Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and any reference to any other thing owned by someone else.
Claimer: The OCs are mine. If any are sue-ish, well…they're still my sues.
Warning #1: Characters may sometimes be OOC. You have been warned.
Lost
Chapter 14
Previously with Jiraiya...
There was just something about junk food that gave them the creeps.
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Two whole years had passed since Jiraiya and Naruto had first set out on their journey. Two years since master and apprentice had left the gates and the security of their home. Two years since they had been travelling the lands together, at least that would be the case if they were actually still together. But the truth is so far from the dream, Jiraiya had yet to find Naruto.
Naruto was the epitome of unpredictability, or surpises, of pranks, and all that jazz. During his quest to find his student, Jiraiya had found himself in many situations that he somehow knew were his karma for leaving his student, then losing him.
It had also been two years since Naruto's fame had first taken a giant leap. His description was known far and wide. From the port town that his legend originated, it spread by the boats that docked there to their dstinations. Word spreads quickly when it is brought to the far edges of the continent by the winds and the waves. Even in the shadows the story of what had happened had travelled far and wide. The underworld's up and coming leaders those four monsters at the docks that day, had fallen prey to Konoha steel, not that they knew that little piece of information. But the description of who had dealt the death blows had spread the continent and back. There wasn't a country that did not know of such a feat.
Sure there are tales of shinobi and their battles for glory, honor, or whatever they battle for. But that one incident was one of those few that were done out of selflessness, done out of the will to do what was right, to travel the road less traveled.
The business community had also helped spread the story to as far as they could reach. Most of it was lead by the world reknowned Rosuto Younen, that even lands from across the great ocean had heard of them, if not heard had dealt with one of their businesses or subsidiaries. That company had taken a great interest in the little legend, and made it grow, as if they had a vested interest in the growth of the popularity of that one unknown.
Somewhere along the borders of Kaze no Kuni there was a group of suna jounin that had claimed to come across a massively desnse forest that stretched on for miles. One member from that group reported to have seen someone that resembled the described legend. From that one sighting, word spread around that there was a hidden country that possibly was where the growing legend had come from. An ambassador from a forgotten world had been sent out and had been at the right place and at the right time to witness the bad side of the rest of the world. After that encounter the lengend then fled back to his home to report that the rest of the world was not worthy of their presence. This little rumor spread like wildfire, until it reached the ears of Jiraiya and his gang, who didn't treat it as a rumor, but as a lead.
That being the reason why Jiraiya and company found themselves on the border of Kaze no Kuni, about to attempt to breach the walls of the border of Rosuto no Kuni, the Land of the Lost.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Kiyomi asked.
"No I don't," Jiraiya answered.
"Then why are we doing it?" Kiyomi asked.
"Because its the only lead I got on Naruto's whereabouts."
"Maybe we should leave Kiyomi in Suna or Konoha, it would be safer wouldn't it?" Mikio asked.
"I suppose it would, after all she is pregant, wouldn't want her to get caught up in one of our adventures would we," Haru said.
"So who's gonna take her to one of those places?" Ikkaku asked.
"I'll summon up Bunta to take her to Konoha."
"Guys! I'm right here you know! I can hear you talking about me!"
"Kiyo-chan, its just not safe for you to come with us on this thing."
"Yes, it is not safe for you, who carries the child of the Ero-sennin to come with us. It would endanger the child and possibly cause a premature birthing."
"Dude, did the Voice say that?" Haru askd Mikio.
"No, it is my own opinion...and Kiyomi-chan, you may have married Ero-sennin, but you are no where at the level of one of us. You would not stand a chance against the things we face every so often."
"Fine, fine. Send me to Konoha already! I can't wait to meet another woman who can bash Jiraiya-kun's balls in and not have to worry about any reprecusions."
"On second thought, let's bring her along, afterall, what could it hurt..." Jiraiya started to say.
"No way Ero-sennin, the safety of my godchild hangs in the balance here! You may be my number one favorite of all time author, but no way am I letting her come with us, even if she weren't preggy!" Ikkaku announced.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Jiraiya shouted as he slammed his palms on the ground.
Out of the big ass hell huge puff of smoke came Gamabunta.
"Jiraiya! Why have you summoned me?" Gamabunta demands an answer.
"I just need you to take Kiyomi-chan to Konoha. We're going back into Rosuto no Kuni..."
"WHAT?! You four are going in there??!" the toad boss shouts while pointing in the direction of Rosuto no Kuni, "ARE YOU ALL MAD?!"
"Why? What's so bad about going in there?" Haru asked.
"From what we experienced the last time we were in there, there was nothing wrong with the place," Mikio said.
"Hey, Toady! I can go in and outta there whenever I wish! What's so bad about going in there now?" Ikkaku shouted.
"That can't be, the stories told of that land are filled with war and strife! Its not the best place to go adventuring."
"That's exactly why we need you to take Kiyomi to Konoha, where we know, where I know she'll be kept safe. With the luck we men have been having, we might get sent back to the time when those stories of yours were born."
"Fine, but if you do shit like this again, I'm terminating the contract, its bad enough that Naruto's name was erased."
"I-it was? How? When?"
"The clan doesn't really know, all I do know is that it's got a different name on it nowadays...can't remember what though."
"Well thanks for the help Bunta," Jiraiya said, then facing Kiyomi, "I promise that we'll see each other again, and that I wont do anything too bad. Okay?"
"Fine. You better find your student this time, or else I'm telling that Hokage of yours that you lost him."
"YOU LOST NARUTO!? NEXT TIME I SEE YOU I AM SOOOOO EATING YOU! WAIT UNTIL THE SLUGS HEAR ABOUT THIS! YOU ARE SOOOOOO DEAD!!!! TSUNADE'S GONNA KILL YOU!"
"Gamabunta-sama, please don't do that," Kiyomi begged.
"Do what? Tell the slugs?"
"Shout so loud. I'm pregnant you know. Four months along too."
"Sorry...I didn't know."
"Can we go now?"
"Perverts of the snout, Kiyomi-chan, hang on!"
With that said the four men leaped off to what would have been their doom if not for their training. Then they watched as Gamabunta leaped away in the direction of Konoha.
"Guess, now we go in...so Ikkaku, you know the way to the wall?" Jiraiya said.
"Sorry, I don't I usually just wander in the forest or jungle thing for days then find myself somewhere inside."
"We could always walk into a cave and hope that we somehow get in?" Haru said.
"Or, you can stand right there and wait for the Kyuubi no Yoko to devour you," someone behind the group said.
"Huh? What kind of advice is that?" Mikio asked.
"Oh, don't bother turning around, but you might want to look up," the person said.
The four men looked up only to find the gaping maw of the Kyuubi no Yoko closing in on them. They were to slow to react to the threat to their lives and ended up being swallowed whole by the monstrous being.
"So...Touken...how far back did you send them?" Kyonshi asked.
"Oh," Touken counted using his claws, "A thousand years or more into the past...I think..."
"Good enough for me," Kyonshi said, then continued mentally, 'Oh yes, karma's a bitch Ero-kun, wait til Naruto hears about the things you've done to his beloved country.'
Jiraiya and company, after being swallowed into the void that they assumed was the kitsune's gut, suddenly found themselves falling from the sky, heading down to the earth at speeds that would frighten most men. Unlike Tama, they did not see their lives flash before their eyes, or some dude in black eating popcorn. But they did see some guy with a hundred eyes try to reach out to them, but get pulled away at the last second. They never actually made it to the earth, instead they landed on the leathery hide of some flying lizard.
"Hey! You guys back there, you alright?" the guy who was apparently controlling the flyng thing shouted to them.
"What are we on?" Jiraiya shouted back, all the while clinging with chakra onto the leather bound surface.
"Transport dragon! We're heading to the province of Tetsu! Where were you guys heading to?" he answered.
"We're looking for someone, so no real destination," Ikkaku said.
"Who you guys looking for, maybe I've heard of him or her."
"Uzumaki Naruto, ring any bells?" Jiraiya asked.
"Uzumaki? Never heard of that clan before. Naruto? Now that's a name I know!"
"Jiraiya, the Naruto he knows I know too, he's the son of Juushu," Ikkaku whispered.
"But there was no mention of Juushu having any family in the book I read," Mikio said.
"You guys talking about Juushu-sama?" the driver asked.
"Yeah! My friend Mikio over here wants to know why a history book made no mention of Rosuto Naruto," Ikkaku said.
"Hey man, you know why! Tell 'im! Military excercises up ahead! Need all the concentration I can get!" he said, "Alright, Akakuroryuu! Let's do this! Just don't drop the cargo this time!"
He received a mighty roar in response.
"Mikio, the reason why the book didn't make mention of him, was because the book, you must have read only gave a brief overview about the country. The Shokon clan doesn't really need any indepth books, they just need the basics to teach their children."
"Oh," Mikio said.
After Mikio said that nobody spoke anything else since their attention was directed to a battle in the skies, between several other dragons and some giant birds. Elemental attacks were flying here and there, this way and that way. It was an amazingly frightening sight.
"Ikkaku..?" Jiraiya said.
"I never thought I'd see something like this."
"What is it?" Haru asked.
"The Voice is not responding, spill it Ikkaku," Mikio said.
"I'm sure you guys can tell that those flying lizards are dragons, those giant birds are called rocs."
"Okay, but what do you mean by you never thought that you'd see something like that?" Haur asked.
"Only one clan is permitted to command black dragons, aside from the Juushu clan, and that is the Kuraku clan, and the reason why I am so surprised is that councilman Kuraku Yuji is out there as well."
"Councilman Kuraku Yuji? Who's that?" Haru asked.
"He's one of the Nine Immortal Generals. He really is immortal, he's one of the guys that fought under Juushu-sama close to a thousand years ago."
"Seriously?"
"Yes Haru, seriously. Before you even think of marrying Megumi-chan, you'll have to ask permission first from councilman Shokon Yahiko. Megumi-chan may be clan head, but Yahiko-sama is still the boss."
"You know what, Ikkaku you seem like an encyclopedia when it comes to this country. Anything else you can tell us?" Mikio said.
"Nothing that I can think of at the moment."
No more questions could be asked due to the dragon they were riding on had entered the battlezone. The four men had to cling onto the back of the dragon with all their might lest they be blown off by the gale force winds that were trying to blow them away. The dives and other movements by the dragon they were on was not helping them at all, nor were the flashing lights, arrows, sounds of clashing steel, and most importantly the bolt of lightning that seemingly incinerated them one by one.
"Hehe, Oji-sama! They're all gone now!" the driver shouted.
"Good work Genji!," Yuji said, "The lot of you, jobs done! You can all go home now!"
"Sir! We'd like to keep on til one side actually loses!" one of the captains shouted.
"Carry on then, Genji, I'll fly alongside you on your delivery, I haven't seen Yoshiko-chan in a long time."
After being hit with a blast of electricity which should have killed them, the four men found themselves in a place that they did not know, not even Ikkaku who had travelled all over Rosuto no Kuni knew where they were. There was a city nearby, so they decided that their best course of action was to go there.
Once in the city, the group of four decided to split up to find out exactly where they were.
Jiraiya had been the first one to notice that there was something definitely wrong with the city. For one thing a group of soldiers had picked a fight with him thinking him just some other old person due to his white hair, and his hunched posture at the time. He had definitely showed them who was at the top of the food chain right then and there. So they enlisted him into the army. They did this due to his ferocity and power, even though he looked old, he could sure pack a punch. But before he could be fully inducted in the army, he was brought to the castle, and then to the dungeon, and told that he had to survive in the dungeon with all those criminals for three whole days. He had to kill as many as he could, since they had no way to get rid of so many pests. So that was exactly what Jiraiya did for three days, he killed as many pests as he could find, lizards, rats, roaches, all manner of pest. On the third day, after finding out that Jiraiya had not killed a single person brought him before the daimyou.
Mikio had wandered off and eventually found himself in the same predicament as Jiraiya, but his imprisonment was for a different reason, the soldiers thought that he was a crazy person. So they decided to keep him in the dungeon, where they could just get him if ever they were to be attacked. Unfortunately, while among those prisoners, Mikio did nothing but wait for the others to arrive. He had already seen Jiraiya, but he had yet to see Ikkaku or Haru.
Ikkaku had left the city after he figured out when and where they were. They had managed to land themselves more than a thousand years into the past of Rosuto no Kuni, specifically they had landed in Tetsu, when it was still an independent country, and not a province. Ikkaku after learning this, left the city in order to find some way to leave the country to one of the more pleasant places, like Sakura no Kuni. He needed to find the group some horses. He believed that after all the adventures that the group had gone through, they would be able to fend for themselves and not get into much life threatening trouble.
How wrong Ikkaku was. At the moment that Ikkaku had managed to acquire some horses from the local black market merchant, Haru had found himself infront of the country's ruler, about to be ripped to shreds, and eaten somewhat alive. Jiraiya and Mikio had been brought in and presented as weaklings or as too insane to be kept alive, and would be served as the main course and desert.
Haru was actually smiling as he was lying on the plate, while the ruler sharpened his knives. He thought that it would be unlikely that he would really be harmed in the situation that he was in, since all other previous situations had proved that the worst that could happen to him was that he would be sent to somewhere not on the map.
Jiraiya upon being informed of his purpose in life, immediately panicked, and started to attack everythng and anything in sight. Mikio doing the same, in order to keep up appearances that he was insane. All the while Haru just kept on smiling.
"Haru this would be the best time that you grab us and run out of here!" Mikio said as he passed by his friend while trying to take out the daimyou.
"Ok!" Haru said as he jumped up ran to his two friends, grabbed them by their shirts, then ran outta there all the while saying, "Beep beep" over and over again.
They met up with Ikkaku who told them to get on the horses and follow him.
"Where the hell were you?!" Jiraiya shouted.
"I was getting us a way outta here, why?" Ikkaku asked.
"We were about to become dinner, if the guards hadn't told us why we were going to see the daimyou!" Mikio shouted at his friend.
"Err, I thought that you guys could handle yourselves," Ikkaku said.
"So, where are we?" Haru asked as if someone did not just try to eat him.
"Tetsu no Kuni, more than a thousand years into the past."
"Next time some unknown tell us that he's going to do something to us, I'm running, thats that," Jiraiya said.
"The Voice is out of the coverage area, so how are we getting out of this mess this time?" Mikio asked the group.
"Haven't a clue," Haru said.
So the four men having nothing better to do in Tetsu rode off into the sunset. As darkness covered the land, the four men suddenly found themselves floating in a great abyss, that was when they realized that they weren't in Elemental anymore.
"We're not in Elemental anymore," Haru said stating the obvious.
"We know," the three other men said.
"Whoa! That was faaaaaast! I didn't think I'd get to see you were for a while yet!" said a voice in the darkness.
"Show yourself! Whoever you are! I have fists and I don't know how to use them!" Haru shouted.
"Haru...I think you meant to say 'and I know how to use 'em', didn't you," Mikio said.
"Yeah! What Miki said!" Haru said.
"So...let me get this straight...you don't know where you are, and yet you will threaten the one that knows where in all of creation you are, did I get that right?" the voice asked.
"Come out and fight like a man, you thingy!" Haru shouted to the darkness.
"Very mature of you Haru, what would Megumi think," Jiraiya said.
"You know...your voice sounds familiar....I know I've heard it somewhere...." Ikkaku said thinking out loud.
"I-it does...? Alright forget about this! Have fun in Sakura! Bye!" the voice said hurridly as he made the darkness swallow up the four men, and spit them out in the outskirts of the the capital of Sakura no Kuni.
Once the men were able to get their bearings back, they found themselves just outside of Sakura no Kuni. The place was amazingly amazingly beautiful. There were sakura trees everywhere. Deciding that it would not be okay for them to split up, the group stuck together, hopefully no one would bother a group of four men traveling together.
Just like most of the things that happen to the group, they once again found themselves in a situation that did not seem to favor them at all. They had all been brought into an underground dungeon and were made to share a cell with two of the most unlikely persons that Jiraiya had ever thought of seeing in a place like the one that they were in. Jiraiya and company's cellmates were none other than Orochimaru and Mizuki.
"Oi! Teme! How'd you get in here?" Jiraiya asked his former friend.
"..."
"What too embarassed to answer?"
"..."
"Ero-sennin...I don't think that that is the Orochimaru you know," Ikkaku said.
"What makes you say that?" Jiraiya asked.
"Well, we are currently in Sakura no Kuni, or nearly a thousand years into the past as we know it, that teme as you called him, could in all actuality be the ancestor of the teme that you know."
"Seriously? So does that mean that if I kill him, there wont be an Orochimaru in our time?"
"No."
"Waddaya mean 'no'? Won't killing the ancestor kill the entire line?"
"Normally it would, but we are in the past of Rosuto no Kuni, a number of unexplainable occurences have happened in the history of the country, one of them is finding Musha Toru in the closet of Noufu Kira which in itself in a crazy thing."
"So, when Megumi-chan said that people appearing in closets for no reason has more or less happened before, it was true?" Haru asked.
"Yep, weirder things have happened in Rosuto no Kuni, than even Juushu-sama can explain."
"So....what now?" Jiraiya asked.
"We wait, someone is bound to come get one of us sooner or later," Ikkaku said.
"So what happens when one of us is taken?" Mikio asked.
"Well they'll open the cell right, so when they do that we rush 'em and get outta here," Haru said enthusiastically.
"I could always summon up one of the Gama clan.." Jiraiya suggested.
"Don't do that! Something like that is unheard of in this time, summoning up one of the Gama clan would probably get you a toad you are unfamiliar with, or possibly a Gamabunta that is an egg or something," Ikkaku said.
Before long someone did go to their cell only not to get them but to get the Orochimaru and Mizuki look-a-likes. Leaving the four men as the only ones in the cell. A little while later, the four men heard an explosion that shook the whole underground prison, soon after a black clad person, who resembled a shinobi pulled off the bars of the cell door from its hinges and pulled brought the men out after saying telling them that they were safe and that everything was going to be alright.
Jiraiya thinking that it was some sort of scam to get them to go with the person, who in his mind would later betray them and try to do something to them, almost attacked their rescuer, that is he was stopped by Ikkaku who jumped at the chance to escape. The four men followed their savior to a hole in the ceiling, where they were carried out of the place. Once out of the hole, Jiraiya did what he had intended to do, not knowing who these people were Jiraiya struck, causing himself and his four companions to be submerged in trouble. They were easily thrown away by one of the black clad rescuers who muttered that it was probably just the shock of someone actually caring. Something then grabbed the four dazed men, and then they could feel the wind rushing by. But instead of following the rest of the escapees the ones that had grabbed the four led them somewhere else, which was straight to the battlefield.
"If you can fight us, you can fight those things..," the person was referring to the soldiers of Sakura no Kuni.
The person then promtly dropped the four men just by the battle.
"Find your own ways home," the person said before leaving them, "You are not needed here."
The person then left the four men on the ground with nothing to do, then to fight , which they did. If fighting would be the way to go, then fighting they would do. If fighting were the only way that the four men would be able to get back to their time, then that would be what they would do. So they began gathering their chakra.
One of the people that they were attacking the Sakura forces noticed what the four men were planning on doing, then instead of rushing the Sakura troops he rushed the four men, quickly engaging them in an all out taijutsu battle.
Daybreak was soon uproaching them, faster than the four men could react the figure attacking them appered behind them and knocked them temporarily out.
"Zombie-sensei, get them out of here, this is no place for people that should not even be here. I have an operation to run," the Naruto clone said.
Hearing him, the ground swallowed up the four men, in the dirt, a smiley face appeared.
'That better be the last time I see them for a while' the clone thought before poofing out of existence.
The four men were spat out in four different places entirely. Jiraiya found himself in what would be later be Sakana no Kuni. Mikio found himself in what would later be Tenshi no Kuni. Haru found himself in what would later be known as Komugi no Kuni, while Ikkaku found himself in the Shokon compound a few weeks before Jiraiya and his two sodekicks would find themselves in Megumi's closet.
After regaining consciousness Jiraiya found himself in a futon in someone's house. He then got out of where he was resting only to find a Kiyomi look-a-like staring at him carrying a tray of food. She looked to be about to enter the room he had been staying in.
"Uhm...if you don't mind my asking, where am I?" Jiraiya asked.
"In my village, it doesn't have a name, but we are called the people who live by the lake," she answered.
"Oh...uhm...I'm Jiraiya by the way, and uhm...yeah...so..."
"We found you in the water."
"In the water?"
"Yes, do you not remember?"
"No, I don't."
"When some of us brought you out of the water you said that you had to find someone."
"Ahh, yes, I do, my student, he's a young man with blonde hair and blue eyes, with three birthmarks on his face."
"I'm sorry but we've met no one that looks like that, actually you are the first man that we have seen in a while."
"Really? Why's that?"
"Well, my village is mostly made up of women, we rarely ever get a male guest, for some reason, most men think that we do not like men, and that we only use them to for the survival of the village."
"So, are you saying that people think that you girls kill men?"
"Yes, we find it odd, but most men that do come to stay with us die eventually."
"Oh...uhm...so what do I have to do not to die?" Jiraiya asked.
"Nothing, we really do not mean you any harm."
"Since I told you my name, could you tell me yours?"
"I am known as Kiyomi, nice to meet you Jiraiya-kun."
"N-n-nice to m-meet you too..."
"Why did you stutter?"
"Eheh...because you look like someone I know, you even have the same name as her..."
"Oh, then she must be very pretty."
"Yep."
"Could you perhaps tell me how you managed to come from the water, we watch it's surface making sure that no one enters it."
"Why can't anyone enter it?"
"Because the spirits live in the water, you are a spirit so you should know."
"Ahh...if you say so...so is there anything you need from me?"
"How come even though we drink the water from the lake and eat the food of the earth, all of our children are girls?"
"Oh, that's an easy one, hehe, it is said that fish or anything from the water holds the spirit of men, and usually fish are the strongest. These creatures are the ones that you should eat to increase your numbers."
"Really?"
"Well, that's just what I've heard."
"Can you help me bring the first male into the village?"
"Uhm...no...I can't really...you see I need to go back home or else bad things will happen.."
"Oh...I didn't know...I'll lead you to the water's edge then."
"Hehe...sorry that I couldn't be of much help, but I really can't interfere too much."
Kiyomi led Jiraiya to the water's edge. Once there the rest of the women of the village had gathered not far from them.
"Hehe, from here I came, right?" he asked the Kiyomi of the past.
"Hai."
"Then I guess, here I shall return," he said before he dove under water. Little did he know that in his pocket was some sex enhancement pills, and the like that he had forgotten to take out or keep in a better hiding place, also a small flask containing the oil of Myobokuzan that he carried around with him had a small leak. These two things when they mixed with the water created two things, the first being that the effects of the marine life on human reproductivity was enhanced, and the oil mixed with the water produced a sort of all pancea to all health related issues.
While diving beneath the surface, Jiraiya found that he didn't need to come up for air, it seemed as if the water was slowly turning into air, that was when it hit him, he was fading out of that time through the mixture of the air and of the water. He was actully going home, but what was the reason for his going to that place, he didn't know.
While Jiraiya had just escaped what should have been paradise to him, Mikio was walking all alone in a barren wasteland. There appeared to be no form of civilization around him. There was absolutely nothing but sand, sand and more sand, even more sand than that time that Inari's kitsune chased after him and his friends.
There was just too much damnable sand, Mikio was getting frustrated at having to walk around in circles, but after his five hundred and fiftieth circuit Mikio encountered two things that he thought he would never encounter. One had white wings and looked heavenly, while the other resembled a Tengu with his black wings but with human features. They appeared to be arguing.
"This land should be populated by heavenly beings!" the white winged female said.
"No! It should be filled with monsters! There aren't enough of those in this world!" the black winged male argued.
"Too much beauty can be monstrous too you know."
"You're only saying that just so that I'll back down, well I wont, and anyway monsters in a frenzy can be considered as art, and art is beautiful."
That was the way their argument went, on and on back and forth, until...
"Let's let that wandering thing decide," the female said.
"Fine by me," the male said, "Hey! You! Thing! Decide for us, beauty or monstrosity?"
"Why don't you just make something that is equally beautiful and monstrous at the same time," Mikio answered.
"Beauty as a disguise to hide the monster within?" the female thought out loud.
"An angelic face, but a demon on the battlefield?" the male thought too out loud.
"I like it! Let's do it! You can go away now, thing!" the male and female said at the same time.
After being dismissed, Mikio found that he no longer had the strength to stand and collapsed into the sand, which then swallowed him up, the next thing he saw was complete and utter dakrness.
While Jiraiya and Mikio were having their creation of life episodes, Ikkaku was blissfully being hounded by most of the Shokon and Giman clans for peeping and groping the head of the Shokon clan.
'Jiraiya is missing out on a lot!!!' thought the Sennin to himself.
While he was running away from the angry mob, Ikkaku failed to notice that he had accidentally run into someone that could kill him with just a thought.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here," the person said.
"Uhm....sir, uh....can you get me back to my friends? Please?" Ikkaku begged as if his life depended on it, which it did.
"Sure why no, I'll let sensei's daughter beat the living and the dead out of you," and with but a thought Ikkaku blinked and found himself in the company of Jiraiya and Mikio.
The two men claimed that they had yet to see hide nor hair of Haru.
While the other men decided to just sit still and wait for their wayward companion, Ikkaku decided that he would try out that spell that he had been praticing, some months ago he had promised someone that he would find a way to bring that someone back to the planet on which he stood.
So he chanted a long string of words, read a few made up sutras, danced his more embarassing than Jiraiya's introductory dance dance, then slammed his palms on the ground.
The two men had wandered over curious as to what foolishness the Honored Sage had been up to. What they found was Ikkaku holding a woman in his arms.
"Hehe...eh...guys meet Chang'e-chan, Chang-chan meet the guys I told you about."
"So...when's the wedding?" Mikio asked.
"We're already married in the eyes of the Kami," Chang'e said.
"Oh....so...we just wait for Haru?" Mikio asked.
"Pretty much," Ikkaku said.
"You know, for some reason I was expecting something more spectacular to happen," Jiraiya voiced his thoughts.
"Me too," Mikio agreed.
The three men then promptly sat down and waited for Haru to miraculously appear.
Haru, after being swallowed up by the earth was spat out somewhere in Komugi no Kuni. He stood on a dam, which held back a lake somekind of mud like looking substance, personally Haru didn't want to taste it and find out what it was.
As he stood on the dam overlooking the wheat field, and idea struck him, he wheat field lack color. There was no omph when looking at it. It was boring.
So Haru gathered his chakra into his fist and punched the dam. Instantly the effect of the punch could be seen, large cracks in the dam appeared, a few seconds later the dam burst.
"And poof! It became Koko Krunch!" Haru shouted before he was sucked under the rushing chocolate mud flow.
And just like that he popped out of a hole in the ground infront of his companions, plus one woman, with a box of cereal in one hand, and a milk carton in the other.
"Koko Krunch anyone?" Haru asked.
"I don't want to know," Jiraiya and Mikio said at the same time.
I know it was short, but it's a Jiraiya chapter, length doesn't matter...I was planning on making Naruto do what Haru did, oh well...