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Chapter 4 - Chapter 4: Lost? Raizen’s Scheming

After Raizen pressed the patient firmly onto the bed, he began to untie the bandages on his legs.

This patient felt incredibly fortunate.

How many people could be lucky enough to be treated by the two peerless geniuses of Konoha's medical world at the same time?

You should know that countless people were already envious of those previous 47 guys, who became the biggest beneficiaries in the competition between Tsunade and Raizen.

Now that good luck had fallen upon himself, the patient felt a bit unreal.

"Uncle, calm down, I'm starting," Raizen took a deep breath, pulled out silver needles, and began to insert them into the patient's leg.

Although the patient uncle wasn't a ninja, and Raizen couldn't mobilize the chakra inside his body,

His acupuncture techniques could still stimulate cell activity and speed up the recovery of the wound.

After completing this step, Raizen stretched out both palms.

As chakra surged, two completely different types of chakra began to condense.

The chakra in Raizen's right hand, surprisingly, was Tsunade's self-created Mystical Palm Technique.

After so many years of competitions, Raizen had already mastered the Mystical Palm Technique thoroughly.

Later, when he directly used the Mystical Palm Technique in front of Tsunade and even defeated her, it nearly made Tsunade die of anger.

He even shamelessly said, defeating you with the same jutsu is the only way to truly defeat you.

As for the chakra in Raizen's left hand, Tsunade had never seen it before.

But she felt the chakra contained a vast life force and, 'The aura of nerve fibers?'

'What kind of jutsu was this? Why does it feel like being healed just by looking at it?'

Ignoring Tsunade's gaze, Raizen placed both palms, left and right, on the patient's lower leg fracture.

"Mm…", As the treatment began, the patient uncle couldn't help but let out an extremely comfortable moan.

He swore he wasn't being perverted, it was just that it really felt too good, to the point where he couldn't control himself.

But his comfort didn't last long.

After only one minute, Raizen started gasping heavily, looking like he had been completely drained, his whole body soaked in sweat.

Unable to hold on, Raizen let go of his hands, almost collapsing to the ground like a paralyzed man. Luckily, he was caught by a nearby nurse.

"What? You bastard can't hold on already?", Tsunade mimicked Raizen's old attitude toward her and sneered, "A man shouldn't admit he's useless, you know?"

Ignoring Tsunade's mockery, Raizen kept adjusting his breathing, trying to recover his strength and chakra as quickly as possible.

After ten minutes, Raizen's face finally looked slightly better.

Chakra surged out from his palms again, and he resumed treatment.

This time it only lasted thirty seconds before Raizen's face turned completely pale, and there wasn't a trace of chakra left in his body.

But Raizen still wore a defiant expression and continued trying to recover his strength and chakra.

"Doctor Raizen, I feel so much better now," Seeing Raizen looking like he was about to die, the patient uncle was no longer willing to continue.

"My leg now only hurts slightly. At most, it'll be fully recovered in a week. Thank you, I won't be treated anymore."

But Raizen stubbornly shook his head and slowly waited to recover.

Over the course of half an hour, he continued treating four times, and the patient uncle's leg was completely healed.

However, compared to Tsunade's ten-minute treatment, it seemed a bit lacking.

"Hahaha, how pathetic," Raizen stared at his own hands, laughing in extreme disappointment and self-mockery.

After a while, he said to Tsunade, "This time, you win. Congratulations. And from now on, I won't be your opponent anymore."

After speaking, Raizen struggled to support his body, dragging his tired steps out of the hospital room, leaving behind an extremely lonely back.

Raizen admitted defeat, extremely straightforwardly.

But Tsunade didn't feel happy at all.

'Did I really win?'

No, this time she lost even more thoroughly.

In a situation where she was completely overwhelmed in terms of medical skills and talent, winning merely by having more chakra, what kind of victory was that?

Tsunade didn't acknowledge that kind of victory.

Although the treatment just now lasted half an hour, the actual time Raizen was truly treating didn't even reach three minutes.

The reason it took so long was because Raizen had been forbidden from training since childhood, and his chakra was pitifully low, so he had to stop and rest in between.

If he had truly been allowed to train, even if Raizen only had chakra at the level of a Special Jōnin, the title of the Ninja World's number one medical ninja would have no one else.

At this moment, Tsunade was confused.

'Why did Grandpa give the order forbidding Raizen from training even when he was on his deathbed?'

That directly led to a perfectly fine medical genius being forcefully stifled.

Tsunade had never seriously questioned it before. In her view, Grandpa must have had his reasons.

Despite having unparalleled talent, due to chakra limitations, many medical ninjutsu couldn't be performed, this was truly a tragedy.

———

Returning to the office, sensing Tsunade's changing emotions through her chakra, Raizen's lips curved upward.

'As long as I act well enough, you'll definitely feel pity.'

This round was a plan Raizen had schemed for three years, step by step guiding Tsunade to produce her current emotions.

No doubt, after fighting for five whole years, Raizen understood Tsunade's personality very well.

Tsunade was someone who valued feelings deeply and was full of compassion.

Although the current Tsunade was a bit competitive at her age, she wasn't someone like Hiruzen, who was jealous of talent.

On the contrary, Tsunade highly valued talent.

At this stage, Tsunade still felt a strong sense of belonging to Konoha, and she would be eager to have more medical ninjas with talents like Raizen.

So she didn't want to see Raizen waste his talent like this.

Though they had been fighting for so long, and though the two had been like oil versus wheat water, to say there were no feelings would be a lie.

'Alright then, go ahead and sympathize with me wholeheartedly. This young master's only hope of escape is you.'

'Back then your grandfather dug my grave, so isn't it reasonable that I use you to help myself?'

'If you really can pull it off, I'll just annoy you a few fewer times in the future.'

Raizen was in a great mood, but Tsunade was not.

———

After returning to the Senju clan estate, Tsunade looked gloomy and depressed.

In the veranda of the courtyard, where she was elegantly sipping tea, Uzumaki Mito rarely saw Tsunade in such a state and asked with a smile, "Little Tsuna, what's wrong? Did you lose to that Uchiha boy again?"

Tsunade shook her head and replied sullenly, "I won!"

"Even if you lost, it's not a big dea—huh?", Uzumaki Mito was about to console her but suddenly reacted, "Then why do you look even sadder than when you lost?"

Tsunade losing was something Uzumaki Mito had long gotten used to. Hearing that she had won instead made her surprised.

"Losing would've been better," Tsunade became even more depressed and told her grandmother Uzumaki Mito everything that had happened that day in full detail.

"You're saying that boy's self-created medical ninjutsu is much more advanced than your Mystical Palm Technique?", Having seen all kinds of storms, Uzumaki Mito immediately sat up, extremely surprised.

"I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be fake?", Tsunade said listlessly.

"Is there really someone who can have that kind of talent?", Uzumaki Mito sat down again, falling into silence.

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