Sealing Jutsu? I Want Them All!

Sealing Jutsu? I Want It All!

Hehehe... Eight Gates, acquired!

Tsunade sprinted all the way home, giggling as she ran.

Her mind was already plotting how to stay up all night researching it.

First, she would check the Chakra circulation path for the first gate, then find some empty place to test it out.

So what if it hurt? Senju constitution was durable anyway...

"Tsunade."

She just pushed the front gate open.

A gentle female voice came from the inner room.

Calm.

Soft.

Tsunade's footsteps halted abruptly, her body freezing.

This was the first time she was hearing this voice.

Yet her heart found it incomparably familiar.

Tsunade swallowed hard.

She knew who this was.

Mito Uzumaki.

Tsunade's grandmother.

Wife of First Hokage Hashirama Senju.

Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Konoha's top Sealing Jutsu master.

If there was one person Tsunade least wished to face after transmigrating to the present, who was it?

That person was definitely Mito Uzumaki.

Without a single exception.

Her original body's parents had died early, and Mito had raised Tsunade with her own hands.

In front of others, she might manage to put up a front and brush things off with a couple of excuses.

Especially idiots like Jiraiya, who would believe anything after a random brush-off.

Mito Uzumaki was different, however.

This woman had raised Tsunade from a baby.

She knew every move, every frown, and every smile of the original body like the back of her hand.

Tsunade stood in the entryway, her heartbeat quickening.

Damn it, how did I forget about her?

The hardest person in this household to fool is this very grandmother...

Yet what must be faced could not be avoided.

Besides, she truly was in urgent need of learning the Yin Seal from Mito.

That was the core skill capable of storing Chakra and preserving youth!

Combined with Creation Rebirth, it achieved a perpetual motion machine!

If the Eight Gates were the spear.

The Yin Seal was the thickest shield and the largest mana potion!

She had to learn it!

And the earlier she learned it, the better!

In the original plot, during the Second Great Ninja War, Tsunade had not yet formed the Yin Seal.

She certainly hadn't studied it properly.

This time, she had to master it completely before then.

She took a deep breath, working hard to fish the memory fragments of the original body getting along with Mito out of her memory.

Acting spoiled, throwing tantrums, acting lazy, getting lectured...

Scene after scene flashed past.

The original body and Mito had a great relationship.

Rather than grandmother and granddaughter.

It was more like "a gentle old lady and a boisterous little girl."

Tsunade patted her own face.

Gangzi, you can do this!

You could stall those troublesome customers in your past life, so fooling Grandma is a piece of cake.

She mentally pumped herself up.

"Tsunade?"

Mito's voice came out again, carrying a trace more confusion than before.

"What are you standing at the door for? Come in."

Tsunade gritted her teeth, pushed the door open, and walked in.

The lighting in the inner room was very soft, the windows were open, and the gauze curtains drifted gently in the breeze.

A beautiful woman who looked no more than thirty years old sat on a soft couch by the window.

She held a scroll in her hands, looking down at it.

Hearing footsteps, she raised her head.

The two of them locked eyes.

Tsunade was slightly dazed.

Mito Uzumaki!

The woman before her had long red hair.

Her skin was fair and delicate, and her facial features were dignified and poised.

On her forehead, a light purple diamond-shaped mark flickered faintly.

This was Mito Uzumaki.

The constitution of the Uzumaki, coupled with the power of the Yin Seal.

It was as if time had stopped on her.

"Grandma..."

Tsunade spoke instinctively, her voice more natural than she had anticipated.

She was startled herself.

There was no sense of stiffness, no discord.

It was as if she had been calling her this for over a decade.

Mito closed the scroll and smiled, beckoning to her.

"Come let me take a look at you."

Tsunade obediently walked over and sat down beside Mito.

Her back was straight, her legs pressed together, and her hands rested on her knees.

A standard lady's sitting posture.

Mito raised an eyebrow.

"Sitting so properly?"

Tsunade thought oh no, the original body used to sit with no posture at all.

She hurriedly changed the subject. "Grandma, did you need me for something?"

Mito didn't answer right away, instead reaching out to tuck some of her somewhat messy long blonde hair behind her ear.

"Running out in such a hurry just now, where did you go?"

"Ah... well, I just went out for a stroll to clear my head."

Tsunade tried hard to make her voice sound natural.

"Clear your head?"

Mito gently sighed, a hint of helplessness in her tone.

"I know you don't want to learn Sealing Jutsu, but you don't need to run off and hide this early, do you?"

"Ah?"

Tsunade froze, not quite reacting for a moment.

Mito shook her head helplessly, seemingly making a concession as she said:

"Fine, fine, studying Sealing Jutsu is indeed dry. Since you don't want to learn, I won't force you. I'll teach you when you're a bit older..."

"I'll learn!!"

"Huh?"

This time it was Mito's turn to be stunned.

"What... what did you say?"

Tsunade was practically bursting with joy at this moment.

The original her didn't want to learn Sealing Jutsu at this stage?

Found it tedious?

Wasn't this a god-given opportunity?!

If you aren't going to learn it, I will!!

She immediately stood up, stepped in front of Mito Uzumaki, and wore an earnest expression.

"Grandma, I want to learn Sealing Jutsu!"

"This... didn't you not want to learn it?"

"Every time I brought it up before, you found it annoying and said, 'Grandma, my head hurts,' 'Grandma, my stomach hurts,' 'Grandma, I have plans with a friend'..."

"What's gotten into you today?"

Tsunade's face flushed.

The original body really had quite a full set of excuses.

"Before... I was just ignorant before!"

Tsunade's mind spun, and she lunged forward directly.

Her whole body burrowed right into Mito's arms.

Like a spoiled little kitten, she rubbed against Mito's chest.

"I've figured it out!"

"Something as powerful as Sealing Jutsu—not learning it is simply a waste of a heavenly gift! I can't shame Grandpa!"

Mito was tickled right where Tsunade rubbed her, her chest feeling itchy.

But she was very happy.

"You child..."

"Grandma! Teach me! Please!"

Tsunade raised her head and blinked those big eyes.

She tried hard to put on a pitiful expression of "I really, really want to learn."

In her past life, this trick worked a hundred times over on clients as long as she kept her mouth shut.

Sure enough.

Mito looked at this appearance of hers and helplessly shook her head.

"You..."

She reached out and poked Tsunade's forehead.

"When are you going to fix that habit of acting on sudden whims?"

Tsunade grinned.

"I can't fix it! But my determination to learn Sealing Jutsu is real!"

Mito smiled dotingly and helped Tsunade up from her arms.

"Alright, since you want to learn, Grandma will teach you. Which one do you want to learn?"

As she spoke, she counted on her fingers.

"Yin Seal, I taught you the basics before, but you didn't practice seriously. It's not too late to relearn it now."

"Adamantine Sealing Chains, the signature Sealing Jutsu of the Uzumaki, can seal multiple targets simultaneously."

"Four Symbols Seal, it works for sealing Chakra, sealing jutsu, or sealing Tailed Beasts."

"Eight Trigrams Seal, an advanced Sealing Jutsu. Your grandfather used this back in the day to help me reinforce the Nine-Tails' seal."

"And Dead Demon Consuming Seal... this is too dangerous, you aren't allowed to touch it."

"And..."

After finishing, Mito looked at Tsunade.

"Pick one."

Hearing this string of names, Tsunade's eyes lit up.

Yin Seal?

Adamantine Sealing Chains?

Four Symbols Seal?

Eight Trigrams Seal?

They were all signature Sealing Jutsu of the Uzumaki!

She took a deep breath, her gaze burning with intensity.

Then she extended the five fingers of her right hand, slowly clenched them into a fist, and looked at Mito Uzumaki.

"I! WANT! THEM! ALL!"