Naruto gritted his teeth, his cheeks flushed red.
"I don't believe Sasuke would abandon us without saying a word."
"That bunch must be threatening him with something."
After looking Naruto over a few times, Jiraiya suddenly smiled, walked over, and reached out to pat Naruto on the shoulder.
"You want to go to the Hidden Rain Village?"
Naruto looked at the oddly dressed man in front of him. "Who are you?"
"If you want to go there, I'll have to see what you're capable of."
Jiraiya said with a smile.
"For someone like you, the Hidden Rain Village is no less dangerous than a dragon's den or a tiger's lair!"
"Do you have enough strength?"
"Naruto!"
Chapter 576: The Ninja's Free Ocean
2024-06-08
"As long as you let me see Sasuke!"
"Even if I have to beat him up, I'll knock some sense into him and bring him back!"
Naruto said through clenched teeth.
"Then you'll need the strength to defeat Sasuke!"
"As far as I know, you've been the dead last at the Ninja Academy all these years, haven't you?"
Jiraiya was getting angry as well and shouted at him.
But as soon as he said this, Kakashi and Naruto beside him both looked at him strangely.
"What? Was I wrong?"
He asked in confusion.
"Lord Jiraiya, Naruto stopped being the dead last a long time ago."
Kakashi sighed.
Hearing his student called the dead last made him somewhat displeased, even though the speaker was one of the Legendary Sannin.
"He's now one of the two genius Ninja, alongside Sasuke."
"And he even achieved excellent results in the Chunin Exams that just ended."
Jiraiya froze. He had not expected things to turn out this way at all, and he could not help looking at Naruto.
"Hmph!"
The latter raised