An Impossible Choice: The Pain Within Tsunade's Heart

Tanzaku Town, gambling district: the legendary medic is losing at dice when her past walks in wearing snake eyes. Orochimaru, arms necrotic from the Reaper's seal, offers Tsunade a transaction designed by Kabuto's intelligence file — heal these arms, and the Sannin will resurrect the two people whose deaths broke her: her little brother Nawaki and her lover Dan. The episode unpacks both ghosts, the necklace that marked them, and a kunai trembling in a hand that has seen too much blood to use one.