The Land of Fire.
In a remote town.
Shizune held Tonton in her arms and squatted in a shadow at one of the corners.
She stared at the exit of the casino opposite with extremely nervous eyes.
"Ten, nine, eight..."
One number after another in reverse order came out of her mouth.
"Five, four, three…"
After counting till then, she heard a loud noise, and the door to the casino exit was suddenly violently blasted open.
A little girl with blond hair and ponytail emerged from the turbulent smoke and debris.
"Shizune! Run!"
At the same time that the blond-ponytail girl rushed out, a group of big men with benches, tables and chairs in their hands came out from behind her, cursing.
Shizune ran away, and Tonton she held in her arms shivered in fear and shrank into her arms.
Shizune shouted, following the little girl, which was Tsunade.
"Tsunade-sama, why were you kicked out three seconds earlier this time?"
"I'm really unlucky this time..."
Tsunade's indignant voice came from the front.
The two ran for a long time before they found a deserted alley, ran into it and hid in the dark.
The pursuers didn't notice them and rushed through the alley to catch up. Seeing this, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"What a close call, I almost got caught."
Tsunade breathed a sigh of relief.
Her small figure had changed, and two bouncy objects that looked like they were about to spill out were jiggling. During the motion, their amazing elasticity exploded.
Shizune watched this change at close range, even though she had seen it many times, she couldn't help but swallow her saliva.
'Such amazing elasticity.'
'You are indeed the legendary 'Big Fat Sheep', Tsunade-sama!'
"Let's go!"
She ducked her head out of the alley, glanced around cautiously, and after making sure there was no one nearby, Tsunade called out to Shizune.
But just after taking a few steps, Tsunade's footsteps suddenly stopped and her eyes became cold.
The corner of her eye swept to a corner of the street.
"Come out!"
Not long after her voice fell, two Anbu members wearing their typical animal masks jumped down from the tree.
"Tsunade-sama, I finally found you!"
The two weather-beaten Anbu leader finally found Tsunade after going through many difficulties and obstacles, and were so excited that they almost had a shaky feeling in their voices.
Now that Tsunade had been found, the mission assigned to them by Hiruzen could be completed.
"You want to persuade me to go back to the village, right? Don't waste your time. There is no way in hell that I will go back."
Tsunade's tone was very strong.
Without even looking at the two Anbu members, she planned to leave.
Shizune followed her with Tonton in her arms.
"Please don't go, Tsunade-sama!"
The two of them immediately became anxious.
If Tsunade left like this, how would they go back and explain to the Hokage.
So they immediately broke the recent news to her.
"Danzo-sama is dead!"
Tsunade paused in her steps, with shock in her eyes, Danzo, Sarutobi Hiruzen's Hokage Assistant, his shadow, the ambitious and hidden leader of the Root actually died?
She wanders around major casinos all year round and had almost no source of information from the outside world.
The only channel was the occasional inquiries when Shizune goes out to buy supplies.
But Shizune hadn't been out for that for a long time, and she doesn't know anything about what happened in Konoha recently.
'But, so what?'
The steps she took continued forward, Tsunade looked indifferent.
If he died, then he died.
Tsunade had never had a good impression of a shady-careerist like Danzo.
If she hadn't been the princess of Konoha and had a special status, Danzo might have put her on an operating table and had her blood studied because of her blood relationship with Senju Hashirama.
Seeing Tsunade's determination, the two Anbu members became even more anxious and so, they released another bombshell news.
"Wood-style! A Wood-style ninja has been discovered in the village!"
This time Tsunade didn't took a step forward.
She breathed out, a gleam suddenly appeared in her eyes, and she turned her head.
"Are you sure it's Wood-style?"
…
Inside an izakaya in a small town.
Tsunade played with the alcohol glass in her hand.
When she glanced at the two Anbu members wearing masks next to her, there was a bit of surprise in her tone.
"You mean, Namikaze Mirai has returned to the village?"
"Yes."
One of the Anbu members wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied curtly.
It was really not easy to get Tsunade, one of the legendary Sannin, to sit down and listen to them.
"So it's that boy, Minato's younger brother, huh? I didn't expect that he would return to the village at this time after being missing for three years."
Tsunade drank the alcohol in the glass in one gulp.
After drinking, her cheeks turned a little red.
Of course she was no stranger to Mirai given her status as one of the legendary Sannin.
Minato was Jiraiya's disciple, and Jiraiya would praise Minato's talent in front of her from time to time, and would also praise Mirai, calling the two brothers as prodigies.
However, Mirai's fighting-style was indeed note-worthy.
During the Third Great Ninja War, although she could only stay as a backup for the battlefield due to her hemophobia, she had heard about Minato and Mirai's achievements from time to time.
'Yellow Flash' and 'Blue Flash'.
Konoha's 'Twin Flashes', a title that frightened the entire enemy nations.
Tsunade felt a little melancholic, filled another glass with alcohol and drank it.
She placed the empty alcoholic glass on the table and glanced at the two Anbu members with a playful look.
"So, after Namikaze Mirai came back and saw his nephew being abused, he made a fuss in Konoha in anger. The old man had a headache because of this matter and wants to invite me back to the village? Did I get that right?"
"Tsunade-sama, please don't say that!" The Anbu members were sweating profusely.
He immediately explained, "The Jinchūriki has never been abused!"
"Really?"
The amusement in Tsunade's eyes deepened.
She concluded from the information that the two Anbu members had shared, that since the deaths of Minato and Kushina, Naruto had basically been in a free-range state.
A child of two or three years old with his status as Jinchūriki, living alone.
'How good can it be?'
'It is normal for Mirai to be angry.'
'If Kushina was here, the village may have been in an even greater turmoil.'
"So that Danzo was also killed by him?"
Tsunade asked casually as she poured alcohol in the glass again.
"Yes."
Sure enough, Tsunade's eyes lit up slightly.
In the village, Mirai was probably the only one who dared to kill Danzo in such a big way.
'That guy had never been a soft-handed person.'
An Anbu hurriedly reminded, "Tsunade-sama, Danzo-sama was Konoha's Hokage Assistant after all, and was a close friend of your teacher, Hokage-sama. Please respect him a little."
"Tch."
Tsunade clicked her tongue and grabbed the glass and drank the alcohol.
'Danzo's death might be a good thing for Konoha.'
After drinking the glass of alcohol, her eyes became clearer and serious when looking at the two Anbu members.
"Tell me about that Wood-style ninja!"
Of all the information these two Anbu members told her, only the information about Wood-style ninja was the one she cared about the most.
Seeing that Tsunade finally got serious, one of the Anbu members said immediately.
"His name is Tenzo. He was originally a member of Danzo-sama's Root. After Danzo-sama was killed by Namikaze Mirai, we discovered him..."
Listening to the Anbu's narration.
Tsunade was deep in thought.
If a Wood-style ninja was really present in Konoha, maybe it would be necessary to go back and see.
After her grandfather Senju Hashirama, he was the second person to possess Wood-style.
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