Chapter 245:
Naruto stood in place somewhat at a loss, looking at the empty ground where the massive toad had disappeared, his mind still somewhat dazed.
Jiraiya, upon seeing that Naruto had actually summoned the Great Toad Sage, panicked and frantically ordered Naruto to immediately dispel the technique.
Just as the Great Toad Sage's figure slowly dissipated with smoke, Jiraiya himself also "poofed" away in a cloud of smoke—clearly being emergency-recalled to Mount Myoboku to explain why the patriarch had suddenly "run away from home."
Naruto hadn't expected that his first attempt at Mount Myoboku's summoning technique would directly summon the Great Toad Sage... had he actually managed to call him forth?
Knowing that even the Sage of Six Paths from centuries ago had his request to sign a summoning contract with the Great Toad Sage politely refused, Naruto realized he'd accomplished something even the Sage of Six Paths hadn't...
After a while, accompanied by smoke, Jiraiya's figure reappeared. He collapsed to the ground, releasing a long breath as he vigorously wiped his forehead.
"Really now..." he muttered with lingering shock. Though the Great Toad Sage had only disappeared briefly, his sudden absence had alarmed Fukasaku and Shima greatly—nearly causing an uproar across Mount Myoboku! Jiraiya had spent considerable effort explaining and apologizing on Naruto's behalf.
The two sage toads didn't blame him much though. Instead, they were more shocked—amazed that Naruto's talent and chakra could directly summon the Great Toad Sage. After all, in Mount Myoboku's entire existence, this was an unprecedented first!
Fortunately, after clarifying it was just a misunderstanding and not that the Great Toad Sage had actually vanished, things finally settled.
Jiraiya turned his attention back to Naruto, seeing his expression—nervous like a child who'd accidentally caused trouble... Actually, his heart felt relieved. Good, despite possessing such power, his mindset hadn't become arrogant.
He slowly stood up, deliberately using an exaggerated tone. "Naruto, you nearly gave me a heart attack! I didn't expect that your first summoning would bring forth Mount Myoboku's patriarch! Even when I go see the Great Elder, I'm merely 'summoned'—but you, you went straight to 'summoning' him..."
His tone sounded more like amazement than blame.
"However, this isn't entirely your fault," Jiraiya resumed his explanatory tone. "The Summoning Jutsu's essence is 'exchanging your chakra for the summoned beast's appearance.' Your chakra volume... is frankly excessive. I'd originally estimated that summoning Gamabunta would require less chakra than you have available. But your excess chakra, by chance, directly pointed toward and successfully summoned the highest-ranked being on Mount Myoboku—theoretically requiring the most massive chakra expenditure to connect with—the Great Toad Sage."
He patted Naruto's shoulder, his tone carrying undisguisable admiration and even some envy. "To summon the Great Toad Sage in one go... your chakra volume and potential talent are truly a complete monster!"
Hearing Jiraiya's teasing yet blameless words, Naruto finally relaxed. It seemed this unexpected "accident" wouldn't affect his subsequent sage mode training.
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Subsequently, uncertain whether continuing summoning practice would again summon the Great Toad Sage, Jiraiya decisively stopped summoning training.
He privately contemplated: if it was because Naruto's total chakra was too vast, directly locking onto Mount Myoboku's highest existence, then... wouldn't depleting some of his chakra allow normal summoning of other toads?
Thus, training naturally progressed into the section Naruto had long anticipated—rolling balls, more accurately, Rasengan property change training.
The Rasenshuriken, due to its internal extreme compression characteristics, would forcibly crush and merge all non-Nine-Tails chakra types into that destructive energy sphere, unable to produce stable property changes, making it difficult to derive new jutsu variants.
But the Rasengan was different! As the pinnacle of form transformation, it possessed extreme inclusivity and plasticity. Naruto had long wanted to try integrating various chakra properties into the Rasengan to see what wondrous combinations could be born.
Watching Naruto immediately immerse himself in continuous attempts, Jiraiya felt he could finally rest a bit. He leisurely reclined against a large tree and somehow produced a gourd, contentedly drinking from it.
Meanwhile, after a period of focused attempts and delicate chakra property manipulation, Naruto's first composite-property Rasengan was finally successfully created!
A Rasengan appeared in his palm with a golden-glowing core, its outer layer presenting fiery orange like burning flames, rotating at high speed. Radiating astonishing heat, fine fire tongues occasionally danced across the sphere's surface.
Naruto excitedly looked at this new technique containing violent fire-release power in his hand and announced:
"I've decided! This technique shall be named—Blazing Dance Spiral Light: Crimson Lotus Soaring Wing Sky-Incinerating Rasengan !"
"Pft—cough cough cough!"
Jiraiya, who had been proud of Naruto mastering property changes so quickly, was directly choked by the drink in his mouth upon hearing this excessively long and intensely chuunibyou-like name, coughing violently.
Though Jiraiya was happy Naruto inherited his father's talent in jutsu development, this naming taste... better left out! How did they father and son even remember such long names?!
However, since jutsu were the developer's own "children," though Jiraiya found the name somewhat outrageous, he suppressed his urge to complain and said nothing.
Next, he watched Naruto toss the Blazing Dance Spiral Light: Crimson Lotus Soaring Wing Sky-Incinerating Rasengan toward distant empty ground. The technique's effect wasn't simple explosion but rather the Rasengan's own high-speed rotation first performing terrifying crushing and tearing on the target area, then the internally compressed fire-release chakra completely erupting, instantly forming a small, continuously burning and expanding flame tornado!
One could imagine in actual combat, this flame tornado would easily sweep enemies into it, subjecting them to continuous burning and pulverizing strikes.
Watching Naruto begin enthusiastically preparing to develop Rasengans with other property variations, completely absorbed in the work, Jiraiya felt he might not be needed for guidance temporarily.
A somewhat lecherous smile unconsciously appeared on his face—since he wasn't needed for now... Jiraiya's return to Konoha was partly because he'd missed Konoha's customs and scenery.
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