"How was he? Has he woken up yet?"
"Lord Jiraiya, he should wake soon. The wound in his chest has healed with Medical Ninjutsu, but the intense battle left him exhausted. He needs rest to recover."
"That's good. I'll go see him."
He lifted the flap of the medical tent, where the seriously injured patients were resting.
Kaede, still asleep, began to regain consciousness. He vaguely heard someone speaking beside him and tried to open his eyes, but his eyelids were so heavy that even though he wanted to lift them, he couldn't control them.
Through the haze, he felt someone touching him. As gentle, soothing massage eased him, his consciousness sank away again.
He had a long dream. In it, he awakened the ultimate Bloodline, the Rinnegan, mastered the powerful Toad Sage Art of Mount Myoboku, and combined these two peerless powers to become a being like the Sage of Six Paths.
That year, he exposed the hidden hand behind everything and subdued the entire Shinobi World. He ended the wars among the shinobi, changed the fates of friends who would otherwise have met tragic ends, and lived happily with the person he loved.
In peaceful times, he and his wife rose with the sun and rested at sunset, raising a family. From time to time, he stepped in to mediate disputes among shinobi. His presence kept every ambitious schemer from making a move, and the shinobi world maintained a true peace it had not known for ages.
As the years passed, their children grew up and left to explore the outside world and broaden their horizons, leaving the two of them behind in the village to endure their loneliness.
When their children returned, he and his wife had grown frail with age. Even the Sage of Six Paths