Chapter 4: Summoning Jutsu!
"Wow a monkey!" cried Tsunade in surprise. She usually was quiet and respectful but she had never seen such an amazing jutsu!
"Yes I am a monkey." replied the monkey. "But you may call me Ennma." Tsunade nodded her head to signal she understood and then went back to listening.
"HEY, Sarutobi-Sensei, where'd you get the monkey?" asked Jiraiya as a vein in the head of the monkey and Tsunade popped.
"It's a summoning jutsu, baka!" replied tsunade, slapping him hard across the face. This shut Jiraiya up immediately, even though he had no idea what a summoning jutsu was.
"Now today children, you will learn how to summon your own ninja animals to help you out when things get tough." said Enma. Yet another outburst from Jiraiya.
"AWESOME! Can we pick what they are!?" Jiraiya blurted out. Jiraiya was excited to finally get to learn a jutsu like this.
"Sarutobi-Sensei, how come you are teaching us a jutsu like this when we are only genin?" asked Orochimaru.
"The answer to your question Jiraiya is yes. You will have to make a deal with the animals you choose to summon. And the answer to your question Orochimaru, I will answer later. That is very important." Sarutobi replied.
"What kind of deal is it sensei!?" asked Jiraiya, almost yelling now he was so excited. Tsunade seemed excited too, while Orochimaru looked shocked.
This time Enma answered. "Why, a deal in blood." responded the monkey. The words were not comforting or 'fun' but Enma spoke as if it was as natural as breathing. "You will take a scroll and sign your name in your own blood.
Seeing that the three genin did not understand, Sarutobi finally said "Like so." He bit into his own thumb, took a scroll and smeared his blood onto the scroll. "Ninja art: Summoning Jutsu!" he exclaimed as a second, smaller monkey, poofed into existence.
"Do we get to name them?" asked Jiraiya stupidly.
"No baka, they are alive before you summon them!!"
"Uh I knew that Tsunade-Chan just uh testing Sarutobi-Sensei!"
"Of course you were." Said Tsunade sarcastically.
"Well now, here are three scrolls." continued Sarutobi-Sensei. Each of you can now decide what you will be summoning.
"Tsunade-chan you should summon a slug!" shouted Jiraiya, obviously forgetting about the fact she agreed to go out with him and just mad about her answering all his questions like a genius, though he was obviously kidding. Secretly he thought she would be something like an owl for her intelligence or something like a cat for its beauty.
"I WILL SUMMON A SLUG, AMD IT'LL BE 100X BETTER THAN WHATEVER CRAP YOU SUMMON!" shouted Tsunade at the top of her lungs.
Jiraiya laughed.
"Whatever you say… I think I'll summon a frog. My first toy from my parents was a frog. I used to love that toy." said Jiraiya, more thinking out loud, than talking. The rest of the day was used up by the training. Enma, Sarutobi and the little monkey whose name was Chibi helped all the children with they're summonings. Jiraiya mainly managed to pull out a tadpole or a small frog. Tsunade was exceptionally good at this jutsu. From her first try she had been able to pull out slugs of all different colors, growing in size each time. But the one who was the best at this jutsu was Orochimaru. By lunch time he could pull out a snake the size of his arm.
"Why a snake?" asked Tsunade, thoughtfully.
"Because the white snake is the symbol of rebirth, and because snakes are a little like me I suppose. Sarutobi-Sensei told me the first bit of that." said Orochimaru, forgetting that it was Tsunade talking to him.
"Riiiiiight" droned Jiraiya, sarcastically, for he had just come over to eat lunch with his two friends. The two boys of the team didn't like to admit it but they secretly very much wished to be friends.
"Now." said the sensei, releasing his summoning jutsus. Jiraiya was holding a little frog who called himself Gamabunta. Tsunade was holding her little slug who didn't talk at all. But creepiest of all was Orochimaru who had his snake, Manda crawling up his arm. "The reason you need to learn this jutsu is because we have just been assigned a mission into the bloody mist." The man continued a look of concern on his pre-maturely wrinkled face. "We have to capture a ninja called 'Soriu Keido'. He is the only one of the Keido clan left because he killed his own family. He is a threat to Konoha because he has killed numerous ANBU and sends minions to attack Konoha from time to time."
"But sensei how come we have not heard about this!" blurted out Tsunade!
"Because Nidaime-Sama, covers it up so as not to scare young genin like yourselves. At any rate I will tell you more tomorrow. Get some rest and practice all of your jutsu. Tomorrow we leave." One thing was certain. Jiraiyas toads would be ready. Tsunade's super strength that she had so carefully practiced with her parents and her slugs would be ready. And Orochimaru's jutsus, whatever they were (for team 7 didn't know) would be ready. Tomorrow all of the genin and the Jounin instructor Sarutobi would be ready. They would have to be.