Jiraiya grabbed a rubber ball and tossed it to Naruto in dumb fashion, his mind still slightly blank at how fast Naruto had gotten the first stage of the jutsu. "Now the second step is power. This is usually the hardest step since you have to put as much power into the jutsu as you can to pop the balloon."
Naruto nodded and began channeling his youki into the balloon.
BAM!
"What the fuck!" Naruto shouted as he covered his ears after popping the rubber ball, "Why the hell was that so loud!" He picked at his ears to try and get the ringing out. Sometimes he really cursed his enhanced senses.
"How the hell did you do that?" Jiraiya almost felt himself have a seizure. Okay the first step while difficult was not impossible to get that fast, seeing how observant the boy was. But this was just ridiculous, "There is no way you should have gotten that so quickly. Generating enough power consistently like that takes time."
Naruto picked out his ear as Jiraiya griped, "Ero-sennin, are you forgetting who I have sealed inside of me. I've got power in spades."
In truth that was only half the reason, but he did not want to tell Jiraiya that he was actually a hanyou and his youki was simply more potent and allowed him to use more powerful attacks easily, "So, what's the third step?"
Jiraiya pulled out a balloon and blew it up before handing it to Naruto, "The third step is combining the first two with in that balloon without making it pop."
"So…what am I doing exactly?" asked Naruto.
Jiraiya held out a hand and formed a Rasengan in it, causing Naruto's eye to gain a light of recognition. "Ah! So I'm actually creating the jutsu inside of the balloon. Then that means the third step is control."
"That's right," Jiraiya nodded as he watched Naruto try the third step, only to fail and make the balloon pop. He was glad to see that if he were honest, if this kid managed to learn the Rasengan in one day, he would have had a heart attack. "Continue working on that while we walk, we need to get to the next town."
"You know this kind of reminds me of those sandcastles I've seen kids make in the park, right after they step on them," Naruto said as he and Jiraiya found themselves staring at what used to be the famous castle of Tanzaku Gai. Now it was really nothing more than a pile rubble and debris. As the pair walked close to the scene, Naruto picked at some of the debris.
"Hey Ero-sennin, this place has a heavy smell of snakes," Naruto commented as he sniffed the air.
Jiraiya looked over at him with a frown, "Snakes huh…what else can you smell?"
Naruto took several more whiffs of the air and frowned, "Aside from snakes I can smell…sake, a lot of sake. And it's a little hard to pick up, but I also smell antiseptics."
"Then that means we're close to our quarry," Jiraiya began moving away from the castle. "Come on gaki, chances are good my teammate is here, and if the smell of snakes are any indication, she had a run in with my other teammate so I want to find her as soon as possible."
The pair had searched for the entire day and had no luck in finding the wayward healer. They decided to stop and get a meal at a local tavern before getting a place to stay for the night.
As they entered the tavern, Jiraiya took a look around and stopped when his eyes landed on a very familiar face, "Tsunade?"
A blond woman who had been drinking rather heavily looked up to reveal a diamond symbol on her forehead and honey colored eyes, "Jiraiya? What the hell are you doing here?"
Jiraiya merely gave the woman a grin as he sat down, "Nothing much, I was just passing through and looking for a place to stop for the night."
Naruto held in a snort as he sat down next to the older man. He looked at the other occupants in the booth and noticed a black haired woman holding what appeared to be a well pampered…pig?
"Well isn't this day just full of surprises," Tsunade said, and Naruto had to hold in his gag reflex as he smelled more alcohol on her then he had ever smelled on anyone else. "All the old faces just keep coming back."
Naruto stiffened as he heard that and Jiraiya frowned, "So you did meet Orochimaru then. What did the snake want?"
Tsunade glared as the black haired woman who looked like she was about to speak, "Oh you know, just dropped in the neighborhood to see how I was doing."
Jiraiya took the bottle of sake that was on the table and poured himself a glass before getting out a deck of cards and shuffling them, "If you met him, then I take it you've heard about sensei?" he tossed her a set of cards before laying the deck on the table.
"Of course, the old snake told me about how he did the deed himself," Tsunade looked at her cards, placing two of them next to the deck and grabbing two more. "Now why don't you just cut to the chase and tell me why you're here."
"Getting straight to the point as always eh hime (Princess)?" Jiraiya looked up at Tsunade to see her glaring at him, and decided to get to the point, lest he incur her wrath. "As you know Konoha is currently without a Hokage. So the council, in all its wisdom has decided that you are to be the next Hokage."
Naruto felt a jolt of surprise run through him at the announcement, having not expected it at all. Though after the initial surprise passed he had to curse himself for not seeing it sooner, why else would they travel all over Hi No Kuni just to find one woman, even a Sannin if not for something like that?
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