Chapter 28 : The Second Ninja World War

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"It seems like there was too much sugar."

After finishing a plate of cake, Watanabe felt it was too sweet and felt that he had not cooked well.

"I think it's just right."

Tsunade was eating with gusto, when suddenly she caught a glimpse of something unusual on Watanabe's face out of the corner of her eye.

"do not move."

Watanabe was stunned, not knowing what was going on as he watched Tsunade reach out her hand and wipe a piece of cream from the corner of his mouth.

Watanabe laughed and said, "It's easiest to get it stuck when eating cake..."

The voice stopped abruptly.

Because he saw Tsunade put the cream wiped from the corner of his mouth into her mouth, and licked her fingers with her soft pink tongue.

Watanabe was stunned, and then an unprecedented feeling of throbbing surged in his heart.

"Tsunade, what are you doing?"

Tsunade's pretty face flushed unnaturally, and she realised that her behaviour just now was too proactive, and she said with confidence: "I avoid wasting food, is there a problem?"

Watanabe said awkwardly: "No, no problem."

Maybe he was overthinking it. When he invited Tsunade to his house for dinner before, he often ate Tsunade's leftovers. It is normal for friends to be appropriately close to each other.

Having said that, he still felt weird. If he were to wipe a piece of butter from Tsunade's mouth and eat it, would she kick him away with 'Heaven Kick of Pain' ?

"Okay, we've eaten the cake, so you should go home soon!"

The redness on Tsunade's face had not yet faded, and she ordered Watanabe to leave without further explanation, then turned around and said goodbye to him.

Watanabe looked at her graceful figure in the dress until Tsunade disappeared at the end of his sight. Then he rubbed his cheeks to suppress the strange feeling in his heart.

For no reason, he suddenly remembered the previous conversation with Nawaki. If he were to pursue Tsunade, would his success rate be a little higher than Kato Dan's?

Tsunade was his most important friend, and he had to maintain his friendship with her no matter what. Such a bloody plot where they could neither be lovers nor friends must not happen to him.

After returning home, Watanabe washed up and lay on the bed to practise the spiritual technique. He was used to staying up late. For him, staying up late was fun, and it would be fun all the time.

[Staying up late: Kidney function +4, health +3, fatigue -5...]

[Soul is traumatised: Soul strength (mental power) +2, +3, +2...]

Of the three scrolls Tsunade gave him, he has only mastered the Spiritual Transformation Technique and the Multiplicative Explosive Talisman Technique, and has yet to master the Flying Thunder God Technique.

There was no way. Flying Thunder God relied too much on the talent of time and space. Even if Watanabe had the ability of reversing cause and effect, it would not help. He even thought of giving up learning Flying Thunder God.

The next morning, the weekend ended and Watanabe went to school on time.

He goes to school now only to graduate and get the title of Genin, and to be able to compete with Tsunade. The courses in the ninja school are meaningless to him.

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In a blink of an eye, two months had passed since Tsunade's birthday.

Ever since the birthday party that night, Watanabe and Tsunade have become noticeably closer.

Tsunade knew that Watanabe had no habit of eating breakfast, so she would bring him breakfast every day when he went to school. After school, she would accompany Watanabe to the woods to practise sparring with him. She would go to Watanabe's house more often than to her own home. Sometimes when she was sleepy, she would lie on Watanabe's bed to take a nap, and she was not at all shy with Watanabe.

The close relationship between the two was seen by all the classmates in the class. They had already regarded them as a couple. Many boys were jealous of Watanabe to the point of going crazy, especially Jiraiya, who couldn't figure out why he was inferior to him. 

With the help of Tsunade, Watanabe's strength improved significantly. First, his chakra value reached 21552, and even his defence reached 9998.

Tsunade had long stopped holding back against Watanabe, and she gave it her all in every sparring match. However, no matter how fierce her attacks were, she was unable to cause any injuries to Watanabe, which shocked her so much that she secretly exclaimed that Watanabe was such a pervert.

She had never heard of anyone whose strength could improve as fast as Watanabe in three months. Three months ago, Watanabe was the last in the class and he would bleed after being hit by two punches from her, but now he could withstand her full-strength attack without any injury. It was incredible no matter how she thought about it.

Tsunade once asked Watanabe why he improved so quickly. Watanabe replied that he had a special physique and could withstand severe injuries that ordinary people could not. The reason why he improved so quickly was largely due to Tsunade's sparring.

Tsunade accepted this statement. After all, the ninja world is so vast that there are all kinds of strange bloodline limits. It is reasonable for Watanabe to awaken a "nature escape" bloodline limit that allows him to withstand beatings.

Watanabe tried to hurt himself with kunai many times in private, but even the sharp kunai could only leave white marks on the surface of his skin and could not break the skin at all.

This made Watanabe feel a little scared. Fortunately, he was not a woman, otherwise, when his defence was improved, he would not be able to be pierced.

After many attempts, Watanabe himself could not figure out the limit of his defence. In short, he was very hard, and ordinary attacks could not threaten him.

The only drawback is that Watanabe's attack power and speed still have not been improved. When sparring with Tsunade, Tsunade cannot break his defence, and his slow attack power cannot cause any damage to Tsunade either. Every time he just relies on time to wear Tsunade down until she is breathless and sweating.

Tsunade tried to give Watanabe special physical training, but unfortunately the effect was not very good. Speed became Watanabe's weakness. Any Chunin could crush Watanabe in terms of speed, unless Watanabe used the spirit transformation technique, and the speed of his spirit body would be several times faster than his real body.

At the beginning, Watanabe was very anxious and he wanted desperately to improve his physical skills, but later on he gradually let it go because there was no point in being anxious, as physical skills were destined to be his weakness, and he could only try to make up for it with ninjutsu.

Anyway, the ninja world has been peaceful in recent years, without war or unrest, so what if there are shortcomings? Can it threaten his life and safety?

Watanabe never expected that the slap in the face would come so unexpectedly.

In March of the 16th year of Konoha, the news of the war between the Hidden Rain Village and the Iron Kingdom spread throughout the streets and alleys of Konoha. 

Overnight, the people of Konoha were in a panic, and the storm was about to come. Villagers were talking about war everywhere.

"The Hidden Rain Village and the Land of Iron?"

Watanabe felt a sinking feeling in his heart when he heard the news.

There are cultural courses in the ninja school. He knows that although the Hidden Rain Village and the Iron Kingdom are not as good as the five major countries, they are not comparable to ordinary small countries, especially the leader of the Hidden Rain Village, Hanzo of the Salamander. The teachers in the ninja school commented that he was an ambitious politician. Under his leadership, the Hidden Rain Village has been restless and has attempted to launch invasions and expansion against neighbouring countries several times.

"It's not a good sign if these two sides go to war."

Watanabe had a bad feeling, the current situation in the ninja world was highly dependent on one move, the forces of all sides were intertwined, any local unrest could turn into the fuse that ignited the Second Ninja World War.

  (Continued…)