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Since Kushina wanted to hear about it, Haori explained the situation in detail, emphasizing his combat strategy at the time.
Kushina was quite interested in these things, after all, she couldn't go to such a frontline battlefield.
Of the four people present, Haori didn't need to be mentioned. Of the remaining three, Minato Namikaze had personally experienced the battlefield that day. Although his main focus that day couldn't have been on Haori, Haori had made quite a stir. Although he couldn't be detailed, he still knew the general gist of what had happened.
So, he was more interested in Haori's so-called "combat strategy at the time"…
As for Jiraiya, he seemed uninterested on the surface.
"Actually, I didn't know at the time that the summoning beast had that kind of attack intention. I just thought it had some kind of urge to defecate. So, I thought, I shouldn't waste this. If this unsanitary high-altitude object hit the Kazekage, it would definitely have a similar effect to a 'quality explosion'… Well, the explosion would mainly affect the enemy's psychology. It might strike Suna's morale. I guess the Kazekage himself wouldn't be comfortable facing the Hokage and our ninjas with that kind of color and smell, would he? He might be considered a lover of performance art…"
"But I didn't expect it to actually explode."
This was the first time Haori described his thought process at the time. It was probably also the last time and the only time.
But when she heard his description, Kushina immediately felt an urge to expel him from her tutelage.
Whether this was humane or not, his way of thinking was too un-ninja-like.
Either don't attack, or if you attack, do your best to kill the opponent. That's the correct way of thinking and fighting. What kind of nonsense was Haori thinking, trying to smear dirty things on someone else?
Minato had a look of… a look of "difficult labor" on his face. It was a good thing that the Kazekage never knew Haori's intentions, otherwise, the Leaf Village and Suna wouldn't be able to make peace for five hundred years.
As for Jiraiya, his face was radiant. He looked at Haori with a very appreciative gaze… This, this unique way of thinking and imagination, maybe this was the kind of person who could bring change to the Shinobi World?
Kid, you have a lot of ideas. Come learn to be a prophesied child with me…
After a fierce internal struggle, Jiraiya abandoned the impulse to say this out loud. His subconscious felt that if he really did, every ninja in the Shinobi World would probably lose something important…
Of course, in fact, Haori was telling the truth.
On the battlefield, he didn't know that the Eight-legged Crow had that kind of attack method. After all, it was a newly acquired summoning beast.
He just thought that the bird wasn't very hygienic. But he didn't expect it to be not hygienic, but violent.
…
There's a rather idealistic saying that ninjas need a certain kind of fate to sign a contract with a summoning beast.
Back then, as the Third Hokage's direct disciple, young Jiraiya wanted to sign a contract with Enma, known as the strongest summoning beast. But the Third Hokage refused, saying that he didn't have enough fate.
(ShixT9: Fate bullshit , he just didn;t wanna share his Monkey)
Although it's unknown how this fate was judged, if it wasn't suitable, it wasn't suitable.
Later, when Jiraiya was studying the Summoning Jutsu, he was accidentally summoned to Mount Myoboku, the summoning sanctuary, a place that couldn't be detected. But the toads there already knew that a human would enter Mount Myoboku.
This was probably the fate between them.
After that, Jiraiya not only signed a contract with the toads of Mount Myoboku, but he learned Sage Mode there. He heard a prophecy about his destiny from the Toad Sage. More importantly, Jiraiya found his life's mission: He would become the teacher of the prophesied child who would guide the Shinobi World's transformation. His disciple would change the entire Shinobi World in the future, ending the cyclical wars and achieving complete peace.
He spent the rest of his life traveling and searching for this disciple…
From this perspective, Haori being summoned to the Land of Rain in reverse was both accidental and inevitable.
Expanding on this further, the fate that exists between ninjas and summoning beasts allows them to sign contracts. Fate might be saying that there's a similarity between ninjas and summoning beasts. Expanding on this further, to a certain extent, a ninja's personality and integrity can be proven by the integrity and personality of their summoning beast.
Well, so, is there a similarity between Haori and those summoning beasts?
"Haori, I'm telling you…"
In any case, Kushina's focus had shifted from Haori's battlefield performance to trying to deeply change her disciple's thinking.
She had to fill in the gaps in his imagination. After a long and brain-burning session of persuasion and education, she felt that she had achieved some progress, and then she let Haori leave.
It was already very late. Haori should have left, but Jiraiya was still there and had no intention of leaving.
Haori didn't know the details, but he could understand. Jiraiya had important matters to discuss with Minato. After all, he couldn't have come here just to get Kushina to treat his wounds.
Jiraiya had indeed come to see Minato. The things he had to say were indeed very important.
After Haori left, Jiraiya took the initiative to pull the stuff off his face and put on a serious expression… He had probably wanted to do this for a long time. Now, he finally had a good reason.
Seeing Jiraiya like this, Kushina and Minato no longer had the same attitude as before.
After all, Jiraiya was quite persuasive when he was serious. His expression proved that what he was about to say was unusual.
After a brief silence, Jiraiya said, "Minato, the Third Hokage called me back this time to talk about the next generation of Hokage successors. He wants me to be the next Hokage…"
Minato hadn't even had a chance to be happy for Jiraiya before he was stunned by his next words.
"But I refused. My personality isn't suitable for being Hokage… So, I recommended you…"
Well, there was no need for a ninja like Haori to know about this major event. Or rather, it was the right choice to avoid him.
And the current situation was that the Third Hokage had just had this thought. It wasn't like he was going to hand over the Hokage's position immediately. He needed a candidate for the Fourth Hokage, not the Fourth Hokage himself.
…
In the following days, although Haori kept waiting, he didn't receive any follow-up missions. He could probably move freely for a short time.
So, he resumed a certain training that had been interrupted for a while.
Training in chakra nature transformations.
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