Naruto: The Hidden Protector

Chapter 4

In the land of fire in one of the small towns in one of the many casinos, there was an unusual crowd gathered. Although such a crowd gathering wouldn’t be a surprise for a well known casino in the fire capital but for a third rate casino such as this it certainly is surprising. And what’s more the crowd is just gathering around one gambling table.

On one side of the table there sat a fair-skinned woman with brown eyes and straight blonde hair that parts above her forehead. Her hair has shoulder-length bangs that frame her face and the rest reaches her lower back. She wears a grass-green haori with the kanji for "gamble" (賭, kake) on the back, inside a red circle. Underneath she wears a grey, kimono-style blouse with no sleeves, held closed by a broad, dark bluish-grey obi that matches her pants. Her blouse is closed quite low, revealing her sizable cleavage. She wears open-toed, strapped black sandals with high heels. She has red nail polish on both her fingernails and toenails and uses a soft pink lipstick.

She is Tsunade Senju the granddaughter of the first hokage Hashirama Senju. Like her grandfather she also has many titles. Such as Konoha's Slug Princess Tsunade , One of the legendary Sannin, The best as the world's strongest kunoichi and its greatest medical-nin. Although these titles are super cool, most people don’t recognize Tsunade’s name when hearing it. Because these days she is well known as The Legendary Sucker.

“ 1…2…3… open” said the dealer as he showed the dice.

“ Yeah, I won again” said one of guys who won the bet.

“ Me too, today is my lucky day” said another.

Similar conversations were taking place in the gambling table except for Tsunade who gritted her teeth in losing again.

“ Tsunade sama please let’s stop for today. You have already spent most of our money. If you gamble even more we would have no money to spend on our food or for the inn. “ said a fair-skinned woman of average height and slender build with onyx eyes and jet-black hair; her hair is straight and shoulder-length with bangs that cover her ears and frame her face. She wore a long bluish-black kimono with white trimmings, held closed by a white obi, and open-toed sandals with low heels. In her hand there is a pink pig.

This girl is Shizune . She is a jōnin of Konohagakure. An apprentice of Tsunade, Making her a talented medical-nin. She is also the niece of Tsunade’s late lover. In her hand she held her pet Tonton. Due to Tsunade’s irresponsible spending Shizune often had to endure hunger. But even so she didn’t leave Tsunade. She will just beg and cry for Tsunade to stop her irresponsible actions. But sadly Tsunade never listened. Her stubbornness is something she inherited from her grandfather after all.

“ don’t worry about it Shizune, I will definitely win the next match. “ Tsunade waved her concerns off like usual and placed another bet.

The others who saw placing a bet all unanimously placed theirs in the opposite one. This is how they won every match. Everyone who knew about Tsunade’s reputation always placed their bet in the opposite one she placed as she never won a game.

But surprisingly this time it was different. When the dealer revealed the dice it was Tsunade who won. There were cries of despair as some of them lost a lot of money. The greediest ones even placed everything they had.

But Tsunade, contrary to what everyone expected, didn't seem happy. She even had a deep frown on her face. She immediately stood up and said, “ Shizune we leaving pack everything quickly “

Shizune, although surprised, did as she was told without asking for any more details. As someone who went to war and survived, Tsunade's instinct for danger is not to be underestimated. She immediately collected their prize money and left the casino with Tsunade.

As soon as they left the casino Tsunade said, “ we are leaving town immediately, something terrible is about to happen to us if we stay here today ”

“ How rude, speaking as though me visiting you is a bad omen. Little hashi did a poor job educating his favourite grandchild” said a voice making both Tsunade and Shizune surprised.

Turning around they saw a little wearing a black kimono with white floral designs. Her long black hair danced to the wind tune making a serene scene. She walked towards them with an innocent smile on her face.

But for Tsunade and Shizune this girl is anything but innocent. As ninja’s they are very good at judging an opponent's strength with their presence and chakra. And the girl in front of them has no presence and no chakra. And this is impossible. Every living being has chakra even if that amount is abysmal. For someone to hide their chakra amount their chakra control and strength must be better than the other person. And Tsunade who prided herself in her excellent chakra control can’t even feel anything from this girl. This shows how dangerous this girl is. If she didn't take the initiative to reveal herself first Tsunade doubted she can survive a sneak attack from her.

Even though she is scared shitless Tsunade didn’t dare to show it in her face. She asked arrogantly “ huh what is a brat like you doing here? “

“ ara ara Tsuna chan if i was someone else your tactic would backfire on you, don’t you know you don’t call a lady brat just because she is small. That is even after you figured out that I'm no ordinary child. “ the child spoke in a calm but teasing manner. But her eyes showed that if Tsunade didn’t change her attitude now she would be in for a world of pain.

A normal ninja would immediately back off after this warning but who was Tsunade? She is the granddaughter of Hashirama Senju, a person who was treated as royalty everywhere she went. So would she back down to an unnamed little girl just because she was threatened.

“ huh what did you say brat , you wanna a beating “ she would just threaten the other party. She always solves things with her fists after all.

“ Sigh very well then it looks like I have to punish you the same way I punished your Grandpa” The girl sighed and said mysteriously.

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“ and that makes it a total of 25 spankings tsuna chan” izanami said cheerfully as she eyed the pale Tsunade.

What she did to Tsunade was simple. She simply conjured a gambling table and made Tsunade gamble with her. If she wins, the number of spankings she receives would go higher, and if by some miracle Tsunade wins she will get 100,000 ryo for each win. This is the same way she disciplined Hashirama, as someone who has a gambling habit he would gamble without looking at the consequences. There was this one time where he got 100 spankings because of his losses.

“ Shizune we are escaping here “ suddenly Tsunade shouted as she dropped a smoke bomb. And without any delay she dashed away. Behind her Shizune also followed her as though she is used to this kind of behaviour. But before they could go too far they were restrained by some tree roots that came from the ground.

Due to her shock Tsunade stopped abruptly making it very easy to restrain her quickly. But she didn’t register what was happening to her. Her mind stopped working after seeing the wood release. It was just after she was covered in wood did she snap out of it. She tried to break free from the restraints with her strength but to her surprise she couldn’t.

“ It’s no use, you cannot break those restraints with just with your chakra. Maybe if you use that seal but if that came to that i will just let the wood use their chakra absorptions property. “ came the girl’s reply as she walked towards Tsunade with slow steps.

“ Who are you, how do you have this bloodline release? Are you one of Orochimaru’s test subjects” Tsunade asked with anger. The only ones who should be able to use wood release are Senjus. And Tsunade didn’t feel the familiarity one would have if one were a Senju from her. So the only option would be she is an artificially wood release user. And to artificially make a wood release user you would need to use her grandpa's cells.

“Calm down girl, My name is Izanami Ōtsutsuki and no I’m not one of your teammates' experiment subjects. As for why I can use wood release it’s quite simple, I am the one who taught little hashi how to perfect his wood release. And to do that I need to have it too you know. And do you seriously believe Hashirama could make that much jutsu on his own. “ Izanami asked making Tsunade silent.

This is something she is curious about too. Hashirama can be many things but he isn’t smart enough to create that much wood release jutsus. Even her Granduncle couldn’t have helped since he has no idea on how wood release worked.

“ How can I believe you are not lying?” she asked just to confirm this.

Izanami didn’t say anything, she just showed Tsunade a necklace she hung on her neck. It was a simple necklace with two angel wings. This should be enough to believe her. And from the look on her face it seems like she believes her now.

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