No one knows what Jiraiya said to Tsunade in that illusion world. However, outside the door, Kagura and Izuna both heard Tsunade's heart-wrenching cry and Jiraiya's gentle coaxing. The voice, apart from that, they knew nothing else.

After that day, Tsunade's complexion improved a lot, and she began to look brighter again.

It is indeed true that a heart disease needs a heart medicine.

Or maybe Tsunade herself wants to get out of the cage that traps her, and what she needs is for others to give her a chance.

The anemia has not been completely cured, but it is almost negligible compared to before.

Tsunade began to appear in the operating room. She didn't want to do it herself, so she directed her students to do it. Her students are now making rapid progress.

Occasionally, Tsunade would look at her hands, which seemed to be stained with red blood.

After she lost her paranoia, all she had left was regret.

"Duan, I have to keep improving my medical skills so that I won't have that kind of regret again, right?"

Naturally, Kato Dan couldn't answer her, but Tsunade seemed to have his answer in her heart.

On the eve of the Great Resurrection, Jiraiya went to Kato Dan's tombstone alone.

The sky has been cloudy and snowflakes may fall at any time.

Jiraiya had very complicated feelings about Kato Dan. At first, he couldn't stand this pretty boy. He thought he was the kind of guy who could seduce Tsunade away with his handsome face.

Later, after Jiraiya learned that he was dead and Tsunade's thoughts, he could no longer look at him the way he used to.

He didn't admit that he looked at him from the perspective of a winner. There was no winning or losing in emotional matters.

Compared to Kato Dan, who always lives in Tsunade's heart, it's hard for him to say which one of the two is the winner.

Immortal, Kato Dan died at the best age in his life, when Tsunade felt guilty for him.

And he was still alive. With his character, it was not impossible for him to be rejected by Tsunade one day.

If that day comes, he will actually envy Kato Dan.

Kato Dan's body was brought back to Konoha for burial, which gave him his own independent tombstone. The commemorative monument not far away was densely engraved with many names. Those were sacrificed on the battlefield or during missions. The corpse There was no way to be brought back to Konoha as a ninja.

There is no body, no tomb, just a name engraved on the tablet.

Jiraiya glanced at the commemorative monument, then looked back at Kato Dan's monument.

The monument was erected by Tsunade as his girlfriend.

Jiraiya smiled. Although Tsunade had a hot temper, she also had a delicate side of a woman and a kind and considerate side.

The wind blew through the cemetery, rustling the branches around the cemetery.

Putting the flowers in his hand into the bamboo tube in front of the tombstone, this was the first time that Jiraiya had faced Kato Dan in such a formal way, even though one of them was inside and the other was outside.

"Um...I'm here to apologize to you," Jiraiya said with an awkward smile. Kato Dan was once a love rival to him, but now, he was standing in front of his grave talking to him, I always feel like something is weird.

"I became like you just to untie the knot in her heart. Please forgive me for the words I said in your appearance."

At that time, in the laboratory, Jiraiya transformed into Kato Dan and appeared in front of Tsunade who was under the illusion. Tsunade cried and confessed to him, apologized to him, and at the same time confessed her feelings to him.

Jiraiya could clearly feel Tsunade's awkwardness and paranoia, and in order to untie her knot, he said those words to her.

He said: "What matters in love is not the result, but the process. Even if there is no result, it is not a failure. The feeling in the process is truly felt.

During the time I spent with you, I lived a very happy life and became more determined in my dreams. Even if your answer in the end is still to go to another man, I won't think you did anything wrong.

Because I really like you, I want you to be happy more than anyone else. "

Of course, Jiraiya didn't know what Kato Dan would think. These were Jiraiya's own feelings about love, which was why he could stay in Amegakure for three years safely.

He is an experiential person, and love is an experience for him. No matter who Tsunade chooses in the end, the process of him liking Tsunade is very beautiful.

Even the sourness of being rejected countless times is a precious experience.

He begged for forgiveness to Kato Dan, "Please forgive me for saying that, that's what I think in my heart. I don't know you, but from Tsunade's description, I probably know that you are a pretty good man.

I think you, who is so good, don’t want to see her trapped in self-blame and unable to extricate herself, right?

My approach...will you understand? "

Naturally, there would be no voice to answer him. After waiting in silence for a long time, the only answer was the sound of the wind.

Snowflakes fell from the leaden sky at this time, like an answer to him.

Jiraiya laughed.

No matter what happens, the New Year always arrives as scheduled.

Several consecutive years of war have made this New Year much more deserted than in previous years.

Joruri already had his own home. On New Year's Eve, there were only Tobirama and Kagura in the Hokage's mansion. It was obviously no different from usual, but they could all feel that something was different.

It was still the soba noodles made by Tobirama himself. This time, Kagura took a few more bites.

Looking at the steamed soba noodles in the basket, Tobirama unconsciously thought of Joruri, and he smiled awkwardly.

"Do you think...Sakumo can make soba noodles for our daughter?" he asked Kagura.

At that time, Kagura was swallowing the last bite of noodles. She was silent for a while and shook her head, "Who knows..."

Tobirama took a bite of noodles and said sadly, "Just like a bird with hardened wings, one day it will leave the nest, and it will be just the two of us who will spend the rest of our lives together."

Kagura smiled and nodded, "So, Tobirama-sama, you have to be nicer to me, otherwise, I might leave the nest one day, and you can't find me even if you cry all over the world."

"Will there be a day?"

Kagura spread her hands, "Who knows, just think I'm talking nonsense."

In the Uchiha clan, Madara and Izuna were sitting at the window drinking tea. After a while, there would be fireworks bought by the village for the villagers to watch in the open space beside the Nanga River, which could be seen from this place.

The two brothers sat quietly by the window, looking at each other in silence, and the atmosphere was a bit deserted.

"Joruri didn't come this year." Izuna said tentatively.

Madara glanced at him, with a faint smile on his lips, "Well, she has grown up. How can a grown-up child come to the house and ask for lucky money?"

"But she is still our child, isn't she? No matter how old she grows, she is still a child to us."

Madara couldn't refute what Izuna said. He took a sip of tea, thought for a while and said, "We just feel a little uncomfortable. After all, she used to come here every year to ask for lucky money."

Quan Nai held her chin with one hand and pouted unconsciously, "Nissan, I prepared a big red envelope for her this year..."

There was a bit of disappointment in his tone.

"Tomorrow Fugaku will come, Mikoto will come, and many children from the clan will come."

"But none of them are Joruri..."

The top of his head was covered by big hands. Izuna looked up and saw Madara's smiling face. After so many years, Madara has not changed. He still looks like a man in his prime. His temperament is cold but with a unique warmth for his family. .

The smile on his lips was like the spring breeze melting the ice and snow, ruffling the surface of the lake, and creating ripples.

He rubbed the top of Quan Nai's head and said warmly: "Children will always grow up. As long as she lives a happy life every day, our loss can be ignored, right?"

"Well," listening to his voice, Quan Nai nodded.

At this time, with a whistle, a beam of light shot straight into the night sky, and colorful fireworks exploded on the sky.

Madara watched for a while, then suddenly realized what he was doing, and urged Izuna: "Obito is asleep on the bed. Go hold him. If he is frightened by this sound, he will cry."

"Hey, Nissan, why don't you go?" Quan Nai pouted even higher.

"Huh, I didn't bring that child back."

"But...because it's Nissan and you want to raise the child, I took him back!"

"Nonsense~"

"Hey~ you can only command me!"

Madara looked at the sky outside the window and laughed, even his voice was filled with laughter, "Because you are my brother."

The words of complaint were swallowed back, and Izuna was not sure whether Madara was kidnapping him morally.

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