After a long, dizzying spin, Tsunade was finally flung out of the dazzling, dreamlike time tunnel and slammed into the ground.
She collapsed in a heap, her head spinning so badly that it felt as though someone had struck it with a massive hammer.
Everything in her vision turned a dull gray. Tsunade lowered her head and retched:
"Urgh!"
After finally recovering a little, Tsunade struggled to raise her head and look around. Her face instantly went deathly pale, and a terrified shriek escaped her throat:
"Wh-where am I?"
She had been dumped all alone on a desolate rocky cliff.
Apart from the occasional gust of wind and the faintest roars and screams, as though drifting over from another world, there was not a sound.
Tsunade scanned her surroundings but could not see a trace of anyone. Day had abruptly turned to night, making it even harder to find where the others had gone.
A moment later, Tsunade rose unsteadily to her feet. Thanks to the extraordinary regenerative power she had inherited from Hashirama, all the injuries Urashiki had inflicted on her had already healed.
But the baby teeth he had knocked out would not grow back.
Tsunade instinctively ran her tongue over the gaps. Hurt, anger, and humiliation all surged up at once.
Clamping her hands over her gap-toothed mouth, she plopped down on the ground. Tears shimmered in her eyes as she began sobbing:
"Great Grandpa, Second Grandpa, Mom, Dad, Shingetsu, Grandpa Madara, where did you all go?"
Forced to leave Konoha and her family, Tsunade pouted and wailed, looking utterly miserable and pitiful.
But before she could cry her heart out, a sudden howl-hoarse as a wild beast's and strangely eerie-split the night sky and seized all her attention.
She leaped to her feet and looked toward