January 1, Konoha Year 40. New Year's Day.
Ranwu had returned to Konoha by then, too.
Although Jiancheng had specifically invited Ranwu to come straight to the clan compound, she had only gone out for yakiniku with Akaseki.
"Tsunade's been really busy lately. She's personally training those Yamanaka Clan ninja, and she even wanted to drag me along... Looking at it that way, I actually have a decent talent for medical ninjutsu," Ranwu said wistfully.
Although Tsunade had described Ranwu's aptitude for medical ninjutsu as merely "average," her progress was much faster than that of genuinely "average" people.
Especially over the past six months or so...
Ranwu felt as though something had suddenly clicked in her Yang Release Chakra transformation, bringing her aptitude for it close to her talent for Water Style chakra transformation!
She was puzzled by it herself.
Akaseki knew the reason, but since he didn't want to reveal anything about the Fairness Sage, he hadn't told Ranwu that he had modified her physique last time!
What Ranwu was reflecting on now was...
With the Uchiha Clan's encouragement and some advance "collusion," Tsunade's Medical Ninja Completion Plan had been put into effect... a small part of it, anyway.
"As long as Tsunade has something to keep her busy. I was worried she'd think there weren't enough people," Akaseki said with relief. He had been afraid Tsunade would throw in the towel because the scale was too small. After all, if they really followed her proposal of assigning one medical ninja to every four-person squad, Konoha would be short a thousand medical ninja-or at least seven or eight hundred!
That meant expanding their current number of medical ninja four- or fivefold...
"Tsunade's plan was only a long-term vision... She understands that we're still at war. Finding this many people