Tori and Naruto stood in the middle of the dirt road looking down at the men that had earlier attacked Tekaimaru. They began running at them the moment their eyes hit Naruto. Naruto turned to Tori, "you said something about being a Rock Ninja right?"
"Yep, want to see?" He asked smiling and pulled his hands together in dog. Naruto gave a large thumb's up and Tori concentrated ahead. "Rock Cage!" As soon as he finished the words large brown rocks sprung up around the men closing them in the large pile of rocks. Through a few cracks, screams were escaping.
"Nice... watch this, I'll kick those guys back out of town." Naruto said making a clone and holding out a hand. The clone began shaping the chakra as a Rasengan appeared. The clone disappeared and Naruto charge at the rocks hitting them square in the middle of the formation. Crumbling the men were launched out the back with shards of sediment heading at them. Naruto stepped back and laughed some. He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see Jiraiya standing there looking at him angrily.
"Naruto… Don't play with criminals. They have law here." He said a bit upset. An elderly man jumped down next to the unconscious men and disappeared with all of them. "Now, go wash up, dinner will be soon."
"HEY! JIRAIYA-SAMA!" Said a voice from far off in the distance, dropping down was a young man maybe twenty in a simple blue outfit with long red hair. "It's been a while, how have you been."
"Gaito-chan." Jiraiya said sticking out a hand shaking his. "Boy have you grown up! How are you?"
"I'm doing well, Jiraiya-sama." Gaito said turning around. Off in the distance a shadow was closing in. "Well, there it is; my very own pupil. I kind of feel too young for it though."
"I felt that at first, but you never forget your first pupils." Jiraiya said almost reminiscing. "So, who do you have?"
"Her names Adji, I'm not sure where she's from, but she's been in Kirigakure for the past five years, never speaks of anything before that." He said turning fully around as a small blonde girl stopped next to Naruto, exhausted in a black sweat suit. "Ah, are you alright?"
"Hai, hai, just… It's just so hot here." She said and dropped on her butt to take a breather. "No wonder they call it the Fire country."
Naruto pulled out a small canteen and handed it to her, "There's not much left, but it'll help some."
"Oh, thank you." She said through large gasps in breathing. She took it and opened it to drink a little. She handed it back empty. "Sorry I drank it all."
"It's okay, we do have water here." Jiraiya said.
"Adji-chan, this is Jiraiya-sama, one of the Sanin." Gaito said. There was a slamming door in the back ground and out walked Ms. Mitsubi and Ms. Hiyate. "And this is Ms. Mitsubi from Rock, one of the more famous medical ninjas, and the lovely as always Ms. Hiyate."
"Lovely, she looks like a dried prune!" Adji said and suddenly she was hit on the head by a cane.
"Rude child!" Ms. Hiyate yelled angrily. "Gaito! Teach her manners!"
"I'm sorry, Ms. Hiyate, Adji… is um, well… Adji." He said in lack of an actual excuse. Adji stood up, and suddenly noticed someone who catched her eye. She walked over to Tori and held a hand out. "Hello, I'm Adji."
"I'm Tori." He said shaking her hand. He tried to pull back but noticed she still had a grip on his hand. "Um… I need that hand."
"You know what I need?" She asked stepping closer.
She was suddenly cut off by a wall of rock, Tori rubbed his hand, she had hurt it some. Ms. Hiyate stepped foreword. "You need a swift kick in the ass!"
"Ms. Hiyate, please, calm down." Jiraiya pleaded with the elderly woman.
"Oh shut up, Jiraiya, you're just as bad! I read that book of yours, it was rude and disgusting!"
"It was a romance!"
"It wasn't ninja!" She yelled hitting him with the cane. Adji walked around the wall, Tori was gone. She turned around and saw him jumping away with Naruto into the forest. She stomped her foot into the ground crumbling a bit.
"I'm way too young for a psychotic girlfriend." Tori said leaping down next to Naruto on the river. They stopped for a minute and listened to the breeze flowing through the trees. "I know someone like her back in my village. She spends all her time trying to get this one guy and never accomplishes anything."
"I used to know some like that, until the guy she was chasing was gone. She's changed a lot." Naruto said somewhat upset. He looked up and smiled. "I guess every village has a psychotic stalker girl!"
"I guess so. So, where does this lead to?" Naruto shrugged and Tori looked down the river. "I'll race you to the end."
"You're on!" Naruto yelled and they took off, foot after foot, down the river.
Naruto and Tori were slowly walking into town, "Who knew that river was seventeen miles longs…"
"Yeah, but, it was good exercise." Tori said positively. He stopped as the door opened to the hotel and Ms. Mitsubi and Jiraiya came outside.
"You two are and hour late for dinner!" Ms. Mitsubi said. "Nershii worked hard on that food and you dishonor it by being late!"
"Gomen nasai…" They muttered together.
"Get in here and eat already." Jiraiya said walking back in. Naruto and Tori walked in followed by Ms. Mitsubi who was still angry. There at the table were two small plates piled on with food, literally. "We've decided that since you were late, you have to eat the rest of the… Naruto…"
"I was hungry," he said looking up innocently from the empty plate.
Ms. Hiyate smiled and laughed as Ms. Mitsubi did the same sitting down next to her. "Jiraiya, he eats like Min…"
"MRS. HIYATE! IS THERE DESERT!?" Jiraiya yelled and braced for the incoming cane crashing down on his head.
"Damn it, Jiraiya, I lost my train of though." Ms. Hiyate said and adjusted her glasses. "Nershii! Bring the cake!" The frail like woman bellow from her chair. Nershii came out backwards through the kitchen door with a large pink cake on a larger plate.
"Here you go, its strawberry ice cream cake! My specialty!" Nershii said smiling. She set the plate down on the table and placed a knife down. She turned to Ms. Hiyate and frowned. "Grandma, I have to get home, I have to do my house chores."
"Bye Nershii." She said smiling. She stopped quickly to hug Jiraiya and walked out of the inn. "That girl works too hard for this place. Jiraiya, one day, you get Nershii out of here, she needs someplace where she can thrive."
"Maybe we can take her back to Konoha one day, eh, Naruto."
"She'd probably love it there." Naruto commented while cutting a piece of cake out.
