The three people below exchanged glances, then nodded in perfect unison and vanished from sight.
Ye Ning turned to Tsunade with a pained expression.
"Weren't you teaching Shizune ninjutsu? Why did you come out again?"
"I was worried about you. After all, you're so important. If anything happened to you, I'd never hear the end of it."
Tsunade pressed her lips together and teased him softly.
Even she knew that by now, she probably wasn't a match for Ye Ning.
But it was a perfectly reasonable excuse, wasn't it?
She certainly wasn't going to admit that she had deliberately left Shizune behind and come out to see him.
Noticing that Nagato and the others were no longer on the shore, Ye Ning breathed a sigh of relief. He stopped hurrying to leave and sat down cross-legged again.
"If anything happens to me, it'll definitely be because you beat me up. Otherwise, who'd be stupid enough to lay a hand on me?"
"You make it sound like I've actually hit you. Haven't I only ever been bluffing? When have I ever really gone through with it?"
Tsunade pouted and sat down beside Ye Ning, quietly feeling the sea breeze blowing toward them.
"Back in the Land of Wind, it felt like your fist was about to hit me. And you still say you weren't thinking of doing it?"
"Wasn't I just worried about you? You were the one who absorbed a Tailed Beast's chakra like a madman without even discussing it with me."
"Yes, yes... I was wrong. I shouldn't have been so reckless and made you worry. There, is that good enough? Stop bringing it up all the time."
Ye Ning sighed helplessly.
On the way from the Land of Wind to the Land of Rain, Tsunade had brought it