Author Note

Hello there and welcome to another chapter of Cursed Eyes.

I'd like to take some time and appreciate Kishimoto for completely confusing everyone about the method of obtaining the Mangenkyou Sharingan. On a personal level, he had ruined my idea to give Naruto the Mangenkyou Sharingan by following on a different path than simply killing one's best friend or most dear companion. For instance, take Kakashi's sharingan for example. At the beginning of the Naruto series, we see the man using the completely evolved sharingan pretty much all the time, no matter the odds are against him (even against Orochimaru when the man appeared in the chunnin exams). Now, much to my irritation, the damn creator shows an image of Kakashi developing the Mangenkyou after killing his teammate Rin.

For all we know, Kakashi somehow developed the Magenkyou in between the two year and a half timeskip between the Naruto series and the Shippuuden.

I've been debating with myself now if perhaps the only way to achieve the MS is indeed killing your best friend. I don't know about the others who managed to activate (Madara, Izuna and Shisui). Did they kill their best friend as well for this? In deciding to give Naruto the Mangenkyou Sharingan in this story without him killing anyone important to him, would it be wrong to go down this road? I just don't know what to do about this anymore. That being said, I'd like your opinion about it. Simply abide by the concept of the world created by Kishimoto or bend it slightly to create another method of giving him the MS.

It's your call really. I am a loss here.

Now, since giving him the MS is only going to happen later, I don't have to focus on this subject right now. Just that depending on what you guys decide, I might have to change the earlier chapters to rectify.

Moving on, last chapter, Naruto and Jiraiya got to travel throughout Fire Country searching for the sannin Tsunade and convince her to go back to Konoha and accept the title of Godaime Hokage. In the mean time, the pervert sannin trained the chunnin in both his elements as well as the first steps to the Rasengan. Now, as Jiraiya was able to find Tsunade without Naruto who is resting right now, will Jiraiya be able to convince the woman to come back. Let's check it out.

Chapter 15 – Godaime

Beta: Kyuubi123

When Naruto woke up, he realized with surprise that it was already day time outside.

The last memory he had was arriving in Tanzaku City and finishing the second step of the rasengan, before falling unconscious on the ground. Next thing he knew he was inside a hotel room the very next day. Jiraiya wasn't anywhere nearby, which to him wasn't much of a surprise. It wasn't the first time he had done that and it wouldn't be the last, he mused. What Naruto found odd about the room was that he wasn't alone. On the bed that supposed to be Jiraiya's, there was what appeared to be a red amphibian wearing a blue vest. The damn animal was snoring and producing a loud and annoying noise that the chunnin wondered how tired he was that he wasn't awakened by it.

Quickly throwing a pillow, Naruto smirked as the projectile toss hit the snoring animal head on. What he found most peculiar was the fact that he heard actual complaining from the animal.

"What's the big idea here? I was sleeping damn it." Gamakichi looked at the kid whose answer was fixed in simply staring at the toad blinking multiple times. "What are you staring at?"

"You talk?" Gamakichi threw the pillow back at Naruto with a snarl in response to the question.

"Of course, I can talk, I'm a summon toad. The damn pervert summoned me here to watch over you. Though seeing your attitude, I guess he wanted to get away and put me here instead." Naruto frowned at the jab, but said nothing. He simply got up and looked around a bit. Jiraiya had placed him inside the room yesterday and it was morning now and he was still due to show himself. He wasn't worried about the sannin's safety or anything remotely related. His participation in this mission was merely to accompany the man as he searched for the only female member of the Sannin, Senju Tsunade. Without him around, the boy was left with nothing to do except wait. He turned to the toad that was looking at him with a frown on its face because of the pillow incident.

"Did he say anything to you? Where he is at the moment or if I'm supposed to meet him when I woke up?" Gamakichi, though, wasn't in the mood to answer anything.

"I'm not saying anything until you apologize." Naruto frowned at the toad, but complied.

"I'm sorry about throwing a pillow at you. You were snoring so loud it was getting annoying." The toad snorted.

"Apology accepted, I guess. No, he didn't say anything to me. He just wanted for me to watch out if something happened to you while you're alone. Now that you're awake, I guess I'll be going now." Naruto nodded before the toad vanished from this world, leaving the blond alone with his thoughts. Actually, he had but one thought in his mind which was filling the void that was inside his stomach. Since meeting Itachi and that partner of his, Naruto actually felt a bit against leaving the hotel on his own, at least for now since he didn't know if they would try to capture him once more. With that thought in mind, Naruto left the room and went to the hotel lobby where there was a small restaurant.

The chunnin was surprised when he saw the damn pervert inside the restaurant literally passed out in the furthest table.

It was times like these that he wished he had a few suiton jutsu to throw at the man to wake him up. Quickly placing his order, Naruto took a seat in front of his temporary sensei, while waiting for his water bottle to be brought by the waiter, along with a nice bowl of ramen. It took a total of ten minutes for Naruto's order to be ready as the waiter placed it on the table. The chunnin thanked the man and slowly opened the bottle of water, before slowly placing it over Jiraiya's head. The old man lifted his head quickly, screaming Tsunade over and over again.

"Morning sleeping beauty…" Jiraiya frowned once he saw Naruto, before rubbing his head to ease the worst hangover he ever had in his life. What was he thinking, challenging Tsunade to a drinking contest?

"Morning brat." Naruto snorted and wondered what the hell happened last night for his sensei to look like he was beaten to death.

"What happened last night? I blacked out from training and the next thing I remember is waking up inside some room next to a talking toad with an attitude problem." Jiraiya smirked at the question while searching the waiter of the place to bring him something for the headache. Truth be told, the events of last night weren't one hundred percent clear yet. What he did remember was the alcohol and his surprise at seeing his teammate drink as much as she did without dire repercussions, aside from massive hangover. He noticed that Naruto was still waiting for an answer and if possible, his headache only increased. Seriously, it will take a while for him to even think of sake without feeling the urge to vomit.

"Easy brat…I have just woken up from a massive drinking contest. Please come back with the question a bit later." Naruto sighed but realized he didn't give that much of a damn to what really happened.

The pervert was here after all.

"Not that I care much anyway, but did you at least find the woman you're looking for?" Naruto resumed his lunch once he saw Jiraiya nod while still nurturing his headache. Silence reigned after the awkward conversation. Naruto had his entire focus on his meal while Jiraiya's was focused on the table in front of him. Nothing would come from this for a while. Ten minutes later, though, the blond chunnin finished his meal and he noticed that the pervert was asleep once more. He sighed in dismay at the situation and paid the meal. He needed to at least extend the same courtesy and take Jiraiya to their room. Naruto knew, though, that he just couldn't carry the man by himself, meaning he needed the help of his bunshin. Summoning a tiger for this just wasn't worth the chakra waste. Naruto ignored the stares given by the hotel staff as well as the other guests.

In all fairness, things like this happened all the time in this town, so why people kept staring he didn't know.

After getting inside their room and ignoring the presence of a crow by the room window, Naruto and his clones threw Jiraiya towards the bed. So powerful was the hangover that Jiraiya didn't even feel his head banging against the bed's headboard. The original chunnin sighed once he heard one of his clones mumble the word 'oops'. Once that was out of the way, the boy figured that he didn't have better things to do, so he just hopped on his bed and took the material he acquired from the Uchiha Clan's Library. Aside from fire manipulation, Naruto had found a bit on the sharingan as well. Kyuubi did say it would be prudent to train the eyes as well, since it is considered one of his tools. Truth be told, Naruto hadn't give it much thought about what Kyuubi mentioned as the next evolution of the sharingan eyes, called Mangenkyou Sharingan. The prospect of killing your best friend seemed so unreal to Naruto that he wondered how twisted one would be to first form a bond with someone only to kill him or her in the end.

His sharingan was perfect that way it was at least for the time being.

Back to studying mode, Naruto began to analyze his own eyes, silently listing its uses. With the use of his eyes, he could anticipate physical attacks as he saw them coming in slow mode. He constantly trained his body to get used to the speed, but he had to continue training in that regard. He still had trouble following a jounin's speed, but he was slowly getting there. The sharingan also gave him an ace in ninjutsu as he was able to copy the opponent's techniques as well as understand what the enemy was throwing at him before it actually happened. He figured that this way Naruto could defend accordingly. Another quality of the sharingan, and one that Naruto rarely exploited, was genjutsu. Truth be told, the only genjutsu technique he had was the one that Kakashi taught him. Naruto supposed that he had focused way too much time on improving his ninjutsu and taijutsu, practically dismissing his genjutsu capabilities. He figured that once he returned to Konoha, he could get his hands on a few techniques. For now, Naruto figured that practicing genjutsu now was a good form of training.

For an obvious reason, he couldn't train his ninjutsu inside a hotel room.

That being said, Naruto summoned a few kage bunshins before activating his sharingan eyes and casting Kakashi's ocular genjutsu on them. When the last one was dispelled, Naruto wanted to slap himself as he forgot that he could ask for a friend's help to learn some genjutsu techniques. Gathering a bit of chakra and sacrificing blood, he summoned Shirotora once more. The boy was surprised, however, when on top of the summon's head was a small cub, biting Shirotora's ear with as much force as it could muster. Naruto realized that perhaps he had interrupted something here.

(AN: Yes, it seems I have forgotten to name the tiger summon, so Shirotora it is.)

"Uh, did I call you in a bad time?" The summons quickly threw the cub on the floor and looked at his summoner.

"Seeing the lack of danger you're in right now, I'd say yes you did." Shirotora said, earning an apologetic nod from Naruto. "Now that I'm here, what can I help you with?" Naruto didn't get to explain, though, before he was tackled by the small white tiger that was bothering Shirotora. The act alone made the big white tiger smile if such a thing was possible. "He seems to have a liking to you Naruto, perhaps you could do me a favor and get him away from my ear a bit, his teeth are starting to grow." Naruto nodded with a smile on his face as he started to wrestle with the small cub. For a cub, the little one was a bit smaller than half of Shirotora's size. Naruto placed the cub on the ground, before turning to Shirotora with a smile.

"I was wondering if you could teach me a genjutsu technique or two. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't focus much on illusions as I should." The tiger nodded, all too eager to appease his summoner's needs.

Shirotora didn't remember the last time his ear wasn't a chew toy. He already knew from the top of his head, two genjutsu techniques that would fit nicely to the summoner, since both of them are rather unique to Naruto's set of eyes. Magen Kasegui no Jutsu (Demonic Illusion Shackling Stakes) and Magen Kyouten Chiten (Demonic Illusion Mirror Heaven and Earth Change) were techniques developed by the Uchiha Clan, since it's better used by looking directly at the opponent's eyes. Since Shirotora didn't have the sharingan, he could only teach the theory behind it and serve as a test subject to his summoner. Because of Naruto's giant chakra reserves, he had to struggle a bit to maintain the slow flow of chakra necessary to keep up the illusion. It took the chunnin a couple of hours to learn the first one and the second technique consisted of using the opponent's chakra and turn it to the caster.

No one in the room noticed when the crow that was in the window flew away.

===Somewhere in Fire Country===

Itachi and Kisame were walking by when the crow that was busy spying on Naruto landed on his shoulder. A brief look on the crow's eyes made the Uchiha smile briefly. According to his summon, Naruto had asked the help of his own summon to learn some sharingan oriented genjutsu techniques. It was quite interesting as Itachi always pegged Naruto as being a more ninjutsu oriented individual. Being better-rounded, his skills will soon be enough for him to defend himself against the majority of his enemies out there. Itachi's outfit managed to cover his smirk from Kisame, but the shark like shinobi couldn't help but comment on the bird's sudden appearance.

"Any luck in finding the brat?" Itachi negated with his head.

"Now that Jiraiya is on to us, he won't allow us to get close. The crow had to dodge a few kunai once it attempted to follow." Kisame snorted, but dismissed it for the time.

"What now?" Kisame asked as they continued to walk, when both received the signal from their ring.

"We go back to the base, it seems."

===With Naruto===

With nothing better to do now that he managed to learn genjutsu, Naruto decided to wait until Jiraiya woke up. Shirotora was gone stating that he needed to take care of some things. He left the cub there, though. Naruto guessed that the little nuisance was too much for the older tiger and wanted some relaxing time. Naruto was okay with looking out for the little one as the cub now settled to pester Jiraiya instead of him. It was quite amusing to see the small tiger confuse Jiraiya's long white hair with fur. It wouldn't take long for the cub to start what appeared to be his most precious hobby and bite Jiraiya's ear. As soon as the small teeth grabbed the pervert's ear, he screamed in pain and jumped from the bed.

The cub was surprised as hell and jumped away as soon as he sensed danger. Naruto had to marvel at the little guy's agility. The little tiger was already behind Naruto when Jiraiya stood up with a kunai in hand.

"Where is the little shit? I'll skewer him alive Where is he?" His eyes landed on the white fur behind Naruto and smirked. Suddenly, though, he felt tired all of a sudden and a bit woozy. His instincts immediately kicked in as he saw Naruto's sharingan spinning madly like a cartwheel. Quickly dispelling the genjutsu, he looked at the kid in front of him with a new light. Thus far, Jiraiya wasn't aware that Naruto was capable of using genjutsu, being such a fanatic for elemental ninjutsu.

"I see you calmed down somewhat. I couldn't allow you to harm him. Until his father arrives, he is my responsibility." Jiraiya saw the kid extending his head and gently caressed the cub's chin, much to the little guy's enjoyment. "Now that your headache is over, you can tell me what happened yesterday?" Jiraiya nodded and took a sit on his bed, still rather amused to see the cute little tiger melting under Naruto's caress. He couldn't tell but it appeared that the small tiger was almost falling asleep. He became serious since the memory had fully returned by now. He began to explain the events of last night, starting with placing Naruto inside their room and then looking for Tsunade. He explained how reluctant the woman was at accepting to come back to Konoha, based on what happened to her brother and lover. Naruto couldn't help but extend his sympathies, even though he couldn't begin to understand the prospect of losing a member of the family.

He was born without one.

Jiraiya then explained how stubborn the woman was behaving, going as far as to threaten him to use that super strength of hers if he didn't stop talking. With that, Jiraiya went for the strategic fallback and vowed to try again throughout the week. Jiraiya told that he had placed a tracking seal close to her position, allowing him to track her at all times now. Naruto nodded, before smoke appeared inside the room. Shirotora was there and took the cub back to their realm.

"So what now?" Naruto asked, earning a smile from the perverted sannin.

"We will go meet her once more. I'll talk to her while you keep practicing the final phase of the rasengan." Naruto didn't appear very convinced of the plan. From what he learned from the woman, it was clear that Jiraiya's attempts weren't enough. Nevertheless, Naruto figured that for him the only thing that mattered right now was getting stronger under the pervert's guidance. With or without Tsunade, they would simply return home and Naruto would begin doing chunnin assignments. As they left the room, Jiraiya found it in his good nature to warn Naruto of the woman's rather short temper. "Brat, just don't say anything to anger her. I'm running through a thin layer here and any misinterpretation on her part, and the mission is a failure."

"Not that I mind much about it, but you don't need to worry about me. You're the one who knows her best." Jiraiya looked at the kid for a while and nodded.

Indeed, Naruto wouldn't know of the repercussions of not having Tsunade as the Hokage. He had already declined the position, so he was sure that the next available choice wouldn't think twice before accepting. Jiraiya wouldn't dare think of what would happen to Konoha if Danzou were to be nominated as the Godaime Hokage. It is something that only jounin and above knew actually. Once out of the hotel, Jiraiya quickly turned to the right and walked towards what appeared to be an open field. Naruto started to question where they were going until he saw two women next to a river stream watching what appeared to be a pig drinking some water.

From the picture he remembered of Tsunade's appearance, Naruto wondered what the hell was going on here.

Jiraiya had explained that the picture was taken a long time ago. However, the woman didn't appear older than Kakashi or Kasumi. Sensing something amiss as they walked, Naruto quickly activated the sharingan and lifted his eyebrow in surprise at the henge. The pervert sannin saw what Naruto was doing and placed a hand on his shoulder, forcing Naruto to look at him. A simple nod was enough to tell Naruto that it was a sensitive topic.

"Hi there, Tsunade" Jiraiya said as he approached the woman. Naruto didn't bother staying by his side. He began his training with the rasengan, completely ignoring the presence of the two women.

"What are you doing here, Jiraiya? I already told you 'no' and who is the brat?" Jiraiya turned briefly to observe Naruto's work with the rasengan, before looking back at her.

"He is Uzumaki Naruto and I've taken him with me here to teach him a couple things." Jiraiya ignored the brief look of surprise that both Tsunade and her companion Shizune had since both of them knew about the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. "As to what I'm doing here, I merely wish to converse with you, Tsunade. Yesterday, you were rather impatient with me once I came with the news, but now that you had time to mull over, I want to hear your response." Tsunade was looking at the chunnin when she heard Jiraiya speaking once more. She shot him a fierce glare at the mention of said topic, but soon realized that this time something different occurred.

For one, Jiraiya was meeting her gaze head on. Tsunade became enraged at this and moved to punch Jiraiya. She was surprised when a wall of earth lifted right in front of Jiraiya.

In normal circumstances, her punch would go through the wall like it wasn't even there, but she was focusing only one third of her strength to beat some sense into her once teammate. When the wall went down, she met his gaze and found in surprise that he was surprised as well. He turned to see the kid only to see him placing both hands on the ground. The pervert couldn't help but smirk at the kid. His sharingan must have caught the woman's intention to go through with the technique.

"Oi Naruto, you didn't need to protect me you know." Jiraiya was rather amused at the situation. The chunnin just shrugged it off.

"She was about to attack and you wouldn't lift a finger to stop it." The perverted sannin smirked and then turned to see that Tsunade was still looking at Naruto or rather the red eyes that she was familiar with.

He figured that a little explanation was in order. That and Tsunade practically demanded answers.

"Spill it Jiraiya, how does he possess the sharingan? Naruto is not an Uchiha." Jiraiya nodded, explaining the entire story to the woman while Naruto shrugged and went back to his rasengan training. The technique was ridiculously difficult, he cursed. The first and second steps were rather easy to complete, but keeping up the rotation and the force at the same time was impossible. It was like looking left and right at the same time. Perhaps he could use a clone to split the work, but that wouldn't be completing the technique like Jiraiya was able to. Meanwhile, Jiraiya had finished explaining the events that allowed Naruto to have the accursed doujutsu. To say the woman was surprised was an understatement.

The Kyuubi event alone already brought the kid lots of traumatic events. She wondered how the boy's mind was able to cope with such strain.

"I'm still waiting for your answer, Tsunade. Will you come back to Konoha with us and become the Godaime Hokage?" Tsunade looked at the pervert once more.

"My answer is the same, Jiraiya. You're only wasting your time. Shizune, we're leaving." The woman sannin just walked away followed by Shizune who was now holding the pig on her arms. Jiraiya just stood there, looking at the same place as if Tsunade hadn't moved. Despite the woman's repeated denial, Jiraiya couldn't help but smirk and wonder in silence how much he really enjoyed pestering his old teammate. The pervert was now in one of those situations where you simply cannot fail. That being said, he would have to apologize to her later, because if it was one thing that Jiraiya never did was to give up. When Naruto approached nearby while looking at Tsunade's back, he then looked at his temporary sensei.

"Can we go home now? It's clear that whatever you're attempting isn't working." Naruto, though, saw the smirk on the pervert's face.

"Kid, clearly you know nothing of convincing others through exhaustion. I wouldn't be here right now as awesome as I am today if I backed down so easily. I can still track her and I won't stop until she either kills me or accepts the position." Naruto looked at the man and sighed. He at least had to give it to Jiraiya. The man was more stubborn than a mule. The pervert looked at his temporary student and with the same smirk as before, cracked his knuckles a bit. "How about we set the rasengan training aside for a moment and spar a little. We can use all the techniques you wish against me and I will do the same, obviously not to the extreme of aiming to kill. You're allowed to, though." The blond smirked with his sharingan already activated.

"Now you're talking…"

===With Tsunade===

Shizune was looking at her master's back with nothing but concern at the present situation.

She knew that there was another reason why she was giving Jiraiya-sama such a hard time. Days before Jiraiya's arrival, they were confronted by the other sannin Orochimaru and his second in command. The man surely knew how to convince Tsunade into doing his bidding. In exchange for healing his arms that were lost at his fight against the Sandaime Hokage, Orochimaru offered the resurrection of two people that happened to be Tsunade's entire life, Tsunade's little brother Senju Nawaki and Shizune's uncle Dan. Shizune remembered seeing the predatory smirk on the snake sannin's face as he saw the amount of conflicting pain in her master's face.

Never before she realized how akin to a snake, Orochimaru looked like. He knew that simply pleading for her help wouldn't be enough, so he offered her the only thing that no one could.

He gave them a week to decide and Shizune believed her master would refuse right away at first. When she didn't outright refuse, Shizune became preoccupied. How could she fault Tsunade really? Dan was her uncle as well, but her love for the man couldn't even compare to Tsunade's. They were schedule to be married after all. In all fairness, Shizune believed they didn't even have to show up to the meeting with the snake sannin. She didn't know what her master was thinking and that worried her greatly.

"Tsunade-sama…" The blonde woman turned her neck slightly to look at Shizune's clearly worried eyes. She immediately knew what her prodigy was thinking.

Shizune couldn't see but Tsunade was looking towards the ground without any kind of focus right now. She just wanted to walk towards random directions, hoping that an answer falls in front of her. She just didn't know what to do concerning the damn snake. The one thing she wanted most right now was to see those two once more. She missed the strong and warmth feeling of being embraced by her lover. He was always there for her, supporting her goals, hugging her when she needed. Above all things, she missed the way he looked at her with such passionate feeling. In Nawaki, she missed his bright smile when he would come and show her some of his skills. She even missed teasing the little guy when she saw him with a girl his age. Her body started shaking at the bottled memories that were starting to appear before her eyes. She was desperate to see them again. However…

Could she bring herself to betray her village and help Konoha's worst criminal? Shizune's unasked question had no answer.

"I just don't know Shizune. I just don't know." Shizune nodded with even sadder look than before upon seeing Tsunade's situation. Her worst fear was now happening and she didn't know what to do.

"We can tell Jir…" Shizune immediately speaking at the mere look from her master's eyes. The look alone told her more than enough. However, for all the love she had for her master, she couldn't allow her to go down this path on her own. With that thought, Shizune would wait until the woman was asleep and do the right thing.

===At night===

Jiraiya placed an unconscious Naruto on his bed with a smile on his face.

The kid managed to put up one hell of a fight and the pervert sannin was proud to see qualities from both his parents in the kid. He could see Minato's intelligence in the kid's moves, but he also could see some of Kushina's brashness as well. When Jiraiya got up, he flinched at the pain from some attacks that hit him. Naruto's ability in doton ninjutsu was pretty advanced for his age, he mused. His fire techniques were even more dangerous, but at least Jiraiya knew to pay better attention at them, unless he wanted to have second degree burns. The pervert was beat. His stamina was considered smaller than the kid, but the reason he was still standing was because of his experience in wasting less chakra for his techniques.

Jiraiya narrowed his eyes when he sensed a shadow outside the window and moved to intercept. He was surprised, though, when he caught Shizune there of all people.

"Shizune, what you're doing here? Something happened to Tsunade?" Her face appeared conflicted and she was indeed, because she was about to betray Tsunade's trust. The woman nodded and told the pervert everything, consequences be damned. As Jiraiya listened, he began questioning his ex-teammate's ability to play with other's lives like that. When Shizune finished explaining, she saw the pervert's expression and couldn't help but agree with him.

"I appreciate you telling me this Shizune and don't worry. We won't act on it, but we will be present just in case. I can guarantee to you that Tsunade won't turn against the village. She will do the right thing." Shizune nodded with a smile. "I'm also sure that Orochimaru will retaliate. When he does that, we'll be there to stop him. You can trust me on this." Shizune nodded once more, knowing now that she had made the right call. Depending on the situation, getting help from one man rarely solves anything. When said man has the power equivalent to a Kage, though, the story is different, much different. Shizune quickly left and headed straight towards the inn where she and Tsunade were staying

Jiraiya looked at the sleeping form of his student and sighed in dismay. He would need to prepare him to face Orochimaru's second in command together with Shizune. Jiraiya didn't know much about him, but he at least had to raise the stakes in Naruto's training these last two days. The rasengan will need to be mastered before the fight begins. His student would have to resort to blind luck and a huge amount of hard work to get where Jiraiya needed him to be.

===Day of the meeting===

When the day came for Tsunade to give her answer, Orochimaru and his wing man Kabuto were standing in a deserted clearing surrounded by mountains and small vegetation.

The wind today was rather fierce as it lifted quite a bit of dust, thus obscuring the snake sannin's vision of the horizon. However, one wouldn't be a sannin if he couldn't tell that someone was coming without the use of his eyes. The shadow of Tsunade and Shizune soon appeared and Orochimaru couldn't help but show a predatory smile. His psychological warfare brought results after all. It didn't take long for the shadow to morph into the perfect image of his teammate. Orochimaru thus could see the fierce look on her face and smirked even more in amusement. The number one lesson in convincing someone was knowing what he or she most desired and then use it as leverage.

As Tsunade stopped inches from his position, Orochimaru remained the smirk.

"I trust you have the answer, Tsunade?" Tsunade nodded. Shizune looked at the scene with great apprehension.

"Can you really bring them back?" Orochimaru smirked and responded with a nod, while subtly studying the reaction of the woman behind Tsunade. She appeared surprised at the decision. "Extend your arms then."

The snake sannin did just that, before Tsunade's hands started glowing green. However, she was forced to dodge back as soon as Kabuto attacked her with a kunai. The snake sannin simply looked at his second in command with a questioning look.

"I know that technique, Orochimaru-sama, she was trying to kill you." The snake sannin heard the snarl from Tsunade and smirked.

"How devious of you Tsunade-hime, lucky for me I have powerful allies by my side. Now that you've given me your answer, I'm afraid I can't let you live." Tsunade, though, didn't wait and immediately charged at Orochimaru who maintained his smirk when Kabuto appeared in front of him. Tsunade merely scoffed at the opposition and kept charging. What happened next, though, caught Shizune by surprise as Kabuto deliberately caused a wound on his arm, spilling a large amount of blood straight on Tsunade's face. Her heart skipped a beat as the red liquid hit her face. Her pupils became dilated. She was no longer in the clearing, but back to the event that caused her hemophobia to start. Her lover Dan bleeding profusely on the ground under a heavy rain. Tsunade's hands were filled with his blood. Kabuto in the mean time smirked at the woman and charged to kill her with a simple kunai stab on her neck.

However, before he made one more step, everyone was surprised that the last member of the Sannin came with a roundhouse kick that hit Kabuto, sending him near Orochimaru.

"It's such a pleasure to meet you here of all places Orochimaru." The snake sannin looked at his teammate with a frown as he noticed that another person had joined the battle as well. Orochimaru saw the sharingan eyes in the Kyuubi brat and snarled since he couldn't take possession of his body because of the fox inside of him. Since he couldn't get the sharingan, there was no reason that Orochimaru saw in keeping the brat alive. Also in killing him, he manages to ruin the plans of a certain organization that is after the bijuu.

"You're nothing but a fool Jiraiya and now you'll share the same fate as sensei. Kabuto, please deal with the other brats."

The second in command nodded, before Orochimaru jumped away followed by Jiraiya confident that Naruto and Shizune will be okay against this man.

===Naruto's fight===

Kabuto thought nothing of the other S-ranked fight and neither the shaking form of Tsunade on the ground.

He just charged at his first target, being Shizune. With good agility, though, the medic-nin lifted the sleeve of her kimono and unleashed a barrage of senbon towards Kabuto, who simply dodged and kept his frontal assault with a smirk on his face. Medic-nin weren't known for their prowess in the field. Shizune even attempted to parry the man's attack with a kunai of her own, but Kabuto once more dodged before breaking the woman's rather frail taijutsu guard. The look on her executioner's face was evident that she was doomed right there. Tsunade never focused much in training her in combat skills, focusing instead in improving her knowledge and chakra control necessary to survive in the field of medicine.

However, when instead of the noise of metal piercing flesh and a subsequent feeling of immeasurable pain, Shizune only heard a loud noise of metal clinging against metal and looked down.

Naruto was there parrying Kabuto's kunai with his sword, as he looked with his fully evolved sharingan. Kabuto quickly reacted using his chakra scalpels, but Naruto had already created some distance from the guy by taking Shizune away from the damage. He placed her near Tsunade for protection, before facing Kabuto. Shizune was shocked by the speed, before she remembered the sharingan's capabilities of anticipating the enemy's movements. Naruto immediately went through hand seals, before gathering air inside his lungs.

Katon Dai Endan (Fire Release: Grand Fireball Technique)

Kabuto dodged the fireball easily, but saw the sudden shuriken that came at him from a different direction, forcing him to block using a kunai. Naruto saw the opportunity and charged with both his swords in hand. Because of the sharingan, all his moves were governed according to the information received by the accursed dojutsu. Which meant that Naruto was forcing Orochimaru's second in command to use all his agility to avoid the death slices of his swords. Still, Naruto wasn't as fast as a jounin and he couldn't keep up forever. Knowing this and avoiding another chakra scalpel, Naruto went through another set of hand seals, this time focusing on a different element.

Doton Doryuu Dangan (Earth Release: Mud Shot Technique)

The consecutive shots hit Kabuto head on, but he was replaced with a mud clone soon afterward, appearing behind the still shaking Tsunade. Naruto cursed the man and focused chakra through his feet in order to keep him from reaching Tsunade. Luckily for him, Shizune was quick on her feet and unleashed a black smoke from her mouth that stopped Kabuto's movement, giving Naruto ample time to not only arrive, but also send a clone underground. When the smoke cleared, Kabuto appeared not at all bothered with the poison smoke that Shizune unleashed at him.

"Foolish girl, I am immune to most poisons thanks to Orochimaru-sama. I…" Kabuto was surprised when a hand grabbed his leg and began to bring him below ground. Kabuto used his scalpel to kill the clone, but Naruto wasn't counting on that actually working. He was more interested in unleashing his Katon Kaen no Arashi (Fire Release: Fire Storm Technique) at the slightly trapped Kabuto who couldn't do anything but be hit dead on by the flames. His body was covered with second degree burns, but the man just kept smirking. "You have to do a lot more than this to…" Kabuto wasn't very proficient in fighting against the sharingan, hence he didn't know that the worst thing one could do was to look straight at Naruto's eyes.

Magen Kasegui no Jutsu (Demonic Illusion Shackling Stakes)

Kabuto was staring at the kid in front of him while trying with all his might to move his body, but something was stopping him from doing so. He saw the kid extending his hand and wondered what the hell he was up to now. Orochimaru's second in command widened his eyes when he realized that he could see the chakra being molded. Naruto, for his part, was using every inch of his concentration in order to maintain the steady level of chakra for the genjutsu through his eyes and focus on the Rasengan. Throughout the last two days, he had summoned a good number of kage bunshins to aid him in controlling the damn technique. He wasn't about to fail now. When the rasengan was finished, Naruto charged with considerable speed at Kabuto and released the genjutsu on him just as he slammed the rasengan in Kabuto's stomach. The man's scream echoed through the clearing as the gigantic ball of energy sent him flying towards a sizeable rock.

Tsunade has already awoken from her trauma since Shizune managed to clean the blood from her face. She was able to see the chunnin dealing with Kabuto.

She could see the fierce resolve in the kid, even though she was looking at his back. Tsunade was suddenly shocked out of her core as hallucinations started to appear behind Naruto. She saw her lover Dan and her brother Nawaki next to Naruto, giving the same pose. Was it a hallucination? When the chunnin turned to see her, both Dan and Nawaki turned at the same time. Now, all three were looking at her, before Dan and Nawaki were longer there.

"Are you alright?" The woman briefly nodded, still dumbstruck. Here she was, a sannin known throughout the elemental nations as the strongest kunoichi, being saved by a chunnin.

Tsunade sensed that the images were saying something to her. It was like the two most important people in her life were there giving Naruto strength to face the opposition. Slowly but surely, she got up. Kabuto, for his part, had a hole on his stomach. Despite the fact that his body was healing, the damage done by the attack was keeping him from openly moving once more. He had never faced this kind of pain before as he fell on the ground.

===Orochimaru x Jiraiya===

The fight between sannin was fierce and despite the fact that Orochimaru couldn't use his arms; it didn't mean that the man was less dangerous.

Aside from his arms, Orochimaru could extend his neck, his legs and even jutsus that require little to no hand seals like the mud bunshin and kawarimi. Thus for all the power that Jiraiya placed in his jutsu, Orochimaru would simply move out of the way and attack Jiraiya with the hidden kusanagi that he can fight with using his tongue. However, the fight soon came at a halt as Orochimaru saw how the Kyuubi brat was fairing against Kabuto. It only made him angrier at how the sharingan was keeping Kabuto from even landing a hit on the kid whereas the kid was doing all sorts of damage to him. When he saw his wing man flying because of the rasengan, Orochimaru realized that he needed to kill him.

Moving quickly, he escaped from the fight and charged straight at Naruto's back with his kusanagi, aiming to kill the brat. Jiraiya realized it too late to stop him.

===With Tsunade===

Tsunade saw the image behind Naruto's back approaching.

Orochimaru was charging at him with a sword on his tongue ready to pierce Naruto's skin like a knife through butter. Her body started trembling as she realized that the boy wouldn't be fast enough to dodge, even if he acknowledged the threat to his life right now. Using all her speed and focusing all her chakra through her legs, Tsunade charged and stood in front of the already shocked Naruto. The noise of metal piercing flesh shocked everyone, including Orochimaru who cursed the woman for standing in his way of ruining Akatsuki's plans. Tsunade was still trembling as the wound drew a large amount of blood…her own.

"You don't even know this kid, Tsunade. Yet you sacrifice your own life for him." Orochimaru's sword was still inside her as he saw Tsunade speaking while still trembling.

"I've saw something in him; something that showed me that perhaps I've been away for far too long." When her body stopped shaking Orochimaru realized that he was screwed. He received a powerful uppercut on his chin. Orochimaru was on the ground as he saw Tsunade going through hand seals, before the seal on her forehead was gone and smoke erupted from the wound caused by the Kusanagi. "I've seen the images of both my loved ones behind him which tells me that the kid is something special to them. Because of this…" Tsunade was now glaring at Orochimaru fiercely. "You may now call me the Godaime Hokage." Orochimaru narrowed his eyes just as Jiraiya appeared by her side. He knew better than to face his two teammates on his own since Kabuto was out of commission. He immediately left via shunshin and arrived near Kabuto, before vanishing from the premise. Jiraiya turned to the woman with a lecherous smirk on his face as Naruto appeared in front of them.

"Ah…thank you for saving me." Tsunade smirked at the kid.

"Think nothing of it gaki, it's merely retribution." Naruto nodded as Tsunade turned to Jiraiya. "Shall we go?"

Author Note

Ok that's it for the moment.

Not much to say except that I enjoy writing action scenes.

Tell me what you think and please remember to give your opinion on the Mangenkyou Sharingan. If I should stick to the Kishimoto's world and not give Naruto the Mangenkyou Sharingan since I am not planning for him to kill someone close to him or if I can give him the MS by placing him through life and death situations and training through death? You're choice.

Best Regards.