Saving the Uchiha clan starts with becoming the clan leader.

Baihuawang Street.

A casino called 'Nishitoin'

The young and beautiful dealer swayed her slender waist and respectfully saw the infamous "big fat sheep" of the gambling world out the door. There was no way the dealer was happy. This customer, whose breasts were so large that even she couldn't help but envy him, truly lived up to his reputation as the legendary "big fat sheep." He had lost so much money that her commission as the dealer was no small amount!

Tsunade walked out of the casino looking dejected.

beside,

Silently, holding her pink pet pig, was on the verge of tears.

We lost again, and lost everything.

There wasn't a single penny left in my pocket.

To be precise, they still owe a large sum of money to the true ruler of Hyakkaou Street, the lord of the Jabami family who governs this area. After losing all her cash yesterday, Tsunade went to the Jabami family to borrow money, and the seemingly sinister Jabami lord readily lent her the money.

They were used to being silent.

Lady Tsunade is the granddaughter of the First Hokage and the last legitimate heir of the Senju clan.

There was no one in the Senju clan and the nobles of the Land of Fire who didn't know her. Moreover, Tsunade herself was the number one medical ninja in the ninja world. To be honest, apart from a few fools, most of these nobles wished Tsunade would come to them to borrow money, the more the better, and it would be even better if she couldn't pay it back.

Jingyin is worried because she has lost all the money she borrowed, and she may really have to sleep in the wild tonight.

After all, Lady Tsunade wouldn't borrow money from the same person twice in the same place.

Just when I was struggling with the mute function—

"This is?"

Tsunade bent down and picked up a coin from the roadside.

"Huh?!"

Shizune was stunned by what she saw. "Lady Tsunade actually found money? How is that possible?" The Lady Tsunade, who was absolutely disliked by Ebisu, actually found money? Is this a joke? This must be a joke, right?

but,

What's even stranger is that Tsunade, who found the money, didn't seem very happy.

Tsunade gripped the coin in her hand, her brow furrowing slightly. A bad premonition crept into her heart, and then—

"There's a monster!!!"

Screams rang out in the street.

Chaos spread rapidly from one end of Hyakkaō Street like dominoes. Tsunade and Shizune stood on the street, watching a monster with a single horn on its head, two wings on its back, four legs, two tails, and a pale white body that looked like it was wearing a thick suit of armor fly towards Hyakkaō Street.

"Monster! Lady Tsunade, let's run! It really is a monster!"

Shine screamed in surprise.

only--

Tsunade stood motionless, her brows furrowed deeply. This strange-looking monster gave her a strange feeling of déjà vu.

[Chapter 302. Doctor and Patient]

A monster gave me a feeling of déjà vu?

Tsunade paid no attention to the crazed monster. She stood motionless at the casino entrance, rummaging through old memories in her mind. Following that sense of déjà vu, she explored the depths of her memory, searching for the buried past.

Then--

The dim images of time, buried deep in my memory for so long, have been brushed away and have emerged clearly.

The underground laboratory, the massive amount of data piled on the table, the hideous monsters imprisoned in cages, and... Jiraiya and Orochimaru accompanying her!

"How annoying! It reminds me of unpleasant things."

Tsunade cracked her knuckles, making a popping sound like popping beans.

The monster before them

She had indeed seen it.

However, it wasn't the actual object; they had only seen it on blueprints. Back in the past, before the Sannin fell apart like they are now, they were ordered by their teacher, the Third Hokage, to capture a friend who was researching forbidden techniques in order to gain power.

Although their friend was not as strong as them, he had a very keen sense of danger.

The arrest operation ultimately failed.

In that laboratory, they only found some experimental data that hadn't been destroyed and the failed experimental products. Tsunade saw a design blueprint in those experimental data that was 95% similar to the monster in front of her. This... was definitely not a coincidence.

"Hiruko! I thought you were long dead!"

Tsunade let out a soft sigh.

Then she lowered her body slightly, gathering chakra at the soles of her feet, and then bursting forth in an instant. She leaped high into the air like a cannonball, facing the oncoming monster head-on. Just as the monster, somewhat bewildered, instinctively opened its mouth to bite the woman who had flown so close to it…

The fist, clenched with all its might, slammed heavily onto the monster's forehead.

"boom!!!"

"Snap—"

The sounds of fists pounding and bones cracking mingled together, making it difficult to tell which came first.

Even though she had been away from the battlefield for more than ten years, Tsunade's skills had not declined. In fact, as a medical ninja, she had taken excellent care of her body, and her monstrous strength, which had once made the Sand, Cloud, Rock, and Mist ninjas cry for their mothers, had not weakened at all.

Just one punch,

The ferocious-looking monster had its forehead bone shattered, and the broken bone fragments were deeply embedded in its brain, instantly extinguishing its life force.

The body fell onto the street, smashing a large crater in the brick-paved street with a loud thud.

"Lady Tsunade, are you alright?"

Shizune watched Tsunade land and nervously went forward to ask her what was wrong.

"What could be wrong? Shizune, get someone to clean up here, go find the Jabami family... wait." Tsunade spoke to Shizune with her back to the huge corpse, but halfway through her sentence, she sensed several powerful killing intents that were not being concealed and were rapidly approaching.

This level of killing intent?

Is it related to that guy, Hiruko?

Tsunade clenched her fists, ignoring the monster's corpse with its head smashed and blood flowing out. Instead, she leaped onto the rooftop next to her, avoiding the monster's body and approaching the menacing killing intent. Generally, she wouldn't get involved in such troublesome matters.

But today is not a normal situation.

Hiruko... Strictly speaking, Tsunade and Hiruko didn't have a deep relationship. Orochimaru and Jiraiya were more familiar with Hiruko. But since she had already remembered, she couldn't pretend she didn't know anything and turn away.

only,

Instead of Hiruko, whose face was already blurred in her memory, the person who appeared before her was a white-haired Mist Ninja, a young man from the Uchiha clan, and a white-haired brat, none of whom were complete strangers.

"Lady Tsunade?"

Uchiha Itachi quickly stopped and came to Tsunade, bowing his head to greet her.

"Lady Tsunade, hello!"

Kimimaro also greeted him very politely.

"Itachi? Kimimaro? And the Hozuki kid." Tsunade looked at the three people who appeared in front of her with some surprise.

"Ah! Lady Tsunade, you're here!"

Hozuki Mangetsu scratched his head, looking a little reserved.

This doesn't mean he was intimidated by the title of the Three Legendary Sannin. Rather, as a former patient, he couldn't help but feel reserved in front of the doctor who had saved his life. If it weren't for Tsunade, he would probably be nothing but bones buried in a coffin by now.

Not just him,

Itachi Uchiha and Kimimaro Kaguya were also Tsunade's patients, so even with Kimimaro's cold temperament, he still took the initiative to greet Tsunade.

"How did the three of you end up together?"

Tsunade was speechless.

Good guy,

What is this? A trio of terminally ill patients?

Four years ago, at the invitation of the Nara family, he returned to the village to help the Fifth Hokage, Akimichi Torifu, cure his illness. Then, he encountered Uchiha Itachi and Kimimaro on the street and discovered that Uchiha Itachi had a hidden ailment, which was a very rare and complex disease. If not treated in time, it would develop into an incurable terminal illness. At that time, he was excited and, while treating Akimichi Torifu, he also began to study the serious illness that Uchiha Itachi suffered from.

result,

Before Tsunade could cure Itachi Uchiha, Kimimaro, who had come to visit him, collapsed. Upon examination, Tsunade discovered it was another serious illness—the Kaguya clan's bloodline disease. She had only read about it in some books and had never encountered it in real life.

It's not over yet,

At that time, Itachi Uchiha and Kimimaro were both members of the Joint Investigation Department of the Hidden Mist Village and the Hidden Ninja.

Sogen brought Hozuki Mangetsu, Hatake Kakashi, and other high-ranking members of the department to visit the sick, and then Tsunade discovered that Hozuki Mangetsu was an invisible patient.

that's it,

The three of them received treatment from Tsunade together. It can be said that if they hadn't met Tsunade, none of them would have lived past the age of twenty.

"Um, Lady Tsunade, we came here to chase that monster."

Faced with Tsunade's question, Hozuki Mangetsu answered honestly.

"Are you chasing that monster?"

Tsunade blinked, staring at the three former patients in front of her. "What exactly happened? Explain yourself."

"Huh?"

Hozuki Mangetsu hesitated for two seconds. This tracking and investigation of Ma's actions was, after all, classified as a high-difficulty S-rank mission. Moreover, without exception, these so-called S-rank missions had extremely high confidentiality requirements. To be honest, even if it was a fellow villager, it was not allowed to be revealed casually if it was not related to the mission.

But, but standing in front of him was Tsunade!

This seems to defy common sense.

Uchiha Itachi and Kimimaro stood by, holding their breath and remaining silent. With Vice-Captain Hozuki Mangetsu beside them, they had no room to speak. In fact, this was just right, otherwise they would be the ones in a difficult position right now.

"What? You want to keep it a secret?"

Tsunade looked at Hozuki Mangetsu, who remained silent, and instantly understood what was going on. She knew Konoha’s rules by heart. Even though they had changed over the years, they were not to be completely overturned and rebuilt. The rules she knew had not become so outdated that they had all been abolished.

"To tell you the truth, I've seen this monster before, so... confess honestly."

"okay!"