As flowers bloomed and withered, three years had passed in the blink of an eye.
Near the border of a small country.
Inside an inn, Jiraiya and Orochimaru sat facing each other.
Toying with a specially made kunai in his hand, Jiraiya muttered thoughtfully, "By my count, it's been nearly a month, hasn't it?"
Orochimaru turned away from the view outside the window and smiled faintly. "I wonder how much stronger the two of them have become this time."
"Heh... Sasuke will probably surprise us again." Jiraiya smiled as well. As for Naruto? Over the past three years, Jiraiya and Orochimaru had practically grown numb to his progress...
Logically speaking, unlike Sasuke, Naruto did not actually have much room left to improve.
He had obtained Future Self's memories and cultivation experience ahead of time, and he also possessed the Nine-Tails' Chakra, an immense reservoir of Chakra. He had very quickly reached the level he had possessed when he died.
So where had Naruto's progress come from...
Without question, it was the Flying Thunder God Technique—or, more precisely... Space-Time Ninjutsu.
His talent and aptitude were astonishing.
These two, two of the Three Sannin, had personally witnessed Naruto's advancement in Space-Time Ninjutsu, and they often could not help marveling at it... Naruto's talent for the Space-Time Ninjutsu derived from the Flying Thunder God Technique was terrifying beyond belief.
It was as though he had been born for Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Looking back on it, Jiraiya realized that Naruto had taken only around a month to go from first encountering the Flying Thunder God Technique to completely mastering it... And reaching the level of Markless Flying Thunder God had taken him only three or four months.
One month to catch up with the Second Hokage and the Fourth Hokage.
Four months to leave his