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Team seven and Akemi are currently relaxing in Konoha when Ran pops in, whispers something to her summoner before poofing away, leaving a small note.
Akemi looks at the note her summon gave her.
“Is something wrong?” Kakashi asks looking up from his reading.
“Uhh. I’m not sure. Miyako sent this note, it says ‘in a tree, being circled by sharks and one weasel’ I-I’m not sure if this is literally or if it’s code for something.” Akemi looks puzzled. She shrugs, “She’ll be fine she may be kind of a dumbass but she can handle herself.”
Team 7 look at each other at the casual insulting of her sister and the confusing note itself.
“What of the rest of your team?” Sakura asks.
“Well Ran said that Sakumi-sensei was knocked out but alive somewhere in Ame. Hideki-kun is still looking for someone to take him to Konoha. Ran told me that Mom was beating up some guy so she’s fine.” Akemi answers honestly. “They’ll be fine. It’s not like they’ll get in too much trouble.”
Team seven stare at her, incredulous at her casual behavior.
She settles back onto the grass with a book on jutsus.
It’s been a week of absolute silence and Kisame is ready to have a mental break down. He was fine with one silent traveling partner but now with the quiet child they picked off a tree the silence was unbearable.
Miyako and Itachi watch as Kisame violently mutters to himself and twitches. They look at each other silently. Miyako silently gives Itachi a scrap of paper.
After reading it Itachi nods. With that Miyako silently summons a pale pink, not to mention huge, four tailed fox.
“MIYAKO-HIME!” the fox yells as it launches itself at the girl.
Kisame screams at the sudden yell and whirls around drawing his sword. He stops as he sees a giant fox laying on top of the girl he was escorting.
“Ran told me that she was summoned by your sister and I got worried because you haven’t summoned me yet and I thought you got hurt and I couldn't bear the thought of my Hime getting hurt but I couldn’t come to you and-and I WAS SO WORRIED!” the fox cries loudly. If foxes could shed tears Miyako would have been laying in a puddle and soaking wet.
Miyako awkwardly pats the fox’s head to calm it down. Once calm the fox rises and sits down primly as if she didn’t just bowl over her summoner and cried over her. Miyako glares at her summon.
“Hime? Please don’t tell me you’re some kind of lost princess running from her enemies because her homeland was attacked and the only way your parents could protect you was if they sent you away to a far off land,” Kisame says. Everyone stares at him weirdly for the very specific scenario he just came up with.
“Nothing as idiotic as that!” the fox answers for Miyako, “Miyako-Hime is the heiress of the clan that holds our contract.” Miyako nods.
Kisame sighs in relief.
“So who’s the fox, anyway?” Kisame asks after a moment of silence.
“I am Miyako-hime’s primary summon. My name is Tsubaki,” the fox, now Tsubaki answers. Tsubaki curls a tail around Miyako and tucks her against her body.
Turning towards her summoner she asks, “Why did you summon me, hime?”
Miyako answers with some hand-signs and gestures neither Itachi or Kisame recognize.
“Ah I see,” Tsubaki nods, turning to the confused duo she says, “thank you for escorting Miyako-hime this far but I will take over from here according to your conditions. We are close enough to Konoha to make it there safely.”
“Uhhh you’re welcome?” Kisame says. Itachi nods.
“Konoha is that way,” Kisame points down the road.
The fox and the girl nod and begin walking.
Itachi startles slightly as if remembering something. He whispers to Kisame, “Konoha does not like foxes.”
Kisame nods at the information.
“Wait!” Kisame yells, “I just remembered! Konoha doesn’t take too kindly to foxes so I suggest you do something about Tsubaki!”
Miyako raises a hand in acknowledgement. Next to her Tsubaki is enveloped in smoke. The smoke disappears revealing a well endowed woman with pink hair in a complicated updo. She looks totally normal except for the tails waving behind her.
Miyako signs to her and Tsubaki startles and begins to wrestle with the tails, soon enough they pop out of existence. Miyako and Tsubaki turn to Itachi and Kisame.
“Thanks for the warning!” Tsubaki yells loudly, scaring a few birds. Miyako nods and waves. They turn around and meander down the road towards Konoha.
“Well we had an interesting week, don’t you think Itachi-san?” Kisame asks. Itachi nods.
“Like that time we accidentally entered that forbidden temple and the only way to get out was to do an obscure dance that for some reason Miyako-san knew,” Kisame says then stops as he remembers something.
“Itachi-san, did-did we ever give Miyako-san any equipment? You know to protect herself when we seperated? We found her with nothing Itachi-san, all she had were those rocks she threw at us, and I doubt Tsubaki has anything on her since she’s a fox, they have no need for weapons,” Kisame asks. Itachi is deathly silent. Kisame gets a bad feeling.
“We need to go back!” Kisame panics and runs toward where they last saw the girls. Itachi quickly follows his partner.
Tsunade watches in surprise as Hideki, an absolutely tiny child, lifts the boulder blocking the road over his shoulder and chucks it to the side. They walk as they begin to talk.
Shizune giggles at her face, “I think you may have surprised Tsunade-sama.”
“What?” Hideki blushes.
“Sorry kid I didn’t think that you had that much strength in that body of yours,” Tsunade says with an eyebrow raised.
“Oh! Well I got it from my dad, when he was around my age he had inhuman strength even without the help chakra. Sensei told us stories from before we were born, she said that when dad got angry he could punch someone all across the village. Most of the time it was Nami-sama, Kasumi-sensei’s teacher and dad’s teammate,” Hideki says with a soft laugh. Tsunade laughs loudly.
“All these stories about your family makes me want to meet them,” Tsunade says.
“I do have a photo of them if you want to see,” Hideki says shyly.
“Give them here then. Let me see them,” Tsunade says, hand out.
The boy hands her two photos. “This one is of dad’s team and this one is my family photo.”
Tsunade studies the family photo. In it is Hideki and three people. There is a tall woman she assumes is his mother, her long hair the same shade as his. She wore a lavender kimono and had one arm around a pink haired person, their short hair in a low ponytail, that and the ambiguous features and clothes they wore confused Tsunade a bit before realizing that Hideki looked a lot like them but blond. The blond woman had her free hand on a boy a few years older than Hideki, his pink hair was in a messy undercut. The older pink-haired person had a hand on Hideki’s shoulder
“That’s my dad, Shiori,” Hideki says pointing at the pink-haired man? Tsunade is unsure but shrugs it off.
“You look like him,” Shizune says. Hideki blushes and nods in thanks.
Pointing at the woman he says, “ my mom, Izumi” pointing at the pink-haired boy, “that’s my older brother, Ichirou.”
“Your family looks nice, kid” Tsunade says. With that Tsunade moves on to the team photo.
In it there is five people in what looks like a restaurant. A red-headed woman who was messily eating from her plate. Next to her was a man that looked a lot like an Uchiha, he was eating as he was looking at the woman next to him, a soft look in his eyes. Tsunade writes him off as just a person with similarities from just that look, no Uchiha would willingly show that much emotion in public. On the other side of the red-head was a younger version of Hideki’s dad his face twisted into disgust as he stares at the couple next to him.
Across from the three was a person that surprised Tsunade. She looked a lot like that brat of Sakumo’s, her hair similar to said brat’s except a bit tamer and longer. Unlike the brat though she had both eyes, although one was darker than the other. Next to her was another Uchiha-look alike with extensive scarring along the right side of his face that trailed down his neck and under his shirt. They were both laughing at the three across from them while leaning against each other.
“I recognize your dad but who’s the rest of them?” Tsunade asks.
“The red-haired woman is Nami-sama, she’s our current kage and she’s married to Shouta-sama, that’s him next to her. Their daughters are my teammates,” Hideki says. Tsunade hums in interest.
“And these two?” Tsunade asks pointing at the other couple.
“The man is out previous kage, his name is Osamu and that his wife Kasumi, she’s was my dad’s sensei. They’re Kasumi-sensei’s parents and they were in the same team. They were taught my Nami-sama’s mother, our kage before Osamu-sama.”
“Kami, kid. That’s some team history there, there’s a kage in each generation of teams. There’s most likely a kage in your sensei’s genin team and yours,” Tsunade teases.
Hideki blushes, “It’s too early to say. Nami-sama still has many years left, she loves her job and not to mention she’s an Uzumaki. She’ll be kage for a while unless she decides to retire.”
“Uzumaki!?” Shizune and Tsunade exclaim and they stop walking to look at him in disbelief.
“Uhh. Yes?” Hideki says, “Nami-sama, her dads, Akemi-chan, Miyako-chan, and Menma-kun are all Uzumakis. I thought I told you?”
“It never came up,” Tsunade says with crossed arms.
“Oh sorry, but why are you so worked up about this Tsunade-sama? If I may ask,” Hideki says with wide eyes.
Tsunade sighs but answers, “my grandmother was an Uzumaki and when Uzushio was destroyed I thought that I and the other Uzumaki in konoha were the last of the clan. So hearing that there was a whole family of them somewhere else surprised me. So, do you know how they survived?”
Hideki hums and gets a focused expression, “I believe that Kurou and Kurama-sama left a few years before the attack on Uzu and Nami-sama birth. They moved to our village, there they met Minako-sama and the rest was history as they say.”
“So theoretically there could be more Uzumaki than we originally thought,” Tsunade asks.
Hideki nods his head enthusiastically, “Yeah! Like Karen-obasan! After the destruction of Uzu, our Uzumakis thought they were the last ones until Shouta-sama found Karen-obasan when they were younger. So it is possible that there are more Uzumakis than we thought!”
“Well that settles it.” Tsunade states.
“Settles what Tsunade-sama?” Shizune asks as Hideki suddenly feels foreboding.
“We’re gonna revive the Uzumaki clan!” Tsunade says with a grin and walks forward with a slight pep in her step.
“What have I done? ” Hideki asks himself as he looks at the determines Slug Princes as she walks. He calms himself down, “This is a good thing, we could always use more Uzumakis. What could go wrong?”
He then regrets his actions when Tsunade places him in charge of the Uzumakis three months later.
“Tobi-san are you sure you know where we’re going?” Sakumi pants as they trudge through the sand.
“Yup! Konoha is this way!” He says as he does a 180 and starts walking.
Sharinu whines and flops on the hot sand. “Can we please ask for directions?”
“Good Idea, Sharinu but if you haven't noticed we’re in the middle of the freaking desert!” Sakumi says almost hysterically.
“What about those guys over there?” Tobi says popping up behind them causing them to shriek. They look over to see a group of people just staring at them.
“Uhhhh. Hello.” Sakumi waves awkwardly. They wave back hesitantly.
“Do you guys know where the nearest village is?” Sharinu asks. The group looks at them weirdly before huddling together and whispering.
“You guys have been walking in circles in front of Sunagakure for the past hour. We’ve been waiting for you to notice us,” the leader of the group answers.
“SUNA! Tobi-san! You said you’ll take us to Konoha!” Sakumi shrieks in disbelief before collapsing. She groans, “How did you take us the complete opposite direction! Kami! You’re just like my father, if it wasn’t for mom he’d have missed all his meetings. Mom had to hold him by the hand and lead him or else he’d get distracted and been late.”
Tobi giggles at that. The guards watch the spectacle.
Sakumi sighs and rises weakly. “Can we come in? All we need is some rest, supplies, and directions. We’re willing to pay.”
“You’ll have to follow the rules but yes, you may enter. Here’s a map, prohibited areas are marked red but the rest you can roam. Tourism spots are marked in blue, inns and restaurants are marked in green. Shops are orange. Have a good day!” A kind guard says, handing them the said map.
“For directions, I suggest you hire a team to take you in the direction of Konoha or else you’ll get lost in the desert,” A gruff guard says.
“Thank you,” Sharinu pants as they all walk into Suna.
“C’mon we should get some beds in a inn first.” Sakumi says following the map to an inn. Tobi and Sharinu trail after her.
They enter an inn. The lady at the counter startles at their entrance.
“Oh! Customers! Finally!” She says.
“What do you mean by ‘Finally’, miss?” Sharinu asks. The lady stares at the dog in surprise.
“Umm, it’s that people haven’t been coming to Suna for a long time, so we barely get any business,” the lady says hesitantly.
“Oh…” Sakumi says, her tone conflicted. She shakes her head, “Then can we get three rooms for the night?”
“Three? Why not two? Are you waiting for someone” the lady asks.
Sakumi leans on the counter and stands on her tiptoes to whisper, “Don’t tell anyone but Sharinu, my dog, is a diva. He refuses to share a room with anyone even me, his partner. Not to mention he snores.”
Sharinu who heard everything glares at Sakumi for the heinous lies she is spewing. The lady giggles into her hand. Tobi watches in amusement although you can’t tell because he’s wearing a mask.
“Okay three rooms coming up!” she says. She hands them the keys and Sakumi pays her.
“Thanks!” She says as she walks down a hallway to the rooms.
“Why did you lie, Sakumi-chan? Sharinu-san doesn’t snore,” Tobi asks.
“She needed the business,” Sakumi says as she pockets two keys before tossing the third key at Tobi without looking.
Tobi drops it but picks it up.
“Rest, Tobi-san. I’ll come get you after two hours. We can go eat and buy supplies, after that we can request an escort mission with the shinobi,” Sakumi says tiredly before opening her door and letting Sharinu in, following close behind him.
Tobi stands in the hallway looking at her door before looking down at the key in his hand. After a few minutes he turns to his room and disappears inside.
Sakumi wakes up after two hours, feeling a little bit more human. “Let’s get Tobi-san and go eat, Sharinu.”
Sharinu follows her into the hallway. Sakumi knocks on Tobi’s door.
“Tobi-san! Wake up, we need to go eat and go shopping!” Sakumi yells softly.
There is a crash and a “I’m okay!” Sakumi giggles. Soon enough Tobi exits the room.
“So what do you want to eat? They have yakiniku, there’s a cafe, Hmm, there’s not too many choices,” Sakumi says almost sadly as she skims the map, “there’s a few bars, a ramen shop, and a few traditional Suna cuisine places.”
“Can we have ramen?” Tobi asks, almost a whisper.
“Huh? Oh yeah! Of course! I love ramen!” Sakumi says. She grabs Tobi’s hand before dragging him out into town and towards the ramen shop. Sharinu shakes his head and follows them.
“Should be around- AHA!” Sakumi grinds to a stop causing Tobi to fall over. Helping Tobi up, she looks the building over. Wasn’t much of a building, more like a stand. Sakumi grins.
“C’mon!” Sakumi says as she sits at the counter, Tobi close behind her. Sharinu enters behind them and carefully climbs a seat.
“Hello!” A kind man says from behind the counter. “What would you like?”
“Miso!” Sakumi says.
“Me too!” Tobi says.
“I’ll have Tonkotsu with extra pork,” Sharinu says. The ramen chef stares but shrugs and soon enough serves them.
Sakumi lowers her mask just enough to uncover her mouth, revealing scarring that crawls over her nose and lips from the left side of her face. Tobi stares a bit before pulling his mask up to reveal his mouth.
“You know, Tobi-san. I take my team out to ramen when we finish a long or difficult mission, just like my sensei did for me and my teammates. It’s been tradition for as long as I remember. I remember mom taking her team out as well,” Sakumi smiles into her bowl. “Do you have a tradition like that Tobi-san?”
Tobi doesn’t answer as he looks down at his bowl. Sakumi glances at him in worry.
“No-Not anymore,” Tobi whispers out.
“I’m so sorry Tobi-san. I-I shouldn’t have asked,” Sakumi says mournfully.
“It’s okay, you didn’t know,” Tobi says before shaking his head, suddenly cheerful he asks, “Sooo, tell me about your team, and teammates.”
Sakumi digs into her pockets to pull out two photos, “I always carry these around wherever I go.”
She slides one towards Tobi, “These are my cute little students!”
Tobi pick it up. It looks like a traditional team photo. On it is Sakumi, not much taller than her students, her hands were on the shoulders of her two female students. A blond boy in the middle happily smiling into the camera. On his left was a sullen looking girl with long dark hair in a braid, she had two whisker marks on each cheek, her bright blue eyes made Tobi silently take a breath. On the boy’s right was another girl that almost made him gasp out loud with hair a familiar shade of blond, she had a cheerful disposition and three whisker marks on each cheek. Her hair was up in two pom pom-like pigtails at the top of her head.
Not noticing his mood, Sakumi says, “The blond girl is Akemi, she may look like her mother but she’s all her father. She was top of her class, and is currently the heiress to her father’s clan. Don’t tell anyone I told you this but Akemi has a crush on Hideki, the boy next to her. Hideki is training to be a medic-nin, he’s pretty strong and not to mention one of the kindest boys you’ll ever meet, just don’t get him angry he's liable to start throwing boulders. He has a crush on Akemi, so it’s mutual and so adorable. Miyako is quiet but she’s so very mischievous, she loves ramen just like her mother. She can easily eat ten in one sitting. She’s her mother’s clan heiress, although she’s not book-smart like her sister, Akemi, she is quite streetsmart and quick on her feet so I’m the least worried about her, she knows how to handle herself.”
Tobi hums as he looks at the picture a bit longer before he slides it back. Sakumi then slides the second picture to him.
Tobi pick up the photo but almost drops it when he sees hair the color of freshly spilt blood. He settles when he sees an unfamiliar face instead of what he expected. The woman had those oh so familiar blue eyes and whisker marks, she was grinning widely at the camera, so very proud of her new students.
Tobi instantly recognizes Sakumi as the girl in the middle simply from her hair and the fact that she was holding a very familiar pup. Although still was still wearing her mask her bangs were pinned to one side by a green and orange clip, revealing two black eyes. On her left was was a dark skinned girl with red hair similar to their teacher although in a cute bob and her bangs were clipped at the top of her head. She had eyes a few shades darker than her hair and like her teacher, had whiskers. On Sakumi’s right was a girl with orange hair hanging over one eye but had her hair tucked behind her ear on the other side. She had many black studs in her visible ear. She was shyly wringing the sleeves of her flower patterned kimono.
Shiba Inu
“That’s my sensei, Nami-sensei is also Akemi and Miyako’s mom. She’s currently the kage of our village, she took over for my dad after he retired from his position to travel with mom,” Sakumi says with a smile.
“She looks like someone I knew,” Tobi says sadly. Sakumi says nothing. “Who are your teammates?”
“Well, the red head is Minami, she’s Nami-sensei’s younger sister. She’s currently a popular traveling musician back home, the shinobi lifestyle wasn’t her type of gig. She joined just because she thought it was expected of her. Although sometimes for old times sake we take a mission together. The other one is Ranko she’s Nami-sensei and Minami’s cousin. She was very shy in the beginning, now though she is more confident and one of the best medic-nin in the village. When she’s not working in the hospital or on a mission, she helps out at her parents’ restaurant.” Sakumi says remembering her genin days.
“An all girls team?” Tobi asks.
“Yup! We weren’t a heavy hitting team, we were more of a sabotage and stealth team. Although we knew how to hit hard, especially because sensei was a part of a heavy hitting team that mom was in charge of,” Sakumi says brightly, “I’m currently training my students as a track and capture team, along with teaching them sealing. If I think of it because of all the seal mishaps and explosions we can easily double as a demolition or sabotage team.”
“Sealing?” Tobi says faintly.
“Are you guys done chatting like a couple of clucking hens. Pay the poor chef and let’s get going to the shops!” Sharinu growls.
“Okay! Let’s go Tobi-san!” Sakumi says as she places down money on the counter.
Tobi follows her as they go in and out of shops. Restocking on food and water and other necessities. Soon enough Tobi is buried under all the shopping bag.
“Oops. I may have bought too much!” Sakumi says. She starts sealing everything into two seperate scrolls. “Here, this one's for you!” She says handing him a scroll.
“Thank you!” Tobi chirps, stuffing the scroll into a pocket.
“Now to ask for some escorts,” Sakumi says as they walk toward the missions building.
Once there Sakumi leans on the unmanned missions desk, “Hello! I need some escorts, can I hire a team?”
“Ah yes! Of course! Where too?” an excited sand chunin asks.
“I need to go to Konoha or at least past the desert,” Sakumi says.
“Konoha? Hmm, well there is a team heading there for the chunin exams. Let me check what team- oh- oh no,” the chunin pales.
“What? What’s wrong?” Sakumi asks.
The chunin looks around nervously before leaning forward and whispering, “Well the team heading there has a quite volatile team member. I’m sorry but I’m going to have to ask you to come another day and see if another team can take you.”
“Oh I’m sure we’ll be fine, we’re stronger than you think! We need to get there as soon as possible so it’s no big deal, we can handle it!” Sakumi says resolutely.
“If you’re sure,” the chunin looks close to tears, “I’ll be sure to notify the team about their mission.”
As they are leaving Sharinu asks, “Are you sure about this, Sakumi? He looked pretty panicked.”
“I’m sure we’ll be fine. We can take a crazy shinobi, I mean it's not like they’re gonna give us a bijuu as an escort” Sakumi says, completely relaxed. Tobi chokes.
“Now let’s go sleep! We need to get up early to catch our escorts!” Sakumi says as she walks towards the inn.
The next morning
Sakumi smiles at the murderous twelve year old as if he’s not thinking of crushing her with his sand. Sharinu and Tobi whimper from behind her.
Some time later
“Well Fuck.” Sakumi says as she stares wide eyed at the large tanuki made of sand.
“FUCKING BIJUU!” She says as she dodges a swipe.
“YOU HAD TO FUCKING JINX YOURSELF! DIDN’T YOU SAKUMI!!!!!” Sharinu yells, ducking under a lash from a tail.
“AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” Tobi yells as he flails.
“TOBI! SHUT UP!!!!!” Sharinu says.
Kabuto walks into Orochimaru’s office and promptly walks out. He blinks at the scene he just saw. He walks in just to make sure that what he saw was real.
Yup, this is definitely real. Orochimaru is bruised, dirty, and wounded. His hair is choppy but he is calm as he sits at a table drinking tea as a loud red-headed woman talks to him from across the table, in her hands is a cup of tea. The room is destroyed, the only surviving furniture being the table and two chairs.
“Orochimaru-sama?” Kabuto asks, unsure, “I came to give a report?”
“Oh! So this is the Kabuto-chan you were telling me about!” The woman says, standing up and hugging the poor confused boy.
“I- What?” Kabuto asks.
“This is Uzumaki Nami, she helped me,” Orochimaru says, sipping some tea.
“Yup, Oro had a really nasty seal that was messing with his mind and reasoning for what looked to be years. So I took it off!” the Uzumaki cheerily says. Orochimaru twitches at the nickname but keeps drinking his tea.
Orochimaru sets down his cup, “The invasion is off, Kabuto. I am clear headed now. I will not do it, Sarutobi-sensei had reasons for passing me over. During the last phase of the exams I will send Uzumaki-san as a stand-in for the Otokage. I will stay here and fix what I have wronged. You are free from my service.”
“But Orochi-” Kabuto stops as Orochimaru raises a hand.
“You may go back to Konoha,” Orochimaru says but hesitates, “But if you wish to stay at my side, you can. File for discharge from Konoha’s ranks if you wish it.”
“I will do that at once, Orochimaru-sama!” Kabuto says as he rushes out the door.
At his exit Orochimaru slouches over his cup.
“You did the right thing. You gave him a choice . He chose you didn’t he.” Nami says softly one hand on his shoulder.
Orochimaru stays silent.
“Sorry about your hair,” Nami says after some time. “I can even it out if you want.” At Orochimaru’s nod, Nami gets a kunai and cuts to the shortest chunk which leaves it at shoulder length.
“There! That looks nice!” Nami says as she pulls out a mirror.
Orochimaru nods as he studies his reflection.
“So, what are we doing first?” Nami asks splaying herself across the table . Orochimaru manages to save his tea before Nami knocked it off the table.
“We need to deal with the experiments that he-I-” Orochimaru stops.
“I could take care of it if you want,” Nami offers.
“No. I have to do this.” Orochimaru says grimly before softly saying, “but I would appreciate help. I am injured because of you after all.”
Nami laughs before she nods, “Yah know, I’m the kage of my village if you need help with village stuff I can help too.”
Orochimaru nods and with a soft ‘thank you’ rises from his seat, cup in hand and briskly walks out the door, Nami jumps off the the table, swipes her somehow not tipped over cup and follows. Behind them the table and chairs splinter and fall apart.
Nami laughs and says, “I might just socialize you yet!”
“I do not require socialization,” Orochimaru mutters as they walk down the halls.
A man wakes up in the middle of a forest. He looks around and curses.
“Dammit, Naruto you Idiot! What the hell did I tell you about unstable seals and showing them to the kids!” He mutters angrily before standing up and stomping in a random direction.
“Hey, are you okay?” A voice asks him.
The man turns around and sees Jiraiya of the Sannin, alive and in the flesh.
“Oh! I’m gonna kill that stupid wife of mine!” He mutters before he speaks up, “I’m fine.”
“What’s your name kid?” Jiraiya asks.
“Shouta,” the now named man said.
“Well Shouta, I’m gonna have to ask why you know my godson’s name and why you muttering about seals right after you said his name,” Jiraiya asks, his face suddenly unreadable.
‘Fuck’ Shouta thinks.