Naruto: Changing Fate

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"The above is all the information transmitted by the shadow clone... Grandpa Sandaime Hokage and others have noticed that I secretly left the village again. And, in order to ensure that I can return home on time, Grandpa Sandaime Hokage asked to let go... Grandpa Jiraiya, please take me back to the village in person."

Putting his hands on his hips, Naruto tried to suppress his smile and pretend to be innocent.While spreading his hands towards Jiraiya, whose mouth was twitching slightly, he blinked his eyes and continued with pretense of regret.

"Although it's a pity, but it looks like this...Grandpa Jiraiya, your trip to leave the village this time must come to an end early!"

Of course, although on the surface, Naruto looked sad and regretful.But secretly, Naruto, who knew the current situation of the Sandaime Hokage and others, was already smiling secretly in his heart.

After all, in order to try his best to prevent Jiraiya from going to the Hidden Rain Village and achieve the plot-killing achievement of going all the way to kill someone, he racked his brains and thought about how to dissuade Jiraiya or reinstate him. Take it back to Naruto in the village.This "bad news" is equivalent to providing help in times of need!So after Naruto digested and absorbed the memories fed back to him by the Shadow Clone, Naruto immediately used the name of the Sandaime Hokage to fabricate a decent and self-righteous one that Jiraiya could never refuse. Excuse!

However, behind everything, risks and benefits often coexist... Because of this, when he made up this excuse to persuade Jiraiya to return to the village early, Naruto would inevitably bear the burden. There are some risk factors that are difficult to identify.

That is Orochimaru's attitude and psychological understanding.

You must know that the two people standing next to Naruto - Jiraiya and Orochimaru - are top experts who have reached the Kage level.So no matter how hard Naruto tried to lower the volume of his words, the other party would definitely hear them clearly.In other words, as long as Naruto uses this excuse and Orochimaru fully understands the meaning of the content, he is destined to be curious and suspicious of the identity of Naruto who can affectionately call the Sandaime Hokage grandpa.Furthermore, in the talkative Konoha ninja village, even if one could not notice it, the truth was that Naruto was the biological son of Minato and his wife.But at least, from the rumors of "the reincarnation of the nine-tailed demon fox" that almost everyone knows, one can vaguely realize that the still young Naruto is the hidden identity of the new nine-tailed Jinchuuriki!

Fortunately, these risks are already clear to Naruto who always likes to make deductions and formulate strategies based on the worst development trends.So much so that while it seems like he is closing his eyes to digest the memory of the shadow clone, he is actually thinking about the gains and losses.Because I witnessed Orochimaru at this moment with my own eyes, compared with the cold-blooded and cruel image in the original work, there are some significant gaps.Naruto, who was currently considering saving Jiraiya's life as much as possible, placed his hope in the bond between Jiraiya and Orochimaru being strong enough to allow Orochimaru to survive for a while. During the meeting, he would not take action against Naruto.Furthermore, under this assumption, Naruto still chose the solution of using the name of the Sandaime Hokage to persuade Jiraiya to return to the village.

Of course, at the same time, because Naruto knew in his heart that no matter how hard he tried to hide it.The words that came out of his mouth would eventually be heard clearly by Orochimaru who was so close.This made Naruto not only not want to do useless work, but also planned to go along with the trend and sell face to Orochimaru, but when he spoke, he not only did not deliberately restrain the volume of his words.On the contrary, it was deliberately increased in size, allowing the two of them to more easily understand every word Naruto said.

And subsequent facts proved that Naruto's bold guess was indeed true.Furthermore, if luck is not as bad as Tsunade's, she becomes a non-chief who is bound to lose every bet.The changes in the situation quietly developed in the direction that Naruto expected, and at the same time, it was announced that Naruto had won a grand slam in this huge gamble.

"The Sandaime Hokage...Grandpa...?"

From Naruto's mouth, he was keenly aware of the close relationship between Naruto and the Sandaime Hokage.Orochimaru was stunned for a moment, standing with his arms folded, frowning slightly, and talking to himself thoughtfully.

"I see, this little guy is a new generation who has been favored by the teacher... No wonder, he can even fully learn the teacher's shuriken shadow clone technique."

This, for Orochimaru, was not surprising—or rather, it had been expected.So even after hearing the almost disguised acknowledgment of the affectionate title from Naruto's mouth, he just muttered a few words in his heart and never paid much attention to anything.

After all, during the previous battle, Naruto not only performed Jiraiya's signature ninjutsu.Even in the initial confrontation, in front of Orochimaru, one of the former Sannin of Konoha, he used the shuriken shadow clone technique created by the Sandaime Hokage...

In this case, just as Jiraiya was eager to greet Naruto after he arrived... If Naruto chose to avoid talking, or he deliberately distanced himself from the relationship with the Sandaime Hokage and claimed that he What if you don't have any friendship with the Sandaime Hokage?I'm afraid it will only make Orochimaru wonder if Naruto is hiding any other secrets.Furthermore, in the process of subconscious digging and exploration caused by Orochimaru's curiosity and attention, Naruto, who had tried hard to keep his other secrets hidden, was accidentally exposed one after another.And thus, a failure ending in which the gains outweigh the losses.

Because of this, the approach of admitting it frankly would, in a sense, be the best choice to gain his favor more easily for Orochimaru, who was equally cautious.Then, after his curiosity was slightly satisfied, he realized that he was already an S-class traitor wanted by the Konoha Ninja Village, so he had no right to ask too many questions.Orochimaru, who has a high emotional intelligence, not only did not interrupt the conversation between Naruto and Jiraiya from beginning to end.For fear of disturbing the conversation between the two of them, he deliberately chose to remain silent and watch in silence.

"What? Go back to the village early? Do you have to take me back? Tsk, why is it at this time...it's not even half a month since I came out of the village, right?"

At the same time, after listening to the words from Naruto's mouth, and after a slight pause, he realized the meaning.As Jiraiya gradually regained consciousness, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, while staring at Naruto with a rather "hateful" look, and began to complain to himself.

"Then again, you clearly know how much risk you will face if you go out at such a young age, but you still sneak out of the village without listening to dissuasion... I asked you, you brat, did you come here on purpose? Are you going to punish me!?"

Of course, complaints are complaints, but Jiraiya firmly believed in what Naruto said.In addition, he has been practicing under the guidance of the Sandaime Hokage since he was a child, so that even though he is now able to stand alone, the Sandaime Hokage still inevitably retains a certain degree of intimidation in Jiraiya's heart.Even though there was a hint of dissatisfaction in Jiraiya's words, from beginning to end, he did not show any intention of refusing.

And based on Naruto's understanding of Jiraiya, he knew without even thinking... Could it be that these seemingly complaining words were just another way for Jiraiya to agree to Naruto's request in an extremely subtle way?

"Ahem, how...how could it be possible...haha..."

It was precisely because, after Naruto looked at it for a moment, he could tell that Jiraiya had already reached a conclusion.And because of this, Naruto would finally relax a little and relax his tense mind because he would no longer do any act of killing people all the way to trigger the plot killing in advance.Then he stuttered and tried to hide the relaxed smile that could barely be suppressed at the corner of his mouth.While pretending to feel guilty, he turned his head slightly, "dare not" to meet Jiraiya's eyes for even one more second.Then he mumbled "under his breath" as if talking to himself.

"If that's the case, then how busy should I be to come all the way here and disturb your date with Grandma Tsunade..."

"Huh? Wha... what kind of date? It's just a few drinks together!"

Naruto's words, which were not suppressed too much, were naturally heard clearly by Jiraiya who was very close.Then Jiraiya suddenly realized that the person in front of him had probably witnessed the "slightly" intimate interaction between himself and Tsunade in the izakaya, and he couldn't help but blush.Then, as if he was afraid of causing Tsunade to misunderstand and become angry, he turned back frequently and looked at the figure of Tsunade who was standing not far away in deep contemplation and silence.While he was hesitating and blushing, he was suddenly filled with questions - for example, how did Naruto manage to find him so quickly and accurately when he deliberately concealed his whereabouts.And how the fight between Naruto and Orochimaru actually started - all were temporarily forgotten.

"You brat, don't you know that you can cook and eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense?!"

"Ah, this guy, the Lustful Immortal, is completely hopeless... I really don't understand how he is better than the Lustful Immortal because there is no description in the original work..."

Seeing that Jiraiya was not happy for the first time after hearing the teasing words.On the contrary, he was afraid that Tsunade would feel uncomfortable, so he quickly defended his approach.Naruto narrowed his eyes, feeling both funny and sad at the same time.Then, muttering to himself, he ignored Jiraiya's frequent blinking eyes and pretended not to notice, continuing to tease and joke as if nothing had happened.

"Huh? Where did I lie? I was obviously telling the truth... Besides, if what I told is not the truth - you are not dating Grandma Tsunade? Then, Grandpa Jiraiya, what I said is What are you blushing about when you talk?"

"I...I...I was heated! No, I drank too much, am I drunk?!"

Seeing Naruto's "no sense at all" and "no emotional intelligence" appearance, Jiraiya suddenly started to cry out in pain.Then, without waiting for Naruto to use the topic to ask again and continue to write more about this incident, he hurriedly found an excuse and responded in a confusing way.At the same time, he deliberately pretended to be suddenly awakened and took the initiative to ask Naruto out loud in order to change the topic as much as possible.

"By the way, did the teacher tell you when is the latest time for you to go home?"

Of course, this subconscious excuse to change the subject, and soon, in the face of Naruto's increasingly "evil" smile, made Jiraiya deeply understand... what it means to shoot oneself in the foot.

"When is the latest time to go home...well...probably before tomorrow evening. After all, the Sandaime Hokage and the others are very anxious right now."

Realizing that Jiraiya subconsciously once again chose to change the topic to avoid his true feelings and inner thoughts, his "cowardly" behavior suddenly gave birth to a feeling that the emperor is not anxious and the eunuch is anxious. The impatience comes.Then I realized that it was time to give the person in front of me a strong dose of medicine.After Naruto's eyes rolled around a few times, he spread his hands and pretended to be helpless.Without blushing or out of breath, he replied "Deadline" to Jiraiya.

"In other words, excluding the time it takes to rush back to the village, we only have one day left for free activities that we can control at will!"

Of course, this "deadline" is obviously false information that Naruto concocted in a hurry...

After all, after the memory with the main body has been updated synchronously."Naruto", who was in the secret contact point, informed the Sandaime Hokage and others that he had achieved temporary reconciliation with Orochimaru and was under the protection of Jiraiya. He was completely out of danger.This further allowed the Sandaime Hokage and others to relax and feel at ease, because they knew that Naruto was currently staying with Jiraiya and did not need to worry about his personal safety for the time being.After a while, the Sandaime Hokage, who believed that Naruto went out privately, must have some important matters to deal with, had already informed Naruto that he could decide the time and method of returning to the village on his own.

At the same time, the Sandaime Hokage had only one request for Naruto.

That is...

Come back alive and safe.

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