Chapter 65: CH 65
Jiraiya and Kankuro sweat-dropped as the older man spoke up, "That's pretty morbid gaki."
Naruto snapped icy blue eyes back onto Jiraiya, "I'm sorry, I guess the day before you found me I should have been thinking that someone like you would just let me be or at least let me wake up before you took drastic measures."
Jiraiya looked at the ground, "Damn it kid, how long are you going to hold that over my head? I know it was a mistake, I knew it the entire time it was happening, but it was an order, if nothing else you can at least understand that right?"
Naruto sucked on his teeth, "Yeah, if it was something that ended up being for the greater good I probably would understand and accept it, even though you never tried to get my side of the story before you made me into a retarded four year-old version of my eight year-old body, locking all of my hard-earned skills, strength, and speed away into the depths of my mind. But nothing good came from what you guys did to me."
Jiraiya stood to leave when Naruto stopped him one more time at the door, "Wait." Jiraiya turned to face him only to see the same stone gaze on his face, "During the chunin exams... When I found you, did you agree to train me because of the reason you said, or was it because you remembered what you did and wanted to remedy it if only a little?"
Naruto didn't let him answer, "I'm going out Kankuro, I'll be back later tonight, tell the others." Naruto then utilized shunshin to exit the premises. Jiraiya sighed deeply and followed suit, leaving Kankuro alone in Naruto's apartment, "Wait! What the hell just happened?"
XxX (Two Days Later)
"So what's eating you shithead?" Tayuya shuffled the deck of cards that Naruto had brought to pass the time. She looked way better now than she did two days ago, her skin had gotten its color back and she looked like she had finally gotten some good sleep for once.
Naruto sighed. He had come to talk to her because he actually enjoyed her company and she could give him an unbiased opinion on things being that she didn't know anyone in the village other than him, and that was only a little bit. They were seated on the floor due to a lack of table in her cell. Due to the fact that she regularly talked freely to Naruto she had not been tortured, nor was it seemingly on the horizon as long as Naruto reported to Tsunade what they talked about afterwards. "What if the guy that had a hand in screwing your life up was trying to make amends to you, but the wounds were still fresh." Naruto took the seven cards that Tayuya dealt him, "Take them back and re-shuffle, I saw that. Get the cards out of your sleeve."