"I thought you'd travel around the ninja world, squander your family fortune on gambling, drink your days away, rack up a mountain of debts, and earn yourself the glorious title of the ninja world's biggest sucker..."
Hyuga Wuye's hands roamed over her body without pause.
"You're the biggest sucker!"
Tsunade bumped her head against his chin, her soft hair tickling him slightly.
"Do you really not know who the sucker is?"
Wuye reached out and gave her a squeeze. "Plump and juicy describes you perfectly."
"Hmph."
At a loss for words, Tsunade opened her red lips and bit his chin.
Hyuga Wuye lowered his head and precisely covered her lips.
"Mmph..."
After quite a while, the two finally separated.
The fine hot spring water concealed the fluid.
"So, why did you come to the daimyo's residence?" Wuye asked again.
Tsunade hesitated. Her hands slid down and gently wrapped around his waist as she said softly, "I just thought... mmh..."
"You thought you could help me?"
Hyuga Wuye finished for her.
Tsunade raised her head just as Wuye lowered his.
Their gazes intertwined. Neither spoke, yet it said more than a thousand words.
Tsunade undoubtedly disliked doing this sort of thing. Just thinking about handling government affairs was enough to give her a headache.
But the title of Daimyo of the Land of Fire could accomplish many things. The most important of them was...
It could reject a Hokage nomination!
Since Konoha relied on funding from the daimyo's residence, every Hokage nominee had to receive the daimyo's approval before officially taking office.
Of course, unless they intended to stir up trouble, the daimyo would not oppose Konoha's own nomination.
But without question, the daimyo's residence carried considerable weight as well. At critical moments, it could make Konoha wary of taking action.