the last student The Child Arc

chapter 69

1 week later

The fire capital

the fire capital. The location in the Fire Nation where only the 1% lived is a place where Anko would tell Naruto it's the perfect example of why people say "eat the rich." It is a location frozen in time, where the rich can go and ignore the chaos happening in the outside world. A place where the people see the shinobi conflict as nothing more than a fun game à la Hunger Games. In this monument for the rich, we see Tsunade Senju sleeping on her bed, which would give Anko a heart attack if she heard of the price of it. Tsunade hissed in pain as the sound of the curtains being opened hit her head like a hammer, and the light burned her eyes as if she were looking straight at the sun.

Tsunade: Argh. My head. I drank too much last night.

Servant: My lady. A man is waiting for you in the living room.

A servant said as she walked away from the curtains and opened the dresser of Tsunade, grabbing the pair of clothes she would be using for the morning. Tsunade just groaned a response as she covered her head with a pillow. She must've drunk so much that she slept with somebody, not for the first time, so the servant should know the protocol for it already. Feed him, dress him, and pay him to stay quiet.

Tsunade: Just give him some breakfast and tell me when he's gone; you know the drill.

Servant: Sorry for the confusion, my lady, but the man is not the one you slept with last night. He said that he is an old friend in need of your help.

the servant said as she took off the blanket and lifted Tsunade; thankfully she was decent enough, and she wouldn't have to clean the throw-up from her boss and then the bed and sheets. So the servant started to dress, with an outfit made of the finest material that Tsunade uses as her pajamas. While that was happening, Tsunade started to think about who could be here that would consider her a friend; she didn't have a lot of those left; most of them just died off being a shinobi. Honestly, most of the people her age who were shinobi died off in the Second Great Shinobi War.

Tsunade: Friend? Argh. Fine. Tell him to give me a minute.

Servant: Of course, my lady.

The servant said as she finished dressing Tsunade up and walked away, leaving Tsunade all alone in the room. It was quiet. Especially without Kushina and the little girls, it was very quiet. Tsunade didn't like that. The quiet led her thoughts to come back, so she quickly went to the bathroom and did her business and then left for the living room to see who had come to see her. She froze when she saw Orochimaru there, holding a framed picture of Tsunade hugging Kushina's girls. Orochimaru spoke when he heard the breath get caught in the throat of her old teammate.

Orochimaru: I have to say. You've got a beautiful home. But then again, you were always one who needed things to be high quality. No wonder Jiraiya never had a shot.

Tsunade: ... Because of our past, I'm going to give you 5 seconds to explain why you're here before I kill you.

Tsunade said in a cold tone as she started walking to the man who became a traitor to the leaf instead of just leaving it like she did. But no. Orochimaru always needed to have a spectacle. Case in point, when Orochimaru put the framed picture down and gave a full-body bow to Tsunade, taking her by surprise, the surprise got worse when the tone of Orochimaru changed. It sounded so... vulnerable.

Orochimaru: I need your help. It is a matter of life and death.

Tsunade: Now, what makes you think I give a damn about your life?

*Tsunade said with her arm crossed, looking at this man with nothing but disgust in her gaze. She heard what Orochimaru did. Using innocent civilians for his experiments, stealing, and learning most of the forbidden jutsu from her uncle, Tobirama. The list of crimes of this snake was long. But Tsunade can't say she's surprised; Orochimaru always had ambition, the only difference is that he had no morals keeping those ambitions at bay. Orochimaru spoke in a soft tone, almost sounding desperate.