Chapter 299: All Ready, Simulating Tsunade
Tsunade originally left Konoha because her relatives and friends died one after another, and she was in despair and pain. She then used gambling to numb her spirit.
In the end, at this age, because she longed for care, wanted to be recognized, and didn't want to die worthless, she returned to Konoha and picked up the Hokage responsibility that her younger self had considered foolish.
Then what about kinship?
The huge Senju clan has disappeared, her grandparents and parents are dead, and even the younger brother she needed to protect is dead.
Shizune is her only relative, but she can't keep Shizune tied to her side forever.
Shizune is almost thirty. In Akiyama Makoto's previous life, she would have been listed as a key target for urged marriage, let alone in the generally precocious ninja world.
But once Shizune is let go, what is left by Tsunade's side?
Of course, there will be many ninja willing to serve Tsunade.
But those are people she can't confide in. There seems to be no one she can truly talk to intimately.
Makoto counts as half.
The reason he counts as half is not that Tsunade distrusts him, but that their identities are too awkward. It's inconvenient for Tsunade to tell him what's on her mind.
Otherwise, Makoto would have even less psychological burden bullying her later.
Then is it possible—she can create a relative herself, and keep this relative by her side until she dies?
Maybe this relative will look like Nawaki in the future?
Tsunade has also heard the saying that some women give birth to children who look like their uncles.
If she and Makoto have a child in the future, she can let him inherit the name of Senju, and name him Nawaki—
Thinking of this, Tsunade's heart pounded wildly, and even her eyes became wandering.
This desire even overwhelmed the shyness in her heart, so much so that she didn't even notice Shizune approaching.
Shizune reached out to pull Tsunade, but Tsunade let out a soft moan and her body went limp.
Seeing this scene, Shizune's face also turned completely red.
Although she usually teased Tsunade, that was just playing around.
As for this kind of thing—having followed Tsunade wandering since graduating from the Ninja Academy, she only knew about it from medical ninjutsu.
How could she understand it in reality?
Shizune left the Hokage's office in a panic, leaving time for Tsunade.
Only then did Tsunade come back to her senses, annoyed, and supported herself against the wall to walk into the office shower room to clean up the aftermath.
Makoto's side was much more relaxed.
He went straight back to his home, soaked in the hot spring, and opened the simulation panel.
Makoto's simulation attempts had reached an astonishing 179 times.
This was all because he contacted the ninja in the village under the name of treatment after the Chūnin Exams, which allowed him to accumulate such a large number quickly.
It could be said that he had basically touched all the female ninja in the village who clearly had Chūnin strength.
As for the children in Konoha who hadn't graduated from the Ninja Academy, Makoto hadn't had a chance to touch them yet. Maybe later he could touch them all in the Ninja Academy under the name of physical examination.
But for now, 179 simulations were enough for a short time.
With the Chūnin Exams basically resolved, the next thing Makoto had to do was go to the Hidden Mist Village to solve the Three-Tails rampage.
But before that, Makoto needed to conduct simulations to further improve his panel and strength.
However, unlike previous simulations, Makoto planned to change his simulation strategy later.
In the past, Makoto simulated more to explore the possibilities of the ninja world, and at the same time to find ideas for improving his strength.
Now, Makoto had basically obtained the abilities he should have, and the rest was to upgrade them.
Therefore, Makoto would try to perform exactly the same operations to ensure the same simulation results, just to farm higher-level talents.
But this also meant that Makoto needed more simulation attempts.
These more than a hundred simulation attempts seemed like a lot, but they wouldn't last long when actually farming.
Sure enough, to get more simulation attempts, he had to look outside the village.
For example, the Land of Waves, the Land of Wind. If Makoto touched everyone in the two countries, he could get hundreds of simulation attempts, right?
As for the reason, he could conduct free clinics in the name of promoting the Land of Waves Medical Center.
After confirming Tsunade's panel, Makoto temporarily closed the panel. There was still one day before Tsunade lost her youth again. Makoto felt that time node was the best.
For now, he could totally tease Tsunade a little more.
After showering, Makoto took Sakura and walked towards the Hokage's office.
"Makoto-kun, isn't it a bit too abrupt for us to go to the Hokage-sama like this?"
"Abrupt?" Makoto looked at Sakura with a half-smile. "Then what do you think is appropriate?"
"Of course, bringing some gifts, sending a visiting card first, and finally formally visiting with you and me together."
Sakura said it as a matter of course, and Makoto laughed loudly.
In the original storyline, Sakura had a personality that would rush directly into Tsunade's office and demand that Tsunade accept her as a disciple.
Now, Sakura seemed to have become more knowledgeable and reasonable.
Obviously, under Makoto's teaching by precept and example, Sakura had also become more likable.
Makoto put his arm around Sakura's waist and said, "It doesn't matter. I've already negotiated with Sister Tsunade. Just rest assured."
Soon, Makoto knocked on Tsunade's door.
Tsunade didn't answer for a long time, so Makoto simply used the Flying Thunder God to bring Sakura into the office.
Tsunade screamed, "Who let you in?"
As she spoke, she tried to hide something on the table.
Makoto grabbed it quickly, and it turned out to be a photo of her and Nawaki.
This should have been a very sad scene, but there was Tsunade's drool on the photo, so the situation was very strange.
"So, were you missing your relatives, or simply sleeping in?"
"None of your business!"
Tsunade snatched the photo back, wiped off the drool, and put it in a corner of the table.
The table was originally full of various documents, but now these documents were cleared, so Tsunade could calmly place her personal items.
After adjusting the angle of the photo of herself and Nawaki, Tsunade looked at Makoto and Sakura and said, "What do you want?"
"I'm the Hokage. I'm very busy. Don't disturb me if there's nothing important."
Obviously, Tsunade was still angry about what happened in the morning.
Although she had submitted to Makoto's power, as she said, she was not an easy woman to get along with. How could she admit that she lost to Makoto so easily?
Especially in front of Sakura.
This little girl—was she also Makoto's girlfriend?
Tsk, so young, it's simply foul play—Wait, Makoto, this bastard, can even lay hands on such a young girl?
Sakura felt uncomfortable being stared at by Tsunade and subconsciously wanted to lower her head.
This wasn't a sign of fear and cowardice, but she didn't want to anger Tsunade.
But Makoto didn't give Sakura this chance. He slapped Sakura's butt, making Sakura scream and jump in front of Tsunade.
The two faced each other across the table, and Tsunade glared at Sakura unceremoniously.
She thought she could scare Sakura away in this way, but there was no cowardice in Sakura's eyes. Instead, she immediately calmed down and said, "Hokage-sama, please accept me as your disciple."
"I refuse."
Tsunade refused without thinking.
Are you kidding? She had just gotten rid of the endless Hokage tasks, and now she had an additional task of teaching Sakura. Couldn't she have a little private time?
Until now, she hadn't had a good rest in the Senju family's old house. Was this reasonable?!
"It's not that your aptitude and strength are insufficient, but I simply don't want to accept disciples."
Tsunade added a sentence. She actually had no bad feelings towards Sakura.
In fact, Tsunade was full of appreciation for the little girls around Makoto.
Tsunade had learned about their records and performance through documents.
These were the outstanding female ninja of the new generation of Konoha. Maybe a Hokage could be born among them in the future. Tsunade naturally wouldn't have any objections to them.
Her only displeasure was, why were all these excellent girls Makoto's girlfriends?
"Doesn't Hokage-sama want to pass down your ninjutsu? I heard that Sister Shizune hasn't learned the Yin Seal yet."
"Tsk, if you want to learn the Yin Seal, just learn from Makoto."
Tsunade looked at Makoto dissatisfiedly, but Sakura blocked Tsunade's line of sight and said, "Of course Makoto-kun can teach me, but in that case, Hokage-sama, you will lose to Jiraiya-sama and that Orochimaru."
"Hmm?"
Tsunade frowned. "What do you mean?"
"Look, the Sannin of that year accepted Sasuke and Naruto from our class respectively. Now it's just you and me. Shouldn't we form a female master-disciple duo to beat them?"
Tsunade instantly found it funny and wanted to laugh, but then her smile froze.
Because she realized that this matter might be very necessary.
Sasuke ran away after she became Hokage. Although it didn't count as defecting, it was actually similar.
Naruto went to train with Jiraiya. Although Jiraiya was protecting Naruto's safety, in the eyes of outsiders, didn't it also look like she couldn't teach Naruto well?
In other words, if she let these two things develop, then her inability to teach the next generation of ninja well might be written into her posthumous name in the future.
This was unacceptable for Tsunade.
Because the current Tsunade wanted to be a good Hokage, and even sacrifice herself as a Hokage, to fulfill her brother's dream of becoming Hokage back then.
She wouldn't allow such a huge stain on herself, and accepting Sakura as a disciple and letting Sakura surpass Naruto and Sasuke was the best way to wash away this stain.
What's more, Sakura was right. Her medical ninjutsu indeed needed someone to inherit it.
The remaining question was Sakura's talent.
"Very good, you convinced me."
Tsunade smiled and cast an appreciative look at Sakura.
Although Sakura's words might have been taught by Makoto, no matter what, she saw Sakura's excellence.
"Come with me. I'll test your level first."
Then Tsunade took Sakura and Makoto to the basement, asked Shizune to prepare a dying fish, and placed it under Sakura's hand.
Then Tsunade explained some techniques on medical ninjutsu and chakra control.
She knew Sakura knew the Mystical Palm Technique, but it didn't matter. There was still a long distance between learning the Mystical Palm Technique and learning the Yin Seal, as well as the Creation Rebirth and Strength of a Hundred Technique above the Yin Seal.
She wanted to observe Sakura's aptitude for controlling chakra with her own eyes, and this would determine whether Sakura could get started.
As a result, in less than three seconds, the dying fish became lively under Sakura's hand.
Looking at the steady chakra in Sakura's palm, Tsunade showed a stunned look and experienced a bit of Sakura's talent shock.
Unwillingly, she pulled up Sakura's hand, injected chakra into Sakura's body to probe, and then asked Sakura to release a few ninjutsu.
When Sakura formed seals with both hands at the same time, releasing Genjutsu with one hand and Water Style with the other, even though Tsunade had seen this scene in the report long ago, she couldn't help but call Sakura a genius.
Finally, she rolled her eyes at Makoto, as if saying, Why is such a genius wasting time in your house?
Makoto shrugged.
There was a pile of such geniuses in his house.
After he got the full panel, he would first turn everyone in the family into geniuses with full panels.
At that time, if Tsunade didn't come to his house, she would be surpassed by a group of female ninja.
"Very good, I am willing to accept you as my disciple."
"But if you become my disciple, there are some rules you must obey."
Sakura looked at Tsunade nervously, thinking Tsunade was going to say some discipline about clearing the mind and reducing desires.
As a result, what Tsunade said was about loyalty to Konoha, and the spirit that a medical ninja or doctor should have, which didn't involve Makoto at all.
Sakura breathed a sigh of relief secretly and agreed to everything.
After the two finished talking about all this, Sakura simply called Tsunade "Teacher."
"Eh, why are you still here?"
Tsunade looked at Makoto with a puzzled expression. "You don't want to stay for dinner, do you?"
Makoto took the initiative to say, "You accepted my girlfriend as a disciple, can't I treat you to a meal?"
Tsunade looked at Makoto, then at Sakura. Today was indeed worth celebrating.
And with Sakura present, Makoto probably wouldn't behave recklessly.
So she pulled Shizune along, took Sakura and Makoto, and went to the barbecue restaurant owned by Makoto's family, eating and drinking for the whole evening.
By the time Tsunade left the restaurant, she was already drunk.
"Shizune—buy a bottle of sake to take back, I can still drink."
Shizune looked at Makoto helplessly and said, "Makoto-kun, I'll take Lady Tsunade back to her residence first—"
"Finished cleaning up the Senju house?"
Makoto asked curiously. Shizune shook her head and said, "It's barely habitable. Lady Tsunade didn't let the Konoha ninja help, but did it with me personally. She was worried that some old items would be damaged."
Makoto nodded and said, "Then why not go to my house? My house is big and has guest rooms."
"This—"
A hesitant look appeared on Shizune's face. She wanted to refuse, but Makoto smiled and said, "Just say yes. You can treat me as the male host at this time."
Shizune blushed. Male host or something— Then Shizune realized that Makoto meant he was the male host between him and Tsunade.
Shizune believed Makoto on this point. After all, Tsunade was tossed by Makoto like that in the morning, but in the afternoon she was chatting and laughing with Makoto, and even ate and drank together in the evening.
But what if Tsunade caused trouble for her after waking up tomorrow?
"Don't worry."
Makoto saw through Shizune's thoughts and said, "Just push the responsibility onto me then."
"In that case, I'll trouble you, Makoto-kun."
Shizune breathed a sigh of relief. If she took care of the drunken Tsunade alone, she didn't know how long she would be busy.
Seeing this, Sakura quickly came to help. After returning to Makoto's house, she diligently helped Tsunade clean her body and let Tsunade sleep in the guest room.
After doing this, Shizune felt relieved to soak in the hot spring with Sakura.
Makoto silently came to Tsunade's room, looked at Tsunade sprawling on the bed, and revealed a smile of being in control.
Time to start simulating Tsunade.
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