Kushina peeked from the slight opening of the screen door. She saw her parents as well as several other well dressed seal masters who mentored her discussing in front of the sitting young teen named Jiro."Kushina is our daughter. We want her to have the best possible teachings in order to make her just as competent in both sealing and being a shin.o.bi."
"Very well Uzumaki-sama, however, please keep in mind that almost all of our profits come from our monopoly of sealing. If we allow the spread of sealing, we will no longer have a steady supply of people who go to us for sealing."
"We will have at least the time of a generation to develop our village. Our ancestors along with ourselves have spent our lifetimes learning sealing. It will take time for those who are new to sealing to match up to us."
While the conversation was going back and forth, Jiro was continuing to meditate and focus on making sure to integrate the knowledge of the seal master he robbed into his own wisdom. As the debate on whether he should be hired raged on, it was decided that Jiro would have to be interviewed in order to completely conclude if he was fitting or not.
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"Jiro-sama what makes you so confident that you are the most fitting to be Kushinsama"s mentor?"
"I will teach Kushina so that she will become a shin.o.bi that is near unbeatable in Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu. Most importantly, I will teach her how to not die."
Several discussions broke out after Jiro answered their question. The interviewee in question, Jiro, found it amusing that the discussions were done in hushed whispers when it was clearly obvious that he could hear them.
As several more questions were answered, Kushina was intensely staring with concern in her eyes. Staying hidden wasn"t a priority for her now, she wanted the know the result. Being an apprentice to Jiro meant freedom from staying inside the village all the time. Kushina was sick of staying in the village all the time. She wanted to go out and explore.
The two Uzumaki sitting at the highest position exchanged amused glances with each other. Kushina"s desires were clear to them. Her glare from across the hall was all the parents needed to know in order to infer that she was very worried about the result. The results were decided in their head, but in order to keep formalities, Jiro was sent away and an answer would be ready the next day.
As Jiro exited the place, a little red haired girl ran up to him. It was Kushina. Jiro recognized her and nodded towards her as he began to walk away. He was still focusing on making the knowledge of sealing he took his. Even though he though it would be fun to try and talk to the little girl brave or stupid enough to try and throw a rock at him, Jiro was preoccupied with matters he placed greater importance on.
Kushina glared at Jiro as he walked away. Her grand meeting with her hopefully future mentor was not a meeting at all. It was a dismissal.
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The guard who was supposed to be watching over Kushina suddenly noticed that the Kushina he was watching didn"t look quite right. She was staying too still. The guard immediately checked and sure enough, the clone dissipated away. He immediately reported this welcome surprise to the parents of Kushina who also looked ecstatic that their daughter was progressing far into the ninja techniques.
Knowing Kushina, the parents knew that she would immediately head for Jiro. The guards were sent once more to grab her and bring her back. However, now that she knew how to use ninja techniques, new guards were sent. These guards were trained to spot the usage of jutsus and when a ninja was moving.
Kushina was unaware, but her parents were starting from the very beginning in slowly teaching her how to be a proper shin.o.bi. With the new set of guards, Kushina would have a harder time running away and thus force her to think harder and smarter to escape from her watchers. This would all force Kushina to become a much better shin.o.bi.
Kushina walked back in a sober mood absentmindedly kicking a rock along the road, but when she arrived back home, there was a scroll on her bed. She eagerly opened the scroll and there was a short message saying that if she wanted to talk to Jiro, she would have to escape. Kushina clenched her fist and did a silent cheer ready to meet Jiro, but she was ignorant of the situation.
The scroll was written by the new guards for the express purpose of testing her limits. Lord and Lady Uzumaki were also watching Kushina from a distance curious to see how their daughter would fare against the new guards who were meant to track and stop shin.o.bi.
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The snake eyed teen slowly stirred a vial while grinning. The poison in this while was so strong that just a couple kunai coated in the poison was able to bring down even his snake summon which was capable of swallowing people in one gulp. He hadn"t forgotten the pain and agony of having to dress as a female and he was going to finally get his long awaited revenge.
Even though Jiraiya shared that information to Tsunade, Jiraiya was merciful to not share it with Jiro. On the flip side, Jiraiya was using this information as blackmail over Orochimaru. The snake summoner wanted his sweet revenge, but he reminded himself that he could get revenge after making sure he got blackmail material just as strong as Jiraiya"s.
He would make sure to teach Jiraiya the pain of messing with himself. An evil grin was slowly revealing itself on Orochimaru"s face, but it disappeared just as quickly. Making sure his usually grumpy face was present, Orochimaru opened the door just as the maid was going to knock on it. She blinked in surprise, but didn"t react.
"Orochimaru, Jiraiysama has called for you to join him in eating."
Orochimaru grumbled as he pa.s.sed the prost.i.tute. He had been forced to listen to Jiraiya as the black mail was held over him. The yellow eyed teen walked down with purpose in his step, but he slowly entered the room where the white haired teen was sitting on a slightly higher chair. Orochimaru was sitting across from him on the dining table on a shorter chair.
"Ah, Orochi, pour me a drink will ya?"
Orochimaru stayed still and didn"t move. Jiraiya"s face twisted into a smile as he began to prod at Orochimaru.
"Orochimaru, my friend. You wouldn"t Jiro to get ahold of this right?"
In Jiraiya"s hand was a photo of Orochimaru dressed up with female clothes. However, Orochimaru still didn"t react. Jiraiya"s face changed as he swiftly leaped back from the chair. A giant snake burst out and swallowed the chair while making a hole in the floor.
"Why? I thought we agreed to not destroy the furniture and house in general."
Orochimaru"s expression was still eerily calm as he continued to chase Jiraiya with the snakes trailing behind him. The once clean wooden floor was messed up and the debris went everywhere. Jiraiya was still having fun so he taunted Orochimaru once more.
"Last warning. I"m telling you, Jiro might do something like spread the photo across the whole village."
As the snake bit once more, Jiraiya ducked and evaded it with ease straight into the path of a kunai thrown by Orochimaru. With a pivot of the feet and a quick kick, the kunai was launched up and stuck into the ceiling while Jiraiya pouted at the sight of the building he built being destroyed. While Jiraiya was mourning, the snake summoner finally struck.
A needle coated in a very small amount of the poison was launched and made its way into the back of Jiraiya. A shocked Jiraiya looked back seeing a small needle sticking out of his b.u.t.t. As his vision quickly began to get foggy, a toad which was sitting like a statue immediately leaped towards Jiraiya, intent on taking him to the summon realm, but another coated needle knocked it out cold.
The last thing Jiraiya saw was the s.a.d.i.s.tic face of Orochimaru as he began to slowly approach him.
Orochimaru picked up Jiraiya"s unconscious body and immediately set the prost.i.tutes to work. The building was cleaned up in no time so Orochimaru continued on with his scheme and took Jiraiya to an isolated building in the village they were temporarily staying at.