"Damn it, damn it, damn it! That's what you get for laughing at me, for laughing at me!"
Tsunade rubbed her face against Orochimaru's until her own face was as smudged as his, then stopped. Looking at his face, which had turned red from her rubbing, she bared her teeth and grinned in the firelight.
"Indeed, the Inuzuka Clan's Ninja dogs' work suits you very well."
Orochimaru looked at Tsunade helplessly, easily guessing that his current appearance was far from good.
"You laughed at me, so it's not my fault."
Tsunade adamantly refused to admit her mistake.
"Who told you to neglect your training?"
Orochimaru looked at Tsunade's flushed cheeks, which were so shiny and polished in the firelight that he couldn't bring himself to be angry, and couldn't help but want to laugh.
"Who told you to always put all your energy into research? If you spent more time training with me, my Fire Release wouldn't be so bad. You occasionally have to go to the Ninja Academy to teach the Sealing Team, and sometimes you even help take care of Nawaki. You barely have any time to train with me."
Tsunade, nestled in Orochimaru's arms, grumbled softly and shyly, expressing her dissatisfaction with him.
"I've spent plenty of time training with you, haven't I?"
Orochimaru had never given up on training in Chakra nature transformation and shape transformation.
"That was a Shadow Clone. Is it the same?"
Tsunade wanted Orochimaru himself, not a Shadow Clone.
"A Shadow Clone is still me, with my thoughts. How is it not me?"
Orochimaru finally understood why Tsunade always used her fists to confirm if he was a Shadow Clone.
"A Shadow Clone is a Shadow Clone, and you are you! Not the same!"
Tsunade said stubbornly. As soon as her voice fell, her stomach rumbled with hunger.
"Ah…"
Tsunade abruptly sat up, covering her stomach, her face flushed red.
"Let's go. Come with me to clean the fish and wash our faces."
Orochimaru looked at the string of fish she had gutted on the ground. Grilled fish, fish soup, and dry rations would be enough.
"Mm."
Tsunade nodded, glaring resentfully at her uncooperative stomach. Such a good atmosphere, ruined!
"I'll trouble you all."
Orochimaru looked at Tsunade, who insisted on squeezing into one sleeping bag with her, and softly spoke to the summoned snakes. The snakes slithered away in all directions.
With Kikaichu in the air and snakes on the ground, they would be on guard at night, making it foolproof. Even within the Land of Fire, she wouldn't let down her guard. Rather than being woken by an enemy attack, she preferred to be woken by the Kikaichu and snakes.
Orochimaru pulled Tsunade into her arms and slowly closed her eyes.
Konoha, Senju Residence.
Treasure map… Why don't I remember Hashirama having any ancestral treasure maps?
Uzumaki Mito muttered to herself, looking at the box used to hold the scroll. The paper that had been pasted on it was long gone, so she naturally couldn't tell how important the contents of this box were.
She had no impression of this box at all. Since it could be casually placed in a storage room, it probably wasn't anything important, right?
If it were important, Tobirama wouldn't have ignored it.
Thinking of this, Uzumaki Mito relaxed.
If the paper on the box were still there, perhaps she wouldn't have thought this way.
Mist permeated the dense, primeval forest, and sunlight refracted dazzling light from the dew on the leaves.
The former battlefield of the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan was covered in vegetation. On the ground, rusted, corroded Ninja tools could be seen, and the surrounding trees still bore marks from Ninja tools.
"This is it. It was once the battlefield of the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan!"
Tsunade held the scroll, looking at the mark on the map. She picked up half a Kunai buried in the mud on the ground. When she pulled it out, large chunks of rust fell off the Kunai, and with a light squeeze, it broke into two pieces.
"Too much time has passed. Even the Ninja tools are like this. Will the treasure buried here be okay?"
Tsunade disdainfully threw away the Kunai and looked at Orochimaru.
"If it's gold, silver, and jewels, there won't be a problem. Books and scrolls preserved in a box probably won't be a problem, right?"
Orochimaru wasn't sure either. What if the books or scrolls containing Forbidden Technique crumbled upon touch when dug out? Wouldn't this whole effort be in vain?
"The location is right here."
Orochimaru looked around and found the location marked on the map. Just as she was about to unseal the Yin Seal on her abdomen, used to store Sage Chakra, and release Sage Chakra, a shovel was handed to her.
???
Orochimaru looked at Tsunade, who was carrying a hoe, with a face full of question marks.
"Since it's treasure hunting, of course, we have to use the treasure hunting method!"
Tsunade rolled up her sleeves and started digging at the spot marked on the map.
"Whatever makes you happy…"
Orochimaru helplessly dug alongside Tsunade. There were clearly more convenient methods, but she insisted on using the most primitive one.
Soon, the two dug a large pit. It was something like a cage. Tsunade and Orochimaru exerted force simultaneously to lift it, then leaped out of the pit and gently set it down.
The mud fell away, revealing what was inside: a girl in a blue dress, with long black hair reaching her waist, and shackles on her bandaged ankles.
"A girl?!"
Tsunade looked at the girl curled up in the cage, shocked and incredulous that the Senju Clan's treasure would be a girl.
Why would a girl be buried in the place marked on the treasure map?
What exactly did the ancestors of the Senju Clan do?
"Who…?"
The girl moved her body, and the chains wrapped around her rattled. She opened her eyes, and in her red eyes was a pattern resembling a shuriken, made of three crescent-shaped blades.
"Who… are you?"
The girl looked at Tsunade and Orochimaru, speaking intermittently, as if she hadn't spoken in a very long time.
Mangekyo Sharingan?!
Uchiha Madara's daughter?
No, she was sealed a century before Uchiha Madara was born. Perhaps she has some blood relation to Uchiha Madara.
The first person Orochimaru thought of when she saw this girl was Uchiha Madara. This girl looked so much like Uchiha Madara; she was practically a female version of Uchiha Madara.
Why was she sealed here?
Orochimaru frowned slightly, noticing the faded Sealing Technique on the cage containing the girl, eroded by time, and the chains on her body.
The shackles on the girl's ankles had already sunken in a bit.
This meant that the girl had been wearing the shackles for a very long time; ill-fitting shackles would cause them to dig into the flesh.
Is this a Sealing Technique composed of chains and a cage… Why hasn't she died after a hundred years?
Is it because of the seal's effect?
The seal maintains her physiological functions at the moment she was sealed… to make her suffer in this way?
What exactly did she do for the Senju Clan to use such a malicious Sealing Technique?
If she was so dangerous, why didn't they just kill her?
Hatred… Orochimaru looked at the girl's Mangekyo Sharingan and probably understood what was going on. The power of those eyes must have caused heavy casualties for the Senju Clan.
Therefore, the Senju Clan chose to seal her in this way, even when they could have killed her.
The Uzumaki Clan must have contributed a lot to this, right?
When I was digging just now, I didn't sense the presence of this girl. Is that also because of the seal?… "How did you end up here?"
Tsunade saw the girl's eyes, recognized them as Mangekyo Sharingan, and a hint of vigilance rose in her heart, realizing that she and Orochimaru had dug up an extraordinary existence.
Even though this girl didn't look as old as her and Orochimaru, she was actually over a hundred years old.
"I don't know… Can you… let me… out?"
The girl looked at Tsunade and activated the Sharingan's genjutsu.
Genjutsu?
Orochimaru's liquid contact lenses sensed the fluctuation of Yin Release Chakra. When she saw Tsunade punch the cage sealing the girl, it was too late to stop her. She could only place her hand on her back to break the genjutsu she was under.
"Release!"
Orochimaru released Tsunade from the genjutsu.
Boom—!
The force of Tsunade's punch sent the cage flying into the air, where it disintegrated.
"Orochimaru… Did I just fall under a genjutsu?"
Tsunade looked at her hand, then at the cage disintegrating in the air.
As the cage disintegrated, the chains binding the girl fell off.
The girl landed steadily, stretched her limbs, and said with a voice full of resentment, "That was the Senju Clan's monstrous strength… You are from the Senju Clan, aren't you?"
"What if I am?"
Tsunade clenched her fist, her tone unfriendly. It was too much to cast genjutsu on her the moment they met.
"Senju… Die!"
The girl looked up, and blood flowed from her bloodshot left eye.
"Amaterasu!"
Amaterasu?!
Orochimaru noticed that the girl was looking at Tsunade. It was too late to warn her, and there wasn't enough time to activate the Flying Thunder God Technique. She could only push her out of the way.
"Orochimaru!"
Tsunade was knocked, nearly falling. She turned around, her eyes wide, looking at Orochimaru, who was engulfed in black flames, wanting to rush over and extinguish the flames on her.
"Don't come over, I'm fine!"
Orochimaru stopped Tsunade's reckless behavior. Touching Amaterasu was no joke. The Yin Seal on her abdomen released Sage Chakra.
Crack—
A crisp sound rang out. A crack appeared behind Orochimaru, who was burning with black flames. She shed a layer of snake skin to escape the scorching Amaterasu.
How could this girl's visual jutsu be Amaterasu… Didn't the Uchiha Mangekyo Sharingan's visual jutsu originate from the truest thoughts in one's heart at the time of awakening?
Orochimaru looked at the girl with a hint of confusion in her eyes.
Amaterasu had no effect?!
Seeing Orochimaru escape Amaterasu in this way, the girl clenched her fist. Her gaze once again fell on Tsunade, and blood once again flowed from her left eye.
"Be careful!"
Knowing that the girl's visual jutsu was Amaterasu, Orochimaru was already prepared. Her white snake tail coiled around Tsunade, deftly dodging the constantly appearing black flames.
"A visual jutsu that releases black flames at the point of focus in the field of vision…"
Tsunade looked at the clusters of black flames, then at the girl's bleeding left eye, and discovered the principle behind this visual jutsu's activation.
"Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi!"
The girl stopped releasing black flames and manipulated them into Kunai and shuriken, flying towards Orochimaru and Tsunade.
Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi?
Isn't that Sasuke's visual jutsu…
Or does the Mangekyo Sharingan manifest the same ocular Ninjutsu?
Orochimaru used the Flying Thunder God Technique, and his figure vanished from his original spot.
"Vanished?!"
The girl was slightly stunned, but quickly located Orochimaru and Tsunade, becoming even more wary of them.
"It seems I can no longer communicate with her through words, and there's no longer a need to..."
Orochimaru put Tsunade down and warned, "Tsunade, be careful of her ocular Ninjutsu. That black flame won't disappear until it burns its target to ashes."
"Understood."
Tsunade glanced at the snake skin that had been reduced to ashes by the black flames, her heart seizing. Her body faintly shimmered with lightning, her hair tie snapped, and her hair bristled slightly as Lightning Release: Lightning Stimulation was fully activated.
She wouldn't fall for the same ocular Ninjutsu again!
"Sage Art: Water Release: Water Shockwave!"
Orochimaru formed hand seals, and a surging torrent of water, like a flood, erupted from beneath his feet, forming a colossal wave that swept towards the girl.
The girl's eyes widened as she watched the giant wave about to engulf her. Gritting her teeth, dark red Chakra condensed outside her body into a massive skeletal structure. The skeleton rapidly became covered with musculature and flesh, then was enveloped by a cloak-like Chakra.
This was the second form of Susanoo!
That was...the Uchiha's Susanoo?!
Tsunade had only heard of it; this was her first time seeing it with her own eyes.
The girl manipulated Susanoo to swing the long sword in its hand, cleaving the giant wave.
"Tsunade!"
Orochimaru quickly formed hand seals.
"Understood!"
Tsunade saw Orochimaru forming hand seals and knew what Ninjutsu he was about to use, so she quickly formed hand seals as well.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Jutsu!" X2
Orochimaru and Tsunade completed their hand seals simultaneously. The giant wave, which had been cut open by Susanoo's long sword, transformed into two water dragons, one on the left and one on the right, coiling around Susanoo.
Lightning wrapped around the water dragons, turning the Water Dragon Jutsu into Lightning Water Dragon Jutsu. Its power surged. As long as the girl couldn't maintain Susanoo, she would be struck by the Lightning Water Dragon Jutsu, her entire body paralyzed and unable to move.
The girl manipulated Susanoo to extend its hand, and three spinning tomoe flew out, dispersing to shatter the Lightning Water Dragon Jutsu, then flying towards Orochimaru and Tsunade.
The black flames were still burning; are they inextinguishable flames... It would be troublesome to be burned by the black flames.
Tsunade noticed the still-burning black flames and was extra cautious of her Amaterasu as she charged towards the girl. Yang Release Chakra strengthened her body, and she delivered a full-force punch to Susanoo.
Crack—!
Tsunade watched the dense cracks appear on Susanoo; she felt as if she had also cracked at that moment.
How could its defense be so exaggerated... That was my full-force punch!
Tsunade was confident that this punch could break through Susanoo's defense and send that hateful girl flying.
However, Susanoo's defense exceeded her imagination.
The girl was also startled; Susanoo's defense had actually been broken. Even the second form of Susanoo wasn't something ordinary attacks could break, let alone taijutsu.
Then, another punch!
Tsunade swung her fist again, and the girl saw through her intention.
"Tsukuyomi!"
The moment the second form of Susanoo was shattered, the girl activated Tsukuyomi. Tsunade's movements paused, her mind pulled into the genjutsu world. Her face suddenly turned incredibly pale, and sweat poured down her.
Tsukuyomi, this is already the third ocular Ninjutsu... Is she a monster? How can she possess so many ocular Ninjutsu?
A hint of astonishment flashed across Orochimaru's face as he appeared beside Tsunade, a white snake tail coiling around her body.
"Sage Art: White Rage Technique!"
Orochimaru formed hand seals, his cheeks puffed out slightly, and he spat a glowing red dragon from his mouth, clutching a black orb in its claws.
Orochimaru waved his hand, throwing a Kunai with a Flying Thunder God Technique formula on it. He then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to transport Tsunade outside the range of the White Rage Technique.
Chakra... not enough... The girl felt the drain of Chakra and wanted to activate Eight Thousand Spears to siphon Chakra from those with seals on them, but she didn't absorb any Chakra. Looking at the strange glowing red dragon, she could only repair the shattered Susanoo.
The glowing red dragon rotated around the black orb, then drilled into it. The black orb erupted with dazzling light and piercing noise.
"Ugh... Mm!"
The girl clutched her ears in pain, her entire body aching intensely. The vibrating air made all her bones tingle, and she couldn't even maintain Susanoo.
"Tsunade, are you alright?"
Orochimaru looked at Tsunade, whose face was pale and spirits somewhat low. He then looked at the girl in the center of the White Rage Technique, unable to maintain Susanoo, and narrowed his eyes, considering whether or not to kill her.
From the moment he dug her out until now, she hadn't said much. She had confirmed Tsunade was from the Senju Clan and then tried to kill her.
"It's nothing, just spent 72 hours in a genjutsu world..."
Tsunade wiped the sweat from her face, feigning strength as she stood up. She swayed for a moment, and an arm wrapped around her waist.
"Don't push yourself."
Orochimaru let Tsunade lean on him. He was well aware of Tsukuyomi's effects; while it was an instant in the outside world, it might not be so in the genjutsu world.
"The Uchiha Clan's Mangekyo Sharingan is too unfair!"
Tsunade said, annoyed, feeling the softness at her back, a flush appearing on her pale face.
Although it was only a brief moment in the outside world, in the genjutsu world, she was buried underground for 72 hours, enduring the pain of suffocation every moment.
Tsunade was furious at the girl who had made her endure 72 hours of pain and wanted to punch her away. But then she remembered that the girl had been sealed underground for a hundred years, constantly enduring such pain, and her mood became very complicated.
That girl was sealed underground for a hundred years... How did she manage to endure it?
Tsunade couldn't imagine what it would feel like to be sealed for a hundred years in such an environment.
No matter what that girl did, to make her endure a hundred years of pain in this way was too much, to say the least. It would have been more merciful to just kill her!
"Hmm... it is quite unfair..."
Orochimaru nodded in agreement. The Eye Sealing Curse Mark he developed based on the Caged Bird Curse Mark was specifically designed to counter the Sharingan.
However, this girl sealed underground was not in the original story... And she could also use the ocular Ninjutsu of Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke. Chronologically, it seems those brothers used this girl's ocular Ninjutsu.
The Uchiha Clan is truly unfathomable.
"Orochimaru, I'll leave the rest to you. That girl seems to know a lot about things from a hundred years ago."
Tsunade leaned against a tree trunk and slowly sat down. Spending 72 hours in the genjutsu world had taken a heavy toll on her mental state.
"Rest well, Tsunade."
Orochimaru lovingly stroked Tsunade's cheek, understanding her unspoken words. The corner of his eye noticed the bright light over there dimming, and he activated the Flying Thunder God Technique.
Orochimaru's figure appeared next to the Kunai stuck in the ground. He looked at the girl, who was curled up, clutching her ears in pain. He raised his hand, and his white snake tail transformed into a white snake, spitting out the hilt of the kusanagi sword.
Orochimaru gripped the hilt of the kusanagi sword, drawing it from the white snake's mouth. As Sage Chakra was infused, the blade emitted a faint blue glow. He raised the sword and brought it down.
The kusanagi sword, which could cut through steel as if it were mud, easily severed the shackles on the girl's ankle and impaled the ground next to her slender neck.
The girl, feeling the kusanagi sword's edge that could take her life at any moment, did not act rashly. She lay on the ground, looking at Orochimaru, who seemed to be contemplating how to deal with her.
"You've been sealed for a hundred years. I don't care what grievances you have with the Senju Clan; the Senju Clan has already disappeared, and the Uchiha Clan lives in Konoha..."
Orochimaru saw that when he mentioned the Uchiha Clan, the girl's eyes showed a hatred for the Uchiha that surpassed her hatred for the Senju Clan.
My Six Paths Sage's Rinnegan!
What is going on with this girl?
Isn't she from the Uchiha Clan?
Why does she hate the Uchiha so much?
Orochimaru suddenly felt his brain wasn't quite keeping up.
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