I quickly went out of the office as fast as I could, making sure to not make eye contact with the council representative who was standing outside of Tsunade's office. I went down the corridors, making sure to avoid the nurses and doctors who were getting to the patients that needed help. I then got out into the fresh air and went to find some of my friends that weren't on a mission, I knew that Shikamaru and Shino were on a mission and that some of my other friends had to their things to do during the day like study to become what they wanted to be, like in Sakura's case, a medic min.
So I went to find Choji, who I knew would be out at the barbeque place or training. So I searched the village and I saw him, on the side of a hill cloud gazing. I went up to him and lay down next to him. We just lay there for a couple of hours, pointing out the different shapes of clouds and looking at the insects in the area, like the butterflies, bee's, caterpillars and birds. It had seemed that those couple of hours had only been minutes when a bird flew across the sky summoning me to the Hokage's office. I sigh and said goodbye to Choji, promising him that I would be back sometime and then I shunshined to the entrance of the tower and walked in.
When I got there, I saw Jiraiya there with some of the council and Tsunade and knew that they were going to talk about the training trip that we went on. So, when I was told that I could sit down in a chair that was so conveniently put in front of the desk, I never would have expected to be offered the position of Jiraiya's apprentice. This would mean that I would have to try out to be a jonin sometime in the near future in order to keep the apprenticeship. I smiled and accepted the apprenticeship, and asked if he wanted to go for dinner with me and Choji and he said yes so I then left the room smiling, and I could sense the happiness from Jiraiya, which made me extremely happy.
I then shunshined to where Choji was and smiled at him and said "Do you want to go and have dinner with Jiraiya and I?" He accepted and we walked to Ichiraku Ramen, I smiled at the two owners who had helped me when I was a kid. We chatted and talked about Choji's recent promotion to chunin and my accepting of the apprenticeship the Jiraiya gave me.
I waved goodbye to Choji and was then pulled by the back of my collar to one of the training grounds. He let go and I turned to face him. He then pulled out a couple of scroll for te next sealing levels that I had to master, I was only on the last few though, since he taught me on the training trip.
*Flashback to the training trip*
We were sitting down in the middle of the training field when Jiraiya pulled out a few scrolls. I looked at them curiously when he told me a story of how my parents had put all that they knew in books in a couple of scrolls that organised the stuff that they wanted to teach me, and one of them was sealing. So they made sure that the scrolls could only be opened by me and that Jiraiya was going to help me to understand what they were talking about in the scrolls.
This was when I had my first sealing lesson.
*Flashback end*
I sighed and gave a tiny bit of my blood to the scroll in order to get the books out. Then I began to learn the sealing methods with Jiraiya's help. By the time the moon had fully risen and came to about a quarter way across the sky, I had mastered the next level, now all that I had to do was the last level and then to begin strengthening the rest of my sealing techniques.
I kept up the training for the rest of the night and by the end of the night I was almost finished the last sealing level. That was when I decided to take a break and get onto it and finish it the next day.
I slept for a couple of hours until I was woken up to the sound of someone knocking at my door. I yawned and got up to the door when I saw someone from the Nara clan who gave me the bad news, that Shikamaru was in the hospital and in a coma from the last mission and that Shino was also in the hospital too. I rushed to get dressed and to get to the hospital. I bolted into his room and sat there with his parents in silence, hoping that he could be up soon.