Forced to sell misery

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Ruins on the edge of town.

Amayi returned to the agreed meeting place.

"Amayi?"

“Lord Raikage!” Amayi breathed a sigh of relief and took out a scroll and handed it to the Raikage. “It’s all thanks to Lord Raikage that he led the enemy away. I’m safe here.”

"The secret ninjutsu book passed down from generation to generation in Sugino Village has been obtained." The Raikage took the scroll, but his face was still ugly, "But we can't go back to the village immediately..."

"Could it be that……"

Amayi ran into the dilapidated room and saw his companion lying on the bed.

"Karai!"

With the green chakra light of medical ninjutsu on his hands, Amayi began to provide emergency treatment to Karai.

And one of their companions, Ni Kaiyi, had died in the explosion... There was no chance of rescue...

Karai's current condition is not optimistic either. The worm-shaped lump on his chest is wriggling slightly like a living thing, as if it will break through the skin or... explode at any time, causing Karai to be tortured by pain all the time.

"The reason is this insect-shaped mass. There is explosive chakra in this mass. It absorbs the chakra of the person it is attached to, and it will explode when it exceeds a certain size." As a medical ninja, Amai made the corresponding judgment. He turned to ask the Raikage,

"You mean, Nikai used ninjutsu before his death, right?"

"Using ninjutsu will cause a large amount of chakra to be released. It quickly absorbed the chakra and grew larger in one breath..."

"And then it exploded?" The Raikage instantly understood what Amayi meant, "So is there still hope for Karai?"

With cold sweat running down his cheeks, Amayi increased the flow of medical chakra, but found it was in vain...

"With my medical ninjutsu, I am really helpless..."

“Is that so…” Even the Raikage was helpless at this time.

"But there is someone who can save him! And he is in this town!" Amai looked at the Raikage and said seriously, "It is Tsunade-sama from the Konoha Ninja Village. There is no medical ninja in the world who can match Tsunade-sama. If we ask him for help..."

"It's so sweet, sweeter than red bean soup with a lot of sugar!" Karai, who was lying on the bed suffering from the lump, suddenly spoke up.

(Japanese, pronounced Amayi, means sweet and innocent.)

"How childish!"

"But Lady Tsunade..." Amai was about to argue but was interrupted -

"You are not allowed to call ninjas from other villages "sirs"! The relationship between Konoha and my Hidden Cloud Village is not good. How could the people from Konoha save me!" Karai endured the pain and tried to dispel Amayi's naive idea.

"She will save him..." Seeing his subordinates dying and being helpless, the Raikage said firmly, "No, I will let her save him."

"No, Lord Raikage!" Karai struggled to sit up, "You must not ask ninjas from other villages for me! Are you going to abandon your dignity as the Raikage?"

"I want your dignity, and I want your life too!"

“Lord Raikage!” Karai naturally knew how determined Lord Raikage was to say such a thing… so he tried his best to stop him—

"How can you say something more naive than Amayi!"

"What kind of dignity is it to watch your subordinates die without saving them? What kind of Raikage is it?!" The Raikage clenched his hands and said, "I won't allow you to die, Karai! I order you to come back to the village alive with me!"

"Lord Raikage..."

Karai choked up for a moment.

"Let's go, Amayi! Take me to find Princess Tsunade!"

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Izakaya.

There were many wine bottles lying all over the low table.

"Shizune, the wine is all gone!" Tsunade yelled in dissatisfaction, "Hey, get up, I want some wine!"

"liquor……"

Shizune, who was already dizzy, was knocked unconscious under the table.

"The wine is gone, the wine!"

"Really... you passed out after just drinking so little!"

"Where's the wine?" Tsunade shook the empty bottle in her hand and shouted dissatisfiedly, "I want wine!"

"elder sister……"

Faintly, Tsunade heard someone calling her sister...

"I like my sister the most..."

"One day I want to be called Hokage like my grandfather... Becoming Hokage is my dream!"

The flames of the explosion devoured the child and his dreams...

"The rope tree..."

The wine bowl in front of her was filled, Tsunade picked it up and drank it all, muttering,

"Just one more time..."

"Even if it's just once..."

"Let me see that smiling face again..."

Tsunade murmured... In the dim light, she seemed to see a familiar face again -

"I love my village and my friends, so I want to protect them all!"

The wind blew up the young man's silver hair, and that color was so dazzling under the sun...

"So I want to be the Hokage, the one who protects everyone. Becoming the Hokage is my dream!"

……

The heavy rain soaked her clothes and chilled her heart. Her silver hair was stained with mud, her hands were stained with blood, and the cold body of her loved one... That scene became her lingering nightmare. Even with her superb medical ninjutsu, she still couldn't save her lover's life...

"Break..."

Tsunade's body was shaking, tears welled up in her eyes. She said willfully while drunk, "What's the point of being a Hokage? It doesn't matter what it is..."

In the heavy rain, the girl trembled and hugged herself, crying for the love she had lost...

"I just want you to be alive. I really love you, so..."

Tsunade raised her head, trying hard to hold back the tears in her eyes.

"I miss you...I want to hug you."

At this moment, someone interrupted Tsunade's recollection at an inappropriate time -

"You should be one of the three legendary people in Konoha, Master Tsunade. I have a request for you, and I hope you will agree to it."

"Who are you?" Tsunade's voice turned cold.

In fact, she was not drunk, but she was just using the alcohol to make her feel confused and reminisce about the past. Only alcohol could make her feel less painful...

"I am a ninja from the Hidden Cloud Village, my name is Amayi." Amayi sincerely pleaded with Tsunade in the standard "Dogeza" posture, "Please, please use your medical ninjutsu that is praised by the world to save my compatriots! Lady Tsunade!"

"You are..." Tsunade tried hard to identify Amai's forehead protector, "the medical ninja from Kumo Village?"

"Yes!"

"Since your companion is injured, you go and treat him."

"There's really nothing I can do with my abilities..." Amai looked at Tsunade with pleading eyes.

"I dont go."

"but……"

"The people from Kumogakure have the nerve to come to Konoha to beg?" Tsunade sneered, "A group of guys who once tried to take away the Byakugan from the Hyuga family."

"The two parties have already resolved this matter..."

"You're so shameless." Tsunade said with disdain.

"Please put aside the past grudges..." Amai's voice weakened, but he still tried hard to beg Tsunade to change her mind.

"That's enough, Amayi," the Raikage who had been standing outside opened the door curtain and walked in, looking at Tsunade and said, "I knew you wouldn't agree to it easily."

"This is the leader of the Rain Village, Lord Raikage." Amayi introduced dutifully.

"Oh, really?" Tsunade, who was still drunk, tried to look at the person who came with her eyes wide open, and sneered in an ambiguous way, "I didn't expect such a big shot to come."

"If you don't want to, I will take you away even if I have to use force." The Raikage's temper was indeed not as good as the rumors said.

"Interesting," Tsunade pinched the wine glass, her eyes narrowed slightly, "Use force, who are you talking to? I will make you regret it."

"Wait, Princess Tsunade doesn't need to take action for such a small matter." At this moment, a voice interrupted at an inopportune time, "I will take care of you people from Kumogakure."

Everyone present was shocked.