"During Qingming, the rain falls in torrents, and travelers on the road are filled with grief..."
Before Dan Katō's grave, which was overgrown with weeds.
Hyuga Sho improvised a poem on the spot, moving Tsunade to tears until she could hardly speak through her sobs.
Originally.
Tsunade had been smiling as she recalled the sweet days when she first met Dan Katō.
After her younger brother Nawaki's death, she had proposed equipping every team with a Medical Ninja, but the old man, Hiruzen Sarutobi, had rejected it...
At that moment, Dan Katō had stepped forward and supported her.
Even Jiraiya and Orochimaru had not supported her.
Then.
She and Dan Katō began talking and getting to know each other.
The dream he shared with her younger brother Nawaki... to become Hokage.
Like her, he had lost his family.
Dan Katō's younger sister had also died in the war.
And so...
Their hearts drew closer.
The two of them began dating.
But good times never lasted.
During the latter stages of the Second Shinobi World War.
Jiraiya stayed in the Land of Rain to teach the three children he had taken in: Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato.
Orochimaru had another mission.
And she... had rushed with Dan Katō and the others to the battlefield in the Land of Whirlpools to rescue their distant relatives.
Kumogakure of the Land of Lightning and Kirigakure of the Land of Water joined forces to attack. In the end, they destroyed the Land of Whirlpools.
Under their overwhelming superiority in numbers.
On that rainy day.
Dan Katō died here.
She recalled her younger brother Nawaki's face, as well as the face of her lover, Dan Katō.
Their shared dream of "becoming Hokage"...
Tsunade's tears flowed without end.
She missed them so much. She wanted to see them