"But why did you want to study healing jutsus? Why not ask me to teach you how to fend for yourself?" Tsunade asked calmly sipping a bit more alcohol.
"Ah…that is rather embarrassing. I would've tried to go the normal route but ended up meeting you by my good fortune…so I'm currently learning from you."
"Oh? And what will you do once you learn everything from me? Leave me? Didn't you say you'll serve me for the rest of your life?" Tsunade asked giving me a coy look.
"Haha~ True. I would love to serve you for the rest of my life because you've saved my life from what was probably certain death. But my return is inevitable. Not even I can stop myself from returning to where I come from. At least not yet."
Tsunade mulled over my words before asking, "You could control that if you became stronger?"
"I've been told I could do that eventually as I get stronger." I agreed.
There was a soft silence for a few minutes before Tsunade spoke again.
"What do you think of the Shinobi Villages?"
"Ah…" I fell silent at this question. I wasn't a native of this world and had no memories of living and growing up here. So talking about this question wouldn't be something that I could do freely.
"Would you believe me if I told you I haven't seen any of them myself? All my opinions on them come from what I've heard about them. So I don't have a 'real' opinion about it all."
Tsunade looked confused for a second before she nodded so I carried on, "From what I know about it all, the Shinobi villages don't really need to exist."
"Huh?" Tsunade froze but Shizune on the side also became confused at my sudden declaration.
"Just think about it a little. If Shinobi villages were demolished and shinobi were mixed into the armies of their respective nations, no one would fight any longer for reasons as petty as money. I mean to say like the third Shinobi war, it was started by Sunagakure because the Daimyo of the Land of Wind gave missions to Konoha instead of its own shinobi village."
"If shinobi were instead treated as part of their own countries instead of some separate nations within them, it'd all be much easier to manage it all."
Tsunade and Shizune seemed to think about my words a little before Tsunade asked me, "Wouldn't that increase the risk of wars becoming larger in scale?"
I thought for a bit since Tsunade wasn't entirely wrong. If all the shinobi in the hidden villages in every nation were combined to form one large army it would create a much larger force.
"True. You aren't wrong in thinking that gathering shinobi under a single umbrella would make the situation much more volatile. But there's an easy way to change that."
"An easy way?" Tsunade asked, looking at my face with a little distrust.
"Yes. And you are the perfect example of it." I said with a smile as I looked at Tsunade.
"I am?"
"Yes. Have you never thought about how you're different from the other shinobi?"
"You mean about me learning medical ninjutsu?"
"In part. But what I want to point out is your mentality to not think of shinobi as tools but as living people. This mentality has given you the ability to advance medical ninjutsu so much. What if someone could push this thought into all the shinobi?"
"How many different uses of chakra would we see in our daily lives? Can you imagine a farmer using chakra to grow crops? Or even a puppeteer using chakra to set up a show? Or a shinobi working as a special blacksmith since he knows how to control the fire well? There are probably countless other uses of chakra in our daily lives that none of us have even foreseen."
"I mean there are so many special shinobi techniques in just Konoha. Can you imagine how different the world would be if all those techniques were used to help people instead of killing them?"
"It doesn't have to be about war all the time. Shinobi just have to be given a different purpose to their lives. As long as they are distracted with a comfortable life, I'm sure most of them would quickly suppress any rebels who might aim to do otherwise."
"Everyone likes peace after all. There are very few people who just want to watch it all burn."
Tsunade and Shizune became silent after my short speech but Tsunade quickly recovered.
"I see. I think I understand you a little better now."
"Haha~ There's nothing to understand about me. I've just met you. Who knows how I'll change to be in the future."
Tsunade nodded and we soon ended our meeting.
Days passed by quickly as I began to master the first stage of chakra control while reading several of Tsunade's books.
During these days, Tsunade didn't seem to be feeling well, since whenever I saw her at dinner she'd always be a little weak and her fingers trembled while using chopsticks. But each time I asked her what was bothering her she just shook her head and waved away the topic by talking about something else.
Finally, after being tested by Shizune multiple times on my knowledge of the books, I found myself waiting in a room for Shizune to arrive and teach me the first healing jutsu she promised. It was the body reconstruction jutsu.
A Jutsu that was infinitely useful for small wounds and clean cuts. It was mostly used to stitch cuts back together after surgeries but I was learning it to be able to help myself heal after fights in Paradise.
Surprisingly as the door to the room opened, standing behind it was not only Shizune but also Tsunade.
Shizune was carrying a bucket of water with a few fish in it while Tsunade stood opposite to me around the table I was waiting at.
"Will you be watching me Tsunade-sama?" I asked politely, a little worried that she'd faint at the sight of blood.
Tsunade only nodded because she looked a little sickly.
'I guess she isn't afraid of animal blood?'
Shizune unfurled a scroll on the table that had several seals drawn on it. She then picked out a fish and placed it on the seal before placing the bucket elsewhere and turning to me.
'It's dead?' I concluded because the fish didn't flop around after Shizune took it out of the water.
"I will make an incision on the fish, your task will be to close it up perfectly.", Shizune explained and I nodded.
Shizune then caused a thin sharp chakra blade to emerge out of her index finger which she used to cut open the fish, almost causing its guts to spill out.
Blood leaked and I saw Tsunade flinch at the sight of it, but she seemed to ball her hand into a tight fist to control her emotions.
'Was she practising how to handle the sight of blood these last few days? Is that why she was so tired?'
She then dismissed the chakra blade and after a few hand seals, which I realised she was showing me so that I would memorise it and perform it, a blue aura emitted around her hands.
When she placed her hands on the cut, the blue aura flickered for a bit like a flame that spurted as soon as drops of water touched it, before the cut on the fish's body closed up.
Shizune cleaned the fish in the bucket of water before showing it to me.
"See that? It's done. This is what you've got to do. Do you understand that?" Shizune asked.
I nodded and then Shizune explained how I would perform the jutsu by using the right chakra pathways and seals.
We did a dry run where I performed the jutsu using hand seals, creating a blue aura around my hand as Shizune had done. Shizune and Tsunade grew a little surprised at my quick mastery, but the real test was yet to come.
Shizune placed a new fish on the table and cut it open using her chakra scalpel.
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A/N : Will the protag fail? Will he get it right on his first try? Or will there be a few mistakes in what he does? Let's find out.