Naruto: Tsunade's Apprentice

Chapter 9: Invasion Throughout Konoha

Tsunade could easily feel the intrusion of the foreign chakra entering her system. With a roll of her eyes, she effortlessly dispelled the genjutsu. Just as Tsunade felt the foreign chakra, so too did Shizune. With the same ease as Tsunade, Shizune dispelled the genjutsu. Shizune even made sure to free Tonton. Even though the small piglet had some ability to use chakra, she didn't have enough control to dispel genjutsu herself.

The two plus piglet stayed in their seats, acting as civilians placed under the genjutsu to maintain their cover. This did not however mean they were oblivious to their surroundings. They noticed the emergence of Suna and Oto shinobi and their attack on the Konoha shinobi and civilians but that is not where their focus was. It was here when they sat up but not yet stood. Tsunade's attention was drawn to the arena floor, where Naruto was last known to be.

When she saw the Suna Jonin attack Naruto, her heart nearly sank through her chest and rage bubbled within her. How dare this person attack Naruto. How dare he strike at one of her two most beloved people. Tsunade immediately stood from her seat and tried to rush forward to protect Naruto however her path was blocked. She cared not for who tried to get in her way. She struck the opposing shinobi that got in her way in very hard, caving in their chest. Before she could continue forward, another person charged her. This time however, this combatant wasn't alone. He had a partner that went after Shizune. Despite the ease with which they were dispatched, many more were still preventing her from reaching Naruto.

She then saw something that made her heart stop. Naruto was struck by a blast of wind that sent him flying. Panic enveloped her whole being to the point where she froze in her movements. If not for Shizune's intervention she may have died this day to. Since they were already foregoing the pretense of being disguised by openly fighting in the stands, Shizue called out to her master "Tsunade-sama! Snap out of it! Naruto is fine, see!" Indeed he was fine as Shizune pointed out. Tsunade saw Naruto recovering from the wind blast as he was back on his feet. Her relief was short lived as terror once again enveloped her being as she saw the Suna Jonin once again try to kill Naruto.

Luckily his sensei, Kakashi, was there to save him. It was at this point that Tsunade saw red. In her anger she failed to notice Naruto and Sasuke leave the arena in pursuit of Gaara. She rounded harshly in the section of the stands she was in and grabbed onto the seat now in front of her. Using her prodigious strength, she slowly pulled the seat out of the stone it was carved into. The stone strained and cracked from the force she exerted upon it. When she successfully removed the seat from the stone, she quickly rounded in place, once again facing the arena, and threw the seat with all her might at the stationary Suna Jonin that was staring down Kakashi and Genma.

Kakashi was staring down three Oto Shinobi and a Suna Jonin with his Genin facing off against two Suna Genin. He had an idea of what was going on, Suna and Oto were invading Konoha but why were they after this kid that Naruto has wrapped up in the Kango Fusa. That was another thing, Naruto has the Kango Fusa. 'Since when did Naruto have the Kango Fusa? How does he have it?' were some of the thoughts running through Kakashi's mind. The foreign Shinobi attacked the Konoha contingent. The first to move was the puppeteer but his Genin were not deterred. Two of the Oto shinobi rushed to face him while the Suna Jonin and the remaining Oto shinobi moved to fight Genma.

Kakashi felt a little insulted by the skill being demonstrated by his foes. Since his confrontation with Zabuza in Nami no Kuni, he had put himself through intense training while trying to teach his Genin either new skills or refine the skills he deemed they needed work on. Okay so maybe he only refined skills with Naruto. But what was he supposed to do? He wasn't a teacher in anyway and Naruto has a history of not being the most studious of individuals. If there was another way to teach, he didn't know it. For Sasuke all he had to do was show Sasuke the hand seals for a jutsu, go over the basics of a nature transformation and Sasuke managed to decipher the rest on his own. For Sakura, she was eager to learn especially on an academic level. She took to leaning from books like a fish takes to water. He had begun her training in genjutsu before the exams but her physical training was something to be desired. This however he couldn't fix. A person has to push themselves to train. If you aren't willing to put in the work you will never see the results you want. For Naruto … he wasn't sure that to do for the blonde.