In Konoha, Naruto lies down

"Although time cannot be reversed, I have a way to restore Lady Tsunade's youth." He lowered his voice, the wind whistling, and said with certainty on his face.

The bonfire was still crackling, the flames flickering on Tsunade's face.

"Are you... talking about the Yin Seal??"

"No," Naruto retorted, "The Yin Seal can only use chakra to keep the flesh and blood young. What I'm doing is not a ninjutsu, it's a permanent restoration of youth."

"How old?"

"eighteen."

"Impossible, Uzumaki Naruto, has your brain been working poorly lately? You're confused now." Tsunade just wanted to chat at first, but now she is a little worried about his mental state.

"Really." Naruto thought for a moment and said, "Absolutely authentic. I... don't know how to explain it, but it definitely works. Anyway... it's safe."

By the end, Naruto couldn't even continue. The things the system gave him were certainly safe, but when he realized he couldn't convince anyone, he was stunned.

After a brief silence, Tsunade suddenly spoke.

"Then take it out and let me see it."

"I can't give it to you, so I can only give it to you." Naruto was a little overwhelmed. Thinking about the three days of running around, he still said with a stiff upper lip, "It's probably similar to ninjutsu, a secret technique that was stripped away from the god of death."

"There is such a technique?" Tsunade looked up at him, "Why should I try it? Although returning to youth is indeed very tempting."

"Assuming your technique is indeed effective, I can live for many years and have a younger body. But... why would I do this?

"Most of the people I knew, friend and foe alike, are already dead. There's no point in me living on my own for another few decades, younger than Shizune."

Naruto didn't know what to say. If he really didn't want it, then forget it... How could he just forget it? He had worked so hard to get it, so she had to take it.

Even so, Naruto wasn't sure what was going on in Tsunade's mind, and thought he might need to find another way to convince her. So, after a moment's thought, he asked tentatively.

"Isn't being younger than Shizune attractive enough?"

"What do you mean?" Tsunade crossed her arms and glanced down at him with a puzzled look.

"Shizune is with Tsunade-sama every day, right? Even though she doesn't say it, she might think Tsunade-sama is troublesome."

"After all, I have to take care of an elderly woman every day. She has a bad temper and is willful. I'm sure..."

boom! ! !

A big hole was suddenly smashed into the ground. Naruto stood there in a daze. Tsunade's fist was emitting thin white smoke and was only 0.01 meter away from his head.

"What did you say?" Tsunade stared at him with a ferocious look on her face.

He really didn't dare to move now. If he moved again, he couldn't tell where Tsunade would hit him, whether it was his big head or his small head.

"I...I mean, it's actually quite interesting to be young again."

"Ok?"

"Being younger than Shizune is...quite attractive. She'll definitely be envious." Naruto roughly understood that Tsunade didn't take this matter seriously.

After all, no one would easily believe that there is a fountain of youth in this world, let alone believe in returning to youth, but that didn't stop Tsunade from refusing it verbally.

If there really was a potion to restore youth, she would be the first to drink it.

Although she said that there was no point in living so long, if Tsunade really thought so, she would not use ninjutsu to keep her body young even if it meant living a few years less.

"That being said, you're telling me you have a way to return to youth?" Tsunade's face was filled with suspicion. "Uzumaki Naruto, are you crazy?"

"What if it exists? Would you really refuse, Tsunade-sama?"

"Of course not, but such a thing doesn't exist at all, stop talking nonsense." She took a deep breath and restrained the smile on her face.

She stood up like this, hands behind her back, the firelight illuminating her face. Tsunade rarely showed a gentle smile, her eyes relieved.

"Okay, I won't play around with you anymore, Naruto."

"You don't belong here. Go back, go back to Konoha and live a good life. Don't run so far away anymore. You don't owe me anything. I should do what I have to do."

This could be considered a farewell, or it could be understood as a parting gift. It was the shortest parting gift he had ever heard.

"I'm not kidding." Naruto took a deep breath, mustered up the courage to approach Tsunade, and risking being beaten to death, slapped Tsunade on the chest.

"This is Hashirama's cell activation technique!"

The moment Tsunade was touched, she was stunned for a moment, then reacted. Her first reaction was anger, and her second reaction was to slap the guy to death.

This is outrageous. Even I dare to...

The next second, a thought that did not belong to her at all appeared in her mind: [Should I accept the cell activation and return to the young body of eighteen years old?]

She didn't know where this idea came from. It seemed that whether to accept it was just a matter of thought, and the opportunity was presented to her.

Of course I accept it. No one would refuse an eighteen-year-old.

When Tsunade agreed, her body was suddenly enveloped by a soft white light, and her bones crackled. This feeling was all too familiar to her, the cell activation technique.

She has used the Hundred Healing Technique countless times, draining the vitality of her cells in exchange for a youthful body.

But this time, the feeling she had was completely different. She didn't feel overdrawn, and no cell in her body was squeezed. Instead, she felt warm.

The density of the bones seemed to increase, and all the muscles in the arms and the whole body were regaining their elasticity. The fine lines around the eyes were completely smoothed out, and the face was flattened and tightened.

Chest... Tsunade subconsciously touched her chest, and fortunately, it had only shrunk a little. She breathed a sigh of relief and continued to check the changes in her body. A white light surrounded her.

She couldn't stop the activation process, couldn't shout, and couldn't see anything beyond the white light.

But Naruto, who was standing next to the fire, could see it clearly. There was no white light at all. The holy light could only be seen by a few people. The chakra produced by cell activation exploded in an instant.

Tsunade was shrouded in white holy light, with a thick mosaic code.

"Wow, what a magical cell activation technique." Naruto looked at Tsunade in shock as she became younger and younger, and every corner of her body returned to the age of eighteen.

I couldn't help but feel curious, what was Tsunade like at the age of eighteen?

I've only seen photos of Tsunade at age nine and fourteen, but never of Tsunade at eighteen. Her appearance hasn't changed much, she's just a little younger.

Tsunade is actually very pretty, with almost no flaws on her face, a completely standard queen face. After her face returned to being eighteen years old, there was a hint of youthfulness on her face.

About half an hour later, Tsunade slowly realized that the white light in front of her eyes was gradually disappearing. She was stunned for three seconds before she realized that she was not wearing any clothes.

With a whoosh, a black cloak flew over.

Tsunade grabbed it, looking at Naruto in the distance with a complicated expression, and put it on decisively. When the night wind blew, the cloak was empty, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.

There was a rustling sound of footsteps, and Tsunade turned to look at Naruto. She stretched out her hand and glanced at the skin, which had become much smoother. Her eyes seemed to see things much more clearly.

It was like I had become a completely different person, as if I had endless energy, and I could even feel the vitality and hormones surging in my body.

I can't wait to find a deserted place to start secret research. I almost forgot what it's like to be eighteen years old.

The war continued, the rope tree was lost, and family and friends left one by one. Time flies, and suddenly my body returned to the age of eighteen.

If she hadn't looked at Naruto in front of her who hadn't changed at all, she would have thought that all this was a dream.

"How do you know this... ninjutsu?"

"I really don't know. It was discovered by chance in the Uchiha clan's territory." Naruto began to make up stories. Anyway, things that could not be explained clearly in the ninja world could be blamed on the Uchiha.

First of all, the second generation Senju Tobirama once said, the evil Uchiha brat.

Secondly, the dead will not speak out to protest their innocence.

"You..." Tsunade was suddenly speechless. Returning to youth is obviously a good thing, even if it is only temporary, but it feels like it should be permanent at the moment.

She was feeling a bit complicated at the moment. She had originally just wanted to talk to Naruto. But now that it was already like this, there was no need to say anything more. She should just say goodbye properly.

As a result, he spoke incomprehensibly at first, and then returned to his eighteen-year-old body.

For a moment, she was confused again.

"How does it feel to be eighteen again?" Naruto was not as conflicted as she was. In any case, he had fulfilled a wish that he had been thinking about in his heart.

"Well, a young body feels good, but..." Tsunade looked up and asked with a complicated expression, "Why did you give it to me?"

"Is there any other reason for this?"

"Of course."

"I'll give it to you if I'm willing to. Maybe you just want to see eighteen-year-old Tsunade-sama," he said.

Hearing this, Tsunade was silent for a while and said.

"Haven't you seen everything?"

Naruto: “…”

Although I said that, I would never admit to such a thing even if I was beaten to death. Of course, I didn't see it.

"Another reason is that what I did before was a bit too much..."

"About what?" Tsunade asked.

"Dragon Vein, I used it to go back to the past. At that time, I thought it was a parallel world." He said, "At that time, I met Tsunade-sama. I thought it was okay to play some pranks."

"Then I...I went a little too far and deceived Lady Tsunade."

"No need to apologize." Tsunade waved her hand. As she raised her hand, the wind blew into her loose cloak, making it feel a little chilly. "It's been a long time since I last saw it. I don't care anymore."

Naruto stared at Tsunade for two seconds and said, "But I do care. At that time, I thought we would meet again soon. I never expected that we would leave the dragon vein in a hurry."

Chapter 571: Unable to quit the older man, and his long-held feelings for Tsunade

Hearing this, Tsunade tried to recall the rainy afternoon twenty years ago, but found that her memory was a little fuzzy.

It rained heavily from morning to afternoon. I only remember that I felt a little uneasy in my heart on that dark afternoon, as if the ambiguous feeling was being extinguished bit by bit.

God knows why I was bewitched at that time, but it was at that time, when my life was at its lowest point, that I met an interesting person. We were in perfect harmony, as if we had known each other for a long time.

It’s a lie to say you don’t care, and it’s also a lie to say you don’t have any thoughts.

It was too late to make any move, as the person had already disappeared. It would be twenty years before we saw each other again. He had become a child, just as mean as ever.

She didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. Sometimes not being able to remember things clearly was something to be thankful for, while remembering too clearly could make one unhappy.

"I do not remember."

"You remember."

"How could I remember such a boring thing? It was just a prank played by a kid twenty years ago." Tsunade curled her lips and said disdainfully.

For some reason, I don’t know if it’s the time filter, but when Tsunade returned to her twenties and crossed her arms over her chest, her “I’m the best in the world” attitude actually became a little… cute?

Naruto took a deep breath, and he suddenly realized that although the Tsunade in front of him was still the familiar Tsunade, her body had indeed returned to the age of eighteen, eighteen from the inside out.

Even though the tone and intonation of the voice remain the same, the voice has become younger.

Although the Hundred Healings Technique can animate Tsunade's body, it cannot change her voice, and her eyes will gradually change as she ages.

A person's change often starts from the eyes.

Whether experiencing joy or despair, the ups and downs of emotions will change a person, and the most intuitive way to show this change is through the eyes.

Although Tsunade had no wrinkles at the corners of her eyes before, her eyes were slightly numb, a characteristic of long-term pain and self-torture after trauma.

She could never get over that hurdle, so she could never let it go in her life.

The war had given her the title of Sannin, but it had also taken away everything precious from her life, leaving only the bloody record on her hands.

Some things in life disappear in an instant, while some things miraculously return to the distant past in an instant.

"You're about eighteen years old now. Remember, I didn't come to find you then." Naruto said in one breath, "I thought we would never meet again, and I also thought the dragon vein would correct the timeline."

"What do you mean by revision?" Tsunade asked.

"It's just..." He wanted to explain, but suddenly realized that explaining would make things worse. The correction would mean that he didn't take the encounter with Tsunade seriously at all.

Instead, they participate in it with the mentality of a gamer, acting recklessly with the idea that no matter how they play, it will not change the future in the end.

If I really say that, I always feel like I'm just pulling up my pants and not recognizing anyone.

"It's not important. Anyway, I regret it very much, even though I still came back through the dragon vein." Naruto didn't want to explain any more, "But I still have to say one thing, even if Lady Tsunade is angry, I still have to say it."

Tsunade lowered her eyes and glanced at him.

"Lady Tsunade! Actually..." He took a deep breath and shouted loudly.

"Uzumaki Naruto, are you crazy?" Tsunade interrupted him, "You don't have any thoughts about me, do you? Believe it or not, I'll twist your head off!"

"Let it go, it doesn't matter." Naruto, in his heart, was actually thinking that if he couldn't win, he could always run away. A gamble, a chance, a bicycle turned into a truck.

"I have always liked Lady Tsunade, and I will tell you even if you beat me to death."