Orochimaru's Early Years Were Lonely (5K)

Tsunade's first birthday ceremony came to a temporary close.

Toji's words greatly boosted morale, but gambling was not a good habit no matter how one looked at it.

In the end, with Mito, Takayuki, and the princess all opposing him, Hashirama temporarily gave up. Instead of openly teaching Tsunade to play dice, he changed it to teaching her during breaks between lessons.

Tsunade cried, threw tantrums, acted cute, and shamelessly begged.

But the family vote stood at three to two. No matter how unwilling she was, no matter how much Hashirama doted on her, she could only accept the arrangement.

And in order to learn how to play dice from her grandfather as she wished, Tsunade, who usually loved to play, actually reined in her wild temperament and became exceptionally diligent in her studies.

The princess's etiquette lessons, her father's medical knowledge lessons, her grandfather's ninja history lessons, her grandmother's chakra refinement lessons—

The Hokage family would not let their child lose at the starting line.

Toji watched this change unfold.

He wondered whether Tsunade, having been pushed so hard from childhood, would truly develop her talents and break through her future limits.

Tsunade's talent as a ninja was not actually bad.

It was only because she was plagued by hemophobia after the war and loved gambling, wasting a great deal of training time, that she appeared to be the weakest among the Konoha Three Ninja.

But she had been born with exceptional talent for precise chakra control. No fool could master the Yin Seal.

Toji recalled.

If he remembered correctly, Tsunade possessed five chakra natures: fire, lightning, earth, water, and yang.

If she put in a little more effort and learned some high-powered ninjutsu, then with the unique advantages of a medical ninja, not only Jiraiya and Orochimaru, but