Epilogue:

style='mso-tab-count:1'> After a good breakfast and
a warm goodbye, Tsunade sauntered out of Gai’s house, thoroughly
fulfilled. The sun was beginning to
rise. Outside, in the street, the three
Jounins appeared next to her.

“Oh, hello
you three.” She smiled smugly. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> “How are you this fine, fine day?”

Kakashi
looked down. “I can think of days I
would call finer. I’ll never get the
sound of you and Gai out of my head…”

“Oh, so
then you heard something? Hehehe, how
nice! That proves it… it proves that we
had sex and proves that Gai isn’t gay, doesn’t it? He’s only mostly gay, as it turns out.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> It’s a shame he’s not fully straight, for
the sake of kunoichis everywhere.
Kurenai, maybe you’ll have better luck now that I’ve warmed him up for
you.”

“Maybe,”
muttered Kurenai. “I don’t know how you
did it, but you did. Fair is fair…
here’s your money.” Both she and
Kakashi gave her pouches of coins. “But
you’ve got to tell us how you did that.
If you used Shintenshin no jutsu or disguised as a man, it
doesn’t count.”

“Nope!style="mso-spacerun: yes"> I just seduced him.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> There was a spark of heterosexuality hiding
somewhere in there after all. I’ve
learned, through years of wandering, how to get it right… not too much
pressure, not too little, keep in control.
It’s a skill. Hey, even a gambler
as legendarily bad as me has to win a bet once in a while, right?”

“So it
would seem,” drawled Kakashi. “I wonder
what we’ll call you for a nickname now, since you seem to have lost your
title.”

“Hmm,
you’ll have to figure that out. I have…
sigh, work to do. I am still
Hokage. I’ll probably see you all next
time at the bar, though. Hmm, what
about Asuma’s share?”

“Kurenai’s
taking care of that.” Asuma smiled.

“Ah,
perfect. Oh, and Kakashi… Gai’s special
someone? I don’t think it’s you.”

“I don’t
want to know how you know that, but good.”

“Call it a
woman’s intuition.”

Behind
them, down the street, a tired but satisfied Gai listened acutely from his
front porch.

“So… it was
a bet, then? Tsunade-sama, it makes
sense. You were acting unusual, and you
are an infamous gambler. But, I know
that wasn’t all there was to it. You
showed me… beautiful things. I think I
showed you some too. And even if you
did win this bet… to me, after tonight, you will always retain your title.”

He looked
to the sky, eyes watering. “…the legendary
sucker!”

Fin

That’s it! I hope
you enjoyed. And, as a standing offer
to anyone who may read this: write a good Tsunade lemon or lime or draw a piece
of sexy Tsunade fanart and I’ll promise to R&R every one of your stories OR
write you an up to 4-page gift fic to the best of my ability.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> No sick stuff.

I’m not counting the
TsunaTenTen one that’s already posted here; that’s all about TenTen and Tsunade
is basically a force, rather than a character.
Also, it’s icky inaccurate-gynecologist’s-office infection cream
porn. Not very good… in fact I hear it
might end up on FF_ANBU.