Lost.
Chapter Seventeen – A Conspiracy Uncovered.
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Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura and Sai waited with Itachi, Konan and Pein, for news about Danzo's interrogation. Itachi was getting better every day. His health was vastly improved from before he'd had the operation. Tsunade had warned that he still needed to take it easy. Tsunade was attending the interrogation, along with Kakashi and Jiraiya, and Ibiki was the interrogator. However when Tsunade finally came out of the room her face carried a look of shock. "What's wrong Baa-Chan?" Naruto asked. Tsunade's eyes welled up with tears when she looked at Naruto. Then she left the group without a word and went to her office. The whole group knew that something was wrong at this point, but no one could understand what it was. All they knew was that it had something to do with Danzo's interrogation.
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Jiraiya had stayed until the end of the interrogation. When Ibiki had finally finished, Jiraiya just watched blankly as Danzo was led away. Kakashi had also stayed throughout the interrogation as well. "Are you going to tell Naruto about this?" Kakashi asked.
"We can't tell him yet. I need to speak to Tsunade before I tell Naruto anything that might bring him any pain." Jiraiya said softly. He left the room then with the file and Kakashi sighed as he realised that his young blond student would suffer more revelations.
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Tsunade couldn't help the tears that spilled out from her eyes. She had never felt so much pain grasp her heart in her whole life. That was when she heard someone come in to her office through the window. She knew it was Jiraiya. It could only be Jiraiya who would come in through her window. "Tsunade?" Jiraiya questioned. Tsunade looked up at her old teammate and closest friend. His image was blurry with the tears that she couldn't stop shedding. "You could have told me something you know." Jiraiya said softly. Tsunade shook her head.
"No I couldn't. At that time we were both not in the right frame of mind to raise a child. I didn't have many choices. I also had Orochimaru whispering in my ear." Tsunade said softly.
"Minato, my student, who I thought of as a son, was my son. He was our son and you never said a word." Jiraiya wanted to be angry with his oldest friend. But he couldn't find it in him to shout or yell.
"I thought he'd died." Tsunade said softly. She looked up at Jiraiya, tears streaked across her cheeks. "I didn't want to tell you and risk causing you pain. I carried the burden of that myself. I never knew that…" Tsunade wanted to stay silent. She wanted to keep her mouth shut. She knew that she needed to give Jiraiya a full story. "I wanted to get my head straight when I found out I was expecting a child it wasn't exactly a bag of rainbows for me Jiraiya. I was still mourning.; I've done way too much of that but somehow I can never seem to stop." Tsunade said softly. Jiraiya stayed quiet. He knew he had to let Tsunade explain in her own time or she would just completely shut down. "I told Orochimaru because he was our other teammate. He was our friend. At least I thought he was. I told him I wished I wasn't pregnant. I'd wished it quite a few times. Orochimaru said he'd help me to have the child in secret and just send it to a different home. I know it was stupid to just think that all my problems were solved, and I could pretend everything was fine. But I needed to try and think that things would work out. But as the time got closer I found I felt really bonded to this little person that was living in my body rent free." Tsunade said softly. A gentle smile crossed her face as she thought about that moment. The moment she realised she had been carrying a real little human being in her stomach. "By the time I was close to giving birth, I'd decided I wanted to keep the kid. I wasn't really sure if I'd be able to tell you. I wasn't really thinking about that at the time. I just knew I wanted that baby. But when I gave birth…" Tsunade trailed off as a memory came unbidden into her thoughts.
"Tsunade you need to push." Orochimaru stated. His voice completely neutral. Tsunade screamed in agony. She wasn't quite sure how she'd gotten to this little underground lab, but she was there now, and the pain was extraordinary, so for once in her life she actually listened and pushed as hard as she could. Then suddenly the pain was gone. But she didn't hear the wail of the baby. Her eyes went wide as she looked at Orochimaru, who was looking down at the infant. He shook his head and looked at Tsunade sadly. "He's dead Tsunade." Orochimaru said coldly. He'd always been cold. Tsunade saw Orochimaru take the baby away, a tuft of blonde hair sticking out of the blanket, and she started to cry.
Tsunade looked at Jiraiya. "Orochimaru told me that he was dead, and at the time I had no reason not to believe him. He was supposed to be my friend, my comrade, I trusted him." Tsunade carried on. Jiraiya bit his lip.
"Why didn't you ask to see the baby?" Jiraiya asked. Tsunade shook her head.
"I didn't want to see someone else I loved, dead. I don't know if I could've handled it." Tsunade replied. Jiraiya nodded.
"Danzo planned all that with Orochimaru. He must not have wanted to see a Senju heir in the village." Jiraiya said softly. Then he gave Tsunade a pointed look. "Did Orochimaru know the baby was mine?" He asked. Tsunade nodded. Jiraiya sighed.
"There was more revealed in the interrogation." Jiraiya said softly. Tsunade listened as Jiraiya started to explain the other large secret that Danzo had kept.
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Okay all that's it for this chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Did you like the twist? Were any of you expecting it? Can any of you guess what the other major secret is? All this and more will (maybe) be revealed next chapter. Please R&R and let me know what you think.