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Ever since meeting the Great Elder Toad, Naruto felt time passed incredibly fast, especially when cultivating senjutsu on Mount MyĹŤboku; the second hand on the clock moved faster than Guy opening the Eight Gates.
In the blink of an eye, a year had passed, and he still hadn't mastered Sage Mode.
Nothing else, it was still the fault of his overly active brain. While practicing, the melody of "Little Apple" would suddenly pop into his head. How was he supposed to cultivate senjutsu like that?
This year, fourteen-year-old Naruto was already a big boy. Although he still hadn't learned to draw a clean eyeliner, he could already spray disgusting, slimy toad oil and fight Orochimaru for a man at this prime age.
For instance, right now, a clone was sitting with Karin, humming the Thor: Ragnarok theme song while studying Sasuke and Kimimaro's fighting techniques.
"Hey, can you stop coming every day?" Karin complained.
"Can't. Gotta go." Naruko saw the frog-petrification progress had reached her chest and waved goodbye to Karin.
She took out a wooden door panel and threw it on the ground: "It feels wrong to come empty-handed, so before I leave, here's a chest plate for you."
Karin was so angered that her chest ached.
Ever since Karin bound Naruko a year ago, the two had been at odds. Every time Naruko "visited," it would make Karin furious.
Naruko's head also began to show signs of frog-petrification, lines extending upwards and downwards, converging towards her mouth. As the lines met at her mouth, the clone turned into smoke and disappeared.
"Boom!"
A chakra chain struck empty air, smashing the door panel in the process.
To hell with your chest plate, I have a standard figure!
Catching her breath, Karin grumbled, "Lord Orochimaru, can't you do something about this?!"
Every time these clones came, she had to keep an eye on them. At this rate, she'd get wrinkles from all the anger!
"No use," a reanimated dead person next to her spoke.
This was a nameless individual, serving merely as a messenger.
After half a year of skirmishes, Orochimaru had tried countless methods, but still couldn't stop these clones.
He once set up a defensive barrier. However, it was penetrated after only a few days by a meteorite falling from the sky.
A rock falling from three thousand meters up, twirling down in the arms of a Shadow Clone, was essentially ineffective against moving targets, but against an unmoving barrier like this, the effect was incredibly good.
He tried setting up a snake-net defense around the base, but the opponent just dug tunnels underground.
Orochimaru had also tried sending fast reanimated individuals to capture them, but after a few days of trying, he discovered that the Impure World Reincarnation jutsu also had flaws.
Deceased souls, when brought back to the living world, would actually suffer attrition if they stayed too long within a body that wasn't their own!
It wasn't noticeable in the short term, but after Naruto's clones worked nine-to-five uninterrupted for a month, Orochimaru noticed the reanimated souls had a paler color when summoned again.
This also gave Orochimaru new inspiration: since souls could be depleted, could they be replenished?
Since meeting Naruto, Orochimaru had added three new research projects: that mysterious chakra, the unfathomable positioning method, and soul replenishment.
These corresponded to theology, physics, and soul studies respectively.
The topics were too vast, keeping him terribly busy every day, so he no longer paid much attention to the matter of Naruto's clones.
Because there was simply no way to stop them.
The weak ones couldn't be outrun, the strong ones had other things to do, and even if they were defeated, it was useless, because they were just clones.
Orochimaru sometimes couldn't help but marvel that Naruto used the Shadow Clone technique more skillfully than even the Second Hokage, capable of anything, going anywhere.
However, the sight of those clones breaking through defenses to enter the base and then casually sitting down, acting like mere spectators, gave Orochimaru the feeling of a toad crawling on his instep — not biting, just utterly disgusting.
A true toad.
After all, the clones were using a fake Sage Mode.
Orochimaru couldn't do anything about Naruto, and Naruto couldn't do anything about Orochimaru. The two never met each other's main bodies, and neither could touch the other.
On the other side, after sending his Shadow Clone to check in at Orochimaru's base, Naruto continued educating Hayate.
In one year, Hayate had grown bigger and fatter, but because it loved exercise, its "orange-ification" was slower.
This year, Naruto's "orange-ification" passive ability had yielded remarkable results.
Ranked by weight gain effect: Ginger > Fishcake > Nine-Tails > Hayate > Kohina > Hanabi > Gamabunta.
Ginger and Fishcake, because they didn't like to move, showed significant "orange-ification." Ginger could now increase breast size by 3.5 cup sizes, with Fishcake slightly less.
This meant that if Sakura wore Ginger, she could immediately go from an A cup to a D+ nearing E, while wearing Fishcake would make her a C.
Jiraiya developed a small pot belly. If he hadn't realized it in time and intensified his training, he might have out-expanded Hayate.
"I said you can't climb up, why won't you listen?!" Naruto yelled, pointing at Hayate's paws.
"Woof woof…"
"You're talking back to me now?!"
"Woof woof…"
"Those two are cats, that one's a ferret. They can climb trees because it's their talent. Why is a dog like you trying to climb trees?!"
A few days ago, Jiraiya and Naruto were sitting on a tree branch discussing things for quite a while. Hungry, Ginger and Fishcake climbed up to look for food, Kohina followed them, leaving only Hayate on the ground dumbfounded. For some unknown reason in its dog brain, it suddenly wanted to climb a tree. It had been practicing for days, and nothing Naruto said worked.
"Woof…" Hayate clawed at the tree bark, its voice full of profound sadness.
"Get your paws back down!"
"Woof…"
Anyone who knows huskies knows that when raising such a dog, either the human or the dog must go crazy. Either the owner goes crazy, or the dog goes crazy.
And these two, both the human and the dog had gone crazy.
Jiraiya massaged his forehead, his head aching.
He was considering whether to take another disciple.
In his youth, the Great Elder Toad had once told him that his disciple would teach the world what true power was, after which the ninja world would prosper and tend towards peace.
So, he embarked on a journey to find a disciple. But now, his other disciples had all passed away (in Jiraiya's perception), leaving only this one. Yet, he didn't seem like the one at all.
Other things were fine; even if he blew up a well with a Rasengan, that was still cultivating power. But what was this, arguing with a dog? Practicing his mouth? Could he really talk his way to world peace?
Jiraiya, his head aching and wanting a moment of respite, pulled out a map and patted Naruto's shoulder: "Send me to this place."
He pointed to a country where the special services industry was extremely developed, a place that could alleviate his headache.
"Perverted Sage, can't you go less often? Can you handle going every single day?"
"What do you know? This is called 'research'."
Naruto rolled his eyes and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I don't know, only you do."
He and Jiraiya had visited that country during their travels. In his opinion, the entire city was like a set from Station 3.
The whole city exuded the scent of rouge and powder, and in front of every door stood a heavily made-up woman, leaving a deep impression.
Opening a portal, Naruto sent Jiraiya through and then fled without even entering the city gate.
His car's accelerator wasn't responsive; he couldn't race with an old driver.
After sending Jiraiya away, Naruto also sent Hayate away, and then brought his other pets to Mount MyĹŤboku.
It was time for daily senjutsu cultivation again.
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