The Real Mission

"Are you serious?" Tenten responded with joy.

"Who is this Tsunade anyways?" I asked.

"How can you not know about Tsunade, she's one of the legendary three Sanin, granddaughter of the first Hokage, and the best medical ninja and Konochi around," Tenten responded.

"Oh yeah, I think Sakura mention about her when I asked about purvey sage," I responded.

"Right now its best only Naruto and I go find her, because chances are Orochimaru is looking for her as well, which was the original reason why Minato asked for it," Jiriaya responded.

"We'll leave it to you two then," Neji responded.

We headed our separate ways as Jiriaya and I took our wheels.

"Okay Naruto take a sniff of this," Jiriaya said holding a cloth.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It's an old cloth that use to hold Tsunade's old headband together back when we were Genin," Jiriaya answered, "She gave it to Kushina before she left, who gave it to me so you can track her through it."

"Okay," I responded and sniffed it out and memorized the only scent on it that wasn't familiar.

"Good now when we get to the next town, even if her scent is no where there, we'll still going to stay there long enough to see if we can find out where she was next," Jiriaya said, "We'll keep doing that tracking any old trails of hers until we finally find her."

"What ever," I responded.

"During the time I'm going to teach you some more jutsus," Jiriaya said he got on his bike.

I was glad to hear that and got on my scooter and we headed off.

Our first stop was the village down bellow. I could smell a lot of food and everything going on down there but not Tsunade's scent.

"Her scent doesn't even start here," I said.

"That doesn't mean there won't be anyone who seen her," Jiriaya said, "Anyways there's a festival going on so you can enjoy yourself, before we get started."

Although I thought we already started the search I didn't mind the idea.

"I pulled out my money bag which was filled with money. Jiriaya's eyes grew seeing it with surprise.

I could sense trickery from Jiriaya and took out a tag and placed it on my head. "Bat transformation Jutsu!" I shouted transforming into a bat and flew off.

I found a hiding spot in the village and transform back to normal. I enjoyed the festival spending little money that I can.

I bought what look like an Anbu mask and tried it on as I walked around.

I decided to buy 2 squid meal one for me and the other for purvey sage. Despite how much troublesome he is, if it wasn't for him I wouldn't of been able to learn about the tail fox summoning and with it more about my heritage. Not to mention teaching me the Rasegan that came in handy since it's my second jutsu that I don't need a scroll for.

I track Jiriaya to a cavern where both his bike but my scooter was out of sight. I came in I saw that Jiriaya was surrounded women drinking.

"Oh hey Naruto how was the festival?" Jiriaya asked.

"Where's my wheels?" I asked.

"Oh don't worry I have it sealed up safely in a scroll, I was planning to release it when you find me," Jiriaya said.

"I hope you did," I said.

We headed out to the cliff as Jiriaya released my scooter from a scroll.

"So what are you going to teach me?" I asked.

Jiriaya made a handsign and disappeared in a swirl of leaves. He reappeared behind me with a smiled. "I'm going to teach you that," Jiriaya explained.

"Really?" I asked.

"However the distance in this jutsu is limited by how much chakra you use," Jiriaya said, "Also this jutsu is only allowed to be use if you're in a hurry and you need to get somewhere in a hurry."

The next morning I got up and stretch. I use the restroom and got ready for the day.

Training went great yesterday and I only manage to telleport a few feet. Now we had to get going because of the mission. Jiriaya met someone that had a game with Tsunade.

However Orochimaru was one step ahead of us and found her at Tanzaku town.

Tsunade was playing a slot machine and for once won. Her assistant Shizune was happy but Tsunade knew otherwise.

"Lets get out of here," Tsunade said.

"What but couldn't we visit the castle first?" Shizune asked.

"Fine first sight-seeing then we go," Tsunade said.

Orochimaru and Kabuto were heading the same direction.

"You know the fourth Hokage will be after Tsunade right," Kabuto said, "When the great war ended, the procedure of having a medical ninja on a team ended, but something tells Minato has something planned to get Tsunade back."

"Don't worry about it, we can talk her into helping us," Orochimaru responded.

Finally Tsunade and Shizune arrived at the castle. All of the sudden it destroyed in one attack by a snake with Orochimaru and Kabuto on it.

"I finally found you," Orochimaru greeted.

Jiriaya and I were getting ready to go at that moment.

"Hey Purvey sage?" I asked.

"Yeah?" Jiriaya asked.

"Why did Tsunade the leaf village?" I asked, "Tenten kept bragging about what kind of person she was, but why would a ninja so famous leave the village she done so much to protect?"

"Well its kind of complicated," Jiriaya said, "I guess you can say she had enough."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I guess you can say it with a necklace that originally belonged to the first Hokage," Jiriaya said, "It was given to her and you could say she was destined to have it and no one else."

"Why?" I asked.

"What's the sudden interest in Tsunade?" Jiriaya asked.

"Its just now that I think about it, something about her seemed familiar," I responded.

"Well let's just say that she gave that necklace to her little brother she had, who just became Genin, and wanted to become Hokage, days later he was killed," Jiriaya said, "Then she met a man name Dan who encourage the idea she had about having medical ninjas on teams, and believe it or not, he wanted to become Hokage. They fell in love and she gave him the necklace. Sadly during a mission they had together Dan was injured beyond any help she can give him and he died. After suffering from both of their deaths for so long that 10 years ago she left the leaf village."

I look down as I can see why then that she left. We headed off after talking as Jiriaya's words echoed in my head. I still can't shake this feeling that I heard that name before as if I met someone by that name.

Meanwhile Tsunade and Shizune faced Orochimaru and Kabuto.

"It been a long time Orochimaru," Tsunade greeted, "What brings you here?"

"I have a favor to ask of you," Orochimaru responded.

Tsunade was able to identified that something was wrong especially with Orochimaru's arms.

"Find someone else, I already quit," Tsunade responded.

"We can't because no one else can cure it," Kabuto responded.

"What exactly happened?" Tsunade asked.

"Just minor backfire from killing the third," Orochimaru responded.

Tsunade and Shizune was shocked by the news and thought about Minato.

"What about the fourth Hokage?" Tsunade asked.

"He's alive, and so is his wife but their lives will soon crumble just like anyone else, as you know," Orochimaru responded and saw that was getting on Tsunade.

Shizune fired sinbols soak with poison from a launcher on her arm at Orochimaru but Kabuto blocked them.

"Calm down Shizune," Tsunade responded, "Orochimaru you haven't change one bit. What makes you think I'll help you." Tsunade punch the wall and it collapsed from one hit.

Meanwhile Jiriaya and I finally made it to town and my senses kicked in over drive.

"She's here, her scent is every where and…," I stopped at another scent.

"What is it?" Jiriaya asked.

"Orochimaru's scent is here as well," I responded.

Back at the ruin castle Kabuto was surprised by Tsunade's force.

"We're not here to fight we're here to negotiate," Kabuto said.

"I tell you this once, get out of my face," Tsunade responded.

"I can revive your little brother and beloved," Orochimaru said, "With a forbidden seal I have developed."

Tsunade stopped cold at those words.

Meanwhile Jiriaya decided to track Tsunade down first. Her scent led us to a game slot place. Jiriaya was talking when I found a coin and put it in the slot machine. Next thing Jiriaya knew, I was walking around town with my money bag full.

"Naruto focus, we still need to find Tsunade," Jiriaya responded.

"Okay, fallow me," I responded heading the direction where Orochimaru's scent was coming from as well.

At the time Tsunade was thinking about her brother Nawaki and Dan.

"What would happened if I heal your arms?" Tsunade asked.

"Nothing much, just destroy the village and kill the fourth Hokage," Orochimaru responded.

"Destroy the leaf?" Shizune responded.

Tsunade thought about the two again.

"Tsunade don't your brother and my uncle wouldn't want this," Shizune shouted, "Think of what they would want."

"Shut up Shizune," Tsunade responded.

"You don't have to answer now, but we'll have to give you a week to think about it," Kabuto responded, "Also this jutsu, it required two corpses to be performed."

Tsunade didn't say anything as she was in struggle of a decision.

Orochimaru lifted his hand and bit his finger until it started bleeding.

Tsunade froze in fear seeing the blood.

"I maybe weak but I still know Tsunade's weakness," Orochimaru said, "You haven't gotten over your fear yet."

Orochimaru and Kabuto left, leaving Tsunade in fear.

A/N: Yeah I decided to end it here for now. As for the teleportation Jutsu that was something for Naruto learn while being stuck in the town with the festival. I got something else in mind for Naruto to learn for the Sanin battle. As for Naruto starting to think that he knew Tsunade, all I can say is that it'll have to deal with something I thought of mixing in with the pilot chapter of Naruto's childhood before meeting Kuroda and Takashi, and it'll be to far back for Naruto to remember anything.

Next Time: I know I recognize Tsunade's name from somewhere, but I didn't think it was from growing up at Mt. Oinari. What's up with her denying our proposition of returning to the leaf. What's going on exactly, and what's up with learning a jutsu that originally belong to my father? Read to Find Out...