Darkwings13: Something to note, the Chunin exam never invited genins from other villages to participate till the Third Shinobi War :)
The old man straightened up with a chuckle. He passed them the lollipops and said, "If you pass the first part of the test and need help, and I happen to be nearby, I'll lend you three a hand. You remind me of my grandkids."
He returned to his seat in the back and Orochimaru stared at the purple lollipop in his hand, not exactly sure of what to think. He looked up as the whole room burst into laughter at them.
"Hahaha, this is the so-called genius team under the Hokage?" guffawed a burly looking teenager.
"Hey hey, that's the short tempered Senju princess isn't she? Heh, no way she'll get an easy win this time due to favoritism." A girl nudged her team and giggled behind pink manicured nails.
"And that's the joker who sneaks around at hot springs. Only an idiot like him would make such a dumb announcement."
Two sharp senbons scratched the cheeks of the participants that had just insulted Tsunade and Jiraiya. They hit the wall with a sharp tink and a single drop of blood slid down it. The room went silent immediately and all eyes turned towards Orochimaru as he slowly lowered his hand. "We are Lord Hokage's students. Don't take us lightly." The temperature of the room dropped by five degrees as he revealed his venomous snake-like eyes.
A ninja with dark brown hair and a scar across his cheek muttered, "You... you're that kid that put Akano Uchiha into the hospital for half a year."
"The same one that held off both Kitso and Amane?" gasped a girl with bright blue eyes.
Tension spiked the room and a quarter of the participants stood up as hushed whispers ran rampant. "Someone like him doesn't deserve to be chunin."
"Let's take him out before someone like him can hurt more from our own village."
"My friend Amane can't take the Chunin exam for two years because of him! I'll beat him black and blue!"
Tsunade and Jiraiya immediately took his sides, their eyes hard and he himself lowered his hand towards his sleeve. "Are you two mad at me?" he asked blankly.
"Why would I be mad at you for defending us, Orochi?" Tsunade asked.
Jiraiya sighed and raised up his hands. "Why not make love instead of war? But whatever, it's just scratches."
"Stand down! All of you!" The doors opened and a tall man with a serious face and glasses walked in. His dark hair was stylishly cut with two side bangs, and the rest swept behind him, tied back by his Leaf forehead protector. He had a noticeably strong jawline and he radiated a solemn aura. His outfit was similar to their teacher, even having the exact armor plated guards on the arms. Beside him, Tsunade let out a small sound of fright and hastily whispered, "That's Homura Mitokada, one of Sarutobi-sensei's teammate under my granduncle tutelage. He's super strict." She gulped as he towered over them.
Homura Mitokada shot the three a dark look before saying, "Fighting is strictly prohibited in the first part of the exam. All of you, if I see even a raised fist, you're immediately disqualified. I don't care who started it." He glared at everyone in the room. "Hand in your registration papers. Be quick about it. Once you do, you'll be given a number and are to be seated where your number is."
"Wow, he is a total stick in the mud," Jiraiya joked quietly as he reached into the inside of his shirt and drew out his papers.
Orochimaru did the same thing and he glanced over at Jiraiya's papers. "You forgot to write down your birthday."
"Gah!"
The procedure went smoothly and soon enough, they were all seated. Strangely enough, he was seated in a spot similar to when he was at the Academy. Near the back and near the window to the left of the classroom. Tsunade sat in the same row as him but on the opposite side. Jiraiya was planted right in the middle, two rows ahead of them. When everyone was quietly waiting for the next set of instructions, Homura cleared his throat. "For the first part of the exam, it will be all written. My assistant examiners will be passing out your papers and pencils while I explain the rules."
"PAPER TEST?!"
His golden eyes widened slightly and he looked over at Jiraiya who just yelled that. This wasn't good. Tsunade shared his concern as she looked over at him worriedly. Jiraiya completely suffered in book smarts. He was always reading mangas and anything else that wouldn't teach him 'cool techniques' that would impress girls, he would throw away or use as a pillow. Not only that, his writing was atrocious and would make a grown man go blind. It once took him two hours and a magnifying glass to edit and understand what the heck Jiraiya was writing for their team report (they all took turns with writing reports). Jiraiya's vocabulary was terrible, his handwriting unintelligible, worst, he doddle on the edges of his paper, making it even harder to read. From what he could read, Jiraiya wrote down complete nonsense and then prayed to his ancestors that Sarutobi would deem it passable. In the end, he had to rewrite everything for him. He stayed up so late he walked around for the half of the day completely dazed and even accidentally walked into the women's washroom by accident. Praise to his parent's souls who were watching over him that it was thankfully empty and that neither Sarutobi-sense or Tsunade believed Jiraiya when he jumped up and down shouting 'Orochimaru sneaked into the girl's washroom! He's a pervert too!' rant.
"Alright listen up!" Head examiner Homura said loudly, "There are five questions on the exam. There will be no partial marks. You either get it right or you get it wrong." Homura pushed his glasses up his nose. "Each question is worth one point. We will only pass teams that get ten or more points."
Orochimaru glanced over at Tsunade and gave a curt jerk of his head. If both of them got all five of their questions right, then it wouldn't matter if Jiraiya got complete zero. He knew that while Tsunade was lazy, she was intelligent and understood all of her assigned readings back at the Academy. The test can't be that hard that she can't get a perfect score.
Homura coughed and added, "That's not it. If one of your teammates gets zero, the entire team fails. We can't let an incompetent ninja who can't even score one point on a paper test, become Chunin."
"Goddamit." Tsunade hit her desk and cracked it slightly.
In his seat, Jiraiya gulped and he could feel his teammates's eyes burning in his general direction. If he got complete zero, Tsunade might break his face and Orochimaru would sic his snake summon, Manda on him.
"Start! You all have one hour! Keep your eyes on your paper. If we catch you cheating even once, your entire team will be disqualified."
Orochimaru flipped over his paper and scanned the questions. Immediately, he felt his heart stop. The questions didn't ask for ninja techniques or about the layout of missions. His hope for an easy one for Jiraiya such as recitations of the ninja rules was also dashed. They ranged from the biology, such as how the electron transport system can be stopped with the use of cyanide based poison, chemistry, such as the mechanism and synthesis of five compounds that can be used as antidotes and salves, physics, such as the angle a shuriken needs to be thrown during a windy day and the force required, mathematics, such as using integration to figure out coordinates, and lastly, a question so hard he wasn't even sure he could solve it. The last question asked for a thesis statement and three supporting examples for the invention of an entirely brand new technique. This test was ridiculously hard. There was no way Jiraiya could hope to be able to solve even one question.
He looked over to see Jiraiya giving him puppy eyes, asking for assistance. Taking off the elastic band at his wrist, he pulled back his long black hair and tied it into a low ponytail, signalling to Tsunade that he'd be the one to help Jiraiya. Picking up his pencil, he speedily began writing down his answers and trying to figure out a way to help Jiraiya cheat as well. He glanced up at the clock, noting that it was five past two. The test ends at three. If he was going to help Jiraiya cheat, he had to do it early. His sharp eyes glanced over at the examiners sitting at the edges of each row, hating his spot as he was just two seats away from them.
He bit down his lips, his heart racing as he wrote out answers. It was then his lollipop that the old man had given him, slipped out of his sleeve and onto the table. His eyes widened slightly as an idea suddenly hit him. Taking the candy, he took off the wrapper and popped the grape flavored lollipop into his mouth. At the same time, he speedily began writing down the answers for Jiraiya, pretending to be working on the second question instead. He could sense the examiner looking at him and he speedily moved to answer the next three questions. Before moving on to question four, his eyes returned to the clock, noting that half an hour had now passed.
He could see Jiraiya frantically mouthing at him to hurry up and he gave a curt jerk of his head. With one hand, he made a seal and he could feel his snake slither down his arm. It was a variation of the Hidden Shadow Snake Hands technique and he was sincerely glad he had practiced it beforehand. "Come," he whispered.
The small white snake slithered around his wrist, peeking at him from his sleeve. Every other snake was obedient towards him except for Manda he thought dryly. He blanched slightly at the memory of his first summoning.
"Hehe." Jiraiya gestured to his man size red frog smoking a pipe, wearing a blue vest and had a sword strapped to it. "This here is Gamabunta! I call him Bunta for short." He winked at Tsunade. "Impressive, ha?"
"Hmph." Orochimaru said with disinterest, "After killing like ten thousand tadpoles, you've finally managed to summon an actual toad. Congratulations."
Jiraiya growled and raised his fist. "What did you say, you girly snake?!"
At their usual training ground, Sarutobi sighed and snapped his fingers. "Come on. All three of you have your contracts signed. All that's left is to summon them so we can get today's training on the way." He inwardly cried. They only had one month left. There was still like three hundred things he wanted to teach them to get them readied for the Chunin exam. Since he found out his old teammates (including Danzo) was in charge of this year's exam, he was starting to really freak out. Why did his poor kids have to deal with such harsh examiners? He almost suspected that his old teammates were doing this on purpose since they knew his students were taking part in this exam. Especially since Danzo was in charge or ROOT and should be drowning under tons of paperworks instead of signing up to be an examiner.
Right now his poor kids were busy bickering with one another like usual and he caught something that sounded like 'I'll show you the One Thousand Years of Death move I invented!' and 'That's the dumbest name I've ever heard, chosen of the toads,' and lastly, 'I want to go gambling!" He put his hands to his face, feeling like it was melting off from sheer annoyance and panic.
"Tsunade! You're next!" He whipped out a clipboard and scanned through it. "Please hurry! We've only got nine more hours of training for today."
She adjusted her messy ponytail and pouted. "Fine fine, sensei." Forming the correct hand seals, she slammed it down on the ground and a cloud of smoke enveloped her. They heard her squeal and when the smoke disappeared, they saw her hugging a giant version of her stuffed slug plush animal at home.
"Oh it's exactly like the stuffie my grandpa bought!" She cheered and hugged the man size slug even harder. "You're so cute!"
The slug's eyestalks wiggled in content. "Thank you, mistress," it said in a soothing feminine voice. It wiggled in her embrace in content before dividing into fifty smaller slugs and began swarming over her. Orochimaru watched as they snuggled up against his laughing friend, looking strangely cute as they puffed and cooed.
"This is so cool!" Tsunade cried in delight, picking two up. "What should I call you anyways? And what can you do exactly?"
"Katsuyu. I come from Shikkotsu Forest," said the blue and white slugs. "I can spit acid, divide to avoid attacks, and I can serve as your link to do many things, such as transfer chakra and communications, mistress."
Orochimaru smiled slightly. As the Senju came from the forest, he wasn't too surprised that her summon also stemmed from a legendary forest.
"This is perfect," Tsunade cooed, letting the slugs climb all over her. "And you can call me Tsunade!"
"Alright, Lady Tsuande," the slugs said respectfully.
She then gestured to her friends and teacher and made the introductions. Orochimaru tilted his head and picked up one of the slug that crawled over to him. It felt cool, soft and strangely refreshing to hold. He tilted his head as its grey eye stalks looked him over in curiosity. Gingerly, he held it back over to Tsunade. "You have a good summon, hime."
"Thank you," Katsuyu said happily.
Jiraiya looked at the one in his hand and poked it. "She's kind of squishy."
"Errr... thank you," the slug said politely.
Sarutobi nodded in satisfaction. "Looks like your bond with your new summon is already going well, Tsunade. Orochimaru, your turn."
His eyes narrowed as he readied the chakra in his body. He bit down on his thumb, and smeared the blood across his palm. "Summoning technique!" He formed his hand seals rapidly and slammed it against the ground. All of their eyes widened to see a giant man size purple snake with glittering green eyes appear. It was as big as their teacher and it coiled around itself with a look of irritation.
"Who interrupted my nap?" hissed the snake. Clearly... it did not look happy at all to have been so rudely woken up, noted Orochimaru. But how was he supposed to know that his destined personal summon for life was napping in the first place and that the first time they'd be meeting, his snake was clearly not in the mood.
"He did." He glared as Jiraiya pointed at him.
"You?" The snake flicked its forked tongue at him. "You interrupted the all mighty Manda's nap?" It hissed and opened its mouth wide. "Damn you! I was having a good dream! I'll eat you!"
Orochimaru jumped up in the air in surprise as the snake reared it sharp fangs and aimed at him. What was the meaning of this? Why wasn't it obeying him? He looked down to see Jiraiya running for his life and taking cover behind his toad. Tsunade hugged her slugs and also ran for cover while Jiraiya shouted, "Hey! Do something about your summon!"
"In case you're blind, it's trying to eat me!" snapped Orochimaru as he leaped and dodged the striking serpent. He gasped as the heavy tail struck his back and sent him flying. "Augh!"
"Orochimaru!" Sarutobi shouted. "There are some cases where you have to defeat your summon to get him to respect you. You have to fight!" He had to fight the impulse to jump in and help. This was Orochimaru's personal summon. If he didn't control it now, he'd never control it in the future.
Orochimaru made a sound of annoyance. Why can't he ever have it easy? "Pass me my sword!" he hissed as he scrambled to his feet.
"O-oh!" Jiraiya hastily picked up his friend's slim double edge jian blade that was resting against a rock and threw it with all of his might. The throw was terrible however, and the sheathed sword hit Orochimaru in the face as his friend tried to duck Manda's lunging fangs.
"Ack!" Orochimaru held a hand to his black eye and glowered at Jiraiya. "Seriously?"
"You idiot!" Tsunade punched Jiraiya on the head and sent him flying into his toad.
Gamabunta shook himself and grouched, "Watch it kiddo."
His voice caught Manda's attention and the large snake glared at it. "A friend with a toad from Mount Myoboku? Maybe I should eat you first instead!"
"I was not in the mood but since you're so eager to be my new snake wallet, let's bring it!" shouted Gamabunta, drawing out his sword.
Jiraiya waved his hands. "Wh-what? Bunta wait-"
Orochimaru ran to put himself in front of them. Over his shoulder, he said coldly, "Don't interfere. I'm Manda's master and I'll be the one subjugating him. Stay out of this." Slowly, he unsheathed his sword and slashed the air once, letting the metal sing in warning.
"Then hurry up before it tries to eat my Bunta!" grumbled Jiraiya as he hopped on his toad's back and tried to keep it from pulling its sword out. The big toad was obviously not happy and it tried to buck him off as it hopped all over the place like a raging bull.
"Get off Jiraiya! I want that snake wallet!"
Meanwhile, Tsunade's slugs were trying to shield her from the 'traumatizing' sight. "Ack! Katsuyu! Ger off mer face!" She struggled to pull them off to see what was going on.
"No mistress. It's far too violent for a girl your age," squeaked Katsuyu, sticking on to Tsunade's face and unintentionally slowly burying her under a mass of moving slugs.
In the back, Sarutobi facepalmed and he could already hear what his monkey summon, Enma would say if he saw the terrible job his students were doing in controlling their summons. "Oh First and Second Hokage, give me strength," he muttered.
Manda stared down at the pale kid, slightly intrigued by his golden snake-like eyes. They burned with a hunger almost as powerful as his own. This kid... he possessed the true eyes of a predator. The darkness in them was engulfing and deep like an ocean. But at the same time, he could sense something even deeper than that dark abyss. A small glimmer of gold light that was asking for power to stand up against the world, to change and mold it, and to shed away the old skin of helplessness. He wasn't going to fight him because he had to control his personal summon, he was going to fight him because he was not going to tolerate any pain aimed at him. "Come," Manda hissed. "Show me what you're capable of. Perhaps I might not eat you if you give me a good show."
"You will get a glimpse of my newest sword dance, that I can promise you." Orochimaru charged forward and slashed at his snake three times before having to step back as it striked at him with lightning speed. Skillfully, he weaved a web of slashes around him for both offence and defence, landing a few more wounds on the snake and keeping it at bay. With the fourteenth stroke, he tossed his sword backwards into the air. "Get ready." He dodged the swinging tail and elegantly flipped backwards three times until he was at a sufficient distance away. Before he finished his landing, he finished his hand seals and puffed up his cheeks. A blast of strong pressured wind came out of his mouth, cutting at the grass and the snake and pushing it back a good few meters back. Following up he grabbed the handle of his sword as it fell down towards him and threw it with all of his might. The sword stopped to a quiver as it struck his snake straight on and Manda hissed in pain.
"I'm not done." He threw two shurikens that was hooked with metal wires and pulled sharply, wrapping it around his snake. Making a succession of hand seals, his eyes flashed. "Lightning Release: Depth Charge." Lightning enveloped his body and he sent it spiralling down the wires to electrocute the snake. It shook and struggled from the shocks before falling down, utterly defeated. Orochimaru arched an eyebrow and said, "Electrifying performance, wouldn't you say, Manda?"
Jiraiya's jaw dropped and even Gamabunta stopped moving. Since when was Orochimaru so sassy? He looked over to see Tsunade cheering in admiration from her cocoon of slugs and Sarutobi-sensei looking extremely impressed.
Manda stared at him with solemn forest green eyes. "I acknowledge your strength, kid. Keep in mind, you only won me over with power. If you're ever weak, I'll eat you."
"That's how the world works. I hold no grudge against that statement," Orochimaru replied emotionlessly.
Mande chuckled. "One more thing to mention. If you don't feed me when you summon me, I won't help you," threaten the snake as it disappeared.
Silence ensued for a few moments before a rain of slugs hit him as Tsunade popped out of her prison of slugs and ran over to hug him. "That was amazing Orochi! When did you get so good at kenjutsu?!"
He wryly plucked one of her white and blue slug off his face and held it up gingerly. "Been practicing, hime. How do I look by the way?"
She looked up and realized that her face was incredibly close to him. Her cheeks turned bright red and she hastily jumped back, running to hide behind her teacher with her hands over her cheeks. Orochimaru seemed to take it that she thought he was now ugly and he put a hand over his black eye. "Thanks alot, Jiraiya."
Jiraiya pouted as he also walked over. But then he said cheekily, "Sooooooooo, can you even afford your summon? You need to feed that snake every time you call it, right?"
Orochimaru scowled. With a snake that big, he'd have to feed him a cow.
Orochimaru let out a long breath, returning back to the situation at hand. Taking the wrapper paper, he placed it into his snake's mouth and let it slither down to the ground and move while hiding in the shadows.
"AEGHHHHHHHHH!" Jiraiya jumped into the air, feeling something slither up his legs and into his pants. Everyone in the room immediately looked over at him and two seconds later, he realized it was Orochimaru's snake.
Homura immediately glared at him. "Is there something wrong?"
Jiraiya laughed and waved sheepishly. "N-nothing. My uhhhh... eouch!" He grabbed at his thigh and forced a grin. "My ass is just cramping up from sitting for so long."
"Well deal with it in silence," Homura scolded, wondering how Sarutobi was teaching his students. One was an idiot, another was spoiled and the other one was downright scary. They were definitely the wackiest genin team in the history of the village.
"Ok! Getting back to work now yea," he said, trying to keep the snake from wiggling around in his pants. He looked behind him and raged to see a smirk cross Orochimaru's face. He let a few minutes passed before he loosened his belt and reached into his pants. Something slimy met his fingers and when he grasped it, the snake disappeared. Seeing the answers on the wrapper, Jiraiya grinned. Just in time. With fifteen minutes left to go, that was all he needed. The wrapper was obviously not big enough for an entire test, but Orochimaru had given him two answers, which was enough for them to pass.
Fifteen minutes later...
"Time is up! Put your pencils down!"
Tsunade let out a long breath and grinned just as time was up. "All done hehe."
"Listen up," Homura said as they all lowered their pencils. "We'll be calling out the teams that are eliminated due to cheating."
Orochimaru crossed his arms and listened intently, wondering if he had passed notice when he helped Jiraiya cheat. For the next five minutes, a long list of teams were read out and ninja after ninja left the room. When the list was finished, he felt a wave of relief wash over him.
Homura looked over the room, noting that only sixty percent remained. The number was still far too high. "Before you hand in your papers to be graded, there is one more thing you need to know," he said slowly. "The member in your team with the lowest grade is immediately eliminated and will not be able to take the exam for twenty years. If you do not want that to happen to your teammate, one member stands up and the entire team may leave now and retake the next exam." He chuckled, "Which for sure, will not be in the next twenty years."
Jiraiya and many others cried out in protest while Tsunade and a few other girls gasped in shock. She immediately looked over to Orochimaru who was wearing a usual stoic expression. But she could tell from the slightly furrowed eyebrows that he too, was affected by this announcement. She chewed on her nail, wondering if she should raise a hand ask what happens if all members got the same marks. Maybe then, they'd be spared? All of a sudden, Orochimaru stood up and her eyeballs nearly popped out of her socket.
"Oh? First one?" asked Homura, slightly surprised.
Orochimaru gave him a deadpanned expression and said listlessly, "Life is short. How many twenty years do we have? I'm not going to let one of my teammates lose two decades of their life to be stuck at a genin, because of some baseless and illogical demand."
Tsunade stood up with him. "I'm with him. This test is stupid! What if the person with the lowest mark in our team got a ninety? They'd obviously be better than anyone else who got less than ninety. Why should they be stuck at genin for the next twenty years."
Jiraiya grinned and jumped on his desk to pose. "I am the gallant and great Jiraiya. I won't stand by and let Orochimaru be stuck at a genin for twenty years just because he's dumber than me." A senbon needle wedged itself into his left butcheek and he jumped up with a howl. He looked back to see Orochimaru lowering his hand with a smirk.
More and more of the participant stood up and joined them, inspired by Team Sarutobi's words.
"I'm not letting my friends be stuck as a genin for twenty years!"
"You can shove this test up your stuck up ass!"
"We're out of here! I'm not sacrificing anyone from my team."
Homura glared at them all. When it looked like no more would stand up and yell at him, he called for order. "Silence!" The other examiners stood up threateningly and slowly, the room grew quiet. With a sigh, he said, "All of you who are standing... you all pass."
Jiraiya blinked. "WHAT?!"
"A ninja must place the importance of their mission first. But when you don't even know if you'll succeed in the first place by sacrificing your comrades, then you're a fool for not only wasting valuable manpower, but for sacrificing those who you're supposed to look out for." Homura's expression grew slightly sad, remembering how Tobirama, his teacher and the second Hokage, willingly gave his life so that his team could escape. He said, "Sacrifice without meaning is the same as killing your comrades. As ninjas, we are sworn to give our lives for this village. But we must all remember the price and give great considerations to the decisions we must all make. Do not make pointless sacrifices, understood?" Slowly, he smiled and said, "All of you may now leave. You have an hour to get to the gates to the Forest of Death, the 44th training area."
"Wahooooo! We passed!" Jiraiya jumped up and down before running to the back to get to Tsunade and Orochimaru. He nudged his pale friend and chuckled. "Sooooo, you do care. I guess Tsunade was right that you're like ice cream on the inside.
"Hmph." He tried to put on a cold facade. "Don't think too much on it. You happen to be the only idiot who can amuse me. That, and after being trained under Sarutobi-sensei for so long, you're more skilled than all the other insignificant Genins around us."
Tsunade winced slightly. While true that Orochimaru cared very much about her and Jiraiya, it made her feel very uncomfortable to see how little he cared about everyone else. She wondered if he'd even bat an eyelash if someone had a heart attack in front of him. But then she remembered that his attitude stemmed from the fact that it was only for protecting himself. The more he cared, the more it would hurt if someone he cared about was in danger. She broke out of her thoughts as Jiraiya bickered with Orochimaru.
"What's with setting that snake up my pants! What if it bit me in the... you know! Your snake Manda, afterall, tried to eat you!"
"Hmph." Orochimaru smirked. "Then the village won't have to worry about the growing population of idiots."
"What did you say?! I'm going to-" He stopped as Tsunade hooked arms with him and Orochimaru.
She laughed and said, "You two, just shut up for a moment and enjoy this! We passed the first part of the exam!" She tugged them along and when they left the building, she took in a big breath of fresh air.
Back at the classroom, Homura adjusted his glasses and looked over as Hiruzen Sarutobi came in. "You'll be happy to know that your kids passed the first part of the exam." He then rolled his eyes. "Actually, they helped the others passed as well. Danzo is not going to be happy with overseeing the second part of the Chunin exam with that many participants."
Sarutobi chuckled in amusement. "When was Danzo ever happy in the first place?"
"Honestly, you spoil them," Homura muttered. "They lack manners."
Sarutobi waved it off. "They're just being kids. Let them enjoy their youth." He then said, "So, where did my kids sit?"
Homura pointed to three spots. "The pale one and the princess in the back, the one with the loud mouth in the middle there."
With that, Sarutobi walked over to look over their papers. He took a look at Jiraiya's first. Seeing the perfect answer for the first two questions, he knew that either Tsunade or Orochimaru must have helped him cheat. The rest of the answers were blank. Except... Sarutobi burst out in laughter at his last answer for the invention of a new technique. Jiraiya talked about his Transparent Escape technique that he would always use for peeking. It was true that the technique did work and was extremely effective. He saw in the corner that Jiraiya had also doddled some kind of picture and labeled it 'One Thousand Years of Death'. On closer inspection... the person sailing through the air looked like Orochimaru. He grimaced slightly and hoped that Jiraiya wasn't serious about such a weird technique.
Taking the paper, he then walked over to Tsunade's seat and picked up her sheet. All of her answers were perfect and he was intrigued by her idea of the invention of a Regeneration technique, as it would be faster than normal healing and then she'd be able to look after her teammates.
Lastly, he walked over to Orochimaru's table and picked up his sheet. All of his answers were perfect and even contained extra information. If there was ever bonus marks offered, he'd get them all. It was exactly as he'd expect from his favorite student. His black eyes moved down to read the last question and he inhaled sharply. Rebirth... and eternal life so that no one would have to suffer the pain of being left behind again. One of his example to support this was Edo Tensei, the Impure World Reincarnation technique. It was then he realized what Tsunade wanted to name her new technique. Looking down at her paper, he murmured, "Creation... Rebirth." Was Tsunade truly that close to Orochimaru, to have been privy to such an idea? What did the two talk about?
"Something wrong?" asked Homura, noticing his friend's stiff shoulders.
"N-no," said Sarutobi slowly. His mind drifted to the day he went with Orochimaru and when they found that white snake skin. Did he say the wrong thing to his beloved student on that day he visited his parent's grave with him a year ago? He returned his gaze to the paper, his hand tightening over it as he could see the great love that Orochimaru ahd for his parents that gave birth to such a desire.
Darkwings13:
-I was going to update yesterday but the chapter ended up needing more work. X'D Sorry!
-Jiraiya was indeed responsible for the invention of the Transparent Escape Technique xD
-In Naruto episode 185, we see that Jiraiya's writing was pretty terrible when he was doing his summer research on the Onba bwahhhahha.
-I made Jiraiya's initial summonings similar to Naruto, where all he could do initially was summon tadpoles haha. And yes, the Sannin's first summoning experience was kinda wacky lol.
-I hope I did a decent job with the first part of the Chunin exam. X) And I wrote the final question that way for a reason. 8) I did find it amusing that Tsunade named her ultimate healing technique Creation Rebirth and the data book stated that it was made with the idea of being there for her comrades in mind. Will delve into details on this later. I will also mention Orochimaru's discovery of the white snake skin soon and how he briefly talked about it to Tsunade.
Haha hi Lord Creator! For sure, I think I had the most fun typing out the summoning part for this. Especially with the many cute little Katsuyu swarming around and Jiraiya accidentally giving Oro a black eye XD Thank you for the cheerios of good drinks and for reading as always friend!
Aloha JigokuShoujosRevenge! Haha, Jiraiya and Tsunade did both hand over all their money on missions to Orochimaru while he was banned from missions for half a year, which is why he doesn't mind too much about them eating so much and breaking his front door. He's realized by now they're both still childish as well and doesn't hold it too much against them. They'll probably be more mindful when they're older 8)
Eh? A new reader? :D Haiiiii Lucy. I'm happy to hear you're enjoying this story! Oh more will happen between Orochimaru and Tsunade. Good, bad, sad, and heartwarming :') I kinda wonder how many chapters this fic will end up with haha.
x) Thank you sagar hussain! Hope you'll enjoy reading this chapter as well friend.
Last but not least, ileangie23! :D So much to address, much yay, much appreciate xD They say that the Second Shinobi War took place around twenty years after the first one (they could have round it from 17-22). So I assumed the Sannin would be around early twenties when the war first started. It was a very long war as Jiraiya was absent for 3 years while taking care of the Ame orphans before he returned to continue helping with the war. So war had to be 3+ years (If it's any less or exactly 3, Jiraiya would basically be AWOL for 99% of the war). When Dan died near the end of the war, he was 27 and Nawaki died at the start of it when he was 12. By the time he's born, I estimated Tsu would be about 9-10 years old, depending if she graduated at early 6 or late 6 from the Academy and if she's abit younger than Dan or at the same age as him. But all in all Kishi messed up the timeline with so many contradictions. Sarutobi looked crazy young when he was assigned Hokage, then he became the middle age teacher to the sannin and we see Tsunade looking at around age 4-5 with Hashirama around. It's so wack! XD And yea I always thought Oro would be a good cook. Cooking is pretty much chemistry lol. I'm glad you got the feels for when he said those words to Tsunade in the garden. He can totally understand how it feels to be left behind and watch those you love die, like his parents, do he'd empathize with her. ^_^