Hearing that voice, a hint of joy flashed across Tsunade’s face, though even she didn’t notice it herself.
She turned around.
She saw Yusuke pulling little Yuhi Kurenai along as he hurried toward her.
The trace of a smile on Tsunade’s face immediately vanished without a trace.
For some reason, this guy seemed to show up with this little girl every time.
It made Tsunade suspect that this bastard might have a thing for little girls.
“We came to see you off.”
Yusuke smiled.
Little Yuhi Kurenai panted a few times, then nervously handed Tsunade a bento box with an expression full of admiration.
“T-Tsunade-sama, th-this is a bento I made. P-Please eat it on the way.”
The corner of Tsunade’s eye twitched twice, but she still accepted the bento.
“Uh… thank you.”
Tsunade then glared at Yusuke with a murderous look, as if saying, “Aren’t you going to explain what happened two days ago?”
Noticing her gaze, Yusuke’s lips curled upward slightly.
Under the incredulous gazes of everyone around them, he took Tsunade’s right hand and said gently, “I wish Your Highness a victorious return.”
With that, he lightly kissed the back of Tsunade’s hand.
It wasn’t that Yusuke didn’t want to kiss Tsunade on the lips.
The problem was that Tsunade was already on guard now, so there was no way he would succeed.
He could take his time.
There was no rush.
Yet even this simple gesture was enough to leave the surrounding shinobi completely dumbfounded.
That was Tsunade!
The granddaughter of the First Hokage, the princess of the Senju clan, and one of the Kage-level Three Ninja!
After the man had done something like that to her, she hadn’t slapped him across the face?
Jiraiya had once tried to peep at her, only to be beaten by Tsunade until he nearly lost his life!
And now, not only was Tsunade not angry, but her face had even turned slightly red with embarrassment.
The Senju clan shinobi felt as though their entire worldview had collapsed.
Although Yusuke was also from a civilian background, he possessed Kage-level peak strength!
Given enough time, he would certainly secure a position among Konoha’s higher-ups.
If Princess Tsunade developed a romantic relationship with him, wouldn’t that be far better than choosing a second-rate Jonin like Kato Dan?
Thinking this, the dozen or so Senju shinobi all revealed relieved smiles.
The person whose heart had turned to ashes, however, was Kato Dan.
He simply couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
How long had he been pursuing Tsunade?
He couldn’t even remember anymore.
At least five years.
And how long had Yusuke known her?
Only about five days!
Yet he’d already succeeded?!
Kato Dan couldn’t understand it at all.
Was the difference in strength really that important?
In reality, Tsunade didn’t place that much importance on the strength of her partner.
Otherwise, why would she have chosen Kato Dan instead of the stronger Jiraiya in the original story?
The main reason was Yusuke’s words.
They had resonated with Tsunade and made her feel as though the two of them understood each other.
That was the real reason.
Then, after being reminded by the Senju shinobi beside her, Tsunade covered the back of her hand where Yusuke had kissed it.
A faint blush remained on her face as she turned and left.
“Yusuke-nii, do you like Tsunade-sama?”
Just as Tsunade and the others left Konoha and headed toward the front lines in the Land of Wind, little Yuhi Kurenai puffed up her cheeks unhappily and asked Yusuke.
“Yuhi Kurenai isn’t happy?”
Yusuke chuckled, crouched down, and poked her puffed-up cheek.
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“It’s fine. Can’t Yuhi Kurenai become my lover in the future?”
Yusuke said it in a completely matter-of-fact tone.
“Damn!”
The guards around the gate and the pedestrians who heard those words were all struck dumb.
What a beast!
This bastard!
“Yusuke! I’m not far away yet! Just you wait!”
At that moment, Tsunade’s furious roar came from the forest ahead.
“Tsk, this woman’s ears are way too sharp.”
Yusuke complained unhappily.
But now he could finally rest assured that Tsunade wouldn’t go blind like she had in the original story and fall for a third-rate shinobi like Kato Dan.
The reason he hadn’t taken the initiative to see Tsunade over the past few days was that he wanted to keep her waiting for a while.
Running around her all day like Kato Dan, acting like a lovesick simp, would only have the opposite effect.
But that was only a secondary reason.
The more important reason was that the system had unlocked a new sign-in location—
[New Sign-In Location Unlocked — Scroll of Seals]
[Sign-In Reward — Flying Thunder God Technique (Minato Namikaze’s Perfect Version)]
Yusuke didn’t have to be like the protagonists in so many transmigration novels and insist on obtaining all five chakra natures.
That sort of thing was completely unnecessary for him.
But for someone like himself, who had inherited White Fang’s abilities, the Flying Thunder God Technique was indeed a divine skill.
After all, advanced Lightning Release techniques contained powerful electrical currents that stimulated the body, making them difficult to control.
Because they were so violent, people without a Kekkei Genkai had difficulty controlling them perfectly.
Even Kakashi needed the Sharingan before he could perfectly control this power.
With the Flying Thunder God Technique, however, not only could he overcome this weakness, but he could also gain access to space-time ninjutsu.
The problem was that obtaining the Scroll of Seals wouldn’t be easy.
Although Konoha was crippled, allowing Yusuke to practically walk sideways through the village, he was still nowhere near the point where he could simply find Sarutobi Hiruzen and say:
“Old man, hurry up and bring me the Scroll of Seals so I can have a look.”