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"Naruto!!!" Jiraiya screamed at the dust cloud, walking down the crater.

"So noisy." A voice grumbled from inside the dust cloud, a golden shine shimmering at the bottom of the crater, as Tsunade's eyes fell upon a golden figure.

"h-How?" Tsunade asked in disbelief as she saw the same figure she punched full force, standing up unscathed, with a bundle of chains tightly wrapped around his body.

"Is that all you got? Such a weak resolve to protect the honor of your loved ones. Tsk. Weak." Naruto smirked, spitting out a tiny amount of blood that formed in his throat, as he looked mockingly at Tsunade.

"Weak resolve, you say? Then try this!!" Tsunade, seeing the boy alright, was relieved, but got angrier the more he talked, as she rushed forwards once more, delivering a chakra-enhanced kick to the boy's chest, the golden chains taking much of the impact.

Bammm

"Such weakness, no wonder you have never stepped foot back in the village. With such meager strength and such a pathetic life, I would be embarrassed to even call myself worthy of all the sacrifices people made for me.

I wonder how Nawaki would feel if he saw you now. What happened to the big sister he looked up to?" Naruto continued antagonizing the Sannin, all the while using the chains as a makeshift exoskeleton to absorb the majority of the impact from the woman.

"DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM AS IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING!!!" Tsunade's vision went red. The more Naruto talked, the angrier she got, her chakra flowing out in droves, her punches and kicks changing the landscape of the town before Naruto moved the fight to open grassland.

"Is that so? All I see is a pathetic, selfish woman who turned her back on all those that she loved, all those that sacrificed themselves so that you could survive.

Dan died protecting you.

Nawaki died believing you would carry his dream forwards.

Hashirama died passing on the village's love to you.

Tobirama died passing on the village's ideals to you.

All of them died passing on their dreams to you. And what did you do, You spat on their dreams, and turned your back on the very thing they loved.

Seeing you like this, I really wonder, what all of them were thinking? They must have been idiots to sacrifice their precious lives for such trash of a shinobi.

You tell me, what are you, if not A WHINY LITTLE PATHETIC SELFISH BITCH!!" Naruto finally got an opening from the barrage of Tsunade's onslaught, as he pulled back his chain-covered arm and punched out with a strength that could rival Tsunade's herself.

The punch connects cleanly with the woman's abdomen, causing her to arch down like a cooked prawn, and she went flying back, just like how she sent naruto flying.

"I don't care what you say about me, brat. But don't you dare think even for a moment, that you can insult the memories of all of them!!!!" Tsunade raged, about to charge forwards, but just as she tried to take a step forward, she found her limbs didn't respond how she wanted.

"I don't need to insult their memories. You did it yourself the moment you turned your back on the village." Naruto walked forward, each golden chain from his lower back wrapping around his limbs, making the man look like a golden hulking menace. (Imagine Mad Treasure's Gigantea from One Piece)

"Shut up! Shut Up! Shut Up!" Tsunade screamed, her voice cracking as she looked up at the figure with hate and anger in her eyes.

"Yes, look at me with anger all you want. You can not escape the fact that you betrayed all of them. YOU. BETRAYED. THEM." Naruto enunciated each word, her words echoing with each step he took.

"I'm going to kill you!!" Tsunade struggled against whatever Naruto had done to her, her anger fuelling her strength, but she could barely move her arms or legs anymore.

"Haha, Try all you want. But that restriction seal restricts your movements, making it almost a hundred times more difficult to even bend a single joint in your body. What are you going to do now? Let all those sacrifices go to waste or make me shut up from insulting them even further, huh, you brainless woman.

I pity the First and the Second, hell even the whole Senju clan, that they had you as their last descendent. Someone who won't even fight for their clan's honor, nor take revenge against those that made them go extinct.

A pitiful woman who has wasted all her life drinking and gambling. Making the lives of all those around her miserable.

If anyone's watching, I'm sure they would curse you till you die, seeing all their sacrifices gone to waste." Naruto crouched down and met the woman's eyes, as she lay down in a crater, a pair of mocking eyes meeting a pair of angry ones.

"I. Will. Not. Disappoint." Tsunade grit her teeth, her strength of a hundred seal lighting up, as she struggled against the restricting seals, as she reached out her arms towards the mocking boy.

"Yes. That's it. Struggle. Struggle with all you have. Fight those that mock your clan. Fight those that mock the sacrifices people made for you. Fight. Fight. FIGHT!!!" naruto's words echoed heavily as if charged with power.

Resonating with those words, Tsunade pushed past her limits, before a crisp cracking sound echoed before a sonic boom blasted Naruto back.

"I. Will. Never. Let. Anyone. That. Mocks. Everyones. Sacrifices. Go. Unpunished." Tsunade panted as her voice projected her deep resolve, as she looked at the crater far away, in which lay the golden-haired boy.

"Then come to the village. Be the Hokage and fix the broken system that killed all your clan members.

Punish the people that killed Dan. That killed little Nawaki. That killed each member of the Senju clan just because they were too strong to control." Naruto groaned as he used his chains to prop himself up, floating in the air, looking down at the woman with light shining once again in her eyes.

"What do you mean?" Tsunade looked at the floating boy, anger, and confusion in her eyes.

"Danzo."

With a single word, Tsunade's eyes went wide, her brain running a million miles an hour, connecting everything she heard today.

'Something has been going on in the village for a long time. Apparently, sensei didn't know about it, and he too fell victim to a person's schemes, much like the other hundreds from Konoha.'

'the broken system that killed all your clan members.'

'Punish the people that killed Dan. That killed little Nawaki. That killed each member of the Senju clan just because they were too strong to control.'

'Danzo' various phrases from Jiraiya and Naruto revolved around her head, as pieces of the puzzle fell into place, creating a devastating picture that she didn't want to believe.

"Danzo killed the Senju Clan?" Tsunade asked warily, looking for any signs of falsehood in the boy's eyes.

"So you aren't as dumb as I thought you to be.

Yes. Danzo slowly wiped out all the members of the clan one by one, either by sending them on suicide missions or leaking the mission info to enemy villages.

Why did he do it, you ask?

He wanted power and control. Cutting open the bodies of the clan, to find out what made them so special, and drop down the clan's strength so that he could control everyone with his meager power." Tsunade's mind reeled at the new information, as all her interactions with the mummy came rushing back like a freight train.

"Even the children?" She asked, her voice cracking slightly, as her eyes fogged up with tears threatening to fall.

"Especially the children. They after all had the most untapped potential. Why do you think the Hokage's grandson was killed? Why do you think Nawaki was killed just the day after his 13th birthday?" Naruto questioned.

"..no" realization hit the girl, as her eyes widened in fear.

"You guessed right. He awoke the First's Wood Release on his birthday. His mutilated body was retrieved by Danzo, broken down into fragments, before being used to replicate the powerful wood release on multiple orphan children, almost a thousand deaths before a single one survived." Naruto stated the fact he learned from Ashura.

The previous incarnation of Naruto, died just the day after he awoke the powerful chakra of Ashura in his body. His life was stolen just because of the greed of a single person.

"…And Dan?" Tsunade gulped, her face bloodlessly pale, and asked in barely a whisper.

"Danzo needed the Spirit Possession Jutsu to control the Third. Dan was the only one who could have figured out his plans from his actions. He was just in the way of Danzo's plans.

The only reason Danzo didn't end up killing you as well, was because of your fear of your blood, and also because he wanted a source for the Senju to continue if his samples ended up running out. Fortunately, or unfortunately, you developed a fear of blood, and retreated from the battlefield and ran away from your problems." Naruto used his chains to move, using them as limbs to walk, as his body hurt all over from the pounding it took from Tsunade.

"Come back to the village. The people need someone who can sympathize with their pain. They need someone with the power and resolve to do what is right and correct the wrongs of the people that came before them.

You owe it to those that sacrificed their lives so that you can continue living.

You owe it to them to bring their dreams of peace to reality.

And lastly, you owe it to yourself. Because I know for a fact that you won't sit still now that you all this." Naruto smirked cheekily, as he came face to face with the woman, a small sad smile adorned her lips, as tears ran down her cheeks.

Poof.

Instantly, Naruto was enveloped in a soft and warm feeling, a soft, continuous beating ringing in his ear, as Tsunade pulled the boy into a hug faster than he could react.

"Thank you, gaki." Tsunade whispered, her arms crushing the boy tightly, afraid to keep it loose, afraid that he would just up and disappear like all those that came before.

"No worries, Tsunade. And sorry for everything I said. It was needed to get you out of your funk." Naruto hugged back, the soft cushions on his face melting away the pain and hurt in his entire body.

"I realized. Thank you. Thank you." Tsunade cried for the next half an hour, as Naruto patted her back reassuringly.

A few minutes after the battle finished, Jiraiya and Shizune arrived, only to be surprised to see the two hugging each other while standing on a battlefield full of craters and smoke.

"What happened here?" They both asked simultaneously.

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