A/N: I know this is a day late - I had a guest over for the day - but it's here now! I hope you enjoy it! I also noticed that I'd missed out a complete chapter (as in, I filed the document but never posted it - smart, I know), so I've put Chapter 5 in, and it now makes sense!

Chapter 7: The KH Pact

Tsunade opened her eyes to reveal a dim, round room that had no furniture or a clinical appearance. It was stony and looked more like a tomb. She noticed Shizune and Tonton tied to chairs with solidified chakra ropes. They were both unconscious. She was in the same position. She tried to break free, but even her brute strength was contained by the chakra ropes. Tsunade looked around the room for her foe.

"That's right, Tsunade," Kaori walked past. "Your strength is no match for my chakra abilities."

Tsunade scowled. "How do you do it?"

"We're all medical experts here, aren't we?" she smirked. "You might not perceive us as that, but we are. All us medical Shinobi are trained in perfecting our chakra so that we can bend it to our every whim. Tell me, Tsunade. Do you know my name?"

"Kaori," Tsunade spat.

"That's right," she sneered. "Kaori Hayashi. It's a coincidence, really… Everything goes with the KH Pact."

Tsunade's mouth dropped open. All this time it had been the Kaori Hayashi Pact?

Kaori giggled. "I know what you're thinking. When the pact was made by those three boys, they intended it to be the Konohagakure Hospital Pact. What they didn't know is that it fit perfectly to my own name. Secretly, they've been defending me behind your back, which just comes to show how much support I actually get."

"What are you talking about?" Tsunade demanded.

"Don't be so rude," Kaori hissed. "You're not in the best of positions."

Kaori pushed a kunai to Tsunade's neck. When she moved away from Tsunade, there was a thin trickle of blood. Tsunade narrowed her eyes. She had no idea how she was going to get out of this.

"Why are you doing this?" Tsunade asked. "Why are you making a bad name for the Konohagakure Hospital?"

"Because I needed to give you a reason to actually come here," Kaori turned and looked Tsunade in the eye. "I've been waiting for three years and never once did you come."

"This could've been easily avoided," Tsunade sighed. "You could've sent a message to me. I would've come straight away."

"That would be too simple," Kaori murmured. "You see, I had to make you suspicious of your closest people. I needed you alone. And the pact they made created the perfect opportunity for me. Everything fell into place just like I wanted it to, and you even did what I wanted. You came sneaking in here, and I'll admit, you did well, Tsunade! I knew you could."

"That Anti-Tsunade room," Tsunade growled. "Room 029. Do the Pact Members know about it?"

"Of course not," Kaori laughed. "All these rooms down here belong to me. I know this hospital more than you do, Tsunade, which is why I think you're such an undeserving bitch!"

Tsunade cringed. "Why me, though? Shizune's the head of the hospital. She does the basic running."

"And you're supposed to contribute," Kaori snapped. "You're supposed to come and check on every community building, because people get lazy if you don't, and laziness can easily turn to incompetence. I want to step in before you allow your people to become as incompetent as you!"

"Step in?" Tsunade blinked. "What are you talking about?"

"You idiot!" Kaori snapped. "I want to be Hokage. I want to guide the people of Konohagakure into victory, and I'll start with even small details such as service quality. This place is shit because you never check what happens here."

"It's 'shit' because you let all the patients out," Tsunade growled.

"You watched those videos, Tsunade," Kaori choked. "Don't tell you me you didn't notice all those other members of staff in the lobby who just turned a blind eye to my actions."

Tsunade thought back. Thinking on the smaller details, she did remember. There had been a nurse here and one there. The staff really just did get slack. And it was her fault. Tsunade gritted her teeth.

"Do you intend to kill me?" Tsunade asked.

Kaori smirked. "All three of you. You're the only ones who know about me. But I'm going to kill you first."

"Think this through, Kaori," Tsunade pleaded. "You're a young, beautiful woman with your life ahead of you. How do you intend to get away with three murders in one day?"

"Everyone's grown used to turning me the blind eye," Kaori grinned. "Why would poor, stupid Kaori think to murder her enemies?"

Tsunade licked her lips nervously. "Even if I die today, there will thousands of people in Konohagakure and out of here that will suspect you as the murderer. You'll be caught and sent to prison, and your life will be ruined. Trust me. I'm, sadly, nearing my mid-fifties; I think I understand the world more than you do."

"Don't tell me what I do and don't understand!" Kaori howled. "I don't need you peering critically over my shoulder as if you hold any influence over me!"

Tsunade grimaced. Kaori was mad.

"Trust me when I say that I intend for you to die today," Kaori sneered. "Then I'll work my way to the ranks. If an old hag like you can become Hokage at fifty, why can't I become Hokage during my lifetime? I'm a likeable person, and I have ideas. I'll be Kaori Hayashi, the Sixth Hokage. I'll be known and Konohagakure will change for the better. The memory of you will blow away like dust."

Tsunade frowned. "Sakura will know better."

"No, she won't," Kaori smirked. "I'm friends with Sakura. She would never suspect at this point. You see, I've built friendships with all of them, especially that Jiraiya of yours."

Tsunade bared her teeth. For some reason, she hated Kaori talking about Jiraiya in that way. It also made sense that Jiraiya would build a "friendship" with someone young and attractive... Typical. Really.

"This has gone too far for it to be stopped," Kaori smiled, raising the kunai. "I should've killed you a while back, but I guess telling you how I'll always be better and prettier than you was just too tempting. I also wanted you to know why you were dying, why I've done all this. I needed you to know how myself, a citizen, felt about the slack agenda of the hospital. You die tonight, Tsunade. You die tonight."