No one's perfect, everyone knows that. The words coming out of your mouth doesn't always mean that that is what you want to say.

I'm a princess and you're a commoner.

I wasn't born into a royal family but still the family I came from is equivalent to royalty itself.

Everyone expects me to be the best, the wisest, the good mannered and girly princess.

We're so different but so close even when we're at each other's throats.

You're not exactly my type either but I'm grateful, you don't have to pretend to be another person.

I don't have to pretend around you either.

I always rub in the fact that I'm better than you in almost every aspect.

I'm always at the top of my classes, always accurate at throwing weapons at targets, well mannered in formal events as expected of someone related to respectable people.

I have my parents and a brother who I love more than anything.

I beat you up whenever you peek at the girl's side of the bath house.

I had the finest things in my life but I'm unhappy.

I lost my family one after another.

My grandfather, my parents, my brother and the man I love.

I don't know how you do it but whenever you're around, I feel safe and secure.

You, the most perverted guy in the class or possibly in the whole village, you're orphaned and live by yourself.

You barely had any skills in being a ninja, you pop out one date proposal after the other whenever I'm around.

I beat you up, punch you and send you flying for a couple of feet or the farthest distance my strength can send you.

You get back up on your feet as if nothing happened.

You're not exactly a good influence with your perverted personality but look at what you've become.

The toad sage, teacher of the Yondaime hokage, one of the legendary sannin but no matter how much you've grown from that boy who easily for traps in a simple bell test, you're still the friend I can rely on.

Even when I fell for someone else, you're still there, making sure I was taken care of and make sure that he'll stay loyal to me.

You were there to be a shoulder to cry on when I lost him, you were always there for me.

Now you're walking into the sunset, out of the gates, out of the village, warning me to be careful of the 'root', we both know that that might be the last conversation we'll have.

I want to stop you from going, order you as your hokage to let me come with you at least, but I know you won't let me go.

I want to hug you so tight, tell you what I've been hiding all this years.

I kept telling you back then that I won't go on a date with you.

I may have said those words but I never stopped myself from loving you.

I want to tell you the truth.

I'm willing to give up being hokage, just to be with you.

Now seeing you walk away from me, I know that perhaps now is not the time.

I want to give you every minute of my time, stop you from leaving, make you stay with me, tell you the three words that I know you've been wanting to hear, the words I wanted to say for all those years that we're apart.

Death was always at the verge of taking you, when we were known as the three way deadlock, our battle with Orochimaru, when you went on that three year trip with Naruto.

I was always scared to death whenever I get the feeling I've felt so many times, that something bad happened.

Death might come after you again and there's nothing I can do about it.

The only thing giving me assurance that you'll come back alive is the bet you asked me to bet on.

That you'll die.

I'm the legendary sucker.

I always lose my bets.

Whenever I gamble, I always wanted to win but this bet is the one bet I want to lose.

I've lost a lot of people already.

I can't lose you too.

Tsunade Senju.

The godaime hokage of the hidden leaf.