DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Thought you'd know by now...
(A/N): Good god why!? Winter break I miss you! Why must I go back to school!? :'(
Well, whatever, just less time to spend at home writing...*uncontrollable sobs*
*sniff* TO *sniff* THE STORY! *snuffle*
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Chapter 65: Tsunade The Loser
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Jiraiya looked down at him with a raised eyebrow. "And what would that be?" he asked curiously. Naruto looked up at him and smirked evilly. He reached for one of his storage seals and pulled out a tri-pronged kunai.
"I mastered the Hiraishi, that's what."
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"YOU WHAT!?" Jiraiya roared as he nearly fell down. "What the-how the-when the-Huuuuuuhhhh!?" he started to freak out as he grabbed Naruto by his shoulders and started shaking him. After a few minutes, and some insistent yelling from Naruto, Jiraiya calmed down and stopped shaking and yelling at him. Jiraiya let go of his shoulders and looked at him with bulging eyes that were pleading for answers. "Well? How'd you do it?" he asked as he crossed his arms and looked at his new apprentice. Naruto sighed and held out the kunai.
"I've been studying my birth fathers jutsu ever since I graduated the Academy. But my adoptive father has been studying it ever since he adopted me. He gave me all of the notes and theories he had on the jutsu once I graduated. I was also able to find more notes from the Namikaze vault that needed my blood to open. With the combined notes and various theories I was able to make a makeshift version that transported chakra and inanimate objects between the markers." he explained and stopped for a moment to see if Jiraiya was keeping up. Once the Sannin nodded for him to go on he took a breath and continued.
"I hit a wall trying to transport organic materials though. They would make the teleport, but they would turn into either a green goo like substance(A/N: think Steins:Gate), or be burnt to a crisp." he explained and Jiraiya grimaced at the thought of being turned to goo. "So when did you figure it out?" he asked, wanting to get to the point of how a 12 year old could figure out the one jutsu that was inaccessible to thousands of other people who tried to recreate it, including himself. "Well, I didn't until I saw how he was using it. He was teleporting instantaneously like all of my test subjects, but wasn't turning into goo or being burnt. I thought about the fight over and over again. Think ing what was different in our seals. I've seen the trigger seal, and I've read all of the notes on how to make it. But it wasn't until I tested it again that I saw the major flaw in my seal." he explained.
Jiraiya was almost shaking by now in anticipation. He wanted, no, needed to know how he was able to do something like this at such a young age. Not so he could use the jutsu himself, but so he could finally put all of his old theories to rest and finally stop thinking of how Minato was laughing at him for not getting it. Naruto held the pause for a few seconds and looked into Jiraiya's eyes. "It was the yellow flash." he said to the Sannin. Jiraiya had started to shake in anticipation, but when Naruto said that he stopped. He quirked an eyebrow in confusion and tilted his head. "The flash?" he asked dumbly.
Naruto nodded vigorously. "Yes! It was right under my nose the whole time. I was trying to recreate the jutsu of 'Konoha's Yellow Flash' for so long and didn't even notice that the term 'Yellow Flash' was the key to solving the technique." he said excitedly. Jiraiya just tilted his further. "I don't get it?" he said after a second.
Naruto let out a frustrated sigh. "The flash is actually an extremely weak explosion! The jutsu is literally just a extremely advanced Kawarimi with the assistance of markers and Fuinjutsu to instantaneously Kawarimi with the oxygen in the air. The rapid movement of the oxygen causes a small fire to pop into existence for a nanosecond, which causes the flash. Once I integrated the transfer of oxygen into the seal, instead of there being to transfer, it works perfectly!" he exclaimed as he showed the jutu off by flicking the kunai a few feet away and flashing over to catch it.
Jiraiya was openly gaping at the boy. Not only had he figured out the jutsu, he did it just by seeing it a few times and trying an idea he got from the inventors nickname! "Well brat...I don't have much else to say then...I'm extremely impressed and proud that my Godson was able to figure out and be able to use his fathers techniques. I'm just a little sad I didn't help at all in the process. I didn't even get to teach you how to use the Rasengan..." he pouted. Naruto smiled as they started to walk on. "Don't worry about it Ero-sennin. You can still help me with the Hiraishin. I'm still limited to traveling between kunai. I haven't figured out how transfer the seal onto other objects just by touching them." he said with a slight pout.
Jiraiya smiled widely. "Alright then! Looks like I get to teach you some stuff after all!"
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Three days passed as the two made their way through the lands of Hi no Kuni (Land of Fire). They stopped in several different towns to gather information and other tidbits on where Tsunade could be. All the while Jiraiya always managed to get sloshed and find a place to peep on women. As they traveled Naruto had clones working on a way to put seals onto objects with just a touch of his hand. Starting small time storage seals and then working his way up to smaller barrier seals and gravity seals. Jiraiya told him that the trick was to leave an imprint of chakra in the for of the seal on the object and let it fade into it. Once there it was invisible, but still operational. He also told Naruto to work on it with basic seals and work his way up to the more advance ones. He also told him that if he could use it with gravity seals he could do some serious damage to his enemies by increasing the gravity on certain parts of the body. He also said that he should try putting a gravity seal on one of his swords so that he cold make it heavier and lighter whenever he wanted.
And when Naruto heard that suggestion he got an evil smile in his face. He stopped walking and went to on of his storage seals. When he released what was inside of it Jiraiya gasped in shock at what it was.
Naruto had just unsealed the broken sword of Kubikiribocho! Naruto told the Sannin Hinata had taken it from the battle field after he defeated Zabuza and gave it to him after he recovered from the fight. He figured that it was useless after it had been cut in half, but Cole told him how it could fix itself with the iron in the blood of its fallen victims. Since then he still wasn't able to use it. The slab of iron was simply to heavy for him to use effectively. So when Jiraiya told him about using gravity seals on weapons he had an epiphany. He applied a seal to the broad sword and made it way almost nothing. He took a quick swing with it and in mid swing turned it to normal weight. He effectively cut down a tree, but needed to work on that fighting style because after a single swing he nearly threw his arm out with the changed force of inertia.
On the third day of their journey the two heard that town of Tanzaku Gai was holding a poker tournament and the Toad Sannin had no doubt his old teammate would be in it. The girl just couldn't get enough of Poker, even if she never won anything. Se wasn't called the 'Legendary Loser' for nothing.
It took the two companions an entire day to arrive at the town and lucky for them it was the day of the tournament. The two signed themselves up and were admitted to go in and were assigned a table to play.
Once they had their seats Naruto smiled at how his luck was on high alert. He had gotten the same table as their target. There sitting across the table from him was a fifty year old blonde woman who didn't look a day over thirty. She had golden brown eyes and a diamond mark on her forehead. She wore a green medics robe as well as a short grey kimono with dark blue pants. She looked up at Naruto and scowled. "So Konoha is sending Chunin after me to take e back?" she said with venom in her words.
Naruto shrugged and placed his chips on the table and prepared himself to play. "Sorry Tsunade-sama, but I'm a Jonin. And I'm here to play. Taking you back to Konoha may be the objective, but I'd rather not lose my hard earned cash while doing it." he said with a foxy smirk. Tsunade narrowed her eyes at the boy. He looked familiar, almost like...no it was impossible. She was seeing things. There was no way the child survived the incident. She scowled at the boy and readied herself to play. "Alright kid, but when you lose all your money don't get angry with me for not going back with you." she said as they paid the antie and the dealer started to deal. They were playing two card holdem' and Naruto had a Ten of Clubs in his hand as well as a Jack of Clubs. He set his cards down keeping a damn good poker face as he eyed Tsunade. All his time playing at Poker night and cleaning house with all of his fathers friends would give him just the experience with the game he needed to bring Tsunade in. Bets went around the table and the Dealer showed the first set of cards. "King of Clubs, Queen of Clubs, and Nine of Diamonds." the dealer said as he revealed the cards. Naruto kept his poker face as the next wave of bets went around. He looked at Tsunade and smirked. "Tell you what Tsunade-sama, why don't we make a little wager? How about if I beat out everyone at this table, you come back with us. And if I lose me and my team leave here without giving you any trouble whatsoever?" he said with a sly grin. Tsunade eyed him and watched the dealer place the next card. "Five of Spades." he said. Tsunade smirked and looked at Naruto. "Fine kid, you got yourself a deal." she said as the next round of bets went around. Several people folded but six of the eleven player kept betting. Even when Naruto raised the pot a little. After the bets were done the dealer showed the last card. "Ace of Clubs." he said as the last card showed.
The last round of bets went around the table and Naruto and Tsunade looked at each other. People started showing their cards and there were some good hands, but they all looked down trotted when Tsunade showed her hand. "Sorry kid, three of a kind." she said as she showed a pair of Aces. Naruto frowned and shook his head and let out a sigh. "You know, when they called you the 'Legendary Loser', I thought you were just a bad gambler. But you are actually pretty good." he said with a slight pause. "But it's just your luck sucks. Royal Flush." he said as he showed his hand. The whole table went wide eyed as they saw the hand. Ten of Clubs, Jack of Clubs, Queen of Clubs, King of Clubs, and Ace of Clubs, all on the table. Naruto took the rather large pot from the first hand and smirked at Tsunade.
"So, you ready for the next hand?"
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(A/N): To be continued...
YEAH! POKER CHAPTER!
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