From Pirates to the Strongest Death God in Soul Society

Chapter 372 Tsunade: The temptation to return to the village.

The Land of Fire, Konoha Village.

At the gate of the village, several jonin were waiting here, as if they were going to welcome some important person.

In a short while, four figures came walking on the street in the distance.

"Here I am." Nara Shikaku's eyes lit up and he said, "I haven't seen Lady Tsunade for so many years, but she is still as charming as ever."

"The little girl she took away back then has grown into a beautiful young lady now." Asuma Sarutobi nodded.

Soon, the four figures arrived at the gate of Konoha. They were Jiraiya, Uzumaki Naruto, Tsunade and Shizune.

"Lady Tsunade, long time no see." As the squad leader of the Jonin squad, Nara Shikaku stepped forward and greeted.

Tsunade's eyes swept over these jonin, and then she grinned and said, "You all seem to be becoming more reliable."

When she left, these guys couldn't be called children, but they were not much different. It was okay to call them teenagers, but now they have all become mature uncles.

"Okay, let's go into the village first. Is the old man in good health?" Jiraiya asked.

Nara Shikaku on the opposite side immediately understood what he meant, his expression slightly sank, and he said gloomily: "Not so good, since the signing of the peace treaty with the Sand Village, the Sandaime-sama has been bedridden, and now we are waiting for you, Tsunade-sama, to come back and take charge of the situation."

Asuma Sarutobi also said with some heartache: "There are too many old injuries, and he used the Demon Sealing Technique before. Although he was lucky enough not to be taken away by the God of Death in the end, but..."

"Is grandpa Sandaime dying soon?" Uzumaki Naruto exclaimed.

Tsunade listened to these words with a somewhat dull expression, and said, "Let's go see the old man first."

Soon, the group walked along the street towards the Sarutobi clan's territory.

On the way, Kakashi looked at Uzumaki Naruto, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Naruto, Sasuke has left the village."

"Hmm?" Uzumaki Naruto asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Although the village has not yet classified his behavior as defection, according to the letters he left behind, he chose to go undercover to find Orochimaru. We have tried many times to contact him but failed." Kakashi said.

"What!?" Uzumaki Naruto asked in surprise: "Why is this happening?"

On the other side, in the large courtyard of the Sarutobi family.

The old man Sarutobi Hiruzen was also doing something interesting. He was lying on his hospital bed, posing and saying, "How about this? Do you look weaker?"

The old woman standing in front of his bed complained with makeup powder in her hand: "Don't move, your face is so rosy, how can you look like someone who is about to die? Come, I will put some powder on you to make your face pale."

"I have released my chakra as much as possible. I even had sweat on my head just now. Is this real enough?" Sarutobi Hiruzen hesitated.

"But that's Tsunade. To be honest, I think your plan is totally unreliable. As the top medical ninja, how could she not see your physical condition? Just wait and see, as soon as you two meet, you will be exposed." said Utane Koharu.

"It's just a pretense. Can I really die?" Sarutobi Hiruzen heard this, grinned, and said happily: "As long as Tsunade steps into the gate of this village, she won't be able to escape again."

Just then, Mitarashi Anko rushed in from the door and said, "Sandaime, Lady Tsunade has arrived and is coming in."

Sarutobi Hiruzen was startled and quickly lay down on the pillow, pulling the quilt to completely cover his body, leaving only his head exposed.

Koharu Utane on the side also hurriedly packed the powder box in her hand, and hastily lit the incense on the table beside her, filling the room with a pungent smell of medicine.

"Hurry up, your expression should be a little sadder." Utane Koharu said to Mitarashi Anko while adjusting her expression.

"I'm not very good at acting," said Mitarashi Anko with a stiff expression.

Then, there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor outside the door, and then Nara Shikaku opened the door and glanced inside. He saw that his Hokage was lying on the bed pretending to be dead. The advisor, Koharu Tsutomu, also nodded at him. Nara Shikaku then made way and said, "Tsunade-sama, please come in."

Tsunade smelled the scent of herbs in the room, her expression a little gloomy, she walked into the room, and at a glance she saw Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was very old and almost bald, lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

The master and disciple have not seen each other for many years. In her impression, the teacher who always seemed to be as energetic as a monkey in a tree, was now lying on the bed so sadly, exuding the smell of decay and aging, which really made Tsunade feel sad.

"Teacher," Tsunade's eyes were moist and she walked forward and called out with a slightly choked voice.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was lying on the bed. After hearing the call, he pretended to open his cloudy eyes with great effort, and said intermittently as if he couldn't see clearly, "Is it Tsunade?"

"It's me, teacher." Tsunade immediately stepped forward and half-knelt in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen's bed.

Seeing Tsunade so close, Utane Koharu took a few steps back without leaving a trace.

"You are still so young and haven't changed at all." Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Tsunade's face and said with some emotion.

This sentence came from the heart, without any trace of acting, which made Tsunade even more uncomfortable. "The traitor Jiraiya is unwilling to take the position of the Fifth Hokage, and there is no suitable candidate in the village. Teacher, I may have to... But I can't let go of these things in my heart, so I can only ask him to find you, Tsunade." Sarutobi Hiruzen pretended to be very weak and said.

"I understand." Tsunade nodded gently. Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly realized that although Sarutobi Hiruzen's face was very pale, the skin on his neck was so rosy.

This made Tsunade frown, feeling that something was wrong.

Could it be that the old man is about to have a last burst of glory?
When she thought of this, Tsunade was suddenly shocked and said, "Teacher, there seems to be something wrong with your condition. I have to check you out."

Having said that, before Sarutobi Hiruzen could react, Tsunade pulled the quilt off him, raised the chakra in her hand, and pressed it directly on Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart.

Sarutobi Hiruzen's expression froze, and his originally cloudy eyes became much clearer.

At the same time, Nara Shikaku carefully opened the door behind him and retreated quietly.

Jiraiya also swallowed his saliva and prepared to run away, but just as he retreated to the door, he saw Nara Shikaku with an expression of 'May luck be with you' on his face, and he closed the door without hesitation.

Jiraiya???
I haven't gone out yet! ?
The next second, Tsunade's expression turned angry, and the corners of her mouth twitched as she said, "It seems that you really won't live long, Teacher. Let me see you off on this last journey!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Tsunade clenched her fist, and her strange strength burst out, and she punched Sarutobi Hiruzen on the bed.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, who looked half-dead just now, suddenly became alert. Like a nimble monkey, he jumped up from the bed before Tsunade's punch landed, grabbed the ceiling and hung in the air.

Then, the solid wooden bed was smashed to pieces by Tsunade's punch. As if she was not satisfied, she turned around and looked at Jiraiya and said, "You bastard, you teamed up with this old man to deceive me, right?"

"No, before I left, he really looked like he was about to die. You know about the Shiki Fuujin, right? I'm a victim too." Jiraiya waved his hands, trying to explain something.

But Tsunade simply didn't listen. She stepped forward and kicked Jiraiya hard in the chest, sending him flying. The wall of the room was smashed, and he ran through the corridor. He rolled onto the grass in the courtyard and slid for more than ten meters before stopping.

Jiraiya was seen with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, holding his chest and saying: "It's broken, it's broken, at least five or six of my ribs are broken. You stinky woman are still so violent!"

On the roof, Sarutobi Hiruzen grabbed the chandelier and looked at the violent Tsunade in panic and said, "Hey, hey, after all, I am still your teacher. You hit Jiraiya, but you can't hit me!"

"Is there any teacher like you? You lied to me that you were going to die. Do you know what kind of mood I was in when I came to see you? Bastard!" Tsunade looked up and pointed at Sarutobi Hiruzen on the roof and cursed.

"Even if I'm not dead now, I won't live for many more years, right? Without this method, there's no way you can come back. Before I die, I really want to see you again, Tsunade!" Sarutobi Hiruzen said nervously.

His words also made Tsunade pause slightly in her action of beating up the destroyer.

There may be various reasons, but if you think about it carefully, what the old man said does make some sense.

As if noticing Tsunade's change of mood, Sarutobi Hiruzen's tone became gentler and he said, "Can you at least be considerate of someone of my age?"

"Since you can't die yet, then what is this Fifth Hokage?" Tsunade took a deep breath and glared at Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"The doctor said that if I could put down my burdens and live my life in an easy manner, I might be able to live a few more years. You felt it just now. Although there is nothing serious now, I am indeed very old, right? Are you, the traitor, also going to watch me die of exhaustion in the Hokage's office?" Sarutobi Hiruzen said quickly.

"Tsunade." Utane Koharu also spoke at this moment, as if she wanted to say something.

But it was obvious that Tsunade didn't give her any face at all. She glared at her fiercely and said, "What are you doing?!"

This furious look made Utane Koharu swallow her saliva and force a smile, "It's okay, it's okay."

Finally, it was Nara Shikaku, who had just escaped, who stepped in through the broken door and said in a deep voice: "Tsunade-sama, the Sandaime's health is indeed getting worse. The village has just ended the war with the Sand Village, and there are still many backlogs of affairs that need to be resolved. Danzo-sama is ambitious and has tried to intervene in the affairs of the next Hokage several times. Now in the whole village, there is really no one more suitable to be the Fifth Hokage than you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of jonin followed him in and said in unison: "Tsunade-sama, please take up the position of the fifth Hokage!"

It was because Danzo was not here, otherwise he would have gritted his teeth with envy when he saw this scene.

How much he wished that all the senior ninjas of Konoha would come together to persuade him to take the position?

Just as Jiraiya said, Tsunade is a person who appears cold but has a warm heart, and who responds to soft words but not hard ones.

Unlike Jiraiya, he is stubborn and will not do something even if you kill him.

Being asked by her teacher and pleaded by a group of senior ninjas in the village, Tsunade was held here for a while. Her expression showed some struggle, and her delicate and beautiful face looked very conflicted.

After a long while, Tsunade sighed and said, "Let me make it clear first, I haven't been back to the village for a long time. If there is anything I can't do well..."

When she said that, everyone relaxed and smiled.

Sarutobi Hiruzen even said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, I will personally assist you and teach you how to become an excellent Hokage!"

(End of this chapter)