"Tsunade, i was searching for you!" Jiraya said enthusiastically
"Old perv, you sound like someone who got dumped a lot of times and kept going after the same woman..." Naruto mocked
[That was a good one]
'And probably true as well, so there is that'
"Gah!" Jiraya took a critical hit
'Can't this kid be a little more considerate?' he thought
Tsunade grinned at this remark and asked
"Jiraya, who are them? your new disciples perhaps?"
"Of course th-" Jiraya started only to be interrupted by Naruto and Ikki
"Not a chance that this old man is my master"
"Eeeew... i am not going to learn anything from a pervert like him"
Jiraya could only look at them with a betrayed look on his face
"HAHAHA, I already like these kids, so why are you here Jiraya?"
Tsunade immediately found common grouds between her and the two kids, Burning Jiraya's name.
"We are here to take you back to the village to be the next hokage" With a defeated look on his face, Jiraya said
"Huh? And why do you think i would accept this? Only idiots would want to be hokage" Tsunade's mood instantly dropped at the mention of hokage
"Sorry if that seems a little insensitive Tsunade-sama... But did you just call your grandfather and granduncle idiots?" Naruto asked
Tsunade looked like she just slapped her own face at this moment.
"Naruto!" Jiraya said with anger on his voice
"It's fine..." Tsunade said, she was the one who said it afterall...
"By the way, we didn't introduce ourselves right? I am Naruto Uzumaki and the cute girl behind me is Ikki, who are these two?" Naruto suddenly remembered that they didn't introduce themselves, so he said
"I am Shizune, Tsunade-sama's apprentice, and this here is Tonton" The short haired girl said, she then pointed to the little pig on her arms.
"Shizune-san, is that pig a summon or just a normal animal?"
"Tonton is a normal pig, but she is very smart"
Naruto then looked at the other girl by Shizune's side and asked
"Do i know you? you seem familiar..."
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Izumi Uchiha"
'Hooh? a uchiha survived?'
[She doesn't seem like a normal uchiha, i can't feel the disgusting feelings that they all exhale...]
"Are you perhaps related to Itachi?" Naruto asks
"Gah... h-how did you know?" Izumi asks with some caution, Even though she knows what happened with Itachi, other people from konoha should see him as a traitor
"You talk like him, the 'dramatic pause' and all..." Naruto points out
"You know him?" Incredulously ask Izumi
"Yeah, i know him... but how did you... uh... survive? if that is not too personal to ask..." Naruto could not hold his curiosity back anymore so he asked the million dollar question
"I see... well i can resume it for you, A masked man helped Itachi kill the uchihas, and i was in the middle of the people he attacked, he killed everyone but me, and said that i 'had potential uses' and let me go..."
(Explanation time:
In this fic, Izumi's grandmother is Obito's Grandmother, from the fillers of Naruto, so they are brother and sister, her 'uses' are eternal mangekyou, and she unlocked her mangekyou when her grandmother was killed in front of her, she confronted Itachi after that, discovered the truth and went away from konoha, and ended up with Tsunade)
"Sorry for making you remember bad things..." Naruto said, feeling bad for his insensitive question
"Its ok, i got used to it after some time..."
Izumi didn't seem bothered by it
"Uhhm, Izumi-san?" Ikki asked
"Yes?"
"Do you have a sharingan?" Naruto knew were this was going, Ikki wanted to compare her ketsuryugan with a sharingan for a long time, but Sasuke was not really a good comparative standard...
Since he knew what was going to happen, he went to help Jiraya convince Tsunade
"Tsunade-sama, let's make a bet!" Naruto said, Jiraya looked at him with hopeful eyes
"Oh? what kind of bet?" Tsunade was immediately interested in this 'bet'
"I bet that i can defeat you in a fight! if i win you become the next hokage, and if you win i will give you 1000000 ryo!"
Tsunade wanted to decline the bet as soon as she heard the word hokage, but the money attracted her attention
"You will regret this brat! let's go outside"
Jiraya wanted to say something, but one glare from Naruto shut him up.
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"What? she is a Chinoike clan member?" Asked a Incredulous Jiraya, Ikki just showed her ketsuryugan to Izumi, and in the end they did not discovered which dojutsu was better...
"And... what about it?" Asked Naruto, Tsunade just seemed interested on Ikki's identity
"Why did you not report that to the village?" Jiraya had a guess, but he did not want it to be true
"If i reported that to the village, the elders would have made her life he#l, like they made mine. So i didn't tell anyone about it! If Tsunade becomes the hokage she could place those elder at their place so Ikki could live without hiding in the village, That is why i came in this mission with you"
Jiraya's worries became true, Naruto knew of the reason his life was so bad, he just hoped Naruto didn't hold a grudge against konoha for it.
Tsunade was stunned, she did not think that Naruro had such motives to make her hokage
'Wait... elders? When Nawaki died he was in a mission that was assigned by them...' Tsunade started to link the dots, and discover a worrisome truth...
"So that is why i will defeat you Tsunade-sama, because i know you can help a lot of people that were in such bad conditions... Prepare yourself!" Naruto then takes a fighting stance.
Jiraya is deeply stunned, he could only think of how much Naruto planned in advance...
"... Very well then, i just need a finger to defeat you" Tsunade said, but inside she was conflicted, As Naruto said she could help so much people... Wasn't that why she became a medical ninja?
"Don't underestimate me Tsunade-sama, or you wont even know how you lost!" Naruto said, right after he rushed at Tsunade, His fingertips glowing blue, he prepared to have a taijutsu fight with Tsunade, Who only snickered at him advancing as she didn't think he would even give her a proper warmup exercise...
Tsunade using one finger tried flicking Naruto, but he dodged it by a millimeter, He was just like water, adapting to her attack and using her movement against her
Tsunade was shocked by this, Naruto jumped and kicked right at her face, Tsunade defended it but she didn't pay attention to Naruto's hand, a great mistake, Naruto threw a kunai at Tsunade, who dodged by instinct
'Thus kid... i need to get a bit serious her-' She was brought back from her thoughts as Naruto disappeared from her view
"Hiraishin: Ni no dan, Rasengan" Naruto teleported above his kunai, and slammed a rasengan at Tsunade's back.
Shizune and Izumi were deeply shocked by this, they didn't think that Naruto had a chance against Tsunade to begin with.
Tsunade got up without any injures, making Naruto grin
"That is going to be fun!" He said
[Battle junkie...]
"Don't get over yourself kid, that was a luck shot!"
Tsunade was shocked, by the name Uzumaki and his resemblance to Minato's first kid, she dedicated Naruto's identity, but she didn't think he would learn the hiraishin and rasengan, especially after Minato died.
Tsunade activated her strenght of a hundred jutsu, Jiraya wanted to stop their match but Naruto surprised even him
Naruto activated his Kyugan and fox sage mode
"What? a dojutsu? and s-sage mode?" Tsunade asked shocked, this was something completely unexpected afterall...
Naruto didn't wait for her to regain her composure as he immediately rushed at her and began throwing punches and kicks in a almost erratic way, but the flow of his movements made it harder and harder for Tsunade to block his attacks
Tsunade decided to take a risk and let one of Naruto's kicks hit her as she punched him, only problem is thatshe forgot to control her strength. Naruto was launched at a wall, stunning Jiraya
'She didn't hold back? is she crazy? if he was only fast, he would be dead!' He screamed in his mind.
"...I guess i went a little too far..." Tsunade said
""A LITTLE!?"" Shizune and Izumi said, they are accustomed to Tsunade's way of doing things, but this is not even close to 'A little too far'.
But they all were in for a surprise, except Ikki as she knew Naruto was not even that hurt, she could feel his blood flowing a little bit faster and then normalizing, meaning he was already healed.
From the rubles of the wall that Naruto smashed into, red chakra started bubbling, Naruto got up without even a scratch on him, sage mode made him way more durable afterall...
"What?!" Jiraya was startled, he thought that Naruto was being controlled by the kyuubi, and Tsunade was speechless.
Naruto flash stepped right in front of Tsunade with a punch motion, his fist stopped centimeters away from her face
"I won" was all he said, Jiraya once again was speechless, because apparently Naruto had control over the chakra of the nine tails, and Tsunade was once again stunned.
As the granddaughter of a Jinchurikki (Mito) and as a important figure during war time, she knows better than most shinobis how jinchurikkis are treated, so she was currently asking herself why was Naruto so... Laidback? Carefree?
She knew that as a jinchurikki right after the said bijuu attacked Konoha, Naruto must have had a really bad time on the village, and his earlier words made her realize, that what he said was true, she could help people like him, like Ikki, like Izumi, etc...
'should i just tell them about Orochimaru?' she thought and as if sensing her thoughts (he did not) Naruto suddenly spoke
"By the way, did anyone told you how gramps hokage died?"
"No..." she was curious now, she just hears Orochimaru say that he killed him
"Orochimaru used a forbidden jutsu to temporarily resurrect and control the first and second hokage while his subordinates used a powerfull barrier to separate him and all of konoha's shinobis"
Naruto didn't tell her that he broke the barrier or that Hiruzen ended up dying because of the jutsu he used, so Tsunade would understand that Orochimaru was probably tricking her, as he would control Nawaki and Dan if he ressurected them.
'That damn Snake!'
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They made a plan, Jiraya and Tsunade would go fight Orochimaru, Naruto was surprised that Tsunade didn't have hemophobia because Izumi used some genjutsus to do some kind of therapy on her.
Shuzune decided to go with Tsunade, just in case, so Naruto, Ikki and Izumi were left on the room Tsunade rented before, waiting and chatting
"What? that actually happened?" Izumi asked while giggling
"Well that is what Menma told me, but it seems that it was true, as Itachi got pretty mad at him after that..." Naruto was telling the tales of his clones outside the village, as they ran out of things to talk about, when they heard a knock on the door
*knock*knock*knock*
'Oh? Itachi and Menma? Itachi is at the door so i should tell Izumi to open it and get a good photo of their reactions'
[Sometimes you sound a lot like a scheming person, Kit]
'It must be your impression...'
[I'm sure it is...]
"Izumi-san since this was Tsunade-sama's room it should have to do with her, so can you see who is it?" Naruto said while secretly unsealing his camera from a scroll.
"Sure, but be ready to flee if it is some debt collector..." Izumi said as she walked to the door, when she opened the door her eyes widened, just like the eyes of the person in front of her
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Tachi-kun/Izumi"" they both said at the same time, even synchronizing their dramatic pauses...
*click*
Naruto took a photo of their shocked faces, they were so surprised that they didn't even notice it.
'Hehe, maybe i should become a photograph as a hobbie?'
[That could end up really well like now, or really bad... for other people that is, as you would probably take embarrassing photos and use them in your pranks...]
'You know me so well Kurama, but i am going to do the second one regardless, so my question was avout the first'
[...I should have seen that coming...]
Meanwhile
Menma, the only one in this room that didn't have a girl with him was feeling really bad
'Damn... Losing to Naruto is already bad enough, but i even lost to that stone faced Itachi? Why is the world so unfair?'
Unfortunately he would not get his answer, but as they say, everyone has a soulmate, so maybe there is a girl out there with the same problem as him? who knows...
Oh look, q new chapter...
Someone git it right about Izumi, i made it pretty easy afterall, so now get a hard one, who is Menma's soulmate?
Hint: ###u## and i won't guve her name on the hint, only the surname.
Anyway... poor Menma, was left behind...
Did you guys found it believable enough the explanation of why Izumi was alive? tell me
As aways, thanks for reading. Cheers~
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