After visiting his injured companions, Naruto began "wandering" around the streets of Konoha. Of course, "wandering" needed to be in quotation marks.
He deliberately strolled through streets with Hot Springs inns, but his goal was not to soak in Hot Springs. He was looking for someone who might be... hiding in some corner and peeping.
Sure enough, perhaps due to some destined connection, Naruto soon spotted a sneaky figure beside the outer wall of a Hot Springs inn.
"Heh heh... heh heh heh..."
It was a tall, burly man leaning against a gap in the wooden wall in an extremely improper posture. His long white hair hung all the way to his waist, and he looked rather old.
...Honestly, Naruto thought this kind of behavior was pretty low. While Jiraiya's attention was fully immersed in his "research," Naruto silently picked up a small stone from the ground, flicked his wrist, and accurately threw it at the wooden board Jiraiya was peeping through.
"Bang."
The knock rang clearly from inside the wall.
"Who's out there!"
"I think there's a pervert!"
"Wait! Surround the place! Someone seemed to be peeping just now!"
The women inside immediately erupted into panicked and furious clamor.
"What?!" Jiraiya's expression changed drastically as the perfect atmosphere for his "research" was completely ruined. He whipped his head around and angrily looked in the direction the stone had come from—only to see a blond brat standing there, another small stone still rolling between his fingers, with a seemingly harmless smile on his face.
Jiraiya was so furious that he wanted to rush over and grab the brat by the collar to demand what the hell he was doing. However, the rustling sounds of people getting dressed inside the Hot Springs, along with increasingly close angry footsteps, clearly told him