Chapter 18 : Stay away from Watanabe from now on !

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Seeing Watanabe avoiding him, Inuzuka Kiba's face turned dark.

"It seems that you didn't take my warning seriously and insisted on getting close to Tsunade."

Watanabe asked him calmly, "Do you want to fight?"

'I didn't get to spar with Tsunade at noon, so it would be nice to have a fight with this idiot.'

'How dare you say that!' Inuzuka Kiba was thinking this. 

"Well, I'll fight with you today. If you lose, stay away from Tsunade in the future. If I lose, I won't care about you and Tsunade anymore. How about that?"

Watanabe shook his head: "Tsunade is not something you can use as a bet."

As soon as these words came out, it was like an arrow that hit Tsunade deep in her heart.

Her unhappiness towards Watanabe in the morning completely disappeared.

She could feel her importance in Watanabe's mind. When faced with provocation from others, even if she was not present, Watanabe would not use her to bet with others.

People are afraid of being compared. Compared with Inuzuka Kiba, Watanabe's performance made Tsunade very satisfied.

"I don't care, since you lose you have to keep your distance from Tsunade!"

Inuzuka Kiba said rudely, put down the dog from his head, and transferred chakra to his limbs. The nails on his ten fingers grew suddenly, and he lay on the ground like a dog.

"Four-legged technique?"

Watanabe recognized the move he used.

When sparring with Jiraiya that day, Inuzuka Kiba also used the Four-legged Technique, a secret technique of the Inuzuka clan that allows the user to transform into a beast-like form, greatly increasing speed and attack power.

"Be prepared to be beaten down by me!"

Inuzuka Kiba roared angrily, then pounced on Watanabe on all fours and slapped him fiercely with a claw.

"Tear."

The clothes on Watanabe's chest were torn, revealing his white and strong muscles.

[Attacked: HP +6, Defence +2, Pain -1...]

Is that all ?

Watanabe frowned. Compared to Tsunade's attack, the opponent's attack was not even a tickle.

Inuzuka Kiba escaped immediately after his successful attack, and ran around Watanabe in a circle, laughing triumphantly: "Are you helpless against my speed? We have only just begun!"

After saying that, he leaped up and attacked from behind, landing a claw on Watanabe's back.

"Tear "

The clothes on Watanabe's back were torn again, leaving only three white marks on the skin scratched by the sharp claws, without breaking the skin.

[Attacked: HP +5, Defence +2...]

Tsunade stuck her head out and saw Watanabe standing still and enduring Inuzuka Kiba's attack, and she couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

"Why didn't Watanabe fight back?"

Although she knew that Watanabe was very resistant to beatings and that Inuzuka Kiba might not be able to hurt him, she still felt uncomfortable watching Watanabe getting beaten unilaterally.

Just when Tsunade couldn't help herself and wanted to show up and beat Inuzuka Kiba up -

"Too weak."

Watanabe suddenly uttered two words.

"What did you say?"

Inuzuka Kiba circled around him quickly, a look of suspicion on his face.

"I said you were too weak."

Watanabe was disappointed.

Just now, when he saw Inuzuka Kiba coming at him aggressively, he thought Inuzuka Kiba was very strong, but he didn't expect that he was a weakling who couldn't even break his Defence.

It's a huge loss to compete with such a weakling at the cost of ruining a piece of clothing.

"How dare you mock me!"

Inuzuka Kiba was furious and shot up like an arrow. This time his target was Watanabe's face, and he was determined to scratch him to make him disfigured.

And at this moment, Watanabe took action.

He decisively reached out and grabbed Inuzuka Kiba's neck, like grabbing a puppy, suddenly twisted his waist and threw him heavily to the ground.

"boom!"

Inuzuka Kiba was stunned after falling down, with stars in his eyes. Watanabe then punched him several times in the face, making him dizzy and bleeding from the nose.

"Stop fighting, I give up, I give up!"

Inuzuka Kiba quickly accept his defeat.

Watanabe let him go and said coldly: "Let me tell you, unless Tsunade herself doesn't want to pay attention to me, no one has the right to tell me to stay away from her, not even the Hokage!"

Inuzuka Kiba didn't dare to reply, he covered his bleeding nose and grimaced.

Watanabe ignored him and turned away.

"This guy..."

Tsunade stared at Watanabe's back quietly, her beautiful eyes sparkling with tenderness that seemed to overflow with water.

"No one has the right to tell me to stay away from her, not even the Hokage..."

Watanabe's last words still echoed in her ears. Every time they echoed, Tsunade's heartbeat quickened, her pretty face turned red, and her whole heart felt warm.

This is a wonderful feeling that I have never experienced before.

'hateful.'

Inuzuka Kiba got up in a panic, glared at Watanabe fiercely, and said to himself:

'Don't be too proud too soon, I'm going to tell Lady Mito and ask her to stop you!'

Tsunade's pretty face sank and she walked out from behind the tree.

"Tsunade?"

Inuzuka Kiba was stunned for a moment, then said in surprise: "Tsunade, you came at the right time, that Watanabe kid..."

Tsunade punched him without saying a word.

"Boom!"

Inuzuka Kiba was thrown against a thick tree trunk, which broke and fell heavily to the ground.   

Inuzuka Kiba's face was dull and beads of sweat the size of beans were constantly dripping from his forehead.

"Stay away from Watanabe from now on."

Tsunade put her fist away and warned him.

Inuzuka Kiba swallowed dryly and nodded.

"Stay away from me too, or I'll beat you to death," Tsunade added.

Inuzuka kiba : "…"

Please don't use such a beautiful mouth to say such cruel words to me!

He suddenly felt that the world in front of him fell into darkness.

If he were a member of the Uchiha clan, he would definitely be able to open his eyes by now.

Tsunade didn't care what Inuzuka Kiba's mood was. After warning him, she immediately chased after Watanabe.

On the commercial street, Tsunade saw Watanabe, who was dressed in tattered clothes. He was holding three scrolls in his arms and looked extremely miserable and all the Passers-by looked at him strangely.

"where are you going?"

A clear voice sounded in his ears.

Watanabe turned around and saw Tsunade coming up behind him silently. At first glance, she looked quite bright and charming.

"Aren't you going to practice with your brother?"

"My grandmother is teaching him, so I'm not needed." Tsunade lied without blushing, frowning and asking, "What happened?"

Watanabe didn't want her to know about the conflict between him and Inuzuka Kiba, so he said vaguely, "I accidentally scratched my clothes just now, so I'm going home to change."

Tsunade looked at him a few times and thought, as expected of you, you are quite good at lying.

She actually hoped that Watanabe would tell the truth and admit frankly that he had fought with Inuzuka Kiba for her.

In fact, even if Watanabe lost to Inuzuka Kiba just now, Tsunade would not think he was ashamed, because he fought brilliantly in that fight.

"I just want to buy some clothes. Can you go shopping with me?"

Tsunade didn't say anything more and just dragged Watanabe to the clothing store next door while waiting for his reply.

Tsunade noticed clearly that Watanabe usually only had three sets of old clothes to wear in rotation, and it was time for him to change into new clothes.

At first Watanabe thought he was just accompanying Tsunade to buy clothes, but as they walked, he suddenly realised something was wrong.

'Why are we going to a men's clothing store?'

         (Continued...)