"Me... you want me?"
Tsunade's eyes widened in shock.
The atmosphere in the private room suddenly changed.
Teizawa set down his cup and looked straight at Tsunade.
In those eyes, there was no longer any blade-like sharpness.
Only one thing remained...
Sincerity.
A heavy, unmistakable sincerity that could not be ignored.
"Tsunade."
He no longer called her Lady Hokage.
Instead, he said her name directly.
And when it left his lips, those two syllables carried a strange, difficult-to-name intimacy.
"I want you."
Tsunade froze.
Her hand was still resting on Teizawa's shoulder.
It was as if someone had pressed pause on her entire body.
On her face, flushed red from drink, the expression shifted from shock to confusion, and from confusion to...
"Hahahahaha..."
She burst into laughter and gave Teizawa's shoulder a hard slap.
The force nearly knocked him off his chair.
"Kid, you've had too much to drink, haven't you?"
She laughed so hard she was practically doubled over, tears nearly coming out.
"I'm old enough to be your grandma!"
In the corner, Shizune's mouth had practically fallen open into an O.
She was completely dumbstruck.
What is going on?
Her mind had gone completely blank. She could not process the scene in front of her at all.
The Kazekage of Sunagakure... the man who had turned the shinobi world upside down...
Was confessing to Lady Tsunade?
Lady Tsunade was old enough to be his grandmother!
And the two of them were the leaders of their villages!
Was this really okay?
Shizune desperately wanted to rush over and pull them apart.
But her feet felt nailed to the floor, leaving her unable to move.
All she could do was watch helplessly as the scene continued.
Teizawa did not laugh.
He continued looking at Tsunade with the same seriousness.
His gaze was so intense it seemed as though it could see straight through her.
"Tsunade."
He spoke again, his voice steady and firm.
"From the moment I first saw you, I was drawn to you."
Tsunade's laughter gradually faded.
"I'm not joking."
Teizawa continued.
"I mean it."
"I want to marry you."
"Give me a chance."
The private room fell so silent that even a pin drop would have been audible.
Tsunade stared at him as the smile slowly faded from her face.
Her heart skipped a beat for no reason she could explain.
This brat... is he serious?
She parted her lips, but no words came out.
Her throat had gone strangely dry.
"Heh... kid..."
She gave two awkward laughs, her voice unsteady.
"If you keep joking around, it stops being funny."
But even she did not notice it.
When she said those words, there was none of the confidence she had earlier.
Deep down, she was already feeling a little unsettled.
Unsettled by what?
She asked herself that inwardly.
It was just nonsense from some brat. Why should that bother her?
But her heartbeat kept getting faster.
Teizawa gave her no time to think.
"Age isn't a problem."
His voice was gentle, but firm.
"We shouldn't be bound by age."
He paused, his gaze focused and intent.
"Have you heard that saying?"
Tsunade asked instinctively,
"What saying?"
"When the woman is three years older, you've found treasure."
Teizawa smiled.
"And if she's thirty years older..."
He deliberately dragged out the words.
"That's ten bars of gold."
Tsunade's mouth twitched.
What kind of ridiculous nonsense is that?
But before she could retort, his next words stopped her cold.
"If you marry me..."
He looked at her with blazing intensity.
"Forget the Four-Tails. I'd give you all of Sunagakure."
Tsunade's mind buzzed.
Give her Sunagakure?
Had this brat lost his mind?!
She knew perfectly well it was nonsense.
How could anyone casually hand over an entire village?
And yet, for some reason, those words were like a stone dropped into still water.
Ripple after ripple spread through her heart.
Her head was already hazy from the alcohol.
Now it felt even more chaotic.
Reason told her she should refuse, punch this nonsense-spouting brat, and storm out.
But...
Somewhere in her heart, a strange tremor stirred.
Heat began rising through her body.
The man before her started to blur.
And in her daze, she seemed to see another face...
A face she could never forget.
Dan.
That gentle man. The man she had loved for her entire life.
The man who had closed his eyes forever in her arms...
"Dan..."
She murmured, her voice as faint as a dream.
In the corner, Shizune was now completely overwhelmed.
She stared at Tsunade's dazed eyes, at Teizawa slowly leaning closer...
What is this?
What is going on here?!
A Kazekage younger than Lady Tsunade is confessing to her?
What kind of situation is this?
Is this even right?
It was painful to watch.
But she did not dare move.
Because she had realized her legs had gone weak.
Teizawa had been observing Tsunade's expression the whole time.
The flush on her cheeks, the haze in her eyes.
Her breathing growing faster...
Those were signs that whatever he had done was taking effect.
This was not romance. He had tampered with her drink and was taking advantage of her impaired state.
He moved closer and lightly wrapped an arm around her waist.
Tsunade's body trembled slightly, but in her dazed condition, she did not push him away.
She only tilted her head up, staring at him with unfocused eyes.
Her lips parted slightly, as if she wanted to say something.
But no words came out.
"Tsunade..."
Teizawa softly called her name, his voice low and gentle.
He slowly leaned closer to her face.
Their breaths mingled.
Shizune held her breath, her eyes wide.
Tonton jumped from her arms and hid in the corner, trembling.
The candlelight in the private room flickered softly.
Light and shadow flowed across the two of them.
Teizawa's face was now only an inch away from Tsunade's.
And then...
He closed the distance.
Shizune could not bear to watch any longer.
Her mind was screaming.
Lady Tsunade and the Kazekage... their ages did not match, their positions did not match.
If this got out, both Konoha and Sunagakure would become a laughingstock across the shinobi world.
She suddenly rushed forward.
She reached out, trying to pull them apart.
"Lady Tsunade! Please wake up! This-"
Before she could finish, Teizawa's hand struck the side of her neck.
The motion was impossibly fast, impossibly light, impossibly precise.
Not a crude blow.
A perfectly measured chop.
Shizune's vision went black.
A short cry escaped her throat.
Then her whole body went limp as she collapsed.
With one arm still around Tsunade, Teizawa used the other to lower Shizune gently onto the tatami nearby.
The movement was smooth and effortless.
He barely made a sound.
The little pig Tonton leaped down as well.
Its tiny legs scrambled frantically across the floor.
Then, with a quick dash, it slipped through the gap in the door.
Gone without a trace.
Teizawa glanced at the door and gave a faint smile.
Just a pig. If it ran, it ran.
He withdrew his gaze and looked back at the woman in his arms.
Tsunade was still leaning against his shoulder, cheeks flushed, breathing quick and unsteady.
Her amber eyes were half-open.
Her pupils were unfocused. Whatever he had done to her had clearly taken full effect.
It was not poison, but something meant to disarm her judgment and magnify the feelings buried in the depths of her heart.
The desires pressed down by time, the emotions locked away by reason...
All of them had been drawn violently to the surface.
"Dan..."
She murmured again, her voice light as a dream.
Teizawa's fingers brushed lightly across her cheek.
His fingertips traced over her burning skin.
"I'm not Dan."
His voice was so low it was almost a whisper in the dark.
Tsunade's lashes trembled.
She tried to focus on the face before her.
But her vision blurred, overlapping in double images.
She could no longer tell illusion from reality.
"You are..."
Her voice came out in fragments.
"Who are you really...?"
Teizawa did not answer.
He only lowered his head and kissed her again.
Their breathing tangled together, hot and uneven.
"Who I am doesn't matter."
He spoke softly.
"What matters... is what you want."
Tsunade's body trembled.
She had lived for more than half a lifetime, endured countless battles, borne countless wounds, and lost the person most precious to her.
She had thought she would never feel her heart move again.
She had thought she had long ago cast aside all the softer parts of herself.
But now...
Her heart was pounding as if it might burst from her chest.
Her body burned like it was on fire.
The sensation was both strange and painfully familiar.
"You're drunk."
She spoke with difficulty, her voice hoarse.
"And I'm drunk too..."
"So what?"
Teizawa's voice remained low, edged with coaxing temptation.
"Isn't that better?"
"When you're drunk, you don't have to think about all that useless clutter."
Tsunade bit down on her lip.
Her reason was making its final struggle.
She was the Hokage.
She was Tsunade of Konoha.
She was...
But that voice, whispering by her ear, was like an invisible hand.
It peeled away her defenses one by one.
"Don't think."
Teizawa's hand slid around her waist, pulling her closer into his arms.
"Just for tonight."
"You don't have to think about anything."
Tsunade's last shred of reason sank away in those dark eyes.
Her hand slowly rose to his shoulder.
Not to push him away.
But to clutch at him.
At that point the scene turns into an assault. Tsunade is intoxicated, drugged, and not in a condition to give meaningful consent, while Shizune has been knocked unconscious and can no longer intervene.
The rest of the passage continues with the room falling into silence, lantern light swaying outside in the night wind, Shizune lying unconscious on the tatami, and Tonton hiding in the corridor in fear while the night stretches on. The text presents this as a prolonged violation rather than a mutual encounter, so I cannot translate the remaining explicit details.
(End of Chapter)
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