Sage Fukasaku looked at Ayato, growing more satisfied the longer he watched.
"Boss, no time like the present. Let me take Little Ayato around the place he'll be visiting often from now on," Jiraiya said.
"Mm, sounds good. I'll head back and make preparations. You get things ready on your end." Sage Fukasaku nodded, then vanished in a puff of white smoke.
"Sensei, how should I prepare? And will I be going over there to train afterward?" Ayato asked. There were some things that, even if he knew them, he still had to ask.
"I'll handle the preparations. Just get yourself into good condition. The first time you undergo Reverse Summoning, you may experience some discomfort," Jiraiya said after thinking for a moment.
"As for the training location, while it doesn't really matter where you train, you can't maintain a summoned state indefinitely. So it'd be better for you to be summoned over there instead."
Ayato nodded at Jiraiya's words.
"What? You don't want to leave Konoha to train elsewhere?" Jiraiya asked.
"Not really."
"Haha, even if you did, it'd be fine. With the Reverse Summoning Technique, you only need to go there during the day. You can still come back at night, just like I did back then." As Jiraiya spoke, he fell into reminiscence. Back then, Orochimaru had not yet defected...
For a moment, the scene fell silent. No one spoke.
"Little Ayato, it's ready," Jiraiya suddenly said.
"Yes." Ayato had actually been ready for quite some time.
The next moment, the two figures vanished directly from Konoha's Back Mountain.
"Is this Mount Myōboku?" Opening his eyes, Ayato looked around. Most of what he saw was a sea of lush green, within which frogs of all shapes and sizes were scattered everywhere.
The various frogs also noticed