Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 74
"Stop being such a baby. If you don't want to feel this, then don't get hurt so stupidly in the first place. It was just a spar, there was no need for you two to get so damn serious!" she chortled him down furiously, putting the final knot down on the bandage and cheekily smiled seeing him nod in defeat.
He really had gotten carried away, but still he had ended it quickly too he mused…
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That would teach him to be reckless like that in suh a simple spar, she mused…
"But you didn't make any hand seals…" Tsunade blinked upon hearing that. Turning around to see Jiraiya's thoughtful face, she decided to answer his queries and put them to rest.
"He doesn't need to…" was her simple answer. But seeing the pervert blink obliviously, she decided to elaborate on her point. "…he's a Sharingan user.
He doesn't need to make any hand seals for genjutsu, or even a medium to induce it into his opponent. He can do it with eye contact alone. It was over the moment Orochi looked him in the eye." she explained with a sagely nod, feeling quite intelligent all of a sudden.
"Stop giving away my secrets…" Naruto muttered, feigning annoyance and quite enjoyed the irritated look that flashed in her eyes.
"He already knows! Sarutobi-sensei already explained that to us months ago. The baka just forgot!" she retorted hotly, her cheeks flushed red in anger and not seeing Jiraiya's sheepish face at remembering the truth behind her words.
His sensei had indeed told them never to look an Uchiha possessing the Sharingan in the eye if they were to engage him in battle.
Looks like Orochimaru had forgotten it too, and the thought made him grin like an idiot at finding some information to embarrass the hell out of that stuck up bastard.
"Come on, Mito Baa-chan asked me to get you for lunch at her place." Tsunade's soft voice broke the two out of their reverie. And Jiraiya looked on seeing Naruto nod in slight jealousy.
She had never invited him over to her house in all the months she had known him, though he had made himself be known there on his own… but that wasn't the point.
The point was - his crush had never even invited him over to her place…
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A moment later he was crouching down behind them with his back turned to them, and drew circles in the ground - a dark cloud looming over his head.
"Yeah, let's go…" he heard Naruto say, even he had forgotten about him…he thought, all the while crying anime tears. "…oh wait a moment! I almost forgot…" Tsunade blinked obliviously at Naruto's sudden exclamation who turned back to Jiraiya with a smile.
"Jiraiya…" said boy perking up hearing his name, and snapped his neck back happily. He was already sooo accepting the invitation…
"I'm coming…" though what he didn't expect Naruto to be right in front of him. In mid air to be more specific, while pivoting his heel down towards his face in a horizontal arc like he had done for Orochimaru.
Though unlike Orochimaru, Jiraiya wasn't aware enough to dodge…
And it made contact…, with a sickening crunch while the white haired boy was launched to the side in a small dust heap. He could see stars in his head and most probably had a swollen jaw…if he was lucky that is… if he wasn't so lucky it was most likely a dislocated one - which it felt like it was…
What the hell had he done to deserve that? He was completely innocent…
"Don't peep on Tsunade again."
Scratch that, he had deserved that one.
Tsunade though had turned slightly pink hearing that and quickly made her way near Naruto's back. She fisted the back of his shirt in her palms and leaned her lips close to his ear out of pure embarrassment. He was such an idiot…
"You didn't have to do that." was her soft whisper, it was so embarrassing. If her grandmother got so much as a hint of this…
Oh kami, she shuddered to think of the endless teasing she would be open to.
"I know, but I wanted to do that." was his simple reply before he was walking out the field and towards the Uzumaki clan compounds in his usual lazy stride. As if nothing had occurred in the first place.
Tsunade kneeled down in front of the painfully moaning boy on the ground. As much of a pervert he was, she still pitied him. That looked like it had hurt…
Her hands clasped his cheeks in her palms, letting her medical chakra to do what she could for momentarily soothing his pain. A small gasp escaped her lips realizing it was dislocated and she shook the dizzy boy roughly to snap him awake.
"Come on, you can come to Baa-chan's house. We'll have some lunch and she'll heal you too." she muttered worriedly, turning quite confused when she saw a flash of horror on his face as if he had just seen a ghost.
Was she really so frightening…?
Jiraiya's train of thoughts were a lot different than hers. If the ever calm, lazy and peaceful Uchiha had reacted that way for his actions that were committed the previous morning … then the stern, strict and stuck up woman he had met earlier - the same one who quite enjoyed pulling and twisting his ear - if she were to become aware of his exploits…
He gulped thickly and shuddered. Just imagining what an overprotective grandmother would do to him scared him completely out of his wits and he shook his head violently - which as much as it hurt, would be nothing compared to what he would have to endure if she got her hands on him…
"I'll pass…" his words and voice were strangely muffled, courtesy of his aching jaw and Tsunade blinked innocently. She was about to retort in negative when Jiraiya nudged her back gently to make her get on her way.
"You go on, I'll go to the hospital with Orochimaru…" he got out with a cringe in his same slurry voice, baffling the girl even further. But she knew better than to push on someone's boundaries when she knew she was being sent away, so she simply nodded her affirmative.
"Alright, but you go to the hospital quickly 'kay?" she asked him in a worried voice, one that warmed his heart that she cared. He bobbed his head up and down happily.
Not all was bad at least, he recited and almost danced inwardly…
Jiraiya watched on longingly as the girl ran back with a slight hop to her feet to fall back at Naruto's side who was walking slowly so she could catch up to him.
And both started a hushed whispering conversation with each other that he couldn't quite hear. Though, her ever soft giggles made his heart flutter and he was content on watching her chirpy face until she was out of his eyesight and looked back at a now awake Orochimaru with a pained smile.
Letting his feet make his way to the snake eyed boy, he decided to let him be his escort so he could fill in those Kami annoying forms at the hospital that irritated him to no ends…
Though he was a bit confused at Orochimaru's own eyes containing a glint he hadn't seen ever before in those amber eyes in all the time he had known him for.
A look of longing and pure curiosity …
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