Chapter 357 Homecoming
Outside Konoha Ninja Village, on the shady road... Naruto and his group, who had just finished their journey, finally stepped back into the territory of Konoha Ninja Village while traveling around like a mountain and water.
When they left, there were only Naruto and Nonoyu. However, when they returned, they added the figures of Jiraiya, Tsunade, Pharmacist and Shinin. Even when they compared each other, the formation of people lined up seemed quite lively in this atmosphere of talking and laughing.
Of course, not everyone was very satisfied with the result of this trip, without any regrets...
No, I just confirmed Tsunade's feelings for him, and finally got the beauty back as I wished. Jiraiya should have been very happy. At this moment, he frowned, as if he was worried, and sighed from time to time. So much so that compared with the people who were talking and laughing, it suddenly added a bit of dissonance.
"Ahhh... I've just left for a while, and that bastard Orochimaru left like that... It's rare to meet again, and I don't know if I'll have a drink together and chat for a while?!"
While muttering to himself, Jiraiya subconsciously turned his head and looked a little bit, and with a slightly sad look, projecting towards Naruto, who was standing beside him and walking slowly, while walking forward without any speed or slowness. Then he paused a moment, freed up a hand, and tapped Naruto's little head regardless of lightness or heavyness, which attracted Naruto's aggrieved gaze, and then rolled his eyes while continuing to complain to Naruto with anger.
"I said, you are quite smart when you see your child? Why did you lose your chain at the critical moment... Orochimaru is leaving, so you won't try to keep him. At least, you have to let him go when we come back?!"
Obviously, after Jiraiya waited for others to come back, in order to ensure that he was conspiring with Orochimaru, he was in a hidden and safe state as much as possible. Naruto did not inform Jiraiya and others about the content of the conversation between him and Orochimaru to listen to. Then, he simply told everyone with an innocent look on his face that Orochimaru had already left before Jiraiya waited for others to come back.
This result was obviously an unexpected "bad news" for Jiraiya, who had defected from Konoha Ninja Village for many years, who had not hit the wall or turned back. He failed repeatedly and tried to bring Orochimaru back to the village. Even though Tsunade's proactive response, he finally got the happiness and love that had been late. However, he couldn't help but sigh from time to time on the way back, he felt as if he had regretted his previous decision to "escape at the last battle" as he thought about it.
"Ha? Come again... This is the first time you complained to me after we embarked on our way back...how many times have you been here? Oh yes! It's the 108th time! I almost heard calluses in my ears. I'm so lustful... Cough cough, Grandpa Jiraiya!"
Fortunately, after a little identification, I confirmed that the people around me were complaining about the old words, which made Naruto feel helpless and helpless, and there was no way to deal with it. Then, while deliberately pretending to be painful, he hugged his little head with both hands, lowered his head slightly aggrievedly. While puffing his mouth, he muttered his breasts and muttered in a low voice.
"Didn't I say it a long time ago? How can I blame me? Let's not talk about it for now. The poor and helpless me can't beat Orochimaru at all... Orochimaru's feet are not growing on me. If he is determined to leave, how can I control it? Isn't this embarrassing me..."
In his words, Naruto was obviously familiar with this set of words. So not only did he achieve the skillfulness of opening his mouth, but he also responded word by word, as if he was deliberately reminded, deliberately increasing the prefix of "poor and weak and helpless". In addition, he combined with his pitiful and aggrieved look, he added a bit of credibility to his words and deeds.
Of course, adding credibility is aimed at those strangers who know nothing about Naruto's essence, Akirato's nature, which can achieve... And Jirata, who has long guessed Naruto's true side, has naturally become useless. So when Naruto pretended to be pitiful, Jirata ignored this rather pitiful scene from his own perspective without any turmoil.
“Uh…this…”
Unfortunately, even Jirai was used to it and easily saw through Naruto's pretending to be pitiful. However, he couldn't help but feel speechless in the face of every word that Naruto gave. So for a moment, the complaining words that had already reached the mouth could no longer be revealed.
"And, where did I lose the chain..."
At the same time, after seeing Jiraiya's injustice and being speechless, Naruto, who had already expected this, suddenly smiled even more in his eyes. While tilting his head slightly, as if he was trying to bypass Jiraiya's figure and look around. While chasing him, he seemed to be upset and raised his mouth high, but in fact he muttered in a low voice, he continued to tease and tease without any reason.
"If it weren't for my help, I would probably be someone who wouldn't have been waiting for her in my life, right?"
"Hiss...I...I...Hello you guys, you learned to talk back?"
When Naruto's teasing and teasing words were once again touched by his weakness in his heart, Jiraiya was unable to sort out a set of rebuttal words that were tenable. Then, as the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, he raised his finger and pointed at Naruto. He simply became angry and insisted on making up for his words.
"I don't care. You asked Orochimaru to leave directly. You have to give me an explanation! Otherwise...oh!! It hurts so much, it hurts so much!"
Unfortunately, Jiraiya pretended to behave and threateningly, the "vicious" threatening words that had reached his mouth were not enough to say them in full. He was caught off guard, using his ears as the source point, and instantly, he subconsciously begged for mercy in the severe pain all over his body. So that the solemn feeling of pressure that he had finally created disappeared without a trace in this instant. In this situation of a large contrast between the front and back, intentionally or unintentionally added a bit of funny meaning to Jiraiya's grievance and pain.
As we all know, Jirai is also a peak-level powerhouse standing at the top of the ninja world's strength chain and possessing shadow-level strength. Even if he is not deliberately guarding, when the crisis comes, he will more or less take subconscious actions to avoid dodge under the instinct of seeking profit and avoiding harm...
In other words, if you can capture Jiraiya's figure quietly? Then, the opponent's strength is not to suppress Jiraiya, but at least, it can be a strong person of the same level as Jiraiya.
In this way, the candidate who can make Jiraiya beg for mercy is naturally about to emerge - among Naruto and his group, they have both strength that is comparable to Jiraiya, and can force Jiraiya to suppress his dodging instinct and let him capture him obediently... Besides Jiraiya spends his whole life to silently protect Tsunade, who else can be there?
It is obvious that when Naruto was watching, the direction he looked at was where Tsunade was standing. Then he noticed Tsunade's attention, and was completely attracted by Jiraiya's complaints and complaints at Naruto. And when Jiraiya had no desire to survive, he stood beside Jiraiya and silently held his arms and listened. This made Naruto continue to stimulate Jiraiya with fearlessness like deliberately guiding.
The facts proved that after realizing the truth about Naruto's intentional or unintentional efforts to match up with Jiraiya's successive assists, Tsunade, who gradually calmed down, naturally liked this cute little guy more and more. In addition, it was for repaying something, and it was driven by the elder's instinct to protect his shortcomings. Tsunade's subconscious action completely fell into Naruto's expectations, and did not disappoint Naruto at all.
Of course, the reason why Tsunade was willing to look at Ji Shin-sing and others in ambiguous teasing eyes, while trying to suppress his instinct of blushing, while taking action to stop Jiraiya's actions. In addition to the above reasons, more of the assumption that Naruto had deliberately made when he was matching up Naruto before, that is, Orochimaru, who could completely transform his body into a woman, was very likely to replace her and become a woman who stayed with Jiraiya and spent the rest of his life with him. It was completely true that Tsunade, who had made the decision to face his heart, naturally took Orochimaru's vinegar with dissatisfaction like a girl who had just fallen in love.
What's more, Jiraiya only mentioned it once or twice on the way back? Then, Tsunade could still be the same as before, and would not care too much about it...
But this time, Jiraiya unexpectedly received Tsunade's response and acceptance, and her confidence expanded exponentially. Then, subconsciously, she believed that she could take Orochimaru together as soon as possible. [It seems something is wrong...] Jiraiya naturally felt what it means to have a great hope and a greater disappointment in the face of this development that was completely opposite to her ideal. So as Naruto said along the way, as he was talking and complaining every now and then, the total number of times had reached an astonishing 108 times!
In this way, no matter how much Tsunade wants to comfort herself, this is just the pure friendship and bond between men. However, under Naruto's intentional misleading assumption, a scene of reverie with a strong ambiguity appears in his mind.
"Otherwise, what? Hum?"
It is precisely because of this that Tsunade, who was so arrogant that he instantly felt that Jiraiya was crying and begging for mercy. Even though he subconsciously felt a little reluctant, he still supported this jealousy, and Jiraiya's persistent pursuit of Orochimaru, which seemed to be in his eyes, had no problem. He instantly changed his taste, and always felt that he was too enthusiastic and full of threat. He then pulled Jiraiya's earlobe hard, making him turn his head with a smile and turned his head. While staring at Jiraiya's eyes unbiasedly, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and continued to say without a smile.
"Why didn't I see it before... Your feelings for Orochimaru are really profound? Is it true? I'm here!"
"Oh, it seems that Grandma Tsunade has something to say to Grandpa Jiraiya alone..."
At the same time, Naruto, who had changed his original grievance and smiled with an uncontrollable plan, covered his mouth with a giggle while covering his hands and begging for mercy. While urging Jiraiya, who was begging for mercy, pretending to be serious. Without waiting for Jiraiya to respond or intercept, he applied oil to the soles of his feet. With a series of actions such as turning around, kicking the ground, running quickly, etc., all of them were completed in one go. He only gave up a schadenfreshing teasing speech from afar and ran away.
"Then, I won't disturb you two of you alone... Anyway, I'm almost at the entrance of the village, so I'll take a step first! See you later!"
"I...I...Damn it-! You...you guy..."
Faced with the situation that changed instantly, a 180-degree embarrassing situation was suddenly filled with a sense of arrogance in Jiraiya's heart. Then, from Naruto's words and deeds, he suddenly realized that this was another link that Naruto deliberately arranged, and he was immediately so angry that he jumped straight into his feet. Then, when he did not dare or could not bear to resist the restraint of Tsunade's slender jade hands, Jiraiya did not care about the stinging pain from his earlobes, and raised his head and made a rather shrill and helpless wailing sound.
"Verry-vortex-ming-people! You plotted against me again!"
"Hehe, how can this be said to be a calculating? I am trying hard to give assists for the sake of your two of you!"
After hearing the smirks of unwillingness and grievance coming from behind, Naruto's already gloating smile suddenly became more and more vigorous. Then he responded from afar, not only did he stop his movements because of Jiraiya's "miserable and pitiful" appearance. Instead, he was afraid that Jiraiya would chase him and settle the score with him, and he accelerated his escape and distance again. So much so that Naruto, who was already not far from Konoha Ninja Village, had quickly walked for a while and saw the spectacular and familiar gate of Konoha Ninja Village.
"Hehe, it's finally here... I've been watching the lustful immortal and Tsunade show their love all day long. I'm almost overwhelmed by dog food and blinded by flashing bullets... Well, after returning to the village, I'll go to Hinata for a date and make up for my injured little heart~"
While talking to himself, Naruto, who was already impatient to return home, even thought it was too long and unnecessary to pass the door inspection. So, he bypassed all the seals and restrictions on the city wall and easily climbed the guard wall of Konoha Ninja Village. Then, from above, looking down at the current situation of Konoha Ninja Village, which seemed to be extremely prosperous. Because he returned to this place, he represented the temporary isolation of all the dangerous factors outside the village, and no longer had to worry about being worried, for fear of any unexpected situation again. He couldn't help but raise his lips slightly, and whistle at the sky with relief.
"Koye Ninja Village...hehe, I'm back!"
Chapter completed!