Hey guys! Sorry this is late. I just started college but things are all settled now. I hope you enjoy this chapter. I tried to make it a little longer for you since the last one was kinda short. Here you go!

Chapter 25

In the next village, there was a little festival going on so Naruto, Alasia and I decided we would check it out. Naruto whipped out his frog wallet full of money, exited for the day. Jiraiya saw how much money Naruto had saved up and gave the poor kid some bull crap story about the "three sins of shinobi"; money, women and alcohol. The old pervert took the money, giving naruto a little of it, and walked off. Alasia and I had our suspicions about what he was going to do but just left it alone.

We enjoyed our time with the blond, playing games and eating all kinds of food. The games were fun and the food was amazing. It was nice just fooling around with him without worrying about what was to come. Eventually, Naruto bought that perverted sage some squid and we went to find him.

There we were standing right in front of the door watching as that damned old man sat drinking alcohol and flirting with two random women. Naruto's wallet laid on the table next the Jiraiya, empty.

"DAMN IT YOU PERVERT! WHAT ABOUT THE THREE SINS OF SHINOBI!" Naruto jumped on Jiraiya, grabbed the collar of his shirt and shook him back and forth. It was slightly amusing until the food Naruto had flung out of his hands and splattered on some randome mafia looking people.

"Io! Do you know how much this cost! You stupid punk!" The one with the messed up suit jacket yelled. Let's call him stupid number one.

"Calm down, stupid. It was an accident. Just get some cold water and a little soap and you should be fine." I said.

"Fine! FINE! This won't be fine! You guys are going to pay for this!" Stupid number two, stupid number one's buddy, piped in.

"It sure looks cheap for an 'expensive suit'." Jiraiya said with a sarcastic tone when he said 'expensive suit'.

"You don't know who you're dealing with old man. Akoki is a former chunnin from the stone village. He is a legendary Yami-nin and someone to be afraid of." Alasia snorted. I smirked. Too bad they don't realize that a real legendary ninja was right in front of them.

"Legendary huh?"

"I'll show you what pain really is!" Stupid one ran towards Jiraiya.

"Naruto, pay close attention. I'm going to show you a jutsu you will be learning. Take a look." Jiraiya extended his arm to the side forming a spinning ball of blue chakra. Once stupid number one got close enough, he rammed the jutsu into the man's stomach, sending him spinning into his partner and out of the shop. They landed on a cart that was selling water balloons, causing it to collapse and spilling all of the balloons onto the street. One balloon was thrown up, which Jiraiya plucked out of the air. He smirked, having an idea form in his head.

"Co- COOL!" Naruto exclaimed. I started bouncing up and down. I was so excited to see the rassengan in action. Alasia put a hand on my shoulder to stop my bouncing but when I got a good look at her face, she too was smiling with excitement.

"Naruto, let's get going. It's time for training. Joe, Alasia, I decided I'm going to teach this to you too."

"HELL YEAH!" I busted into a victory dance then went up to the man and glomped him. "You rock!" He chuckled as Alasia peeled me off him.

"Way to go Jiraiya. Now you got her all worked up." Alasia gave him a half-hearted glare.

Soon after that, we all left to go train. Jiraiya handed each of us a water balloon. He wanted us to spin the water in the balloon to brake it. Alasia and I remembered the trick to brake it but decided to let Naruto figure it out. Of course actually doing it proved more difficult than we thought.

"Aw! What the hell! You would think I could pick this up quickly considering!" I ranted.

"Joe, stop complaining. You sound like a little kid. You don't see Naruto whining about it." Alasia said with a smirk. Jiraiya laughed as he walked up and patted me on the back. He must have just gotten back from doing his "research".

"Don't worry about it Joe. You should understand just how difficult this jutsu is so it's okay if you are a useless ninja who just doesn't get it."

"YOU'RE NOT HELPING OLD MAN!" I screamed and started chasing him. Naruto pointed and laughed at us while Alasia just shook her head.

Eventually we all got it down. Naruto was ecstatic. Of course, we were too. Later Jiraiya showed us the next step of popping a rubber ball. He then gave Naruto a small lecture about having to figure the trick to the next step on his own. This one took us longer to complete. Not only was braking the ball harder but both Alasia and I forgot the trick!

The day after we started the second step, Jiraiya had Naruto go out and get dinner. I volunteered to go with him since there are four of us. We walked to town and got the food. Naruto was grumbling about the old man the entire time, making me laugh.

While we were picking up the food, I noticed a young boy walking with his father nearby. The kid was asking his dad for some ice-cream so the man split a popsicle with his kid, saying he couldn't have both halves because dinner was soon. It was a heartwarming scene. I looked over at Naruto and saw an overwhelming amount of loneliness wash over him. At first I wanted to ask if he wanted to split one with me but I knew it wouldn't be the same. I'm not his parent or a parental figure, just a friend.

"Come on kid, let's go back and eat. I'm starving!" I slap him on the back to distract him.

"Hey! I'm not a kid! I'm a fool fledged ninja!" He crossed his arms and scowled. Pleased that I was successful, I laughed. "Just because you're a ninja doesn't mean you aren't a kid too. You aren't there yet."

"Well then. . . how will I know I've grown up?" We started walking away toward where Jiraiya and Alasia were.

"Don't worry, I'll let you know." I winked.

Then next day, all three of us managed to get a whole in the ball but it didn 't explode like it was supposed to.

"Hey, looks like you guys are improving." As Jiraiya walked up to us, he threw a popsicle at Alasia. "Here you and Joe can split that."

"Dang it! I only made a whole in the ball. It didn't go 'Boom!' like yours did." Naruto said.

"Come on, don't be so stubborn. Here, you've come a long ways on your own." Jiraiya handed the other half of his popsicle. It reminded me of the dad and his kid yesterday. I could help but give the two males a goofy grin.

"What are you grinning about?" Alasia asked.

"Yesterday some guy shared a popsicle with his kid while we were getting dinner. Naruto looked really lonely then. It's nice seeing how happy he is now." Alasia looked from me back to the two in front of us, a small smile appeared on her lips.

Eventually we all managed to complete the second stage. Naruto was passed out on the ground to my left. Alasia and I were laying down with him, panting.

"It seems you guys have mastered the second stage." Jiraiya squatted down in front of us.

"Thanks for pointing that out captain obvious." Alasia remarked. Don't mess with her when she is tired.

"Do you guys think you can continue? It seems you both barely mastered the second stage."

"There is no way in hell I am letting the chance to learn the rassengan up!" I slowly sat up and gave him a determined grin. Alasia rolled her eyes in a friendly way.

"Do feel the same way Alasia?" Jiriaya asked.

"You're pointing out the obvious again." She smirked.

We eventually woke Naruto up and Jiraiya told us the last step. He gave each of us a balloon and told us to combined stages one and two and control them so they don't break the balloon.

Our first try turned into a failure as expected.

"Alright guys! Let's go. We are going to meet Tsunade. We need to be quick now so we catch her before she leaves the village.

"It's about damn time!" Alasia and I yell at the same time.

That night, we were woken up by a stupid, nosey, Mr. 'I'm not going to tell you who the hell I am', no good, mystery man.

"I swear you better have a good reason for waking us up at like 2 in the morning." Alasia growled out. He just chuckled.

"I need you guys to leave early in the morning to find Tsunade and make sure she declines Orochimaru's offer."

"Are you serious? No really, why did you wake us up?" Alasia asked.

"If I remember correctly, Tsunade declines him anyway so why are we needed?" I asked while yawning.

"Things are starting to change now that you are here. I unfortunately didn't realize that it would happen when I sent for you. I wouldn't have sent you to do this otherwise."

"So what you're saying is, you had us come here to help the good guys out a little but since we are here everything is slowly starting to change which makes us have to help out the good guys more because we messed things up instead." Alasia said.

"Yeah that pretty much sums it up."

"I'm going to kill you." We both growled.

About an hour later, Alasia and I snuck out of the hotel room in order to find Tsunade before Orochimaru does. It took us a while but we eventually found her and Shizune . . . with Orochimaru and Kabuto. We would have gotten there sooner but of course, we got lost. We decided to hide up on the roof of one of the long buildings they were in between.

"We need to stop hiding like this when things go down." I said with a little pout.

"We can't just barge in not know exactly what is going on. Now be quiet."

"That wound on your arm is no ordinary wound. What have you done to it?" Tsunade asked.

"Heh. Just a little memento from when I killed the third."

All of a sudden Alasia put a hand on my shoulder and pushed me down. I didn't realize I was getting up.

"Calm down. You can have a go at him in a second. Just be patient." Alasia calmed me down but not completely.

"Something with form is destine to crumble. Same goes for people. You too, know of this since you've lost two of your most beloved. Hehe those were certainly horrible ways to die." In a split second Shizune had moved in front of Tsunade, triggering a devise on her arm that shoots out poisoned needles. Alasia and I jumped down in between both groups. Alasia and I stood there, kunai's at the ready, glaring at the men who showed no hint of shock.

"Why does it not surprise me that you two are here." Kabuto said.

"Who are you two?" Shizune asked.

"We are two shinobi from Konoha. We worked directly under the third. We'll give you more info about us later. For now we need you to decline this pedo creeper and find Jiraiya." Alasia said over her shoulder.

"You both always try to get in my way at the most important times. Almost like you know what is going to happen before it does. Tell me how is that possible?" Orochimaru hissed out.

"Say, how is your penis doing?" I asked, giving him a smirk. The man glared but before he could say anything-

BAM!

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" We turned around to see that Tsunade had punched a huge whole in the side of the wall. "You should know Orochimaru not to kid with me or I'll kill you!"

Alasia and I smirked. Guess we don't need to worry about her.

"We are not here to fight. We just want to negotiate. You two" He points to us. " are just getting in the way."

"First of all, leave them out of this. Secondly you have five seconds to get out of my site." She started to count down.

"5"

"Please wait!"

"4. . . 3 "

Kabuto sighed.

"2. . . 1"

"I can revive your little brother and the man you loved with the forbidden seal I have developed." Orochimaru had a wicked grin on his face. Tsunade paused and her eyes went wide.

"Tsunade don't listen to him! No one can be truly alive again after they have died. They would just be souls trapped in a corps and turned into slaves by the one who cast the jutsu!" I desperately tried to get my point across.

"It seems you haven't killed us yet. Does this mean we have a deal?" Orochimaru asked.

"Tsunade! Don't do it!" Alasia yelled. We could see her slowly furrow her brows in thought. This was not good. "If. . I cure your arms. . . what are you going to do?"

"Damn it Tsunade!" I yelled. It was like both of us were being ignored.

"I won't lie to you. I'm getting what I want. I'm going to obliterate the leaf one last time."

"Over my dead body!" I yelled

"Tsunade-sama!" Shizune yelled.

"What is your anwswer?" Kabuto asked.

"You can't to this! Don't listen to these liars! They wouldn't want you do to this! Think about their wishes, your wishes! Have you forgotten them!"

"If you won't listen to us then for God's sake listen to her!" I pleated.

"SHUT UP!"

"You don't have to answer now. However we hope to come to a peaceful resolution. Also the forbidden jutsu needs a supply of life so we have prepared two good bodies.

"Come on Tsunade! Kill these guys! Orochimaru is week right now! If we fight we can take them down!" Right after shizune said that, Orochimaru bit his finger, making it bleed.

Damn it! I forgot Tsunade was scared of blood right now!

I looked over to see said women shivering at the site of his bloody finger. I elbowed Alasia to get her attention and pointed to Tsunade.

"I may be week now but I still know your weakness. We should get going Kabuto. Tsunade, I anxiously wait for your reply."

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Here we are, at some random restaurant with Tsunade and Shizuna. The blond woman was drinking away her problems as us three watched.

"Hey! More beer!"

"Tsunade you drink too much." Her trusted friend said.

Just then we looked up to see Jiraiya and Naruto step inside.

"Dumbass information is always found in places like this." Jiraiya looked up and saw us. "Hey! Tsunade!"

Said woman looked up in surprise. "Jiraiya! What are you doing here?"

Jiraiya and Naruto sat down with us. It was Tsunade and Shizune on one side and the two males on the other while me and Alasia were at the end of the table.

"I met with someone today that brings back bad memories." Tsunade said. Alasia snorted and rolled her eyes. Jiraiya caught the action but didn't say anything about it.

"Orochimaru? Did anything happen?" Shizune quickly swerved her head to face Tsunade. Tsunade glared at all three of us. Daring us to say something. Challenge accepted.

"Yeah Tsunade, why don't you tell him what happened." I said with a foul attitude, letting her know she doesn't intimidate me.

She turned her attention back to Jiraiya. "Nothing much. Just a little greating." It was my turn to roll my eyes.

"You too. Why are you here to see me?" She asked.

"To tell you the truth, Konoha has issued you to be the 5th Hokage." To my right, Naruto started choking on his drink and coughing. I guess he was surprised to hear the news. "The third is-"

"It was Orochimaru's work. He told me." Tsunade cut in.

"The big snake guy! He's the one who killed our Hokage! Who is this guy!" Naruto started yelling.

"He is one of the three Sannin. He work with Tsunade and Jiraiya." Alasia informed the boy.

"What the hell! Weren't the three Sannin from Konoha! Then why?"

"Who is this boy?" Tsunade asked.

"He is Naruto Uzumaki." I said. Jiraiya smirked as Tsunade's eyes widened a little in surpise. "That's right be surprised." I added. Who knew that she would get under my skin once I met her?

"How come she gets to be Hokage!"

"Quiet kid. So what is your answer? Are you willing to accept?" Jiraiya asked. He had an instense look on his face. Shizune looked nervous, Naruto had his head in his hands, I was glaring at Tsunade and Alasia had her poker face on. The mystery guy said things are starting to change. So what the hell is going to happen now?

Cliff hanger! Muahahahahaha! So how was this chapter? Did you like it? I can't wait to read your reviews!