Love You, Sis, See You... Tomorrow.

"Hey, Tsunade, can I come in?"

Seeing that Tsunade had a whole tent to herself, Qi Luna couldn't help feeling envious.

As expected of the First's granddaughter and the Third's direct disciple—a Konoha jonin known as a "medical saint"! Compared to him, stuck sharing a tiny tent with three other Chunin, Tsunade had it so much better!

"Come in. Since when did you start being so polite with me?"

Recognizing her cousin's voice outside the tent, Tsunade naturally had no reason to refuse his small request. She even teased him with a laugh.

"What? You're being polite with me now?"

Once Qi Luna entered the tent, Tsunade instinctively reached out to ruffle his hair. But remembering what he'd said to "threaten" her that morning, she changed the motion into a gentle pat.

"Hey, I was just being polite. Whether you agree or not, if you don't answer within five seconds, I'm coming right in."

Qi Luna batted away Tsunade's mischievous hand and turned to sit beside the table, speaking with deliberate nonchalance.

"So what did you come here for?"

"Can't I come see you for no reason?"

"Of course you can. It's just that I know you better than anyone. You never show up without wanting something."

Leaning against the table, Tsunade teased him with a smile.

"Then you guessed wrong. Today, your little brother is here to do some charity work!"

Qi Luna spread his hands, doing his best to look innocent.

"Go on, then."

Tsunade braced one hand on the table and the other on the back of Qi Luna's chair, leaning so far over him that half her body was practically on top of his.

Faced with Tsunade's shamelessness, Qi Luna could only lean back tactically, trying to keep a safe distance between them.

"Fine, fine, you win. You're really getting a bargain here!"

As he spoke, Qi Luna pulled a scroll from his clothes, summoned a notebook from inside it, then summoned another scroll from one of the notebook's pages. Only then did he toss the scroll he'd summoned to Tsunade.

Tsunade caught the scroll with ease, the corner of her mouth twitching at Qi Luna's excessive caution. She couldn't understand it at all.

The sealing formula on the scroll was different from the one on the notebook. And the ninjutsu scroll even had another special sealing formula on it, one known only to the five people in their family. She was so exasperated she almost laughed...

"I'm curious what kind of ninjutsu could possibly be worth all this fuss!"

Tsunade unsealed the scroll, and her eyes widened at once. It contained Qi Luna's latest creation: Uzumaki Style Taijutsu, which could greatly improve mobility and explosive power. It was perfect for a taijutsu specialist like Tsunade.

"Where did you get this?" Tsunade asked in surprise.

Qi Luna grinned proudly.

"Where else? This is the masterpiece I developed after pouring my heart and soul into it!"

"This is a Nintaijutsu I developed especially for the Uzumaki Clan. I'm only giving it to you because we're so close. You're getting a great deal!"

Tsunade nodded, deeply moved. As expected of her little brother—he really came through when it mattered. Whenever he had a new technique, he truly shared it!

But when she reached the next few moves, Tsunade's brows furrowed. By the time she finished reading the final form, she couldn't help laughing in exasperation.

"Well, if I master this Nintaijutsu, my ability to fight head-on will definitely improve by a lot! But I doubt you're being quite so generous for no reason."

As she spoke, she poked the scroll with her index finger, right where it described the "New Uzumaki Style: Eight Forms."

Looking at the lines of text on the scroll, which described the concept of the Nintaijutsu more than its training method, Tsunade felt exasperated all over again.

"So that's why you were being so generous. You were setting me up! You're using your own sister as a test subject?"

"The first two forms are basic, but the next five require mastery of five different Chakra Nature Transformations. And the final form—unless you're born with superhuman strength, only a handful of people who've mastered Super Strength or the Lightning Release Chakra Mode could possibly learn it, right?"

As she spoke, Tsunade set her big hand on his bright red hair again.

Qi Luna batted away her "evil hand" once more, then shrugged nonchalantly.

"Think what you want. Just tell me, are you going to learn it? And once you do, can you help me improve it?"

"Fine, I'll learn it. Once I've mastered it, I'll help you improve the training method for the eighth form."

Tsunade put away the scroll and answered seriously.

Qi Luna waved a hand.

"Then that's settled. I'm off."

"By the way, this technique is pretty complicated. You're bound to run into plenty of problems while learning it. If you had someone to train with and compare notes, you'd probably learn much faster, right? But... where~ could~ you find someone who knows Super~ Strength~?"

After saying that, Qi Luna stood up and pretended he was about to leave the tent.

Watching his ridiculous act, Tsunade felt both annoyed and amused.

That was just how her little brother was. He rarely came right out and said what he wanted, but he always made sure you knew. In the end, you'd not only willingly give him what he wanted, but might even thank him for it!

"Get out of here. You're such a pain!"

Though she said that, she still took a scroll from her ninja pouch and tossed it toward Qi Luna.

Qi Luna snatched the flying scroll, sealed it away in an instant, then sealed the notebook back into the Initial Scroll. Satisfied, he turned and finally headed for the tent's exit.

"Wait, you're really leaving?"

Tsunade looked puzzled. Did that make any sense?

"Why wouldn't I?"

Qi Luna looked just as puzzled. Why wouldn't it?

"You came all the way here, and you're still going to squeeze into that tiny four-person tent?"

As far as she knew, Qi Luna wasn't the kind of person who refused to find an easier way and chose to suffer for no reason.

"Of course not! I'm going to borrow Jiraiya's bed, obviously! He's been sensing Natural Energy lately to prepare for his Senjutsu training, so he doesn't need his bed anyway. I'll just do him the favor of making use of those idle resources~"

Tsunade felt as if she'd been more exasperated tonight than she had throughout all her time on the Sunagakure battlefield combined.

"I didn't need to ask!"

Tsunade muttered under her breath.

Then, watching Qi Luna grin as he left, until he stepped outside and vanished completely into the darkness, Tsunade's lips finally curled into the faintest smile.

At that moment, an obnoxious voice came from outside the dark tent:

"Haha, love you, sis! See you tomorrow!"

Tsunade instantly lost her composure and "angrily" cursed at him:

"Damn brat, you're not cute at all!"