As a Medical Saint, she should never have made such a mistake. She should have been acutely aware of any changes in her own body.
But Tsunade had dealt with too much lately. After leaving Konoha, she had enjoyed herself without restraint for a while. Then Jiraiya had come looking for her and told her a whole pile of things concerning the fate of the Shinobi World, leaving her without even the desire to enjoy her travels.
Afterward, even when she had borrowed money, that matter had left her with little interest in having fun. Come to think of it, her period really had been very late lately. She had thought it was because she had been drinking too much...
Tsunade covered her lower abdomen, unsure what to do for a moment. Her immediate thought had been to abort this life, but the Shinobi World placed great importance on newborn children. They believed children were the future.
Whatever the Third Hokage had done before, the First Hokage had founded Konoha to protect young children from having to go to war. He had always worked toward that, though his methods were a little...
Besides, Tsunade was a Medical Ninja. Taking a life was a deeply sinful thing to her, and this was her own child. The moment that thought appeared in her mind, she dismissed it.
But if she gave birth, Tsunade did not dare take responsibility for this child either. Was she supposed to go tell Kushina? Just thinking about it made Tsunade feel how difficult it would be.
Though she was in her thirties, this sort of thing was far too unfamiliar to Tsunade.
The expression on her pretty face kept changing. One moment, she bit her finger with her brows tightly furrowed; the next, she unconsciously stroked her