"What!?"
Jiraiya's eyes were practically spitting fire as he glared at Naruto with murderous fury.
"You dare treat Tsunade like that!?"
He genuinely felt the urge to kill.
That was Tsunade, the woman he had secretly loved since his youth—now taken away to warm another man's bed?
His breath ca in ragged bursts, his fists clenched with anger as if he could no longer restrain the urge to attack.
Orochimaru, on the other hand, let out a raspy laugh.
"Jiraiya, calm down. He probably hasn't done anything to Tsunade just yet."
Jiraiya froze.
Orochimaru continued, licking his lips with a twisted grin,
"After all, it's only been a few hours... but if more ti passes, well, who knows? Next ti we see her, her kid might already be six years old."
Jiraiya's rage roared like a blaze, almost material in its intensity.
Naruto watched and shook his head slightly.
"Jiraiya, do you really need to be this angry?"
Jiraiya snapped,
"Cut the crap! Give Tsunade back now—or you're not walking out of here alive!"
But Naruto spoke calmly, ignoring the threat.
"If it weren't for your constant running away, would things have ever co to this?"
He looked Jiraiya in the eyes, his voice indifferent and cool.
"You've always loved Tsunade, but never confessed. You care about Konoha, yet never returned."
"You've been running from everything your whole life—and all that ever did was make things worse."
"In the end, everything that happened to Tsunade... you share in the bla. You have no right to act righteous."
The anger in Jiraiya's eyes gradually faded. He picked up on sothing in Naruto's words and asked, his brow furrowed and voice heavy:
"Who... exactly are you? Have we t before?"
Even Orochimaru was puzzled now.
"Jiraiya, why do I get the feeling this guy holds so serious grudge against you? What happened between you two?"
"I've never seen him before," Jiraiya muttered, frowning deeply.
"I've never even heard of anyone nad Bofū nma..."
But why does he know so much about ? Jiraiya narrowed his eyes, staring hard at Naruto's face—but no matter how he looked, he couldn't place it.
Orochimaru, however, had begun to understand.
"You two must have t before... or at least, he saw you. Maybe all this—his hatred toward Konoha—stems from that."
Jiraiya thought for a mont, then shook his head.
"I'm sure I haven't seen him. But none of that matters right now. We take him down first—he must be hiding Tsunade sowhere!"
Orochimaru gave a slight nod, licking his lips as he stared at Naruto with greedy eyes.
"Fine by . I'm quite interested in him as well... Hehehe, co to think of it, it's been a while since we tead up, hasn't it?"
"It has!" Jiraiya said, then suddenly slapped Gamabunta on the head.
"Gamabunta, prep the oil!"
"Got it!"
Gamabunta puffed out his cheeks and spat out a massive flood of thick, flammable oil that flowed like a river.
Jiraiya's chest swelled, and he exhaled a torrent of flas that ignited the oil:
"Gamayu Endan!!" (Toad Oil Fla Bullet!)
The burning river of oil surged forward like a fiery tsunami, heading straight for Naruto.
"nma-dono...!" Uchiha Izumi almost cried out his real na, but thankfully corrected herself in ti.
"Are you going to fight them here...!?"
She watched Jiraiya and Orochimaru anxiously.
She still hadn't recovered her chakra and dōjutsu power from the battle with the Fourth Raikage and Killer Bee.
"We'll fight them a bit... but I don't need your help," Naruto replied coldly.
Seeing Jiraiya's face again had clearly soured his mood.
Back in Konoha, when he'd been bullied and isolated every day, he had prayed countless tis for soone to co save him.
But the man who was both his father's teacher and a renowned hero—Jiraiya—had never once shown up.
He had known.
He had to know. Naruto was the Kyūbi's jinchūriki. He had to know how he was being treated.
"A man who always runs away... maybe he should just keep running forever."
Naruto muttered to himself, raising his right hand toward the incoming fire-river of burning oil.
"Kō!!" (Blaze!!)
Blistering flas erupted from his fist as he punched directly into the Gamayu Endan.
In an instant, the two fires collided and rged.
Before Jiraiya's shocked eyes, the fire reversed course—rushing back toward Gamabunta!
"Jiraiya! What the hell is going on!?"
Gamabunta cried out as the returning flas scorched his foot, forcing him to retreat in pain.
"Wait—right!" Orochimaru, standing atop Manda, suddenly rembered sothing.
"Fire won't work on Bofū nma. He possesses a technique similar to the Hōzuki clan's Hydrification Jutsu—only his is a Pyrofication Jutsu. He can control all fire... and he's immune to physical attacks."
Jiraiya gasped sharply.
Just from that explanation alone, he knew how dangerous this guy was.
"Why the hell didn't you say that earlier!?" he growled, face darkening.
Forming hand seals, he released a roaring stream of water:
"Suiton: Suishōha!" (Water Release: Water Colliding Wave!)
The water clashed with the flas, instantly turning to steam—but it managed to stall the fire's spread.
Seizing the mont, Gamabunta leapt backward, avoiding further burns.
anwhile, Naruto placed a hand on Uchiha Izumi's shoulder and vanished using Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique). ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel~fire~net
Jiraiya's eyes widened to their limit as he gasped.
"Was that... the Flying Thunder God!?"
Naruto had disappeared in an instant—no sign of what technique he used.
But Jiraiya knew that chakra signature anywhere.
It was unmistakably the Flying Thunder God.
Orochimaru's eyes narrowed.
"So it really is the Flying Thunder God... I heard he stole the Scroll of Seals, but I never imagined he actually mastered it..."
The two exchanged looks, both stunned.
The Flying Thunder God—one of the most difficult techniques to master, even among space-ti jutsu.
In all of Konoha's history, only two people had ever learned it: the Second Hokage, and... Minato Namikaze.
"We're screwed..." Jiraiya's face turned grim as he realized what this ant.
"If he's mastered the Flying Thunder God, how the hell are we supposed to catch him and rescue Tsunade? There's no way we can keep up with space-ti ninjutsu..."
Orochimaru fell silent. He hadn't expected things to turn out like this.
To a regular shinobi, an enemy who had mastered space-ti jutsu was a living nightmare.
They simply weren't on the sa level.
And just then—
A flash of golden light. Naruto reappeared in the canyon, holding none other than Tsunade in one hand...
...wearing a slave collar around her neck.
"The Legendary Sannin, reunited at last. What a heartwarming reunion," he said with a smile.
(End of Chapter)
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