章節 51: Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 51
With Tobirama and Sasuke
"You sense anyone Tobirama? We are almost there…" Sasuke asked in a hushed calm voice, hopping off another branch to the next making the stoic Senju stop abruptly and raise his hand in a half ram and seal while closing his eyes to concentrate.
His senses expanded in a second and just as he had expected to, chakra signatures started getting detected one by one like little beacons in a widespread grid he was scouring with his senses.
"One… two… three…" he counted all the signatures he could sense, and counted them all before letting his eyes snap open with a serious gaze within them while he let his sensory grid down.
Sasuke looked at his friend expectantly, awaiting his answer with a clam patient gaze, and nodded back when the man gave an affirmative nod to let him know he had indeed sensed them out.
"Fifteen chakra signatures, elite jonin at the very least, and three chakra signatures Kage level…" he stated flatly and Sasuke let out an appreciative wolf whistle when both men crossed their arms silently, in unison.
"They aren't taking any chances…, eh? But what about Misa and Roku, you feel any of their signatures around?" the elder Sarutobi questioned, getting a negative shake of the head from Tobirama.
"Not yet, maybe they are holding them in a place that has their chakras suppressed…." Tobirama muttered in deep thought, making Sasuke look at him worriedly with a hint of sadness within his eyes.
He wasn't as optimistic as him right now, two pure blooded Senjus within Kumo's grasp?
The idea itself left only two points to be considered within his seasoned and veteran mind.
Either they were holding them in their midst, to use them and gain intel out of them as they pleased. Which he didn't think they would risk for the fear of Konoha invading someway to get them out and let such a surgical attack take place upon their walls by a threat, at such sensitive times no less.
Or they had done what he thought they had.
Killed them, and lured them into a trap to get rid of them and lower the Leaf's morals by cutting off the head that lead them all, and get them an advantageous position at the brink of war. This was what any militaristic village like Kumo would do.
Then there was the third and least hopeful solution that Tobirama was clinging his hopes to. That they had been kept hostage to be used as leverage against them for some reason, which was the most volatile of the options for anyone to take.
But for the life of him, he hoped his deduction would be proven wrong for the first time and the third option was the one they had taken.
"I do hope you're right this time as well Tobirama…" he muttered to himself and followed Tobirama's lead to the point where the three largest signatures were converging to.
Any other day he might have told him off at his idiotic hopes, but the matter was way too sensitive for him to poke the ever emotionless Senju on and about like he usually might have done.
The lush of the trees gave way, and both men hopped down upon the plain ground that had come in between of the large and dense forest.
Sasuke stopped, following the lead of Tobirama whose eyes had narrowed in on front of himself. Sasuke followed his gaze, and sure enough he too could now see someone making their way through the trees straight towards them.
Sasuke was surprised when he saw the Nidaime Raikage himself jumping down from the foliage that covered their gazed with two of his jounin flanking his sides.
But that wasn't what perturbed the elder Sarutobi.
It was the expression that was cemented, almost plastered upon the Lightning Shadow's face that baffled him to ends.
He held a warm smile.
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(Konoha )
"You didn't have to pay for that you know…." Tsunade mumbled, taking another lick from her snow cone while she walked down the streets of the Uchiha clan compounds with her usual chirpy smile etched upon her pouty pink lips.
Her hazelnut eyes turned to the side, only to see a hand making it's way towards her face before it poked her forehead just as usual, with a small tap of his index and middle fingers in a gentle touch.
She couldn't help but scowl seeing that same calm smile she had seen all but a hundred times now gracing his own lips, while she childishly rubbed her forehead with her free hand.
She would have chortled down a reply for that annoying habit of his, that is, had she not been too immersed in her mint flavored cone in her hands, courtesy of some mindful grace from her baby blue eyed companion.
"So… what are… we gonna do today?" she asked in her ever curious voice, in between her licks of her now half gone cone.
Naruto's face turned to one of contemplation upon hearing her query. His hands that were already dug deep in his pockets dug even deeper, his head turning up to see the calm blue sky with just a single white cloud hovering in the clear day.
Tsunade watched on in innocent curiosity, his face showed her he was thinking hard and would come up with something awesome….
"Dunno…" he finally replied, a helpless shrug marring his shoulders.
She did the only thing she could.
She sweat dropped.
"'Kay…" she mumbled, looking on ahead and continuing on her job to devour her treat. She wasn't in the mood to blabber on and ruin their alone time on such a beautiful and serene day.
"YOSH!" a voice boomed behind them, and Naruto sighed tiredly already knowing what it was that was coming for him.
Tsunade turned around, taking her final bite of the cone and throwing the tissue aside only to see a green spandex, orange scarf and leggings wearing genin heading straight for her.
She slapped her hands together with a grin, making Naruto take a step back while gulping softly at that devious two faced grin he knew all too well.
The kunoichi cocked her fist back, the green monstrosity heading straight for the two flashing her a dazzling smile with open arms to embrace them both in a blissful hug….
BAM!
Duy rocketed back where he came from as soon as her fist made contact with that sparkly smiling face and Tsunade clapped her hands cheerfully.
"There that takes care of that. I've told him not to hug me like that…" she chirped up in a chipper tone, and it was Naruto's turn to sweat drop at her words.
He had no intention of incurring her wrath upon him, so he did the intelligent thing.
He started poking the unconscious Duy with a stick…
This was apparently the scene Sakumo walked into.
A happy and smug looking Tsunade, an unconscious Duy mumbling about youthful kunoichi in a dizzy state while Naruto was poking him with a stick.
He smiled, had he been someone else he might have been surprised but these were his weird friends that he couldn't get enough of.
So he began poking Duy with a stick too to join his friend in his youthful endeavor…
"Oi! Duy come on man wake up…" Sakumo shook him awake roughly. The boy in spandex blinked, and blinked again while his eyes tried to regain their focus.
"YOSH! SUCH YOUTH!" he boomed and both his teammates winced clasping their ringing ears. "YOU TRULY ARE THE EPITOME OF YOUTH TSUNADE-SAN!" he boomed making the cheeky girl giggle in affirmative at his words.
"Oi Duy, what were you rushing towards us for?" Naruto asked, once more making the boy blink innocently before his eyes widened in realization. He caught Naruto's shoulders, who had a feeling of foreboding that this wasn't going to end well for him…
Like it was anything new…
"I have found myself a new youthful teacher Naruto!" the boy spoke in a serious tone, and all genin surrounding him rose an arching eyebrow at his words.
Even Tsunade crouched down by their side and looked on at him in pure curiosity.
"The taijutsu master you were looking for Duy?" Sakumo asked in a skeptical tone, and sighed when the boy gave him a thumbs up coupled with his dazzling smile.
"Yes Sakumo, I have finally tracked the man down…" once more the boy's voice was gravely serious unlike his usual self showing them just how much it meant to the boy. His friends couldn't help but feel happy for him.
"…but he has refused to teach me anything. He says I'm not worth teaching anything," the boy whispered, his voice downtrodden while he looked on at his lap with a saddened gaze.
"What? But why would he refuse you?" this time, it was surprisingly Tsunade who had voiced the question out loud.
The boy let out a loud sniffle, his eyes shimmering heavily and both Sakumo and Naruto looked ready to kill that bastard of a man who had broken up their friend. No doubt he must have said something really bad…
"He said I was unyouthful, in fact I had no youth at all…" he sobbed thickly, not noticing his teammates face faulting behind his back. Tsunade giggled happily, patting his head like she did with Kiara to make him look up at her tearfully.
"So what? You go and show him what you're made of!" she cheered him on, though her smile did turn a bit nervous seeing a new flame, literally in fact, ignite within his eyes.
"YOSH!" he boomed, going in to hug the girl who had fanned his flames of youth so much with merely a few words.
PLOMP!
Tsunade's sole met his face to stop him in his place, showing a good chunk of her flexibility at stretching her leg so far high while being crouched down upon her knees.
An imaginary breeze flew past them while they stayed in that position for a moment.
"No. Hugging. Me." she scolded sternly, and the boy did have the decency to turn a bit sheepish at his weird tendencies that tended to overtake him quite often.
"Let's go Duy…" he heard Naruto say, and turned to look at him with a lost expression plastered upon his face.
"Yeah let's show him what we've got. He shouldn't have underestimated a member of Squad Seven!" Sakumo cheered on and Duy smiled genuinely.
He really was glad that he had failed twice if that let him form a team with these guys.
It really was worth it in the end.
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