The Grand Gathering on the Horizon

Jiraiya had come.

Jiraiya had left again.

It wasn't that he had gained nothing, but compared to before he arrived, he had more troubles weighing on his mind. By Konoha's rules, Naruto's actions gave Jiraiya a thousand reasons to move against him, whether to capture him and bring him back or kill him on the spot. As the Third Hokage's student and one of Konohagakure's senior figures, Jiraiya had both the authority and the duty to do so. But given his nature, he wouldn't act so lightly. Just as when he infiltrated Amegakure to investigate: even after encountering Pain, whom Nagato controlled, and Konan, Jiraiya's first instinct upon learning their identities wasn't to take them down there and then. He wanted to persuade them through conversation.

It had to be said.

As a ninja,

Jiraiya's personality still had a rather fatal "naive streak."

That wasn't to say it was Jiraiya's fault.

It was simply that in this world,

someone with Jiraiya's nature was a rather ironic presence.

The First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, had been much the same.

But Hashirama possessed the power to awe the entire Shinobi World.

He could make the other four great villages sit down and negotiate within the same framework. The original story seemed to portray Hashirama's sincerity as what moved the other four Kage and brought about the peace conference, but what had really happened?

Wasn't the most important thing that Hashirama had the power to awe the entire Shinobi World?

And that he had agreed to distribute the Tailed Beasts among them.

Without those two conditions,

do you think the Five Great Shinobi Villages would have maintained even a relative peace?

So, to repeat what I've said before: the First Hokage once had a chance to create true peace in the Shinobi World, but