“Uh…” Walking in the lead, Jiraiya instantly turned to stone.
The smile on his face froze, as if he had been paralyzed by a pressure point strike; he remained perfectly still, his raised foot caught in a state of suspended animation—neither able to put it down nor take the next step.
Did I do something wrong?
Listening to Jiraiya’s incessant rambling in his ear, Hiko felt a strong urge to kick him.
This guy talked far too much, and Hiko was certain of one thing: Jiraiya had never once gone to the Training Ground to train.
“Hiko, when do you think we’ll be able to graduate?” “I want to grow up so badly!!” “It’s so annoying that they think I’m too young and won’t let me drink Flower Wine!!” “Hiko, aren’t you tired?
Do you want to take a break?” Lying on the grass, Jiraiya looked up at the sky with longing, wishing he could graduate quickly and grow up fast so he could go drink Flower Wine in broad daylight.
“Sigh~~~” Jiraiya’s words went in Hiko’s left ear and immediately drifted out the right.
It wasn’t hard to see why Tsunade loved beating the living daylights out of Jiraiya; even if he didn’t provoke her, his talent for being a chatterbox alone was enough to make Tsunade unable to suppress the primal fury within her.
How on earth did this guy become one of the Sannin?
How did he become a Kage-level powerhouse?
Although he wouldn’t fly into a rage and beat him like Tsunade, Hiko still felt a bit skeptical.
Could a Jiraiya like this truly become the legendary Toad Sage?
It wasn’t that Hiko liked to let his imagination run wild, but Jiraiya really didn’t look the part at all!!!
“Snore~~ snore~~~” Perhaps it was too boring, or perhaps he was truly sleepy; as Jiraiya muttered to himself, he felt his eyelids growing heavy, and soon enough, the sound of snoring filled the air.
Perhaps he would only start to grow up once he had been soundly thrashed by Tsunade and Orochimaru.
Seeing that Jiraiya had actually fallen asleep out of boredom, basking in the sun and snoring away so carelessly, Hiko figured his head might just explode when he finally woke up.
“Achoo!!!” “Achoo!!!” In his sleep, Jiraiya suddenly felt a chill and couldn’t help but sneeze himself awake.
“…” In front of him, there was no Hiko, no sun; in their place, the moon hung high in the sky, accompanied by a multitude of stars.
Realizing he had slept right through to the middle of the night, Jiraiya was completely dumbfounded.
“Achoo!!!” “Hiko, you’re heartless!
You didn’t even wake me up when you went home!!!” “Achoo!!!” The next day, Jiraiya arrived at the classroom with two streams of clear snot dangling from his nose—a sight that made people want to stay far away from him.
His first order of business was to accuse Hiko of being heartless for not waking him up.
Tsk tsk, poor kid.
Watching Jiraiya’s miserable state, Hiko felt a twinge of pity, but he wasn’t about to take the fall for this.
He spread his palms and said quite innocently: “I did call you, but you said you wanted to sleep until the end of time, oh, and that you were with your beautiful older sister, so I had no choice but to leave first.” “…” Jiraiya’s face darkened, and he even forgot to sniff his snot back in.
It just dangled from his nose like a swing, swaying back and forth, nearly making intimate contact with his mouth.
“Get lost!!!” “Don’t come here and gross me out, you brat!!!” With a flash of a Dark Shadow, Jiraiya was sent flying like a cannonball.
Though Hiko had wanted to send him packing himself, he didn’t, because someone else couldn’t help but jump in—and that was Tsunade.
Jiraiya, with his dark face, vacant expression, and two streams of snot swaying back and forth on his nose, nearly made Tsunade vomit up what she had just eaten.
Unable to bear it any longer, Tsunade took action.
He was usually lecherous and wretched enough as it was, but he couldn’t even behave himself when he was sick!!!
And “beautiful older sister,” really?
Would it kill you not to be so disgusting?
“Tsk tsk!!” Hiko shrank back, silently mourning for Jiraiya for three seconds.
You can pull that act with me and I’ll just ignore you, but you do that in front of Tsunade?
Don’t you know this girl can go ballistic at any second?
In truth, Hiko had indeed called Jiraiya, but the guy had been sleeping so soundly that he ignored Hiko entirely, waving his hand and saying he wanted to sleep until the end of time with his beautiful older sister.
Hiko had no choice but to indulge him.
Who knew that “the end of time” wouldn’t arrive, but the middle of the night would, leaving him with a cold and a fit of sneezing, with two classic streams of snot constantly swaying on his nose like a playground swing.
“Did you go to the Training Ground?” After sending the disgusting Jiraiya flying, Tsunade wiped her hands with a look of distaste, terrified that his swinging snot might have touched her.
She turned to look at Hiko.