"What do you mean, you've only lived for less than two thousand years?!"
"What do you mean, you really can live for thousands of years?!"
Tsunade stared at Shihōin Naraku as though she had completely lost her composure. As a woman, how could she remain unmoved by the temptation of eternal youth?
At that moment, she wanted nothing more than to grab Naraku by the collar and demand to know exactly how he had achieved eternal youth!
"Teacher, calm down first!"
It took Shihōin Naraku a great deal of effort to get the extraordinarily agitated Tsunade to barely settle down.
"Naraku, do you think I have any hope of succeeding?"
She had settled down, but Tsunade still kept her eyes fixed on Naraku.
All that persuasion was wasted.
Naraku shook his head outright, trying to put the idea out of her mind.
"Teacher, training in Shikkotsu Forest's Sage Mode isn't that simple."
"The Katsuyu Sage must have told you back then. Even if she didn't explain the specifics, she certainly wouldn't have left out the difficulties involved."
"You should have understood that back then, too, which was why you didn't train in Sage Mode."
"So why now..."
Faced with her student's advice, Tsunade sat back down in her seat, looking crestfallen, but still muttered, "That was because I didn't understand back then. If I'd known it could give me eternal youth, would I have refused to train?"
What a pain!
Naraku sighed and tried to persuade her. "Teacher, I encountered a lot of dangers while training in Sage Mode. If the Katsuyu Sage hadn't protected me during the final stage, you might never have seen me again."
"Even with the Katsuyu Sage's help, look how long I spent training. You're the Hokage, Teacher. Can you really leave the village for