My Period Started!!!

Satisfied~

Two hours later.

Tsunade finished her bath, changed into fresh clothes, and emerged from the bathroom feeling thoroughly content.

Her wet blond hair hung over her shoulders, still steaming.

She stretched, feeling comfortable all over.

"Nothing beats doing it in the bath~"

She dried her hair as she walked toward the bed.

Between training, fighting, and saving someone, it had been a long day.

Now she just wanted to collapse into bed and sleep like the dead.

Tsunade reached the bed. Her backside had barely touched the edge when—

A familiar yet unfamiliar ache gripped her lower abdomen.

"What's going on?"

Tsunade frowned and instinctively looked down.

There, on the pants she had just put on,

a small dark red stain was slowly spreading.

"What the hell?!"

Tsunade froze.

Did I rub myself bloody?!

Her first thought was that she had gone too hard in the bath

and damaged something.

After all, she still wasn't fully used to this body.

It was entirely possible she hadn't known her own strength.

Panic surged through her.

Without another word, Tsunade raised a hand. Green Chakra glowed in her palm.

Mystical Palm Technique!

She pressed her hand to her lower abdomen, letting Chakra seep gently into her body to heal the wound.

But the bleeding didn't stop. It got worse.

The dark red stain on her pants spread before her eyes.

Tsunade felt sick.

The Mystical Palm Technique isn't working?!

Am I going to die?!

I've only been here half a month, and this is how it ends?!

Her head buzzed. She was about to shout, "Grandma, help!" when she suddenly stopped.

Wait.

This feeling...

This spot...

I'm not hurt!

This is...

That thing women get once a month.

My period!

"Damn it! How did I forget about that?"

Tsunade's face twitched. Her expression was indescribable.

For a woman, this was perfectly normal.

But for a "boy" who had spent over twenty years as a man in a previous life and had only arrived in this body half a month ago,

everything about it felt wrong!

Physically, she was a girl now.

But deep down, she still thought of herself as a guy.

"How long does this last?"

Tsunade took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and quickly sifted through fragments of the original Tsunade's memories.

A moment later, she opened her eyes, looking even more conflicted.

"Usually about five days. Inexplicable irritability, and strenuous exercise is best avoided."

"So that's it..."

Tsunade rubbed her chin as realization struck.

"No wonder I hit Jiraiya so hard!"

"One punch broke six of his ribs and made his internal organs bleed."

So I was already getting irritable because my period was coming?

She scratched her head, feeling a little guilty.

But that guilt was soon displaced by a more pressing problem.

"This is going to be a pain!"

Tsunade frowned.

This was one unavoidable drawback of being a female ninja.

Depending on their constitution, women had a few days every month when their fighting ability dropped sharply.

Hers lasted only five days, which was relatively good.

For some, it lasted seven or eight days straight.

"No way!"

Five days without intense exercise.

What am I supposed to do about training?

Tsunade sat bolt upright. Another cramp seized her belly, and she clutched her lower abdomen with a grimace.

She was determined to become a Taijutsu master,

unite the Shinobi World,

and bring every beauty under Konoha's banner!

Five days every month when she couldn't train—and with her condition so poor, even other forms of practice would be half as effective.

That was sixty days a year. Half a year over three years!

Was she supposed to waste all that time?

No! Absolutely not!

"It would completely throw off my plans!"

"Could I... stop this thing?"

Tsunade muttered as her mind raced.

Come to think of it, that might be possible.

She remembered reading about ways to stop menstruation in her previous life.

The first was the simplest and most straightforward.

Pregnancy.

That could stop it for roughly a year at a time.

But Tsunade wouldn't choose that option if her life depended on it.

"Then... the second option?"

Tsunade rubbed her chin and kept thinking.

"Surgery?"

She wasn't some clueless newcomer to the Shinobi World. She had come from another world.

Procedures to stop menstruation had existed in her previous life.

One was endometrial ablation, developed specifically for women with extremely heavy periods and persistent anemia.

It was minimally invasive.

It could greatly reduce bleeding.

But it caused irreversible damage to the uterus.

And most importantly—

"I don't know how to do it!"

Tsunade slapped her forehead.

It wasn't just her. There probably wasn't anyone in the entire Shinobi World capable of performing that operation!

No matter how advanced Medical Ninjutsu was, it focused on treating external and internal injuries, removing poisons, and setting bones.

Who would bother researching how to stop a woman's period?

Tsunade's eyes suddenly lit up.

"If Medical Ninjutsu won't work, what about Sealing Jutsu?"

The Shinobi World's Sealing Jutsu was incredibly powerful.

It could seal water, fire, tools, Tailed Beasts...

It could even seal a monster on the Nine-Tails' level.

Sealing one little period should be easy enough, right?

"That's it!"

Tsunade slapped her thigh, growing excited.

"I'll develop a 'Period Sealing Technique' and seal my period away!"

The more she thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

"It's decided! I'll work on a Period Sealing Technique first!"

Tsunade nodded firmly and immediately got up to look through the Sealing Jutsu scrolls Mito had given her.

But—

The moment she stood, dizziness struck.

Her vision went dark, her legs turned weak, and she nearly pitched forward.

"Did... did I get up too fast?"

Tsunade gripped the edge of the bed and shook her head.

"No. That's not it."

She lowered her head and looked at the floor.

Then she froze.

In the few short minutes she had spent thinking,

a large pool of blood had formed beneath her.

The dark red liquid had spread across a considerable area of the floor.

Gulp!

Tsunade swallowed hard.

"This... this much blood..."

She hurriedly searched the original Tsunade's memories.

"There's nothing like this in her memories!"

The original Tsunade had suffered menstrual cramps, but her bleeding had always been normal.

It had never been anything like this.

"Looks like I really have overdone it these past few days."

Tsunade immediately felt guilty.

Thinking back, how had she spent the last half month?

She had gotten up at four in the morning to run a hundred kilometers.

Mornings were for strength training: lifting rocks and striking wooden posts.

At noon came more conditioning: frog jumps, push-ups, and sit-ups.

In the afternoon, she practiced Chakra control by climbing trees, walking on water, and doing fine manipulation exercises.

At night, she studied Sealing Jutsu with Mito.

She had been going nonstop, twenty-four hours a day.

The combined Senju and Uzumaki constitution was formidable, and its recovery was astonishing.

But even that couldn't withstand this kind of abuse!

And then there was what she had done in the bath...

"Ahem!"

"I must have pushed my body too far, disrupting my cycle and causing all this bleeding."

Tsunade held her aching lower abdomen and sighed.

"No matter how tough your body is, you can't train it to death."

She looked around the room and began searching frantically.

First, she needed to find something to stem the bleeding.