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Perhaps because he had finally escaped the atmosphere of the battlefield and returned to the Leaf Village, Haori, without a word, first slept like a log until he woke up naturally. This kind of luxurious sleep was something he hadn't had in a long time.
He didn't leave his house until the evening, with a tired look on his face.
He had already changed out of his mission gear and was dressed casually when he went out.
He strolled around, looking for something to fill his stomach.
Then, after thinking for a moment, he headed towards the Hokage's office building.
He wasn't going to see the Hokage. He was going to report back and submit his return-to-the-Leaf-Village mission report.
"Ninja number 009887, Chunin Shiraishi Haori, on standby in the Leaf Village."
After submitting his mission report and signing his name on a certain roster, Haori's official business was done. As for when he would receive another mission, that depended on the organization's arrangements.
How he would act in the future was indeed a problem. First, he couldn't go to the battlefield with Kushina again. Before the Shinobi World War ended, Kushina probably wouldn't have the chance to leave the Leaf Village.
Second, he couldn't stay in the Leaf Village like he had for the past few months, learning jutsu and carrying out low-level missions. Because he had proven his worth on the battlefield, he would eventually have to return to the battlefield.
After registering, Haori discovered a rather sad thing.
That was, even though he had returned to the Leaf Village, he still had nowhere to go.
Go back to his own house? Well, it was empty.
In any case, he should go see what Kushina was doing first. Would his master be in a constant state of frenzy?
As Haori walked out of the Hokage's office building, the sky gradually began to darken. But he wasn't short on time, and he wasn't in a hurry. So, he strolled towards Kushina's house, taking it as a chance to relax.
Well, his destination was clear, but Haori was walking casually.
Unbeknownst to him, he had walked to the Leaf Village's hot spring street.
Perhaps because of the continuation of the joy after the war victory, although the sky hadn't completely darkened, the lights were already on here.
There were quite a few pedestrians on the road.
Unfortunately, for Haori, he didn't recognize anyone…
Wait, he didn't recognize anyone?
Haori was just thinking this when he spotted a familiar face.
To be precise, they had never met before, and the other person didn't recognize him. But Haori recognized him.
As a ninja, many habits are deeply ingrained. For example, when walking down a street, ninjas generally don't walk in the most crowded areas. They try to stay in slightly more open spaces.
Their vision might seem no different from ordinary civilians, but they habitually pay attention to special places.
Buildings that might hide people, points higher or lower than average, the position of people's hands as they pass by, their walking posture, their clothes, and their pace…
And so on.
To put it simply, ninjas are mostly in a state of unease and tension, as if someone could jump out at them at any moment, holding two watermelon knives to chop their heads off.
Haori wasn't that exaggerated or uneasy. On the contrary, he considered the Leaf Village to be the safest place. His vigilance was at its lowest when he was in the Leaf Village.
For example, he didn't even bring ninja tools with him when he went out.
But even though he was a ninja, he still had his habits. He still had to pay attention to the places he needed to pay attention to.
There was a river that ran through the Leaf Village's hot spring street, or to be more precise, the hot spring street was actually built on both banks of this shallow river.
Then, Haori noticed a white-haired man hiding in the canopy of a tree on the opposite bank. The canopy was so dense that it could easily conceal a person.
(ShixT9: Ahh the legendary pervert)
With Haori's current lack of drive, this wasn't a deliberate discovery. It was just a ninja's subconscious reaction.
And the person hiding wasn't being very careful either.
After spotting the person, Haori immediately changed direction and walked onto a wooden bridge connecting the two banks.
Standing on the highest point of the bridge, he was even more certain that he hadn't mistaken the person.
Tall, with long white hair hanging down his back, he was wearing the mission gear of a frontline ninja.
With this unrestrained aura and this sneaky behavior, who else could it be?
The Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku, the Yellow Dot among the Sannin, Jiraiya.
Jiraiya was facing away from Haori. Haori couldn't see his face, but he recognized him just like that.
But Jiraiya was the frontline commander in the direction of the Leaf Village and Kumo, wasn't he? Now was a period of strategic adjustment for all countries. Shouldn't he be focusing on the frontline and closely monitoring the enemy's movements?
Why was he back in the Leaf Village? Was he AWOL? That was impossible.
"Could it be…"
Haori quickly thought of a reason. Could it be because of Tsunade leaving the Leaf Village?
His guess made some sense, but it wasn't entirely because of that. If it were just because of Tsunade, the Hokage wouldn't have specifically summoned him back to the Leaf Village.
As Haori thought, things on the frontline were important.
Haori knew a lot about Jiraiya, both from his past life's memories and what he had heard in this life.
For example, now, although he didn't know how long Jiraiya had been back, he believed that after returning to the Leaf Village, he had probably immediately run to the hot spring street to steal… cough, gather material.
It was a good thing that the Leaf Village didn't have a red-light district. Otherwise, that wouldn't have been Jiraiya's first place to gather material.
Well, he's called the Pervert Sage for a reason.
At this time, Jiraiya was hiding in a rather (very) sneaky way. Needless to say, the second floor across from him was the women's bathhouse.
Not only that, he was fully equipped. Didn't you see the binoculars in his hand?
Haori could probably imagine the happy expression on his face.
But to maintain the glorious image and reputation of the great Leaf Village Sannin, Haori felt obligated to stop this behavior.
This was the responsibility and duty of every Leaf Village ninja.
So, standing in the middle of the bridge, he first took a deep breath and relaxed his vocal cords. Then, he cupped his hands around his mouth, making a trumpet shape, and shouted loudly across to the other side:
"There's someone hiding in the tree, peeking at the women's bathhouse across the way!"
Wow, the decibel level was over 120, wasn't it?
After shouting, he didn't care if Jiraiya fell out of the tree. He just turned around silently and walked into the crowd, amid the screams and cries from the women's bathhouse.
He hid himself in the crowd.
Ladies, don't be too grateful. He's just a humble good person.
He doesn't seek fame or fortune. Life is about being a good person and doing good deeds.
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