". . .what?" Dan asked, squinting at Jiraiya, who was still affecting a look of wisdom and self-satisfaction; he glanced at Sakumo, but he shrugged, not having any better idea what Jiraiya's supposedly sage advice was in reference to nor what had prompted it.

"Oh for kami's sake," Orochimaru crossed one leg over the other and leaned back in his chair, collecting his cup of sake, "another woman has figured out his nonsense and grown fed up with it, so he's moving on in hopes she won't beat him."

"Does that actually work?" Dan asked dubiously as Jiraiya protested loudly, and Orochimaru smiled sharply, which Sakumo amusedly gathered to mean 'no'.