Little Goku's Great Adventure Starting from One Piece

Chapter 362 Master and Disciple, Fellow Disciples, Senior Disciple and Wukong

"Cough cough! Cough cough!"

In the dimly lit tree space, Nagato coughed repeatedly and spat out several mouthfuls of blood.

"Pain... has lost them all."

He sighed, looking somewhat unwilling.

"After planning for so many years, I never expected it to fall apart here. I'm really not happy about it."

Konan also looked somewhat dejected, but right now she cared more about Nagato than about this defeat.

"Nagato, it was just one failure. Let's hurry and leave before they find us."

However-

Nagato shook his head: "No, they already know our location."

"How could this be?!" Xiao Nan suddenly looked up, somewhat incredulous.

They were well hidden here, with countless large trees providing cover. Pain was still quite a distance away from them, and even if Jiraiya and his men wanted to find them, it wouldn't be possible for them to do so quickly.

"It's that guy named Sun Wukong. He seems to have very strong sensory abilities."

Nagato spoke slowly.

When his consciousness was pulled back from Pain's body, he heard Goku and Jiraiya talking about their location.

"I'll go stop them, Nagato, you leave quickly!" Konan said anxiously.

"Konan, do I look like I can leave right away?" Nagato shook her head slightly.

Xiao Nan suddenly realized that she had been too eager and had forgotten that Nagato had difficulty walking and had been unable to get out of bed for many years.

Without her help, even with the aid of mechanical devices, Nagato wouldn't be able to move very fast and would have almost no chance of escaping.

For a moment, Xiao Nan fell silent.

But her silence didn't last long. After only about half a minute, she and Nagato both noticed three uninvited guests outside.

"They're here."

Konan said softly, her body moving swiftly to block Nagato's path, ready for battle.

Just as she finished doing all this, a hand reached in from outside, and then a familiar figure appeared in front of the two of them.

"It really is you, Nagato."

Jiraiya's gaze lingered on Konan for only a second before turning to Nagato behind her.

When he saw that the once gentle and refined young man had become emaciated and looked like a demon, his pupils contracted, his heart trembled, and he could hardly believe his eyes.

At the same time, a myriad of complex emotions welled up within me.

"Jiraiya-sensei, we meet again."

Nagato raised her eyes and looked at her former mentor, a subtle, complex emotion flashing across her face.

Naruto entered the room at that moment, and upon hearing the sound, he looked at Nagato with a look of shock in his eyes.

This person... is this the former disciple of the lustful immortal? How could he look like this?

Looking at Nagato's thin body, with his ribcage clearly visible, and then at the several black rods stuck in Nagato's back, he couldn't reconcile the image of him as a disciple of the perverted sage.

"Naruto Uzumaki, we've finally met."

Nagato glanced sideways, his gaze falling on his target, who was also his fellow disciple, his tone tinged with a hint of emotion.

According to the original plan, he should have met this fellow disciple when he had successfully captured him and was preparing to extract the Nine-Tails.

But now, the situation has reversed.

"Oh, so it's a fake tree."

A discordant voice broke the complicated feelings of Jiraiya, Naruto, Nagato, and Konan.

But when Wukong walked through the "big tree," he nodded in sudden understanding after discovering the tree's secret.

He then realized that four pairs of eyes were watching him, and he scratched his head in a daze.

"Huh? Why are you all looking at me like that?"

Nagato gave Goku a deep look, his eyes filled with no resentment, only a hint of unwillingness.

"Sun Wukong, last time you saved Jiraiya-sensei, and this time you've thwarted my plans again. You..."

Who exactly is this person?

He finally voiced the question that had been lingering in his mind for so long.

"Me? I am Sun Wukong."

Goku tilted his head, somewhat puzzled as to why Nagato would ask such a question.

"I'm not asking your name, I'm asking about your origins."

Nagato shook his head slightly, then added, "Forget it, there's no point in asking now."

For some reason, after asking the question, he suddenly felt a bit bored, and he no longer had any interest in what the answer was.

"Jiraiya-sensei, if you've come here to kill us, then please do it quickly."

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Nagato then turned his gaze to Jiraiya, all the complex emotions he had felt earlier now completely gone.

Jiraiya remained silent for a few seconds, not answering Nagato's question, but looking at Konan, who was poised to attack at any moment, and said softly, "Konan, don't be so nervous. Before deciding whether to take action, I'd like to talk to you first."

After saying that, he sat down cross-legged as if no one else was around, just like when he was having a heart-to-heart talk with Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan twenty years ago.

Xiao Nan stiffened for a moment, her eyes revealing complex emotions.

She glanced back at Nagato, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally withdrew her attack. She took a few steps back to the left and rear, giving Jiraiya space to talk to Nagato while ensuring that she could protect Nagato in time.

"Jiraiya-sensei, at this point, what else would you like to talk to us about?" Nagato said calmly.

"Let's talk about why you've become like this," Jiraiya said with a complicated expression.

"I once placed my hopes on you, believing you to be the prophesied child who would bring peace to the ninja world, but I never imagined you would end up on this path. I want to know what exactly happened to you back then, and how Yahiko died."

Naruto took a deep breath and stepped forward after Jiraiya finished speaking, saying seriously, "As the disciple of the Perverted Sage, I also want to understand you, to understand... what my fellow disciples have gone through. There was something you said that bothered me a lot. You said that hatred will always exist in humanity, so true peace will never come. I want to know what made you think that way."

He thought of Sasuke, the comrade he had been trying to find. Wasn't Sasuke the one who left the village because he was burdened with immense hatred and wanted the power to take revenge?

He felt that he had never truly understood Sasuke, and therefore had never been able to find him again.

So he wanted to hear Nagato's story and understand Nagato's thoughts, hoping to glean some insights from it and thus figure out Sasuke's true intentions.

Nagato glanced at Jiraiya and Naruto, then at Goku, and after a couple of seconds of silence, said, "Fine, since you want to hear it, I'll tell you."

"More than twenty years ago, the Second Shinobi World War broke out. The Land of Rain, where I lived, was located among the three major powers that were fighting: the Land of Fire, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Wind. As a result, it was drawn into the vortex of war. The civilians lived in constant fear, and many people were displaced."

"The same thing happened to me. Two Konoha ninjas broke into my house, mistook my parents for enemies, and killed them. That's when I awakened these eyes and killed those two guys."

Upon hearing this, Naruto couldn't help but look at Nagato's eyes. He already knew from the perverted sage that these eyes were called the Rinnegan, the divine eyes that only the Sage of Six Paths, the progenitor of ninjas, possessed.

"After that, my family was destroyed and I began a life of wandering. Once, I fainted from hunger on the road and was rescued by Xiao Nan."

She took me to a simple base, where I met my future best friend, Yahiko.

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Nagato slowly recounts the story of how he met Yahiko and Konan, and how these three war orphans who lost their families relied on each other to survive in the treacherous chaos of the world.

Jiraiya remained silent.

He already knew this story when he was teaching Yahiko and the other two, but hearing about their difficult experience again now still makes him feel like something is stuck in his heart.

War brings far too much suffering to humanity.

...We believed that to survive in this chaotic world and to change this war-torn nation, we needed sufficient power. So we sought out the legendary Sannin of Konoha, whom we thought could help us, and asked them to teach us so that we could become stronger.

Ultimately, Tsunade and Orochimaru, two of the Legendary Sannin, chose to leave, leaving only Jiraiya-sensei willing to stay and teach us for three years.

As Nagato spoke, a rare look of reminiscence appeared in his eyes.

Those three years were arguably the happiest and most carefree period of his life.

Wukong frowned slightly upon hearing this.

This guy was taught by Jiraiya for three years? No wonder he always called Jiraiya "teacher".

But if Jiraiya was his teacher, why would he want to kill Jiraiya?

After a pause, Nagato began to recount how he, Yahiko, and Konan learned and grew under Jiraiya's tutelage over the past three years.

"Jiraiya taught us a lot, teaching us how to live relatively safely in that war-torn world and giving us enough power to protect ourselves."

In that respect, I am very grateful to Jiraiya-sensei.

When Nagato said this, he glanced at Jiraiya and noticed that Jiraiya's eyes were slightly unfocused, as if he was lost in memories of the past.

"Since you're so grateful to Uncle Jiraiya, why did you kill him before?" At this point, Goku finally couldn't help but ask.

Nagato glanced at him and said calmly, "That's because he had become our enemy by then, so I had to kill him, and..."

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He glanced at Jiraiya again, his face expressionless, and said, "Besides, I gave him a chance. He had several opportunities to leave, but he hesitated to leave because he wanted to gather information about Pain. So how could I let him go?"

Jiraiya's gaze returned to him at some point, and he remained silent after hearing these words.

After discovering that his former disciple had gone down a completely opposite path and become the leader of the Akatsuki organization, causing chaos in the ninja world, he remembered the prophecy of the Great Toad Sage, who said that he would make a crucial choice that would affect the entire ninja world.

At that time, he believed that the choice had come, so he resolutely chose to stay and fight Pain. It would be best if he could defeat Pain in one fell swoop, but if not, he would collect as much information about Pain as possible and bring it back to Konoha.

This resulted in him having several opportunities to escape, but he remained behind because he hadn't gathered complete intelligence.

"An enemy? Why would Jiraiya be your enemy?" Goku asked again.

"This all started after Jiraiya-sensei left us," Nagato said.

Jiraiya immediately perked up; this was the thing he most wanted to know when he came here.

"Jiraiya-sensei and we share the same ideal: to eliminate war in the ninja world and usher in lasting peace. However, Jiraiya-sensei is from Konoha, one of the five great ninja villages, so he has little chance to achieve this goal."

But he entrusted this ideal to us, believing that if we started gradually from the Land of Rain, we would have the opportunity to spread peace to the entire ninja world in the future. Moreover, he told me that I might be the prophesied child who would bring peace to the ninja world, because I possessed a pair of eyes that were said to be able to pacify the ninja world.

Nagato's gaze was deep and unfathomable.

"After Jiraiya left, we did just that. We founded the Akatsuki organization with the aim of creating world peace without relying on extreme force, and we strive to bring the concept of peace to every ninja who participates in the war."

But after we did it, we found it was incredibly difficult. War is always accompanied by death. When someone is killed by another, his comrades and his family will harbor hatred and want to avenge him.

When they successfully avenge themselves and kill the enemy who killed their loved ones, the enemy's loved ones will then harbor hatred and seek revenge.

In this way, hatred continues to cycle endlessly, never stopping, with everyone either killing or being killed by others in the pursuit of hatred.

Despite this, Yahiko never wavered in his ideal of peace. He led us to overcome one difficulty after another, and in the process, the Akatsuki organization continued to grow stronger. We all believed that one day we would be able to bring the Akatsuki's peace ideals to every corner of the ninja world.

At this point, Nagato paused, his voice becoming low and somber.

"But unexpectedly, just when the Akatsuki organization was making progress, Yahiko died."

His mind seemed to return to that stormy day more than a decade ago.

"At that time, Hanzo of the Salamander, the leader of Amegakure, approached us, saying he wanted to borrow our strength to fight against the fire..."

The three major powers of wind, earth, and soil put forward a peace negotiation proposal.

Yahiko believed that this move could end the war in the Land of Rain, so he quickly agreed.

Little did we know, it was a conspiracy against us.

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Nagato slowly recounted how they had been ambushed by Hanzo and a man from Konoha named Danzo upon arriving at the meeting place.

When Nagato recounted how Yahiko deliberately crashed into Konan's kunai to rescue her from being captured and held hostage, falling to the ground covered in blood, his fists clenched tightly, clearly showing that even more than ten years later, he still couldn't let go of the incident.

...So after that, I realized that our persistence had been nothing but a joke, and that peace could never be achieved through that method.

Every time a ninja world war ends, the so-called peace touted by powerful nations is nothing more than violence built on the blood and tears of weaker countries.

Since that's the case, why not create a super weapon that will instill fear in all the nations of the ninja world, to intimidate the entire ninja realm? Only under the fear of death can the ninja world achieve true peace.

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