People raise Hokage in Yunyin

Late at night, there is a gap in a hidden barrier in Konoha.

"Is this here?"

Jiraiya groped forward with some hesitation, and the trees were separated by it, making a rustling sound.

Under the moonlight, he hesitantly moved in one direction.

"It's really rare to go back to the village and be asked to enter from a specific place..."

As he walked, Jiraiya couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

Suddenly, he urgently called himself back, hoping that he could return to the village secretly.

But speaking of it, he really didn't expect that there was a hidden entrance to the barrier at the back of Konoha Village, which was blocked by trees and mountains.

Wow! ! !

Just as Jiraiya stopped to judge the direction, he suddenly heard another sound coming from not far behind him.

"who?"

He pounced forward alertly, his entire body covered by a giant tree in front of him, and looked back at the road behind him.

"You haven't made any progress after all these years. Jiraiya, you don't have any vigilance at all. If I were willing, you would probably be dead long ago..."

Light laughter came from behind him, and he could clearly see that two figures walked out slowly without any concealment.

"Orochimaru?"

Jiraiya looked at the man in front of him in surprise.

"You are still the same as before..."

He looked at Orochimaru, whose appearance was almost the same as before, with a complicated expression.

"Don't be so vigilant. I only returned to Konoha at the invitation of the current Hokage."

Orochimaru didn't care about the other party's vigilant attitude. He led the people around him straight forward, seemingly not worried that the other party would take action here.

"That guy Danzo..."

Jiraiya looked at Orochimaru who kept getting closer to him, but in the end he did nothing.

It had always been his wish to bring Orochimaru back to Konoha, but it was obviously not the result he wanted for him to return to Konoha like this.

"The current Hokage has forgiven me for my past crimes, although I don't think there is anything wrong with that."

As if sensing Jiraiya's contradictory attitude, he continued with a low smile.

"teacher!"

A deep voice sounded, and the person next to Orochimaru reached out and pulled his sleeve, stopping him from continuing to ridicule.

"Is this your apprentice?"

Jiraiya frowned and looked at the person who made the voice. The voice seemed vaguely familiar to him.

But the ordinary face and the attire that were no different from ordinary ninjas made no impression on him.

"Brother Jiraiya, don't you recognize me now?"

The other person looked familiar, and the tone of his words made Jiraiya even more confused.

"You still have my face-removing technique on your face."

Orochimaru's words seemed to remind him, and with a casual touch on his face, a completely different face appeared in front of him.

"Rope tree?"

Jiraiya looked at the person in front of him in disbelief. The familiar expression seemed to take him back to more than ten years ago in an instant.

'But the rope tree is dead...'

"Don't think too much, this is a genuine rope tree!"

Orochimaru looked at the silent Jiraiya, interrupting his brewing anger.

"I saved this child from the Pure Land."

Orochimaru gave a faint reminder and then revealed the matter.

"You are fooling the dead. If Tsunade finds out..."

After a long silence, Jiraiya uttered these words stiffly.

To be fair, he would like to see the resurrection of the rope tree, but the rebirth of the dead... no matter what, it is inconsistent with the mainstream thinking in the ninja world.

"It doesn't matter, Tsunade already knows, and I paid a heavy price for this!"

Orochimaru still looked calm and calm, and only the faint look of pain in his eyes could reflect his feelings.

Nao Shufei, who had just resurrected, clamored to see Tsunade, and Orochimaru had no choice but to take him there.

As he expected, after the initial excitement, Tsunade listened to his story very calmly, and then punched him.

The body he cared about so much was scrapped like this...

Jiraiya looked at the look in Orochimaru's eyes and vaguely guessed that it was not a good ending.

"So the rope tree has been following you since then?"

"Yes..." Orochimaru was silent for a rare moment, recalling the scene in his mind.

"Sister, you still have Shizune with you. I am the only one beside the teacher. Moreover, if I am by the teacher's side, I can look at the teacher and ask the teacher not to do wrong things again!"

Therefore, no matter how long it takes, he will never regret his original decision...

"Anyway, let this be over. Orochimaru, don't fool the dead again."

Jiraiya sensed his friend's complicated mood and didn't pursue it further.

"If we both arrive, then Tsunade should also be found by the village, right?"

Jiraiya looked at the two reunited people and suddenly thought of another companion who had run away.

"Yes, isn't this already here?"

Orochimaru turned around and saw Tsunade and Shizune walking out of the path opened by Jiraiya.

"I asked who was clearing the way through the bushes, and it turned out to be you!"

She glanced across the two of them, until she saw the rope tree, there was a little warmth in her eyes.

"elder sister!"

Naoki waved to say hello to Tsunade, and then put on the fake face again.

According to Orochimaru, it was best not to let others know about his resurrection from the dead.

"I never imagined that the three of us would be reunited again at this place."

Zilai also said with some emotion.

"If Danzo hadn't said that the village was in danger, I wouldn't have come back."

Tsunade sneered. She no longer had much emotion for this village, just because it was grandpa's treasure...

"Danzo told me the same thing, but the specific reason was not given."

Jiraiya was also not in a happy mood. He had not returned to the village for many years. If Danzo hadn't been too serious this time, he might still be wandering around.

"Of course he won't say anything. If he didn't want to use your power, he might never want you to come back in his life!"

Orochimaru understands Danzo's mental journey very well, and he is also the one who sees Danzo most thoroughly among them.

"But it's only thanks to him that I can go in and out of this beloved and hated village at any time."

Orochimaru's words made the first two people a little silent. They all chose to leave independently for various reasons. However, they did not expect that Orochimaru, who was driven away from the village, was actually the most popular existence in Hokage today.

"You are obviously so old, but you still can't let go of your power at all!"

Tsunade frankly expressed her dissatisfaction, and she would only become so emotional in front of her former companions.

"If you insist on saying so, aren't we also the remnants of the old era?"

Orochimaru doesn't care at all. Who becomes Hokage and what Konoha will become have nothing to do with him.

When your own time scale is greatly stretched and you can live for hundreds or thousands of years, you will find that what you cared about and longed for in the past was nothing more than this.

He believed that he could slowly absorb whatever he needed in an almost unlimited time, and because of this, he valued things that he didn't care much about before.

"By the way, Orochimaru, you seem to be in that organization called 'Akatsuki', and the leader of the organization has the Samsara Eye..."

After reminiscing about old times, Jiraiya suddenly asked Orochimaru beside him.

Orochimaru's expression moved slightly, and when he was about to say something, he suddenly stopped speaking sharply.

Jiraiya also stopped asking questions, and the three of them turned not far away together.

In the darkness in the distance, a silver-haired figure slowly walked out.

"Jiraiya-sama, Orochimaru-sama, and Tsunade-sama, enter Konoha from here. Danzo-sama is waiting for you."

In the shadows, Kakashi spoke calmly, then turned around and led the way.

The three of them looked at each other and slowly followed with Naoki and Shizune behind them.