Water bears at the beginning, wet bone forest eating old people

Orochimaru crouched on the treetop, slightly distracting his attention from the snakes' perspective scattered around him to a part of Jiraiya lying by the campfire.

Jiraiya now looked like he had rolled in a mud ditch for a few times and then crawled out, with the mud dried on his body. And it wasn't just mud, there was also blood, and his whole body smelled a bit.

His gaze shifted from Jiraiya to Tsunade again.

Tsunade sat by the campfire, and the firelight made her face slightly red.

Orochimaru thought silently for a while and felt that after returning to Konoha, he should let Tsunade go to the hospital as well.

Perhaps because the doctor cannot treat himself, Tsunade did not notice her own problem.

Either her brain was damaged by the explosion or her eyes were burned by the flames.

Cute? How cute? Jiraiya is lying there now, no different from a piece of filthy stuff, okay?

Orochimaru did not want to refute Tsunade. He had already prepared himself for the personalities of his two teammates. It could be said that except when fighting, he did not need to pay any attention to these two people. They would live well and comfortably.

But Gu Zang couldn't help it.

"Tsunade-chan! Are you blind? Look at that thing on the ground. It stinks. Can you please sit further away?"

"Mr. Kozo! Don't be so rude! That's not a thing, that's Jiraiya!"

"I don't care if he's a thing or not. Let's just leave him here and go back. Jiraiya is in good shape anyway. We can go back when he wakes up. Okay? What do you think? Orochimaru? What do you think?"

Orochimaru thought about it from a humanitarian perspective and did not respond to Gu Zang.

"No! Jiraiya is still injured. Staying closer can help prevent him from getting into any emergency situations. Mr. Kozo, you don't understand. I'm a medical ninja!"

"Hey... If I had known this guy was coming towards me, I would have thrown him out and blown him to death."

Gu Zang muttered.

"Mr. Gu Zang!!!"

"Okay, okay, okay~ Wait~ Sit down~ You sit here and wait~"

Gu Zang couldn't stand Tsunade's loud voice. After all, he was lying on Tsunade's shoulder. When Tsunade turned her head and shouted at him, he could even see Tsunade's stomach.

He jumped off Tsunade's shoulders in a few seconds, jumped into the campfire, and rushed to the center of the campfire.

The bonfire continued to burn, and the gas was released outward, which could effectively prevent the spread of the stench on Jiraiya's body. Moreover, for the transformed tardigrades, fire was no different from taking a shower with a hairdryer, and it was quite warm.

Tsunade watched Gu Zang jump into the fire and subconsciously reached out to grab him. She thought that her tone was a little too harsh and disturbed Gu Zang, but she immediately remembered that Gu Zang was not afraid of fire and couldn't help feeling a little envious.

Orochimaru, who was on the treetop, naturally saw this scene and immediately had some thoughts in his mind.

He didn't know what happened on the mountain, but just by looking at this scene, he knew that Gu Zang was not afraid of fire.

"What a miraculous ability, what a miraculous body, Mr. Kozo..."

Orochimaru lowered his eyes slightly and shifted his attention to the snakes scattered everywhere, no longer paying attention to the campfire.

The quiet night passed quickly. During this time, Jiraiya seemed to have had a dream. He was mumbling something in his mouth and almost fell into the fire when he turned over.

Gu Zang was lying in the fire. When he saw Jiraiya rushing towards him, he instantly grew to one meter in size and kicked Jiraiya to the other side.

It's not that he was afraid that Jiraiya would be burned to death, he just felt that being hit by this thing was too dirty.

The noise naturally startled Tsunade who was dozing off at the side. Tsunade knew what happened at a glance and turned around and fell asleep again in a daze.

Early the next morning, Orochimaru carried Jiraiya with disgust.

After putting out the fire and covering up the traces of the fire, the two men set out again on their journey back to the village.

The mountain stronghold was not far from the village, and before noon, the two of them had returned to the village entrance.

But he was stopped.

"stop!"

A pair of blood-red eyes looked down arrogantly at Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya who was carried on Orochimaru's shoulders.

It's Uchiha.

Orochimaru frowned. When did the ninja guarding the gate of Konoha become an Uchiha?

Even though Orochimaru was a civilian ninja, Hiruzen was definitely a high-ranking official of Konoha. Through the influence of Hiruzen, Orochimaru knew almost everything about the structure and form of Konoha.

The relationship between Konoha and Uchiha is like a person who has a ferocious beast in captivity. The person has the ability to suppress the beast, but cannot let the beast move freely in the house, because the person cannot be sure when the beast will erupt in savagery or suddenly want to eat human flesh.

Now, the beast is placed at the doorstep. Wouldn't it be difficult for people inside to get in, and difficult for people outside to get out? The beast can run away whenever it wants?

"Such a young ninja? Doesn't look like it. Tell me yourself where this spy came from."

Uchiha's tone was very arrogant, and he judged Orochimaru and the other two in just a few words.

A lot of people gathered at the entrance of the village.

There has been a lot of activity at the village entrance these two days. Ever since the Second Hokage announced the establishment of the Konoha Guard, the Uchiha Gate has become a popular tourist attraction.

Orochimaru was about to speak when Tsunade took a step forward first.

"My name is Senju Tsunade, a Konoha Genin. I just finished a ninja mission. Why are you stopping us from entering the village?"

Tsunade rarely mentions her last name because Hashirama once liberated the Senju surname and integrated the Senju into the village, so except for Hashirama and Tobirama, even Tsunade no longer uses Senju.

But using this surname at this time almost makes my identity clear, telling the other party that I am a legitimate Konoha ninja and of noble status, what can you do to me?

The Uchiha's face turned dark in an instant.

The Uchiha will always be superior to the others, but the Senju will always be superior to the Uchiha.

This is the public perception within Konoha.

Even the Uchiha people themselves were just unwilling to accept the result, but no one dared to say that they were superior to the Senju. Didn't you see that even Madara couldn't beat Hashirama Senju?

And the other party is the granddaughter of the first generation.

There are so many people here, and they slap him in the face in public without him being able to fight back.

Today is his first day on duty. He had heard the Uchiha who was rotating in the group talk about how awesome he was when he was guarding the door, and thought that he would be able to be awesome too when it was his turn. But who would have thought that he would come out with such a powerful performance.

"Humph..."

Uchiha's face was extremely dark, but he still did not forget his duties.

"Quest scroll, please show it to me."

But his tone softened a lot.

Orochimaru took out the mission scroll but did not open it.

There are identification marks on the outside of the scroll, and specific information is not allowed to be disclosed.

The Uchiha didn't look closely, turned his head impatiently, motioned the two to go in, waved his hand, left the doorway, and returned to the wooden house.

"Hahaha~ The Uchiha master got slapped in the face~"

"Senju still has the upper hand~"

"As expected of the granddaughter of the First Generation, she's so impressive even at such a young age!"

"Hey~ This is Konoha~ Not Uchiha~"

Fragmented words filled the air among the crowd. Even the Uchiha ninjas did not bother to argue with these civilians, but it did sound unpleasant.

Tsunade strode back home with Orochimaru.

"Hey Tsunade... have you forgotten something?"

Orochimaru followed Tsunade and stood in front of the door of the Senju family. He did not go in, but suddenly mentioned it.

After Tsunade turned her head, Orochimaru raised his shoulders, and Jiraiya on top of him shook his body and shook off two pieces of dried mud.

Tsunade blinked her eyes, gave an innocent smile and met Orochimaru's calm face.

She was so obsessed with competing with the Uchiha that she forgot that Jiraiya was still unconscious...