Ninja Gamer

Chapter 32: Slug Princess Tsunade

There were many things that Hiruzen Sarutobi had missed about the regular shinobi life when he took up the mantle of Hokage, and one of the biggest things was being able to freely travel the land as he pleased, something that most Hokage are unable to do, as the village needed their oversight.

"You look like you're enjoying yourself, Sensei," Jiraiya commented with an amused grin from next to him, keeping an eye on Naruto behind them as the blond focused on the water balloon in his hand.

"Jiraiya-kun, the last time I left Konoha, it was to visit the Fire Daimyo to inform him of my second retirement. The time before that, it was to meet Onoki in the Land of Iron." the now-former Hokage reminded him. "I haven't had any kind of holiday in over a decade. Give an old man some time to relax and enjoy the scenery in his last mission for the village, hm?"

Jiraiya snorted in response. "Right, last mission," he chuckled in amusement. "I know you sensei, you'll be bored within the week and bugging Yuriko until she sends you off on some kind of mission."

Hiruzen huffed in response to his student's accusation. "I will do no such thing," he replied in a dignified manner. "Now I actually have time to work on some of my own personal projects and maybe even find a student who will respect me as is proper."

The Toad Sage barked out a laugh in response. "Right, respect you, you mean like how I taught you my [Transparent Escape] jutsu so that you could do some peeping yourself?" he questioned tauntingly.

"Stubborn brat," the former kage scowled at his student good naturedly before a pop and a splash caught their attention.

"Got it!" Naruto announced, sounding pleased with himself, making Jiraiya look back at him in surprise.

"Already?" the man questioned. "It too me at least two weeks to get that part down."

Naruto grinned at him as he shook off his wet hand. "Nee-san had me working on Chakra control exercises since I was entered into the Academy," he stated proudly. "This is kinda like some of the ones she came up with to help me better my control."

Jiraiya blinked as he stared at Naruto, several things clicking into place in his mind. "Of course she would start you on it," he sighed in response before looking at his teacher. "Neither me nor him taught her how to use it, and yet she managed to reverse engineer the entire thing to teach him, that girl is such a genius it scares me."

Hiruzen chuckled in response. "Indeed, it is rather amazing her progress, especially when you consider, she didn't exactly have the training most Academy Students or even Genin have," he commented in amusement. "I hope you have the items for the second step of the jutsu."

Jiraiya rolled his eyes in response as he pulled a rubber ball out of a seal in his bag and tossed it to Naruto. "This step is similar to the first one, but you need to exert enough for to explode the rubber ball," he explained to the blond who was studying the ball. "This one is less about control and more about power, but you still need the multi-axis rotation of the first step to complete it properly."

Naruto nodded in consideration as he studied the ball in his hand for a few more moments before he began to channel his chakra through it.

"Hopefully that will keep him busy for a bit longer this time," Jiraiya sighed as he scratched his scalp.

Hiruzen chuckled a bit as they started walking again. "He is rather quick on the uptake, is he not?" he agreed proudly. "You know, if you didn't, I would have been tempted to claim him as my own apprentice."

Jiraiya raised an eyebrow at his sensei. "Now there's a scary thought, an Uzumaki Jinchuriki being trained by two 'God's of Shinobi', I don't think the world would remain standing," he commented jokingly, drawing a laugh from his teacher.