My name is Uchiha Touhuan, and I beat the villagers so badly they cried out in pain.

Uchiha Touhuan never expected that his first formal meeting with Jiraiya would turn out like this.

After being arrested, Jiraiya was relatively cooperative. With his hands cuffed, he hunched over in the chair in the interrogation room, revealing a few awkward smiles. His posture was exactly the same as the village's habitual thieves. No wonder the patrol team didn't recognize him. After all, who knew that one of the legendary Sannin, the Toad Sage Jiraiya, was like this?

Uchiha Touhuan arrived at the interrogation room where Jiraiya was being held in solitary confinement, waved for the guards around him to leave, and went inside himself.

Jiraiya heard someone enter and looked up.

"Lord Jiraiya, this is putting our security department in a difficult position." Uchiha Touhuan stepped forward and unlocked Jiraiya's handcuffs. In any case, if the other party really wanted to run away, the handcuffs would make no difference.

"Hehe," Jiraiya chuckled awkwardly twice, then looked at Uchiha Touhuan and asked curiously, "Um, who are you?"

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Uchiha Touhuan, the current head of the Uchiha clan, and I just took over as the captain of the village's security force a couple of days ago," Uchiha Touhuan said.

"So you're Uchiha Touhuan? I've heard of you before, but we weren't on the same battlefield during the Third Shinobi World War. Nice to meet you," Jiraiya said with a smile.

"I never expected that my first meeting with Lord Jiraiya would be like this," Uchiha Touhuan said with a half-smile.

"Hehe, an accident, an accident." Jiraiya chuckled as he scratched his head.

"Come with me. As Jiraiya-sama is, we can't just lock him up here." Uchiha Touhuan said, getting up and walking towards the door, while gesturing for Jiraiya to follow.

Jiraiya quickly got up and followed.

"Shouldn't we use a transformation technique to slightly conceal our identities?" Uchiha Touhuan asked, turning back before opening the door.

"That's true." Jiraiya nodded awkwardly, then formed hand seals and instantly transformed himself.

Uchiha Touhuan, carrying Jiraiya who had concealed his identity using a transformation technique, left the security headquarters building through the back door and went straight to the new prison by the Naka River. After entering, Uchiha Touhuan led Jiraiya to a room fully furnished with all kinds of furniture, and then said, "Please wait here for a while, Lord Jiraiya. I will come over with Kakashi after I finish my meeting."

"Of course, of course," Jiraiya said with a smile. After being taken out of the security headquarters by Uchiha Touhuan, he thought the matter was over and that he had been brought here just to entertain him.

"Besides not letting him leave, fulfill any requests the people inside have." Before leaving, Uchiha Touhuan instructed the clansmen responsible for guarding the place.

After settling Jiraiya in, Uchiha Touhuan went back to his meeting.

After the meeting formally finalized the joint investigation team's operational guidelines, Uchiha Touhuan instructed his subordinates to pack a banquet and two bottles of fine wine from the village before taking Kakashi to Jiraiya's place.

During the few hours of the meeting, Jiraiya stayed quietly in the house, without causing any trouble. When he got bored, he simply lay down on the bed in the room. After Uchiha Touhuan and Kakashi entered the room, Jiraiya suddenly sprang up from the bed where he had been lying.

"Chief Douhuan, this place is really nice. Is this the place the Security Department uses to entertain guests?" Jiraiya's eyes lit up when he saw the two of them. After greeting them, he said with a grin.

"In a way, yes." Uchiha Touhuan smiled, then moved the tatami table in the room over and set out the dishes one by one.

Seeing the exquisite dishes and two bottles of fine wine, Jiraiya's eyes lit up, and he rubbed his hands together, saying, "How can I accept this, Chief Touhuan? You've gone to so much trouble."

"That's not true. It is my honor to drink with one of the legendary Sannin, the Toad Sage Jiraiya," said Uchiha Touhuan. "I have heard that Lord Jiraiya is a veteran of the pleasure quarters. I should have gone to Kabukicho to invite some geishas to entertain you, but the Security Department is, after all, the village's law enforcement agency. Doing so would not have a good reputation. Please forgive me, Lord Jiraiya."

"It's alright, it's alright," Jiraiya waved his hand dismissively. "Next time, I'll treat you to a good meal at Kabukicho, the best place in the village."

After the three sat down, each of them drank a glass of wine and then began to chat.

"Lord Jiraiya, why did you suddenly return to the village? Is your new work about to be released?" Kakashi asked knowingly.

"As for the new work, I'm already writing it, but it will take some time." Jiraiya smiled awkwardly when he encountered readers urging him to update at the dinner table. "As for why I came back, I don't know what's wrong with the old man. He sends me eight letters a day urging me to return to the village, so I just came back to take a look."

"However, it's quite nice to have met a talented young man like Chief Touhuan after coming back, and to see Kakashi cheer up as well," Jiraiya said, slightly tipsy after finishing a glass of wine.

"Compared to a village hero like Jiraiya-sama who has been famous for a long time, I can hardly be considered a young talent," Uchiha Touhuan said with a smile after refilling Jiraiya's cup.

"What you're saying, Clan Chief Dou Huan? You are the mighty Azure Thunder Dou Huan who commands respect in Kirigakure. You will definitely be much stronger than this old man in the future," Jiraiya said with a smile.

"By the way, Kakashi, I heard you took Naruto in and are taking care of him, is that right?" Jiraiya asked Kakashi suddenly after drinking with the two of them for a while.

Kakashi nodded: "That's right. I've already retired from the Anbu, so I'll have time to take care of that kid."

Upon hearing this, Jiraiya sighed and said, "That's good. With you taking care of Naruto, I can rest assured."

At this moment, Uchiha Touhuan suddenly spoke up: "Speaking of which, what has Jiraiya-sama been away from the village for all these years? It can't really be for some vague prophecy like the rumors say, can it?"

"Douhuan, this is not some vague prophecy." Upon hearing this, Jiraiya's expression changed, and he said seriously, "The Great Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku is a wise man of very ancient origin. He once told me that a child of destiny who will decide the future of the ninja world will be born. He will decide whether the future of the ninja world will be peaceful or destroyed, and all I can do is guide him onto the right path."

"So there's more to this story than meets the eye?" Uchiha Touhuan said with a half-smile. "So it turns out that Jiraiya-sama carries such an important mission. I misspoke. I'll punish myself with a drink."

Uchiha Touhuan poured himself a full glass of wine and drank it all in one gulp.

"So, Jiraiya-sama, have you found this prophesied child?" Kakashi asked.