He looked down at the ground, "Well, she doesn't know anything that I didn't already tell you right after we got back from Tanzaku Gai. For being an elite, Orochimaru doesn't tell many of his own very much. She is going through symptoms from the sudden loss of the cursed seal, I guess either you or Shizune-chan are responsible for her not being dead from it flat out?"
Tsunade nodded, "It basically poisoned her system and put her into cardiac arrest a few hours after her arrival here. It was touch and go for a while, but she's still too weak to interrogate regularly, or else we risk killing her."
Naruto scratched his head sheepishly, "About the whole, 'killing her' thing, you think we can keep her alive? I know that she's an Oto ninja and everything, but after all of the stuff she told me I'm sure that given the option to live somewhere like this as opposed to there she'd take it in a heartbeat, especially now."
Tsunade gave Naruto a chiding look, "How do you know she wasn't lying to you brat? She is an enemy ninja."
In return, Naruto gave Tsunade a dry look, "Who do you think I am? I can tell when lies are being told to me. Not only did she not lie to me, she told me everything that I asked for, even the things that I didn't ask about." A grin then appeared on his face, "Besides, I like that attitude of hers. There's nothing wrong with a rose having a few thorns every now and then."
Tsunade snorted with an amused look on her face, "So you think the girl is good looking? Are you sure you're not any closer to Jiraiya, because you're thinking kind of like him right now."
Naruto laughed and propped his feet up on her desk, "Well she'll be much better when she gets over the cursed seal backlash. And don't ever say that again. I'm no massive pervert, I'm just a boy beginning to enter adulthood and I have no problems admiring the female form from time to time."
"What's the difference brat?" Tsunade asked him with a raised eyebrow, "It all sounds the same to me."
Naruto tapped his head with his finger, "Oh, but it isn't. A pervert will go out of his way to do things like that. Like peek on hot springs or write their own pervert books to get off. I, on the other hand, do none of those things. However, if a blatant opportunity to admire the opposite sex arises I have absolutely no qualms about taking full advantage. Isn't that what ninja are trained to do anyway?"
Tsunade sweat-dropped, "Did you just admit to me that you were a pervert?"
Naruto stiffened up and slammed his hands on her desk, "Hell no! The entire point of that tirade was to defend why I wasn't a pervert. Are you sure you're not closer to ero-sennin, because your mind shot to the pervert possibility pretty quickly." The two glared at one another until they both broke out in laughter. Tsunade and Naruto calmed down as she fished an envelope from her desk and passed it to Naruto, "Here you go brat, your pay for a B-ranked mission. Use it wisely."
Naruto took the envelop with a wary look on his face, "B-rank? All I did was talk to Tayuya. It wasn't even hard or anything, it wasn't unpleasant at all. Hell, I think I brightened the girl's day up just by talking to her, I'm going back later this week."
Tsunade quirked an eyebrow as Naruto placed the envelop in his pocket, "You're going back? Why would you do that for?"
Naruto shrugged as he stood and made his way to the window, "I don't know. Being all alone like that really sucks. She's not really a bad person, she was just a ninja for the wrong nation, it's no real reason to want to hate her." As Naruto went to jump out of the window Tsunade clearing her throat got him to pause and turn.
An evil smirk was on her face that sent a chill down his spine, "Brat, I hope you don't think you really got away with that elastic crap." She held up the offending band and placed it around her wrist, "You're lucky that you're supposed to be on medical leave right now. Just remember that."
Naruto nodded slowly and jumped from the ledge, shivering slightly when he heard her chuckling evilly behind his back.
XxX
After cashing his check and buying groceries for his depleted supplies, which was not too hard when compared to previous times he did so when on this occasion he said that for every dollar over the average that he was charged he was going to break his foot off in the grocer's ass. The house guests that would not seem to leave apparently seemed stoked to be receiving the abundance of food. Anyway, he decided to try and get his body back into a steady condition, seeing as how he had all but fully healed from his previous injuries. And he knew no better way to get his body used to hostile environments than to head into Training Ground 44, because the Forest of Death was as close to a near death situation as he was going to get until he got an active combat mission.
Upon entering, Naruto took it upon himself to fuck with every species of wild animal he could find, from packs of wolves, to birds of prey, hell he even tried provoking a bear; although he did keep from going too far, like into the restricted northeast corner where all of the truly horrible things were, mostly because fighting a slew of big-ass man-eating spiders and tigers twice his size was something he felt like holding back on at the moment. He had just gotten out of the hospital thank you, let alone the morgue.
So he had been jumping through the woods, getting some exercise and generally running amok amongst the wildlife to satiate his innate desire to generally cause havoc in an unrestricted environment to get his legs back under him.
Landing on the forest floor to take a short breather a small burst of killing intent was his only warning before a kunai passed by his face, cutting his cheek to bring about a strange feeling of déjà vu. He dabbed his cheek and sighed, "Anko-chan. Come on out." Anko stepped out with a kunai in her grasp and a look of anger on her face, "Don't Anko-chan me gaki. I know you interrogated that Oto kunoichi today, I also know that you didn't even bother asking anything about the cursed seal. Or more specifically, how to get it off of me like it was for her!"
Naruto was immediately put on the defensive as Anko came in attacking. He was forced to dodge the striking attempts from her kunai while trying to calm her down, "Anko calm down! You're being stupid!"
Anko caught him in the body with a hard kick that sent him flying backwards into the trunk of a tree, "Why did you just let that question slide? That damned snake still has his seal on me, he left her for dead and took hers off!"
Naruto growled as he stood back up, "If you would calm the fuck down I could explain everything to you now. Unless you still want to vent your useless anger on me, in which case I will be hitting you back."
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