NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.-Chapter 156: CH

"Come on Tsunade-baachan." Naruto tried to reason, his hood up to avoid the desert sun beating down from above, "Think of it like this, Just let me Henge into you and you into me and I'll be your body double until we get to Suna. It's a totally sound idea. Besides, I'm going to be wearing that stuff soon enough anyway, I might as well get used to it now."

Tsunade shot an amused glance to her left where Naruto was standing, "Jiraiya said you were gunning for Hokage these days. What makes you think you actually have what it takes brat?" Naruto put on a thinking face, "Well... I'm Minato Namikaze's kid, the remnant of a powerful clan, and loosely related to you so I have the lineage one would say, if you would promote me again I could start proving that I'm strong enough more than I already have, oh, and I already beat you back when we first met so I have a recorded win over a sannin!"

Tsunade got a tick mark on her head, "That was not a recorded fight you idiot! I was using one finger and was taking it easy on you, and I still ended up knocking you flat on your spiky blonde ass!"

Naruto grinned at her, "I never told you to go easy on me, and you made the terms of the fight making it an exhibition bout, you ended up using your entire hand to wail on my face thus you broke the stipulation and lost. Therefore I won, therefore I have a victory over you. And I have witnesses; Shizune-neechan, Ero-kyofu, and Tonton all saw me take you back to school." "You should really stop talking before I pick you up and chuck you in Suna's general direction." Tsunade threatened.

Naruto's eyes were shaded by the hood draped over his face, "That actually sounds pretty useful." He looked over at the dark-haired medic holding a small pig, "Do you want Tsunade-baachan to throw you across the desert too Shizune-neechan? It has to beat walking, I hate the desert."

Tsunade flicked Naruto in the back of the head, propelling him forward into a sand dune. As a smile came to her face, Shizune rushed over to dig Naruto out alongside Tonton, "Naruto-kun are you alright?"

Tsunade laughed as she neared her bodyguards, "Shizune I hit the runt harder than that on a near daily basis. He's fine."

Naruto popped out of the dune hacking out sand and brushing it out of his hair, "That was totally unnecessary by the way. A 'shut the hell up Naruto' would have worked just fine. I do follow your orders after all."

Tsunade picked him up by his collar and dropped him back on his feet as the kept walking, "I said to stop talking."

Naruto scowled as Shizune picked the rest of the sand out of his hair, "No, you suggested that I stop talking. If you had directly told me to shut up I would have, I'm not insubordinate baa-chan. If you order me to do something I'm going to do it no matter how I feel about it."

"You don't question orders Naruto-kun? Ever?" Shizune asked as she kept messing with his hair.

Naruto looked over at Tsunade, "She knows right? About how I was trained?"

Tsunade nodded, "I told her after you told me. She knows not to say anything about it."

"Alright then." Naruto shrugged, "Yeah I question orders. You hear me mouth off about some of my missions all the time, because griping and nitpicking is fun. But I never say I'm not going to do something, I always take the missions and after I accept I don't complain. You should know why I don't Shizune-neechan."

She frowned and nodded, "Because of Danzo and Root right?"

Naruto pulled his hood back up when he felt she was done, "Well Danzo-jiji tried putting his stupid seal on the back of my tongue, but I kept breaking it. When it would activate and paralyze me I would just get pissed off, flare the Kyuubi's chakra, and the damn thing would disappear. He must have tried to 're-educate me' about seven or eight times because of it... old bastard, that shit was painful." Shizune looked appalled, "That's awful."

Naruto shook his head, "That's Root. He wanted obedient operatives, and I originally went to him, not the other way around. I wanted to be a ninja so bad, so while I would never let him own me I did do everything he told me to do. He didn't have to train me after he realized that I wouldn't be like all of the others but he did anyway and while his training was unspeakably harsh, I was the one that asked for it and it's the entire reason I can do the things I do today." Naruto's eye twitched and he grabbed his head before speaking in monotone, "Ow."

Shizune looked at him strangely for saying 'ow' randomly, "What happened?"

Naruto rubbed his temple, "When I relieved you at nightwatch at two in the morning I made a ton of Kage Bunshin to guard the area as well. Before we left I told them to train my nature manipulation, and the bastards all decided to dispel at the same time." Tsunade heaved a sigh, "Don't train while you're on a mission brat. What's wrong with you?"

Naruto growled lowly at the pain of his headache, only to exhale in relief when a pair of glowing green hands ran over the sides of his head, "Thank you Shizune-neechan. And technically baa-chan, it isn't me training into the ground, I just got a headache. You can get a headache eating a damn ice cream cone. And before you say anything, that was not insubordination that was an opinion on my own personal well-being."

"Whatever." Tsunade let the situation drop as the sight of Suna came up in the distance, "Look alive. Shizune knows the drill, but you know nothing about being a dignitary Naruto, before you say anything about your mission way back when in Kumo, you weren't anything then because Homura never let you do anything or go anywhere with him, you were a glorified tagalong that was left to your own devices." Naruto frowned because she was right. Oh well, consider this a learning experience.

Tsunade gave Naruto a business-like look, "Here you will need to tone it down some. Talk to me before you do anything, causing international incidents aren't going to fly here like they did in Kumogakure. Keep your senses sharp, I'm counting on you to intercept any threats that may come my way, and don't expect that just because we're in an allied village filled with ninja that I may not be attacked. If you have any questions or concerns, or you notice something off don't hesitate to talk to me or Shizune about it, that is what your job is."

Naruto nodded in complete seriousness. Shizune gave him a small smile, "We know you're good at the assault part of being a shinobi Naruto-kun, you've proven that. But this is really the most high profile escort job you've ever done. It's not about going out to find the enemy and destroy them, it's about keeping the danger away from something important, about keeping it safe. In this case that something is Tsunade-sama."

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