50 Sentences of Jiraiya/Tsunade
Title: You and Me of the Thousand Years
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Jiraiya/Tsunade
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): SPOILERS up to chapter 383. Much abuse of dash and semicolon.
Notes: For the challenge in 1sentence, theme beta. Written chronologically, at least most of it >>;
#01 - Walking
The first time they met, he stumbled in mid-run and fell to the ground, right before her feet.
#02 - Waltz
Little did he know that it would be their dance for the rest of their lives-but at that moment, he raised his mud-stained face and blushed at her offered hand.
#03 - Wishes
Tsunade’s only wish after spending one entire day with her new teammates was to kick Jiraiya out of the equation for being the most annoying boy she had ever met.
#04 - Wonder
Fifteen years later, she looked at him and remembered that he had been the stupidest kid in class, the deadbeat, the loser (and listening to Naruto’s history now, forty years later, from a proud, grinning Iruka, Tsunade wondered if only losers could achieve such great heights).
#05 - Worry
Hiruzen worried constantly about his students: one was a boy who had lost the only world he ever knew, one was a girl with the ‘Senju’ name weighing down her small shoulders, and one was an idiot who never knew how to stop trying.
#06 - Whimsy
“The Legendary Three has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?”
#07 - Waste/Wasteland
Tsunade would have laughed if his half-smile were not so broken, if their war had not just left a village of hungry orphans in its wake.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
When they were young, he thought her the prettiest when she was drunk, with her cheeks all flushed and aglow like that.
#09 - War
Jiraiya would have rectified his opinion many, many years later, when she stood before his student and defended the village with her life-but he would have been dead by then.
#10 - Weddings
“I will never marry,” Tsunade vowed every time one of their friends tied the knot, and Jiraiya just snorted, muttering, “Yeah, right.”
#11 - Birthday
He believed her, of course; what he did not believe was her beauty, and despite each passing year, she was still growing into the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
#12 - Blessing
“Look, I’m strong, I’m reasonably handsome, and I’m like one of very, very few who can put up with your freakish strength-” but the rest of his words was lost in the punch she delivered to his guts.
#13 - Bias
“You’re also my fucking friend,” Tsunade snapped once she was done beating the crap out of him.
#14 - Burning
Nawaki’s death made her burn brighter-and colder, he thought with a twist of bitter smile.
#15 - Breathing
Jiraiya was always the one who kept Tsunade breathing, but it was never him who made her live.
#16 - Breaking
The day he realised that he was in love was the day Tsunade kissed Dan and took herself off the market, once and for all.
#17 - Belief
It was also the day when he decided to stop loving her-mostly because of pride, but in some dark, distant corner of his heart, Jiraiya truly believed that unlike him, the girly man could make her happy.
#18 - Balloon
“I’ll be the strongest shinobi in the world,” he told her on the night he left; the balloon in his hand was big and red, round instead of heart-shaped, and it floated gently up until her fingers weaved around the thread.
#19 - Balcony
Tsunade watched him leave from her second-story window with sad, sad eyes, but she refused to call him back.
#20 - Bane
“There is nothing like a good, proper heartbreak to make a man strong,” Fukasaku-sama chortled in that dry, croaky voice of his.
#21 - Quiet
If achieving the sennin state (at last) had not depleted his entire chakra, Jiraiya would have given him a good, proper kick, a revered frog hermit be damned.
#22 - Quirks
It was not the fact that Dan died-it was the fact that Tsunade nearly followed him in the stupidest way possible which made him return with the fury of hell in his chest.
#23 - Question
“What the fuck are you doing?”
#24 - Quarrel
Their last quarrel before she disappeared had consisted of him throwing every swearword in his arsenal against her wall of silence.
#25 - Quitting
“She left no word,” Sandaime said wearily and the grief clouding his eyes was a mirror of his own.
#26 - Jump
It was so simple then to turn his attention to Orochimaru, to make him the new object of his obsession-to trade one for the other; Jiraiya was nothing if not flexible.
#27 - Jester
He laughed and made fun of every little thing, except ironies; too bad his life had it in spades.
#28 - Jousting
It was when she summoned Katsuyo that he knew he could summon Gamabunta-and the old frog never let him live it down.
#29 - Jewel
The necklace seemed a dangerous incongruity around his student’s neck, a death mark of two people and the curse of the Hokage’s name.
#30 - Just
Following his gaze, she asked with a sweet, poisonous voice and a matching smile, “Do you want to be a Hokage too now?”
#31 - Smirk
He smirked at her when he answered, “No way, my role is far more important: to protect the damn Hokage herself.”
#32 - Sorrow
“We have the greatest teacher in the world,” she told him in front of the Third’s grave, and Jiraiya smiled; it was at least one thing they could agree upon.
#33 - Stupidity
They had insulted each other to hell and back, using every word in their repertoires and more-all except one.
#34 - Serenade
It was also the only word Jiraiya never used to woo the pretty, busty women who happened to cross his path; he was a pathetic human being who could only think of one person when it came to a ‘lover’.
#35 - Sarcasm
Her eyes widened, and then lit up at the first sight of him after almost three years, but what came out of her mouth was only, “There’s a reason why one is called a door and the other a window.”
#36 - Sordid
The worst thing Tsunade had ever done to Jiraiya was to climb into his lap and kiss him senseless-when she was dead drunk.
#37 - Soliloquy
Jiraiya was as hard as a rock, but he pushed her away and said with a forced, tight smile, "Ask me again when you're sober."
#38 - Sojourn
For the rest of her life, Tsunade would act as if she did not remember any of these; she thought it was the only way to keep their friendship intact.
#39 - Share
And the worst thing Jiraiya had ever done to her was to let her.
#40 - Solitary
It was not until her fifty-fourth birthday that Tsunade realised one thing about true love: it was not the wild, rapid palpitation when he was there, but the slow, gut-wrenching pain when he was not.
#41 - Nowhere
There were three times in his life when Jiraiya almost, almost kissed her.
#42 - Neutral
The first was before Dan, when everything was still a fair game; she punched him and he ended up in a distant corner of the Forest of Death.
#43 - Nuance
The second was after Dan, when suddenly everything between them was not right; she clawed desperately at his shoulders and it was only the sight of her tear-soaked face that stopped him.
#44 - Near
The third was when he was about to leave, at the tail-end of his last farewell-but Jiraiya was still a coward and so he took her to a bar to make sure that he went nowhere near her lips.
#45 - Natural
He had walked away from her a thousand times, and never got used to the feeling; but when he died so everyone else could live-so she could live-it was the most natural thing in the world.
#46 - Horizon
Buried as she was under work and strain, she watched the red-stained horizon every evening, waiting, until the news came and the man did not.
#47 - Valiant
Many said it was a proud, fitting end for a brave shinobi: to die for his village.
#48 - Virtuous
Tsunade knew for certain that Jiraiya’s motives were less righteous-but maybe she was only trying so hard to hate him for leaving.
#49 - Victory
“We could have been amazing,” she murmured in the ringing emptiness of her office as moonlight chased shadows on grey-tinted walls.
#50 - Defeat
The white-haired boy in the picture only smiled.
Thank you for reading and please comment :D
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Jiraiya/Tsunade
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): SPOILERS up to chapter 383. Much abuse of dash and semicolon.
Notes: For the challenge in 1sentence, theme beta. Written chronologically, at least most of it >>;
#01 - Walking
The first time they met, he stumbled in mid-run and fell to the ground, right before her feet.
#02 - Waltz
Little did he know that it would be their dance for the rest of their lives-but at that moment, he raised his mud-stained face and blushed at her offered hand.
#03 - Wishes
Tsunade’s only wish after spending one entire day with her new teammates was to kick Jiraiya out of the equation for being the most annoying boy she had ever met.
#04 - Wonder
Fifteen years later, she looked at him and remembered that he had been the stupidest kid in class, the deadbeat, the loser (and listening to Naruto’s history now, forty years later, from a proud, grinning Iruka, Tsunade wondered if only losers could achieve such great heights).
#05 - Worry
Hiruzen worried constantly about his students: one was a boy who had lost the only world he ever knew, one was a girl with the ‘Senju’ name weighing down her small shoulders, and one was an idiot who never knew how to stop trying.
#06 - Whimsy
“The Legendary Three has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?”
#07 - Waste/Wasteland
Tsunade would have laughed if his half-smile were not so broken, if their war had not just left a village of hungry orphans in its wake.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
When they were young, he thought her the prettiest when she was drunk, with her cheeks all flushed and aglow like that.
#09 - War
Jiraiya would have rectified his opinion many, many years later, when she stood before his student and defended the village with her life-but he would have been dead by then.
#10 - Weddings
“I will never marry,” Tsunade vowed every time one of their friends tied the knot, and Jiraiya just snorted, muttering, “Yeah, right.”
#11 - Birthday
He believed her, of course; what he did not believe was her beauty, and despite each passing year, she was still growing into the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
#12 - Blessing
“Look, I’m strong, I’m reasonably handsome, and I’m like one of very, very few who can put up with your freakish strength-” but the rest of his words was lost in the punch she delivered to his guts.
#13 - Bias
“You’re also my fucking friend,” Tsunade snapped once she was done beating the crap out of him.
#14 - Burning
Nawaki’s death made her burn brighter-and colder, he thought with a twist of bitter smile.
#15 - Breathing
Jiraiya was always the one who kept Tsunade breathing, but it was never him who made her live.
#16 - Breaking
The day he realised that he was in love was the day Tsunade kissed Dan and took herself off the market, once and for all.
#17 - Belief
It was also the day when he decided to stop loving her-mostly because of pride, but in some dark, distant corner of his heart, Jiraiya truly believed that unlike him, the girly man could make her happy.
#18 - Balloon
“I’ll be the strongest shinobi in the world,” he told her on the night he left; the balloon in his hand was big and red, round instead of heart-shaped, and it floated gently up until her fingers weaved around the thread.
#19 - Balcony
Tsunade watched him leave from her second-story window with sad, sad eyes, but she refused to call him back.
#20 - Bane
“There is nothing like a good, proper heartbreak to make a man strong,” Fukasaku-sama chortled in that dry, croaky voice of his.
#21 - Quiet
If achieving the sennin state (at last) had not depleted his entire chakra, Jiraiya would have given him a good, proper kick, a revered frog hermit be damned.
#22 - Quirks
It was not the fact that Dan died-it was the fact that Tsunade nearly followed him in the stupidest way possible which made him return with the fury of hell in his chest.
#23 - Question
“What the fuck are you doing?”
#24 - Quarrel
Their last quarrel before she disappeared had consisted of him throwing every swearword in his arsenal against her wall of silence.
#25 - Quitting
“She left no word,” Sandaime said wearily and the grief clouding his eyes was a mirror of his own.
#26 - Jump
It was so simple then to turn his attention to Orochimaru, to make him the new object of his obsession-to trade one for the other; Jiraiya was nothing if not flexible.
#27 - Jester
He laughed and made fun of every little thing, except ironies; too bad his life had it in spades.
#28 - Jousting
It was when she summoned Katsuyo that he knew he could summon Gamabunta-and the old frog never let him live it down.
#29 - Jewel
The necklace seemed a dangerous incongruity around his student’s neck, a death mark of two people and the curse of the Hokage’s name.
#30 - Just
Following his gaze, she asked with a sweet, poisonous voice and a matching smile, “Do you want to be a Hokage too now?”
#31 - Smirk
He smirked at her when he answered, “No way, my role is far more important: to protect the damn Hokage herself.”
#32 - Sorrow
“We have the greatest teacher in the world,” she told him in front of the Third’s grave, and Jiraiya smiled; it was at least one thing they could agree upon.
#33 - Stupidity
They had insulted each other to hell and back, using every word in their repertoires and more-all except one.
#34 - Serenade
It was also the only word Jiraiya never used to woo the pretty, busty women who happened to cross his path; he was a pathetic human being who could only think of one person when it came to a ‘lover’.
#35 - Sarcasm
Her eyes widened, and then lit up at the first sight of him after almost three years, but what came out of her mouth was only, “There’s a reason why one is called a door and the other a window.”
#36 - Sordid
The worst thing Tsunade had ever done to Jiraiya was to climb into his lap and kiss him senseless-when she was dead drunk.
#37 - Soliloquy
Jiraiya was as hard as a rock, but he pushed her away and said with a forced, tight smile, "Ask me again when you're sober."
#38 - Sojourn
For the rest of her life, Tsunade would act as if she did not remember any of these; she thought it was the only way to keep their friendship intact.
#39 - Share
And the worst thing Jiraiya had ever done to her was to let her.
#40 - Solitary
It was not until her fifty-fourth birthday that Tsunade realised one thing about true love: it was not the wild, rapid palpitation when he was there, but the slow, gut-wrenching pain when he was not.
#41 - Nowhere
There were three times in his life when Jiraiya almost, almost kissed her.
#42 - Neutral
The first was before Dan, when everything was still a fair game; she punched him and he ended up in a distant corner of the Forest of Death.
#43 - Nuance
The second was after Dan, when suddenly everything between them was not right; she clawed desperately at his shoulders and it was only the sight of her tear-soaked face that stopped him.
#44 - Near
The third was when he was about to leave, at the tail-end of his last farewell-but Jiraiya was still a coward and so he took her to a bar to make sure that he went nowhere near her lips.
#45 - Natural
He had walked away from her a thousand times, and never got used to the feeling; but when he died so everyone else could live-so she could live-it was the most natural thing in the world.
#46 - Horizon
Buried as she was under work and strain, she watched the red-stained horizon every evening, waiting, until the news came and the man did not.
#47 - Valiant
Many said it was a proud, fitting end for a brave shinobi: to die for his village.
#48 - Virtuous
Tsunade knew for certain that Jiraiya’s motives were less righteous-but maybe she was only trying so hard to hate him for leaving.
#49 - Victory
“We could have been amazing,” she murmured in the ringing emptiness of her office as moonlight chased shadows on grey-tinted walls.
#50 - Defeat
The white-haired boy in the picture only smiled.
Thank you for reading and please comment :D