At the end of Konoha Year 54.
Hatake Xuanzhe and Tsunade finally got married.
Honestly, when the news spread, it hardly caused a stir.
In fact, plenty of Konoha ninja looked as though they had just woken up, slapping their foreheads and saying:
"Oh! So those two weren't married yet?"
Exactly.
If Rin Nohara's and Mei Terumi's relationships with Xuan Zhe were open secrets...
Then his relationship with Tsunade was laid out right on the table.
Never mind Konoha-hardly anyone in the entire Shinobi World hadn't heard about it.
So when their marriage was announced, a lot of people finally realized-those two had dragged it out until now?
Whatever the case, everyone had to show them proper respect.
Clan heads and representatives from all of Konoha's major clans attended, and the Land of Fire's allies and vassal states all sent people too.
Even the daimyo, the Land of Fire's ruler, came in person with lavish gifts.
Just how grand was it?
Probably only Naruto's wedding at the end of the original story, after he became the hero of the Shinobi World, could barely compare.
But there was one amusing thing.
Tsunade's face looked twenty-five or twenty-six, but she was actually over forty.
Yet she actually got nervous.
Xuan Zhe seized the opportunity to tease her mercilessly.
The result, naturally, was a thorough beating from Tsunade's iron fists.
Half a year after the wedding banquet, it was May 21, Konoha Year 55.
That day was the twenty-second birthday of Mei Terumi, Kirigakure's Fifth Mizukage.
She held her wedding with Hatake Xuanzhe, a ninja affiliated with Konoha in name.
That marriage cemented the alliance between Konoha and Kirigakure.
The ordinary villagers' jaws practically hit the floor.
But to many of the higher-ups, this had been in the script all along.
Shikaku Nara,