Jiraiya, as befitting someone who was experienced and had built a reputation as the last loyal member of the Three Legendary Ninja of the Leaf (Orochimaru having gone to the Dark Side philosophically and Tsunade wandering around as drunk as she could financially manage), did a little hop at the moment the bubble burst and therefore landed on the street without any difficulty whatsoever.
Naruto, not having nearly the experience or dexterity or preparedness, stumbled and landed on his face.
"Something else we're going to have to work on," noted Jiraiya. "Huh. At least the floor has a carpet."
"Oh shut up," grumbled Naruto.
"No, you be quiet while I try to figure out where this dumped us," said Jiraiya, frowning as he looked around.
Naruto grumbled a bit under his breath, but started looking around himself as details began to pile up.
"Not in the Elemental Countries, that's for sure," said Jiraiya, inspecting a nearby desk with a set of flimsy walls that seemed to be simply used to seperate this desk area from that identical desk area.
"Why's it so dark?" asked Naruto, moving through the gloom.
Jiraiya came to a wall of glass and looked out through it. "Because it's night. And we're not anywhere near the Elemental Countries. Not even in the same world."
"Huh? That's stupid. How can we be not..." Naruto had been walking up to see whatever it was that Jiraiya was looking at, only to let his voice trail off as the vista penetrated his preconceptions. "Okay. I'll give you this one."
"There's nowhere that I've ever heard of that has this many people gathered together," said Jiraiya, looking out over the cityscape. "We can probably get home by having a toad do a reverse-summons and then to Konoha, so... we're doing one of the most interesting ninja missions first."
"Huh? What's that?" asked Naruto.
"Infiltration and surveillance," said Jiraiya. "We'll need to observe, change clothes to fit in with whatever the normal culture is - you CAN use the transformation jutsu for an extended period. Right?"
"Of course," declared Naruto. "Uhm. How long is this going to take?"
Jiraiya just smirked as he planned his foray into:
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