"I said no old man. No means no, does your hearing not work too now? I guess you are at the age where you lose that function." Jaden says looking at Jiraiya.
'Old? I'm not old? How could this kid consider me old I'm not at the age of sensei yet, I'm still 24 years old, a young man and full of vitality and vigor.' Jiraiya thinks.
"Wait kid you do you not know who I am?" Jiraiya replies to the kid believing he just must not know who he is.
"Listen up! The toad sage is only my cover! Allow me to reveal my true identity. From the north to the south, and the east to the west, not even the spirits can defeat me. The white maned toad charmer! A red-hot ninja who strikes fear in the hearts of men! Master Jiraiya! Yes! I'm speaking of none other than myself!" Jiraiya says to the child in front of him in a self-important tone of honor.
"Well, I have news for you kid. I'm not really human anymore either. These tears of blood, overflowing with rage. The Sage on a top-secret mission. The hermit sage of Mount Myōboku. I am Master Jiraiya"
"I am the great and gallant Jiraiya!!!" Jiraiya does his performance in a kabuki pose plus summons a toad.
"Not interested..." I say giving him a deadpan stare at him like I've seen this before. 'Oh wait I have.' Jaden thinks the last part.
'I know a lot of people would grab onto Jiraiya like a lifeline and jump at the chance. Not to mention we're in the middle of a war. But I have my reasons for not accepting his offer. Just like a contract it comes with its risk and rewards. And for someone who has great belief in himself the risk is too much.' Jaden thinks.
'It's not like I don't want to be trained by Jiraiya if I can it's just, I don't want to become the man's disciple. He'd raise me to be a child of prophecy believer and shape me like clay into his desired future. Looking at the original scene and thinking about the story again Naruto wasn't the child of prophecy.' Jaden thinks for a second then continues.
'I'd argue Minato, Nagato, and Naruto equally shared the title. Gamamaru said Jiraiya would be the one to choose and guide, and the child will go down the path from there. Meaning no matter who he trained the person would succeed. But If not would die. Nope, no thank you, I'm not wishing to challenge Minato, Nagato or Naruto for the title and get into a battle of that peace nonsense. Not to mention Zetsu waiting in the shadows and trying to manipulate us into fighting each other. Nope! Count me out of that shit.' Jaden thinks to himself about what would probably happen.
Don't get me wrong I found Jiraiya cool at moments, and he'd be a guy I'd want to have a beer with and smoke some grass with. But as you can see, I can't exactly do that right now. Also being still, a child and all. Meaning he's going to act as my guardian. Trying and be a wise elder and guide my decisions and no thank you. Being with him can give me certain protections but can thrust me in the plot of Naruto where I need to be like his followers, and all strive for peace. And I want no part in any of that. For one I plan to use this era of war too my advantage and take care of some problems that need to be snuffed out, not to mention I'm selfish. I want to create my own slice of heaven.
I may not stand out as much compared to the gods of this world of super powered people. But my potential isn't exactly weak either. Compared to the average warlord I can challenge most of them, its only when going against people with an entire nation do I fall short. Meaning any notable level character in this time period will soon be nothing but fodder to me once I train. I want to believe I can achieve things that have never been done before. Plus, Konoha has a tendency to be anti-Konoha with geniuses or talented people.
I thought Yahiko was this idealist naive fool who just spouted out peace. But you'd be wrong Yahiko wanted to attack other countries and show them what suffering was so they wouldn't want to fight anymore. It was Jiraiya's influence that made that kid do a 180 in ideology. Which landed him a top of a kunai. As his old ideology would have just killed Hanzo, being the person, he hated the most.
But no peace he followed the path of peace. Thanks Jiraiya-sensei.
I don't want Jiraiya popping up on me or sagely guiding my decisions down his path. Becoming a footnote in history. That doesn't sound like the freedom. I wish to carve out for myself. Like drinking chunky fruit punch in a bag, now that's freedom. Not to mention having to listen to the walking Orange monstrosity with shisui's mangekyou sharingan as an always active passive. Seriously did the kid assimilate Shisui's eye when Itachi implanted it into his stomach. There ain't no way he's able to consistently change his enemies mind when they're on the verge of winning. Some of them didn't do anything wrong.
In summary I want to do my own thing.
Yeah I'm not interested old man I have my own plans. Not to mention your teammate is right your in the middle of a war. Jaden looks to the toad sage denying him flatly.
Oh don't worry about that once it's over I can come back here and train you. Jiraiya smiles back at me.
"Hn" This guy really thinks I might be his golden boy, Jaden thinks panicking.
"Not to mention it doesn't go with my plans." Jiraiya quickly continues
"Don't bother I'm not interested." I reply without hesitation
But maybe I would be interested if your teammate was taking students. Looking at the rest of them.
"Huh" Jiraiya has saucers for eyes in disbelief.
You want Orochimaru? Jiraiya pictures it, the two working on all types of destructive Jutsu. Orochimaru-sensei I made progress in the resent nuclear project. Interesting tell me about it. Sensei the subject can die from radiation, the heat causing burns, blindess, and the poison that enters your lung. Not to mention the explosion. ahahaha, both of them laugh evilly, good with this we can subjugate the other countries once and for all, good job Jaden. Jaden reply's with, of course sensei I'm just following the path you guided me in.
No no no you don't want to learn from him and besides he wouldn't be a good fit. Jiraiya makes an x with his arms as he won't allow this.
Orochimaru begins to think about it but agrees. "Yes, I have no time to babysit an orphan not to mention I don't have any interest in you." This is a lie as he is curious about what this child wishes too create.
"Thats fine with me I'm not interested in guys." He's not who I was talking about, then point to Tsunade.
"Me." Tsunade is shocked and confused.
Yes, even if she tried to kill me, she has stuff I would want to know. The granddaughter to the first Hokage is known as a outstanding doctor. Jaden thinks about his reasoning, Tsunade is the best medic in the world. When it comes to the body in this world, she's the lead doctor of the ninja world. In the future I will want to get into the pharmacy industry, and she'd be invaluable to this. Not to mention biochemistry for selling food pills.
I have Bulma's knowledge but with Tsunade I could better utilize this with chakra. As well as make pills that give a person the chakra level of a Jonin. Imagine the possibilities.
Tsunade is shocked for a moment, not hearing all the boys plans for her. Then it escapes her face the next second.
"No way brat you're not qualified to be my student, it would just be a waste of my time, time that I don't have. Not to mention your too arrogant and talkative for my liking. If you want to learn medicine, go to a clinic in Ame or some village, I'm not teaching someone who can't even perform the mystical palm on their own.
Not to mention how can you believe I would teach the boy who has no problem disrespecting my grandfather so no!" She yells out now done with this conversation.
I thought this would be the outcome, so I'm not surprised, but hey I still had to try.
Orochimaru looks at Jiraiya, "see the child isn't fond in having you around so just give it up. And we've spent enough time here wasting around. Let's take the girl for interrogation and get back to the barracks."
Jiraiya slumps his shoulder and prepares to leave and try again in the future.
The three leaf ninja jump in the trees and miniver through the branches to reach their campsite.
"Hoof great." They finally left me alone, wiping off the invisible sweat from talking to them. Especially Orochi-teme, I visible shake, that guy is creepier in person. I'm sure kids who have no idea what a pedo would look like, after seeing that guy would point at the officers to arrest that guy.
At the moment he hasn't completely fallen into the darkness, but he's too happy to cut people into pieces or experiment .
As for Tsunade she hasn't yet completely lost hope in the Konoha.
I dust off my clothes and go search the bodies of the dead Genin they left behind. I first check the one that looks like a broken cup. I know it might be in poor taste to say that but I'm trying to cope with the gore. Last time I saw it but this time I was the person to cause this. I really don't know how snake-teme enjoys this in the future. This just highlights how sick this world is.
Checking the boys body I find a medical pouch,kunai, shuriken, ninja wire, explosive tags, smoke balls.
As well as a guide to basic survival.such as foraging and trap making. Overall it's more than I thought.
I take their ninja pouch and equip it to the my left backhhip and the kunais and shuriken on my right thigh under my kimono.
*1 hour on foot*
I managed to reach the outskirts of a village. The houses oddly aren't shaped like the ones I knew in the anime. All the houses are more like huts, oddly similar to capsules houses in dragon ball. Their enough for a small family but the people don't have space for individual yards. But the worst part is house some of them already looked destroyed.
" I wasn't expecting this, I mean I was but not so soon.
I knock on the door of a fairly intact hut.
*Knock knock*
I don't get any answer for a while
Eventually an old man who was taking his sweet time answers the door. He creeks the door slightly open, particularly opens the door and it's hidden but I can still see a weapon in his hand. I get it but against super soldiers with powers a simple weapon won't do anything. But it's more of a mental thing.
Hello I say.
I'm sorry child but I don't have any food to give as we barely have any for ourselves.
Hm well that sounds like something a person with food would say
As I say that he tightens his grip on his weapon.
Wow he's on guard even on a child I wonder if he's ready to kill a kid if it means living for a few more days. This manages to raise an eyebrow from me as its always shocking to see this in person.
Look I didn't come here to beg for food I would like directions to Amegakure hidden shinobi village.
Oh, I see, he visibly relaxes a bit. Well go further north from the house the go past the bridge then it should be 40 minutes straight.
Thanks, old man. As I smile and wave goodbye "later!"
I take his directions and go past the bridge. "Ahh choo." Yeah, no surprise I've been walking and fighting in the rain for a full day and now I have a cold, luckily my body has strong yang chakra meaning a strong body. If not I'd already have hypothermia, but I already have the chills
"Ah shoo! Yeah I hate this!"
*Sizzle Sizzle Sizzle *
*Boom Boom Boom*
I bunch of explosive traps go off, with one being right under my foot, I jump back having a feeling I should move. But this sets off more explosives. This scene reminds me of the sports festival in My Hero Academia. I don't know how their allowed to set off anti-tank mines and have children run over them like it's a skip in the park.
Back to my current issue I need a plan or I'll just die to landmines. I never served in the military so I don't know of methods. So I stand there focusing on a plan. After 10 minutes I start to panic. I frantically scratch my head with both hands. Ahhhh what am I suppose to do.
Calm down I need to focus
Calm down
Okay maybe just maybe I can use something I got from the genin. I stare at my equipment, and I see it, the answer has to do with the standard ninja wire.
But the problem is it's not like rope; ninja wire is sharp making it tricky. Sharp is one thing, but the wire is known for breaking through flesh and bone. Yup ouch. If I was someone like Sasuke, skilled in Shiruken Jutsu they wouldn't be an issue. After I take a quick look at the survival book, I get an idea about where the blunt side is.
You can do this it's just that one false move and you lose your fingers. I wrap it around my fingers slowly and after a small tug. No response. "Hoof that's good."
"Now a bigger tug and great this should work." Jaden gives a determined nod.
I tie them to four shuriken and with using a high amount of chakra send them to the nearest rock dune. They connect. And I pull myself toward the dune outing chakra at the bottom of my feet. Swinging through the air I make it to the top. I do this repeatedly over the dunes but stop as there I see it
*Battle*