Hearing this, Jiraiya was stunned.
Then he squinted his eyes and looked at Naruto up and down again.
From the moment he found himself hiding behind the giant rock to the way he is now dealing with it, Naruto is not only not afraid, but also does not have the slightest bit of excitement or awe that ordinary Genin would have when seeing the legendary Sannin.
Not only that, this guy's mouth is also a bit poisonous.
Jiraiya held his hands in front of his chest and suddenly grinned:
"Not much, but I suddenly want to punch someone."
"Uncle Peeping, this is your fault."
Naruto spread his hands and sounded like he was trying to reason with the unreasonable Gohan.
"You broke the law first, and I haven't reported you yet, but you want to beat me up?"
Jiraiya doesn't like this.
His current idea is to beat up this brat and take revenge for the first draft of Make-Out Paradise that he didn't have time to finish.
"Stop talking nonsense and let me see how much you weigh!"
After Jiraiya finished speaking, he was already moving.
The clogs on his feet slammed on the ground, and the whole person rushed towards Naruto at a speed completely inconsistent with his body shape.
The right fist is thrown out without any unnecessary changes.
The pure speed and strength are enough to make any Genin fall down directly.
But what the fist hit was a cloud of white smoke.
Jiraiya's punch passed through the position where Shadow Clone Technique dissipated, and Naruto's body had already retreated ten meters away in an instant.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique."
With both hands Hand Seals, more than twenty Shadow Clone Technique exploded simultaneously on the forest floor.
Shadow Clone Technique people did not swarm forward, but quickly spread out in an arc to form staggered positions.
The front avatar is holding Kunai in a crouching position, and the rear avatar is standing ready to go, with the angle completely covering all the flank space of Jiraiya.
Jiraiya glanced around at the more than twenty Shadow Clone Technique, but he couldn't immediately tell which one was the main body.
He grinned slightly, this kid's Shadow Clone Technique layout was much more sophisticated than he expected.
Not only are they large in number, but the tactical intentions of the battle positions are also very clear, and they are not just placed casually.
"Needle Jizo!"
Jiraiya's white hair hardened again, and countless white needles broke out from his long hair and shot toward the Shadow Clone Technique group.
The friction between the hair needles and the air produces a dense, sharp whistling sound.
All Shadow Clone Technique started to dodge quickly as soon as the hair needles were shot out, jumping forward, rolling and turning back.
Bang bang bang...
However, Jiraiya's Needle Jizo was far superior to the ordinary Shuriken in both speed and density. The three clones in the front row had no time to withdraw from the coverage area and were hit by the hair needle, turning into three clouds of white smoke.
The remaining clones were not beaten passively.
The clone in the back row threw Kunai in his hand and Hand Seals in both hands at the same moment when his companion was blown up. "Shadow Clone Shuriken!"
Dozens of Kunai split into hundreds in the air, intertwined into a steel rainstorm that covered the sky in the sun, and poured towards Jiraiya from all directions with a sharp sound of breaking through the air.
Jiraiya was surprised. He did not expect that these clones could organize such a large-scale counterattack at the same moment that the front row was destroyed. The timing was so precise that he Needle Jizo had a half-breath vacuum period to withdraw his attacks.
This guy is not thinking at the Genin level, but comparing it to the timeline.
"Fire Release·Fire Release: Flame Bullet!"
Jiraiya quickly Hand Seals his hands and spit out a large blazing flame from his mouth. The scorching flame spread in a fan shape with himself as the center, swallowing up all Kunai that came from the front.
A large number of Shadow Clone Shuriken were burned or blown away in the high-temperature fire wall, but there were still a few that penetrated through the gaps in the flames and scratched the outer coat of Jiraiya.
Shadow Clone Technique, who was covered in flames, was not idle either. As early as the moment Jiraiya Hand Seals, it had already started to quickly move away from the outside. Only two clones were too close to avoid being swept away by the afterflame of Fire Release: Flame Bullet and turned into white smoke.
At the same moment when the flames of Fire Release: Flame Bullet dissipated from mid-air, a figure burst out of the smoke directly behind the embers of the flames.
Naruto holds a Kunai in each hand. The blade of Kunai is covered with a layer of light green Chakra light film.
Wind Release: Vacuum Blade
He accurately cut in at close range during the gap between Jiraiya Fire Release: Flame Bullet's attacks, and the two Kunai slashed towards Jiraiya's chest in a cross-cutting manner.
Jiraiya's eyes lit up, and he used the opportunity of Fire Release: Flame Bullet's attack to get closer. This opportunity was more accurate than Shadow Clone Shuriken's counterattack just now.
He opened his bow left and right to parry the two Kunais. The blade of the Wind Release Chakra was wrapped around him and the hand wrapped around the Chakra made a series of metal collision sounds at the contact point.
Immediately afterwards, the remaining dozen or so Shadow Clone Technique around them also condensed into Wind Release: Vacuum Blade and attacked Jiraiya from different directions.
Jiraiya dodged left and right in the siege of dozens of Shadow Clone Technique, and every move between his fists and feet was accurate to the millimeter.
In the process of close combat, the peripheral Shadow Clone Techniques will decisively use Shadow Clone Shuriken to attack whenever they find a gap in Jiraiya's defense.
And Jiraiya continued to use Needle Jizo and Fire Release: Flame Bullet to perform range suppression in an attempt to separate the encirclement formation of the Naruto clone group.
Neither of them showed their true skills. Jiraiya didn't activate Senjutsu and Summoning Technique at all, and Naruto didn't activate Golden Body Mode and Rasengan. Both sides were testing the other's true upper limit.
The entire wilderness was shattered by rubble during the battle between the two. The ground was cut with knife marks of varying depths by Wind Release Chakra, and large scorch marks were left by the afterburning flames of Fire Release: Flame Bullet.
Jiraiya fended off another round of consecutive Vacuum Blade chops from the clone. He took a breath and wiped the sweat off his face, then looked at Naruto opposite, whose breathing rhythm was still steady.
This kid has been playing time with himself from the beginning of the battle to the present. The rhythm of his attacks is neither urgent nor slow. Every round of counterattacks are precisely caught in the gaps between his own attacks. No one is a head-on confrontation.
Although his true ability has not been revealed yet, Jiraiya has already figured out Naruto's current strength by eight or nine points.
He had seen no more than three ninjas at this age who could reach this level.
Naruto also had a rough idea of the limits of his current normal combat power.
He is quite satisfied with the result. Being able to have such a back-and-forth with one of Sannin under normal circumstances shows that his foundation has been solid.
Golden Body Mode and Rasengan cannot be shown to Jiraiya for the time being, but with their current level, it is more than enough to face Neji later.
Just when Jiraiya was about to call stop, Naruto suddenly looked up and looked in the direction behind Jiraiya, with a surprise smile on his face and waved his hand vigorously:
"Grandpa Hokage, you are here!"
"I want to report that there is a peeping uncle here!"
Jiraiya's body froze, and he turned around reflexively. Sure enough, he saw Hiruzen Sarutobi walking towards this direction with his hands behind his back and a majestic look on his face.
"Old man, you..."
Jiraiya just shouted half a sentence, and then his pupils shrank.
No.
There was no ANBU accompanying the old man in the direction he came from, and considering the Third Hokage and Chakra fluctuations, this distance should not have been completely unperceived.
Jiraiya turned around sharply and found that the place where Naruto had been standing was empty, leaving only a small piece of white smoke that was blown away by the wind and slowly dissipated.
On the low hillside that was burned by Fire Release: Flame Bullet in the distance, Naruto had already completed the evacuation by the smoke lifted by Shadow Clone Technique and the moment Jiraiya turned around.
He squatted on the top of the hillside, put his hands together in a trumpet shape near his mouth, and shouted to Jiraiya who was in a daze in the forest:
"Uncle Peeping, you are indeed very strong. Let's fight again next time!"
"Goodbye!"