It´s no good, my throat´s been crushed.
His black eyes started to lose shine, as his very own eyelids started to close. His white-haired mane, as if it were a solemn veil, blocking his body from view.
It´s useless, I'm passing out. Am I going to die? Have I…failed?
With regret he closed his eyes and started to think deeply about his life.
It´s not how you live, but how you die in the ninja world.
Looking back, my life has been nothing but failures…
Continually rejected by Tsunade, Unable to stop my friend and unable to protect either my student or my mentor.
And in return, I swore I would accomplish a deed so great, that it would obliterate all my failures, and I´d die a splendid ninja!
At least, that´s how it was supposed to go.
Then on his very mind, a vision of a blonde-haired baby with whisker marks on both of his cheeks appeared and he couldn´t resist the urge to smile.
That´s right, I gave that child…
I´m going to become Hokage! A hokage that surpasses al previous hokage!
Naruto, now that I think about it. You´re just like that novel´s main character.
You´ve inherited Minato´s and Kushina´s wishes, their hopes.
And yet I…
You´re my sensei
And you´re a great ninja who possesses the true talent of a ninja! There´s no other like you.
Never go back on your word and never give up, Naruto. If that´s your ninja way, then as your mentor. I have no business whining, for everyone knows that a student inherits his ninja way from his teacher.
Slowly obtaining the last ounce of strength to get up, even though his body protested in pain, he was going to do one last good deed for the world and the hidden leaf village.
Isn´t that so, Naruto!?
He glanced at his summon by his side whom nodded and removed its robe, as he started to write one last message for the hidden leaf village in the back of the toad.
Never give up.
Naruto, you´re the child of the prophecy. I´m sure of it now.
I entrust you with the rest…
An explosion rung on his ears, as he fell deep into the water, so cold yet his body felt so warm still, as he sunk into the depths.
The Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant
Now, it´ll end a bit better, I hope.
Looks like I'll need to drop the pen, and start the sequel of that story…
The Tale of Naruto Uzumaki…
He chuckles inwardly as his frown turned into a pleased smile.
Not bad, not bad at all.
As his life left his body forever, he finally would be laid to rest.
Jiraiya the Great Toad Sage and the most powerful of the three sannin. Appropriate candidate for Fourth Hokage, the strongest ninja the Hidden Leaf ever produced, the man that would make the ladies of all the world throb, the madness of all males of the village.
Opening his eyes, the white-haired toad sage turned around to be in a white room, not believing the fact that he´s on the afterlife. Was this, Limbo; he expected something better, perhaps a hot spring with tons of naked ladies he could give some talk to.
He faced a man with long blonde hair in white robes, the man had glowing white eyes therefore it was hard to distinguish his overall appearance. The man was very powerful, even more than his apprentice Nagato whom wore the Rinnegan.
"Where am I?"
The toad sage asked to the man whom solemnly stared at the young man, at least in age difference between them glancing around the white walls and roof of the room that had nothing.
You´re in the pure realm, where the bodies of those who die go after their life is consumed.
"I see, then, who are you?"
The toad sage still in all seriousness glanced at the man although with some distrust, after all. The last thing he needed was to be summoned by Orochimaru´s edo tensei, even though he was in the depths of the water. Or he believed so.
I´m the Judeo-Christian faction´s God, the supreme being whom originated all universe, The First One.
Jiraiya was surprised at meeting the real God in his front, one would guess the man would´ve been older and wiser, not a man whom looked young, white dimly glowing eyes and blonde hair, he resisted the urge to chuckle. Unlike most people, the toad sage whom was raised as an orphan really didn´t had any religious education, his teacher Hiruzen Sarutobi was a very religious man whom believed in God and believed in a supernatural force beyond them that perhaps dictated fate. Even though to the white-haired young boy in those times it all seemed to be a humbug.
Well, his teacher didn´t seem the most relatable man when he spoke about Kami and Heaven at all.
You´re rather, comfortable
"My old sensei used to believe in God, therefore I am not as shocked or surprised at meeting a figure of your caliber here in the pure world. That must mean that my soul has been laid to rest."
The man solemnly spoke to the god rather casually, meanwhile the figure just nodded.
I´m here to make you an offer Jiraiya, for your deeds committed not only did the elemental nations are now at peace but your apprentice Naruto is now the beacon of peace for the future generation. What I offer you, is one last chance at a new life before you finally come to this multiversal pure world.
Jiraiya pondered on that, another chance to live. To live the thrill of being alive, the thrill of adventure, to wander around the world and see how much it has changed, with his experience.
"Mmm, sounds interesting."
Raising his right hand and caressing his chin with his index and thumb to express his interest, the god however nodded and continued.
You´ll be reborn in another world, a war-torn world where brothers in all but blood fight to the death for squabbles of centuries ago. For your actions on this world, I´ll give you two gifts and grant you a wish.
"Another world. Then this must mean that also livings beings are different there."
Jiraiya theorized towards the god whom solemnly nodded.
The beings of that world don´t naturally wield chakra, even less there are those whom wield Senjutsu as you do.
"So, my powers and abilities would be useless for me to use when I'm reborn in that world then, quite clever."
The god once again nodded at the clues the toad sage was getting.
For that reason are both of my gifts, my first gift for you if you accept my offer, I´ll change your overall existence´s composition for you to be able to be molded to the energies of this world, you won´t be able to use chakra anymore, though you´ll now wield magic, and by extent once you master this magic, you shall be able to gather nature energy towards you and wield nature magic, which in turn will form into an overall never seen before Senjutsu art. Your second gift, I shall grant you the lusted-for otsutsuki clan´s bloodline, the perfect synchronization of the Byakugan, Rinnegan and Sharingan, though instead of being syphoned off from chakra, it´ll be syphoned off from your magical energies. As for your wish, there are limits, any aspects of your past life and those you knew in your past life cannot be altered, therefore you cannot wish anything as Jiraiya of the Elemental Nations.
The Toad Sage bit his lip, God was clever by putting that restraint over his wish. He already knew what he´ll be given, power beyond that of his dreams. The Rinnegan, The Byakugan and the Sharingan; since he cannot wish anything that his past self would wish, that meant that all he could wish was for another bloodline, then again, he was left theorizing.
With the rinnegan he had instant access to the five elements; fire, water, earth, lightning and wind; including their subtypes Ice which was water and wind, wood which was earth and water, lava which was fire and earth, dust release which was earth, wind and fire, scorch release which was fire and wind, boil which implied water and fire, and magnet which implied wind and earth or lightning.
As an informant, Jiraiya always perhaps lusted and sometimes envied the Yamanaka Clan; although during his tenure as shinobi the Yamanaka weren´t so active, during the third Shinobi world war and Minato´s generation, there was a Yamanaka that proved that being able to have mind powers was something that even most dojutsu couldn´t even topple. Therefore, perhaps he already knew what his last wish would be.
"I wish to have mental abilities beyond any being."
Jiraiya finally stated his wish to the God whom nodded and at last spoke.
Does this mean you accept?
The Toad Sage was about to agree, but he felt something amiss, perhaps something he had yet to do before he could go.
"Jiraiya."
An elder man´s voice received him and he turned around to meet none other than the Third Hokage in his post-prime days before Orochimaru cruelly murdered him, he looked jovial and paired with the same Kimono he used to have back when they were Team Hiruzen, caused him too much nostalgia.
"Hiruzen-sensei, you´re here too?"
Asking to the man surprised ignoring the god that was behind him and focusing on the man whom crossed his arms and glanced at him with seriousness.
"So here´s where you´ve been? Minato and Kushina have been waiting for you to tell them about how things were going. I´ve so much to tell you Jiraiya, I know that you´ll feel happy for what I am about to tell you."
The man stated as the white haired man closed his eyes and felt his heart ache, he either will go to the afterlife and meet Minato and Kushina again after eighteen years or he´ll take the chance that the god offered him and do a leap of faith to a new life.
"Sensei, i´m glad to meet you again."
Being honest to the man whom looked at him rather concentrated and also with a misspell of affection perhaps to the young man he saw grow into a splendid ninja, many would say that the true and favorite apprentice of the third hoakge was none other than Jiraiya even though in the beginning he favored orochimaru.
In truth, if it wasn´t for all the tragedies, perhaps Jiraiya´s life would´ve gone different.
"Jiraiya, I´m sorry."
Now that both were lonely in the afterlife Hiruzen Sarutobi needed to be set free of the burdens he carried from the mortal world, before he could meet his son Asuma, his wife, his first love perhaps and also his family. Before all of that, he would free himself of the burden.
"For what Sensei?"
Estranged, the white haired man rarely did felt aggressive against the man whom went away, far before his time, Jiraiya however had fond memories of the man, one could say that he died better and with a smile on his face. He had a family, he had a wife; unlike him whom he died loveless, without any family and the woman he truly loved with all of his heart, was giving him a chance the moment he leapt away and was taken by the embrace of death.
"I lied to you so much Jiraiya…the truth is that you´re my first born. You´re the true heir of the Sarutobi clan. It all happened, fifty-five years ago…back when I was an ANBU. I lead a mission in Kaminari no Kuni under my Sensei´s own order, to investigate on a Kyubi-like power-source on two Shinobi of Kumogakure. The Gold and Silver Brothers. I found them but they utterly murdered my teammates and I thought they had myself."
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A pair of dark eyes opened and stared at a wood ceiling, trying to raise his chest fast he grunted and he felt a pair of gentle hands on his chest, turning his head slightly around and his eyes towards the figure, it was feminine, she was using a white royal kimono, akin to princesses of royalty.
"You shouldn´t excert yourself…"
The female stated gently and pacificly to the man whom had an empty stare on the woman and spoke.
"Are you from Kumo?"
She tilted her head to the side, before finally understanding the language and shaking her head.
"My intentions are to heal a wounded man and soul…"
Hiruzen Sarutobi staid silent and glanced at the ceiling, nothing has been the same ever since Hashirama´s death, after his sensei Tobirama took the mantle of second hokage and he ascended to Chunin, he couldn´t take it. The regret of not being there when his sensei was murdered on a faux peace meeting between the other nations. Such assassination caused the First Shinobi World War, and that assassination was Hiruzen´s ticket to ANBU, the first generation that Tobirama created after Hashirama reluctantly agreed.
Since then, he´s been conducting high-risked missions alone with a few other talented shinobi of Konoha´s major clans. Meanwhile, his friend Danzo instead dedicated himself to be a common Chunin to their common missions, in hopes of ascending to Jonin, like his friends Homura, Koharu; the only man that apparently followed him to ANBU is Kagami.
"What is your name?"
The female asked to the male monkey-masked ANBU gaining the young man´s shrug as he spoke only his name.
"Hiruzen."
"Airi."
She answered truthfully, as her beautiful long white hair moved, her pupil-less white eyes reminded him of a Hyuga yet apparently she didn´t looked as a Hyuga in his eyes, the clan members all have black hair, not white.
.
"Ohoho, so you managed to catch the attention of a princess, eh sensei."
Jiraiya approached to his sensei, his notepad in hand and wriggling his eyebrows to the elder man whom glared at him and bonked him in the head, causing the young man to groan and massage his head.
"We are talking about your mother here boy! Have some semblance of respect."
Crossing his arms and maintaining a rather angered visage, the man sighed and glanced at his tall white spiky-haired son sigh and put his notepad back inside his kimono-like shirt and speak.
"It took me time to recover fully after being mauled by the Gold and Silver Brothers, in that time…I got to know her. All I knew was that she was a princess from a far-away land, far-away from the nations, from what my eyes could really see. She healed me back and eventually, changed the view I had of things."
He closed his eyes and sighed, before reopening them and speaking once again.
"Things happened between us and I had to leave her in exchange for my loyalty to my village. I returned, I was ascended to Jonin and put off from ANBU by Tobirama sensei four months later. Five months later I received a letter from that woman, telling me she was pregnant; a day after Tobirama-sensei named me Hokage."
He sighed in bliss, remembering the conception of Jiraiya quite clearly, holding him in his arms, and yet I broke him the decision he had to do.
"She died giving birth to you, as I held you in my arms. I chose to bring you to the village, but I was arranged to be married to Biwako in the future, in those times…clans weren´t flexible about extra-marital relationships, therefore I had to place you in the orphanage and hope for the best. All I want to say is that, your actions…from your beginning to the very end; i´m proud of your choices. This, is my utmost intimate secret nobody but myself knows…I apologize for never telling you Jiraiya."
Hiruzen revealed to the white haired young man whom chuckled and shook his head, with tears in his eyes the Toad Sage spoke proudly.
"In a way, I always saw you as the father I never had Sarutobi-sensei…now knowing that you´re my father. I…I can finally feel that I was never alone and family-less, now I know I died having a father…my father whom was the Greatest Hokage of modern times whom lived through the three world wars."
He stated to the elder man whom chuckled, approaching to his father and hugging him.
"Jiraiya?"
A woman asked and the white haired man turned around to meet a blonde haired woman.
"Tsunade…you"
His face turned grim, in a way it was a blissfull and yet also bitter moment, knowing that the love of his life died also.
"You died too."
He told her as she shook her head and tilted her head to the side.
"I…I don´t know what happened. In one minute the skies were alight very much and in the other…I´m here."
She stated to the male whom chuckled and scratched the back of his head.
"I guess this is goodbye for me."
He bitterly glanced at the surface causing both to look at him in wonder, finally God appeared by his side surprising both Hiruzen and Tsunade.
"Tsunade-hime, i´m sorry I never managed to return from Ame to that date you promised me. It seems, I will never get a chance to truly express to you my true feelings at all."
He stated to the female whom approached to him and spoke.
"What are you talking about Jiraiya? Just a few more years and I can be finally here with you. Are you really that desperate for that date?"
She smirked at him with her raised eyebrow, crossing her arms underneath that massive bust of hers, yet the male shook his head and finally the god spoke.
"Are you ready?"
The figure asked as Jiraiya closed his eyes and started to sob.
"Tsunade, the truth is that the moment that you cried for both Nawaki and Dan it pained me so much, watching as my love interest suffered due to the war, made me seek out peace and if there was a true way of achieving it. That was my motivation to train Nagato, Minato and Naruto; a world where people like ourselves wouldn´t have to suffer and be alone. And I thought that one of the three would change the world…"
He hung his head and closed his eyes, as tears cascaded from his eyes.
"I was wrong."
He expressed the last idea as the female approached to him and with both of her hands on his face, she rose it and spoke to him.
"Jiraiya, you´re better than this moping mess of tears that you are. Right now Naruto is outside battling god knows what that trapped everybody in tree roots inside cocoons. I´m sure that whatever it is, it´ll achieve peace afterwards, forever."
She stated to the male whom scratched the back of his head and chuckled loudly.
"Yeah right, sorry Hime, I got taken away by my own regrets anyway. This is goodbye from me though."
As he started to glow, both Hiruzen and Tsunade glanced at hima s he started to fade away.
"What do you mean Jiraiya?"
A hurt Tsunade spoke to the young man as the elder Hokage glanced at the God whom was glancing at both warily.
"I was offered another chance at life; Father, Tsunade…a new world needs me to spread the love of Icha Icha and the peeping of women…"
He chuckled as the female glared at him, before he ceased his goofiness and finally spoke.
"Another world needs a second chance, I was offered to give it peace, to be reborn and make a world peaceful through my own actions."
Tsunade shook her head and grasped his right hand with her own right and shook her head, tears cascading down her eyes.
"Please Jiraiya…stay, wait for me…just, don´t go. Can´t you wait for me some more years Baka, why do you have to do this to me?"
She asked to the male whom sighed and glanced at her beautiful brown eyes.
"Because I wouldn´t be myself if I let a world sink down in the curse of hatred hime. The Gallant Jiraiya would then be burdened by his own righteousness for not doing all he could to do so."
He spoke proud of his own self perhaps, which caused the female to pout at the male and glare at him.
"You stupid insufferable baka!"
She tried to hit him but she couldn´t as he finally rose his left arm and opened left palm, glancing at her.
"Hime, promise me something."
She glanced at the man whom stared at her with affection for her, she approached her left hand to his, as he spoke.
"When you die and finally given the choice…please, perhaps this might sound selfish but…do seek me out. This time, believe that i´ll search for you…only if you continue to believe in me that is hime."
He stated to her as she nodded and smirked.
"And you believe i´m going to let you hog all the fame for yourself. I´ll find you, and when I do…i´ll give you the worst beating of your life."
She stated as he paled, as he felt himself dissipate rather fast, he closed his eyes and smiled.
´Minato, Kushina, Sarutobi-sensei, Tsunade…wait for me.´
With only a smile, he closed his eyes and allowed the god to do it´s magic.
On a two-story privileged mansion many were rushing around trying to attend a woman whom was being carried downstairs by her strong red-haired husband dressed in a dark blue tuxedo. The woman had a prominent belly, indicating her pregnancy.
Not bothering with the stairs, behind the man´s back leather bat-like wings appeared, and he lowered himself from the uppermost floor to the lowest floor which was a receiving hall.
Devils, unlike most supernatural creatures' devils lived in the Underworld and made it their home. As myth entails, they are beings whom embody pride and lust, more than many others. The underworld, another dimension entirely separated from the world; in total there are 72 devil families scattered all around the territories of the underworld each family share their own terrain over all the underworld and have their own servants, authority and influence in their inherent society.
Zeoticus Gremory is a Veteran Sergeant of the 515th Legion of the Northern Hemisphere, a man whose life was dedicated to a loving family. And a lucky man since he managed to marry his childhood sweetheart through an arranged marriage that thankfully his family managed to pull off good.
His childhood sweetheart is none other than the brown-haired pregnant woman he was carrying now, Venelana Bael the first-born of Lord Zekram Bael whom was known as King Bael for his frightening power of destruction. Since she chose to marry him, the title of the future lordship was handed to Venelana´s younger brother, something that nowadays she didn´t cared about.
Both had their handsome ftwenty-year old young son and first-born of the family Sirzechs, the young man is everything they aspired to be. Although not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, he was the strongest devil of his generation and this led to many respecting him due to it, his three friends were Ajuka Astaroth, Falbium Glasya-Labolas and Katarea Leviathan; today however was a special day for the Gremory Family as a whole.
The sudden pregnancy of Lady Gremory came as surprise when she started to get the usual symptoms of it, and usually devils never feel sick nor nauseous without being attacked by light energies. Therefore, when the pregnancy was confirmed; Zeoticus and Sirzechs were all happy, more the latter for finally having a chance to get a younger brother to look out for.
A magical circle made them land on the greatest hospital on the underworld, on Sitri Territory the Lilith Medical Corps. Hospital was the most famous hospital which was mostly administered by Sitri Clan servants, some branch members and others being of other families whom felt the call of service in the Medical Corps.
"Lead her to the reception hall, her water´s already leaking."
A doctor called off as a wheel-bed finally was brought and Lady Gremory lied on it, the doctor ran towards the room with the about to birth woman into the hall, with Lord Gremory following closely in tow.
"Please Lord Gremory, put these safety clothes for you, specially the gauntlets."
Handing a bag towards the man whom nodded and immediately went to one of the restrooms to dress himself accordingly, meanwhile Lady Gremory screamed and pushed as her baby was about to be born.
Lord Gremory arrived in time when another doctor had the baby in its arms, a male spiky-red haired boy.
"It´s a healthy baby boy."
Handing the baby to the mother whom looked at the baby with a smile, Lord Gremory was finally handed the baby whom glanced at them with an odd glance, and tried to reach towards the crimson red haired locks of the man, whom chuckled and approached the locks of hair towards the boy.
"What will be his name?"
The doctor asked to the woman whom closed her eyes and heard it, outside a tiny storm was brewing, just drizzle.
"Jiraiya."
She stated to her husband whom nodded.
"Young Lightning, a good name for the boy."
Opening his eyes Jiraiya could glance at a man glancing at him with wonder with those blue-green eyes of his, at first, he was drawn to those red-haired locks of his.
´Uzumaki, perhaps…´
He first thought and unconsciously his arms and hands tried to grip the hair of the man whom chuckled in amusement, being reborn while being conscious of the whole event and being formerly one of your nation´s biggest shots was something that perhaps bore him. Although perhaps this was also a part of being reborn, that meant he´ll have to go through all baby and growing phase once more before he could do anything else.
He´d rather be staring at Tsunade´s big knockers or just spy hot babes in the hot spring than doing this. His father turned him around slowly and he glanced at a brown-haired woman about to be knocked out.
"That´s your mother."
The man spoke and he could only feel his heart throbbing intensely, a mother.
Being an orphan since birth and left alone to fend for himself, perhaps as a result of the first shinobi world war, he never had the chance to enjoy the warmth a family could bring. That forced him to grow up faster than most and try to seek his own path in life, for that whole reason he never understood orochimaru´s darkness, for that reason he could never have a menial conversation with Tsunade, for that reason he had to give some more than your average young boy during those years.
"m…ma…"
Without realizing it he spoke his first words out of a trance, the woman before him was brown haired, even in her own laid out and birthing position, she looked solemn and beautiful. His mother, after so many years of loneliness he finally had a mother.
Everybody turned towards him, including his mother. The doctors not believing it, even the father turned the baby sharply around and feeling the massive headache, he cried.
Finally, being handed to his mother, he felt her warmth and it lulled him to sleep.
After fifty years of not feeling it, the Toad Sage finally felt the warmth of the only woman he knew would love him even if he was an uncurable pervert.
His very own mother.