Chapter 33 - Leaving the village (Edited) (2/2)

The next day, at the first hour of dawn, they set off again. Entering Ame, the weather completely changed, with torrential rain falling from the ever-present clouds.

This time, they didn't jump from tree to tree since vegetation was pretty sparse. The elementals nations are comparable to a barren land because of all the continuous wars for centuries. The only reason the Land of Fire has still so much vegetation is only thanks to Hashirama repopulating the trees with his Mokuton. And the Land of Rain, with all the flood happening daily is pretty much battered, with nothing able to grow with such a harsh rain coming down and striking heavily on the floor. The only thing noteworthy in Ame is their metal houses, they were forced to construct resistant ones, the rain would have eroded and destroyed their homes if they were made of any other thing.

Like that, they passed four days to travel through the Land of Rain even if the distance is smaller than Konoha to the Fire country border, because of all the spies from Iwa and Suna. Jiraya could have taken them down and it would even have saved some shinobi from Konoha that would later be killed by them, but he was completely brainwashed by the toads and dislike killing people.

He even began to preach to Minato that one day, somebody will bring peace to the shinobi world and that maybe it will be him...Peace in the killer world? Please at least say elemental nation instead of shinobi world and it would be more plausible, ȧssassins can't bring peace. And if Shinobi exist in the first place, it is because those toads open their big mouths and manipulated Hagoromo into sealing his mother, even if she did nothing to them. After all, the shinju already absorbed natural energy even before Kaguya took the chakra fruit. Saving humanity? Rubbish, they just did it because they were afraid of her and that fool Hagoromo was a human lover and easy to manipulate.

Thinking of that, Minato couldn't help but hate Hagoromo. His mother loved him but he went against her for the benefits of strangers. Instead of helping her battle her inner demon because of the Shinju chakra corroding her mind, he went against her making her lose completely her rationality. All this time she kept the madness on a tight leash to protect her sons, but she was rewarded by betrayal, it's completely normal that she went berserk after that and controlled Hamura.

Not only that, Hagoromo even killed Hamura without too much hesitation. It's true that he had the resurrection talisman from the sage toad, but willingly killing his brother no matter how short the time of death is, prove that he is not the good guy that he thinks himself to be. And he was incredulous when his brother Indra tried to do the same thing with Asura...

All in all, a mother would never have harmed her son even if she became prone to madness. Unfortunately, Hagoromo was too blinded by his love of humans to see the love from his own mother. And she is now rotting in the moon for thousands of years, festering her madness even more in her loneliness.

It was at this moment that Minato decided to save Kaguya. Even if she was dangerous, he can't help but compared himself to her. A bit more than a hundred year compared to ten thousand years of loneliness can't be compared at all, he doesn't wish such ending even to his worse enemies.

He has a lot of time to prepare for that. If it still is too dangerous, he will forget about it and kill her, but if he can, he will help her.

Finished with his criticizing of Hagoromo, Minato woke up and made a self-deprecating smile 'It's not like I'm any better than them. In the end, I'm far worse than them, I'm one of those scums that does everything for themselves. Compared to them doing things for others... Or at least I was like that. I try to change for the girls but it's truly hard, having someone to care for. I don't want to begin a journey of repentance like Sasuke but I must take extra care of them.'

At last, after a 6-days long journey, Jiraya and Minato arrived in the Land of Stone where Jiraya informant was waiting.