As The Leaf Turns

Two: How do you spell relief? T-s-u-n-a-d-e!


::Ah, my people have begun following me again. Welcome, welcome.

I have decided that a timeline would be best.
Ahem.

The story, “Ino blink of the eye” begins in August of the year when all of Rookie Nine turn seventeen.
The “My little Choji-kun” story begins on Choji’s 18th birthday in May.
The timeline continues with “This” story beginning in November just after Ino gets married in October and Neji moves in, sort of, with Shikamaru and Choji in Sept.
The "Not you, Too!" Story begins in the following May when Gaara is kidnapped.
Put down your pencils and begin reading once more.::::

This chapter begins five years before:

Jiraiya hated Ebisu. It was mutual and the two men tended to face off whenever they met. The man had the nerve to think he could teach Naruto or anyone how to be the next Hokage and he couldn’t even complete a simple mission without nearly getting himself killed and usually half of his team, too.
His arrival at the onsen had signaled the end of Jiraiya’s search for suitable heroines for his next book. He couldn’t concentrate with that man around and now Naruto was mad that he was cutting out on another training session.
The whole week was shot to hell.
He would just have to talk to Tsunade about him, than he could get back to his important information gathering.
He was standing outside her window about to make his usual grand entrance, when he heard the sound of sighing from within. He leaned back and listened as the sound was repeated only louder.
Tsunade was leaning back in her chair fanning herself with one of the many sheets of paper that were stacked on the desk before her, and daydreaming he supposed.
Jiraiya slowly and silently moved into the window and leaned against the frame, out of her sight as she sat with her back to him.
“Is this what being the Hokage entails? I should have taken the job.” He said, watching her jump and turn on him.
“Then why didn’t you, you old fool?” she yelled her chest heaving with her sudden surprise.
“Because you were the better choice, Tsunade. And because I would die behind a desk.”
“What do you want Jiraiya?” she asked dropping back into her abandoned chair and scowling at him.
“Well, now that you mention it, I was going to ask you something, but it isn’t important right now. What is it you need, Tsunade? What has you moping around this office and sighing like a lost puppy?” he asked sitting against the window as she regarded him from her swiveled chair.
“You wouldn’t be interested. It’s not your problem.” She responded beginning to turn and continue her work.
Jiraiya caught her chair and stopped its momentum trapping her in his gaze. “Try me.” He insisted.
“Shizune has taken a lover and spends a great deal of time away from the office. I find myself lonely. It’s not your problem, see? I can deal with it.” She said, turning her face and looking out the window.
“Shizune-chan? Is this man worthy of the young one?” he asked, drawing her attention back to him.
“She isn’t a child Jiraiya and I don’t think she would appreciate being called the young one. Yes, he is a very capable Jounin and they seem to have a good time together. But, it isn’t that I don’t approve. I just miss her spending time with me.”
“They do grow up and leave eventually, Tsunade. She is still in the village, but perhaps it is time to move on and find someone for yourself. Have you given this any thought?”
“ME? And whom would you suggest that I ally myself with? Please, Jiraiya. I am the Hokage. No one will honestly want me for me around here.”
“I can think of someone.” He said, his voice low and intense. Tsunade looked up to see him staring at her with an honest and searching look. It was the look that showed he had given up something that if used against him could break him like glass. Tsunade felt her heart tug and her breath caught in her throat and refused to move.
“Jiraiya?” she managed through tangled emotions and unresponsive body parts.
“Yes, Tsunade. I still feel it. I never stopped. I told you before we both left Konoha, and I will never take it back. You are the only woman I have ever felt this way about. I am not like the young ones we have let follow us, and I will not move on. I watched you lose that man, and I knew you needed space, but now I see you lonely and I want to cry for you. Will you consider it this time?”
“Jiraiya.” The name slid across her tongue like a smooth drink and she wished she had a small bottle of Saki now to give her courage.
Jiraiya didn’t wait until she gathered enough and he moved to lift her to her feet and pull her into his arms.
His lips connected and she melded into his body. This was the beginning.
They managed to keep this between them and it was a mutual beneficial plan.
Tsunade was no longer alone and Jiraiya had a place he wanted to return to when his day was at an end. Neither discussed the other’s day, and that was as they wanted it too.
They fulfilled the needs of the other and themselves without complicating it by bringing the outside world in.
However, Ebisu continued to be sent to the onsen whenever the doctor had tired of his presence in the hospital.
And this is where the complications begin.


Jiraiya was late again and Naruto was irritable.
He kicked at a pebble and looked down the path. It was about the time when he would just go into the onsen and wait there, but he was in a bad mood and doubted he would be a very good companion while resting at the small bar they had set up for the patrons.
Sasuke had gone out again last night and he was nearly too late to interfere, this had him cranky and easily annoyed.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want his friend to enjoy his life; he just knew that unlike himself, Sasuke was likely to give his heart to the first person that bonked him.
Naruto wanted that person to be him.
Not that the blond hadn’t had his share of lovers. No, it was very difficult to stay a virgin when traveling around with Jiraiya. Especially since his sixteenth birthday when the Sannin had decided that Naruto was old enough to help him with his more detailed research.
Now, as he waited he was becoming even more stressed and needed an outlet. But he was not going to be able to convince one of the girls here to give it to him in his present stressed condition. Even finding a male partner, who was interested in what Naruto liked, was too much effort right now. If he only had a willing partner and a soft place.
He heard the sound of someone approaching and thinking it was Jiraiya decided it was time to play a prank to show the old man just how frustrated he had left his student.
“Orioke no Jutsu!” He added a little extra size to the breasts and some more fullness to the hips, and changed the hair to a strawberry blond color, hanging loose and only to her shoulders, and the eyes to hazel green.
Ebisu turned the corner to the back alley hoping to find some private space to drink the bottle of Saki he had purchase as a medicinal for his sore toe. He would never allow anyone to see him drinking the liquor and that was why he was sneaking back here.
He was met with a vision. The little redhead in the tiny towel with the soft doe eyes regarded him in question and his little ninja stood up and took notice.
“You.” She said and he shook his head at the statement.
“Do I know you, young lady?” he asked, fighting his arousal and loosing, once again.
“Um, no. But, what the hell.” She said as she moved closer and dropped her towel, accidentally.


Vashta – Shhh, some people haven’t read that far yet. Now, I agree that Hiashi has had some issues and he is far too full of himself. I certainly don’t see him turning the other cheek and letting one of his most talented family members rush off and be gay. I also want to remind you of the Hyuuga curse seal, that is his ace in the whole and the boys will have to step lightly around him. Not to mention that said baby, (shh) would be expected to have the same, as it would be branch family. I don’t like the idea and am working on a solution to that.
No, I am not going to fully center on either Shika/Neji or Naru/Sasu, because I like to make some of the others do their work.
I think this will work around a lot of the others but with a Tenten centric. How does that sound???

Marielle – Sorry, I already have four children and I don’t plan on any more. Fiction or not. I thought it would be fun to move around the village and see where everyone else has gone. There are so many wonderful characters in this story. Please note, that once again I intend to use no OC’s other than those children I will give them.
Ebisu = Closet pervert, the trainer of Hokage’s, Konohamaru’s first tutor, the one that gave Naruto the idea for the Harem no Jutsu????
Izumo and Kotetsu have the other Oro-clone, called Shinjo.