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Okay chuunin-ers I need to get something off my chest.

Jiraiya is not ........

Jiraiya is not dead.

This is not just wishful thinking on my part I have my reasons for believing this…

#1

Choji did not die while fighting Jirobo. However, it took 43 chapters to find out.

#2

Neji did not die while fighting Kidomaru. But it took 36 chapters to find out.

#3

Orochimaru did not die when cut up into chunks with Sasuke’s katana. But it took 47 chapters to find out.

#4

Sandaime did die while fighting Orochimaru, we found out in the very same chapter.

#5

Asuma died while fighting Hidan, we found out in the same chapter.

#6

Gaara died while having his bijuu extracted, It took 19 chapters before we found out he could be resurrected.

Jiraiya has been M.I.A. for 29 chapters.

The real reason I don’t believe Jiraiya is dead…

Jiraiya keeps restating the need to "never give up".

Dying would be giving up.

The only reason we actually have to believe in Jiraiya’s death comes from
Fukasaku-sama (the old frog guy) who left just as Jiraiya’s body fell into the
water, So he never saw a corpse, he is only assuming. (And considering
Jiraiya is a toad sage, he can probably breathe under water.)

I will only believe he is truly dead when I see Naruto at his funeral on the
roof of the Hokage tower wearing his mourning clothes. (And probably not even then.)

Kishi does this time and time again, I can’t understand why People are so
willing to believe he’s gone.

And by the way, I’m really disappointed in Naruto believing that Jiraya died
just like that. He should’ve had more faith…

….I have faith in you Ero-sennin, I have faith.

edit: two cuts are better than none.