It wasn't until three o'clock in the afternoon that Tsunade returned to the Hospital, looking for praise the moment she saw Uchiha Dan.
"Why that expression?" Uchiha Dan asked curiously, "Where did you go?"
"I went to the Pharmaceutical Department!" Tsunade said proudly.
"What?" Uchiha Dan exclaimed, standing up, a bad premonition rising in his heart, "What did you go to the Pharmaceutical Department for?"
"To help you!" Tsunade didn't quite understand Uchiha Dan's reaction, "Why are you so jumpy?"
"No, why would you go to the Pharmaceutical Department? Did Utatane Koharu ask you for help?"
At this moment, Uchiha Dan felt like dying.
No, the plan had gone terribly wrong; perhaps he was truly going to die, with not much time left to live.
What the hell is going on?
He had intended to take a risky move, but it seems he completely messed up, didn't he?
"No, I contacted her proactively!" Tsunade didn't realise the seriousness of the situation at all, "Because I heard that you almost blew up every time you went to the Pharmaceutical Department, so I didn't want you to suffer anymore."
"You... proactively... contacted her..." Uchiha Dan's expression at this moment was indescribably terrible.
"Hahahahaha, proactively contacted, hahahaha, hahahahaha!"
Uchiha Dan suddenly went crazy, laughing wildly non-stop, unable to stop, even though Tsunade called him many times, he still didn't stop.
"I'm dying of laughter, hahaha, proactively contacted!"
"Hahahahaha!"
"Dan, that's enough, what's wrong with you?" Tsunade was startled by Uchiha Dan, almost shouting to interrupt his laughter.
"Tsunade, oh Tsunade, please don't come to my funeral in a while, or else I won't let you go even as a ghost." Uchiha Dan's eyes instantly turned fierce, and he said coldly.
After speaking, Uchiha Dan seemed to have his soul drawn out, utterly desolate, yet still laughing wildly as he walked out of the Hospital, like a madman, heading towards a deserted corner of the Village.
By the small river, Uchiha Dan picked up stones one by one and threw them into the water, occasionally startling a small fish that would dart out of the water, only to fall back in quickly.
Uchiha Dan felt that he was like that small fish now, no matter how much he struggled, wanting to leap out of the water, he would eventually be swallowed by the river.
Tsunade, who had followed all the way, saw that Uchiha Dan seemed to have regained his sanity and slowly approached him.
"Dan, are you okay?" Tsunade asked worriedly.
"Go away, I don't want to see you!" Uchiha Dan said coldly, as if without any emotion.
"What exactly do you mean?" Tsunade grew anxious; everything that suddenly happened left her completely at a loss, she had no idea why Uchiha Dan would suddenly go crazy.
She had thought a lot on the way, but she had no clue.
But everything happened after Uchiha Dan knew she had gone to the Pharmaceutical Department to help.
Could there be some unspeakable secret in this?
"Go away!" From beginning to end, Uchiha Dan only said this.
"Do you really not want to see me?"
"Hahaha!" Uchiha Dan suddenly laughed again, but his tone was icy, "For someone who tried every means to kill me, what do you think?"
"Explain yourself, when did I ever try to kill you?" Tsunade understood less and less, but she desperately wanted to know the answer.
"Do you really want to hear?" Uchiha Dan asked with a full measure of sarcasm.
"Of course!" Tsunade also got angry; she had no idea how all this had happened, but Uchiha Dan's attitude had broken her heart.
"You can listen if you want!" Uchiha Dan said miserably, "But after I finish speaking, you and I will have no connection whatsoever from now on, how about it?"
"You said it, don't you dare regret it!" Tsunade clutched the corner of her clothes tightly, forcing back tears, and responded through gritted teeth.
"Sakumo Hatake, get your ass out of here!"
Tsunade didn't get an explanation from Uchiha Dan, but she did get a roar from him.
Three seconds later, a figure appeared behind Uchiha Dan and Tsunade.
"Sakumo Hatake, I need to have a private conversation with Tsunade right now." Uchiha Dan stared coldly at Sakumo Hatake and said with a smile, "Do you want to listen in?"
"Uh..." Sakumo Hatake looked at Tsunade awkwardly, not knowing what to do.
"Senior, please give us ten minutes!" Tsunade suppressed her anger and said to Sakumo Hatake.
"Understood!" Sakumo Hatake nodded and disappeared from the spot using the Body Flicker Technique.
"Now, can you speak?" Tsunade said coldly, with a predatory expression.
She swore that after today, no matter how Uchiha Dan begged her, she would never pay attention to this bastard again.
She had done nothing wrong, yet she was suddenly treated this way; no matter the reason, she would absolutely not accept it.
Uchiha Dan naturally knew Tsunade's thoughts, but he didn't care.
To live, Uchiha Dan didn't need love; he needed Tsunade's guilt.
Only immense guilt would make Tsunade willingly help him.
He had been preparing for this day for far too long.
As for whether it would hurt Tsunade's heart?
Who cares!
No one cared when my heart was hurt for seven years, so why should I care about you, Tsunade?
Taking a deep breath, Uchiha Dan seemed to fall into a memory, speaking without any emotion: "Twelve years ago, my parents died, they died in the war!"
"Suddenly becoming an orphan, I was a bit lost."
"I had no money, no other relatives, and didn't know how to live."
"However, Konoha's welfare was not bad; the Village gave me a pension, though not much, but if I was frugal, my parents' pensions were enough to support me until I became a Chunin."
"Slowly, I accepted reality and began to learn how to live, striving to survive without any relatives and no one to care for me."
Tsunade frowned and said discontentedly, "Why are you telling me this?"
"Heh, if you don't want to listen, leave!" Uchiha Dan's voice was very flat, as if he were talking about something unrelated to himself.
Seeing that Tsunade didn't leave, Uchiha Dan simply ignored her and continued: "It's not easy for a five-year-old child to survive, but my parents told me that there is hope only if you live."
"Five years passed like this, and I completely shook off the impact of losing both my parents."
"At that time, I naively thought that in two more years, I would graduate, and then I would become a Ninja, following the path my parents once walked."
"But what I waited for wasn't graduation, it was expulsion."
"I didn't understand, but reality didn't give me time to understand; immediately after, I was expelled from the Uchiha Clan and forced to move out of the Uchiha Clan territory."
"Then came the relentless surveillance by ANBU Ninja."
"Of course, none of this concerns you; just consider it my rambling!"
"Surveillance is surveillance, it doesn't matter, anyway, I entered the Hospital, I can live by my own hands."
"But when I was 12, I suddenly noticed that the Chakra of the ANBU Ninja monitoring me started to feel off."
"I forgot to tell you, I'm not only a Medical Ninja, but also a Sensor Ninja; my sensory abilities are very, very strong."
"So strong that, when close enough, I can detect the slightest changes in a person's Chakra."
"After sensing a hint of cold killing intent in the Chakra of the Ninja monitoring me, I realised that the orders the ANBU Ninja received might have changed."