Jiraiya shrugged, "Sometimes a ninja will be called away for a long time like this gaki. You can't be with them all the time. And besides, if you stay here you're likely to be a danger to those around you. What would happen if you went on a mission with a squad and Akatsuki showed up?"
Naruto winced at that and Jiraiya tried to drive his point home, "This is not only the best way to get stronger, but also the best way to protect your friends."
"I know…" Naruto closed his eyes as he thought about what he should do. He really did not want to leave his friends but he understood that he needed to be stronger if he wanted to beat the Akatsuki. If he was not strong enough, not only would he be captured but who knows what would happen to his friends if they got caught in the cross fire.
'I think you should go.'
'Kyuu-chan?'
'If you leave it means I will also be able to teach you some of the more destructive techniques I can't teach here.'
After a few minutes Naruto sighed, "If I go with you, when will we leave?"
"We'll be leaving tomorrow."
Naruto frowned, "That doesn't give me much time to say goodbye."
Jiraiya shrugged, "We need to get started now. And I have to meet people from my spy network soon; as it is I've stayed here as long as I can."
"Alright, I'll pack my things after I say goodbye to my friends," Naruto frowned before shaking his head. "I'll see you tomorrow Ero-sennin. Baa-chan."
As the two watched Naruto leave Tsunade turned to Jiraiya, "I hope you know what you are doing?"
Jiraiya gave his busty blond teammate a grin, "Don't worry I know what I'm doing. Well I'll see you tomorrow Hime, I've got to get in some research since I won't have as much time for it as I like."
Tsunade's eye twitched as she watched Jiraiya go, "Damned pervert."
Tenten flipped another page of her magazine as she tried to stave off her boredom. Her team had just gotten back from a B-rank mission where they had to fight some bandits and a low level missing ninja a few days ago. Now that she was back and her sensei had given their team time off so they could 'fan their flames of youth' she had nothing to do other than train and man her dads shop.
Since it was Sunday there were not many customers coming in, and the few who did were too busy to stay and talk. Needless to say she was bored out of her mind.
Thankfully a chime at the door sounded, signifying that someone had entered her shop, "Hello! Welcome to Higarashi Weapons shop where we… Naruto-kun!" Tenten smiled as she saw that it was her friend who had entered.
"Hey Ten-chan! No missions today?" Naruto walked into the store as Tenten got up from the stool she had been sitting on.
Tenten shook her head, "No, we just got back from one a few days ago and Gai-sensei gave us the week off to 'fan our flames of youth'." She put up quotation marks when she said that, "So what's up? I haven't seen you for a while."
"I just got back from a mission yesterday, escort mission to Tatsu No Kuni," Naruto replied. The blond looked at her and grinned as he pulled out a scroll and handed it to her, "I got a little something for you there."
Tenten blinked for a few moments as she looked at the scroll. She unrolled it and saw that it was a basic storage scroll. After a few seconds she unsealed the contents and had to hold in a gasp when the item or in this case items revealed themselves.
It was a set of silver kunai, the blades were curved and about three inches longer than standard kunai. Along the blade was an intricate design of a traditional Japanese style dragon. The ring at the end of the kunai was studded with rubies along the outer edges. Altogether they were beautiful works of art. At least, they were to a weapon fanatic like Tenten.
It took nearly ten minutes before the stunned silent weapon user could respond. And when she did it was not with words since she still could not speak. Naruto soon found himself in the near death grip of Tenten as she gave him what was sometimes referred to as the squeeze of life. Why it was called that when Naruto felt like he was dying was something he would never understand.
"T-ten-chan…can't breathe!"
Tenten seemed to snap out of her stupor as she looked at Naruto and found that he was beginning to turn blue from lack of oxygen. She let out an 'eep!' and dropped him, letting the blond fall to the floor and gasp for breath, "OhKamii'msosorryididn'tmeantto-"
"It's ok!" Naruto gasped as he held up a hand, making her stop her extremely fast paced apology. The blond took a second to get his breath back before standing up, "I take it from that…hug means you like the gift?"
"Oh yes! I absolutely love it!" Tenten squealed, and Naruto was reminded of one of the teme's fan girls for a second, "Oh it's an amazing gift, where did you get it?"
"I got it on my last mission to Tatsu No Kuni," Naruto replied. "I was doing some shopping on my off time when I found them and I thought to myself 'you know I bet Tenten would give her kidney for weapons like these' so I got them."
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