Chapter – 18 Innocence is Gone~ (Patreon)

Dragged all the way, Tatsumi followed behind Mikoto while looking at the Virtual Screen in front of him.

At this point, the information on the [System] panel had changed.

[Balance Ninja Points: 3600]

‘Sure enough, the points I earn in an [Event] are much more than any normal fight,’ thought Tatsumi with a hippy smile.

So far Tatsumi has defeated two people, and he has already earned 3000 Ninja points, 1000 Ninja points from the first match, and 2000 Ninja points from his fight against Namikaze Minato.

Normally, whenever Tatsumi fights against Minato after the little sun makes a good amount of progress, Tatsumi only gets 400 Ninja points, however, this time around Tatsumi obtained 2000 Ninja Points, this is because currently, an [Event] is going on, during an [Event] the value of defeating opponents is more than normal.

Sure enough, Minato during normal times is a little worthless, right?

Putting aside the matter of Minato’s worth, Tatsumi was feeling very happy with all these ninja points. During the time he did not have Ninja Points left, he would comfort himself with the excuse, ‘It’s good that I don’t have too many Ninja Points, I won’t have to be troubled about where to add Ninja Points, and that would definitely make me unhappy, so it’s good that I have less Ninja Points, there is no such burden and I don’t have to worry about where to add them.’

But now that he finally had some Ninja Points after so long, Tatsumi couldn’t use such an excuse anymore, no matter how much he tried to convince himself that he would be troubled if he had too many Ninja Points, now that he really had Ninja Points, he is extremely happy, and smiling giddily.

‘Sure enough, Ninja Points are a man’s true romance, right? I am just a poor guy who is trying to delude himself with random excuses that make no sense,’ thought Tatsumi as the two young Uchihas arrived beside the princess of the Senju Clan.

“Senju Tsunade-sama, Tatsumi-kun is injured, please heal him!” said Mikoto in an anxious tone while pointing at the ‘wound’ on Tatsumi’s arm.

“––––Huh?” After sending away the previous trainee she healed, Tsunade-hime turned to Tatsumi and Mikoto, she found no injury worth treating with her Iryō ninjutsu, and couldn’t help but ask, “Boy of the Uchiha Clan, what’s the matter, did you get lost or something?”

Mikoto pointed at Tatsumi’s arm she held, and said anxiously, “Look at this terrible wound Tsunade-sama… you have to heal it, otherwise, it will leave a scar on Tatsumi-kun’s arm!”

Tsunade-hime looked at the ‘terrible’ wound pointed by Mikoto, and couldn’t help but tease, “––––Huh? You call this small cut that is not even five centimeters long a terrible wound?”

‘Okay, this is really embarrassing!’ thought Tatsumi. He was unsure of what to say and looked at Mikoto with a ‘What are you doing Mikoto-chan?’ expression.

Perhaps Tsunade-hime also noticed Tatsumi’s embarrassed expression, so she didn’t speak about it, instead, she took out a needle, and thread from her Shinobi bag, and asked, “I have a needle and thread here, how about I sew your t-shirt that was torn during the fight?”

Mikoto immediately said, “Tsunade-sama, something like sewing Tatsumi-kun’s clothes, I can also do it… please look at his wound… blood was also coming out!”

Seeing her worry, Tsunade-hime looked at Tatsumi with a teasing smile which said, ‘Are you going to tell her? Or should I?’

Tatsumi knew that it was better for him to address it, and said to Mikoto, “Mikoto-chan, this wound… it has already healed up… look here… it’s just a small scar that’s left, and it will also be gone by tomorrow morning…”

Pointed by Tatsumi, Mikoto finally looked at the ‘terrible’ wound and realized that it had really healed up. At the same time, the anxiousness and concern turned into shame and cringe as she realized that the way she was acting stupid earlier out of concern for Tatsumi was really embarrassing, and suddenly blushed, and wanted to crawl into a hole and bury herself.

Looking at the ashamed expression on Mikoto’s face, Tsunade-hime was a little amused, ‘Children these days.’

Tatsumi sighed and consoled Mikoto, after that, he took off his turtleneck, and then passed it to the slug princess of Konoha, “Alright, I would be grateful Tsunade-sama,” he really wasn’t good at these things, and since Mikoto doesn’t seem to be in the right state at the moment, so it he decided to accept Tsunade-hime’s offer.

“Hmm,” Tsunade-hime really took his turtle-neck t-shirt and began to sew it.

Watching her perform the sewing work, Tatsumi couldn’t help but ask, “Tsunade-sama, why do you carry around such a thing with you in your shinobi bag?”

Tsunade-hime glanced at the curious Uchiha kid standing next to her, and answered, “Quite often, the mission we are performing takes months to complete if not weeks. A lot of times, the places we are performing the mission are remote or in the middle of the battlefield. The clothes we wear get damaged and torn, so there is a need to carry this stuff around… And let me tell you boy, my sewing technique is very good!”

“I see,” nodded Tatsumi in understanding. It made sense, it was just a small detail, and if not for Tsunade-hime’s explanation today, perhaps he might have never paid it any attention.

Seeing Tatsumi’s thoughtful expression, Tsunade-hime smiled mysteriously, and said, “I generally don’t tell this information to ordinary people, but I decided to tell you… how is it? Were you moved by my generosity, and want to pay me for these services?”

Tatsumi looked at her with a ‘Are you okay in your head?’ expression, which suddenly irked her.

Before Tsunade-hime could get angry, suddenly, a familiar voice came running toward them, “Nee-sama… Nee-sama… I was also injured, please heal me!” It was none other than the resident information broker who hurriedly came here upon noticing the bastard Tatsumi talking with his sister, he couldn’t help it anymore.

It’s okay to get the medical treatment, and get your injuries healed, but what’s up with getting your clothes sewn? Nawaki felt jealous, he had never received such ‘kindnesses’ from his Nee-sama, and couldn’t help but once again wonder, ‘Is this guy really after my Nee-sama? Does that mean what he said earlier wasn’t a joke?’

You bastard, I will never hand over my Nee-sama to you, she is only sixteen years old!

Worried about his sister’s safety, and anxious that she might also become just like all the other girls at the academy, Nawaki hurriedly came between them and squeezed himself between the two. Heck, he almost took out his Kunai and wanted to attack Tatsumi for even looking at his Nee-sama!

Unaware of Nawaki’s thoughts, Tsunade-hime squinted at the new ‘patient’ who wanted to get her treatment, “Oh? Where did you get hurt Nawaki?” She observed him and found no injury whatsoever on him, his clothes were clean, his Chakra was stable, and there was not even a scratch on his body, clearly, he was spouting nonsense earlier and just came here to make trouble!

In fact, in the entire second year, other than his good friends Uchiha Tatsumi, Namikaze Minato, and Uchiha Mikoto, there’s hardly anyone who could be considered his opponent.

Moreover, Nawaki is also very shrewd, don’t look at him clamoring about wanting to be Hokage all day long unlike a certain blonde with whiskers on his face, he may look like an idiot on the surface, but this guy knows what he is doing. If he ends up meeting someone who is several times stronger than him, he will immediately withdraw from the match to conserve his strength for future matchups, as such, he hasn’t suffered any injury.

“Umm… this… uhhh…” Nawaki couldn’t come up with something on the spur and looked a little confused. He only saw his Nee-sama whisper something into Tatsumi’s ear with a mysterious smile, and rushed here in a hurry, obviously he didn’t think this far ahead.

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly came up with an excuse, “I… I have suddenly caught a cold, so I need Nee-sama to give me medicine that would heal my cold!” it was a lie that even he couldn’t believe, but it was something that he believed would allow him to distract Nee-sama for a moment, and then drag away Tatsumi from here and ensure his Nee-sama’s innocence.

But what Nawaki didn’t expect was that his Nee-sama suddenly grinned as soon as she heard his excuse.

In fact, she did not even want to come to the academy to give lessons to these brats, she had just returned back to the village yesterday after completing a month-long mission and received a small vacation along with her reward, during this time, all she wanted to do was try a few hands at the gambling house and drink sake to relax her fatigue.

Unfortunately, she had to come to the academy because of Sandaime Hokage’s order, but since he reassured her that she would only be responsible for providing the medical treatment while Jiraiya and Orochimaru would handle the rest, she accepted, but turns out that these children are coming to her one by one with the intention of creating trouble, at this moment, she seems to have become a certain Nara who likes to avoid trouble at all costs.

Obviously, Nawaki was here to play a prank on her, and there was no way she would let go of this opportunity.

“So, you have caught a cold, huh? Well, now that I think about it, there has been flu spreading through because of the cold wave… if you don’t pay attention, you will definitely catch a cold and die… but don’t worry my dear Nawaki-kun, I have the perfect medicine for it…” she said as a dangerous glint appeared in her eye which Nawaki was unable to notice considering the angle he saw standing.

Hearing Tsunade-hime’s words, Tatsumi rolled his eyes, ‘Cold wave? It’s in the middle of summer! What cold are you talking about?’

The task of sewing Tatsumi’s turtleneck was handed over to Mikoto as Tsunade-hime dusted off her hands, preparing to give her dear Otōto the treatment of ‘cold.’

“Yes… yes, Nee-sama… please!” nodded Nawaki, still not realizing that he was in trouble, and looked at Tatsumi as if saying marking his territory and signaling him to keep his hands/paws off of his Nee-sama!

“Look, here is the medicine for the cold!” said Tsunade-hime as she waved the hand signs and summoned two white sticky slugs using the summoning Jutsu.

Nawaki proudly turned to look at the ‘medicine’ prepared by his Nee-sama, but as soon as his eyes landed on the two slugs crawling on the wooden table while releasing some mucus, his expression turned ghostly.

“Nee-sama… this… this is…” he finally came to his senses and noticed the dangerous glint in her eyes that made his body shiver from terrible past experiences.

He has definitely seen these slugs before, but never has he seen his Nee-sama use them for providing medical treatment, what exactly they were used for, he doesn’t want to recall those terrible experiences, to this day, his body shivers recalling those days of childhood trauma.

Nawaki is not the only one with such trauma, Jiraiya has also suffered multiple times, in fact, his case was much worse than Nawaki’s, it always happened whenever Jiraiya tried to peek at Tsunade-hime while bathing.

During those times, Jiraiya could only speak one line, ‘The Innocence is gone~… ta da da da…”

Recalling those miserable experiences, Nawaki trembled and suddenly wanted to run away, but how could he when Tsunade-hime held his collar and spoke with her most charming smile, “My foolish Otōto!”