After receiving the Nine-Tails Chakra cloak and saying goodbye to the Nine-Tails, Meihui opened his eyes to find Jiraiya staring at him strangely. The look made his ass clench in alarm.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Meihui was genuinely afraid Jiraiya had some peculiar fetish. After all, those Sannin... tsk, not a single one of them was normal.
"Huh? You little brat, what are you thinking? Do I look like that kind of person?"
Yet Jiraiya's gaze seemed to tell Meihui, I don't believe what you're saying. To avoid making things worse with every explanation, Jiraiya simply shut his mouth and stopped bantering with him.
"Still, it looks like you succeeded?"
Meihui nodded, then shook his head, leaving Jiraiya puzzled.
"This doesn't really count as a success. It's only a portion of the Nine-Tails' chakra, one he voluntarily separated out for me. It doesn't have much practical use."
"Then why are you using it?" Jiraiya regretted the words as soon as they left his mouth.
"But it looks cool." Hearing the answer he had expected, Jiraiya was so annoyed that he slapped his own mouth repeatedly.
When Naruto saw Meihui like this, he was overwhelmed with envy, tears of excitement and emotion spilling from the corners of his mouth.
"Big brother, what is that? I want one too!"
Meihui felt helpless looking at Naruto. After all, what boy wouldn't want such a cool, glittering golden Nine-Tails cloak?
"Ahem. All right, little brother, wipe that drool away. You're still too weak. The waters run too deep with the Nine-Tails-you can't handle him. Listen to your big brother and let me go first."
Naruto quieted down at those words, but his burning gaze seemed to say something else. He completely failed to notice anything wrong with Meihui's reasoning.
Jiraiya watched the two