"What!" yelled Tsunade gritting her teeth, "I should have known… after I won." she thought.
Here's a very little known fact about Tsunade's gambling that she doesn't like to talk about… whenever she wins… it acts as an ill omen… and in this case, it predicted the former king coming back.
Next Time: Wapol tired to reclaim the castle and a battle erupts. What will happen with this battle? Also what's going with Dalton? Will they able to save him or is he already dead? Find out next time!