I, who just wanted to be lazy, was forced to become the Hokage.

Chapter 352 Wood Release: Descent of the Sea of ​​Trees!

Because he has made progress in his Wood Release training, he wants to meet Orochimaru.

Nara Rinkasa sorted out Tsunade's meaning, and if he hadn't misunderstood...

"Tsunade, are you planning to cause trouble for Orochimaru?"

"How should I put it?"

Tsunade frowned slightly for a moment, then nodded seriously.

That's right!

"I want to cause trouble for Orochimaru!"

"To be precise, I want to go and beat Orochimaru up! With [Wood Release]!"

Tsunade and Orochimaru have known each other for a very long time.

They formed a ninja team when they were about five or six years old and have been fighting together ever since.

To this day, Tsunade and Orochimaru have known each other for decades.

For Tsunade, Orochimaru was a teammate she would live and die with, a companion she could entrust with her life.

However, this positive and optimistic perception was completely shattered during the Third Shinobi World War.

Tsunade first learned that Orochimaru was using his Konoha ninja comrades on the front lines to conduct human experiments.

She later learned that Orochimaru had extended his evil tentacles to her grandfather, Hashirama Senju.

The combined negative impact of these two events almost completely wiped out the positive goodwill Tsunade had accumulated towards Orochimaru over the previous decades.

If it weren't for Orochimaru's status as a "teammate," Tsunade's words at this moment wouldn't be "beat him up," but "kill him"!

As for why Tsunade brought Nara into the picture, it's quite simple.

She was worried about the car overturning...

Orochimaru is not an easy opponent to defeat.

Although she has never described him to outsiders, in Tsunade's heart, Orochimaru, who is exceptionally talented and has a strong thirst for knowledge, should be ranked first among the Sannin in terms of overall strength!

Even Tsunade didn't know how many secret techniques and forbidden techniques Orochimaru had mastered!

Even under normal circumstances, Tsunade didn't have much confidence in "beating up Orochimaru".

Not to mention she still wants to use Wood Release to beat Orochimaru up...

Most importantly, Orochimaru was very aware that Tsunade suffered from hemophobia.

In other words.

Even if Tsunade gains the upper hand in her battle with Orochimaru, she will completely lose her fighting ability once Orochimaru intentionally bleeds.

It's a little embarrassing to talk about...

Tsunade has been trying very hard to overcome her hemophobia, but unfortunately, she hasn't made any progress.

To prevent any mishaps in the upcoming battle, Tsunade had no choice but to bring Nara Rinka along.

Faced with Tsunade's invitation to team up...

Nara's attitude towards laurels is naturally—

"Where should we fight? Should we do a mixed doubles?"

"Mixed doubles?"

Tsunade was unfamiliar with the new term Nara Rinka mentioned, but that didn't stop her from quickly understanding its meaning, and her eyes lit up immediately.

"Ahem! Let's see how my battle with Orochimaru goes first..."

"The meeting place between me and Orochimaru is in the dense forest outside Kikyo Castle."

……

Outside Kikyo Castle, in the dense forest.

Orochimaru, his skin deathly pale, bathed in the soft moonlight, quietly awaited his "teammates".

Orochimaru would be lying if he said he wasn't curious about Tsunade's invitation.

In particular, the other party took the initiative to arrange the meeting place outside of Konoha.

Recently, Orochimaru has been engrossed in his biological research.

He gradually and thoroughly understood the basic characteristics of the intercolumnar cells, and was soon able to begin a new round of experiments...

In this situation, apart from major life events like the "Hokage election," Orochimaru rarely pays attention to other trivial matters.

However, it was precisely because of his interest in the "Hokage election" that Orochimaru learned from Danzo Shimura that Tsunade had already joined the vortex of the Fourth Hokage election.

"Could it be that Tsunade asked to meet me because of that guy, Nara Ranka?"

Orochimaru's eyes narrowed like a snake's. He looked up at the sky, where a jet-black shadow creature was rapidly approaching, taking advantage of the moonlight.

"You're here..."

Before Orochimaru could even raise his hand to greet him...

A slender figure leaped off the back of the [Shadow Creature] and, like a meteor falling from the sky, crashed fiercely into the area where Orochimaru was standing.

"Um?"

Orochimaru let out a soft exclamation, and his right hand, which had just been raised halfway, instantly rose to his chest, forming a gesture for refining chakra.

The next instant.

boom--

Tsunade crashed down, landing with perfect precision on Orochimaru's head. The violent force crushed Orochimaru's head and body with a single stomp before stomping him back onto the ground.

With a deafening roar, the once flat forest clearing was shattered inch by inch by Tsunade's trampling, turning into a deep crater with a diameter of several meters, and then exploding into a sky full of dust and smoke.

"It's been so long, is this your greeting, Tsunade?"

Orochimaru's signature hoarse voice came from under a large tree nearby. He leaned against the thick trunk, watching the dust and smoke ahead with a leisurely air.

"Isn't that a bit too 'enthusiastic'?"

As the smoke dissipated, Tsunade's figure appeared in the broken crater.

Just as Tsunade landed, Orochimaru swiftly used "Earth Release: Earth Substitution," transforming himself into a lump of mud to avoid a direct collision with Tsunade's monstrous strength and then dodging under a nearby tree.

Orochimaru.

Tsunade raised her head and looked at Orochimaru, who stood calmly under the tree. A hint of coldness and fanaticism flashed in her brown eyes.

"I've come here today because I genuinely intend to have a good 'catch-up' with you!"

"Yeah?"

Orochimaru gave a noncommittal reply, then looked up at the shadow creature that had not yet descended into the night.

"So, what is Nara-kun's purpose in coming here?"

"Nara?"

Tsunade clasped her hands together, forming hand seals with a slightly stiff expression.

"He's just here to keep things under control..."

Orochimaru didn't immediately realize what "Nara's support" meant; his gaze was immediately drawn to Tsunade's stiff hand seals.

Compared to the details of Tsunade's hand seals, the very fact that "Tsunade is performing hand seals" is more appealing.

"You're actually forming hand seals?"

Orochimaru licked his lips lightly, a strong sense of curiosity flashing in his snake eyes.

"I don't mean to belittle you, but Tsunade, as far as I remember, it's probably been over ten years since you last performed hand seals, hasn't it?"

As a ninja, Tsunade's ninjutsu skills are naturally not limited to medical ninjutsu.

However, once her combat system was basically established, Tsunade's abilities and methods were essentially fixed as "superhuman strength + medical ninjutsu".

Why bother forming hand seals when you can defeat an enemy with a single punch?

In Orochimaru's memory, Tsunade had indeed not performed hand seals in front of him for nearly a decade.

Tsunade's face darkened slightly, but she still resolutely formed hand seals.

As the hand seals were completed, Orochimaru's attention finally shifted away from the fact that "Tsunade was forming hand seals."

"Wait, this hand seal process is..."

"Wood Release: Descent from the Sea of ​​Trees!"

After Tsunade finished forming the hand seals, she slammed her right hand onto the ground below, and her Wood Release chakra poured into the earth, activating the plant roots hidden underground.

Clumps of green plants grew out of the earth, surging towards Orochimaru like waves, seemingly about to completely engulf him.

Orochimaru's pupils contracted to their maximum, unable to conceal the shock in his heart.

"Wood Release!"

(End of this chapter)