[What are we doing with our lives bro? Gooning ain't it we need to lock in.]
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In a place of ethereal beauty, you could find different landscapes blended harmoniously. Ancient trees that stretch high into the sky, serene ponds and cascading waterfalls, their crystalline waters reflecting the orange tinge of the sky above.
There were many different sized toad statues, standing regally and carved from stone. Moss covered rocks and ancient stone pathways.
Now, in a huge castle at the centre of this mystifying place resided the Great Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku.
Great Toad Sage POV/
I went to sleep mid conversation.
Ahhhhh, this is life.
All these insects and flies in front of me ready to be eaten with my tea.
What a nice life.
Only thing I miss right now is a good human girl with a good gyat.
It has been a while since I tasted some human flesh.
Maybe I should start cultivating some humans here in the sage lands. Feeding them insects for sometime so their meat can taste better later on.
"WAKE UP, YOU SENILE OLD MAN!!"
*Gasp!*
I immediately woke up from my dream as I heard an unfamiliar voice yell at me.
"Ahh, who is talking?" I asked in confusion.
*Tick Tick.*
"It's me, Great Toad Sage," I heard the voice again and looked down at the blurry unfamiliar small frog with a forehead filled with tick marks.
"Hmm, you are 'me'? What a strange name," I said and looked at the frog who claimed to be 'me' but smaller and funny looking.
"I am Fukasaku, you stupid old man!!" He shouted, and it quickly clicked in my mind who he was again.
But why was he here though?
"Oho, sorry about that, but why are you here, Fukasaku-kun?" I asked while going through that blissful dream with my mouth filled with beetle tea and human pie.
"You were shouting loudly and had a nightmarish prophecy, so I came with Shima immediately to check on you," he said, and then goosebumps spread across my body as everything clicked and I immediately remembered that dreadful prophecy.
"Ohhh, I remember now!... Hurry, Fukasaku, go and bring that boy Jiraiya to me. I need to inform him about something of utmost importan—zzzzzzz"
Fukasaku looked at the sleeping Toad Sage who was drenched in his own sweat and sighed tiredly. "This senile old geezer sure is getting on my nerves every time, but that prophecy..." Fukasaku said with narrowed eyes to himself and slowly left the hall to reverse summon Jiraiya while Shima stayed by the Sage Toad's side.
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Near a Bath House in Konoha/
Two people were conversing suspiciously while looking at something.
Jiraiya POV/
"So what do you think, hehehe?" I said to my cultured brother, Ken.
"Hehehe, you dirty-minded shit! You really know your stuff. This will be good for in my secret collection." Ken said while looking at some illustrations of naked women in weird positions that I had gotten my hands on in the secret chambers of bath houses.
"I won't call it dirty-minded. I call it sexy imagination," I said, to which he nodded in agreement.
"So how much? 500 Ryo?" He said as he took out some ryo.
"Sorry man, these are not for sale, and it's a limited edition by the way, so I don't know," I said as I grabbed the pictures and slowly folded them to put them in my small pouch.
"Damn, the prices are going up lately. Why is that?!" He said as he took out more ryo, much to my excitement.
"It's high like this for married men," I said with my jaw jutted forward in displeasure.
"You jealous prick. Here, take it. I have retired selling quality stuff to you in the past with discounts so that should be enough to go a little easier on my pocket." he said something but I didn't focus and just gave the pictures back to him, then immediately grabbed the money that would be enough for me to not go out on useless missions for some little time and continue to do my research because I felt like I was nearing a breakthrough in my imagination and start writing a book and become a popular writer like that guy Garou.
Damn!
Just thinking about how everyone recognises that guy as the greatest writer of all time makes me want to rush to that bath house again to get more inspiration for my book.
I am sure when I become rich like him, I would conquer the red light district in a town close to Konoha.
Though I swear Garou doesn't even know how to enjoy life because I never seen him use that millionaire level of money anywhere.
But his parents though...
I think I once saw his father flaunting his 24-karat golden teeth in the Heaven's Feel district while demurely claiming everywhere that Garou's success comes from the awesomeness of his bloodline.
*Puff.*
"Jiraiya boy!" I suddenly heard my name being called and looked behind me to see Fukasaku-san staring at me suspiciously while giving side glances at Ken, who was whistling and backing away slowly.
*swoosh.*
Ken ran away the next second with his material in the opposite direction.
"Ehh, Fukasaku-san, what are you doing here?" I said while giving him a small bored bow, then started to count the money.
"The Great Toad Sage is asking for your presence, it seems, so I came to take you to him," he said calmly, and I raised an eyebrow at that.
"What does that geezer want with me in these dire times? You know how busy I am, right?" I said while licking my finger as I went through the juicy paper money.
"..."
I gave the silent and deadpanned toad a glance and sighed tiredly. "Fine, fine, but it better be worth my time," I said in annoyance with my arms crossed.
"Good then. Let's go," he said without hesitation and jumped on my shoulder then put a hand on me.
Then we were reverse summoned to Mount Myoboku with a puff.
I opened my eyes to look at my surroundings and quickly started to breathe in the fresh air, and then, slowly with Fukasaku-san in front, we made our way to the castle where the Great Toad Sage was.
After some time, we stood in front of a huge, pale-red old toad that was snoring.
"WAKE UP, YOU SENILE GEEZER!" Fukasaku-san shouted loudly at the Toad Sage, who slowly opened his hazy, blind-like eyes in confusion.
"Where am I? What's this place? Where are my kids and wife–"
"You don't have a wife or kids old man. Wake up already! I brought Jiraiya here," Fukasaku-san said with irritation, while I just looked at the Toad Sage in boredom.
"Ohhhhh, I remember now. Sorry about that, and thanks, Fukasaku-kun. Now that you are here, I need to inform you of something very urgent, Jiraiya boy!" The Toad Sage apologized, and his whole demeanor changed to a serious one, which made me focus more on what he was about to say because the Toad Sage rarely made that face.
"So do you remember the last prophecy I had about you?" He asked.
"The one about that I will be a pervert with no equal? And that I will observe the world from the sidelines, then soon I will have a student who will have the power that could either destroy the world or bring peace to it?" I replied and asked back, which made him nod his head in affirmation.
"Yes, but now I have a different prophecy to tell you this time about–" He said, and at the end, he started to tremble nervously.
I raised an eyebrow at this, as this was the first time I had seen him nervous, which made me become serious and listen carefully.
"So...?" I said, and he opened his mouth to speak again.
"A great calamity will befall upon this world and then destroy it completely, and there won't be anyone able to stop it!" He said, which made me stare at him with wide eyes immediately.
"What?! But how?! Didn't you talk about some blue-eyed kid who would save the world from this calamity?!" I asked in surprise, thinking about that time he told me to look for a blue-eyed kid like that and become his teacher or bring him here to learn from the toads.
"The blue-eyed kid will come for sure, but he alone cannot stand a chance against those t..two," he said, stuttering at the end with a pale face, which made me more curious and gave me a dreadful feeling about this.
I can feel it 'My carefree life full of research is coming to an end. I can clearly feel it,' I thought as my heart started to hurt from the bullshit coming my way.
"Those two? Who are they?" I heard Fukasaku-san ask calmly, with some sweat coming down his forehead.
"I don't know, but the closest thing they can come to are GODS!" He said and yelled fearfully at the end.
Fahhhhhh!
I started to rub my forehead tiredly as I thought, 'Just great. Some kids playing god was not enough, and now I have to deal with real freaking gods.'
What have I gotten myself into?!
"Do you have a clear description of what they look like?" I asked, as I have already started to think about running as far away as possible if I ever came across them.
The Great Toad Sage sighed and started to scratch his chin. "The first one is a huge, muscular white man covered with shiny blue veins across his body that pulsated. He had long, spiky white hair and no ears or mouth, but two large eyes, one embedded on his chest and the other on his face." He said seriously, which surprised us even more.
[Picture]
"You sure you saw a human in your dreams?! Who has a body proportion like that?!" I asked in surprise, thinking about the image of someone with that description, which clearly screamed "run away" if you ever saw him.
"What about the other one?" I asked nervously, praying for the description to be a little normal in appearance at least.
"I am not sure about the other one, but the only thing I can say is that if you gaze at the night sky and at him, you can see no difference at all. His body is filled with shining, colorful stars moving in strange ways," he said, and a headache immediately hit me that only a scuba dive into some boobs could heal.
[Picture]
I rubbed my forehead in pain again as I thought about these absurd beings popping up one after another to destroy the world.
Like, what the fuck is wrong with you people?! Can't you just chill and embrace a woman to calm your nuts down or something?! What's so fun about fucking up the world?! I just wanna know!
Touch a boob or two man! It's great to calm stressful crazies.
"Sighhhh, So what am I supposed to do with this information? What should I do?" I asked, even though this was so messed up, I still didn't want the world to blow up out of nowhere while I researched on a random Tuesday.
"I want you to continue what you are doing, but start to create a spy organization across the Elemental Nations to secretly search for these two individuals and find them for me. Any leads to them will do. The Toads will help you." he said.
I sighed again and relaxed a little.
Seems, I didn't need to stop researching for some more time.
"Well, I was planning to do just that even though it will be really difficult, but all those civilian Kunoichis trained to be used in a day like this, I will inform sensei to see what we can do. And if you could give me some money then I can hire prostitutes and slaves for the job after I train them for sometime personally hehe. Anything else you need to tell me?" I asked.
"Nothing for now, but I expect frequent news on the world, as this concerns its safety as a whole," he said, and I nodded in agreement.
"Well, this is goodbye then, I have things to do," I said and the Great Toad Sage nodded, then I turned to look at Fukasaku-san, who had been frowning the whole time.
He looked at me for a second, then hopped onto my shoulder. After that, we disappeared with a puff the same way we had come.
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The Great Toad Sage's POV/
*Puff.*
I looked at Fukasaku indifferently as he appeared before me, thinking about that bastardly-looking white man in the prophecy I had seen, who had looked at me as if I wasn't even considered an ant in front of him as he tried to steal my knowledge and being from me.
That made me fearful and angry.
Fearful at his power and might, angry at the audacity that he even dared to look at me like that.
But one thing I was sure of was what I saw in his both eyes.
"Fukasaku, give more information about the Hashirama cells and Sharingan to that man Danzo," I said with some disgust evident in my tone.
The prophecy had somehow changed. All my hard work through the millennia was going down the hill now if I didn't do something, but that couldn't stop me from being the one controlling the world from behind the shadows. I wouldn't allow anything to happen to MY world at all costs.
Now I am at, I also need to do something about the Shogunate system.
The Shogun and the Samurais' hold on the world is stabilising and becoming stronger more and more, which can't do.
Their destruction cannot be postponed anymore and I need to accelerate some of the timeline events to happen earlier.
So, should I use that slave of mine black Zetsu for the job, or that old and now useless bastard?
"Hai, Great Toad Sage! But can I know wh–"
"Zzzzzz."
Fukasaku didn't get to ask his question as The Great Toad Sage went to sleep.
The End.
[We ain't back fully yet, but soon will be. Still saving up chaps in draft.]