Watching Uchiha Yue vanish before his eyes, Shimura Danzō felt immensely conflicted.
But there was no time for Shimura Danzō to dwell on those complicated feelings. Uchiha Yue had already headed for Konoha. Without even needing to think, Shimura Danzō knew exactly what Uchiha Yue intended to do there. Thus, the instant Uchiha Yue disappeared, Shimura Danzō hurriedly gathered Konoha's remaining fighting forces.
Namely, two of the Sannin: Orochimaru and Jiraiya, who was in Sage Mode.
However, when Shimura Danzō summoned Orochimaru and Jiraiya to deal with Uchiha Yue, neither of them could join the battle immediately due to their own circumstances. Jiraiya's situation was somewhat better, but because he had used Sage Mode in front of Uchiha Yue without having mastered it, he now faced the severe consequence of natural energy running rampant within his body.
Mount Myoboku's Sage Mode training was highly peculiar. Like Uzumaki Naruto in the original story, Jiraiya had initially coated himself in Mount Myoboku's toad oil to sense the presence of natural energy and complete his Sage Mode training. But unlike Uzumaki Naruto in the original story, Jiraiya had no cheat-like advantage. Even mastering that imperfect Sage Mode required him to train for a long time. Even now, Jiraiya had yet to fully master Sage Mode, and his method of using it remained incomplete.
Therefore, almost the instant Uchiha Yue vanished from before Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Shimura Danzō, the crisis in Jiraiya's body erupted. In an instant, Jiraiya—who already looked eighty percent like a toad because he could not control the natural energy within him—began transforming completely into a toad. He could even sense that the moment he fully became a toad would be the moment he turned into a stone statue. Jiraiya immediately began expelling the natural energy inside him, hoping to ease