Chapter 59: Jiraiya
RUMBLE—
The presence of the Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique was extremely exaggerated. It pressed down on Naruto with a destructive force that swept across the heavens and the earth, captivating the soul!
Naruto did not sit and wait for death.
He had seen ninjutsu even stronger than this. Perhaps the inexperienced him of the past would have been helpless in the face of this vast water jutsu offensive, but after experiencing so many arduous battles, Naruto had gradually matured.
He neither dodged nor evaded, but methodically formed hand seals at the same time as his remaining shadow clones.
—Just as he had done in the Forest of Death:
"Wind Style: Wind Cutter Technique!"
Hundreds of Wind Cutter Techniques took shape in the hands of the shadow clones simultaneously!
Many a little makes a mickle.
The Wind Cutter Technique might just be a simple low-level ninjutsu, but the convergence of hundreds of wind cutters, forming a roaring storm that swept across a clearing with a diameter of hundreds of meters, was more terrifying than the power of a high-level ninjutsu!
In an instant, a fierce wind kicked up, sending sand and stones flying, and the red sun lost its light!
Although Naruto had not yet learned any advanced Wind Style ninjutsu, by using just a C-rank ninjutsu like the Wind Cutter, he could, with his seemingly endless chakra, stack it up to the power of an A-rank one!
The turbid waterfall stream descended from the sky, its presence swallowing thousands of miles.
The raging storm cluster roared like thunder and lightning, like a river bursting its banks.
And so, the two large-scale ninjutsu, both with bodies over a hundred meters long, rushed towards each other with unstoppable momentum!
A deafeningly huge sound came from mid-air where the ninjutsu collided.
The result of the collision was that the two were evenly matched.
The great waterfall was shredded by the storm into an infinite number of tiny water droplets, turning into a downpour that covered a range of hundreds of meters. The dense curtain of rain blocked the two's line of sight, pattering down on the stone beach and the small river.
The storm also exhausted all its power, dissipating into a cool, ethereal breeze that blew against their faces.
No, it wasn't a draw.
Although she found it a little hard to believe, Sakura quickly realized that the two ninjutsu had, in fact, been decided.
The downpour that the Great Waterfall Technique had turned into hadn't rained down on Naruto's head at all.
The downpour drenched Sakura, soaking her hair and her clothes, but she had no time to care.
Her heart was in a state of panic.
A Water Style ninjutsu, known for its impact force, was actually pushed back by a Wind Style ninjutsu?
"Tch, what a cheat... this kid!"
After being stunned for a good while, Sakura finally said with a sense of helplessness.
In her heart, she felt a little helpless, a little unwilling, but also a little gratified.
This is the difference between a free-to-play player and a pay-to-win player!
After painstakingly researching so many techniques and developing so many ninjutsu, it was often not as effective as these cheating players using a power-up just once. This is a world that promotes bloodline theory, after all!
Moreover, the current Naruto had also begun to slowly master the tricks of battle, gradually learning to apply his vast chakra reasonably.
However, it was just that she had lost by a small margin in the ninjutsu confrontation.
Sakura pouted. As for the outcome of the battle, it was still far too early to tell!
A moment later, the downpour stopped.
Through the rapidly thinning curtain of rain, Naruto's hazy figure was rapidly approaching Sakura!
The girl let out a cold laugh.
Lost in ninjutsu, so I'll get it back in taijutsu. She planned to use her nin-taijutsu at one hundred percent power to have a good spar with Naruto and teach him a lesson, lest he get carried away after gaining the upper hand for a moment!
Turn to the side, twist the waist, retract the fist to the face.
Stomp the leg, rotate the hips, twist the waist, swing the shoulder.
Then, punch!
Standard Konoha-style taijutsu movements.
CRACK—! Power is born from the roots. The girl's stomping motion actually blasted a nearly vertical deep pit in the river's surface.
SWISH—! The nin-taijutsu drove the pure water to help the joints exert force. The fist tore through the air, emitting a chilling whistle.
WHOOSH—! The fist stopped in front of the unreacting Naruto's nose. The wind from the punch blew his orange hair up from the roots.
Naruto blinked, his gaze fixed on the fist that occupied his entire field of vision. A drop of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
"You lost!"
Sakura's willow-leaf-like eyebrows raised slightly as she retracted her fist.
Only then did Naruto let out a long breath, a feeling of having survived a disaster welling up from the bottom of his heart.
"Ahem," he looked down and let out a dry laugh. "Your clothes, your clothes..."
The slow-to-react girl looked down—
And immediately let out a small gasp. It was because her clothes were rather thin and breathable. After being soaked with water, they were almost transparent, clinging tightly to the girl's skin, perfectly outlining the curves underneath and the color of her inner clothing.
The girl's budding and soft figure was revealed in the haziness.
The beauty of a wet, plain-clothed body in the mist.
Although the degree of exposure was far less than a swimsuit, for a gentleman, such a girl was actually more tempting!
"Hey!"
The girl brought her fists to her chest, her face turning a shade of red with unease, so awkward that she didn't know what to say.
Then she remembered to use the Transformation Jutsu.
Her earlobes felt a little hot.
She wanted to explain that she didn't know the clothes would be like this, but felt it would be superfluous.
A superfluous explanation would only make things worse, sounding like a guilty person protesting their innocence too much.
"Ahem, these little details, well, let's just not mind them!"
She said with a thick face.
Naruto looked elsewhere, averting his gaze. "Alright, then let's continue!"
"Wait, before we continue—" the girl suddenly gritted her teeth.
Her gaze turned cold, her face like frost as she looked in another direction.
The water mass gathered in her hand, although not given the ultra-high pressure of the Water Gun Jutsu, was still enough to shoot out a high-pressure stream of water. It wouldn't injure a person, but it could hit them hard enough to cause pain.
The stream of water shot into a bush in that direction, and with a smack, it shattered a single-lensed telescope into pieces. A white-haired old man jumped out from the bushes.
He landed beside the two of them.
"What are you doing, what are you doing! You damn brat, my special-purpose telescope is very hard to buy!"
His dashing white hair was waist-length, his robust body matched his rugged features, and the chakra he sensed from within his body was as vast and bottomless as the deep sea.
Paired with this punchable expression and the unrepentant bad habit of peeping.
Without a doubt, he was one of the Yellow-Gamble-Poison trio, the Mad Demon of the Sea of Desire, the Lewd Ghost of Lust—the Mad Demon, Jiraiya!
Sakura clenched her teeth. This was the guy who had been squatting in the bushes and peeping at her just now. Especially after she had been soaked by the ninjutsu, that feeling of being watched was even stronger, giving her goosebumps.
"Hey, old man, you were peeping just now, weren't you!" the girl reprimanded angrily!
"What peeping, you make it sound so ugly. I was gathering material for my novel!" Jiraiya said righteously!
"What material! You were just coveting a pure young girl's body and cute underwear! You pervert!" Naruto mercilessly roasted him!
"You watch your wording!" The girl next to him expressed her dissatisfaction with Naruto's messy choice of words and gave him a sharp bonk on the head out of shame and anger. Naruto fell silent.
"You brat, I'm not a pervert! I told you, I was gathering material, inspiring my creativity by observing a beautiful young girl!"
"Still making excuses for peeping, today I'm definitely going to beat you to a pulp!"
I don't care what kind of demon or what kind of ghost you are, I'll beat you up first and ask questions later!
"These fists of mine, the size of grinding bowls, I won't be satisfied until I smash your face in with them! Today you shall die a most miserable, tragic, and inhumane death!"
"Heya!"
Facing the girl's seemingly slender and weak fist, Jiraiya did not dare to be careless. He summoned a giant toad to block in front of him.
With one punch, the slender figure actually knocked the robust toad back several steps, making it collapse to the ground.
Jiraiya's playful expression suddenly turned serious. The power of that punch reminded him of a certain woman. Some memories couldn't help but surface in his mind, making a certain part of his body tighten—either his scalp or his heart or something else.
"Hey, brat, how about this," Jiraiya dismissed the summon, his solemn voice coming through the mist of the ninjutsu. "As compensation, I'll give you two some pointers on your training!"
The girl's second punch immediately stopped in front of Jiraiya. The wind from the punch made the hem of his clothes flap wildly.
He was peeping at me, but he's compensating both of us. So he really is here to guide Naruto? Sakura thought secretly, her face remaining impassive, just calmly looking at Jiraiya.
"For example, brat, the reason your water ninjutsu didn't win against his wind ninjutsu just now was because it lacked impact. I see you're quite proficient in your water jutsu practice. You're a water style ninja who has mastered water nature transformation, right? So what's your understanding of the nature transformation of water?"
In his serious state, Jiraiya actually had the air of a mentor.
Sakura thought for a moment, then replied, "It's flow."
"Water has no constant form; its changes are myriad. The wonder of its use lies in its flow."
"This is the characteristic of the water-property chakra's nature transformation, to impart the property of flow to other things."
Sakura answered briefly and concisely. There was no need for many examples to explain. With Jiraiya's theoretical level, he could fully understand what Sakura meant.
"Flow?" Jiraiya frowned, carefully mulling over the meaning of this word.
It wasn't strange for a ninjutsu genius to have their own understanding of a ninjutsu. Perhaps this was also an answer, but Jiraiya thought his own answer might be better. However, the determination in the girl's eyes made him a little hesitant, unsure of how to persuade her.
"What if I said that the nature transformation of water is not flow, but pressure?"
Jiraiya chose his words carefully.
"Pressure, whether it's applying pressure externally to make a ninjutsu more impactful, or applying pressure internally to shape the water body and make it stable, or even applying a negative pressure relative to the environment to vaporize the water and then liquefy it to form a great mist..."
The girl's brow furrowed tightly.
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