Knock Knock
Haruto woke up with a yawn as he scratched his stomach.
He looked outside his window, it was already evening. He'd slept for fifteen hours straight after using all his chakra and some more to change Danzo's memories.
Knock Knock
"Coming!" Haruto shouted out loud before getting out of the bed and walking down a floor to the entrance.
When he opened the door he found a surprise waiting for him outside.
"Kakashi-sensei? Is she your wife? Don't you think it's a little too sudden to spring marriage on me like this? I don't even have a gift prepared."
BANG!
Haruto instantly became quiet after he got the bump on his head.
"This is Tsunade-sama." Kakashi then introduced patiently.
Haruto's eyes widened appropriately, as he looked Tsunade up and down for a few seconds.
"Done staring, little boy?" Tsunade asked with a twitch of her eyebrows.
"No. Give me a few more secon-."
BANG!!!
Now with two bumps on his head, Haruto asked the more appropriate question.
"What's she here for? Is she going to heal Danzo's corpse once the rebellion is done with him?"
"She is here to help you remove the Cursed Tongue Eradication seal since you missed it in the evening."
Haruto's eyes narrowed appropriately with suspicion.
"What about Danzo?"
Kakashi stepped aside to reveal a body covered by a rag. He then picked up the rag to reveal an unconscious Danzo underneath it.
A rope was tied to his neck and Kakashi was holding it.
Apparently Danzo had been dragged all the way from wherever he was because there were gash marks on his face that came from rubbing his skin against something rough like a road.
Haruto's tone quivered as he asked, "What happened to him?"
Kakashi shook his head, "Nothing. He just went mad because of some experiments he did to himself."
Haruto appeared unconvinced but he didn't say anything and simply nodded, appearing to know when to attack an issue and retreat wisely.
Tsunade narrowed her eyes as if she noticed something but said nothing in the end and simply walked up to Danzo and kicked his head.
"Wake up, you dog!"
"HUH!? Huh!? What- What happened?!" Danzo said with a confused expression as he looked all around himself. His gaze landed on Haruto before he suddenly barked out, "Haruto Hayashi! Another victim of Danzo. I shall absorb that evil man's chakra and contain it within myself for the betterment of the world!"
Haruto raised his eyebrows and looked at Tsunade questionably but Tsunade just kicked Danzo on the butt before redirecting him to Haruto.
Danzo instantly stood up on his knees to come to Haruto's height before asking Haruto to open his mouth.
Haruto looked at Kakashi for a second and only when he nodded did he open his mouth to reveal tongue.
Danzo placed his good working left hand over Haruto's tongue before Haruto felt a sudden difference in the seal.
Danzo's chakra was being sucked out!
Only Haruto's eyes widened further since he knew quite well that without Danzo's chakra the seal would activate anyway!
So Haruto looked at Tsunade, and spoke with his tongue hanging out like a dog, "Why are you not doing something!?", his words came out jumbled and incomprehensible.
"What? I can't understand you?" Tsunade said as slowly as possible but there was a clear smirk on her face.
'She's messing with me!'
'But at this rate I'll really die!'
"Kakashi-sensei!!!" Haruto shouted again while his tongue was hanging out of his mouth and the chakra in the seal on it was being rapidly absorbed by Danzo.
But Kakashi didn't pay any attention to it. Instead he simply looked away while pretending to have not heard anything at all.
Haruto felt the chakra in the seal depleting to its last drops, and just as he was about to punch Danzo away from him to stop the chakra from falling before a point of no return, and only when he raised his hand, did Tsunade finally move.
She appeared right in front of him, standing beside Danzo before she pressed her finger down onto his exposed tongue.
The seal unfolded on Haruto's face before it suddenly heated up, and just as Haruto felt something constricting his throat, the feeling vanished entirely.
At the same time, Haruto's punch landed.
But it didn't land on Danzo's face, no, instead it landed on Tsunade's chest.
Tsunade's face darkened as an indescribable aura emitted from her.
Haruto felt sweat beads form on his forehead as his knees felt very weak.
"Would you believe me if I told you it was a mistake?"
Tsunade's cold voice came out from her mouth, "I would've if the hand was not still on my chest!! You brat!!!"
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Now with seven bumps on his head, Haruto was rolling on the floor in pain.
"Hmpf. Serves you right!" Tsunade said before turning around and walking away, "That's all the cursed tongue eradication seals removed, I'll be heading on my vacation now! Don't disturb me if you want your family safe you brat!"
Kakashi instinctively clenched his legs before he looked at Haruto on the ground, then at the unconscious Danzo who'd also already been knocked unconscious by Tsunade before quietly covering Danzo with a dirty rag and dragging him away again.
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Several hours later, when Haruto had eaten all his food for the night because he hadn't eaten throughout the entire day, he laid back down on his bed.
"Ahh… that feels so good…" Haruto said, patting his stomach. Without the cursed tongue eradication seal and Danzo he could now officially display his emotions! And display he did! With pride!
Haruto then closed his eyes and opened them inside the template inventory space.
"Alright, Megumin, I think your mission will finish in the next few days, Edward, next is your mission, since I can't be involved directly in the healing of those patients, I'll drop off the method to heal them at Tsunade's and then leave it up to her. Is that alright?"
"That's fine Haruto." Edward nodded.
"As long as the kids are safe." Megumin said with a smile.
"Alright, I'll first drop off the method of healing those patients."
Haruto split his soul from his body and roamed Konoha before finding Tsunade camping out in a casino in the tourist district.
She was currently playing blackjack.
Haruto looked at her hand and then at the dealer's hand.
Tsunade had a total of eighteen while the dealer only had a total of fourteen.
Yet Tsunade was considering taking another card to increase her total closer to twenty one.
So Haruto possessed her almost immediately.
"Huh? Wha- MY BODY!!! NOT AGAIN!!! I WAS ABOUT TO WIN!!!!"
"Tsunade-sama!?" Shizune beside her exclaimed as she noticed another Tsunade in the air.
Fortunately however, Tsunade hadn't revealed herself to the gamblers present or Haruto's plan would've been ruined.
"Stand." Haruto said to the dealer with confidence in Tsunade's body.
The floating Tsunade shouted out loud, "NO!! HIT!! HIT!! IT'LL BE AN ACE NEXT TIME!!! WE'LL GET EVEN CLOSE TO TWENTY ONE!!!"
The dealer nodded with a smile and casually pulled out a card for himself, he'd lost all sense of risk since Tsunade had been losing money ever since she'd arrived at the casino.
The dealer pulled out a ten.
"Bust." Haruto said with a smirk.
The floating Tsunade's eyes widened. "You won!"
Haruto scoped up all the money on the entire table and happily handed it over to Shizune who was equally dumbfounded.
"How!? You must've cheated!!" The dealer shouted, causing Haruto to frown, "Cheated? Are you sure about that?" Haruto asked while cracking his knuckles.
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