It's better to be a rebel ninja than to be a Hokage

Naruto looked at Jiraiya who was running towards him. As expected, the Third Hokage had already passed on the news that Orochimaru had sneaked into Konoha to Jiraiya.

On the third day of the second Chunin Exam, Jiraiya had returned to the village.

Jiraiya, who was avoiding the angry women, also noticed Naruto who was watching him with interest.

"Oooo!"

After the sound of wooden clogs stomping on the ground, in the blink of an eye, Jiraiya appeared in front of Naruto.

"Little brat! Look at your forehead protector, you must be a ninja from Konoha! A ninja's duty is to help ordinary people like me! Here! Please hold it for me for a while."

Jiraiya didn't give Naruto a chance to speak. He just kept talking at a very fast pace and finally forced the telescope into Naruto's hands.

Naruto looked down at the extra telescope in his hand... Jiraiya's trick of bringing disaster to the world was so skillful that Naruto had no time to react.

When he looked up again, Jiraiya had disappeared.

Instead, a group of women surrounded Naruto and glared at him with murderous aura.

"You are the accomplice of the Peeping Tom!"

Someone noticed the telescope in Naruto's hand and arbitrarily identified Naruto's identity.

"Wait a minute, isn't this guy the brat?"

I don’t know who in the crowd said this, but the women’s attitudes suddenly changed.

His original anger towards Jiraiya's peeping turned into disgust towards Naruto.

"Look at the forehead protector on his forehead! The Third Hokage actually allowed such a person to become a ninja."

"Even if he becomes a ninja, his evil nature won't change—he's peeping into the women's bath at the age of twelve or thirteen!"

"..."

These people don't seem to realize that slander is meant to be said behind the person's back.

After all, the habit of talking about Naruto's affairs in person for many years cannot be changed in a short period of time.

Naruto listened quietly to the rumors and bad words directed at him, and only corrected the "false information" in their mouths.

"I was also framed - personally, I'm not interested in seeing old ladies without clothes."

The women in front of him were not really old enough to be considered aunties, but Naruto, who was only twelve or thirteen years old, had no problem calling women who were a lot older than him aunties.

Age is always a sensitive topic for women.

One of them immediately questioned Naruto about the evidence behind his words: "What evidence do you have to prove that you are not a pervert! And not an accomplice of that peeping Tom!"

Naruto said nothing. Arguing with an unreasonable woman would only be a waste of energy.

He raised the telescope in his hand with his five fingers spread out.

Without the grip of the fingers, the telescope fell to the ground, and the lenses made a crisp shattering sound.

——Crack. Such a sound.

Or something a little louder and more emotional.

——"Oh, No!"

Jiraiya, who had been hiding at the street corners and alleys to observe, appeared in front of everyone again.

Jiraiya held his head in his hands and looked in disbelief at the telescope that had been smashed by Naruto.

That was his best friend who had accompanied him through countless women's bathhouses!

But Jiraiya had no time to mourn the "death" of the telescope, as the group of women who had been spied on bathing by Jiraiya immediately rushed towards him.

If you get caught by these scary women, something terrible will happen!

"Damn it!"

Jiraiya was horrified and turned around and ran away.

The women were chasing him as before.

The farce was still going on, but it was no longer happening around Naruto.

Naruto looked down at the telescope he had broken, but his attention was elsewhere.

Jiraiya just "passed by" Naruto, and the "Root" that was originally monitoring Naruto took the initiative to reduce the amount of monitoring.

He should have gone to inform Danzo.

As for the remaining "Roots", the distance at which they monitored Naruto became very far.

It was as if he was trying to show goodwill to Jiraiya.

As expected, Danzo was wary of Jiraiya.

Then, when Naruto lowered his head, the familiar pair of wooden clogs reappeared in his sight.

"Wow! You little brat! Do you know how many lonely days and nights my telescope has accompanied me?"

Jiraiya had already shaken off those women.

Naruto looked up at Jiraiya, who was holding the remains of the telescope sadly. He was undoubtedly the most nonsensical guy among the three ninjas of Konoha.

"You were the one who framed me first, weren't you?"

Naruto ignored Jiraiya's moral blackmail.

"Then there's no need to break my telescope. As a ninja, you can just gather your chakra and run away!"

“I hate being misunderstood.”

Naruto's reply caused Jiraiya to look away from the telescope.

Jiraiya looked at Naruto. This kid was indeed just as the intelligence said.

Because he is the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, he has been ostracized and slandered in the village, so Naruto hates being misunderstood. When he was in the Ninja School, he made a big fuss because of being misunderstood by Yamanaka Inoichi's daughter, and he even dared to slap his daughter in front of Yamanaka Inoichi.

"And since you can suddenly appear in front of me, you are also a ninja, right? I just returned your proposal to me intact. Could it be that you actually enjoy being chased by women?"

Jiraiya looked at Naruto curiously, but Naruto didn't care.

In Jiraiya's eyes, Naruto is the orphan of his apprentice, the Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails...

It would be strange if Jiraiya wasn't curious about him.

"Humph, you really are a kid who knows nothing. Listen carefully, this is called a practical examination! A charming man will be entangled with countless women throughout his life. I am just feeling this emotion - only a charming person like me can understand this emotion - in three or four years, a kid like you who hasn't even grown all his hair will be more charming than my fingernails!"

As he said this, Jiraiya deliberately stretched out his little finger and hooked it towards Naruto with the nail side facing him.

Naruto looked at Jiraiya speechlessly. It was indeed... rare to see that lust could be explained by him in such an extraordinary way.

Jiraiya made jokes to Naruto, confusing the answer to the question that Naruto had just asked.

The reason why he ended his travels and returned to Konoha was, on the one hand, because he received information that Orochimaru had infiltrated Konoha.

On the one hand, it’s also because of Naruto.

Jiraiya heard that there was an organization called "Akatsuki" in the ninja world that coveted the tailed beasts of the five hidden villages.

Orochimaru, who defected from Konoha, stayed in the Akatsuki organization for a period of time.

Because the time of returning to the village coincided with the second Chunin Exam, Jiraiya was not in a hurry to contact the Third Hokage and Naruto, but instead collected materials for his novel in Konoha's public bathhouse with ease.

After being discovered for peeping... no, taking materials without the interviewer's authorization, Jiraiya did not expect to meet Naruto on the road.

Although it was not what he expected, Jiraiya simply used the fact that he was being chased by a woman to get close to Naruto.

Seizing various random events to approach the target is the basic point of ninja spy experience!

"You should be a genin, right? Didn't you take the chunin exam?"

Not only did Jiraiya not answer Naruto's question, but he also took the initiative to talk to Naruto.

“I’m eliminated.”

"What? So you're not that great."

"The guy who was chased on the street for peeping into the women's bathhouse has no right to judge whether I am powerful or not."

Naruto said indignantly.

"Hum hum……"

Jiraiya suddenly chuckled and said mysteriously, "Listen carefully, I am very powerful - people call me the Toad Spirit Immortal of Myoboku Mountain! You can just call me Toad Immortal!"

As he said this, Jiraiya formed the summoning seal with his hands.

After a burst of thick smoke, a giant toad half a person's height appeared under the feet of Jiraiya, who was in a strange posture.

However, Naruto did not give Jiraiya the reaction he wanted.

Surprise, curiosity, excitement—none of it!

Naruto just glanced at the toad indifferently, then glanced at Jiraiya who was in a strange posture.

"I don't like toads."

Having said this, Naruto walked around Jiraiya and left.

Only Jiraiya was left, disheveled in the wind.