21 Cherry Blossoms

Hearing Sanji compliments him like that, Jiraiya gives him a side look and says in a joking way, "You can get married too. I'm sure someone is waiting for a ring on her finger."

Sanji immediately got a terrified look on his face, "Hell no! I was only saying that as a compliment. Maybe a hundred more years later."

"You two never change, huh," Minato said with a happy smile seeing how Jiraiya and Sanji had been joking like the best buddies ever since the two met 20 years ago, "Jiraiya-Senpai, I think we should be heading to the wedding now."

Jiraiya eats the last piece of the birthday cake and wipes away the cream from the corner of his mouth, looking at the clock hanging on the wall.

Upon seeing that it is already so late, Jiraiya has a hint of terror in his eyes, "This time, Tsunade will kill me. We need to hurry! Running late!"

With a flip of his hand, Jon opens a portal, and in the next second, all of them arrive through the cherry blossoms forest.

Running through the forest, Jiraiya saw the first person was Tsunade, who was already dressed in a beautiful wedding dress that flourished to the floor.

She was speaking to the Third Hokage when she turned her head to the side and noticed him and the others appearing through the forest, "Jiraiya!?"

The cherry blossom petals fall gently through the sky as Jiraiya watches her standing so close in front of him like a princess with her hair untied and flowing down her shoulder, dressed in that dress as her eyes look at him with that beautiful smile.

"Tsunade," Jiraiya utters her name softly as he takes slow steps toward her and then holds onto her soft hands with care as their eyes look at each other.

The wind gently caresses the two of them in the center of the square as the people coming into the wedding watch these two great ninjas with admiration.

"Looks like he did find the one," Zoro commented with a grin as he watched them together, seeing Jiraiya's affection for her in his eyes.

"When I grow up, I will also have a beautiful wedding just like this," Naruto said with a giant smile as his arms were behind his head in a relaxed way.

But in the next second, they saw Tsunade look at Jiraiya with a flash of anger, "You idiot! I was beginning to feel worried that you overslept for our wedding! Everyone is looking for you!"

She was pulling on Jiraiya's ear, which caused him to beg for his release, "Ouch! Tsunade, I can explain. It is an accident."

"That's what you said last time too. When I spot you were peeping on girls with the Telescope Technique," Tsunade punches towards his direction with such a force that they can hear the wind in their ears.

"She kind of reminds me of Chi-Chi," Goku said with a laugh.

"Aunty Tsunade reminds me a lot of Sakura and Ino when they are angry," Lee also commented, with a smile seeing how the two of them are playing hide and seek, with one punching and the other dodging.

Jiraiya then started to send eye signals to his friends to ask them to assist him, but his buddies all began to appear like they had missed his beg for him and pretended to be busy talking to each other.

"I was just hoping that you would have changed now that we will be married and have a family of our own," Tsunade said sullenly as she stopped trying to catch Jiraiya with her punches.

These words caught Jiraiya with surprise, especially the last part, and he watched as Tsunade slowly moved her hand down to her stomach and then looked up at him with a warm smile that transfixed all of his attention.

"Tsunade, you are...pregnant?!!" Jiraiya says with his eyes filled with surprise and overwhelming joy as he could control his excitement, "...I am going to be a father?"

"You dumbass! Of course, you will be a father," Tsunade said as anger boiled again, "are you still thinking of floundering with young girls at the bar and peeping at hot springs?"

Jiraiya shakes his head quickly as he puts his hand on her stomach with a new sense of maturity before looking back at his friends and tossing the space ring back to Sanji, "Thank you, Sanji, but I won't need that anymore."

He then looked at Tsunade with a pair of charming eyes and said with a deep voice, "From now on, my heart will only be yours. Our love will be timeless."

Everyone looks at each other with a smile and surprise, seeing how Jiraiya seems to have changed to become a different man today.

"Jiraiya-Senpai has finally taken that step," Itachi commented as he stood next to Minato, looking at the scene of them holding each other's hands.

"I think it is time that he does," Sasuke said with a light smile with his arms crossed in a relaxed way.

Walking forward towards the both of them, Jon takes out a small box, and when he opens the ring box, there appears a beaming light that blinded the whole morning.

"What is that light?"

"It seems to be coming from that box."

When that light is gone, a ring with a large diamond that is a rose in color appears. As Jon explains to Tsunade, "Jiraiya was a little late today because he was trying to look for a better ring more suitable for his beloved. Isn't that right, Jiraiya?"

Immediately Jiraiya caught himself and nodded quickly as he held onto the beautiful ring in his hand, "Of course. Tsunade, this is the ring that I found that I thought would be the most wonderful gift I can give to you."

"This diamond has a special name, called Timeless Love," Jon explains, "and this is a gift we had prepared for you and Jiraiya's special day. And we hope truly that your love will be truly timeless."