At the end of the day it will come down to the question of whether the hidden leaf succeeded or not.
"So the old man wants me to go with you to the frontline ?" Tsunade asked Jiraiya.
"No, the old man actually wanted you to stay here. He wanted Usagi to go to the frontline." Jiraiya replied.
…
To the frontline and the Yellow flash
*Bang*
"Absolutely fucking not !"
With a single punch the bench under Tsunade's fist crumbled. I was not expecting her to react so violently. Jiraiya was also very surprised.
"Jiraiya, are you in a hurry to die ?" Tsunade asked him angrily.
"No ! Don't kill me ! I swear that it has nothing to do with me. It was Sensei's order. But why are you against this anyway ?"
"Why shouldn't I ? Usagi is just a kid. And she is not even a proper fighter ! And you are trying to take her to the frontline ?" Tsunade asked angrily. Even though Usagi could guess the real reason why Tsunade was against sending her to the battlefield, she stayed silent.
"I know that already. And it is not like I want to go to the battlefield. I know her before you. And I know that she is not meant to be on the battlefield. But you have to understand. She is currently the best combat oriented seal master the village has. She is an Elite Jounin. And the village needs her expertise. Her barriers have protected this base from the constant bombardment of an entire squad of Ninjas with explosion release. And the village needs her present on the battlefield to keep our casualties to the minimum.
I was not meant to tell you this. But after the Tsuchikage retreated back to the village, he deployed Roshi in the front lines as a backup. You know who he is, don't you ?" Jiraiya explained.
"That's another reason to not send her to the frontline !" Tsunade argued fiercely.
"Will you listen to me first ? Our orders are clear. She will not be alone. Minato will stay by her side on the battlefield. Just in case Roshi goes berserk, she will cover the retreat of our main forces while I will fight him. In emergency cases, Minato is allowed to take her away from the battlefield with his flying Thunder god, if things go out of hand. Sensei does not want to lose such a young genius either." Jiraiya tried his best to explain. Even if he didn't know the true relationship between Usagi and Tsunade, he could guess that his teammate has grown to care about the girl.
"If that is the case then I will go with her." Tsunade made her decision.
"What ? Tsunade, you can't go to the front lines. With your condition-"Jiraiya went speechless when Tsunade bit her fingers drawing blood and summoned a small clone of Katsuya on her palm.
"... … You are completely fine !" Jiraiya exclaimed after seeing the scene in front of him.
"If you are talking about my haemophobia, then it disappeared with time when I left the village. I will personally send a letter to Sensei. You will take over this base. I will go to the frontlines with Usagi.
And brat ! Go find this Minato brat for me. He knows the flying thunder God jutsu right ? I have some errands for him to run."
Hearing the order from Tsunade, Usagi nodded and immediately went out. She was quite happy and relieved. If Tsunade is this protective of her, that means she still had some place for her in her heart. It only meant that in the future, getting her support will be easy.
…
Minato Namikaze looked at the white honey badger in front of him with curious eyes. Despite being Usagi's pet, it doesn't have any markings of being a tamed beast. And for Minato, it was his first time looking at such a creature.
"Hey little guy, are you lost ? Did you come here searching for food ?" Minato, looking at the strange creature, asked as if he was asking it to a stray dog.
Needless to say that Shiro, who was getting pampered and disciplined by Usagi, didn't like Minato's tone.
"The fuck did you say blondie ? I am not Little One ! My name is Shiro. You are lucky that your hair color matches my master's. Otherwise I would have ripped you off into tiny shreds !" Shiro said aggressively.
Minato narrowed his eyes. As someone with a summoning beast of his own, Minato knew that summoning creatures can talk and can be quirky.
"May I ask who your master is ?" The future yellow flash asked Shiro.
"Why ? Do you want to pick a fight ? Let me tell you that picking a fight with my master is picking a fight with me ! But since I can't attack you directly, I challenge you to a duel !" Shiro declared, standing tall on hind limbs.
When Minato heard about the 'cannot attack' part, he relaxed visibly. Since he was not the type of guy to back down from challenges, Minato decided to test the strength of the least in front of him. "What kind of duel do you want ?"
"It is actually pretty simple. Since we can fight, we will compete to see who will capture the largest scorpion. Around 5 miles to the West behind that mountain, there is an entire colony of giant scorpions. Whoever captures the biggest one of them, is the winner. And don't forget, the time limit is only 10 minutes. If you reach late then you lose. If I win, then you will have to apologize to my master and me for calling me Little Guy. And if I lose then I will apologize to you for picking up a fight with you." Shiro said, pointing his claws at Minato.
"Alright. I accept your challenge. Minato accepted immediately. Since it is only a 10 minute game, he didn't mind playing it with the unknown summoning animal.
"Then our time starts…. Now !" Shiro told Minato and ran towards the exit of the base. Minato, smiling faintly, dropped a flying thunder God marked kunai on the spot where he was standing. Then he immediately used the flying thunder God jutsu to flash away to the opposite side of the mountain to the west. After coming to the base with Jiraiya, Minato had already marked all the surrounding areas with his flying Thunder god seal. While he was not proficient with continuous instantaneous teleportations, he was already very skilled in long range teleportations.
But unknown to him, the moment he flashed away from the area, Shiro stopped in his tracks and returned near the flying thunder God marked Kunai knife.
"That guy just straight up disappeared. Is he the yellow flash master was talking about ?
Wait a minute... if that's the case then that guy is very strong….. I hit the jackpot !" Shiro did a little celebration. He didn't need to go to compete with Minato. According to his master, Minato the 'yellow flasher' is a strong guy. That means he could easily hunt the biggest of the scorpions without much trouble.
True to his expectation, not even 5 minutes later Minato came back with a humongous scorpion almost as big as a house. Its head was crushed with a rasengan. So it was dead for good.
"Yellow Flasher, I mean Minato senpai, I apologize for my rude behaviour earlier." Shiro immediately bowed on his all fours in front of Minato, as soon as he appeared in front of him.
Minato, who was already surprised to see Shiro waiting for him, was dumbfounded when the cocky beast from earlier bowed in front of him.
"Hahahahaha ! Hahahahaha ! Big brother Minato, you just got tricked." A sudden laughter from the sideline made Minato realize his mistake. Especially when the strange animal started munching on the dead scorpion as if it was the best meal he could get.
"You tricked me to hunt for you ?"
Later, this news will become popular in the hidden leaf about how the prodigy of the sannin Jiraiya got tricked by a summoning beast.
…
Itt was very hard to believe that someone so brilliant like Minato actually fell for a trick from Shiro who has yet to graduate from the art of deception course. But it showed that, Minato might be a genius but he had his fair share of screw lose. He believed too easily. Just like he will believe in the third hokage and the villagers of the hidden leaf to treat his son as a hero in the future.
But that matter aside, that day the future Yellow Flash continued to work as the postman for Tsunade and Hiruzen. Both of them exploited Minato's flying Thunder god jutsu to carry message from the logistic base to the village and from the village to the logistic base.
After a lot of argument letters, finally Hiruzen agreed to Tsunade's demand. So by the time of evening, Jiraiya took over as the commander of the rear logistic base while I, Tsunade, Minato and a five hundred other shinobi headed towards the frontline.
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