Tsunade's POV

I blinked in the morning light, my head spun and ached. God this is worse than a hangover!

As my blurred vision came into focus I realized I wasn't in any of the rooms in the Senju Mansion. But I knew where I was, during the Second and Third Wars I virtually lived here. The Hospital.

I sat up slowly and looked around the white room. No one was here although by the looks of things Jiraiya was in here not too long ago, he had left the notepad he uses for brainstorming on a chair near my bed. I noticed my Hokage robes were folded on a small table on the other side of the room.

I got up slowly, I wobbled a bit but soon regained my balance. I grabbed the robes and pulled them over my head and hospital gown. Why am I still wearing a bra? Oh well.

A piece of paper fluttered to the ground after I picked up my hat.

If you wake up in time you might want to get to the Meeting Room ASAP. I don't think you'll like this.

There was no signature. I continued to stare at the note. I recognized the handwriting but I forget who it belongs to. Several combinations of faces and hand writings ran through my head. The door opened pulling me from my thoughts.

"Hime! Thank God you're alright!" Jiraiya! He stood in front of me, cupping my face in one of his hands.

I slapped him across the face and while he was still dazed I kissed him. "That's for the tattoo." I muttered.

"What, the kiss?" He asked cheekily.

"No. That was just for being you." I said as he wrapped his arms around me. "By the way you better get some cloths but on that."

"Actually it was a Henna. It's mostly gone now."

You have got to be kidding me! Out of the corner of my eye I saw the note on the floor. The meeting!I pulled away. "Jiraiya, did they call a meeting?" He looked hesitant. "Jiraiya..." I said warningly.

"Yes, it started a few minutes ago." He said reluctantly.

I rushed past him and walked swiftly through the halls of the Hospital. Several Medics looked like they were going to tell me to go back to bed but decided against it.

"Hime!" Jiraiya called after me. "Hime, you can settle this later! You need rest!" he caught up to me after I was already outside of the Hospital.

"Dam it, Jiraiya!" I spun around to face him. "I've been moping for too dam long! I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and do the job that Hiruzen Sensei left me! Now you can either shut up and come with me or get thrown halfway across the Village again."

He glared at me. "You. Are. Stubborn." Jiraiya said through his teeth.

"Can't argue with that. Now let's go." I walked briskly to the Hokage Mansion with Jiraiya at my heels. The entire time he kept mutter things like 'Foolish woman' 'Stubborn woman'. I'd get him for it later but right now I have a Council to put in place.

I burst into the Meeting Room. "Sorry I'm late. What'd I miss?"

"What is this about?" Although I have a general idea...

"Well now that you're back, Lady Hokage, the purpose of this meeting is void." Danzo said getting up. God did he look bitter!

The other members of the Council got up and left. Most looked relieved, but some of their expressions said 'Crap! So close!' I smirked as they left.

Homura didn't say anything, he just left after glancing at Koharu. Leaving both of us alone with each other.

God, why doesn't he just ask her out already! It's been decades! Everyone knows they like each other. Probably just trying to maintain a professional relationship. Bad idea, I speak from experience.

"You have timing." Koharu said. I noticed she didn't say whether it was good or bad timing. With that she left.

I went out for a drink after I finished what I call a day's worth of paperwork. Translation, not much.

"Figures you'd be here." I looked at the booth across the aisle from me. Koharu sat alone, drinking a cup of sake. Don't ask me how but we somehow wound up drinking together.

"I take it Danzo was about to take my place." i said matter-of-factually, yet slightly drunkenly.

"You were out for two weeks."

"Two weeks? Wow. Surprised you guys waited this long."

"It wasn't easy. Some people wanted to permanently replace you."

"Including you." It wasn't a question, it was a statement.

"I have too much respect for Nozomi to do that." I think Koharu was just as surprised as I was that she said that. Maybe it was the sake. "Tsunade..."

"Yeah?"

"Why didn't you fight with Hiruzen against Orochimaru?"

"Nozomi said it was his fight." I thought struck me. "You know in all the years I've known you I've never seen you fight once."

"So you're saying I can't fight?" Koharu almost snapped.

"No. I'm-"

"I could beat you any day." Koharu challenged. Yeah, she's drunk.

"Is that so?" I asked. Yep, I'm drunk too.

"You wanna find out?" Koharu said a little loudly.

"What the Hell! You're on!" I said.

Don't ask me when or how but we wound up in some clearing in the forest.

Dam I must be drunk.

Koharu made the first move, drawing a kunai and throwing it at me. I easily dodged it, but I caugth the smirk on Koharu's face.

What-? I suddenly felt a strong electric charge surge through me. It was strong enough to make me fall to one knee. I see... Lightning Release... She sent the electric charge into the kunai and it jumped from there to my body... This won't be as easy as I initially thought...

"Still think this is going to be easy?" Koharu asked me.

"There's no way..." I appeared behind Koharu. "I'm going to let you win so easily!" I went to punch her but she used a move that used my strength against me. I flew a few feet backwards. Dam I didn't think she was this good... Uncle Tobirama did train her... But this style of fighting... "Alright, enough playing around!"

"So you finally decided to get serious about this..." Koharu smirked. She drew the metal pin from her hair, it fell in waves. The short pin expanded into a long, thin staff. "Good. I'd hate for this to be too easy."

I came at her again. She made several quick jabs at me with the staff as I tried to get a blow in. She's fast!

I almost landed a blow but she she caught my wrist with her staff and flung me to the ground. I got up but she just kept doing the same thing, flinging me to the ground.

I went at her again, things seemed to move in slow motion. She flipped me with her staff and at the same time I struck her behind the knee ever so slightly. I was able to catch a glimps of Koharu's face, it said 'Uh oh'.

Gotcha!

Koharu tried to move but the wrong part of her body moved. "What did you do?"

I smirked. The same thing that I did to Kabuto in my first life. Hmmm... I wonder how he is...? Okay that was random.

It took her ten minutes to regain full control of her body, during which I took full advantage of.

We were both tired, and running low on Chakra. Part of me wanted to stop and call it a draw but the other part of me wanted to kick her butt. "You ready to give up yet?" I asked.

"Not even close!" Koharu said.

The beads at the end of her staff were taking on an electric charge, the glow around them glowed brightly. She made a motion like she was going to fling the staff at me but the Lightning Spheres flung off of the beads and at me. I dodged the Lightning Spheres and punched the ground at the same time. One of the smaller Spheres hit my ankle. Koharu's foot got stuck in the large crack in the ground, I heard it snap as she fell.

We both lay on the ground not to far from each other. Her ankle was bent in an awkward angle and my ankle smoked. I got up painfully and limped over to her.

"Why don't we call this a draw?" I said helping her up.

She winced as I pulled her arm over my shoulder. "That sounds good to me."

Authors Notes

How did you like it? Koharu actually did something besides talk! Please tell me what you think! I decided to put my project on hold until I finish Silent Angel, i figured it would be cruel to make you guys wait... So... Yay for you!

with authorly love,

fw17