Tsunade: The disciple I just took is your great-grandmother, do you love it?

"Ow, that hurts."

Tsunade rubbed her throbbing temples and slowly opened her eyes, feeling sore all over as if she'd been beaten up.

Looking around the unfamiliar inn, a hint of confusion appeared in her eyes. "Huh? Why am I here? I remember... ouch, my head hurts, I can't recall."

Just as she was wondering why she'd woken up in an inn, the door burst open.

"You're here just in time, I was about to look for you. Huh? Who is she?"

Uchiha Sōgetsu walked in. As Tsunade was about to ask a question, her gaze fell upon a pretty young girl following behind him. She looked only twelve or thirteen, with long black hair tied in a high ponytail, wearing a black outfit, and appearing extremely well-behaved.

"Yo, Lady Tsunade, you're finally awake."

Uchiha Sōgetsu raised an eyebrow and said expressionlessly, "If you hadn't woken up soon, I would have suspected you were dead."

"Uh..." Tsunade heard the hint of sarcasm in the young man's tone, touched her nose, and felt inexplicably guilty. She cautiously probed, "Did I drink?"

"What do you think?"

Uchiha Sōgetsu curled his lips. "Can't you smell the strong scent of alcohol in the room?"

"Cough, cough."

Tsunade coughed, choked, and felt even more guilty. She muttered, "People who have been drinking can't smell the alcohol."

But as she spoke, she felt something was wrong. She stared at the delicate-looking girl and asked in confusion, "That's not right, kid. Didn't we go to the Forest of the Dead? How did I end up drinking? What happened in between? I have no memory of it at all."

"Lady Tsunade, why don't you try to recall more carefully?" Uchiha Sōgetsu glanced subtly at Hikari beside him and then said, "After we repaired the seal in the Forest of the Dead, you insisted on dragging me out to celebrate, and then you got completely drunk."

Tsunade tried hard to remember.

Indeed, that memory appeared in her mind.

After she had repaired the seal, she felt a moment of melancholy and, without explanation, pulled Sōgetsu along, saying she needed to vent.

Then the two went to a nearby entertainment district and drank themselves into a stupor at a bar, even going so far as to act out in their drunkenness and smash the place to pieces.

"I'm so sorry!"

Tsunade, knowing she was in the wrong, immediately apologized. "I promise I'll never drink again... well, not on this mission."

"Heh, I hope so." Uchiha Sōgetsu expressed his doubt.

"Cough, cough, kid, don't dwell on small things, girls will hate you for it~"

Tsunade quickly changed the subject and looked at the well-behaved girl, feeling a sense of familiarity. "By the way, who is she?"

"Oh, her name is 'Hikari.' She's the disciple you took in last night after you got drunk." Uchiha Sōgetsu paused, and under Tsunade's shocked gaze, he pulled open his shirt and added, "By the way, I did advise you not to make rash decisions, but you ended up punching me dozens of meters away."

"I wasn't that violent. Was I?"

Tsunade looked at the obvious bruises on the young man's chest, her guilt deepening.

Even though she had no memory of it, faced with such direct evidence, she couldn't be sure if she had actually done it.

"Well, you weren't that violent, only a few blocks worth."

Uchiha Sōgetsu put on his clothes, adjusted his glasses, and smirked. "If I hadn't been lucky last night, you probably would have been arranging my funeral today."

"A few, a few blocks?!"

Tsunade's eyes widened, her sensual red lips parting as if to swallow a goose egg.

"Heh, not much, just three blocks." Uchiha Sōgetsu sneered. "A mere three million Ryo. I've already sent the bill to Lord Hokage, including my medical expenses."

As he spoke, he didn't forget to add, "I've finally witnessed the Yin Seal of Tsunade Hime, one of the Legendary Sannin. It's truly eye-opening."

"Red bean, red bean, red bean... I'm sorry!" This time, Tsunade didn't even have the thought of arguing. She immediately performed a standard prostration: "Sōgetsu-kun, please forgive me, I didn't mean to!"

She felt that some of the Chakra accumulated within the Yin Seal had indeed been released.

"Forget it, it's not like I'm seriously injured."

Uchiha Sōgetsu sighed, unwilling to dwell on the matter. "Regarding 'Hikari,' what do you plan to do? Are you going back on your word? After all, you were drunk last night."

"Hiss..."

Tsunade gritted her teeth, feeling a splitting headache.

What was all this? She'd gone on a drunken rampage, destroyed three blocks, almost killed Uchiha Sōgetsu, and now she'd even taken a disciple?

"Lady Tsunade... you don't have to trouble yourself..."

Uchiha Hikari, who had been silent for a long time, heard this and bit her lip. Her small hands fiddled together as she looked at Tsunade timidly, tears welling up in her eyes. She held back her grievances and said pitifully in a small voice, "I've caused you trouble. I... I'll leave now..."

As she spoke, Hikari sobbed softly, her pitiful little face covered in tears.

What a pitiable child.

Tsunade was already soft-hearted, and besides, she was in the wrong. Seeing the girl's pitiful state now touched the soft spot in her heart even more. Gritting her teeth, she slapped her thigh. "It's no trouble, absolutely no trouble. I, Tsunade, keep my word. Starting today, you are my disciple!"

"Really?" Hikari covered her mouth, a look of pleasant surprise in her eyes. "You're really willing to take me as your disciple?"

"Of course, it's true!"

Tsunade patted her chest and said heartily, "From today onwards, you are my first disciple!"

Hikari threw herself into Tsunade's arms, sobbing, "Hikari has a master, Hikari has a master! This is great, woo woo woo."

"Silly child, why are you crying?"

Tsunade stroked the girl's hair, pulling her into her embrace, her eyes filled with gentle affection. "With your master here, no one will bully you anymore."

What a heartwarming scene.

Uchiha Sōgetsu, who had orchestrated all of this, couldn't help but praise inwardly. Hikari truly was a natural 'spectator'.

From her expressions to her actions, even every glance and the tone of every word, it had all been meticulously designed by him, targeting Tsunade's psychological weaknesses and perfectly exploiting her sympathy and guilt.

Of course, Hikari's dojutsu, using Yachihoko to alter Tsunade's memories, was indispensable.

In this way, he had given Uchiha Hikari a new identity.

The Legendary Sannin, the princess of the Senju clan, Princess Tsunade's first disciple, the successor to the founder of the Medical Ninjutsu system, the legendary big fat sheep... and a series of other titles.

Even looking across all of Konoha, few would dare to touch her.

However, Uchiha Sōgetsu suddenly thought of a seemingly very serious problem, both for Tsunade and for him.

Logically speaking, the era in which Uchiha Hikari was born was so long ago that even the First Hokage was still a child.

Calculating it this way...

Wouldn't Tsunade have to call her disciple's great-grand-aunt?!

December 12th, Sunny

Everyone in the group chat was showing off their manuscript fees, but I was silently… (screaming) (wriggling) (sinister growl) (crawling) (splitting) (jealousy) (twisting) (convulsing) (wriggling)… Hold on, just write, just write. Can't fantasize about getting rich. Must write diligently. Absolutely must not buy lottery tickets!