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Jiraiya grabbed Zale, and Kurumi quickly performing a jutsu that changed the field. "You know if you hadn't filled the brat with alcohol he could have been fighting for you." Jiraiya said to Kurumi not taking his eyes off of the duo.
"Shut up I wanted to get laid." Kurumi said angrily as she helped to dispel the Genjutsu the girl was under. "Just fight them while I try, and pump Naruto's stomach."
"It would be much better to just hand him over to us, and not to mention that it would be much easier." Itachi said sticking out his hand as if they would just toss Naruto over to them. "Come now it will make everything much better for everyone."
"Please you brat, such simple Genjutsu on a sage will never work." Jiraiya said keeping his eyes on Itachi's and Kisame's feet watching for any sudden movements. "Let's go!"
"It's my pleasure." Kisame said drawing his sword, and running at the tall white haired man dodging the attacks with somewhat difficulty.
"I got bigger fish to fry than you." Jiraiya said grabbing his arm, and tossing him.
"Don't disregard me so easily old man!" Kisame said sending a fierce kick to the super pervert's stomach, and sending him flying into the wall of the toad's stomach.
Meanwhile as they attacked Itachi turned his head looking over at Kurumi, and Naruto the latter mostly out the former trying to revive him. "Hand him over little girl." Itachi said walking over slowly sure not to meet her eyes less he damage his eyes even further.
'God, why now, we need more time, please anything to buy us more time.' Kurumi thought to herself desperately trying to revive Zale who was her only hope since Jiraiya was too busy with the fish.
Suddenly a large hole was broken into the wall of the toad in bursting a girl disguised as a boy wearing black garments. "ITACHI GET READY TO DIE!" Satsuki Uchiha yelled bursting into the battle field a chirdori charged in her hand charging with a sharp look of anger, and hate in her red eyes. 'I can do it, I know I can. If Naruto can beat Gaara then I can beat Itachi, and I'll finally be over this!'
Itachi remained impassive to the attack sidestepping it, and slamming her into the side of the hall his hand around her neck. "Why hello dear sister." he said easily dispelling her Genjutsu, and holding her high up. "I hope you haven't forgotten the fun we've had." He leaned forward so she could feel his breath on the nape of her neck, and his hand ran up her shirt.
'No, please no, not again, Naruto please help.' Satsuki thought mortified by what was happening begging that it was not happening that it was a terrible nightmare although she had stopped having them quite a while ago. 'Please help me, someone, anyone, anyone.' Tears came to her eyes.
'There." Kurumi thought to herself successful as Zale's eyes cracked open seemingly cleared of any alcohol, and most likely a simple hangover.
Zale looked on in the situation slightly confused now that his body had worked out all of the alcohol from his system. Satsuki Uchiha terrified the hand of her older brother up her shirt as she wiggled, and squirmed trying desperately to get away with tears in her eyes. Jiraiya was in close combat with a blue skinned shark man they seemed to be at odds with Jiraiya slowly overpowering him.
Kurumi stood over him slapping him to seemingly get him awake. "What the hell is going on?" Zale asked sitting up looking around the gaze of Itachi, and Satsuki turning to look at him. "You know from what I can see you're raping her, and I saw my best friend raped once, so I won't let that ever happen again!" Zale waved his arm, and the ground underneath Itachi swallowed him up immediately freeing Satsuki who ran behind Zale. "Get back Uchiha you'll get in my way."
"He's right we're useless here." Kurumi said pulling away and consoling the terrified girl.
"I had heard that you had learned some new tricks Naruto, but that was certainly surprising." Itachi said appearing behind the boy who barely managed to jump away from the kunai swipe. "Of course you must make things difficult, but do not worry I will take care of that girl for you when you die."
"Don't you dare talk about Kurumi, you bastard!" Zale said with a deathly calm voice as his eyes pierced Itachi's own.
"Naruto don't look him in the eyes!" Satsuki yelled seeing his mistake.
It was too late their eyes met, and Zale could only watch as Itachi drew closer, and closer grabbing his shoulder. "Perhaps I'll force you to be my slave on the way there." Itachi said.
'God why; what the hell can I do? I can't manipulate anything in here: I can't use anything; except.' Zale summoned up his will power forcing his shaky mind to manipulate the bracelet around his arm into a knife that he stabbed into Itachi's eyes. "Bastard!" he spat.
"You little brat!" Itachi yelled holding his eye his normally calm face contorted into a look of pure rage. "AMARETSU!" Zale couldn't believe it.
To the normal people this was a jutsu a normal as hell appearance, but there was nothing about this that was normal. This was powerful, amazing Manipulation. Somehow Itachi had gathered fire from the sun itself in this small little area, and was using it against him. He stuck out his arm knowing he couldn't dodge, and he spent his energy simply diverting its path. "You're just as spent as I am; get the hell out of here."
A scowl was set on Itachi's face, but he was right. "Kisame, we are leaving." Itachi said, and the fish man scowled before they both leapt out of the hole Kurumi had made.
"God damn it." Zale said collapsing against the wall which made him sticky. "Hey pervert get rid of this damn jutsu, it's making me sick."
"You know gaki I saved your life you should be more grateful." Jiraiya said dispelling the jutsu.
"Please you bought time Kurumi was more effective than you were." Zale said gesturing to the girl who suddenly leapt into his chest burying her face into his shirt crying her eyes out. He turned to Kurumi with eyes that pleaded to tell him what to do.
'Comfort her.' Kurumi mouthed motioning for him to stroke her hair.
'God dam it I've never done anything like this.' Zale thought to himself awkwardly placing his hand on her head, and running it through her now long hair. "There it's over now, no need to cry."
"Naruto I thought he was going to do it again, I thought he was going to defile me. I couldn't even look him in the eye, because I'm so weak." Satsuki cried hugging him tightly, but he suddenly grabbed her by her shoulders forcing her to look him in the eye.
"Listen to me Satsuki, I had a friend who got raped too; she blamed herself just like you did, and I've seen what that does to a person. I can assure you that whatever he did wasn't you fault, it wasn't because of you, it's because some people are born bad. If you let yourself believe it's your fault then you'll be wrong all your life. You dealt with this for years by yourself without telling anyone, and I know I wouldn't have been able to deal with that." Zale said looking her straight in the eye his look stern, and voice forceful to show that he refused to let her believe he was wrong.
Again she buried her face into his chest, and started crying. "Whoa gaki that's deep." Jiraiya said.
"Of course it is Naruto's got to be." Kurumi said leaning over, and hugging his shoulders.
"See this is why I didn't want to come something bad always happens when you leave home." Zale said staring at Jiraiya who held up his hands. "For your sake Jiraiya, Tsunade better be close by, or else there will be hell to pay, and I'm going to put a down payment down in your name."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah gaki, but get some sleep we've got a walk for us in the morning. If you feel like it Uchiha go ahead, and stay with the brat, and his girl. I'm going to go see if that girl from earlier wants to talk about the person that saved her." Jiraiya said walking off waving his back to them so they couldn't see the tear in his eye. 'Minato if you could see your son now, you would be so proud of him.'
"I got to go to bed." Zale said standing up leaving Satsuki with Kurumi in the hall.
"Um so if you don't mind me asking Kurumi, how did you, and Naruto meet?" Satsuki asked.
"Oh we've known each other for a long time, but those stories are from another time, come on let's get to bed." Kurumi said smiling at the girl, and helping her inside the room, and into bed.
The next Morning
"Get up gakis!" Jiraiya yelled bursting into the room slamming two trash can lids together causing all of them to jerk awake.
"You ass hole!" Zale yelled out holding his ears peeved at the sage. "What the hell do you think you're doing waking someone up like that?"
"I was thinking that you needed some motivation gakis, now let's get going. If Tsunade is where I think she is then she won't be staying around for long." Jiraiya said simply slamming one hand into another. "Come on we have to move fast besides I heard the really pretty girls like to get their public baths in early, so we got to get going."
"Isn't this a waste of your talents Jiraiya-sama?" Satsuki asked.
"Don't call this pervert sama he deserves no honorific, he became a sage on a fluke." Zale said shaking his head at Satsuki who nodded at him.
"Why are you listening to him, and not me?" Jiraiya asked.
"Well because he saved me, and you fought a fish." Satsuki said a light blush on her face.
"Oh well then I just lost my sense of pride." Jiraiya said. "Are you sure that you don't want to put up your Genjutsu before we leave Satsuki?"
"No I only put it up in Konoha, so no one would force me into being a baby factory, so I should be fine out here." Satsuki said running a hand through her now long silky black hair tied up in a bun. She wore a black skirt; shinobi sandals, a white t-shirt with a splotch of blue, and a hair pin on the left side.
"I love your sense of style Satsuki; you have to take me shopping one of these days." Kurumi said.
"Oh I could never do anything to improve what you do Kurumi, besides I was actually hoping for some dieting tips from you." Satsuki said kindly.
'Well I guess that it's nice that now Kurumi has someone to talk to about girl stuff now, after all if I had listened to one more time about how cute that top in the window we saw ages ago is then I was going to blow my brains out.' Zale thought to himself his hands behind his head, and dark circles under his eyes. "Jiraiya where are we going this time?"
"A little place called Tanzaku town, my informants have told me that she was last spotted there." Jiraiya said handing the girls a pamphlet.
"Oh I went there when I was a little kid mom took us for vacation, it's really famous for the castle walls." Satsuki said.
'I think that I remember tearing down those castle walls a few hundred years ago.' Kurumi thought to herself putting a finger to her chin. "How long will it take us to get there?"
"Not long if it were just us ninja, but with you we should make it in about a few days." Jiraiya said.
"Not happening, I'll carry her." Zale said grabbing Kurumi, and tossing her over his shoulder.
"Ah! Naruto stop it this isn't funny!" Kurumi squealed, but despite her claims she squealed in laughter pounding his back screaming.
"Which way?" Zale asked Jiraiya who pointed in the general direction of the town which he followed immediately the others leaping after him. "At this pace by when should we get there?"
"In about two hours." Satsuki said remembering the trips with her mother. "It's actually a really fun town, they always have something going on, and they're a big tourist attraction because of the historical sites, so we won't be bored."
"I bet Kurumi will be." Zale said lightly chuckling to himself since Kurumi actually had lived through said historical eras. This earned him a sharp crack on the back.
Two hours later
"Finally we're in town; I never wanted a hotel more." Kurumi said cracking her joints.
"What are you complaining about? You never even walked on your own." Jiraiya said.
"Yeah well when someone loves you they'll do anything to make you comfortable, but you don't know anything about that do you?" Kurumi asked earning herself a sharp rap on the head. "Ow, ow, ow, Zale he hit me!"
"Want to earn yourself a broken arm?" Zale asked Jiraiya who backed off.
They walked around for half an hour before they heard something blew up, and they saw people running. "Hey, what the hell is going on? Jiraiya asked grabbing a man.
"It's a monster buddy you got to run!" he said before running off.
"Stay here." Zale told the two girls before he ran off with Jiraiya.
They discovered a large crater, and no monster. "Oh I only know two people that can do this kind of damage, and this amount means both of them." Jiraiya said bending down and picking up a chunk of blonde hair from the rubble. "We're not too far behind, we got to find Tsunade."
For the rest of the day they searched, but came up with nothing. "I really hate you old man." Zale said slamming his head down on the table of the restaurant they were sitting at.
"Hey I'm paying for dinner." Jiraiya said.
"With the money you took from me in the last town." Zale said angrily slamming his fist on the table, but relenting when the smell of the food hit his nose. "This place really does smell nice."
"Best food in town." Jiraiya said nodding his head as their food was placed in front of them. 'There's also a chance that a busty blonde will show up here, not that he needs to know that.' "Hey Tsunade is that you over there, and whose that Raven haired vixen with you, you hag?"
"Jiraiya you're going to eat those words!" Tsunade yelled angrily slamming her heel into his chin.
'I'm an orange haired vixen.' Kurumi thought to herself.
"I can't believe that the sages act like such children." Satsuki said shaking her head as the black haired girl names Shizune slid into their booth as the two fought.
When things calmed down they sat down around the table eating the food. "So Jiraiya where did you find this guy, I swear they're getting younger." Tsunade said leering at Zale who leered right back at her. "Ha a brat like you wouldn't last a second in the ninja world."
'You bitch I probably killed more people that you have.' Zale thought to himself. "Shut up grandma, I doubt you could do much to me."
"Oh yeah you idiot, I bet that you couldn't even perform a simple jutsu!" Tsunade said.
"Bet I could!" Zale said thinking of ways he could fake it.
"Fine then I win, and you quit being a shinobi!" Tsunade yelled at him.
"Name the jutsu, and if I win then you got to um." Zale thought what could he make her do.
"You have to wear whatever Jiraiya wants for a week." Kurumi suggested, and she and Kurumi immediately erupted in giggles thinking about what the perverted man would do, the pervert himself steaming already,
"Deal, you got to learn the rasengan!" Tsunade said.
"Name the time."
"You have to learn it by the end of the month!"
"Give me the jutsu!" Zale said sticking his hand out to Jiraiya who was hesitant. "Come on."
"Gaki you sure you want to do this?" Jiraiya asked.
"Hand it over." Zale said his glare never withering as he stared down the physically strongest sage. He stuck out his hand, but right when he was about to shake her hand Tsunade suddenly grabbed him looking over his hand.
"How the hell?" Tsunade asked looking over his hand which he just noticed was a little pale, but other than that didn't seem too bad. "How the hell are you still standing?"
"What are you talking about?" Zale asked trying to pull away his hand the one that had diverted the black manipulated fire.
"This hand is incredibly damaged; the fact that you're still able to use it is amazing." Tsunade said taking a firm hold on his hand. "Shizune get me some bandages." In the end his hand ended up bandaged. "Now no jutsu or hand signs for the next few weeks, in fact I'd like to get you to a hospital, and strip away some of that damaged flesh."
"Don't worry about it just get ready for Jiraiya to pick out your outfits. Where did he go anyway?" Zale asked looking at the spot the perverted hermit previously occupied. "Whatever I'm going to go find him, and make him give me that jutsu, can you two get to the room okay?" Zale looked at Kurumi, and Satsuki who nodded. "Kay I'm going to head out."
"So lady Tsunade what are you going to do about the preposition Jiraiya gave?" Shizune asked referring to the Hokage position.
"Oh who cares about that I'm just glad that I'm going to get a kid off the path of becoming a monster especially that one." Tsunade said after the girls had left. 'Shizune, I wish that I could ask you what to do, but this is such a terrible thing, how can I decide what to do?'
Zale walked around the town the instructions for the rasengan in his hand a bag in the other. He came upon a boy who sat down on the side of the street gambling with random passer byes. The boy was scamming everyone out of their money, and no one at all could figure out how. It was a simple game spin three coins you could provide them if you wished, or you could use his.
Then you'd bet on the majority one, and they lost. 'That movement's unnatural.' Zale thought to himself watching as the boy concentrated too hard on the coins a vein in his head bulging. "Hey kid, what's your name?" he asked crouching down to look the sitting boy in the eye.
"Chrome, what of it?" he asked him staring at him. "Look play a game, or move along."
"Tell me do you know what chrome is?" Zale asked cocking his head knowing that chrome was actually an artificially made material, and shouldn't be found in this time.
"What's it matter, pay, or move along." he repeated.
"Sure put me down for a game." Zale said taking a ten thousand ryo note, and putting it down. "What's the exchange rate?"
"Double what you put down, you want to put your coins down or mine?" Chrome asked.
"I'll use mine." Zale said narrowing his eyes taking out three coins one held between each of his fingers. "I always found games like this interesting you think the guy is cheating, but you just can't prove it." He tossed the coins up, and caught them before throwing them onto the board where everyone watched them spin. Zen once again watched as the boy focused on the coins, but he casually flicked his pupils, and the coins bounced away toward heads.
"No way." Chrome said looking up at him his black hair hanging in his face as he looked up at Zale who had somehow easily overpowered his ability that he had trained for years now. "Who are you?"
"I'm a guy that could take that ability of yours to the next level." Zale said looking him straight in the eye.
"Piss off guy, what the hell can you do?" Chrome asked, and Zale laughed at him.
"How's about a spar, if you think I can't teach you anything then I'll give you some money to get out of town, but if you decide that I can teach you something than I'll teach you." Zale said tossing several coins in the air which immediately turned into razor sharp needles that he tossed at Chrome.
Chrome managed to somehow flatten the ends, and they bounced off of him useless. "Ha that's so lame; I could do that since I was like five." Chrome said waving his arm a few pieces of metal launching themselves at Zale who easily deflected them. Just as Chrome was about to run forward his legs were entangled in some fast growing roots, and he fell face first. "How did you do that?"
"An old trick, can't teach you right now though, but I'm staying in that casino place downtown." Zale said walking off leaving Chrome to scowl in his direction. 'That kid has a lot of potential, and I'm sure as hell not going to leave him here where he might end up fighting against me.'
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