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Chapter 306 - Chapter 306

"...While Gaara managed to defeat Kimimaro, however, the crystal user got away," Naruto said as he finished giving his report to Tsunade, seeing as how he was the only ninja who had fought Guren that wasn't in the hospital. Standing off to the side of the busty Hokage was Shizune, the woman's ever faithful aid and assistant, and Tonton was eating from a dog bowl on the blond woman's other side.

Tsunade sighed as leaned her elbows on her desk, her hands held in front of her face. "I see, so we have no clue as to the status of Uchiha Sasuke. We know that he managed to reach Oto but nothing else."

This entire situation was turning into one large cluster fuck as far as she was concerned. Not only did they have no information on whether or not Orochimaru had managed to possess Sasuke's body, Jiraiya was out of contact, extracting one of his contacts in Iwa who had gotten into some kind of trouble, which meant they wouldn't be able to get any information on the situation from him. Sometimes she really had to wonder if coming back to be Hokage was the right thing to do.

"Do you think Orochimaru managed to use his body possession jutsu on Sasuke?" asked Naruto, not liking this situation at all, mainly because he just didn't know what to make of it. While he would still never consider Sasuke a friend, the fact was the raven-haired Uchiha had been his teammate, and Naruto had at the very least trusted Sasuke enough to watch his back. Naruto just couldn't understand why someone like Sasuke would willingly go to Orochimaru knowing what was in store for him.

'No – wait, yes I can,' the blond reflected, resisting the urge to growl. 'Sasuke-teme's always preferred taking the quicker paths to power. If he thought going to Oro-teme would make him stronger, then he would do it in a heartbeat.' Naruto gave an internal snort, 'And people call me an idiot.'

'You are an idiot,'Kyuubi's amused voice came in through the seal. Naruto's eye began to twitch violently. Somehow, he felt he should have expected Kyuubi to make some kind of comment on his thoughts. The woman loved teasing him more than anything else. She said it was because she was bored, and that he should be honored she was even talking to him. He just thought Kyuubi loved being mean.

'How am I an idiot. I'm way more intelligent now than I used to be. Fuck, I literally had intelligence pounded into my skull by Anko-nee-chan. I've got the bruises to prove it.' Seriously, having a woman who would not only quiz you on the stuff she made you read, but beat the utter living crap out of you and enjoy doing it had been the ultimate form of motivation to get smarter.

'You may have more knowledge, but that doesn't necessarily make one smart. Knowledge gained but not used does not make one intelligent, it just proves even more that you are an idiot.'

'Whatever,' Naruto sighed, not in the mood to listen to Kyuubi poking fun at him. 'I've got more important things to do than listen to you.' Turning his attention back towards the busty Hokage, he realized she had been talking for quite some time.

"I'm sorry, what were you saying?"

Tsunade scowled at Naruto for not paying attention to her and making her repeat herself. "I said it's quite possible that he has. Unfortunately, Jiraiya is out of contact and he is the only person who might be capable of giving us an answer. And even then it's not likely. As far as I know, Jiraiya doesn't have any spies within Oto."

"Wait, you're telling me that Ero-Sennin's gone off the map?" said Naruto, scowling as he figured the damn pervert was off somewhere doing what he did best, perving on women. "That stupid bastard is supposed to train me! How the hell could he just up and leave!"

Sure, Naruto had known that he would be gone while he was in Suna, but he had expected the man to be back in a few days. And it hadn't been like he needed Jiraiya to help him get the last exercise down for his wind chakra, the man didn't even have an affinity for it, after all. But that didn't excuse him from just running off to gallivanting around in search of sleazy bars where he could waste his money on booze and women.

Tsunade knew the look on Naruto's face, it had been one she'd possessed when she got the pervert peeking on her that one time. Still, while somewhat tempted to tell the young boy what his sensei was really doing, she knew that letting out even a hint of what the man was up to could force him into a dangerous situation. Instead she said, "What exactly can you tell me about the Crystal user you fought?"

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