Tsunade, The Healer of Superheroes (Naruto X YJ)

Chapter 11: It's Okay To Be Weak

I was sitting at my home, reading a book, when I heard a knock. I put down my book and went up to open the door.

I swung it open and saw Bruce. He came inside as I started to dig into my pocket as I knew what he came here for. I closed the door behind him and tossed the data I stole from LexCorp at him.

"Here. Inside it is a bunch of illegal transactions, documents for businesses with criminals, and it also has a little information on the Light. It seems Lex Luther was smart enough not to put everything in his computer." I explained as I searched through it earlier.

He looked at me with narrows eyes. "What was in it? Give me every detail you found. Even if it's only a little, this is the best info we've had." He ordered me.

I sighed tiredly. "Fine, but you're not going to like it. I can only name 3 members and their founder. Lex Luthor, Queen Bee, And Klarion. The group was founded by Vandal Savage." I knew about Vandal Savage by looking through the League's villain database, and Vandal Savage was one of the most strongest and dangerous.

Bruce's eyes widened in shock. "What?!"

I nodded seriously. "From what I could tell as I went through it, this group believes that us heroes are preventing human evolution by protecting the weak. That's all what I got."

I looked at my hands. "But, you know, they may be right. All of us in the League gained our strength and power from some sort of suffering. We gained it because we had no one to protect us. We gained it because we fought our own battles and came out on top."

Flashback

I was trying my best to save a bleeding and burned Dan. "Stop! Stop! Stop! I said 'stop'!" I cried out desperately at the blood coming out of his wounds in the rain.

A ninja beside me gave me a look of regret. "It's too late. He's dead." He told me with sadness laced around his tone.

I cried out in anguish for my lover.

Flashback end

I clenched my fists at the memory. "But even so, no one should have to endure what we had to just for the sake of evolution! That's why we're fighting in the first place!" I shouted out with conviction.

Bruce nodded, agreeing with me fully. He looked at my face and saw how I was holding back my tears.

His expression remained stiff, but his eyes shone in understandin. He got down on his knees and looked at me in the eyes. "You are really strong, aren't you? And I don't mean just strength wise."

He gave me a rare kind smile. "But, you know, you don't always have to be strong. Every here and there, you can be weak. We all have moments where we're weak. We're living beings, after all. Once in a while, you can cry on a shoulder."

My eyes widened as tears filled my eyes.

Flashback

I looked at the grave of my little brother. A funeral was held for him and everyone else left. Only I remained in the rain as the sky darkened.

I'm going to be strong for him! I refuse to cry in front of his stone!

That's when I felt a hand on my right shoulder. I turned around quickly in alert as I didn't sense him as I was too much in grief.

It was Sensei.

Hiruzen-sensei gave me a fatherly smile and hugged me. "It's okay, Tsunade. You don't have to be strong all the time. It's okay to be weak. I'm the only one here, after all."

Those words broke me and I started to cry and my tears got washed away by the rain and my screams got drowned out by the loud storm.

Flashback end

I suddenly felt like I was a normal ten year old girl and my tears escaped my eyes. How could such simple words still have power over me?

I was known as the strongest kunoichi, for crying out loud! I should be able to keep a straight face when I want to! But yet, why are the tears I tried so hard to hold back flowing?!

I looked at Bruce in the eyes. I saw Hiruzen-sensei. I saw my second father. I saw the man I failed to save because of my stubbornness and stupidity.

I ran into his arms and cried in front of someone for the first time since Jiraiya.

I let everything I was holding back come out in front of this man. "I'M SUPPOSED TO BE A DOCTOR! SO WHY?! WHY COULDN'T I SAVE THEM?!!" I screamed in agony.

I couldn't save my brother. I couldn't save my fiancée. I couldn't save my second father. I couldn't save my oldest friend and the man who loved me.

I couldn't say my feelings to Jiraiya! I was too hung up on Dan! And he died without knowing my answer to his feelings for me!

I continued to cry as I felt patting on my back. I really felt like a child in this position.

After a few minutes, I stopped an wiped away my tears. I looked down in embarrassment. "T-thanks for being there."

Bruce stood up. "No problem, but just remember...the rest of the Justice League and I will always be there for you, so it's okay to be weak in front of us."

He then waved the flash drive I gave to him earlier. "I'll be looking through this again to see some hidden messages or something along those lines."

I nodded my head in seriousness. "Okay. That's more of your field, so I most likely missed something. Is there anything else you would like me to do?"

He shook his head. "No, not at the moment. I'll let you know if something comes up."

With that, he headed for the door and left. I was left with my thoughts.

I laughed silently and bitterly. Even after death, I'm still stuck in the past, huh?

But this time, I don't have Jiraiya or Naruto. They were the ones I could show my pain to. The ones I could talk to if I had a problem.

Now, I have the League. But...I just don't know them as well as I did with Jiraiya and Naruto. What do I do to get closer to them?

Even if I did get closer to them, will they just end up as replacements in my mind for those two? That would be an insult to my new friends.

Maybe Diana has some advice for me? I mean, she was from a whole other world where things worked much differently and she was surrounded by people she didn't know or trust.

I wonder what she would say if I asked...

To be continued...

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