As Orochimaru said, the meeting with Tsunade was set for three days. During this time, Tsunade was given a chance to think about it, and it also bought time for Tsunade.
According to the original idea, the best way to kill Tsunade and Jiraiya was to cooperate with Orochimaru to defeat the two groups one by one. However, at this time, Orochimaru was added to the assassination list.
, he has more to consider.
How to achieve a certain balance between the strength of the two parties, so that the winner will have to suffer a disastrous defeat, so that he can reap the benefits and kill the surviving party. This is a question he needs to seriously consider.
Judging from the data, Tsunade is the person with the least combat power due to her "blood phobia", and Orochimaru obviously understands this fatal flaw of his opponent. In a real battle, Tsunade may not have a genin worthy of her use.
However, on Orochimaru's side, his hands were sealed, resulting in serious damage to his body functions, and his personal strength was very low. Yakushi Kabuto did know some information about Yakushi Kabuto. Regarding this spy who once served him, Shimura Danzō didn't know anything about it.
Don't be stingy with his evaluation. In terms of ability, he is definitely not inferior to the Jounin of Konoha Village.
"With the combined strength of Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto, it is estimated that it would take two Jounin of Konoha Village, or even more people together to compete." He frowned and thought, as a chuunin, but he wanted to
Three ninjas who were famous in the ninja world were captured in one fell swoop. As long as there was a slight mistake, they would be in danger of death. He couldn't help but recall the information of the two sides so seriously and compare it.
According to Kazuo's original plan, it would definitely not work for Orochimaru to defeat them one by one. Although Kato Shizune, who has always been with Tsunade, is also a jounin according to the data, Kazuo does not want him to fight against Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto alone.
People have hope.
The strength of Jiraiya's group, or rather the strength of Jiraiya himself, is far beyond Orochimaru's. As long as Kabuto does not use his identity as an internal agent to give Jiraiya the poison Yakushi Kabuto gave him, Orochimaru and
Kabuto Yakushi was no match for him.
Wei Pei unconsciously broke off the branches of a small tree and used the branches to mark a spot on the sand. He did not make any symbols so that Ni Duan could always be found. He just relied on this simple mark to represent each character.
Help me think.
The marking point representing Tsunade was immediately erased by Shizune, leaving only Shizune facing Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto. This situation was not desirable.
After erasing Jiraiya, he pushed Shikamaru, Naruto and Akimichi Chouji forward, and fought with Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto.
Shikamaru shook his head. Although he was afraid of Shikamaru who had stabbed him, he did not think that Shikamaru was a rival to Yakushi Kabuto or even Orochimaru.
"What Yakushi Kabuto gave me was chronic poison..." Wei Lei thought carefully about what Yakushi Kabuto had told him when he gave him the poison, and his heart moved.
This medicine is a chronic neurotoxic poison. As Kabuto Yakushi said, it can easily take effect during strenuous exercise. If Jiraiya had been poisoned a day or two later, he would have been able to maintain a certain level of combat effectiveness when encountering Orochimaru.
…………
Unexpected and reasonable.
On the next day, Shikamaru and Akimichi Choji, who had been running around the city's gambling houses and entertainment venues, finally found out about Tsunade.
He didn't abide by Orochimaru's agreement and helped hold Jiraiya and others away. His plan was to get Jiraiya and Tsunade together, and then wait until shortly before the battle with Orochimaru to kill Jiraiya.
Poison, so that the combat power of the two groups is as equal as possible.
Jiraiya, Shikamaru, Uzumaki Naruto, Akimichi Choji and the others, based on the information from a casino boss, found a blushing and somewhat drunk target at an izakaya where Tsunade often went to get drunk in the evening.
Jiraiya had just opened the door curtain and entered the izakaya. The first thing he heard was a clear and sweet female voice, accompanied by a clattering table, clamoring for a drink. From the sound, this person was obviously a little drunk.
Jiraiya's eyes immediately moved to the direction of the sound. As he expected, the appearance of the owner of the sound was exactly the same as in his memory. He did not look aged at all, as if the years could not bear to destroy this exquisite face. The golden face was
Her yellow hair hung straight down to her seemingly weak shoulders. Wearing only a sleeveless shirt, Tsunade held her chin with one hand while the other hand kept hitting the table. Her plump breasts were pressed against the table, ready to come out.
Tsunade, who still had a drunken look on her face and looked a little dainty, was still clamoring for a drink with Shizune, who looked helpless next to her. However, she never thought that an unusually familiar male voice came from behind, which dispelled some of her drunkenness.
"Why are you here too?" Tsunade turned around with a smile, looked at the tall man standing behind her seat, and asked aloud: "Jiraiya?"
"I've been looking for you for a long time." Jiraiya greeted Shikamaru and the others, and walked unceremoniously to the opposite side of Tsunade. Seeing this, Shizune, who had been stunned before, quickly picked up a clean cup and poured it for Jiraiya.
Pour a glass of wine too.
"What do you want from me?" Tsunade asked Jiraiya, her eyes lingering on the boys behind Jiraiya, especially Shikamaru, and then asked the other person: "Who are these brats?"
Condition?"
"They are the assistants sent to me by the village!" Jiraiya drank the sake in the cup and explained: "As for me, I was entrusted by the village to let you return to Konoha Village to inherit the fifth generation.
The Hokage’s!”
The words are astonishing.
Although there was still an abnormal blush on Tsunade's face, she didn't look drunk at all. Jiraiya's words were so shocking that she and Shizune, who were not prepared at all, were completely stunned.
"Sarutobi-sensei is dead..." Jiraiya lowered his head and played with the wine glass. Using this action to hide his sad eyes, he whispered to Tsunade: "Konoha Village needs a leader now, you
He is the most suitable candidate.”
"...I refuse." After a moment of silence, Tsunade recovered from the shock and thought, and actually rejected Jiraiya, ignoring the shocked expressions of Jiraiya, Shizune, Uzumaki Naruto, Akimichi Chouji, and Jiraiya.
He continued: "There is no way I can agree to this."
"Why?" Jiraiya suddenly raised his head, looked into Tsunade's eyes, and asked with a frown.
"Even Sarutobi-sensei is dead." Tsunade mentioned her teacher's death and even chuckled. This expression made Jiraiya and Uzumaki Naruto sitting next to him look ugly, but Tsunade ignored him.
The other party continued: "My grandfather, the Second Hokage, Sarutobi-sensei, and your apprentice the Fourth Hokage..."
Tsunade flexed her fingers sternly and said to Jiraiya: "Look, none of them will have a good ending. To be Hokage, you have to be willing to give up your life."
Tsunade smiled provocatively at Uzumaki Naruto, who had been staring at him fiercely, raised her slender eyebrows and said, "Do you think I can be that stupid?"
Bang!
"What did you say!?" Suddenly a powerful shout rang out in the fairly noisy izakaya. The voice of the young man who was still in the voice-changing stage was slightly weird, but it did not prevent anyone who heard the voice from feeling the owner's affection.
anger.
If Uzumaki Naruto hadn't been tightly held by Jiraiya and Akimichi Choji beside him, he might have flipped the table and got up. Even so, he still struggled endlessly and was about to pounce on Tsunade.
While Akimichi Choji firmly held down the struggling Uzumaki Naruto, he nervously asked Tsunade: "Then can you return to Konoha Village with us first?"
"Why?" Tsunade ignored Uzumaki Naruto's yelling, raised her head and drank the sake in the cup, and asked casually.
"My teacher, Sarutobi Asuma has been severely traumatized. I hope you can return to Konoha Village to help with treatment." Shikamaru said politely to Tsunade.
Shikamaru's mind once flashed to the attitude of imitating Uzumaki Naruto in the original work, criticizing Tsunade with a passionate attitude, and then regardless of his attitude, he wanted to compete with the opponent.
However, this idea was quickly abandoned by Shikamaru as soon as it appeared. Not to mention his long-term performance, rashly learning Uzumaki Naruto would make several people around him suspicious. Shikamaru himself was not sure that he could be so lucky.
This act made Tsunade think of her younger brother and lover, and she looked at him in a new light.
In fact, even if Tsunade doesn't agree to be the fifth Hokage, there's no problem. Jiraiya is still here. If Tsunade insists on not being the fifth Hokage, he will definitely take over. For Shikamaru, after getting along for a while, he doesn't have much airs.
, it is not unacceptable for Jiraiya, who has a humorous personality, to serve as the fifth Hokage - although it is not as beneficial to his family and his father as Tsunade to serve as Hokage.
Shikamaru's bottom line was to let Tsunade return to Konoha Village to rescue Sarutobi Asuma and Rock Lee, so to be on the safe side, he still adopted a begging attitude.
"Huh?" Tsunade seemed to have just focused on Shikamaru at this moment. After looking at him for a moment, she even extended her index finger to hook Shikamaru's chin, who looked tense and serious, and said slightly frivolously:
"From your actions when you sat down, I discovered something abnormal about your body. You didn't make any footsteps from the beginning to the end. You were always carrying chakra under your feet. The dust on the ground was not stirred up by chakra. It was because of chakra.
The amount is too small. Your body, especially the leg muscles, are constantly moving and shaking, and the strength of your foot is different every time. Are you exercising your chakra control skills? What a genius but clumsy training method."
"It's impossible to return to Konoha Village." Tsunade saw Shikamaru twisting his head and neck unnaturally, avoiding his right hand, and smiled casually and said: "But you are so talented, why not join me?
If you learn medical ninjutsu, you will probably be as strong as me in ten or twenty years. How about you treat your teacher yourself by then?"
Shikamaru's face was livid, and he was not at all excited about being accepted as a disciple by Tsunade, one of the legendary three ninjas, because the ridicule in his words was beyond words, and he was basically making fun of him.
"It won't take ten years, Shikamaru will surpass you in five years..., you old witch!"
A slightly childish male voice suddenly spoke to Tsunade viciously. As soon as the words fell, the atmosphere at the entire dinner table fell silent.
The person who said this was not Uzumaki Naruto who was struggling endlessly before, but Akimichi Choji whose face was red with anger and full of anger!