"Let it be. I can wait for a month."
Tsunade sighed as she leaned back, exhaling deeply, her curves pressing against the sand on the beach as the sun kissed her body.
…
Two days passed after Jiraya was healed by Reko. He was still monitoring the Sainin for any hidden injury, if any.
"Alright then. Let's treat ourselves."
Jiraya looked at the steaming hot bath in front of him, his nostrils flared like a wild bull, ready to pounce.
This was the most famous as well as exotic mixed baths of the area.
"This is some fun place huh"
Reko looked around, the place was really beautiful, crowded. He could see beautiful ladies entering the place, passing him smiles.
The place had mixed baths as well as separate ones. They had sent Naruto to the separate one while they went to the mixed baths meant for adults.
"Haha, do you like it already lad?"
Jiraya grinned as he witnessed Reko exchanging glances with some of the ladies passing by.
"I expected no less from you."
He praised, happy to have finally found a man with similar interests.
"Uh! What a handsome lad!"
A beautiful mature lady, draped in a thin towel, walked closer to Reko as she checked his body with starving eyes.
"Do you want a handful of this old lady"
She came onto Reko, proactively hugging his body, rubbing her body against him as her hands slowly slid down Reko's chiseled body.
Unlike the mature beauty, he had been standing naked in the water, without a towel to cover himself.
"Handful?"
Reko took a look at the lady, her curvy bosom threatened to spill out of the towel, not that it could be even covered by the piece of clothes. They were too big to be hidden, covered.
"You're more than a handful."
He grabbed her butt with his right hand, groping them hard. They were more than a handful, just as he liked them.
"Aha, such a healthy young man."
The lady laughed shyly, she did not mind Reko playing with them. It was what she wanted.
Instead her eyes were glued to his front, the thing down there was raging hard against her.
"Izuna? Who's this young man?"
Another lady with a similarly sultry voice and body appeared.
"He seems hung.. uhm Hunk, a handsome hunk!"
She looked him up and down, giving a knowing glance at her friend. She was just a minute later and this buddy of her already found a hunk, hung one at that.
"Where did you find him?"
She did not take her eyes off, greedily staring at Reko like a piece of meat as she asked.
"Aha, he is a young man with similar interests. We just hit it off."
The lady hugged Reko tighter and gave a sly smile to her supposed friend.
"Pretty fun, hmm?"
Jiraya looked at them with envy. These were some big women, just like he wanted.
He also had beautiful ladies around him, looking coquettish, waiting for him to take advantage.
After an hour, Naruto waited for Reko and Jiraya to arrive as he waited outside, shivering, blowing his nose with his sleeves.
"Huh? Why do you look all red?"
He looked at both of them, their bodies were all red as if they had come out of a hot bath.
But how could that be? There was no way.
"Because of the warm water. But why are you shivering like that?"
Jiraya looked at Naruto as if that kid had become an idiot. What could be the reason? Of course it was because they had spent a long time in the bath.
"You guys had warm water??"
His mouth opened in stupor, confused. He had bathed in stupidly cold water.
"What do you mean by that? Of course it's a bath house and has warm water!!"
Jiraya looked at the kid in front of him. It did appear to him that the boy had caught a cold because of the bath.
"It appears that we have mistakenly sent him to the free public bath… which does not seem to be warm from the looks of it."
Reko whispered to Jiraya quietly in his ears as he kept an eye on Naruto who looked like he has been betrayed.
"We did?"
Jiraya took a look at Reko's face before asking. Was it really their fault? How could they have missed something so obvious?
"Why would I do something like that? He suffered because of you."
Reko loudly scolded him, enough for their chatter to reach Naruto, putting all the blame on Jiraya. This was not his fault! Even if it was, he would not admit it.
Jiraya looked at Reko with surprise in his eyes for a second. For a second, he did not even register the betrayal from his closest comrade.
But then, he got an idea. A perfect idea.
"Of course! Why would we do something like that? This happened because you don't know how to read well!!"
He glanced at Naruto and scolded. This was of course Naruto's fault. How could he admit that it was his mistake?
It was of course his dumb student's mistake. Why did he not read the sign on top before entering?
Naruto looked wronged, feeling like it was indeed his mistake. Just when he was feeling like there was another possibility.. another person at fault, he began to speak up.
"But.."
He recalled the conversation, recollecting his memories.
Unfortunately, Jiraya did not let him continue with his reasoning. He shouted at Naruto, scolding him.
"No buts!! You will train fourteen hours from today."
He decided to increase the number of hours for Naruto's training.
"I just remembered that I also wish to learn from you."
Reko also felt that it was time for him to ask about the training and decided to request for it.
"See? You're complaining! But this young man here pays for our meals, pays for our lodging, and also pays for our fun activities. And he still requested that I be taught."
Jiraya looked proud after hearing the request from Reko and scolded Naruto once again for his ignorance.
'That is because you have lost all your as well as my money to your bad habits. Otherwise, I would not have to settle down to those lousy meal for weeks.'
Naruto looked at Jiraya, frowning. If not for the fact that the old man spent all his hard earned money, he would not have to be fed by some stranger.
"Yes yes! It's my fault."
Unfortunately, Naruto had gotten smart enough to concede when it was not worth it. He superficially admitted that it was his mistake and accepted the punishment.
"Why don't you train him together with me? You have it pretty easy anyways."
But he was not going to let it go easily, so he requested that Jiraya train Reko at the same time.
Wouldn't it allow him some time to slack? And with this, he would not have to worry about food.
'He will at least give him some trouble, no? He did mention that he was trained by granny Tsunade.'
Naruto looked at Reko, his physique did look impressive. And in the earlier battle, Reko did beat him pretty easily.
"Together? Why not?"
Jiraya accepted the deal happily. He was also curious as to what Reko packed.
Wouldn't it be fun to battle with her teammate's student?
But before that, he needed to get food. The activities in the bath had exhausted him as well as Reko.
"Let's go after eating."
…
"Ah damn it! I miss those Touka noodles. We should not have left that place."
Naruto sighed, lamenting the fact that they could not eat that tasty noodle. The food in this new place was very sub par.
"It's all part of life. Don't fret!"
Reko consoled him as he ate freshly made spicy noodles from Touka. His Flying Raijin technique had various applications.
…
"You!" Jiraya glanced at Naruto. He had been instructed to train his basics.
"Continue to train the Rasengan."
Jiraya instructed. With Naruto's stats, it was best for him to barrage opponents with numerous Rasengan.
"As for you Reko, we should spar first. So that I get to know about your combat skills."
Their spar began in an empty field.
They began slowly. Their punches packed power but they did not dodge.
Instead, they kept slowly getting into it. Their strength increased as they got familiar with each other's strength.
"Your punches pack some power. I feel it's nearing Tsunade's level already."
Jiraya commented. His hand stung. Reko was strong, the strongest he had seen someone his age.
In no time, he believed that Reko would be able to reach Tsunade's level of strength. By that time, he would be unstoppable.
"You're not weak either. I beat that Jonin named Asuma pretty easily and I grew a lot in the meantime."
Reko politely returned the compliment. He also found Jiraya to be pretty strong for his age.
He had thought that Jiraya's physical strength would be less than his but it appeared that training with Sage mode has pushed his body.
Even with Reko's level three Senju physique, he was only similar to Jiraya's strength.
But that was to be expected. If not for sage of six paths and other broken powers, Jiraya would have been the absolute best.
"Good! Let's try ninjutsu now."
Jiraya instantly fired a big fireball, aiming at Reko.
The fire was massive, the biggest he had ever seen, greater than what Asuma could generate.
Reko handled it with ease, he tapped on the ground with his foot, creating a huge wall of dozens of feet with its thickness in meters.
Although the fire was huge, it could not pass through the earth wall.
Two figures ran from behind the wall, each holding a Rasengan in their hands.
Reko had used Genjutsu on it to make them look grand. The attacks neared Jiraya looking like two giant Rasengan.
Instead of blocking, he decided to fight against it with his own Rasengan. The clash caused a big explosion, causing a huge hole on the ground.
"Oh? Both of them were clones!" Jiraya chuckled, not having expected to fall for such a simple Genjutsu.
He had assumed that Rasengan to be an illusion but the chakra emanating from them was still very compressed. So, he cancelled them out with giant Rasengans.
The power from the clash was so high that he backed out. And honestly, it was the right decision as both of them were shadow clones and he was not!
As he chuckled, he saw another ten clones of Reko rush at him, each holding a Rasengan each. The intense aura coming from the attacks was powerful. This really did appear like giant Rasengans of equal level to him.
"Such an intense battle!!"
Naruto sat on a rock, a few hundred metres away from the spar. He looked at so many giant Rasengans clashing against each other, leaving the pitiful ground full of holes.
"He is very strong! Can he really beat Pervy sage? Even though he is so young?"
He had seen Jiraya in action. He knew how powerful the old man was. Even the nine tails was suppressed by him, that too while he was injured.
But Reko was also unbelievable!
Not only was he capable of producing so many shadow clones, he also had enough talent to instantly learn a powerful jutsu like giant Rasengan which he was using in battle.
The only thing that remained to be tested were some of the unique jutsu that Jiraya knew and the Senjutsu techniques.
However before that, it seemed that Jiraya was continuously fighting against Genjutsu attempts, unable to knead his chakra for ninjutsu.
"Hey!! That's enough!"
Jiraya shouted, causing Reko to stop. He lost a good chunk of his chakra because of their spar. And it was not a good idea to go all out.
"Tell me where did you learn the Rasengan from?"
After stopping, they both sat down together, recovering their chakra as Jiraya inquired about the technique.
First time was an illusion and even weak but the second time was obviously a real giant Rasengan.
"I learned it in an instant."
Reko produced a giant Rasengan in his palm before casually dispelling it, showcasing his immense chakra control.
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