Chapter 103: Sannin's Curiosity and The Toad's Mountain

Chapter 103: Sannin's Curiosity and The Toad's Mountain

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Jiraiya was confident in himself.

Even though he and his team had lost to Hanzo, they weren't discouraged.

Hanzo was a person close in strength to the current God of Shinobi, their teacher.

It was already impressive that they didn't die fighting him, although that was mostly thanks to Tsunade managing to make an antidote to his poison.

Although, Tsunade herself was not the same after the war. Jiraiya understood her, she had lost too much in it, and no longer wanted to have anything to do with it.

She was off on her own now, which was a bit concerning to Jiraiya, who knew her habits, but he also knew she was strong, so he trusted she'd be safe in the end.

He also trusted his teacher. Which was why he didn't even think about Ken having bad intentions with the Toad Sage.

Ken's whole reputation could only really be summed up by the world 'infamy' after all. Jiraiya found his exploits to be quite frightening.

He was a figure at least on par with Hanzo when it came to status, and he wasn't believed to be any weaker than anyone by the world at large.

Overall, he was a person that warranted both fear and respect. Therefore, Jiraiya decided to treat him casually, to see how he would react. To better judge his character on his own.

Much to his surprise, Ken didn't seem to care at all, he even allowed himself to get dragged out of the Kage's office.

The Assassin did start walking by his side after leaving the office, but it was already enough to establish that the assassin wasn't a violent man, or at least he wasn't stuck up and impulsive.

Jiraiya was pleased with that conclusion, so he proceeded to go outside with the assassin, who followed him without exchanging many words.

No one stopped them, and no Anbu came after them either. Ken was still dressed in his tattered civilian clothes, so he took out a coat and covered his body with it.

Jiraiya didn't react much to that, he just started speaking about their next steps.L1tLagoon witnessed the first publication of this chapter on Ñøv€l--B1n.

"So, first of all, I want to go and talk to my team. I have to inform them that I'd be away for a while.

You can come with me, we'll leave right afterwards..." The Toad Sannin's words rang out as they left the large doors of the Kage building.

"I can stick around. I don't have anything else going on right now..." The Blind Monster simply nodded and continued following the Sannin, who quickly increased his pace after they left the courtyard.

The two of them jumped from roof to roof at a moderate speed for Ken. Jiraiya then stopped suddenly, prompting the assassin to do the same.

"What is the matter?" The assassin asked as he spread out his senses slightly and turned his head in the same direction, trying to find what the Sannin was looking at.

Lo and behold, it was a bathhouse. With, presumably, women in it.

Ken could feel their bodies through the steam, but he didn't care to focus on them hard enough to make out their exact shapes.

Jiraiya was a lot less reserved, he took out what Ken assumed was a pair of binoculars, and laid on his belly signalling the assassin to do the same.

"Can you see it? One of life's many beautiful treasures..." The Perverted Sannin didn't even bother checking if Ken had tried to hide himself, he was just too enraptured by the sights.

Ken didn't bother crouching or anything, he only stood there with his hands hanging by the side, too stupefied to even know how to react.

"... Umm, I am a blind man."

That seemed to be enough to make Jiraiya exclaim in surprise. "What?!?" Loudly.

Obviously, someone down in the bathhouse heard the commotion and decided to look up, Ken immediately turned into a blur when he felt her move.

He landed directly on a different roof and proceeded to observe the scene that ensued with his non-eyes from the distance.

First, the Sannin didn't realize he was noticed by the women below, too surprise by what he had just heard, then he inevitably noticed when they started throwing whatever they could find at him.

Soap, brushes... Shuriken and water dragons?

There were apparently some shinobi among the women inside.

Jiraiya may have been a pervert, but at the very least he was skilled. He managed to dodge most of them after the first bar of soap hit him in the face and broke the binoculars he was using.

After that, he turned into a puff of smoke and evaded the rest of the attacks.

"What do you want you brat?!" The Toad's deep voice reverberated throughout the entire training field.

Ken just tilted his head from the side when hearing the gigantic summon speak out. Its size was easily as great as a Tailed Beast.

"I need you to take me and my friend to Mt. Myboku!" Jiraiya exclaimed with a proud look on his face, as he turned his head towards Ken, who was still observing the giant toad.

Gamabunta turned its head towards Ken, eyes shot wide open as it finally noticed the assassin's presence.

"Huh? A brat like you can even hide from m-... No, you're not normal..." Gamabunto sniffed the air around Ken as it brought his face closer to him.

He was impressed at first, a man with such skill that he could even hide from a sage. But then he noticed that Ken's entire body was shrouded by Nature Energy, making him indistinguishable from his surroundings.

'A cloak of Nature Energy. Is he a sage? No, this doesn't even feel that natural, to begin with... Humans shouldn't ever have this type of control over Nature Energy.'

"I'm glad you can already tell that I'm not normal, it means I was right in reaching out to the Toads. But the one I need to speak to is the Great Toad Sage."

Unlike Gamabunta, the regular Turtle Summons, no matter how big, usually couldn't tell that he was much different from other humans.

Only the Elder Turtle could tell the difference, unless he used his Scaled Sage Mode, of course, but he didn't even look human in those moments anyway.

Meanwhile, Gamabunta sniffed him out right away.

"Hmm, you want to speak with Great Geezer... Fine!" The Giant Toad huffed some smoke, while Jiraiya on his head started complaining about getting ignored for too long.

He didn't get to do that for long though, as Gamabunta acted quite fast.

His tongue extended at unexpected speeds, coiling around the Blind Monster as it brought him into the Toad's Mouth.

Ken didn't struggle nor bother to dodge, he merely allowed himself to be pulled into the Toad's mouth.

Jiraiya followed him soon after that, apparently being pulled into the Frog's belly screaming at it to stop.

He patted off the Toad's saliva while spitting in its mouth a few times and cussing at it, which made the stomach of the frog morph and... Punch him in the stomach?

"..." Ken just 'watched' silently as the Sannin recovered his composure.

"S-Sorry you had to see that, Gamabunta likes to play jokes on me..." Jiraiya patted his stomach with a smile on his face, while Ken just turned his head towards him.

"... Well, you can rest assured, I didn't see anything, I never do.

But why are you coming with me again?" Ken's words made the Sannin awkwardly scratch the back of his head before he clapped his hands together and said.

"I want to meet the Great Toad Sage too! Maybe he'll give me some pointers on how to better enter Sage Mode..."

Ken just nodded at his words, while he felt their surroundings on the outside completely change in an instant. It was a strange way to confuse and overload one's senses.

'A reverse summoning will always leave me a bit 'dizzy' huh?'

"We're here, come out!"

Ken could feel the ripples in his surroundings as the giant Toad spoke out.

The assassin merely chose to follow Jirayia and exit the toad's mouth.

After coming out, The Sannin turned around and looked at Ken with quite a bit of excitement.

"Welcome to Mount Myboku!"

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Hope you liked the chapter!

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Here, our Mc can finally go and get some stuff confirmed about his own existence. And yes, the frogs are a lot more in tune with Senjutsu, so they can tell that he's not exactly normal a lot easier.

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