Life of a Legend
Chapter Three
The three of them strut…walked down the street in a group, extraordinarily pleased with themselves. Minato and Karei chatted with each other; Sentou did not bring much to the conversation though.
They were heading to the business district. Their new sensei had said that he would be treating them to lunch at this new place a guy he knew opened up.
Following them was Jiraiya, his chest puffed out as he winked at various ladies that giggled and blushed when he caught their eyes.
He hated to admit it, but the teme was right. This status as Sannin did indeed make his life more entertaining. He was thoroughly enjoying the attention, loving the many options that were open to him.
Sadly, all good things must come to an end. The white-haired Sannin saw a delicate-looking hand, grip onto his shoulder, and he was spun around. "Well, if you're going to be so forward maybe we should get a…"
He was cut off when the grip slackened and instead grabbed him by the front of his shirt, pulling him down to be face to face with an irritated blonde woman.
"Just what the hell are you doing, acting like a letch like that for?"
"Hime, what…" he felt the eyes from all around and from his new students watching.
"Don't give me any excuses. I heard that you, for some reason, were given a genin squad." She snapped and threw him to the ground, causing him to land unceremoniously on his back. "I know it is a hard concept for you, but now you have to be responsible."
She cast one last, glowering look at her old teammate, turned on her heel and marched back to the man waiting for her, looping her arm around Dan's.
Dan gave an apologetic look back at Jiraiya, who was now brushing himself off, and then turned back to his date.
Jiraiya looked around to see the very same women that were blushing at him, now laughing. Sending a sour look at Tsunade's back he muttered, "flat-chested killjoy."
She was of course not as she was when they were kids, but why she had to ruin his fun was beyond him.
There was a moment of terror when the blonde woman paused right after the slight on her left his mouth. Jiraiya stood sweating, she then sneezed and continued, and the self-proclaimed ladies man let out a sigh of relief.
"Scary…" Jiraiya turned to see Minato standing there laughing, Sentou looked a bit nervous. Karei had a look of awe on her face, staring off into the crowd that Tsunade disappeared into.
Jiraiya slumped, 'great, one day and already losing face…damn Tsunade.'
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"Welcome to Ichiraku…Ah Jiraiya-sama, glad to see you again."
A tall, well-built young man greeted the four new arrivals into the quiet little ramen shop. The kids looked around and found some seats in the fairly new looking shop.
"Tenchi-san, how's business?" Jiraiya asked smiling at the chef and he shifted his gaze to a petite, brunette woman, who was serving some other patrons. "And Aki-san, how are you?"
The woman simply nodded, "I am fine, Lord Jiraiya," she said stiffly and the smile that was on her face not moments prior was replace her lips being drawn into a thin line.
There was a bit of a controlled edge to her voice, friend to her husband the man may be…but she didn't like his reputation. And though she was not a Konoichi, if she ever became the victim of his infamous 'research', well Tsunade would be hearing about that.
A smile came to her face.
"It is good to see you smile, Aki-san," she heard Jiraiya remark.
Teuchi's smile was genuine as he spoke to the ninja.
Aki and he had run into a bit of trouble when they were emigrating to Konoha a couple of years ago. They had very little money to their name and even less as far as possessions. They wanted a fresh start and decided on a major village as the best place to make a life for themselves. More people to serve equaled more business, simple economics really.
Sadly they had no money to hire an escort to get to the village, and their lack of possessions was not a deterrent to the bandits in any way.
The white-haired man, who traveled with them as he was heading back to Konoha himself, had thankfully aided them.
Teuchi considered the man a friend and would be grateful to him for a long time.
"Business is well thanks," the proprietor said jovially. He eyed the three kids that settled themselves beside Jiraiya, "who are the brats?"
All three puffed up indignantly, and Jiraiya barked out a deep laugh. "The old man felt it was time that I passed some of my vast knowledge onto the younger generation," he said throwing his chest out. "These three lucky little kids are my students."
Aki turned and rolled her eyes while Teuchi greeted them and took their orders.
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"Thanks Sensei," Karei said happily.
"That was really good," Minato remarked, "thanks."
Sentou nodded his agreement.
"No problem," Jiraiya said. "But don't get used to me treating you, after all tomorrow you start missions and will be making your own money. That said, I want you three to meet me at the same training grounds at eight tomorrow morning, we'll go over some things and then start missions."
"Hai," all three kids coursed and began to leave.
Jiraiya put a hand on Minato's shoulder, "hold on a minute kid, I want to talk about something." He waited until the others were gone, "what was that technique that you used before?"
Minato shrugged, "I don't have a name for it yet, it was just something I was working on."
"You created it?" the older male asked incredulously, Minato nodded. "I felt the potential of it and was even able to see the chakra. That technique was pretty damn good, but I can tell that it is not complete."
"Yeah, that's true sensei, I'm not done with it yet," Minato said. "I've been working on it for a year now, still have a bit to go I think."
Jiraiya nodded, truth was he was amazed. This kid, just barely twelve, was inventing his own jutsu. He really couldn't wait to see what this kid could grow into. "Well, as your sensei, if you ever need help figuring it out just ask, two heads are better than one, after all."
"Thanks sensei," Minato smiled.
"And maybe you can show me how to do it once you do, huh?"
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-Two weeks later-
"Number one in position," sounded a female voice over the radio.
Jiraiya nodded, waiting for the other two.
Confirmation soon came, "Number two in position," followed closely by the third.
Jiraiya clicked the send button on his radio, "the target is in sight?"
"Yes," all three responded.
"Good, initiate capture."
There was a sound of a scuffle and a loud yowling before he heard back, "Target is captured," came a female voice.
"Please confirm identity," Jiraiya said.
Minato's voice came on, "Target confirmed, ribbon says 'whiskers'."
"Good, head back to the tower," Jiraiya said. "I will meet you there."
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'Poor kitty.'
'I can't believe I feel sorry for it.'
'That's just wrong.'
'Lucky pus…cat.'
The team had just returned to the tower and a young twenty year old, petite woman pulled her precious whiskers to her chest. Almost smothering the frightened feline with her endowed bosom.
The cat kept trying to extricate itself from the newly instated, Fire Daimyo's fiancés surprisingly strong grip, while she paid and thanked the team for bringing her pet back to her.
After she left, the team was addressed by the Hokage, "you three have been doing well these past couple of weeks," Sarutobi smiled.
"Arigato Hokage-sama," all three responded back.
"As such, with your impressive record of 25 D-rank missions done in those to weeks you average about two a day," he continued. "Your teamwork is constantly improving and based on your sensei's observations, I feel you are ready for the next step."
The kids all looked at the man expectantly.
"There is a C-rank mission that you would be eligible for, it is a simple transport mission," Saurtobi went on.
"What kind of transport?" Jiraiya asked.
"One of our allies is in need of some supplies, medicines and the like, you will simply need to guard the cargo from bandits and common thieves. It is a small village about three days journey from here, they have a small force of shinobi but are a poor people."
Jiraiya nodded, he knew what village the old man was talking about. He carefully kept the smile from his face, that village boasted quite a few lovely ladies…and beaches.
"Where would we be taking them, Hokage-sama?" Minato could barely keep the excitement from his voice.
"The coastal village of whirlpool."
Authors note:
To those few who actually follow this story thanks for reading. Also sorry for the infrequent updates, this is just a story that I wanted to see and is not one of my main focuses.
And we all know how it's going to end anyway.
Hopefully I can capture the characters the best I can, after all this is a story following Minato's life so try not to focus on his death.
And a couple of notes to the minor characters.
The Daimyo's wife, I thought it good to have her be a petite beautiful woman when she was a young noble woman. Before she 'grew up'.
And I hope you all liked the little back-story of Teuchi.
Thanks for reading and as always please review.