Disclaimer: Naruto and all its characters, places, and names are not owned by me.
T for Violence.

Yay for chapter 2!
Sorry for long update time...No motivation...Ima try to update weekly from now on, even if its just for that one reviewer who posted one word. I LOVE YOU ONE REVIEWER WHO POSTED THAT ONE WORD REVIEW. YOU ARE MY NEW ENTIRE FANBASE. :) One day I'm going to look back and say "lol how I ever think I update weekly. update weekly? best joke ever." Crap I'm only writing the authors notes before the fic and I'm already running out of things to oh yea. Make sure all criticismal (is that even a word...well, now it is) reviews are constructive. Constructive criticism ftw. I want to make this fic better. Just like how Orochimaru wanted to make sasuke's body better...to look at. All bad OroXSasu jokes aside... second chapter of my first fic. Enjoy!

POV: Nagato

"Konoha eh?...Not too shabby." Yahiko comments after taking a long look at the Konohagakure wall and the rooftops that peek above it.

"Wait until we get inside before you start calling it warm and friendly," offers Konan.

An argument would should have started up, but honestly, it would be too tiring. It took the entire day to make it to Konoha, and only one break was taken for food. I had promised to use my rinnegan to lighten myself, but it turns out I couldn't use it for more than 5 minutes of levitation, then I needed 10 minutes to recharge. Yahiko was in no state to be carrying people around in the first place, and I can't Imagine how much pain he must be in. But, he was resolute. He wanted to get to Konoha in one clean swoop. Even for Konan, who is perfectly healthy, the journey must have been exhausting. If only I could walk. It would make it so much easier on them. It's a strange relationship we have; one of us is always trying to lighten the pain for the other two. But since we all try to do it, our pain stays the same. We give and we receive equally. We don't speak about it either. It comes naturally. You could say our hearts are pure. But it's not like that. At all.

We make our way to the Konoha gates. Guards seem to appear out of every darkened corner. 2,4,6 guards in total. They each wear the Konoha sub-jounin uniform: a green vest over gray clothes. We anticipated them, and had thought of what to say along the path to Konoha. It has been decided that we will be near-honest, and tell them about being Jiraiya's students, and about us being part of a peace organization. We will omit the part about Hanzo's failed assassination attempt and especially about Nagato's rinnegan. I put my bangs in front of my eyes just for that purpose, although, I doubt they would be able to tell in this kind of darkness. If anyone catches sight of my rinnegan, it will arouse unnecessary complications.

We all take a couple steps forward into the sight range of one of the guards.

"Stop! Who are you and why have you come.?" The one who looks like the head steps out.

Konan answers to this. "We come to seek the medical help of Lady Tsunade. We are 3 of Jiraiya's students and are badly injured. One of us is even on a stretcher. We are part of a peace organization called the Akatsuki, and we mean no harm."

The guard turns to the others and relays the information. They talk nervously, and I hear snippets of what they are saying, like "Amegakure headbands", "peace organization?" and "kids".

The head guard turned back around and faced Konan. "Why are you so injured if you are in a peace organization?"

A tricky question. What could we possibly say for the guards not to find out. Konan looked at Yahiko as if asking If she should continue. Yahiko gave Konan a quick nod. It's risky, but we'll tell the guard about Hanzo.

"Hanzo the Salamander," Konan said briefly.

The guard's eyebrows raised in interest.

"Hanzo the Salamander accused us of trying to dethrone him. He then tried to kill us. Obviously, It didn't work."

The guards eyes widen. He turns slightly to his colleagues. "If I recall correctly, wasn't Hanzo in league with lord Danzo?"

"Yeah," another guard says, "Danzo sent some ANBU to help Hanzo eliminate some people. Then, all the ANBU were found dead, but with not a single scratch on them."

"You don't think..." Says the chief guard.

This was turning really bad really fast.

"No way, they're just kids. (1) Besides, How can we take what they are saying to be true."

"Let's get Jiraiya down here and lets see if he can Identify them" says the chief.

Thank god. Jiraiya will come and clear things out. Still, there is a man in Konoha in league with Hanzo? All thoughts of this village being nice leave me. But does that mean that Jiraiya sensei is also in league with Hanzo? How can such a vile man be in league with my teacher?

"You guys don't move, and don't try anything funny." The chief deploys somebody into the village to get Jiraiya.

"Can I at least lower this stretcher to the ground?" Yahiko asks the guard, without giving out any names.

"Hmm. I guess you can."

They lower me to the ground lowly, Yahiko's eyes never leaving the guard, and the the guards eyes never leaving Yahiko. We sit in silence, waiting for a good 10 minutes, until eventually, we hear a scolding going on within the walls.

"I don't care how important it is, it can wait until morning! The sun isn't even near the horizon yet! Now I'll never be able to go back to sleep, but I'll be tired for the rest of the day. Learn a little from your elders dammit!"

That voice... it belongs to jiraiya sensei!

Jiraiya and a guard walk through the gates, then turn toward us. Jiraiya's eyes widen suddenly.

"Yahiko, Konan, Nagato! Is that you? Woah... How many years has it been?"

"You know them?" Asks the guard obliviously.

"Do I know them? They were my students for 3 years! They can enter and exit the village as they please. Lord 3rd is sure to agree."

"Back to you guys, what are you...wait are you guys injured?!"

Yahiko replies to this. "Yeah, we were injured in a fight. That's why we came here, besides seeing you. We need the help of Lady Tsunade."

"Tsunade? She's probably asleep, but I guess this can't wait. Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat as soon as we get to Tsunade's. She will probably have to get the medical team together first. We can't waste any more time. Let's get going.

It was a short walk to tsunade's large house. It was Part of the older part of the city, made from the toughest looking wood I have ever seen.

Jiraiya knocked twice on the big door. A few seconds wait and the door was smashed open from the inside.

"WHO THE HELL IS...Oh, it's just you Jiraiya. What could possibly be so important that you would come here at this time of night?

"I swear, this time it really is important! I have injured ninja!"

She looks us three over for a second, her eyes glazed, as if blocking evil from entering her sight, then her brows furrow. Does she remember us from that one time? She probably remembers that Jiraiya had other students, but are faces too? We only met her once, so I doubt it. But she does seem to recognize us from somewhere, somewhere that other people don't know about.

"So? The medical building is open 24/7. Why do they need my help in specific?

"That's because... Wait why do you need to see Tsunade specifically?"

I answer. "My legs are permanently damaged. No ordinary medic can heal that."

"But still, I've never even met them. "

"What does that have to do with anything? How many years have I known you, Tsunade, and you have never said those words to anyone. It's in a medics creed to heal all those injured, regardless of origin.(2)"

"Jiraiya, can you come with me to the back for a second?"

"What could possibly be stopping you from healing these kids?"

"Just come."

Jiraiya and tsunade moved into the other room and started talking to each other extremely quickly. Even with the thick wall between us, It was fairly easy to make out what they were saying, as the walls were made out of pure, reverberating wood, carrying out each word into the ground.(3)

"Don't you know who they are?"

"They're my students, Tsunade."

"They're in the Bingo Book"

"For what?"

"...It doesn't say.."

"Most of what's in the Bingo Book is bribery, lies, and childish rivalry. Half of what is in there is the raw prejudice of the higher ups. They put whoever they don't like in there, regardless of whether he or she actually committed a crime."

"Still..."

"Do you remember whose jurisdiction they fall under?

"I believe that they fall under the pages that lord Danzo owns."

"You see?! Danzo put them in the book. You know he's corrupt!"

"Look, Jiraiya, just take them to the medical building for now, get them treated, then will ask lord 3rd what to do in the morning.

"...fine. But I know you Tsunade, and you aren't like this."

They returned to the room, where we sat; still and soundless. It feels weird to be the cause of all this arguing; I hate to be the cause of the problem. Visiting my old master is a lot different than expected. I just hope I'm not too much of a bother.

"You're going to go to the medical division for now, will talk about healing permanent damage in the morning," Jiraiya yawned. "Can you go yourselves, or should I escort you?"

"Were fine by ourselves, but thank you anyway," I reply.

"In that case, I'll be heading home. I need to get some sleep."

We part ways at Tsunade's door, and Jiraiya gives us directions to the medical building. Its about 5 minutes away from Tsunade's house, but thats understandable, seeing as how a medic ninja has to go to the building whenever duty calls. We walk in silence, because it is difficult to talk and walk at the same time in this state. Whether or not I can walk for the rest of my life is going to be decided by hidden leaf ninja tomorrow. I guess it shows how much influence some people have over others lives. I guess all I can do now is wait.

(1) They are about 16-17
(2) Made that up
(3) If you couldn't tell, her house was built by Senju.

FINALLY DONE! goddammit I'm so sorry for taking so long to update. Even If I have like 1 follower. You know how it is with midterms.I promise I'll get the next chapter out either next week or the week after that. Starting next chapter, I'm going to be having tons o' funs. Ohohoho, but no spoilers foh you. You is goings to haves to waitz.