Naruto's Rift

"Ah, what a headache, such a big pile of documents." Jiraiya looked at the pile of documents in front of him. Since there had been no Hokage to deal with them for a few months, he had piled up a lot of documents and waited for the Fifth Hokage to deal with them. This made Jiraiya, who was used to being carefree, feel like he was living a life worse than death. It was simply a cage.

"Jiraiya-san, you're an adult. Just get used to it." Because he was the son of the Third, Asuma was very familiar with many things in Konoha. Moreover, he had arranged the village's operations in the past few months. Therefore, he was very familiar with how the village operates. With his help, it was also the best choice for Jiraiya, who was never used to it.

"By the way, Asuma, how is Naruto's practice?" Because the current Hokage was Jiraiya, technically, Naruto now was the Fifth Hokage's disciple.

The villagers who had looked down on him before were utterly shocked. The fox demon of the past had actually become the disciple of the Hokage-sama, which made them feel ashamed.

Now, Jiraiya didn't bring Tsunade back to collect information about the Akatsuki like in the original work but instead stayed in the village to be the Fifth Hokage. Therefore, he sent a shadow clone to guide Naruto every day. With Jiraiya's guidance, Naruto's strength rose sharply, and he was much stronger than the same time when he was in the original work.

"Not ba. II saw him when I was passing by just now. Jiraiya-san, your clone is out drinking, while Naruto is diligently practicing how to use the Rasengan with one hand and improve its speed."

Although it was still impossible for Naruto to use Rasengan with one hand, with the assistance of his shadow clones, he was getting stronger day by day.

Asuma was not very surprised about the fact that Jiraiya took Naruto as his disciple. Even Kakashi knew about Naruto's real identity, let alone Asuma, the son of the Third Hokage.

It was normal for Jiraiya to accept Naruto as a disciple. The Fourth Hokage was Naruto's father, but he was Jiraiya's disciple, so it was not surprising for him to take Naruto under his wing.

"Is that so?" Jiraiya's brows twitched. He had worked so hard here, but the shadow clone was so casual. Suddenly, he thought of a good way. On the other side, the avatar that was guiding Naruto suddenly shivered.

"Release!" Jiraiya suddenly removed his shadow clone. After receiving the experience from the shadow clone, he summoned the shadow clone again and threw a sentence to the unhappy shadow clone:

"You've been teaching Naruto for so long, and it's time for a change. Clone, I'll leave these easy tasks to you. Teaching Naruto is too important for the next generation. I'm very worried, so I have to go myself."

After saying that, Jiraiya didn't give the shadow clone a chance to refute. He didn't pay attention to the black lines on the side of Asuma's head. He took his sake pot and strode out. Jiraiya didn't know that what he did just now gave Sasuke a chance to defect from Konoha.

"Hey, Naruto, now I want to have a fight with you." In the training field, after the shadow clone disappeared, Sasuke came in the front of Naruto. He didn't dare to be presumptuous when Jiraiya was here.

Although he was proud of himself, he was not an idiot. He wouldn't offend the Hokage. Even when his clan was still alive, they would only be exterminated. Moreover, he was alone now. Therefore, he only dared to come out when Jiraiya's shadow clone was not around.

"A fight? You seem to have just recovered. Why do you want to fight me?" Naruto looked at Sasuke. He could not feel the change in Sasuke's eyes at all. There was jealousy, envy, and friendship in Sasuke's eyes when he looked at Naruto.

"Hmph, you also said that my injury has recovered. Then I will be fine. What? Are you afraid?" Sasuke actually did not want to do this, but he had no other choice. He wanted to measure his strength compared to the current Naruto.

Little did he know that it was because of the pride in his heart, jealousy, and unwillingness. Of course, there were also thoughts of not wanting to believe that he would lose to Swirling Naruto, which caused an invisible crack to appear in their friendship.

"Since that's the case, then I'll agree to it. Anyway, I really want to compete with you." Naruto was easy to provoke. This was the best way to get his attention. Sasuke was aware of this.

"No wa. What are they doing?" Sakura and Ino, who were passing by, immediately knew that things were not good. Sakura's reason told her that with her current strength, she could not stop the fight between Naruto and Sasuke.

Because she had seen through her own strength, and she didn't have Tsunade's teachings, she went to Konoha's Medic Corps to study. Although she was not as good and her progress was not so fast without Tsunade's teachings, she was still very talented in medical ninjutsu.

In addition, compared to the original work, she learned medical ninjutsu a lot earlier, so it could be said that her hard work compensated her well. Moreover, Sakura was not that bad in medical ninjutsu. With her excellent performance and learning progress, she was immediately noticed by Kabuto's adoptive mother, Yakushi Nono, the leader of Konoha's Medic Corps.

After a period of observation, Kabuto's adoptive father found that Sakura was very talented in medical ninjutsu. She even surpassed her foster son, Kabuto. Just now, she had lost his foster son. She was very sad that her foster son was actually Orochimaru's undercover agent. In addition, she was a little old and wanted to find a good successor.

Sakura had a clean family background and good talent, so after a period of observation and inspection of Sakura's character, she officially accepted Sakura as her disciple.

In exchange of Tsunade, Sakura got her lessons from the current leader of Konoha's Medic Corps, who was currently the highest authority of medical ninjutsu in Konoha.

However, after all, Nono did not know a secret technique like chakra-enhanced strength or the Hundred Healing Mark. Therefore, Sakura learned medical ninjutsu in advance and instantly improved very quickly, but in terms of combat strength, her progress was very slow. Only after she learned to use the Mystical Palm Jutsu and the Chakra Scalpel would she use these two ninjutsus in actual combat, and then she would begin to improve her strength.