Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 240 Jiraiya Returns

The matter between Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze was ultimately resolved after Minato Namikaze found Shizuka Nadeshiko and explained the situation to her.

Indeed, sincerity is always the ultimate weapon.

When things were over, Jiraiya, who had rushed back to the village from his leisurely life in the Land of Waves after receiving a message from Yua, was naturally given a severe scolding by Yua.

Jiraiya knelt on the ground, his mind filled with questions.

Meanwhile, Youya pointed at him and surrounded him, unleashing a barrage of attacks.

God knows how he spent the past week or so.

If Shizuka Nadeshiko were to reveal Minato Namikaze's affair, Yua couldn't even imagine what would happen.

What? You're saying this was just an accident? A private agreement between Jiraiya and that girl named Nadeshiko Himiko?

Haha, believe me, at any time, as long as it's in their own interest, no one will let go of such an opportunity to satisfy their own interests.

Not to mention that Konoha Village now has an immense attraction for people outside the village.

Once such a precedent is set, all sorts of troubles will follow.

Therefore, Jiraiya almost unknowingly created a loophole in Yua's policy of consolidation.

We definitely can't open the floodgates for immigration, even though it will certainly increase the population cap of Konoha Village in the short term. With a larger population, there will naturally be more things that can be done.

However, a certain American's personal experience in his previous life told Youya that forcing people with different cultures and ideas to live together is undoubtedly the beginning of disaster.

Yuya never imagined that in the end, before achieving his other goals, Konoha Village would split up on its own—that would be the most troublesome thing.

Therefore, it is impossible for Asia to open up many aspects of immigration.

This is the issue that Yua truly cares about, and it's also the reason why Yua lost her temper so much with Jiraiya.

Finally, when Jiraiya was so dizzy from Yua's outburst that he no longer knew why he was there, Yua had finally vented his anger.

So he waved to Jiraiya, telling him to get lost.

Jiraiya felt as if he had been granted a pardon, and he got up from the ground and prepared to run away.

You Ya quickly called out from behind him, "Don't forget to make things clear with that little girl!"

Jiraiya's "uh-huh" sounds came from afar.

Yuya sighed helplessly, sitting in his chair with a feeling that Jiraiya would eventually cause something even bigger.

If only we had Hiruzen Sarutobi's telescope technique at this moment.

With that thought in mind, You Ya picked up a document and began to read it.

The document in his hand was handed to him by Nagato and Konan a few days ago.

Unlike the two that are still little ones now.

In this other world, Nagato and Konan are being tricked by Yua...

Well, it doesn't seem like a complete hoax, at least not entirely.

In short, Yua assigned Nagato and Konan from this other world to keep an eye on any troublemakers or disruptors who might threaten peace and stability in this world.

Even Yuya himself didn't expect that they would encounter Obito from the other world and Black Zetsu so quickly.

The contents record the course of the battle between the two sides.

There is no doubt that Nagato's body in the other world is not in good condition, but correspondingly, Obito, for some reason, never confronts Nagato head-on.

Seize the opportunity and run.

If Nagato hadn't discovered something unusual and momentarily lost his focus, giving Obito an opportunity to escape to another dimension, Nagato might have actually been able to stop Obito.

At the very least, break Obito's mask.

Yes, even at this point, Nagato did not know the true identity of the masked Obito.

Although Obito and Nagato previously claimed that he was Madara Uchiha.

But anyone with even a modicum of intelligence wouldn't believe that, right?!

Nagato, of course, didn't believe such nonsense, so he told Yua everything he knew.

The reason he was drawn to the spot was because he discovered two Black Zetsu.

You Ya narrowed his eyes.

So, have the Black Zetsu from both worlds merged?

This is really...

Youya shook his head and continued reading the contents.

Actually, the two Black Zetsu are just so-so, after all, Black Zetsu's combat power is really weak.

If anyone interrupts Black Zetsu when he uses his ability—that black, sticky substance—to coat a person's body, Black Zetsu will never succeed.

Therefore, Youya did not care about this news.

Compared to these...

Nagato and Konan seem to value their role as advisors highly and are truly dedicated to their responsibilities.

Tsk tsk tsk, is your deception really that effective?

Of course, you can figure that out just by thinking about it.

Konan and Nagato spent their entire lives trying to stop the war.

However, the reality was that wars were constantly raging between the villages.

Although their methods are quite extreme and somewhat naive, these idealists are the best targets for deception.

Not to mention that Youya truly showed them a new world.

Thinking about it this way, it's not surprising that Nagato and Konan took Yua's order to find Black Zetsu to heart.

But...

Youya put the scroll in his hand aside, not intending to reply.

The most important thing now is the establishment of Konoha Village's first university.

Everything can be postponed until the university is built.

Yuya stood up from his chair, stretched, and looked at the steel jungle outside the Hokage's office window, a hint of smugness in his eyes.

This is his achievement.

An undeniable achievement.

The achievement brought about by this result will undoubtedly make Youya feel a great sense of accomplishment.

……

While Yua was admiring his achievements, Jiraiya had already escaped from the Hokage Building.

He then leaned against the wall, breathing heavily.

"I almost thought I was going to die... Ugh, is my brother this good at swearing now? I didn't mean to, how could I have imagined she would actually take it seriously..."

Jiraiya muttered a complaint under his breath.

Just then, a weak voice came from behind him: "Are you... Master?"

Jiraiya turned his head and saw that it was Nagato.

Jiraiya looked Nagato up and down, recalling him from his memories: "Oh! You're that brat from the Uzumaki clan. It's been a long time. You've come to Konoha Village too?"

Nagato's eyes lit up, and he nodded emphatically to Jiraiya, then said, "Jiraiya-sensei! I've already learned many basic ninjutsu! You said before that there were many more advanced ninjutsu, but could you teach them to me?!"

Jiraiya looked at Nagato in front of him and recalled his past trip to the Land of Whirlpools, where he wandered around collecting material for his novels and encountered Nagato.

Nagato was only five or six years old at that time. Jiraiya stayed in that village in the Land of Whirlpools for a long time to gather materials, and took the opportunity to teach Nagato some basic ninjutsu.

To be fair, Nagato's talent was indeed quite good; he was able to learn some basic ninjutsu even as a child.

Now that he's grown up, Jiraiya figured that Nagato must have learned even more ninjutsu by now.

So Jiraiya took Nagato to the wetlands west of Konoha Village.

This was one of the primary objectives when the original wetland bridge was built.

After summer and autumn, this place will produce many fruits and wild vegetables.

This place used to be very popular in Konoha Village.

However, since establishing contact with Iwagakure, there has been no shortage of fruits and vegetables. Of course, it is springtime now, and the limited availability of fruit is also a major reason why there are no people here.

The wetland park is now an exception in the increasingly crowded inner city of Konoha.

The main problem is that the ground here is too soft in spring and winter. If the geographical environment here were any better, Youya could have simply filled it in and started building houses on it.

Unfortunately, the geographical environment here is not very suitable for industrial development.

However, it would be nice to fence it off and turn it into a park. Yuya prefers building facilities that allow people to gather together.

Although there are more people in summer and autumn.

"Can you walk on water?" Jiraiya asked Nagato.

Nagato nodded.

After that, the two stepped onto an oasis surrounding the center of the wetland and began to wade through the water.

Arriving at the small island in the middle of the lake in the wetland park, Jiraiya looked at Nagato and nodded: "Not bad, you ran here with steady steps and your breathing was not disordered. Your physical fitness and chakra reserves are quite good. Then I will teach you a more advanced ninjutsu."

Nagato's eyes lit up immediately: "Really?! That's amazing!"

In the distance, a pigeon with pale, spiraling eyes, resembling the Rinnegan, perched on a telephone pole.

Looking down at Nagato, who was learning ninjutsu from Jiraiya, Nagato sighed softly as he saw Nagato outside the village.

"What's wrong?" Konan asked, looking at Nagato.

"No...it's nothing." Nagato remained silent for a moment, then summoned Pain's Deva Path.

His Rinnegan has always been a major obstacle for him. For example, because maintaining these eyes requires constant consumption of his chakra, he used to consume his life force when his chakra was depleted. There is no doubt that Nagato's current weak state is closely related to his Rinnegan.

As for the power to undo the Rinnegan...

It's not that it's impossible...

But if that were the case, Yahiko wouldn't be able to maintain his current state...

Well, all I can say is that Nagato's intelligence was indeed less than Madara Uchiha's.

Madara Uchiha knew how to revive someone who had been dead for a long time.

Theoretically speaking, the conditions for resurrecting a person through reincarnation are that the corpse is well preserved and the body is within the scope of reincarnation.

In this way, at the cost of the caster's life, it is possible to revive someone who has recently died.

(In the original work, Obito didn't die immediately after using Rinne Rebirth because of two reasons: one was the power of the Six Paths, at which point Obito was at the Six Paths level; another was Hashirama's cells—truly the only true god—and another very important reason was Naruto's Yang Release, which allowed him to survive for a short time. Of course, we all know that he eventually died.)

However, Yahiko had been dead for a long time.

Nagato was unaware that there was a method to first revive the dead using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, and then directly revive them using the Rinne Rebirth technique, thus exploiting a bug to revive them at their peak. (At least, Madara did indeed do it this way.)

If he had known, Nagato would have absolutely not hesitated to risk his own life to revive Yahiko.

And at this very moment, seeing that young Nagato who was learning ninjutsu under Jiraiya…

His thoughts inevitably drifted back to that cave in the Land of Rain...

During the time when the three of them were apprenticed to Jiraiya...

pity……

There's no going back...

Konan looked at Nagato's expression, and at Nagato being supported by Tendo, and fell silent.

Then she rallied her spirits: In any case, the Rain Kingdom of this world had not experienced war, although...

Her family was eventually wiped out by the daimyo's mansion in the Land of Fire...

However, she had long since stopped hating him.

Because in that other world, the twelve guardian ninjas of the Daimyo's mansion in the Land of Fire experienced internal conflicts, splitting into two factions, and later disbanding altogether.

Without the twelve guardians, the daimyo's mansion inevitably faced assassination attempts.

Xiao Nan smiled; in the other world, she had already avenged her great grudge, so she wouldn't show so much deep hatred on her face.

But this version of myself in this world...

Xiao Nan sighed inwardly as she thought about the little girl's stubborn appearance.

Although I don't know if the two worlds will be the same, but...

As long as you can become strong, even if the Twelve Guardian Ninjas don't disband, I believe you will be able to take revenge yourself.

With that thought in mind, Konan and Nagato left Konoha Village and headed into the distance.

They also need to embark on a journey to see more of the world's scenery, and at the same time, eliminate some villains in the darkness.

We must not give up this hard-won peace so easily...

……

"Wow! My hair really got stiffer!" Nagato looked at Jiraiya with excitement, his hands forming a mudra.

Jiraiya's eyes lit up immediately: "Can we shoot them out?! Let's try shooting them out!"

Nagato's face turned bright red as he formed hand seals. Finally, he loosened his grip and staggered a few steps. Jiraiya quickly went over to support him.

Disappointment and apology crossed Nagato's face: "I'm sorry, Master, I..."

Jiraiya didn't seem to care and casually said, "Don't be in such a hurry. I didn't learn this ninjutsu on my first try either."

"Let's go, it's been so long since we ate together. This time, let the driver treat you."

Nagato cheered.

Afterwards, on their way to Konoha's inner city, the two figures, one large and one small, had a conversation. Nagato asked Jiraiya:

"By the way, Master, after I master this ninjutsu, should I grow my hair this long like yours?"

Jiraiya's hearty voice drifted on the wind: "Haha, if you want to be as elegant as your master, it's fine to grow your hair longer, but it's more up to you to decide what you like."

"...Is that so? I understand, Master!"

Two figures, one tall and one short, walked side by side in the sunlight, resembling an elderly person and a young child...

(End of this chapter)