After Sailing with the Pirate King, I Returned to Konoha - 201

Chapter 201: Flying Thunder God Technique

Even until the very end, when Naruto entered the sealed space and confronted Nine-Tails, the great fox still pretended to sleep, refusing to reveal his name.

"So what is Nine-Tails' name exactly?"

"If he doesn't tell you himself, it has no meaning—that's what Big Bro Gyūki said."

Killer Bee relayed Gyūki's words to Naruto.

Hearing this, Naruto just smiled without pursuing the matter further. Compared to when he first learned his parents died at Nine-Tails' hands, he no longer harbored hatred toward the beast. His ability to sense others' emotions worked equally well on tailed beasts.

Naruto had witnessed all of Nine-Tails' gradual changes during this time.

Whatever, since you haven't decided yet, we'll talk about it later.

Returning to the campfire, Naruto examined the manuscript Jiraiya-sensei had just finished writing. Killer Bee also came over to review it together. The two occasionally discussed certain plot designs. Meanwhile, the great writer Jiraiya-sensei would pause to contemplate, then continue writing with his finger as pen.

The Ink-Ink Fruit was truly convenient for a writer. One could say they were in distinguished company, with no unrefined guests.

Watching this scene, Konan couldn't control past memories surging in her heart. Once upon a time, Jiraiya-sensei had also sat quietly writing under some eave in the Land of Rain, while she, Yahiko, and Nagato trained not far away.

If only time could return to those days.

Thinking this, Konan quietly walked over, sitting beside Jiraiya, watching him silently write on paper.

One night passed.

The next day, everyone woke up in their respective rooms. The Land of Rain's sky had cleared. Residents remained indoors, keeping off the streets. Unlike them, the Rain Country ninjas who had previously served under Akatsuki leadership fell into chaos.

Yesterday they'd all been knocked unconscious by Haki. Upon waking, the Land of Rain's regime had changed. Fortunately, Konan promptly appeared to pacify this group.

After all, these ninjas usually only had contact with Konan as the "messenger." They knew little about Pain and Nagato's identities. Since Konan had appeared, the situation wasn't too serious.

"Jiraiya-sensei, do you know any ninjutsu that can interfere with space?"

At the training ground, while instructing Karin and Sasuke, Naruto casually chatted with Jiraiya beside him. He recalled the scene when his fist struck the masked man earlier.

Previously, Naruto had heard from Jiraiya that the masked man possessed some "intangibility" ninjutsu. This was also confirmed by Konan. It should be a space-time ninjutsu.

She'd noticed this early on, even knowing the process should have time limits, and prepared accordingly. Konan had planned that if they ever became enemies, she'd use countless explosive tags for continuous bombardment, forcibly bombing him to death.

In fact, in the original timeline, she did exactly that. Unfortunately, like Danzo, Obito had also stockpiled many Sharingan during the Uchiha massacre night. Therefore, he could consume them anytime to activate "Izanagi"—the invincibility effect Danzo used earlier—forcibly rewriting the fate of being bombed to death.

Currently, without understanding the masked man's ability details, delivering a one-hit kill was still difficult for Naruto. Unlike before, when he was under "natural consciousness" control, seemingly naturally possessing certain powers to directly interfere with space.

Therefore, after contacting the masked man, their bodies experienced some "overlapping interference phenomenon," finally triggering space self-repair, "cutting off" parts of their bodies.

Besides letting natural consciousness dominate his body, Naruto's current breakthrough method was using Conqueror's Haki-wrapped slashes to affect space. Similar situations had occurred before. But this jutsu wasn't one hundred percent effective. If it failed, that guy would probably escape again.

"Space-time ninjutsu—speaking of which, Summoning Jutsu should be most common, right?"

Actually, sealing scrolls and Summoning Jutsu both counted. But using them to affect the masked man during combat—Naruto truly hadn't conceived a specific implementation method.

"Ah! I remember now."

Jiraiya suddenly clapped his hands.

"Doesn't Minato know space-time ninjutsu?"

"Hmm?"

Hearing Jiraiya-sensei mention his deceased father again, Naruto couldn't help feeling curious. Honestly, though he'd heard rumors about the Fourth Hokage from others during this time, Jiraiya as the direct teacher naturally spoke with more authenticity.

"That jutsu is called 'Flying Thunder God Technique'—a space-time ninjutsu invented by the Second Hokage that allows instant teleportation."

Next, Jiraiya recounted the Flying Thunder God Technique's origins and how Minato Namikaze deeply developed this ninjutsu, even once using it to transfer Tailed Beast Balls.

"That's how your father earned the 'Yellow Flash' nickname on the battlefield."

"Right, I can also testify to this, yo!"

Killer Bee also came over. He'd not only seen the Fourth Hokage but also fought him. Of course, it ended with the brothers' defeat.

"That was! Appearing and disappearing! Completely uncatchable!"

"What? That amazing? With such a jutsu, why didn't Jiraiya-sensei teach us earlier?"

Karin and Sasuke also gathered.

"Because this sage doesn't know it."

Jiraiya said this quite righteously.

"..."

Seeing the air fall silent, Jiraiya quickly made excuses.

"Hey, hey, hey, you brats, are you underestimating this forbidden jutsu's difficulty?"

"Besides the developer, the Second himself, I've only seen your father master this jutsu."

When saying this, Jiraiya scratched his face somewhat embarrassedly. As a teacher, he couldn't learn what his student mastered—Jiraiya felt somewhat ashamed.

"So where can we learn it?"

"..."

Silence.

"Ah—then we probably need to return to Konoha once."

"???"

"That jutsu is recorded in the Sealed Scroll, hidden in sensei's office."

The Sealed Scroll—Naruto still remembered this. He'd learned Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu from it, then went to the pirate world.

"You mean we have to travel all the way back?"

Karin's face showed disbelief.

"Even though he's the teacher—"

Sasuke gave him a look of utter skepticism, as if staring at an unreliable adult.

"This is the person who taught the Fourth Hokage?"

Jiraiya's face instantly flushed.

"Hey! Don't look at me like that!"

"I didn't expect the enemies to master space-time ninjutsu!"

"Hey! Naruto! Konan, even you!"

"It's not my fault I couldn't learn it!"

Seeing himself about to be isolated and scorned by everyone, Jiraiya finally remembered something, urgently forming hand seals, then releasing a jutsu.

A uniquely shaped toad emerged from his mouth. Its outer skin was dark green, its belly orange, with four iron rings around its waist being the most eye-catching feature.

"Gerotora, quickly, unfold."

"Okay."

The scroll toad named Gerotora suddenly stretched, a massive scroll appearing between those four iron rings.

"This is Mount Myōboku's scroll toad, responsible for managing and storing important records."

Jiraiya opened the scroll, carefully searching for something while explaining.

"Let me find it—should be here—no—"

At this time, Naruto also came over to examine what was on the large scroll.

"Aha, found it. So it was placed here."

Jiraiya found what he wanted from the scroll, running his hand across it. That section automatically separated and peeled away.

"Though I didn't learn the Flying Thunder God Technique, here are some insights and notes from Minato from when he was learning and improving the Flying Thunder God Technique."

"These should help you—"

But Naruto didn't accept the manuscript. Instead, he pointed at another record on the scroll.

"Jiraiya-sensei, what's that?"

The text of that record was complex, but Naruto had seen the diagram at the top of it before. In the sealed space. On the great door imprisoning Nine-Tails was an identical seal.

"Ah—that one—"

Jiraiya looked at the seal key, uncertain whether to explain to Naruto. But with Killer Bee as a perfect Jinchūriki explaining earlier, Jiraiya thought about it, deciding to leave the choice to Naruto.

"That's the key to unsealing the Nine-Tails inside you."