Traveling through Naruto: I am the strongest rotten person!

Jiraiya didn't know what was going on. At dusk, he wandered into Orochimaru's house for no apparent reason.

Originally, he just wanted to go out for a walk because he was thinking about a new novel and had a problem with the problem. When he realized it, he had already reached the courtyard of Orochimaru's house.

Nothing has changed here, except that the houses are getting older, the yards are deserted, and weeds are growing in the corners, making it difficult to tell at a glance whether anyone still lives here.

The door to the main house was locked, and it was obvious that Orochimaru was not at home.

Jiraiya looked at the door, wondering, was Orochimaru not in Konoha, or was he just in the laboratory and not back?

I didn't meet anyone I had chatted with in the past along the way, so I couldn't get news about Orochimaru.

Now, since he was already standing here, he wanted to go in and take a look.

Just take a look.

Jiraiya came to the corner. The flowerpot from before was still there. The flowers had died hundreds of years ago, leaving only a flowerpot with dried soil.

Moving the flowerpot away with one hand, a slightly rusty key appeared in Jiraiya's eyes.

The key was sitting quietly on the window sill, looking like it hadn't been used for a long time.

Jiraiya smiled and picked up the key, blowing on the rust powder on it.

This key was originally prepared for him by Orochimaru, so naturally no one else could use it except him.

Jiraiya opened the door with a rusty key. At dusk, the room was already a little dark.

Everything was not much different from the last time I came here, except that there were a few more things, a pot of green radish that did not need to be exposed to sunlight, a few puppets, and jars of green and black tea on the table where the tea sets were placed.

Jiraiya became curious. What did this subtle change mean?

Either Orochimaru has changed his gender and has a human touch, or it is beyond his expectation that there is an extra woman in this family. Only women like puppets, even snake-shaped puppets, right?

Jiraiya picked up the randomly discarded dolls on the tatami, a purple snake-shaped doll, a white rabbit doll, and another one, I couldn't tell what it was.

It was as if he had discovered a new world. Jiraiya went to the kitchen with a smile. In the past, Orochimaru had no requirements for food. He only had to eat it and satisfy the body's required functions.

Jiraiya thought, since there are so many things in the house that were not there before, there must be some big changes in the kitchen.

Turning on the light in the kitchen, the corners of his smiling mouth slowly dropped after seeing the scene in the kitchen clearly.

Except for a few spare cups that were kept clean, the pots and pans were all covered in a thick layer of dust and looked like they had not been used for months or even a year or two.

"It seems that the woman Orochimaru is looking for doesn't like to cook..." Pouting his lips, Jiraiya gave him a definition, "If you don't cook, what will you eat? Are you ordering takeout every day?"

He nodded. With the amount of money Orochimaru earned for doing the mission, he couldn't afford it even if he ate takeout every day, but... he always felt like something was wrong.

In the past, he and Tsunade always liked to use Orochimaru's home, where they lived alone, as a gathering place because no one restricted the time and no one was in charge.

Now, Jiraiya sat down on the tatami, recalling the past with a lot of emotion.

When it got dark, Orochimaru returned home from the underground laboratory on the edge of the village. The moment he entered the yard, he saw the lights on inside the house.

Orochimaru had been experimenting for a day, and now he was exhausted. He closed his eyelids to relieve the dry eyes caused by fatigue.

He opened the door with an expressionless face, kicked off his shoes at the entrance, and relied on his memory to step on the floor and walk into the living room.

"Hongdou, I told you that I don't need to eat anymore..."

After waiting for a while and hearing no response, Orochimaru stretched his muscles and opened his eyes.

In the living room, a tall figure was lying on the tatami, holding a snake-shaped puppet in his arms and purring slightly.

The eye-catching silver hair has grown longer than before. I don’t know what sweet dream he had, but I can vaguely hear his sly laughter.

Orochimaru stood motionless and looked at him. This figure, this face, this silver hair that he wanted to touch every time he saw it...

He finally came back.

One foot kicked Jiraiya gently on the waist again and again. He was sleeping soundly and was quite dissatisfied with this behavior that disturbed his sleep.

He mumbled and turned over, his words indistinct, "Tsunade, don't make trouble."

Orochimaru always had a secretive smile on his face, and he smiled with the corners of his mouth raised. After hearing what Jiraiya said clearly, he stared at the person on the tatami, and kicked him unexpectedly and hard.

Jiraiya was kicked awake on the spot. Just as he was about to have a seizure, he turned over and saw Orochimaru standing down.

With his long hair covering less than half of his face, Orochimaru looked quite ghostly against the light, and Jiraiya was shocked to see him.

He realized that this was Orochimaru's home.

"Ah, you're back... Hey, Orochimaru, will you die if you wake me up? You actually did such a heavy trick. It's not like you don't know how important a man's waist is!"

Jiraiya meant something, but Orochimaru didn't understand it at all. There was a moment of confusion on his face, but then he sat down on one side.

He had been working on an important experiment without sleep for the past three days. As soon as he relaxed, all the fatigue and sleepiness came to him.

"What did you do to make you look like this?"

"...do experiments."

Sure enough, when he heard the word "experiment", Jiraiya's face darkened a little. He rubbed his eyes and took a breath slowly. He suddenly didn't know what to say.

The two hadn't seen each other for many years, and Orochimaru was still somewhat cruel to his only friend.

If he still has humanity and gentleness now, he can probably only be Jiraiya and Tsunade who have been companions for many years.

"It's a very common experiment, related to ninjutsu." Seeing that Jiraiya was a little uncomfortable, Orochimaru told a white lie after thinking about it.

Because of these words, Jiraiya's face looked better, and he opened his mouth hesitantly, but for some reason, he didn't say anything in the end.

Different directions in life and different views made the two people who originally talked about everything gradually drift further and further apart. It was clear that they missed each other very much, but after they actually met, they didn't know what to say for a while.

In other words, the two of them are no longer able to chat all night long like before. Now, they tend to have nothing to say.

Be careful about taboo topics.

Jiraiya vaguely knew what experiments Orochimaru was doing, but he also knew that if even the third generation old man didn't care, what could he do?

Just like Tsunade said, no matter what it is, if there is progress, there will be sacrifices. This is something that is both realistic and helpless and cannot be stated openly.

If you think about it this way, maybe Orochimaru's experiments still have the support of the village. In this case, he has no position to say anything.

However, he has always disagreed with this. This is probably the reason why he and Orochimaru have gone from being close brothers to being estranged now.

However, Jiraiya did not give up after all. Orochimaru was his first teammate and companion after becoming a genin. If he was the cat who was too lazy to make progress, Orochimaru was more like a fish swimming in front of him. He couldn't help but quicken his pace to catch up.

They were once as close as brothers, living and dying together on the battlefield to protect Konoha and the Land of Fire, forming a deep bond.

There is no such person, and Jiraiya does not want to break this bond.

But something is different after all.

It's just a pity that the two of them were not supposed to be like this.