Jiraiya, aka Pervy Sage, aka Perverted Hermit, aka Ero Sennin

On the latest Naruto manga chapter, Naruto manga chapter 409 , titled "Passing Down The Sage Techniques" , Naruto follows Fukasaku to Myobokuzan, a place where the frogs summons are, and the place where Jiraiya learnt all his sage techniques.

It’s interesting to see Naruto get to Myobokuzan by "reverse" Kochiyose no jutsu. Nice! And Fukasaku’s going to have a hard time making Naruto understand theories in the training (we all know Naruto’s never good with theories!). Gladly there’s Gamabunta, who has been so used to Naruto since Naruto able to summon him (that’s good old few years ago).

So, what basically is "Sage Techniques" ?

1 . Unlike Ninja techniques, instead of using the energy within you, Sage techniques make use of energy within you AND the energy surrounding you.

2 . Sage techniques use three elements of chakra; the chakra that are born from spiritual energy and physical energy within you, PLUS the natural energy surrounding you.

3 . Surrounding energy used are the energy of atmosphere and the earth, aka air and the ground.

4 . In order to "feel" the energy, you need to die!!

"How" would Naruto die in order to absorb Sage techniques, is still in question. Find out on next chapter spoilers!!

Naruto and Sasuke; The Rivalry Continues..

Guys, some of you have already tried to guess what are the meaning of the codes left by Jiraiya before he dies.

On Naruto manga chapter 407 , we see the codes been decrypted by the code breaker, Shiho (who eherm.. have a crush on Shikamaru), with the help of Naruto. The codes are finally translated as "Hon-mono-hai-nai" , or "the real one isn’t there" . It turned out that the numbers in the codes are referring to certain pages and chapters in the latest book written by Jiraiya; Icha Icha Tactics .

At the same time, not too far away from Konoha, Akatsuki has made their steps ahead. Pein is now moving to Konoha to capture the Nine-Tails, knowing that the longer he waits, the harder it’d be to break into Konoha, as Konoha might have found out ’something’ after the death of Jiraiya.

The big question that gets into everyone’s head is the "new body" which Pein called as "Konan". The body might be the substitute for the body that was killed by Jiraiya while they were engaged in a battle before Jiraiya dies. The face sure don’t look like Konan much, but regardless, it’s Konan in some weird kind of ways (well, we haven’t found out what "techniques" does Pein use actually).

And oh, don’t worry about chapter 408 too much. The first seven pages are lamely the scenes of "Falcon" a.k.a Taka team consisting Sasuke and co. beating some shinobi in order to gain information of the Eight-Tails’ location. It’s boring and there’s nothing special there. What interesting in this chapter is a proposal made by Fukasaku. He proposed for Naruto to go to Myobokuzan with him and learn the sage arts. A place where Jiraiya learnt all his sage techniques from.

I think it’d be interesting to see Naruto train again!

"That lazybones overcame his sorrow, and the sight of him gave his friend a courage."

Asuma and Kurenai, love partners

Naruto manga 406 . Jiraiya’s death sure was hard for Konoha, especially the three people who were close to Jiraiya; Tsunade, Kakashi, and of course, Naruto. But regardless, Konoha were putting the best they could to encode the last message left by Jiraiya. We’ve known what the codes are from the previous chapter. We just don’t know "the meaning" of the code, yet, at this point.

At this chapter of Naruto manga, the code breakers of Konoha were asking Shikamaru to find the few people closest to Jiraiya while he was still alive, with the assumptions that Jiraiya left this codes especially for them. Shikamaru came up with Tsunade, and Kakashi. And only later that he mentioned Naruto.

Unfortunately both Tsunade and Kakashi didn’t have the slightest idea of what the codes could mean. And of course, this tells us that the "key to the future", actually lies within Naruto’s hands.

A few funny parts of the chapter which got everyone chuckled over, probably one of them was the part when Shikamaru asked Kakashi if he has an idea about the codes (which there’s a number "106" in it somewhere), and Kakashi had a flashback in his mind where Jiraiya mentioned the number out loud, and he actually referred to Tsunade’s breasts- 106cm! LOL!

Also, another funny part was Naruto’s reaction when he saw Kurenai’s tummy, thinking that Kurenai ate Yakiniku too much and ended up with swollen belly. Na-ah, it wasn’t Yaniniku, it was a baby, Kurenai was pregnant with Asuma’s child!!

Anyway, can Naruto find a clue left in the codes for the code breakers to fully encode it? We’ll find that out together on next chapter!

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