A wedding with so many people involved would naturally have a lot of guests as well.
Fortunately, they were mostly close friends and family.
Delivering the invitations was fairly easy.
Within Konoha, Hinata, Ino, and the others could simply take the invitations for the people being invited when they went home.
Aoba's social circle basically overlapped with theirs.
The same was true for Kurotsuchi and Mei Terumi.
As for those who stayed outside year-round and were difficult to track down, there were naturally other ways to reach them.
For example, a certain "great author" who had completely let himself go and, because of his new "dream," was now stuck in the Land of Hot Water and unable to leave.
Jiraiya really had let himself go these days.
According to the Great Toad Sage, because of Aoba's actions, the ninja world would enjoy at least several hundred years of peace.
Although he was not the Child of Prophecy from the original prediction, he had accomplished something even the Child of Prophecy could not.
So the burden Jiraiya had carried on his shoulders for so many years had finally been lifted.
As a result, he had thrown himself into another cause he had decided to devote his life to.
That was enriching the spiritual lives of the single people of the ninja world.
For example, right now, he was lying on a beach chair at a beach in the Land of Hot Water. Behind his black sunglasses, his eyes kept wandering over the women in swimsuits on the beach.
At the same time, he was writing and sketching in a notebook.
Even though he was already at the beach and no one would say anything if he openly looked around, Jiraiya still felt this approach gave him more inspiration for gathering material.
However, at that moment, a cloud of smoke suddenly burst open in front of him.
Jiraiya, who was immersed in his own world, jumped in surprise and nearly tipped over backward together with his chair.
After a flurry of movement, he finally steadied himself and discovered that standing before him was an elderly toad.
"Boss Fukasaku?"
Jiraiya froze for a moment.
"Little Jiraiya, you're doing this again?"
Fukasaku looked around at the surroundings. It was obvious what Jiraiya had been doing.
He felt somewhat helpless toward this disciple who was already so old yet still acted without any dignity.
"Ahahaha! My new book has hit a bottleneck. I'm gathering material."
Jiraiya came back to his senses and laughed awkwardly. After noticing the curious looks people nearby were giving him, he quickly took Fukasaku and left the area.
Although the ninja world had plenty of strange things, talking toads were still quite rare, so they naturally attracted a lot of attention.
"Alright, Boss Fukasaku, why did you suddenly come looking for me? Did the Great Toad Sage make another prophecy?"
After arriving behind a cluster of rocks, Jiraiya immediately became serious.
Under normal circumstances, Fukasaku would not come looking for him like this.
"Little Jiraiya, you don't need to be so serious. It's not anything important. Ah, that's not right. I guess it is pretty important."
Fukasaku's contradictory statement left Jiraiya completely confused.
'So is it important or not?'
"Ahem! Anyway, Aoba asked Mount Myoboku to deliver this to you. You'll understand once you take a look."
Fukasaku coughed lightly and handed over the wedding invitation Aoba had prepared.
Aoba had gone through Naruto, asking him to use the Summoning Technique and pass it to Mount Myoboku.
There were three invitations in total, but the other two invitees had identities so significant that a small toad like him could not personally deliver them.
The Great Toad Sage had contacted them himself.
As for Fukasaku, since he had nothing else to do, he came to find Jiraiya directly.
He could also comfort him while he was at it.
"A wedding invitation? Is that brat Aoba getting married?"
Jiraiya immediately recognized the bright red and festive cover as a wedding invitation.
His curiosity was piqued, and he wanted to know who Aoba was marrying.
After all, that kid had a whole group of girlfriends.
'Surely he isn't going to marry all of them at once... right?'
"Huh?"
The moment Jiraiya opened the invitation, he froze on the spot.
The long list of names was packed so densely together that it made his eyes blur.
'The kid is actually planning to marry all of them at the same time.'
Jiraiya was completely stunned.
Even more shocked than when Aoba unified the ninja world.
"This kid really knows how to surprise people."
In all his years, this was the first time he had ever seen someone marry so many people at once.
"That's true. But Little Jiraiya, shouldn't you take a closer look at the brides?"
Fukasaku reminded him.
"The brides?"
Jiraiya did not understand what he meant.
But after reading through the names one by one, his eyes widened.
'Wait, did I see that wrong?'
Why was there a name he knew extremely well?
"Tsunade?"
"Boss Fukasaku, this isn't fake, is it?"
Jiraiya found it difficult to accept.
Fukasaku jumped onto his shoulder and patted his head.
"Little Jiraiya, accept reality."
"This... this can't be..."
Jiraiya still stood there blankly, feeling completely lost.
Seeing this, Fukasaku could only shake his head helplessly.
The man and the toad remained there for a long time.
———
It was not until the incoming tide reached Jiraiya's feet that he finally let out a long sigh.
Then he tucked the invitation into his clothes.
"Little Jiraiya?"
Noticing his movement, Fukasaku called out worriedly.
"Since it's Tsunade's choice, all I can do is wish her happiness."
A look of acceptance appeared on Jiraiya's face.
He knew that if Tsunade did not agree, there was no way she would ever get married.
But now that she had agreed, it meant she had truly made up her mind.
He really was inferior to that kid Aoba.
Not only in strength, but in every aspect.
At the very least, during these years, every time he returned to the village and saw Tsunade, he could see the changes in her.
After all, if she could even quit her favorite gambling habit, what couldn't she do?
So suddenly getting married made perfect sense too.
Jiraiya could only let it go and walk back toward the place where he had been lying earlier.
"..."
Seeing that Jiraiya was fine, Fukasaku shook his head and returned to Mount Myoboku.
Inside the great hall of Mount Myoboku, there were people who were handling this even worse than Jiraiya.
At least Jiraiya was only dealing with the fact that the woman he had secretly loved was getting married.
For the two brothers, Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura, the problem was that despite being extremely old, they were really about to gain a stepfather who was not even twenty years old.
Who could accept something like that?
But now that the invitation had reached them, they could not simply refuse to attend.
They could not beat him, after all.
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