Naruto really was at a loss when it came to Tsunade, his "elder." This was hardly the first time he had cleaned up her mess.
Back when Mito was still around, Naruto had asked her to keep her granddaughter in line. And what had happened?
He had turned around to see Tsunade and her grandfather, Hashirama Senju, who had also been brought back through Impure World Reincarnation, slipping out of the house with their arms around each other's shoulders and heading straight for the House of Wagers outside the village.
Later, when Dan Katō briefly returned, the two were deeply in love, and Tsunade did rein herself in for a while. She had eyes only for her lover and could not even be bothered to touch the dice.
But the good times did not last. Once that honeymoon phase passed, the souls of Dan Katō, Mito Uzumaki, Hashirama Senju, and the others returned to the Pure Land one after another. Tsunade spent a miserable stretch drowning her sorrows in alcohol, and then...
Her gambling addiction sprang back like weeds, worse than ever.
Ultimately, Tsunade's gambling habit could be traced back to her grandfather, Hashirama Senju.
Hashirama himself had been a notorious gambler. He had taken Tsunade around gambling dens when she was still a tiny little thing.
And so Tsunade, now fifty-four years old, had already been gambling for over fifty years!
It had practically become part of her life. The difficulty of quitting was easy enough to imagine.
What left Naruto even more speechless was her shamelessness when borrowing money.
The first time she approached Naruto, before he had officially become Hokage, she asked for an enormous sum right off the bat. Seeing his troubled expression, she brazenly slapped Shizune on the shoulder. "Relax, I'm not- ahem, I'm not