Tsunade, you're really drunk!

Chiya's words struck deep into Ōnoki's soul.

In an instant, the memories of his youth and the weakness he and his master, the Second Tsuchikage, felt in front of Madara came to his mind again.

Even this time, Ōnoki felt even more powerless and unable to resist.

After all, the once rebellious Uchiha Madara was defeated by Qianye in front of the Five Kage.

The Qian Ye in front of him was even more invincible.

In the current ninja world, there is no other guy like Hashirama Senju who is full of idealism and fantasizes about peace and can stop Qianye.

It was unknown how long it took before Ōnoki woke up from the illusion.

Looking around, Qianye's figure had already disappeared.

But those two sentences kept lingering in his ears like a nightmare.

"Damn Uchiha Chiye..."

"Damn Uchiha!"

Ohnoki clenched his fists, his face was ferocious and full of resentment. He didn't even dare to refute in front of Qianye. He only dared to vent his inner depression after making sure that there was no one around.

Not long after, Ōnoki returned to the village in dejection with the Iwagakure who had carried out the mission.

Even many ninjas were puzzled.

Why was it that after our Lord Tsuchikage and his ninjas won such a brilliant victory, he showed no sign of joy on his way back, but instead had a face full of sorrow?

……

"Master, after inspection, all the rebellious ninjas and stray ninjas here have been eradicated."

"But more than a month of street fighting has still resulted in the loss of many civilians. What should we do next?"

Nadeshiko Shizuka handed the intelligence report and the list of civilians to her master Teika, not knowing what to do next.

Tingxiang quickly browsed through the civilian statistics on the scroll, thought for a while, and soon came up with a new idea.

"First, ask Elder Chang Ye to lead the people back to the village and let the villagers prepare to move."

"Now that there are no stray ninjas or rebel ninjas blocking their way, they should be able to arrive here in no time."

"I believe that with the guidance of the villagers, they will gradually believe that peace can be restored here."

Shizuka nodded.

What the master said is true. The civilians here have always been oppressed, although many people have fled after a month of war.

But there are still many ordinary people who remain here. As long as they can be appeased, the remaining people can still serve as villagers of Shinfushiko Village. This population will be enough.

Jiraiya happened to walk into the tent at this time and heard the conversation between Tingxiang and Shizuka.

"As the saying goes, men and women work together, and work is not tiring~"

"Tingxiang, this is indeed a good idea."

Jiraiya said as he handed the two large grilled fish in his hand to Teika and Shizuka.

"For more than a month, I have only been able to make do with ration pills and compressed dry food. I need to eat something good to replenish my body."

"You just had the surgery not long ago, and you've been through so much. You need to rest well."

Shizuka took the grilled fish with a confused look on her face, looked at her master and Jiraiya in front of her, silently took a bite of the fish in her hand, and left the tent.

"Master, I'm going to go inform Elder Changye first. You can talk to Master Jiraiya slowly~"

Seeing that her disciple accepted the benefits and bought her out directly, Tingxiang didn't say much. She just blushed unconsciously on her cheeks and said something to Jiraiya coquettishly.

"You are questioning Lady Tsunade and Shizune's medical ninjutsu."

"I obviously recovered not long after the operation, otherwise why would I come to carry out this commission in person?"

"I'll tell Lady Tsunade later that you said her medical skills were not good enough."

After hearing this, Jiraiya quickly waved his hand and shook his head.

"I am not, I am not, don't talk nonsense."

Then he hesitated and stammered, "I'm just worried about your health. You're already quite old, why are you still trying so hard? Actually..."

Jiraiya was about to continue saying that it was actually okay for him to host this mission on behalf of Tingxiang, but before he could finish his words, he vaguely felt a chill and an itchy nose.

Subconsciously, he looked up at Tingxiang.

"Crack!"

I saw that the branch that Tingxiang used to skewer the fish had been broken by one hand, and her clean short hair began to float slightly. She paused and said word by word:

"What do you mean?"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Jiraiya instinctively took two steps back, as if something bad was about to happen.

"Uh... No, I don't mean anything."

"What do you mean by 'You are already old, why are you still trying so hard'?"

"Are you really that young?!"

Jiraiya was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say, and the next sentence came out of his mouth subconsciously.

"Well, strictly speaking, I know immortal arts, so my body will age more slowly. I was going to say..."

However, Jiraiya didn't say the rest of the words. He saw the grilled fish in Tingxiang's hand quickly enlarged in his field of vision, and then hit him in the face.

"Hot, hot, hot!!!"

"Not only do you dislike my age, you also dislike my appearance! Go to hell!"

"Eat the fish yourself!"

After saying that, Tingxiang ran out of the tent angrily and no one knew where she went.

Jiraiya was left standing stupidly in the tent. He raised his hand to wipe off the sauce on his face that was stuck to the grilled fish, and looked at the grilled fish that had fallen to the ground and was already broken into pieces.

I could still hear Tingxiang's words just now, and suddenly I understood what I had done just now.

"I...I'm so stupid, how could I say such a thing!?"

"That's not what I meant, I..."

"Ugh……"

For a moment, Jiraiya didn't know what to do. He just squatted on the ground quietly, looking at the grilled fish all over the floor, at a loss.

Until Qianye's arrival.

As soon as I entered the tent, I saw Jiraiya squatting on the ground for who knows how long, and there were grilled fish all over the ground.

"What are you doing?"

"What happened?"

Jiraiya, who was feeling guilty, heard Qianye's voice and it was as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw. Hope suddenly appeared in his eyes.

He turned around, stood up, and grabbed Qianye's arm.

"Qian Ye, you must help me this time!"

Qianye looked around the tent but didn't see Tingxiang, so he roughly guessed something.

"Tell me what stupid thing you did first."

……

"You are really...Ah~"

"How can you tell a woman she's old and ugly in front of her?"

"you really……"

Qianye held his forehead in his hand and was speechless. Why was Jiraiya so polite when chatting with those daimyo's wives, nobles, princesses and geishas, ​​but when he met someone he really liked, he acted stupidly?

"I just don't know what to do now, so I'm asking you for help."

"After all, all those things before were required by the mission. I used tricks. I was pretending. I don't like it at all, okay?"

Qianye looked at Jiraiya with disdain and doubt.

"Are you sure? You don't like it at all, don't enjoy it?"

Jiraiya's face froze.

"Ahem, a little bit, but only a little bit. It's a man's instinctive reaction!"

Qianye patted Jiraiya's shoulder.

"Alright, alright, it's already this late, there's no point in talking about this anymore."

"You just hurt someone's heart badly."

"Why don't you go and comfort them right now? Why are you still standing here?"

"How come you don't have any sense at all? Where have all your skills as a little prince in the love field gone?"

"Love needs to be expressed loudly."

Jiraiya scratched his head in embarrassment.

"I don't know what's going on. Every time I want to say it, but I don't know why, when it comes to the critical moment, I don't dare to say it. I'm always afraid of being rejected."

"Do you have any good ideas?"

Qianye raised his eyebrows.

Jiraiya, this guy, is already in his forties or fifties, but he is still an old Chu Nan. To some extent, he can be said to have walked through a sea of ​​flowers without getting a single leaf touched. Thinking of this, he silently took out a set of scrolls from his ninja tool bag and handed them to Jiraiya with great care.

"Lao Zi, since you've said that, if I don't help you, it would seem like I'm being unkind."

"This is my essential picnic set when I go out. It has all the barbecue equipment. You can catch some fish, rabbits or wild boars, and that's it."

Jiraiya was full of confusion, looking at Qianye with half-belief and half-doubt, feeling that Qianye was a bit inexplicably unreliable.

"Are you sure... this thing works?"

Qianye patted Jiraiya's shoulder solemnly.

"Just believe it and it'll be over. Anyway, it won't be any worse than it is now, right?"

In the end, Jiraiya nodded silently and set off with the determination to die.

Qianye looked at Jiraiya's tragic back and muttered silently in his heart.

Jiraiya, if you don't have the courage even with the influence of strong alcohol, I really can't help you.

You can't use strong pure medicine...

With the barbecue equipment given by Qianye, Jiraiya used ninjutsu to catch two rabbits, and then went to the river to catch fish, but accidentally saw the figure who was angered by him on the stone beside the stream.

Under the setting sun, Tingxiang was sitting on a big rock by the stream, hugging her knees, looking at the water surface, her face, occasionally a wrinkle at the corner of her eyes, her face full of sorrow.

"Sure enough, you think I'm too old after all..."

Just when Tingxiang was feeling depressed alone, she heard a splash in the stream beside her.

The water splashed on her body, soaking many of her clothes.

The already tight combat uniform now fits her skin even more tightly, outlining a beautiful ink painting.

When Tingxiang turned her head, she saw Jiraiya, who had just jumped into the water with his trouser legs pulled up.

"Hmph!"╭(╯^╰)╮

Then he turned around and got angry when he saw this guy and didn't want to pay any attention to him.

Jiraiya wanted to use water splashes to attract Tingxiang's attention, but unexpectedly, the water splashed on her, and he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

But as Tingxiang turned around, her slender waist and fleshy thighs made Jiraiya's head hot. He felt the blood boiling and his nose was about to bleed.

Then he immediately realized that Tingxiang was still angry with him, and remembered what Qianye had just told him. He cheered himself up, quickly stabbed two fish in the river with a kunai, and then came behind Tingxiang.

Without saying a word, he silently opened the scroll, set up the grill and charcoal fire, brushed oil on the grill, skinned the rabbit, dismembered it with a kunai, put it on the grill, and turned to go to the river to clean the scales off the fish.

Tingxiang, who had heard the noise behind her and was curious about what Jiraiya was doing, felt shameless when she heard the sizzling sound of the oil on the barbecue and smelled the appetizing meaty aroma in the air.

He actually used food to tempt and seduce her at this time!

Scumbag!

The two continued in this state until Jiraiya finished cleaning the fish's guts and scales and put it on the grill as well, the aroma wafting throughout the air.

No matter how strong Tingxiang's will was, her body's instinctive reaction still betrayed her.

"Gudu~"

Tingxiang's stomach surrendered first, causing her to feel embarrassed but making Jiraiya burst out laughing.

This caused Tingxiang to blush and she turned around and pointed at Jiraiya.

"You! Stop laughing!"

Jiraiya simply raised his hands. As a ninja, basic management of facial expressions was a must.

He has been professionally trained and will never laugh!

"Not smiling."

"Eat something?"

"I do not!"

"Then... drink something?"

As he spoke, Jiraiya shifted his gaze towards the dark brown wine jar next to him, on which a large word "wine" was pasted with square paper with a red background.

Tingxiang followed Jiraiya's gaze, hesitated for a moment, then took the jar of wine, poured herself a glass, hesitated for a moment, and then poured Jiraiya's glass.

"Then drink a little, just a little."

After hearing Tingxiang say this, Jiraiya's face lit up.

"You're not angry with me anymore?"

Unexpectedly, when Tingxiang heard this, her expression changed again.

"Who said that? I'm still angry!"

"Okay, okay, I'm still angry~"

The two of them bickered, drank, and had a barbecue dinner under the misty and purple sunset.

Until the sun sets completely, the moon rises, and the sky is dotted with stars.

The originally full jar of wine was almost empty. The two were already drunk and talking to each other in a state of confusion.

"You old pervert, you didn't agree when I pursued you, right? Do you regret it now?!"

Teika spoke incoherently, staring into Jiraiya's eyes, her body swaying.

Jiraiya froze for a moment, then turned his head nonchalantly to the side.

"I……"

Seeing that Jiraiya had turned into the coward he was back then, Tingxiang became so angry that she threw the wine glass onto the stone ground beside her.

"You said you had someone in your heart at that time, what about now? Do you still have someone in your heart now?"

"Coward! Stinky toad!"

The heart-wrenching roar lingered in Jiraiya's ears, and self-blame filled his heart again.

He has someone in his heart now, but it is no longer the person he used to be, but the person in front of him.

But he really didn't know if he was still worthy of Tingxiang...

Seeing Jiraiya's indifference, Tingxiang felt as if her heart was being strangled. She couldn't breathe, and felt heartbroken and depressed.

He just picked up the jar of wine beside him.

Seeing this, Jiraiya finally couldn't bear it anymore, snatched it away, stood up, and poured it into his own mouth in big gulps.

Qianye said that alcohol makes cowards brave. Even though I am a coward, I don’t want to be a coward again this time!

The wine spilled from his mouth, his throat stung, but still not as much as his heart ached.

Tingxiang sat helplessly aside, covering her face, not wanting Jiraiya to see her crying.

Suddenly, I felt someone hugging my shoulders, my hands were pushed away, and I saw Jiraiya's face.

"Although I am timid, lustful, and old, I am afraid of being rejected by you!"

"But I don't want to regret it for the rest of my life! Even if you reject me, I will say it this time no matter what!"

Jiraiya shouted out his inner thoughts, his eyes fixed firmly on Teika's.

"I love ..."

Before he could utter the last word, Jiraiya felt someone grabbing his neck and blocking his mouth.

Under the moonlight and starry sky, two figures hugged each other tightly, stretching very long...