Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"Oh, little Jiraiya, calling you to Mt. Myoboku so late shouldn't disturb your date with the girl, right?"

At Mt. Miaomu, Shima Sennin put down his hands, looked at Jiraiya who appeared confused in the white smoke, and asked carelessly.

"Well, I'm not dating a girl anymore..." Jiraiya's old face, which was already full of alcohol, suddenly turned a lot redder. He coughed twice, and then he said indifferently:

"No, let's not talk about those trivial things. Shima Sennin, is there something urgent that you need to inform me about? I actually have to trouble you to summon me directly using the technique of reverse channeling..."

"Well, it's nothing serious. It's just that the Great Toad Immortal had another vague dream and felt it necessary to tell you the new content of the dream as soon as possible."

Shima Sennin jumped on Jiraiya's shoulders, and then immediately frowned because he was full of alcohol. He squatted on his shoulders and scolded Jiraiya fiercely:

"Little Jiraiya, I don't have any objections to the lifestyle you choose, but if you keep drinking like this in the middle of the night, you will soon become as old as that old fool, the Great Toad Sage? You haven't settled yet. As a married person, you probably don’t want to see yourself become a bad old man that no one likes, right?”

"Ahem, I know Shima Sennin, I just encountered something troublesome today, so I thought of drinking to drown my sorrows... Just let me go for a while, okay?"

Jiraiya repeatedly begged for mercy to the sword-mouthed Shima Sennin, successfully making him sigh and stop preaching. Then Jiraiya followed the route he had taken many times and came to the temple where the Great Toad Sage lived. Here, I met the ancient sage who has existed since the time of the Sage of Six Paths.

"Big Toad Immortal, do you have any new prophecies to tell me?"

"Who is coming...?"

The Great Toad Immortal slowly put down the wine bottle in his hand and asked while burping.

"It's little Jiraiya, you old fool who sleeps so darkly that you can hardly distinguish between reality and dreams!" Shima Sennin shouted dissatisfied to Big Toad Sento, "Don't always be in someone else's place every time." You're pretending to be the same fool in front of me! Didn't you ask me to find little Jiraiya as soon as you woke up? Hurry up and finish what you want to say!"

"Hohoho, Shima, you are still so impatient..."

The big orange toad sage shook his head, and slowly opened his yellow eyes that had been staring at the world. He looked at Jiraiya, who had a solemn and serious expression, and asked with a peaceful smile:

"Jiraiya...you should have met the child White Snake chose, right?"

"Except for prejudice and position, do you think that compared to the two sons of prophecy you have found, he is actually more like a person who can completely change the world of ninjas?"

"You really gave me a question that I didn't know how to answer right from the start, Great Toad Immortal."

Jiraiya sat down cross-legged in front of the Great Toad Immortal Seat, sighed, and said with a troubled expression:

"Nagato and Minato are both excellent ninjas with valuable qualities. They are not lacking in gentleness towards their companions, but also possess valuable empathy towards other people. Their talents are so outstanding that they can make the geniuses around them eclipse them. …

If it is up to them to change the ninja world, I believe that the day when people understand each other will eventually come successfully through their efforts. "

"But Kaguya Rei is different from them."

Having said this, Jiraiya, who had been stabbed in the heart by Kaguya Rei just now, looked at his hands and murmured to himself:

"That boy...I always feel that he is not a ninja, but a strange being with other ways of thinking that are different from ninjas."

"Compared with Nagato who has just started to pursue the peaceful dream shared by himself and Yahiko, he is still improving his ideas bit by bit, and has witnessed with his own eyes the many tragedies that are bound to happen under the ninja system, but he has not yet figured out what to do. How to change Minato? Rei Kaguya, who is obviously the youngest among the three and has the least life experience, has a more mature and firm mind than all of them."

"If he is the prophesied son who brought changes to the world as you said, I am really worried about whether there is a place for ninjas in the new world he built."

"Even I can't predict this problem."

The Great Toad Sage picked up the wine bottle and took another sip, then slowly said to Jiraiya:

"Jiraiya, you should still remember that in the last dream I conveyed to you, the future direction and the identity of the prophesied child were relatively clear and definite..."

Jiraiya nodded.

"But this time, after Kaguya Rei started dancing on the stage of history, the future I dreamed about became extremely chaotic."

"The existence of the child of prophecy has become fragmented, and the future direction has also been shrouded in thick fog. The pictures of the future that were once foreseen have changed one after another. I can't even make any predictions about the future of the child named Kaguya Rei. , even though he is already the unique moon of this era, guarded by shining stars."

"Can't even you predict his future and destiny?" Jiraiya showed a very surprised expression, "Then, why did you specially call me here today?"

"Don't worry, Jiraiya." The Great Toad Sage smiled kindly, "Although I can't see the future shrouded by the fog around Kaguya Rei, I can see another possibility. s future."

"Another possibility...the future?"

Jiraiya repeated what the Great Toad Sage had said, frowning in confusion.

"What does this mean?"

"The girl with white eyes will come side by side with the hero who knows the past and the future. They will bring the possibility to clarify and anchor the future, but where exactly this possibility will be directed by the existing power is completely unclear. Uncharted territory.”

The Great Toad Sage narrowed his eyes, remaining half awake and half dreaming, and spoke such a prophecy in an ethereal and unpredictable tone. Then he returned to normal and spoke in harmony to Jiraiya who looked thoughtful. said:

"Wait and have hope, Jiraiya... Soon, you will encounter new possibilities, meet them, talk to them, and walk side by side with them. I hope you can finally find the answer in your mind and do Make a choice you won’t regret.”

As soon as the words fell, the scene around Jiraiya began to change rapidly again. When he recovered from his slight absence, he had returned to the position he was in before being reversely channeled.

Kaguya Rei, who was sitting opposite him and chatting and laughing with him, had disappeared. Only a few coins used to pay for the drinks were left on the table. Looking at this scene, Jiraiya closed his eyes and took a deep breath slowly. .

The future and destiny blurred by confusion and chaos, the heroes who know the past and the future, the possibility of clarifying and anchoring the future...

"Hey, why do you always like to tell such vague and vague prophecies to simple-minded fools like me who don't understand people's hearts? Really, even the mood of drinking a little wine is completely suppressed. It’s a mess.”

Leaving his share of the drink money behind, Jiraiya stood up unsteadily and headed towards the residence prepared for the three people of Konoha by the Kingdom of Iron.

The first update and the second update should be finished around early morning.