Jiraiya x Reader Stories(Smut)

The Festival Of Changing Leaves

A made up holiday of mine! Something cute and cozy to officially welcome fall. Yes it's a bit late but it's fine.

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Every fall the Hidden Leaf Village hosts a wonderful festival. The forest turns into an array of beautiful warm colours. Red. Yellow. Orange. The brilliant colours of fall are to be celebrated. The change of season brings about many things. Harvest and preparation for the cold winter. As more modern conveniences are now available, it's more just a fun festival rather than preparation for winter survival. It's all for fun now. It brings together lots of people. Including your date.

It was a surprise when Jiraiya asked you to accompany him to the festival. He wasn't known for wanting to participate in community things. He usually avoided it. Yet he asked you if you wanted to go with him. You were a little blindsided, but agreed. You expected to attend it by yourself. Even then only for a few hours before returning home to bury yourself back in the comfort of a book. A date with the famous toad sage and is quite the honour, as he jokingly said to you.

You and him have been casually seeing each other for a month now. It's mostly just been going out for dinner and chatting. You get along with him, he gets along with you. But the festival would be the first real long outing with him as his partner... date?... girlfriend? He hasn't ever referred to you as anything like that.

At around noon, you meet up with Jiraiya. He's well suited for the festival as he always wears warm colours. Only he seemed to ditch his equipment and armour to appear more casual. His hair was down too, something he's never done around you.

"Shall we?" He asks and held out his hand for you to take.

"We shall." You answer and take his hand.

The whole village was converted for the festival. It was a celebration after all. The food stalls had converted their menus to highlight fall flavours and treats. There's games too. Lots of games! They were all homemade games that the villagers had put together themselves. Ring toss. Bottle towers. Pumpkin rolling. Bobbing for apples. One of the training grounds was converted into a hay maze. There's a section dedicated to crafting. Like painting leaves and carving pumpkins. Lots of the younger kids like to go there... but it also has a table set up for a very special tradition...

It's usually for couples. Two people gather leaves of all colours and shapes. With their fall leaves they make a wreath out of it measured to fit their partner's head and is given to them as a gift. It's a great tradition. Plenty of people ask each other out with this tradition. Typically if the person accepts the wreath and wears it, it's a sign of acceptance to the confession...

Maybe you can make one for Jiraiya? He wasn't really a wreath wearing type of man but it's a tradition. It would be a cute way to ask him if you and him are more than just casual dating. You like spending your time with him. He must like it too, or else he wouldn't have asked you.

"What do you want to do first?" He asked.

"Hm..." You pause to think. "How about some games?"

"Sounds good!"

Jiraiya lead the way to the street hosting all the games. He stopped at a bottle tower game first. Despite being a village full of ninja, the games are very simple and easy. Everyone has a great attitude towards the simplicity of it all. It brings out the kid in everyone. He bought a game and was handed three plastic balls to knock the bottles down. He handed you one to give you a chance.

Now.... you ain't no ninja. Your hand eye coordination is not the best. The most you do with your hands and eyes together is cook or clean. In comparison to an S class who has been fighting since childhood you are... terrible. You make the throw and it goes very wide. It was quite weak too. It flunked against the board holding the bottles. It rattled but they didn't topple.