Chapter 164: Chapter 166: Jiraiya—Heh Heh Heh, That’s Right, Keep It Just Like That!
[Come on, Uncle’s gonna show you something good~]
[Let’s go look at the goldfish together]
[You’re all using that wrong—it’s Naruto offering the treat here]
[So it should go like this: Uncle, let’s go look at goldfish together]
[Uncle, I’ll show you something good~]
[Stop the jokes, my stomach is cramping from laughing]
The audience had a pretty low laugh threshold.
And Jiraiya’s personal standards were even lower.
"Could it be... the kind from last night?"
Jiraiya’s villainous grin returned.
"Heh heh—Sexy Jutsu!"
A puff of smoke, and Naruto had transformed into the twin-tailed version.
"Please teach me, Pervy Sage—I’m begging you~"
"Oh oh oh oh!" The perver—that is, the Toad Sage, the moment he saw the transformation, lit up with excitement.
[Naruko is so cute]
[Confirmed: this man is stronger than the Third Hokage—no nosebleed, no passing out]
[Naruto’s early fanservice sales: a documentary]
[A perfect occupational match]
[Special-attack superiority: certified]
[Wait, is the smoke only visible to us the audience?]
[You’re hiding it from your own people—!]
[Not necessarily—in Road to Ninja the jutsu always had that mist effect, so maybe that’s just how it actually looks]
"Okay, okay, yes yes yes!" Under Naruko’s persuasion, Jiraiya had instantly transformed into an "Approval Machine," doing nothing but say yes over and over.
"Bang!"
But then a puff of smoke, and Naruto was himself again.
"Why did you change back?!" Jiraiya couldn’t accept it.
"You already agreed, didn’t you?"
Naruto’s expression was deeply unimpressed.
Was this Pervy Sage actually strong?
He didn’t exactly come across as reliable.
"Ahem. I agreed to that cute girl just now—not to you, you little punk!" Jiraiya crossed his arms. "If you can stay in that form the whole time we train, I’ll teach you the real techniques!"
"Tch." Naruto clicked his tongue, then transformed again.
"Oh oh oh—here we go!" Jiraiya’s eyes lit up, then immediately went flat. "Hey hey hey—how are you still wearing clothes?!"
"I can only keep it up indefinitely if I just transform my body itself. Keeping the clothes transformed too burns through way more chakra—how am I supposed to train on top of that?"
Naruto made a perfectly reasonable argument.
He’d only changed his appearance. His actual clothes were still his own.
"You can really hold it that long?" Jiraiya was floored.
"More or less a week without issues. Haven’t tried longer than that." She’d put in the practice before, after all.
"And at the point when your chakra runs out?" Jiraiya asked.
"For training purposes, obviously I push until there’s basically nothing left."
Even though Hanabi had told Naruto to train in transformed form with some humor behind it, that method really had made Naruto’s chakra control more and more precise.
If, before training, the same amount of chakra had let him produce one clone, it now produced five.
That was also why Naruto had managed to learn the Rasengan so quickly—though doing it with two-person assistance still felt a bit like cheating.
"You can hold the Transformation Technique with your chakra all but empty?"
Jiraiya was stunned.
The Transformation Technique was not a jutsu suitable for extended disguise.
When a ninja needed a long-term disguise, they actually relied on ordinary methods—conventional makeup and physical disguise. Not the Transformation Technique.
Because maintaining it meant maintaining constant chakra use, which drained both physical and mental energy.
Unless you had chakra reserves measured by the ton—"chakra-ton reserves," one might say—it couldn’t go on indefinitely.
But Naruto had done it.
Not just that—by her own account, she’d been holding this form the entire time she was training.
"You have a pretty disciplined training approach." Jiraiya found that odd.
"That was all Hanabi’s idea, honestly. I don’t really understand the details."
Naruto tilted her head.
"Heh heh, heh heh heh heh. Fine—when you train with me, stay exactly like that. It’s all part of the training!"
Jiraiya was very serious about this.
"Jiraiya-sensei..."
Kushina, watching from inside Naruto, had zero patience for Jiraiya right now.
The moment Jiraiya appeared, Kushina had already known this meeting between him and Naruto was no coincidence.
He’d come with a purpose.
And that purpose was Naruto.
But one Naruto Sexy Jutsu had completely derailed Jiraiya.
"Is Naruto really going to be okay like this?" Kushina was worried.
But she didn’t speak up. She didn’t come out either.
Because Kushina had already made her decision.
She couldn’t keep going on like this—if she did, she would only hurt Naruto.
So Kushina had steeled herself and cut off her link with Naruto.
Her plan was to deal with the Nine-Tails inside her first, then let Naruto inherit the Nine-Tails’ power cleanly.
So during this time she had been trying to communicate with the Nine-Tails.
But Kushina’s progress had been almost nothing.
When she herself was wavering, how was she supposed to convince the Nine-Tails?
So for now, Kushina was at a standstill.
"But—with Jiraiya-sensei’s guidance, Naruto will definitely... definitely... do alright?"
When Kushina noticed that Jiraiya’s gaze kept drifting toward Naruko, she felt a sudden urge to hit someone.
Jiraiya led Naruko to the outskirts of the village.
"Alright, first let me see what you’re working with. Come at me with your best."
"You asked for it!"
Naruko grinned, then activated Shadow Clone Jutsu.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu—nice, nice, a Genin who can pull that off is already impressive... hmm, what’s that?"
Jiraiya noticed Naruko wasn’t charging directly. Instead, she extended her hand and started rolling a sphere between her fingers.
"...The Rasengan? She—he’s already learned it?"
He’d heard a rumor or two from Kakashi, but seeing it in person was something else.
"Rasengan!"
Naruko finished forming the Rasengan and came in straight.
"Ha—that’s not going to work."
Jiraiya said so, then reached out to catch Naruko’s wrist.
But Naruko’s face broke into a grin of triumph.
"Nani?!"
From behind Jiraiya, a crowd of Naruko clones appeared, each one rolling a sphere.
"Not Shadow Clone—Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu?!"
By using the Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu and preparing multiple Rasengans simultaneously—then surrounding him from every direction—she’d completely sealed off every escape route.
"Summoning Technique!"
Jiraiya immediately summoned a toad, whose tongue snagged one Naruko and swung her into the rest, scattering them all.
Bang!
The real Naruto was flung into a tree as well, reverting from the transformation.
"Whew..." Jiraiya wiped the sweat from his forehead. He’d nearly gotten cocky and paid for it—but in the end he’d preserved his dignity.
Although the Rasengan had already turned the ground and surrounding forest into a complete mess.
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