Jiraiya's voice went sharp, his eyes filled with shock.
"How… how is he able to come to Mount Myōboku!?"
Before arriving here, he had hesitated. He wasn't sure if he should retreat to Mount Myōboku — after all, outside, there were few who could use summoning to save him.
But once he did arrive, he stopped thinking about it entirely, letting his guard down.
Mount Myōboku was a summoning realm — naturally cut off from the shinobi world. Not even the Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique) could cross into it.
Who could have imagined that here, of all places, he would hear the voice of Bofūng Menma…?
"That guy… how did he get here?"
Jiraiya didn't even bother to put on his clothes, bolting straight toward the source of the voice.
The moment he saw the scene before him, his pupils constricted to the extreme, his rage exploding as he stared at the golden-haired figure holding a toad in his hand.
Naruto casually tossed the dead toad aside, speaking with a helpless tone:
"This really isn't my fault. I didn't expect that the moment they heard I came looking for you, they'd all throw themselves at me like they had a death wish…"
He gave a light kick, sending a massive toad flying, and smirked:
"But really — a bunch of toads? Even if they can use ninjutsu, what real harm could they do to me?"
With another kick, he sent yet another toad — the heavily injured Gamabunta — skidding away.
"Not that their attacks were completely useless. At least they stalled me for a few minutes… enough that my chakra hasn't fully recovered yet."
"Bofūng Menma!!!" Jiraiya's eyes went bloodshot, his gaze locking on Naruto as his fury boiled over.
"You dare harm Bunta, Gamaken, Gamakiridō… I'll never forgive you! Never!!!"
A Rasengan formed in his palm as he roared.
Seeing this, Naruto couldn't help but laugh.
"Unbelievable. You've never cared about Konoha, always running away… yet here you are, caring about the lives of a few toads."
He thought back to the original Uzumaki Naruto.
If Jiraiya had cared for him even half as much as he did for these toads, maybe he wouldn't have had to endure so much bullying and abuse.
"I don't care who you are — even if you were Bofūng Minato, I wouldn't forgive you!!!" Jiraiya's fury only grew.
To him, Mount Myōboku — the place he'd been accidentally summoned to as a child — was a second home.
Now, that home was littered with corpses.
The bodies of great toads…
The pond filled with the corpses of small toads… countless black tadpoles writhing in boiling water.
"Ōdama Rasengan!" (Big Ball Rasengan)
He hurled the massive sphere toward Naruto.
Naruto's response was a cold smile as he raised his right hand, forming an even greater sphere.
"Chō Ōdama Rasengan!" (Super Big Ball Rasengan)
Fueled by his chakra, it was far larger than Jiraiya's — and he smashed it forward.
BOOM!
The violent shockwave made Jiraiya's face twist. No matter how hard he tried, he was blasted away, his body spinning in the air like a windmill before crashing into the stone toad statues at the pond's edge.
CRASH!!!
The statues shattered into rubble, leaving a deep crater as Jiraiya spat blood.
"Damn it… can't block it…"
It was humiliating. He had learned the Rasengan from Minato — yet this man's was overpowering his every time.
Naruto looked down at him with cold eyes.
"You had two helpers just now. Now you're alone. How could you possibly be my opponent?"
As Jiraiya's fear flickered in his eyes, Naruto slammed both palms onto the ground.
"Dai Enkai: Entei!" (Great Flame Commandment: Flame Emperor)
In an instant, a colossal inferno roared to life.
The green grass and trees, the pond and hot springs — all swallowed in merciless fire.
Plants turned to ash, water boiled into steam, and nearby tadpoles roasted into fragrant char.
Watching dozens of toads and thousands of tadpoles die in the flames, Jiraiya's rage reached its peak.
"Bofūng Menma!!!"
He charged again, but Naruto simply sneered, tossing several Fūton: Rasenshuriken (Wind Style: Rasenshuriken) into the area.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Explosions ripped through the space, leaving Jiraiya bloodied, breathing hard, and barely able to stand.
Glancing toward the deeper parts of Mount Myōboku, Jiraiya's mind raced.
"It's been over an hour since I dropped Sage Mode… I can't re-enter it now. What do I do… what do I do…"
Finally, staring at the field of dead tadpoles, he steeled himself.
"I'm sorry, everyone. But if this is my fault… then I'll bear it alone."
His hands blurred through hand seals with such speed that the eyes could barely follow.
Naruto's gaze sharpened.
"That hand seal… no mistake — that forbidden jutsu…"
He had the Scroll of Seals in his possession. Of course he knew it — the jutsu that in the original could kill anyone: the Shiki Fūjin (Reaper Death Seal).
Its sequence of seals was almost identical to Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei (Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation).
Naruto licked his lips.
"Coming for my soul, huh? Better hope you don't break your own teeth on it…"
With the final seal completed, the spectral form of the Shinigami appeared behind Jiraiya — clad in a tattered white robe, a short blade in its left hand, prayer beads in its right.
Its presence was icy and suffocating.
(End of Chapter)
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