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"Human Talking"

Human Thoughts

Jutsus

"Tailed Beast/Summoning animal Talking"

Tailed Beast/Summoning animal Thoughts

CHAPTER 17

First Impression

"Are we there yet..?"

"For the 50th time Naruto…" Jiraiya started to say, but paused to release a tired sigh and continued again, "We will get there, when we get there."

Naruto nodded and kept on walking beside his godfather but then suddenly he realized something and turned towards Jiraiya, "So Pervy sage.., why didn't we stop for a break in the hot springs that we just passed by..?"

If I found out that you have tried to peep on women in my son's presence, you'll get another beating of your life time.

Jiraiya remembered Tsunade's ominous warning and got a sweat drop on the back of his head. He turned to his god son with an awkward smile and replied, "Let's get to the Sand village as fast as we can Naruto. It's only an hour away now…"

Naruto nodded and thought I wonder what Eevee is doing now..?

(Forest Area… Just a Mile Away From Senju Compound…)

Eevee was just roaming around in Senju compound playgrounds when she heard some whimpering sounds coming from not so far away with her sensitive hearing. Curious she followed the sounds and entered the forest area.

She could hear the whimpering sounds of some animals little loudly now. She followed the source and found some thugs who are trying to smuggle the wild animlas and also domestic animals stolen from the neighboring villagers. She didn't know they were thugs, but all animals have some sort of a Sixth Sense (A Sense of Danger) that always alerts them when something bad is gonna happen to them or their kin.

As soon as she sensed the malice in those thugs, she started growling ominously. The thugs soon noticed the ominous growls and turned to towards Eevee. Eevee was barring her teeth and her growls were more feral as soon as the thugs turned towards her.

"Well… Well… Well… What do we have here..? A fox trying to be a hero..?" a random thug shouted while laughing.

"Let's catch it too… A Red Fox's fur has lot of demand in Black Market… We can gain more money if we sell it…" another random thug pointed out.

"Wait a minute… A Red Fox..?" the supposed leader of the gang muttered to himself while sweating bullets. "In these surroundings, there is only One Red Fox… And that belongs to The Slug Prin.."

He was not able to finish as Eevee interrupted him by growling ominously while barring her teeth at them before making a very loud howl alerting Tsunade and Shizune who are just a mile away.

"How could a Red Fox howl so loudly..?" Another random thug shouted in awe and fear.

"SHIT..! EVERY ONE… LEAVE EVERYTHING AND ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFES..!" the leader of the gang shouted after understanding what Eevee just did.

"Huh…!? Why should we run…?" another random thug who wanted to play hero asked with a smug look.

"IDIOT..! That damn fox has just called out for TSUNADE SENJU - The Slug Princess…" the leader shouted looking over his back while he was still running away from the scene.

As soon as the words left the leader's mouth, each and every thug including the arrogant one, tried to run away with their tails between their legs.

But they could not run far though as the ground they have been running has been broken apart by a vicious Axe kick falling from the sky, courtesy of Tsunade. More than half of the gang have gotten themselves stuck in the rubble, but the few who escaped the rubble tried to flee. They couldn't though, as all of them have been hit by Senbons laced with paralyzing venom, courtesy of Shizune.

Tsunade approached Eevee and scratched behind her ears, "Always a trouble maker…" Eevee started making purring noises. "Just like Naru…" Tsunade muttered with a smile and Eevee yipped agreeing with her.

As soon as Shizune has finished tying up the gang they were all given the antidote for the venom. Tsunade approached the supposed leader and lifted him up by his collar. "So you and your gang are the ones responsible for illegal animal trafficking in Wave..?" She completed her sentence and brought him to eye level. The leader couldn't do anything but mildly nod in fear. She threw him down harshly. They released all the wild animals into the forest except the domestic animals.

"Shizune… Get Tazuna and ask him to get the villagers and authorities so the animals can go back to their rightful owners."

It took some time for the villagers to identify their animals and authorities to take the animal smugglers away to be locked up. By the evening each and every animal was returned back to its owner.

"Well… Let's get back home…" Tsunade said and Shizune nodded. Tsunade, Shizune and Eevee just took one step.

"Oink..!"

All of three of them stopped and turned around. When they found nothing, they just shrugged to each other and tried to walk again.

"Oink… Oink…"

All three of them stopped again but still found nothing.

"Oink… Oink… Oink…"

All three of them collectively as one looked down. There was a pink colored baby pig who could not be older than just a day and it was rubbing its head on Shizune's ankle affectionately. Its cheeks have blush in a darker shade of the same tint as her skin.

Tsunade and Eevee were surprised that this baby pig was not sent to its rightful owners where its mother will be. "Shizune… Have the villa…" Whatever Tsunade was about to say she wasn't able to finish as soon as she saw the hearts in Shizune's eyes.

For the next ten minutes Tsunade and Eevee kept on watching as Shizune was jumping around cuddling the piglet.

All Tsunade could do was facepalm and drag her palm across from forehead to chin in embarrassment.

(Sand Village Gates…)

"HALT… Please state your name and purpose of visit." questioned the ninja who was guarding the sand village gates.

"Jiraiya… Here on orders from Leaf Village to assist the Fourth Kazekage. It's a classified mission. With me is the Senju Heir." Jiraiya said.

Even though most haven't met him personally, there's no ninja in the elemental nations who doesn't know the name Jiraiya. So it's no wonder that the ninja who asked the question paled when he heard the name.

"Jiraiya-sama…! Forgive me for not recognizing a Sannin. You and the Senju Heir can enter." The ninja said while fidgeting with nervousness and let them enter the Sand village.

"See my cute Godson…? My reputation precedes me…!" Jiraiya said with a smug look. He didn't get to maintain it long when Naruto replied, "Still doesn't change the fact that you're a pervert."

Jiraiya fell face first on the ground after hearing that, but he stood up quickly and shouted, "Hey…! I'm not a pervert…." He paused to spread his hands wide, took his signature pose and continued, "I'm a Super Pervert..!"

Silence… Pure and Utter Silence…

Everyone around the duo were staring at the Sannin with stupefied looks when they took in his pose and heard him declaring himself as a super pervert.

Naruto got a sweat drop at the back of his head and released a sigh before saying, "Yeah… Yeah... Let's get going Pervy Sage…" and started to walk in the direction of the Kazekage tower. It took only a few seconds but Jiraiya came down from his sugar high and followed after his godson, while muttering something about disrespectful godsons not appreciating the ways of a super pervert.

(Kazekage Tower… Few Minutes Later…)

"Kazekage-sama… Sannin Jiraiya is here to meet you…" came the voice of Rasa's assistant through the intercom.

Rasa pressed the button on the intercom and replied, "Please send him in."

Just a minute later Jiraiya walked in along with Naruto who was looking at everything in the Kazekage office with awe. After all this was the first time he was seeing the office of a Kage.

"Jiraiya-sama…" Rasa stood up and said while bowing to the Sannin in respect.

"Kazekage-sama…" Jiraiya bowed in return.

Naruto came out of his day dreams and was also about to greet Rasa, but suddenly the door to the office was slammed open and Kankuro came running inside while looking over his back in fear. He looked like he was running away from something and wasn't paying attention to the front. He ran into Naruto and both kids fell on the floor. But before they could recover, an angry looking Temari also came running inside and didn't pay attention that Naruto and Kankuro are in the way and knocked herself on them in mid run and that made her flew through the air and land on the floor a meter away from the boys.

"Ouch…!" The three kids groaned in unison.

It took a few seconds but Naruto stood up and offered his hand to Kankuro with a smile and said, "Watch where you're running…"

Kankuro took the hand and stood up, "Yeah dude… Sorry about that…"

It was at this moment that Naruto saw something different with Kankuro and asked, "Why are you wearing makeup on your face..?"

"AAGHHH… FOR THE LAST TIME… ITS WAR PAINT..!" Kankuro screamed childishly while pulling his hair in a comical way.

Naruto just sweat dropped at the makeup boy, but he heard someone clearing their throat and turned, "If you're done with my brother's antics, can you please help me up too..?" Temari requested to the new boy who is younger than her.

Naruto nodded with a nervous laugh and approached her to help her up. But just when he was going to offer her his hand, his eyes caught something else… The War Fan of Temari has fallen off of her sometime during the scuffle and landed on the floor. Mesmerized by the beauty of the war fan, instead of helping Temari to stand he went to pick the War Fan up.

Temari was dumbfounded when he passed by her without offering the hand, but found that he was gonna pick up her war fan. "Forget it kid… It's too heavy for you to p…"

She stopped mid sentence when she saw Naruto lifting her fan with his left hand and was holding it like it was a tooth pick or something. Her jaw dropped and she couldn't form any more words.

Jiraiya was cursing in his mind at his godson's stupidity to ignore a girl, while Rasa and Kankuro were wide eyed at how easily a boy no older than 5 years was lifting Karura's War Fan easily.

Naruto's curiosity was satisfied after getting a good look at the fan for a few moments. And then he remembered about Temari who is still on the floor.

Temari was still in shock when Naruto offered her a hand and lifted her up and returned her war fan.

"You… You Lifted my War Fan..!" Temari stated with a stupefied expression.

"Uhh… Hello… I'm Naruto…" Naruto tried to introduce himself awkwardly.

"It took me 3 years to lift it properly…" She continued in anger with a scrutinizing gaze.

"What's your name..?" Naruto asked awkwardly not knowing why the girl is acting this way.

"That's it…" She declared.

"Huh..?"

"You… Me… in the training grounds… Let's settle this…" Temari announced and before Naruto could protest, she grabbed his right hand and started dragging him away from the Kazekage office.

"Oooookaaaaay…." Kankuro started to say with a sweat drop, "I think I am gonna go with them to make sure she doesn't break the guy." He completed saying like he knew what was going to happen next and followed his sister and Naruto out.

"Well…" Jiraiya started with a confused expression, "…that escalated quickly." Rasa finished the line mirroring Jiraiya's expression.

Author's Notes:

Stay tuned for the interesting interactions soon…

This was my first ever fan fiction. Please rate the story and leave your valuable opinions in reviews. Next chapter will be coming soon, Dattebayo.