Konoha: A golden flash from the tomb

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Although it was Minato who broke Jiraiya's hiding place, Orochimaru on the side also did not have any mood swings. He had already known clearly about Jiraiya's arrival. Before Minato came, Orochimaru was still with Jiraiya. There were also exchanges.

Jiraiya, who was also in a complicated mood, was a little stiff in his steps. This ninja who had always been known for his "unconventional" and "free and easy heroic" mood was extremely heavy at the moment.

Minato did not want to see him, but Jiraiya was afraid to meet Minato.

The reason here is extremely simple.

"Where were you when Naruto was abused by Hiruzen, Danzo, and even the entire village? Jiraiya-sensei."

"Many people don't know Naruto's identity, but don't you know all this? Jiraiya-sensei."

"Or, after discovering that I am not the son of the prophecy as you imagined, you no longer recognize me as your disciple, is that right?"

"Jilai also?"

Minato's hands were folded around his chest. He was obviously a head shorter than Jiraiya, but at this moment he was looking down like a giant. Although there was no chakra fluctuation in his body, it made Jiraiya in front of him I don’t know why, but I bowed down deeply as if I was being weighed down by the mountains.

"No need to apologize."

Minato grabbed Jiraiya's arm, stopping his bow.

"You neither regard me as your disciple, nor am I the son of your prophecy, so what is the connection between us?"

"Naruto, just suffer. Anyway, he has nothing to do with you. He is an orphan whose parents have died. There are many in Konoha Village. Just like me, you can see him everywhere."

"What about apologizing, Jiraiya?"

The transformation from Jiraiya-sensei to Jiraiya was only a two-word difference, but Minato's cold feelings at this moment were revealed without reservation.

These words were nailed into Jiraiya's chest like a biting steel needle. He claimed to be a hero of Konoha's generation, but what was his behavior different from those villains?

Minato opened his wound, completely exposing the bloody inside. Perhaps Kakashi was still young and didn't live long enough to understand, which could be used as an excuse for forgiveness.

But Minato didn't know what kind of excuse he should give Jiraiya so that he could choose to forgive him.

"Naruto is my and Kushina's child, the only child. You were once my teacher. Naruto's name even comes from your book."

"But in these three years... no! It's a full 12 years!"

Minato, with a ferocious look on his face, grabbed Jiraiya's collar!

"Do you know! In the future I saw, without me, for 12 years! You! Jiraiya! My former teacher Namikaze Minato, you have been wandering outside for 12 years, and I should have called you My master, Naruto, has been abandoned in this Konoha village that hates him, hates him, and brings him torture and misery for 12 years!"

"Tell me now! What reason should I use to forgive you?!"

"What kind of face are you going to look at Naruto with? In what capacity?!"

"Aren't you looking for the Son of Prophecy? Then just listen to that old toad and go find him! Why are you coming back?"

"Why can't you die outside? Then I can tell myself that it's not that your teacher Jiraiya doesn't want to care about Naruto, it's not that he forgot that he has a disciple named Namikaze Minato..."

Suddenly, Minato collapsed, as if a piece of his heart was missing, and the sound he made was hoarse and hoarse, but also sharp and harsh.

"But he died. My teacher Jiraiya died. He died outside. He died on the way to pursue his dream and find that bullshit son of prophecy!"

"My Jiraiya-sensei is not a heartless bastard!"

"My Jiraiya-sensei is a hero, the greatest hero in Konoha!!!"

Hysterical roars broke out from Minato's mouth. The lost Jiraiya collapsed on the ground after Minato let go of his hand. The white hair on his head was no longer the bright white light that once shined in the sun. Instead, it turned his head. His body was so stooped that he seemed to have aged dozens of years in this moment.

There is no greater sorrow than death of heart, and Jiraiya feels as if he is dead.

At this moment, Jiraiya heard Minato's voice, which abandoned the hoarseness and was recited with a hint of longing. This pulled up his lowered head and met Minato's eyes.

“A wandering dragon should return to the sea, and the sea will not welcome me.

The fallen leaves are angelica roots, but the leaves do not welcome my three immortals.

Yunhe should return to heaven, but heaven does not welcome me, Immortal Miaomu.

The tiger returns to the mountain, but the mountain does not welcome my hero.

The tiger should descend from the mountain, but the mountain will not welcome my great hero.

The mountain belongs to one, and if you don't welcome me, you will come by yourself. "

"My teacher should be the number one hero in Konoha and the world."

"but."

Minato closed his eyes, and Jiraiya lowered his head in pain.

"A heroic man probably has to give up all love and ties in order to live a free and easy life, right?"

"The Senju princess who was abandoned by the village will no longer love Konoha, and the great hero who seeks prophecies and dreams of peace also does not love Konoha."

Seeing Minato turn his attention to himself, Orochimaru said coldly: "If you hadn't come back, I would have betrayed Konoha by using people in the village for experiments. As you can see, the materials for human experiments were on that day It’s almost gone after that.”

"Yes, I saw it in that future, so I knew that among those who truly inherited Master Hashirama's will of fire and loved Konoha, there is your place, Orochimaru."

"I saw you betrayed the Leaf Village, and I also saw you return to the village nine years later and kill Sarutobi Hiruzen."

"You said you wanted to destroy this rotten village and kill the weak Hokage who brought about the rot. You did it, but is this wrong?"

"Hokage is the Hokage of Konoha, but Konoha is not the Hokage's Konoha."

"Isn't that what Hashirama-sama has done in his life?"

"Anyone who poses a threat to the village and wants to destroy the village should be killed or can be killed! Even Uchiha Madara, who is like a brother and a close friend."

"And the only person who implements this point is you, Orochimaru."

"I am willing to tell you the road to immortality you are pursuing, and I am willing to hand over the most important research department of Konoha's future to you. This is my reason."

"No one can be selfish, but justice must never be exceeded. Even if you become a rebellious ninja, apart from cutting off the carrion of Konoha, I have never seen you do any harm to Konoha in the future."

"That's enough, enough for me to trust you, Orochimaru."

"Absurd statement." Orochimaru folded his hands and sneered.

"I believe that's fine." Minato nodded without looking at Orochimaru's expression.

"Please be the Toad Immortal of Miaomu Mountain, and please go find your son of prophecy."

"Konoha will not erase any of your names in the village, but I also ask you, the Sannin of Konoha, Lord Jiraiya, to part ways with me and never see you again."

"My teacher is the greatest hero in the world! But he can only live in my memory."

"Farewell, Jiraiya-sensei, this is also the last time I will call you teacher."

"Although I really want to greet you with a smile when I see you, and pull Naruto to tell you your identity, but I'm sorry, I really can't do these things, I can't."

"I am Namikaze Minato, the fourth Hokage of Konoha Village. I am also Namikaze Minato, the father of Uzumaki Naruto. I love my village deeply, but I love my son even more."

"But what if I say, that's not actually the case?"

Jiraiya stood up with his hands on the floor, his face full of loneliness lost the vitality of the past.

He could clearly feel Minato's anger. Although he had never been a father, at this moment he could understand some of this strong emotion that transcended everything.

After Jiraiya, who was born as an orphan, accepted Minato, who was also born as an orphan, as his disciple, the feelings between them could not be expressed simply by using the words "master and disciple". Minato's decision at this moment would not make Jiraiya feel it. Heart-pounding pain.

"I do know Naruto's identity, and I do know that I have been away from home all year round and have never returned to the village."

"After you and Kushina died because of the Nine-Tails rampage, I walked in the ninja world to find the culprit who caused everything."

"This is information I have collected over the years. I never lied to you, Minato."

Jiraiya took out a scroll from his arms. The pages were filled with dense and confusing records. What Jiraiya said was not a lie.

"I originally thought that it would be appropriate to hand over Naruto to Sarutobi..." Jiraiya paused and changed his words, "... to hand over Naruto to the Sandaime to raise him. He is my teacher. , is your master, and he is someone that Naruto will love like a grandfather."

"The deaths caused by the Nine-Tails Rebellion are not just you and Kushina, nor are they just the ninjas of Konoha, but also his wife. I thought he would be kind to Naruto."

"As your teacher and his disciple, it is necessary and necessary for me to find out who caused this disaster."

"But what I didn't expect was that Naruto was not treated as he should be. This was a miscalculation on my part. This was my fault. If I could return to Konoha in person when I reported the intelligence, and take the time to take a look. Naruto, maybe things like this won't become so... cruel."

"Actually, I just need to take a sneak peek, even if it's only once a year..." Jiraiya's voice was trembling, "But I haven't even done that once."

"I did...I did do something wrong...Minato..."

"Teacher, I really did something wrong, Minato..."

"I was wrong, I shouldn't have been like this..."

"If a hero has to give up all love and ties in order to live a free and easy life, then he shouldn't be a hero..."

He stretched out his hand and pulled off the forehead protector with the word 'oil' engraved on it from his forehead. Bitter tears fell down his cheeks, and then broke into pieces on the warm steel.

"If I can't even be a teacher or an elder, what qualifications and abilities do I have to find the son of the prophecy who can't be found..."

The crisp sound of metal collision echoed in this empty underground space.

"Jiraiya is right." Orochimaru's cold voice suppressed the end of the steel collision, "He did leave the village because of these things. This idiot left Konoha without any worries. He has been there for three years. Not return."

"I said you were stupid, you are really stupid, Jiraiya."

Orochimaru shook his head slightly, seemingly helpless.

"Minato, it's the same as what I said when I first saw you back. After Jiraiya, the idiot, left the village, I was the only one in the village who could take care of Naruto, but I didn't."

"Perhaps you are right. Those things are indeed what I can do, such as rebelling against the village, such as killing Hiruzen Sarutobi. I have seen the decay of the village. I have always seen it, and I know it clearly. I know that if Hiruzen Sarutobi had not died, Konoha would not be the village that I, Jiraiya, and Tsunade once guarded together."

"Maybe you are right. I may have remembered Lord Hashirama's words. Although I didn't realize it myself, that may be the will of fire."

"Like Jiraiya, and like you, I was born an orphan. My parents died in the war. The ninjas of Konoha brought me to the village so that I could eat well and sleep peacefully. I can even go to school to learn knowledge that will make me stronger, prevent me from being bullied, and stop being afraid.”

"You are right, I love this village and it has become my home."

The cold snake eyes seemed to be a little warmer at this moment.

"So I believe what you said. I betrayed the village and killed Sarutobi Hiruzen because this is what I will do and will definitely do."

"If there is a hole in the home, someone will have to repair it, but if the pillars of the home are broken, then it must be replaced in time, otherwise the home will completely collapse one day, and there will be no possibility of recovery."

"This fool did make a mistake, but a large part of his mistake was trusting a guy who didn't deserve to be believed."

"Jiraiya, this idiot, may have done something wrong, but his mistake did not lead to death."

"Naruto owes his share and mine. Jiraiya has not fulfilled his responsibility as a master, and I have not fulfilled my responsibility as his friend."

"Although Jiraiya's mistakes will be unforgivable in a future without you, in this reality, let him spend the rest of his life making up for his previous mistakes."

Orochimaru took the scroll filled with information from Jiraiya's hand.

"Although he is an idiot, he still wants to be your teacher. Even if he does not do a good job, it is not that he has done nothing."

Orochimaru handed the scroll to Minato, and his voice had never been so normal as it was today.

As Jiraiya's contemporaries and classmates, companions who have supported and competed with each other since childhood, Orochimaru has a human warmth that can be expressed in his heart even before he has completely transformed into a human snake. .

Minato looked at the scroll in his hand silently, his eyes swept over the somewhat messy text, and he read each sentence carefully.

Many of the recorded events and characters are fragmentary, and the recorded locations cover almost the entire Fire Country.

During these three years, Jiraiya was running around and never slacked off.

The previous excitement has gradually recovered, and the mood at this moment is getting further and further away from before.

Perhaps after venting his anger, Minato felt much better, and his extreme thoughts also changed with Orochimaru's words.

Orochimaru, who never speaks for others or speaks softly, may only have this one moment in his life when he pleads for others, but precisely because he is such a cold and ruthless person, the sincerity he reveals at this moment is also unusual. People come more enthusiastically.

Even Jiraiya on the side was in disbelief. He could never believe that this was what Orochimaru would say.

But with this feeling of emotion, Jiraiya looked at Minato cautiously. His heart was extremely nervous at this moment, and it couldn't help but tighten.

After a long time, maybe 10 minutes, maybe a century, after Minato looked away from the scroll, his voice broke the silence again.

"If Naruto asks why he hasn't seen you before, how should he answer?"

Jiraiya, whose heart was chilling, suddenly stiffened.

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Jiraiya. I was impulsive and said so many hurtful words to you."

Minato returned the scroll to Jiraiya and bowed deeply.

"You haven't forgotten me. I blamed you wrongly. I'm very sorry."

"But you still have to find the answer to the question you just asked yourself. You don't owe me anything, but Naruto, you need to coax yourself."

Jiraiya, who was suddenly at a loss, looked around in a panic, but Orochimaru, who had turned his head, couldn't see his eyes asking for help, and there was no one else here who could give him advice.

A pair of strong hands hugged his body, and immediately, his panic disappeared. The only thing he could do now was to respond to this long-lost emotion with a stronger hug.

"It's nice to meet you, Jiraiya-sensei."

"Me too, Minato."

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As an aside, Kushina did not use the Ghoul Seal. She went to the Pure Land instead of the Death God's belly, so please don't keep asking this question in the comments. Please look at Naruto. It made me speechless. , as for why Minato is not here?I don't want Nine-Tails and Minato to linger in the stomach of the God of Death and Kushina. Is this a good reason?After asking several people, I thought you were colluding.