Forsaken {Book 1}

XXII: Isn't a Question

"Kid that isn't a question." Jiraiya stated dryly.  Naruto sweat dropped and nearly fell out of his chair. 

"WILL YOU TEACH ME MY FATHER'S JUTSU?" Naruto asked in exasperation.  Jiraiya took a sip of his drink and shrugged.

"You do know that it's going to take you a long time to learn it.  It took your father three years to master it.  Are you-"

"I DON'T CARE HOW LONG IT TOOK DAD TO MASTER IT, I'LL MASTER FASTER THEN HE DID!" Naruto claimed standing up. 

"Mhm." They heard an expectant grunt.  They both turned to see the owner of the ramen stand glaring at them.  "Quiet down or else you're out of here." He said with a growl before walking off.

"Kid I don't think you're getting what I'm trying to tell you.  If it took your dad three years do master it, it's going to take you a long time to master it as well.  Meaning you're going to have to devote yourself to hard training."  Jiraiya lectured.

"Alright!  I'll do it!" Naruto exclaimed.  "Sakura, Sasuke, and I, we all need to get stronger in our own ways.  I want you to teach me." Naruto told Jiraiya with complete seriousness.  Jiraiya returned Naruto's seriousness with a look.  After a couple of suspenseful minutes Jiraiya finally answered him.

"Alright."

"YEA!" Naruto shouted.

"Mhm."  Just like earlier, Jiraiya and Naruto turned their heads to see the angry ramen stand owner.

"GET OUT!"

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"What are you doing in a place like this?"

"I could ask you the same question." A pink haired girl grinned as she got many coins from a machine.  Tsunade 'tched' and occupied the machine beside Sakura, feeding the machine her own silver coins.  "But, to answer your question, I got bored of what I was doing and decided I would come here.  Now I know why you're so addicted to this.  It's so much fun."  Sakura said staring at the screen on her machine before pulling the lever that stopped the spinner.

"What are you going to do?" Tsunade asked Sakura with a raised eyebrow.

"What do you mean?" Sakura said glancing over at Tsunade before bringing her attention back to the screen. 

"Well, on my way here I passed the ramen shop where two idiots were sitting on the ground in front of the stand.  I'm assuming you already know who they are.  But anyways, Jiraiya mentioned that Naruto was going to come along with us when we leave town, as I walked by them."

"What?" Sakura asked a little shocked that Naruto never said anything about this beforehand.  "Well I won't try and stop him.  If he wants Jiraiya to teach him, then that's fine.  Especially since Jiraiya was his father's sensei."  Sakura didn't lie.  She was happy for Naruto, happy that he found a way to get stronger.  But she was kind of upset that he never mentioned any ideas like this, and that he would eventually leave.

"Alright, but that doesn't answer my question. What are you going to do?"  Sakura pursed her lips.

"I already have plans." She stated.  "There's someone I'm trying to locate, and when I do, I'm going to ask them to teach me." She explained. "But from what I hear, you know this person."

"Really?" Tsunade drawled. "Well, I can't say if that's right or not if you don't tell me who this person is." Sakura smirked.

"Alright,"

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For the five thousandth time that week, Minato threw his hands up in his hair in frustration. One, he hasn't heard from his son in about two months. Two, the ANBU he sent to spy on Danzo hadn't return yet like they were assigned to. Three, he couldn't prove that Sakura was abused because said girl wasn't there to admit it.  The thing about Naruto was that he didn't even know why Naruto left.  He still hadn't found out that mystery.  He needed to.  Kushina has been restless.  Kakashi has been more quiet.  The other teams from the Konoha twelve have been training harder and harder with the goal of getting stronger.  The villagers, civilians and ninjas alike, all of them act as if a burden has been lifted off their shoulders.  But Minato still has yet to figure out why.

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Sasuke sat on the couch watching Naruto eat some instant ramen as Sakura made her way over to the two. 

"You know Naruto, I thought you would've gone to the ramen shop across the street." Sakura stated.

"Phwee ghat kifkfed ouh." Naruto said with a mouthful of ramen.

"Don't speak with your mouthful." Sasuke said in disgust.  Naruto swallowed.

"We got kicked out."  He said.  "The pervy sage and I.  Apparently I was disrupting other customers."

"Doesn't surprise me." Sasuke muttered quietly.

"Anyways, I don't think pervy sage told you, but I think you should know.  I'm going to be honest, I don't think we will be able to stay together and train together like this.  I mean, we all have our own paths we want to take.  Sakura wants to find some dude and train under him.  Sasuke wants to do his own thing.  And I, I asked pervy sage to train me." He said.  Sakura pursed her lips.

"I understand Naruto.  Tsunade told me about you and Jiraiya-sama.  I just wish that you would've consulted with us first.  So we wouldn't be in total surprise."  Sakura said.

"I'm not too surprised.  I mean, Orochimaru offered to help me with my Sharingan." Sasuke stated.  "He said he could help me and then once I finished I would be on my own and I'd have to find my own trainer."  Now this surprised both Naruto and Sakura.

"Okay I was expecting this from Naruto, but not from you!" Sakura exclaimed. 

"Well, Naruto is right.  We have to take our own paths."

"Yea you're right." Sakura sighed and slumped down on the couch. 

"So Sakura, who are you going to search for?  Will you actually tell us this time?"  Naruto asked anxiously. 

"Fine." Sakura said.

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NO UPDATE NEXT FRIDAY THE 26!!!  I'm going to be on a trip for the week next week so I won't have time to update on Friday.

A/N: Who is Sakura going to train under?  Where will Sasuke go when he's done training under Orochimaru?  Find out in the future chapters!!!!  Okay that was kinda dumb 😂😂😂

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