Jiraiya looked over the map, and there was something in his posture that relaxed ever so slightly.
"So, is it?" asked Naruto.
"It looks like it," admitted Jiraiya. "Now, we just have to make sure it's the right one."
"What 'right one'?" asked the merchant.
"We've had false leads before," said Jiraiya with a shrug. "So where are we on this map?"
"We'd be right about here," said the merchant, a thick finger tapping a spot on the map. "The river curves here and this spot here is the site of a village that got washed away in a flood a few years back."
"That's where those ruins the bandits were using were," noted Naruto as he put it together.
"Well, we'll know shortly," said Jiraiya. "I'll take a quick look at it and make sure it's our Konoha."
"There's more than one?" asked the merchant, confused now.
"We've been wandering for quite a long time," said Jiraiya to the merchant, not really explaining anything.
Hinata glanced up at the sky. If her calendar was correct, Naruto would have returned to Konohagakure yesterday. Unfortunately, there had come a C-Rank mission to clean up a bandit encampment here along the river.
What she'd WANTED was to be there when Naruto returned. To see him again after so long.
It had been difficult to find out when exactly Naruto was supposed to return, the details had been kept secret after all. She still didn't know most of it, only that he was going with Jiraiya and there would be a great deal of special training involved. Maybe he'd come back with some impressive jutsu.
"I smell smoke, but it's got a funny quality to it," said Kiba as he and Akamaru came to a stop on a tree branch.
"Byakugan," breathed Hinata, activating her bloodline and using it to scout the area. When she found the village she gasped.
"What do you see?" asked Kurenai-sensei.
"Let's do this," Jiraiya sat tailor-fashion in the clearing, bringing his hands together in the Rat seal.
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