The man standing at the top of the ninja world

Namikaze Minato bowed deeply to Jiraiya and said loudly: "So, Jiraiya-sensei, please accept me as your disciple."

He did fall into despair after discovering the strength gap between himself and Nagato, but he has restored his confidence and believes that he has hope of surpassing Nagato in strength. Otherwise, he would not come here. Jiraiya, wants to become his master.

Becoming a disciple of Jiraiya was the only way Namikaze Minato could think of that would give him hope of catching up with Nagato in terms of strength.

Jiraiya is a Kage-level ninja. Among all the ninjas in Konoha Village, his strength can be ranked in the top ten. Even if you look at the entire ninja world, he is strong enough to be ranked in the top twenty.

Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade are the three strongest people among the young generation of ninjas in Konoha Village. Their position is similar to that of Kakashi later, but the status of the three of them far exceeds Kakashi.

After all, although Kakashi relied on the ability of the Sharingan to copy thousands of ninjutsu, and was famous in the ninja world as a copy ninja, he was only an elite jounin, and there was still a huge gap between him and the shadow-level ninja. Compared with the ninjas of his generation, he is not particularly outstanding.

The Sannin is different. Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade are all Kage-level ninjas, and no one from the other four great ninja villages and the Sannin's contemporaries can compare with them. Overshadowed by their light.

Although the reputation of the three ninjas is far from being compared to the later power that shocked the entire ninja world and made ordinary ninjas frightened, they are already famous.

Of course, the most critical point for Namikaze Minato is that Jiraiya is the only one among the Kage-level ninjas in Konoha who has a relationship with him. Konoha does not lack ninjas who are stronger than Jiraiya, such as Orochi. Maru, now the ninja world basically recognizes that Orochimaru's strength is the first among the three ninjas, stronger than Jiraiya.

But Orochimaru was not related to him, so even if he wanted to become Orochimaru's master, Orochimaru had no reason to accept him as his disciple.

Only Jiraiya, his leading Jonin, could accept him as his disciple and become his master.

There is a huge difference between a ninja who practices alone and one who practices under the guidance of a master, and Namikaze Minato understands this very well.

When he encounters some training problems, he will seek help from Jiraiya, the leader of the team, and Jiraiya can often help him solve the problems easily, allowing his strength to be greatly improved.

Just letting Jiraiya give him guidance occasionally can already speed up his strength improvement a lot. If he can become Jiraiya's disciple and let Jiraiya guide his training with all his strength, then his strength will improve much faster. It will definitely be far more than it is now.

Jiraiya looked at Namikaze Minato and fell into silence.

After a few seconds, he turned his face slightly, as if he was afraid to face Minato Namikaze, and said softly: "I'm sorry, Minato, I can't accept you as my disciple."

Namikaze Minato suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened, he looked at Jiraiya in astonishment, and asked anxiously: "Why? Jiraiya-sensei, why can't you accept me as your disciple?"

Jiraiya was a little surprised. In his impression, Namikaze Minato had never been so out of his mind.

Namikaze Minato also immediately realized that he had lost his composure. He took a deep breath and calmed his expression, but his eyes were still full of anxiety.

Namikaze Minato couldn't help but be anxious. Only after getting Jiraiya's help did he feel that he still had a glimmer of hope to surpass Nagato in terms of strength. If Jiraiya was unwilling to accept him as his disciple, then he wouldn't even be able to do this. There is no glimmer of hope, and he will never be able to surpass Nagato.

He looked at Jiraiya and asked: "Teacher Jiraiya, am I too weak and my talent is too poor, so you think I am not worthy of being your apprentice?"

Jiraiya shook his head and said, "Minato, you misunderstood. You are a very good ninja and a genius."

"Then why can't you accept me as your disciple?"

"Because I have no plans to accept a disciple now, so I can't accept you as a disciple."

"Don't you have any plans to accept a disciple?" Namikaze Minato looked at Jiraiya warily. After a moment, he came back to his senses, forced a smile on his face, and said, "Sorry, Jiraiya-sensei, for bothering you. Yes, I...I'm going back first."

After saying that, he immediately turned around and walked out with a slight stagger. Jiraiya hesitated for a moment, but in the end he didn't say anything to stop him and watched Namikaze Minato leave.

After Namikaze Minato left, Jiraiya stood up from the sofa and looked at the empty living room in silence.

He didn't know how much time passed before he punched the wall suddenly. Then, he lowered his head, looked at the ground, and growled in a low voice: "Damn it."

Jiraiya was in a bad mood right now.

He didn't hate Namikaze Minato, and he was very satisfied with Namikaze Minato.

When Jiraiya was asked by the Third Hokage to become the leading jonin, he originally wanted Nagato to be a member of his ninja team, but Nagato chose Tsunade as the leading jounin instead of him.

In desperation, Jiraiya chose Yahiko and Konan, who were fans of his books, and Minato Namikaze, whose strength was second only to Nagato, Uzumaki Kushina, and Konan among the students of the ninja school.

After spending three years together in the same team, Jiraiya and Namikaze Minato gradually developed a relationship. He liked Namikaze Minato very much, because Namikaze Minato has always performed very well, both in terms of strength and personality. Impeccable, almost a perfect ninja.

If it weren't for Nagato, Jiraiya felt that Namikaze Minato would be the best candidate to become the Fourth Hokage, even more suitable than Orochimaru.

The reason why Jiraiya refused to accept Namikaze Minato as his disciple was of course not because he had no plans to accept him as a disciple now. This was just to deceive Namikaze Minato. The real reason was because Namikaze Minato was not the fate predicted by the Great Toad Sage. the son of.

In the prophecy of the Great Toad Sage of Mt. Myoboku, his apprentice is the son of destiny and the only savior who can make the ninja world peaceful.

Jiraiya believed deeply in the predictions made by the Great Toad Immortal, and he also believed that he had found the destiny child predicted by the Great Toad Immortal, that is Nagato.

Nagato meets all the characteristics of the prophesied child mentioned by the Great Toad Sage, and only Nagato with the Samsara Eye is qualified to become the son of destiny predicted by the Great Toad Sage and the savior of the ninja world.

Jiraiya believed in the prophecy of the Great Toad Sage, so his disciple could only be Nagato. Therefore, although he could not bear it, he still rejected Namikaze Minato's request to become his disciple.