" Naruto, I..."
After hearing Naruto's words, Jiraiya fell into a long silence. He felt as if his heart was being squeezed, making him unable to speak.
He betrayed the trust that Minato and Kushina placed in him.
Jiraiya looked at Naruto, who was raging at him, with a complicated expression. Yes, Naruto was still a child after all. He hadn't been able to protect him back then, and Naruto had suffered a lot of grievances. It was normal for him to have a temper.
No, no, I have to make it up to him.
Thinking of this Jiraiya seemed to have found renewed motivation, and he stared intently at Naruto in front of him.
" Naruto, believe it or not, I will make it up to you."
Naruto's reaction was still indifferent; he didn't want to interact with Jiraiya any further and turned to leave. This time, Jiraiya didn't follow.
Instead, he stopped Sasuke and Hinata in time when they tried to catch up with Naruto.
"Um, please don't leave yet. I want to ask you some questions about Naruto, please."
Sasuke, who had initially looked displeased, stopped when he saw how sincere Jiraiya's attitude was in trying to reform him, though he still looked at Jiraiya with impatience.
Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had successfully stopped the two.
"I'd like to ask Naruto, how have you been all these years?"
"How are you doing? Give up. Even without you, we Uchiha can still raise Naruto just as well."
"Hmph, you'd better watch yourself."
After saying these words, Sasuke left immediately.
He got angry when he saw Jiraiya's belatedly wise response. "Why didn't you think of that sooner? The baby's starving, and you're already providing milk?"
You didn't show up when Naruto was having a hard time, but now that Naruto is finally doing well, you suddenly remember him? Where were you all this time?
Sasuke knew all too well how hard Naruto had been in his early years. He was all alone and helpless. If he hadn't reunited with his parents later, who knows what kind of life he would have had.
So when Sasuke heard Jiraiya ask that question, he was inexplicably annoyed.
Regardless of whether he was giving Jiraiya or not, he left directly. Hinata felt a little embarrassed Jiraiya was forced to stay by Jiraiya, who asked her all sorts of questions. When she learned that Naruto had not been doing well before, she was heartbroken.
So Jiraiya's desire to make amends to Naruto reached its peak, but Naruto didn't want to see him anymore, which put him in a difficult position. In the end, he could only turn to Kakashi for advice.
As for Naruto, he didn't take what happened earlier to heart at all. He only said those things to get rid of Jiraiya.
He has more important things to do now; his system has been upgraded again, although it's still under upgrade.
[System upgrade in progress...]
Since experiencing the Konoha Crush Plan with Orochimaru yesterday, his system has been updating. You see, it's been a long time since he's seen his system update.
Not long after, Naruto's system was updated.
[Ding, system update complete.]
[The update includes the following: a new Coupon System, the addition of point-based ninjas, and the addition of the Wanderer Series: Zabuza the Wanderer and Haku the Wanderer.]
[This time's featured ninja: A) ]
When Naruto saw this, his expression became a little strange. This time, they even updated with a new ninja that cost points, and more importantly, it was a wandering ninja with guaranteed strength. The most crucial thing was that the high-level ninjas were finally updated this time, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to obtain powerful ninjas normally.
Because A) only had one arm and one right hand, he was jokingly referred to as "Left A" by many Hokage fans. This ninja was actually quite powerful.
What Naruto wants to figure out most right now is this Coupon System. Does this mean he can recharge? Has the game developer expanded its business to another world?
With a strange expression, Naruto opened the recharge interface.
[Please recharge this world currency: 10,000 taels = 100 points]
"Huh? So expensive? Are you robbing me?"
But this time, his system didn't respond. Normally, when he said something, this brain-dead system would pop up and mock him. What was wrong today? Had the update removed the artificial intelligence?
However, Naruto isn't too concerned about this point-based ninja right now. It would be more practical to get this [ A ] first and improve his combat power.
When Sasuke finally found Naruto, he discovered that the guy was still grinning like an idiot.
"Hey, Naruto, are you alright?"
Sasuke looked at Naruto with some concern, since Naruto wouldn't normally show such an expression, so he waved his hand in front of Naruto's face.
This brought Naruto back to his senses. He had been too excited about the lottery draw. He never expected that he, who was always unlucky, would actually have such good luck this time. It was so unexpected that it was unlike him.
The reason is simple: Naruto's record this time: 100 draws plus high-level recruitment rebates, 60 fragments ( A ). Keep in mind that Naruto doesn't even have a noble rank right now, so to achieve such results is quite lucky.
"Oh? Nothing, nothing. I was just thinking about something happy, hehe."
Seeing Naruto still grinning like that, Sasuke but worry. Could it be that the white-haired, lecherous old man from earlier had upset Naruto?
"Let's go, Sasuke, let's hurry home."
After receiving the ( A ) trial card, Naruto couldn't wait to go to the arena and slaughter his way through; today was a great day to rack up big points.
"Oh, coming."
As for the other side, the situations of the Sannin were all different. Tsunade, who had just become familiar with the duties of the Hokage, was busy with this and that, and was exhausted. Even Shizune was pulled over to help. But even so, there were still many old grievances that had been there for years that could not be dealt with. Tsunade finally understood why Jiraiya want to be the Hokage. It was just too tiring.
"Tch, this is really troublesome. I don't know what my second grandfather is thinking, insisting that I take on the Hokage Position."
Tsunade rubbed her sore neck and complained, while Shizune beside her was too tired to speak.
After leaving Konoha, Orochimaru began his experiments, starting with extracting his own cells to create clones.
"Dou, keep good records of this experiment."
" Lord Orochimaru, what exactly is this experiment about?"
Orochimaru looked at the light that was on in the room.
"On true immortality."
Jiraiya, meanwhile, had already knocked on Kakashi's door, carrying with him his latest copy of "Icha Icha Paradise "...