"Madara Uchiha!"
With a furious roar, Jiraiya bolted upright in his hospital bed.
Only after opening his eyes did he realize he was no longer on the battlefield.
"Jiraiya-sensei, you're awake!"
Hearing the commotion inside, Naruto hurried over and pushed the door open.
"Naruto? Weren't we on the battlefield? Where are we?"
He took in the room's luxurious furnishings, expensive ornaments, and silk quilt that looked worth a fortune at a glance.
Had he died? Was this heaven?
Then if he was seeing Naruto in heaven, didn't that mean Naruto had also...!
"Jiraiya-sensei, the war... is over."
With a complicated expression, Naruto told Jiraiya that the war had ended.
"The war is over? How is that possible? Did you defeat Madara Uchiha, that Obito Uchiha, and the Ten-Tails, Naruto?"
Jiraiya eagerly pressed him for the outcome.
But Naruto shook his head.
"No, Jiraiya-sensei. None of that has anything to do with us anymore.
"For our shinobi villages, the war ended when Madara Uchiha's Tengai Shinsei came crashing down.
"Everyone died, so naturally, the war ended too."
"But...!"
Jiraiya recalled that devastating scene: a meteor falling from the sky.
The First and the others had joined forces and barely withstood the impact of the first meteor.
But when the second meteor fell, everything on the battlefield had ended.
For a moment, Jiraiya's expression darkened.
Then a question suddenly occurred to him.
"Wait, what about Madara Uchiha and the others? They couldn't have caused all that upheaval just to kill every ninja from the Five Great Shinobi Villages, could they?"
Naruto was just about to speak when Kakashi's and Tsunade's voices came from outside.
"Lady Tsunade?!"
"Kakashi? You're here too? Where are we?"
"I'm not sure, but it looks like someone's home."
"Tsunade! Kakashi!"
Hearing their voices, Jiraiya forced himself out of