Hello there! Sorry guys, term papers are due soon, so much of my time will taken up. I'm hoping this chapter will tide you guys over until I return.
Important Note: I do not own Naruto.
Important Note II: (Something clever and random)
Recap:
Jiraiya took Naruto's clothes. (Shortest recap ever)
Lol, butterfly! }:{
One by one, stars lit the fragile sky as dusk slowly began to turn into twilight. A feral crescent tore the heavens apart as it rose out from the west, leaving an ink of darkness following in its wake. A lone freckled girl shivered from her bench, as her indigo eyes followed the blackness that was beginning to set in on the sky's palette.
"Well I suppose sitting here won't help me find Naruto so I-"
"Hokuto-san!!"
"Ahh! Oh it's just you Lee-san." Hokuto blinked in surprise.
"Yosh! It is I, the 'Gallant Green Beast' of the Hidden Leaf, Rock Lee!" Cue sparkles.
'Wow, his teeth are almost as shiny as Naruto-kun's. Wait...'kun'...where did that come from?!' Hokuto asked herself as she tried to shake off the thought; keyword tried.
"Uh...Hokuto-san?"
"Hmm?"
"Why do you have Naruto-kun's jacket?" Hokuto jumped at Lee's perceptive question, accidentally spilling the remains of her cocoa on his head.
"Oh, no! I'm so sorry Lee-san!" The girl bowed profusely as Lee ran around in circles.
"It is okay! my youth has be reinvigorated once more!" Hokuto sweat dropped, at his choice of words.
"Umm...is that a good thing?"
"Yes!!"
"Ok..."
"I am more alert than ever, even though I have yet to consume anything!!" Lee went on to explain.
"Oh, I see..."
"Now that I am more vigilant; the question I just asked has been answered!!" At this, sweat appeared on Hokuto's headband.
"I-It has?"
"Yosh!! Naruto-kun obviously, left his jacket with you to protect it from his strenuous training!!"
"....Strenuous training?"
"Hai, he sometimes...can get rather carried away with it...." Lee said, as he reminisced about his last sparring match with the blonde; the one that involved over a thousand clones. He unconsciously rubbed his cheek, 'His taijutsu has improved quite a bit...' He added as an afterthought.
"Well I think I should go find Naruto, it's getting kinda late." Hokuto said, noticing that the moon had climbed higher.
"Very well then, I will leave you to your youthful search for our comrade, Hokuto-san." Lee saluted as he walked into the commons disappearing from view.
Gathering the jacket that had fallen to the ground from Lee's initial surprise the girl dusted it off until she was content. Hokuto examined the outer wear for the briefest of seconds before tucking it under her arm.
"So he's training, huh? So that means...the forest!"
"Gahh...I can't believe somebody took my clothes-'ttebayo..." Naruto whined as he trudged his way through the forest, shivering slightly. "Friggin' pervs, why would th-Aachooo! Damn...stupid weather."
After walking for a bit, he noticed that something was not quite right. "Hey that tree looks familiar...and that one...and that one...and so does that one..." Naruto suddenly stopped in his tracks with an eye twitch.
"I'm lost!!"
Jiraiya is not the type of man to admit when he's wrong but even he was starting to regret what he was doing to Naruto. 'Maybe I over did it just a bit.' He thought with a sigh, as he continued down his predestined path.
Looking at the pair of pants in his arms, Jiraiya put on a thoughtful look. 'Looks like the brat was in a serious scrap recently...' He said as he fingered one of the many tears in the orange fabric making him feel guiltier than he had been before.
'I'll find a way to make it up to you, Naruto. Maybe I can patch these for him.' He thought as he reached the small border town, Kakyo.
Jiraiya, his walk down the continued to walk down the street getting some odd stares from the locals and it was starting to piss him off. 'Cheh...so what if I'm carrying a pair of pants, a few sizes too small for me...I'm not that type of pervert!!'
Shrugging the stares off, Jiraiya made his way to one of the many inns that the town seemed to possess; where he rented a room for the night. Up the wooden stairs and down the hall he went until he stopped in front of a door labeled '7B'.
The old man reached for his keys to unlock the teak door, with a distinct 'click' the sage opened it, and stepped into mid sized room. The room itself was far from opulent but Jiraiya paid no mind since he's stayed in worst dives before; the price you have to pay for being a 'lady killer'. Seeming satisfied with the size room the Sannin locked his door, opened a window only to jump out said window to the waiting street below a few seconds later with an orange bundle in tow.
'Well first thing's first....' Jiraiya looked down at the pants with a sunny disposition. 'Now...to find a tailor or seamstress; yeah a sultry seamstress!! That's definitely going into 'Tactics'.' Jiraiya said with a glazed over expression.
Three hours later....
'Where the hell is the damn tailor in this infernal town?!' Needless to say the old coot was close to pulling his own hair out, up until a store sign lit up. 'Happy-go-lucky Needlework...that looks promising.' Jiraiya thought as he entered the shop.
"Hello there! How may I help you tonight, sir?" Greeted a busty woman in he mid thirties.
"I can think of a few ways..." Jiraiya muttered under his breath.
"Sir...?"
"Uh, right do you think a pretty young thang like yourself can repair these?" Jiraiya asked as he handed over Naruto's pants.
Ignoring the compliment, the seamstress examined the pants with great interest. 'I've seen these pants some where before, but where?'
"So what's the verdict?" Jiraiya asked.
"I think I can, but may take sometime, I'll need to order some special thread from the Cloud.
"I see, how lo---"
"But since I switched my service plan, the Courier ninjas can have it here by tomorrow."
"Courier nins, huh?" Jiraiya's mind was suddenly assaulted by multiple men all of whom were clad in nothing but striped one-piece bathing suits. 'Gaahhhh!!! Never again!!'
"So how much will it be then?"
"The price stands at eighty-three ryo and...seventeen monme.
'Sounds reasonable enough...' Thought Jiraiya as he reached into his wallet and paid the seamstress.
"Okay I'll start working on this order right away."
"Very well, then." The sage replied as he exited the establishment.
'I could use a drink, my 'happy hour' is long past due.'
"Mom, I'm back!!" A girl no older than twelve exclaimed, as she entered her family's shop.
"Oh, you're home Noki-chan...and with another poster I see."
"Moommm! I can't help it." Noki unrolled the poster revealing everyone's favorite blonde ninja. "He's just so yummy!"
"That's nice dear." The seamstress replied as she snatched the poster away from her daughter. "Dinner's almost ready, so go wash up."
"Aww...alright, mom." The blunette pouted.
The busty woman watched her daughter leave, shaking her head as she did so."And to think, last week she thought boys were icky..." The brunette mused as she glanced at the poster in her hand.
"Wait a second..." She said, looking from the poster to her workbench and back again.
"It couldn't be, could it....?"
The woman blinked.
"I KNOW THESE PANTS!!!"
Naruto stopped walking and clutched his sides in a desperate attempt to keep warm. "Damn, did it just get colder all of a sudden...?"
Apparently word travels fast in Bear country. Haha I'm starting to feel bad for Naruto. (Not really) Well I guess I should get to work on those papers... But shut eye comes first, might as well it's 3 a.m anyway.
Later...