But his father was right about his suspicions. After leaving the village and watching Sakura tremble as she tried to hold in the tears they moved out. And after a few days he understood why Naruto acted the way he did around his godfather. The man was a perv always spying on women no matter where they were. Not to mention that porn book that Kakashi always seemed to be seen reading was made by THIS MAN!
Sasuke was certainly learning something on patience and self control on the journey, if nothing else.
But he also learned more about Naruto. The kid was acting as if he was in his natural environment. He bargained for good deals, spoke to people easily and moved with confidence. Sometimes in the village Naruto seemed stiff but here… where no one knew he held a demon fox or paid attention to who his father might be.. He seemed... free.
And Sasuke didn't know what to feel. Naruto during his watch would sit in the treetops and stare far off with a look that Sasuke was slowly beginning to hate...Longing.
Naruto deserved to be happy, and free but it pissed him off that he would feel better outside the village then in; it was his home after all.
Still Jiraiya wasn't completely useless. He had him and Naruto spare often and gave him tips as well as well as having him do training regime that he hadn't thought of. Naruto was an idiot if he still had bad chakra control after working with this man. But after traveling quite a long ways they finally came to a town that looked like it was built in a hole.
"Alright LET'S GO!"
Naruto sighed exasperated and Sasuke just scoffed
"You're pretty energetic...yelling 'let's go' like a kid"
Jiraiya dropped his head muttering to himself,
"Insulting little.."
"Oi so what are we here for anyway? you never said what the mission was."
Sasuke gave Naruto that casual 'are you stupid?' look, because wasn't it natural to ask sooner than later the mission details. And yes Sasuke had been trying to worm the information out of the creepy perv since they left the village, but he hadn't succeeded.
"Tsunade has been spotted here"
Sasuke knew the name. Sasuke knew it because Sakura mentioned it a few times in reference to her studies. Tsunade was also part of the legendary Sannin!
"Uh huh… and why did you have to drag me along with you? You never found her before what's the rush? Why here?"
Sasuke was impressed with Naruto's cool attitude. And Jiraiya began to get shifty eyed and nervous,
That couldn't be good…
"Well…. The council is looking for a new hokage so…"
That made Sasuke freeze. They wanted to get rid of OBITO!?
But… it made sense… Obito wasn't mentally strong enough right now to be hokage and honestly the clan had been discussing the fact too… Someone else who have to take charge. So even though he was angry and disappointed he understood. And the look in Naruto's eyes showed he did as well.
"But how do you know she's here?"
Jiraiya rubbed his neck in the same way Naruto often did and he wondered if that's where he got it from,
"Well...umm… he… kinda helped…"
He..?
"HE!? THAT BASTARD!? WHY'D YOU BRING ME HERE IF HE'S HERE!?"
Now Sasuke was all the more curious,
"ANYWAY! Tsunade may not stay forever so let's go!"
And Jiraiya began to walk forward a smile on his face and Naruto screaming after him,
"YOU TRICKED ME YOU PERVY BASTARD!"
And all Sasuke could do was sigh and follow along.