A/N- just a quick heads up! (wide eyes look) means that it's that face when Naruto is shocked and angry at the same time. You know, it's when he has really big white pupiless eyes. Secondly, if you see anything written in italics it's automatically an inner monologue passage.

In a steady but quiet and at the same time thriving village on a sunny day, there are three cries. The cries are distinct- the cries of new born babies. One is a pale baby with small tufts of blonde hair, another with darker skin and no hair, and the last with gray skin and a full head of black raven hair. Each set of parents crowd around their children with glee of a different kind around their faces. Each set of parents has just had their first child ready to begin parenthood. The first child with blonde hair smiled and looked up at her parents with big brown eyes full of curiosity. The mother, with blonde hair and green eyes looked deep into the eyes of her child and smiled. The father, with brown hair wilted down by a bandana with strange head gear and brown eyes stood beside the woman. The woman after a moment spoke, " her name is (slight pause) Tsunade."

The second child with no hair and who also had thin red strips going from his eyes to his mouth wails uncontrollably. The mother, with long flowing black hair and eyes cradles the wailing child all the while making soothing sounds. The father, who stood behind the woman, had wild medium gray hair and that spiked and went in every direction. He too has the same red stripes as the child, but they are much thicker. The father smiles, proud of his son's wailing. "That's a strong one. Boy, just look at him go. Yes, he will be a strong warrior." The woman looked up at her mate, finally being able to quiet the child and asks, "what do you should we name him?" The father's eyes glistened as he looked over his son. "We will name him, Jiraiya."

And, the third child sat quietly looking up at his parents with a semi-blank staring look. He seems to have a wise ness that should not have been obtainable until much later in life. His eyes are a vivid green brown that shows that there is fire inside him. His mother and father, with lecherous grins look on at their 'prophecy'. The father, who looks like a future replica of the child except full grown, had evilly dark looking eyes; the mother the same but with a more feminine touch. The mother spoke up with a calm, cold voice, "we shall name him as planned?"

"Yes. He is Orochimaru. The next prophet of the forbidden serpent clan."

11 YEARS LATER

A small girl with paler skin and blonde hair skips merrily through the town. She wears a simplistic dress tied at the waist with a blue sash. Her hair is now long and flowing separated into pig tails. She is a happy healthy child on her way to somewhere special, today is the day that she, Tsunade, is excepted at the ninja academy as a genin. As she skips she all of a sudden bumps into a tree. The girl's face becomes inflicted with rage. "Stupid tree," she murmurs. "You don't deserve to stop me today."

RIP CRANK

The little girl walks forward, with the tree now uprooted and fallen to the ground.

Another small child, a boy; with wild white hair and tan skin races throughout his house looking for his knapsack. The boy's mother yells from the other end of the house, "Jiraiya! Hurry up and go! You're going to be late!"

"I know, I know! Just give me a minute!" Jiraiya, now madly rambling through his things, finds his knapsack at that bottom of a huge pile of mess. He gives a victorious sneer and races off saying " bye mom! I'm off." As he goes out the door, in the background is the mother's faint calling that is, " good bye son! Good luck!"

Jiraiya races off to his new school, the ninja academy; where he too becomes a genin today. As Jiraiya runs, he gets lazy where he is running. SMACK Jiraiya bumps into a man with brown hair branching out at the sides with a small brown goatee. He wears the standard ninja uniform, the mark of a jounin. Jiraiya looks up at him and says, "move it! I'm late! I have to get somewhere in a hurry."

The man gives a disapproving look and says, "tsk tsk, bossy aren't we? You know—"

"I don't have time for your lectures old man! Go!" Jiraiya races past him and scrambles down the road.

A small boy with grey skin and black hair sits silent in a tree looking over the ninja academy. The boy's body is corpse like but the eyes are full of life. As he stands against a huge branch hidden in the tree, a snake comes to him and curls up around his leg. The snake starts hissing for awhile, as if talking, and then stops.

"I know already Janaiba. I don't have time to deal with you today. Leave me."

The snake gives a resounding hiss as is if to give a response and slithers away.

The boy climbs down the tree with rapid succession. On the ground beside him lands a name tag saying: Orochimaru. The boy jeers at the object and walks on toward the entrance of the building.

Soon enough, there is a huge crowd gathered outside the building. Half the crowd is kids, the other parents. There are several jounin lined up. Jiraiya walks up toward the building smiling. "Yes! Today is today where I start being a serious ninja!" Jiraiya's eyes scan all of the people that are there. There are of course many people that he recognizes from the academy and several teachers, one he preferably would like to stay away from, are their too.

All the jounin are talking about the upcoming year and what gifted students they will see. However, one jounin stands to the side being anti-social with a sour looking face. He has light grey wild hair that spikes out in all directions, wears a jounin uniform, and wears a plate mask with konoha's symbol around his face.

It is here that Jiraiya sees his best friend, Yuuko. The boy is particularly good looking; he was certainly popular with all the girls. However, he is very down to earth. He has light brown skin, black semi-spiky hair and blue eyes. He also has two crescent moons on both sides of his cheeks facing toward each other. "Yuuko!" Jiraiya yells and then waves. Yuuko spots Jiraiya and smiles. He walks toward him with a friendly disposition. Once he is standing right next to Jiraiya, Jiraiya whispers with a secretive face, "hey, Yuuko, who's the fart face that's off by himself with the white hair? Man, I hope we don't get him as a squad leader."

"You're such an idiot Jiraiya." Jiraiya turns around to see that it's Tsunade.

Tsunade gives a snotty look of disapproval and says, "if you knew anything, you'd know that THAT guy is the second hokage."

(big wide eyed look) Jiraiya points and exclaims, "THAT'S THE SECOND HOKAGE? WHAT A JOKE! HE'S JUST AN OLD FART FACE!"

In back of Jiraiya there appears a black figure. "A fart face am I?"

Jiraiya looks in back of him to see that it's the second hokage. "b-but, you're over---"

Jiraiya immediately glances back that the only thing left where the hokage was standing is a pile of leaves. The second hokage cocks his head up and says, "I'll be looking forward to giving you a couple of lessons in the future, Jiraiya."

The second hokage walks off. "H-how did he know my name?" Jiraiya thought.

In a couple of moments the whole crowd is gathered and standing at attention. The second hokage walks up to a small stage and announces, "welcome students and parents. Today is the day that the real learning begins. Students, you will learn in here advanced techniques, become stronger in the body and in the mind and establish the way of the ninja firmly to its roots. I wish you luck. Do your best and you shall succeed!" The children looked up in wonder seeing as to the possibilities of their future. The adults clap in remembrance that they had heard the exact same speech when they went to the academy. It is the famous speech the first hokage used at his inauguration. It was a speech that showed the pride of konoha.

The doors open and all the students rampage into the building. Everyone files into the same classes that they had used when they were still in the academy. When everyone is settled in, a jounin walks in. He has brown hair tied back in a pony tail, brown skin and a stubbly chin. He is one of the youngest jounin, only 20 years old. It is non-other than Ebuki sensei, the former teacher of Jiraiya and all the class of the academy.

Ebuki smiles and says, "hello class. I see everyone from the academy is here today. Now, the very first thing we will do is give you your squad assignments. After calling about 20 names Ebuki speaks, "squad eleven, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru." (wide opened eyes) "WHAT? I HAVE TO BE WITH THAT LOSER?" Jiraiya points at Orochimaru.

"Jiraiya, you're the real loser. You had all time low scores passing your academy exams. Orochimaru's were the highest." Jiraiya makes a pout face and glances over toward Orochimaru. Orochimaru just gives him a blank stare. Tsunade sits hunched over the table with an irritated look. "Great. I'm stuck with a pervert and snot. There's no way this can't get worse."

Two more squads are called before all squads are assigned.

"Alright class. You are all dismissed. You will meet your instructors tomorrow. Good luck!"

Everyone gets up and leaves rather hastily.

TO BE CONTINUED…….

A/N- yes. I have started a new series. One that I hope draws a lot of appeal to others as it did for me. This series will be solely based on the past of the three sannin (Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru) O! and Ebuki is the late (or later I should say) father of Iruka. Ebuki, as you can tell from the description, looks exactly like Iruka without the scar.