Pulling a chair from Saiki's desk, Tsunade sat down beside his bed.
Recalling the vivid scenes from Saiki's dream, Tsunade felt a chaotic mix of anger and intense embarrassment. However, now wasn't the time to dwell on those feelings; treating Saiki's condition was the absolute priority.
Slowly pulling back the quilt, a wave of intense heat washed over her face. Saiki's body, burning with a terrifying fever and flushed a deep red, was fully exposed.
Compared to boys his age, Saiki was significantly taller and possessed a remarkably robust physique. His chest muscles were firm and well-defined, and six of his eight abdominal muscles were clearly visible. The musculature in his arms was sharply sculpted, the lines clean and powerful.
Despite being packed with solid muscle, Saiki's proportions were perfectly balanced; he didn't look overly bulky or muscle-bound. He was the classic archetype of "looking muscular when naked, but lean when dressed."
Even though she knew it was the body of a child, looking at Saiki's physique, Tsunade felt a strange, inexplicable flutter in her chest.
She continued pulling the quilt down. When she reached his lower abdomen, she hesitated for a fraction of a second. Gritting her teeth, she completely threw the rest of the blanket off.
Seeing Saiki's current state, even the mentally prepared Tsunade was momentarily stunned.
Compared to the fleeting glance she had caught at the hot spring, the situation was now glaringly clear, and Saiki's condition had visibly worsened.
Saiki's "weapon" had shifted from a pale white to a furious, angry crimson. Thick, prominent veins pulsed aggressively along its length. It seemed as though all the blood and erratic chakra in his body were surging toward that single point, making it look as if it were on the verge of violently exploding.
"You filthy brat!" Seeing Saiki's terrifyingly engorged state, Tsunade cursed, her face burning red.
Despite her embarrassment and frustration, Saiki's physical safety was paramount. Tsunade pressed her delicate hands against Saiki's lower abdomen, and a potent green chakra began to flood into his body.
Faced with the towering "weapon" standing proudly right next to her hands, Tsunade was forced to hyper-focus. She began the painstaking process of attempting to guide Saiki's chaotic chakra back into its natural flow.
Because his mind was trapped in a loop of wild, erotic fantasies, his body was reacting as if he had been pumped full of the most potent aphrodisiacs in existence. He was trapped in a state of hyper-arousal, constantly funneling massive amounts of chakra toward his lower half.
While her hemophobia prevented her from performing bloody surgeries, it didn't diminish her mastery over other aspects of medical ninjutsu.
Because ninja can actively use chakra to regulate their internal hormones, standard poisons, anesthetics, and aphrodisiacs are generally highly ineffective against them.
With Tsunade's level of medical expertise, even if someone managed to force-feed her an entire bottle of high-grade aphrodisiac designed for breeding cattle, as long as she actively resisted it, it wouldn't affect her in the slightest.
Similarly, when treating others, Tsunade could easily purge any such drugs from a patient's system.
However, the tragic reality was that Saiki's condition was not caused by any drug. It was entirely the result of his own chaotic chakra and the rampaging Pre-natal Qi within him.
Tsunade had methods for dealing with standard chakra, but Saiki's Pre-natal Qi was something entirely outside her realm of understanding.
The sheer potency of the Pre-natal Qi granted Saiki near-immunity to standard Genjutsu, but it was precisely because of that immense power that Tsunade found it nearly impossible to forcefully correct his chakra pathways using her medical ninjutsu.
Tsunade possessed a truly monstrous volume of chakra. Pumping her massive reserves into Saiki's body did manage to temporarily alleviate his symptoms, but fueled by his intense, hallucinatory desires, the Pre-natal Qi actively devoured Tsunade's incoming chakra to strengthen itself. She knew that before long, all her exhausting efforts would be completely undone.
This highlighted the fundamental disparity in quality between standard chakra and Saiki's Pre-natal Qi. In Saiki's estimation, his single breath of cultivated Qi was, at the very minimum, on par with Six Paths Chakra in terms of raw density and purity.
After expending nearly seventy percent of her colossal chakra reserves, Saiki's condition finally stabilized slightly.
"Sister Tsunade! Lady Tsunade! How is he?!"
Downstairs, Kushina, Tsume, and Shizune had been waiting anxiously. Seeing Tsunade descend the stairs, they immediately swarmed her with worried questions.
Noticing that Tsunade looked visibly exhausted and pale from massive chakra depletion, their anxiety deepened.
Meeting their worried gazes, Tsunade forced a reassuring smile. "Relax. He's fine. He just needs a couple of days to recover."
Hearing Tsunade's guarantee, everyone let out a collective sigh of relief. Tsunade walked over to the table and sat down. The ever-attentive Shizune immediately poured her a glass of water.
"What exactly happened to him?" Kushina asked, her concern for Saiki genuine. But the moment the question left her lips, she regretted it. Remembering Saiki's aggressively pitched "tent," she knew his condition had to be related to some highly intimate, embarrassing issue. Her face flushed a deep red.
Tsume and Shizune also looked at Tsunade with intense curiosity. Faced with their questioning gazes, and recalling the highly explicit, erotic scenes from Saiki's dream featuring herself, Tsunade felt a wave of profound awkwardness.
Fortunately, having spent years navigating village politics, she had long since mastered the art of maintaining a poker face in front of others.
Clearing her throat, Tsunade offered a half-truth: "Mm. It's my fault. The brat was so startled by my attack that his chakra flow was severely disrupted. He fell into a terrifying hallucination, which caused him to lose consciousness!"
Subjecting someone to a Genjutsu essentially involves disrupting their cerebral chakra flow; this was a concept everyone present understood perfectly.
Hearing the explanation, the somewhat naive Shizune simply nodded in acceptance.
However, both Tsume and Kushina knew Tsunade was hiding the full truth. Saiki had indeed fallen into a hallucination due to disrupted chakra, but it absolutely wasn't some "terrifying" nightmare.
Considering he had passed out while proudly pitching a massive tent, the dream was undoubtedly highly indecent and erotic.
They chatted for a while longer. Given Saiki's current condition, it clearly wasn't an appropriate time to visit him, and Tsunade made no move to invite them to stay. Kushina and Tsume quickly took their leave.
Once the two women had departed, Tsunade stopped Shizune from heading upstairs. "Shizune, you should go to bed. Don't disturb Saiki right now. I'll keep an eye on him later."
"Oh, okay!" Shizune replied obediently, heading to her own room to sleep.
Once Shizune was resting, Tsunade didn't immediately return to Saiki's side. Instead, she descended into the basement library, frantically tearing through ancient medical scrolls. The reality was that Saiki's condition hadn't improved nearly as much as she had claimed.
After a desperate search through the Forbidden Jutsu section, Tsunade finally discovered a viable, albeit highly unorthodox, method to resolve Saiki's current crisis: he needed to have sex with a woman.
While ninja primarily utilize chakra, the Shinobi world's philosophical foundation was heavily influenced by Daoist concepts imported and adapted by Japan, leading to the prevalent theories of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements.
With the existence of Yin and Yang, the esoteric "Joyous Union" (Tantric sex) practices of certain Buddhist sects had also found their way into Japanese lore. Thus, dual-cultivation techniques existed in this world, often manifesting in highly twisted, malevolent forms.
Ninja are, fundamentally, not saints; they are weapons of war. To increase their power, many talented shinobi had no qualms about conducting horrific human experiments.
Techniques like Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear, or the rogue ninja Fuka's "Execution by Kiss"—which allowed her to steal an opponent's elemental chakra affinities—were far from uncommon.
Kakuzu stole hearts to acquire different chakra natures. Naturally, there were lustful male ninja who attempted to steal female chakra through dual cultivation.
Conversely, just as Fuka used a kiss to steal chakra, there were female ninja who sought to extract male chakra through similar, intimate methods.
Saiki's current crisis stemmed from a desperate, overwhelming biological need for release. However, he simply didn't have a woman available to fulfill that need.
The scroll in Tsunade's hands provided a theoretical solution: a woman possessing an exceptionally massive volume of chakra was required. By physically uniting with him, she could act as a conduit to absorb and ground Saiki's terrifying, chaotic chakra, thereby pacifying the internal storm and dragging him out of his hallucinatory loop.
As the hallucination persisted, Saiki's mental and spiritual energy was being rapidly depleted. He desperately needed a woman.
But where the hell was Tsunade supposed to find a woman capable of doing that right now?!