Jiraiya: [
flashback] In the shinobi world it's not how you live, it's how you die.
A shinobi's
life is not measured by how they live but rather it's measured by what they acomplish before their death. And looking back,
my life has really been full of nothing but faliure. Continiually rejected by Tsunade,
[
about Orochimaru]
Jiraiya: not being able to stop my friend and unable to protect either my student or my mentor. Compared to the great deeds of the hokage
my actions are all insignificant things and deed. I wish I could have diel like eact of the hokage. A tale is only good as it's final turn of events. A plot twist. And mistakes are important part of a plot, too. I lived my life always believing that the lessons I learned are what haund me.
I swore I'd acomplish a deed so great that it would obliterate all my faliures. I'd die as a splendid shinobi, at least that's least that's how it's supposed to go. But my tale ending like this... The Great lord Elder prophesied that I would be the one to guide the revolution. A person who would make a great choice that will bring either peace or destruction to the world of the shinobi. I thought I would defeat Pain, stop the Akatsuki and save the world from destruction. But in the end, I failed that, too. How pitiful. How sad that this will be the end twist to the tale of Jiraiya the Gallant. What a worthless story it tourned out to be.