"Looks like the old man didn't fully tell me about you…"
Jiraiya climbed ashore from the water, looking at the pretty little girl in front of him.
However, this one glance made Jiraiya freeze for a moment.
He hadn't noticed earlier, but now as he looked at Sakura's face, his gaze fell on the purple diamond-shaped mark on her forehead.
If this child had even mastered that technique, it made sense that she could briefly contend with Orochimaru.
"What are you looking at?"
"You pervert."
Sakura frowned slightly as she met Jiraiya's scrutinizing gaze.
"Ah, how rude. After all, I am your senior."
The tall white-haired man patted his wet clothes and smiled as he looked at the girl before him.
He wasn't angry about Sakura's punch earlier.
At most, he would just praise Hiruzen Sarutobi's teaching ability and then marvel at Konoha having promising successors.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Sakura waved her hand, her pair of emerald-green eyes looking at Jiraiya by the riverbank and said:
"No need to say much, right?"
"I believe the old man has already told you everything."
"If you have…"
Sakura stepped onto the bridge railing, intending to discuss sensory ninjutsu with Jiraiya, but out of the corner of her eye, she saw two people walking toward them.
One was Naruto, someone Sakura was very familiar with.
The other person wore black ninja attire, a black headscarf, and a pair of outdated sunglasses.
Ebisu?
Sakura looked over in surprise.
"Sakura!"
Seeing the familiar pink hair, Naruto couldn't help but wave enthusiastically at her.
"Sakura-san."
Ebisu, too, seemed somewhat surprised to see Sakura in the distance.
As Konohamaru's tutor, he naturally knew this disciple of the Third Hokage.
He hadn't expected that, while temporarily teaching this blonde boy at Kakashi's request, he would meet her.
Then Ebisu couldn't help but look at the other person present.
That… That person is Jiraiya-sama?!
Jiraiya-sama had returned to the village?!
"Naruto, why are you here?"
Sakura looked at Naruto curiously. She had been in this world for a long time, and many minor plot details she instinctively ignored.
"Kakashi-sensei went to train Sasuke and left me with this pervert!"
Naruto looked at Ebisu with some dissatisfaction, clearly not happy with him. This guy had once been easily defeated by his Sexy Jutsu—what kind of good teacher was that?
"Naruto, Ebisu is an excellent teacher."
Sakura was somewhat familiar with Ebisu. His theoretical guidance was indeed impeccable.
Of course, that was limited to theory.
Meanwhile, Ebisu directly walked toward the dripping-wet Jiraiya.
"Jiraiya-sama, I didn't expect you to return to the village."
Looking at the disheveled man before him, Ebisu spoke respectfully.
"Hmm, you're teaching that kid?"
Jiraiya looked at Naruto, who was chatting with Sakura, and stroked his chin as he spoke.
Naruto's voice wasn't exactly quiet, so naturally, he had heard it too.
"Yes, Kakashi entrusted him to me."
In response to Jiraiya's question, Ebisu answered truthfully.
"Give me a break and let me train that kid."
Jiraiya patted Ebisu's shoulder and, without waiting for his consent, walked straight toward Naruto and Sakura.
Ebisu stood there in a daze, staring at the white-haired man's back as he walked toward the blonde boy.
Suddenly, he felt that the combination of white and gold hair seemed somewhat familiar, as if he had seen this scene somewhere before…
Maybe he was mistaken…
Ebisu shook his head, dismissing the unrealistic thought.
How could this blonde boy resemble that person?
"What?!"
"You old pervert were peeping at the women's bathhouse!"
"And now you want to teach me?!"
"Someone like you isn't qualified to teach me, not in ten thousand years!"
After hearing from Sakura that the white-haired man had been peeping at the women's bathhouse, Naruto immediately looked at Jiraiya with disdain.
"I say, was it necessary to tell him about that?"
Jiraiya looked helplessly at Sakura.
"What you mean is, if you teach Naruto, you won't peek at women's bathhouses anymore?"
"If that's the case, I could apologize to you."
No way. Not peeping is absolutely impossible.
Sakura rolled her eyes at Jiraiya.
Moreover, it wasn't even peeping!
It was collecting material for his novels, damn it!
There were countless readers waiting for Jiraiya-sama's updates!
Jiraiya silently complained in his heart but looked at the energetic blonde boy in front of him. He then bit his finger and quickly made hand seals!
With a puff of smoke, a person-sized toad clad in armor appeared in front of Naruto and Sakura.
Jiraiya swung his long, wet hair, splashing countless droplets directly onto Naruto and Sakura's faces, and struck a pose that seemed overly exaggerated in Sakura's eyes:
"One of the legendary Sannin, the White-Haired Boy of Mount Myoboku, the Toad Sage, the handsome man who can instantly stop a crying child—Jiraiya-sama, that's me!"
Naruto didn't care about the water droplets splashed on his face and looked excitedly at the super cool toad under Jiraiya.
"Wow, what a cool toad!"
What? How is this toad cool…
Sakura wiped the water off her face with a look of disdain.
"So, kid, do I have the qualifications to teach you now?"
Jiraiya crossed his arms, looking smugly at the wide-eyed Naruto.
"Yes, yes, yes! You're totally qualified!"
"Perverted Sage, I want to learn that!"
Naruto kept nodding as he looked at Jiraiya's toad.
Jiraiya looked satisfied at the boy before him, then suddenly felt something was off.
Since when had he become the "Perverted Sage"?
He was clearly the Toad Sage!
But Jiraiya didn't bother arguing over such trivial matters. He glanced at Sakura standing to the side and then thoughtfully looked at Naruto again.
He had already heard about Sakura from Hiruzen Sarutobi.
She needed a sensory technique that could move with her body.
Hiruzen had already chosen the perfect sensory technique for this little girl.
The Heavenly Covering Array.
A technique that could cover a range of nearly a hundred meters, sensitively perceive everything around her, and move along with her.
But if she thought she could easily get this technique from him, wouldn't that make him seem too cheap?
Jiraiya then turned to Naruto, a mysterious smile on his face.
This made Naruto shiver…
This perverted old man, could it be that he's planning to… me too…?
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