The third generation put his chin on his hands and smiled slightly.

"Naruto, that boy, it's really best to leave it to you."

Jiraiya leaned against the wall, looked at his teacher quietly, and spoke slowly.

"Naruto, he seems to be doing well recently..."

The third generation stiffened his hands and fell silent. This sentence was Jiraiya's question to his teacher.

What Jiraiya might want to ask is: Why did Naruto get disliked by the villagers in the past, and why did he treat Naruto so well recently?

"...He is a Jinchuuriki...and so on. I don't think you are interested in these words, Jiraiya." The third generation took a puff of cigarette, sighed slightly, and said: "Just treat yourself as an old man in this position. After sitting there for a long time, my heart has been assimilated without even realizing it, okay?"

"You are getting old too..." Jiraiya raised his head and stopped asking, then asked about something else. "Did Orochimaru cause trouble in the Chunin Exam? If he returns to Konoha, he won't just want to make some small moves. There will definitely be big moves. If necessary, I can stay here to help..."

Upon hearing this, the third generation suddenly looked sharp and interrupted Jiraiya's words.

"Jiraiya, I can't hold on for a few more years. If you were asked to come back and be Hokage, would you be willing? Or would you refuse because of Orochimaru?"

In the early years, Orochimaru rebelled against Konoha, but Jiraiya was unable to change Orochimaru's determination to leave. The self-blame of being unable to persuade his friends who had gone astray was the reason why Jiraiya had been following Orochimaru for many years and refused the position of Hokage.

The corners of his mouth curled up, and Jiraiya looked up at his teacher, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and laughed.

"Old man, I don't deny that I still blame myself for this, but ah, this world is not peaceful enough to leave me enough time to stop, whether it is the time to blame myself or the time to be the Hokage in Konoha... …”

A happy smile appeared on Sandai's lips. "Where there are leaves flying, fire will burn... Jiraiya, just do what you want to do, whether it's taking care of Naruto, or doing what you think is right, just do it. I'm like this My body will protect Konoha until the next Hokage takes over."

"Really..." Jiraiya also raised the corners of his mouth. "I think it's better to call Tsunade back to be Hokage."

"Her?" Sandai became amused and said with a smile, "Then I still pray that you will be more effective as Hokage."

Jiraiya laughed and came to the window, looked back at his teacher, and said with a smile: "Hey, old man! The smile just now was good!"

After saying that, he jumped out of the window and disappeared after a moment.

"This kid...!" Sandai shook his head with a smile, picked up the secret information scrolls that Jiraiya left here, and turned over them one by one.

… …

Outside Konoha Village.

On the cliff, Uchiha Sasuke tied his hands and walked up the vertical cliff step by step.

After he was discharged from the hospital, he approached Kakashi to help him with special training, but it was still not enough. He would return to the Uchiha mansion and look through the books at home to see how his father, grandfather, and even the former Uchiha clan practiced.

It's a pity that the training experience of the guy named Uchiha Madara that Du Ming mentioned is missing.

After reading a lot of training records, Sasuke eliminated most of the non-taijutsu training methods. This was not because he was conceited and believed that illusion, ninjutsu and eye-jutsu no longer needed to be practiced, but after being defeated by Du Ming's pure taijutsu. , he knows how short his physical skills and body are.

Among the cultivation methods I found at home, climbing a cliff is one of them.

Disaster! Unprecedentedly difficult!

This is what the sweaty Sasuke feels at this moment. He walked up step by step from the bottom of a cliff of several hundred meters. He has repeated this process countless times. His feet are shaking, his body is shaking, and his whole body is shaking. It seems that he will lose it in the next moment. Controlling the chakra under his feet, he fell into the abyss.

"Tsk!"

Gritting his teeth, Sasuke drained the last trace of chakra from his body, trembling with trembling feet, and finally climbed to the top of the cliff, just one last step away...

"Hey~hey~~This is very dangerous."

Kakashi arrived and pulled up Sasuke who was about to fall.

"Huh, ha, hu, ha~~"

Lying on the ground, motionless and taking deep breaths, Sasuke finally opened his eyes with difficulty after a while, and responded to Kakashi with a cold face: "We're still far away! I'm determined not to stop anymore. Hello. , Kakashi, you are late today."

"Haha, on the way here I met a kid who was going to school, so I took him to school. When I left the school, I saw an old lady who couldn't see her eyes. I had no choice but to support her. When I turned around, I saw a kitten..."

"Forget it, whatever you want." Sasuke snorted.

He moved his body and felt that he had regained some strength, and he was a little impatient to practice.

"What about today's training?"

"As for today's training, let's talk about it after you have rested." Kakashi said with a smile.

"I don't have time to wait for my body to recover..." Sasuke frowned.

Kakashi ignored it and walked towards the cliff. The moment he walked out, he stepped on the cliff and said with a smile:

"As soon as you recover, we will fight on this cliff. You are not allowed to leave the cliff from the beginning to the end of the battle!"

"Oh?" Sasuke raised the corners of his mouth, became interested, and laughed. "Finally, I have something good again. Ever since you taught me Raikiri, I thought you had nothing to teach me. Hey, Kakashi, don't let me go later."

"...Okay." Kakashi lowered his eyes and looked at Sasuke.

… …

Konoha.

Sand Ninja Station.

Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari listened to a Suna ninja jounin.

"...We will join forces with the Sound Ninja to start a war with Konoha...

"...In order to maintain the fighting power of our existence, we must improve the qualifications of individual ninjas, which is why ninjas like you were born, Gaara!

"...Gaara, the key to the success or failure of this mission lies in you..."

"I know." He replied coldly, and Gaara didn't say another word until the Jonin left.

He left the station alone and wandered around the leaf village helplessly.

"Want to kill someone..."

Gaara's dark-rimmed eyes revealed a strong murderous intent as he murmured to himself.

"It's still so long before the game starts..."

"My opponent...is that Du Ming?"

There was a strange and crazy smile on his lips, as if he had a headache, and he was grabbing his head to endure it.

"While everyone is watching, crush Du Ming into pieces and turn it into blood stains... Hehe, hahaha~~~!"

Gaara laughed crazily, scaring the passing villagers into running away.

The hopeless pain in his head dominated Gaara as he walked forward aimlessly.

When Gaara regained his composure a little, he saw the Konoha hospital in front of him. A Konoha genin named Uzumaki Naruto and another ninja who seemed to be named Shikamaru walked out of the hospital and were about to leave.

Opening his big eyes suddenly, Gaara laughed like crazy and stared at Naruto. "I'll kill you first! Uzumaki Naruto!"

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