"Hokage-sama, the funeral is starting soon." Sarutobi just let out a sigh. After a week of repairs and finding bodies, it was finally time.
"Right then, lets go." He picked up his hat from the desk and walked to the door.
"Hey Naruto, we leave after this right?" Said blonde just nodded. "Right, gotta pack then." Maiku went upstairs to his room and began packing clothes, weapons, scrolls, and some more weapons in a bag before sealing it in a scroll.
Naruto downstairs was eating. He was being unusually quiet this morning. 'We lost a lot of people.'
"There was nothing more you could have done kit. Don't blame yourself." Kyuubi said. Naruto though didn't respond, just thinking over what Kyuubi said. True he did all he could. Nobody else could have fought off Gaara. Still he can't help but feel down. "Stop beating yourself up over this."
'Aw you do care.' Naruto chuckled.
"Say that to anyone and I swear I'll kill you." The fox growled.
'Whatever you say fur ball.'"Yo aniki lets go!" Naruto shouted up the stairs.
"Ok I'm ready." Maiku put the scroll on his belt.
The funeral was the same as any other. Crying, eulogies and all that. Maiku and Naruto stood off to the side with Jiraiya watching. "Ready brats?"
"Yeah lets go." Naruto said. He turned and walked away followed by Maiku.
"So do we have any idea where this woman is?" Maiku asked.
"I have absolutely no clue." Jiraiya said in all seriousness.
"Some fucking help you'll be." Maiku cursed
"What sort of training will you be giving us?" Naruto asked.
"What makes you think I'll train you two?" Jiraiya's eyes widened when Naruto waved a bunch of papers in front of him. "Hey, thats my research!"
"Yeah, and I can make it disappear." A small flame sparked at the tip of Naruto's index finger.
Jiraiya sighed in defeat. "Alright then I'll train you."
"Kid, its time you learned something important." Bogu said.
'Important? How important?' Maiku asked, somewhat annoyed.
"Later when we stop for the night. You have more important things to worry about...like that tree."
'What tree?' Bogu hadn't been lying. Not a second after Maiku asked he walked right into a tree. "Damn it!"
"Pay attention kid. God how you ever make chunin is beyond me." Naruto failed to contain his laughter and fell over holding his sides.
"Shut up!" Maiku yelled.
"Nice comeback kid." Maiku could tell Bogu had been laughing.
'Shut the fuck up.' And with that he cut the mental link, not wanting to talk with Bogu for awhile. "So what exactly are we going to do?"
"Well first thing to do is head to a casino and asked if they've seen her." Jiraiya ignored the curses coming from the other two. "Lets pick up the pace, I want to make it to town before nightfall."
'Well, what do you got to tell me?' Maiku asked his demon.
"Its time for you to forge one of the greatest swords. Mine." This statement came as news t Maiku. In all the records he went over none of them mentioned the lightning demon wielding a sword.
'What the hell are you talking about? What sword?' Maiku paced around his room.
"The Sword of Horrors. A demonic blade of great power. It will be yours to command. The process is really simple. You use the same ritual for this like you would you sword." Bogu lectured.
'I guess I just have to use your chakra instead of mine and let the seals do the rest.' Maiku let out a sigh before going to sleep.
"Alright kid, I'm gonna teach you something." Jiraiya dragged Naruto outside the next morning.
"Is this before or after you take my money?" Naruto asked, thus earning him a hit to his head.
"Shut up! Anyway I'll demonstrate." Jiraiya held up his palm and chakra started to form into a sphere. He slammed it into the trunk. Naruto just observed as it dug into the tree.
"Awesome!" Naruto yelled "Whats do I gotta do!?" He asked.
Jiraiya was about to answer when a window slid open. "Hey, shut up Naruto! I'm trying to sleep!"
"Sorry!" The blonde yelled back.
"What did I say about yelling?!" Maiku shouted.
"Now you're doing it!" Naruto responded.
"Don't make me come out there and kick your ass!" Maiku closed the window.
"Ok now that thats over lets get on with it shall we?" Jiraiya handed Naruto a water balloon. "Ok first step is to pop that balloon." Jiraiya sweatdropped. "Not with a kunai, just your chakra!" Jiraiya yelled but was immediately silenced when a table hit him in the head. It looked like a table from his room.
"What did I say about yelling!" Maiku stuck his head out the window, anger visible on his face.
'Note to self, no pranks on aniki in the morning, ever.' Naruto thought.
"Even I wouldn't do that. He definitely is not a morning person." Kyuubi said.
"Alright might as well get started." Naruto put his hands into a seal. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Fifty clones appeared. "Ok I'm gonna pass out as many balloons to as many of you as I can. You." He pointed to a random clone. "Go into town and get more balloons."
"How many more?" It asked.
Naruto thought for a moment. He wouldn't need that many seeing as he just needed to pop one. Thats all there was to it. But if training with Maiku did anything it taught him to always do it several times. So he wasn't going to stop with popping one balloon. "A lot more. Now lets get to work."
An hour went by and Naruto made little progress. "Hm, what am I doing wrong?" He said out loud.
"Multiple directions." Maiku said. He had finally woken up and came to watch Naruto training. "I can tell all the water in the balloon is going in the same direction."
"I think I got it. Only one way to be sure." Naruto held up his hand again and began focusing his chakra into the balloon. Instead of controlled he let it move about randomly for a bit before rotating it. The clones were trying this to and in two minutes several bursts and a chorus of yells were heard. "Alright, grab another balloon and keep doing it."
Jiraiya returned to the inn and walked to the side of the building to see the two boys sparring and broken balloons littered the ground. "I assume you managed to do it correctly?"
"That and several more time after. So whats next?" Jiraiya held up a bag of rubber balls.
"Something but this time you have to focus on putting a lot more power into it." Jiraiya set the bag down and walked away. "Maikeru your with me."
"Later Naruto." Maiku jogged to catch up with the sanin. "So what are we going to do?"
"I'm going to teach you a lightning jutsu. The good thing about this is that it doesn't need seals like the Rasengan Naruto is learning. This jutsu is called Erekutorikku Touza.(Electric Current)" Jiraiya placed his palms together and pulled them apart. A bridge of electricity formed between his hands.
"Got it." Maiku immediately set to work. He pushed chakra into his hands and pulled them apart. The only result was a large spark that knocked him backwards. "Wow, now that was a shocking experience. Is somebody cooking?" Maiku don't notice the smoke rolling off his arms.
He got up and tried again and again only to meet similar results. "Thirsty?" Maiku looked up to see Naruto standing over him.
"At this point I'm somewhat afraid to touch water." Maiku sat up. "So how's it going with you?"
"I can't seem to put enough strength into it. I usually end up with to little." Naruto said.
"Sorry, can't help you there. I got problems of my own right now. I can't get the bridge to form. I end up with just a spark and end up looking like this." Naruto noticed the dirt and singe marks cover Maiku from his failed attempts.
"Well keep at it." Naruto went and resumed his own training.
"Hey guys I got us a lead!" Jiraiya yelled as he ran behind the inn, again coming on the scene of a spar. He noticed the ground was similar, instead of balloons it was rubber balls, and this time scorched earth. "You done training?"
"Yeah, can we get dinner now? We haven't eaten since breakfast." Naruto rubbed his stomach, which was growling.
"I don't see why not." Ten minutes later found the three sitting at a ramen stand. "Kid, you're learning that jutsu in record time."
"Well I got my clones helping me. If I didn't use them it would be taking me a lot longer." Naruto said finishing his fifth bowl.
"Maikeru, I'll show you the second step for the Erekutorikku Touza when we get to the next town." Jiraiya put money on the counter. "This handles for everything we've eaten so far. After this you pay for it on your own."
"Fuck that then. I know how much Naruto eats." Maiku laughed and so did the blonde as he choked down the last of his ramen. "Might as well turn in seeing as we leave early tomorrow."
"Yo Jiraiya can we stop here for a bit to eat seeing as we haven't found an inn yet." Naruto complained.
"If it will shut you up, fine." The white haired man sighed. They had been traveling for two weeks already. 'Naruto finished the Rasengan yesterday, little bastard beat my record, Maikeru started practicing a weird seal after he mastered that jutsu and holy shit! Just our luck.' "Tsunade!"
"You mean we found her?" Maiku asked shoving Jiraiya out of the way so they can enter the bar.
"I see your training disrespectful brats again." The blonde woman looked at the trio.
"Disrespectful? You haven't seen anything yet hag." Naruto laughed.
"Ok before we go into an epic battle, seeing as I don't want to pay the owner for the damages. God knows what the three of you could do. Lets just sit and talk for a bit." Jiraiya shoved his two students down into the booth.
"Shizune get more saki." Tsunade ordered.
"A lot more." Maiku said. The brunette just blinked. "I can tell I probably want to get wasted before the day is over." Shizune set down seven bottles. "Might as well start now."
"I hear that." Naruto said. The two grabbed their drinks, toasted to something, than drank.
"I think you could have done better for students Jiraiya." Tsunade said before taking a drink of her own.
"I have to disagree. They are two of the most talented I have ever seen. Managed to scare away Orochimaru that bastard." Jiraiya cursed.
"Blackjack!"Maiku cheered.
"You alwayss win at thiss game." Naruto's head fell onto the table.
"Don't complain to *hic me because you suck *hic." Maiku said as he reshuffled the deck. He managed to set them down before his head hit the table as well.
"Anyway we were sent on a mission. Orochimaru attacked Konoha. We recalled all shinobi back to the village-" He was about to say something else when Naruto interrupted him.
"But you had to be a bitch and be difficult making us have to come and find you." Naruto said without slurred speech. The fox working its magic trying to absorb the alcohol.
'This idiot. He should know better than to get drunk outside the village.' Kyuubi thought. 'Shit, now I'm starting to feel it.'
"Tsunade-sama?" Shizune asked, afraid. She was becoming nervous. Naruto was about to get the beating of his life as Tsunade grabbed his collar and tossed him out the front door.
Maiku had picked his head up in time to see this. "Ok, I need another drink."
"Pass one over here." Jiraiya said. He grabbed the bottle and ran outside.
"Now things are becoming interesting. This entire trip has been a total bore." Naruto cracked his knuckles and neck. "Come on, bring it!" The blonde woman jumped out and rushed him. Naruto ducked a punch and hit her with one of his own. Tsunade just took it and did something surprising, she just flicked him on the forehead. He shot backward.
"Give up brat." Tsunade called out.
Naruto stood up and smirked. "Look up." He said before he 'poofed' from existence.
Tsunade's eyes widened and she looked up. "Rasengan!" She stepped backward and avoided the blow. She had to cover her face to block debris and when she removed it Naruto was standing in a large crater. "Stop being difficult. Konoha could use a medic like you."
"I'll never go back to that village. Not after what happened." Tears started ro form in her eyes.
"Let me guess, you lost someone didn't you? And the pain is unbearable that you just had to stay away." Tsunade's rage was building by the second as Naruto blatantly insulted her. "Grow up will you."
"Brat when I get my hands on you I'm gonna kill you." Tsunade was seething.
"Go ahead. You'll just be doing Konoha a favor." Naruto said. "But I don't think aniki would let you get very far." Naruto smirked at Tsunade's confusion. She turned around to see ten spears in the air, all aimed at her. Below them was Maiku.
"I'd have been here sooner if I didn't have that last drink." Maiku smiled.
"No problem, I could have handled myself anyway." Naruto looked towards Tsunade again. "Waste of my time." Naruto just turned and left.
"Must suck huh? Having someone who you barely even know give up on you." Maiku then took off in the direction of Naruto.
Tsunade walked back into the restaurant. "You know, you could prevent people from ending up in the same situation as you. Losing their loved ones and such." Jiraiya said.
"I'll think about it." Tsunade said before leaving again.
'She just said that so I won't bother her. I gotta get the boys together and make a plan.' Jiraiya noticed he was alone, meaning he had to pay the bill now. "Damn them." He spoke a few more curses, paid, then left to find his students.
Done with this one. Next one will be longer, promise.
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