42 Ch. 42

A/N: Yo. Lost my mojo pretty hard, work caught up to me and just no will to write. This chapter has been sitting half written in my google docs for a while and I decided to finish it at the very least. I'm slowly dipping my foot back into writing, don't know if it will be a daily thing like before or not at all. I am enjoying being just a reader, but still frustrated at some of the Fan-fictions that I'm like "I was doing it better, I want to write something I liked." I want to say thank you to the people who have still been commenting, and giving power stones, that really gave me the urge to publish this.

--Zach's POV--

After dinner, I gathered my wife, Shizune, Jiraiya, and called out the ghost of Mito to follow us to our room. I closed the door behind everyone and activated the security enchants and motioned everyone to take a seat. Everyone found a spot, in a semi-circle around Tsunade and they left me a spot next to my wife, which I gladly took.

Zach: "So, ya'll are probably wondering what the hell I just built."

Jiraiya: "That's an understatement."

Mito: "How did you get the room so big? That's not something fuinjutsu can do."

Shizune: "Why do you need such a big interior?"

Tsunade: "Quiet everyone, let him finish. Please continue dear."

Nodding to Tsunade in thanks for curving the questions, I turned back to the group.

Zach: "So, I call it a hyperbolic time chamber. Once you go in it and activate the room, you'll be stuck in there for a year."

Jiraiya: "What use would that be? Why lock yourself in there for a year?"

Zach: "Let me finish! You will spend one year in the room, but out here it would only be one day."

Jiraiya's jaw dropped, followed by everyone else in the room.

Zach: "So, as I said one day out here equals one year in the chamber. I've created enough living quarters for the elite jonins and the ones who are training Naruto's generation, for the first batch. I'm debating if I should let the kids go in with their teams after the first go-round. But either way, we can start cycling shinobis through and get people trained up quickly."

Shizune: "The problem I see is people will be giving up a year of their life just to train. It's a great idea, but if someone uses it more than a couple of times they'll be noticeably older and have less of a life to live."

Zach: "Yeah I was thinking about that too, maybe if we make a cocktail with uhh... You know, it would reverse their aging, like with Tsunade."

Shizune gave a disgusted look at that, Tsunade just laughed and shook her head, everyone else just looked at us clueless. Tsunade coughed, clearing her throat, and pondered how she should word the explanation.

Tsunade: "Jiraiya, you know how I used a jutsu to look younger?"

Jiraiya: "Yeah, it has something to do with your Yin seal right?"

Tsunade: "Well, I don't use it anymore, this is my base form."

Jiraiya just stared at her.

Tsunade: "Zach's uh, bodily fluids act has a restorative property."

Jiraiya continued to stare, Shizune blushed harder than I've ever seen her do before, and Mito just covered her cheeks and looked at me with a raised eyebrow. After a few minutes of gathering his thoughts, Jiraiya replied.

Jiraiya: "There is no way I'm putting another man's bodily fluids in my mouth."

Tsunade laughed at that and replied.

Tsunade: "Look Jiraiya, I've been studying it in my free time. The amount of fluid we'd use in the cocktail will be a minuscule amount in order to keep the rejuvenation factor down. But to make you feel better, his blood will work also. It's less effective, but for our purposes, it will do the trick."

Everyone nodded at that, thinking it was better than the alternative. The conversation continued, and I explained the details of the chamber. Mito was rattling off questions about the fuinjutsu, and I answered her the best I could. Jiraiya's eyes started to sparkle from the conversation while thinking about all the benefits it would bring.

Zach: "Jiraiya, how long do you think it would take for you to master sage form?"

Jiraiya stopped and thought about it for a couple of minutes.

Jiraiya: "I can't tell you for sure, I think maybe 2 years of constant working at it. I'd have to talk to Fukasaku and Shima though."

Zach nodded at his answer.

Zach: "Can you please bring them and ask? I plan on having you train everyone, and I want you to be at your best when you do it."

With that Jiraiya nodded and headed outside to summon the two elder frogs. After he left I held my arm out to Tsunade, and she looked at me funny.

Zach: "I want him to be in his best form, also the two toads as well. You've been researching me, draw the amount that would be needed to bring them to their prime. We've got a lot of ground to make up, and you and him are our tickets to it."

Tsunade: "Fine, but I want Kakashi, Guy, and Naruto to go in there with him.��

Mito: "I would like that also! So I can look at the wonderful work you have done!"

Zach: "Why do you want those three to go in before the main group?"

Tsunade: "A couple of reasons, Kakashi still needs work on his Sharingan. With Kakashi training seriously it will ignite more passion in Guy who will work harder. So they will feed off of each other's rivalry. The reason why I want Naruto in there is that he can learn chakra control from Jiraiya and Kakashi, and work on his Taijutsu with Guy."

Zach sat there shocked and looked into Tsunade's eyes.

Zach: "Wow, you thought of all that just now?"

Tsunade: "Honey, I'm not just a pretty face."

Zach kissed her and smiled.

Zach: "You're much more than that to me."

Mito and Shizune let out a little 'aww' and Tsunade gave me a radiating smile and kissed me. After that Jiraiya walked in with two old toads on his shoulder. The two toads stared at me and jumped off Jiraiya's shoulders and landed on mine.

Fukasaku: "Shima, this boy's energy is amazing. I made a lucky find!"

Shima: "Fukasaku, I'm the one who made this find! His energy is much better than that pervy boy you found."

The two kept bickering for a couple of minutes while everyone facepalmed at their antics and Jiraiya looked like a kicked puppy. As the two toads started to get more riled up in their bickering Tsunade clapped her hands together to break the tension.

Tsunade: "Fuka-Sama, Shima-Sama we want to discuss with you a couple of things."

Shima: "Oh Tsunade-Hime how nice to see you again. Oh wow, you're looking very radiate and happy, congratulations on the pregnancy!"

Fuka: "Ha that a-boy Jiraiya! You've been mooning over her for all these years and finally got her! How drunk did you have to get her to say yes?"

Jiraiya had ended up in a corner squatting down, holding his knees and drawing circles on the floor in a depressed state. I coughed to try and break the awkward tension.

Zach: "I'm the one who put the two inside her. She was pretty drunk, but it was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Fuka: "Hahaha my new favorite shoulder managed to snag the ice queen!"

Shima: "Tsunade you must fill me in on all the details!"

Tsunade just sighed and shook her head.

Tsunade: "I will later Shima. But first, we want to ask a couple of questions and get your input on a couple of things."

Fuka: "What is your question?"

Zach: "Well, I have created a room that distorts time. One year inside the room equates to one day outside. We're going to have the Jonin who are team leaders of genin go in and do training as a community. It will be like a trickle-down effect, the stronger the teachers the stronger the students will get. We're planning on having Jiraiya and Mito being the lead instructors, but Jiraiya needs to get stronger as well. Would you two be willing to go into the training and help Jiraiya finish his Sage Mode training, and how long do you expect it to take."

Fukasaku and Shima were deep in thought after that, bobbing their heads now and then. After a couple of minutes, the two looked at each other and nodded their heads in agreement.

Shima: "From where the perv is at it would probably take a little over 2 years to complete his sage training."

Fukasaku: "But, if we were surrounded by this energy you're giving off young man it would probably knock it down to a couple of months. What is your name by the way?"

Zach: "My name is Zach, and the training area will be saturated with this energy. To add a little incentive we are also able to return you two to your youth."

Shima's eyes sparkled and Fukasaku got a concerned look on his face. Once Shima saw his look she started to glare at the old toad.

Shima: "We're in for this training!"

Fukasaku: "Shima! We have to think this through, what if it's some ploy!"

Shima: "Oh no you don't! You told me if we were younger you'd want another cluster of eggs!"

Fukasaku: "I agreed with you to shut you up when you were swooning about how Gamabunta's wife laid her eggs!"

Shima went very quiet after that the whole room went quiet. The ladies were just staring at Fukasaku with unbridled fury, and I just gave him a pitying look. Jiraiya was staring open-jawed in shock at what was said and facepalmed after that. Before I knew Shima jumped over my head and grabbed Fukasaku off my shoulder and it was the start of a knockdown drag out fight.