"Oi....Closet pervert." Naruto stood over Ebisu, but he got no response and crouched behind the fallen man. "Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu....One Thousand Years of Death!" And the blond....shoved his fingers into Ebisu's butt. "He's totally knocked out.... He's weak, sure enough."
"Naruto....what did you just do?"
"Ah, it's a Jutsu I learned from Kakashi-sensei!" He grinned, but I just deadpanned. ....What was with this team? "What's with that big frog?" Naruto shouted at the old man. "What the heck are you?"
"Thank you for asking me!" The old man flipped his long hair. "Know me as the Mountain Toad....spirit sage who acquires immortality, also commonly called the Toad Mountain Sage." The giant toad and the old man struck a pose.
"M-Mountain Sage?"
"Exactly." The toad disappeared in a puff of smoke, and the old man stood on his own two feet.
"Hey....Pervy Sage, what're you going to do about this?" Naruto pointed to Ebisu. "He was supposed to watch our training! You did that to him."
"He interfered with my research."
"Research?"
"I'm a writer. I'm writing a novel." The old man reached into his shirt and pulled out a book. "This is it!" The front cover said Make-Out Paradise and had a picture of a man chasing a woman as they were laughing.
"Oh, that is....!" Naruto pointed, recognizing the book.
"You know this?" The old man snickered.
"That's not much of a novel!"
"....What kind of book is that?" I muttered.
"Don't worry about it, Sayuri. In the first place, what research are you talking about?!" Naruto shouted. "You're just peeking at the girls' bath!" I heard screaming from the bathhouse, and the old man whined.
"Idiot, idiot....idiot! My peeking has been found out."
"You pervert."
"F-Fool! I'm not just a pervert." The old man ran up to Naruto, and I cringed. "I get inspired by peeking and can write better pieces."
"Liar! No excuses."
"Disgusting." I popped off.
"More importantly, what're you going to do about our training?!"
"You mean the walking-on-water technique you were doing earlier?"
"You know it? Then take responsibility and join our training." The blond pointed at the old man.
"Hmph. I don't care about such things." The old man then walked right past us.
"Hey, hey wait! Pervy Sage! Join our training, hey!"
"Shut up! I hate people who don't know how to talk properly. ....And I don't like men."
"Oh, um, ummm.... That Make-Out Paradise was really exciting, cool, and interesting." Naruto was clearly lying.
"The purchase or viewing of that novel is prohibited for those 18 years or younger.... You liar."
"The reviews that I've heard are great."
"It's useless to flatter me. I'm a sage!" The old man shot back. "I'm not the type of fool who can be coaxed by a fledgling like you."
"Oh, hey....wait!" Naruto ran after the old man as he was leaving. "Help me, Sayuri!"
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Desert Flower
Fanfiction[18+; Use an age indicator in YOUR BIO to confirm you're 18+ if you want to follow/comment or you'll be blocked for safety purposes] Sayuri knows all too well what it's like to be lonely. She's a black sheep, a strange child left all alone. But what...
