Naruto was enjoying her breakfast when suddenly, a red flash appearing in front of her.
She blinked, taking it slowly. The red light disappeared and it revealed a boy with dark brown hair, wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt.
Well, that was unexpected.
She was about to check when a voice not far from her stopped her.
"Naruto, stand back."
Annoyed yet not surprised, she clicked her tongue and said, "Oh, now you're awake, Ero-sennin?" She had tried to wake him up to fry the fishes she had caught, only to receive scathing remarks that made her manually start a fire. She didn't know why she had a hard time for even trying to make a small stream of fire, but she accepted that it was one of her weaknesses that she should have conquered, not ignored.
"Brat, shut up." Jiraiya ignored her and gingerly went to the unconscious boy on the ground, intend to inspect the boy's sudden appearance.
Huffing and not giving a damn because she didn't feel threatened, she took a large bite of her grilled fish and stood up. "He's unconscious," she quipped, drawing the jacket she had around her body closer. It was Summer, but she and Jiraiya were currently near the Lighting Country's borders, so it was quite cold in the morning.
A nasty glare from a clearly cranky Jiraiya made her comment no further. Honestly, the man drunk too much alcohol yesterday, it was a miracle that he noticed an unknown person intruding in their campsite.
Jiraiya grumpily check the boy's pulse. Finding one, he checked the boy's chakra signature. He was sure that he had never met this boy. Checking the quantity of this boy's chakra, he cursed under his breath. The chakra reserves of this boy was large, almost as large as his.
He quietly hummed, wondering how the barrier he had set up two days ago can be infiltrated. There was no sign of this boy waking up soon, so his hand went to his breast pocket and drawing out a sealing rope.
Throwing it to his student, he said, "Tie him up."
"Can you do that yourself?"
"I'm already throwing that rope to you, just do it. My head hurts too much, dammit."
"Geez, no need for the whining. Sometimes, you're like a child, Ero-sennin," she sighed when Jiraiya sent another glare to her direction, "Fine, fine."
Even though she was as cranky as Jiraiya right now, she was curious about the boy's sudden arrival. But she was too tired from training last night, so she, out of irritation, tying the rope around the boy's body as tightly as she could.
She had stayed up all night until she dropped to the ground, trying and failing from performing one-handed Rasengan. It was only because she had a giant chakra monster inside her belly that she was awake in the morning for her to enjoy a breakfast and not suffering from an extreme case of chakra exhaustion.
Naruto drew in the cold, morning air. She gazed at the boy.
"Hurry and wake up," she mumbled, poking a tree branch to his sides.
For almost three weeks, she had nothing but Jiraiya's company. She was fed up and bored to tears already. An enemy or not, this boy can relief her of her boredom with just talking in a different voice than Jiraiya's when he woke up.