He went up to Shizune and gently shook her awake, "Shizune-san? Shizune-san?"
Shizune let loose another groan as she blinked her eyes open, "Naruto-san?…" Her eyes promptly widened as she shot to her feet, scaring the shit out of Naruto and knocking him on his ass. "You're awake! What day is it?"
Naruto blinked for a moment as he rubbed his soar backside, "It's Saturday Shizune-san. Why? Is there something wrong?"
"Saturday?" Shizune looked at Naruto in surprise, "But…that means you've only been out for a few hours! Tsunade-sama said it would take at least two days for you to wake up from the damage you did to your body!"
"Damage?" Naruto asked before remembering that his experiment with the Rasengan had sent him flying through a boulder and smacking him around something fierce. He shrugged the knowledge off, "Well considering what I contain you shouldn't honestly be too surprised…" He trailed off for a moment as he looked at her, "You do know I contain the Kyuubi right?"
"Of course, but what does that have to do with…" she trailed off as she realized what he was saying. It was then she remembered what had happened last night, "Tsunade-sama! We've got to stop Tsunade-sama!"
"Woah! Slow down," Naruto placed a hand on her shoulder, keeping her from leaving. "You're saying the hag did this to you?"
Shizune nodded, "That's right, and we have to catch up to her before it's too late!"
"I take it she's meeting with the Hebi-douche Orochimaru today then?"
Shizune looked at him in surprise, "Yes, but how did you know?"
Naruto shrugged as he let go of her shoulder, "When we got here I smelled snakes at the destroyed castle. Only two people I know of have that smell and one of them is in Konoha."
Shizune nodded at that as she started making her way to the window, "We have to find Tsunade-sama before it's too late to stop her!"
However, as Shizune left to go out the window a kunai implanted itself right next to her head. Naruto and Shizune turned to see Jiraiya hunched over and slightly pale.
"Where's Tsunade?" His voice was raspy as he slinked over to the pair.
Naruto looked at the man for a moment, "Damn Ero-sennin! What the hell happened to you?"
"Tsunade slipped me a micky," Jiraiya grunted. "I should have known better when she asked me to drink with her last night. She's never asked me to do that with her in all the time we've known each other."
"And thus you make my point about becoming putty for whatever chick who so much as bats her eyelashes at you Ero-sennin," Naruto grinned as Jiraiya gave him a mild glare.
Meanwhile Shizune had gone back inside to get some pills which she proceeded to crush in a glass of water and give to the white haired sage, "Here you go Jiraiya-sama. I'm afraid it's not much of a cure, but it should at least help you out."
"Thanks Shizune," Jiraiya rasped out as he downed the glass.
"This is just great," Naruto groaned, "So what exactly does the Hebi-Douche want with baa-chan?"
"Orochimaru wants Tsunade-sama to heal his arms for him. He offered to return Tsunade-sama's most precious people to her by bringing them back from the dead. Today is the day they're supposed to meet."
Naruto grimaced, "I hadn't realized such a thing was possible. How you feeling Ero-sennin?"
Jiraiya crushed the glass in his hands, "My chakra is still completely out of whack but it will have to do. Shizune-san is there any way to find Tsunade?"
Shizune nodded as she grabbed Tonton and jumped down to the ground with the two Konoha ninja following her after that, "Tonton we need you to find Tsunade-sama, think you can help us out?"
The small pampered pig oinked in what sounded like a yes before it wiggled its way out of Shizune's grip. It sniffed the air a couple of times before turning to Shizune and oinking at her, right before it started running off. Shizune turned to look at the other two, "Tonton has her scent, let's get going!"
The pair followed Tonton back to the old destroyed castle, only to find it was even more of a wreck then when they first saw it. They noted that the destruction was much newer then before, and Naruto noted something else when he took several sniffs of the air. "The scent of snakes is much heavier than last time, I can also smell sake and antiseptic which means the old bat was here too. And judging from the mass amounts of new destruction I would hazard a guess that she turned him down."
"That might not be so good for her," Jiraiya grimaced. "The hebi-teme always has a backup plan of some kind, so we need to find her before things get too hot for her to handle."
The trio plus one pig were off once again, following the scent of snakes and alcohol when they reached a clearing. Within that clearing they found Tsunade with blood caking her face and being beaten on by the person Naruto recognized as Kabuto, the Genin from the Chunin exams.
"Tsunade-sama!" Shizune shouted as she ran over to her mistress.
Naruto did not quite know what was going on, but he already figured out enough to know what he had to do. Reacting on instinct the blond pointed his gauntlet at Kabuto and fired off several dozen senbon that had a powerful poison on them, courtesy of Anko, at the white haired traitor. He forced Kabuto to jump back and allow Shizune to go up to her master and start wiping away the blood.
"I have to admit I'm surprised to see you here Kabuto, though from your headband it's not hard to figure out what's going on eh, traitor?" Naruto walked in front of Shizune and the currently unresponsive Tsunade.
"Hello Naruto-kun, I'm not surprised you were able to guess this, Orochimaru-sama spoke highly of your intelligence," Kabuto pushed his glasses up his nose.
Naruto narrowed his eyes dangerously as he looked from Kabuto to his master. Now that he was up close the blond could see that Orochimaru's arms were blackened and oozing blood, "Well it looks like Hokage-Ojisan really did a number on you didn't he Pedo-teme?"
"Kukuku, you are quite amusing Naruto-kun," Orochimaru chortled as he looked at the boy. "I must say you really are quite an impressive specimen."
"Coming from you I'm not really sure if that's a compliment or not," Naruto shot back. He turned his head to look at Tsunade who was still completely out of it. "Ero-sennin what's wrong with baa-chan? Is it some sort of weird genjutsu or something?"
Jiraiya shook his head, "Tsunade has hemophobia, she's afraid of blood, and even the mere sight of it messes her up. She'll be unresponsive for at least a few hours."
"You're kidding," Naruto looked shocked. "You're telling me the greatest medic and healer in the elemental nations is afraid of blood! What kind of medic-nin is afraid of blood!"
Jiraiya sighed, "It's a long story and right now we don't really have time to talk about it, in case you haven't realized."
Naruto looked a bit embarrassed by that and turned his attention back to the two ninja before them, "Right…"
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