"Birthday…"
When it came to birthdays, Tsunade's feelings were quite complicated.
After all, every time she had one, it meant she was another year older.
Unlike the young people in this house, someone her age celebrating a birthday...
"So you all deliberately had this brat mess around in the office... ahem, hold me back, just to prepare this birthday party?"
"Haha! After all, this is Tsunade-nee's fifty-fifth birthday. Of course we have to celebrate it properly. Tsunade-nee, cheer up."
Kushina didn't mind Tsunade suddenly changing her wording. As she spoke, she was smiling brightly while sticking candles into the cake.
She really had been very happy lately, so happy that she was a bit carried away, like her tail was up in the air.
She completely failed to notice Tsunade's increasingly stiff expression.
That was exactly why Tsunade felt so complicated after realizing it was her birthday.
Although she had already come to terms with her age, hearing the words "fifty-five" still made the veins on her fist pop out.
She really wanted to smash something to let off steam.
But in the end, Tsunade held back. After all, it was her birthday, and so many people were celebrating it with her.
"It's fine. Sensei will always be twenty."
Aoba actually felt that Tsunade's age created a strong contrast that was quite charming.
And now, with him replenishing a large amount of chakra for her every day, the chakra inside Tsunade's body was practically endless. The amount he gave her in one month would be enough to keep the Strength of a Hundred Seal running for hundreds of years.
Aging was no longer possible.
For example, her current skin was smooth like silk. Saying she looked twenty might be a bit exaggerated, but at most she looked in her early twenties.
However, after saying that, Aoba quickly grabbed Tsunade's clenched fist.
He was genuinely afraid she wouldn't hold back and would punch Kushina flying with one blow.
It was worth mentioning that the reason Kushina was so happy now was because she had gotten rid of her Reanimation body and had been fully revived.
So if Tsunade really hit her, she wouldn't be able to ignore the pain like before.
But feeling his movement, Tsunade quietly pulled her hand back and said seriously, "That's enough. I'm your Sensei. I don't need you to comfort me."
Although quite a few people in the house had already guessed the relationship between Tsunade and Aoba, the person involved, Tsunade herself, didn't know that others knew. She was still covering it up, not daring to be open about it.
But Aoba wasn't in a hurry now. Sometimes this kind of situation actually added a lot of fun.
"Yes, yes. Then hurry and close your eyes and make a wish, my dear Sensei."
Aoba withdrew his hand and had Tsunade close her eyes to make a wish.
"Ahem!"
Tsunade couldn't help secretly pinching this improper brat.
They were practically like an old married couple already, yet he was still saying "my dear." Even as the person involved, she almost got goosebumps hearing it.
Still, she didn't say anything more. She closed her eyes and began to make her wish.
After that, the grand meal that everyone had spent nearly the entire day preparing was served.
There was no scene of smashing cake into the birthday star's face.
It wasn't about wasting food. After all, Tsunade and the cake could both be eaten.
It was just that even Kushina, who was currently the most carried away, wouldn't dare to do something like that.
Not to mention there were two ultimate sweet tooth lovers staring eagerly at the cake.
Anko and Uchiha Hikari both said that such a small cake wasn't even enough to eat, let alone waste on something like that.
The two of them were sitting together now.
Although it was one big family eating together, they were divided into several tables.
After all, quite a lot of people had come to this birthday party.
It wasn't just Kurenai and Anko, but also Samui, Terumi Mei, and other big sisters.
Ino, Sakura, Tenten, Hinata and the others were there as well.
If everyone sat at one table, the people farther away probably wouldn't even be able to reach the dishes.
So they were divided into three tables.
They were roughly grouped by personality and age.
One table had Tsunade and Kurenai, the mature big sisters who liked to drink.
Another table had Shizune, Yugao and the others, the relatively mature but not-so-keen-on-drinking young big sisters.
The last table was for the younger girls like Ino and Sakura.
As for lolis, the only one present was Hanabi, so there was no need to give her a separate table.
However, Anko had also mixed into this table.
It had to be said, friendships between girls really formed quickly and in the strangest ways.
Anko and Uchiha Hikari had only run into each other once at a dango shop, ate dango together one time, and somehow became very close friends.
After dinner, everyone still split into several small groups.
There was Kushina, Uchiha Mikoto, and Nohara Rin gathered together chatting about who knew what.
There was Anko, Uchiha Hikari, and Fu, who had eaten too much and were now leaning on the sofa like salted fish, rubbing their slightly bulging stomachs.
There was Samui and Mabui drinking tea with Shizune, Konan, and Yugao, complaining about work.
There was Karin and Sakura hugging cushions, talking about cosmetics and clothes.
And finally, there were the ones who had long disliked each other and were bickering, like Kurotsuchi and Terumi Mei, Yugito and Koto, and Hanabi and Sara.
Tsunade was still drinking with Kurenai and Samui.
As she looked at the chattering crowd, she felt both lively warmth and the sense that maybe it was a bit too lively.
But after thinking about it, a lively family like this wasn't bad at all.
Compared to the lifeless Senju clan grounds in the past, it was better by who knew how much.
Especially with this brat by her side.
It really was nice.
Her once dim and colorless life had only regained its light after she accepted Aoba as her disciple.
As she thought about this, Tsunade's hand unconsciously pinched Aoba's thigh.
The action made him bare his teeth and suck in a sharp breath.
Seeing this, Kurenai and Samui, who were drinking with them, couldn't help but feel a bit scared.
If she accidentally pinched it too hard and broke something, what would they do?
Tsunade was truly drunk now. She couldn't even tell which leg was which, and she had no sense of restraint when she acted.
Taking advantage of this sudden birthday party, she had finally drunk to her heart's content.
Because of the past incident where that traitor Shizune had taken advantage of her drunkenness and thrown her onto another traitor's bed, she hadn't drunk freely in a long time.
Before, no matter how happy she was, she didn't dare drink until she blacked out, afraid that Shizune would pull some big stunt again.
And then—
When Tsunade recovered from her blackout state and saw the scene in front of her, her brain froze for a moment. Then her originally dazed eyes suddenly widened.
She was lying on her own bed, but the ceiling that once felt so familiar to her was flickering in and out of view.
Because a familiar face was also flickering in front of her.
Samui, whose mind was still a bit hazy, took quite a while to realize that Tsunade had woken up.
"Lady Tsunade, this isn't my fault. You were the one who insisted on keeping me here last night."
After forcing herself to finish that sentence, she shyly buried her head into Tsunade's broad chest.
And in doing so, she exposed Aoba behind her.
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