- You can go play now, and don't forget your lunch in an hour," Tsunade waved at them and looked at the flock of kids as they rushed out of the classroom.
The Senju princess, whose title was in serious doubt, was painfully aware of her own infertility. Sometimes, there were doubts in her mind about the right path, but then Tsunade remembered the statistics of losses due to the lack of properly trained iryonins, including those of her own clan, and banished the momentary weakness.
Yes, it was someone else's idea, but if it had already started working - and through Mito Ba-chan, it wasn't hard to find out about it, especially since the Nara didn't hide the achievements of their wards - then it was a sin not to pick up such a promising endeavor if no one would let her reform Konoha's training system.
Who would have thought that someday Tsunade would have to copy a younger colleague's endeavor, rather than be a pioneer herself, as she had been!?
Shaking her head, the kunoichi pushed the sheets of paper the kids had handed in to her and began to check them, working almost machine-like while simultaneously indulging in some heavy thoughts about life. And there was a lot to think about lately. It was not at all the way Sannin had imagined life after returning to the village.
She was reminded by the two elderly kunoichi that she wasn't as strong as she used to think, but it was the disapproval and, in some cases, even contempt of the iryonin at the hospital that had been the first time Tsunade had crossed the threshold of the hospital in recent years that had been a real blow to her pride.
Blinded by the memories of her previous treatment, Tsunade was unprepared for the fact that her star of fame would be eclipsed by a new talent, and a more than familiar one at that.
Who could have expected that the cute but serious half-breed Uzumaki-Nara would be so talented and persistent in his development that he would be named a first-degree iryonin at such a young age, breaking Senju's own record?
And with the rise of a new star, no one expected Senju to return, capable of reviving a quality iryonin training program, preferring to simply forget about it.
Tsunade couldn't help but recognize that despite all the problems that had plagued Konoha's main hospital over the years, the main one being the lack of enough specialists to perform complex surgeries, the quality of the current work was at a decent level, thanks to the presence of several working stationary medical seal complexes that significantly increased the capabilities of ordinary third- and fourth-degree iryonins.
In essence, it was a crude substitute for specialists of higher qualifications, which nevertheless worked effectively. Ryo Nara was again to thank for this, combining iryonin specialization with fuinjutsu and successfully applying this knowledge in practice.
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