"Jiraiya and I never moved on after the party…he went on to his perverted actions with girls and I continued my training…but every now and then there was a awkward moment where we would stop and just stare at each other, but we did move on, and we got our first real squad mission about 5 months later"
Orochimaru Jiraiya and Tsunade stood in assignment room as the instructor searched through the files for their mission. "ah here it is! You 3 will be delivering a package to the mist village" Jiraiya groaned "just a stupid delivery mission, come on cant you give us something harder" "sorry nope you 3 are still gennin, you'll get harder missions at one point" Jiraiya sighed and walked out "whatever" tsunade bowed respectively and fallowed "you idiot stop complaining they can easily assign this mission to someone else!" "oh shut up tsunade you know we can do much better" Orochimaru walked out of the room holding the package "they said this will take about a week or 2, let's stop by the house so I can at least tell ryuu we're leaving" Tsunade and Jiraiya nod walking out.
They made their way up to orochimarus house and walked in. ryuu was practicing throwing kunai at a target on the wall, he was continuously missing. "ryuu?" orochimaru said walking over ryuu looked up at orochimaru smiling "look owo! Im using the target board you got me!" orochimaru looked to the board and smiled a little "very good ryuu, keep working and aim for the middle ok?" ryuu nods "kay!" he threw another and I missed about a foot away from the target. Orochimaru sighed and kneeled down hugging him "ryuu I have to leave for about a week or 2…will you be ok?" Ryuu froze and looked to him "h-how long?" Orochimaru bit his lip "…2 weeks" Ryuus face turned twisted with fear, orochimaru hadn't left for more than a day since they got to konaha he hugged onto orochimaru "no don't go!" Orochimaru sighed and strokes his hair "I need to, look you keep practicing and whenever you need to you can go to the hokages office and stay there for the day" "but owo!" orochimaru kissed ryuus head "I promise ryuu I'll be back as soon as possible but I need this training, its going to help me get stronger" ryuu looked up at him sniffling "it is" "yup and I promise when I get back we'll do something fun" "o-ok" Orochimaru gave him a long tight hug then left with jiraiya and tsunade leaving ryuu standing in the living room still sniffling.
Jiraiya led them out of the village "ok! Let's go!" he declared as he began walking. Tsunade walked in the opposite direction "jiraiya….it's this way" Jiraiya did a U turn and fallowed them "I knew that!" Orochimaru glanced back at the village as they walked away, praying that ryuu would be ok while he was gone.
They walked all day, as they walked orochimaru saw far too many familiar places. Orochimaru walked up to a large rock and stared at it "…this is" tsunade walked over "huh?" Orochimaru looked to her and jiraiya "this is where you found me and ryuu" Tsunade stared at the rock "how can you tell?" "look" Orochimaru said as he pointed at the hole him and ryuu were sitting in Tsunade looked under the rock at him "your right, oh god that was so long ago" Jiraiya said "it just looks like a rock to me" Orochimaru sighed and started walking away "it's more than that, all of this is, everything out here. All the places ryuu and I hid at, it's all thanks to those places him and I are alive" He looked back at tsunade and jiraiya "its thanks to you guys too" Tsunade smiles and fallowed him "well we're glad we rescued you guys" Orochimaru smiled and kept walking.
Night soon fell upon the squad and they set up a small fire and camp. Orochimaru sat on his sleeping bag staring up at the moon tsunade sat next to him drinking a cup of broth "orochimaru?" "mhm?" "What was it like to be alone for all that time?" Orochimaru looked down "it was…hard, every day could have been our last and ryuu couldn't defend himself. It was all up to me to keep him alive and myself" Tsunade looked down "oh…sorry I brought it up" she took a long sip from her brother. Orochimaru looked to tsunade and hugged her "thank you" "huh? For what?" "just…thank you" Tsunade smiled and lift orochimarus chin up she gave him a small peck on the lips then laid down "…you're welcome, good night" Orochimarus face turned red he stared at her then turned his attention back to the moon.
"She was like…my sister"
"Seems like she was a bit more, seems like you had a crush on her"
"…we were kids, it was just childish"