Chapter 62: CH 62
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."