Kurenai Yuhi pouted, her lips jutting out far enough to hang a kettle from, her face plainly spelling out "envy, jealousy, and resentment."
She couldn't accept it-Aren't the three of us supposed to be a team? You two actually made your move first?
Tsunade gave her a smile that didn't reach her eyes. "What, do you feel you've missed out?"
Kurenai Yuhi jolted and darted into a corner, offering an apologetic smile as her voice trembled. "N-no... that's not it. I-I misspoke... Lady Tsunade, my tongue slipped..."
Rin Nohara and Mei Terumi knelt side by side on the tatami, neither daring to raise her head. They both knew that if they looked up, Tsunade's gaze could pin them dead on the spot.
Though their current situation... wasn't much better.
Someone was bound to ask-where had that grown man, Hatake Xuanzhe, run off to?
Obviously. When a woman was furious, failing to keep your distance was just asking for death.
At a time like this, anything you said was wrong. Argue with a woman, and you weren't a man if you won, nor were you a man if you lost. Sure, fists did the talking in this world, but if you fought a woman, winning meant you weren't a man, and losing meant you were even less of one.
So there was only one solution, one word-
Run.
"But seriously, you two really are something." Tsunade bent over, smiling until her eyes narrowed. "There's a war raging outside, and here you are, having a bang at home. Is this some new game young people play?"
The trio in the corner felt chills down their spines, the same thought surfacing in all their minds:
So fierce...
Just like a certain part of Tsunade... so fierce.
When she said "young people," Tsunade's voice