Minato, who had gained the memory of the past—or the future—could already know what the teacher would say next. In his memory, Jiraiya had said something similar. "But now, let's go fill our stomachs first and change our clothes."
Jiraiya changed the subject and looked at the black funeral clothes on his body. The next moment, he patted Minato's shoulder heavily with his palm and said with a smile: "Let's go, we haven't seen each other for more than half a year, let me treat you to barbecue."
Minato was stunned, then said a little embarrassedly: "Let's go to my house to eat, I don't want Sensei to spend so much money to treat me." "You don't have to be polite to me, let's go." Jiraiya forced Minato to walk towards the barbecue restaurant.
Jiraiya now lived alone, and like Minato, he was not very good at cooking. Although the food made by Minato was not bad, Jiraiya didn't want to treat his tongue badly after finally returning to the village.
They first went to Minato's house for a while and changed their clothes. Because of the nature of the mission, Jiraiya's clothes were also sealed in the space scroll he carried with him. After having lunch at the barbecue restaurant, the two returned to Minato's house. In the living room, the two sat opposite each other, and Jiraiya said: "This time I came back, the Third Hokage has already told me about your situation. It seems that what I thought is right.
You are really talented in ninjutsu." Before leaving, Jiraiya had only taught Minato some ways to train basic abilities, and in terms of ninjutsu, he only gave Minato the scroll given by the Third Hokage. That's because Jiraiya knew that Minato, who had comprehended the Body Flicker Jutsu and even developed the "Instant Step," had a talent in ninjutsu that most people could not reach.
As he expected, in the Ninja Trial not long ago, Minato was able to comprehend the combination and change of the nature of ninjutsu by himself and used the combination of Fire Release and Wind Release to overwhelm the Fire Release of Uchiha Yoruki, who is from the Uchiha clan.
It wasn't long since he handed the ninjutsu scroll to Minato. "You also taught Kushina the Shadow Clone Jutsu, right?" Jiraiya continued. Minato nodded in acknowledgment. He had nothing to hide from his teacher. "You know how to teach students in accordance with their aptitude." Jiraiya laughed. Kushina had the blood of the Uzumaki clan, and the girl's fighting style was more direct.
Ninjutsu such as Shadow Clone was the most suitable for her. "Hatake Sakumo's evaluation of you is also very high. I have never heard him praise a young ninja before, but you are the first one." Jiraiya said. He, Tsunade, and Orochimaru were also very respectful of Hatake Sakumo. Jiraiya spoke, and Minato's face was calm.
He lived a new life, and these so-called talents and praises were meaningless. He was once famous in the ninja world. Teachers, disciples, and superiors all praised him. Even opponents respected and feared him. However, on that night about fifteen years later, he still fell. Talent and praise cannot be converted into the strength to protect his family.
"It seems that you don't care about such meaningless things. You have done well. Only with such a mentality can you become a powerful ninja like your teacher." Seeing that Minato did not show any excitement and complacency like ordinary children, Jiraiya was not surprised because he knew Minato's temperament.
He just boasted about it. Minato smiled and said, "Jiraiya-sensei, what did you want to say before that your disciples must know?" Although he already had the answer in his mind, there was one thing that Minato also wanted to confirm. Jiraiya heard this, and his face became serious. He said, "The Great Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku once made a prophecy.
He said that one of my disciples would become the child of prophecy who would influence the future development of the ninja world." "Child of prophecy?" Minato had already expected it, but he still pretended to be shocked. "The ninja world will suffer a huge disaster in the future, and the child of prophecy is the existence that can lead the ninja world to greater development or destruction," Jiraiya said in a deep voice. Hearing this, Minato's heart sank.
The masked man he had fought against once said that he was the one who would unify the world. In order to stop his conspiracy, Minato sealed half of the Nine-Tails' power and his own and Kushina's chakra in his newborn child, so that when the disaster that Jiraiya said came, the child could stop him. The name Naruto came from the protagonist of Jiraiya's first novel, "Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi," and Minato firmly believed that Naruto is the child of prophecy who could stop the disaster in the ninja world. But such trust seemed a bit too blind, so Minato, who now had enough time, wanted to verify it all. "And you are my first disciple, and you are not even ten years old, but you have shown such amazing talent and ability, so maybe... you are the child of prophecy!" Jiraiya looked at Minato and said, his disciple was gifted enough to be called a rare talent in ten or even dozens of years, and his future was unpredictable.
If it were just these, Jiraiya would not have planned to tell Minato about the prophecy of the Great Toad Sage, but after listening to the conversation between Minato and Orochimaru today, he began to suspect that Minato might be the child of prophecy. "Me? That shouldn't be possible, right?" Minato immediately rejected himself. If it weren't for the memory returning, he would have died fifteen years later and failed to stop the conspiracy of the masked man, so he could not be called the child of prophecy.
"This is just my guess. I just think that even if I will accept more apprentices in the future, it will be difficult to find someone better than you." Jiraiya said. Minato couldn't help but talk to himself in his heart. In the upcoming Second Ninja World War, the teacher will be away from the village for three years. He heard that he accepted three war orphans as apprentices there. Although he didn't know the specific situation of one of them, the teacher's expectations for one of them were even higher than his own. But that disciple seemed to have died in the war later.
They are not the children of prophecy. "Did the Great Toad Sage tell you the specifics of the child of prophecy? If so, when you accept apprentices in the future, you can follow this standard, and maybe you can find the child of prophecy." Minato asked the question he had thought of a long time ago. Although he felt a little sorry for his teacher, he had to go to Mount Myoboku to meet the Great Toad Sage to confirm. He wanted to use this to judge, who is the so-called child of prophecy?
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