Naruto: Minato Namikaze, born evil

Chapter 18 Who Cares

"Hehe~ Hehehehe..."

Jiraiya stuck out his buttocks, peering through the gaps in the wooden fence, trying to catch a glimpse of what lay behind it, occasionally letting out a lewd laugh.

"poor…"

Seeing Jiraiya's lewd appearance, Nawaki curled his lip.

"Um?"

Hearing the voice behind him, Jiraiya turned around with a smug look on his face.

The moment he saw Tsunade's face, he was startled.

"Huh...wait, what are you doing here?"

"Of course we're here to catch peeping tom!"

Tsunade sneered, her fists clenched so tightly they cracked, her smile radiating cruelty.

Then, before Jiraiya could speak, he punched him in the face.

"Wait a minute! Hold on, wait a minute!"

Jiraiya hastily dodged the punch, feeling the sharp wind whistling past his ear, and cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

If that punch had landed, even if he miraculously survived, he'd probably have a gourd-like face...

"I wasn't spying! I was just... gathering material! That's right, I was just gathering material!"

Upon hearing this, before Tsunade could speak, Minato suddenly tilted his head, his eyes full of innocence: "If gathering material requires watching women bathe, why didn't Jiraiya-senpai ask the women in his family for help?"

"Oh, this..."

Jiraiya's expression froze, and he remained silent.

"laugh…"

Seeing Jiraiya's discomfiture, Tsunade scoffed and withdrew her fist, looking at Jiraiya with a leisurely air, as if to say, "Let's see how you explain this."

"How would Jiraiya-senpai feel if his family were spied on?"

Seeing that Jiraiya remained silent, Minato continued his pursuit, clearly hating the act of spying.

Among the Legendary Sannin, Tsunade, though fond of gambling, never implicates others.

At most, it would only cause some hardship for the casino owners, but even the loan sharks did not use the banner of justice to default on their debts.

Orochimaru is a villain, and he is clearly evil, yet he never defends his actions.

But Jiraiya's behavior of peeping at women bathing and then boasting about his romantic nature is really going too far!

Is that being romantic?

That's vulgar!

Minato didn't actually want to be a moral paragon, but he was a normal man who would find a girlfriend sooner or later.

If this behavior is not stopped, your own woman might suffer the consequences someday. Who could tolerate that?

Upon hearing Minato's words, Jiraiya's face twitched again.

He no longer knew how to answer the other person.

Even with his thick skin, he would be too embarrassed to argue when asked such a question by a five-year-old child.

Minato then asked, "As Jiraiya-senpai's disciple, isn't doing this a disgrace to the Hokage's name?"

The mere mention of the Hokage roused Nawaki, who pointed a finger at Jiraiya and exclaimed indignantly, "Exactly! Don't you have any sense of responsibility as a disciple of the Hokage?"

Jiraiya also wanted to say that the Hokage actually enjoyed spying...

But of course he couldn't say that.

So, faced with Rope Tree's questioning, he could only raise his hands with a bitter face: "Okay, okay, I know I was wrong! I promise I'll never peep again! Please let me off this time, okay?"

"Hmph, those words don't carry any weight at all coming from you."

Tsunade sneered, "You've said similar things countless times before, and you always revert to your old ways after a short while. I think I'd better just cripple you to prevent you from harming people again!"

"Um...isn't that a bit too cruel?"

Rope Tree was taken aback, not expecting that her older sister would want to solve the problem directly at its root.

Tsunade shook her head and didn't say anything.

Many people think that peeping is no big deal, mainly because they think it's just taking a quick look and doesn't cause any real harm.

But peeping is an act of invasion. The reason why some people don't go further is not because they don't want to, but because they dare not.

Thinking of this, Tsunade's expression grew even colder. She turned to Minato: "What did Minato say?"

"Um--"

Minato thought for a moment, then sighed softly with some regret.

"I support severe punishment! However... even so, Jiraiya-senpai was Tsunade-sensei's teammate after all, and he had given me guidance before. To kill him for just one act of spying is a bit too heartless."

Upon hearing this, Jiraiya was immediately horrified: "Hey! Minato, don't talk nonsense! Tsunade didn't say she was going to kill me!"

Seeing Minato's pensive expression, Jiraiya felt cold sweat trickle down his forehead.

Only now did he realize that this seemingly gentle, sunny boy, who also seemed a bit naive... was actually a cunning schemer!

Tsunade snorted softly, ignoring Jiraiya, wanting only to hear what answer Minato would give.

"Ah, I've got it!"

Minato slammed his fist down, looking utterly naive, and said, "How about this, let Jiraiya-senpai write a guarantee..."

"call…"

Upon hearing Minato's words, Jiraiya immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

That startled me; this child is still quite naive...

Tsunade shook her head slightly, feeling a vague sense of disappointment for some reason.

Just as the two were lost in thought, Minato clapped his hands gently and continued in a mild tone:

"We can submit a guarantee to the Konoha Police Department, and if any more peeping incidents occur in Konoha in the future, it will all be blamed on Jiraiya-senpai! And it will be posted on the village bulletin board!"

"Eh—?!! No way!!!"

"Hahahaha!! A public execution, huh? That's interesting!"

Jiraiya's face turned deathly pale instantly, and Tsunade, after a brief moment of stunned silence, couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Jiraiya tried to struggle, but Minato finished him off with, "Also, make sure to specify that the spy is Jiraiya, a disciple of the Hokage!"

"Damn it! You brats! This is slander! You're wronging an innocent person!"

Jiraiya completely lost his temper and started yelling in a frenzy.

If it's really like what Minato said, then he won't be able to stay in Konoha anymore.

Just as Jiraiya was about to argue his point, he saw Minato's lips suddenly curl into a gentle, sunny smile. However, the words he spoke made Jiraiya feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave!

"Who cares?"

"When Jiraiya-senpai was spying, did he care about the feelings of the victims?"

"!!!"

Jiraiya's pupils trembled!

Minato's words were like a thunderbolt, making his head buzz as if he had been hit on the head with a club, and his face instantly turned pale.

Yeah, who cares?

The person who wronged you knows better than anyone else that you are innocent.

When you were spying on them, did you ever care what those girls thought?

In that instant, all the excuses he made for spying, all those high-sounding reasons, seemed so ironic and ridiculous when he himself became the victim.

He finally realized that his so-called romantic and unrestrained behavior was nothing more than vulgarity and perversion.

This "perversion" doesn't refer to flirting between men and women, but rather to something as literal and horrifying as it sounds...

When the fig leaf of self-deception is torn away, and when he examines himself from the perspective of the person being spied on, he suddenly realizes how despicable his behavior was.

At this moment, facing the girl he had liked for many years, Jiraiya suddenly felt an indescribable shame.

This shame gnawed at his heart, corroding his self-esteem and forcing him to flee from the other person's gaze in a sorry state.

Watching Jiraiya stagger away, Minato turned to look at Tsunade.

"Did I say something too harsh?"

"No, it's absolutely perfect!"

Tsunade patted Minato's head with one hand, gave him a thumbs-up with the other, and laughed heartily.

Rope Tree nodded repeatedly, but silently made up his mind.

From now on, absolutely, absolutely...

Don't argue with Minato!