Chapter 73 - Tsunade Senju [3]

On a restaurant within the small Village, Tsunade and her assistant Shizune (and the pig Tonton), Jiraiya, Haku, Karin and Naruto stood there, the a.d.u.l.ts were drinking beer while the youngsters were eating riceballs.

''Brat, you have guts. Do you know that no one ever talked to me like that?'' With a smile on her now red face due to the alcohol, Tsunade said towards Naruto.

''No one ever dared to tell you reality?'' Naruto asked strangely, he was feeling really strange, it was like that Tsunade was running away from the reality, from the truth, he didn't know why nor is he interested in it, though.

Tsunade looked far away towards the deep sky under the stares of Karin and Jiraiya before she sighed ''More like they didn't want me to punch their head to pieces...''

Looking at her strangely, Naruto said ''I know someone that likes to do the same, when she thinks someone is annoying, she wants to punch them, nowadays, she rarely do that since every time she did it, I punched her back.''

At this time, even Haku couldn't help but laugh a bit before saying ''I can prove. I was a member of their Team, Sakura's temper is... very violent, just like a certain someone.''

''Said something, sissy?'' Haku was clearly talking about her, as such, Karin was immediately angered.

''...''

Thinking that it was extremely possible a fight would break out if he didn't say anything, Jiraiya said as his face was also red due to the alcohol: ''Say, Tsunade, the Hokage position is open and you know exactly why I won't take it. There's no one more suitable than you to that position.''

''Not a chance, I wouldn't ever become the Hokage.'' It took less than a second before Tsunade refused the offer, she seemed adamant on refusing.

Jiraiya seemed to understand something as his face became outrageously dangerous, murderous aura oozing out of him like water falling on a violent rain as he said: ''You've contacted Orochimaru, didn't you? I'll warn you just a single time, if you ever do any harm to Konoha, I'll kill you by myself.''

'???' Naruto was slightly stunned but then he simply guessed that Jiraiya said that on a whim due to the alcohol, he knew his master and was sure that even if Orochimaru gave a chance for him to kill the Snake Weirdo, Jiraiya wouldn't do so, this is just how much he cares about his friendship, basically, these were empty threats.

But then, Naruto controlled his emotions and started to analyze the situation, he had seen what happened in the very end of Hiruzen and Orochimaru's fight, the Snake Weirdo lost the abilities to use his arm, knowing that, he said ''Let me guess, as the best Medical Ninja out there, he asked you that as long as you heal his arms, he'll do something for you and I know exactly what.''

'Orochimaru can use that Forbidden Technique and revived these two... Probably, he promised to revive one of her loved ones?' Naruto thought while thinking how pathetic Tsunade is, believing in Orochimaru is the same as stabbing yourself in the heart.

Tsunade was stunned and nervous but above all, she felt fear, not fear of Naruto, rather, fear of the words he would say next and the memories these words would bring back, the blonde teenager smiled slightly: ''Edo Tensei, a technique capable of reviving others, I've researched about its theory and its possible because I've seen Orochimaru use that same technique to revive Shodaime and Nidaime to kill Jiji.''

''There's no use wanting the dead to be revived because even if the Edo Tensei is used, they'll be nothing but empty souls, even if Orochimaru promises you to revive your loved ones, you wouldn't feel better because they would be cold and emotionless.'' Naruto finished as Tsunade shuddered continuous times, it seemed that unpleasant memories were popping in her mind many, many times.

'That brat... he's using Mind games against Tsunade, should call him a bloody genius for being capable of doing that or a bloody fool for doing that against Tsunade?' At the side, Jiraiya thought while feeling a slight bit of pity towards Naruto.

Suddenly, Tsunade seemed to calm down as her eyes became icy-cold while staring towards Naruto ''So courageous, Naruto Uzumaki. If you're courageous as I think you are, let's go outside to have a small talk.''

Naruto didn't seem to hear Tsunade's words ''I already guessed why you're afraid of going back to the Village, first of all, you think your loved ones died because of you. Second, when you can't solve something, you get afraid of it and run away, you were afraid to face Jiji and due to that, you ran. When you can't solve something so simple like talking with arguments, you use violence.''

At this moment, Tsunade stood up and readied her fists but Naruto knew better than to fight an angry Legendary Sannin as he said ''I would love to fight you but I'm just a poor Ninja without any kind of strength, bye bye!''

With that said, Naruto raised his hands to the air before disappearing and suddenly, Tsunade's stare changed directly to Jiraiya, as if her drunkenness just made her want to vent her anger and... sadness, sorrow, trauma.

'That f*cking brat betrayed me agaaaaain!' Jiraiya thought while trembling in fear as Tsunade approached him - It looked pleasant to him the scene of her melons going boing and boing as she walked, not that Jiraiya would dare to say it out loud, though.

''My fist will have a small talk with your face, Jiraiya!'' Tsunade said with a small smile that sent chills down Jiraiya spine and before he could notice, Haku and Karin had already sneaked out.

Jiraiya: 'T-They also betrayed me! Nooooo!' [1]

[1] Today, a soldier died, everyone, please pay respect to our greatest warrior, Toad Sage of the Mt. Myoboku, the Great Jiraiya-sama! F.

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