There are some battles that one cannot afford to lose.
This is the story of one such battle.
Really? Master Jiraiya?
Yes.
He's going to train the three of us.
This is brutal...
Master Jiraiya, one of the Legendary Sannin,
along with Lady Tsunade and Orochimaru,
and Naruto's master.
Their training session's sure to be a grueling one.
I have returned!
The mystical, ethereal hermit of Mount Myouboku,
known throughout the world as the Toad Sage,
it is I, the gallant Jiraiya!
The Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya!
Flawless.
I mean, they're already at episode 46.
If I didn't make a grand entrance, I wouldn't leave a lasting impression!
Yeah, whatever.
How'd you know—
Why did you just up and leave us like that?
I had to do research...
I noticed Orochimaru making some suspicious movements.
Something tells me you chose the word "movements" for a reason...
Everything Orochimaru does is suspicious!
But I'll stay out of this one.
A shinobi never knows when he'll be confronted with danger,
so we must always be prepared to jump into battle and fight.
Now, did you complete the training I assigned you?!
Of course we did.
Yeah, check it out.
Sexy Triplet Jutsu!
You pass!
Wh-What on earth...
Except you, you fail.
No sexiness at all!
Don't fret. I'll whip him into shape in no time.
Okay, that's everyone!
Thanks so much for taking us to the hot springs, Lady Tsunade!
It's good to have an all-women's retreat every now and then.
O-Okay, let's call it a day for training,
and rejuvenate ourselves with a nice hot bath!
Yes, sir!
Yeah!
Right!
It's so obvious you're going to try and peep!
Let's move, men.
Hold it!
Sannin or not, Master Jiraiya, I won't let you go peeping!
Don't try to stop us, Neji. This is a rite of passage!
Peeping's part of the romance of being a man.
It's wrong, and nothing you say will change my mind.
I understand why you don't want us going.
We already did a bunch of fanservice here in episode 31,
and we don't want the viewers thinking we're out of ideas.
That was the worst fanservice ever!
And that's not my problem, either!
But after all that, there wasn't a single...
...fanservice shot of Tenten or Sakura!
We can finally have our revenge!
I said that's not the problem here!
I'm sure it's very easy to talk so high and mighty...
...when you'll probably use that Byakugan to peep in from here!
Lady Hinata...
What the... No, I would never.
Lady Hinata is in there and I'm not letting anyone peep at her!
Wow, Hinata, they look even bigger than last time!
P-Please don't stare, Tenten...
Neji, get a hold of yourself!
Be proud, be proud for enduring so well!
No... I...
Just try to calm down, Neji.
Hoo boy...
Yours are as small as ever, Sakura.
Don't touch them, Ino-pig!
But they're nicely shaped.
Stop messing around and get in the water!
Come on, guys, the battle hasn't even started!
I don't think you guys are ready for this.
Holy cow, Lady Tsunade!
I can't let a bunch of kids show me up!
I lose...
All that big talk and you're still KO'd, at your age?!
Man, what is going on here?
We've got no one to play the straight man and keep us in line!
I feel like it should be me, but...
So relaxing...
You sort of sound like a little old man, Tenten.
Yeah?
I dunno, I feel like I don't have to play the straight man today.
That reminds me, I saw a couple of people who...
...looked like Naruto and Master Jiraiya.
You think they're here to peep?
He never learns...
I don't want them peeping on us.
Lee and Naruto are the types to go along with him, too.
Naruto... Naruto might...
Don't sweat it.
I wanted to be able to enjoy the outdoor bath in peace,
so I brought backup.
Why are we on anti-peeping guard duty?
Lady Tsunade's orders. There's nothing we can do.
Hypocrites. If given the slightest chance, they'd peep in an instant!
Honestly, it's not natural to be as open about it as you are.
You still don't get it.
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Casual perverts
At a glance, those closer perverts seem to be cool,
Closet Perverts
and it gives them a modicum of popularity with the ladies.
Open perverts
But the fact that they hide it just makes them a flock of cowards.
Why am I in that group?
In fact, why are there even groups at all?!
On the other hand, we open perverts
remain true to our desires, no matter what the situation.
It's the kind of personality you see in Jump anime main characters.
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For the record, there are those who are...
...too hard to classify into any group.
This will all be on the test!
What test?!
Is that so?
So us being open perverts defines us as Jump anime main characters...
I had no idea.
Naruto, Mr. Bushy-Brows, you guys are amazing.
Konohamaru, do you know what you're saying?
Heck, yeah! I will follow the path of the open pervert!
Go back to the path of the Hokage!
Now let's prove once and for all...
...that closet perverts are no match for open perverts!
Yes!
Right!
Let's rock!
Why so confrontational?
You three handle Iruka and Ebisu.
Leave Kakashi to me.
We take formation alpha and charge!
Roger!
This is way too serious!
Move out!
Don't do it!
You're going to let us pass, Kakashi.
I didn't expect you to attack head on.
I know better than to try and sneak around you.
With the way you read those dirty novels around women,
you've got no right to stop me, you Sexual Harassment Sensei!
Huh?
Don't bother, Naruto!
Kakashi's sided with the closet squad.
Closet squad?
But our open pervert squad cannot retreat now!
Stop dividing us into weird squads!
I'm afraid...
...we can't let you through!
Iruka Sensei and Ebisu Sensei...
Double team. That jutsu.
Sexy Sandwich Jutsu!
N-No way!
It's not working on the closet perverts!
What's going on?!
You two aren't the only ones who've grown stronger.
We've trained day in and day out to become stronger than ever!
That's not training! You're just reading dirty books!
And because of that, your pitiful, shameless techniques can't affect us!
The pressure's getting to me. Ebisu Sensei looks all buff!
That's the wrong character model!
It's no use. We can't win...
Don't quit on us, Konohamaru.
Mr. Bushy-Brows...
Remember your training.
He's right... The training...
Do you train anything besides the Sexy Jutsu?
Never give up hope.
Only when you quit is the battle truly over.
No! Wrong! Different series!
Come on, Konohamaru.
We'll use their positions as teachers against them!
Sexy Teacher-Student Forbidden Romance Jutsu!
What?!
Great plan.
The closet squad's intelligence and imagination may be off the charts,
but they're not used to a direct attack on their psyche.
He knew that and took advantage.
Why are you explaining this ridiculous scene so seriously?
Wh-Wh—
Um... Er...
Sensei...
We did it!
I knew they were closet perverts!
That's exactly how it used to happen when I beat them back in the day!
Closet pervert...
I don't remember being this kind of character...
Sheesh, can't a guy read his book?
You do realize that I am the author of that very book.
I never thought I'd have to fight you, Master Jiraiya...
We're going in, Kakashi!
Two powerful shinobi fighting in the name of romanticism.
Will Lee and his friends go through their beloved rite of passage?
To be continued in the second half!
I didn't do much, though. I was barely in this half...
Jiraiya's ambition to peep has forced him into battle against Kakashi.
Who will win?!
Will Lee and the boys go through their rite of passage?
This is dangerous.
If Master Jiraiya and Kakashi Sensei go at it,
the collateral damage will be huge!
And all so he can peep on the women?
Get ready!
A summon?
My most hardcore work, deemed too graphic to be published.
You feeling lucky, Kakashi?
Gross!
I... I wanna read it...
Don't be so obvious!
Make-Out Dynamics
I win.
What a screwed up fight.
Infiltrate the Women's Bath!
And so, the pervert squad, led by Jiraiya,
charged towards the women's bath!
The guards are defeated! Now no one can stand in our way!
Yeah!
Seriously, the problem is...
I give up.
I can't see anything.
Quit shoving!
Lemme see, guys!
Settle down, boys!
Someone's there!
Who is it? Sakura? Sakura?!
Don't push!
Who's there?
I was smart to switch the "men's" and "women's"
signs after Lady Tsunade and the girls went inside.
I wonder why they were screaming, though.
Whatever.
Jiraiya. And Lee and Naruto, too.
Orochimaru!
I knew you were up to something suspicious.
What are you doing here?!
Jiraiya, it's been too long.
We're in trouble, Kabuto.
We just came to the hot springs to take a little vacation.
Why is this happening?
I didn't expect this either...
Yes, the suspicious movements Jiraiya was talking about earlier...
...were merely Orochimaru's visits to the bookstore.
Oh, we could do a bunch of day trips to all the local places, too.
Orochimaru's one of the Legendary Sannin,
and an incredible ninja in his own right.
He's been reduced to a bumbling villain in this anime,
but we're all the way at episode 46.
He's due to try something seriously evil!
Keep your guards up!
Yes, sir!
What?
Kabuto, they're raising the bar on us!
We can't just say we're on vacation now!
We'll have to bluff our way out, Lord Orochimaru!
Very well.
I'm preparing to crush the Leaf once and for all.
You liar!
You're not crushing anything in a towel!
And you, Jiraiya, what are you up to?!
I just want to see some naked broads!
You sound like the evil one here, Master Jiraiya...
What now, Kabuto?
I set the stage well, but I'm completely drawing a blank!
It's too late now...
Just kidding!
We're here on a little vacation, tee hee!
They'd never buy it.
As one of the Legendary Sannin, you must keep up the act!
Besides, you're good at improv!
Right.
Of all the times to have evil plan writer's block!
What's wrong with you?!
Your ridiculously unrealistic imagination...
...is your biggest weak spot, but your greatest weapon, too!
So saying it's top secret or classified info won't be good enough, right?
Of course!
In previous episodes your plans have centered...
...around you infiltrating our ranks undetected.
I bet you sneaked into the bath house because you're...
...using it in your plan somehow!
What?!
Is that so, Orochimaru?
Well, I...
I didn't even think of that...
But now's my chance to get some momentum.
That's right! My plan involves this bath house!
Ah ha!
They were shampooing their hair.
I bet the plan is to get shampoo in everyone's eyes!
It is?!
What a horrible, cruel plot...
If you did that, no one in the village would be able to shampoo themselves!
This just looks like you're sad that you can't peep...
I didn't think of that either,
but the idea seems to scare them.
Take this!
There's no point to shampooing your own hair, Lord Orochimaru!
You won't get away with this,
I won't get one speck of shampoo in my eyes!
I'm fine!
Why are you all playing along?!
Lord Orochimaru!
I guarantee you he's plotting something else!
Why do you say that, Neji?
Think about it.
They're just washing their hair.
They haven't gone in the hot spring yet.
Meaning, they're just preparing to go in the water.
Their real aim is the hot spring!
Of course!
They're trying to make us stay in the water too long!
What?
But if they do that...
The Leaf villagers will get overheated and start feeling dizzy!
You're getting overheated from something entirely different!
I never would've thought of that...
But what the heck.
Th-That's right. I'm going to make all of you...
...suffer from your extra-long soaks!
Again, there's no point to us going in, Lord Orochimaru...
You won't beat us.
We can spend hours in the bath and never get overheated!
Yeah!
Seriously, why are you following his lead?!
There must be more.
He's probably trying to get us to go underwater...
...and see who can hold their breath the longest.
What?
If he does that...
Okay, fast forward!
What happened?
My eyes sting, I'm overheated,
and now I'm trying to hold my breath longer than them?
Enough!
I've got it.
Stop getting things!
He's going to make the Leaf villagers suffer...
...by forcing us to do synchronized swimming!
That makes no sense!
I've had it with you people!
I'm going to destroy you and the Leaf with my bare hands!
You couldn't have done this from the start?
We have to use that jutsu.
Sexy Bathtime Jutsu!
Flawless victory!
What?
N-No!
The Sexy Jutsu had no effect!
Maybe he really isn't a man after all.
I am 100% male!
Sai? You were at the hot springs, too?
Naruto.
Does he...
...have an Orochi-member?
What do you mean, Orochi-member?
Just say Orochi-manhood.
Orochi-dinky.
S-So mean...
Well, you seem busy, so I'll take my leave.
Why'd you even show up, Sai?!
Forget him, Naruto!
We'll have to hit Orochiwiener with the you-know-what!
Don't call me Orochi-wiener!
Right!
Rasengan!
Get 'em, Naruto!
Th-That's...
What, Lee?
A miracle.
Through some miracle, they've made a new jutsu.
A new jutsu?
Boobsengan!
Sakura's boobs have become two perfect Rasengans!
The Master-Student Rasengan's has an awful new name!
Even I may not be able to dodge that...
Eat this!
Bushy-Brows?!
Why'd you jump into our Rasengans?!
I'm sandwiched in Sakura's boobies...
Sandwiched in Sakura's boobies...
Boobies...
Boobies!
He's so excited, he's gotten a huge power up!
We did it.
You!
What is...
That's my bra!
I hope you're prepared.
A man is always prepared.
Why me?
I swear I will crush the Leaf before the last episode.
You're with me, right, Kabuto?
Yes, Lord Orochi-wiener.
Don't call me that!
Lord Orochi-wiener.
Stop making fun of me.
Orochi-wiener.
Where's my sword of Kusanagi?!
Lee and Naruto are just the worst!
You said it. Peeping toms are scum!
Let's lay the smackdown on 'em, Ino.
Hold on a second!
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Next week is "Dogs need Dog Friends,"
and "The Shinbi You've Been Waiting For!"
You should've told us earlier!
Yeah, Lee, we need to fix our makeup. Bye!
Women are so fickle...