Rōran Ancient City.
The Dragon Vein Core.
Jiraiya fled from the outskirts of the ancient city to this place in a rather sorry state. Once he arrived, his Sage Mode senses picked up the enormous chakra fluctuations coming from underground.
He had never expected to run into such formidable opponents on this trip, so he decided to flee.
Originally, he had planned to escape out of the ancient city.
But... the route he had taken in was already blocked, leaving him no choice but to run deeper inside.
He regretted not bringing his student Minato along.
What he did not know, however, was that Minato had been there all along, and one of the people beating him up was none other than his dear student, Minato Namikaze.
Just moments earlier...
Naruto and Minato had fought side by side as father and son. Both were skilled in taijutsu, and with the added power of Nen and Haki, suppressing Jiraiya without revealing their identities was hardly difficult.
Moreover, Uchiha Itachi and Nagato were on the outside, occasionally unleashing ninjutsu to interfere.
With Big-Sister Scorpion providing supporting fire from all kinds of firearms as well, Jiraiya had been beaten into an utterly miserable state.
Jiraiya truly could not defeat five Kage-level fighters, but he could still escape.
With his Summoning Technique available, he chained together a Shadow Clone, Sage Art: Toad Oil Flame Bullet, Sage Art: Infinite Needle Senbon, and the Toad Mouth Binding Technique... and successfully broke out of the five fighters' encirclement.
Jiraiya looked around and discovered that there was only one way in or out. In other words, he had fled into a dead end.
Even so, he remained calm.
"Lord Fukasaku, Lady Shima, return to Mount Myōboku and use Reverse Summoning to summon me over! I