Delicious big green caterpillars

Konoha Village)

Inside Konoha Hospital.

Jiraiya suddenly sat up in bed.

Just now, while he was taking a nap, he dreamed of the Great Toad Sage.

The Great Toad Sage told him to find a way to use the Summoning Jutsu, because Kanami had successfully gone to Mount Myōboku, but he couldn't return.

Upon waking, Jiraiya and then gently patted his head.

"If it's the Great Toad Sage, it's probably not just a dream; it might be real..."

"But right now, I'm missing an arm. How can I use Summoning Jutsu...?"

Soon, an image of a woman with blonde hair and pigtails appeared in his mind.

Tsunade!

"By the way, Tsunade mentioned using Hashirama Cells to study arms before, I wonder if it went through."

I need to go check it out.

Jiraiya this, Jiraiya turned and jumped out of the hospital room window.

They headed towards the location of the Root Organization's Secret Base.

After Danzō Shimura, the Root Base was left empty.

Before long, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and others found its location and began to coordinate and organize the members of the Root Organization.

On the other side, Mount Myōboku.

The Great Toad Sage opened his eyes, looking somewhat tired.

It's been so long since I've done anything like this; even using the "dream visitation" method once is exhausting...

Although he had lived for a very long time, over a thousand years, far exceeding the age of the Sage of Six Paths and others, he still wanted to continue living, which is why he had been lying in this sun-shaded cave for so long.

He wanted immortality. As people gain access to more and more of the world's secrets, they become increasingly eager for immortality, and the same applies to the Great Toad Sage.

He knew too much about this world, knew all the secrets, so he didn't want to die; he wanted to know even more secrets.

"The Child of Prophecy... the Child of Destiny... who among these two will ultimately change the landscape of the Shinobi World?"

Images of Naruto Uzumaki and Kanami flashed through his mind.

Unable to fathom Kanami's destiny, he realized that the other was the Child of Destiny.

Outside the cave, the sky remained a clear blue.

It looked like a place without night, the exact opposite of the sky over Slug Forest.

The sky over Slug Forest was gloomy, as if there were no daytime.

At this moment, Naruto Uzumaki was no longer meditating, but was looking at Kanami in front of him with a blank expression.

"You! You... why are you here?!"

Naruto simply couldn't understand it.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Kanami under the pillar having some kind of secret conversation with the two Sage Shima and Fukasaku.

At first, he wondered if he had gone mad from practicing immortal Senjutsu and was seeing things.

"I've come to learn Senjutsu."

Kanami chuckled and joked.

Learning Senjutsu?!

"No, didn't you already learn that? Why are you learning it again?"

"I've only learned the Slug Forest Senjutsu; I want to learn the Mount Myōboku Senjutsu as well."

Naruto's eyes widened in surprise upon hearing this.

He had originally thought that once he mastered the Mount Myōboku Senjutsu, he could catch up with Kanami and at least show off in front of Kanami.

After all, both of them were at the bottom of their class back then, and he was very resentful!

But now Kanami has also come to Mount Myōboku to learn Senjutsu, and he's even showing off his trade here.

"Kanami, have you been possessed? Why are you curling up like that?! Are you trying to strangle me?!"

Naruto's expression was complicated; he felt both angry and helpless.

Kanami raised an eyebrow.

Fortunately, he wasn't possessed, but rather reincarnated. Naruto, true to his protagonist aura, almost fooled him completely.

"Would you believe me if I said I was forced to participate?"

I don't believe it!

"If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."

Kanami shrugged.

He was truly forced into this situation; he was a complete idiot to begin with, otherwise he wouldn't have been so indifferent to being at the bottom of the class for so many years at the Ninja Academy.

The only thing he did proactively was to change Hinata's life story before the blond guy did when Hinata.

"Kanami!"

Naruto suddenly stood up straight and called out Kanami's Feudal Lord.

Kanami was stunned. "What?"

"Thank you!"

Naruto bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle and held the position, refusing to rise. "Thank you for saving the Jiraiya. I haven't had a chance to thank you yet. From now on, you're my older brother."

"Huh?" Kanami's expression was strange. "You acknowledge me as your elder brother?"

"Yes, but even if you're my older brother, I'll still surpass you!"

Naruto spoke, two flames seemed to ignite in his eyes.

"Little Naruto, you should first stabilize the Natural Energy within your body and harmonize it in a 1:1:1 ratio before considering surpassing Kanami."

Fukasaku, who was standing next to him, shook his head and said.

In his view, Naruto Uzumaki hadn't even mastered the balance of his own spirit, Chakra, and Natural Energy, yet he wanted to surpass Kanami, who had already completely mastered Senjutsu. It was simply overestimating himself and wishful thinking.

However, he also knew that this was a characteristic of Naruto Uzumaki's personality—his unwillingness to admit defeat.

But he still couldn't help but mutter one sentence.

"Hmph, I know. Watch me master the manipulation of Natural Energy today! You don't need to keep an eye on me anymore; I'll have my clone do it."

Naruto Uzumaki glanced at Kanami, his eyes filled with passion and youthful exuberance.

He then swiftly leaped onto the platform of the previous sharp pillar, instantly regaining his balance.

Using the Shadow Clone Jutsu, he summoned Shadow Clone, one of which jumped to another platform, while his main body remained on the original platform to meditate.

"Honey, little Naruto's progressing really fast! Now he can enter a meditative state in seconds. I remember when he first came here, he could barely even keep his balance on the platform."

Shima, who was next to her, grabbed a handful of insects from the table and stuffed them into her mouth.

He chewed and talked at the same time.

Upon seeing this, Kanami turned his gaze elsewhere.

He really couldn't stand watching Shima eat those big, fat worms, especially since they were eating them raw.

The thought of the sauce bursting out made his stomach churn.

Fukasaku also grabbed a few insects and swallowed them. "Little Naruto has made great progress, but you know, you have to use a suppressive negative pressure on him. If you praise him, he'll stagnate; if you ridicule him, he'll improve very quickly."

Shima nodded in agreement, showing her strong approval.

"She does look a lot like little Jiraiya from before."

As they were eating, they suddenly realized that Kanami very quiet.

Fukasaku glanced at Kanami and asked, "Kanami, why aren't you saying anything? Are you hungry? Eat as much as you want, it's alright, your mother made a lot."

Kanami had been trying to keep himself in a daze so he could ignore the insects they were eating.

But Fukasaku called out to him, he immediately came to his senses.

After regaining my senses, I saw Fukasaku holding a plate and handing over a plate of big, fat green worms!

"You all eat, and call me when you're full, then we can exchange Sage Art!"

Kanami immediately fled.