"Ara, Jiraiya-sama, it's been ages since you last visited."
"Yeah, yeah..."
"Hahahaha, I've been busy lately... real busy."
Jiraiya was sitting in a brothel in Konoha, happily drinking the sake handed to him by the women around him while laughing heartily.
It had been so hard lately!
He hadn't been this happy since he met that kid Naruto!
"Ahhh…"
Jiraiya took a sip of sake and felt extremely relaxed, as if all his worries had vanished at that moment.
Just as Jiraiya was enjoying himself, a deafening explosion suddenly rang out, shaking the entire building.
Boom…
"Not good!"
"There's been an explosion at the eastern edge of the village!!"
"Hurry up and inform Sandaime-sama!!"
When the deafening blast echoed through the village, every single person in Konoha turned their heads toward the east.
That location was all too familiar to them...
After all, it is the yellow-haired delinquent's exclusive training ground.
A few days ago, the houses near the eastern edge of the village had been accidentally crushed by a giant toad. Since then, the villagers had been too afraid to live in that area.
Even those who originally lived there had hurriedly moved away.
Jiraiya, who was relaxing in the brothel, first heard the explosion outside, followed by the chaotic shouts of the crowd.
The sake cup paused at his lips, and his mood was no longer as relaxed as before.
His heart skipped a beat and alarm bells started ringing in his mind.
"No... it can't be."
"I must be overthinking it."
Jiraiya shook his head and stumbled out of the brothel.
The moment he stepped outside, he saw the mushroom cloud rising over the eastern edge of the village...
"WHAT THE HELL!!!"
Jiraiya jumped up on the spot and cursed out loud.
"That damn brat!!"
"I was only gone for less than two hours!!"
"This is bad, really bad..."
From where he stood, he could already tell the scale of the explosion was no joke.
Yesterday, Naruto had summoned a toad and destroyed people's houses, and now, he'd caused such a huge disturbance...
Jiraiya immediately felt like another massive blame had been dumped on his head.
"No, no!"
"I need to get out of here and lay low!"
Without any hesitation, he turned around and ran out of the village's gate.
Anyway, this matter has nothing to do with him!
He absolutely did not want to get dragged into the Hokage's Office and scolded by Hiruzen again.
So, Jiraiya skillfully sneaked out of the village, and no one noticed that the white-haired old man ran away.
"Hiss…"
"It hurts."
At this time, Naruto groggily crawled out of the crater, his clothes completely obliterated in the explosion.
The original exclusive training ground at the eastern edge of the village had now turned into a scorched wasteland.
Perhaps...
The only thing the villagers could be grateful for was that the explosion hadn't reached the village itself.
Naruto took out a fresh set of clothes from the system and put them on. He adjusted his clothes and felt that the injuries on his body didn't hurt as much as before.
"What just happened..."
Just now, he was practicing the Rasengan, and noticed that the Rasengan did not rotate like usual.
Then, Kurama suddenly warned him, and the next thing he knew... this happened.
"Brat, do you have a death wish or something?"
In the sealed space, Kurama grumbled irritably.
When he was reading a book just now, he suddenly noticed the abnormal Chakra in the outside world.
When he glanced outside, he was so scared that he almost dropped the book in his hand.
He had seen Minato use the Rasengan before.
But what Naruto used…
Wasn't the Rasengan at all!
It was simply a matter of stacking and compressing a large amount of Chakra.
If Kurama hadn't warned Naruto in time, the explosion wouldn't have been limited to just this area.
By then, the entire Konoha Village, including Naruto himself, would've been blown sky-high.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Konoha's Jonin appeared one after another nearby, and when Hiruzen saw the scene, he was so angry that he almost fainted on the spot.
Even Kakashi showed up.
"Naruto!"
"What in the world were you doing!?"
"Didn't I forbid you from experimenting with Ninjutsu a long time ago?!"
"How did things still end up like this!?"
Hiruzen cursed as he took the medicines, and his breathing became even more rapid.
Ever since Naruto developed the Wind Release: Bloodburst Technique, Hiruzen has banned Naruto from developing new Ninjutsu inside the village.
Naruto had zero sense of scale when it came to destructive power, and he also has more Chakra than him, a Hokage.
Hiruzen didn't even need to think hard to realize that whenever this kid researched a new Ninjutsu, he'd pour every drop of his Chakra into it.
'Thankfully, he still didn't know how to use the Biju's Chakra yet...'
'Otherwise, we'd all be done for.'
Nearby, Asuma, Kurenai, and the other Jonin all looked at Kakashi suspiciously, as if wondering whether this was his fault.
At the same time, they were considering whether they should keep their students away from this yellow-haired delinquent.
Kakashi stared back with his usual deadpan expression, speechless.
'Damn it!'
'Why are you all looking at me?!'
'This matter has nothing to do with me!!!'
"I... I wasn't researching a new Ninjutsu or anything."
"It was Jiraiya-sensei. He taught me the A-Rank Ninjutsu, Rasengan."
"The one the Yondaime Hokage used."
Hiruzen: "…"
Kakashi: "…"
Naruto was afraid that everyone would misunderstand him, so he specifically emphasized the Rasengan and said that he had not researched any new Ninjutsu.
When everyone heard Jiraiya's name, the suspicious gazes shifted away from Kakashi, but when they heard the word Rasengan, everyone looked at Kakashi again.
Their expressions seems to be saying...
'How the hell can the Rasengan make such an explosion!?'
Hiruzen took out his pipe and smoked it together with Asuma.
"Where's Jiraiya?"
"Go and get him here."
Hiruzen thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out how the hell Naruto managed to turn the Rasengan into… this. So he decided to take it up with Jiraiya first.
After receiving the order, the Anbu's members immediately disappeared from the spot and went to look for Jiraiya.
However, Hiruzen had no idea that Jiraiya had already slipped out of the village to hide the second the explosion happened.
"Naruto..."
"Right now! Restore this place to its original state!"
"You are hereby banned from practicing this Ninjutsu inside the village!"
"If you want to train..."
"Open your portal and go somewhere else to train!"
Hiruzen was already at his wit's end. Just yesterday, Naruto had wreaked havoc with his Summoning Technique, and now, he'd caused a massive explosion.
He was really afraid that this kid would release the Kyubi tomorrow.
Konoha couldn't take this kind of abuse anymore...
Naruto nodded, thinking that what Hiruzen said made sense.
But what really bothered him was...
'Why?'
'Why is the Rasengan I use different from the one used by white-haired old man?'
Hiruzen looked at the surrounding devastation and felt mixed emotions.
He knew he couldn't control Naruto, but couldn't he control Jiraiya?
After admonishing Naruto to clean up properly, Hiruzen waved his hand and signaled everyone to disperse.
But when his gaze landed on a certain white-haired creature, his expression suddenly changed.
"Kakashi, come with me to my office."
"I have something to talk to you about."
Kakashi: "???"
'Wait…'
'What the hell does this have to do with me?!!'