Am I the only one who finds it funny that, from Naruto perspective, Jiraiya was just some crazy guy who kind of “adopted” him?
I mean, before Naruto found out that Jiraiya trained Minato and was the one who indirectly gave them the idea to use the name “Naruto,” to him Jiraiya was just a pervert he happened to meet by coincidence, who by sheer luck, was incredibly strong and had techniques that suited Naruto really well.
We, as the audience, saw that Jiraiya was worried about the nine-tails, but Naruto didn’t. So it’s kind of weird to think about their relationship from his point of view. I mean, it’s different from Naruto relationship with Kakashi, being Naruto teacher was Kakashi job, whether he liked it or not, while with Jiraiya it was completely voluntary.
It’s also strange to think that, for Naruto, he was going on long journeys with this random old man who got excited whenever Naruto used the sexy jutsu. I guess this is one of those things where you have to put yourself inside the story, since ninjas are supposed to be prepared to go on missions with unknown and strange people. But Naruto himself never really had to deal much with that (not counting filler), which ends up making his relationship with Jiraiya feel even stranger from his perspective