Naruto, I will reveal the truth Chapter 113

Three days passed.

Over these three days, Ling Yue lived a very leisurely life. He practiced for two and a half hours every day, which meant five and a half hours.

“It’s all thanks to my persistent efforts every day that I have my current strength.”

Looking at the points on the system panel, he had spent over 100, 000 points on upgrades in these three days, but his points had increased instead of decreasing.

Considering his body’s endurance, Ling Yue always adopted a gradual approach to adding points.

The news of Konoha’s Hokage being imprisoned spread wider and wider throughout the ninja world. Hiruzen Sarutobi truly disgraced himself across the entire ninja world. What followed was a continuous stream of points.

On Jiraiya’s side, Ino–Shika–Chō and the Aburame clan had all spoken with him.

Everyone hoped that he would become the Hokage, or bring Tsunade back to be the Hokage.

After what happened with Hiruzen Sarutobi, everyone understood that only a ninja without a clan as Hokage wouldn’t think of harming the village’s interests to strengthen their own clan.

Everyone already knew that Hiashi Hyuga wanted to be Hokage, but no one knew if Hiashi Hyuga would follow in Hiruzen Sarutobi’s footsteps.

The Hyuga clan was already powerful, and everyone saw how the Hyuga Main House controlled the Branch House.

So no one wanted a Hyuga to become Hokage.

Jiraiya currently didn’t have time to find Tsunade. He had already written her a letter, but he didn’t know when Tsunade would return to Konoha.

But Jiraiya knew in his heart that even going to see Tsunade in person might not make her return, let alone writing a letter.

This made Jiraiya feel very conflicted. If he became Hokage, he wouldn’t be able to search for the Child of Prophecy, nor could he go to the hot springs for “research.”

And most importantly, his teacher had held back when teaching him, not teaching him the most important jutsu.

Jiraiya sat in the Hokage’s office, looking at the crystal ball in the drawer, broken into two halves, and wanted to cry without tears.

Without the Telescope Jutsu, what was the point of being Hokage?

Being Hokage wasn’t fun at all!

…

Jiraiya arrived at Naruto’s house.

“Little Naruto, I’ve come to see you.”

Naruto had now shed his identity as the Demon Fox Child, so his quality of life had improved by several grades recently.

However, what saddened Naruto was that his most trusted Hokage Grandpa had stabbed him in the back.

“Uncle Jiraiya, did Hokage Grandpa really secretly use all my parents’ property?”

Naruto seemed a little sad. In fact, he didn’t have much concept of his parents’ property; what saddened him was that his Hokage Grandpa had deceived him.

“Don’t worry, Little Naruto, we’ll help you get that property back, though there might not be as much.”

“I don’t want the property, I just… I just…”

Naruto had no relatives since he was little, and the only one who was good to him was Hiruzen Sarutobi.

And now that Hiruzen Sarutobi was in prison, Naruto felt as if a part of his heart had been hollowed out.

“Don’t worry, Little Naruto, school is about to start. You’ll enter the Ninja Academy and make new friends. You won’t be alone anymore.”

“Really, Uncle Jiraiya?”

“Of course it’s true! When you graduate from the Ninja Academy, I’ll take you as my disciple, teach you all my jutsu, and help you become a powerful ninja!”

“Thank you, Uncle Jiraiya!”

Naruto’s nature made him easy to appease; a little bit of hope was enough to make him optimistic again.

After leaving Naruto’s house, Jiraiya thought of the many troubles waiting for him in Konoha and felt a headache coming on.

Then he bit his finger and reverse summoned himself to Mount Myōboku.

“Little Jiraiya, how do you have time to come to Mount Myōboku?”

Fukasaku Toad was very surprised. Jiraiya had developed a psychological trauma from eating bugs, so he generally wouldn’t come to Mount Myōboku unless it was something important.

“Sage Fukasaku, I want to see the Great Toad Sage.”

Hearing Jiraiya’s request, it was indeed a big deal.

Fukasaku Toad led Jiraiya towards the Great Toad’s palace.

“Alright, I’ll take you, but the Great Toad Sage is usually sleeping. It’s been half a month, and I don’t know when he’ll wake up.”

Fukasaku Toad hopped next to the Great Toad Sage and nudged the sleeping Great Toad Sage.

“Great Toad Sage, wake up, Little Jiraiya is here!”

The Great Toad Sage didn’t move, only snoring sounds.

“Little Jiraiya, you see, the Great Toad Sage can’t be woken up. You can tell me anything you need to, and I’ll relay it to him when he wakes up.”

Fukasaku Toad also had no choice. He knew the Great Toad’s habits; he had been sleeping for half a month, and he wouldn’t wake up anytime soon.

“Alright, I might become the Hokage of Konoha, so I won’t be able to continue searching for the Child of Prophecy for a while.”

In truth, Jiraiya wasn’t entirely convinced about the Child of Prophecy, but he really hated the troubles in Konoha.

Seeing the tragedies of broken homes and ruined lives everywhere in the ninja world, the noble cause of finding the Child of Prophecy gave Jiraiya a strong sense of justice, and the scenery along the way to find the Child of Prophecy was just too good.

Jiraiya often got lost and ended up in the Land of Hot Water while searching.

So, comparing the two, Jiraiya preferred to search for the Child of Prophecy rather than be some Hokage.

But the current situation in Konoha made it impossible for him to leave.

And he hadn’t found him after so many years, so another year or two wouldn’t make much difference.

Originally, Jiraiya thought Nagato was the Child of Prophecy, but then he learned that Nagato died not long after he left.

Later, he found Minato Namikaze, but unfortunately, Minato wasn’t the Child of Prophecy either.

Because the Child of Prophecy definitely wouldn’t be someone who had already died.

Sometimes Jiraiya would also wonder if these two disciples wouldn’t have died if he hadn’t left Nagato and Minato.

But, could someone who would die if Jiraiya left still be called the Child of Prophecy?

“Little Jiraiya, are you going to be Hokage? Then congratulations to you.”

Fukasaku Toad didn’t have much respect for the Hokage, but he still knew what being Hokage meant to a ninja.

“I will tell the Great Toad Sage about this.”

In all of Mount Myōboku, only the Great Toad Sage knew what the Child of Prophecy meant; the other toads had only heard the name.

And since he hadn’t been found for so long, Fukasaku wasn’t very anxious.

“Then I’ll trouble Sage Fukasaku. Since the Great Toad Sage isn’t awake, I’ll come again next time.” Jiraiya took his leave.

The enthusiastic Sage Fukasaku tried to persuade him to stay.

“Little Jiraiya, it’s dinner time. Why don’t you stay and eat with us?”

Saying that, he told a toad to prepare dinner.

“No, no, I have urgent matters. I’ll be going now.”

Fukasaku’s words scared Jiraiya, and he turned and ran!

To be fair, every time Jiraiya summoned them out, he got beaten, so the toads’ revenge was to treat Jiraiya to a bug feast every time…

After leaving Mount Myōboku, Jiraiya was idle, unsure of what to do.

Although there were many things waiting to be done at the Hokage’s office, Jiraiya didn’t want to go back at all.

Hokage, huh…

Jiraiya’s gaze swept over the rooftops towards the distance.

That was the direction of the Hokage Rock.

Of the original four statues, one was now missing.

Hiruzen Sarutobi had done so many bad things, and now that the truth was exposed, the Hokage was removed from office.

His rock statue was also destroyed.

After thinking for a moment, Jiraiya walked towards the Hokage Rock.