Chapter 12: Sennin Mode I

Finding Jiraya is not an easy process; Yujin thought as he walked through the village with Tsunade. They went to his house, went to the Ninja Academy to see if he was with the Hokage, went to the bookstore where he apparently is a regular...

They went to various places he frequents, but still couldn’t find him.

Yujin doesn’t know much about Jiraya, only that he was a teammate with Tsunade, and that he is one of the Hokage’s disciples, highly trusted by the Hokage himself.

Therefore, the difficulty in finding him made Yujin wonder if maybe Jiraya was a busy person, but when he asked Tsunade about it, she laughed loudly and replied.

“Hahahaha, of course not. I mean, Sensei trusts him a lot, but that’s not why we’re having trouble finding him.”

After checking another place that Yujin doesn’t know, they continued on their way.

“You have to understand one thing about Jiraya, Yujin. He’s a pervert.”

The word didn’t make much sense to him. When she saw the confusion on Yujin’s face, Tsunade explained.

“He’s a troublesome guy ... Remember the last place we went to?”

“The bathhouse?”

“Yes, he likes to go to places like that to try to peek at women taking baths.”

Yujin’s expression upon hearing this was so hilarious that Tsunade laughed again.

“He watches women take baths? How disrespectful.”

Yujin’s opinion of Jiraya immediately plummeted. Tsunade is a respectable woman, so he expected to find someone equally respectable, but he didn’t expect Jiraya to be that kind of person.

“Isn’t he the only person in the village who can enter ‘Sage Mode’?”

“Don’t get me started. Orochimaru and I tried for many years and never succeeded, but that damn toad did. But don’t worry, I said he ‘tries’ to peek at women taking baths. The village bathhouses are protected against perverts like him.”

That didn’t ease Yujin’s opinion of Jiraya.

In the world Yujin came from, Jiraya’s actions are extremely disrespectful. Such heinous acts that if someone were caught doing something like that, they would be decapitated.

Finally, they found Jiraya lying by the side of the road with several shoe prints all over his clothes. He seemed to be muttering something. Although Yujin could hear, he pretended not to, and Tsunade spoke.

“Well, well, well, finally found you, and at a good time.”

Before Jiraya could say anything, Tsunade stepped on his face, knocking him to the ground.

“I need your help with something. Come.”

Jiraya got up from the ground and started grumbling something under his breath. Again, Yujin pretended not to hear, and followed Tsunade until they were in a restaurant.

The three sat at the table, and Jiraya looked at Yujin and asked.

“This is...?”

“This is Yujin, a friend of mine. Yujin, this is Jiraya, the pervert I mentioned earlier.”

Jiraya nodded to Yujin, who tried his best to show the least amount of respect even though he didn’t respect him.

“Wait a minute, Tsunade. What do you mean, pervert? What lies did you tell him about me? He seems to hate me.”

“I didn’t tell any lies, just the truth, and obviously that’s reason enough not to like you.”

Jiraya seemed dissatisfied, and Yujin decided to ask.

“So, you don’t try to peek at women taking baths?”

“But of course not, I-”

“Don’t listen to his nonsense.”

Tsunade huffed and didn’t let him come up with any lies, but he didn’t give up easily.

“Look, I’m just making sure the place is safe so the women in our esteemed village feel secure taking a bath there.”

Seeing the change in Yujin’s expression, as if he had actually believed Jiraya’s words, Tsunade added.

“And when you do see something, is it your way of saying that the security system in the village bathhouses is flawed, and that’s why they should improve? So you don’t have to spend two hours standing there looking if you’ve found a security flaw.”

“But then I’m testing to see how long it takes for security to discover me. If last time it was two hours, it just shows how inefficient the security is. I take my job seriously.”

“And since when is that your job?”

“If I don’t do it, who will? For the sake of the women in the village who need to take a bath to stay clean, beautiful, and fragrant, I need to make this sacrifice.”

Tsunade couldn’t take any more of his nonsense and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground with a bleeding nose.