Some hours later, Tsunade was at the Hokage tower, battling with her paperwork with the aid of the one bottle of sake she had saved and Shizune had not found, the day had gone from glorious to one of the worst in her life. Another woman. She could have understood even Dan if he had done that, but Jiraiya, the man who had allegedly loved her since they were twelve; that was a low blow.
Then, Naruto walked in and asked "Hey, Tsunade baa-chan, are there any missions for me?"
Tsunade was obviously not feeling too happy, so she just said "If there were, I would have sent for you, now please leave me"
"Is anything wrong? Because, Baa-chan, you are really mean this morning"
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me Baa-chan? And it's nothing, now, if you are not going to make yourself useful, get out of my office."
"Fine, fine, whatever" said Naruto, shrugging, and then he left the office.
After Naruto left Tsunade's office, he went looking for Jiraiya to have lunch with him and to ask him about Tsunade. He was wandering through the village, looking in all of the places where Jiraiya might be, when he bumped into Sakura.
"Hey Naruto!" Sakura greeted, smiling "It sure is a nice day, isn't it? And Tsunade-sama dismissed me from my work, she said she needed some alone time" She said, seeming almost too happy to be out of work (Naruto didn't blame her though, he knew how Tsunade could be)
"Hey, Sakura-chan!" Naruto said, happy to see Sakura "By the way, do you know what happened to her? She was seriously angry, you wouldn't want to go near her"
"Yeah, I know that, I spent part of the morning with her, what I know is that it had to do with Jiraiya-sama, that's the only thing Shizune-chan told me"
"Ero-sennin? What did he do now?"
"Hey, Naruto, what has to do with me? What did Shizune tell you, Sakura?" asked a deep voice behind them. They both turned to see a smiling Jiraiya with a single rose in his hand.
"Oh, hey, Ero-sennin, um, can I ask you something?"
"We, I want to know too" added Sakura
"Ok, we" said Naruto
"Sure, ask away" said Jiraiya
"Why are you so happy, why do you have a rose, and what the hell did you do to Tsunade-baachan!?" Naruto asked, doing a crescendo, the last part becoming almost a scream.
And Sakura nodded once, meaning she wanted to know
"Oh, that, well, I guess you two know what happened between us last night. Gossip sure spreads fast in Konoha." He said, not looking very pleased.
Sakra nodded, Naruto moved his head from side to side.
"Well, the thing is I really want to be with her, and because of that I had to tell her about Ami, so I asked Ami if she wanted to meet Tsunade and she said yes, so now I'm going to tell Tsunade and give her this rose, if she'll take it." Jiraiya explained to Naruto
"Oh… Oooh!" said Naruto "I don't want to know, but it can't be the Ami thing, she was really, I mean really pissed"
"Well, you understand why I could not tell her who Ami was, not anywhere public, anyway"
"Wait a minute, Jiraiya-sama, who is this Ami?" asked Sakura "Is she one of your girls? Because that would pretty much explain everything" Jerks, she thought
"I can't explain right now, and I must go speak to Tsunade, but I might tell you some other time"
"But Ero-sennin, you promised you would have lunch with me!" Naruto yelled
"Fine, meet me at Ichiraku's in half an hour. I guess I'm paying." Said Jiraiya, who had turned around and was now leaving.
"Do you think he'll come?" Naruto asked Sakura
"It all depends on how it goes with Tsunade-sama, and I doubt she's feeling too kind today"
"So you think he might end at the hospital?"
"Who knows? Anything could happen"
"That means yes, doesn't it?"
Sakura nodded
"Ah, well, I guess some other time, want to go somewhere with me?"
"Sure, what gives? I have the day off anyways."
"Want some ramen?" Naruto asked, smiling.
"Sure, why not?" Sakura said, knowing that it would be ramen anyway, and they headed to Ichiraku's.
Tsunade had been working all day, but she had never been concentrated in what she was doing, so she had ended up by falling asleep on her paperwork. Jiraiya's face appeared up-side-down on her window, and three loud knocks rang in her silent office. She woke up, startled, turned in her chair, and with an arm movement knocked down the now cold cup of tea that Shizune had brought her a while ago. She looked at the window where the pervert's face was hanging up-side-down. She didn't want to open the window, but she knew he would insist and she would rather get this over and done with; so she got up and opened it.
Tsunade's eyes were red and puffy, sign that she had been crying, and it pained Jiraiya to see her that way, if really it was nothing. Now that he was there, in front of her, he was not sure if she would accept his request, because the only parts of her that showed traces of sadness were her eyes. Her lips were pursed and her fists clenched, a typical get out before I punch you Tsunade pose. If only he could tell her, not only would he spare her sadness, but he would also spare himself from a very likely beating. He came in through the window and began: "Hime…"
"Are you going to explain what you told me this morning?" she interrupted, raising one eyebrow sarcastically.
"I wish I could, I really do, but this is not the time nor the place, so the only thing I can tell you now is that if you want to know more about it and if you think you can trust me when I tell you it's not what you think, then come to my house this evening and everything will be explained, I promise." He had not tried taking her hand because she obviously was not very happy, but he had left the rose on her desk as soon as he had entered.
Tsunade didn't know what to think, was he taking advantage of her? Did she really show it that much, her weakness for him, or was it just him who knew her so well? It just seemed like he knew she would end up by going, and not just because of curiosity. She decided that the easiest way of putting an end to this was hitting him, so she punched him in the face, to make it hurt but not for him to fall unconscious. He ended up with a nosebleed, but his nose was not broken.
He fell on the floor and said "So I take it you're not going, well I don't blame you"
She thought about how he kept saying it was not what she thought, so she decided to give him a chance, as if there ever was a doubt, she later thought "I might go, if I feel like it, at what time do you want me to be there?"
He got up, smiled and thought, well, this coming from Tsunade, she must really love me. "Thank you, Hime" he said, taking her hand, which in comparison to his looked very small "I promise you won't regret it, be there around seven. Oh, and her name is Ami."
"Yeah, well" she yanked her hand from his and said "now, if you don't have anything else to say please leave, I need to be alone."
Jiraiya left the way he came and left Tsunade alone. She closed the window, returned to her desk and saw the rose. She didn't know what to think, so she just threw it in the garbage-can and continued working on whichever paper was on the top of the pile.
Meanwhile, Jiraiya went to his house, he was sure Naruto had found someone to have lunch with, and if Tsunade was going to come over, he better make everything ready. When he got to his house, he opened the door, and a six year old girl came running toward him and hugged him
"Uncle Jiraiya! How did it go? Am I going to meet her? Is she going to be my new aunt? Will she teach me to be a good ninja, so I can go on missions with you? What happened to your face? Are you ok? Let me put a band-aid on that!"
Jiraiya smiled and said "Hey, Ami-chan, calm down, ok? Well, she might come tonight, but anything more than that, I couldn't tell you"
"And what happened to your face? Was it a bad guy?"
Jiraiya couldn't help laughing and said "No, it wasn't…"
"Are you ok?" Ami interrupted "Can I put a band-aid on that?"
"Sure, honey, whatever you want" he said, and then thought Tsunade sure is going to have a laugh at this
"Oh, and when is Naruto-niichan coming to visit? He never comes around anymore" Ami said, crossing her arms and pouting
"I'll tell him to come around sometime around this week"
"Yay!" Ami squealed "Don't move, I'm going to get the band-aid, stay right there, ok?" Jiraiya nodded and Ami rushed to the inside of the house, meanwhile, Jiraiya cleaned the dried blood on his nose and waited for Ami to come back with the band-aid.
Well, chapter 3 is up, even though it's shorter, I hope you like it! Now you know who Ami is, but Tsunade doesn't, we'll see how she takes meeting her in the next chapter!
I don't own Naruto, duh, well, PLEEEEAAAAASE review, and again, hope you like it! Bye!
Oh, and flames are definitely welcome too!
Well, I'm actually thinking about making this a oneshot again, because, honestly, there are so many things I feel I could improve, and I really don't know where it is going, so, if you have any ideas on what I could do, or want it back into a oneshot, or something, then please tell me.
Oh my god!!! Plagiarism!!!! Yeah... there is another Late Night at Konoha, and it is exactly the same as MY first chapter!!!! I do not like that!!!! I don't get it either... if you are going to write fanfiction, at least write your own!!!