Uzumaki Naruto: Birth of the New Demon King by The Engulfing Silence

Chapter 16: Revenge is a Dish Best not Served at all

Tsunade's eyes widened as she heard what Naruto had said. However, the words didn't seem to truly register for several seconds, in which time she stared at her fellow blond with dinner plate sized eyes. "What did you say?" she asked after a while, her voice holding a dangerous edge to it.

Naruto heard the warning in her voice clear as day but ignored it as he chuckled. "I think you heard me Tsunade. I win, you come back with me to Konoha."

"No..." Tsunade whispered, causing Naruto to frown. "Never again... No! I won't go back!" Spinning on the balls of her feet, Tsunade ran towards the exit. However, before she could get there, Naruto appeared in her path to stop her. Not that it did for long, before the blond Uzumaki could even open his mouth Tsunade surprised him by smashing her fist into his face.

"Ooof!" Naruto was sent flying out of her way as Tsunade used her strength technique to increase the power of her punch. He was sent flying directly into a wall, only he didn't just hit it and stop, or even dent it. Naruto ended up smashing through the wall as if it were a deck of cards. Cracks formed along the hole where he went through, spreading through the entire wall before it collapsed in a heap of dust and rubble.

Naruto continued flying, now in the gambling parlor he ended up smashing through several dozen slot machines before being blasted into yet another wall. By this time he had lost enough momentum that the wall managed to stop him, but not before he left a large dent and cracks along the point of his impact. Naruto fell onto the ground, landing on his hands and knees. Behind him the area he had hit crumbled, leaving a gaping hole in the wall.

"Naruto!" Looking up Naruto saw Hana run towards him. She was kneeling down in front of him less then a second later, grabbing him by the arm and helping him up. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine," Naruto said. He stood up and cracked his back. "Wow, she does hit hard. And it looks like she did exactly what Shikamaru thought she would." Pressing a button on the radio in his ear, he said, "Shikamaru, Tsunade ran out on us and is leaving."

"We know," Shikamaru said, sounding annoyed. "We heard the explosions from out here."

"Then you know what to do," Naruto said, shutting off the radio and turning to Hana. He grinned at the Inuzuka female. "It looks like we'd better get moving or we might not get there in time to save our teammate's. Let's go!" The two ran out of the hall, leaving the shocked and frightened gamblers and workers running around frantically and freaking out at the amount of damage Tsunade's punch had caused.

Birth of the New Demon King

Tsunade continued running even after she got out of the casino. She kept a constant eye out as she made a hasty retreat to her hotel, her caution coming from her knowledge that Konoha ninja always traveled in squads of four. The reason for this harkened back to the days when war was a constant and fighting was as natural as breathing. Back during the First Great Shinobi War the four man unit had been created for fast, small scale engagements. In those days it was discovered early on that ninjutsu were extraordinarily powerful, even a single jutsu could theoretically take out an entire platoon of ninja. By making the squads smaller it allowed them to move faster and avoid ninjutsu easier, thus avoiding large scale losses in combat.

As she made it to the hotel she was staying at, Tsunade figured she was almost home free. All she would have to do was pack her bags and hit the road. After that it shouldn't be too hard to loose the Konoha ninja after her, while she had never been forced to actively avoid them before now, so long as they hadn't changed their search patterns she could escape them indefinitely.

If Konoha stuck by it's standard protocols then they would only have sent a four man squad after her. And they would probably use a net to try and hem her in now that she had escaped. Tsunade could only thank the stars that Sarutobi-Sensei hadn't sent the ANBU after her. While she was sure that she would be able to defeat any pursers that found her, she knew that if she truly fought back then they would mark her as a missing ninja.