If Jiraiya wanted to fuck Tsunade, then Why did he go back to fighting Pain? Why didn’t he or the frog sages use a shadow clone to figure out who Pain is?
>>286642794sage of 6 path eyes give super special abilities that lets you see every chakra disturbance, clones are almost useless as demonstrated by later naruto fight
>>286642794Jiraiya made a fatal mistake, brought upon by his sentimentality toward his former student Yahiko, unaware that he was long dead.On the upside, he did suffer the consequences of his mistake.
>>286642794he knew Tsunade would never truly love him, and living a lie would be more painful than dying.
kind of disappointing how this series peaks during the chunin exams 10% of the way in.
>>286642794Because he wanted to find out what happened to his former students.
>>286642896naruto tricked pain with a clone
>>286644792Let me guess: Rock Lee?
>>286645130and then jobbed until 9 tails chakra awakened
>>286645142Naruto v Neji. Naruto's character arc is pretty much complete then; he's proven himself to be a ninja and gained the respect of the village. Naruto doesn't actually grow as a character past that point, he just gets physically stronger.
>>286645162even after that he was fooled by shadow clones. naruto had his shadow clones disguised as rocks and pain couldn't detect it
>>286642794Jiraiya had learned that his best intentions had inadvertantly created the Akatsuki and they were going to commit mass murder to achieve peace because he'd spent decades living in contradiction. Out of shame he felt it was up to him to stop this or die trying.