"Lady Tsunade, when did you get here?" Sōkyū Hatake relaxed completely after he saw Chiyo leave.
"Ten minutes ago. Didn't you notice me right away? Otherwise, you wouldn't have acted like that, would you?" Tsunade stood with her back to Sōkyū Hatake, her tone utterly indifferent.
"What, would I really put myself in danger? Also, aren't you going to heal me, Lady Tsunade?" Sōkyū Hatake looked at Tsunade's back, his eyes full of teasing amusement.
"Looking at you, I'd say you don't need treatment, do you? You seem plenty lively." Tsunade trembled, but still did not turn around.
"Has your hemophobia still not gotten better, Lady Tsunade?" Sōkyū Hatake knew why Tsunade was behaving this way.
Her hemophobia had begun during the Second Shinobi World War, because Senju Nawaki and Dan Katō had died before her eyes. Those bloody, mangled sights had caused Tsunade to break down completely.
This was not something an ordinary person could engage with and change, so Tsunade had continued to be affected by her hemophobia all this time.
"How did you know about that?" Tsunade shuddered. She did not know why Sōkyū Hatake knew about her hemophobia.
She clearly had not told anyone. Apart from Shizune Katō, who had always stayed by her side, no one knew-not even her teacher Hiruzen Sarutobi or her fellow students Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
"I know a lot of things, Lady Tsunade. Since you can't heal me, I'll head back myself." Sōkyū Hatake had just gathered some chakra, and had regained a certain ability to move.
"You can still move?" Tsunade turned around instinctively and immediately saw the blood on Sōkyū Hatake!
The next second, Tsunade felt a wave of dizziness wash through her head.
Then her head swam and her vision spun, and her body went limp as she