I didn't get around to the side project I was going to do, but I'm still back to writing this regardless. I'll just skip the funeral of Sarutobi, since I have no Idea how to write something Like that. Instead I'll start off right after the funeral.
Chapter 33: Search for Tsunade Begins!
There was a circle of various council man on top of the Hokage Tower, "Jiraiya, we would like you to be our fifth Hokage."
"Sorry, that kind of Job doesn't suite me," smiled Jiraiya, "wasn't there another canidate in this village? I forget his name."
"Yes, but while he doesn't show it right now, he is suffering from a great illness and isn't expected to live past two months. We've considered searching for the other Sannin, Tsunade, but we've determined she would be very inadequite to rule," said Ebisu.
"What if she could cure your other canidate?" asked Jiraiya.
"That would work, but do you know where she is?" asked another Council member.
"I have an Idea, however I'd like to request that Naruto goes to find her, and not me. I've got some more important things to deal with," smiled Jiraiya.
"We can't let him go alone, who will we send with him?" asked Ebisu.
"Who else? The future canidate for Hokage himself, Gekkou Hayate," smiled Jiraiya, "But to be safe lets send another to help him."
"How about Iruka?" asked one of the council.
"But he's only a Chuunin," said Jiraiya, "we will need a more skilled Jounin in case something happens."
"Not to worry," smiled Ebisu, "since you've been gone for a while now you wouldn't know much about Iruka. In truth he could have become a Jounin years ago."
"What made him decide against it?" asked Jiraiya. And then Ebisu told Jiraiya the stories of Iruka.
Iruka had finally made it through the academy. He barely scraped by with his grades, still sad from the loss of his parents. However he was put in a group under command of Gekkou Hama, a realativley new Jounin at the time.
"Iruka, Kurenaii, Ebisu," Hama siad in front of his new team, "Lets try a little training exersize, shall we?" he asked as he pulled out a single bell. They went through the same exersize as NAruto, Lee, and Hinata did, needless to say they passed.
"What do you think of that Ebisu?" Iruka smiled.
"You could use some work, but overall not bad," Ebisu said Coldly.
"Why is it you to are always trying to impress eachother," Kurenai said jumping between the two putting her arms around their Shoulders.
"Who needs to impress him?" asked Iruka, "I'm already the strongest here."
"Shut up," Ebisu muddered and the other two laughed.
The three teamates were finally there, the Chuunin Selection exams. Iruka and Ebisu stood at opposite sides of the ring, ready to fight eachother in the last round. Ebisu charged forward with a Kunai in hand, as did Iruka. There Kunai clashed and the both jumped back preforming hand seals. Iruka started off with his favorite technique, "Razor Air Jutsu!" and he swung his hand forward with a razor blade formed of Air and Chakra was right in front of his finger tips.
Ebisu saw the move coming and countered with his own move, "Stone Barrier Jutsu!" and several stones flew from the ground blocking the razor blade but falling to pieces after impact, "Tilt a Whirl Jutsu!' Yelled Ebisu after some fast handseals while his stones were sliced. Several Kunai flew from his pouch and Ebisu began to spin rapidly, a saucer shaped tornado forming around him whipping the Kunai wildly threw the torrent of wind, and Iruka was caught in the middle. Jumping around barely making it out. However the Giant Saucer of weapons moved towards him at increadible speeds and a Kunai caught Iruka right across the bridge of his nose cutting him deeply. Iruka managed to jump away again as the cyclone died down.
"I see you have a new technique Ebisu," smiled Iruka, "Now let me show you mine. Spirit Scythe," and with that Chakra rapidly formed a pure white scythe in Iruka's hands, "This jutsu will make me famous, took a long time to develope it," smiled Iruka.
"Even with that weapon, can you strike me in my own move?" smiled Ebisu, reactivating his Tilt-a-whirl. The moment it activated Iruka hurled the large Scythe right through the Cyclone, however the accuracy seemed off as it only shattered a few Kunai.
"That won't do at all Iruka," laughed Ebisu as he charged the now weaponless Iruka.
Iruka did some fast hand seals and yelled, "Return to Spirit!" and suddenly vanashed. Reapearing wear his scythe embeded itself into the ground. He hurled it again, this time it curved with the cyclone and came back to his hands, and almost every Kunai in the cyclone was in small metalic pieces.
"Fool," smiled Ebisu, "Destroying the Kunai like that only increased its chances of hitting you while your in my cyclone, this will be the last attack."
Ebisu charged forward as Iruka once more hurled the Scythe, if flew throuhg the Cyclone emeding itself into the wall, "Its over, Spirit mangetise!" Cried IRuka after some fast hand seals. Suddenly a huge magnetic force emmited form the Scythe, forcefully pulling every metal shard towards it, many of which passed through Ebisu to get there.
The Cyclone died down as Ebisu collapsed on the ground. While he avoided critical injury, there was no way for him to continue the fight, so it was called in Iruka's favor. Both, however, were promoted to Chuunin, along with Kurenai who lost to Iruka in the previous round.
Iruka was sitting in his desk as a teacher. He decided to do this a while back even though Ebisu and Kurenai both moved on to become Jounins. HE was going make this his last year teaching, but something changed his mind. There was this trouble making blonde with whisker marks that reminded him of himself. He fell behind a lot and acted like a class clown, and Iruka wnated to help. He knew what it was like to have no parents, so he stayed and kept a close eye on the boy called Uzamaki Naruto.
During one failed test, however, Mizuki had tricked Naruto into stealing a scroll for him, and Iruka had found them in time. He took several Kunai in the back to block the attacks from hitting Naruto, but Mizuki fought with fast acting poison, while not lethal it severely hinders the enemy, hence why after taking the hit Iruka was unable to fight Mizuki fairly. Eventually Naruto fought with Mizuki after awakening his inner demon and using a Jutsu from the Scroll, the Kage Bushin.
"Thats the story of our Iruka," said Ebisu, "Currently the Strongest of Our Jounin, exccluding you and Hayate, are Hatake Kakashi, Sarutobi Asuma, Matoi Gai, Mitarashi Anko, Kurenai, and Hyuuga Haishi. Following them would be the Likes of Genma and Iruka. Then you have people like Me and Ibiki. So Iruka is actually one of the strongest of Kohona, he just never wanted to become a Jounin, and instead chose to help guide Naruto."
"Well, I'll trust you on this, good luck finding Tsunade, last I heard she was going to Shuganara," said Jiraiya, "good luck," and with that the Sannin left.
Hayate had appeared before the council in the tower along with Iruka and Naruto, "It's good to see you again Iruka," smiled Ebisu, "but saddly this is not time for idle banter, Hayate, we have a very special request. We would like you to be the fifth Hokage."
"What?" Naruto and Hayate both said at the same time.
"But I was traing for that!" siad Naruto.
"Naruto!" yelled Iruka, "Your not ready yet and we're in dire need of a new Hokage."
"Sorry Iruka Sensei," Naruto said with his head lowered.
"I apologize, but you no well I'm not to live much longer, so why chose me as Hokage?" asked Hayate.
"That was a problem, so before we elect you for Hokage we are going to send you on a mission to retrieve a person called Tsunade," he said.
"One of the three Sannin?" asked Iruka.
"It is said she was going to be in Shuganara soon, so we are sending you to retrieve her and heal you, as maybe only she can do it now," said Ebisu.
"Don't worry, we'll find this Tsunade chick in no time," smiled Naruto, "Who is she anywya?"
"She is one of the legendary Ninja of leaf, one of the three Sannin," Iruka said.
"Oh, you mean like that Ero-Sannin Jiraiya, huh," said Naruto.
"Thats right Naruto, now lets get going before we miss her," the three Nin that were sent on the mission quickly departed.
Next Chapter NAruto will be learning a technique from Iruka, then possibly Hayate. Please R&R.