Ch59. Tsunade visiting Konoha.

Tsunade walked through the gates of Konoha but surprisingly, she didn't feel at home at all. She felt... annoyed. The faces of her grandfather and granduncle were the only thing that somewhat soothed her reluctance as she approached the booth with the guards. When she came closer to it, she instantly saw two men sweetly sleeping and her annoyance was again there, rearing its ugly head.

With a twitching eyebrow, she banged her papers on the table, making it shake enough to wake up the two shinobi. They jumped up, prepared for a fight until their sleepy eyes spotted a frowning Tsunade.

"What the hell are you two doing..." She asked darkly, drumming her finger onto her papers. "I don't have all day." She added with a threatening scowl.

The guards looked sheepish and took her papers, their eyes bulging out the second they read her name. While the guards were busy with her papers, she noticed an ANBU departing from behind the booth, most likely heading to inform the Hokage about her arrival. Nevertheless, Tsunade didn't go to greet her Sensei. No, she first went to the Senju compound where she spent hours on end to relocate the entire library, treasury, and anything of use to Rei's dimension or her storage. She cleaned it all. She wasn't feeling generous towards Konoha. Sure, it might have been a village created by her grandfather and even could be called her clan's heritage but… with the current leadership of the village and the Senju clan's extinct status, Tsunade really didn't feel any attachment toward the village.

As she looked at the bare walls and furniture-free rooms of the houses in the Senju compound, Tsunade nodded in self-satisfaction at her handi-work. No scroll was left unturned and even if the village broke through the seals securing the compound, they wouldn't be able to find anything. Tsunade found quite a few marks that somebody indeed did try to get inside the compound in her absence… this, however, only strengthened her belief that the future of her clan no longer lies with Konoha.

"Maybe I should do the same with the Uchiha compound just secretly?" She briefly thought but dismissed the idea as she doubted these egoistical pyromaniacs would have anything useful stashed away.

But now... her reason for returning to Konoha was finished and she couldn't help but feel awkward. This place was once her home. Something she wouldn't mind dying for. But now? Now it was but a painful reminder of her clan that died for the village.

Sure, maybe her ancestors would want her to protect it to pay her respect to them… she was even playing with the idea of destroying it as it was the reason for their demise. For better or worse, Rei disabused that notion quite quickly though. In the end, Tsunade decided to go the third, neutral route and just stop caring about it. She had a new home and the dead will stay dead no matter what befalls Konoha.

At the end of the day, she was about to exit her compound and sullenly walk towards the Hokage Tower when she saw an ANBU waiting for her in front of it.

"What." She asked in irritation, her hands instantly crossing on her chest.

"The Council is calling for you, Lady Tsunade." The ANBU bowed and disappeared.

"So?" She muttered to herself as she looked at the empty spot where the ANBU stood just a second ago. "Tell me, ANBU-san, why should I care what some old inept idiots want? Do I look that free to you?" She told towards the air with untold amusement in her tone, knowing full well nobody listened. Being summoned? Why should that be her problem? She was the head of the Senju clan! She can be summoned only by Hokage and even then the old monkey must be polite about it. The council? Ha! No chance.

Tsunade shrugged and decided that it was a great day for some shopping!

...

It was an evening already, six hours later, when Tsunade leisurely walked into the Council Room as her eyes slowly trailed over the forms of very annoyed clan heads, dozing off civilians, Hiruzen smoking his tenth pipe with a twitching eyebrow, the elders looking at her with a murderous glare, and Danzo... being Danzo.

"Tsunade... where were you?" Hiruzen asked as she reached the Senju seat and flopped into it, instantly supporting her head with her arm.

"Home, Shopping, a new restaurant called Ichiraku… damn they have incredible ramen!" Tsunade, with the corner of her eye, noted that only the Akemichi clan head appreciated the comment and quickly tried to discreetly make some sort of 'note'. She continued. "in the park, on the Senju training grounds, trying to find out what changed and then I was asked for autographs. It took time to get out of that." Tsunade dismissively waved her free hand around as she drawled. "Anyway, I thought the civilian council should have been abolished after the war. What are they doing here?" Tsunade uncaringly pointed at the sleepy civilians with her thumb.

The civilians looked at her with spooked eyes while the clan heads just smirked. As they were to get involved, Danzo interrupted. "We are here for a different matter, Tsuna-" Before he could finish the killing intent of Tsunade flooded the place and he stopped himself to reword it. "Senju-san." Tsunade grunted and gestured a 'get on with it' with her hand.

"We think it is time for you to come back to the village and marry." Koharu stated.

"And is that something a woman whose husband supposedly hung 'himself' should be telling me?" Tsunade quipped in annoyance with an apparent smirk on her face, making Koharu blanch as even Hiruzen flinched slightly. That was a low blow if he saw one. "Anyone with half a brain knows he had external 'help' councilwoman Koharu." Tsunade added, making the civilians give Koharu suspicious stares.

Damn, Konan is really a bad influence... Tsunade thinned her lips to at least somehow hide the smirk. Just then she was pulled out of her thoughts by the elder Homura. "Senju-san, you are the last breedable Senju. It is your duty to Konoha to-"

"To make sure my clan is never going to be a part of it ever again." She chuckled, startling all clan heads and even Danzo widened his eyes slightly at that despite knowing why she fought it so much. Hiruzen, on the other hand, looked at Tsunade with pity. He had to praise her though. Her transformation was really impressive! Even he was unable to see through it. Just... he thought she would choose a look closer to her age. Contrary to his thoughts, this was her real look. Her prime, twenty-two years old body.

"I had a LOT of time to think you see..." Tsunade sighed as she continued talking but her tone turned cold. "There is no one with Senju blood in Konoha but me. And you want ME to marry?"

"Well, that's obvious. That's why you are integrated into CRA." Uchiha clan head sneered at her as if she was stupid, making her chuckle at the idiot.

"I pity your simplemindedness. Stupidity runs in your blood, huh?" She mocked as if talking to a child, making the man bristle. She didn't give him time to counterattack though. Turning to her Sensei, her eyes narrowed. "Senju was the most intermarried clan of Konoha. Almost every clan had a Senju married to it at one point or the other." It was then that the minds of the clan heads clicked. Their eyes snapped to Tsunade as they widened.

"I meant it when I said there is literally NOBODY with Senju blood in Konoha." Tsunade seriously told them, observing Hiruzen intently. "Ten years. That's how long it took for this to happen. The Senju, the intermarried Senju, and even any kid with Senju blood. Plus civilians. All gone. In ten years. Do I need to ask how exactly that came to be?" She then turned towards the Uchiha clan head who was now staring at her with wide eyes. "What about you Uchiha? If Senju took a decade while being spread through the entirety of Konoha and had members in every clan… how long would it take for your inbred clan that is concentrated in a single spot to be culled out? A day?" In the middle of her sentence, her eyes clashed with Hiruzen's.

The room was silent at that. Clan Heads feared extinction more than death itself but none were foolish enough to think that a complete blood purge could be 'natural'. Their looks got wary as they watched the stare-off between Tsunade and Hiruzen.

In the end, Hiruzen in the end slumped down and sighed. "We noticed the unnatural death rates and accidents of the Senju clan. But... the culprit was never found." He told Tsunade who barked out a sarcastic laugh at him.

"So you did know!... and it didn't occur to you to inform us about it? You let Senju die out." Tsunade chuckled as she said that and wiped a tear from the corner of her eye. "You know what... don't answer. I am outta this shithole." She said and stood up, leaving the chambers.

An ANBU tried to intercept her path but Tsunade was way past the point of coddling anyone and directly smashed the ANBU through three walls, utterly breaking his body. After that, no other ANBU stopped her. Nor did the councilors or the Hokage who were awkwardly staring at her disappearing back.