Traveling through Naruto: I am the strongest rotten person!

In the blink of an eye, time came to the 28th year of Konoha. More than half of the fruit trees grafted the previous year survived. Except for a few weird ones, such as the peach branches grafted on the pine trees, other than that, the others were growing very well.

During the wheat harvest, Kagura ate cherries grafted on cherry trees, apricots grafted on plum trees, in midsummer she ate improved watermelons with more flesh and less seeds and a crispy and sweet texture, and in autumn she ate crabapples. Tree made of apples as rootstock.

This year, Kagura contracted almost all the fruits after Orochimaru's grafting. Orochimaru looked at these successfully grafted fruit trees and confirmed his conjecture. Just as if trees need to be grafted, they need to find closely related trees, so should Hashirama's cells. This principle.

If Hashirama's cells are transplanted into people of the Senju clan, will the success rate be greatly improved?

That must be it, Orochimaru thought.

Now, the more troublesome thing is that firstly, it is difficult to obtain Hashirama cells, and secondly, it is difficult to conduct experiments on the Senju clan members.

If you want to use the Senju tribe for experiments, this is simply a disco over Tobirama's head. Do you think he will praise you for your good job?

Shaking his head, Orochimaru tried to get rid of this thought that was impossible at this stage from his mind. He had to be calm and endure the loneliness. After killing the two brothers of the Senju family, he could make a bold move. I did it according to my own ideas.

Orochimaru thought he understood the general principle, and he no longer cared about these fruits. Tobirama had no objection to this. After all, Orochimaru was a ninja and did not really become a farmer. However, the grafting technology The advent of , is a good thing for Konoha’s fruit farmers.

Therefore, at the beginning of spring, Orochimaru was assigned by Tobirama to be a teacher to the fruit farmers, teaching them how to graft fruit trees.

This is a very terrifying thing in Jiraiya's eyes. He really wants to write a letter to Tsunade now, telling him how "not doing his job properly" Orochimaru is. Instead of improving his ninjutsu, he will never go to the farmer's road. Return.

However, he did not have Tsunade's address, and he did not know which village Tsunade had followed Natsuki to and what she was doing.

Orochimaru talked about how to choose rootstocks, and moved his hands very quickly, showing them how to graft correctly.

Hiruzen and Jiraiya, who had returned from a mission outside the village, stopped in their tracks when they passed by the orchard.

Orochimaru is Hiruzen's proudest student. No matter what he does, he can do it very well. This was the case when he took him under his wing. Now, although he still belongs to his team in name, he spends more time following him. Beside Tobirama.

Orochimaru by Tobirama's side is still outstanding. In the past two years, he has suddenly become interested in agricultural plants and other things. He has developed plant cutting and grafting techniques, and pioneered greenhouse cultivation.

Noticing Hiruzen's approving gaze, Jiraiya was a little jealous. He muttered dissatisfiedly: "I have also made great progress in the past two years. Orochimaru is not the only one who has made progress, dad!"

Hiruzen heard the dissatisfaction in Jiraiya's tone and couldn't help laughing. He admitted that Jiraiya had indeed made progress, but when compared with Orochimaru, he felt a bit like a pearl covered in dust.

Orochimaru has been a genius since he was a child, while Jiraiya has always been a bastard, doing everything carelessly, as if there is nothing in the world that can make him serious - except for peeping at women's baths.

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In the face of genius, the bottom line is always easily overlooked, and all efforts and changes are overshadowed by the dazzling genius.

But it was true as Jiraiya said, he had made progress in the past two years. He followed him, working hard and making progress bit by bit at his own pace, but he actually ignored it.

"Ah, that's true. You work very hard, Jiraiya." Hiruzen scratched the back of his head, his words full of apology.

However, Jiraiya didn't take his apology to heart. Jiraiya stared stubbornly at Orochimaru in the distance with his eyes flattened and unconvinced.

"Genius, can the crane tail never catch up with or surpass the genius?" Jiraiya seemed to be asking Hiruzen, but also seemed to be talking to himself.

"Well..." Hiruzen held his chin while thinking about the answer to this question, "It's hard to say. It varies from person to person. Some geniuses can be surpassed the day after tomorrow, while some geniuses are like a mountain that is difficult to climb."

"..."

Hiruzen's words made Jiraiya feel a little uncomfortable.

"Orochimaru, what kind of genius is he?" This is the question Jiraiya asked himself. No one else can give the answer to this question. He can only rely on Jiraiya himself to verify it.

Hiruzen's eyes were gentle, and he reached out and patted Jiraiya on the shoulder. Jiraiya, who was sixteen or seventeen years old, was growing taller. Now he was already about the same height as Hiruzen, and he was half a young man.

"Jiraiya," Hiruzen called his name gently, "It doesn't matter what kind of genius Orochimaru is, what matters is what kind of genius you are, do you understand?"

"..."

I understand, I understand, but... Jiraiya looked at Hiruzen displeased, and his mouth became even more flattened.

"Dad," he said with dissatisfaction, "so, in your heart, I am really a loser, right?"

Realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Hiruzen laughed out loud, "Sorry, sorry, I'm just following what you said. Speaking of which, Jiraiya, you should know what your position is, right?"

"Hey~" Jiraiya turned his head and stopped looking at Hiruzen. His position was indeed at the rear of the crane at the beginning.

In the distance, Orochimaru, who heard Hiruzen's laughter, turned around and saw an unhappy Jiraiya. Jiraiya seemed to be having trouble, flattening his mouth and twisting his head.

Orochimaru left the crowd and walked over. He remained silent, but he felt good as long as he was with the team. This feeling was very strange. He only realized it after spending most of his time doing research with Tobirama.

"Jiraiya, what are you making trouble about?" Orochimaru looked at Jiraiya. They came back from the dusty journey outside the village. Jiraiya's short hair had also grown long, and he tied it up behind like Sakumo. His hair was in a low ponytail, and he looked like an unkempt hedgehog from the front.

Orochimaru suddenly wanted to touch his hair, and he did so. His long fingers stretched out and gently rubbed the top of Jiraiya's head.

It was the first time that Hiruzen saw Orochimaru behave so affectionately towards others. He felt very touched. His student finally had some human feelings. It seemed that he had really grown up.

Jiraiya was even more stunned on the spot, his eyes wide open, staring at Orochimaru's face strangely.

Orochimaru's face has not become masculine as he has grown up, it still looks like a beautiful girl, with a little softness at the moment, which is quite good-looking.

Can……

Jiraiya felt awkward as his eyes focused on the top of his head.

"Orochimaru……?"

He called him confused and uncomfortable.