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Bab 101: Rasengan!

"Pervy Sage, Pervy Sage!" Sakura cried excitedly, as she ran towards Naruto and Jiraiya. "I've found out where Lady Tsunade has gone!"

"Now look at what you've done, Naruto— she's not even pretending to be taking me seriously any more!" said Jiraiya, glaring at his pupil. "If that nickname sticks, I am never taking you anywhere with me, ever again."

Sakura had been minding her own business, wandering around town, when a group of thugs had suddenly accosted her— she'd easily beaten them up, of course. It didn't matter if her assailants were fully grown adult men, and she was a young girl— ordinary people didn't stand a chance against shinobi!

"Tsunade-sama is in Tanzaku Town," said Sakura proudly. "I've already packed my bags— when do we leave?"

"Now, just hold on a minute, Sakura," said Jiraiya, holding up a hand to slow her down. "What makes you so sure that she's in Tanzaku Town?"

After giving them a good beating, Sakura had asked the thugs why they'd gone after her, and it turned out that they had been hired by loan sharks— they'd been on the lookout for Tsunade, who had skipped town without repaying her debts, and they had mistaken Sakura for the fifty-year-old woman… somehow.

"…I wonder why they thought I was Lady Tsunade?" said Sakura in puzzlement, once she'd finished recounting her story to Naruto and Jiraiya. "I don't look that old, do I?"

Sakura's story had thoroughly convinced Jiraiya.

After all, he knew that Tsunade liked to use her special Transformation Jutsu to change her apparent age… In reality, she looked like an old granny, due to her abuse of the Creation Rebirth Jutsu which had prematurely aged her, but she would often walk around looking like she was in her teens, twenties or thirties!

"I can think of one reason— actually, make that two big reasons— why they'd think you were Tsunade," Jiraiya chuckled to himself, rubbing his chin. "All right, then! Naruto, run back to the hotel and pack up our things— we're off to Tanzaku Town!"

"But," grumbled Naruto irritably. "My Rasengan training…"

And a few dozen minutes later, Sakura, Naruto and Jiraiya were back on the road, after having wasted an entire week playing around and training. That's not to say that their time had been completely wasted— Sakura and Naruto had both made considerable progress with their Ninjutsu training.

Sakura had furthered her understanding of nature transformation enough to make lightning arc between her hands— though the intensity of the current that she could produce was still not very… lethal.

As for Naruto, he could now consistently pop his rubber ball, though he couldn't make it burst apart just yet. He had run into an altogether different kind of bottleneck than Sakura had— his stamina never ran out, but his body couldn't endure its own chakra. His Keirakukei— his arms' chakra pathways— had grown raw and irritated from overuse, which was apparently quite painful.

"Sakura-chan," said Naruto in a plaintive tone as they walked. "Show me how you did it, again…"

"Hmm?" Jiraiya grunted in surprise. "Naruto, have you been teaching Sakura how to make a Rasengan?"

It wasn't as if Jiraiya held the exclusive copyright to the A-Rank Jutsu— by all rights, the Rasengan belonged to Naruto, since it had been his father who had invented/rediscovered it.

'Sigh,' said Inner Sakura, whining in an exaggerated fashion. 'Looks like the secret is out…'

Wordlessly, Sakura withdrew a rubber ball from her backpack, and within a few seconds, she had made it fly into pieces in her palm. In response, Jiraiya rummaged around in his clothes and retrieved a deflated balloon.

He then inflated it and held it in his palm, before looking expectantly at Sakura.

"What am I doing now?" he asked pointedly, still holding the motionless balloon.

Sakura hadn't learned how to sense chakra yet, but she could put two and two together.

"I can't see inside the balloon, but I suppose you're making a Rasengan in there," answered Sakura. "But since it's not bursting, I'm guessing you've wrapped the spinning ball of chakra in some kind of containment envelope… made out of some more chakra?"

For some reason, Sakura's answer really seemed to rub Jiraiya up the wrong way.

"Correct on all counts," grumbled Jiraiya, before sighing in annoyance. "This is why I hate training geniuses; they always make you look super lame by comparison…"

And having aired his grievances at her, Jiraiya tossed the balloon at Sakura, who hurriedly jumped out of the way before it exploded in her face. However, contrary to her expectations, the balloon slowly floated to the ground, bouncing once or twice, before slowly and harmlessly rolling to her feet…

"The look on your face!" Jiraiya chortled, a look of pure hilarity on his face. "You actually thought I'd throw a real Rasengan at a brat?"

'You just lost your living privileges, old man,' said Inner Sakura coldly. 'Good luck with your fight with Pain, because we won't be giving you any hints!'

Sakura ignored the old pervert's ribbing and picked up the balloon. She then closed her eyes and concentrated.

Summoning more and more chakra through her Keirakukei…

Sending it spiralling out of her Tenketsu…

Sensing that the mass of rotating chakra in her palm was reaching critical mass, Sakura stopped feeding it more chakra. Now, here was the tricky part— creating a thin chakra membrane to contain and compress the roiling chakra within; a veritable storm in a teacup!

'Rotate, Compress, Contain!' Inner Sakura shouted. "Shannaroooo!"

With Sakura's incredibly high chakra control, it was a cinch to create a distinct outer layer of chakra that would not interact with the inner layer of spinning chakra. And once that membrane was created, then she would only have to worry about maintaining it; the spiralling motion within would become self-sustaining!

"Rasengan!"

Even without entering Sage Mode, Jiraiya was still a fairly competent sensor— and so, when Sakura cocked her arm back, ready to throw the fully formed Rasengan concealed within the balloon at him, he hurriedly flickered away!

"Right back you!" Sakura shouted as she threw the balloon.

Once it had left her palm, the protective outer membrane of chakra around the Rasengan rapidly began disintegrating, allowing the spiralling chakra within to rapidly expand and explode outwards!

'Strike!' Inner Sakura cheered, even though the explosion had knocked her on her butt. 'Take that, Pervy Sage!'


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Bab 102: Battle of the Bulges

"Well, we've finally made it," said Jiraiya cheerfully, pointing at the scenic castle up ahead. "Tanzaku Town!"

'Thanks for the exposition, old man,' said Inner Sakura snidely.

After a few hours of travel, Sakura and company had finally made it to Tanzaku Town. It was your average castle city— the castle itself had been built on a hill during the Warring States era, and a bustling city had taken root at the foot of the hill, expanding over the surrounding area.

These days, the castle was nothing more than a tourist attraction. Actually, it reminded Sakura quite a lot of Himeji Castle, which she had visited with her parents and her older sister while on vacation in her previous life. And now that she was thinking about it…

'Hang on,' said Inner Sakura. 'The castle's still there!'

Thanks to Sakura finding Tsunade's location in advance, Jiraiya and company had made it to Tanzaku Town before Orochimaru. However, this also meant that Naruto had had that much less time to perfect his Rasengan…

"All right gang, let's split up," said Jiraiya seriously. "There's a lot of ground to cover, so you two'll focus on izakaya and gambling parlours. You can— ahem— leave the brothels to me."

"Why would an old woman like this Tsunade go to a brothel?" asked Naruto pointedly.

Could it be that the future Fifth Hokage financed her gambling addiction by selling her body!?

Sakura found this idea highly unlikely— real life wasn't like doujin. Sakura stared at Jiraiya suspiciously; it was more than likely that the old pervert only wanted to go in order to get a look at the local talent, for his own enjoyment…

At any rate, Sakura didn't want to go anywhere near a brothel for the foreseeable future.

A few days ago, she had accompanied Jiraiya on one of his 'investigation sessions,' to keep an eye on him; to make sure that he was actually doing his job properly and searching for clues. And by the end of that day, she had received more job offers than the number of times she had gone on ninja missions. Could it be that her true calling in life was to become a stripper!?

Still, even though she wouldn't have to go near any seedy establishments with this arrangement, Sakura was most emphatically not keen on splitting up— not while Orochimaru was hanging about. Even if she disliked the old pervert, she wouldn't hesitate to keep hugging Jiraiya's thigh if it meant not getting dissected by a mad scientist!

'It's too late,' Inner Sakura pointed out. 'He poofed away.'

Jiraiya had just used the Body Flicker to run away from his charges, even going to the extent of adding some smoke as a special effect to mask the direction in which he had escaped in.

"D'you wanna look for her with me?" said Naruto shyly, holding a picture of Tsunade between his fingers. "We've only got the one photo, ya know…"

'No need for the photoI never forget a pretty woman's face,' said Inner Sakura proudly. 'Especially one as curvaceous as Lady Tsunade! …I'd still take the photo, though.'

And so, with the motto of safety in numbers in mind, Sakura began her search, followed closely by Naruto, who had his nose buried in Tsunade's photograph. Casinos, gambling parlours, pachinko places… Tanzaku Town was teeming with them, so this was going to take some time!

As Sakura and Naruto climbed up the steps to the castle district, they soon found themselves on a street where every single building was some sort of gambling establishment, judging by the ostentatious signs.

"Pick one," Sakura told Naruto.

He was this world's protagonist, so surely, he would be blessed by luck itself, right?

After overthinking it for a while, Naruto pointed to the first building to their right— just as Tsunade, Shizune and Tonton exited the building in a hurry.

Lucky!

"Why couldn't we have stayed a little longer, Lady Tsunade?" Shizune was complaining. "For once, luck was on your side!"

"I have a bad feeling about this place, that's all," Tsunade responded nervously. "The sooner we're gone…"

And that's when they spotted Naruto and Sakura.

"Oh look, Lady Tsunade," said Shizune cheerily. "It's some little shinobi from the village…"

Shizune's voice gradually trailed off as she took notice of Sakura's generous bust.

Just how old could this pink-haired kunoichi be!? Those things were nearly as large as her mistress's, while hers were washboard flat, even though she had to be older! Where was the justice in this world!?

"See?" said Tsunade angrily, turning to Shizune. "Trouble's already catching up to us!"

"You're the granny Pervy Sage had us searching for?" said Naruto in shock. "The one who can cure Kakashi-sensei!? You look exactly like your picture!"

He had assumed that Jiraiya had given him an old picture of her— and this lady in front of him sure didn't look fifty!

"And by Pervy Sage, Naruto means Jiraiya-sensei," said Sakura hurriedly. "My lady, we need to leave this place immediately."

However, instead of answering her, Tsunade simply stalked towards Sakura… before starting to grope her breasts, while Shizune quickly moved to cover Naruto's eyes, much to his disappointment.

"Kyaa!" Sakura squeaked in surprise. "La… Lady Tsunade!?"

Sakura had no idea Tsunade swung that way!

"Stop fidgeting," said Tsunade sternly. "What size were you before you started growing? How much time did it take; ah, lift up your shirt a bit—" Tsunade started feeling up Sakura's belly. "—before they grew to this size? How well do you know your parents' medical history?"

Sakura mentally counted the days since her transmigration. March, April, May, June, July, August…

"About half a year," Sakura answered, trying not to laugh as Tsunade's fingers tickled her. "Why do you ask?"

"It's not breast hypertrophy, since the texture is normal," Tsunade muttered to herself. "It's not ovarian granulosa cell cancer, either— your hormones are fine… Hm…"

As Sherlock Holmes had once famously said:

'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'

"You… you just have a large bust…" said Tsunade quite lamely.

"Y-yeah," Sakura responded awkwardly. "I'm aware…"

Tsunade sneaked one last look at Sakura— she was even bigger than she had been at her age, and it wasn't even due to a disease! In her youth, Tsunade had been completely flat— so she could scarcely imagine the heights this short pink-haired girl in front of her would reach in the future!


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