The group searched until night without any results. The two samurai insisted on continuing, while Jiraiya took the three kids to eat.
Jiraiya had just randomly picked an izakaya, but as soon as Naruto entered, he saw Jiraiya and a big-busted blonde woman gazing deeply into each other's eyes.
I searched for her a thousand times in the crowd, then suddenly turning back, I found her where the lanterns were dim.
It might not be entirely appropriate here, the mood doesn't quite match, but the scene is really fitting.
Judging by her appearance, it was clearly Tsunade, and the one beside her holding the piglet, looking lost, must be Shizune.
"Jiraiya?" Tsunade hiccuped, her face flushed, and asked groggily.
"Tsunade?" Jiraiya also looked incredulous.
"Perfect timing, have a couple of drinks with me."
So, Jiraiya introduced everyone to each other, sat opposite Tsunade, and drank and reminisced with her. Sasuke and Naruto sat next to him, filling their stomachs with the appetizers on the table, while Sakura sat beside Shizune, dejectedly.
Actually, Sakura had been very excited at first. Even if her idol was a gambling addict, an alcoholic, and a deadbeat, she was still her idol after all. As a fan, Sakura naturally chose to forgive her, and even wanted to say, 'Tsunade-hime, you're so beautiful...'
But after getting closer, Sakura looked at Tsunade, who was close to the people with her E-cups, and then looked at herself, who was close to the people in a different way, and pouted aggrievedly, sitting down dejectedly.
Sasuke didn't understand why, but Naruto looked around and seemed to understand something, but he couldn't say anything about it.
"Pui you pui you!"
Naruto, who was burying his head in the food, was attracted by a peculiar pig squeal and looked up at the piglet in Shizune's arms.
Its skin was pink and glossy, its flesh firm, and it probably didn't weigh more than ten kilograms, perfect for roast suckling pig. Naruto sucked the half-eaten green vegetable into his mouth and swallowed it, then asked, "Shizune-neechan, I think this pig looks a little listless, how about we..."
As he spoke, Naruto licked his lips, patted Sasuke's shoulder, and continued, "Sasuke is very good at Fire Release, leaving the control of the heat to him should be no problem."
Shizune immediately refused, "No way! Tonton is not..."
"Hahaha, I've wanted to try it for a long time, Tonton looks delicious no matter how you look at it!" The drunken Tsunade interrupted Shizune and reached out to grab the pig.
"Eee! Eee!" Shizune's eyes widened when she heard Tsunade's words, and she protected Tonton, dodging to the side, "Tsunade-sama, you've had too much to drink!"
"Pui you pui you!" Tonton huddled in Shizune's arms in fear.
"I haven't had too much! Kid, you have good taste." Tsunade turned to look at Naruto, but her eyes suddenly became dazed, "...Nawaki..."
Naruto understood instantly, his passive aura, the "I look like everyone jutsu," had activated. Anyone could see a familiar shadow in Naruto, especially when they were delirious or under intense emotional stress.
For example, Tsunade could see the shadow of her younger brother Nawaki in Naruto, Jiraiya and Kakashi could see the shadow of Minato in Naruto, and even Gennō, the terrorist who planted Exploding Tags in Konoha, could see the shadow of his grandson in Naruto.
Naruto was about to explain, but Tsunade hugged him tightly, knocking over the cups and dishes on the table.
"Ugh ugh ugh." Naruto couldn't breathe and struggled to break free, "Tsunade-senpai, I..."
"Thwack!" Tsunade flicked Naruto on the forehead, "Call me 'oneechan'!"
Naruto's head buzzed. This one finger flick hurt more than his own mother's punch. Naruto looked at Jiraiya for help.
However, the old pervert was staring blankly at Naruto with an envious expression, his eyes occasionally drifting to strange places.
Sakura, who had just recovered a little, seemed to have suffered another mental blow, mechanically holding an empty bowl and shoveling air into her mouth with chopsticks.
Sasuke looked at Naruto sympathetically. That guy had just suffocated, he must have felt very uncomfortable, he must stay away from this type of woman in the future.
Naruto didn't succumb to force; he just felt he shouldn't argue with a drunkard: "Tsunade-neechan."
"Mm," Tsunade mumbled in her sleep with a smile, still muttering in her dreams, "Shizune, go roast Tonton, my little brother wants to eat it..."
Jiraiya and Shizune were silent. They both knew how much the loss of Dan Katō and her younger brother Nawaki had affected Tsunade. Tsunade had even developed hemophobia because of it.
Now, seeing Tsunade treating Naruto like her younger brother after getting drunk, they didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.
In the end, Tsunade was carried back by Shizune. Along the way, Naruto looked at Jiraiya with disdain, thinking he deserved to be single.
...
The next morning, Naruto, walking out of his room with Sasuke, saw Tsunade leaning against the doorframe with one hand on her forehead, and greeted her politely, "Tsunade-neechan, good morning."
"Huh? Who are you, brat?"
Naruto: ...
Well, when she was drunk and hugging people, calling them 'good little brother,' now that she's sober and well-rested, she calls him a 'brat.'
This woman is indeed a heartless woman.
Sakura heard the noise and came out of her room, standing with Naruto and Sasuke, looking at her disheveled idol after a hangover.
Naruto replied, "We came with Pervy Sage to find you. We already met yesterday at the izakaya."
"Jiraiya, that guy, huh?" Although it was the first time she had heard the term 'Pervy Sage,' Tsunade immediately knew who Naruto was talking about, and asked, "Where is he?"
"Yo, is someone missing this handsome guy so early in the morning?" Jiraiya strutted out of the room across the hall.
"You're still the same, huh?" Tsunade had completely blacked out last night and didn't remember what she had talked about with Jiraiya. "What did you come to me for? And who are these kids, your disciples?"
Jiraiya had no choice but to reintroduce the three little ones.
"Oh? Kushina's kid is so big already?" Tsunade sized Naruto up and down, feeling that the child looked a little familiar.
Naruto said, "My mom asked me to bring you a message. She said she misses you very much and asks you to come back and visit."
"I know," Tsunade waved her hand. Kushina was the only person Tsunade could call family, and seeing her red hair, like Mito-baachan's, made her feel close.
It wasn't that she hadn't thought about going back, but Konoha held her most painful memories, preventing her from gathering the courage to return after wandering outside for so many years.
Jiraiya knew Tsunade's difficulty and changed the subject, "We'll talk about that later. Let's go meet two people first."
"Huh? Who?"
Jiraiya knocked on the door of the two debt-collecting samurai. When the two samurai saw Tsunade, the woman with so many sins, tears almost burst out of their eyes, and they said incoherently:
"Three years, we've been looking for you for three whole years! Do you know how we've been living these three years?"
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