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375 - The Two Hermits
 Jiraiya tells Gamakensan
that they
don’t have the luxury of watching and learning how Pein
fights; they need to go at him with full strength from the
start. Jiraiya makes small bites in his hands to draw blood
and uses it to draw new markings on his cheeks. He declares
that he is transforming into Hermit Mode by calling upon the two great
hermits. Jiraiya asks Gamakensan to buy him some time until
he finishes. Gamakensan replies that although he is clumsy,
he’ll do his best. However, before
Jiraiya can begin, Pein makes a surprising move. He lands on
his Chameleon’s tongue and is retracted into its
mouth. The Chameleon then vanishes  completely from
sight. Jiraiya has no choice but to switch tactics and go
defensive by creating a barrier. He clacks his sandals
together in the air and stomps down on them to initiate an expanding
spherical barrier which envelops himself and Gamakensan.
Pein knows that Jiraiya can pinpoint his location
as soon as he touches the barrier, and so switch his tactics as
well. Pein summons a giant three headed hound with similar
piercings and ripple patterned eyes to attack. Jiraiya is
impressed that his opponent saw through his move and sent in a  summoned
anime to attack so as to not give away his position. Jiraiya rides atop
Gamakensan and battles against the hound to the upper levels of the
city. Gamakensan manages to leap onto a high tower and grab a hold of a
pipe and holds his position. Jiraiya is perplexed by the
summoned animal they are fighting. The hound multiplies every
time he hits it; Jiraiya wonders if somehow its power just increases on
its own. But Jiraiya has no time to ponder on it because the
hound, now with ten heads, splits into multiple bodies and attacks them
at once. Gamakensan whacks the first two with his trident,
but Jiraiya warns him about a hound coming from above. The
toad can’t react in time and is hit off the tower and forced
to drop his weapon.
 While in mid-air, a giant
bird summoned by Pein
makes a torpedo dive at Gamakensan and Jiraiya. Gamakensan
has no choice but to block the blow with his shield. The
sheer force of the impact sends him crashing into the ground, his
shield landing several feet away. Jiraiya steps down onto
Gamakensan’s belly and ponders why Pein is using only
summoned animals to attack while he remains hidden. He asks
Gamakensan if he finds it strange, but the toad responds that he is
kind of slow and doesn’t quite get it. Jiraiya
remembers that Nagato was able to master ever jutsu he taught him
thanks the abilities of the Rinnegan. And on top of that, Nagato was
able to master all six types of chakra nature manipulation - something
unheard of in the shinobi world. In effect, Nagato possessed
the ability to use any jutsu he desired since the age of 10.
So why is the current Nagato, Pein, using only summoning techniques?
Jiraiya becomes a little steamed when he realizes that maybe Pein is
trying to say he doesn’t need to waste energy fighting
Jiraiya directly.
 Pein doesn’t give
Jiraiya any breathing
room and has already summoned a bull to charge he and Gamakensan on the
ground. Jiraiya tells Gamakensan to leave and let him handle
things from here on. Gamakensan apologizes and is unsummoned
in a puff of smoke. Jiraiya is left to take the full brunt of
the bull’s charge and is hammered into a wall. Pein
waits to see if Jiraiya is defeated, but almost immediately a mighty
explosion from blows the bull out of the way. From the
shadows of the hole in the wall, a voice asks Jiraiya why he always
calls them out when he is in the middle of some rampage; she tells him
it is no wonder Gamabunta is always mad at him. A second
voice refers the first voice as “Ma” and says that
Jiraiya must have a good reason. But Ma tells the second
voice, Pa, to shut-up.
Jiraiya refers to Ma and Pa as honoured
bosses
and apologizes for calling them out so suddenly. Ma asks
Jiraiya why he is using this form when he had stated in the past that
it was no good for attracting girls. Jiraiya replies that he
does not have a choice because he is against the
Rinnegan. Both Ma and Pa get excited about the Six
Ways’ eyes because they had always believed it to be a
myth. Jiraiya confirms that the Rinnegan is indeed real and
asks the two to lend him power. Jiraiya begins to emerge from
the shadows in Hermit Mode. He has two small toads perched on
either shoulder, but more surprisingly, his face has transformed to
resemble that of a toad.
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