"Return to Konoha?" Tsunade murmured, the village that held so many painful memories for her. Did she really have the courage to go back?
Naruto didn't act rashly. Forcing her back was a last resort. If he used force, his house would be redecorated at best, or demolished and rebuilt at worst. Then he'd have to borrow a place from Sasuke. He'd mooched meals so many times, mooching a bed wouldn't be too much, right?
Now, Naruto wanted to test if his talk-no-jutsu skills were effective: "Tsunade-neechan, why aren't you happy after winning?"
"Naruto, don't talk nonsense." Jiraiya stopped him, not wanting Tsunade to recall those sad things.
But Naruto wouldn't listen. He was deliberately asking, because Uncle Benshan had said, "Let him talk, speaking it out won't hurt." Keeping it bottled up inside was more likely to cause trouble.
Starting with a sweet "neechan," Naruto figured Tsunade shouldn't beat him to death. As for whether calling her "neechan" was appropriate, joking aside, not just Tsunade, even that Old Lady Purple, who was who knows how many thousands of years old haksdhgaihsdgkl...
Ahem, that Yakumo Yukari, Naruto could sincerely call her "neechan," too. Though he didn't want to admit it, this really depended on looks.
Tsunade looked at Naruto, as if seeing Nawaki. Back then, Nawaki was about this age, also calling her "neechan" like this. This child looked a lot like Nawaki. No wonder he seemed familiar the first time she saw him.
At his age, he probably hadn't even experienced war, but this time he might be dragged in. Would he end up like Nawaki...?
Tsunade tried to calm herself, saying, "It's nothing I can't talk about. Every time I win a bet, the people around me suffer misfortune, so..."
"Maybe it's just a coincidence. Whether in the past or now, it's just a coincidence that you won."
"How could there be so many coincidences! I usually lose every bet, but just now I won over a dozen in a row!" Tsunade was a little hysterical. Of course, she hoped it was just a coincidence.
"I'll bet with you! Maybe it's just that Pervy Sage is too unlucky. He's one of the dignified Three Legendary Sannin, yet I still catch him peeking into the women's bathhouse."
Sakura took a few steps back, secretly vowing that as long as that old man was in the village, she would never go to the bathhouse.
Jiraiya was shocked, thinking he was about to get beaten, but found that Tsunade didn't move at all. Jiraiya felt that it would be better for her to beat him up than to let her be so sad.
Tsunade stared at Naruto for a few seconds, seeing his serious expression, and grabbed the banknotes that Jiraiya had just placed in front of her, slapping them on the table: "Okay, I'll bet! What's your stake?"
Naruto pulled out his shriveled little frog wallet, pouring out a few coins and some small denomination bills. No choice, he was poor. Before the Chunin Exams, he had kunai custom-made and treated his own Fox Spirit to food. That little mission reward had long been spent. His mom had given him some pocket money before he left, but he had spent a lot on buying snacks for Hinata a few days ago, so this was all he had now.
Naruto pushed the banknotes forward, "Let's bet this much first."
Tsunade didn't mind, casually pulling out a banknote: "How do you want to bet?"
Naruto took out a coin, saying, "I don't know much else, how about guessing the coin?"
"Sure." Tsunade didn't refuse, anyway, the result would be the same.
Naruto bent his finger and flicked the coin: "Heads or tails?"
Tsunade watched the coin flip and fly, confidently saying, "Heads!"
Ding ding ding, the coin landed, seven pairs of eyes followed it, it was tails.
Success! Naruto was betting on his own luck. Not only did his whole family not die in the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox Rebellion, but his family had also grown in recent years. Maybe he could suppress Tsunade's misfortune?
Tsunade opened her mouth wide, not knowing whether she should be happy, and pulled out another banknote, "Again!"
Naruto collected his small change, only leaving the banknotes that Tsunade had lost to him on the table as stakes, starting to get something for nothing. Usually, this kind of behavior was easy to get beaten for.
The coin flew again, Tsunade guessed, "Heads!"
Ding ding ding, still tails.
"Continue!"
"Heads!"
"Heads!"
"Heads!"
...
However, she guessed wrong for the next eight rounds in a row. Tsunade slammed the table and said angrily, "Are you cheating, kid!"
Naruto was also feeling uneasy. The probability of getting tails ten times in a row was too small, right? He handed the coin to Tsunade and said, "Why don't you try tossing it?"
"Alright." Tsunade tossed the coin.
Naruto guessed, "Heads?"
The coin landed, and it was indeed heads.
"Again!"
"Heads."
"Tails."
"Heads."
...
Naruto was having a great time guessing. This was the most confident he'd ever been guessing coins. If it weren't for serious business, he would even want to try guessing if the coin would land on its edge.
After guessing for a while, Naruto realized that according to the probability theory he learned in his previous life, each coin toss was an independent event and was not affected by the previous result. Therefore, the probability of him guessing correctly each time was about fifty percent.
And this half of the possibility, under the shroud of Naruto's lucky aura and Tsunade's unlucky aura, was infinitely magnified. So it was normal for heads to appear ten times in a row, and it was also normal for heads and tails to appear five times each.
Tsunade looked at the last banknote in front of her and fell silent. In the past, after losing, she would feel depressed and want to drink, but this time she lost so easily?
"Jiraiya, you try!" Tsunade put down the last banknote and tossed the coin again.
"Huh? Oh." Jiraiya was still surprised by the development of events and casually said, "I guess tails."
The coin landed, heads.
Tsunade and the onlookers were completely confused. Could it really be as this child said, that Jiraiya was too unlucky?
Not believing in fate, Tsunade gambled a few times with Shizune and Jiraiya, and then found Naruto again. In the end, it proved that only Naruto could win against her.
What was this? Tsunade was confused. Why could only he win against me?
Naruto put a stack of banknotes on the table and put on his family's signature smile: "So, Tsunade-neechan, luck may really exist, but don't be too superstitious.
Even if you really believe that you winning against others will bring misfortune to the people around you, you still lost to me, didn't you? Maybe I came to you just to change your so-called misfortune?"
Tsunade looked at Naruto. She hadn't seen such a smile in a long time. Perhaps she should really believe in this child?
"Let's gamble one more time."
"Huh?"
"I said, let's gamble one more time. If you win, I'll go back with you. If you lose..."
"All this money is for you." Naruto didn't feel any heartache, since it was all Jiraiya's money anyway.
"No, if you lose, call me 'sister'."
Naruto looked directly into her eyes and said seriously, "I am Naruto."
Maybe it was being pretentious, but if he had to play dumb and rely on his resemblance to Nawaki to exploit Tsunade's feelings, Naruto's conscience wouldn't allow it.
Tsunade smiled, though. "I know."
Naruto looked at her and smiled as well. "Alright, sister."
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