Three days later.
Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya, along with the four members of Kaguya Squad, were less than half a day's journey from the border of the Land of Fire.
Though they had deliberately slowed their pace as much as possible, the Land of Rain was not large to begin with. At a ninja's speed, this was already unbearably slow.
Hyuga Wuye had thought that traveling with Jiraiya and the others would mean running into Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato on the way back.
Yet they had never encountered them, which made him believe in the power of the butterfly effect even more.
Because he had saved Konan ahead of time, he had changed the course of her life...
"Hey, kid, I wrote down the inspiration you gave me yesterday. Got any more?"
At the front of the group were Tsunade and Orochimaru. At the rear was Kaguya, occasionally activating her Byakugan to scan their surroundings. In the middle were Kushina and Minato, along with Hyuga Wuye, whose neck was hooked under Jiraiya's arm.
Kushina looked so aggrieved as she stared at Jiraiya that she seemed on the verge of tears.
Minato's expression toward his teacher was equally helpless and amused.
Over the past three days, Jiraiya had spent even more time with Hyuga Wuye than with Kushina. It was truly exasperating...
Especially since Minato could not understand a word of what they were discussing, while Jiraiya always seemed to grasp whatever Hyuga Wuye brought up.
Things like whips, candle wax, and bondage...
Though he did not understand, he could tell from Tsunade's increasingly dark expression that this so-called inspiration was for his teacher's masterpiece, Make-Out Paradise.
Birds of a feather flocked together. That probably described Hyuga Wuye and Jiraiya right now, didn't it?
"Lord Jiraiya, your thinking needs to be