After falling into the water, Xuandou let the tremendous impact of Monster Strength tear his clothes apart.
Only when his momentum eased did he use the Flying Thunder God Technique, appearing beside Tsunade with his upper body bare and looking at her pitifully.
"Lady Tsunade, have you cooled down?"
Tsunade looked at Xuandou's bedraggled figure, snorted, and deliberately turned her head away.
People were different.
She had only one child, Shiwa, while Xuandou had eight children.
How could that be the same?
Whenever she thought of her only son awakening the Uchiha Clan's unique Sharingan after encountering danger,
she grew especially worried.
Although she was Konoha's Hokage, she was also just a mother.
From the First Shinobi World War to the Second Shinobi World War:
She had lost six loved ones in succession: her great-uncle, her grandmother, her father, her mother, her younger brother Nawaki, and her lover Dan Katō.
As for her grandfather, Hashirama Senju,
the fundamental reason the First Shinobi World War had broken out was Hashirama's death, which had shattered the peace the Shinobi World had maintained through his individual strength.
Loss after loss had left her with hemophobia.
She had been forced to leave Konoha and numb herself to get through her days.
Even though her grandfather Hashirama had been resurrected with Xuandou's help, the feeling of losing people over and over still lingered in her heart.
It would never fade.
This time, Shiwa's sudden brush with danger had snapped Tsunade's tightly stretched nerves.
For a while, she had even wanted Shiwa to give up becoming a ninja and live safely as an ordinary person.
But seeing Shiwa's love for Ninjutsu, Tsunade had abandoned that idea.
To love him meant letting him spread his wings and soar freely.
But as for Xuandou, the father who had