Chapter 193: Tsunade's Hint
The blue light of the healing jutsu covering the girl's slender ankle flickered a few times before the ninjutsu ended.
Tsunade released her hand and stood up.
"Alright! Treatment's over!" She forcefully slapped the two elegantly curved, soft, white, tender mounds of the girl's flesh, making a crisp smack. "I've said what I needed to say, and I've already given you the ninjutsu. Figure it out yourself!"
"Ow..." The girl rubbed her butt, her delicate brows furrowed as she began to ponder the mystery in Tsunade's words.
She found that Tsunade was really speaking in riddles today. She would never say a sentence outright, and she had to go around several corners to understand.
Like that sentence, "I've said what I needed to say, and I've already given you the ninjutsu." It had a deep meaning, especially when she said she had already given her the ninjutsu. What did that mean?
The ninjutsu that Tsunade had taught her, there were only a few of them. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that none of them could help.
What she needed was a ninjutsu that could help her memorize a large amount of information in an extremely short period of time...
Haruno Sakura lay on the bed and thought hard for a good while, but came up with nothing.
On the other hand, Tsunade waited for her for a good while, and seeing that she still hadn't gotten up, she urged, "Sakura, if you don't get dressed, I'm leaving!"
She watched as the girl sat up as if waking from a dream and began to get dressed, and she sighed slightly.
Tsunade had long since passed the age of being crazy for ninjutsu. The drive she saw in the girl had long since disappeared from her own body.
She was actually being deliberately difficult, just to make Sakura back down.
Setting the location outside the Land of Fire, she had thought that Sakura would give up the idea because of the difficulty of establishing a base in a foreign country. She had never expected that Sakura would have unknowingly hooked up with the daimyo of the Land of Snow, Kazahana Koyuki. What was meant to be a tactful discouragement had instead become a form of encouragement.
This matter actually didn't need to be so rushed. If she waited a couple of years, when she had truly taken control of the situation in Konoha, then announcing the start of the clone experiments would be a matter of course.
To an outsider, human experimentation was a very cruel thing. But as a medical ninja, Tsunade knew very well that as long as this experiment was used for the right purposes, it would be absolutely great news for the ninja of Konoha.
For example, as long as the ban on human experimentation was lifted, Tsunade was confident that she could produce an application for stem cells within a few months, to be able to use stem cells to differentiate into tissues and organs, and to heal physically disabled ninja without any side effects. From then on, the word "disability" would no longer exist in the dictionary of the Konoha ninja village.
For example, Konoha had not had a new drug born in many years. But as long as human experiments on clones were allowed, then the R&D speed of new medical drugs would increase countless times over. The battlefield recovery ability or emergency rescue ability of ninja would be greatly improved, and the Akimichi clan's secret medicine would no longer have cases of people dying from eating it.
As long as she waited for these few years, and the publicity was in place, subtly rehabilitating the name of human experimentation, then she could carry it out with full justification.
So there was no need for Sakura to take the risk to do this now.
However, it was good to be encouraged. It was also a good thing for young people to have drive.
Ever since Jiraiya had mentioned that organization called "Akatsuki," Tsunade had had an ominous premonition in her heart... so before the storms of the future arrived, she also hoped that the young people could speed up their growth.
If Sakura really did go to the Land of Snow to set up some experimental base, as long as she didn't use Konoha's people as experimental subjects, with her protecting her, the other people in Konoha couldn't control what she did.
If she could really make some achievements, then that would be for the best.
In this regard, she still trusted Haruno Sakura very much. This girl was truly a genius in the R&D of ninjutsu.
In the end, she still set a test. It could also be said to be a layer of protection.
In the situation where all the scrolls brought back had to be handed over to the Intelligence Division, how could she get the information she wanted?
If she could do this, then even if she were to be held accountable in the future, it would be very difficult to trace it back to this point.
This test was not difficult. The ninjutsu that Sakura possessed could completely help her achieve this. It just depended on whether she could think of it.
If she really can't think of that method, then she'll just have to honestly wait two more years before she starts this so-called cloning!
Her growth rate was too fast. To stop at this stage, to solidify her foundation before moving forward...
Was not a bad thing.
Tsunade's hint was actually very obvious.
The ninjutsu she had taught, there were only a few of them. Laying them all out and arranging them in combination, it didn't take Sakura much time to get the answer.
It was just that there were still some small details that needed to be perfected... In this kind of thing, every detail was very important.
She thought hard by herself for half a day and couldn't find any inspiration. Haruno Sakura flipped through the calendar and saw that the day after tomorrow was Haku's birthday. A thought came to her.
"I'll go out for a walk, clear my head, and buy a birthday present for her by the way..."
She changed into her outdoor clothes.
In the evening, on a bustling pedestrian street in Konoha.
"Welcome!"
The owner of the small shop bowed in a standard posture, opened the glass door, and welcomed the two pretty young girls standing outside the door into the cosmetics shop.
Experienced service staff all had a skill for reading people. The shop owner, who was also a waiter, while inviting these two simply dressed girls in, was also observing them without a change in expression.
The ultimate goal of reading a person was to judge whether the customer had the ability and willingness to spend money.
Girls from ordinary families really wanted to buy but had no money.
Girls among the ninja didn't really want to buy but had money.
The former would choose the goods themselves. There was no need for enthusiastic accompaniment or desperate sales pitches. After all, no matter how much you talked, she only had that little bit of money in her pocket. The latter was his target.
These two who had just entered, although they were only wearing casual clothes, were obviously both ninja: from the graceful posture of unconsciously straightening their waists when they walked, to their flawless, almost perfect skin, and their bright, spirited eyes, these characteristics could be seen.
Putting on a perfect smile, paired with his handsome face, the young shop owner was full of confidence in his demeanor, which could make little girls scream. He had a lot of experience in dealing with these girls who were just beginning to fall in love. Often, with just a few words, he could charm them and then coax them into obediently taking out their money to buy expensive cosmetics.
He went up to them in his most handsome posture, just about to speak.
The pink-haired girl in the front shot a sharp glare over. She seemed to be not at all attracted by his handsome face. On the contrary, she seemed to be very disgusted by his posturing and deliberate approach, and thus gave him a warning look.
The young shop owner was struck by that clear, green gaze. In an instant, it was as if he had fallen into an ice cave. His hands and feet seemed to be frozen, and he was stuck in place, not daring to move.
How could the shop owner have known that when the pink-haired girl had been using this same set of tricks to pick up girls, he had still been wearing split pants!
To try and hit on her as if she were an ordinary kunoichi, one could only say that the shop owner was really having a bad day...
Haruno Sakura, after giving that person a glare, paid him no more mind and turned to her companion. "Hinata-chan, are you sure you want to buy this? The style is too different from the one I gave her last time!"
"The set of combat and medical dual-use senbon needles you gave her last time, although it was very practical, but," Hinata at this time just wanted to roll her eyes at her, although she was already white-eyed even without rolling them, "this is absolutely not a birthday gift a girl in the bloom of her youth should receive!"
"But we're ninja..." Sakura retorted weakly.
For a ninja's birthday present, shouldn't the most suitable thing be a weapon? That set of senbon was a limited-edition set that she had carefully selected. It was very easy to use!
However, Hinata obviously did not agree with her point of view...
"No, we are female ninja!" the white-eyed girl said firmly, deliberately emphasizing the word "female." "Grooming and dressing up is a kind of etiquette for women. It's fine not to be so particular when on a mission, but in daily social interactions, when you're relaxing, observing etiquette is also a respect for others, right?"
She said in a tone of hating iron for not becoming steel, "Look at me, at least I've put on a little light makeup. Unlike you, who goes out on the street with a bare face! I'm begging you, have a little awareness as a girl, okay? Even if you have a good foundation, you should at least put on a little lip gloss. Natural pink is not in style this year!"
"Uh..." Haruno Sakura blinked, not knowing what to say. Speaking of which, what color is natural pink?
"It's not exactly a bare face. I still used ninjutsu to clean my face before I went out..." she said, forcing a defense. Chakra used in this aspect was much stronger than face wash—Sakura was referring to the kind for washing your face.
Regarding makeup, she really did have a deep generation gap with other girls: whether going out on the street after washing your face counted as being bare-faced, only a crude man would give an affirmative answer.
"Hmph!" Hinata raised her small face and said with disdain, "You crude man in a woman's skin, don't talk to me!"
Eek, to some extent, Hinata has actually hit upon the answer...
But to be precise.
It should be a tomboy who still retains certain male characteristics!
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