Ch 74 -New-

" I..."

The words stuck on Tsunade's throat. What Orochimaru said indeed made some sense, and now she felt her will had been shaken a lot.

Sanada was still very young, and he would only grow stronger from now on, right?

When Tsunade thought about it like that, a new thought began to surface in her heart.

' If it was to be the case, then wouldn't it be fine if you heal Orochimaru right now? Sanada would definitely understand you. After all, it's okay to be selfish sometimes..'

The more she thought about it, the more Tsunade couldn't get that thought out of her mind.

All she wanted was just to meet Dan and Nawaki one more time.

She wanted to tell all she felt to them and then move on.

In the original plot, Tsunade wouldn't feel like this at all.

But the few days with Sanada, she felt it was the happiest she had ever been lately, and it somehow made her begin to forget all her past sadness, and her heart had slowly moved on from the darkness.

However, it also brought a new dilemma to Tsunade.

She was afraid. Afraid that one day, she would be dazzled by the happiness that Sanada brought and begin to forget about Nawaki and Dan.

She was afraid that one day, she would forget all the guilt and feelings she have toward them, and live in happiness.

And for that, all she wanted was just to meet them one more time and relieve all her hidden feelings to them.

It might be a bit sad, but she just wanted to meet them and apologize to them, saying that she finally could find her own happiness and move on with her own life.

Tsunade's feeling right now was very complicated, but as always, women are very delicate and complicated beings.

All the things that Tsunade felt right now didn't escape from Orochimaru's observation.

He knew it was now or never, and all he needed to do was just to deliver the final blow.

He was ready to open his mouth, but suddenly, he felt a huge danger was coming his way.

Someone came to the battlefield of the two injured Sannin, and it was none other than Sanada.

Sanada had observed the situation from afar, and he knew he must intrude now, or else, things might really turn into something completely unexpected.

"Thunder Breathing First Form: Thunderclap and Flash (Ichi no kata: Hekireki Issen)."

*Flash*

A Flash of thunder came as Sanada's water blade was ready to slash Orochimaru into two at any moment.

But as usual, Orochimaru's life-saving technique was one and only in the ninja world.

The moment Sanada slashed Orochimaru's body into two, the body splitted into countless little snakes, and another Orochimaru appeared a few meters away.

" Ara-Ara, isn't this my fellow comrade? It seemed you were more capable than I thought as you were able to handle Itachi....

Unfortunately, you are a bit too late?"

" ???? "

What the heck did Orochimaru mean?

Sanada was still confused about Orochimaru's words when he suddenly felt a pain in his abdomen.

He turned his head down, only to see Tsunade's fist had struck his body.

" I'm sorry, Sanada. But this time. Please forgive me, it will be the first and last..."

*Rumble*

*BOOM*

Sanada was blown away by Tsunade's punch.

He could feel some of his bones cracking as Tsunade really didn't hold back in this one punch.

However, it was not his body that felt pain the most, but instead his heart.

Sanada never expected that his early arrival would only put the last hammer on the nail to Tsunade's fragile mind.

Yup, because of Sanada's early arrival, it means that Sanada was more than capable of handling Itachi, and it just gave Tsunade the deciding factor to compromise with Orochimaru.

As long as Sanada was strong enough, there should be no problem even if she healed Orochimaru, and Orochimaru was able to get Tsunade to think like that.

Sanada's body hit the wall as the momentum of the punch finally was stopped, but even if he was a bit pained from Tsunade's sneak attack, he quickly stood up.

As someone who had trained his body in both breathing style and physique, just a few broken bones wouldn't hinder him that much, and he quickly used the Total concentration breathing to rush back in Orochimaru and Tsunade's direction.

No matter what, he must stop Tsunade from healing Orochimaru.

Tsunade might feel a bit relieved right now, but Sanada knew that compromise was not a choice.

Once you begin to compromise, you will start compromising for other things, and Sanada didn't want Tsunade to fall into Orochimaru's trap.

It only took a few seconds until Sanada reached Orochimaru and Tsunade's location, and there he saw Tsunade was still yet to begin healing Orochimaru.

Even though she had said so, it seemed that she was still unsure whether it was really the right thing to do and was not able to begin the treatment as soon as possible.

Sanada sighed a huge relief when he saw this.

He no longer cared about anything as he put the amount of oxygen he could inhale to its maximum and kicked that Pedomaru away from Tsunade.

Sanada was tired from all the slicing and slashing that didn't harm Orochimaru a bit. So rather than trying to cut Orochimaru, he would just beat down Orochimaru using kick and punch until he surenderred.

*BOOM!!!!!*