Chapter 270: Returning to That Day, Saving Nawaki
"Big Sister Tsunade, what's wrong?"
Akiyama Makoto approached with a look of surprise, blood flowing past his lips.
Although he knew Tsunade had hemophobia, doing this still seemed a bit unkind.
But she was decades old, yet had lied to him about being a young and beautiful big sister, even making Shizune call her "Big Sister."
So they were about even.
He approached with a nosebleed. Tsunade trembled even more violently and shouted, "Don't come over! I... just don't come over!"
She hugged her shoulders, trying to exert force, but couldn't even stand up.
Her hemophobia wasn't a fear in the general sense, but a somatic reaction to a huge psychological trauma, so it couldn't be cured by ordinary medical ninjutsu.
In other words, to cure her hemophobia, all she needed to do was overcome the psychological barrier and stand up again—but saying it was easy, doing it was fraught with difficulties.
With her temperament and intelligence, she hadn't walked out of it for so many years. Apart from Naruto's protagonist halo and Talk-no-Jutsu, anyone else who wanted to achieve this would have to strike hard.
So he ignored her words and continued forward, climbing through the window into the room.
As long as she didn't say she had hemophobia, he would pretend he didn't know—and theoretically, he really didn't know.
Everything he knew relied on the foresight of a transmigrator and the information gap brought by the simulator.
According to his original identity, he hadn't even seen or heard of Tsunade's existence.
"Big Sister Tsunade, let me help you."
He looked anxious. Tsunade struggled to retreat, shuffling until she hit the table, looking as painful as a maiden about to be violated.
But this was her reaction right now. If he wanted to do something, she really had no power to resist.
Normally, Shizune should have been protecting her every step of the way, but he had already gained both her and Shizune's trust. She hadn't expected her casual punch to actually give him a nosebleed. This could be considered self-inflicted.
"Don't come over—I beg you!"
She struggled to say this sentence, hoping he would retreat in the face of difficulty.
But clearly, she had misjudged him. He was the kind of person who faced difficulties head-on.
So he said seriously, "No, Big Sister Tsunade. You saved me before. How can I leave at a time like this?"
"No matter what happened to you, I can help you. Even if you get angry at me and drive me away later, it doesn't matter, because you and Big Sister Shizune are the last people close to me out here."
He was telling the truth. They were indeed the people close to him "out here."
After all, he hadn't really been out of Konoha until now.
He then squatted down and began to check her condition.
She struggled, trying to push him away, but as his nosebleed dripped onto her chest, her eyes became vacant. She gradually stopped struggling, having lost almost all of her consciousness.
Right now, even if he wanted to do whatever he pleased, she had no power to resist.
But he wouldn't do such a thing. This wasn't a matter of profit, but purely a moral persistence.
Of course, he couldn't do nothing either. He held her hand and tried to call her name, but naturally, there was no response.
Seeing this, he could only pry open her mouth, then put his arm in her mouth and said, "Big Sister Tsunade, bite me!"
Seeing no reaction, he lifted her arm, making her bite through his skin. Then, a faint smell of blood mixed with thick chakra poured into her body.
At the same time, her own cells were activated, making her already abundant chakra even thicker, even burning her face red.
Under normal circumstances, the current Tsunade would have already started a drunken rampage, and then stored this chakra with the Yin Seal.
But now she could do nothing, only letting the abundant chakra run wild in her body.
Not only that, but the faint smell of blood in her mouth aggravated her hemophobia, making the scene of her brother's death repeat over and over before her eyes. At this moment, she felt as if she had returned to that original moment.
"Big Sister Tsunade? Are you feeling any better? That shouldn't be!"
He looked surprised. This time it wasn't an act, but because he hadn't expected his "Physical Healing" talent to have no effect on her symptoms.
Physical Healing could bring the dead back to life and flesh back on bones. It seemed her hemophobia could only be treated from a psychological level.
And he could do just that.
But for this, some sense of ritual was needed.
He opened the collar of her yukata, exposing her abdomen.
As for the rest, he didn't touch it. Although he was very curious about the highest peaks in the ninja world, he had experienced them in the simulation and could easily control himself.
He then bit his finger and drew a sealing formula on her body. It looked very similar to the True Spirit Seal, but it was just a superficial imitation.
The truly magical thing about the True Spirit Seal was that he created a True Spirit that was forever in a state of fetal movement and breathing, allowing the True Spirit to convert chakra into life force, supplying the ninja's growth and keeping them forever healthy and young.
Without the True Spirit, this sealing formula was just a simple life force conduction formula, derived from his Restorative Life Reincarnation Jutsu.
Of course, the Restorative Life Reincarnation Jutsu itself was an S-rank ninjutsu. It had taken him more than one simulation to finally bring it to light.
At that time, he couldn't even support this jutsu alone; he needed a dozen or more people to share the burden to successfully activate it without much burden.
But times had changed.
His current life force was abundant enough to cast Wood Style, so using it to heal a person was naturally no pressure.
Soon, the sealing formula was complete, and the character "Zhen" formed on her stomach.
Then he injected his life force into the sealing formula. With the life force, the formula began to operate, converting his life force into hers.
In an instant, Tsunade, immersed in pain, suddenly felt a warm power flowing through her body.
This power was so warm that it not only heated up her body but could also soothe her spirit.
It made the miserable scene of Nawaki's death before her eyes blur, making her feel as if she were experiencing the youth and happiness of her younger days.
This was the fundamental difference between his True Spirit Seal and her Yin Seal. Both could maintain youth, but there was a fundamental difference inside.
Her youth was just her cells maintaining a superficial activity under the activation of chakra, but her internal hormone levels were not much better than her peers.
His True Spirit Seal brought true youth, and the hormone levels in the body were also in a state equal to the external age. This led her to subconsciously regain her original optimistic and positive attitude.
However, this alone was not enough to bring her back.
He stared at her face and activated the Yin Seal.
But this time, he sent his spiritual power directly into the depths of her mind, using the Yamanaka clan's secret technique method.
Just relying on this couldn't recreate everything she had encountered. He then cast a genjutsu on her, which meant that what she saw, he could also see.
In an instant, he arrived on the battlefield.
Her hands were covered in blood. Before her was Nawaki, who had lost his vital signs. She was dejectedly treating him, but everyone knew he was dead.
Orochimaru stood in the distance, watching quietly. His eyes were cold but also filled with a sigh, as if lamenting that with such strength, he couldn't even save a Nawaki.
And in this atmosphere, Makoto stepped forward and walked to her side.
She didn't look at him. There was no such person in her memory, and she wouldn't care who was beside her now.
She just mechanically tried to save her brother. If she couldn't save him, she couldn't walk out of the past.
At this moment, he made his move.
His hand, glowing with a faint light, held hers and placed it on Nawaki's chest.
Rich life force was injected into it. What he was casting was not the Restorative Life Reincarnation Jutsu, but Chiyo's forbidden jutsu: One's Own Life Reincarnation.
The biggest difference between this jutsu and his Restorative Life Reincarnation Jutsu was that the former was resurrection, while the latter was essentially healing.
To put it simply, Chiyo could revive a person who had been dead for more than five minutes, while he couldn't revive a brain-dead person.
Of course, Chiyo had to pay the price of death, while he only had to pay life force.
So, under her astonished gaze, the wounds on Nawaki's body began to slowly heal, his cold corpse slowly gained warmth, and color returned to his pale face.
She felt the rain around her stop, the cold atmosphere disappear, and the warmth on her body grow stronger and stronger.
Only then did she look up and see his gentle smiling face. But his hair was becoming dry and white, and his face was gradually aging.
Her pupils constricted, and she quickly said, "No, stop! You can't do this!"
She was a medical ninja. Although she had never seen One's Own Life Reincarnation, she immediately understood the principle of this jutsu.
She was willing to sacrifice her life to save her brother, but that didn't mean she accepted others sacrificing their lives for Nawaki.
Especially since this person's relationship with her wasn't that close, and he had only just confessed to her not long ago—
But he shook his head and said, "It's okay, Big Sister Tsunade. I've got this."
Then he closed his eyes, as if waiting for death to arrive.
She stared blankly at the soon-to-be-resurrected Nawaki, and then at the soon-to-die Makoto. For a moment, she fell into a daze.
What should I choose?
In fact, she already had the answer in her heart. She naturally wanted to choose Nawaki, even if she would be filled with guilt towards Makoto because of it.
But precisely because she knew her choice, she bit her lip until it bled, clenched her fists, and her whole person was on the verge of chaos and collapse.
In the end, to his surprise, she suddenly swung her fist and sent him flying.
Without the input of his life force, Nawaki's aura immediately weakened.
But thanks to his efforts, Nawaki's corpse was considered restored to its original state.
He struggled to stand up. "Big Sister Tsunade, just a little bit more. Let me—"
"Get out!"
"Big Sister Tsunade?"
"I said get out of my mind, you bastard!"
He suddenly understood. So he had been detected.
This wasn't strange. She was, after all, one of the Sannin, a Kage-level powerhouse.
He hadn't hidden anything he did just now. It was only natural for her to figure out the truth after her emotions calmed down.
Seeing this, he didn't say anything more, and his figure slowly faded.
She turned to look at her brother. His face was lifelike, and his body had become whole.
Although he was still dead, the expression on her face became much more relieved.
At least, she had let the brother in her memory go with more dignity.
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