Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 77 Encountering Danger

Tsunade looked at the city. Although it was night, it was still brightly lit and colorful, a city that never sleeps.

If it weren't for her mission, she would love to stroll around the streets, enjoy some delicious food, soak in a hot spring, and have a wonderful sleep afterward.

With her stamina, she should have arrived much earlier, but because she had to consider her employer's stamina, it was already quite late when she arrived.

"It's getting late, everyone should go and get some rest."

The maid, Tsunade, is a 26-year-old girl with a ponytail and drooping eyebrows, giving her a very gentle impression.

Tsunade waved her hand and said, "No need. Don't you have family members waiting for treatment? It's a matter of life and death. How could I be lazy? I'd better treat the illness first."

As a family member of a patient, nothing is more reassuring and touching than hearing these words, which brought tears to my eyes: "You are such a good person."

The special medicine for treating my family member is too expensive; my family simply cannot afford it.

So, a group of patients came up with a plan: they pooled together some money and decided to hire medical ninjas to see if that would work.

"Oh dear, why are you crying? I'm a ninja, isn't it my duty to help my employer solve their problems?" Tsunade gave him a reassuring smile: "Come on, I'll definitely help you heal your family."

Tsunade and her group followed their employer to his residence and saw a emaciated patient lying on a hospital bed.

Tsunade stepped forward to examine the patient, her brows furrowed.

The employer asked with concern, "How can it be cured?"

"Is that special drug still available? It has a higher chance of success."

Without a word, the employer found the bottle containing the special medicine at home and carefully handed it to Tsunade: "There's not much medicine left, just the last two pills."

Tsunade held the medicine bottle and smiled slightly: "One pill is enough."

Once we analyze the reasons why the drug's components are targeting the patient's lesions, we should be able to find a solution quickly.

The employer clasped his hands together in a praying gesture: "Then I'll leave it to you..."

The Jonin leading the team reassured them, "Don't worry, Tsunade is a treasure of our Konoha Village. I believe that with her medical expertise, she can definitely cure this disease for you."

Tsunade was not a regular member of his team, but rather a member who was temporarily added to their team.

"I hope so."

"Alright, let's not disturb Tsunade any longer, let's go out first."

"OK."

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The pill hurriedly pushed open the office door, stepped inside, and met a man.

She was in her fifties or sixties, with a thin face, legs crossed, and both hands flashing a seductive, cheap charm.

His name is Chizao, and he is the father of Yaowan.

"Father, something terrible has happened!"

He was about to enjoy a woman's massage, but remained calm and unfazed: "What's wrong?"

At his age, very few things can make him nervous anymore.

The pill's face darkened: "Those damned patients found a medical ninja to break the poison we used, and now they're even trying to break our medicine. I'm afraid it won't be long before they can even break our medicine."

In this world, countless people die from disease.

The greater the demand, the greater the profit. Naturally, many people are eyeing this lucrative opportunity. With such fierce competition, it is very difficult to stand out among numerous pharmaceutical companies. Either you need to have a powerful backer, or you have to resort to some tricks.

To put it bluntly, the happiness of pharmaceutical companies is actually built on the suffering of patients.

Expanding profits is simple: just develop potential customers.

If there are no patients, then just create them, and ideally these patients can only consume products from their own company.

The company that made the pills thrived on this foundation.

Normal medicines are developed with the aim of curing patients' illnesses, but the medicine developed by this company does the opposite, aiming to make patients feel that the medicine is effective, but the effect is not significant.

To survive, they must continuously spend money on drugs, thus expanding their power by constantly extracting money from patients.

Therefore, when they hear that this perfect product for exploiting consumers has been cracked, they will eventually lose their composure.

Cutting off someone's livelihood is like killing their parents. His face changed drastically, and his anger was palpable. He immediately lost his previous pleasant mood and roughly pushed the two women away.

The two women cried out and fell to the ground. Knowing that their boss was angry, they didn't care about anything else and quickly got up and left the office so that the father and son could discuss the matter.

"You didn't do anything rash, did you?"

"No, I just gathered their intelligence; the rest is up to Father to decide."

Sooner or later, his face darkened: "Which village's ninjas are they from?"

"There are four ninjas from Konoha Village in the Land of Fire. According to the usual ninja group, one of them should be a Jonin."

Sooner or later, he'd click his tongue and say, "Konoha ninjas, they're such a hassle."

Pill suggested, "Should we try bribery?"

Sooner or later, he shook his head and rejected the idea: "No, if it fails, it will alert the enemy. Besides, the ninja villages of Konoha are notoriously inflexible, so bribery will probably have little effect."

"So what can we do? Are we just going to watch these patients get cured without being able to sustainably exploit them?"

"What's the panic?"

Sooner or later, he scolded his son, paced back and forth in the room, and then stopped, seemingly having thought of a solution.

Seeing this, Yaowan was overjoyed: "Father, have you come up with a solution?"

Sooner or later, his murderous intent will be revealed, and his purpose is self-evident.

"Father, do you want to?"

Sooner or later, he made a decisive decision: "That's right."

The reason why they were able to grow an unknown pharmaceutical company into what it is today is because they are more ruthless than anyone else. Otherwise, they would not have come up with such inhumane and morally reprehensible schemes.

"But they are ninjas from the Land of Fire."

"Right now, this medical ninja is busy saving patients and hasn't thought things through. Once he comes to his senses and realizes our pharmaceutical company's conspiracy, our company will be completely finished. Rather than waiting to be destroyed, we should take the initiative, strike first, and eliminate future troubles."

"Even so, the ninjas of the Land of Fire are so powerful that it will not be easy to deal with them."

"If we want to deal with the ninjas of Konoha, one of the Five Great Nations, then we need to hire ninjas from the other five great ninja villages. Those patients can afford to hire medical ninjas to treat them, so there's no reason why we can't afford to hire them. It's just a matter of money, we have plenty of that. As long as we can get rid of these ninjas, I'm willing to spend any amount of money."

After weighing the pros and cons, Yaowan didn't have any other ideas: "I understand. The closest of the five great nations to here is the Land of Lightning, specifically the Hidden Cloud Village. I'll send someone to contact them immediately and eliminate these Konoha ninjas."

Sooner or later, he shook his head and said, "Don't go and invite the Hidden Cloud Village."

Why?

"Firstly, the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Leaf Village signed an alliance agreement. Although it seems that this agreement is about to be invalidated, the two countries have not completely broken off relations yet."

"Secondly: Since the coup d'état by Kinkaku and Ginkaku, Kumogakure has lost a large number of elite ninjas and suffered a severe blow, and has not yet recovered."

Upon hearing this, Yaowan suddenly realized, "As expected of my father, he is so thoughtful."

Sooner or later, he grinned and said, "Let's ask the ninjas from Kirigakure in the Land of Water to help us. Because of their special ninja graduation system, this village is known internationally as a place where Kirigakure products are always top-notch."

"I will obey my father's orders."

After reaching a conclusion, Ranmaru immediately began making arrangements to contact the ninjas of Kirigakure.

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"That's really strange..."

Tsunade looked at the pills in her hand, feeling a strange, inexplicable feeling.

The drug could actually be modified slightly to perfectly solve the illness of this group of patients. She couldn't understand how any pharmaceutical company could not overcome this technical difficulty.

It's impossible to deliberately prevent patients from receiving treatment...

A Jonin from the team stepped forward with concern and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tsunade exclaimed in surprise, "Jonin Mochikura is back from shopping so quickly?"

"There wasn't much to buy, so I came back early." The Jonin suggested, "You look tired, why don't you take a break?"

Tsunade, without any restraint, hummed in agreement.

She has already conquered this disease; all that's left is to mass-produce the drug to perfectly solve it.

She finally got to breathe a sigh of relief and get a good night's sleep. The lack of sleep for a day or two, along with the energy she had expended researching the disease, had taken a toll on even someone as energetic as her.

Just as Tsunade was about to go back to her room for a good night's sleep, her ninja instincts suddenly made her extremely alert.

Without hesitation, he and his companions quickly left the house to avoid harming innocent bystanders, with several dark figures following closely behind.

Tsunade and her group found a spacious, deserted place to prepare for battle.

At this moment, the appearance of the enemy began to slowly appear. They wore ninja headbands with four water patterns on their foreheads, revealing their identities as ninjas.

Ninjas from Kirigakure, the Hidden Mist Village in the Land of Water.

"You're ninjas from Kirigakure, right? Why are you attacking us?!" Tsunade shouted.

The ninjas from Kirigakure did not respond; they would not reveal their employer's information. With a series of actions, they unleashed a ninjutsu.

In an instant, the surroundings were filled with an indistinct fog, obscuring the view.

Aokiji also uses this technique; Tsunade knows it very well.

She cursed inwardly; most of her abilities were physical combat techniques, which were not suitable for dealing with the Mist Concealment Technique.

Fortunately, the Jonin beside him was using ninjutsu to break the Hidden Mist Technique.

Wait, this hand seal is!

Tsunade's pupils contracted, and by the time she realized something was wrong with her companion, it was too late; she was already bound inside a water sphere made of water.

"Water Release: Water Prison Technique!"

This is a spherical cage formed by flowing water to trap the enemy. The caster can imprison the enemy simply by placing one hand in the water prison.

With a bang, white smoke billowed out, and when it dissipated, the Jonin had changed drastically, becoming a strange man. The only thing that could be confirmed about his identity was that he wore the same headband as the Kirigakure ninja in front of him.

"Tsunade!"

Tsunade's two teammates were shocked and immediately tried to rescue her.

While the Water Prison technique can perfectly trap enemies, it has a significant flaw: the caster's hand cannot leave the water cage, which creates the weakness that the caster cannot move.

Therefore, Tsunade can be saved by targeting this weakness.

However, the other Hidden Mist Village ninjas, who were watching with predatory eyes, were not just standing by. Long before the two Konoha ninjas could make a move, they rushed towards the two Konoha ninjas at an even faster speed to prevent them from breaking the Water Prison Technique.

Damn it.

Trapped in the water prison, Tsunade watched her teammates fight, feeling extremely regretful for her negligence as she couldn't help at all.

She should have noticed something was wrong earlier; it was strange that the Jonin returned so early.

The enemy took advantage of this opening, disguising himself as a Jonin to approach her.

Even so, getting close to Tsunade using the Transformation Technique is no easy task.

Transformation techniques can only fool novice ninjas; they are of little effect on a ninja of Tsunade's caliber. It's likely that the enemy took advantage of her being busy with her illness to deceive her, and then used an attack to prevent Tsunade from having enough time to react to the abnormality of those around her.

With each step interconnected, it was inevitable that Tsunade would fall into her trap.

But that's the world of ninjas; they have to be constantly on guard against unexpected incidents.

People always regret things after they happen.

At this moment, Tsunade sincerely wished she could be as cautious as someone else.

(End of this chapter)