Tsunade practically runs out of the Hokage's office and the administrative building, constantly thinking about the possible revelation Jiraiya accidentally made.
'Shit, shit, shit. I'm pregnant', is what the woman thinks as she reaches a fairly spacious space, where she proceeds to bite one of her thumbs and then executes the summoning jutsu.
Soon, a slug no more than a meter tall appears in front of the woman. "What's wrong, Tsunade-sama?" the slug asks in a high-pitched, feminine voice.
"Katsuyu, use Reverse Summoning and take me to Shikkotsu Forest. I need you to get me out of here and help me with something," Tsunade says, her voice trembling.
The slug seems to understand that the woman is in a predicament and immediately disappears in a puff of white smoke. A few seconds later, Tsunade also disappears from Konoha and appears in a dense forest, the location of which is unknown to most of the world.
"Tsunade, what's wrong? You're trembling," comes the worried voice of a much larger version of Katsuyu, several dozen meters tall.
"Please, Katsuyu, examine my belly. I need to know what condition I'm in," the woman pleads with the giant slug.
Wasting no time, the slug wraps its tail around the woman and begins to emit a faint glow. Soon, the slug's voice sounds surprised, "Tsunade! I detect another presence in your belly. Are you pregnant?"
Tsunade puts her hands to her face and collapses to her knees on the ground. Tears in her eyes, she replies, "It seems so. I'm pregnant… after all these years."
"But you're sterile, this can't be possible," the slug insists, his voice filled with doubt.
"I know, after so long using the restoration technique, my physical age should be over 60, in fact, I haven't had my period in years, but…", the woman's voice demonstrates a great deal of contradictory emotions, "That stopped being true several days ago, when I recovered my vitality beyond my actual age… now I am so young that I have even recovered my fertility."
"But how is that possible? What forbidden technique did you use?" Katsuyu's voice suddenly becomes serious.
Tsunade, for her part, returns to her original form, revealing her now twenty-something body. She takes out the medallion Akira gave her and begins to explain to the slug everything that happened on her diplomatic mission, even recounting her involuntary relationship with the leader of the divine order.
"This is incredible, the medallion is capable of processing and changing the properties of natural energy, very similar to the natural senjutsu of some beasts or natural treasures, are you sure this was made by human hands? Because this goes beyond the capabilities of fuinjutsu, it is a completely different art," says the slug, after analyzing Tsunade's medallion.
A little calmer, the woman sighs and says, "I don't know. From what I've seen and heard, Akira is responsible for this and other artifacts, all with amazing abilities, as you say, true treasures that harness natural energy… And I have permission to analyze them when I visit him again, but now… now I don't know what to do."
"Are you thinking of terminating your pregnancy?" "You still have time," Katsuyu asks.
"No way," Tsunade responds immediately, "But I can't deal with this… I can't look Sensei, Jiraiya, Shizune in the face… I need time to think and get away from the world for a while."
"You can take all the time you need, I'll be here to help you," the slug says confidently.
"Can you send a message to Sensei that I'm fine and that I'll be gone for a while?"
"No problem, but it'll take me a while to get to Konoha. You must have left a copy of me in the village."
"Sorry, I wasn't thinking straight," Tsunade says, then sits down on a rock and falls into a deep thought while touching her stomach with one hand.
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In the land of water, located on one of the nation's secondary islands, lies a camp of the Kirigakure forces, one of the many bases of operations in the village's open war against the clans possessing Kekkei Genkai.
Today seems like any other day, but the situation within the camp is anything but calm. For the past day, rumors have been circulating among the ninja that patrols on the island have begun disappearing for no reason. At first, the high command publicly dismissed the possibility that anything untoward was happening, but the problem has deteriorated to the point where it is now impossible to hide the situation.
The answer is what everyone could have predicted: a group of elite ninjas, led by a now-famous figure in Kirigakure, Zabusa Momochi, the Demon of Kirigakure, set out in the direction of the latest report of a disappearance.
The group, composed of eight jounin—Zabuza being the only elite one, as well as one of the current seven Swordsmen of the Mist—soon arrived at the scene of the disappearance, spending hours tracking down the victims or potential attackers.
Late in the afternoon, as the eight ninjas prepare to return to their base, the unexpected happens. A strange individual, dressed entirely in black, with a full-body cloak and a blue demon mask, intercepts them as they enter one of the return paths.
None of the group members is intimidated by the threatening attitude of the suspicious individual, immediately threatening him in search of his identity and his possible connection to the missing ninjas, but to no avail. The individual in question simply stands motionless, watching the ninjas, especially Zabuza, who, as leader, decides it's simply time to take action and orders the suspect's capture.
"Hahaha, so young Zabuza finally became one of the new swordsmen of the mist," the individual finally speaks, with a clearly feminine voice, while opening her cloak and revealing a fairly light metallic armor, which denotes the woman's curves, as well as a sword at her waist, "we'll have to test what you're made of."
The ninjas say nothing and simply surround the woman, who draws her sword and stands guard. Zabuza, for his part, brandishes the sword Kubikiribocho, which he had been carrying on his back the entire time. For a few moments, everyone remains silent, both the ninjas and the woman sizing up their opponents and waiting for the perfect moment to launch their attacks.
It all begins when two of the ninjas proceed to throw their kunais and shurikens at the woman, unleashing an attack from the entire group. The woman doesn't seem interested in responding to the thrown weapons and simply advances toward one of her attackers, blocking all the projectiles with a strange force field.
The first ninja to attack tries to disarm the woman by attacking her arm, but she skillfully responds with a block using her metallic forearm, then swiftly counterattacks the ninja's head with the flat of her sword, immediately knocking him unconscious.
What follows is a veritable dance by the woman, dodging all the most powerful attacks and absorbing the weaker ones with her armor and force field. One by one, the ninjas begin to fall, while Zabuza is powerless to do anything about it, as the woman skillfully manages to place one of the ninjas in front of the wielder of the Kubikiribocho.
When only three ninjas remain standing, Zabuza seems to have held out long enough and begins to use his most powerful ninjutsus, but the woman seems to know every technique the man uses, countering them with minimal effort or simply interrupting them before they can be executed.
Soon, only Zabuza and the woman remain standing. The man realizes that jutsus are completely ineffective and decides to resolve the fight with his sword alone, giving it his all in a fight that seems more like a demonstration than a fight to the death. Just when Zabuza thinks he's about to decapitate his opponent, his sword is sliced cleanly in two, followed by a brutal kick to his chest, which ends up slamming him against a rock.
"Well done, young Zabuza. If I had to evaluate you honestly, I'd put you in the Elite Jounin category, though only among those initiated into the ranks," the woman comments as she approaches the man on the ground, "enough to be useful for what I want."
The man tries to get up, but can't, and ends up coughing blood and clutching his chest, which clearly has multiple broken bones. With difficulty, he says to his attacker, "Who are you?... It seems you don't want to kill us. What do you want from us?"
The woman, now directly in front of the man, brings the tip of her sword just inches from his chin. "I haven't seen you in years. I doubt you remember me."
Zabuza raises one of his hands and, in a defiant gesture, holds the sword by the edge. "No, I don't remember you."
Without showing any change in her temperament, the woman removes her mask with her other hand, revealing her face and her strands of dark red hair. Zabuza doesn't seem to respond, but then the woman does something unexpected, transforming her teeth into sharp ones, like a shark's. "What about now?"
Zabuza's pupils dilate in surprise, immediately recognizing the woman. "Ringo?..." But that's all he can manage to say, as a massive electric shock erupts from the sword he was holding, causing him to lose consciousness.
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